WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:23.839 We'll do live the apprehension of the bos Brothers. Ed Manaprow. Hey, 2 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:29.960 here we are. It's November. It's not yet Thanksgiving, but we give 3 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:33.359 thanks for being here with you. We're glop culture. I'm John Podhorns in 4 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:37.600 New York with Rob Long in New York, Hi, Rob, Hi John, 5 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:44.799 And in Washington Jonah Goldberg, Hi, Jonah Hey John, so la 6 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:48.679 Hi. Last time we did this, I don't think there was a war 7 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:52.320 on. There is now a war on. And of course everybody always asks 8 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.679 this question, can you be funny when there's a war on? And the 9 00:00:56.840 --> 00:01:00.240 obvious answer is, well, if you weren't funny before, why would you 10 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:06.239 be funny now? So we will just be ourselves and it's gonna be up 11 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:11.239 to you to decide whether or not we are funny, because this is the 12 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:17.840 business that we have chosen. Right, so you're doing that? That uh 13 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:23.599 uh meyer Lansky? What's his name? In the what? What? What? 14 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:29.439 What? What? What was that supposed to be? It's like he 15 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:34.120 had a he had a he had a a schmick and his gimme a dung. 16 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:42.359 And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen. I 17 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:49.079 didn't ask who gave the order because it had nothing to do with business. 18 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:55.120 Okay, he had make it his gimmer dung. Yeah, so he had. 19 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.480 He had, he had a Cuban sandwich and it did not agree with 20 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:04.959 him. Didn't know nicol. But you have to admit that it was quite 21 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:09.800 an acting coup because it's fifty years later and you remember Lee Strasburg going, 22 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:15.759 you know, in that scene, no one had ever gone in the middle 23 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:17.719 of dialogue in a scene before. That's like, well, there's a lot 24 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:20.919 of things no one's ever done the middle of dialogue before. That doesn't make 25 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:24.120 it. That just makes it weird. I don't you know. It was 26 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:29.039 weird, but it was incredibly memorable. And of course, the interesting thing 27 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:35.360 about Lee Strasburg giving this indelible performances that he was the most famous acting teacher 28 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:38.800 of his time, the man who taught Marilyn Monroe, the man who taught 29 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:44.199 Brando, the man who brought Stanislavsky to America. But no one had ever 30 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.000 seen him act because he was a teacher, not an actor, and so 31 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:52.919 there was a lot of eh, what does he know? And he got 32 00:02:53.439 --> 00:03:00.080 I guess everyone everyone watched this. Yeah, right, you say this about 33 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:06.400 Lee Strasbourg. But it was like one of the biggest f yous ever that 34 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:09.919 he comes out at the age of sixty five or something out of nowhere and 35 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.639 gives one of the most famous performances in history. And then, as you 36 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:19.360 and I discussed, as you and I discussed only a few years we're talking 37 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:23.159 about Cinnacle because you and I discussed just a few years later how he gave 38 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:29.840 this beautiful performance in the incredibly underrated movie Going in Style, in which he, 39 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:35.680 Art Carney and George Burns play three retirees and queens bored to death, 40 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:39.000 sick of their lives, who decide to knock over a bank and then going 41 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:45.520 bared to death. Welcome glop listeners. This is the way. This is 42 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:49.360 the way. So Okay, you're in a very weird mood here, Ron, 43 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:53.360 I don't understand this. You're you're no ending me, You're no budding 44 00:03:53.400 --> 00:04:00.400 me. All podcasts are yes and exercises and improvisation. I don't even agree. 45 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:06.759 That's the worst part of improv is the yes and yeah okay, because 46 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:11.639 I'm about to mute myself. So like, we had a dispatch meet up 47 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:15.240 in New York yesterday, and it might as well have had a sub chapter 48 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:18.800 of as a Glop meet up because there were so many people asking me about 49 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:21.680 laps up, lots of people concerned how John is doing. I said, 50 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:31.160 John's fine and uh one of the uh and and several people said that they 51 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:35.639 were completely fine with the fact that we're basically turning into three out Thecaccas at 52 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:43.680 Barney green Grass and I was just at green Grass. I rest my case. 53 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.920 It's true. It's funny because it's true, funny because it's true. 54 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:53.399 I gotta I have a have an email friend who loves to play the game 55 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:59.120 of did you spot this actor who's in the background of this movie? Kind 56 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:01.199 of thing with it? And i' this guy for a while and he's a 57 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:05.920 huge fan of glop. He just had bypass surgery and uh, and he 58 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:12.560 came out of his recovery to email me to say, can you please tell 59 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:19.519 John Pedora's that frank Oz is not the guy in the Blues Brothers who says 60 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:26.240 authorization to use extreme violence is granted or whatever. Frank Oz is the prison 61 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:30.360 guard who checks out Jake in the beginning of the movie, and he was 62 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.120 so moved by this that he actually violated doctor's orders. So he could have 63 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:38.759 me convey this to you because apparently you said this on the commentary podcast. 64 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:41.959 Okay, so we are we are we're crossing the streams and you are not 65 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:46.399 across the streams. So Jonah, when he said this to you, did 66 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:54.519 he say, please tell John PRIs. I'm now going to look up who 67 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:57.879 it was, because I think it was probably some other famous director because there 68 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:01.319 are all these directors in the Blues Brothers that John Land has put in the 69 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:08.040 Blues Brothers, because there's nothing more hilarious than a cameo by a director that 70 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:13.759 really gets you're right there in the funny bone. To know that he was. 71 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:17.279 So you guys talk while I look up who it was because it's how 72 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:20.439 was the dispatch meetup? But I didn't get it. I didn't get that 73 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:25.639 in my as a dispatch member, I didn't. I didn't receive the invitation 74 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.680 a few times in various products maybe we had we wet, you're not you're 75 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:38.720 not listening to the products we get some the uh the it was great, 76 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:45.879 great bunch of people gratifying all that stuff. Not the best plan all on 77 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:49.519 all because it was a debate watching party. Oh yeah, where like Steve 78 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:56.839 and I didn't do our riffs until after the debate, So you're hanging around 79 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:00.279 till ten o'clock at night, and people got there, you know, depending 80 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:05.680 on you know, three two to three to four hours earlier, and and 81 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:11.439 we got went past seating capacities. There are people standing all that time. 82 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.199 But we didn't get a single complaint from anybody. It was just it was 83 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.759 just never going to do a debate watching thing unless we're on the West coast, 84 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:23.040 because then the timing kind of works. That makes sense. That makes 85 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:27.920 sense. Also until there's just a different bunch of candidates. How about that 86 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:32.079 that would work too. I have really good news for you guys, because 87 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:39.439 the name of the actor who played the police dispatcher is one of the great 88 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:44.480 names of all time. Though he is not a film director, his name 89 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:50.160 is Ralph Foodie f O O d Y, and he is the one who 90 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:58.800 says use of unnecessarily violence in the act has been approved. Ralph Foodie, 91 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.279 we we I. I hope you're still alive. If you are still alive, 92 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:07.240 we congratulate you on your brilliant line reading and on your excellent, excellent 93 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:16.319 name. The Ralph Footie Ralph foot also the guy I just looked him up. 94 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:24.000 You know in Home Alone, where the Macaulay Halkin kid plays the clip 95 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:28.959 from the Mobster movie, or the guy shooting people in the one in the 96 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:35.840 Plaza Hotel. That's Ralph Footie. Ralph Footie is an indelible American performance, 97 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:43.559 a man, a legend, and we are making him a legend as we 98 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:46.759 speak. Not only I mean I'm learning so much here. Not only was 99 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:52.399 he in Angels with Thirty Faces, he was something called which I've of course 100 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:54.919 heard of, that's the James Cagney movie. But he was also I'm hoping 101 00:08:54.960 --> 00:09:00.600 this was actually a sequel because they were just trying to monetize. He's also 102 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:09.399 in something called Angels with Filthy Souls. Sounds like a child. We're talking 103 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:13.919 about a timespan. This is a man with a historic career. Angels with 104 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.080 Dirty Faces, if I'm not mistaken, was made in the late thirties, 105 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:24.480 Brothers Blues Brothers in nineteen eighty and Home Alone too, I think like ninety 106 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:30.480 one. This is his career. Space the twentieth century. He saw nothing 107 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:39.080 for the President of television and the telephone and space is how old a gentleman 108 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:43.759 is he? Or is he has he already gone to his reward to the 109 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:48.039 great. You don't feel like you'd know he would have thatched her in the 110 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:54.240 sky. Yeah, where is his age? Let's see, Well you're looking 111 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.639 that up. I found out. I want to apologize the listeners who are 112 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:01.879 expecting a more exacting, factual repretage on this podcast. Yeah, all two 113 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:11.039 of you. Angels with fifty Filthy Souls is the made up movie that Oh, 114 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:18.919 there we go, Angels with Filthy Souls. This cast list of the 115 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:22.399 Blues Brothers. There are like five thousand people in the Blues Brothers. This 116 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:28.039 is like a nightmare. It's like a needle in a haystack trying to find 117 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:33.360 Ralph Foodie's name. So I'm gonna try it another way. But I looked 118 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:39.879 at it. Ah didn't make it to Y two K. Yeah, that's 119 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:45.519 that's really that's really sad. But he did span the twentieth century like a 120 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.639 colossus, and I think we need to pay him tribute. I think there 121 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:56.279 are other actors with excellent, excellent names that we could pay tribute to as 122 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:01.759 well. One of my favorites was a a Yiddish theater actor who then went 123 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:07.399 on to be in the movies. And in Star Trek episodes perhaps more important. 124 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:13.799 And his name was David Opatoshu, not open Toshu, but O, 125 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:20.399 and he was like, I can't remember he was an elder or something on 126 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.039 some episode of Star Trek, but he was. He was in Exodus, 127 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.080 and he was in various other things. And though his name sounded Japanese, 128 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.919 he was in fact an actor of the Yiddish theater David Opa Toshu, who 129 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:37.559 I think we deserves credit for having an excellent name. 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You just choose to neg. Like vivek Ramaswami, who 175 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:05.240 chooses to nag by saying, don't let you Oh you let your kid watched 176 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:09.720 TikTok. So I want to ask Joe, what is that really pissed me 177 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:13.360 off? It was her twenty five frickin year old married daughter who had been 178 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:18.559 on TikTok. It was the lamest friggin' attack. But here here's my point 179 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:24.600 in the annals of rhetoric. Okay, we have friends Romans country and lend 180 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:28.480 me your ears. We have uh, those who are abed in England tonight 181 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:33.840 will think themselves a curse that they were not here. We have. Let 182 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.840 you know that was Let you know the government of the people for the people, 183 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:39.799 by well shall not perish from the earth. And ask not what your 184 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.399 country should do for you, but what you should do for your country, 185 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:52.840 and you're just scum. I believe Nikki Haley may have achieved Periclean funeral oration 186 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:58.919 levels of immortality by saying you were just scum. I believe that until the 187 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:03.559 day he dies, once a day somebody is going to go up to vivek 188 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:08.879 Ramaswami and say, and boy, will he deserve it, and his campaign 189 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:18.200 slogan in twenty sixty will be vivek Ramaswami not just scum. It was a 190 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:23.480 dazzling moment in as as we go into the decline and fall of the American 191 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:30.639 empire, let it be said that Donald Trump's rhetorical destruction of the heights of 192 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:37.919 American politics at least had this one glorious moment to it. When Nicki Haley 193 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:44.519 felt free to call the vek Ramaswami scum on national television, we will take 194 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:47.279 the news for both of them, he said, nobody was watching last night. 195 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:52.039 Do we have ratings? I got a they haven't been corrected, But 196 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:56.679 the FLASHYG guy was that they were pretty low. It's interesting because they were 197 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:00.519 the first one that was actually on a broadcast network like it was on It 198 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:08.359 was on NBC. Broadcast Network and she won. So the so the first 199 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:15.640 poles say, which I think is right. But it's Neilism time here on 200 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:22.200 the four thirty movie because who cares doesn't matter. Trump's gonna win. I 201 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:26.880 don't know what they're doing there because neither of them, neither she nor DeSantis, 202 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.279 is going to be vice president. I guess they're just spending the money 203 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:33.599 they raised. Or maybe Trump will get hit by a truck and then they'll 204 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.279 be left over and they can like run and see who wins or something like 205 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:41.079 that. But I mean, come on, does anybody now think? Yes, 206 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:44.480 I know people, I could make an argument. People are making the 207 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.079 argument that someone else can be the Republican nominee. Yeah, does anybody really 208 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:55.759 believe it? I believe it? Yes, that would I bet, Like 209 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:59.000 would I like to put my money where? Like? Do I think it's 210 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:03.200 gonna happen? No? I mean I think he's going to be the nominee. 211 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:07.920 But I'm not as positive as you are about it. I think there's 212 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.640 a there is a chance. Non negative, I'll call it negative. But 213 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:15.960 yes, I take your point. I mean I was saying too. Uh, 214 00:18:17.079 --> 00:18:19.200 I'm not as convicted as you are, as convinced as you are. 215 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:26.680 Yeah, you're you're shades of John Candy explaining if they had been in Germany 216 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:30.640 he would have won the poker game because they're in Italy. Yeah, I 217 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.119 take your point. Look, take your point. You know what is going 218 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:38.319 to be big. But like you know, so like I've had I've made 219 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:41.039 this point for a very long time about the Democratic and Republican parties, and 220 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:45.480 we don't need to dwell on the punditry because there's so much more enjoyable thing 221 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:48.920 to talk about. But like, both parties exist because they hate the other 222 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:53.240 one. So if if one party dies, the other party loses its reason 223 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:59.200 to live. And it feels to me, like you talk to Democrats away 224 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:06.119 from cameras, the certainty that Biden's going to be the nominee is not as 225 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:10.880 there as you might think, right, And if Biden's not the nominee, 226 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:12.599 I'm not sure that Trump is not any If Trump's not the nominee, I'm 227 00:19:12.599 --> 00:19:18.640 not sure Biden's no nominee. I think there's this kind of like weird stalemate 228 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:22.319 because sixty to seventy percent of the people of the American people don't want either 229 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:26.279 of them to run and I keep going back to the Howard Dean thing. 230 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:30.000 In two thousand and four, I went and looked at like, what the 231 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:33.400 where the punitry was, including from you know, smart people like Stu Rothenberg. 232 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:37.480 They were all convinced Dean had it sewed up. And then a bunch 233 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.759 of people in Iowa on caucus night were like, really, we really think 234 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.599 we can win with this guy. I mean, I know that John Kerry 235 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:48.400 is a human toothache, but you know he's got the military thing, and 236 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:52.440 they voted for John Carrey. Dean didn't win anything right until Vermont. I 237 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.680 think he won, and so the psychology I still think can change, but 238 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:02.519 we should be you know, I think, to be honest, he's you 239 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:08.400 have to bet these that he has incredibly strong odds to be the nominee and 240 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:12.799 he could win. It's I don't think he could win. Not that I'm 241 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:18.599 saying that he will win, but I'm saying that the assigning this as a 242 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:23.000 hey, you know, he could even win is the wrong tone, like 243 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:30.720 he has even odds to win. You know, if Christopher Pike were in 244 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:41.680 the machine and eighty and rolling around drooling, that's Biden. So I don't 245 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:45.640 know. I don't know. I'm in despair, beyond belief. It's obviously 246 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:51.559 been a tough month. The war in Israel is taking it out of me 247 00:20:51.799 --> 00:20:56.480 emotionally. But I I look, and then I see every moment at which 248 00:20:56.519 --> 00:21:02.319 it's possible that this could be turned around, because the Democrats could say, 249 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:07.559 oh my god, what are we doing. We can't run with this guy, 250 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.920 something has to be done about it. Then there's an election like there 251 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:15.799 was this Tuesday night where they do okay, and therefore they say themselves, 252 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:19.079 well, you know, we're kind of doing okay, and he's at the 253 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.839 top of the ticket, and I don't know what message makes if he goes 254 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.279 off the ticket, So what are we going to do them? Everyone says 255 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:27.799 they don't want him, but they don't want Trump either, and Trump's you 256 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:33.519 know, going to be convicted, and and so then that Diosex Machina of 257 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:37.759 the Democrats saying, oh my god, we're headed for disaster. Let's get 258 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:42.160 this. You know, two hundred and seventy five year old crook out of 259 00:21:42.200 --> 00:21:48.880 our way isn't going to happen either. So, I mean, John, 260 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:52.640 this is why I'm cutting myself. I mean, I know, I didn't 261 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.599 know that you were cutting yourself and I'm sorry. I'm really sorry to hear 262 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:02.759 it. I don't I think you need new coping skill. Speaking of coping 263 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:07.680 skills, I can't pay attention to anything on tele because the war is consuming 264 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:11.200 the war and everything that's going on is consuming my attention too much. Is 265 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:18.079 anybody watching anything that you can can can recommend because people need distraction. And 266 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:22.319 the only thing I'm watching because I'm watching with my son is Loki, the 267 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:27.400 second season of Loki, and it sucks so badly. It stinks at a 268 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:34.720 level that a three week old fish, you know, left outside the Wayne 269 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:40.400 Scott fish store would stink. So I'm just asking you, is there something 270 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:45.279 else that people might want to alas. I'm reluctant to agree with you about 271 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:48.200 Loki because I want it to be good, but so far it's really it's 272 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:52.240 it's not good. First season was good, so I guess you get good. 273 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:56.400 Look six episodes. You can't complain you got six good episodes. Don't 274 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:02.759 look a gift horse in the mouth. But I will say my wife and 275 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:07.119 I we are enjoying Bosh Legacy, which is the spin off from Bosh. 276 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:11.799 It's really not bad and on the train ride today back from New York, 277 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:17.480 I started watching jen v Oh, which is the spin off from the Boys 278 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:22.599 on Amazon Prime. Yes, and uh again not family viewing, but I'm 279 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.599 you know, it's it's it's enjoyable and terrible in all the ways the Boys 280 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:30.559 is. But I really liked watching The Boys. I love the Boys. 281 00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:36.200 So I this is just the problem of my my inability to to focus. 282 00:23:36.279 --> 00:23:38.519 So Rob, this is your business. This is what you do for a 283 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:45.759 living. This is the thing that you can break down like a molecular biologist 284 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:49.160 dealing with, you know, micro organism. So isn't there something that you 285 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:57.799 can tell the people that they nobly not? How about? Because that's the 286 00:23:57.799 --> 00:24:02.279 only thing I was able to watch for ten minutes. I was just changing 287 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:07.400 the channel and there was the scene on showtime of Hyman Roth and Michael in 288 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:14.039 the hotel room talking about Moe Green and I my hand froze and as I 289 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:18.720 was switching between CNN and MSNBC or whatever, and there it was like, 290 00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:23.920 this is what life, This is what makes life worth living. You hit 291 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:29.359 The Godfather, The Godfather Part two, and you're like, what else is 292 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:32.640 there? Like I don't really need to see anything else? Ever, this 293 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:37.279 is as good as it gets. But if you can't just watch those rob 294 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:41.599 nothing, you got nothing. Well, I mean, I'm watching I have 295 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:45.599 one more episode to go of the French thing Loupan, which I like. 296 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:48.279 I don't like this one as much. But I also feel like the season 297 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.079 of Lupan right because I watched the first and it was pretty good. Second 298 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:57.839 season well, it's like the first season was sort of two parts and then 299 00:24:57.839 --> 00:25:03.279 this is like the third part. Okay, you know, I actually feel 300 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:04.759 like we watched too much. I think that this is when, when this 301 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:10.000 stuff is going on in the world, it's kind of better not to have 302 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:12.319 a TV on. I think you're not going to learn anything. There's no 303 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:15.400 news on the television. There's nothing you need to know on TV. You 304 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.079 don't need to stay abreast of any news. You can just catch up with 305 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:23.039 it really every three or four days of the newspaper. If you want sitting 306 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:27.799 quietly and reading the reading a book like a mystery novel is I think the 307 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:33.680 only real balm if you're looking for relief from this. The part of the 308 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:37.279 the agony of all of this terrible news is just that we have to watch 309 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:41.359 it all the time, and like I and where I said, and where 310 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:45.559 I'm standing. Sometimes I have to hear it because I'm not that far away 311 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:49.200 from Washington Square Park and not that far away from the corner of the News 312 00:25:49.200 --> 00:26:00.720 School on Fifth Avenue fourteenth Street. So I often hear the young people who 313 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:03.799 is for whom someone is spending tens and tens and tens of thousands of dollars 314 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:08.400 for them to get educate, to get the college college degrees from NYU, 315 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:18.720 and the new school spouting inanities or a historical non facts. So the best 316 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:21.759 thing to do is to could put on a pair of noise canceling headphones. 317 00:26:21.839 --> 00:26:26.119 I recommend Bose. They're not, by the way, a sponsor, but 318 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:30.799 I do recommend Bose and getting a really great book. We all have books 319 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.759 in our house right now that we've been meaning to read and we just haven't 320 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:38.759 read. So I am I'm gonna say that part of the ajitah and the 321 00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:44.160 anxiety and the misery is coming through the screens that we are now addicted to, 322 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:45.960 that we feel entitled to and we feel like, well, I should 323 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:49.119 be able to look at a screen and be able to see something that's relaxing 324 00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:56.920 and know all that has been that screen has been toxified and just pick up 325 00:26:56.920 --> 00:27:00.839 a book. If you're anything like me, you have a certain tency to 326 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:03.480 put things off to the very last minute and be late with things. And 327 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:07.440 I'm sure that my editor a commentary John Patora's can agree. And while most 328 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:11.200 of the time it works out, the one thing in life you really cannot 329 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:15.599 afford to wait on is setting up term coverage life insurance. 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That's Ladder 348 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.880 l a d d er Life dot com. All onward slash glop and we 349 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:30.240 think Ladder for sponsoring the Glove podcast. I have to disagree with you on 350 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:34.720 this and get a little earnest just for a second. But I don't have 351 00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:41.160 that luxury because things are in fact happening fast and furious all over the country 352 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:47.160 and all over the world that are very Jewish specific like, and they're happening 353 00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:52.319 every two hours. So Concordia University in Montreal, you never heard of it, 354 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.440 thank god, and you should never hear from it again. So some 355 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:02.680 kid calls another kid, a kike at Concordia University. And that's a three 356 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:06.240 miles down the road. Three miles down the road. The previous evening, 357 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:11.000 someone throw molotov cocktail at a synagogue in Montreal. This may not be this 358 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:14.400 may not be accurate what I'm about to say, but I did see it 359 00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:18.960 because I saw it on Twitter, so so it could be alive. But 360 00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:26.440 the most remarkable thing about the guy who killed the guy in California with a 361 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:32.160 megaphone and the woman that you said that the kid at the Concordia whatever, 362 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:37.000 that ridiculous universities. They were not students, they were college professor. She's 363 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:41.720 a professor. Yes, yeah, So it's not about the kid. I'm 364 00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:48.680 just saying that the incidents themselves are coming at a blistering pace, you know. 365 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:51.279 But they'll wait, they'll wait a couple of wait, seventy two hours. 366 00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:53.640 My I'm gonna side with pod And you know, I don't normally said 367 00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:56.680 with pot on things in here, mostly because that's my role of the heel. 368 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:00.559 But so I he used to use this analogy a lot when I was 369 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.319 trying to explain to people why I made I made such a stink about Trump 370 00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:07.759 and what was happening to conservatism And I think it applies even better to Pod 371 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:12.279 than this. Right. So there's an episode of Spencer for Hire where Spencer 372 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:17.599 meets this woman who's been a fugitive from justice because she was sort of like 373 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:22.839 Patty Hurst type who got caught up with some bank robbers, and she was 374 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:26.640 a fugitive because the security guard tried to stop the bank robbery and got shot 375 00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:33.400 and killed, and so she became a fugitive for homicide. Right our accom 376 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:40.279 accomplished a murder. And she's like saying to Spencer, why did that security 377 00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:41.559 guard have to get in the way. We didn't want to hurt anybody. 378 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.079 And Spencer gives this little speech where he says, maybe it's because he took 379 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:51.839 people's money for lots of days where he had nothing to do, and where 380 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:56.640 he was there to be a reassurance and a security guard, an insurance policy 381 00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.279 against bad things happening, and he felt honor bound to do what was required 382 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:04.920 of him when there was actually a need for him at the bank. Commentary 383 00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:11.759 exists for this moment. We've been sitting on a stool looking for like examples 384 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.680 of anti Semitism which have been around but like not worthy of, like freaking 385 00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:19.640 out about for the last ten years, and then this thing happens. This 386 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:22.480 is the bank robbery that the security guard feels they have to get up. 387 00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:30.000 Why have commentary if not for this moment. We did publish several superb articles 388 00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:36.000 by you in the in the Get and Rob every month. No, but 389 00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:38.160 you know what I mean. I'm glad you mentioned Spencer for hire because I 390 00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:41.119 don't want to talk about the show, but I would like to say that 391 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:47.880 Rob is right that there are times when you are in desperate straits when you 392 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:52.240 wanted just to sit down and sit down with like a mystery novel or something, 393 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:56.119 and really those first ten or fifteen Robert Parker Spencer books, you are 394 00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:00.440 just not going to have a better time reading a And they're pretty good intact, 395 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:04.960 they are really, really, really good, and they're short, so 396 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.079 they come at you real fast, and like this anecdote, it indicates they 397 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:14.799 are morality tales and Spencer the whole point about Spencer is that he is the 398 00:32:14.920 --> 00:32:20.440 last moral man in a very corrupt Boston and he is always struggling to do 399 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:24.039 the right thing. So they're very moving and move worth the reading. But 400 00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:29.559 I do want to say, ask you this about all these analogies. So 401 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:31.960 this stuff is just coming and coming and coming coming, And of course everybody 402 00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:36.519 in the Jewish community and probably other people as well, are like, what 403 00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:40.480 the this country was attacked? You know, five thousand people were killed or 404 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:47.519 injured, and that ignites anti Semitism worldwide, Like shouldn't this ignite like sympathy? 405 00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:52.640 What on earth is going on? And I am telling you right now 406 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.720 we are going to be finding out over the next six months. And you 407 00:32:54.759 --> 00:33:00.279 guys know that I am the opposite of a paranoid, delusional person who thinks 408 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.960 that there are connections between everything, but not the opposite. But yeah, 409 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:08.960 I'm pretty close to being I do not believe. I do not say secret 410 00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:15.599 networks, thank you, But stuff is going on here that was activated by 411 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:22.519 October seventh, that has simply been happening too fast and in too many locations 412 00:33:22.079 --> 00:33:30.759 and with too much speed and accuracy and effectiveness for this all to have been 413 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:37.720 spontaneous. I don't mean that, you know, somebody in gutter is pressing 414 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:40.119 a button and then a robot. You know, it's like call someone and 415 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:45.759 says the woods are lovely, dark and deep and then they are robot tied 416 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:51.200 in like upon and then they go Charles Browntony the world. Yeah, I'm 417 00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:55.039 just saying that this. For twenty years, there's been this world of leftist 418 00:33:55.079 --> 00:34:00.559 activists. They have been building up their networks and their abilities to mobile each 419 00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:04.319 other with a phone call or a tweet or or you know, a series 420 00:34:04.359 --> 00:34:08.360 of tiktoks or something like that, and it is happening everywhere, and it 421 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:15.840 is a dazzling example of why everything that has happened in the last twenty years 422 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:20.719 is evil. I'm like, everything I want to think is good about the 423 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:24.119 phone and the Internet and Facebook and social media. You can get information a 424 00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:28.480 typical the touch of a fingertip and you can do that. And then the 425 00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:31.360 Lotites or the philosophical lot it's like Christine Rosen and others who are saying, 426 00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:35.639 no, no, no, that's all a bluff, that's all just the 427 00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:39.599 cherry on top of the septic tank. And I mean, what we're seeing 428 00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:45.360 here is really making that argument that we we are being we are being drawn 429 00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:52.400 into a larger world and being manipulated in this larger world by people who are 430 00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:59.679 siding with eliminationist, genocidal monsters. And their goal is to turn it around 431 00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:05.920 and see that the victims are elimination as genocidal monsters. And it's not really 432 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:08.880 working. The polling still shows seventy percent of American support is real, but 433 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:14.480 it's working enough, and it's at least working enough to be pushing a lot 434 00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:17.400 of people's buttons who are crazy. And then go out and while people are 435 00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:22.800 walking in to see a screening of the Horrors at the Museum of Tolerance in 436 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:27.840 LA they're throwing punches at them as they walk into the Museum of Tolerance, 437 00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:32.079 like this is a new thing, something new that built off of Howard Dean 438 00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:37.719 and various other things has now come to fruition, and we had better be 439 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:43.039 we had better start figuring out how we're going to handle this, because it's 440 00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:45.119 going to happen again and again and again, and not just to Jews. 441 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:50.679 So I agree with all of that to one extent or another. I do 442 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.960 think, just to pick up on one point, I think it is fascinating 443 00:35:54.199 --> 00:36:00.880 this thing that you see all over the place about the what you mentioned this 444 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:06.360 screening, you know, it's this footage from the attacks. It is this 445 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:13.039 bizarre thing where people are saying hamas was completely justified in what it was doing, 446 00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:15.480 that this was a breakout of an open air prison, and all this 447 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:22.079 bs right, and that violence and resistance to set colonialism is justified in all 448 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:29.159 forms. Blah blah blah blah blah. But how dare you say that they 449 00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:32.320 raped anybody? How dare you say they killed any kids? And how dare 450 00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:39.000 you say that their own go pro footage isn't propaganda? Right? I mean 451 00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:44.159 they want to say that the evidence of what they're what they're refusing to condemn, 452 00:36:44.280 --> 00:36:47.639 is a lie. And it's this weird sort of we want to have 453 00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:52.119 it both ways. We want to say Hamas did nothing wrong, but how 454 00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:55.119 dare you, you know, point out the wrong things that they did. 455 00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:59.559 It's it's it's a weird tension, and the fact that they get away with 456 00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:04.400 it at all it is kind of fascinating. It was remarkable how quickly it 457 00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:12.719 just like by October eighth, the biggest concerns were, you know, there's 458 00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:16.559 gonna be a lot of Islamophobia out there now. That was pretty much like 459 00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:19.920 if you say, well, you know, in October seventh, they kind 460 00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:22.079 of chopped people's heads off and they did all this stuff that pretty bad and 461 00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:28.840 they killed families like the Manson family Times twenty ran into like a, well, 462 00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:32.400 that's islamophobic. It's all of the death. All of the defenses were 463 00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:39.960 so hilariously I mean hilariously in the dark ironic sense, I mean in the 464 00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:45.239 darkly comic sense, twisted and distorted that even even the language we may just 465 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:50.199 walk by today was walking down and there was the big protests in front of 466 00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:53.639 the New School and just like even the language is just like this kind of 467 00:37:53.679 --> 00:38:00.840 elaborate, academic, ornate kind of language that that they the people in the 468 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:08.719 bullhorns, just that it's like it's like it's been scripted by some you know, 469 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:13.199 AI machine. It doesn't sound you know, it's like when you get 470 00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:15.760 a junk man, you know, you get spam and it's like, clearly 471 00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:22.519 you know your count Apple has been compromised. Now must press and you know 472 00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:24.519 it all said like it's obviously some of you doesn't speak English has written this 473 00:38:24.599 --> 00:38:27.480 and is like trying to get you to, you know, give them your 474 00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:31.079 password. It has that feeling to it doesn't feel like they're that they are 475 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:35.559 really saying they know what they're saying, or they are saying anything or that 476 00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:39.079 they're any behind any of this. It's like they could point out Gaza on 477 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:46.719 a map. It's like a It's like a drama exercise. And I think 478 00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:50.960 that we've created that in this culture because we've decided that the most important thing 479 00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:53.000 for you to do is to feel and to emote and to share, because 480 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:58.199 we've spent twenty years feeling and emoting and sharing and maybe shuting up and keeping 481 00:38:58.199 --> 00:39:00.719 silent is something that we should be encouraging. I like the Harvard protesters who 482 00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:06.559 would be the die in who complain that people were stepping over them and because 483 00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:10.400 that made them feel unsafe. But I mean, you know, part of 484 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:15.519 the joke here is that we've spent ten years talking about the threat of the 485 00:39:15.559 --> 00:39:22.719 microaggression. The microaggression is a very deep problem, makes people feel bad, 486 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:31.960 makes them feel unsafe. By definition, a microaggression is not as bad as 487 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:36.280 a macro aggression. You know what a macroaggression is. A guy in the 488 00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:39.840 New York on New York City Street just happened just now. His protest is 489 00:39:39.960 --> 00:39:45.280 talking about the kidnap posters or something, and somebody comes and smashes a chair 490 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:51.360 over his head for being Jewish. That's a macrogress. Guess what's worse the 491 00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:58.920 macro aggression. Guess what's worse Having a megaphone thrown in your face and then 492 00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:02.320 you hit your head on the paved and die. That's worse than someone in 493 00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:09.559 a classroom saying niggardly and then someone says, oh, I think I thought 494 00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:13.320 you said the N word, and now I feel terrible. You should lose 495 00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:19.360 your job. Everything is turned around backward. The symbolic is more important to 496 00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:24.280 these people than the actual, The little is more important to these people than 497 00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:30.719 the big. And it's like an attempted genocide was perpetrated in Israel on October 498 00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:37.599 seventh, and now the claim is, oh, there might be Islamophobia in 499 00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:46.639 America if things that there already was jewophobia active in five thousand people getting killed 500 00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:51.639 and wounded in a country of nine million, Like, this is not how 501 00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:55.039 you think about things, right, we don't. You're thinking about them wrong, 502 00:40:55.119 --> 00:41:00.960 and you're doing it on purpose in order to evade the meaning of what 503 00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:05.119 happened and to suggest who is responsible. So it's like, yeah, go 504 00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:07.480 ahead, sorry, I mean I agree with it. I agree that I 505 00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:09.800 think two things. One, you know, I've been saying for a long 506 00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:14.239 time now that there's this view on college campuses, the campus left thinks that 507 00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:19.480 speech they don't like is violence, but violence they like is speech, right, 508 00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:22.239 and so that gets it some of this. But then the other thing 509 00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:25.400 is, I'm I mean, I agree with you. Macroaggressions, which is 510 00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:30.320 another word for just violence. Yes, should be condemned in a free society, 511 00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:32.079 right, that's why we have criminal laws and whatever. But like, 512 00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:39.079 the thing that bothers me more in some ways is the inherent anti semitism of 513 00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:45.119 having two different standards for different microaggressions. Right, So if you misgender someone, 514 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:49.920 that is violence. That is something that get you sent to counseling or 515 00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:55.039 suspended or whatever. But if you yell gas the Jews, people are like, 516 00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:59.079 well, you know you have to understand the context. Was like you 517 00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:02.440 can't have like, can't have a master hard drive, right, or can't 518 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:07.840 say master bedroom because that's you know, evokes visions of slavery. But you 519 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:13.440 can say we need to liquidate the Zionists, Like if you have a free 520 00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:20.280 speech policy on campus that says all forms of bigoted speech except for bigoted speech 521 00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:24.920 against Jews, all forms of triggering speech, accept speech against Jews, all 522 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:30.800 endorsement of violence of any kind is reboten unless it's endorsement of violence against Jews. 523 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:36.079 Then you're by their own standard, the very logic of structural racism says 524 00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:40.599 that they are structurally anti Semitic. And it's just it's so glaringly obvious and 525 00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.320 it drives me to the point of distraction at times watching it. Right, 526 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:51.039 And you know, these were interesting debating arguments for the last ten years, 527 00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:54.280 Like we had wonderful debates about them and interesting articles, and I published great 528 00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:59.480 polemics on them. And Jonah has written a column a week practically on this 529 00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:05.679 subject in some fashion now for going on a decade, right, and it's 530 00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:10.480 all very interesting. And now people are getting hurt and killed in real time 531 00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:15.639 in front of us, and the people who were making these bad arguments are 532 00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:22.320 still making the bad arguments instead of going like proof, that is not what 533 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.960 I meant at all, That is not it at all. Like I just 534 00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:30.519 meant that we shouldn't dubblah blah blah blah, but geez, people are getting 535 00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:35.679 killed. I better stop now until things are And they're not stopping, they're 536 00:43:35.800 --> 00:43:38.639 accelerating, which is why I'm saying to you that there is something else going 537 00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:44.039 on. There is a meta structure, and I'm not again, not a 538 00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:50.039 paranoid meta structure where there is a puppet master controlling it, but rather a 539 00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:58.159 mindset that has been linked together through the Internet packet system to make it possible 540 00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:06.559 for there to be multiple in incidence of minor violence happening independently in forty cities 541 00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:12.840 on the same afternoon. That is saying to my people, go inside and 542 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:17.280 hide and protect your children, and take off your key pote, and take 543 00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:22.039 your mug and da VID and put it under your shirt in case somebody is 544 00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:24.119 going to come up and hit you with a baseball bat. Like this is 545 00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:30.039 not theoretical anymore. This is not you know, the kind of thing that 546 00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:32.400 only happens, you know, it's like plane crashes, Like, oh, 547 00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:36.639 you should fly on a plane. It's really safer than driving in a car. 548 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.440 And you're being irrational by worrying about it. No one is irrational in 549 00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:45.840 America right now, worrying that they might be a victim of anti Semitic violence 550 00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:51.400 if they are somehow identifiable as a Jew. And that listen to what I'm 551 00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:55.519 saying, that this is the case. I mean, I can't believe I'm 552 00:44:55.519 --> 00:45:00.239 saying this. I ran and I went to a protest not protest for missing 553 00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:06.159 for the kidnapped people a couple of days ago, and on the line to 554 00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:09.480 get into the rally, I run into a very very left wing rabbi, 555 00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:15.360 very left wing, a woman I've known for a long time ran the JCC 556 00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:20.800 here in Manhattan, is a reconstructionist rabbi nice. Obviously, our politics are 557 00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:27.199 unbelievably dissimilar. And she's i would say, not good on Israel and has 558 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.840 bad views on a lot of things. And I looked at her and I 559 00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:31.920 said, how are you doing? Joy? And she said, I have 560 00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:37.679 never felt this way in my entire life ever. I am terrified. I 561 00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:40.920 have never felt this way. Like I may have said I felt this way, 562 00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:45.960 but I never felt this way before. And tens of thousands, if 563 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:50.840 not hundreds of thousands of people are feeling that in the United States. I'm 564 00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:53.639 not talking about being afraid because Trump's a fascist and he's going to take the 565 00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:59.280 country over. I mean, I'm walking with my kid and is someone going 566 00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:04.199 to come up and punch my kid in the face because he's wearing a T 567 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.519 shirt that has Hebrew on it. That's what I mean. And I'm not 568 00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:13.840 being hysterical. I mean I wish I were being hysterical. No, I 569 00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:17.239 mean, I'm sure you saw Tevy's piece in the Journal last week where he's 570 00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:24.000 like, you know, allyship is bubkis right, friendship is real, and 571 00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:30.679 like a lot of Jews on the left in particular, bought into this allyship 572 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:34.519 that you know, we have to be allies to various members of the Coalition 573 00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:38.840 of the oppressed, and it's an identity politics sort of popular front, and 574 00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:45.119 that's just in tatters. I mean, every liberal Jew I know and talk 575 00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:52.239 to or have heard from, they're just like, what how am I supposed 576 00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:57.000 to sit with people who are saying you have to hear both sides about people 577 00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:01.079 who murder babies and so has nothing to with It's like, the actual murder 578 00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:05.840 is the thing that it's supposed to be easy for everybody to condemn, and 579 00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:10.079 it's really hard for some people to condemn. So I would just say one 580 00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:14.320 thing because people ask me this all the time, and our listenership, I 581 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:16.559 assume is not a particularly Jewish listenership, and people are like, what should 582 00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:19.719 I do? How can I help? What a was going on out what 583 00:47:19.840 --> 00:47:22.320 can I do if you want me to help? And I have two very 584 00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:27.239 simple things to say to you. Don't buy into the tell a Jew that 585 00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:30.960 you'll hide them line. There's a whole thing I did. Would you hide 586 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:34.880 them? Would you you hide them in your attic? Like thanks a lot? 587 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:39.400 You know that's nonsense, Like don't, don't, don't, don't be 588 00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:45.199 involved in that. I would say one practical thing and then one theoretical thing. 589 00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:49.800 And the practical thing is, if you are anywhere near Washington on the 590 00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:53.639 fourteenth of November, there is going to be a big rally for Israel for 591 00:47:53.800 --> 00:48:00.519 the kidnapped against Tamas on the mall. Go the numbers matter. It's going 592 00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:05.440 to be very important for there to be a huge turnout. So if you 593 00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:08.480 are in the Virginia, Maryland, DC area, if you could take a 594 00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:14.679 road trip, whatever, go to this rally. It is really important. 595 00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:17.760 I hate rallies, I hate demonstrations. I don't like going to them. 596 00:48:17.800 --> 00:48:21.960 I don't like being in them. It's not something that I think is the 597 00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:25.559 way to do things. But it is important for there to be a visual 598 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:30.480 manifestation of the force of American public opinion, which seems to be in this 599 00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:35.239 direction. So if you can, if you are in a place where you 600 00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:40.559 can do this, do it. Go. It would be unbelievably welcomed by 601 00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:45.679 the people there. And if you want to show friendship to Jews or be 602 00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:50.960 an ally of Jews or whatever this is, and it's practical for you to 603 00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:53.599 do it, this is the best way to do it that I can think 604 00:48:53.639 --> 00:48:57.719 of, at least, you know, in the sound of my voice at 605 00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:02.480 this moment. And the other is get on these chains. It's so simple, 606 00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:07.800 and this is what the other side is doing. There are these organizations 607 00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:14.159 that will ai chat bought letters to Congress for you. You just go there 608 00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:16.239 and you say, I want to send a letter in support of Israel, 609 00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:20.199 or I want to send a letter in support of the kidnapped or something like 610 00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:23.840 that, and you fail your name in and they will send five hundred and 611 00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:29.199 thirty five letters in your name with one push of a button. And this 612 00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:34.280 is something that the Palestinian side has did the first week or the second week 613 00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:39.079 and scared the Jesus out of Democratic lawmakers across the country who couldn't believe the 614 00:49:39.119 --> 00:49:44.880 floods of calls and letters and robo calls that were coming in on behalf of 615 00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:50.920 basically of Hamas. But let's say the ceasefire or the Palestinian suffering or something 616 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:54.360 like that. There is on the other side. There are the same tools, 617 00:49:54.760 --> 00:50:00.000 and it will be very helpful to send them to your elected representatives, 618 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:06.320 not only nationally, but locally and state wide, so that they know at 619 00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:13.480 least that the numbers that support Israel or against murdering babies or something, or 620 00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:16.119 at least equivalent to the numbers of people who are willing to send these robo 621 00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:21.480 letters that say the opposite. So I'm only I'm not a call to action 622 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:24.320 guy. I'm just I'm like, I'm a nurse, scenic intellectualist that's behind 623 00:50:24.360 --> 00:50:29.280 a desk. Don't listen to me about how to be a good activist. 624 00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:36.719 But this is what there is at hand. So some people like that and 625 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:43.800 this is gold. That's cold. 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I'm talking about, like, you know, something 660 00:52:53.079 --> 00:53:00.239 that satirical and raw and funny and that sort of like treats humankind and with 661 00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:08.559 the contempt that often deserves. So that's what came to mind, and I 662 00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:12.880 will start. Since it's my idea, you guys can then think of one 663 00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:17.960 otherwise. I would like to suggest the comedy Used Cars, made in nineteen 664 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:22.079 eighty by Robert zamechis his first his second movie after I Want to Hold Your 665 00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:29.360 Hand. Kurt Russell breakthrough performance after playing Elvis as one of the sleaziest used 666 00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:34.639 car salesman's on the planet Earth. And he is in a war with another 667 00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:39.559 used car lot in a town in Arizona that is even sleazier than his used 668 00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:45.400 car lot, and which used car lot is actually going to succeed and which 669 00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:46.800 is going to fail, and which one is going to run a foul of 670 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:53.239 FCC communications rulings about what you can and cannot say in advertising to sell your 671 00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:58.400 horrible jalopies that are going to fall apart the minute they drive off the lot. 672 00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:02.320 Kurt Russell ishilarious in the movie. It has an incredible turn at the 673 00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:07.840 end with a judge with the meanest judge in the world, who was played 674 00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:16.159 by l Grandpa Munster Lewis. This is one fantastic, bizarre, hilarious late 675 00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:21.920 seventies early eighties, America is going to hell and and handbasket movies, and 676 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:25.920 I cannot recommend it enough. Okay, so the criteria was exactly what Black 677 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:30.880 Comedies just. I mean, everything is a dark comedy if you laugh, 678 00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:40.039 right, I mean I actually I find the movie Ordinary People to be hilarious. 679 00:54:43.239 --> 00:54:45.239 Okay, that's a good one. That's a good one if you want 680 00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:50.960 to see a hilarious shrink save a guy a kid's life by telling him how 681 00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:58.119 to feel. Yeah, and it is it is. It's not nice to 682 00:54:58.159 --> 00:55:00.199 your people, Rob, I would say, it's a very uh, it's 683 00:55:00.239 --> 00:55:04.199 not nice to your people either. Let's be quite honest with you, my 684 00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:07.679 people, savior people, even though we do so, it's very bad acting, 685 00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:13.119 yeah, by Judd Hirsch. That is. There isn't a performance in 686 00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:20.639 Ordinary People by Judd Hirsh that is so bad. That is what it's. 687 00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:22.679 It's like, it's almost like he went to the uh, you know, 688 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:31.000 the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art of Hamas. But you gotta what's amazing is 689 00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:37.039 that they asked him to reprise the role in Independence Day. Yes, and 690 00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:43.840 then and then the Bableman's like, we can't get away from him, and 691 00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:45.719 he was he was good on taxi and then look what happened to him. 692 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:50.639 Anyway, he was well. In everyone in Hollywood's defense, it's hard to 693 00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:57.559 find a Jewish guy talking about a Jewish actor. Really. Now Strike is 694 00:55:57.599 --> 00:56:01.559 over. Yeah, well it's different now, I know, so you can't 695 00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:05.400 think of a well no, I mean, I like, like I was. 696 00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:07.960 If we were having a different we were a different place in the conversation. 697 00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:10.599 I would say, like, I keep seeing that Harold and Maude is 698 00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:14.800 being replayed and I want to rewatch it, but I also don't want to 699 00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:21.440 rewatch it. Yeah, I know, I will say. If you're just 700 00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:29.159 looking for escapism, I gotta say every year step Brothers goes further up my 701 00:56:29.320 --> 00:56:34.480 list as when it's on, I gotta watch it. I actually bought a 702 00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:42.679 T shirt the other day for the Catalina Wine mixer, so like does that 703 00:56:42.800 --> 00:56:45.320 is also, you know, this is the twentieth anniversary of Elf, which 704 00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:49.320 is a great movie. So neither of these dark neither of these black comedies, 705 00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:52.320 I should know they're not black comedy made is a black comedy. I 706 00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:57.840 mean, I believe Jonah that once upon a time I found and sent you 707 00:56:58.400 --> 00:57:02.719 a shirt that said Oscar Madison for counsel. I believe you did. I 708 00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:07.960 did yes because of the Odd Couple episode where Oscar Madison runs for city council. 709 00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:13.800 This is my kind of shirt because it's so obscure. Yeah, that 710 00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:17.480 it doesn't look like you're selling any brand, So I didn't tell you on 711 00:57:17.559 --> 00:57:22.480 the At the Dispatched meetup last night, there was this guy, good guy 712 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:27.400 from Brooklyn, who first of all, he asked me to sign my books, 713 00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:30.199 which I was always happy to do, right, And then he brought 714 00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:34.480 He thought he was gonna like you didn't want to hurt Steve Hayes's feelings, 715 00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.199 so he brought a book for him, But it turns out he made a 716 00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:40.880 mistake and he bought Steve Hayward's Politically and Correct Guide to the President, so 717 00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:45.960 he had him sign that too. And then he was reading Patty Chaievski's autobiography, 718 00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:51.280 which he says is fantastic and it's got a great scene in it, 719 00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:54.480 apparently from seventy seven, because he was a presenter the year after he won 720 00:57:54.480 --> 00:58:00.760 the Oscar and Lynn Redgrave gave some anti Israel spiel and then that's a red 721 00:58:00.760 --> 00:58:05.440 Grave and he cut her down to size on stage, and so by the 722 00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:07.960 end of the night we got so deep in our cups that he asked me 723 00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:10.599 to sign that too. By the way, that is a great book. 724 00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:15.760 And it's not his autobiography. It's called mad as Hell. Yes, it's 725 00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:21.360 by Dave. It'skoff who writes to The New York Times his biography of fascinating, 726 00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:25.920 fascinating book. I have to say, can I pitch a dark comedy? 727 00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:30.039 Sure? Because I failed? All Right, you're not gonna like how 728 00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:32.280 it starts. We're gonna have to give him notes. Go ahead, you're 729 00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:35.280 not gonna like how this starts, but you got to stay with it. 730 00:58:35.400 --> 00:58:37.599 Okay, Oh you're pitching. Pitching. I thought you were like, yeah, 731 00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:43.679 I'm just thinking about it. Something that John said. Something John said 732 00:58:43.679 --> 00:58:45.480 earlier. You said, don't go to your Jewish friends and say I will 733 00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:49.760 hide you. And I wanted to break in. You were so passionate, 734 00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:52.760 want to break in and say, like, don't worry John, I won't 735 00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:58.159 hide you. I don't have the room. I'm on the expectation of you 736 00:58:58.280 --> 00:59:00.800 and the guy in the In the first act of the Diary, Van Frank 737 00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:07.119 from the audience shouting she's in the attic so bad, right, just so, 738 00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:10.480 so, just say a guy hides his friend, yes, and his 739 00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:15.480 friend's girlfriend or wife, and then he kind of falls in love with a 740 00:59:15.519 --> 00:59:17.880 girlfriend and the wife, you know, like she's great, she's really cool, 741 00:59:17.880 --> 00:59:22.000 but he kind of doesn't really like the friend anymore. See, now 742 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:25.639 he's got to figure out a way to unhide the friend but keep hiding the 743 00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:30.559 girlfriend. And that's just the opener. I don't know how it goes, 744 00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:36.800 but I like that. It's good. Yeah, it's uh, it's got 745 00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:42.360 it's got some darkness to it, that's for that's for sure. And uh, 746 00:59:42.519 --> 00:59:44.679 but still got what we say in show business, we call it it's 747 00:59:44.679 --> 00:59:47.280 got the heart, got the ticker, It's got the ticker. I just 748 00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:52.199 want to commend to everybody's attention probably tomorrow. We're recording this Thursday afternoon, 749 00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:54.639 so maybe you're not even going to be able to hear this until tomorrow, 750 00:59:55.039 --> 01:00:00.639 but everybody should go to commentary dot org and read Rob's Hollywood commentary this month, 751 01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:07.119 which is called the content moderation crisis and is that right way to get 752 01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:14.480 content content crisis right? And it's basically the rules under which Rob, as 753 01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:20.920 a Hollywood creative is now being asked to conceive of the TV shows and the 754 01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:25.719 movies that the studios think they want to make for people. And it will 755 01:00:27.159 --> 01:00:30.519 chill your blood, it will crack your bones. It make you think that 756 01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:35.159 you will never again. You might enjoy it, I mean the piece you'll 757 01:00:35.280 --> 01:00:39.239 enjoy. The piece you'll enjoy. It is what Rob and his fellow creatives 758 01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:45.079 are being asked to fulfill. The mandate that they're being asked to fulfill. 759 01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:53.800 That is jaw dropping in its again, like end of all civilization right there 760 01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:58.679 on a piece of paper right in front of you, from the people who 761 01:00:58.679 --> 01:01:01.679 command the heights of our culture. And it's a great piece. And it 762 01:01:01.719 --> 01:01:07.519 will be in the December issue of Commentary dot org online again like over this 763 01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:15.480 coming weekend, the tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thereby. So that's my 764 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:19.320 relation, all right. And I will be, of course every day on 765 01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:24.159 the Commentary podcast being even less cheerful than I was on this podcast. You 766 01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:30.920 Yeah, people have been telling me for a while now that I should listen 767 01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:37.599 to this podcast, The Rest is History, Oh, which has got what 768 01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:40.400 to say, Tom Holland, the British historian and another guy on it. 769 01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:44.920 It's called The Rest Is history. A lot of people I know really really 770 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:46.519 like it. I finally started listening to it when I was in New York 771 01:01:46.599 --> 01:01:52.079 yesterday. I started listening to the episode on The Blackout of nineteen seventy seven. 772 01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:58.679 And I'm sure pod will have notes on it because it's a little at 773 01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:01.360 points, it's you can't thisuish between whether it's a liberal perspective or sort of 774 01:02:01.400 --> 01:02:06.880 a British perspective or just a thirty thousand foot thing. But it's really good 775 01:02:07.119 --> 01:02:10.880 and it's got a lot of granular like stats and data, and the other 776 01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:15.320 show titles look really pretty exciting as well, so I'm kind of psyched about 777 01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:20.199 it. And the only other thing I'll tell people is I am now going 778 01:02:20.239 --> 01:02:22.960 to be part of the starting standing rotation, so I won't be on every 779 01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:25.239 week, but Chris Wallace is gonna have a new show that's gonna be on 780 01:02:25.280 --> 01:02:30.960 Saturday mornings. We'll record on Friday evenings, and I'm going to be on 781 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:34.920 it, and I'll be on it this Saturday on CNN. Actually, yeah, 782 01:02:35.320 --> 01:02:38.280 all right, I'm excited. That gives me something to watch that may 783 01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:43.039 not depress me as much as the other things made that I have been watching. 784 01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:47.280 Rob Martine. Let's sell the Martini Shot right now. Sell the Martini 785 01:02:47.800 --> 01:02:51.719 You go to Mawthankler dot com, or you can go to Martini Shot and 786 01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:57.800 you can wherever you get your podcast, and you can subscribe to my under 787 01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:05.280 fourteen minutes. I promise little disquisitions on show business and and how it relates 788 01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:08.719 to you. But it's a but it's under fifteen minutes. I always, 789 01:03:08.920 --> 01:03:15.920 I promise you. I'm trying to lead the lead the new trend to short 790 01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:22.000 to podcastlets, podcast debts, little mick podcasts, podcast light. You know, 791 01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:22.800 they're all like, well, this is a this's gonna be a little 792 01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:25.760 long one. There's gonna be two hours talking to you. But no, 793 01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:30.079 I don't do anything podcast seats, podcast eats. Yeah, now, bite 794 01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:35.880 size excellent. Well I missed that stupid app that just had movies on your 795 01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:38.920 phone for ten minutes, the ten minute movie at Quibi Quibi. Oh. 796 01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:43.000 I love that you were like the only person defending it when it was going 797 01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:45.000 down the toilet. I wanted it to work so badly. I just think 798 01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:50.320 that I wanted it to create a kind of a movement for everything to be 799 01:03:50.360 --> 01:03:55.480 eleven minutes. Yeah, well, you like TikTok and the entire Republican Party 800 01:03:55.639 --> 01:04:00.639 just came out last night for the complete abolition. Not only should Hamas be 801 01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:09.400 completely obliterated, TikTok should be completely obliterated. So you are, you are 802 01:04:09.559 --> 01:04:12.880 and in this and as many in many other ways. You are. You 803 01:04:12.960 --> 01:04:16.280 are no longer in the mainstream of the Republican Party. Yeah, that that 804 01:04:16.440 --> 01:04:20.000 should not be breaking the news here. So we will be back in a 805 01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:24.119 couple of weeks to be even further out of the mainstream of the Republican Party. 806 01:04:24.199 --> 01:05:09.840 See you guys later. Ready, Ready, this is gonna be uh 807 01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:15.000 I don't know if this is ladder ready three two one. If you're anything 808 01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:17.039 like me, you have a certain tendency to put things off til the very 809 01:05:17.119 --> 01:05:23.480 last minute. I can guarantee you that my commentary editors, John Fedor it's 810 01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:29.440 and uh At let me do it again. I don't want to bring Amy 811 01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:30.639 to do this. Not fair. Three to one.