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Last hour I went over the case out 10 00:00:31,519 --> 00:00:35,479 of Montgomery County, Maryland about that went up to the 11 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,840 Supreme Court where parents are saying that they should be 12 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,200 able to opt out of the school curriculum that includes 13 00:00:44,399 --> 00:00:50,159 these books, these LGBTQ plus books. That's how they're described 14 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:56,280 by by the school district and by their allies, the 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,640 ACLU and such. But it's more more than that. The 16 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:07,719 books are sometimes graphic, right, They're talking about sexual themes 17 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,560 and such, and some of these books are inappropriate for 18 00:01:11,599 --> 00:01:14,319 the ages of the kids that are being exposed to 19 00:01:14,359 --> 00:01:16,680 the material. And the parents do not want their kids 20 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:21,760 to be exposed to this material, and they have sued, 21 00:01:21,799 --> 00:01:23,719 and so it's gone up to the US Supreme Court. 22 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,239 They heard oral arguments on it today. I have a 23 00:01:27,239 --> 00:01:30,599 bunch of a bunch of emails here, let me read 24 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:39,599 them on this topic. Stan says, So you can't omit 25 00:01:39,799 --> 00:01:46,040 books on queer and transgender subjects because they would be unworkable. 26 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:49,560 That's what the district says, like, Oh, we can't. We 27 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:51,400 can't let the kids opt out. We can't let the 28 00:01:51,439 --> 00:01:54,680 parents opt out because it became unworkable because they had 29 00:01:54,719 --> 00:01:58,599 such high rates of absenteeism, which in a sane world 30 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,879 would be the same to you that not a lot 31 00:02:03,879 --> 00:02:06,799 of people want this to be taught. They do not 32 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,319 want this as part of a curriculum, particularly in grades 33 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,400 K through five. But it's K twelve gov CO schools, 34 00:02:15,439 --> 00:02:18,159 and so that's not sane. And so they're like, Okay, 35 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:21,439 we're going to do away with the opting out, and 36 00:02:21,479 --> 00:02:25,120 we're going to force everybody into these programs, into this curriculum, 37 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,840 and teachers will be allowed to read these books to 38 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,560 your kid. And so that's why the parents have sued 39 00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:34,639 in the district's response is, well, we can't do the 40 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:39,439 opt out because it's unworkable. Right, yet, somehow you're able 41 00:02:39,479 --> 00:02:43,639 to omit the Ten Commandments, says Steve. Yeah, they got 42 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:45,439 that out pretty quick. They were able to figure that 43 00:02:45,479 --> 00:02:50,400 one out. James says, the growth of school choice or vouchers, 44 00:02:50,479 --> 00:02:53,960 even in blue states is driven by parents concerned over 45 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,560 the continuing efforts to indoctrinate students in progressive ideology. What's 46 00:02:58,599 --> 00:03:01,400 the current Well, that is true. So there are different 47 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:06,960 reasons obviously for parents to make this decision, and James 48 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,039 is exactly right. Part of it is ideological here. Another 49 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,919 part of it is that their kids may have special 50 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,280 needs that are not being addressed by the public school, 51 00:03:18,159 --> 00:03:22,120 whatever those special needs are, or they're not being educated, 52 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,240 or they're being bullied and threatened at school so they 53 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,560 can't learn. Right. There are all sorts of reasons why 54 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:32,960 parents make these decisions, and that's the beauty of the market. 55 00:03:33,439 --> 00:03:37,159 Every parent gets to make the decision for their own 56 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,360 child based on the criteria that matters most to the parent, 57 00:03:42,599 --> 00:03:47,199 not to the school system. The school system is never 58 00:03:47,319 --> 00:03:50,719 going to care more about your kid than the parent does. 59 00:03:51,599 --> 00:03:55,159 And yes I am excluding abusive, neglectful parents in this 60 00:03:55,479 --> 00:03:59,319 because there isn't anything you can do on that front. 61 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,439 That's why you have mandatory reporting requirements and stuff like that. 62 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,840 So the yeah, so that is one of the things 63 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,039 James says that the indoctrination. Yes, what's the current state 64 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,680 of school vouchers in North and South Carolina? Well, North 65 00:04:13,759 --> 00:04:18,279 Carolina is now universal. North Carolina has the Opportunity Scholarship program. 66 00:04:18,639 --> 00:04:23,720 Everybody can apply to get voucher money. They expanded it 67 00:04:24,439 --> 00:04:27,560 last year to include vouchers, I think. But it's a 68 00:04:27,959 --> 00:04:31,639 it is a it's a it's a progressive system. In 69 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,279 other words, the lower income the parents have, the more 70 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:41,079 voucher money you get. And I want to say, I'm 71 00:04:41,079 --> 00:04:43,040 trying to remember what it was, seventy five hundred dollars 72 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:44,959 a year. Is that what it was, or maybe it 73 00:04:44,959 --> 00:04:49,560 was thirty five I forget, but you get the full amount. 74 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:54,680 And then there are like four brackets of income. And 75 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,680 then you know, as you move up the brackets in 76 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,160 the income, So the more money you make, the less 77 00:04:59,199 --> 00:05:03,120 money you would get of the full voucher. So and 78 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:07,680 it used to just it used to to forbid people 79 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,680 that are upper income from getting any voucher money. But 80 00:05:12,319 --> 00:05:15,759 that was peeled away last year. They fully funded the 81 00:05:15,759 --> 00:05:17,600 whole system. There were so many people on the wait list, 82 00:05:17,759 --> 00:05:21,759 so North Carolina's got them. I don't believe South Carolina 83 00:05:21,879 --> 00:05:24,120 has the same kind of program, but I don't know. 84 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,800 Catholic schools are overflowing with long waiting lists, and now 85 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,000 nearly twenty five percent of students are not Catholic, up 86 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,160 from two percent when I attended in the seventies. Yeah. Well, 87 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,000 even non Catholics know that their kids are going to 88 00:05:38,079 --> 00:05:43,920 get better education at the Catholic school, right, That's why 89 00:05:43,959 --> 00:05:45,959 they want to send them to the Catholic school. It's 90 00:05:45,959 --> 00:05:48,920 a good school. The kid's going to learn stuff, it's 91 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,680 got a good credential, right, So as a diploma hanging 92 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:54,040 on the wall, it's going to help you, you know, 93 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,839 get into college or whatnot. So we're at the very 94 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,879 beginning of this in North care lineup. I mean, the 95 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,240 voucher program has been around for a while, to be sure, 96 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:10,000 but the expansion of the opportunity scholarship program, like you are, like, 97 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,560 we're at the very beginning. I've talked about this S 98 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:17,839 curve before, right, the early adoption with people that are 99 00:06:17,879 --> 00:06:20,000 sort of your pioneers. They come up with an idea 100 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,399 or a product, they got to sell it. It takes 101 00:06:22,439 --> 00:06:24,279 a while for it to kind of catch on, and 102 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:27,240 it goes pretty slowly at first, and then very quickly 103 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,279 and then boom and explodes, and then as more and 104 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:32,399 more people adopted, it becomes the norm, and then it 105 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:34,959 kind of levels off, right, So it's this kind of 106 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,120 flattened S curve kind of a deal. And I think 107 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:41,040 that's what we are where at the beginning of this 108 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,120 S curve. My expectation is that you're going to see 109 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:50,360 more and more and more private schools coming into the 110 00:06:50,439 --> 00:06:56,199 market to try to capture those kids, those that market share. 111 00:06:56,759 --> 00:07:03,839 That's my expectation. But we'll see, John says. They say 112 00:07:03,879 --> 00:07:06,639 reading these gay books have no effect on kids, but 113 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:10,920 government also banned cartoon character commercials because it influenced kids 114 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:16,600 to want that serial. Anybody remember Joe Cammell. Yeah, a 115 00:07:16,639 --> 00:07:20,040 consistent standard would be nice. Here. This is the same 116 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,720 dynamic as the Will and Grace dynamic. Remember that one. 117 00:07:25,879 --> 00:07:29,839 Remember Will and Grace, the TV show, right that was 118 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:35,439 credited with normalizing or promoting or making people more comfortable 119 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:42,439 with homosexuality. Because now everybody saw Will was a nice guy, 120 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,439 Grace was a nice girl. They liked both of them 121 00:07:44,439 --> 00:07:47,240 as a funny show. And then Jack the friend and 122 00:07:47,279 --> 00:07:53,399 all of this, right, So it moved this lifestyle, right, 123 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,959 these characters, these people, this story, they it moved it 124 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,959 into people's homes where now they felt like they knew 125 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,839 somebody who was gay, whereas before they did not. This 126 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,360 was the nineties, and so Will and Grace is credited 127 00:08:07,639 --> 00:08:10,920 by the left, by the activist crowd, by the people 128 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,160 who were promoting it as being a huge driver of 129 00:08:14,279 --> 00:08:18,279 public sentiment towards that thing. Murphy Brown another one, Murphy 130 00:08:18,279 --> 00:08:21,120 Brown having the kid out of wedlock. Dan Quail made 131 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:22,920 a comment he was the vice president at the time, 132 00:08:23,079 --> 00:08:25,199 made some comment about how it's not, you know, sending 133 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,439 a good moral picture. Everybody's like, oh my gosh, I 134 00:08:27,439 --> 00:08:29,879 can't believe it, and all this, they say, Murphy Brent 135 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:35,159 Ellen degenerous, right, like this kind of this, the kind 136 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:42,000 of cultural entertainment that we that we consume, right, drives 137 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:47,279 a shift in cultural norms. The left knows this. The 138 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,919 left is well aware. So for them now to say, oh, 139 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,080 reading the book doesn't actually do that, it's a lie. 140 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,840 We know why. We know why you're doing it, because 141 00:08:57,879 --> 00:09:00,840 it's important to you. Otherwise you wouldn't do it, right, 142 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,120 all right, So spring is here a time of renewal 143 00:09:04,159 --> 00:09:08,720 and celebrations. 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Yeah, see when I was in school, when 165 00:10:24,399 --> 00:10:28,799 I was a kid, if you ever asked a personal 166 00:10:28,919 --> 00:10:33,279 question of a teacher like that was detention. Like they 167 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:38,759 did not They did not give you anything. They didn't 168 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,320 talk about their spouses, they didn't talk about their kids. 169 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:44,279 By the time you get up into the high school 170 00:10:44,399 --> 00:10:47,879 age range, yes, then you start hearing a little bit 171 00:10:47,919 --> 00:10:50,559 more about like one of my teachers got married, so 172 00:10:50,639 --> 00:10:54,440 her last name changed, and so like, oh, you got married, 173 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,279 and of course these are high school kids, like ooh 174 00:10:57,399 --> 00:11:00,919 she got married. I don't remember her maiden name. Missus 175 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,320 House was her last name, like spelled like the house. 176 00:11:05,159 --> 00:11:08,960 And but she would never talk about any of it. 177 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,480 You would just say, okay, open your books, move on whatever, 178 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,200 like that was it. There was a shutting down of 179 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,080 any of this kind of talk except for the health 180 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,279 class where they showed us all of the the after 181 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:26,000 pictures of the STDs. That was not pleasant. But yeah, 182 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:28,039 they never talked about this stuff to us when we 183 00:11:28,039 --> 00:11:31,799 were that young. There were lines that the teachers did 184 00:11:31,879 --> 00:11:36,039 not cross, and that has been lost. It seems to me. 185 00:11:36,759 --> 00:11:40,399 That's what it seems to me. Your mileage may vary. 186 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:48,159 The goal of public education has become to create a 187 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:56,759 generation of Oh, Greta Thunberg, Yes, Greta, how dare you? 188 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,000 She's now all in on the Palestine thing? Have you 189 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:06,679 noticed that? So I'm going to read now a piece 190 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:08,879 out of the Washington Examiner, not the entire thing. I'm 191 00:12:08,879 --> 00:12:10,960 gonna be the highlights as I am wont to do. 192 00:12:12,519 --> 00:12:14,720 It's a piece written by a guy named Mark Judge. 193 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,919 And if the name rings a belle, you may recall 194 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,080 why as we get to the end of this piece. 195 00:12:21,759 --> 00:12:24,399 So on May seventeenth, coming up, one of the coolest 196 00:12:24,399 --> 00:12:28,799 events in my area will take place. The Gaithersburg Book 197 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,799 Festival is just a couple of miles from where I 198 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,480 live in Maryland. The festival features some of the most 199 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:46,759 interesting authors representing all different genres. Usually, he talks about 200 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:51,639 though that most of the titles now and the authors 201 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:57,919 seem to be of a particular persuasion meaning of the left. 202 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:03,960 One of the featured authors is Jubi Ariola Headley. He 203 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:09,480 him a black queer poet, storyteller, first generation United Statesian, 204 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,840 and the author of two collections of poems, one called 205 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:20,320 Bound and another called Original Kink. There are books about abortion. 206 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:25,080 There are manifestos about how America has to change, and 207 00:13:25,159 --> 00:13:30,480 of course a volume rejecting traditional biological sex and he says, Look. 208 00:13:30,519 --> 00:13:34,600 There are some more mainstream titles like Rick Atkinson, He's 209 00:13:34,639 --> 00:13:36,759 going to be there. He's the author of The Fate 210 00:13:36,799 --> 00:13:40,679 of the Day, The War for America Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston. 211 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,720 There are also several novels from different genres like crime, romance, 212 00:13:45,759 --> 00:13:53,360 and fantasy. But what's missing are young males. There are 213 00:13:53,399 --> 00:13:59,519 no young male authors who are producing literary fiction that 214 00:13:59,639 --> 00:14:06,600 is marketed to young men. There's a guy named Jacob Savage. 215 00:14:06,639 --> 00:14:11,120 He wrote recently in Compact magazine about the phenomenon of 216 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:16,720 the vanishing male white writer. Savage traced the decline of 217 00:14:16,759 --> 00:14:19,840 young white men in American letters by looking at the 218 00:14:19,879 --> 00:14:23,960 New York Times best selling list of notable fiction. I 219 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,080 don't know if it's best selling, but the notable fiction 220 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:31,240 list in twenty twelve, the Times included so this was 221 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,600 what fifteen years ago? Almost that list included seven white 222 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,440 American men under the age of forty three. The next 223 00:14:39,519 --> 00:14:43,200 year it went from seven to six in twenty fourteen 224 00:14:43,879 --> 00:14:50,279 six and then the door shut twenty fourteen, so a 225 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:55,720 decade ago and within what five years? Six years? By 226 00:14:55,759 --> 00:14:59,679 twenty twenty one, Savage writes, quote, there was not a 227 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:05,039 single white male millennial on the Notable Fiction list. There 228 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,480 were none again in twenty twenty two. There was one 229 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,399 in twenty three, and there was one in twenty twenty four. 230 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:21,399 There were also no white male millennials featured in Vulture's 231 00:15:21,639 --> 00:15:25,080 twenty twenty four year end fiction list. There were none 232 00:15:25,159 --> 00:15:29,960 in Vanity Affairs. There were none in the Atlantics. Esquire 233 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:35,000 has featured fifty three millennial fiction writers on its year 234 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,919 end book lists over the last five years, like ten 235 00:15:37,919 --> 00:15:42,559 a year, and of those fifty three, one white American man. 236 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,080 In The New York Times, recently, David J. Morris wrote 237 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,200 a Creative He's a creative writing professor. He says that 238 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:56,240 America has lost its literary men over the past two decades. 239 00:15:56,759 --> 00:16:01,799 Literary fiction has become a largely female pursuit. Novels are 240 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:07,240 increasingly written by women and read by women. Women readers 241 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:13,080 now account for about eighty percent of fiction sales eighty percent. 242 00:16:13,559 --> 00:16:17,639 Morris dude, I grew up, I read I read so much, 243 00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:21,399 and I have so many books that I haven't read. 244 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:23,480 I have so many books that I haven't read now 245 00:16:23,799 --> 00:16:26,759 sitting on my shelf because I read all day long. 246 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,879 But I don't read books. I read this stuff. I 247 00:16:28,919 --> 00:16:31,000 read current events all day long, and by the end 248 00:16:31,039 --> 00:16:33,840 of the day it's like I don't want to read anymore. 249 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,639 I've been reading all day literally, you know, twelve hours, 250 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,080 So I don't want to read anymore. But when I 251 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,240 was growing up, I read all the time. I read 252 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:49,279 like every Stephen King novel there was. Morris argues this 253 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,200 is the creative writing professor. He says that if you 254 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:55,279 care about the health of our society, the decline and 255 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:59,519 fall of literary men should worry you. In recent decades, 256 00:16:59,679 --> 00:17:06,759 young men have regressed educationally, emotionally, and culturally. Men descend 257 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:12,240 deeper into video games and pornography. Missing are novels which 258 00:17:12,279 --> 00:17:17,559 improve one's emotional IQ. Novels help us form our identities 259 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:23,960 and understand our lives. Even famous liberal writers Joyce, Carol 260 00:17:24,039 --> 00:17:28,599 Oates James Patterson has also written about this. Right, this 261 00:17:28,799 --> 00:17:35,119 is a well known and disturbing trend inside the literary world. 262 00:17:36,319 --> 00:17:39,920 Several recent articles have noted that Lonesome Dove has recently 263 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,960 experienced a surge in popularity. Did you know that I 264 00:17:43,039 --> 00:17:48,039 did not? This novel is forty years old. Why. Well, 265 00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:52,279 because the American library elite has discouraged the formation of 266 00:17:52,319 --> 00:17:57,160 the next Larry McMurtry. We're not producing any more of 267 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,079 these kinds of authors, these male American authors that are 268 00:18:01,079 --> 00:18:06,519 writing stories for young men. These books offered more than 269 00:18:06,599 --> 00:18:10,720 just action. They had insights into work, sex, religion, and 270 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:18,000 psychology from a dude's perspective to a dude growing up. 271 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,519 And when you rip that out of the literary world, 272 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:27,279 you're going to see downstream impacts. Here's a great idea. 273 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,160 How about making an escape to a really special and 274 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,400 secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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And there are authors 302 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:18,200 that have noticed this and are pointing this out, and 303 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,759 they're saying that this is not healthy. This is not 304 00:20:20,839 --> 00:20:23,240 a good thing, just like it's not a good thing 305 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:30,000 to limit, you know, publishing of books by any group. Right. 306 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,640 The object here is not to say that we have 307 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,440 to go back to only publishing white male books. That's 308 00:20:37,519 --> 00:20:40,960 not what he's saying. It's not what I'm advocating. However, 309 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,440 when you go from you know, half of the list 310 00:20:43,519 --> 00:20:46,720 being made up of white dudes, white American dudes, you know, 311 00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:51,480 in twenty twenty or yeah, twenty ten, rather and then 312 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:56,720 within five years they're none, that shows something is occurring, right, 313 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,720 Something is happening. And it's not that those authors just 314 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:03,240 don't don't exist any longer. It's not that people don't 315 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,440 know how to write and read, although K twelve schools 316 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,160 have done a pretty good job of getting us there. 317 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:12,640 But no, it's that the book publishing world is making 318 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:18,079 a conscious decision not to have these authors published. They 319 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:22,119 are the gatekeepers. Now. He goes on to say that 320 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,279 today men who are looking for similar themes have to 321 00:21:26,319 --> 00:21:29,720 go to smaller publishers, and he talks about how in 322 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,799 twenty fifteen he wrote a piece that celebrated a publisher 323 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,000 called hard Case Crime. That's the name of the publishing company, 324 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,079 and he said at the time, this was ten years ago. 325 00:21:43,279 --> 00:21:47,240 The simplest explanation for the popularity of Hard Case Crime 326 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,039 is that the books, like most pulp fiction and the 327 00:21:51,039 --> 00:21:58,240 film noir movies it inspired, are about animus the Jungian 328 00:21:58,519 --> 00:22:06,079 term carl jung, the Jungian tern for male passion. Like 329 00:22:06,079 --> 00:22:09,359 a Scorsese film, they depict men on the edge when 330 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:13,559 the world is increasingly hostile to dangerous and flambuoyant men. 331 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:19,519 In the nineteen fifties, writers like Jim Thompson and deschell 332 00:22:19,599 --> 00:22:23,200 I don't know this person's name, Dashiel Hammett brought readers 333 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:27,200 into a world we are carefully manicured lawns, jello and 334 00:22:27,319 --> 00:22:32,400 white picket fences had not taken hold. Okay, so that's 335 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,759 what he wrote about this book publishing company. Three years later, 336 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,319 Mark Judge would find himself in the middle of a 337 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:45,119 political firestorm in Washington, d C. Do you know who 338 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:51,599 he is now? Mark Judge? He was a what high 339 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:57,839 school friend of Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, and he got 340 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:02,279 swept up in this firestorm and the media discovers his 341 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:07,880 article on hard case crime, and they went absolutely berserk 342 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,440 on him. One outlet described his work as quote. Many 343 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:17,400 of his writings. An MSNBC reporter noted align with the 344 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,440 ideology of the MRA movement. Do you know what the 345 00:23:21,599 --> 00:23:30,359 MR movement is? The Men's Rights activists MRA. In one instance, 346 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:35,440 Judge praised the wonderful beauty of uncontrollable male passion. The 347 00:23:35,559 --> 00:23:39,640 MSNBC co hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Rule couldn't quite 348 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:43,000 wrap their heads around Judge's praise of men with out 349 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:49,200 of control sex drive. Judge says, I actually did not 350 00:23:49,279 --> 00:23:51,680 know anything about the men's rights movement. I had no 351 00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:56,680 idea about that. I was just writing about dudes. In 352 00:23:56,759 --> 00:24:00,000 twenty twenty two, he says, I published a book about 353 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,839 now my experience being mulled by the media. The name 354 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:07,359 of that book was called The Devil's Triangle. Mark Judge 355 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,720 versus the New American Stassy. It's about politics, but also 356 00:24:11,759 --> 00:24:14,319 it's about the writers who shaped me. And then he 357 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:21,839 lists them GK. Chesterton, Tolkien, Salinger, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Ellison, Thomas, Wolfe, 358 00:24:22,839 --> 00:24:26,720 Hunter Thompson. And he says his book was ignored by 359 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:31,279 the legacy media because, of course, but ironically, when reviewing 360 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:33,559 a different book on politics that was written by a 361 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,440 leftist adversary of mine and that briefly referred to me, 362 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:43,200 the New York Times book critic Alexandra Jacobs wrote that quote, 363 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:48,039 one longs for more about Mark Judge that was in 364 00:24:48,079 --> 00:24:52,920 this book by this other author, about that or mentioned 365 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,319 Mark Judge. And when this woman was after she had 366 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,960 read this competing book from his adversary, he does not name. 367 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,640 The New York Times critics said, oh, one longs for 368 00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:07,039 more about Mark Judge. Oh, I wish we knew more. 369 00:25:08,279 --> 00:25:12,759 But he's like I wrote about it, it's in my book. Jacobs. 370 00:25:12,799 --> 00:25:15,880 The critic and the New York Times have refused to 371 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:20,720 review his book, and despite growing up just a couple 372 00:25:20,759 --> 00:25:25,839 of miles away, the Gaithersburg Gaithersburg Book Festival has never 373 00:25:26,319 --> 00:25:31,839 offered him an invitation to attend. Right, this is the 374 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:36,880 gatekeeping function that these people are providing. That they have 375 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:44,559 assumed they're blocking access of authors to their publishing houses. 376 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:47,880 And these are private companies, they are free to do 377 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,880 what they would like. Absolutely. However, I feel like there 378 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,799 is I feel like there is a demand that is 379 00:25:55,839 --> 00:26:00,000 not being met. But here's the problem. If the book 380 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:05,559 boks don't get published by so called reputable publishers, then 381 00:26:05,599 --> 00:26:07,880 they don't make their way down into the K twelve 382 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,519 government system. They don't make their way into these libraries. 383 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,599 And so when you do this for long enough, all 384 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:22,240 you will have on the shelves are old books call 385 00:26:22,319 --> 00:26:26,519 of the Wild or something right, or you're going to 386 00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:31,920 have the current offerings that are not written by anybody 387 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,319 that these authors or that these readers have any interest 388 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,559 in reading. They cannot relate to it. They don't want 389 00:26:38,559 --> 00:26:45,039 to read it. So when I hear people in academia 390 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:50,039 and in the libraries and in education circles and they 391 00:26:50,079 --> 00:26:53,640 talk about how, oh, we're just you know, offering this stuff. 392 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:57,680 It's not in doctrination. We're not activists. It's why I 393 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:02,559 don't believe you don't whiz on my boots and tell 394 00:27:02,599 --> 00:27:05,480 me it's raining all right. If you're listening to this show, 395 00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:07,079 you know I try to keep up with all sorts 396 00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:09,119 of current events, and I know you do too, and 397 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,640 you've probably heard me say, get your news from multiple sources. 398 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,400 Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which 399 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,319 is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 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Subscribe through that link 411 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,079 and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use 412 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,240 the Vantage plan to get unlimited app access to every feature. 413 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,240 Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it 414 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,400 also supports ground News as they make the media landscape 415 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:15,039 more transparent. Headline judge rules school can ban xx protests 416 00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:19,200 over males in girls' sports. This is from the New 417 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:24,039 Hampshire Journal by Damian Fisher. There is a school district 418 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,160 up there called the Bow School district bow or maybe 419 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,839 it's bow. It could be the bow. It's New Hampshire. 420 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,720 A judge rule. The federal judge ruled that the district 421 00:28:36,759 --> 00:28:41,240 was acting within its authority to kick two soccer dads 422 00:28:41,839 --> 00:28:45,920 out of a girl's game. So these are dads watching 423 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:50,119 their daughters play soccer, and they showed up wearing wristbands, 424 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,200 pink wristbands with the letters XX on it, which is 425 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,880 the universal sign for moonshining. No, it was a silent 426 00:29:00,079 --> 00:29:05,559 protest against biological males playing on girls teams. One of 427 00:29:05,599 --> 00:29:11,960 the dads, Anthony foot or Foote Foote, Footy, I don't know, 428 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,839 told the New Hampshire Journal that he plans to keep 429 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:16,839 fighting for what he sees as the rights of women 430 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:21,720 and girls. The judge, he says. The judge openly admitted 431 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:27,079 that pride flags are allowed because they promote inclusion, but 432 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:31,599 wrisk bands defending women's sports are banned because they might 433 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:37,160 offend somebody. And he says that's viewpoint discrimination, plain and simple, 434 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:44,680 and it's unconstitutional. The judge in the case, Stephen mccauliffe, 435 00:29:46,599 --> 00:29:49,079 in his ruling. The crux of the ruling is that 436 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:54,119 while foot and his fellow dad Fellers so Foot and 437 00:29:54,160 --> 00:30:00,880 Fellers and the others acted within their First Amendment to protest. 438 00:30:01,799 --> 00:30:07,160 Venues like school athletic events are considered though limited public forums, 439 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:11,880 and school officials acted within their legal authority to restrict 440 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:17,759 what the parents said and did. Here's what he said. 441 00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:21,200 This is the judge. The question then becomes whether the 442 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,680 school district can manage its athletic events and its athletic 443 00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:30,400 fields and facilities, that is, its limited public forum in 444 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,359 a manner that protects its students from adult speech that 445 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:39,359 can reasonably be seen to target a specific student participating 446 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,200 in the event, as well as other similar gender identifying 447 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:50,680 students by invited adult spectators when that speech demeans, harasses, intimidates, 448 00:30:50,839 --> 00:30:55,759 and bullies. The answer is straightforward. Of course, it can discriminate. Indeed, 449 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:01,279 school authorities are obligated to do so. Dude, do you 450 00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:04,759 know what we used to do in high school, hike? 451 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:12,000 We had basketball games, all of our home basketball games. 452 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,359 There were classmates of mine would bring a big bed 453 00:31:16,359 --> 00:31:18,920 sheet and they would they would tape it up on 454 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,119 the wall on the top of the bleachers in the gym, okay, 455 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,880 so you could see it. It was huge. It's a 456 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,640 bed sheet and in the middle of the bed sheet 457 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,759 is spray painted the word meat head, and then there 458 00:31:30,799 --> 00:31:33,759 are numbers, and like, the later the season gets, the 459 00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:37,039 more numbers are on that sheet. So the very first 460 00:31:37,079 --> 00:31:38,839 game of the year, you hang the sheet up there 461 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,079 says meathead on it, and they identify a player on 462 00:31:42,119 --> 00:31:46,720 the opposing team, and usually it's the best player. And 463 00:31:46,759 --> 00:31:50,119 you pick one of these players, and every time they 464 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:53,400 touch the ball, for however long they're touching the ball, 465 00:31:54,799 --> 00:32:01,799 you chant mead heead mead head me, and then you 466 00:32:01,799 --> 00:32:04,839 stop as soon as he passes. So every time he 467 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,799 touches that he knows that the crowd, that the home 468 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:10,240 crowd is gonna chant meat heead at him. And just 469 00:32:10,279 --> 00:32:13,160 in case anybody is unfamiliar with who they were targeting, 470 00:32:13,319 --> 00:32:15,319 that's why they put the number up there. So they 471 00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:17,599 put the number, they spray paint the number or write 472 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,319 a number on the bed sheet, and everybody targets that number, 473 00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:24,160 and then after the game is over, they x out 474 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,519 the number. So by the end of the season, you 475 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,519 come back or you show up to play our high school, 476 00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:32,119 and you're going to see a sheet up there with 477 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:36,640 like a dozen different numbers with x's on them, and 478 00:32:36,759 --> 00:32:39,960 woe unto you if you are chosen as the meathead 479 00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:46,119 of that game. That's I think that, like demeans, harasses, 480 00:32:46,279 --> 00:32:49,920 intimidates bullies, I think we checked every one of those. 481 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,279 For days before the September tenth, twenty twenty four game, 482 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,519 Anthony Foot and Fellers made it known to school officials 483 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:03,079 that they were unhappy that their high school was going 484 00:33:03,119 --> 00:33:06,119 to be playing a game against a girls team that 485 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:10,359 happens to have a boy on it, boy by the 486 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,920 name of Parker Terrell. Days before the game, Terrell made 487 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,440 national news with a court victory against the state of 488 00:33:17,519 --> 00:33:23,599 New Hampshire's law barring biological males from girls' sports. So 489 00:33:23,839 --> 00:33:28,160 this kid sued to be able to play against girls 490 00:33:28,279 --> 00:33:32,440 in soccer in high school and now he's coming to 491 00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:37,880 Bow High School and parents of the girls soccer players 492 00:33:38,079 --> 00:33:40,960 not happy that a dude is out there running circles 493 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,799 around all their daughters, scoring at will. The dads went 494 00:33:44,839 --> 00:33:50,400 on social media to discuss various protest ideas. McAuliffe, the judge, 495 00:33:50,559 --> 00:33:53,519 wrote that it is reasonable, given the context of the game, 496 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,039 for the administrators of the district to be concerned that 497 00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:01,960 the potential protests would be inter by terrell as bullying 498 00:34:02,119 --> 00:34:09,119 and harassing. Wearing a wristband with double x's on it 499 00:34:10,039 --> 00:34:15,599 as a form of protest, that's bullying. Now, I recall, 500 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:18,880 I'm trying to remember who it was that I heard 501 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,679 say this that the hardest thing that you have ever 502 00:34:21,679 --> 00:34:24,440 been through. It may have been Jordan Peterson. The hardest 503 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,320 thing you've ever been through is the hardest thing you've 504 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:30,719 ever been through. Well that makes sense, right, yes, But 505 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,519 if you've never been through anything difficult, then somebody wearing 506 00:34:35,559 --> 00:34:41,320 a wristband can just destroy you because you haven't learned 507 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:46,599 how to overcome anything more difficult than that. So the 508 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:48,840 judge said that the school had the right to limit 509 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:53,239 the dad's speech. The judge in the case has yet 510 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,320 to rule on permanent injunction. Fellers and Foot and the 511 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,000 other parents are seeking to allow them to protest at 512 00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:03,760 school games and other events. Like if you can't even 513 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:08,480 wear a wristband to express your displeasure in what the 514 00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:12,119 district and what the school system and the government is 515 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,920 forcing your daughter to do. Like you guys have lost 516 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,800 the plot here. This is again, this is like an 517 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,280 eighty twenty issue that Democrats have chosen the wrong side 518 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:30,000 on yet again. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 519 00:35:30,039 --> 00:35:32,079 Thank you so much for listening. 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