Communism Anyone? Causes & Cures

Why Young People Are Drawn to Social

0:13 You found yourself at the intersection of policy, politics, and culture. Your own sabbatical with Doc G and the Discussants. To contact the program or maybe email a favorite discussant, find us on the World Wide Web at docgandthediscussants .com. Here's Doc G. Welcome into Doc G and the Discussance. Certainly glad to have you back with us for another episode. In the studio is Sarah. Hey. Hey. And the professor. Yeah, just take it easy and relax. Okay. I mean no big deal Yeah, we had a long discussion sort of a I don't know Yeah a discussion among discussants an autopsy of the first episode and we all decided that it was We cut into that body when we on the autopsy table we cut into that sucker boy did it It was we but we did decide that maybe it was an award -winning effort.

1:39 I think in the end didn't Yeah, no doubt about that. I mean look at it this way Nobel gave Obama a prize for doing nothing and then Pulitzer gave the New York Times two prizes for lying So yeah, I think we're due for a prize from somebody. Yeah, right Well, I it's one way to one way to look at it or the other way that you noted a little earlier boy Did that suck I Don't think it sucked, but it could have been tighter for certain Yeah Right Misdirected at times, but there was certainly energy in the room so Too much humble everything was fine.

2:28 It was a wonderful episode informative And it was a lot edgier than anybody else, so it was great. Well, thanks, Tom. Yeah, and thank you, Sarah. Thank you. And Bo. Thank you, Bo, for breathing in the microphone. He breathed in the microphone the entire show. And I think we could probably thank Orville. He might, you know, be in line for... Orville contributes a little bit. I mean, he thinks it's funny that Pulitzer was lying in the New York Times, or he likes that.

3:03 Well, we kind of thought we would, I don't know, delve into the reasons the discussants believe that this scourge has covered the land, this DSA, this communist scourge. You know, they've got a another race that's going on. I want to say it's Wisconsin. where they've got a gubernatorial candidate. I think her name is Hong. The opposition is saying Hong is wrong. But I think she's up double digits in that Democratic primary over there and she's a communist as well. And now we're talking Wisconsin.

3:57 Well, that's where ISHCA says the Experimental Aircraft Association's annual fly -in. Why are they tolerating this crap, I wonder? Why is anybody tolerating it? It seems that, you know, it's all the rage. You know, it's sort of like, what, the twist? The Wattusen? Well, as I said in the former episode, three classes that are tolerating it are those that will benefit greatly, like the Bernie Sanders. with the multi -mansions and then the ignorant ones. We think, oh, that really looks good. And then the desperate ones with the fatalistic view that, well, there are too many people, more people than opportunity.

4:36 So this will be the ticket for me to have it as good as I can possibly have it. Not that it'll be that good, but I will subsist until the end. So that's why the three classes are tolerating it. Yeah, I think that that's maybe where we start is Where I'm seeing than the media and and both sides They're sort of describing this is there is no opportunity for young people and that this is the reason why they're gravitating towards this I Think I mean my personal opinion. I'm gonna put my opinion out there and see what see what you guys think I don't really think that's it as much as A couple of people said that was it, and it's been repeated by a couple more, and a couple more, and a couple more, and all of a sudden now there's no opportunity out there.

5:33 There's a lot of opportunity out there, but you have to prepare yourself for the right opportunity. You know, I mean, you can't... Wait, Doc G, Doc G, let me stop you right there. Okay, I mean, can't we break this down to numbers? I mean, how many opportunities are out there? How many occupational slots are in existence? And how many people are out there opposite those slots on the scale? I mean, tell me those numbers. Okay, so let's start with, you know, just, you know, roundabout numbers. This is something that I saw for years and years and years.

6:12 Not enough nurses. Not enough welders, not enough plumbers, not enough yard maintenance people, not enough grocery sackers, not enough, you know, veterinary assistance, not enough... Okay, let me stop you right there. So here's a young dude looking at this and he thinks, well, I could be a welder, I could even be a nurse, I could be a whatever, but I don't think I want to go into all the trouble to prepare for that. Why should I do that? Well, now I think you've put your finger on it. A lot of these things require actual work.

6:50 And that was my argument inside these circles many times. So it actually works against human nature. Oh, yeah. And so what we'd see is these interested groups, people from, let's say, the hospital association, they need people, they need a lot of people, they need people to clean the floors. nurses aides hospitals have a tough time getting skilled labor and unskilled labor so there's a lot of opportunity kind of going back to what you said well I think that that's my personal opinion is that that is the issue so what What the politicians in the policy were, they were saying, well, we need to create more educational opportunities, more vocational schools, more slots for people to go and get prepared for these jobs.

7:53 So again, it was throw money at it. Make sure that we've got plenty of ways that people can get into these jobs and get into them cheaply. Well, again, I'm going to ask you, when's the last time you spent the full day welding, Professor? You do some welding. So when's the last time you spent a full day doing it? Oh, golly, I can't answer that. But I mean, I spent zillions of hours welding. I mean, years ago, I actually worked in a factory back in the 70s where I welded trailer chassis. But as far as my own projects, Lots of welding there too, but I mean nothing in the last few weeks or anything this has been like I said in episode one this has been a bad summer of Life getting in the way of what I actually want to work on but yeah, I'm up on welding I can I've done zillions of hours and yeah Yeah, I mean it's hot and it's fumes and smoke and all that but And so didn't you you used to actually do it professionally for a while?

9:10 We've got a funny story about that But you did it professionally you welded professionally for a while. Did you not? And you were there for a little while but it's extremely hard work so Wasn't there the day that the guy came out to admonish the crew for? I don't know not putting out what they should put out and you had a unique way So it's one better every day one better every day and at what point was it that you sort of raised your hand in one of those meetings. Oh, yeah, and it was not a Hitler salute, by the way.

10:08 Anyway, the foreman was standing on a, I don't know what, an egg crate or something. He put himself above the rest of us and was giving his morning pep talk. And I was holding my hand up in the air, kind of toward him, and he wanted to know what I was doing. What are you doing there? And I said, well, I want to shake your hand. I'm leaving. Oh, yeah, didn't you shake his hand goodbye? I did. So you you created you created a little uprising the two of you walked out have you ever seen the movie? Have you ever seen the movie half baked starring Dave Chappelle?

10:53 I've heard the title but haven't seen the movie. There's a guy, it's Jim Brewer, he's working in a record shop. He's a complete screw up and he finally goes over the edge and he gets fired. He walks out and as he's walking out he's telling the crowd, he says, I'm not going to do what you think I'm going to do. I'm not going to do anything. I'm not going to blow. He said, who's coming with me? Who's coming with me? And a female employee raised her hand and went along with him. I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming.

11:30 And he asked her to be his girlfriend at that point, and she informed him that she was gay, so that wouldn't work out. But it reminded me of that story. At least you got one other guy to go with you. Wait a minute, couldn't Brewer, whoever it was, transition? Couldn't he transition his gender? Then they could have been lesbian. you know, it that would have been a way to go that, you know, wasn't available at the time that movie was made. But, you know, now it would be mandatory now. So we were talking about how hard it is to do this work.

12:09 And that was sort of my line within this workforce development thing is that we have some counterproductive policies where it cross purposes in our policy and that as you guys are sort of saying hey it's it's hard work number one but number two you know I may not really have to work it might be easier for me not to work and maybe I can find a way to have money without working and that seems to be you know certainly counter to the ideas that make people work if I don't have to. You're listening to Doc G and the Discussants.

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16:41 And I'm skeptical of that because we know that where those jobs are at, there are opportunities. But it may not be either. I mean, there may not be enough to match. We know where there's certain shortages in many occupations, and there have been persistent shortages in those occupations for a long time. There is a lot of shortages in the medical field. And as the country continues to age and the baby booners, more and more of them are joining the retirement ranks. And then, you know, progressing in age from there, we're going to need healthcare professionals.

17:25 So, but I sort of reject the argument that there's not opportunity in the land of opportunity. I think that that's one thing, something that the communists have heard people say, they've repeated it, they continue to repeat it, and now it's one of those things that are taken as fact. We left... where the professor was telling us about his day's welding and the question, the operative question there was, Tom, how much fun was it? Can you see, could you see yourself making a 40 -year career of laying underneath maybe a fuel tank and welding for eight hours a day and going back and welding for another eight hours a day?

18:13 Let's explore that a little bit. No, absolutely not. That was kind of back in the hippie era. I was not a hippie, but a lot of my friends were, and some of them worked at this trailer manufacturing firm. And so it was, bottom line, kind of a good time. As Sarah mentioned, it was work. But I had buddies there that were in the paint department. When they left every day, they were green, in green paint, and others that did other things. I rolled the chassis, and they were moved with a crane onto the assembly line.

18:46 blah, blah, blah, but no, it was kind of a way to earn some money to use to do things I wanted to do. It wasn't necessary for me to subsist, but I did want the money to spend on things I was interested in, so I was there doing that. Plus, it let me brush up on the technique of welding, which I wanted that was useful in my own personal projects, but no, no, when I was there, I'm not gonna do this for too much longer. So about how long did that take? Well, it was a few months. It was under a year.

19:21 Well, and that's kind of my point is that, yes, these jobs pay well. I mean, they're paying better now than they did back when you were doing it, I'm sure, because there were more people. But it's still very hard work. Sarah, what's your insight? I mean, you have. Oh, I, you know, if you were to ask my if you were to ask my grandkids what they want to do now, they want to be gamers or influencers. That's not work. They would they would rather say influencers. They would say that social media is their life.

20:02 That's what they want to do. Have you heard them say that? Yes. Yes. Let me explain just a little bit here. Sarah's grandkids are not very old. No. You know, how old are they? I have one that's 16, one that's 15, and it goes all the way down to about five. We're not talking about the 16 and 15 year old. We're talking about the what? Now the 15 year old, the 15 year old wants to be a gamer. Okay. Yeah. Now, the other ones, the younger ones, you know, they work on their makeup tutorials and so forth.

20:37 I mean, we're talking seven, eight year old girls that. Makeup tutorials and they and they do this in the hope that they can be an influencer. Is that a word that they use? Yeah, that's what that is. Sure. Wow. Yeah. So I'm going to I don't know. step back from that a little bit because I know at seven, eight years old, I thought I was going to be quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. So maybe, you know, that's the new Minnesota Vikings thing. You know, this aspirational, you know, I don't know, but I'm surprised that they know what an influencer is.

21:23 And so it's a little different in my opinion than Walking out on a maybe football field and you know, you're you know The whole world knows who you are this kind of stuff and they see what you do. I Mean, I know they see what influencers do in videos but Do they connect that with making a lot of money? Yes. Okay. Yeah, right I don't know. What do you think Tom? I don't seem to have a favorable opinion of influencers. It almost seems like a position that one would look at and think, oh, there's a situation I could involve myself in and bring in a lot of money and just have a real good time and not really put myself out too much intellectually or emotionally or physically, but earn a lot of money.

22:19 To me, the term influencer is almost a silly cop -out position. Of course, that's just me in my own perverted opinion. Well, I think that that's sort of my opinion, too. So let me tell you where I sort of derive my opinion from and go into what Sarah said. And I don't know, it seems kind of dangerous for young girls. And this is where I'm going to, you know, sort of tie my tie that together. I first became aware of people who were sort of considered influencers during the Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears sort of Lindsay Lohan debacles, where it started to become acceptable for young ladies to become famous for pornography and let's just face it Kim Kardashian became famous for a sex tape she is now an extremely mired admired people especially our person by many many and I still remember how that happened and so it's for me it seems very perverted to your point Tom and I think that It makes me fear for young ladies who want to follow in those footsteps.

23:53 Well, I don't know that it's typically always the makeup Sex tape type influencers. You can see even in the White House. They've brought influencers There sure to promote. Well, yeah Because that's where kids get their information Mean that's where they get their news. That's where they get their information This is the reason in my opinion that the Democratic Socialist Party has gone the way it's gone you have influencers that have a lot of sway on young kids and They spew whatever it is. They want to say and they eat it up Well, I don't think that there's you know enough counter programming But if we add more counter programming out to the web for them to waste their time, you know, where do you stop is, is the is the question.

24:53 So I don't know, you know, so we put all this and so we've got little kids, little kids that want to be influencers. They don't want to be nurses. No. Right. No interest in that. We have some young men that want to be gamers. They don't want to be welders. They don't want to be plumbers. They don't want to And should we blame them, Tom? Should we? Oh, no, no, it's human nature. I want to bring in as much money as I can and do as little that I can get my way to bring in all that money. Of course, I don't blame them.

25:26 I guess I don't either because I remember wanting to play for the Minnesota Vikings and, you know, I didn't have any ambition to, you know, or any want to work all day long. What I what I heard time and time again with workforce development folks lobbyists these sort of people was that we needed to create more opportunities because These kids didn't know about them. They didn't know about welding. They didn't know about nursing They didn't know about being an orderly. They didn't know about being a vet assistant They didn't know and the whole time I'm hearing these arguments.

26:05 I'm thinking to myself certainly they remember being kids in that didn't they ever want to be a quarterback didn't they ever want to be a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader didn't they ever want to be you know what they saw on TV you know it isn't the first thing kids want to do there's opportunity out there for certain but they're not maybe the opportunities that adults think that kids Aspire to and then after a certain age. It's hard to do that again. It's hard to you know go back and Decide I'm going to now educate myself for a career that I can you know build a life and a family and a home and Be married and raise children.

26:48 That's the furthest thing from their minds any pushback there Are you noticing in all this maybe perhaps throw this in there? maybe a little bit of a lack of parenting and nurturing and informing, a little bit of negligence on the part of the grown -up that wants to get drunk and do what he wants to do and let the kid be a babysitter by a screen or whatever. Well, I think that that's going to be a great subject for the next segment because I think that kids have been socialized by many things in society now, and I don't think we should be at all surprised that they are attracted to this movement.

27:34 This is how they have grown up. They've grown up this way in education institutions. They're growing up that way at home, to your point. Are they being parented? Most of the time they're parented, if at all, by one parent. There's not that many people paying attention anymore. You're listening to Doc G and the Discussants. We're going to take a break here and we'll be back shortly. Make sure that you stay close by.

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31:50 Have a question for your favorite discussant? Well, please visit us on the world wide web at the discusses dot com. The doctor is in. Welcome back. You're with Doc G and the discussants. on sabbatical the professor and Sarah in residence today and we've been talking about I don't know the youth of America as geriatric folk and basically putting out the same kind of crap that we've heard every I guess older generations say that these young kids just ain't worth a damn I mean that's that's what I'm hearing Isn't that basically what we're sitting around doing now?

32:44 I mean, they're so lazy. Huh? They're so lazy. Yeah. Well, that's what I'm hearing. Well, I'm not hearing that at all. I mean, I'm seeing patriotism among the youth and a desire to dig in and work and proud of America and build their futures. Well, you know, it's I just thought I might note that you know, it seems to be a pretty negative attitude I don't I don't mean to sound negative about this about about kids in general and I think that Before we went into the break the professor sort of pointed out that you know, should we maybe Saddle their parents with some of this I'm gonna say that I don't think a lot of them really have parents at least not the kind of parents that we were used to and our friends were used to, you know, the days when you walk up and down the neighborhood street and any mom that saw you misbehaving had full license to go ahead and tan your hide.

33:47 You know, to to sound old timey about it, you know, you get your hide tanned. Remember that? Well, you try that nowadays, you'd be charged with assault. Yeah, quickly, I think. extremely quickly with your own child. I can remember. There you go, that's it, right there. When you said your own child, yeah. Society and the system has taken away the ability of a parent to really discipline and guide a child. A parent cannot do that anymore according to the system. Well, yeah, and so you're left to these sorts of devices.

34:25 Time out. You know, it's time for you to go and stand in the corner for a little while, which is a punishment for both you and your child, because you have to stand and make sure that they stand in the corner, as long as the kid does. Instead of, you know, the good old corporal punishment that took all of about three to four seconds, the kid knew that, you know, you made the point. And then everybody was free to go on about their business instead of now half the day is going to be dedicated to discipline, which parents.

34:57 Yeah, which the kids sort of, you know, laugh at. Oh, yeah, I'm really in trouble. I know. You know, again, I'm going to. A personal anecdote. When my mother would discipline my brother and I, if she sent us to our room. We would sort of smile at each other like, oh, is this all that's going to happen? But if she threatened to tell my dad. Oh, my God, I mean, we we were terrified that she might actually do that. And if she did it, that was like punching the nuclear button because, you know, he felt that he was obligated then, you know, to make sure that the threat that.

35:45 We perceived was actually real He would make it real for you, and I don't think that you know I think that most kids just don't grow up with that anymore first dad really isn't around there They're you know mostly broken homes I mean marriage is what I think less than 50 % now and those marriages fail within the first five years and so if you continue you know, if you have your kids within the first three years, well, then we're, you know, we're talking about most kids growing up in a single parent family now.

36:17 And for some cultures, it's very high. It's 85 getting to be 90 % where, you know, there's only one parent in the home. And that parent many times is very young. So I think that the point where, you know, our parents to blame for this, I don't even know that there are parents anymore, at least not like We knew them. Well, I think... Go ahead. I just gotta say, it seems like anymore it's just maybe a male and female enjoying each other's physical company and with negligence and unprotected sex, then a pregnancy occurs, then a birth occurs, nobody really wants it.

37:06 Not that they don't want it, but it's kind of an indifferent thing, like, oh, whatever, and let the damn thing grow and figure it out on its own. And on it goes, multiplied by zillions of time across the U .S. and face the earth, and everybody, it's just more and more just a glut of people makes you wonder, what's the point? I don't see any way it could improve. I think it's very gradually descending. Well, I think that what you've described is idiocracy, isn't it? Yeah, I mean kind of literally, you know, it's You remember what is it Billy Bob in the very beginning of that movie where you know, they have two sets of parents There's just Billy Bob and then there's a married couple their their IQs are very high and they're talking about we're gonna wait till you know, we have this in the bank before we have kids because you know, we've got obligations for this and that and the other.

38:11 And so, you know, they end up not having any kids because they wait too long and one of them dies while Billy Bob and... You know, what a billion kids by the time it's over with. I mean, it's just multiply and descendants. I mean, it's it's and then, you know, we've got President Camacho running things. I think there's parallels there as well. And and you know, I think I'd probably get some pushback in some quarters over that. I mean, you know, the guy goes into the through the legislative chamber and unloads his.

38:47 M 16 into the ceiling to get attention. I don't think it's descended quite that bad yet, but I was watching a hearing yesterday in the Senate where they had Anthony Fauci who came in and pleaded the fifth and no one was surprised that he would do that. But he was he's what it's what 150 times or something like that. Yeah, there was a Senator that basically, you know, threw the F -bomb out a couple of times during the congressional hearing. And I'm thinking to myself, this is idiocracy. Here it is, you know, during a congressional hearing instead of what was the name of the fast food place that finally turned into the words that everybody wants to say.

39:36 It's mud ruckers and, you know, that kind of stuff. Well, it finally turned into, you know, the nastiest things you could say. So, what got us down that path? It's idiocracy, and I think that it's sort of playing on. They sort of hang this on education, where there's these failing schools. Well, schools can't really teach very well, and the kids don't go. And if they do go, they're not engaged, or they've not slept all night, or they haven't... been fed and fed well, they're not really clothed very well, those kinds of things.

40:12 You know, school is kind of the last thing that they're able to do. And, you know, where is it? Where's it in? So what? Let's steer this back towards opportunity. We've we've sort of decided that there is opportunity out there. There's many people who don't want to take advantage of those opportunities. And why? Well, we have more and more people who would like just to go down to the local office, sign up for whatever benefits they can get. In fact, they're told by their parents to do so because they're watching their parents do the same thing.

40:50 So who wants to do that welding thing? Who wants to do that? Who wants to become a nurse? Who wants to do the real work? We don't want any responsibility or discipline. I was talking to the night manager of a restaurant a few years back. He was going to get married shortly. Then he said, well, then I guess we'll have some kids. And I said, I'm just curious, why would you have kids? And he said, well, I don't know. It just seems like the thing to do. So there you go.

41:24 Yeah, I think that there's. It's really not very complicated. It really isn't. You can start to see there's disincentives all over the place for people to actually not work. Let me head down this path just a second. So in many states, we've added three or four grades to the curriculum. You can go to school at age zero. I guess we'll call it school. Really, what it is, is the government trying to take care of kids. Oh, what was that? I think it was it was a professor talking to Bo. They're shooting off fireworks.

42:17 Oh, are they shooting off fireworks outside? That's great for a radio show, isn't it? Hey, thanks, Bo, for showing up for the show. in maybe more ways than one. Where was I at? So we've got new grades added where we don't really teach anybody anything or they say they do. But you can literally drop your kid off now at grade zero. Grade zero, at age zero, and they'll take them out of your arms. And so that goes on until they go to school where they continue to this education in quotes in some respects.

43:06 And we you know none of this is paid for they eat free lunch they go to free school. Nobody's really paying for the daycare or on whatever sliding scale they can figure. So. When we were talking a little earlier about parents and previous generations being adverse to taking anything from the government just would

Final Thoughts: Inculcation, Schools, Future

43:28 not do it, now this is inculcated very, very quickly. At age zero, Americans are now being raised by the government. And so when we start to think about, well, why would they want to be part of a system like this? They have been their entire lives and that's becoming more the case. I'm up against it yet again. I don't know where these segments go to. They just disappear. We'll be back and we'll explore this a little bit further and get the discussants take on whether they think we are inculcating.

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48:18 We've been talking about the problems that we see, and of course, seems like we see plenty of them, with this idea of socialism, where it's coming from, and I was going on a diatribe about, I think that, so the... The purpose of education for society is to inculcate, re -inculcate, and support the institutions that and reproduce those institutions that society believes are important. And if that is indeed the purpose for education for a society and the ancients, Aristotle, Plato, That's sort of what they, well it is exactly what they said the purpose of education is for a society.

49:06 It is not to, you know, increase text scores. I had years and years of listening to that. What is it re -inculcating? Why is it that we are seeing these things start to emerge? I think if we, you know, follow the logical end to why maybe these things are springing up, what is being inculcated by education? And I sort of went down the path of saying, hey, these kids are growing up inside institutions that are now giving them free things, assuring them that, you know, you have a place to go, you have a place where you belong, you know, taking on...

49:51 subject matter that education never took on before, basically a social mission to inculcate particular feelings. We can tell horror stories about kids going to school, changing their gender while they're at school, coming home as who they left school at the beginning of the day, and a whole army of people fighting to have that happen. Basically to have institutions of the country lie to parents about who their kids are and what they do during the school day. So are we to be surprised at the results?

50:34 This has been going on for quite a while now. Here's another example. And I don't mean to sound harsh or, I don't know, begrudge somebody something that they need. But we don't even pack lunches for our kids anymore. They go to school and they're fed free. All of them are fed free in some of these school districts. They don't even pay for these things anymore. So there is a free lunch. It exists. And there's many students and parents that are very used to this. Okay, so I'm out of the way on this discuss, please I know you've heard of the movie the skin I live in could you comment on that, please?

51:29 Well, how did that come up the fact I mean that's that's nearly as far if you make a point, please and then off The skin daughter, I believe, was killed in a traffic incident and so the surgeon somehow captured the young man that did that and changed his gender. Right.

52:03 Well, tell me this. Why is it okay? It's just fine. A mother can kill her child in the uterus, but if she waits maybe 15 or 20 minutes later when that child is born, now she's no longer can kill the child legally. What's going on there? Well, that's the heart of that argument, isn't it? I mean, you can't... Did we have a guy running for governor or something a few years back in some state and said, okay, let's go ahead and birth the child and let him or her lie there on the table and then we'll have a discussion over what to do.

52:39 Yes, that certainly was... That was I, Tom, I am afraid that I don't remember who that was attached to. But that is a fact in that. Yeah, I mean, that was that was an issue in that election. And and the really wouldn't back down off of it, if I remember correctly. It was like, oh, right. We're going to stand on on that. And and it's always interesting to watch in legislatures as these sort of bills are are debated because. That's sort of an Achilles heel for the left in that someone on the right will start to lead them down that path and say, well, if it's OK at three months, well, to have an abortion, then is it OK at one week?

53:28 Yes, it's absolutely OK. Well, what about three days? Then they start to get a little squeamish, but they'll be, well, what about? 15 seconds before birth. That's fine, no problem. Well, they usually won't do that. They'll usually try to deflect at that point. I mean, it's about anything but that discussion. They won't do that. Are you some damn conservative? Well, they want to reserve that right, but they know politically how it sounds when they do. It's an argument you see less and less on legislative floors because it's a tactic that the left knows the right will use.

54:26 The skin I live in, I think that's for a whole episode in itself. That's a it's a it's a great I want to recommend that movie. It's a great movie. It really is. It's a great novel. Man, good old boys send son to school. He comes back as a beautiful woman. And then they run off together. That's kind of what happens. in this thing. It's Antonio Banderas, correct? That's correct. Yeah, and who else is in that movie? It's in Spanish. You have to be self -taught. Right, yeah. It's not easily findable.

55:03 The skin I live in... It's a case of money. If you want to spend maybe 30 or 40 bucks for a DVD, it's findable. What do you mean? You can find a DVD somewhere? Find a DVD player? We've started hoarding disc players just because I would like to have some parts. You can't find, where are you finding DVDs at? Oh, okay. You're getting them from Amazon. I thought, I thought maybe you was still finding a place where you could rent them. I mean, there's, there's not even a red box around anymore. Is there?

55:44 I don't think you can get, I don't think you can rent. Yeah. Where can you, where can you rent a movie? We used to, I always used to have I stockpile of movies in my house, you know, three or four movies that were reviewed and I'm ready to watch them. And part of the reason why I got them is because I saw somebody, you know, give them a decent review. And, you know, that's just not the world I live in anymore. If I see a decent movie once in, you know, two, three months, I'm I'm happy. It just seems like the movie industry is over with.

56:15 We were talking about communism. What happened now? But anyway, just to sort of wrap it up because I've got about 33 seconds left in the final segment of the show.

56:44 I think that there's many reasons, and one of those reasons for certain is the way that education is now served up. And then we have disincentive to work, and we also have a generation of kids who want to be influencers. They really don't want to be. Don't think we came anywhere close to solving it. I don't think we came anywhere close to me No one said we would we didn't make that guarantee any place but we're always happy always happy to hear from listeners who think that maybe they can help solve things I Wish that they would Write us just go to the website and pick your favorite discussant Leave a note suggest suggest a topic for a future show.

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