Latest / Normally / Normally Podcast: The Left Versus Tesla Dealerships
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hey guys, we are back on normally the show What
- 0:04Speaker 1: Normalist Takes for when the news gets weird. I am
- 0:06Speaker 1: Mary Catherine.
- 0:07Speaker 2: And I am Carol Markowitz. How are you doing, Mary Katherine?
- 0:11Speaker 1: I am all right. You know I've taken up some crafting.
- 0:14Speaker 1: How do you do? Yeah, I'm doing. I learned how
- 0:17Speaker 1: to latch hook, which is like the super tacky seventies
- 0:23Speaker 1: form of like embroidery that's like real fuzzy, like a
- 0:26Speaker 1: shag carpet. And I'm gonna make myself a really ugly
- 0:29Speaker 1: pillow and then I'm gonna put it on my couch
- 0:31Speaker 1: and my husband's gonna be like why, and I'm gonna
- 0:36Speaker 1: be like, that is homemade. Yeah, I'm going to love it.
- 0:42Speaker 3: He's going to learn to love it. I golfed this
- 0:45Speaker 3: weekend for the first time ever.
- 0:47Speaker 1: I saw that have you golfed? I do not golf.
- 0:50Speaker 1: I kind of wish I could, but I've never really taken.
- 0:53Speaker 2: It up, so it was my first time. I had
- 0:55Speaker 2: a really fun time.
- 0:56Speaker 3: And I know we joke about me being soft in
- 0:59Speaker 3: the Florida weather, but I was like in a little
- 1:01Speaker 3: outfit and it got like seventy degrees in windy and
- 1:04Speaker 3: I had to had to leave. I had to leave
- 1:06Speaker 3: the course because I was so cold, like through my
- 1:08Speaker 3: bones cold. I'll just say I was with some northern
- 1:12Speaker 3: friends who were visiting and they were cold too.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Just so everybody knows, I'm not okay.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Not the window, the window get you. I am really well.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Jonathan Hat would be proud of both of us for
- 1:25Speaker 1: doing offline activities. Yes, look at us.
- 1:28Speaker 2: We touched some grass.
- 1:30Speaker 1: We did. I'm gonna touch my shag pillows soon. It's
- 1:33Speaker 1: gonna be great. I'll show you guys what I've done.
- 1:35Speaker 2: Love it.
- 1:36Speaker 3: So Over the weekend there was also some more Tesla violence.
- 1:41Speaker 1: I saw offline activity.
- 1:42Speaker 3: Yeah, offline touching grass, but in the violent sense activity.
- 1:47Speaker 3: These protesters are getting progressively more violent, and of course
- 1:52Speaker 3: all the Democrats are calling them out on this, because
- 1:56Speaker 3: that's sorry, I couldn't even finish that thought. No Democrats
- 2:00Speaker 3: are calling them out on this, or very very few
- 2:03Speaker 3: are in any case. But I saw an old lady
- 2:05Speaker 3: get assaulted. I've seen multiple Tesla's get defaced and keyed
- 2:10Speaker 3: and that kind of thing, which is it's sort of
- 2:12Speaker 3: getting to wear. These people might just be really dumb
- 2:16Speaker 3: because Tesla's have eight cameras on them, and every one
- 2:19Speaker 3: of these incidents is being like videoed from multiple angles.
- 2:24Speaker 1: So they have they have cameras that activate when you
- 2:27Speaker 1: vandalize them. Guys that're like, hi, we're checking on who's
- 2:31Speaker 1: doing this. It's so good, great stuff.
- 2:34Speaker 3: But yeah, it's getting bad and scary, and the media
- 2:38Speaker 3: is also I can't even deliver the joke they're on
- 2:40Speaker 3: it because instead they're they're largely saying that, you know,
- 2:44Speaker 3: Tesla's wearing a real short skirt. The Washington Post had
- 2:47Speaker 3: a headline, Trump escalates threats against those who destroyed Tesla,
- 2:52Speaker 3: Like Trump is escalating the thoughts Trump.
- 2:56Speaker 1: There's also this straw man that like, hey, Elon Musk
- 2:59Speaker 1: can't ex expect to be you know, incendiary and uh
- 3:03Speaker 1: and political, and by that I mean like not literally incendiary,
- 3:06Speaker 1: like the the things that people are throwing it as cars,
- 3:10Speaker 1: and not expect people to have an objection. I'm like,
- 3:13Speaker 1: I don't care about an objection. I don't think I
- 3:15Speaker 1: don't think Elon Musk cares about protests or boycotts, right,
- 3:20Speaker 1: those are within your rights. Vandalism is a very different thing.
- 3:24Speaker 1: So that's not There's a lot of stuff that's not
- 3:27Speaker 1: just protesting going on here.
- 3:29Speaker 2: That's right.
- 3:29Speaker 3: And look, I have boycotted companies in the past. I
- 3:32Speaker 3: haven't fire bombed anybody. I haven't assaulted anybody.
- 3:36Speaker 2: I haven't even cursed.
- 3:37Speaker 3: At anybody in the street who was using the product
- 3:39Speaker 3: that I didn't like. Because that is a crazy thing
- 3:43Speaker 3: to do.
- 3:43Speaker 1: It's a crazy thing to do, right.
- 3:46Speaker 2: And they just think they're so right. It's it's really crazy.
- 3:50Speaker 3: I'm nervous because this kind of thing obviously conspire a
- 3:54Speaker 3: lot of control.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Somebody can actually get very badly.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Hurt, and then we're all going to be like, wow,
- 4:00Speaker 3: this we saw this coming the whole time, and nobody
- 4:03Speaker 3: did anything, and so I am worried about it.
- 4:05Speaker 1: And well, you and I have lived through various right
- 4:08Speaker 1: leaning protest movements that are treated completely differently than lefty
- 4:13Speaker 1: protest movements. If you just take the tea parties versus Occupy.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Occupy had no permits to be anywhere, was living in
- 4:21Speaker 1: parks for months on end. There were sexual assaults and
- 4:24Speaker 1: other assaults happening on the grounds pretty frequently, even some deaths,
- 4:29Speaker 1: huge crimes happening. Just people live in in parks all
- 4:32Speaker 1: around this great nation and that was like beautiful and empowered, right,
- 4:39Speaker 1: But Tea Party folks go out to an event and
- 4:42Speaker 1: like clean up after themselves and like the Republic is
- 4:46Speaker 1: going to fall, and so the difference in treatment is
- 4:50Speaker 1: really bad. Another example is the twenty twenty protests. So
- 4:54Speaker 1: people who protested lockdowns by driving their cars around cap
- 5:00Speaker 1: and honking their horns because they were still abiding by
- 5:02Speaker 1: the basic rules of like we're not going to congregate.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Those were the end of the Republic. But the George
- 5:09Speaker 1: Floyd movement that became riots aoka.
- 5:13Speaker 3: It's mostly peaceful, right wild.
- 5:16Speaker 1: How they're treated. I just want to give you a
- 5:17Speaker 1: stat real quick. I was reading an NPR story entitled
- 5:22Speaker 1: from Seattle to Miami, anti Musk protesters gather at hundreds
- 5:26Speaker 1: of Tesla locations. Can you guess for me what paragraph
- 5:32Speaker 1: this piece addresses the violence? Never it does actually get
- 5:39Speaker 1: into it.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Good.
- 5:40Speaker 1: Good, twentieth paragraph, twentieth paragraph. Some of the anti Musk
- 5:46Speaker 1: backlash has been violent. Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and charging stations
- 5:49Speaker 1: across the US and in Europe have been the target
- 5:52Speaker 1: of arson and vandalists. Some have taken to spray painting
- 5:54Speaker 1: Schwasta because on Tesla sedan's and cyber trucks. It then
- 5:58Speaker 1: goes on, wait for it, it then goes on to
- 6:03Speaker 1: make sure that they make the leaders of these protests
- 6:06Speaker 1: the victims, because Musk, by objecting to the violence, has
- 6:11Speaker 1: raised the cost for the organizers of these protests because
- 6:15Speaker 1: some people might think they're involved in the violence, and
- 6:18Speaker 1: if those specific people aren't involved in the violence, then
- 6:21Speaker 1: he's being irresponsible and he has caused problems for them.
- 6:27Speaker 2: His skirt really is that short?
- 6:30Speaker 1: I mean the reversing victim and offender is like amazing,
- 6:33Speaker 1: pretty priceless on this one.
- 6:35Speaker 3: And yeah, like the thing is that the Trump administration
- 6:40Speaker 3: keeps referring to this as domestic terrorism.
- 6:42Speaker 2: I want to get rid of the word domestic. It's
- 6:45Speaker 2: just plain terrorism.
- 6:46Speaker 3: It's trying to get a political outcome through violence, through
- 6:49Speaker 3: violence intimidation, very standard definition of terrorism. When we say
- 6:53Speaker 3: domestic terrorism, it makes it sound like not as bad.
- 6:55Speaker 3: It's not foreigners trying to hurt us, it's internal It's
- 6:58Speaker 3: literally just the dictionary definition of terrorism. And I think
- 7:03Speaker 3: the punishments need to get severe for this because you
- 7:06Speaker 3: can't have a society where people think it's okay to
- 7:10Speaker 3: harm other people because they don't like a third person's opinion.
- 7:13Speaker 3: I just think we've gone to a crazy place and
- 7:16Speaker 3: this needs to be cut off at the knees.
- 7:18Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I saw someone objecting because Florida categorized
- 7:23Speaker 1: some vandal vandalism as a felony, and it's like, we'll
- 7:26Speaker 1: see when that happens, fewer people do the very expensive
- 7:30Speaker 1: vandalism in the future. That's how that works. And by
- 7:33Speaker 1: the way, it's not just the cars. They're going after
- 7:35Speaker 1: the owners of the cars.
- 7:36Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 7:36Speaker 1: Who, I don't care if they're liberal. You should a
- 7:38Speaker 1: lot of them are. You shouldn't be assaulting them or
- 7:41Speaker 1: coming at them in public.
- 7:42Speaker 2: You don't get to.
- 7:43Speaker 3: Just be a little angry child either yelling or hitting
- 7:47Speaker 3: people in the street.
- 7:48Speaker 2: I'm sorry. We have a society.
- 7:50Speaker 3: There are rules, so yeah, and I think the more
- 7:54Speaker 3: we accept, the more we get bad behaviors. So this
- 7:57Speaker 3: really needs to be a wrong message needs to be sent.
- 8:01Speaker 3: This is unacceptable, this is terrorism. This is something that
- 8:05Speaker 3: is going.
- 8:05Speaker 2: To be stopped, and I hope the Trump administration does that.
- 8:08Speaker 3: We're going to take a short break and come right
- 8:10Speaker 3: back with normally.
- 8:14Speaker 1: All right up next, we have lefties gone wild.
- 8:17Speaker 2: Oh the lefties.
- 8:18Speaker 3: They are so close, so close, so close to getting it,
- 8:22Speaker 3: but never really quite there.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Left he's gone wild or is it left, he's gone right.
- 8:30Speaker 1: That's kind of what it feels like in a couple
- 8:31Speaker 1: of these situations.
- 8:33Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. And we're not going to be bitter
- 8:36Speaker 3: about it, Mary Catherine much. We're not going to be
- 8:39Speaker 3: bitter much that they're saying all the same things we've
- 8:43Speaker 3: been saying for like generations. But let's start with your
- 8:47Speaker 3: buddy Bill Maher. You're on his shows sometimes and you
- 8:50Speaker 3: guys have a cute relationship. I think you're you have
- 8:52Speaker 3: a friend, friendly back and forth in general. And I'm look,
- 8:56Speaker 3: I am a fan. I enjoy watching him. I think
- 8:59Speaker 3: he's smart at I think he says smart things. He's
- 9:02Speaker 3: going to have dinner with President Trump. And apparently Chris
- 9:06Speaker 3: Rock set this up, which is it was kid Rock.
- 9:09Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Yes, kid Rock set this up.
- 9:13Speaker 2: No, Chris Rock had nothing to do with it. Sorry,
- 9:15Speaker 2: Chris kid Rock set this up.
- 9:18Speaker 3: And it's kind of cool that they're getting together.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Trump, however, had some things to say about it.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Yes, he has a truth post where he says, I
- 9:27Speaker 1: got a call from a very good guy and friend
- 9:29Speaker 1: of mine, Kid Rock, asking me whether or not it
- 9:31Speaker 1: would be possible for me to meet in the White
- 9:33Speaker 1: House with Bill Maher, a man who has been unjustifiably
- 9:36Speaker 1: critical of anything or anyone Trump. I really didn't like
- 9:39Speaker 1: the idea much and don't like it much now, but
- 9:42Speaker 1: thought it would be interesting. The problem is, no matter
- 9:45Speaker 1: how much he likes your favorite president, me, he will
- 9:47Speaker 1: publicly proclaim what a terrible guy I am, etc. Very
- 9:51Speaker 1: much like the Democrats at my recent address to the
- 9:53Speaker 1: Joint Session of Congress, where I stated correctly that no
- 9:55Speaker 1: matter what I said or did, they wouldn't stand, they
- 9:58Speaker 1: wouldn't applaud, they wouldn't smile or laugh, and certainly it
- 10:01Speaker 1: wouldn't be in any way nice. Who knows, though, maybe
- 10:04Speaker 1: I'll be proven wrong, he says, anyway, I'm doing favor
- 10:08Speaker 1: for a friend, so they're going to get together. I
- 10:10Speaker 1: do like mar because I feel like he is one
- 10:13Speaker 1: of the lefties in the Hollywood constellation. It's still like
- 10:18Speaker 1: a left leaning guy for sure, who says common sense things,
- 10:23Speaker 1: and that has made him a pariah to many of them.
- 10:27Speaker 1: I like that he is unpredictable. You don't exactly know
- 10:29Speaker 1: where he's going. To fall on anything, which makes him
- 10:31Speaker 1: much more like a normy voter actually, and taking a
- 10:36Speaker 1: moment to spend time with the President of the United
- 10:38Speaker 1: States to probably have some vigorous debate I think is
- 10:42Speaker 1: totally worth doing and something Democrats should have done since
- 10:44Speaker 1: twenty sixteen.
- 10:46Speaker 3: Yeah, what drives me a little crazy about Bill Maher
- 10:50Speaker 3: is that he is very tied to his identity as
- 10:53Speaker 3: a lefty, and it gets that.
- 10:54Speaker 2: Look, I am very tied to my identity as a conservative.
- 10:56Speaker 3: If I had if the conservative world went the way
- 10:59Speaker 3: that the world went in the last few years, and
- 11:02Speaker 3: I had to kind of face that I couldn't. I
- 11:04Speaker 3: couldn't stand with these people anymore. And I still had
- 11:06Speaker 3: the same beliefs, but I couldn't.
- 11:07Speaker 2: I could no longer exist with them. I think I'd
- 11:10Speaker 2: be challenged by that too. So I get it.
- 11:12Speaker 3: But he's always like so close, but never quite there.
- 11:15Speaker 3: We're going to play a clip of him talking to
- 11:18Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Let's roll that.
- 11:21Speaker 4: Given that we are in this dire situation, I feel
- 11:24Speaker 4: like we don't have time anymore for the old bullshit,
- 11:27Speaker 4: you know, the old are you running for president? Well?
- 11:29Speaker 4: You know, there's an exploratory committee, and I'm looking at it.
- 11:33Speaker 4: I'm happy with my job as governor. I mean, your
- 11:35Speaker 4: future is not in California. Your future is in Iowa.
- 11:41Speaker 4: Let's just spends with the bullshit. We need someone who's
- 11:43Speaker 4: going to be the champion. Are you going to do
- 11:45Speaker 4: it or not? Just come on tell us we don't
- 11:51Speaker 4: have time for the bullship.
- 11:52Speaker 5: No.
- 11:53Speaker 6: By the way, I deeply respect that.
- 11:56Speaker 7: I can't stand the bullshit as well, and I mean
- 11:58Speaker 7: that so look, but this is not my per or.
- 12:00Speaker 6: Passion, it's not my meaning.
- 12:01Speaker 7: It's not everything. Every the cynicism that's out there that
- 12:04Speaker 7: every movie's making is some move to some longer term
- 12:07Speaker 7: strategy or short.
- 12:07Speaker 4: Term just that you're a guy who could do it,
- 12:10Speaker 4: who could get it done? Who could will?
- 12:12Speaker 7: I deeply respect that affect the question, but I don't
- 12:15Speaker 7: have any grand plans as it respects of that. I'm
- 12:16Speaker 7: trying to do the best I can and also trying
- 12:18Speaker 7: to be accountable by the way. You want things to change,
- 12:20Speaker 7: you got to change, and that's what the podcast is about.
- 12:22Speaker 7: That's my recognition of.
- 12:23Speaker 8: Where we're weak.
- 12:24Speaker 7: And I got to call balls and strike.
- 12:26Speaker 3: Talking Gavin Newsom into running for president because they need
- 12:30Speaker 3: somebody to like lead the charge.
- 12:32Speaker 2: Gavin Newsome. Bill Maher spends a lot of time.
- 12:35Speaker 3: Talking about what a hell hole California has come, and
- 12:39Speaker 3: now he wants the guy who really turned it into
- 12:42Speaker 3: that to run for president.
- 12:44Speaker 2: I just I like him, he's smart. Well what is this?
- 12:49Speaker 1: No, it's one yes. At any point has Bill Marvi
- 12:53Speaker 1: been like, Hey, this guy's really good at his job, right.
- 12:56Speaker 1: I don't think he thinks he's good at his job.
- 12:58Speaker 1: I think he has a plot pausible chance in our
- 13:01Speaker 1: sort of ridiculous way we pick leaders and Democratic Party
- 13:04Speaker 1: in particular in this case, to end up in that spot.
- 13:09Speaker 1: But he's not good at his job. And despite whatever
- 13:12Speaker 1: you know, changing he's trying to do, he announces in
- 13:15Speaker 1: that clip, and I think it's a symbol for Gavin
- 13:17Speaker 1: Newsom that he doesn't like bs and then dispenses with
- 13:22Speaker 1: tons of bs that in fact the exact bs that
- 13:27Speaker 1: Mars said he wasn't looking for. Newsom was like, let
- 13:30Speaker 1: me give it to you.
- 13:33Speaker 3: It's really language that Newsom uses drives me absolutely bonkers.
- 13:37Speaker 3: We're going to have another Newsom clip later, saw I'll
- 13:40Speaker 3: save this for then, but wow, his like synergy, you know, mendacity,
- 13:47Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah.
- 13:48Speaker 2: I just he is the absolute worst. I worry about him.
- 13:51Speaker 2: He's he's a threat and a.
- 13:53Speaker 3: Danger, and I could see him slithering his way into office.
- 13:58Speaker 1: So not a fan.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Yeah, well, so, speaking.
- 14:02Speaker 3: Of lefties who are facing some amount of reality, John
- 14:08Speaker 3: Stewart was on with Ezra Kline, who has a book
- 14:12Speaker 3: out called Abundance.
- 14:13Speaker 2: This book is like.
- 14:14Speaker 3: Everywhere right now, and Democrats are talking to him about
- 14:17Speaker 3: it as if the concepts in it are.
- 14:21Speaker 2: Kind of hearing about it for the very first time.
- 14:24Speaker 3: And you know, the book has a lot of stuff
- 14:26Speaker 3: like it's a wake up call, right It's this democratic
- 14:30Speaker 3: policies aren't working, wake up call for the left. And
- 14:33Speaker 3: I am enjoying democrats kind of being faced with this,
- 14:37Speaker 3: But like, how is this all news to them?
- 14:40Speaker 2: It's kind of baffling.
- 14:42Speaker 3: So let's roll part of a clip where Ezra talks
- 14:45Speaker 3: to John Stewart and he spends five minutes explaining how
- 14:48Speaker 3: states could participate in Biden's Build Back Better funding plan
- 14:52Speaker 3: and how impossibly difficult that was.
- 14:54Speaker 2: We're only going to play the last minute or so
- 14:56Speaker 2: of the clip.
- 14:57Speaker 3: We just imagine four more minutes of this these bureaucratic
- 15:01Speaker 3: rules that make no sense.
- 15:04Speaker 9: States must run a competitive sub granting propose.
- 15:08Speaker 5: Oh my fucking god. At step twelve, by after all
- 15:13Speaker 5: this has been done.
- 15:15Speaker 9: Yeah, none of that could have happened along the way
- 15:17Speaker 9: here we have now lost seventeen more applicants. So now
- 15:22Speaker 9: thirty of fifty six have completed Step twelve. Step thirteen,
- 15:27Speaker 9: States must submit a final proposal. All the proposals weren't
- 15:31Speaker 9: enough to NTIA. Now that goes to three of fifty six.
- 15:35Speaker 9: So we've gone in the last couple steps from fifty
- 15:38Speaker 9: six had gone to this point to three of fifty six.
- 15:41Speaker 9: Step fourteen, the NTIA must review and approve the state's
- 15:46Speaker 9: final proposal, and that is three of the fifty six
- 15:50Speaker 9: jurisdictions and states are there. In summary, Colin states are
- 15:55Speaker 9: nearly at the finish line, and it says to stop
- 15:59Speaker 9: their progress now, or worse, to make them go backwards,
- 16:03Speaker 9: would be a stick in the spokes of the most
- 16:06Speaker 9: promising broadband deployment plans we have ever seen.
- 16:12Speaker 5: And the scene, Yeah, so I'm speechless, as honestly, like,
- 16:18Speaker 5: it's a far worse than I could have imagined. But
- 16:23Speaker 5: the fact that they amputated their own legs on This
- 16:28Speaker 5: is what's so stunning.
- 16:30Speaker 3: So for those listening to this only on audio, John
- 16:32Speaker 3: Stewart's freaking out throughout this whole clip. He's clutching his head,
- 16:36Speaker 3: he's walking around, he's like slamming things.
- 16:39Speaker 2: He has never heard of this ever before.
- 16:41Speaker 3: And Jim Garrity tweeted this clip with the comment, A
- 16:44Speaker 3: key part of being a conservative is not being wrong,
- 16:47Speaker 3: but being right too early before it is socially acceptable.
- 16:51Speaker 2: That gets really old.
- 16:53Speaker 3: We laugh at the now it can be told, and
- 16:55Speaker 3: we do laugh about it, and we try to find
- 16:57Speaker 3: humor in the fact that we're right about things, you know,
- 17:00Speaker 3: years ahead of the left. But the left goes through
- 17:03Speaker 3: this every single time, and it's just tiresome. Like you
- 17:06Speaker 3: just learned that government is a wasteful boondoggle just now
- 17:10Speaker 3: on your show.
- 17:12Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, I do think that they truly believe when
- 17:16Speaker 1: you name something build back better or inflation reduction or
- 17:22Speaker 1: Affordable Care Act, many of them just think that's good enough,
- 17:26Speaker 1: done and done. Now we have affordable care. Whereas another
- 17:30Speaker 1: instance of being right ahead of the curve, I was like, yeah,
- 17:34Speaker 1: this Obamacare thing isn't going to work out great for
- 17:36Speaker 1: people like me who are in this actual market because
- 17:39Speaker 1: of these various very clear economic incentives. They're like, oh, yeah,
- 17:45Speaker 1: that's exactly what happens. So we need more subsidies to
- 17:47Speaker 1: fix the problem that we created, right Like, it just
- 17:50Speaker 1: always ends up going this way, it feels like. And
- 17:54Speaker 1: then Klein is a bona fide recognized, prestigious liberal thought leader. Sure,
- 18:05Speaker 1: and yet he's always a decade or two behind us
- 18:10Speaker 1: on these things. Because I've been making this argument about
- 18:13Speaker 1: government since I was legit sixteen years old.
- 18:17Speaker 3: I looked around me and like reaganlin like, we're from
- 18:21Speaker 3: the government and I'm here to help.
- 18:22Speaker 2: Are the scariest words in the English language that I
- 18:24Speaker 2: might not know.
- 18:25Speaker 1: This, I saw it in my own life. I looked
- 18:27Speaker 1: around me and was like, I think the things we're
- 18:29Speaker 1: doing to help people aren't actually helping people. And that
- 18:32Speaker 1: is how I became conservative. And if you haven't looked
- 18:37Speaker 1: at these programs, which you, by the way, if you're
- 18:39Speaker 1: an Azer client or one of these folks John Stewart included,
- 18:42Speaker 1: you cheerleaded the whole time without saying this is how
- 18:47Speaker 1: it should work to actually help people. There's another one,
- 18:50Speaker 1: by the way, the Harris broadband roll out. The Wall
- 18:53Speaker 1: Street Journal famously covered forty two point five billion dollar
- 18:57Speaker 1: subsidy zero things built, right, So yeah, and I think
- 19:01Speaker 1: the thing they're missing that they can't admit about their side,
- 19:04Speaker 1: and this is like the USAID problem and all of
- 19:06Speaker 1: the Doge stuff. The job was to get these people
- 19:10Speaker 1: paid who stand in the way of getting things built.
- 19:14Speaker 2: That's right.
- 19:14Speaker 1: And when they did that, everybody was happy, yep.
- 19:17Speaker 3: And nothing else needed to happen because.
- 19:19Speaker 2: That was the whole goal. It's yep. Yeah, I don't know.
- 19:23Speaker 3: I'm trying to give them grace for finally getting there
- 19:27Speaker 3: because so many people still haven't.
- 19:28Speaker 2: But you just know, the next time Democrats are in charge,
- 19:31Speaker 2: they're going to revert right back to form.
- 19:34Speaker 3: Yes, and we don't even have to wait for Democrats
- 19:36Speaker 3: to be back in charge of the country.
- 19:38Speaker 2: Here's a clip of as reclined.
- 19:40Speaker 3: He went on Gaven Newsom show so to bring this
- 19:42Speaker 3: full circle to talk about the bad policies in blue states,
- 19:46Speaker 3: and he still ends up being very gentle with Gavin
- 19:49Speaker 3: Newsome and saying, you know, as he basically says to
- 19:52Speaker 3: his face that Gavinus's policies are failure.
- 19:55Speaker 2: But he's also giving him kind of leeway to.
- 19:58Speaker 3: Say, well, this does happen in Red states too. Let's
- 20:01Speaker 3: roll the clip.
- 20:03Speaker 6: Localism is determinative, and you pick on understandably San Francisco,
- 20:10Speaker 6: but you can look at almost any city, including a
- 20:12Speaker 6: Republican healt city like Huntington Beach, and the same rules
- 20:17Speaker 6: and restrictions apply there in the same frustrations. So from
- 20:21Speaker 6: the prism of left versus right, you take the shot
- 20:24Speaker 6: against liberals. But can't we argue that there is sort
- 20:29Speaker 6: of quality of consideration and nimbism that persists in rural
- 20:33Speaker 6: and red parts count.
- 20:34Speaker 9: Well, let me flip this because to shadow box around
- 20:38Speaker 9: the fact that you know more about California governance than
- 20:41Speaker 9: I ever will in a thousand years ago in this
- 20:42Speaker 9: would be ridiculous. Why is it easier to build homes
- 20:45Speaker 9: in Texas and California.
- 20:46Speaker 6: They have Well, you established that in the book in
- 20:48Speaker 6: Houston you make the point I think it was seventy
- 20:50Speaker 6: thousand permits in twenty twenty three, just seventy five hundred
- 20:53Speaker 6: in a much smaller city, San Francisco, but understandable contract
- 20:57Speaker 6: the city with more demand, more demand, and it's simply
- 20:59Speaker 6: because they have no zoning. They have land use consideration
- 21:03Speaker 6: has zoning, yeah, but not Houston in the context of that.
- 21:06Speaker 9: The thing I'm getting it here, which I really would
- 21:08Speaker 9: like your the thing you just said right about localism.
- 21:11Speaker 9: It's so important and like this is so much the
- 21:13Speaker 9: conversation I'd love for us to have here because the
- 21:15Speaker 9: texture that you have been grappling with of why do
- 21:18Speaker 9: things that you want to have happen not happen is
- 21:21Speaker 9: I think a really interesting thing to add to it.
- 21:23Speaker 9: But when you're saying, well, you know, is this really
- 21:26Speaker 9: a problem for liberals. It's easier to build in Texas
- 21:30Speaker 9: and Florida. They're not just in California, but in California
- 21:33Speaker 9: or New York. Right, the cost of living crisis is
- 21:36Speaker 9: worse in blue states. And a little bit of that
- 21:37Speaker 9: is Blue states are a place a lot of people
- 21:39Speaker 9: want to live, but you should be able to in
- 21:42Speaker 9: places governing for the working class in theory and coin.
- 21:46Speaker 6: Is a point and just to level set, people are
- 21:48Speaker 6: listening completely agree this notion of the supply demand imbalance.
- 21:51Speaker 6: I mean you're making an econ one to one argument,
- 21:54Speaker 6: and that supply to imbalance is next level in the
- 21:57Speaker 6: state of California, which is simply not building enough housing.
- 22:00Speaker 6: And that goes to I mean and you correctly identify
- 22:03Speaker 6: nimbiism and people, you know, incumbent protection rackets, so to speak.
- 22:08Speaker 3: When Ezra Client says to him that the things that
- 22:11Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom want to happen are not happening, that's bad policy.
- 22:16Speaker 2: What he is describing are policies that don't work. And
- 22:19Speaker 2: they could talk whatever they want around the subject. They
- 22:23Speaker 2: could pretend that it's just a coincidence.
- 22:25Speaker 3: Oh, just because people really want to live in Blue
- 22:27Speaker 3: states and that's why they don't have enough housing. It's
- 22:30Speaker 3: just like supply demand econ one on one problem. Red
- 22:33Speaker 3: States saw far more internal migration from other from Blue
- 22:38Speaker 3: states during.
- 22:39Speaker 2: The pandemic than the other way around.
- 22:41Speaker 3: So spare me the supply demand. Red States figured out
- 22:45Speaker 3: a way to provide that supply. Your policies are bad,
- 22:49Speaker 3: your ideas are bad. You need to move on from
- 22:52Speaker 3: the things that don't work.
- 22:54Speaker 1: Can I just throw so many bs liberal speakers, localism
- 22:59Speaker 1: is determinative and level set. And my favorite, which is
- 23:04Speaker 1: like Client euphemizing what he's doing. When you're dealing with
- 23:07Speaker 1: the texture as a texture, you've made decisions that have
- 23:12Speaker 1: been bad that have created this problem. And look, I
- 23:15Speaker 1: do appreciate that someone like Klein is looking at the
- 23:18Speaker 1: situation and going ooh, even though I'm sort of arguing
- 23:21Speaker 1: against interesting against my party. The thing we are meant
- 23:24Speaker 1: to be doing is fixing the cost of living, is
- 23:27Speaker 1: building housing that we purport to once to build houses
- 23:31Speaker 1: so that people can have places to live and it
- 23:33Speaker 1: can be more affordable. And we are not doing that
- 23:36Speaker 1: thing emphatically. He's communicating that over and over and it's
- 23:39Speaker 1: making a lot of people on the left mat. Yes,
- 23:41Speaker 1: he's very late to it, and yes he cheerleaded for
- 23:43Speaker 1: many of these things, including the regulations. But like the
- 23:49Speaker 1: way they're having this conversation, Yeah, totally ignores the fact
- 23:54Speaker 1: that we're having a national conversation on the right and
- 23:58Speaker 1: inspired by the action of Oh, that's right, Doge, that's
- 24:04Speaker 1: conceding the same thing and trying to fix it by
- 24:08Speaker 1: doing an audit of these federal programs, and they are
- 24:11Speaker 1: so up in arms about it. Brett Baer on Fox
- 24:15Speaker 1: News did a long form thirty minute interview with the
- 24:19Speaker 1: Doge guys, who I think should have been doing They
- 24:21Speaker 1: should have been doing their rollout this way earlier, just
- 24:26Speaker 1: having these very sober, calm engineers and billionaires talk about
- 24:32Speaker 1: what they're doing, because it inspired some confidence and it
- 24:37Speaker 1: makes the pitch, just as as reclient is making that
- 24:42Speaker 1: if these programs don't work because they're big and misused,
- 24:47Speaker 1: you get worked over and we don't want that. So
- 24:50Speaker 1: this is what we're doing to fix it. I think
- 24:52Speaker 1: they should invite Ezer to be part of Doge's invoke
- 25:01Speaker 1: that language and be like, you know what, I think
- 25:03Speaker 1: we have an ally here right right?
- 25:08Speaker 3: Oh yeah, our last clip in this section, we can't
- 25:11Speaker 3: not play it. But Catherine Mayher she I think that's
- 25:14Speaker 3: how she pronounced it or was it really good mar?
- 25:17Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not sure, but it's not. It's not
- 25:18Speaker 3: mar like Bill Maher. But it's all the same. Okay,
- 25:21Speaker 3: sorry if I'm getting that wrong. But she is the
- 25:24Speaker 3: CEO of NPR or the head of NPR. I don't
- 25:27Speaker 3: they call it the CEO. And she was grilled by
- 25:32Speaker 3: Congressman Brandon Gill from Texas. And let's roll that clip
- 25:37Speaker 3: in case you haven't heard it yet.
- 25:39Speaker 10: Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?
- 25:43Speaker 11: I believe that. I tweeted that and as I've said earlier,
- 25:46Speaker 11: I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the
- 25:49Speaker 11: last half decade.
- 25:50Speaker 8: It has evolved. Why did you tweet that?
- 25:53Speaker 11: I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't
- 25:56Speaker 11: be able to say.
- 25:57Speaker 10: Okay, do you believe that America believes in black plunder
- 26:00Speaker 10: in white democracy?
- 26:02Speaker 11: I don't believe that, sir.
- 26:05Speaker 8: You tweeted that.
- 26:06Speaker 10: It's reference to a book you were reading at the time,
- 26:08Speaker 10: apparently The Case for Reparations.
- 26:11Speaker 11: I don't think I've ever read that book, sir.
- 26:13Speaker 8: You tweeted about it.
- 26:15Speaker 10: You said you took a day off to fully read
- 26:18Speaker 10: The Case for Reparations. You put that on Twitter in
- 26:20Speaker 10: January twenty twenty.
- 26:22Speaker 11: I apologies. I don't recall that I did. I'd no
- 26:25Speaker 11: doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall.
- 26:29Speaker 10: Okay, do you believe that white people and inherently feel
- 26:33Speaker 10: superior to other races?
- 26:34Speaker 11: I do not.
- 26:36Speaker 10: You tweeted something to that effect. You said I grew
- 26:39Speaker 10: up feeling superior.
- 26:40Speaker 8: Ha how wide of me. Why did you tweet that?
- 26:43Speaker 11: I think I was probably reflecting on what it was
- 26:46Speaker 11: to be to grow up in an environment where I
- 26:49Speaker 11: had lots of advantages.
- 26:50Speaker 8: It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior.
- 26:54Speaker 11: I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir. I
- 26:56Speaker 11: was just reflecting on my own experiences.
- 26:58Speaker 8: Do you think that white people should pay rep.
- 27:01Speaker 11: I have never said that, sir.
- 27:03Speaker 10: Yes you did. You said it in January of twenty twenty.
- 27:05Speaker 10: You tweeted, yes, the North, yes, all of us, Yes, America, Yes,
- 27:09Speaker 10: our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations, yes
- 27:14Speaker 10: on this day.
- 27:14Speaker 11: I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
- 27:17Speaker 8: What kind of reparations was it a reference to.
- 27:20Speaker 11: I think it was just a reference to the idea
- 27:21Speaker 11: that we all owe much to the people who came
- 27:24Speaker 11: before us.
- 27:25Speaker 8: That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.
- 27:30Speaker 2: It is a bizarre way to frame, which is we
- 27:32Speaker 2: all know what she was doing. We all know that
- 27:35Speaker 2: she could just say twenty twenty it was a crazy time,
- 27:37Speaker 2: you know. But she's not.
- 27:39Speaker 3: She's saying and her mannerisms are like, who would believe
- 27:45Speaker 3: this ridiculous stuff.
- 27:46Speaker 2: That you're saying.
- 27:48Speaker 1: By the way, if the girl you believed it, it'd
- 27:51Speaker 1: be one thing. If she was like a twenty something
- 27:54Speaker 1: when she traded this, and now she's a forty something
- 27:57Speaker 1: CEO whatever. Even then, I'd be like a kind of
- 27:59Speaker 1: stupid and you should answer for them. But she was
- 28:02Speaker 1: thirty nine. Yeah, I think when she tweeted it, this
- 28:05Speaker 1: is not decade, she was like between thirty seven and
- 28:09Speaker 1: thirty nine years old, Okay, and she's like, oh gosh,
- 28:12Speaker 1: where where did that come from? I mean, it is wild.
- 28:15Speaker 1: I would say it is peak liberal white lady to
- 28:19Speaker 1: really say in January of twenty twenty that you're taking
- 28:22Speaker 1: the day to fully absorb an important book about reparations
- 28:26Speaker 1: and then have to admit under oath you did not
- 28:28Speaker 1: read that book at all. Amazing.
- 28:31Speaker 2: Yeah, I was kind to read the books.
- 28:33Speaker 1: Come on, like, no, that's what I said. The books
- 28:36Speaker 1: were for the zoom background, they were for reading, and
- 28:40Speaker 1: they were for signaling. She was signaling at that time
- 28:43Speaker 1: it was advantageous to signal that, and now it's become
- 28:47Speaker 1: crazy to signal that, so she has to signal something different,
- 28:50Speaker 1: and she just wants to skip over her own reparations
- 28:55Speaker 1: for the fact that she was a crazy person in
- 28:58Speaker 1: twenty twenty and now is trying to act like, by
- 29:00Speaker 1: the way, The other thing she said was that MPR
- 29:02Speaker 1: has absolutely she's never witnessed political bias in selection of
- 29:07Speaker 1: stories at NPR. And someone confronts her with Uri Berliner,
- 29:11Speaker 1: who left NPR for Free Press, with his stat that
- 29:14Speaker 1: eighty seven of the DC based editorial positions were Democrats,
- 29:19Speaker 1: zero Republicans, and she persisted in saying you did persist. Yeah, nonetheless,
- 29:26Speaker 1: there was no bias. And that is just impossible, incredible,
- 29:32Speaker 1: not worth listening to.
- 29:34Speaker 2: And the five years she's going to be like, who
- 29:36Speaker 2: said that? What that was half a decade ago.
- 29:40Speaker 1: These are supposed to be the thought leaders, right. That's
- 29:42Speaker 1: the thing that they pile on top of this that
- 29:44Speaker 1: makes me so angry is that they're still sitting there like, well, well, well,
- 29:50Speaker 1: in the pristine timing of a lefty, I have come
- 29:53Speaker 1: to the same conclusions that you came to with the
- 29:55Speaker 1: very obvious evidence in front of you five years ago,
- 29:57Speaker 1: whether it's lablic theory or regulation or bias it in PR,
- 30:01Speaker 1: or the stupidity of twenty twenty. And they're like, now
- 30:05Speaker 1: it can be told. And even though you were right
- 30:07Speaker 1: five years earlier, I still think you're stupid and below
- 30:10Speaker 1: I don't appreciate it.
- 30:11Speaker 3: I think that again, we'll laugh it off, but it's wrong,
- 30:17Speaker 3: it's wrong. Yeah, we'll be right back on normally. All right,
- 30:24Speaker 3: let's wrap up with a little bit of a later
- 30:26Speaker 3: a little bit of a later segment.
- 30:28Speaker 1: We're gonna bring it up. We're gonna we're gonna share everybody.
- 30:31Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're gonna do it.
- 30:33Speaker 3: Chapel Ron had some comments, and I think we're gonna.
- 30:37Speaker 2: Roll that clip. All of my friends who have kids
- 30:41Speaker 2: are in hell.
- 30:42Speaker 1: I don't know anyone.
- 30:43Speaker 12: I actually don't know anyone who's like happy and has
- 30:45Speaker 12: children at this age. I have like like a one
- 30:50Speaker 12: year old, like three year old, four and under five
- 30:53Speaker 12: and under. I don't I literally have not met anyone
- 30:55Speaker 12: who's happy, anyone who has like light in their eyes,
- 30:58Speaker 12: anyone who has who has slept.
- 31:02Speaker 3: I mean maybe they're not sleeping, but the rest of
- 31:05Speaker 3: it is just I you know, I just don't get it.
- 31:10Speaker 3: Because I heard this, I also I was her. I
- 31:13Speaker 3: even looked a little like her. I would say I
- 31:18Speaker 3: believed that having kids was a dead end and that
- 31:23Speaker 3: it would be insane to have children who would want
- 31:25Speaker 3: to do something like that on purpose, Like that's insane,
- 31:28Speaker 3: it's crazy.
- 31:28Speaker 2: Obviously, it's so much better not to have kids. I
- 31:31Speaker 2: was so wrong. I was so wrong. It's indescribable how
- 31:34Speaker 2: wrong I was. How I have three kids, I wish
- 31:37Speaker 2: we had had four. We just literally ran out of time.
- 31:40Speaker 3: And it's you know, I can't say every single day
- 31:45Speaker 3: is full of happiness, but every single day is full
- 31:48Speaker 3: of joy.
- 31:49Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I wanted to talk about this because
- 31:52Speaker 1: I feel like you and I are good can be
- 31:54Speaker 1: good poster children for the fact that this is fun,
- 31:57Speaker 1: and that neither one of us coming up in our
- 32:00Speaker 1: twenties and early thirties with some sort of like tradwife aspirant, right,
- 32:04Speaker 1: you know, like quite the opposite. You know, I always
- 32:08Speaker 1: thought I would have kids. I always sort of planned
- 32:10Speaker 1: to as a default, just because I loved growing up
- 32:13Speaker 1: with my brothers and I always wanted kids and to
- 32:16Speaker 1: them to have siblings. But it has been an unexpected joy,
- 32:22Speaker 1: I think because it is something that you don't experience
- 32:25Speaker 1: until you experience it. And I think a lot of
- 32:28Speaker 1: people say it's hard but rewarding, and that's true too,
- 32:32Speaker 1: But I don't want to miss the part where I
- 32:34Speaker 1: just have a ton of fun with my kids, right,
- 32:36Speaker 1: I mean, they are hilarious and I enjoy hanging out
- 32:41Speaker 1: with them. Took them to the zoo this weekend, took
- 32:43Speaker 1: them to Mountain Mount Vernon last weekend.
- 32:45Speaker 2: I love Mount Vernon.
- 32:46Speaker 1: Just let them run around in a field and be outside.
- 32:50Speaker 1: And I hate that people like Chapelon aren't seeing that
- 32:54Speaker 1: in their lives, and that the folks who listen to
- 32:57Speaker 1: call her Daddy, which is the podcast this was on,
- 33:00Speaker 1: will hear this from a very influential podcaster, you know,
- 33:03Speaker 1: podcast session with a woman that they look up to.
- 33:06Speaker 1: I just don't feel like they have the full information
- 33:09Speaker 1: about the fact that it can be just not just
- 33:12Speaker 1: rewarding and selfless, which it is, and that's a good
- 33:14Speaker 1: lesson to learn, but beautiful and fun and joyful.
- 33:18Speaker 2: Right she's twenty seven. She could clearly change her mind.
- 33:22Speaker 2: At twenty seven, I was very I'm never getting married
- 33:25Speaker 2: or having kids.
- 33:26Speaker 3: I had this whole image of myself that I was
- 33:28Speaker 3: going to be a fancy old lady who wore full
- 33:32Speaker 3: silashes and smoked long cigarettes in the hotel.
- 33:35Speaker 1: You can still be that, you can have it all, No,
- 33:37Speaker 1: I know.
- 33:38Speaker 3: It turns out I could totally do that. I could
- 33:40Speaker 3: do that after the kids go to college like it's
- 33:42Speaker 3: going to be fine.
- 33:44Speaker 2: I think Chapel Road.
- 33:45Speaker 3: Let yourself change your mind if that's the way you go.
- 33:49Speaker 3: Don't hold on to belief so so strongly that you
- 33:52Speaker 3: have when you're young, because things can change at any time.
- 33:55Speaker 1: Yeah, and oh, I wanted to say. I saw a
- 33:57Speaker 1: piece in the Atlantic like two weeks ago that was
- 33:59Speaker 1: in and I think it is one of the problems
- 34:01Speaker 1: with modern parenting and puts people in this place. It
- 34:03Speaker 1: was entitled like I tried baby lead weaning and it
- 34:07Speaker 1: almost destroyed my life. And this is just a philosophy
- 34:12Speaker 1: about how you get your kid from formula or breast
- 34:14Speaker 1: milk onto solid foods. Okay, it's not that big a deal.
- 34:18Speaker 1: You're overthinking it, right. If something like that almost destroyed
- 34:22Speaker 1: your life, I would say stop letting those decisions destroy
- 34:26Speaker 1: your life. Just do it or don't do it, right,
- 34:29Speaker 1: that's it.
- 34:29Speaker 2: Not that big a deal. It's no a few weeks
- 34:32Speaker 2: of your life. I don't even remember.
- 34:34Speaker 3: I Like when people are like, oh, did you do
- 34:36Speaker 3: baby led weaning, I'm like, I don't even know.
- 34:37Speaker 2: Did I Like, is that what it was called? I
- 34:39Speaker 2: don't know. And one time I just started feeding them
- 34:42Speaker 2: like baby food and that's that's what happened there.
- 34:44Speaker 1: So yeah, No, I just think people really get so
- 34:47Speaker 1: in their heads and modern parenting is so the demand
- 34:51Speaker 1: is that you be so hands on all times and
- 34:55Speaker 1: entertaining them and like a pretty good dose of eighties
- 34:58Speaker 1: nineties mom is what a lot of.
- 35:00Speaker 2: For prearranged parenting. Make it happen well.
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