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to wrestle with, and that paradox is

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this. no

3:08

matter how extreme or untethered from reality they

3:10

may be, the result is that people's lives

3:12

get objectively worse. And I'm not just

3:14

talking about a little worse. Pretty

3:16

much everyone's life measurably gets a lot

3:19

worse. If you have a

3:21

child in public school system, you know that

3:23

students have suffered in particular from this situation,

3:25

but you may not realize how

3:27

stark the decline has been because no

3:30

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3:32

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3:34

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3:36

schools in the years 2009 through 2010, the 2009-2010

3:39

school year. They

3:43

then compared that data with the number of serious

3:45

incidents that occurred a decade later in the 2019

3:48

to 2020 school year, which is

3:50

mostly pre-pandemic. And

3:53

this is what's known in the statistics

3:55

biz as a longitudinal analysis. And

3:57

if there's one thing leftist hate, it's a longitudinal

3:59

analysis. analysis because you're not supposed

4:01

to think about the past because if

4:03

you do that you might realize that

4:06

it was a lot better than the

4:08

current progressive experiment that we're all

4:10

living through. As the

4:12

Department of Education found that's especially true in

4:14

schools because the percentage of

4:16

public schools reporting widespread disorder in the classroom

4:18

at least once per week increased

4:21

by more than 60% from 2009 to 2019. So I'll say that

4:23

again rates of widespread

4:27

disorder in the classroom jumped

4:29

by more than 60% in just

4:31

a decade. Meanwhile the percentage of

4:33

public schools reporting students of verbal abuse

4:36

of teachers at least once per week

4:38

as well as cyberbullying increased by more

4:40

than 100%. Racial

4:42

and ethnic tensions among students increased by more than

4:45

30%. How

4:47

could that be? I mean this was the

4:49

era of Barack Obama and teachable moments.

4:52

This was the era that we learned that gender is a supposedly

4:54

social construct. This was the era that pride

4:57

parades became mandatory in every major city in

4:59

the country. It was also you might remember

5:01

the era that every newspaper and media

5:04

outlet of the country began harping about

5:06

police brutality. This was the decade of

5:08

Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin and Eric

5:10

Garner and Tamir Rice and Philando Castile,

5:12

Alton Sterling and so on. BLM

5:15

and racial tolerance were all on the

5:18

upswing during this decade. Could

5:20

all of this left-wing social engineering have

5:22

backfired? Could it be the reason that

5:24

schools were now far more chaotic and

5:27

dangerous than ever? Confronting

5:29

with this problem school administrators had two

5:31

choices. They could have

5:33

admitted that the progressive experiment was

5:35

failing and started disciplining students and

5:37

restoring order without regard to

5:39

skin color or ethnicity or anything like that.

5:43

Or they could come up with a way to cook the

5:45

statistics. In the end of course

5:47

they decided on the latter option and

5:49

the hysteria of the so-called racial

5:52

reckoning post George Floyd gave

5:54

them their opening. As the BLM moral panic

5:56

overtook the world back in 2020 the

5:59

idea of quote-unquote restorative practices or

6:01

restorative justice took hold in schools

6:03

all over the country. New

6:06

report from the parental rights group Parents

6:08

Defending Education found that more than 18,000 schools

6:11

across more than 500 school districts now

6:14

have these quote-unquote restorative policies

6:16

in place. It's ubiquitous. It's

6:18

everywhere. In late

6:20

2020, school officials trumpeted this approach

6:22

as a major breakthrough. For example,

6:25

here's how the Coachella Valley Unified

6:28

School District in California framed the

6:30

arrival of restorative justice. Watch. The

6:34

Coachella Valley Unified School District is

6:36

turning to restorative justice programs, a

6:38

different approach when it comes to

6:40

disciplinary policies for students. Schools

6:43

have reported significant improvements in suspension

6:45

rates and the school climates. News

6:47

Channel 3's Madison Wile has more

6:49

on that program and why administrators

6:51

say it's working. For

6:53

decades, East Valley communities have experienced

6:56

higher rates of poverty and lower

6:58

rates of high school graduation. A

7:00

new case study takes a look

7:03

at why this is and offers

7:05

up a simple solution, restorative justice

7:07

programs in the classroom. Well, restorative

7:09

justice in schools is really about

7:12

a culture shift away from zero

7:14

tolerance. The program led by a

7:16

group called Alianza Coachella Valley, they

7:18

explained that restorative justice programs change

7:20

the way students are disciplined in

7:23

school. Instead of automatically disciplining a

7:25

student, teachers are trained to open

7:27

up a conversation first, trying to

7:29

instead communicate and identify the underlying

7:32

challenges a student might be facing

7:34

at home. We no longer

7:36

send kids to detention. We don't use the D

7:38

word any longer. Instead of a

7:40

suspension, there's a conversation. We train

7:43

the teachers, they're understanding now to question

7:45

the child. The new case study

7:47

found that schools using restorative

7:50

justice experienced reduced suspension rates,

7:52

improved class participation and better

7:55

relationships between students, parents and

7:57

district staff. So

8:00

in the name of restorative justice, they stopped

8:02

the tensions and suspensions in this school district,

8:04

which covers more than a dozen schools across

8:06

1200 square miles. And

8:09

what do you know? The number of suspensions went down. They

8:12

stopped suspending people and therefore there

8:14

were fewer suspensions. We're

8:16

meant to believe this is a sign that the new

8:18

approach is working. But of course it's not a sign

8:20

that it's working, it's the opposite. It's

8:22

the same reason the number of traffic citations in

8:24

San Francisco has just gone to

8:27

zero. And it's not because there's

8:29

some sort of miraculous occurrence and everyone in

8:31

San Francisco drives perfectly now. It's

8:33

because the police stopped enforcing traffic laws

8:35

and shoplifting laws and public urination laws

8:37

and every other law. Now

8:39

as for the other claims about restorative

8:41

justice, how it's promoted better relationships

8:43

in the school and so on, well,

8:46

that's not remotely accurate either, obviously.

8:49

And we know that because a little over a year after the

8:51

report I just showed you, the reality

8:53

of the situation became impossible to ignore.

8:55

Armed with restorative justice, schools in Coachella

8:57

Valley became much more violent.

9:00

Watch. This school year has

9:02

been a difficult one already on some

9:05

local campuses. We've reported on the alarming

9:07

fights breaking out at Denson Hot Springs

9:09

High School during the first semester. Now

9:11

we're looking into the fights at Coachella

9:14

Valley High School and what teachers say

9:16

are systemic issues within CVUSD. As

9:19

Morning Anchor Angela Chin reports at the heart

9:21

of this is a concerning lack of response

9:23

from the school board and the superintendent. A

9:26

warning on this, we are showing videos of

9:28

school fights and some viewers may be disturbed

9:30

by the violence. A

9:40

barrage of blows down to the bone. Reports

9:44

of broken noses, kids being carried

9:46

off by ambulance. These students pummel

9:49

each other pulled away only when

9:51

the security guard dragged them off.

9:57

These brutal fights exploded across

9:59

Coachella. Valley High School at the beginning

10:01

of this year, according to teachers we spoke

10:03

with, staff here burnt out

10:06

just months in, spoke to us.

10:08

They did not want to show

10:10

their faces for fear of retaliation,

10:12

saying they felt abandoned by administration.

10:15

This is why you have to be very

10:18

careful whenever anyone cites statistics about crime

10:20

or violence or any other kind of dysfunction,

10:22

because they'll say that it's going down and

10:25

everything is getting better. Meanwhile, you can go outside

10:27

and talk to anyone and they'll tell you the

10:29

opposite. That's not what they're observing in their

10:31

everyday life. And that's because the statistics

10:33

are extremely easy to manipulate. Stop

10:35

enforcing the rules and the

10:37

statistics will show that there are fewer rule breakers. Eventually

10:40

this news report gets around to acknowledging that

10:43

they make the observation that the number of

10:45

suspensions has been plummeting, even as the fights

10:47

are obviously becoming more common. And then

10:50

they connect the dots with restorative justice.

10:52

Watch. CVUSD

10:54

has long had a higher incidence of

10:56

school violence resulting in injury than the

10:59

other two districts in the valley. And

11:01

it's the only valley district that doesn't

11:04

have police officers assigned to its campuses

11:06

getting rid of them back in 2018.

11:08

Still for the violence reported during the

11:10

first three months of this school year

11:12

at Seavey High School, the number of

11:14

suspended kids due to violence this year

11:16

is the lowest at CVUSD

11:18

compared to Desert Sands and Palm Springs

11:21

Unified. Some teachers accuse

11:23

CVUSD of trying to make itself

11:25

look better on paper by keeping

11:28

suspension rates down. It

11:30

could explain why school violence with

11:32

injury is its highest suspension category

11:34

compared to Desert Sands and Palm

11:36

Springs, which both have sites without

11:38

injury as their highest. Either

11:41

CVUSD has very few fights

11:43

without injuries or CVUSD chooses

11:45

to suspend only in the

11:47

most serious cases. Another reason

11:49

for recent low suspension rates

11:51

in late 2020, CVUSD

11:53

took on the restorative justice approach, meaning

11:56

instead of using punitive discipline on kids

11:58

who break the rules, They

12:00

use counseling guidance and mediation in

12:02

response. The district has said this

12:05

approach is working, especially at the

12:07

middle school level. This

12:09

kind of slow burning realization has played out all

12:11

over the country in just the past few years.

12:14

For example, around last Thanksgiving, a school in Memphis,

12:16

Trezevant High, promoted its own restorative practices.

12:18

They're a little more vague than the

12:21

Coachella school district and they don't use

12:23

the term restorative justice. But

12:26

according to parents defending education, in most cases,

12:28

the two terms are basically interchangeable. And

12:30

here's what it means at Trezevant High. Watch.

12:34

Hi everybody, it's Teacher Teacher

12:36

here. Memphis Shelby County Schools

12:38

is trending up. The Student

12:40

Equity Enrollment and Discipline Department

12:42

and WKNO would like to

12:44

spotlight an exceptional school today.

12:46

Trezevant High School, led by

12:48

Principal Brits. Principal Brits, your

12:50

school has done a dynamic job of

12:52

using restorative practices like being kind to

12:55

each other and being responsible. Can

12:57

you tell me what makes your school so great? First

13:00

of all, we keep our ears, our

13:02

eyes, so we can be

13:04

able to foster an environment for learning to be

13:06

conducive to all our scholars. We make sure that

13:09

our scholars take the high quality education courses and

13:11

make sure they also have the opportunity to go

13:13

to the technical path and be able to exemplify

13:15

what a true scholar is. So

13:17

yes, restorative practices mean being kind to

13:19

each other and being responsible. Before we

13:21

had the social justice terminology of restorative

13:23

practices, no one ever knew how to

13:25

be kind or responsible. That's

13:28

the implication. This is a revolutionary concept. Who

13:30

needs religion or morality when you have social

13:32

justice leftism, I guess. Well,

13:34

not to spoil anything, but it turns

13:36

out that we still need religion and

13:38

morality because restorative practices have been a

13:40

disaster at this school. In just

13:42

the past month, a student and teacher got into a

13:44

fight on camera and a student

13:47

allegedly popped off some shots on school grounds

13:49

as well. Watch. A

13:53

video that many of you guys have seen

13:55

on social media of a student and a

13:57

teacher fighting happened here at Trezvent High School.

14:00

I spoke to someone who was inside

14:02

during the fight and they tell me

14:04

they believe the teacher is in the

14:06

wrong. He pushed him and he wasn't supposed to

14:08

get there to wrestle with the student. This student

14:10

does not feel comfortable identifying himself because he

14:13

is currently suspended from President High School for

14:15

being in the fight. He'd happen on Tuesday

14:17

afternoon in the cafeteria. You can see here

14:19

the student face to face with the teacher

14:22

wearing a purple shirt. That's when the teacher

14:24

pushes the student back. The student follows

14:26

with punches. If the

14:28

teacher put hands

14:30

on him first, then of

14:32

course the student is going to react. Ain't

14:34

no student going to let anybody put

14:36

their hands on him whether they're an adult or another child.

14:39

Ledera Young believes this teacher should

14:41

face discipline, but another parent disagrees, saying

14:44

the teacher had no choice but to

14:46

defend himself. He allowed that to play

14:48

off the other students in

14:50

the classroom with figuring out that they

14:53

can do this thing. The student triggered a

14:55

fight off if you look at the

14:57

video. Also tonight, a mother and son

14:59

are charged after the son fired shots

15:01

on the grounds of President High School.

15:03

On March 22nd, officers responded to a

15:05

shooting call in the high school after

15:07

a student fired a shot at two

15:09

victims. Police say he had gotten into

15:12

a fight at school earlier that same

15:14

day. His mother, Deborah Rawls, took him

15:16

out of school, but the son came

15:18

back to school and waited for the two victims to

15:20

be dismissed before he shot at them. After

15:22

this, the mother was seen leaving their car

15:25

and running toward her son, but they were

15:27

then picked up by a car and drove

15:29

away. She never contacted MPD about what happened.

15:32

So anyone looking at the school knows

15:34

that restorative practices aren't the solution to

15:37

this chaos. Being kind isn't working out.

15:39

These students and the parents and teachers

15:41

apparently don't need to be told how

15:44

wonderful they are. They're completely out of control. So

15:48

it's one of the students in the majority black Hazelwood

15:50

School District in Missouri. During the

15:52

BLM insanity, Hazelwood put out

15:54

a statement vowing to promote restorative justice

15:56

practices across our organization, but in

15:58

particular to reduce disparities. disparities around student

16:01

discipline. So they're all in

16:03

on the whole ideology and restorative justice and everything else.

16:06

How's that working out? What's what

16:08

happened after years of efforts to reduce

16:10

disparities and restore justice, whatever that is

16:12

supposed to mean exactly? Well, this

16:14

was the scene a couple of blocks away

16:16

from school back in March. Watch.

16:19

The second

16:49

day in two days but an

16:57

African American districts,

18:00

but we're also claimed that the school

18:02

resource officers quote, would not

18:04

have prevented a fight from occurring off

18:06

school property and outside of school, the

18:08

school day. And then they filed an

18:10

ethics complaint against the attorney general. So

18:12

basically they're absolving themselves completely. They

18:15

have shown no signs whatsoever that

18:17

they intend to revisit their commitment

18:19

to restorative justice. Of course,

18:21

what's happening in Missouri and across the country is

18:24

a multifaceted problem. Restorative justice isn't helping,

18:26

but it's obviously not the sole cause

18:29

of all this chaos in schools. It

18:31

starts with terrible parenting, which is

18:33

maybe the single greatest predictor of dysfunction

18:36

that exists in the world. What

18:39

restorative justice does is validate and

18:41

absolve this dysfunction and promote it,

18:43

encourage it, facilitate

18:46

it. Instead of making any real effort to

18:48

correct it, the point is to enable it

18:50

while also hiding it from public view as

18:52

much as possible. We

18:54

see the same approach to restorative justice in the

18:56

criminal justice system where the stakes are higher and

18:58

the results predictably are even worse. In

19:01

the nation's capital, restorative justice means that you can fire

19:04

26 rounds from an AR-15 at a

19:06

moving vehicle on camera, on

19:09

multiple cameras, and get out of

19:11

jail immediately. It means you can commit

19:13

arson and attack police officers with impunity. Where

19:17

well-adjusted people see an obvious problem here,

19:20

the promoters of restorative justice see

19:22

a success story. The

19:25

beatings will continue until the

19:27

restorative justice improves. That's

19:29

their approach. And in school

19:31

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19:34

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acting like he wants to debate me again. Well,

22:16

make my day, pal. I'll even do it twice.

22:19

So let's pick the dates, Donald. I hear you're

22:21

free on Wednesdays. Make

22:24

my day, Donald. So if you're keeping track at home,

22:26

that was five cuts, five

22:29

cuts in a 14-second

22:31

video. And just to do the math

22:33

on that, that's like one cut

22:35

every three seconds or thereabouts. So

22:38

Joe Biden could not make it more than

22:41

three seconds without having to cut. And

22:44

yeah, I know they try to dress it up with the music in

22:47

the background. They try to dress it up like it was an intentional

22:49

stylistic choice, you know, because all the kids

22:51

are making videos like this these days. But

22:55

we know better. We know that they did

22:58

that. Those lines he had to probably redo

23:00

seven or eight times each. And

23:03

so, but he put that out. And anyway, shortly after the

23:05

video, it was announced

23:07

that there would be two debates with the first one

23:09

at the end of June, June 27th, I think on

23:12

CNN. You

23:14

see the timing there. So Biden

23:16

issues this bold challenge. And

23:19

then like an hour later, we find out that

23:21

there's going to be a debate anyway. There's going

23:23

to be two debates. So what that means, obviously,

23:25

is the debate, you don't have to be a conspiracy

23:27

theorist to see here, the debate had

23:29

already been agreed to. Trump and Biden

23:31

had already agreed to this debate behind the scenes. And

23:34

then Biden goes on camera and says, hey, why don't you

23:36

come debate me, you coward? To

23:39

challenge him, the thing they already set up. That's

23:43

not only a lame PR move, but it

23:45

also shows the level of coordination between the

23:47

media and the Biden campaign. So

23:50

no big surprise there. The

23:52

same media that is coordinating this PR stunt for

23:54

Biden is also going to be, they're going to

23:56

be the ones that are moderating this debate. And

24:00

there are some ground rules to these debates.

24:03

The communications director for the Biden campaign was

24:05

on CNN later that day to talk

24:08

about the rules and what their demands are.

24:10

And they have many demands, actually. Let's

24:14

watch. So

24:16

you say no live audience. You want

24:18

it in a television studio without an

24:20

audience. Does that mean if the Trump

24:22

campaign insists on an audience, no deal?

24:27

Listen, I think the Trump campaign made their proposal

24:29

very clear when Donald Trump said he'd be willing

24:32

to debate anytime, anywhere, any place. And so what

24:34

we want and what we have laid out is

24:36

that we want to do this sooner rather than

24:38

later. We should do it in June after his

24:40

criminal trial is likely to have concluded and after

24:42

the president returns from the G7 summit. It should

24:45

be, yes, in studio with no audience

24:47

so that the candidates can clearly articulate

24:49

their vision for the country for his

24:51

distraction, for his technical. Is

24:54

an audience a deal breaker for you? Listen,

24:58

it's Donald Trump who said he would do this

25:01

anytime, anywhere, any place. So I

25:03

don't think that they should have any problems with

25:05

what we have proposed. He's the one who

25:07

said he's ready to go. So we should

25:09

be set to go once we have proposals

25:11

in from networks. We're excited to debate that

25:13

the question is will Donald Trump accept it?

25:16

I just issued a proposal right here. We'll do it right here on CNN News

25:18

Central. Happy to oblige. No

25:22

third party candidate. What

25:24

if RFK is a 15 percent, Robert Kennedy Jr.,

25:26

a 15 percent in September? You

25:28

still don't think you should be on the stage? Listen,

25:32

the reality here is that there are two candidates with

25:34

a pathway to 270 electoral votes. That's

25:37

President Joe Biden and that's Donald Trump. And the American

25:39

people deserve to hear from them because that is the

25:41

reality that we're facing. That is the choice in this

25:44

election. So

25:46

we should have a debate between the two

25:48

candidates on the issues. Joe Biden will articulate

25:50

his historic record of accomplishment, his vision for

25:52

the future. And Donald Trump will go out

25:54

here and try to explain why he's bragging

25:56

about overturning Roe v. Wade, why he's trying

25:58

to rebuild an economy. that only works for

26:01

rich people like himself, why he's trying to rule

26:03

the dictator on day one. That's the debate that

26:05

the American people deserve to see in prime time.

26:07

And that's what we're proposing. Okay,

26:09

so no audience, no R.K. Jr. Also, they

26:12

want strict time limits and they want the

26:14

mics to be cut off once a candidate's

26:16

time limit is up. And to

26:18

me, that rule is the real problem. The live audience

26:20

doesn't really matter. You know, I actually agree with that.

26:23

I prefer when there's no audience. Now,

26:27

I know why the Biden campaign wants an empty room.

26:29

It's not for the same reasons that I do as

26:31

a viewer. They want it

26:33

because they don't want to risk Biden getting booed. They

26:37

also don't want anything

26:39

distracting Biden, who, you

26:42

know, they're already gonna have to have him hopped

26:44

up on who knows what in order to get

26:46

through this thing. And so

26:48

they don't want anything to distract. They just

26:50

want to keep things like as toned down

26:52

as possible so they can get grandpa through

26:54

this thing and then get him up to

26:56

his very late bedtime. But

27:02

I think audiences do detract from the debate. I

27:04

don't when I watch a debate, I don't want

27:06

to hear the train seals and the audience clapping.

27:08

I just don't it's a waste of time. I

27:11

don't I don't care. Like we're watching to

27:13

hear what these people have to say because they want to run the

27:15

country. I don't care about the

27:17

audience's feeling about it. It's irrelevant. So

27:20

it's all just sort of a waste of time. So as

27:23

far as I'm concerned, that's fine. Not

27:25

having RFK Jr. I can see the argument for that

27:27

he's not going to win. He's not even on the

27:29

ballot in most states. You

27:32

know, we should hear from the candidates who actually have a chance

27:34

to win. So I can see the argument there. The

27:37

mic thing is the real problem to me. And

27:40

this is not how actual debates

27:42

work between human beings in

27:45

real life. It's just this is

27:47

not a debate. It's not okay, I'm going to talk for

27:49

a minute and then you go for a minute and then

27:51

I'll go for 30 seconds and you'll go for 30 seconds.

27:54

And once you get to if you have 60

27:56

seconds, once you get to 61 seconds, it

27:58

stops right there. You can't even you can't even finish

28:00

your thought. That's

28:03

not a debate. That's just a, that's a

28:05

talking points contest. I

28:07

get my talking points, you give your talking points, and then

28:09

I get mine and then you give yours. A

28:12

debate should be a debate. As

28:15

I've always argued for, just let

28:17

them stand in the room with each other

28:19

and debate. Let them stand

28:21

there and talk to each other. The only thing the

28:24

moderator needs to do is say, all

28:26

right, here's the topic. You've

28:29

got 30 minutes. Go

28:31

ahead. And maybe

28:34

deciding who gets to start the conversation

28:36

and then that will change. So this is the

28:38

first topic. Trump

28:40

goes first, next topic, Biden goes

28:42

first, but then you don't need to jump in in

28:45

the middle of it. Just let them talk. That's

28:48

how a debate actually works. And

28:51

of course, we know that

28:54

Biden would never agree to that. Now, Trump

28:56

would agree to that, I think. He would

28:58

quite happily agree to a debate like that.

29:00

Joe Biden never would. And

29:05

the fact that they've stacked the deck in

29:07

this way, cutting the mics

29:09

off, no audience, having it

29:11

on CNN, of course, is the main way they stack the

29:13

deck. There

29:17

are some conservatives making the argument that

29:19

Trump should not even agree to this because

29:21

he's walking into what's supposed to be a trap.

29:24

But I can see that argument too, but I think that

29:28

even with the deck stacked against him, there's

29:34

only so much they can do on

29:37

the Biden campaign to paper over

29:39

the fact that their guy's a vegetable. There's

29:42

only so much they can do. And so it's

29:44

still the advantage, no matter what they do, no matter

29:47

what rules they put in place. They

29:49

can put a rule in place that you have a time limit

29:51

of 20 seconds to reach answer. And still the

29:53

advantage goes to Trump because Joe Biden's a vegetable. And we also know that

29:56

Biden's a vegetable. And we also know that

30:00

Biden has basically

30:02

two gears that he's capable of. And the first

30:04

gear is the one that he's usually in, which

30:07

is just him wandering around and babbling nonsensical. They

30:11

don't want that gear for him with this. The

30:13

only other gear that he has is angry and shouting. And that's

30:15

kind of what we saw with the State of the Union address.

30:18

And there were plenty of people that were impressed with the State

30:20

of the Union address because he actually made it through the whole

30:22

thing without falling over or falling asleep

30:24

or pooping his pants or whatever, as far as

30:27

we know. But

30:30

that's because they had him in that gear. He's

30:32

angry and shouting the entire time. And

30:34

which means that that's the gear he's gonna be

30:36

in for this debate, is we're gonna get angry

30:38

shouting Biden through the entire thing, which

30:41

is going to not

30:43

help his case, I think. That's gonna be a

30:45

spectacle that

30:49

will work in Trump's favor. All

30:52

right. I

30:56

wanna mention this absolutely awful story from

30:59

the New York Post. So

31:04

here's the story. A 10-year-old Indiana boy killed

31:07

himself after being bullied relentlessly at school, according

31:09

to his family, who claimed to have raised

31:11

the alarm at least 20 times in the

31:13

last year. Sammy

31:16

Tausch, a fourth grader at Greenfield Intermediate

31:18

School, was bullied right up until the

31:21

night he died by suicide on May

31:23

5th. His dad, Sam,

31:25

said, I held him in my arms. I

31:27

did the thing no father should ever have to do, and anytime I close my eyes,

31:29

that's all I could see. Sammy's parents, Sam

31:31

and the Cole, said that they complained

31:34

to the school roughly 20 times about the bullying that started last

31:36

year when he was in elementary school. They were making fun of

31:38

him for his glasses in the beginning, then it went on to

31:40

make fun of his teeth. It went on for a

31:42

long time, as dad said. He was beat up on

31:44

the school bus. The kids broke his glasses and everything. I

31:46

called the school and I'm like, what are you doing about this? It's getting worse

31:48

and worse and worse. The

31:51

school district superintendent, Dr. Harold Olin,

31:53

denied any bullying report had ever been submitted by either

31:55

the parents or the bully. However,

31:58

he acknowledged that the school's administration counselors had... regular

32:00

conversations with the family throughout the year

32:02

without elaborating because of confidentiality rules. But

32:06

that's a little bit hard to believe the school

32:08

saying that there was no bullying reported. And yet

32:10

you're also saying that the family had regular conversations

32:12

with the counselors like, well, what are they talking

32:15

about? If they're having regular conversations, it's

32:17

almost certainly about that. What else would they be

32:19

talking about? Um, the

32:23

boy's family insists that the fears have been made clear.

32:25

They knew this is going on. They knew this was going on. He said,

32:28

and so the parents

32:31

are obviously distraught. Distraught

32:34

doesn't even words

32:37

fail to capture what a parent

32:40

of a child who commits

32:43

suicide must be experiencing, especially at that

32:45

age. It's just it's just something I can't even

32:48

you can't begin to wrap

32:51

your mind around it. I

32:54

will. I'm a couple of things here and

32:58

because it's the internet, you know, anything

33:01

that happens becomes fodder for debate

33:04

and people have opinions and stuff like that. And

33:07

teams, you know, whatever the event is like

33:10

you have teams, teams assemble and I'm on this

33:12

team on that. And so that has happened with

33:15

this story with some of the commentary on it. And

33:18

you've got some people that are sort of blaming the parents

33:20

saying the parents fault. You got other people that are

33:22

blaming the school. I'm

33:24

going to say that I think that you

33:27

can't really blame either. Um, or at least if

33:30

there is one party mainly to blame for this, we

33:32

there's no way for us to know who that is.

33:35

We probably will never know. But

33:37

it's quite possible that there's really no one specifically

33:40

to blame. Now,

33:42

from the school's perspective, but

33:44

if they were, uh, negligent,

33:49

if they made no attempt to address the problem,

33:51

they just ignored the concerns. Well, then

33:53

yes, then they deserve a significant

33:56

amount of blame. It's

34:00

quite possible that the school may

34:02

have heard these complaints and

34:05

taken them seriously and done everything they

34:08

could, but there's only so

34:10

much they can do. When

34:12

a child is in school and has

34:15

been singled out as sort of a

34:17

pariah for whatever random reason

34:19

that this happens to you, and that is sort of random,

34:22

that the bullies in the school

34:25

just kind of hone in

34:27

on one kid and decide that he's going

34:29

to be the target. They've locked in on

34:31

him, and when that happens, there's just only

34:33

so much the school can do. They

34:36

should try to do what they can, but

34:38

there's only so much. And the problem is

34:40

that it's a catch-22, because if they don't do

34:43

anything, if they don't address it, if they don't try

34:45

to discipline the bullies, then it will continue. But if

34:47

they do, well, then

34:49

you risk making the kid even more

34:51

of a target, because now the kid's going

34:53

and hiding behind the teachers and all

34:55

the rest of it. So

34:59

I don't know the details, like anybody does,

35:02

outside of those directly involved, but it's quite

35:04

possible that the school did everything

35:06

they could reasonably do, and it wasn't enough.

35:09

And then on the parent's end of it, there's

35:11

only so much a parent can do when

35:14

you're sending your kid into school every day. When

35:16

your kid's going into this environment, you

35:19

can talk to your child after

35:21

school, you can reach out to school

35:23

administrators, you can try to reach

35:26

out to the parents of the kids who are tormenting

35:28

your child. You

35:31

can do all of that, but you

35:33

can't go to school with him and walk

35:35

with him from class to class and

35:38

shield him physically from the bullying. And even if

35:40

you could do that, again, you would probably only

35:43

make it worse. So

35:48

they could have easily done all of those things,

35:50

and it wasn't enough, when

35:54

he's still going to school. Like

35:57

ultimately, the only real

35:59

answer in a situation like this is

36:02

to get your kid out of school. And

36:05

I would say that now, I know it's easier said than

36:07

done, and these parents may have been in a position where

36:09

they just couldn't do that. Maybe they weren't working towards doing

36:11

that, but they just couldn't do it right

36:13

then and there. If

36:15

you rely on, if you're a dual income house

36:17

and you rely on both incomes to

36:21

keep a roof over your head, and

36:25

there are no private schools in the area

36:27

that you can afford, and there's no other school you can

36:29

send them to where there's any reason to think it'll be

36:32

any better. Well,

36:34

that homeschooling is the other option. And I'm a

36:37

big advocate of homeschooling. I

36:39

think it's the best thing for every kid if

36:41

you can do it. But

36:43

that means you have to go down to a one income house

36:45

because someone's got to stay home and do the homeschooling. And

36:48

you might not be able to do that. As

36:50

much of an advocate of homeschooling

36:52

I am, I realized that it's not something that

36:54

a family can just do at the drop of

36:56

a hat. But

37:03

that is ultimately the answer. And

37:06

the fact is that if

37:09

you are a parent and your child becomes

37:11

a target to this extent, that's

37:16

what you have to do. You have to get the kid out. This,

37:19

we are way past, oh,

37:22

whether this is a good opportunity for my

37:24

child to learn how to deal with this sort of pressure

37:27

and they're gonna have to deal with this in

37:29

the real world. No, I'll

37:32

tell you something. No child is

37:34

equipped to deal

37:36

with this, no child is. And

37:39

the reason is, we talked about this on, I was on Tim

37:41

Poolshow last night, we talked about this a little bit. And I've

37:43

talked about this many times, this kind

37:45

of this phenomenon of

37:48

peer orientation, the peer culture. And

37:52

this is what makes it so that it's, no

37:56

child can really deal with it. And

37:58

it's not, you know, might, you

38:00

might hear from Boomer sometimes, people that went

38:03

to school decades and decades ago, and it's

38:05

how we had bullies all the time. And we didn't

38:07

make as much a big deal out of it. Yeah,

38:13

but it's not it's not the same. It's different now.

38:16

And it's different because of the

38:19

just all encompassing pervasive peer

38:21

culture that these kids are in. They

38:24

go into the school environment, and they're in a culture

38:26

now that is run by the peers like the inmates

38:28

are running the asylum. That's why it works in every

38:31

public school in the country. And

38:35

it's like Lord of the Flies, you

38:37

know, in every school essentially, is how

38:39

it goes. And they run,

38:41

they run, they decide what the culture is, what the

38:43

environment is. And

38:47

so a child who has been rejected

38:49

in that culture,

38:52

and by his peer culture, this is

38:54

a this is a, this

38:56

is experience of total from his

38:58

perspective, from the child's perspective, this

39:00

is an experience of total social

39:02

rejection. Now, the

39:04

fact that we all know that

39:10

if you're a kid, you're going to grow up,

39:12

and you're going to graduate school, and you know,

39:14

before you know it, you'll be graduating school, and

39:16

none of this will matter anymore. And all the

39:19

kids who are bullies, you're not

39:21

gonna care about their opinions anymore. And a lot of them

39:23

will go on to be total failures in life and, and

39:25

all the rest of it and it just

39:27

won't matter. Now we know that from

39:30

our adult perspective, looking back, but the

39:32

kids don't see it that way. They

39:34

don't have the capability to look that

39:36

far into the future. All they

39:38

see is what's around them. And

39:40

they see total social

39:43

alienation, total social rejection. And

39:45

then to make matters worse, and this is the thing that

39:47

really separates kids of today from

39:49

kids in the past. And

39:52

the reason why, if you went

39:54

to school 30 years ago, it's just

39:56

not comparable. So you talking about why

39:58

I dealt with bullying. Yeah, but

40:00

you actually had it a lot easier. You did.

40:04

Because we also have social media and the internet now,

40:06

which just changes everything. And

40:09

if you didn't grow up with that, if

40:12

that was not a part of

40:14

your childhood, then you just simply can't even

40:16

relate to what the kids today are experiencing,

40:18

because it's completely changed the world. It's

40:21

changed what it means to be a child. And

40:25

when it comes to bullying, what it means is that

40:29

these kids can never really escape it because

40:31

they leave the

40:33

school environment. But

40:36

this kind of peer culture

40:40

follows them because it

40:42

stays on the internet and social media and the phone

40:44

and everyone. So it's like they're

40:46

walking around now constantly in this sort

40:48

of fog, which

40:53

means that that alienation

40:55

and rejection that they're experiencing in

40:57

school now goes beyond school, because

41:00

now it bleeds over into the internet

41:02

and it follows them everywhere. And

41:07

that's how you end up with children who do

41:11

horrific and drastic things that they don't

41:13

understand what they're doing, obviously.

41:17

But that's how you end up with this. So

41:23

the only real

41:26

way to protect your child from that

41:29

to the greatest extent possible is to keep them

41:31

out of the school system. And

41:35

as much as possible, keep them off

41:37

the internet, keep them away from all of this so

41:39

that they remain grounded and

41:43

so that they are looking to you as

41:46

adults, they're looking to their parents and

41:50

the approval and affirmation that

41:53

they care about the most is what they

41:55

get from you. That's

41:59

the solution to this. is to make sure that

42:01

your kids are looking to you for approval and affirmation. When

42:05

they start looking to their peers for approval and

42:07

affirmation, that's when they are

42:09

now in a very vulnerable state. Because

42:12

their happiness and their

42:14

sense of self is

42:16

now depending on these

42:19

other kids who are just

42:21

as confused as they are. And

42:24

they have become now untethered and

42:28

anything could happen. I

42:30

mean once that happens, once your kid says,

42:33

I don't care about your approval and affirmation anymore, mom

42:35

and dad. I only care about what

42:37

these people say. Once

42:39

that happens, your kid can become anything.

42:43

Anything can happen. So

42:47

you say as a parent, oh, my kid would never

42:49

do that. My kid would never become that

42:51

sort of person. Anything

42:54

could happen. Once

42:56

they no longer look to you for approval and affirmation. Because

43:01

now you have no influence. We

43:04

talk about control a lot with parenting. We say,

43:08

well, parents need to control their kids. Well,

43:10

we know that control is not really it. Like

43:12

control is a remote control car. You know, you have,

43:14

you can actually physically decide which

43:19

way the car goes, right? You

43:21

have the remote control for the TV, that kind of control.

43:24

There is, that doesn't exist for kids. So you

43:26

can't actually physically control them in that sense. But

43:30

what you can do is influence them.

43:34

So as parents, we wield an incredible amount of

43:36

influence over our children. And most of the time when we say

43:38

a kid is out of control, it's

43:41

not that the parents have lost control

43:43

over him, it's that they've lost control

43:45

over him. It's that they've lost influence

43:47

over him. They have no influence over

43:49

his actions. And

43:52

once that happens again with a child, especially once

43:54

they become, you know, once they get to the

43:57

pre-teen and teenage years. You

44:00

as a parent no longer have any influence over

44:02

their actions That's

44:05

when terrible terrible things can happen All

44:09

right I'm

44:11

gonna mention one more thing The other wires this report

44:13

to human stars of kingdom of the planet of

44:15

the apes say that they're on the side of

44:17

the animals due to the current state of the

44:19

planet they were being

44:22

interviewed in Promoting

44:25

this film and they made these

44:27

comments. Let's watch that I'm

44:29

fully teammate Listen,

44:32

obviously when I'm playing me I'm

44:34

team human But

44:36

I'm teammate Freya's teammate

44:40

Why so I mean look at

44:42

the planet Look

44:47

at what the humans have done to the

44:49

earth. Well, yeah, I I dislike

44:52

humans a lot Yeah, you

44:54

know, there's the odd one that's like no I mean

44:56

there are you know, there are times where you see

44:58

humans come together and you go Oh, isn't

45:00

this lovely and then there's times you go. I Absolutely

45:03

hate us. Yeah So

45:06

one note here just casually discussing your disdain

45:08

for the whole human species is not the

45:11

kind of thing that a Person

45:13

should feel comfortable doing in general and

45:15

the fact that this woman this rich

45:17

elitist woman feels comfortable Confessing to

45:20

her hatred of the human race

45:22

while promoting a blockbuster film Really

45:25

shows you how far we've fallen as a culture. I mean it

45:28

shows you how how much the anti-human Communists

45:30

have seized control now

45:35

Is it true that some humans behave

45:37

atrociously sure I mean just look at

45:39

the anti-human communists That's one example.

45:41

Look at the fact that Hollywood has gone

45:43

back to the planet of the Apes Well,

45:46

like 75 times because that's how

45:48

intellectually and creatively bankrupt they are

45:50

now. Yes, by the way It's an interesting idea

45:52

for a story the idea that very smart apes have

45:54

taken over the planet And and

45:57

you know, it's an interesting idea, but is it so

45:59

interesting? Is it interesting that we need like

46:02

150 hours worth of material on that subject?

46:04

Is it that interesting? Really?

46:09

We get it now, don't we? We

46:11

had the original Planet of the Apes and then sequels and then we

46:13

had a remake of the original Planet of the Apes and then we

46:15

had a new sequel trilogy

46:18

and now we're continuing with a fourth one from

46:20

that. How

46:23

many different ways can we tell this story? We get it. Yes,

46:25

apes took over. Others had to fight

46:27

them and okay. But

46:30

we keep going back to it because

46:33

again, the intellectual and creative

46:35

bankruptcy. But

46:37

the point is,

46:39

this is something, creating this movie, it's

46:43

something that certain humans have done, is a

46:45

sin of certain humans, not all humans. I

46:47

don't hate all humans because of this movie,

46:50

only the ones who made it. As

46:52

for this idea that humanity is some kind of plague on

46:54

the planet, first

46:56

of all, the funny thing is that this

46:58

is the kind of nonsense you really only hear

47:00

from left-wing atheists. The left-wing

47:02

atheists are the ones who are least

47:05

able to logically make that argument. What

47:08

I mean is this, if there is no

47:10

God, then nothing has any value on its

47:12

own. There is no inherent value to anything. A

47:15

thing only has value if sentient creatures

47:17

are there to value it, which

47:19

means that without humanity the earth has either

47:22

no value or at least greatly diminished value.

47:26

What makes the earth very valuable is that

47:28

there are so many highly sentient creatures, humans,

47:31

around to give it value. That's

47:34

on the atheist view. So

47:36

saying get rid of all the humans because it'll be better

47:38

for the earth, it just doesn't make any sense. Who cares

47:40

about the earth then? Now

47:43

if you believe in God, then you can rightly

47:45

say that the earth would have value even

47:48

without people because it is God's creation and

47:50

God's creative act is what imbues it with value.

47:53

But that would obviously not lead

47:56

you to the conclusion that humans shouldn't exist

47:58

or that we should be anti-human. human

48:00

because God made humans do and gave us dominion over the earth.

48:02

So either way it really makes no sense to

48:04

be anti-human or to suggest that the

48:06

earth would be better off without humans. It's just

48:08

it makes no sense and it's driven

48:11

by pure, misanthropic, nihilistic

48:14

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48:17

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50:04

lot of young men are worried about getting married

50:06

because they're afraid that they'll end up

50:08

with a bad, selfish woman as a

50:10

wife. But the good news is that

50:12

the bad wives generally announce themselves. They're

50:15

proud of it, and they'll tell you all about

50:17

it. So take this woman named

50:19

Paige. Paige is a TikTok influencer, also happens

50:21

to be married before children, and

50:24

she's a bad wife and is very eager to

50:26

alert the public to that fact, including

50:28

with this video. Watch. A

50:31

few weeks ago I said I don't do my husband's laundry,

50:33

and a lot of people are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, those

50:35

are small acts of kindness. Why wouldn't you want to do

50:38

that for your partner? But here's the thing, small acts of

50:40

kindness that are mostly domestic labor just add up to work

50:42

at the end of the day. So here's a list of

50:44

things that I don't do for my husband. You

50:47

all know I don't do his laundry. He can do

50:49

that himself. I do my laundry, and we do the

50:51

kids' laundry, but he does his own. I

50:53

don't cook dinner. He cooks dinner every single

50:55

night. I do breakfast and lunch for us and

50:57

our kids. I don't pack them a lunch. If

50:59

he's hungry, he'll figure out he's going to eat for lunch the

51:02

same way that I do. I don't make his

51:04

doctor's appointments, because guess what? He's not making

51:06

lunch. My dad made a dad? For sure.

51:09

Is it my job? Absolutely not. He

51:11

can book his own appointments. Right? There's

51:14

a lot of things that I don't do for my husband.

51:17

I don't schedule his haircuts. I don't

51:19

pack his clothes for vacation. Right? I

51:21

don't do those things. I don't bother him new underwear

51:24

when there's no holes in it. All of those are things

51:26

that he's a grown man, and he can do him. Can

51:28

I do small acts of time for him? Of course I can. And

51:30

I do. I see a vinyl that I think he's going to

51:32

like because he's creating a vinyl collection. I buy it. I'm

51:35

at the store and I see something that I think he would enjoy eating.

51:37

I'll buy it. I found a new non-alcoholic beer that

51:40

he wants to try out. I'll buy it. Right? Those

51:42

are small acts of kindness. Doing his

51:44

laundry, cooking him dinner, making him lunch, booking his

51:47

doctor's appointments, all of those things, that's

51:49

domestic labor. Those are chores. Those are not acts of

51:51

kindness. Do I do them occasionally when

51:53

he's working one? Of course. Do I cook dinner

51:55

sometimes when he's had a really long day? Of course. But

51:58

me not doing that does not mean that I don't. home lover

52:00

kindness. They're different things. It

52:02

is not my job as a wife, it is not in

52:05

my job description to do all the domestic labor as small

52:07

acts of kindness to my partner and receive nothing in return."

52:10

Now the video has gone viral with many women

52:12

in the comments gushing over how much they respect

52:14

and admire her for this approach, which is good because

52:16

it gives single men the chance to go through the

52:19

comments and cross all of these women off of

52:21

the list of potential wives in the future. A

52:23

video like this provides a perfect litmus test.

52:25

Like, show it to a woman you're dating,

52:27

and if she nods her head and says,

52:30

amen, break up immediately. Just

52:32

cut it off right there. Because

52:34

there are two major problems with this video,

52:36

and anyone who endorses it also shares in

52:38

these having these problems. Beginning with

52:40

the fact that she made the video in

52:43

the first place. Like, even if I could agree that

52:45

it's defensible for a wife to flat out refuse to

52:47

do any of the things she lists, which I don't

52:49

agree, I would still be,

52:51

it would still be a major red flag that

52:53

you're proud of not doing them. You're

52:55

taking pride in what you don't do

52:57

for your husband. You are bragging about

53:00

all the ways that you don't help

53:02

him and don't care for him. That

53:05

alone tells us that your marriage is deeply

53:07

sick and will not survive for much longer

53:09

unless you change dramatically and quickly. There's really

53:11

no reason why you needed to

53:13

tell the world who does the laundry in

53:15

your house. Nobody asked for that information, and if they

53:17

did ask for it, you could just ignore them. But

53:21

you're proud of not doing the laundry proud of

53:23

the fact that apparently when you do a load

53:25

of laundry for yourself and the

53:27

kids, you specifically separate his clothes and refuse

53:29

to throw them in the washer with the

53:31

other clothes. It takes actual

53:34

effort to not do the laundry

53:36

for one person in the house. That's

53:38

how dedicated you are to not helping

53:40

your husband. Now it

53:42

should be easy to see the problem. Like

53:45

what if your husband made a condescending video

53:47

where he smugly boasted about all the stuff

53:49

he doesn't do for you because you're a

53:51

grown woman and you can do it yourself.

53:54

How would that make you feel? Would

53:57

you be happy that your husband takes pride in refusing

53:59

to do it? to help you? Would

54:01

you like the fact that he's announcing this to the entire

54:03

world? I bet you wouldn't. I

54:06

bet you expect him to be more respectful towards

54:08

you and your marriage. And I bet that's

54:11

not the only expectation you have for him

54:13

that you fail to live up to yourself.

54:16

In fact, I bet there are chores that you

54:18

expect him to do that you won't do, even

54:20

though there are no chores that you

54:22

will do that he

54:24

won't. I bet I know who

54:26

shovels the snow, who mows the lawn, and

54:29

it's not you. But

54:31

putting your bragging

54:33

aside, your

54:36

attitude itself is also very wrong. And

54:38

I'm not saying that you should be

54:40

the only one always exclusively doing

54:42

all the things on your list. Every

54:44

marriage is different. My wife exclusively or

54:47

nearly exclusively does some of those things,

54:49

some of them we both do. My

54:52

wife does almost all the laundry. She handles

54:54

breakfast and lunch for the kids pretty much

54:56

exclusively at least Monday through Friday. She

54:58

makes dinner more than 50% of the time, but

55:00

I do make dinner fairly often. She

55:03

she books most of the appointments. I

55:05

generally pack my own suitcase when I travel. My

55:09

wife does a vastly disproportionate

55:11

amount of domestic labor in general. I

55:15

earn pretty much all the money to keep our family fed

55:17

and sheltered. That's how it works in our family.

55:19

And it works very well for us. Not

55:21

every family will work exactly that way. That's

55:24

fine. But here's the point. Scorekeeping

55:27

is death to a marriage. If

55:29

you are only willing to do things

55:31

that your spouse also does in equal

55:33

measure, you are keeping score. There

55:36

is apparently a running tally in your head.

55:39

I'm guessing that the phrase your turn comes

55:41

up quite a lot in Paige's

55:43

household. It's your turn

55:45

to do the dishes. It's your turn to vacuum

55:47

the rug. It's your turn to, you know, do

55:49

the kids laundry. She's keeping track

55:52

and making sure that her efforts never exceed

55:54

50%. I can tell

55:56

you my marriage your turn never we never say it was

55:58

your turn to do this. your turn. What

56:01

kind of child are you? It's a

56:03

childish mentality. It never comes up. It

56:05

comes up with our kids. Our kids do that

56:07

with each other all the time. No, it's your

56:10

turn to do this. That's how children operate.

56:14

And who decides what the score is? Who

56:16

actually keeps track of these things? Well,

56:18

I think we can assume that that's one

56:20

job Paige is happy to solely take charge

56:22

of. Now, marriages

56:24

can barely function this way and certainly cannot

56:27

thrive this way. You're treating your husband like

56:29

a business partner. At best,

56:31

he's a roommate. In fact, there

56:33

really is no difference at all in the living arrangement

56:35

you have with your husband and the one you would

56:37

have with him if he was just a roommate. That

56:40

should tell you something. You shouldn't

56:42

just be willing to do things for him that

56:44

he does

56:47

an equal measure in return. You

56:49

shouldn't indeed you should delight in

56:52

the opportunity to care for

56:54

him in unique

56:57

and different kinds of ways. Your

57:00

attitude should be the reverse of what it is right

57:02

now. You should be

57:04

proud of the things you do

57:06

for your husband that he does

57:08

not do in the same way for you. You

57:11

should be proud of the special and unique

57:13

ways that you were able to

57:15

serve your husband. Just like he should

57:17

be proud in

57:20

the reverse. The

57:22

fact that I, in my family, I earn

57:24

the money in our family and support

57:27

and provide for the family pretty much

57:29

exclusively, that's not a source

57:31

of resentment for me. I don't

57:33

sit around and say, well, what are you going to

57:36

chip in some? I don't want to have to do all this. I

57:39

like to give something that I don't receive in

57:41

return. I take pride in that. It's

57:44

a burden that I shoulder alone and I would rather

57:46

shoulder it alone than go 50-50 on

57:48

it. My wife, for her part, does many things that

57:50

I don't do, certainly not in the same way or

57:52

in the same amount. She also

57:54

then gives things that

57:56

she does not receive back in equal

57:58

measure. We're both giving

58:00

to the family in different ways. How

58:03

do we keep score then? How do

58:05

we tally everything up? How do we determine

58:07

who is doing more? We don't,

58:09

there's no scorecard. It's not possible to keep

58:12

a scorecard anyway. We

58:14

would need like a thousand different scorecards for every aspect of

58:16

our lives. And then we would need to tally up all

58:18

the scores and come up with some kind of master

58:22

scorecard that gives the ultimate score based

58:24

on all the individual scores. And

58:26

if we did all that, who

58:28

would we discover in the end is doing more? I

58:32

don't know. I can only

58:34

hope that I'm doing everything I can for my family and

58:37

giving all of myself. I know that

58:39

my wife is. Now

58:41

to you, the idea of doing more and giving

58:43

more is oppressive. It fills

58:46

you with bitterness and envy. And

58:49

that's because you love your feminist principles more than

58:52

you love your family. It's

58:54

because you want a coworker, not a husband. And

58:57

if you don't change that attitude and change it

59:00

soon, you're not gonna have

59:02

a husband for very long because these

59:04

kinds of arrangements don't work. That

59:06

is why our friend Paige and

59:09

everyone who shares her attitude is

59:11

today canceled. I'll

59:14

do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for

59:16

listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Bye.

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