The cost of political correctness.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is a good friend and a new author. He’s got a new book, Don Woke, Go Broke, and Uh, I’ll tell you it’s uh it’s the the new logo for me. Uh. And we’re sending it to all the college professors and all the college university presidents. Charlie Gasperino, so many things are happening, uh this week. Where do you want to start?

0:26 Speaker 2 Well, I want to start here, John. I know you had Mark Casuwitz, the great lawyer Casuwitz Benson and Mark some I’ve known for years and I know he’s soone and Harvard and all these colleges over the anti semitism and the wokeness that is that that that breeds the anti Semitic protests on college campuses. But I want you

0:45 to tell Mark that if he wins as a as a as part of the settlement, I want him to force them all these college sort of administrators to buy my book Go We Go Broke to understand where they went wrong? Can you can you do that? I?

1:00 Speaker 1 Well, definitely tell mister Cashwar it’s that Uh.

1:05 Speaker 2 We live in very very interesting times, you know. Uh. It’s uh, I mean, we have my book points out how corporate woken is where it began, where it ended. Uh, We’re we’re how how it manifested itself with some funny stories because corpse CEOs being being woke are hysterically stupid. Uh.

1:27 And then what the backlash that’s forcing companies who unwoke themselves. The last part of the books, called Woke is finally broken. But we have two presidential candidates in Kamala Harris and Tim Moore, who are some of the wokest politicians on the face of the earth. And I guess the question that I have, John, and maybe you can help answer this.

1:48 I mean, we’ll woke sell in a presidential election. I mean Donald Trump, but JB. Jd Vance are supremely unwoke. That’s why the media hates them. I mean, you know, just everything about them is unwoke. Donald Trump is you know, he’s a shoot from a hip guy. You know what I’m saying. He doesn’t he doesn’t he doesn’t care about

2:08 your sensitivities on most things. And Jade Vance’s is a very unmoke American success story as we know. But these two are, like, you know, you can’t get any more left wing than these two. Will the company buy Will the country buy wokeness when corporations are running away for it because consumers don’t ingest it anymore? I mean, what

2:27 do you think?

2:28 Speaker 1 I think this is a big decision November fifth, Which way does our country go? Does it go the way the way President Biden has been leaving it the last four years, or does it go back to the way we know America wants it? And it’s two extremes. It’s not extremes seams, but Kamala Harris, I don’t believe it

2:55 has the capability of running this country. And the vice president she picked, I’m not sure what his capabilities are, but it could be Obama’s fourth term because I understand the vice president was picked or helped to pick by former Chinee general or by Holder Eric Holder, who is I believe royal to President Obama.

3:28 Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, so it’s a big choice Obama was. By the way, these two just not just optically but just policy wise, are much more to the left than Obama ever was, which is scary. I mean, Obama was progressive and maybe ushered into progressive movement, the true progressive movement, the true progressive takeover the Democratic Party from a liberal

3:48 Party moderate liberal Clintonian Joe Lieberman to something far left. But even Obama was less progressive than these two. I mean, these two are extremely extremely left wing. I mean this guy Waltz and I’m sure Kamala Harris supports us, but you know, she’s I don’t know what she supports. I don’t know if she has an independent thought in her head.

4:11 I mean, she’s a ruthless politician, but she’s not She’s fatuous and not smart. He you know, if you look at his policies in Minnesota, I mean, and one of the crappiest states in the country. You know, people are fleeing because you know, crime and in their inner cities.

4:27 I mean, they turned Minneapolis into a hell hole. This guy supports, you know, transing kids, high taxes. You know, he had he had a hotline where you can rat out on your neighbors that weren’t there wasn’t wearing them, who weren’t wearing masks during COVID. I mean, what kind of a knucklehead is this guy? He actually talked about

4:46 how the First Amendment doesn’t extend to what he considers disinformation, which is probably anything that he disagrees with. I mean, this guy really is out there. Now it looks like he also might have fibbed about his military service that he served, that he was in combat. He wasn’t. And you know this this guy is I went under estimate

5:08 him though. He is an effective politician. I me, if you’ve seen him on the stumps, he’s he’s pretty good. I do think that JD. Vance will clean his clock because his record is so out there. And you know, JD.

5:20 One thing I will say people, you know a lot of republics like, oh JD Vance doesn’t bring a state. Even this this guy is really smart. JD is a smart guy, extremely articulate, He’s not afraid of anything. He actually went to Iraq and for it. He’s got a very high IQ. I mean, this this guy is is

5:37 you know who’s got the eye of the tiger. And so it’ll be I can’t wait for the vice presidential debates. I think you were you and I were talking before that there are three they’re going to be three debates.

5:47 Maybe CBS is reporting that or someone’s reporting that, but the more the better, because that’s going to be that’s going to be a knockdown, drag out fight. It’s also going to be interesting to see Trump versus Kamala Harris.

5:57 You know, one of the things about Kamala Harris is she’s like kind of good on the stuff. I don’t think she’s great. She’s got that laugh, but when asked questions, if you put questions to her, she’s horrible. She really doesn’t have like, she doesn’t have a lot of bandwidth upstairs.

6:14 I mean, it’s it’s so obvious. You know.

6:17 Speaker 2 That doesn’t mean she can’t win. You mean she could win. She has immediately either and she’s got to do.

6:23 Speaker 1 That’s why I’m wondering. I’m wondering, Charlie that if she’s going to have a blowout debate with President Trump. They you know, President Trump the other day says that they’re trying to work out and debates, because I’m not sure she’s capable of well out debate. But time will tell.

6:49 Speaker 2 Yeah, I don’t think she is. I don’t think she’s she’s capable of real Listen, she got lucky the first debate against Biden, who is on his heels and obviously wasn’t a sharp as he was in the past, and he was quite frankly afraid to call her out. She called she calls him out basically calls him a racist

7:06 because he was against federally mandated bussing, which was hardly a racist position was probably it was definitely the right decision. You let localities determine what they want to do. And by the way, localities that that shows bussing had horrendous It was horrendous results. I mean, black kids, think about how stupid that that comment was that she made. Not

7:25 that there was much time to thrill her on it, but black kids were bussed in Boston from black neighborhoods to South Boston High School, which was one of the worst high schools in the city of Boston. What good was that sending black kids to a worse high school?

7:40 Speaker 1 I mean, that was you can’t figure figure it out. I mean, and uh, the other big thing between that culture and other Democrats’s culture is the windmills, solar cells.

7:55 Speaker 2 I mean, I don’t know.

7:57 Speaker 1 And in New York State were not even allowed to have wood burning pizza ovens.

8:04 Speaker 2 I know, they want to get rid of the coal burning pizza which, by the way, friend of mine owns the cold one of the best coal burning pizza oven in the world, Arturo’s on Houston Street. Scotti, Arturo’s son.

8:15 Great guy, great pizza. He’s still open, by the way, he should go there, good pizza.

8:19 Speaker 1 I will go there.

8:22 Speaker 2 Tell us you’re right. I mean, this is this is like I mean, for if Trump blows this, I can’t believe it.

8:29 Speaker 1 I mean, if Trumper blows this, the world is in trouble because I believe, I believe that the free world of the is dependent on the United States of America being strong enough to keep the free world.

8:46 Speaker 2 Free right, And I don’t think the Democratic Party, who run by the progressive wing, will do that. I mean, this is they will enforce. But here’s where I keep getting back to it, and it gets back to my book.

8:59 When corporations went there, and these corporations are powerful, they got their handslapped by the American consumer and they had to reverse down the line. Black Rock had a reverse from corporate wokeness. Disney had of reverse, Budweiser had a reverse, Target had a reverse. Every one of the Microsoft is getting rid of its DEI department. But you know Goldvin

9:21 Sachs got, you know, is Tony down at STEI support and other corporate woke measures. You go down the line because consumers hate it. I don’t this is where I think Trump should be able to win. This can’t imagine consumers are going to even though they’re going to spin their policies as not woke, I’m sure they’re not gonna

9:41 I’m sure Kamala Zarrah Herris is on the tape saying how woke everybody should be like three years ago. But I’m sure she’s not gonna say that again. You know what I’m saying. But the record is there. It should be easy to expose. This should be a layup for Donald Trump and JD. Vance at some point. I mean

9:57 it should be. I mean they if they stick to the issues. I just don’t see her. I just don’t see these two people winning. They’re just two out there. Policy wise.

10:08 Speaker 1 Well, I think President Trump had the big upsurge after the Republican Convention. Kamala Harris is going to have the big upsurge after the Democratic invention. And you know what you were usually saying in August, see you in September, where things normalize and we’ll find out where we’re really going.

10:29 Speaker 2 That’s right. In the meantime, read my book, Go.

10:31 Speaker 1 Woke, Go Go Go Woke, Go broke. Everybody, Please read please read Charlie Gasperino’s book, and don’t forget to read my book too. If you want to make a biggion dollars, read my book.

10:42 Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean this will makes you great, John. I mean some people are giving a million billion dollars. Some people got it from speculating in markets, you know. And by the way, I have no problem with that. If there’s some of my best fresends and we’re multi gazillionaires because they’re good at speculating.

10:57 Speaker 1 You created businesses instead of going to the casino. Instead of going to the casino, I have a five million dollar stock poken account that’s for gambling only.

11:09 Speaker 2 Yes, that’s fun. I mean, that’s your and.

11:11 Speaker 1 If I lose the five million, I can afford it.

11:15 Speaker 2 But you also created jobs along the way, and you know, build stuff, and you know I put people like you, and you know Bernie Marcus who helped create home Depot with Ken Langoon and Arthur Blank. I mean, these are these are the great American entrepreneurs that we need more of.

11:32 You know, you’re not going to get that with wokeness, either from corporations or in the White House. And I think that’s where you and I agree on a lot of things.

11:42 Speaker 1 Charlie, we’re out of time. We’ll catch up again real soon. God bless America.

11:48 Speaker 2 Okay, you got it, John, Thank you.