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Well, I have a theme for today's show, and the theme is: Is it my imagination or has wokeness totally jumped the shark? Now if you don't recognize that American TV reference, jumping the shark is a reference originally to a TV show. They had a ridiculous plot. Happy Days was the name of the TV show, where one of the characters would be water skiing. Fonzie was the character. And he would jump off some kind of a ramp water skiing, and he would jump over a shark.

Now since the show was usually on the stage in the set, you know, just doing funny things, it became a huge, huge hit. But after a while the good writers move on. So I don't know if you know this. This is why all good TV shows eventually fail. Let's see if you know this. The reason a great TV show fails, pretty much all of them, is that if you get a job as a writer for a top number one show, you're going to get a nice paycheck. So of course the best writers would try to work at the best shows. But once you've worked at the best show for a year, you can get a much bigger paycheck somewhere else. So it's basically a way to siphon the good writers through the good show but almost immediately to a higher paying job for some new show that needs somebody who's got that experience and credibility.

So the nature of the model is that any good show should attract good writers, but over time they're going to be moving out too fast and it should be self-destructive. Anyway, that's just on the side. But it seems to me that the jump the shark thing means that a formerly good thing went too far. It just became too ridiculous to even work anymore. That's what jumping the shark means.

So you tell me if we've reached that point. In my opinion, now keeping in mind I see a certain amount of right-leaning media stuff on the internet, so I probably see more of that than anything else. But in my experience at least 90% of all the stories in the wokeness domain, from racism to trans to everything else, 90% of the news stories are treated as jokes. True or not. In the beginning of the wokeness trend there would be two sides to every story, but both sides would treat it seriously, right? So the woke people would say, hey, we have this serious issue. And then if you thought that was too far or something you'd say, hey, what are you doing to our society? Or you seem to be ruining something that was good about what worked before. But it was basically two serious conversations.

But as the wokeness became more extreme, it became harder and harder to hold your frame that any of this was serious, because it no longer looked like serious people. It looked like the slippery slope. Things went too far and it just jumped the shark.

Let me give you some examples. Apparently the Daily Wire just finished a movie that's a comedy that's going to make fun of trans athletes. Yeah, the ones born male and doing sports as a woman. Now, did you see that coming? I did not see that coming. I didn't know they were working on it, but apparently it looks like it's done now.

When was the last time you saw any comedy seriously? When was the last time you went to see a comedy at a movie theater? I don't even remember. Honestly, this is not a joke. I actually don't remember. I think it's been years. Five years perhaps. I think at least five years since I thought there was a movie in a theater that was worth going to a theater for. And it's not just because I like to watch everything at home. It's like I haven't even been tempted. But this will be interesting. I'll probably watch it, the Daily Wire's movie. I don't know what the name of it is, but you'll hear a lot about it.

So that's my evidence number one that wokeness has now completely turned into joke content. It's far more likely to be a joke than to be a serious conversation.

Let me see. You texted me early in the morning. My college just texted me to ask me to give them money. How do you think that's going to go? No, I'm not going to give money to a college. Do you know I'm not going to give money to a college? Now this is my undergraduate college, a Hartwick College, and I don't really even know what they're up to, but I guarantee they're racist as hell. I don't even have to check. I don't even need to check. Am I right? Would you agree that a liberal arts college in upstate New York, would you agree that I don't need to check to see if they've gone too far? I don't need to check. No, they're asking me for money. Do you know how I treat that? Literally as a joke. Am I right? Yeah.

As I'm talking about how wokeness has become a joke, when my alma mater Hartwick College contacts me in the middle of my statements to ask for money, I just think, well that's funny. As if I would give them money. As if there's not the slightest chance of that.

All right. In other news, to back up this claim that wokeness has jumped the shark, I don't know if this is true but I saw on the internet a claim without a good source that said that there's a study that says if your business gets labeled racist on Yelp, a year later your business will be up. Apparently the claim, and I'm not positive this is true but it sounds true because it kind of works in my head so I'm kind of biased toward thinking it's true, but I don't know for sure. That makes sense to me because I think the people who read a story about a business being racist don't really care because it's like one incident and maybe they just want their coffee so they don't care. But I could definitely see people who think that wokeness has gone too far to say, all right, I'm going to support that business. I hadn't even thought about them before but I think I'll go there twice this week. I can see that.

And when you read the story that, again if it's true, I can't guarantee this is true, but if it's true that Yelp labeling somebody a racist company increases their business, isn't that kind of funny? Am I wrong? Like when you hear that story you're like, that's kind of funny. No matter what you think about the base situation, it's just funny that it doesn't work out the way you'd th