t canceled for telling the truth but Kimmel was lying. Yeah that's not really the important part. That's not how analogies work. Analogies work when there's just one thing that they have in common that can tell a story. And the one thing is that if you're both comedians that's it. Lying is not against the law. I don't like it. I wish there would be less of it but it's not against the law. And so even if he does something I find very objectionable and he did, it's not objectionable in the free speech sense unfortunately. Yeah. Or maybe fortunately.

Anyway this beam, I understand somebody can give me a fact check if I'm wrong about this but my understanding is that if the US is involved in maybe funding the development of weapons in Israel that what Israel develops, and remember they're super high-tech, whatever they develop has some kind of licensing or the US has the ability to use it too. So I don't know about that for sure. That's just the information I have right now. But it's possible that Israel just developed one of the best weapons we'll ever have for defending the United States. If that happened then that would be on the plus side of arguing why funding Israel makes sense. If they happen to have a technical weapons development industry that's in any way in any pockets better than ours and we have a deal where if we funded it we have access to some of that technology that might be a gigantic benefit for the United States. So if you're looking at all the pluses and minuses I'm generally not in favor of funding other countries for anything. I mean I'm just not in favor of it. But you can't argue if that's true that we would get that technology. You can't argue that we don't get anything out of it.

In Kamala Harris, she's got her new book out and she's saying in her book that Tim Walz was not her first choice for running mate. Her first choice was Pete Buttigieg because as she said quote he is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them. Is that what you think? Do you think Pete Buttigieg has that rare talent to frame arguments so conservatives can hear them? Wrong. That's not even a little bit true. I've listened to a lot of Pete Buttigieg. Do you think he frames things in a way that conservatives go you know huh? Oh wow. Wow. I had the opposite opinion. But now that I heard Pete Buttigieg explain it with his golden tongue I've changed my mind. That was a pretty good argument there Pete. No I don't think you'll find anyone who says oh you know Pete Buttigieg changed my mind on that topic. I don't know. Kamala Harris she's funny.

Well Trump's approval level doesn't look so good but I'm not sure I care. He's not going to run for office again. And it's kind of normal that the more somebody gets on the job as president he's going to do so many things that everyone is going to find at least one thing that they're not crazy about. So I don't know. It just feels normal that no matter who the president is at this point yeah they're probably going to be a dip. No surprise. I'm not worried about that.

The Hill is reporting that according to a Walton Family Foundation Gallup poll that just came out only 35% of respondents are satisfied with the state of K through 12 education in the United States. 35%. Now that would probably be the 35% whose kids are in good schools, don't you think?

I have a question. Is the problem with schools because they are a mess? Is it the teachers? Is it the lack of physical resources? I feel like it's the other students. What do you think? I feel like 65% of the schools have just enough troublemakers that it ruins the whole experience for everybody. Now I do think that in many cases the teachers are bad but I don't think the teachers could help if the class has too many troublemakers in it. Troublemakers. What do you think? And it seems to me that private schools solve for that because the only people who go to private schools are the people whose parents think that's going to work. And it generally gets you a less troublemaking group of people. And I feel like the private school would kick you out if you were a troublemaker whereas the public school would have more of an obligation to keep you even if you're a little bit of a troublemaker. But what is the problem? Is it mostly the other people, the other students?

Imagine if you will. I spent a lot of time imagining what it would be like to be a poor black student. Do you do that? Maybe that's weird but I literally I spend a lot of time and always have wondering could you escape that trap? So let's say you're born into a poor single parent situation and you go to school and 70% of the people in the class don't care about graduating, don't care about their grades, don't care about their future and they're just causing trouble. Can you escape that? Can you use your, let's say you've got good character and you're smart enough, you're smart enough that you should do well in life. Is that going to be enough? If you don't have the resources or wherewithal to go to a private school and you had to stay there could you possibly get a good outcome if 70% of the students just came to cause trouble? I would think there's not a chance, not a chance at all.

So the first problem with what you have to do to solve any problem is you have to figure out what the actual base problem is. Some of it has