David Mamet
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324 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
David Mamet’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You don't say, I just have to have a drink of water.
Well, they can't discipline themselves to do anything because why should they? If their parents don't discipline them, the school doesn't discipline them, the church doesn't discipline them, the Boy Scouts doesn't, the military doesn't, why should they learn discipline?
We learn discipline when we have to, not before.
Well, so we talk about Hunter Biden.
You calmed down and I drilled in.
See, that's why we have to have school choice. Because if the government is going to tell you where you must send your kids, and you don't like what they're teaching you in school, you've just given your kid to the government.
I took... I had a couple of kids from a previous relationship who went to an impossibly elite, loathsome, woke seminary in Santa Monica. And then I had my daughter Clara, who dropped out of school when she was 14. because she just couldn't take it anymore, and she became an emancipated minor and went to work on a Disney show for two years. And she was great, so she didn't have any school.
And then my son went to a couple of schools, and he just did something extraordinary. He's 25, and when he started to be 20, he says, Dad, I want to create a video game. I said, okay, good, good, good. You may not know every young kid of that age wants to create a video game. That's their dream. Five years later, he's taught himself code. He's created this video game.
It's just released and it's on the internet. I said, how'd you do? He said, it's been out for a week. Oh, I just made $5,000. I said, what? This is a kid, you know, sitting by himself. So I should maybe cool my jets because he spent all these years sitting on his computer. He made this gorgeous video game. Now he's going to make another one. But was that enough to make a living?
I mean, is it enough to start? I said, no, dude, you're doing much better at your age than I was at your age. You know, I was just starting to, I was driving a cab for a living, right? He's working on a straight job too. I said, you know, one thing at a time. So what are you going to get out of going to school?
Also, why are these parents, these idiots sending their kids, especially the Jews, sending their kids to these quote elite universities? That's it's, it's insane, right?
That's true. Boy, that's true. Because these colleges are living on fumes now.
Good.
Here's the thing. I don't want my tax dollars to go to give an endowment to Harvard.
Okay, so Trump says, wait a second, you have to do away with the anti-Semitism. They say, fuck you. They say, wait, no, no, no, you really have to. It's against the law. It's against the Civil Rights Act. You have to stop.
What were they?
Exactly so. They said they were going to make some concessions. I don't know if they made any. But here's the thing. If it were blacks or gays or women, you wouldn't say... Absolutely. They made some concessions. Oh, my God. So Trump says, you have to fucking stop it. And they say, I'm not going to. So they say... So he says, okay, guess what? I'm going to have to raise you back.
We're going to play hardball. That's what he's doing.
Did you ever play poker? No. Okay. When you play poker... You have to dominate the table. You can't just say, I'm going to call your bet and see what happens. You have to raise people. You have to put people on the back. You have to make them respond to you. So that's what he's doing.
Then don't play the hand. But if you do have the cards, you have to make people fear you and wonder what you've got. So that once in a while, when you don't have the cards, you... You muscle them and either you win or once in a while they call you and they find that you're bluffing so that the next time you can win. It's playing the long game.
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