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On today's episode of the pod, we discuss the growing problem of retail crime in the U.S. retail crime is on the rise, especially in the areas of San Francisco, San Jose and San Jose, California.
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target walgreens making some drastic changes due to an increase in theft in san francisco
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according to the california retailers association three cities in california are among the top 10
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in the country when it comes to organized retail crime los angeles san francisco and sacramento
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already they've been seeing the negative impact it's having in san francisco with stores permanently
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shutting down or closing early because of theft at their stores
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uh target has now acknowledged san francisco is the only city in america where they've decided to
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close some stores early because of escalating retail crime people just come in and take stuff
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and leave it's not like they're breaking in in the middle of the night they're doing this
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during store hours often in broad daylight if anyone any company knows this i don't know how
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target couldn't be the one because they were the one that was told when their buildings were burning
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to the ground it's just property right they're being completely cleaned out in city after city after
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city yeah you know it's just property don't worry about it and so now they're realizing insurance
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right you have theft insurance which by the way i mean as any small business owner will tell you
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your that doesn't work out that way you don't get like a hundred percent of your money back no
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that's not how that works you have your roof uh replaced recently after the hail i did not no i did
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not but i'm having mine replaced and it's uh insurance comes in and says yeah i'll give you about half
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but of that what that's worth they don't say it's half but it is about half of what it will actually
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cost that's great yeah plus my deductible so that worked yeah the insurance thing it's not ideal
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so when you're telling these companies yeah just use your insurance first of all you shouldn't be
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stealing stuff from them but we've gotten to the place where apparently that's okay uh for certain
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people to steal things from a store it's true it's and it's i think it's an organized thing at this
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point i'd love to hear if there's any uh small business owners who have gone through this at their if
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they own a retail facility i know someone who was in a store and watch this happened where here in the
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dfw area yeah and this is texas okay yeah where a group of four people came in to a store it was a
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makeup store with garbage bags and walked up to the counter where all the displays were and took
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their arms and cupped you know 50 to 60 like lip glosses and just shoveled them into the garbage bag
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and did it about 10 times each and then walked out of the store oh my god with four garbage bags
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filled with makeup thousands of dollars of makeup and stuff is freaking expensive believe me it goes
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about two-thirds of my salary goes to it so were these uh were these people who are the greatest
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danger we face in america white supremacists no i don't they were i will say this if they were
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white supremacists they were really bad at it uh this particular group of uh ladies don't tell me
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they were bipoc they are they bipoc people hey they were bipoc oh no uh this particular group black
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indigenous people of color yes now it's interesting because you have to look at the incentives of such
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a situation by the way 888-727-BECK if you happen to be a small business owner and i've seen this
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happen or how i because i would love to hear how you're dealing with it yeah but you know the
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incentive there's a situation is the the employees of a corporate retail establishment don't want to
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get into an altercation they're trained to not get into an altercation yep they're trained to know
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well don't say don't try to stop x y and z type of person because that's not you know there's
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guaranteed signs all over the store saying how much uh black lives matter and how much uh we know
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every every dumb left-wing slogan is pasted all over every one of these stores and as we've seen
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even with like starbucks starbucks what was the controversy they didn't allow someone to go to
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the bathroom and it became a national story yeah so if you try to stop someone you tackle a woman
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with a garbage bag of makeup making it walking out the door what they're not going to what happens in
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that situation you're on the news as the bad person right you're on the news as the terrible person
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who didn't let this uh individual uh who abscond with thousands of dollars worth of your material
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your product what are you going to do you're going to step back and you're just going to let it happen
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and they're going to walk out the door and if they do get caught which they probably won't
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probably the charges will be dropped right we've seen antifa that they burn down cities and and we have
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the vice president of the united states begging for money to bail them out so why would you possibly
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believe you're going to get in trouble over something like this and if they do get in trouble
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what is it a fine a fine that is what one tenth of one haul from one of these stores so you're seeing
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this all over the place there's a video that went viral last week or the week before a guy just walks
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in fills his garbage bag with all sorts of stuff on his bike and just rides his bike out the front door
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the store yeah there's no longer this you don't need to be oceans 11 anymore there's no you don't
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need to have this incredibly intricate operation you walk in the front door like every other customer
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with a garbage bag on display you fill it with the material you walk out the front door the same way
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you came in you just ignore everyone telling you to stop it's not that hard you stop it's not that
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hard no oftentimes people don't even tell you to stop they just yeah they just watch you go out the
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door and like look if you're an employee you're making you know 13 bucks an hour and you're
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thinking to myself i'm not going to get i'm not going to become an international story because i
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stopped a bipoc individual from uh from stealing something or a hispanic individual or a white
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individual i'm sure this is happening with all sorts of colors i mean it's just this particular story
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happened to be that and i would think it's a lot harder to justify to corporate that you did
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something in this situation the further down the oppression ladder you get right yeah we're seeing
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this in story after story after story now the oppressed uh the formerly oppressed women the
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formerly oppressed uh gays the formerly oppressed uh if you're not you know 12 different intersectionality
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groups at the same time you don't even show up on these charts anymore i mean like poor women remember
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when women were oppressed and now they're a forgotten class completely absolutely yeah yes they are uh as
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indicated by the thing last week at the we spa in los angeles where the trans woman goes into the
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bathroom and shows her uh wiener to little girls her we her i am i will say just the fact that you just
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said those two words next to each other yeah that's a lot about our society it does doesn't it she shows
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her wiener right uh it's not funny to no it's not funny and i what's not funny is
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how you're identifying them as little girls without asking them what gender they are that's true so one
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person one person goes to the counter and complains about that to the spa uh employees and that person
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is the bad person because how dare you say she can't show her wiener to people in the bathroom how dare
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you it doesn't and so she's the bad guy and uh everybody defends the person showing their genitalia
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in the bathroom to little girls it's like okay we don't care about defending or protecting little
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girls anymore or women for that matter we don't care about it nope in fact if you if you ask about it
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or say anything about it you're a hate monger well this is absolute insanity over the weekend a few
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people show up to protest uh that going on he calling it pedophilia because it is and antifa shows up
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and starts beating these people uh one of them got slashed with a knife in the arm others were beaten to
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the ground uh this this guy uh this asian guy just standing there and a woman runs up and kicks him
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where he lives and he responds by hitting her in the head with a water bottle he's the one who gets
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arrested and he's the one everybody's yelling and screaming about because you got these antifa people
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that uh they're the aggressors and then if anybody you know is aggressive back towards them whoa
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oh no no now they're the bad person yes that is how this works it is then they do it really well
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it's amazing to see our society react to this stuff like you know targeted walgreens
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are making decisions they believe are good for their bottom line right there and what they're doing is
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we'd rather be closed there are seven elevens that are closing yeah now the original meaning
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of seven eleven was seven days a week open eleven hours a day right that is what it initially 11 at
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night i thought it was 11 hours maybe it was 11 a night it was something of that nature i thought it
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was 11 hours a day which isn't all that impressive frankly it's not no maybe it was until 11 at night
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but there was you know and now it's obviously but everywhere it's a 24 hour business yeah and they're
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closing or at least closing not allowing people inside because the theft is so prominent i mean target
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target and walgreens just closing their stores closing them because they see it as more of a
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problem to remain open yeah the shoplifting is so bad they can't make money because of it because of
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the shoplifting so they got it might as well just close that outlet which they did and normally what
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your answer is i mean look if there are some levels where maybe you would close the store down i guess
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i'm sure it's obviously happened before but it's becoming more common because you really the other way of
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handling this is adding security people but the security people aren't allowed to do anything
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yeah this this security guard says uh his name is kevin greathouse and he said that they're told
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not to physically engage with those who shoplift he said it's going to be lawsuits obviously they
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don't want ourselves or anybody else to get injured while we're out here attempting to make
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these apprehensions and leave it to law enforcement carries with him a handgun a taser and pepper spray but
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he's never used them on the other hand he says people shoplifting have at times threatened him
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with a knife and he said i don't have any intention of getting stabbed for 60 worth of stuff well okay
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so you can hire security guards but if you're going to tell them not to engage with anybody who steals
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what good are they you're just wasting your money there's a video that another video that went viral
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this weekend of a guy in new york in a place a place we certainly walked by a million times when
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we lived in new york in one of these like penn station type hallways and like they're not pretty
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and usually on the side there might be a homeless person uh sitting down so this guy he's he's sitting
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there he's he's mopping he's mopping the floor and he's got his bucket there he's mopping the floor
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he turns around he's mopping the floor and you see it all happen as soon as he turns his back he's
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mopping the floor the homeless guy gets up walks over turns around sits down on the bucket and starts
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taking a crap in the bucket oh now this guy turns around with heck with his mop oh man and it's like
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what the damn you know swears quite a bit and goes up to the guy and goes get out get out of there the
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guy is offended that he's tried to stop him in the middle of going to the bathroom in his cleaning
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bucket and takes his mop and starts hitting him with him up yeah now there's tons of people all
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walking around there this is in the middle of a high traffic area and he's he just goes he pushes
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right through it and gets go right goes right back down sits on the bucket and goes for it in front of
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everybody and i mean this is the state of our cities right now and i got news for you no republicans
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running any of them right you know there's no republicans running any of these cities basically
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at this point there's a couple but there's very very few and this is what has happened over and
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over and over again these cities are just turning into they're disintegrating yeah like apocalyptic
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scenarios this is the best of the glenn beck program
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there's a new poll out that shows governor abbott with a 39 38 lead over matthew mcconaughey now
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nobody even knows what matthew mcconaughey's policies are what's his agenda he hasn't even
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declared are you a democrat or a republican nobody knows or an independent or an independent right who
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knows which is probably what he run as because you know if you're anything but a left-wing kook
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democrat uh you can't declare that if you're in hollywood right so he'd probably have to say
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he's independent but uh 39 38 whereas mcconaughey months ago was way ahead of of uh abbott in a head-to-head
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competition at least according to the polls now uh there's another republican who's probably not
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well known outside of dallas and that's uh don huff hines he's got a big card dealership empire here
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uh abbott leads him 77 to 12 so he's probably not a real threat uh but just entering the race
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um is uh uh colonel west yeah alan west who former congressman obviously been very active in conservative
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politics for a long time he's going to be running he was the chair of the texas republican party
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for about 15 minutes yep uh not very long no uh but he's very well known and well respected i think in
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the conservative community and i think he's actually in a poll that they just conducted a little bit ahead of
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uh governor abbott interesting yeah it is he's a threat for sure i would think to abbott you know
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of course our own chad prather here from blaze tv is running as well but this is a crowded field
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and it's interesting because abbott is not like greg abbott is a guy who if you if you're not from
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texas you might not have a huge um uh impression of of abbott it's interesting when i talk to people
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outside of texas what i hear typically is oh i wish we had a governor like yours who didn't lock
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down the whole time and has lifted all these mandates and all that it's the exact opposite
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of what i hear from people in texas who are just angry at him forever having the mandates yes right
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that's basically the way this breaks down you talked to i was talking to andrew wilkow also from
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blaze tv our friend from up he lives in new jersey i think now his impression of how good of a job
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uh greg abbott is doing is quite different than i think someone who's living in texas like he's
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positive super they wouldn't let us out of our house for 14 months uh so we're we would love to
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have anyone who would who would allow that i mean you know we i uh the everything closed down on
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basically it was march 16th was march 15th or 16th was the day that you know trump did the
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15 days to start the to stop the spread speech and that led to of course uh another month of
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of slowing the spread so it turned into to the end of april where basically nationally we were shut
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down for six weeks uh on may 1st i went out to a restaurant down the street from this facility
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uh it was 25 capacity i don't even know if they hit 25 capacity at the restaurant i was at
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but damn i was at it i was there shoveling food down my gullet isn't that where you contracted
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covid as well not till later no okay i got at a restaurant in texas much later pat uh and i you
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know you bring up a sore as a covid 19 survivor uh you you bring up a very sore subject there but
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yes that uh it did happen it's not a terrible point by you right uh but yes it did happen and
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it can happen i mean it's it definitely is a risk but again it was my choice to go out and shovel food
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down my gullet in the middle of a pandemic i you know that's my choice and having covid 19 for you
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was a lot like not having covid 19 right yes it was you had no symptoms it was asymptomatic for me i
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was just basically staying home for 10 days yeah uh which was not fun i didn't necessarily enjoy it
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our whole we did have some fun family times uh but you know when you really can't go out for any
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reason yeah uh you know when you have it but still you know you get through those times my point
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though with abbott though is that it was as compared to the nation he was definitely on the
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leaning freedom side of the transaction however for texas you know that nothing but you know
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perfection will do on these situations and and abbott has had some problems i mean he's he's you
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know but some people just got unreasonably pissed at him there's like real like just done with him
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i'm done with him forever yeah yeah no it's it definitely was a at least around now look i i work
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at the blaze which a bunch of people who are very conservative and and very outspoken so i did hear
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maybe more than the average texan did i mean and you look at it it's like they just did a poll on
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greg abbott's approval rating within the republican party he has a 77 approval rating among republicans
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you should be able to win that way if you have a 77 approval you should win it's amazing that he
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has this many challengers when he when you have a 77 approval rating yeah though uh he's got some
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challengers and some real ones like alan west is a real challenger alan west is a real is a real
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challenger chad prather is really popular especially particularly in texas uh you know don huffein
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has a lot of money i don't i don't know but again like it's it's a well-funded candidate is a big
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challenge to a to a to a person in the poll i just saw uh prather was actually ahead 42 to 35 percent
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over alan west and then i think um abbott was it 30 or somewhere in there he was actually in the lead
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as far as republicans are concerned i mean it's interesting yeah i don't know what's going to
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happen but i think these things are we're we're in the middle of a cycle to take it out of texas
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here for a second we're in the middle of a cycle where there's a there's going to be a cycle here of
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of of retribution essentially for what happened in the pandemic right i think we're seeing that on the
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streets right now you know we're seeing that from in in political parties where if you didn't do
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what your base thinks is the right thing you're going to be targeted and punished and no doubt
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and taken during these primaries and people are going to try to exploit it yeah you know it was
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like when we had a series of this you know after 2016 there were obviously the republican party was
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sort of split on people who really like trump and people who didn't like trump and the people who spoke
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out against trump had a lot of primary challenges from people who were very very pro trump uh you
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know we're seeing that now happen with anyone who voted for like like the impeachment for example
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or you know people who spoke out like uh you know obviously the most obvious one is liz cheney
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right there are lining there's probably going to be 97 people right it's liz cheney in the next primary
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because there's there's a dividing line there and i think the same thing is going to happen
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with covid you know there's a lot of people some republicans did not go as far on the freedom
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scale as many southern states did and it's also the reason why you're seeing people circle around
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ron desantis as a guy who people like because they liked what he did during that period it was a test
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pat right it was a test of your principles you know what is what do you do in a really difficult
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situation do you still favor freedom or is it only when you're running for office and many of these
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even republican governors are finding out like oh gosh maybe i should have been on the side of
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freedom yeah because even look you're not people who tried to take that as like well if you're on
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the side of quote unquote freedom you're trying to kill grandma and it's like well no when you're
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outside of freedom you're letting people make their own decisions and look including grandma and that
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also includes like how you're affecting others right i mean a pandemic is not just an isolated act we all
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know that that's the problem with the pandemic but people have the the right to be able uh to to
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take the risks that they feel are necessary and also take the responsibilities of actions that might not
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be uh might not be so uh so thoughtful right i mean there's definitely more of those people too
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so i think this is going to be one of those dividing lines that lasts for a very long time and we're going to
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have no no choice but to deal with it especially when it comes to financial uh matters because our
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country has spent so much money and when i say spent money what i mean is they printed it i mean i you
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know it's like to say that they were spending money that existed before 2020 is is sort of sort of a false
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way of looking at it i mean we've just done everything that we were terrified of as conservatives
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all at once within an 18 month period and we still got three four five six trillion dollars to go here
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they're going to spend more doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on this stuff and you just
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have to believe there is a point that where there's a breaking point yeah yeah oh yeah and we don't even
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have to print it anymore that's the beauty of it we just digitize it that makes it even more fun to
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spend it is it's just a number numbers on a screen that's all it is it's a number we don't even have
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to do the paper anymore so it's so easy to spend money now and nobody even bats an eye uh at a billion
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dollars or 10 billion dollars or 50 billion anymore that doesn't that doesn't even phase people you don't
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even think oh my gosh we're gonna spend 50 billion on that they don't care because it it's it doesn't
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even have an impact until you get to trillions now we've become so used to hearing the billion
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dollar figure it used to be millions and hundreds of millions then it was billions now you don't
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you're not even phased unless you hear that we're going to spend a trillion dollars and even then
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maybe not very much you're not you're not worried about it and this is not it wasn't that long ago
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that the word trillion was poison yeah to even democrats if you remember going through the post
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2008 recovery period barack obama gets elected he comes in big conversation he wants to spend 787
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billion dollars uh on i think that was the that was the recovery one yes the stimulus right and then
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he wanted it was obamacare they worked very hard to manipulate the numbers to keep it under one
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trillion and the final cost was in the 900 billions now of course it wasn't actually in the 900
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billions but that's how they presented it and the media of course went along with it but they
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they thought if it hit a trillion the american people will revolt against it now the american
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people still sort of revolted against it at least back then now not now they don't even care now they
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don't even care now it's part of our culture and as we said as soon as this gets it becomes something
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that is yours something you are owed it will never go away and that's where we are with obamacare now
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obviously but at that time it wouldn't they didn't think it was going to pass remember they had 60
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votes and they were doing this they had 60 votes in the senate and they were saying we can't get it
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over a trillion dollars it will never get approved and now we're at the point we're like well if we
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have 50 votes we can pass a five trillion dollar bill right and in the america yeah of course you can
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you got 50 votes yeah sure go ahead no problem and to help you we'll take republican responsibility
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for another trillion in infrastructure just to make your job a little easier just to make so you can
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get that extra trillion you don't have to make it a six trillion dollar bill make it a five trillion
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dollar bill we'll take the other trillion on with you and it'll happen so fast
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espn is seemingly always having some issues lately uh but this one's kind of a non-issue to me i i mean
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i don't did she did rachel nichols really do something really horrible yes she did she did
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something absolutely horrible horrible pat okay tell me about it because i i was under the mistaken
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impression that it wasn't that big a deal oh my what yeah yeah i was you bastard maybe i don't know
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the full story apparently not okay so rachel nichols is a broadcaster for on espn she was one of she's
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one of the main nba announced uh hosts of their you know their post game show or whatever pre-game
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many many times yep very well known she apparently had an issue where she left on her microphone you
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cannot do this in today's society that's for sure cannot and had a private conversation oddly with one
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of like lebron james's advisors he has it i would have never guessed he had an advisor the way he acts
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i mean i would have totally assumed he's a bad advisor yes whatever i don't it's a very strange
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one maybe lebron ignores everything his advisor advises maybe that's possible i will say his
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comments in here are pretty freaking interesting too as a side story uh in this in this conversation so
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uh basically rachel nichols wants to be the lead uh anchor of the nba coverage and realizes after her
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very long resume and lots of success and very well known realizes she's not getting the gig for
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the 2020 nba finals now why would that happen i i don't know she seems to be highly qualified she
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seems to be well liked by everybody uh i've never heard you know she never you hear bad occasionally
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you'll hear from sports fans they don't particularly like female announcers as much uh they seem to like
00:28:50.360
her beth what's her face is a really good example of that beth what's her face beth what's her face
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who does the play-by-play uh college football oh time have you not watched uh coverage i don't
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remember but beth what's her face that she she's not not your favorite oh my no not my favorite and
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that's been a a standard complaint from guys over the years right i mean we can admit that that's
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been something that other guys not us not us have beth what's her face is fine now she's perfectly fine
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so but rachel nichols has always been yeah she's one of the anchors that i thought has been highly
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you know well respected sage steel is another one on on espn that i think people really like i
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never heard a bad word about her female announcers can do great jobs and whatever so what's interesting
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here is she's off camera she realizes she's losing this gig she's losing this gig to maria taylor now
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maria taylor is an is a woman as well an african-american woman now think about you in
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this situation for a second if you're rachel nichols you just lost your big prime time gig
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right you're pissed off about it now people at times in those private conversations might say
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stuff that you know like they don't necessarily have evidence of but they're you know expressing
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frustration and especially if like she says it is it's in your contract that you're going to have
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that gig right this is her gig especially be upset about yeah so here's what she says in a private
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conversation she says i wish maria taylor all the success in the world she covers football she
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covers basketball if you need to give her more things to do because you're feeling pressure about
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your crappy longtime record on diversity which by the way i know personally from the female side of it
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like go for it just find it somewhere else you're not going to find it from me or taking my thing away
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end quote uh-oh this has been this is the type of thing at espn that it gets turned into an
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international incident now what's fascinating about this is someone we don't know who who could it be
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i don't know i don't have evidence as to who it was but i will say someone held on to this recording
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for like a year and has now somehow gotten it to the new york times right around the moment maria
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taylor is renegotiating her contact with espn now look who could it be it could be anyone in the whole
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world it's like the guy uh in the netflix series i think you should leave with tim robinson tim robinson's
00:31:22.080
dressed up as a hot dog in a hot dog costume after a hot dog car crashes into a clothing store and
00:31:29.100
they're all looking around who did this and the guy in the hot dog costume is saying i don't know
00:31:33.460
who could it be it could be any of us it's you in the hot dog costume you were driving the hot dog car
00:31:41.620
now we don't have any evidence that she was driving the hot dog car in this particular
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situation but it could be could be let's give us some scenarios could be one of someone who's uh
00:31:51.840
aligned with her could be someone random could be someone who just really cared about racial
00:31:59.000
justice pat could be someone with just a hardcore belief in racial justice who knows who it could
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be but it's interesting that it's coming up particularly at this time uh when apparently
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the the belief is that espn has offered maria taylor multiple millions of dollars but she wants
00:32:17.540
multiple millions of dollars more she wants something like eight million dollars a year
00:32:22.560
wow at least that's the uh that's the reporting going on right now i want that too i wanted to
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i want that too can i just state that now i want that too i want eight million dollars a year what i
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find to be completely fascinating about this story and first of all it falls right in to the pat gray
00:32:41.280
sweet spot of liberals eating their own because if you notice the comments from rachel nichols she's not
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saying it's unfair to give someone a job they don't necessarily deserve because of their physical
00:32:52.800
characteristics she's saying that's fine they should just take away other people's jobs instead
00:32:57.900
of hers right right and she's also saying that uh she she was on this bandwagon already on the female
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side of it so she's actually seemingly for people being promoted because of their physical characteristics
00:33:14.260
yep because she believes there's been some injustice against those people right so she's not against
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she wouldn't say like i think i don't think she would summarize her position as i think the best
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person should get the job no matter what their what their skin color or gender right that's not what
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she's saying no she's saying women should get diversity hires maybe even uh she's saying the espn has a
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bad record on diversity and they should be promoting black women to these roles just don't take my gig
00:33:42.940
i want i want that money not her give me the money give me the job she can take some white guy's job
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is basically what she's saying and does espn have a bad record on diversity because i there are
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approximately three white men who work at espn now i think uh at this point i mean i look i don't care
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i really don't care either but i never if you're gonna say they have a problem with diversity there's
00:34:10.660
women and bipox everywhere on the network yeah there's like you said maybe three white people
00:34:17.400
left is that too many yeah i mean look at our own uh jason woodlock who works here uh at the blaze tv
00:34:23.940
now just started by the way his show's starting up i don't know if it started yet it's coming soon he's
00:34:27.440
got a podcast coming out and everything he's great great host when he was at espn they started uh
00:34:33.040
what was it the undefeated it was a it was basically supposed to cover the racial the intersection
00:34:39.040
of race and sports and jason was one of the people who started it and if you know jason and
00:34:45.760
his views on race and sports and that intersection they are not approved not espn by espn and that's
00:34:52.540
for sure and so he's you know certainly no longer there and they took it in a totally different
00:34:57.160
direction which was essentially if alexandria ocasio cortez ran a sports publication right like
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that's what it is now um which is so weird because the average sports fan is not there yeah and the
00:35:09.240
average sports fan is not going to the site either right they don't it's it's more of a political move
00:35:15.280
now than something that could have been really interesting if you look back at some of jason's
00:35:19.700
work when he was there i mean some of it's fantastic he's always great jason but i mean like
00:35:24.780
it's it's fantastic so what i find to be fascinating about this story though is let's just play game
00:35:33.260
theory here for a second pat how would you win in this scenario okay how would you win we know
00:35:41.480
that rachel nichols is in trouble why because she said they were promoting maria taylor to this job
00:35:49.560
because she's a black woman right they're trying to just solve these diversity problems so they've
00:35:54.120
promoted a black woman into this role right yep what's fascinating about that is that this is
00:36:01.640
specifically the request from the left that you promote people because they are black women
00:36:09.020
right back in the day the position of everybody was hire the best person for the job don't notice
00:36:17.060
their skin color you shouldn't be noticing their skin color okay the new request is the opposite of
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that it's you must notice their skin color you should give people who are let's say african-american
00:36:30.900
a leg up whether they are the best person for the job or not you have to give a black person the job
00:36:38.180
right we saw this with the um the lin manuel miranda movie that came out recently in in the heights i think
00:36:45.560
it was called where they got in trouble because they hired almost exclusively hispanic actors but not
00:36:52.560
dark-skinned hispanic actors are not dark-skinned enough so it wasn't about that the actors and the
00:36:58.120
singers and the dancers did a bad job or they weren't the most qualified is that they didn't have
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dark enough skin to to please the woke crowd so what rachel nichols is saying and getting in trouble for
00:37:13.120
and accusing espn of doing is the exact thing the woke people are requiring so how could you possibly
00:37:23.200
win in this situation if you say they only put this black woman in this role because she's black
00:37:30.800
you're bad however the woke left is also saying you must put this black woman in this role because
00:37:36.880
she's black they're saying the both sides of the issue it's impossible to win first of all second
00:37:43.420
of all you shouldn't even be trying to win because it's uh you know anti-american uh to and i think
00:37:49.380
completely wrong to make decisions based on skin color it's a thing i've had for a while i've had this
00:37:54.220
weird inkling throughout my entire life that you should make approximately exactly zero decisions in
00:38:02.240
your entire life based on skin color that's kind of my philosophy where are you getting that kind of
00:38:07.980
nonsense there's a couple people brought it up who else would have felt like that yeah i know that's
00:38:14.320
ridiculous it's an outlier of a position to take it is now it is now who wants it you know uh mlk is
00:38:23.100
not welcome in the movement anymore yeah someone's you know there's this book anti-racist baby that
00:38:29.320
we've talked about a few times from ibram x kendi and it's basically a way to indoctrinate people
00:38:34.240
into this in babies literally babies into this hardcore left-wing woke ideology you know critical
00:38:42.480
race theory that's all involved in this even though it's occasionally denied um and someone uh asked uh
00:38:50.960
someone but i know hey like you know why don't you you know they posted something negative about
00:38:55.200
anti-racist baby um and they were like well why why don't you like why don't you what's wrong with
00:39:02.240
it being an anti-racist it's like well i prefer the way mlk went about it that's that's the problem
00:39:08.560
here i prefer the way mlk thought about it and i what what is what we have now is this idea that we
00:39:15.280
should discriminate against certain groups yes to try to even some score done by their ancient
00:39:20.900
relatives like that's what i call nuts yep and wrong and you know i'm not going to teach my kids
00:39:28.180
that i'm not going to teach babies that i think that's the wrong thing to teach them and it's it's
00:39:33.980
amazing to see espn try to figure out how to navigate this situation because one is saying you should be
00:39:40.180
woke for women the other person saying you should be woke for black women and espn should be saying hey
00:39:46.560
put the best host on the air who's the best host put them on the air and they can't even do that