New CNN Boss Is OUT! Was Trump’s Town Hall the Last Straw? | 6⧸7⧸23
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Glenn Beck and Stu talk about their Father's Day gift to their kids, the latest in CNN leadership changes, and the best investment you can make for yourself and your family in the midst of the worst economic downturn in history.
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Yeah, can we trace this back, I don't know, over the past week here, Pat?
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Chris Licht is the guy who was running CNN, and he came in from, was it Colbert?
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And he was the guy that Discovery brought in after the merger.
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They brought in, licked to run CNN to try to change the culture.
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And one of the reasons they stated was, we've just turned into basically an anti-Trump propaganda machine.
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That's not to say everybody there was always that way, but most of them were most of the time.
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You know, and it was kind of just, it had become absurd.
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They had some good ratings at certain points when Trump was president.
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But of course, when Trump isn't president, that approach doesn't work all that well.
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And the ratings had died and, you know, the network was having all sorts of trouble.
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And Chris Licht's theory was to come in and make it more of a straight down the center news organization again.
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You might have put a bunch of liberal journalists trying to do that in there.
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You know, we remember Rush Limbaugh years ago calling it the Clinton News Network.
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I mean, it was definitely left leaning, but so was everything else in the media.
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No, it turned into something totally different in the Trump era.
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I thought he actually kind of did improve it a little bit.
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I mean, they were making some strides at becoming more non-biased.
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I will say I think they've definitely improved it.
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And in fact, I believe they've raised it to a solid D minus.
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So again, I would say overall, it's still the coverage does not make me happy.
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I think the tone of it had improved a little bit to a point that it was at least notable.
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Sometimes you'd actually see a conservative on the air who was making points that were conservative.
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Sometimes you would see a story covered in a fair and balanced way.
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And I'm not going to sit here and defend CNN's coverage completely.
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But I think it was going in the right direction, which, of course, is part of the problem if you're actually CNN and the people who work there.
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If it's going in the right direction for me, for Pat Gray, for Stu Bergeer, for Glenn Beck, that's terrible.
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And because of that, Chris Licht has been fired.
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He is out at the network is the way they're putting it.
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Now, what's interesting about this is about a week ago, there was a 15,000 word profile that came out about Chris Licht, written by a guy named Tim Alberta, who is, I don't know, I'd probably say he's a moderate reporter.
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He used to write for, you know, more conservative publications.
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But, you know, sometimes the Atlantic employs people who aren't super liberal.
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Most of the time they're pretty reliably liberal.
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But sometimes they'll put people in there that are a little bit different.
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He seems to have a lot of, you know, he wrote a book called American Carnage a couple years ago.
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Which was an interesting behind-the-scenes read.
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He's got contacts with a lot of mainstream Republicans.
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But also, you know, very, a lot of people had a lot of anti-Trump stories in this book.
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Anyway, the point is that this, they gave him access.
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Chris Licht gave him access for basically the whole year to CNN.
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To follow him around, to follow him to workouts, you know, to be in some meetings.
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You know, this was one of those efforts to get the big glowing profile of the CNN turnaround.
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Well, the year went by, the profile came out, 15,000 words, and it was just non-stop scathing.
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I mean, it was really, really rough on the guy.
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And it was a lot of stuff that, like, you know, I would argue is somewhat petty.
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Like, I guess the last guy, Zucker, had his office outside of the newsroom on the 17th floor.
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And Licht came in and was like, yeah, I'm going to the 22nd floor.
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And we're like, that shows he does not want to talk to the workers.
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And like, you know, okay, maybe that was a bad idea.
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You're trying to endear yourself to a new group of people.
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Maybe moving your office to a different floor is, I mean, but I mean, also,
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doesn't that say that you're pretty petty as an employee?
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I mean, who cares where your freaking boss's office is?
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But one of the big parts of the criticism was they were upset about the Trump town hall.
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The employees basically fully turned on him then.
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Because they let Donald Trump go on the air and say the things he wanted to say that they didn't agree with.
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Right before the town hall with Donald Trump, apparently, word was that Chris Licht said to Donald Trump, have fun.
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That's like the way it was a big dramatic reveal in the piece.
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And it's like, well, you know, look, they don't like Donald Trump over there.
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I don't think Chris Licht likes Donald Trump at all.
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You know, I've heard some people describe him as a moderate.
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Some people describe him as sort of an old school, maybe even like a New York Republican, maybe even where he's he's one of those guys that, again, would be way more liberal than most of this audience.
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But it's not completely against, you know, having lower taxes or something.
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So that, of course, is a huge problem at CNN, I would imagine.
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If that's actually who he is, that's a huge problem for him.
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How do you how do you keep it together when you have such an evil, a group of evil around you, like a person who might like lower taxes or something?
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So he was picked apart and that was a big part of it, that the Trump situation.
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Now, they he even, I think, described the crowd he put in there as very Trumpy.
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Again, you might disagree with all the things he was saying, but I'm saying just tone wise, who won the evening?
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And that was the last thing in the world CNN wanted.
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They saw themselves as this bulwark against the evils of Donald Trump.
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And here's a guy who's letting him have a voice.
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Now, I think, Pat, you're the historian around here.
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Well, in history, like what one thing we've tended to do was allow the leading presidential candidate from one of the two parties speak.
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Just historically, wasn't that part of the way we approach things?
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It seems like that was a part of American history.
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You know, and now all of a sudden, apparently you're not supposed to do that.
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I mean, they they crushed in the ratings that night and they've not been anywhere.
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And Fox, in fact, when they did and they just do a ton haul with Trump recently.
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And that didn't score nearly as well as CNN's did.
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And so you would think CNN might have been happy about that, but apparently not.
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And I guess the ratings have not been good overall, though.
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If you're what you're taking what you've created over a four or five year period was a bunch of MSNBC Huffington Post bloggers watching your network.
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You probably have taken some viewers from MSNBC over the years, but you've lost a lot of people who want normal news coverage.
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And that's going to take time to rebuild if that's what you want.
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It's going to take a lot of time to rebuild that people on the right or moderates do not trust CNN anymore.
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And so to bring them back into the fold, you're going to have to do multiple years of not even D minus coverage, but like, I don't know, C plus coverage.
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I am not expecting to get the coverage that I want from CNN.
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I just don't want to be completely lied to every moment of the day.
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So have they mentioned who's going to replace him yet?
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Well, they did bring in an executive right before this profile came out.
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I don't think they knew how bad it was going to be, but they knew this profile was coming.
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They run someone at COO from like the corporate structure.
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I mean, I need to get into all the details of this, but like a guy who's pretty more loyal to a discovery guy.
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And so the idea was, well, maybe Chris Licht stays, but this guy takes over a lot of his responsibilities and directs the ship.
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I will say in Chris Licht's defense, he lasted longer than CNN Plus.
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So you take some solace into that, you know, and it's funny, you know, every every time something bad happens to like a presidential campaign, we've got a bunch of people running for president on the conservative side.
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They'll have campaign shakeups over the years and CNN will be on the air over and over again to tell you the story about how pathetic those organizations are.
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They will tell you over and over again when people get thrown out at other media organizations, particularly conservative ones, when they have Me Too scandals and all these other things.
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And every time you read one of those stories, remember, there's five of them going on behind the scenes at the place reporting it.
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Every single time these people who led the coverage of all the Me Too stuff.
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Years later, we find out they had all these Me Too things going on at the same time.
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They had all of these accusations, people being later thrown out of their jobs because of this.
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And when you hear them cover it for other people, it's just this high minded.
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And then, oh, by the way, we just fired our head executive for X, Y and Z.
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As far as I know, this is just a normal performance based thing.
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Again, I don't understand, Pat, why people agree to profiles.
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And especially an in-depth one for like a year.
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Do you think that you're going to, I'm going to be the one to win them over?
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Because I can't think of any other reason to allow it.
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Apparently, people in CNN were like pushing back at the time saying, I don't know if you want to give this much access.
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And his opinion was basically, I'm going to turn this ship around.
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You know, I'm the guy who's going to come in here and turn this crappy, crap heap of a network into something good.
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And the person who wants that access always lies.
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He wrote a couple of good pieces about Glenn over the years as well, earlier on.
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And then eventually Glenn walked off the air in the middle of an interview with him.
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Man, was he excited to cover this story over the weekend.
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He was apparently getting calls from all the people who hated it.
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I don't know if you heard the big announcement, but it's official now.
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Mike Pence officially leapt into the race just a few hours ago with a tweet.
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The governor from the great state of North Dakota.
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And he brings, of course, now, should he not win for some reason?
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I mean, I can't imagine it, but should he not win the actual nomination?
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I'm sure that the person who does can't wait to make him the running mate for vice president
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because you bring those whopping three electoral votes to the table.
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Pat, the Republicans are already going to win North Dakota.
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I'm saying if Doug Burgum is not on the ticket, the Republicans will be the favorite.
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And maybe that's because of the great work Doug Burgum has done in North Dakota.
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And so even if he's not vice president, they still carry the state for only the, what,
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I will say, look, maybe Doug Burgum is, I don't, I will say, I don't know enough about
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I will say, North Dakota's had a pretty good run here and he's been the governor and it
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So, and there's a lot of Republican governors out there that are pretty solid.
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This is how you introduce yourself to the people these days.
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The others have to drop out in this particular scenario.
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If you could only vote for one presidential candidate that announced this week.
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It's a little bit of a complicated story with Pence.
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Because he basically backed up everything Donald Trump said every single day.
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But then the January 6th thing happened in January, you know, into January 20th.
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And I don't think there's, I just don't think there's any appetite for a Mike Pence presidency.
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It is Pat and Stu for Glenn, who is on vacation this week.
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So, he missed the official announcement of Chris Christie is going to be bummed.
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I think he's overseas right now, but I would assume he'll be back in for tomorrow's show
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to address the Chris Christie, Mike Pence, and Doug Burgum announcements.
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He'll want to do that because he's missed all three of these huge announcements.
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I know we have a lot of viewers and listeners overseas.
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If you see Glenn walking around with his family, make sure to ask him what he feels about Doug
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But in case you missed the big Chris Christie announcement, here it was.
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And it was about our country and its future, and I wondered what our choice was going to
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Were we going to be small, or were we going to be big?
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Are we going to be small, or are we going to be big?
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The guy had lap band surgery, and he still made that decision very clearly.
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However, he went really small during his speech, and here's some of the times when he
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40 seconds worth of 40 seconds worth of small and smaller.
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If he repeats anything, I'm making a video about it.
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It's funny because that was essentially the criticism of Rubio, right?
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The only thing anyone remembers Chris Christie's performance for when he flamed out embarrassingly,
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much more embarrassingly than Marco Rubio, we should note.
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Yeah, the Rubio, the water thing was different.
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I can't remember what it was off the top of my head.
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But he, in the debate, kept saying like one of those dumb political catchphrases, like,
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Like, are we going to go bigger or are we going to go smaller?
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And after a while, after two or three times, and Christie called him out on it, and then he
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said it again, and that was really what kind of made that into a moment.
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I think it's, it was more Rubio having a bad moment than Christie having some amazing moment.
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Like, all he did basically was say, hey, Marco, you're repeating yourself over and over again,
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and we need people who are going to speak from the heart, not speak from catchphrases.
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And everyone remembers it as this moment that sunk Marco Rubio.
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Rubio has heard this literally so many times he decided to address it yesterday.
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And I think there's something to his point here in some parts that are not necessarily
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He said, Rubio said, any political reporter or commentator claiming Christie ended my campaign
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Because instead of hitting back when attacked like I wanted to, I listened to advice about
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pivoting and not punching down on Chris Christie, who was at 7% and about to drop out.
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There's, look, that is, I don't think that's exactly right.
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I think he did go after Christie a little bit, but the punching down advice probably was
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Like, Christie was an absolute nobody in this campaign, despite the fact that he's kind
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of a Northeastern type of guy and was supposed to do well in New Hampshire.
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Then Rubio goes on to say, after New Hampshire, I finished second in South Carolina and Nevada,
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which I would have, I kind of forgot, honestly.
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And then won three primaries, almost won Virginia on Super Tuesday, finished with the third most
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delegates behind Trump's historic campaign and was reelected twice by 8 and 17 points.
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So like, you know, has Chris Christie got a better resume than that?
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He just jumped out and then because Chris Christie makes decisions that are always best for Chris
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Christie, I mean, I'm not saying in a dietary sense, but I'm saying from this, sorry, I made
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myself laugh on that one, from the sense of, you know, his political career, like that's,
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he's making the, so he dropped out after getting slaughtered in the primary he put all of his
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attention to and was the first guy to endorse Trump.
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And of course, Trump, who has a little bit of that in him as well, who, you know, he'll
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If he thinks being friends with you today, I mean, he did this with literally Kim Jong-un.
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When he thought being friends with Kim Jong-un was good, he was friends with Kim Jong-un.
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When he thought he was going to blow him off the planet, he said he was going to blow him
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off the, when he said he was bad, he was going to blow him off the planet.
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With Christie, he hated Christie until it was helping him.
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And then he embraced Christie and Christie was, uh, embraced Trump and they had this big
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relationship and then that fell apart and now they hate each other again, right?
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But I think it is a little overblown that he sunk the Rubio campaign.
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I mean, that's kind of a, a narrative that is, uh, outlived its relevance.
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I would say, uh, Trump responded to Christie, uh, last night via a tweet and the fact that
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he used the word small so many times, he said, uh, he tweeted out, well, truthed out because
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He's not on the Twitter still, even though he can get back on, you know, Elon Musk has
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activated his account still on the, still on truth social, but he posted, how many times
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Does he have a psychological problem with size?
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Actually, his speech was small and not very good.
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It rambled all over the place and nobody had a clue of what he was talking about.
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And now this guy that was very close to becoming, uh, getting a cabinet level position in the
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He wanted attorney general and he was not going to get that because he put Jerry Gushner's father
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in prison when you put the father, is that an issue?
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The, the, the, the, uh, son-in-law of the candidate.
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You put his dad in prison and, uh, he didn't, Jared didn't like that too much.
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I think Trump correctly recognized that Chris Christie is an opportunist and would have sold
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Uh, I don't think, I think Trump was very smart to keep him at a distance, even though
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I don't think there really ever was a warm relationship there.
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And, uh, you know, look, Christie is now coming into this race with this idea.
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And the reason I bring the Rubio part of this up, Pat, is because the re the, the argument
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for Chris Christie being in this race, if you want to make one other than he wants attention
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and to get on television is that he's going to be the guy that's going to take it to these
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other candidates, he's not going to be afraid of them.
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He'll come out and say them, especially Trump, that's what they're saying that he's going
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And he, you know, and I think this is a somewhat legitimate criticism that some are making,
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which is people are so they walk on eggshells so much around Donald Trump because they're
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afraid to lose his voters that they don't really call out Trump directly.
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It's a lot of like, well, you know, some people are doing this and I won't do that.
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Some people own large hotels with gold and some people own golf courses in Scotland and
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Like, if you want to run for president, be a man or a woman and step up and say, guys,
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This is who I'm going to be better than, and this is why I'm going to be better than
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If you can't bring yourself to actually talk about him directly, I don't know.
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And the rule of thumb is that you only talk about them if they're above you in the ratings
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And that's what he was talking about punching down last time at Chris Christie.
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It goes back to, I mean, you know this from morning radio, right?
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Like, one of the things you do as a morning radio host, if you're in a, you go into a
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new market and you're the number two guy and you're trying to get attention for yourself.
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You want people talking about you, but if you're that big show and you've got this
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upstart down there, the strategy typically is to ignore them, right?
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The more I talk about them, the more attention I will bring to them, the more people who might
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He was the big dog in that race as compared to Chris Christie.
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And while he had a disaster in New Hampshire, he had a couple of good primaries after that.
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If he had performed better in his home state, he could have been the nominee.
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The problem was they got to Florida and he didn't perform.
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If he gets to Florida and he doesn't win Florida, which by the way, the polls are not
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showing he's going to win Florida right now, way too early to actually matter.
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Apparently, according to his internal polling, DeSantis has cut the lead in Iowa by 14 points.
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That's what his internal never back down PAC survey that was shared with Axios has DeSantis
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closing the gap between him and the front runner, who, of course, is Donald Trump.
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Let's just say the hotel owner, the hotel owner with gold, lots of brass.
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Well, you know, some other candidates will host The Apprentice for multiple years.
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In mid-May, before DeSantis officially announced, he was at 24% in Iowa polling compared to Trump's
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I mean, take internal polling for what it's worth, which is very little to us.
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They're not going to tell you if the polling looks bad.
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And even an official poll that is very well done at this point means very little, I think.
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I mean, look, you look at some of these candidates.
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He has had a time where he probably did belong in the race.
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I think 2012 would have been a time he belonged in the race.
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People like Ron DeSantis, people like Nikki Haley, you know, Christy Noem if she decided
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Greg Abbott, if he decides to get in, are people who have arguments, right?
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He's been ignored and just made fun of for eight years.
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In a minute, I want to maybe talk about this Live Golf thing.
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But this is staggering news that the PGA and Live have merged.
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Some of the most amazing pieces of hypocrisy perhaps ever.
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We covered John Kerry for years, and we were amazed by the story.
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By the way, did you watch the Tucker Carlson thing that came out on Twitter last night?
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Talked about Ukraine and the dam being broken and who was responsible for that.
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He's certainly a believer that Ukraine is the one that did that.
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I have not seen this, but Tucker mentioned that they had talked at some point, the Ukrainians,
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However, Zelensky also talked about saying that the Russians would target that bridge.
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You know, I guess it just depends on who you believe.
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You know, and obviously, I mean, Tucker is a super, super big skeptic of the Ukraine situation.
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I think that's one thing you'd gather from his first episode.
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I mean, I follow it like sort of, you know, on the fringes, really.
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The PGA and Live Golf, the golf league, the brand new golf league.
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It's been, what, a year, two years since this formed?
00:47:23.220
Yeah, Brooks Koepka, of course, Phil Mickelson, who supposedly paid $200 million.
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I mean, I would go in the room with Khashoggi for $200 million.
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It's the type of thing that makes you think, hey, I don't know.
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No, I mean, I think $200 million convinces people to do a lot of things, right?
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Look, it's a little silly, a little silly to sit here and criticize these guys for taking
00:48:26.280
If Saudi Arabian money is behind it, well, guess what?
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Every country, like, yes, Saudi Arabia has a pretty bad human rights record, but so do
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And I'm not comparing, you know, I'm not going to be the person who's like, well, every country
00:48:54.180
And therefore, I think, you know, look, Saudi Arabia is on the, toward the bottom of that
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I can understand why people would be offended by it.
00:49:01.180
But like, you know, when the NBA has deals with China, who's objectively worse at this
00:49:07.840
point, everything, they won't address anything China does.
00:49:12.960
In fact, China is verboten for players in the NBA to even discuss, really, unless it's in
00:49:23.180
Otherwise, you're nearly kicked out of the league and you're certainly silenced.
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Remember the general manager of the Houston Rockets who said something and, oh my gosh,
00:49:33.480
All he did was tweet a picture of supporting Hong Kong.
00:49:36.700
And he was, I mean, he was chastised by the league.
00:49:42.740
And like, look, in a global economy, when things are being, you know, do we think we
00:49:54.360
You're buying products all the time from these companies.
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Every movie you go see has a deal where they're doing in another country and they're giving
00:50:02.300
tens of millions of dollars to other countries that have terrible human rights records and
00:50:07.160
Isn't Tom Cruise in bed with, is it Saudi Arabia or is it China?
00:50:11.440
I don't know, some crappy, he got a lot of money from somebody we don't like.
00:50:16.300
I can't remember who, but he financed Top Gun Maverick with it.
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And you'll see people, and there were tons of them on ESPN yesterday, doing, criticizing
00:50:33.380
While they're owned by Disney, who's making Mulan like in a prison camp.
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They like went to a prison camp because the shot looked beautiful.
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Like, hey, let's actually use the slave labor for this particular shot.
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So from the beginning, I thought it was hypocritical.
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You're never going to be able to approve of all the bad things that other countries do.
00:50:57.720
If you're going to do business in an international way, this is going to be a constant struggle.
00:51:02.360
And the fact that just people like Phil Mickelson have to answer, every other business gets
00:51:07.580
a pass, but poor Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka have to answer for everything Saudi Arabia
00:51:13.440
And it's just insultingly stupid to me from the beginning.
00:51:17.140
But the PGA made such a big deal out of it that you thought, okay, well, this is going
00:51:24.500
And they're going to ban everybody who goes to live, the Live Golf Tournament, which is
00:51:29.460
funded by the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Wealth Fund.
00:51:32.780
So they're going to ban all those guys from the PGA.
00:51:34.880
Well, it turns out they kind of didn't because they could play in all of the majors.
00:51:39.700
Which is really the only thing they care about.
00:51:41.240
And that's all they care about because they only have to show up to a few Live Tournaments
00:51:51.380
And by the way, the rumor was that Tiger Woods was offered.
00:51:58.180
And I heard they could have easily gotten them up to a billion.
00:52:04.480
Like, after, because, you know, in case we haven't got to this part of the story, they
00:52:12.660
They were basically Satan and working with the 9-11 terrorists for months.
00:52:19.140
Well, they killed Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist.
00:52:31.260
They were saying, like, how could you do this to the 9-11 families?
00:52:33.640
And then, like, six months later, like, we'll take that money.
00:52:42.560
They said you would never have to apologize for being- you'd never be embarrassed to say
00:52:48.680
And yet, here they are saying, you know, the 9-11 families, you're not honoring their
00:52:56.520
And the only thing that makes any sense here is that there's a meeting in Saudi Arabia
00:53:01.440
and these guys are like, hey, we keep buying these golfers and their contracts for, like,
00:53:10.300
Why are we screwing around with this new- our own league?
00:53:14.460
And they're calling it a merger, I think, from PR- from a PR perspective.
00:53:18.840
Like, I think what's happened here is they lined the pockets of everybody who works there
00:53:24.340
with so much money, they couldn't say no to it.
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And it's interesting, too, because the PGA had just rearranged everything to try to be
00:53:36.440
on par with Liv's arrangement with their players.
00:53:40.620
For instance, one of the problems with, you know, for people like Phil Mickelson and Brooks
00:53:45.980
Koepka is that, hey, if we don't make the cut, we actually lose money because we paid for
00:53:55.220
And so we've wasted all this time and effort and money coming to this tournament.
00:54:02.300
Well, when they show up for the Liv tournament, they get paid.
00:54:07.540
And so the PGA started offering lots more money.
00:54:12.260
They started doing these different things so that some of these guys could make, you know,
00:54:16.520
not just three or four million dollars for winning a tournament, but 18 or 20 million
00:54:22.980
And of course, they had this money the whole time.
00:54:31.900
They're technically some weird like nonprofit, too.
00:54:36.720
One of the goals here for the PGA was to turn themselves into a for-profit enterprise,
00:54:40.200
which, of course, you know, everyone likes to do that.
00:54:43.560
But I mean, you know, I have a friend who was sort of on the fringes of professional
00:54:55.320
I mean, like you play obviously constantly to get better.
00:54:59.100
He was, you know, I don't know, one of the top probably thousand tennis players in the
00:55:03.720
Like to the point where he would be on the fringes of getting into these major tournaments
00:55:09.080
But he was not a, you know, a guy who was winning big turning and wasn't winning the
00:55:17.560
He would be in, you know, sometime he'd be in secondary tournaments that a lot of the
00:55:22.180
You know, maybe he wouldn't even qualify for some of them.
00:55:24.740
But he was saying that basically what happens is like you're paying for your own travel.
00:55:28.160
You're living three and four people in a hotel room.
00:55:35.720
But the sponsorships are paying for rackets and shoes and shorts and shirts.
00:55:41.780
And he's like, I've got more of that than I'll ever need.
00:55:44.560
Like I've got more shoes than I can ever use in my entire life.
00:55:50.020
And then I'd get a good run in one of these tournaments and I'd make enough money to
00:55:58.420
And then you get injured and you get zero dollars until you're healthy.
00:56:04.220
And, you know, it's a little different, obviously, with golf.
00:56:07.340
But if you're a big star, it can be really, really.
00:56:09.280
But, you know, a big star in golf or tennis, you're talking about what?
00:56:19.300
You know, so, and you have a bad year, you're gone.
00:56:23.500
So, you know, you can understand why these guys wanted, PJ's making money no matter who
00:56:29.700
And so, hey, like guarantee these guys something so they can continue to make this worthwhile.
00:56:34.260
And I think live golf really improved things for those golfers.
00:56:39.300
And maybe the PGA said, look, we can't continue to keep paying these amounts.
00:56:44.660
But when your commissioner has come out and said, hey, you know, you can't disgrace the
00:56:50.540
9-11 families by going to play a couple tournaments with live golf.
00:56:53.480
And then, by the way, we're going to merge with them.
00:56:59.380
Because he was just saying that to Jim Nance, like, less than a year ago.
00:57:06.720
And so, for all of a sudden, the PGA, and they, from what I've heard, and they've kept
00:57:15.800
They, I mean, they were really secretive about this.
00:57:18.040
And it's hard to keep a lid on something like this when you're negotiating with the
00:57:22.520
And then, and your PGA players are out there bashing those players who have left the PGA
00:57:28.340
for live, you know, people like Rory McIlroy, who has been really vocal until recently when
00:57:36.460
he said, when he decided, yeah, I'm not going to talk about it anymore.
00:57:41.320
I mean, he was supposedly offered nine figures from, from live golf, didn't take it, and
00:57:47.240
then came to be the lead spokesperson, basically, to say how bad live golf was and how everyone
00:57:51.660
should stay with the PGA because it's the only thing that matters.
00:58:04.040
She says, put yourself in the shoes of a PGA golfer who turned down the live money.
00:58:07.900
Over the last year plus, you've believed you were taking a principled stand.
00:58:11.540
You've watched your peers accept, in some cases, hundreds of millions of dollars to link
00:58:15.280
arms with a regime with a terrible human rights record.
00:58:18.200
You may have spoken out against that record, and you've been told yours is a player-run
00:58:22.900
Today, you wake up and you realize that was all a lie.
00:58:26.740
That's, although I will say, if you're working at ESPN, do you have that same thought?
00:58:34.840
Like, I, I, I, I, the same, you are owned by a company who's doing business with the worst
00:58:41.700
regimes on earth, and there's not a second thought, like, they don't deserve, they don't
00:58:48.160
Look, I, I think you can just say, blanket, look, I don't make decisions for foreign governments,
00:58:55.660
And if I draw some lines personally, I'll draw some lines personally.
00:58:58.220
But if you're going to make a big stance as an organization to say, hey, this other
00:59:02.720
golf league is essentially responsible for 9-11, I don't know, maybe you don't merge with
00:59:13.300
And it's interesting, because Rory McIlroy is, just a few moments ago, was talking about
00:59:19.240
still having confidence in PGA Commissioner Jay Monaghan.
00:59:25.500
And that, okay, we can't just welcome back the live golfers who defected.
00:59:35.680
So there's two interesting questions here, Pat.
00:59:41.220
As part of this deal, does he get some cash for turning that money down?
00:59:48.400
And the other part is, now, the way those live contracts were structured, it wasn't like
00:59:57.600
If, as part of this deal, they cancel the live tour, which is, I think, possible, because
01:00:03.300
it wasn't catching on at all, and now they have the PGA.
01:00:05.680
Why do they want to keep this stupid side thing going?
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Yeah, so yesterday was a really good day, and he tweeted about it for Phil Mickelson,
01:01:33.740
Wasn't he the first major player to make the switch from PGA to the Saudi Tour?
01:01:40.260
I mean, Greg Norman was a big part of forming this former player, but yeah, Mickelson was
01:01:47.100
So there was a CTF PGA apology that went like this.
01:01:54.720
There was a story that was first reported in the New York Post yesterday by Brian Wacker
01:01:59.300
about a 9-11 coalition of families and survivors of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
01:02:04.760
9-11 families, United, sent a letter to the representatives of Phil, Dustin, Bryson, Reed,
01:02:13.100
and others, quote, expressing their outrage towards the golfers for participating in the
01:02:19.500
new league and accusing them of sports washing and betraying the United States, end quote.
01:02:25.800
And that's gotten a lot of steam over the last 24 hours.
01:02:28.320
That story first reported again in the New York Post.
01:02:30.660
How much did you talk to your players about the possible ramifications if they signed
01:02:40.680
I've talked at a player meeting, and I've talked to a number of players individually for
01:02:49.260
And I think you'd have to be living under a rock to not know that there are significant
01:02:54.800
And as it relates to the families of 9-11, I have two families that are close to me that
01:03:06.440
And I would ask, you know, any player that has left or any player that would ever consider
01:03:12.400
leaving, have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?
01:03:25.260
You know, people always criticize, you know, like Roger Goodell, for example, like for being
01:03:33.260
And they look at what he said and look what he said this other time.
01:03:38.560
Like, you're just going to have to just say, yeah, I said the exact opposite thing.
01:03:45.520
I think his response when someone asked him about that particular clip, he was like,
01:03:53.020
And, you know, we're going to have to talk about that.
01:03:54.840
And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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You just say what you need to say at that given moment.
01:04:04.900
And you don't worry about the typical human need to not be completely hypocritical.
01:04:17.740
They threw so much money at us, we stopped caring about Jamal Khashoggi and 9-11.
01:04:23.320
It's the only thing that would actually be true.
01:04:25.660
We never really cared about Jamal Khashoggi and 9-11.
01:04:29.900
What we cared about was losing these golfers because it hurt our business.
01:04:33.040
So we said the thing then that we needed to say then that would help us then.
01:04:39.000
And now we're saying the thing that is going to help us now.
01:04:41.100
So they gave us a bunch of money and now we're going to say we love the Saudis.
01:04:44.820
And in fact, the king is the greatest human being of all time.
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He is the only guy who he tried to jump in front of the planes on 9-11.
01:04:55.140
He tried to nurse Jamal Khashoggi back to health.
01:05:04.260
And, you know, I guess this is why you get paid millions and millions and millions of dollars.
01:05:08.800
To just walk through those typical human instincts to not do things like that.
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When we started talking about the Great Rainbow Panic, you know, there's this idea that there's this moral panic going on right now on the right.
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All of a sudden, we're just all worried about, you know, we never cared about drag queens jiggling their genitals in front of children before.
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Isn't that something that never gets addressed?
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Go ahead and do what it is you do in the comfort and privacy of your own adult situation.
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But when you drag kids into it, okay, yeah, now we care.
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When you're trying to introduce books that show cartoons of pornography for children, yeah, like we care about that.
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What we didn't care about is you doing a drag show at a nightclub.
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Have you ever heard a bunch of 30-year-olds whooping it up over a guy who's dressed like a girl?
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Now, there is an additional layer to that, I think, which is just we're sick of the pandering.
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You know, the Bud Light one falls into that category.
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You know, like Dylan Mulvaney being on a can of Bud Light isn't exactly the same story.
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You know, like the whole Pride Month thing where everyone has to put out, you know, two guys, like someone, I think it was Pottery Barn today has some, like, thing where they're like, hey, like, here's two guys and their kid and there's their new nursery.
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And, like, they're, and it's just like, they just, every company feels the need to pander to alternative lifestyles.
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Like, it's just like, it's the same, it's the type of stuff that we used to make fun of companies for, right?
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Like, when they would just be like, hey, we swear, we're Bud Light.
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We've been talking to you about frat parties for the past 50 years, but we swear we really care about your transgendered issue.
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And showing buxom babes in bikinis the whole time.
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Yeah, and that is just, like, an irritating cultural, like, pandering thing that is annoying to people.
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But stuff like, you know, having drag shows for children, that's not the same story.
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Our own Sarah Gonzalez just did yet another expose.
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Here, again, in Texas, of a family-friendly pride event where you're walking around and it's just like, there are, you know, sex toys and, you know, shirts with, like, you know, all sorts of disgusting sexual phrases and pictures on them.
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There's people walking around half naked and it's supposedly all ages, you know.
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And she's done more to expose that than pretty much anybody.
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But, like, in reality, who's in the middle of a moral panic?
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I think we have a pretty justified reason to say, hey, certain parts of this culture we need to push back against before we cross many, many lines that the vast majority of people are uncomfortable with.
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It's not just conservatives who don't want sex toys in front of children.
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It's like 80, 90 percent at least of people who feel that way.
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But while that's going on, you have places like the Human Rights Coalition, which is a terrible group.
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But they're coming out and they are participating in a travel ban for LGBTQ Americans to not go, or not travel ban, I guess a travel warning to don't go to Florida.
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Don't move to Florida because they're passing all these really nasty laws that are going to, they are trying to eliminate you.
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We want to be honest that, you know, they're not actually men when they say they're men or they're not actually women when they say they're women.
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And we want to be honest about the actual truth.
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People are dealing with something serious there and they might need some help dealing with it.
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You know, I mean, that's, they always say we need gender affirming care.
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I just don't think we agree on what gender affirming care is.
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Affirming your gender is when you're a woman telling you you're a woman.
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Not when you're born with male genitals and you're telling them that they're a girl.
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That's telling them the opposite of what their gender is.
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And these are the things that the right has been upset about.
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Because the radical agenda of the left and of the trans and gay movement is doing just that.
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They've made pronouns a big deal now, all of a sudden.
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They've ignored women's and girls' rights in bathrooms and locker rooms.
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And these are the things that we're worried about.
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And I don't care if you want to identify as a woman.
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But don't make me identify you as a woman when you're a man.
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And don't try to go into a woman's restroom as a man pretending to be a woman.
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And, you know, I think it's important to note that it's not really that the left cares about any of these issues per se.
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What they care about is upending our entire civilization.
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When you overturn things like men are men and women are women, and you're able to convince people that there basically is no truth, there is no standard, there is no norm.
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When you get rid of all of those things, your society basically collapses.
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And that's, of course, the actual goal of the left.
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They want this, the idea of America to go away.
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And after calling us the ones who are science deniers, and here they are literally, literally denying science and biology and reality.
01:14:32.420
So the HRC, the Human Rights Coalition, has issued a national state of emergency for LGBTQ plus people.
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Now, I don't know why they didn't add the extra Q, the I, the A, or the two.
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So have you left out queers, or have you left out the questioning?
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But one of the two has been eliminated from your group.
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We have officially declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ plus people in the United States for the first time following an unprecedented and dangerous spike in anti-LGBTQ plus legislative assaults sweeping state houses this year.
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More than 75 anti-LGBTQ bills have been signed into law this year alone, more than doubling last year's number.
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And, you know, they say our community is in danger, blah, blah, blah.
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By the way, some of the things that we're talking about here are like the bathroom laws.
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If women can go into men's bathroom or vice versa, that's an anti-LGBTQ law.
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They have the pronoun refusal law, the anti-drag ban, which, again, there is no state.
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They just banned all sports in these states, Pat.
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Which is a problem for straight people, you'd think, too, but apparently not.
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I mean, don't we live in a country where things are pretty good for LGBTQIA2 plus people?
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Like, because when you say it's bad, you have to answer a follow-up question.
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As opposed to some utopia you think you've built that is apparently covered in the streets
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in human excrement all the time, but you think it's great?
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This is from Gallup, and they surveyed people in 146 countries and asked them, hey, is your
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environment a good welcoming place for, I think they say gay or lesbian people, so only
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They've been asking it for a very long time, which is an important part of this.
01:17:32.340
So, they asked the people about that, and they came up with some pretty interesting
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Globally, 50% of people say their area is a good area for LGBTQQIA2 plus people to live.
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Now, remember, there's a national state of emergency for LGBTQ people.
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So, you'd think it would be lower than the global average, certainly.
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80% of people say this is a good place for people with alternative lifestyles to live.
01:18:17.980
Now, that number is higher than tons and tons of countries.
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Now, does Belgium have a national state of emergency for LGBTQ acceptance?
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I'm not positive on that, but my guess would be no.
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And we're right next to Denmark and a bunch of these supposedly enlightened European countries.
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By the way, the lowest on there, you want to talk about emergencies, there are some countries you might actually state are emergencies.
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Because we are basically tied with Belgium, Finland, Denmark, New Zealand.
01:19:07.380
I mean, these are countries that the left holds up as beacons of hope for their values.
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3% say it's a good place for gay people to live.
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There's about, I don't know, 10 or 15 countries under 10%.
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Russia apparently is higher and it's actually illegal to do.
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The point is that we agree, and it's fundamentally part of our country and its foundation, that we believe that people who have different, make different lifestyle choices, who have different sexual orientations, who do all sorts of different things, get equal rights.
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We all, that is part of the foundation of our country, and it's true and it's happening.
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We've had certainly dark periods when it comes to that, but it's true now.
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You can, equal rights are what we're talking about.
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Um, and, and this is a place that generally speaking, people don't care what you do.
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If you're going out and going to a nightclub and having a drag show, nobody cares.
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There are restaurants in New York City that like, you can go and dine at the restaurant and in part, and all the waiters are in drag.
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If you're, if you're doing a sexually themed drag show with, with, with pornographic images, with sex toys, and you're inviting children to it, that's a problem.
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I think it should be the rest of us declaring a state of emergency right now.
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You know, here we are in Pride Month, and the Discovery Channel is about to do a show about Abe Lincoln.
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Are you saying you're not gonna, you're not excited about that show?
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Now, they claim that the only reason he married Mary was because she was a beard.
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I mean, this has been floating around for a while.
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I don't think serious historians believe it, though, right?
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I'm not sure who they got to make the claim here.
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You gonna get them over there to help out with that one?
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One of the reasons that it's alleged is because, I guess, you know, in the 1800s, men sometimes
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That's a change a little bit on that one, yeah.
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We mentioned that their discovery, I guess, in celebration of Pride Month is doing a thing
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But also, Elliot Page is being compared to Jussie Smollett over an alleged transphobic attack.
01:30:09.400
We all know that all transgendered people are attacked daily.
01:30:21.240
And, you know, you can look at some of the numbers.
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We've mentioned this, I think, maybe earlier this week.
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But for those who missed it, you know, you can look at some of the numbers and see higher
01:30:31.180
Now, of course, part of that is they're a very small percentage of the population.
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So a few murders, you know, makes that average rate go up quite a bit.
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But I was talking to somebody the other day who's writing a book, Chad Felix Green is writing
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And he went back and looked at every murder, every murder of a transgendered person over
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And he, what he wound up finding is that in the overwhelming majority of the cases, the
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situation related to the murder of the transgender person was not the one the media would promote.
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For example, they would say, okay, it's a bunch of Charlottesville type people.
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With their torches, and they're chasing down trans people in the streets and beating them
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up and killing them just because they're transgendered.
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The actual circumstance in almost all of these cases is related to often a sexually, a sexual
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Often for money, prostitution, sex, sex industry, where a person represents themselves as one
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And when the sexual activity begins, the person who's with them discovers they're the other
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So they go in there thinking they're hooking up with a girl and wind up they're hooking up
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That's basically where the overwhelming majority of these cases come from.
01:32:05.840
So you have a John who's paid for a woman to come to his home or meet in a hotel room.
01:32:11.540
And that, you know, as the process goes on, the person finds out it's not a woman at all.
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And that is a little disturbing for some people.
01:32:34.760
It was a really famous scene and I didn't see the movie, but I heard much about it.
01:32:39.480
And apparently the person was quite surprised and didn't take it very well.
01:32:49.940
When you get to a certain area and you find that out, it can be a little jarring.
01:32:55.280
I will say, if this has happened to you, the appropriate response is not to kill the person.
01:33:03.580
You might have many responses, but killing the person is not a good idea.
01:33:08.120
However, that is totally different than what we've been told about this problem.
01:33:13.060
So, the violence against trans people, make sure you understand the context of what they're
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talking about when they say these statistics overcrowded.
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In this particular case, apparently, Elliot Page, who used to be Ellen.
01:33:29.720
I don't want to dead name Elliot, but that used to be, that was the name that she was
01:33:38.120
That is her name until she changed her name legally, which you can do.
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When you're, you know, people are like, oh, I'm not going to call, you know, her a him.
01:33:50.760
Like, that is, you are judging a factual truth.
01:34:02.160
I think it's like, look, he changed his name to Elliot Page, whatever.
01:34:07.040
I can, you know, you want to call him, you don't want to call him Bruce Jenner.
01:34:13.600
That is different than saying that he is a woman, which he is not.
01:34:20.400
So Elliot claims that an A-list actor once said to her, I'm going to effing gay bash.
01:34:32.160
And then used the F-word referring to homosexuals.
01:34:38.100
And, you know, it sounds offensive, but it also sounds not real to me.
01:34:45.420
I mean, do, I don't know, maybe A-list actors talk like that?
01:34:54.020
Now, you want to tell me that some random person on the street, they're drunk, they blurt
01:35:04.940
Still, I don't think it happens very often, but it's possible, certainly some random person.
01:35:12.680
Of course, they won't tell you who it is because then you could check on it.
01:35:19.680
Now, I will say, A-list actors are among the worst people in our society.
01:35:30.220
We got a lot of criticism on conservatives over the Me Too movement that we didn't understand.
01:35:43.740
I mean, it's just, you know, it's nonsensical that they always try to push this off on conservatives.
01:35:49.480
And it's amazing that Elliot Page just so happens to have a book coming out with this contained in it.
01:35:56.220
And so, now this is coming out all of a sudden with the book arrival.
01:36:03.420
I wonder if that might have something to do with it.
01:36:05.660
So, anyway, people were a little skeptical of this on Twitter.
01:36:09.760
And one person tweeted out that, yeah, right after that, he yelled, this is MAGA country.
01:36:28.060
And, of course, you know, you can't fact check it.
01:36:30.560
You don't know because you don't know who the person is.
01:36:32.740
You can't ask every A-list Hollywood celebrity whether they did this.
01:36:39.760
And it's just like this is what the media does all the time.
01:36:46.180
When in reality, you know, Ellen Page, Elliot Page walks down the street every day.
01:36:51.920
And probably most people honestly probably don't even know who she is.
01:36:56.160
Because, frankly, she was in a couple of really good movies.
01:37:03.000
And I swear this is the reason why all this happened.
01:37:07.520
Can we go to Dr. Stu Land here for just a second?
01:37:09.640
Let's analyze the situation because I have a lot of medical information.
01:37:19.960
But Juno is a really well-written good movie and also is blatantly pro-life.
01:37:26.560
It makes you feel like you shouldn't kill the child inside of you.
01:37:31.860
That is the feeling you will get from this movie because, you know, and she goes, I mean, it's been a while since I've seen it.
01:37:38.580
But, like, at one point there's, like, an abortion protester who they don't portray as horrible.
01:37:46.220
It's like a girl, a younger girl, a teenage girl who's protesting at the abortion clinic and runs into Ellen Page as she walks into the abortion clinic and says something like, do you know they have fingernails?
01:38:06.760
If you're going into a abortion, like, you're aborting something with fingernails.
01:38:09.540
It's something, it's some weird line like that.
01:38:11.860
And it makes her consider, wait, what am I doing here?
01:38:15.180
And she winds up, of course, going through this process and having the child when she would not have before.
01:38:26.740
It was some weird, something like that that made her think about it differently.
01:38:29.860
And the movie, though, like, goes through and takes you through this journey of this teenager who thinks she shouldn't have this kid and winds up making a good decision.
01:38:38.520
I swear, the fact that all of us have said it's a pro-life movie all this time is the reason all of this has happened to Ellen Page.
01:38:49.140
And everyone's like, holy crap, this is a pro-life movie.
01:38:52.040
From all the people she didn't want to get good job from.
01:38:54.840
And the rest of her life has been compensating for this decision she made, which was actually a really good artistic decision and a really good moral decision.
01:39:04.100
But to her, apparently, did not play out that way.
01:39:16.180
Yeah, of course, still has the the same chromosomes that she was born with.
01:39:23.360
The central part of what makes you a man or a woman.
01:39:25.360
Also, she's had the surgery on top, but not on the bottom.
01:39:43.520
And I think there's three seasons now, but it's a it's a pretty good series.
01:39:48.600
It's it's and started out as a woman and then transitioned.
01:39:54.880
And I think they wrote it into the second season becomes a man during the show.
01:40:05.880
I'm guessing when you're sketching out the series, you probably don't plan on the actor becoming a different gender.
01:40:13.080
But they so they had to they had to account for it.
01:40:18.360
In Succession, Shiv, one of the main characters, got pregnant and did the last season pregnant.
01:40:33.160
That one's a lot easier than than the being becoming a man.
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And like my understanding of the way the crazies want to treat this stuff is you're almost not supposed to notice.
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You're just supposed to say that's how it always was.
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Like if you were to say Ellen Page started in Juno, they would say you're dead naming this person.
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Now, you might say the name now is Elliot, but at the time it was Ellen.
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And he's the one that accomplished all of those things.
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And you're not dead naming Bruce Jenner when you say that Bruce Jenner won gold medals.
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You want to change your name later on, then the things you accomplish as that new name can be called that.
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Like, but like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, you know, didn't win all those titles with UCLA.
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That's not a knock on his name or who he is today.
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We're constantly asked not only to look the other way at a falsehood, but to participate in it and celebrate it.
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We have a whole month here where we're supposed to be acting as if things that aren't true are true.
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And then, of course, the other 11 months, you're supposed to do the same thing.
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Maybe it's not as much stuff at the front of Target.
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But you're still supposed to celebrate this stuff and acknowledge it and act as if something that is not true is true.
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Pat and Stu for Glenn on the Glenn Beck program.
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In Reading, Pennsylvania, a man was just arrested for reading a Bible verse.
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Now, we've heard about that happening in Canada.
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So, you knew Canada was heading down the drain.
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But I, until now, had not heard of Americans being arrested on the streets of America for reading Bible verses.
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Now, they're, they're, this guy's across the street from a group of, of Pride Month celebrators.
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And so, a police officer approaches this person and asks him to let them have their moment.
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Apparently, the police officer disagrees with that.
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And, of course, the Pride, Pride Month celebrators are all happy about the fact that this guy has no freedom of speech on the streets of Pennsylvania.
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And, you hear the celebrating from the Pride Month group.
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I talked to Dan Andros over at faithwire.com yesterday.
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And, they were one of the people who broke the story.
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Yeah, he had a sign, and he recited a Bible verse.
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And, all of a sudden, the cop just is done with him and arrests him.
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It's inconceivable in the United States of America.
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You got to know more about the law than that if you're a police officer.
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You got to know a little bit more about your constitutional right.
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Whenever, you know, like, they think they have an impossible job.
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And, especially now, with the way that they're treated, I think it's really important to put in perspective how difficult their job is.
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But, like, a guy reading a Bible verse, I mean, it's, like, 19 different intersections of the First Amendment.
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It's also protesting while reciting a Bible verse.
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Like, this is so clearly a violation of this guy's rights to be arrested in that situation.
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As it would be, by the way, if they were protesting, if the group was a bunch of people who were, you know, reciting the Bible, and there was a LGBTQ protester holding a sign and saying they disagreed, they would also have a right in this country.
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But, you know, there's plenty of places that will restrict your speech.
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One real tall pyramid right in the center of town.
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You know, they will make sure that you don't say the things you're not supposed to say.
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This country was built on the foundation that you can, though.
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I mean, that is, it's really, really important here.
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And, like, I can understand, you know, that you think there's going to be some incident.
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If he had shown some violent intent, there's a lot of things you could make it understand that you'd have a justification.
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To separate the guy and de-escalate a situation.
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He read a Bible verse in one minute and was arrested.
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It's incredible that that can happen in this country.
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And the cop said to him, let them have their day.
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The guy responds, you know who's cheering for this?
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You can't be forced to say something that you don't want to say.
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That is being reversed here, you know, by the day in this country.
01:48:54.460
Jim Rogers, co-founder of one of our favorite Soros management funds,
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Is the bear market coming because Glenn took a vacation?
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Always blame Glenn when you have the opportunity.
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A lot of people have wondered, you know, what did Leah Thomas' teammates think about Leah Thomas?
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Because we hear about Riley Gaines, just competed against Leah, I think, in one tournament at the NCAA championships.
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And Riley Gaines, of course, we know what she thinks about men competing against women.
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But what did the teammates of Leah Thomas think?
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And I guess she was also included in the movie that Matt Walsh did about what is a woman, but was disguised.
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And now has decided, no, I'm going to be open about it.
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I'm coming out and I'm going to speak about it and I'm going to let everybody know who I am.
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So Paula Scanlon, who is listed as a senior on University of Pennsylvania's athletics women's swimming team and diving roster,
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swam with Leah Thomas, as well as fellow swimmer turned activist Riley Gaines.
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Of course, Thomas is a male athlete who joined the women's swim team in 2021 after he began hormone replacement therapy in May 2019.
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Now, she says that the team was gathered together and Leah Thomas spoke to him and said,
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And so I'll be competing with you as a woman beginning next year.
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I think she had to sit out for a year according to NCAA rules.
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So she sat out for a year and then in 2021 started competing as a woman,
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even though, of course, had all the male equipment and was actually a man.
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I don't know what they said to her, but she was then complete.
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After going to the athletic department, she was completely on board and thought Leah swimming was this magical, beautiful thing.
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Is there something wrong with me for thinking this was wrong?
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The university wanted us to be quiet and they did it in a very effective way.
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And so when this swimmer went to the athletic department and said,
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And, and apparently was completely turned around on the, uh, on the deal.
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I mean, can you imagine being, you know, a woman in college and you're in a locker room getting dressed and you just hear that the man's voice, right?
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Would, would make you, make you jump up and, you know, wonder what's going on, you know?
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And now then you realize what's going on and it's actually worse than maybe the alternative.
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And it does feel like too, like part of this at the very least should be that you're committing to the bit, right?
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Like if you're going to be, if you're going to go from man to a woman, you go through with the surgery.
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There's a level of commitment that like indicates this is at least something you're taking very seriously, you know, at least, at least you've gone through a real, a lot of trouble.
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And, you know, you're not going to get the, cause I think you will start to get the people who just want to go to the other side of the, and I think this is more common in like prison.
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For example, we'll have people who are just guys who want to be guys who are fine being guys, but no, they can manipulate the system to get in with the women in the women's prison for multiple reasons.
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One, they probably like being in prison with women because they are attracted to women and, and, and all that stuff that could go on there.
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But in addition, also, you're probably going to get beat up a lot less, right?
01:54:53.200
You know, like a, it's probably a safer environment at some level.
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So people, I think will manipulate those things and it'll, and it has already resulted in women being assaulted.
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There've been rapes, rapes and all sorts of terrible things that have happened to women.
01:55:12.820
Obviously it's, it's, again, we keep saying these things as if we have to say them.
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Obviously everyone knows that's going to be a result of that situation.
01:55:20.000
Now you might get some people who say, you know, there's been people online who've done things like, um, I'm identifying as a woman and therefore I've just broken the weightlifting records for women.
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And, you know, people see that more of as a joke or as a commentary on the situation or just an attempt that people will choose to ignore as if they didn't just say, the only thing you have to do is identify yourself that way.
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Like they all say that until something inconvenient goes on.
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Like for example, a transgender person shoots up a school.
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Then all of a sudden the trans thing's not a big deal.
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And wait, what, that person wasn't really trans.
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Um, but like you look at this and, and I think if you look, if you go through the surgery, you've at least committed to the bit.
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You're at least to the point where you could say, okay, well, this person's serious about this.
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If you've gone to the trouble of the surgery, you're not scamming anybody.
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It doesn't make you a woman and it doesn't make it okay that you're competing against women in women's sports, but it does eliminate the riffraff, right?
01:56:30.760
You know, no one, no one is cutting their stuff off to win a women's swimming medal in the NCAA tournament.
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However, it's also not as threatening to the women you're sharing the locker room with.
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If you don't have the noodle, then they're not seeing it dangling, right?
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If you're noodle free, it's less likely a problem could occur.
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That does not mean that women should have to accept people that have done this in their locker rooms or in their bathrooms or in their swimming lanes.
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But I will say it does, that line would at least eliminate people who are intentionally manipulating the system.
01:57:13.140
You know, like if you did it with the bathroom rule, right?
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Where you said, okay, you can go into a women's bathroom.
01:57:18.400
If you've gone through fully with the surgery, then at least you, again, no one is going through the surgery to get into a women's target bathroom.
01:57:26.740
Like that's a lot of commitment to get into a women's bathroom.
01:57:30.100
Yeah, and you're kind of defeating the purpose.
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So like, okay, but they won't let you even ask if the surgery has happened.
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You don't even have to say the surgery has happened.
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You just have to say, I am now a woman or I am now a man.
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You know, and like there are no, abracadabra isn't real.
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And it's incomprehensible to me that people on the left don't care what the women think about this.
01:58:13.640
And when they're told, and some of them did approach officials and say, look, we're really not comfortable with this guy with his noodle hanging out while we're naked in the locker room.
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So if you're not comfortable with a man and his unit hanging out in your locker room, well, obviously there's something wrong with you.
01:58:55.140
It's interesting because it's really hard for them to defend their position on this.
01:58:58.900
And I think this is one of the reasons why conservatives have talked about it as much as they have.
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You know, Matt Walsh, who mentioned his movie earlier, you know, what is a woman is such a great fundamental question.
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Because if you, so often they will say women's rights are important, that women need to be treated equally.
01:59:22.220
And if you can't define what a woman is, fundamentally all of these questions are insane.
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If I were to say, you know, squibble squabbles need to be treated equally, you would correctly ask me, what is a squibble squabble?
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And since I couldn't answer it, you would ignore me.
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And that's a whole nother show for another day.
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But like, you know, a squibble squabble isn't a thing.
01:59:56.280
Well, if you can't tell me what a woman is, it's just as meaningless as a squibble squabble.
02:00:03.440
And I got to be honest with you, it's a really good observation that they can't even answer that basic question.
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And you're talking about doctors, physicians, therapists.
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I mean, when you watch the movie, none of those people, none of those people can answer what the – it's such an easy question to answer.
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These are very basic – you don't need to be a biologist.
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The only thing they've ever been pissed off against – I was going to say Corinne Jean-Pierre, the Supreme Court justice, her name is escaping me right now, the newest one.
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The only thing they don't like about her is that she said the biologist thing because that indicates that a biologist could tell.
02:01:05.640
There's things there that differentiate the man and the woman.
02:01:11.620
And they're like, well, it's actually – sex is the biological – and then gender is more of a feeling.
02:01:22.580
My favorite – because we used to talk about this on Patents, too, I remember back in the day.
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Ellen DeGeneres, again, a very prominent LGB activist.
02:01:37.020
And she was asked, like, about this, and she said, you know, like, sex is one thing, but, like, you know, what gender you are is really more of a feeling.
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And it's like, well, all right, like, let's accept that for a second.
02:01:49.580
Let's just say, essentially, gender is this new word that they made up that means something different, right?
02:02:09.020
I don't have to accept your feeling as my definition for what a woman is.
02:02:11.940
Like, a woman or a man, what we need to know that information for, demographic research, you know, medical treatment.
02:02:22.880
How are we dividing people to play sports so we have an equal playing field?
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If you want to say gender is which one you feel like, well, what do – I don't care about that at all.
02:02:34.260
You can feel all sorts of – do you feel happy or sad?
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I don't adjust all of the rules of my society for you being happy or sad.
02:02:45.660
And, like, look, a lot of people have more masculine leanings if they're a female.
02:02:52.700
If you're a female and you have masculine leanings, what you are is a female.
02:02:57.840
Yes, you're maybe different than other females.
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That doesn't mean they're not – some of them are men and some of them aren't.
02:03:20.280
You can have – there's a bright rainbow of colors within that definition.
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I mean, look, you try to talk to Glenn about the NBA.
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He can school me on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang all day long.
02:03:40.800
But he's also a man, even though sometimes he doesn't always act like a man.
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There's a bunch of different definitions, different types of people in there.
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Your feelings are unimportant in this particular situation.
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