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Summary
Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, and yours truly are joined by none other than the Daily Wire's own Ben Shapiro to talk about how to get a job at Daily Wire if you don't have a job, and why you should be fired if you're a leftist.
Transcript
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Hey everybody, this is Matt Walsh. Drop everything you're doing and check out the latest episode of Daily Wire backstage.
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You're going to hear Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, and yours truly talking about all the important issues affecting you and your family.
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You don't want to miss it, unless you're a leftist, in which case, you're cancelled.
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Jeremy was otherwise occupied this evening in all the amazing and multiplied projects that we're doing right now.
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Nobody else has made it to the set, so it's me.
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And we, oh hey, alright, there we go, joined by Ben Shapiro.
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Yeah, so I asked someone else to be here tonight, actually.
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There's a conversation I've been waiting for a long time to have with you, but every time I want to have this conversation.
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Yeah, no, I'm waiting for like almost 10 years.
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To be frank, to have this conversation, but every time I start to have this conversation, Jeremy walks in and just kills it dead.
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Actually, I was going to have Chris from HR step in.
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Does he have thoughts on like, he has thoughts on like Russia?
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So, yeah, it's mostly to prevent me from creating liability for the company that I asked Chris to be here.
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So like, there are certain things I'm not allowed to say, like that you should die in a car fire, apparently.
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Like, I was told by HR that I'm not allowed to say that.
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But anyway, I felt like now was like a great opportunity for a job performance review.
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Again, Jeremy kept stepping in and not allowing that to happen.
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So we're going to go all the way back to like 2015, 2016, right?
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So when you started the company, you were originally hired with some job descriptions and duties,
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including, for example, being in charge of social media.
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And you proceeded to never post anything on social media, but you did take a lot of audition
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You didn't get any movies out of them, by the way.
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But you were an unemployable person, so we apparently just kept paying you.
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No, but don't forget, there was a span of like three or four weeks when I didn't show
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I was filming a project right before that election, remember?
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So, you know, at that point, we probably should have called HRM.
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But again, Jeremy kept stepping in, you know, and telling me I couldn't have this conversation.
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So then we decided, by we, I mean Jeremy, decided to give you a podcast.
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I guess because I actually was looking up your credentials for the show.
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I could not find any other productive thing that you had done in your entire life.
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But as I mentioned, I was number one national bestselling author.
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Yeah, then you, then as I recall, you somehow scammed me into giving a blurb to a blank book.
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And then you proceeded to not only make several hundred thousand dollars off of that blank book.
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I then proceeded to get you a book contract for that same exact blank book that had already sold several hundred thousand copies.
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And at that point, I wanted to have this conversation.
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And so, over the course of the last eight to ten years, I would say that you've probably cost the company a couple million dollars, maybe three.
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The return on investment has been, shall we say, disappointing.
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And between that and the fact that you, we've had complaints, many complaints, almost too many to count, the file cabinet is breaking, about you walking around shirtless in the office.
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We have, like, actual dressing rooms where, you know, where you could put a shirt on and you wouldn't have to...
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So, tonight is the night I have been waiting for nearly all of my professional life.
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And so, Chris, do you have the paperwork with you, I believe?
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It's really less of a performance review and more of an exit interview.
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And what do you see as the biggest problems with the company?
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So, I guess the only problem that I would see right now is if I leave the show, then you're the only guy doing the show, right?
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So, I lose money if Michael, for the first time ever, Michael being fired would lose me money, is what you're saying right now.
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Sorry, my mind kind of, I had a few different thoughts there.
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I was thinking about, you know, the coup d'etat.
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Uh, actually, I do want to get to the Wagner group, but, but I legitimately, so, we should
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say for some people, the reason Jeremy wasn't here to protect my employment is because he's
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working on a hundred different projects right now.
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Yeah, no, I was told that, I was told that Drew is actually at some sort of event starring
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Drew, and my initial response was that it was a funeral.
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Right, I figured who's in the coffin, but apparently that's not the case.
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But everyone, seriously, everyone is doing all these different things right now, and
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so we can't all meet up to talk about the most important story, which is something
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about Hunter Biden with drugs and like a payoff and like a, I don't know, what happened?
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That dude loves hookers and Coke and Parmesan cheese and not paying his taxes and paying
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They go after Hunter and they say, okay, we've got all this information.
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We have hundreds of hours of videos of you committing all sorts of crimes all over the
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world, and so as a result of that, we're going to hit you with two misdemeanor tax crimes
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First of all, it's called a diversion, which sounds delightful.
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I mean, I would like just in my normal life to have a diversion.
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So yes, Hunter Biden was, we have him on tape, like cavorting with prostitutes, and paying
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them to cross state lines to engage in said prostitution.
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Apparently he was paying a secretary on the West Coast, and as we all know, secretary on
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You're going to go after me from my shirtless changing room.
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We're going to get hit, Michael, at any point where you're a secretary on the West Coast.
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In any case, yeah, so apparently the whistleblower has basically, the whistleblowers have a couple
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Thing number one is that they are, they're saying that the attorney general basically
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stepped in and stopped the prosecutor in this case from charging in a couple of different
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Apparently there was a meeting October 7th, 2022, in which this particular prosecutor was
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told by, was told by Merrick Garland that he was not allowed to prosecute whatever he
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And he then told all of his lower downs and one of those lower downs, a guy named Shapley
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who works for the IRS, that, that he was not able to prosecute whatever he wanted.
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So it looks like a cover up by the Biden DOJ, which would not be surprising in any way.
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And then there is that text message, which is insane.
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This is that for those who have not been watching, there's a text message.
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I'm doing the crime, member of the Chinese Communist Party.
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I am, just in case you missed it, I'm sitting next to my father.
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Were they all dropped on their heads as babies?
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Like, they're accused of crimes and then there are actual tapes and texts of them doing the
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Like, they're violating the first rule of doing crime, which is don't get caught doing
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Because the only, look, the hookers and the drugs and the whatever, it's all.
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I mean, first of all, it sounds like an amazing Saturday night.
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But the only crime I actually care about, the only crime that really matters to the
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public interest as a matter of national corruption is the shakedown selling American influence
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It looks like you got the Bidens dead to rights.
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So in the media, they started to ask questions of the White House press secretary, the world's
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most talented White House press secretary and historic White House press secretary, who
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And she is and she said that she's historic, by the way.
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But this is the one thing where he won't comment on it.
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So first, I liked the lawyerly sort of massaging of the response.
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So it went from the original the original statement by by Hunter Biden's team and Joe Biden's
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team was Joe does not know anything about Hunter's businesses, which was always implausible.
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He was writing on Air Force two to China to pick up business.
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And also, Joe and Hunter were in regular contact.
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And and then it shifted to the president was not in business with Hunter.
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I mean, technically, I'm not sure that you and I are personally in business.
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Like I have I own a part of the company that employs you, but I'm not sure that you and
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I've not signed a contract with you at any point.
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I never gave you a cut of the Chi-Com money that I've been getting from overseas yet.
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But no, of course, they use very, very specific language here.
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And, you know, I don't know if I were to commit a heinous crime, like a financial crime
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You know, one of these secrets that we've been finding out, these secrets allegedly,
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and you're hearing all these congressmen and senators talk about it, is that they think
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And I'm so happy that Matt is not here right now because I don't want to hear his stupid
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nonsense about how the aliens and the UFOs are going to come down from outer space and kill
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So we can have an adult conversation about this this evening.
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I want to take advantage of every second that I have of Matt Walsh not being in this
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Rubio said, I've heard from senior people in the government who I respect, who are admirable,
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who say that they can't really explain this and it's technology that's beyond our
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Oh, I mean, but between that and him like kind of crapping on capitalism recently, I'm
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having some, I'm having some, some, I like Marco.
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Some, he's a, he's a very nice man and I, and he's a good center and he needs to stop
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Like it's, it depends on your definition of Jew.
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No, it's like, if you're talking in sort of the like technical, there are spirits that
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wander the earth doing evil to people, demon way.
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Anyway, we were talking, we were just talking about Hunter Biden.
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Um, yeah, we weren't going to talk about aliens or UFOs or anything.
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Well, I'm not, I haven't been following the news.
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Bottom line is that, uh, Hunter Biden is, Joe is pretty obviously corrupt.
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No one's going to ask a single question about it.
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And Joe is so blasƩ about this that he's openly joking about it.
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There was video of him today being like, I stole, I stole.
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He literally joked openly about selling state secrets and everybody's just going to move
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It'd be great if we had a presidential candidate who could meticulously target the problems
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Hey, so, you know, I know we can't do horse race this early, but should we do?
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Is your, is your favorite candidate going to be the nominee, Donald John Trump?
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I mean, if I had to give odds, the answer is yes.
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I mean, I'd give him like 65, 35 odds right now.
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I don't really get, if I had to choose a, if I had a gun to my head and had to choose
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a Democrat, I would choose him, but that's not saying much.
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So, but could he, so here's my argument for, for Trump.
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He's making a good argument for, for testosterone replacement therapy.
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Dude, he did like eight pushups and then picked up a, and then did like an inclined bench
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You don't get to look like that naturally doing 45 pound bench presses and doing eight
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I'm just telling you, I work out an hour to an hour and a half a day and I don't look
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So, you know why the Trump Kennedy thing though?
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Look, I'm not saying I'm advocating for it or anything, but Trump's biggest weakness
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Of all the weaknesses, really, is it the COVID?
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I think, I think certainly with the Republican party.
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He could be elected and pardon himself and then he's good.
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First of all, if I'm rooting for drama, I like, that would be an amazing way for season
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Right, that he's actually being sworn in, in federal prison and then he just pardons
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You're like, put your hand on the Bible, he pardons himself and like, bring me the pardon
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And as our friend Alan Estrid has pointed out, as Jeremy has pointed out, the narrative
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demands the most wild, crazy, exciting conclusion.
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Well, when it comes to the primary, I think there are a lot of reasons why I prefer DeSantis
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But when it comes to the primary, I'm kind of a single issue voter, which is, can you
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So even if I agreed that Trump would be a better executive than DeSantis, which I don't,
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the bigger issue is I just don't see, I don't see his strategy for winning.
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And I've asked Trump supporters this for months and it's not, it's not accusatory.
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Because if you can't win the White House, nothing else matters.
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Look, I'm, I'm fairly pessimistic on the whole, uh, him winning electoral shots for Republicans
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And, and, uh, and for Trump too, but Biden's negatives are, are way higher than they were
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in, in 2020, uh, countries in a different place.
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Uh, the base I think is more fired up for Trump.
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You look at some of those, again, I think the national polls this early are pretty silly,
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Now you might say, well, okay, the polls are bogus or it doesn't matter because you're
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Is there a poll that has Trump beating a generic, doing better than a generic Republican over
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I mean, versus DeSantis, one of the things you have taken into account is, is lack of
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public knowledge for DeSantis as opposed to universal knowledge of Trump.
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But the bigger issue, as you mentioned, is that basically this election comes down to
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I mean, it comes down to Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, maybe Arizona, and Georgia.
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But if you lose either Arizona and Georgia, you lost the election.
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Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Trump is trailing in all three of those states by every
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I mean, I think the Democrats rigged the system in 2020.
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I'm not saying that Hugo Chavez, you know, went in and poked numbers or anything.
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You shouldn't because that would create legal liability for us.
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But, but, and I'm not, I'm not saying it has to be that, but they changed all the rules
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and they changed the rules in a way that benefited Democrats in the case of Pennsylvania,
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And it's easy enough to say, well, Republicans just need to ballot harvest.
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But it's very hard for Republicans to ballot harvest when our voters are all over the country
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and their voters are all in these machine cities where you can drive around for two
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Yeah, he ballot harvested the living belief out of the last election cycle.
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DeSantis also benefited, though, from a million new conservatives moving into the state.
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So the one that, okay, so I know Governor DeSantis fairly well at this point, since he's the
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Like he's the, he's, he's actually, he and Trump are almost polar opposites in terms
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Trump, DeSantis is a policy wonk who really digs into this stuff.
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And when it comes to being meticulous about how he pursues his political aims, DeSantis
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And so, for example, back in 2018, he writes about this in his memoir.
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Everybody who was watching that race was like, this is a nail-biter with Gillum.
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And DeSantis said, and he just told me this himself, he said, we knew within the first hour
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of the election that they'd won because they, because they could see the numbers breaking
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and they knew in each individual county, the numbers that they had to hit and they were
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I mean, there was an interview with, with Trump where he was literally asked, I think
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And he starts off saying, yeah, we'll do the ballot, we'll do the ballot harvesting.
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And then at the very end, he's like, we don't even need the ballot harvesting.
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I mean, so far his campaign has consisted largely of just shouting things on Truth Social.
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And I suppose that's working for him because again, we're very, very early on, but you
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He hasn't really taken a punch yet, but his numbers keep improving.
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And, and the, and if the center of the narrative, here's, here's the reality.
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He's just a way more interesting person than Joe Biden.
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And by the way, you can tell us, I can tell us from my own data, right?
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Like if I put Joe Biden in a thumbnail on YouTube.
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We've, we've, we've actually done him a favor by talking about how he is no longer capable
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That's actually a favor to him because it makes him even more boring.
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And so when he does something that's truly terrible, we're like, well, you mean the,
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the genial old man who can't speak words from his face hole.
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He's really interesting to talk about because he has no limits.
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I mean, he literally, we're making fun of Hunter Biden for, for, you know, saying that
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One, he should not be prosecuted for this because Hillary wasn't.
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So he, they have some audio tape that they're playing.
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But they, they have it on CNN and it's him saying, look, these are classified documents
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and I could have declassified them when I was president, but you know, I can't do it
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The crime is you are, you are keeping classified documents that you could not declassify and you
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did not turn those back into the national archive.
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But what, what if he turns to the, uh, I'll call it the, uh, Jordan Walker, uh, project
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very toss excuse and say, bro, I was literally lying.
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I did declassify the very fact that the president can declassify on a whim without answering to
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Why in the world would he say that to somebody?
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That's like the worst defense in the entire world.
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Did you, that's like saying, that's like me telling you I murdered my wife after my wife
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The reason he would say that is to avoid prosecution for this particular crime.
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But also you're saying, why did Donald Trump say something outlandish?
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It's not, but it's not, no, the thing, no, I'm saying that he has no defense to the thing
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And then he went on Brett Baier and he was like, there were newspapers I was talking about.
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And then in the tape, he's like, these are not.
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Again, he shouldn't be prosecuted because there's a double standard and Hillary should not,
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But here's the thing that I really dislike about the common, the common discourse.
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And what about Bill Clinton when he stole the tapes and shoved them in the sock drawer?
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The reason that it's garbage is because the presidential records act only applies to presidential
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records, records made by the president of the United States in pursuit of his job.
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It does not apply to, to classified documents handed to the president from a different agency.
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The Clinton sock drawer defense that Tom Fitton has tried out.
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So like, again, I'll go back to my original point.
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If Hillary Clinton had been prosecuted in 2016, by the way, then for America, it's kind of
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Because number one, we would have now realized that, oh, people actually get prosecuted for
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And then presumably Trump wouldn't have gone and committed the crime.
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Literally in the tape, he says, these are exactly the type of documents that Hillary
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So right now we're just talking about Fort Pierce.
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He knows he has the world's biggest target on his back.
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This is the case he has been making since 2015.
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Let's say that you knew that everyone in the world was out to get you.
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Would you then go commit the world's stupidest crime and then admit on tape to doing
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Or would you be uber careful about not doing that?
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Look, I'm not I've said a thousand times I overpay my taxes when Democrats are in office.
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OK, because I don't want these people breathing down my neck.
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I'd rather overpay my taxes and never have to deal with the IRS.
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Specifically because he makes it he makes it easy on them.
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That's one of the number one mark against Trump for me, at least when you look at what
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You know, you go in promising to drain the swamp and it just didn't happen, period.
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I mean, infamously, Fauci not only stayed in his position, but was awarded a medal on
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And part of the reason he didn't drain the swamp, I think, is that he doesn't really
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You have to understand who these people are that you're up against.
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Now, it's the same thing on the other end where Trump's enemies don't really understand
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They're trying to make him out to be Hitler or some kind of fascist dictator.
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So you got two people going at each other that don't understand each other, but this
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I think DeSantis does understand his enemies much better than Trump, but I would still not
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But for even though I prefer DeSantis, if I could be convinced that because I think another
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Biden presidency is a disaster for America, an even bigger disaster than the first presidency
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was, if I could be convinced that Trump really did have a better chance of beating
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Biden than DeSantis would, then I would support Trump.
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I would because we cannot have an 82-year-old Biden taking office in 2024.
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Do you think there's a dark horse that could emerge?
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If DeSantis really started to collapse in the polls, that could be-
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You're not saying, is it a bit or am I serious about it?
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I'm telling you, I think that probably it's going to be very difficult for any Republican
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Is it easier for Trump to win or easier for DeSantis to win?
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I think he's a terrific governor and he's a very strong candidate.
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The problem for Ron DeSantis is that he's running in the Trump lane and his positions
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His entire campaign pitch is, I'm going to do all the stuff that Trump said he was going
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People tend to, when given an option between the original and New Coke, original Coke
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classic and New Coke, they'll go for the original.
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And he broke the mold in a way on certain policy positions, especially with trade and immigration
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He inspired people to vote who hadn't voted before, even if you might say, well, that's
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not going to take him over the finish line in 2024.
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The real question about Trump as a viable candidate inside the Republican Party, because
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no matter what I say, people are going to vote, how they're going to vote.
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But the real question I have inside the Republican Party and what dynamic could change would
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be that Trump, and it's happened a couple of times in the race so far already, and I
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think it could happen again, is that he actually gets boring again.
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When he's exciting and he's at the center of the news, then people just immediately resonate
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to him, mainly in opposition to the left, because they feel like if the left is attacking
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him, then there must be something good there, which is an understandable if reactionary
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If he gets boring again, then things could get bad for him.
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So every time you think it's getting boring for him and he starts to drop in the polls,
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So the thing is, I think that that's likely to continue happening.
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I think that he'll get boring and then he'll get indicted in Georgia for election interference.
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He'll just keep getting these kind of narcotic boosts, like cocaine hits.
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Now, the thing that could happen that could hurt him, theoretically, is if you'd get in
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Why would he get into a debate when he's 30 points up?
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Because when you are in an open primary where you are not the incumbent president, you debate
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But he kind of, the thing that's weird about this race is he...
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I mean, that's what's weird about this race, is he's not the incumbent.
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But we haven't been in the situation where you had a one-term president who runs again
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And I know a lot of people are looking for a fresh face.
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Well, when you want a fresh face, you're probably going to want to check out Jeremy's
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With the 4th of July rapidly approaching, I think it's time that you declare your independence
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Again, inflation is higher than a Biden child after a fresh Burisma payoff.
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That's why we're making it easier for you to say goodbye to your old razors.
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That discount applies to the beard kit as well.
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And for the men who can't, Ben, that's what it says in the prompter.
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You'll also feel good knowing that you're supporting a company that doesn't hate you
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So don't wait too long because unlike the effects of gender affirming hormone therapy,
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and there we go on YouTube, our sale won't last forever.
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Like, who's, you know, are we going to be able to save the republic?
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Oh, that's not as fun as what I talk about on my show.
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I want to talk, and I actually want your take on this.
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I haven't followed, and I always try to update Nicki's social media feeds, you know.
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I think she has a song in the new Barbie movie, right?
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Yeah, because a lot of people were commenting under your post saying, oh, can you promote
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And people were saying, Ben Shapiro is an undercover barb, which means that you're an undercover
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You know what you call a group of three Nicki Minaj fans?
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I don't even know what to say to that accusation.
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Anyway, this all came about because there is a song, a great emblem of Western civilization,
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a piece of art so reminiscent of the great Gothic cathedrals of the 12th and 13th centuries.
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It really just inspires you like a Beethoven symphony.
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It is called Pound Town, a town in which much pounding goes on.
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And also, there is a second version of this song.
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It is called Pound Town 2, The Revenge of Pound Town.
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Well, first, I have to introduce you to the artist.
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I say it's that because she has two Ys at the end of Sexy for no reason other than apparently
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And also, I assume, as always, that this was her given name.
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She came out of her mother, and her mother said, behold, I shall call thee Sexy Yee Yee Red.
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Why did you bleep this, but not the first thing you said in the song?
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Why did I have to think about the colors of her orifices?
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So I did a Deconstructing the Culture segment on this song.
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And as I say, this one is not the one that stars Nicki Minaj.
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Nicki Minaj, there's a Pound Town 2, The Revenge of Pound.
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I must take part in a remix titled Pound Town 2.
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And so I pointed that out while I was critiquing this masterpiece of Western civilization and the apex of our entire creative output since the dawn of time.
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And so she then tweeted, and I read to you directly, quote, Roman said, leave his ass out of it, sir.
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At first I thought perhaps she's speaking of the emperors of old.
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Perhaps this is a reference to, say, Claudius, Nero, perhaps Augustus.
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So Roman is apparently, she plays many roles as Nicki Minaj.
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And one of the personalities she inhabits is apparently called Roman, a homosexual man.
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And this required me to translate this because I don't speak stupid people.
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So it said, Roman said, leave his ass out of it, sir.
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I didn't know that there was a pun that was actually in it.
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So it took me like a solid, you know, I can knock out like a solid econ book in like three hours.
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This one took me at least six hours to figure out what this meant.
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And then I tweeted back at her because she said that Roman should leave his ass out of it.
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Not possible, Nicki Minaj, since you apparently have never recorded a song that left your ass out of it.
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She literally has not recorded a song ever that left her own ass out of it.
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So it's not possible for me to leave her ass out of it because her ass was in it.
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To which she responded in classic Barb fashion, next time I'll be sure to add my D, that is a word for the male appendage, so you can suck it.
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But suck is spelled S-U-K because as already noted, spelling is not allowed in Rapville, which is directly adjacent to Poundtown, as it turns out.
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So if ever you choose to take a car trip from Rapville to Poundtown, I found other things out about Poundtown as well in my journey down this particular Vista.
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Like, for example, Sexy Red, she says there are rules in Poundtown, including that thou shalt not get chlamydia twice, which she has had, apparently.
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So it wasn't just Poundtown too, it was chlamydia too.
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Anyway, she says, next time I'll be sure to add my D so you can suck it, love you, and then many emojis.
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To which I responded, surprise twist, Nicki Minaj was the one with the anaconda all along.
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Wow, you know more about pop culture than you let on.
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Okay, so, you've ever heard the Sir Mix-A-Lot classic, My Anaconda?
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Right, that's with her. That's Sir Mix-A-Lot and Nicki Minaj.
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But that came out in the 90s? Didn't that come out in the 90s?
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So, there is the original, which is like, and then there's the one in 2000.
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When I dive into a topic, I dive into that topic.
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Because I know you're ostensibly in a fight here, but it's kind of like a cheeky little hearts
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No, it turns out that, you know, I'm not tempted by the, I would say the opposite of
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So, the William Shatner was, you know, going where no man has gone before.
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This is the opposite of William Shatner, going where every man has gone before.
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And so, I don't find that to be a tempting proposition.
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A woman who pitches Chlamydia twice, joining in song, joining in joyful, celebrative song
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with Nicki Minaj to talk about their bodily orifice colors.
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I don't know why I'm going to ask this, but how do we know she had Chlamydia twice?
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Well, no, she did a podcast, and she was talking about the roles of Poundtown.
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I only know this from the lovely Ben Shapiro show.
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But yeah, so she had Chlamydia twice, and apparently that's not in the roles of Poundtown.
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They did not defund the police in Poundtown, by the way.
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I don't know if it was sarcastic or not, but she responded to, I think, the reel on your Instagram.
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And she did respond to something like, thanks for promoting my song or something.
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And I responded to her, I very much look forward to Poundtown 4, the quest for peace.
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This has become kind of a pattern with you, though, because...
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Because they all suffer from face tattoo syndrome.
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In this case, literally, Sexy Red has face tattoos.
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Face tattoo syndrome, as I've explained before, is that weird phenomenon where you walk into
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a coffee shop and there's some weird lady with a face tattoo, and you're looking at
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her face tattoo, and she's like, what are you looking at?
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And you're like, your face tattoo that you put on your face so I would look at it.
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Well, I mean, I challenge you not to look at the face tattoo.
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So, another thing that she does is she colors her hair like this, apparently.
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I don't know why, but apparently she was out for the Little Mermaid part and it just failed.
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And in her chlamydia interview, she actually has, like, her hair is orange with black stripes.
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So, her designer was Tony the Tiger from the Frosted Flakes box.
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Can I just say, just to be the grumpy old guy for a second, it really is a problem that kids are listening to this stuff.
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It's a civilizational level collapse type problem.
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And it's not just that it's so gratuitously vulgar and disgusting, but it's just so stupid.
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Dude, we didn't get to the worst part of the song.
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There's a part of the song where she literally opens applications for her child's stepdad.
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So, sadly, this person has already born a child and that child is in her home.
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And she actually is, like, talking about how she's looking for a dad for her kid in, like, one of the verses of these songs.
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And on her resume is apparently the color of her booty hole.
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Now you know things you didn't have to know before.
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A lot of things I didn't want to know about her.
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But I, because it's funny because anytime you complain about pop culture, you always hear people say,
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well, you know, older generations have been saying that forever.
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They've always, they've always complained about, they were saying back in the 70s, it was demonic.
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It's like, yeah, they were always right, actually.
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People back in the 50s who were complaining about Elvis, this is what they were envisioning, is that it would become this.
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The only graph of civilization that matters is the you are here graph, the slippery slope graph that you are here.
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And then it's like an arrow to, like, right before you hit.
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Basically, everything that you were called the fuddy-duddy for, for saying in the year 2000, you were right on all of them.
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I was 21 years old and it was about the pornification of American society.
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And I had chapters on rap and I had chapters on the mainstreaming of pornography in television.
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And I had a chapter on Disney stars who were becoming highly sexualized.
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And at that point it was about Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears.
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And the book was mocked as fuddy-duddy-ish and how, look at this young man who's pushing this kind of stuff and how, what is he worried about?
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And I really am sorry to say, I wish I were wrong.
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It was a very encouraging statistic and the youth in the room, I think, would understand this, which is it came out of Gallup.
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Gallup had its values survey that they came out and it showed a marked shift towards social conservatism.
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And you see this, especially pronounced in the Republican Party, and you see this all the way on issues like approval of same-sex relations.
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We're not talking about the issue that everybody's talking about these days.
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We're not just talking about redefinition of marriage.
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We're talking about same-sex relations, seven-point drop in one year.
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And what's most interesting about it is it's not the old boomer fuddy-duddies who are leading it.
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In fact, the only group that's becoming more socially liberal are the boomers.
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It's the younger generations, 18 up to 49, I think it was, that is becoming markedly more socially conservative.
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So I know it's our job to just complain about the fall of the West every single day.
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But aren't the Brett Coopers of the world leading the way toward perhaps a move away from sexy EEE red and the-
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I mean, obviously, there are still things that are terrible, especially with my generation.
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I mean, I do stories all the time about, you know, the OnlyFans girls and all of that stuff.
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And I think that it's dangerous because it's being marketed online.
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But I think a lot of young people are pushing away from things that society is generalizing about Gen Z.
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Like, Gen Z is now the soberest generation, like, in mid-20s.
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They are the ones that are driving the pushback to flip phones.
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And even though I think Gen Z can be very misguided with their values and, you know, kind of very emotional and obviously directed in wrong ways,
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they're still very, very passionate and very civilly aware, even if they are kind of misdirected.
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And I think that that can be pushed back in a different direction.
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Like, I look at my comments, and it's so encouraging.
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I think one thing we have going for it is the most encouraging thing for me with the younger generation,
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some of these videos we've seen recently of, like, high school kids laughing at the LGBT indoctrination going on in their schools
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Like, one video in particular, I don't remember where it was, but I think it was a math teacher trying to put on some sort of LGBT video.
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And the kids were just booing and laughing and pretending to vomit.
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And it was really encouraging because, first of all, when I was in high school, that's exactly how we would have reacted to that sort of thing.
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But also, I think it shows that a few things it shows, and one of them is that this stuff, it's not cool because it's what your math teacher pushes.
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When it became the culture, it's no longer the character culture.
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As soon as, like, the 45-year-old woman who teaches algebra is telling you about LGBT pride, it's like, it's not cool anymore.
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I mean, it has all the institutional power, but it can't be cool, and it can't be rebellious.
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I mean, did you guys see that article where they said that, like, has monogamy become the new kink?
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Yes, because we have gone so far that now something that is virtuous and correct and good is now the edgy rebellion.
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Good for them that they finally found the kink that brings sexual satisfaction and happiness.
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The reason this is happening is because, finally...
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And the reason I think a lot of people feel vindicated who are arguing the slippery slope is...
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The argument that was being made in 2000, in 1995, in 1990 was always a lie.
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And we kept saying over and over, this is not the argument that's being made.
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The argument that you are saying you are making is not the argument that you are actually making.
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The argument that you say that you're making is, why can't you leave people alone in the privacy of their own bedrooms to do what they want?
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And all we really want is to be involved in just monogamous relations with one another where we can go visit each other at hospitals.
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And everybody on the right was like, that's not what you want.
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What you want is to overthrow key societal institutions.
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And then you want to supplant those institutions with a morally relativistic view that prizes individual sexual orientation and pleasure.
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And then you want to bicycle naked down the street.
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Because after Obergefell, I think most Americans were like, okay, well, you got what you want.
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And then they're like, well, no, that's not what we want at all.
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What we would like is for your church to celebrate it.
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What we need is to make sure that your kid hears about it.
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We need to make sure that your kid is watching naked bicyclists ride down the street in Seattle.
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Like, it's really, really important that your kid be indoctrinated in all this.
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And people weren't like, wait, why is it important that our kid be indoctrinated in all this?
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And the answer is because it was always about an entire value system.
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I think the entire society misinterpreted the call for things like same-sex marriage as,
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what if we just expanded traditional institutions to include further marginalized people?
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So this is why it was pitched as basically a civil rights movement, right?
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The civil rights movement was voting has existed for a long time and is good.
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And you should make sure that black people can do it also.
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Then the argument for same-sex marriage was made along the same lines,
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because you have to redefine marriage in order to include that particular definition of marriage.
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But the idea was, we're not threatening marriage.
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We're just changing the people who are involved.
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what if we destroy traditional civilizational institutions?
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And then, what if we supplant those with another form of values that we must indoctrinate your kids with?
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We must indoctrinate your kids with these things.
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And I think that's what people are reacting to.
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They're seeing the mask come off, and they're like, oh my God,
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I can't believe that the call came from inside the house.
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Yes, and this is why, by the way, you can see a seven-point drop in approval of same-sex relations in one year,
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because ideas have consequences, as we all know.
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And so, we've had some bad ideas, some wrong premises,
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and it's led to all these kind of crazy consequences,
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and a lot of people didn't notice it as it was happening.
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But when you get to the most extreme consequences,
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You can say, well, consequences come from bad ideas.
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they start pulling on that thread, and they say, okay,
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if this really extreme instantiation of an idea is bad,
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And so, they're hurtling back in the other direction.
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it's symptomatic of just a broader doubt in society's new institutions.
00:47:42.960
So, we like to talk about the destruction of the institutions, and it's true, right?
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I mean, we have very low trust for all institutions,
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but the new institutions are the ones we have the least trust in,
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I mean, like, their faces are being worn around by people
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They took the institution of science, and they gutted it,
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while proclaiming that everybody had to mask up children and all of this.
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But the new institutions are the things that people doubt
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And all the things that they are saying to you,
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So, like, I really think this stuff is kind of important.
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There's an entire piece in the Washington Post today
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it's a standard of beauty that's really the problem.
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everybody knows in their heart that it's not true.
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Which is why there's that great meme that's been going around,
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where it's, I think it started with Tim Pool, actually.
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and then one person makes it all come crumbling down.
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but I bet there's a lot of lockers in Michigan.