Ep. 1052 - Nudist Hippie Breaks Into Pelosi's Home. Media Blames Republicans.
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A hippie nudist with a hammer assaulted Nancy Pelosi s husband inside their home in the middle of the night. But the most important thing the media wants us to know about this story is that it s all the fault of Republicans, and also that we re not allowed to ask any more questions about it. Also, Elon Musk officially takes the helm at Tesla and immediately starts instituting a number of important changes. And Barack Obama takes the campaign trail to save the Democrats from the coming red wave. An NBA star shuts down a reporter in satisfying fashion, and another Starbucks employee has an emotional meltdown on camera. We ll talk about all of that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a hippie nudist with a hammer assaulted Nancy Pelosi's husband
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inside their home in the middle of the night. But the most important thing the media wants us
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to know about this story is that it's all the fault of Republicans, and also that we're not
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allowed to ask any more questions about it. Also, Elon Musk officially takes the helm at Twitter
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and immediately starts instituting a number of important changes. And Barack Obama takes
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the campaign trail to save the Democrats from the coming red wave. An NBA star shuts down a
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reporter in satisfying fashion. And another Starbucks employee has an emotional meltdown
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on camera. Is this a problem only at Starbucks, or is it a society-wide issue? We'll talk about
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all of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Well, it began as a strange story. It only got stranger as time went on. On Friday morning,
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we first heard reports about an alleged break-in at the Pelosi home in San Francisco. We were told
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that a man, who we later learned is 42-year-old David DePaype, broke into Nancy Pelosi's home with
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a hammer and screamed, where's Nancy? And a struggle then ensued between Pelosi's husband,
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Paul, and the intruder. Nancy Pelosi was not actually at home. She was in D.C.
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Paul was injured in the attack before police arrived and took the attacker into custody.
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Now, shortly after these earliest reports, we began hearing bizarre and sketchy details. I mean,
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even more bizarre than the original story. More questions emerged. Was one man or both wearing
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underwear at the time, as some reports seem to suggest? How did Paul Pelosi manage to call the
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police? Did Paul Pelosi indicate to police that he knew his attacker? How did David DePaype
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get into the residence? Do they not have security? What about security cameras, at least? If so,
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where's the footage? Many of these questions still remain unanswered or have been answered in a way
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that only raises still more questions. At least, that is, if you're a skeptical person interested in
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the basic truth. That does not describe the corporate media, of course, which is why they settled
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on the official narrative within minutes. The guy who broke into Pelosi's home is a right-wing
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militant and a QAnon supporter, they announced. And anyone who asks any more questions is a conspiracy
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theorist just as dangerous as David DePaype himself. That's what the media ran with. And
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Democrats up to the highest levels were right there with them. Over the weekend, every left-wing cable
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news anchor and pundit, dozens of high-profile Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, AOC, and
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President Joe Biden, declared that dangerous rhetoric from conservatives had driven and provoked the
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Pelosi attack. They said it's our fault. They solemnly insisted that all of the political violence is
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committed by the right and that we in conservative media are especially to blame. Not much was known
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about who the man with the hammer was or what he was doing in Nancy Pelosi's home or why he was
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tussling, possibly in his underwear with Nancy's husband. But all they knew or wanted us to know
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is that it's the fault of Republicans. And that's why Americans should, you know, vote for them in two
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weeks. Vote for us, they said, or there'll be many more 2 a.m. hammer assaults by naked weirdos.
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You could be next. You could be the next victim. Now, far be it from me to disobey the
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instructions given to us by our overlords, but I have to make a few points here. The first is this.
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I don't know what happened in Nancy Pelosi's house on Friday morning. I don't think I'll ever know
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for sure. I don't know if any of us will ever know for sure. But if the media is upset about the
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theories that are circulating on the internet, one of them being that this was a gay lover's quarrel
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between Paul and David, that's a theory that's just out there that people are talking about.
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If the media is upset about that, perhaps they could look within themselves to figure out why
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alternative theories gain so much traction in situations like this. And I know they're not
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capable of honest introspection, so I'll spell it out for them. Nobody trusts you guys. Nobody
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believes anything you say. It's certainly possible that the actual facts of this case roughly follow
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what's being reported by mainstream outlets. I don't know that they don't. Maybe they do.
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But what I do know is that there's no reason to assume or have faith that you would be honest
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about the facts if they didn't fit your narrative. See, that's the problem. If we're getting the facts
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from you, if we're getting the actual facts from you, it's only because they happen to be the sorts
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of facts that you want them to be. But what if they aren't? What if they aren't the facts you want
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them to be? Often they aren't. And then you lie or you cover up the truth or you use misdirection,
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obfuscation, whatever else. The point is that the proliferation of conspiracy theories is your fault.
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You did this. You have positioned yourselves as the arbiters of information. Well, what happens when
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the public realizes that it can't trust the arbiters? They turn elsewhere or they speculate
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on their own. They come up with theories. I mean, what else are they going to do? Just assume that
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you're telling the truth? They can't. They've seen you lie far too often. They know you. Trust in the
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media is broken and it cannot be mended, especially because the party that broke the trust, that's you,
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isn't even trying to mend it. Now, as for me, I find it perfectly plausible that a drug-addled nutcase
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broke into Pelosi's home in the middle of the night. I mean, this is San Francisco after all.
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Is the violent crime problem in that city so bad now that even the folks in the wealthy parts of
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town aren't safe from it? Sure, I'd believe that. In fact, I would assume that's the case.
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What I can't believe is that the drug-addled crazy guy who apparently lives in a bus
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outside of a hippie commune in Berkeley with rainbow flags and BLM slogans draped outside of it
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is somehow a right-wing militant influenced by Fox News to go assault Democratic politicians.
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That's what I don't believe. To me, if the basic facts of the case, as presented by police,
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are essentially correct, then this is a local San Francisco crime story about yet another homeless,
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drug-crazed freak lashing out violently. What's ludicrous beyond all imagining is the attempt to
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turn this San Francisco crime story into an indictment of Republicans. Trying to blame Republicans for
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crime in Berkeley is like, well, there's nothing to compare it to. It is a logical leap that exceeds
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analogy. The real story here, again, if the facts roughly line up with the official narrative,
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the real story is that high-ranking Democratic politicians are now falling victim to the violent
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crime epidemic that their policies have facilitated and encouraged. That's the story.
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As for actual political violence, I'm old enough to remember ancient history back many moons ago,
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like in the summer when an armed left-wing radical showed up to Justice Kavanaugh's house,
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planning to assassinate him and two other conservative justices. I can remember when
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Rand Paul's neighbor assaulted him and broke three ribs, or six ribs, I think. I can remember when a
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Bernie bro shot up a GOP baseball practice. I can remember just the past month, which has seen
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multiple Republican canvassers and activists assaulted and hit by cars in politically driven
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attacks. And this is all to say nothing of the mass political violence that set entire city blocks on
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fire during the BLM riots. It also says nothing of the violence from left-wing terror organizations like
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Antifa. It says nothing about the threats of violence that I encounter nearly every day of my
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life for saying things that leftists don't like. It's clear to any honest person who is actually
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committing the political violence and who is actually encouraging it. In fact, in many of these
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cases, the left actively cheered the violence. Nancy Pelosi's daughter was one of the Democrats
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tickled pink over Rand Paul getting hospitalized. I bet she's not laughing now. Or maybe she is.
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I mean, leftists tend to hate their own families, so who knows? And of course, you know, this I must
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remind you again is it's not a double standard. The left ignores violence against conservatives
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or actively roots for it because they believe Republicans deserve to be hurt or killed. I mean,
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that's it. And they decry violence against Democrats because they believe that Democrats are the good
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And that's also why we can't take these people seriously or believe anything they say.
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off your first preferred order. Well, happy Halloween, everybody. I'm getting into the
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holiday spirit with my pumpkin colored shirt, which is what they told me in the wardrobe department
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when they made me put this shirt on. Lots of other people here at the office are really getting into
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it though. Very elaborate costumes that I've seen. The whole wardrobe and makeup department is dressed
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up like characters from Hocus Pocus, apparently. McKenna and Austin work on our show dressed up as a,
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there's a Scooby-Doo theme going on. I saw somebody dressed as a hot dog, I think.
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So there are a bunch of other costumes too. And I got to tell you, I mean, I know this doesn't
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surprise you. I just don't, I don't get it. Okay. I mean, what's the point? I think I'm missing some
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kind of gene that makes the costume thing make sense to me. Either that or the rest of you people
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are missing something and I'm the only normal one, which increasingly I believe is the case.
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But when people say, well, are you going to dress up for Halloween this year? What are you
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dressing up for? My first response is to say, do I look like I'm eight years old? No. I mean,
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I've got the beard. And also why? I mean, what's the point? If you could explain to me,
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what's the point of the costume as an adult? What am I supposed to do? Okay. So I put the costume on
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and then what? What do I do now? Am I supposed to wear this costume all day? Why? And especially
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with adults, it's like once everyone has seen the costume, then you continuing to wear it seems like
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overkill because you get the reaction from everyone comes in and they come to the office and they see
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the, Oh, look, you came to the office dressed like a watermelon. Isn't that funny? And you got your
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little laugh now, but are you actually going to sit around all day as a watermelon? Are you going to go
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to meetings as a watermelon? You need to go on lunch break as a watermelon? Don't try to come
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talk to me and have some serious work conversations as a watermelon. Are you going to try to negotiate a
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pay raise as a watermelon? You're going to have like a Skype meeting with a client as a watermelon.
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It just, I don't, where do you go from here is my point. If I could be convinced on the costume thing,
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it's like five minutes. If I'm in charge of a company, it's wear the costume for five minutes
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and then take it off. But even the five minutes is a waste. No, we're wasting time on the clock.
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So actually we're not going to do that at all. I would go back maybe to my Twitter strategy, which is
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invite employees to wear costumes on Halloween and then fire anyone who's wearing one.
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That would be a great Halloween. All right. Here's the latest from the Elon Musk, speaking of Twitter,
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the Elon Musk Twitter takeover. This is from Reuters. It says Elon Musk has denied a New York
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Times report about laying off Twitter employees at a date earlier than November 1st to avoid stock
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grants due on the day. In response to a Twitter user asking about the layoffs, Musk tweeted, this is false.
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The New York Times reported on Saturday that Musk has ordered job cuts across the company with some
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teams to be trimmed more than others and that layoffs would take place before November 1st when
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employees were scheduled to receive stock grants as part of their compensation. Citing unidentified
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people familiar with the matter, the Times reported the cuts could begin as soon as Saturday. According to
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media reports on Saturday, Musk fired top executives in an effort to avoid hefty severance payouts while
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lining up other layoffs as soon as, um, as soon as Saturday. Okay. So now Elon says this isn't true
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that he's not firing people to avoid giving them the severance payouts, but it's funny to see the left
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up in arms about this as they are because now suddenly golden parachutes are a good thing. If the story is true,
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this is Elon trying to deny wealthy corporate executives, their golden parachutes. And we're
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now supposed to see that as a bad thing. For years, the golden parachute, the dreaded golden parachute
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was one of the things that everyone would decry, especially on the left. And now we're supposed to
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feel bad for wealthy corporate executives if they don't get one. It is a joke because as we said at the
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top, nothing they, these people say means anything or should be believed. Meanwhile, the media meltdown
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has continued, uh, many examples that we could cite and play for you, but we'll pick just a couple.
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Here's, here's just one. This is Amy Klobuchar on MSNBC, um, talking about the, the crisis that we now
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face because Elon Musk is in charge of Twitter. Watch. We have to do something about this amplification
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of, um, of this election denying hate speech that we see on the internet. Now that Elon Musk runs
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Twitter, do you trust him? Uh, no, I do not. What, uh, what's your biggest fear of him running this,
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Well, I think you have to have some content moderation because when you look at what this
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guy was looking at, he was looking at, uh, just horrendous things you don't even want to talk
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about on your show. He was posting anti-Semitic tropes. He was showing memes, um, that showed
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violence and all of this election denying, uh, pro Trump mega crowd rhetoric. That's what we're
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dealing with here. And if Elon Musk has said now that he's going to start a content moderation board,
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that was one good sign, but I continue to be concerned about that. I just don't think
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people should be making money off of passing on this stuff. That's a bunch of lies. You couldn't
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do that on your network, Chuck. You guys look at commercials and you decide if they are false or
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not. That is not a requirement of these companies. And we have to change the requirements on these
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companies. They are making money off of us. They are making money off of this violence.
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There's no doubt. The tech companies are a huge, huge problem in this and they got to take
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some responsibility. Senator Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota. Thank you for coming on and sharing
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your perspective. I gotta say, Amy Klobuchar doesn't get enough credit as the comedic genius
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that she is because that whole thing was, that was very, very funny. Uh, and, and the, the punchline
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at the very end really got me where she said, uh, you know, people can't make money from spreading
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lies. You would never do that on your network, NBC. Um, and I, and I did find it funny when,
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when she was listing this guy and she was talking about, of course, David, the pap, the, uh, the,
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the, uh, uh, uh, uh, homeless drug addled guy from Berkeley nudist lives at a hippie commune.
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Who's a right-wing radical apparently, and said that he was doing all these, he was showing means,
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she says. Now, the interesting thing about that, by the way, is that I, we, we keep hearing about
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this guy, uh, and all of the right-wing propaganda that he was disseminating and engaging in. I haven't
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seen very many examples of it. We're just being told that it existed and that, and that, you know,
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it's just take their word for it. It's out there. He showed a lot of memes, Amy Klobuchar says,
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a lot of right-wing memes. Um, even though he was a hippie, nudist, homeless, drug addled
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guy in a bus outside of a hippie commune, but you know, it's, it's, it was, but also big Fox
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news viewer, big Tucker Carlson fan. You know, if I had a dime for every Tucker Carlson fan who lives
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in a bus outside of a hippie commune in Berkeley, I'd have one dime apparently. Um, this is what
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they're worried about is that now there's not going to be any content moderation, which by the way,
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Elon Musk has not said that he hasn't said that there's not going to be any, in fact,
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he said the opposite. He said he doesn't want the site to turn into a, into a quote unquote free
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for all, which I agree with, by the way, you know, you do want, there needs to be some content
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moderation. Um, there, in fact, in, in some areas, Twitter could do with a lot more of it right now.
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When it comes to pornographic things being shared, um, actual threats of violence, like I mentioned,
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I, I get threats of violence, targeting me, doxing all this. It happens to me all the time
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and it happens to conservatives all the time. That's the kind of thing that should be moderated.
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So, yeah, I would like to see, in fact, in some areas, much more moderation than there already is.
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Uh, graphic, sexual content, pornographic content, um, you know, child pornography on these platforms
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is a big problem. And then again, actual threats of violence. Yeah. You shouldn't be able to do that
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on a social media platform to say, I'm going to go kill you, encourage other people to go kill this
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person, put their address in, you shouldn't be allowed to do that. It happens all the time on
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Twitter, but if you're a conservative and you're being targeted for it, then good luck getting the
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content taken down. Trust me. I know from experience. What we don't need to moderate though,
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are people's opinions. And it's really not that hard to differentiate between pornography,
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child pornography, actual threats of violence, doxing. Okay. So there's all those things that are in
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one category. And then there are just people's opinions about things. And we act as though
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these two categories are impossible to distinguish between, but they're really not.
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I think we all intuitively know the difference between say pornographic, graphic, pornographic
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content, violent content, and just a guy's opinion. Meanwhile, Mehdi Hassan on MSNBC says that in fact,
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as outraged as the left is about Elon Musk taking over Twitter, he says they're not outraged enough.
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Listen. Julian, I have to ask, could the Biden administration, could Democrats in Congress
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have said or done anything to prevent or even slow down this Musk purchase of Twitter? I feel like if
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George Soros had been buying Twitter, the right would have made far more noise and express more
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outrage. Dems just let it happen as if it's fine for Twitter to become yet another platform for
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misinformation and hate. Well, there may have been, but I mean, at this point, I think it's going to be
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the responsibility of each and every one of us to do what we can to hold Elon Musk accountable.
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I agree with those who said that it's telling that he did end up backing off and deleted that tweet a
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few hours after he had put it up. Now, I agree with everybody. Look, I think he's acted very
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irresponsibly, immaturely. Frankly, Mehdi, I don't know how in the world this guy got to be the richest
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person in the world acting as irresponsibly and immaturely as he had and erratically as we've
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seen him act, not just this week, but over the years. But it means that he will back off when there
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is pressure. And so folks who care about the truth, who care about protecting vulnerable communities,
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who ultimately are the ones who are going to be most hurt by his irresponsible behavior and allowing
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these voices of hate to be elevated on this huge platform, we have to keep pushing back.
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And my hope is that that is going to make a difference in the long run.
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Yeah, Democrats are not upset enough. That's the big problem. And imagine, Mehdi Hassan says,
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imagine if a big tech company was owned by a left winger. Just imagine that. Imagine how upset
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people on the right would be. I can't. It's unimaginable. Nothing like it has happened.
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There has never been a big tech company owned by somebody on the left. It's never happened.
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Hassan says he wishes that this could have been prevented.
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So remember all those years of the left saying that Twitter is a private company.
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You know, they can have any rule they want. They can enforce the rules how they want or not enforce
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them. Don't like it. Go build your own platform. And now, you know, of course, their respect for the
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rights of private companies has gone out the window as expected. Notice something else, though,
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because this is very revealing. Notice what the left is not concerned about. They're not concerned
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that they are going to be banned from Twitter now or that they're going to be targeted
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the way that Twitter has targeted the right. They're not worried about that because they know
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that's not going to happen. They know that nobody on the right even wants that. I don't want that.
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Actually, I would not want. I mean, if it happens, it happens. But I don't want Twitter to drive,
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you know, leftists off the platform and ban them because then Twitter becomes an echo chamber.
00:24:10.600
What's the fun of that? In fact, now that we can, you know, speak basic truths on Twitter,
00:24:18.540
especially basic biological truths, I want the left to be there. I want them to be there and I want
00:24:23.420
them to be exposed to it. It makes it much more valuable then because they're the ones who need
00:24:30.580
to be exposed to this stuff. And it's also a lot more fun. So no, on the right, we want them there.
00:24:37.100
Please stay. Now, if you leave, we're not going to cry about it, but make your own choices. But if
00:24:42.720
it were up to me, sure, I'd want you all here. So what the left is upset about is not that they're
00:24:49.380
worried that this is going to be a time of vengeance and they're going to be targeted. No,
00:24:53.580
it's just that they're worried that the right will no longer be targeted. That's what they're
00:24:58.260
concerned about. You know, I said, you know, we could, of course, respond to the left as they
00:25:04.680
have to us that go build your own platform if you don't like it. And in fact, they have the post
00:25:09.200
post-millennial has this story. There's a new woke social media platform out there. And I know
00:25:16.300
that's a little bit redundant because they're all woke, but maybe with the exception of Twitter now
00:25:20.280
remains to be seen. But there's one out there called Tribal and post-millennial has this story.
00:25:24.780
On Thursday, woke social network Tribal announced that it was preemptively banning Donald Trump,
00:25:30.520
his son, Elon Musk, and Kanye West from its platform. The move comes as its creator, Omar
00:25:36.180
Rivero, who also runs Occupy Democrats, continues to foment fears over Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.
00:25:42.380
Occupy Democrats broke the news Thursday morning, suggesting that Tribal had made the decision to
00:25:46.700
ban Trump, his son, and Kanye West based on allegations of spreading dangerous conspiracy theories
00:25:50.760
and fake news. It says Trump was banned after former President Obama advocated for the ban in
00:25:55.640
the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6th. West was banned for anti-Semitism. Within the Occupy
00:26:01.420
Democrats fan base, the bans were celebrated. However, outside the leftist echo chamber,
00:26:05.380
many were quick to point out the hypocrisy of a site that bills itself as pro-democracy,
00:26:10.180
preemptively barring those they disagree with politically from having accounts. Well,
00:26:13.640
that's not really the point, though, is that the point is that none of these guys that are being
00:26:17.040
preemptively banned from Tribal, whatever that is, have heard of this platform or would want to join
00:26:22.340
it anyway. So this is a bit like the kid who sits alone at the lunch table eating his own boogers,
00:26:27.640
deciding to throw a birthday party for himself and preemptively banning all the popular kids from
00:26:32.200
coming. You know, it's like it's like him walking up to the popular kids table in the cafeteria and
00:26:37.500
saying, hey, all of you, you can't come to my party. Who was that? I don't know. I think it was
00:26:42.500
the kid that eats his own boogers. Okay. I just find that very funny. And by the way,
00:26:48.700
speaking of the cool kids, I also wanted to mention this as we look at the changes that Elon
00:26:55.440
Musk is going to be making to Twitter. There's this from The Verge, and this is another thing
00:26:59.540
the left's upset about. It says, now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first
00:27:03.900
ultimatum. Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.
00:27:09.260
The directive is to change Twitter Blue, which is the company's optional $5 a month subscription
00:27:14.800
that unlocks additional features into a more expansive subscription that also verifies users.
00:27:20.540
According to people familiar with the matter, Twitter is currently planning to charge $19.99
00:27:24.960
a month for the new Twitter Blue subscription. So the basic idea is that if you want to get the
00:27:34.140
blue check on Twitter, this is what supposedly Elon Musk is planning. If you want to get the blue
00:27:38.660
check on Twitter or if you want to keep the one you already have, then you got to pay $20 a month
00:27:42.840
for it, which I think is a great plan. Actually, I say this as somebody who has a blue check. I don't
00:27:47.080
see myself paying $20 a month for it unless there are some great additional, there are some perks
00:27:51.980
you could offer that I would pay $20 a month for. Like if you give me the ability to just
00:27:59.180
unilaterally ban someone if I don't like them, then I'd pay $20 a month for that. I'd pay $50 a month
00:28:03.840
for that. But just for the check, I won't pay it. But I think it's a good idea because
00:28:09.220
the idea about the original, the reason they call it a verified, it's a verification badge
00:28:14.460
on these social media sites and they all have them. The idea of the verification badge is simply
00:28:19.240
to verify that the person who runs the account is a real person and not a bot. That's really,
00:28:25.860
that's what it is. It's turned into this kind of like a elitist club. You know, it's turned
00:28:33.640
into the cool, it's supposed to be the popular kids table in the lunchroom. That's what it's
00:28:36.400
turned into. And they end up giving the verification badge to these small, irrelevant accounts,
00:28:43.400
people that are supposedly in media and have like a thousand followers and they get the
00:28:47.600
verification badge because they get to go to the front of the line and they get accepted
00:28:51.020
into the cool kids club. That's not what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to just be
00:28:54.360
that you can verify that you are a real person. And, you know, part of the verification process
00:29:02.160
is you give them an ID or whatever, you prove that you're a real person and now you're a verified
00:29:05.720
account. If that's important to you, charge them. This is like, this is a tax that he's imposing
00:29:14.040
on the blue check club on Twitter. And again, as a member of that club, I actually think it's a
00:29:19.140
great idea. There are not many taxes that I agree with, but this one I would, because that's
00:29:22.420
optional. I would just say, yeah, I don't, I don't need it. No, thanks. I don't need the blue
00:29:27.300
check, but the blue check is very important to left wingers on Twitter. It's very important to
00:29:31.980
them. And so they will, they'll complain about it, but they will pay the 20 bucks for it.
00:29:38.300
All right. Democrats are panicking as we head to the midterms. So now they are trotting out their
00:29:45.720
secret weapon, which is the president of the United States, not the current one. They don't,
00:29:49.860
he's not, they don't want him on the campaign trail. This is rather Obama and the most recent
00:29:56.820
democratic president before Biden. And he had these thoughts to share on the campaign trail this
00:30:02.060
weekend. Listen, but these days, just about every Republican politician seems obsessed with two
00:30:10.020
things. Owning the libs. Oh man, we're going to own the libs. And getting Donald Trump's approval.
00:30:18.980
That seems to be their agenda. They are not at, they're not currently at least,
00:30:25.980
they are not interested in actually solving problems. They are interested in making you angry
00:30:33.020
and then finding somebody to blame because that way they're going to, they're hoping you may not
00:30:42.020
notice, you may be distracted from the fact that they don't really have any answers to your problems.
00:30:49.760
I don't know. I think this backfires for the, uh, for the, for the Democrats to have Obama out on the
00:30:54.440
campaign trail. Now I've never, I've always thought that he was overrated as a public speaker,
00:30:58.280
but he can at least string sentences together, which is more than the current president United
00:31:03.360
States can do. So I think this only, this only, uh, highlights that contrast and it makes people
00:31:09.000
say, Oh, this is what it's like to have a president United States who can at least speak.
00:31:13.880
Um, everything he's saying there is nonsense. Of course now I'm not a politician.
00:31:17.560
Okay. I'm not a Republican politician. So I'm not specifically who he was talking about, but I will say
00:31:21.760
that at least for me personally, I am not obsessed with owning the libs and getting Trump's approval.
00:31:29.580
I am just obsessed with owning the libs. That's the only thing I'm obsessed with.
00:31:34.500
Um, and to be honest with you, I wish that more Republicans were obsessed with it.
00:31:39.440
I think we'd be in a much better spot if there were more Republicans obsessed with owning the libs.
00:31:43.560
Now there are more noble motivations that one could have, but that's better than nothing.
00:31:53.860
You know, I'll take a Republican who's simply out to own the libs over one who is, uh, who's more
00:32:00.720
concerned about appeasing the left and taking the path of least resistance and just sort of coasting
00:32:06.060
along and not getting into any trouble, which is what most, which is how you describe most Republicans,
00:32:10.900
especially on the national stage. I'll take, I'll take the former option over that.
00:32:18.040
Now I want to play this clip for you too. Kyrie Irving is the NBA star with the Nets. He's been
00:32:22.600
getting himself in trouble with the media for social media posts that he's been putting up last year.
00:32:28.660
You know, he wouldn't get vaccinated and they were on his case for that. Now he's posting stuff they
00:32:33.580
don't like. A few weeks ago, he posted something about the new world order quoting Alex Jones.
00:32:39.020
And then more recently, he tweeted something about a film called Hebrews to Negroes. That's what the
00:32:44.540
film was called. Um, a film that the media says is antisemitic, which maybe it is. I know absolutely
00:32:50.640
nothing at all about this movie. I have no clue. Never heard of it before. Um, I've done zero seconds
00:32:56.280
of research on it because I don't really care about a film that I've never heard of that a basketball
00:33:01.100
player was talking about. It doesn't seem like it matters, but it led to this exchange between Kyrie
00:33:07.160
Irving and a reporter that I thought was interesting to watch. Kyrie, while we're on the topic of
00:33:13.000
promotion, why did you decide to promote something that Alex Jones said? That was a few weeks ago.
00:33:22.180
I do not stand with Alex Jones position narrative court case that he had with Sandy Hook or any of
00:33:30.160
the kids that felt like they had to relive trauma or parents that had to relive trauma or to be
00:33:36.500
dismissive to all the lives that were lost during that tragic event. My, my post was a post from Alex
00:33:43.640
Jones that he did in the early nineties or late nineties about secret societies in America of occults.
00:33:48.540
And it's true. So I wasn't identifying with anything of being a campaign, a campaignist for Alex Jones or
00:33:56.760
anything. I was just there to post. And it's funny. And it's actually hilarious because out of all the
00:34:02.160
things I posted that day, that was the moment post that everyone chose to, chose to see. It just goes
00:34:07.140
back to the way our world is and works. I'm not here to complain about it. I just exist.
00:34:11.420
And to follow up on the promotion of the movie and the book, can you please stop calling it a
00:34:18.580
promotion? What am I promoting? Put it out on your platform, but I'm promoting it. Do you see me
00:34:24.720
doing, do you see me in front of it out there? People are going to say that you are put it out
00:34:28.620
there. Just like you put things out there, right? Yeah, but I, okay. It's not things out there for
00:34:32.700
a living, right? Right. But my stuff is not filled with anti-Semitic. Let's move on. Don't
00:34:38.140
dehumanize me up here. I'm not, I'm not doing that. You're free to post. I can post whatever
00:34:42.260
I want. So say that and shut it down and move on to the next question. But Kyrie, you have to
00:34:46.340
understand that by posting. I don't have to understand anything from you. It's not me.
00:34:49.780
Nothing. By posting what you did. No people that you're making up, bro. Move on. But by posting what
00:34:53.420
you did. Move on. Next question. Next question. Do you guys have any more questions from me? And they're
00:34:56.400
going to say. You guys have any more questions? Because this is going to be a clip. This is going to be a
00:35:00.220
clip that he's going to marvel at. Is this any more questions? But you're not answering the question.
00:35:04.520
This is another answering your question. Oh my God. Let's make another Instagram clip so we
00:35:07.940
could be famous again. Next question. I'm with Kyrie Irving on this one for two reasons. Well,
00:35:15.740
three. I generally am on board with anyone who treats the left-wing sports media with contempt
00:35:20.480
and disregard and just talks over them and refuses to answer the questions. I'm on board with that.
00:35:26.440
I love that. I think that's what they deserve. Also, Kyrie is right that just because you mention
00:35:31.860
something or quote someone, that doesn't mean that you're promoting. Okay. It doesn't mean you're
00:35:36.600
promoting something. You could be. Maybe he was promoting the film. I don't even know what the
00:35:40.500
tweet was or the Instagram post. I don't know. I don't care. But he's not promoting Alex Jones
00:35:46.080
by quoting him. And third, the bigger point here, which really harkens back to the first,
00:35:52.680
is screw these hacks. How many tense exchanges has the media had with LeBron James for spreading
00:35:59.760
pro-BLM misinformation? You know, for putting the picture of a cop out there who, in the Micaiah
00:36:05.200
Bryant case, who's saved a woman's life and put his picture out there and say, you're next?
00:36:11.040
How many tense exchanges have there been over that? So it's all disingenuous. There's a double
00:36:16.460
standard as always. And that's all we need to know about this. That perfectly, absolutely justifies
00:36:26.040
Kyrie Irving's approach in this case. No matter how you feel about whatever he posted. And like I
00:36:33.420
said, it doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter to me what he posted. It doesn't make a difference.
00:36:39.940
All right. Finally, before we get to the comment section, this is from page six. It says,
00:36:46.060
it looks like the Clooneys have either a budding artist or politician in the family, or perhaps both.
00:36:51.620
Appearing alongside Michelle Obama and Melinda French-Gates at a panel in New York City
00:36:55.900
on Tuesday, the human rights lawyer revealed just how much her five-year-old twins, Ella and
00:37:00.740
Alexander, inspire her work. The 44-year-old admitted that while her kids, whom she shares
00:37:05.760
with husband George Clooney, 61, aren't quite on top of current events, her son often takes notes
00:37:10.760
of what she's up to at work. In fact, he didn't hesitate giving his two cents on the current
00:37:16.760
situation surrounding Russian President Vladimir Putin. She said, my son drew a picture the other day
00:37:22.320
of a prison. And he was like, Putin should be here. So her five-year-old son is drawing pictures
00:37:30.040
of Putin in prison. My five-year-old son has never drawn a picture of Putin because he has no idea who
00:37:39.440
Putin is, because I'm not a lunatic. And I don't talk to my five-year-old about geopolitical events.
00:37:48.340
So oftentimes when celebrities and leftists post things like this, the assumption is that they're
00:37:56.300
making it up. And this is all, like, they're inventing these things that their kids said or
00:38:00.920
these political insights that their kids offered. And I think oftentimes it is made up. I think
00:38:05.580
oftentimes it is invented, sure. But I'm also perfectly willing to believe that these nutcases
00:38:13.300
are actually talking to their toddlers and to their four- and five-year-olds about the war in
00:38:19.580
Ukraine. And yeah, if you sit a five-year-old down and tell them all about somebody named Putin and
00:38:24.500
tell them that he's a bad guy and a villain and he wants to nuke the entire world, and if you tell a
00:38:28.640
five-year-old that, that'll sink in for sure. And it wouldn't surprise me to start drawing pictures
00:38:33.100
of the bad guy Putin and talking about Putin all the time. Absolutely. I mean, five-year-olds are
00:38:39.400
very impressionable and they latch on to things. And if you tell them something like that, they'll
00:38:44.980
latch on to it. But so what that tells me is if you're not a liar, which again is a possibility,
00:38:51.700
you're just a bad parent for, for foisting these concerns onto your five-year-old.
00:39:00.860
What the hell is he going to do with it? What do you want him to do about Putin? I mean,
00:39:05.620
what do you want any of us to do about Putin? But what do you want your five-year-old to do about it?
00:39:09.400
A good, a good approach here if you, you know, if you're a good parent
00:39:13.580
is that you tell, it's not that you never share troubling information with your young children,
00:39:21.580
it's that you only share with them the troubling information that is relevant to their lives
00:39:27.500
and that they can respond to in some way. So it's a troubling fact that if you run into the road
00:39:35.720
chasing a bouncy ball, you might get hit by a car and killed. That's a troubling fact.
00:39:42.280
But it's also a fact that's relevant to your child's life. And so that's something you need to
00:39:46.840
tell a five-year-old. You know, so there are, there are dangers and concerns you need to tell
00:39:53.300
your kids about. But only the ones that they can respond to, the ones that, the information that
00:39:59.000
will be useful and will make them safer in their, in their everyday life. As, as they get older,
00:40:05.780
you know, it's once you become older that you're going to start to encounter all of the misery and
00:40:13.180
you become aware of the misery and despair and all the terrible things that are just out there in the
00:40:17.860
world. And you got to carry that knowledge around with you every day, knowing that you can't do
00:40:23.240
anything about most of it. You know, that's not easy even for adults to deal with. But a five-year-old
00:40:31.220
shouldn't have to. Again, if you're interested in actually being a good parent. Let's get now to
00:40:37.200
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you feel good. Well, we had our 11th anniversary over the weekend. Uh, my wife and I, um, 11th wedding
00:42:13.380
anniversary, 11 years we've been in this game as is, I guess, widely known. Now I met my wife when I was,
00:42:18.720
uh, an obscure shock jock morning radio host in Delaware earning, I believe, um, a cool $22,000 a year
00:42:26.220
if I remember correctly at the time. Started out at 17 grand a year. So I was there for five years
00:42:29.980
and I made it all the way up to 22,000 a year. Quite proud of that. Um, my wife, you know, married
00:42:35.500
me, moved into our, uh, one bedroom, 400 square foot apartment that I'd been living in. It was an
00:42:40.080
old house that had been converted into apartments. My, uh, my kitchen was at one point I could tell a
00:42:44.660
closet. It had been a closet, not even a walk-in closet. Now it was a kitchen, uh, rotating cast of
00:42:49.520
neighbors that always had a rotating list of reasons why the police were coming and, uh, visiting
00:42:54.880
them oftentimes late at night and quite noisily. Um, the whole building was infested with cockroaches
00:43:01.280
and mice and it was quite disgusting. My wife willingly married me and moved into that situation.
00:43:08.240
Um, I remember we had our first Thanksgiving as a married couple a month, about a month after we got
00:43:14.720
married and I didn't have a working oven in the apartment or, uh, or a dining room table or chairs
00:43:20.540
or, or anything really. I had no, like no furniture. So she whipped up a pretty good Thanksgiving meal
00:43:25.680
using mostly the microwave and we just sat around in folding chairs and ate it. And, uh, you know,
00:43:30.700
you look back at times like this sort of nostalgically, but in reality, living through it,
00:43:36.400
it was quite tough. You know, it's difficult, uh, to be broke and barely scraping by. And, um,
00:43:44.740
um, but we made it through, through that and, uh, and, uh, largely helped along by, by my wife and,
00:43:54.240
uh, all of that to say when she suggested a few weeks ago that on our anniversary this year,
00:44:02.020
I should accompany her to a tea time at a fancy hotel in Nashville. I figured I, I owed it to her.
00:44:08.840
Uh, it's not my cup of tea literally, but I said, you know what? You gave me everything in life that
00:44:15.780
I care about. I can, I can give you tea time. And so I, and so I did. And we went to the tea time
00:44:21.640
and, uh, she, she did tell me that there are plenty of men who go to the tea time and that it
00:44:28.340
wouldn't be weird for me as a man. Cause there'd be, there'd be other guys there. And that was false
00:44:32.620
advertising. It turned out because I got there and there were no, there were no other men. And
00:44:35.820
eventually there was another man, but he was 95 years old. And, uh, so, you know, and I was there
00:44:40.700
and they brought, they brought out the little tea kettles and they brought out little sandwiches,
00:44:45.960
uh, with cucumbers on them and all the food was way too small. And I was hungry and I just wanted
00:44:52.180
a beer and a cheeseburger, but I sat there and the women who were all at the tea time in their fancy
00:44:57.440
hats, they stared at me and, you know, they said to themselves, what the hell is this big bearded
00:45:01.780
oaf doing at our tea time? And I could feel their judgment bearing down on me, but, uh, I handled it
00:45:09.060
with grace and without complaint for the sake of my lovely bride. I did complain, but only a little
00:45:16.660
bit by my standards. So I think it was okay. Uh, my wife made it all better anyway, because she gave me
00:45:23.120
two bottles of whiskey and a bunch of socks as an anniversary present, which are my favorite things,
00:45:27.680
whiskey and socks. So it all worked out. All right. SK420 says, Matt, I listened to what you say
00:45:33.440
carefully. I'm 17. I deleted all social media to focus on football, not school. And my quality of
00:45:39.860
life has been way better. Godspeed, sweet daddy. I like how you specify you're focusing on football,
00:45:44.940
not school, but you're focusing on something. And I, and I consider that a good thing. You're focusing
00:45:48.280
not on social media, on something else, something that you're doing. And that is a, that is a positive.
00:45:54.300
That puts you far ahead of most, most of your peers, I would say. Uh, Ronan says, Matt, a good
00:45:59.760
alternative to the word proud is honored. We all know that people these days have too much pride in
00:46:05.080
things that they didn't get themselves and things that aren't an accomplishment. Yeah, I think honored
00:46:10.720
works. Like I said, you could also say, rather than saying I'm proud of this or that, you can say I'm
00:46:14.020
happy about this. I'm, I actually think grateful is the better word to be used, to be using in so many
00:46:19.480
contexts. But the problem is that, uh, as we talked about, you know, only certain people are allowed
00:46:26.800
to be proud. Whereas other people, it's not just that you're not supposed to be proud. It's that
00:46:30.920
you're supposed to be the opposite. You're supposed to be, uh, uh, guilt-ridden and remorseful.
00:46:38.660
Um, the preacher's wife says, just watched what is a woman with a bunch of friends, hilarious and
00:46:44.480
terrifying. We knew that there were people that evil and deranged in our society or who knew I
00:46:49.700
appreciate Matt's facial expressions during their insane answers. Fantastic job. I wish it were on a
00:46:54.320
non-paid platform. The people that need to see it won't pay. I totally understand why they have to
00:46:59.780
charge, but wish someone would sponsor it for the public to be able to watch. Absolutely a must watch.
00:47:04.600
Well, we have been going on tour, uh, screening the movie all around. And, and I know that there are
00:47:08.540
other plenty of other groups that have had their own screenings, which is something that
00:47:11.980
I would encourage you to do have your own screening, invite people to come. But at the same time,
00:47:16.760
also, um, you know, it, I know that, uh, that the daily wire and the platform that we offer here
00:47:27.160
that we, you know, I believe in what we're doing. I believe we're, we are doing important work in the
00:47:32.140
culture. And, um, as we always are talking about, and it's true, it sounds like a sales pitch and it
00:47:39.680
sort of is, but it also happens to be the truth that we can't do this work without people becoming
00:47:44.960
subscribers and paying and supporting us. Like this is, this really is a team effort,
00:47:49.360
which is one of the reasons why, you know, it's, you're not going to take your content and just
00:47:53.460
offer for free to the public. Um, because if we do that, then we're not the platform. We don't
00:47:59.500
have the power and the ability to do the things we do. We also don't have a movie like what is a
00:48:03.080
woman doesn't exist without the subscribers. It just wouldn't, we wouldn't be able to do it.
00:48:08.320
We would not have been able to do it and we wouldn't be able to do anything like it in
00:48:10.620
the future. So, but thank you for watching. Really appreciate that. Um, evil Chucky says
00:48:16.660
you can only earn respect. You certainly can't demand it. Uh, yeah, it's, it's actually the
00:48:22.720
difference between command and demand, right? You can't demand respect. Well, you can, I mean,
00:48:27.980
you could go into a demanding respect is to go into a room and say, everyone must respect me right
00:48:32.500
now. That's demanding. You're making demands. Um, commanding is just your very, you know,
00:48:38.040
the way you carry yourself, the way you operate, your presence attracts respect. It commands it.
00:48:46.900
This is also the true, I think, uh, this is, this is, this is true in parenting too.
00:48:51.160
It's a mistake that we can make as parents is that we're very demanding. We can be very demanding,
00:48:55.520
but not commanding. Yeah. You can make demands of your kids and shout and yell and everything and
00:49:02.340
say, do this, do that. And you can do that. And that'll get you. That only gets you so far though.
00:49:08.040
Um, there's a certain point where if you've demanded obedience, you've demanded respect,
00:49:14.080
you've demanded compliance for your kids. There's a certain point where they just don't
00:49:18.760
care about the demands anymore. That's why instead, you know, good parenting is commanding. You command
00:49:26.920
respect from your kids by your presence, by your example, by your leadership in the home.
00:49:33.760
Um, and Ashley says, Matt, after hearing your comments about Rudolph, I'm wondering if you can
00:49:41.260
offer a contrarian take on the Grinch where the Grinch is the good guy. Well, it's not even a
00:49:46.960
challenge. I mean, are you kidding me? To begin with, they tell you in the story right off the bat
00:49:51.820
that the Grinch's heart is two sizes too small. So he suffers from a disability. He's disabled. He has a
00:49:58.140
chronic heart condition and he's been banished to live alone in a cave on a mountain. And yet we're
00:50:03.380
supposed to just accept that he's the bad guy and nobody asks any questions about the backstory.
00:50:07.960
How did he end up there? Why are none of the who's in Whoville concerned about this man's health
00:50:13.140
and wellbeing? The holier than thou who's have completely ostracized a disabled guy. And we're
00:50:20.160
supposed to accept that his anger is unfounded. And I mean, you could argue this is a story about
00:50:26.140
marginalization, if anything. And it's inconsistent too, because we talked about with Rudolph,
00:50:30.780
who's a deformed freak, but we're supposed to feel bad for him when he's kicked out of society.
00:50:37.040
And yet the Grinch doesn't get the same consideration, which doesn't make any sense to me.
00:50:42.040
Meanwhile, the who's are frankly annoying as hell. They apparently sing all day and night at the top of
00:50:46.520
their lungs. They got no concern for anybody else. It's obnoxious and inconsiderate. And I'm talking
00:50:50.240
about just the literary version here. You know, the Grinch from the novel. I'm not even talking about
00:50:54.880
the Grinch from the live action film 20 years ago, which if that's canonical, then my point is even
00:51:03.320
more vindicated because that really inadvertently reveals the who's to be not only annoying,
00:51:08.380
but judgmental and frivolous and fake. Now, does all of this justify the Grinch's actions? I'm not
00:51:14.180
saying that it does, but I think if anything, it's more of a Michael Douglas and falling down
00:51:18.620
type of situation. This is a man or whatever he is pushed to the brink. And in the Grinch's case,
00:51:26.680
he actually has a change of heart revealing a depth of humility and love and empathy never demonstrated
00:51:34.360
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00:51:43.840
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cancellation. During this segment, we have in the past discussed the ever-growing epidemic of crying
00:54:03.200
baristas. You know, there's a whole genre of video now, usually posted at TikTok, but sometimes
00:54:07.920
Instagram or Twitter, consisting of Starbucks employees complaining, whining, or full-on weeping
00:54:13.600
about the difficulties of their jobs. Their list of grievances are many and varied, but they seem to
00:54:19.480
primarily take issue with the behavior of the customer. Specifically, the customer behavior they
00:54:23.880
despise the most is that the customer exists. So the act of existing is what they really don't like.
00:54:31.040
They resent the fact that customers come into the store and expect them to do things. And when lots
00:54:37.760
of customers have the nerve to come into the store at one time, they feel especially attacked.
00:54:43.360
These weepy baristas, they'd prefer if Starbucks had no customers. They would like to get paid by
00:54:49.460
Starbucks. In fact, they want to get paid a lot more by Starbucks. And yet they also want Starbucks
00:54:54.360
to get much less business or no business at all. Pay me more to do less, they demand.
00:55:01.320
This is their bargaining strategy. Offer to do less work, and in exchange for that concession,
00:55:08.040
request more money. Now, at some Starbucks locations across the country, baristas have
00:55:12.620
unionized around these demands. There's a growing organized labor movement at Starbucks. As of the
00:55:17.500
beginning of October, over 300 locations had held union elections. Purely by coincidence, I'm sure,
00:55:23.160
some of the unionized stores were subsequently closed down by corporate headquarters. So they
00:55:28.260
unionize, and then Starbucks says, never mind, you're closed. Union members allege that this was
00:55:33.620
an act of retaliation. Starbucks corporate denies the claim. I have no opinion either way. Personally,
00:55:38.960
I mean, I don't know. All I know, all that I'll say personally is that it is, as always,
00:55:46.100
greatly enjoyable to watch a woke corporation get eaten alive by its own woke employees.
00:55:53.160
And yet, I must admit that my satisfaction is impeded somewhat by the realization that the
00:55:59.080
Starbucks drama is not playing out on some distant planet where I can simply watch it unfold
00:56:04.500
through a telescope and laugh and then go about my day. On the contrary, this is all happening right
00:56:09.040
here on this planet in a country that I must share with those involved. That's what makes it in the
00:56:15.600
end less funny and a bit more terrifying. Especially when you consider videos like this one,
00:56:25.080
People wonder why we need a union at Starbucks, and I am literally about to quit. Like, I don't know
00:56:33.560
if I'm going to do it, but like, I really want to. I almost walked out today, and I'm crying in the
00:56:38.080
back room right now, and I almost got on the floor. It's just, I, like, I get, I'm like a full-time
00:56:44.100
student. I get scheduled for 25 hours a week, and then on weekends, they schedule me the entire day
00:56:49.280
open to close. I'm on the schedule for eight and a half hours, both Saturday and Sunday. I'm like
00:56:55.500
three and a half hours into my shift. There's so many customers, and we have four people on the
00:57:00.860
floor all day. Only five people were put on the schedule, and somebody had to call out. And there
00:57:06.760
are four people running the whole store, and there's so many customers, and there's possibly
00:57:10.260
scheduled five people. We only have 13 people employed at this store, and there's so many
00:57:16.700
customers. I have to say, this Blair Witch Project reboot is pretty lame. The barista in this video
00:57:26.740
is a union activist who goes by the name Evan. This is also an Ivy League student, apparently,
00:57:32.360
which I'm sure comes as no surprise. These days, when you see someone curled up on the floor,
00:57:36.320
trembling in fear, muttering, there's so many customers, over and over again, like a trauma
00:57:41.280
victim, the first thing you think is that it must be an Ivy League student. But we haven't yet heard
00:57:46.240
the whole sob story, because there's more to it. Let's continue.
00:57:51.020
We don't have fair scheduling. Managers don't care about us. Our manager was supposed to come in this
00:57:55.480
weekend, and he took himself off the schedule, so he wouldn't be able to be held accountable for
00:57:58.960
calling out. He just literally tore down the schedule that he was scheduled on, and put up a
00:58:02.660
new schedule where he wasn't on the schedule. Also, he couldn't have even seen that he was
00:58:06.040
scheduled in the first place, because he didn't want to be held accountable for not wanting to come in.
00:58:12.940
They don't want to help us. We need a union, because this can't happen. This can't happen. We need fair
00:58:19.280
scheduling. We need managers to hold themselves accountable for helping their workers. They
00:58:25.300
refuse to turn mobile orders off. We need the liberty to be able to do that, because there's so
00:58:28.740
many mobile orders, and I need to get through all of them. And then people are yelling at me,
00:58:32.520
because I don't have their orders ready, and they don't know what to do. And a customer was
00:58:38.120
misgendering me tonight, like, really badly. I didn't have their order ready, and so they were just,
00:58:42.400
like, totally talking to each other, and they're like, she's clearly incompetent.
00:58:45.880
I have a full mustache and beard. What the f***? I don't get accommodations for being
00:58:54.840
neurodivergent. I don't, like, I can't use, like, people get mad at me. It's in my sick time.
00:59:02.160
I don't even know what to do anymore. I only got my wits out with this job. I really am.
00:59:08.880
Okay, a few things here. First of all, having a mustache doesn't mean you're not a woman.
00:59:18.120
Trust me, I know. I've been to the Women's March. Second, I'm not going to judge people simply for
00:59:23.560
whining about their jobs. We all whine about our jobs sometimes, but there is a time and place and
00:59:28.220
context for everything, and whining to the internet while still at your job during your shift in the
00:59:34.500
middle of a rush is neither the correct time nor the correct context nor the correct place. In fact,
00:59:41.180
there is no correct time, place, or context to air your complaints about your job publicly.
00:59:45.880
If you have a problem with your schedule, talk to your manager. If you need to vent,
00:59:51.480
talk to a friend or to your mom or another employee when you're both off the clock.
00:59:57.600
Venting to the entire world is never a good idea. The public can't help you with your problem.
01:00:03.320
We don't know you. We aren't your friend. And our sympathy for the plight of a stranger can only
01:00:09.220
be stretched so far. For many of us, given that we have real stresses and real responsibilities in
01:00:13.720
our lives, sympathizing with a grown adult having a temper tantrum because she has to work eight
01:00:17.840
hours pouring coffee is well beyond our emotional reach. You know, I frequently put in 10 or 11 hours
01:00:24.500
days, and then I come home to help care for my four children, soon to be six. But you're not going to
01:00:30.880
see me huddled back in the storage closet filming a teary-eyed selfie video and complaining about my
01:00:36.700
stresses because I have self-respect and also because I realize that there are a great many
01:00:40.520
people in this world who have much harder lives than I do. I only cry on camera when I'm not given
01:00:47.800
the big stuffed animal that I'm owed. But that's totally different. Now, this video would not be worth
01:00:54.540
commenting on if it was just representing a sort of isolated issue. If it was just this one barista
01:01:01.020
crying about having to work a basic eight-hour shift, I wouldn't be worried about the video.
01:01:05.880
And if extended beyond this one individual but was relegated only to Starbucks baristas,
01:01:10.780
we'd still probably be better off ignoring it. But unfortunately, this represents a society-wide
01:01:16.200
problem. There are a great many people in this country who share this person's attitude. And to be
01:01:21.300
clear, the troublesome attitude is not simply that they don't want to work. I mean, nobody really
01:01:26.060
wants to work. Almost all of us would take a billion dollars and spend the rest of our lives
01:01:30.120
on vacation if that option was presented to us. I have no issue with people who wish they didn't
01:01:34.980
have to put in the work. I wish for a lot of things that are unreasonable or impossible.
01:01:40.860
I'm about to have two newborns in my house again. I wish that they're both going to sleep soundly
01:01:45.100
through the night from the moment that they're born. I wish that my kids would keep their room
01:01:48.880
spotlessly clean. I wish that we could walk out the door without having to look around frantically
01:01:52.960
for somebody's lost shoe or jacket. I wish for many things. If I ever gain access to a magical genie,
01:02:00.160
I will have a whole laundry list of wishes ready to go. But until that day arrives, I accept that things
01:02:06.580
are not exactly how I want them to be. And I carry on with my life and I fulfill my responsibilities
01:02:11.060
anyway. This is the key to adulthood. In fact, this is adulthood. It is what being an adult is all about.
01:02:19.780
You must develop the ability to function and thrive in environments that are not specifically set up
01:02:26.020
to satisfy your every desire and whim. You must be able to cope with frustration and succeed in spite
01:02:33.040
of it and through it. Being an adult in the real world is to be constantly thrust into situations
01:02:38.360
where things are not going exactly how you want them to go. And there's more stress than you would
01:02:44.660
like. And yet carrying on anyway and finding a way to turn even unfortunate circumstances to your
01:02:51.240
advantage in pursuit of your goals. The problem is that we've built a society filled with people who
01:02:57.760
cannot handle any amount of frustration at all. They can't carry on, let alone thrive. They collapse and
01:03:04.000
they melt into a puddle. And rather than converting frustration into opportunity, which is what successful
01:03:10.240
people do, they look to convert everything into pity. Because that's the only currency they're
01:03:16.540
interested in collecting. And the fundamental issue is that while nobody wants to work,
01:03:23.140
these people actually think that they shouldn't have to. They don't just wish for the magical genie.
01:03:28.960
They think that the world owes it to them. And when the world doesn't give them what they believe
01:03:33.920
they're owed, they only cave into themselves even farther. Feeling not only sorry for themselves,
01:03:38.940
but also aggrieved. As though the very realities of human existence are an attack on them personally.
01:03:46.760
You cannot function as an adult this way. And if too many people in a society have this attitude,
01:03:53.040
soon society can no longer function. That's what we're facing now. And it's why I must say to Evan,
01:04:01.220
the Ivy League barista, crying in the storage room, you are today canceled.
01:04:07.060
And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block.
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Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.