Ep. 1079 - The 'Preferred Pronoun' Ritual Deserves Nothing But Mockery And Scorn
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Elon Musk earns the wrath of the left once again for mocking preferred pronouns. Also, MSNBC declares that Brittany Griner s experience proves that black women are oppressed. Meanwhile, global weapons trafficker Victor Bout gives his first interview after being traded back to Russia, and appears to love America more than the woman we traded for. Plus, Dr. Fauci speaks out about the danger children might pose to their grandparents this holiday season. A school board overwhelmingly votes against a school board president based on the fact that he s a cis-white male. And in our daily cancellation, an Olive Garden manager is fired after going nuclear on employees who call out of work.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Elon Musk earns the wrath of the left once again for mocking
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preferred pronoun nonsense, but mockery and scorn is exactly what preferred pronouns deserve.
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Also, MSNBC declares that Brittany Griner's experience proves that black women are oppressed,
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but doesn't it prove actually the opposite of that? Meanwhile, global weapons trafficker
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Victor Bout gives his first interview after being traded back to Russia and appears to love America
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more than the woman we traded for. Plus, Dr. Fauci speaks out about the danger children might pose
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to their grandparents this holiday season. A school board overwhelmingly votes against a
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candidate for a school board president based on the fact that he's a cis white male. And in our
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daily cancellation, an Olive Garden manager is fired after going nuclear on employees who call out of
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work. I'm on the manager side on this one, maybe not surprisingly. All of that and more today on
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go to 40daysforlife.com. Over the weekend, Elon Musk appeared on stage with Dave Chappelle at a show in
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San Francisco. Now, I don't know for sure what sort of reception Musk was expecting, but he's obviously
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a smart guy, so I'm assuming he was not surprised by the reaction he actually received, which sounded like
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I'm going to make some noise for the richest man in the world.
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It sounds like some of them people you fired are in the audience.
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And if we were to watch the rest of that clip, we would hear Musk have a short exchange with Chappelle before shouting the famous Chappelle show line,
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I'm rich and walking off the stage, which is certainly one way to handle this kind of situation and not a bad way either.
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Needless to say, there are, you know, few honors in life greater than being booed by a crowd of low IQ San Franciscans.
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Question, though, is whether anyone in that crowd knew why they were booing.
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Now, they're vaguely aware that Elon Musk is one of the guys they're supposed to hate.
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But if you were to stop them and conduct a poll, maybe as they left the stadium and said, hey, what was that all about?
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They would not be able to articulate why they hate Elon Musk because their hatred is a reflex.
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It's a sort of a tribal response against an outsider.
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All they know is that Musk has taken positions and conveyed ideas that do not follow the leftist orthodoxy.
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He's a mainstream figure who has gone off script and not even that far off script.
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I mean, he could not by any measure be credibly described as right wing.
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Even if the media does describe him that way, he's certainly not.
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But any amount of improvisation, any attempt to think for oneself, especially by a mainstream figure, is apostasy in the minds of many people in the culture.
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Musk would continue off script over the weekend, tweeting on early Sunday morning.
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He said, he tweeted this, my pronouns are prosecute slash Fauci.
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Now, this was a fascinating experiment in some ways because the left had to choose whether to be primarily angry that he was mocking the high priest Fauci or that he was mocking LGBT dogma.
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Now, they could be angry about both, of course.
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They could be angry about many things all at once.
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It's perhaps their only skill, juggling multiple outrages.
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But the ensuing outrage cycle would have to revolve primarily around one or the other because that's the way outrage cycles work.
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And it's no surprise that the LGBT desecration is what attracted the most ire.
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Because on the left, you know, Fauci is a high priest, but LGBT people are deities.
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So even he must take a back seat in this kind of situation.
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There are many furious responses, you know, accusing Musk of transphobia and homophobia and so on because he was making fun of the pronoun stuff.
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One of the responses drew an additional reply from Musk himself.
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Former astronaut Scott Kelly posted, quote, Elon, please don't mock and promote hate toward already marginalized and at risk of violence members of the LGBTQ plus community.
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Furthermore, Dr. Fauci is a dedicated public servant whose sole motivation was saving lives.
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And to that, Musk replied, quote, I strongly disagree.
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Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn't ask and implicitly ostracizing those who don't is neither good nor kind to anyone.
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As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people.
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As for the rest of this, I think there are two important points as we're having another national discourse on pronouns.
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First, contrary to Scott Kelly's claims, LGBT people are not in the slightest bit marginalized.
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They are, in fact, the least marginalized people in the history of the human race.
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I don't think that there's ever been a demographic, a group of people, a quote-unquote community that has been less marginalized than LGBT people in modern America.
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And I can justify that based on the fact that when you compare their percentages in the population to their influence and their representation in the culture,
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and the amount of over-the-top adulation and worship they receive, you quickly see that they belong to a very unique category.
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Entire months on the calendar are devoted to celebrating them.
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When's the last time a marginalized group in society had a month to themselves?
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Not just a month, not just one month, but months and then weeks after that and multiple days.
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They have their own flags, which are draped all over schools and government buildings.
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Every major corporation in the country bows at their feet.
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Celebrities go out of their way to identify themselves as members of this club.
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People are desperate to be a part of this marginalized community, so-called.
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And it's not because everyone likes to be marginalized.
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Throughout history, what you find is that when it comes to actually oppressed and marginalized groups in history,
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if anything, people are trying to present themselves as though they're not a part of that group, even if they are,
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because they don't want to be marginalized and oppressed.
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So why is everyone clamoring to be a part of this marginalized group?
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It's because everyone knows that the marginalization claim is total nonsense.
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Second, Elon Musk is right to mock the pronoun thing.
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This is what we need people in the mainstream to do.
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Explaining your arguments about why you disagree with the pronoun stuff.
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But heaping pure mockery and scorn on the entire ritual is even better.
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The exchanging of pronouns, the listing of pronouns, it is a ritual.
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It is a symbolic gesture meant to signal an individual's affirmation and assent to LGBT dogma.
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This is not just a routine relegated to Twitter bios anymore.
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Schools and workplaces increasingly expect and demand participation in the liturgy of pronouns.
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And they usually give reasons like tolerance and professionalism to justify the intrusion of preferred pronouns into these spaces.
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CBS News outlined the case in a recent article titled,
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Everything You Need to Know About Gender Pronouns at Work.
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It is increasingly common for professionals of all stripes to include a line in their digital signatures below their name or title indicating what gender pronouns they use.
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That may read something like she, her, hers, or they, them, theirs, and specifics on how an individual wants to be addressed other than by their name.
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For some people who are gender non-binary or transgender, being misgendered can cause discomfort and anxiety.
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Quote, being misgendered is a dehumanizing experience.
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It's being reminded again and again that you don't exist as your gender in other people's eyes, said Cammie Seitz-Churner,
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a co-founder of a tutoring cooperative who uses the pronouns they, them.
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Advocates stress how important it is that companies develop policies around personal pronoun use as part of their inclusion efforts,
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More simply, it's a matter of respecting everyone in the workplace.
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It is the leftist version of, if you can imagine, a secular school or workplace strongly encouraging students and employees to do the sign of the cross periodically throughout the day.
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This would not be a way of including Catholics.
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Okay, Catholics are already free to do the sign of the cross whenever they want,
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but pressuring others to engage in a symbolic ritual act which signals assent to a belief system they don't even hold is not tolerance.
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And in the case of the sign of the cross, such a policy would be considered wildly illegal,
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and any secular school or workplace that initiated it would be sued into oblivion.
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Pronouns are not treated the same way because they are a symbol of the LGBT religion,
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which is now our unofficial and maybe eventually official state religion.
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This is why it's so necessary that we resist the pronoun garbage and mock it ruthlessly whenever we get the opportunity.
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People who demand that you adopt their belief system deserve nothing but scorn.
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And there is no neutral way to look at any of this.
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The very concept of an individual having a pronoun,
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these are my pronouns, what are your pronouns, it's nonsensical.
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You can't have a pronoun anymore than you can have a preposition or an adverb.
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So, when someone asks you what your pronouns are,
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any attempt to sincerely answer the question is a concession that the question makes sense.
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It concedes that each individual gets to take possession of their own pronoun,
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So, if you're a man and somebody asks you what your pronouns are,
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and you think that you're not participating in the game if you just tell them,
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Well, you actually are taking part in the game.
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Because you're not actually, in this exchange, the way the symbolism works,
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you're not actually declaring yourself to be a man.
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You're rather declaring that you perceive yourself to be a man.
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As if there's some sort of meaningful or relative or relevant or definitional distinction
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between what you are and what you perceive yourself to be.
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You are playing the game, whether you mean to or not.
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It's really no different than, when someone says, what are your pronouns, what they're really asking you,
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But if you just say man, then again, you're going along with it.
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The actual answer you want to give is like, what do you mean perceive myself?
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When it comes to pronouns, the appropriate response then to the question of what are your pronouns
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must be something along the lines of, that question makes no sense.
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Or you can cut out the first sentence and just go right to the second.
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As long as it's something that communicates your refusal to surrender to this madness
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and your contempt for the fact that it's being pushed on you to begin with.
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Well, I got to start here because we just knew that this was coming.
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We knew it was probably, not only is it coming, but it's probably going to come from MSNBC, and it did.
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Again, Brittany Griner is finally freed, but her peril is that of black women in America.
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Okay, now reading a little bit from this article on MSNBC.
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It says, when tennis star Serena Williams gave birth to her daughter in 2017,
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she nearly died because doctors did not believe her when she cried out in pain.
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As it turns out, Williams, the most famous athlete, the world's most famous athlete, it says,
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which I don't think that's true at all, that Serena Williams is the world's most famous athlete, but whatever,
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It would be hours before doctors agreed to do a CAT scan and rushed to break up the clotting before it reached her heart.
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Williams was at the mercy of a medical system that is uniquely fatal for black women.
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The state of powerlessness black women, including Serena Williams, are relegated to
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is a phenomenon sociologist and author Tressie McMillan-Cotton discussed in her memoir, Thick, and other essays.
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It supersedes even the most powerful status cultures in all of neoliberal capitalism, wealth, and fame, Cotton wrote.
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The same can be said for American basketball player Brittany Griner,
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who has been sitting in a Russian prison cell for over five months for carrying 0.7 ounces of cannabis oil in her luggage.
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Cannabis from a vape cartridge, which her lawyer said she only brought to Russia by accident.
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Griner, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, WNBA champion, pleaded guilty to drug charges,
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the result of which could put her behind bars for up to 10 years.
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Now, as I'm reading this, you're picking up on the fact that this is a little bit, this is not exactly up to date.
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And then after she's released, it's repackaged and published again.
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And what makes that so funny is that the manner and circumstances of her release
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So rather than putting an update and saying, well, forget about all this nonsense.
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Rather than doing that, they're just putting it out again, reasserting it.
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They were trying to position what's happening to Brittany Griner as somehow, you know,
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she's being uniquely victimized in some way because she's a black woman.
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And yet, this again is written in July, and then you fast forward a few months,
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and they trade the most notorious global arms dealer in the world just for her.
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And they've got three people they could conceivably choose between, her and then two white men.
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And they trade just for her and leave the other two.
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And rather than the media, like, reassessing their, you know, claims that she was being uniquely victimized
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because she was a black woman, rather than doing that, they just go ahead and reassert it.
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And no matter what happens, just like climate change, no matter what actually happens,
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It's interesting, too, starting with this anecdote about Serena Williams.
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And, you know, as always, the focus on identity politics only ensures that you miss the point entirely.
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So, the issue with Serena Williams, apparently, is that she was in pain,
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and the doctors, I guess, weren't taking the pain seriously.
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And that could have been very, very bad because they weren't taking it seriously enough,
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and it turns out she had a blood clot in her lungs, which is a very bad situation.
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But they're trying to connect this to the fact that she's a black woman,
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which just, it prevents the conversation from reaching any useful conclusions at all.
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Because, of course, this is an issue that happens to anyone, potentially, when they're in the hospital.
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I went to, and this wasn't a potentially life-threatening situation,
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but when I busted my Achilles, I went to the hospital, I went to the emergency room,
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totally busted Achilles, and I go there, and they tell me that it's just a strain
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and then I asked, you know, it's the first time I left where I actually asked for pain medication.
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They gave me, they said, well, just take some Tylenol.
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Go home and take some Tylenol, put some ice on it.
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A week later, I go to a specialist, and they say, oh, yeah, it's not a strain.
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So, suffering and a lot of pain for a week because of this.
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Now, I'm a white man, so I didn't have the marginalized identity to explain this.
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Well, you know, from the perspective of the medical staff,
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one thing is that they've got a lot of people coming in all the time,
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and sometimes they are exaggerating their pains,
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and sometimes they're doing that because they want the drugs and all that,
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Doesn't make it okay, but it just means that, again,
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when you're trying to explain everything through identity politics,
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you know, because Democrats, they've spent time over the weekend
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doing some of the Sunday shows and some of the cable news shows
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I don't know, I can't remember the exact number.
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his weapons might have been used to kill Americans.
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that Americans should know that the sovereignty of their nation
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Unless you're Paul Whalen or Mark Vogel, right?
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I wonder, and I don't have any clips to back this up,
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like every other Democrat on the national stage,
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then it's effectively like you killed those people.
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having kids is they do keep you humble, and it's always a nice ego check. So we took the family to
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here in Nashville. It's the Gaylord Opryland Resort, and they have this whole winter Christmas
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Wonderland thing they do every single year, and you go, and there's like different winter-related
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activities, including ice skating. So we went there, and I think I've gone ice skating maybe
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twice in my life, but in this case, you know, the kids wanted to go ice skating, and they didn't
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want to be out on the ice alone. My wife obviously can't go because she's pregnant, so I said, okay,
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I'll go out there, put the ice skates on, I'll go out and skate with you guys, and I did, and I didn't
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fall. I actually thought I did very well. You know, I was proud of myself. I was skating around with the
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kids, and I thought, like, I'm pretty good at this. I'm actually a natural. I might get into hockey or
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something. This is, wow, I am good at this, and then on my way, on the way home, and I was still,
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you know, thinking about what a good skater I am. My son says to me, because my youngest son didn't
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want to go skating, so he was sitting with my wife and, like, watching us, and he says, Daddy,
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you look funny out there. You look like a penguin out on the ice. I said, oh, thanks, because you were
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waddling. Yeah, thanks. You looked really funny. I got it. Thank you. So, I thought I looked great,
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but apparently I was humiliating myself the whole time. Joke's on you, though, because penguins are
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very gifted on the ice, so I take that as a compliment. This from Lil One says, I'm a black
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woman, and I think it's ultra ridiculous that they traded a gay weed smoker for a Russian arms dealer
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in the middle of a Russian war. That is ridiculous, and that's, you know, you don't need to be any
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particular identity to see the absurdity of this. Lauren the Wolf says, the issue is not that we are
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treating weird as normal. It's that we're treating sin as virtue. Yeah, I think, I don't think it has to
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be either or, Lauren. I think it's a false choice. I think it's, I think the issue is both. Yeah, we
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are treating sin as virtue. When we talk about virtue signaling, that's why I've never, I use the
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phrase because we all kind of know what it means, what we're referring to, but it's, virtue signaling
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is actually vice signaling. It's sin signaling. The things that are being signaled are never actually
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virtues. So that is the problem in the culture, but it is all, it is also the, the, we have this attack
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on normalcy. We're conditioning people, especially kids, to believe that normal doesn't exist. There's
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no such thing as normal, or even that normal is bad. You don't want to be normal. And so I think both
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are happening. Let's see. Summer says, am I the only one who has become increasingly more frustrated
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every time someone says that she, Brittany Griner, was wrongfully detained? She broke the law and got
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caught. What am I missing? Yeah, she wasn't wrongfully detained. I mean, the, the, the sentence of
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whatever, I forget what the sentence was supposed to be, but many years in, you know, forced, a forced
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labor camp for having a vape cartridge. I think we can agree that that's an overly harsh, and I'm all
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about law and order. Uh, I don't think I would advocate for, for that in this country. Now I do
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advocate for, uh, for labor camps for prisoners. I think we should go back to that, but, uh, I don't
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think I'd give you 10 years in forced labor because you had a vape cartridge, but she did break the law
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and she was detained for that the same way that any of us would be. Including by the way, in, in American
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airports. If you try to go through an American airport with, with drug paraphernalia, you're
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going to get arrested for that. You get arrested for a lot less than that in American airport.
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So I think you're right. Uh, Sam says, hi, Matt. Last week, a coworker actually confided in me that
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his two children are experiencing a lot of anxiety about the climate crisis. First time I've ever
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encountered that level of wokeness in the wild, apparently it's not all just on Twitter. That's,
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it is absolutely not just on Twitter. Just like with the pronouns, it's, uh, some of this stuff
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might in some ways, you know, uh, social media is a, a vector for this. Um, this is how it spreads,
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but it is out in society as well. Including for the, for, uh, you know, kids having climate anxiety,
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which will never fail to infuriate me when I hear about that. Because there's, kids are not
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coming up with that on their own. Okay. A child is not going to walk outside in the summertime
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and just on his own, come up with this idea that, well, this signals that the ice caps are going to
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melt. We're all going to drown. He has to be told that. So we are, we are giving this anxiety to
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children, which by the way, even if it was true that we're on the verge of planetary extinction
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because of climate change, which it isn't, but even if it was, it would still be unthinkable
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to put that on a child. What's he going to do with that? Aside from be plagued by anxiety with
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apparently the very few years we all have left. Well, it was a big year for me personally. I made my
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That Exposed the Effects of Corrosive Gender Ideology. I also held the rally to end child
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today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Now this may surprise you, but I'm going to disagree
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with the majority opinion about something. I don't think of myself as a contrarian,
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contrary to what most people say about me, but on this, I must dissent. A manager in Olive Garden
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in Kansas has been fired after sending an angry email to employees telling them that they may not
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call out of work for any reason. And if they claim that their dog died as an excuse for coming to
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work, they have to bring the dead dog in as proof. Now the manager, whose name has not been published,
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thankfully, was fired. And most people have applauded the decision after the email went viral,
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but I'm on the manager's side of this and I'll explain why. But first here's the story from a
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local CBS affiliate. It says a Johnson County restaurant manager sent a harsh message to employees
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about taking time off and was subsequently fired. An Olive Garden media relations representative
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confirmed to KCTV5, a manager at the restaurant on 95th street sent the below message to staffers.
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And here's the message in full. This is what it says. Quote, our call-offs are occurring at a
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staggering rate. From now on, if you call off, you might as well go out and look for another job.
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We are no longer tolerating any excuse for calling off. If you're sick, you need to come prove it to
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us. If your dog died, you need to bring him in and prove it to us. If it's a family emergency and you
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can't say, too bad, go work somewhere else. If you only want morning shifts, too bad, go work at a
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bank. If anyone from here on out calls out more than once in the next 30 days, you will not have
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a job. Do you know in my 11 and a half years at Darden how many times I called off? Zero. I came in
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sick. I got in a wreck literally on my way to work one time. Airbags went off and my car was totaled.
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But you know what? I made it there on time. There are no excuses. Us collectively as a management team
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have had enough. If you don't want to work here, don't. It's as simple as that. If you're here and
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want to work, then work. No more complaining about not being cut or not being able to leave early.
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You're in the restaurant business. Do you think I want to be here until midnight on Friday and
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Saturday? No, I'd much rather be at home with my husband and dog going to the movies or seeing
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family. But I don't. I'm dedicated to being here, as should you. No more excuses or complaints. I hope
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you choose to continue to work here. And I think we, the management, make it as easy as we can on
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y'all. Thank you for your time. And thank you to those who come to work every day and work hard.
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I wish there were more like you. Okay. That's a message. Olive Garden announced that it had parted
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ways with the manager after this was released. It was a predictable decision, but the wrong one.
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Now, obviously there's some hyperbole there. You shouldn't actually bring a dead dog into a
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restaurant. This is Olive Garden, not Panda Express, for God's sake. And of course, it's conceivable
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that a person could have a reason to call out more than once in a 30-day period. I rarely call in sick
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to work, but I missed an entire week a few months ago after I lost my voice. Not a lot I can do
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without a voice. Though even then, I still dragged myself to work and I recorded a segment in subtitles.
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That's how committed I am to my job. Or it's how committed I am to trolling. You decide. Perhaps
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there's not much difference between the two. At any rate, the point is that there is reason to object to
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this manager's message to employees if you insist on taking it absolutely literally.
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But a more charitable interpretation is that this person is trying to run a restaurant and yet is
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sabotaged every step of the way by spoiled, entitled brats who want a paycheck but don't want to put the
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work in to earn it. And these are frustrations shared by a great many managers in the restaurant
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and retail space and other industries. Call-outs and no-shows are at an all-time high.
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And it's not because everyone's dogs are dying all of a sudden. It's not because there's a record
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number of family emergencies. If it's a medical emergency driving this problem, the medical
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emergency is a severe allergy to hard work. I think that's the real epidemic happening here.
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This is an affliction which has spread across an entire generation and beyond. And the people who are
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trying desperately to keep our economy afloat by keeping these businesses open, they're fed up
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and they're furious and they should be. If I was in charge of Oligarden, I wouldn't fire that manager.
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I'd give them a raise and a promotion because this is exactly the no-nonsense, get-your-crap-together
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attitude that we need. Now, of course, there is another side to the story. I made a condensed
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version of the point I just articulated on Twitter over the weekend and Lauren Southern responded,
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Well, people are fed up working jobs with no upward mobility, no living wage thanks to inflation,
00:54:56.500
and no real benefit to their community. Multinational corporations. Workers don't care anymore because
00:55:01.420
a manager that asks you to bring your dead dog in clearly doesn't care about them either.
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Now, Lauren and I went back and forth several times. And although this breaks the rules of arguments
00:55:11.460
on the internet, we still respected and appreciated each other by the end of it. I've been a fan of Lauren's
00:55:16.480
for a long time and still am. And she raises an important point here, which I don't fundamentally
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disagree with. It's true that many people are disillusioned and demoralized and they have no
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hope. They're dropping out of a system that they feel is rigged against them. So she's right about
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that. And I made a similar point, or at least a related point, in one of my monologues last week.
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It's an important aspect of this problem and it's important that we talk about it. But there are other
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realities which also must be acknowledged. Because this is not a simple matter of the working class
00:55:48.380
rising up against their wealthy oppressors. The people left holding the bag here, such as managers
00:55:53.760
at Olive Garden, they're working class too. And it's worth sticking up for them. And on that note,
00:56:00.420
a few points. First, many of the workers who are giving up and throwing in the towel are young,
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like late teens, early twenties. These are not people who've been grinding it out for years and
00:56:13.900
have finally become exhausted by it. Most of the shift workers at Olive Garden, they are not going
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to be people in their fifties who've been slaving away for decades only to have their opportunities
00:56:23.140
for greater success stolen away by various misfortunes and calamities out of their control.
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There may certainly be some people in that category, but a greater number are young adults in
00:56:33.220
college or just out of college or who never went to college, but are around that same age. And if
00:56:38.580
you're in this demographic and you've already stopped trying, that's a whole lot less understandable
00:56:45.060
because you never started trying. You can't be fed up with something that you've never even
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done. You're in your early twenties. How do you think life is supposed to go for you at that age?
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Do you think you're supposed to enter adulthood and immediately be rewarded with the kind of wealth
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and fortune and job security that most people work decades to attain? What did you expect?
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Working at Olive Garden sucks. Of course it does. Of course it does. No one ever said it doesn't.
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There's no version of working at Olive Garden that won't suck. But you got to start somewhere.
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You got to pay your dues. You have to work your way towards whatever it is you want. It's not going
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to be handed to. A very small fraction of human beings in the history of the world have been born
00:57:28.140
so wealthy that they never have to work for anything in their lives. But if you, like me,
00:57:33.200
are not in that category, then there is no option but to build for yourself whatever kind of life you
00:57:40.780
want. Or rather, there is no other respectable, honorable option. Unfortunately, our society does
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provide the option of coasting by, living off of the very system you pretend to oppose while profiting
00:57:53.360
from the work done by others. And as I've often preached, life requires work. Life is work. I wish
00:58:00.680
it wasn't that way. But it is. The only question is whether you will do the work necessary to sustain
00:58:08.600
your own existence or if you'll find a way to force someone else to do it for you. Door number two was
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never available to most humans who have lived on the planet. But it is available for us.
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Okay? Because as it turns out, the system that really controls things, this is what they want.
00:58:28.220
They want you to be a lazy good for nothing, just coasting through life with no ambition,
00:58:33.400
no real desires, no plan, nothing. They want you to be satisfied with being merely fed and distracted.
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That's what they want. So they've made this option available to us. And you think you could
00:58:51.180
protest that system by doing exactly what they want, by becoming the sort of person they want you
00:58:56.220
to be, which is like a non-person, a non-entity, just a big nothing who does nothing and contributes
00:59:04.780
nothing at all to the world. So if you walk through that door, you will be entering into a
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life of mere existence, mere satiation. You will not find success. You will not find dignity. You will
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not find joy. And most of all, if you take door number two, you cannot pretend that you're above it
00:59:28.340
all, that you're fed up with the grind, that you found a more enlightened way to live. That's not
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the case because you're still very much dependent on those who are in the grind, those who are doing
00:59:40.400
what you will not do, and are now forced to work even harder just to subsidize you.
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You notice that there's employees at the Olive Garden that don't want to put the work in.
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They still want the paycheck, right? But in order to have a paycheck, the restaurant needs to stay
01:00:00.120
open, needs to exist. And they don't want to contribute much to making that happen, but they
01:00:05.520
need someone to do it, right? They need enough people there at Olive Garden to keep that damn place
01:00:11.660
open so that they can keep getting the paycheck they want. So they are just handing off all of those
01:00:21.420
responsibilities to someone else, having someone else do it for them. Someone else who is also
01:00:27.000
working class, someone else who is also not wealthy. They're not passing it off to the CEO of Olive Garden,
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you're passing it off to the other, just whoever there at Olive Garden, to whatever patsy you can find
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to do the work that you won't do. Because in the end, you must work. You don't have to like it.
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You don't have to think it's fair. But if you wish to keep your dignity and the moral high ground or
01:00:53.600
any moral ground at all, there is no other option. Some people understand this, like the Olive Garden
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manager, and they live accordingly. And so often, the ones who do the work only get insult to add to
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injury time and time again, they become the bad guy. They're doing everything. They're the only reason
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that these good-for-nothings have a freaking paycheck to begin with, and they end up the bad guys.
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No. Not in this segment, anyway. That's why it is not the Olive Garden manager who is canceled,
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but the lazy employees with their fake dead dogs and made-up sick family members. They are the ones
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who are today canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the
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members block. Thanks for, I hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.