The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1079 - The 'Preferred Pronoun' Ritual Deserves Nothing But Mockery And Scorn

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Elon Musk earns the wrath of the left once again for mocking

00:00:04.480 preferred pronoun nonsense, but mockery and scorn is exactly what preferred pronouns deserve. 0.54

00:00:09.720 Also, MSNBC declares that Brittany Griner's experience proves that black women are oppressed, 0.64

00:00:15.200 but doesn't it prove actually the opposite of that? Meanwhile, global weapons trafficker

00:00:18.340 Victor Bout gives his first interview after being traded back to Russia and appears to love America

00:00:22.760 more than the woman we traded for. Plus, Dr. Fauci speaks out about the danger children might pose

00:00:28.520 to their grandparents this holiday season. A school board overwhelmingly votes against a

00:00:32.500 candidate for a school board president based on the fact that he's a cis white male. And in our

00:00:36.560 daily cancellation, an Olive Garden manager is fired after going nuclear on employees who call out of

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00:01:49.280 go to 40daysforlife.com. Over the weekend, Elon Musk appeared on stage with Dave Chappelle at a show in

00:01:57.060 San Francisco. Now, I don't know for sure what sort of reception Musk was expecting, but he's obviously

00:02:02.900 a smart guy, so I'm assuming he was not surprised by the reaction he actually received, which sounded like

00:02:09.360 this.

00:02:11.360 I'm going to make some noise for the richest man in the world.

00:02:15.360 Oh yeah!

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00:02:25.360 Cheers and booze, I say.

00:02:50.240 Elon.

00:02:52.960 Hey, Dave.

00:02:55.360 What expected of this, were you?

00:03:08.020 It sounds like some of them people you fired are in the audience.

00:03:15.120 So they don't seem to like him very much.

00:03:17.000 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,

00:03:23.760 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.

00:03:31.160 Needless to say, there are, you know, few honors in life greater than being booed by a crowd of low IQ San Franciscans. 1.00

00:03:38.800 Question, though, is whether anyone in that crowd knew why they were booing.

00:03:43.940 Now, they're vaguely aware that Elon Musk is one of the guys they're supposed to hate.

00:03:48.400 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?

00:03:55.020 Why do you guys hate him?

00:03:56.320 Would they be able to explain their hatred?

00:03:58.760 That seems pretty unlikely.

00:04:01.460 They would not be able to articulate why they hate Elon Musk because their hatred is a reflex.

00:04:06.160 It's a result of cultural conditioning.

00:04:08.140 It's a sort of a tribal response against an outsider.

00:04:11.900 All they know is that Musk has taken positions and conveyed ideas that do not follow the leftist orthodoxy.

00:04:18.680 He's a mainstream figure who has gone off script and not even that far off script.

00:04:23.560 I mean, he could not by any measure be credibly described as right wing.

00:04:28.160 Even if the media does describe him that way, he's certainly not.

00:04:30.900 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.

00:04:44.320 Musk would continue off script over the weekend, tweeting on early Sunday morning.

00:04:49.040 He said, he tweeted this, my pronouns are prosecute slash Fauci.

00:04:53.740 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.

00:05:07.600 Now, they could be angry about both, of course.

00:05:09.660 They could be angry about many things all at once.

00:05:11.960 It's perhaps their only skill, juggling multiple outrages.

00:05:15.740 But the ensuing outrage cycle would have to revolve primarily around one or the other because that's the way outrage cycles work. 1.00

00:05:22.680 And it's no surprise that the LGBT desecration is what attracted the most ire. 1.00

00:05:28.100 Because on the left, you know, Fauci is a high priest, but LGBT people are deities. 0.97

00:05:34.340 So even he must take a back seat in this kind of situation.

00:05:38.160 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.

00:05:46.440 One of the responses drew an additional reply from Musk himself.

00:05:51.000 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.

00:06:02.820 They are real people with real feelings.

00:06:05.680 Furthermore, Dr. Fauci is a dedicated public servant whose sole motivation was saving lives.

00:06:10.680 And to that, Musk replied, quote, I strongly disagree.

00:06:15.100 Forcing your pronouns upon others when they didn't ask and implicitly ostracizing those who don't is neither good nor kind to anyone.

00:06:22.500 As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people.

00:06:27.240 Not awesome, in my opinion.

00:06:29.720 Not awesome indeed.

00:06:30.760 As for the rest of this, I think there are two important points as we're having another national discourse on pronouns.

00:06:38.920 First, contrary to Scott Kelly's claims, LGBT people are not in the slightest bit marginalized.

00:06:46.940 They are, in fact, the least marginalized people in the history of the human race.

00:06:53.020 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.

00:07:04.200 Okay?

00:07:04.640 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,

00:07:14.340 and the amount of over-the-top adulation and worship they receive, you quickly see that they belong to a very unique category.

00:07:22.320 Entire months on the calendar are devoted to celebrating them.

00:07:26.640 When's the last time a marginalized group in society had a month to themselves?

00:07:30.560 Not just a month, not just one month, but months and then weeks after that and multiple days.

00:07:36.380 They have their own flags, which are draped all over schools and government buildings.

00:07:40.320 Every major corporation in the country bows at their feet.

00:07:44.440 Celebrities go out of their way to identify themselves as members of this club.

00:07:49.040 People are desperate to be a part of this marginalized community, so-called. 0.92

00:07:56.720 And it's not because everyone likes to be marginalized.

00:07:59.440 That's not the case.

00:08:00.400 Throughout history, what you find is that when it comes to actually oppressed and marginalized groups in history,

00:08:06.000 if anything, people are trying to present themselves as though they're not a part of that group, even if they are,

00:08:13.320 because they don't want to be marginalized and oppressed.

00:08:16.840 So why is everyone clamoring to be a part of this marginalized group?

00:08:19.620 It's because everyone knows that the marginalization claim is total nonsense.

00:08:25.000 Second, Elon Musk is right to mock the pronoun thing.

00:08:30.720 This is what we need people in the mainstream to do.

00:08:33.660 It's what we all need to be doing.

00:08:34.600 Okay, arguing against it is fine.

00:08:38.220 Explaining your arguments about why you disagree with the pronoun stuff.

00:08:41.440 But heaping pure mockery and scorn on the entire ritual is even better.

00:08:46.460 Because that's what all this is.

00:08:48.460 The exchanging of pronouns, the listing of pronouns, it is a ritual.

00:08:52.260 It's a religious rite.

00:08:54.080 It is a symbolic gesture meant to signal an individual's affirmation and assent to LGBT dogma. 0.90

00:09:00.900 And it's spreading everywhere.

00:09:03.200 This is not just a routine relegated to Twitter bios anymore.

00:09:06.340 Schools and workplaces increasingly expect and demand participation in the liturgy of pronouns.

00:09:12.140 And they usually give reasons like tolerance and professionalism to justify the intrusion of preferred pronouns into these spaces.

00:09:20.000 CBS News outlined the case in a recent article titled,

00:09:23.600 Everything You Need to Know About Gender Pronouns at Work.

00:09:26.240 And it begins by saying,

00:09:28.260 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.

00:09:36.700 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.

00:09:43.820 For some people who are gender non-binary or transgender, being misgendered can cause discomfort and anxiety.

00:09:49.320 Quote, being misgendered is a dehumanizing experience.

00:09:52.660 It's being reminded again and again that you don't exist as your gender in other people's eyes, said Cammie Seitz-Churner,

00:09:58.780 a co-founder of a tutoring cooperative who uses the pronouns they, them.

00:10:03.060 Advocates stress how important it is that companies develop policies around personal pronoun use as part of their inclusion efforts,

00:10:10.280 in part so LGBTQ people feel safe at work.

00:10:13.320 More simply, it's a matter of respecting everyone in the workplace.

00:10:17.040 But this, of course, is nonsense.

00:10:20.220 This is not inclusion.

00:10:21.260 This is not respect.

00:10:23.220 This is forced conversion.

00:10:25.900 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.

00:10:36.620 This would not be a way of including Catholics.

00:10:40.160 Okay, Catholics are already free to do the sign of the cross whenever they want,

00:10:43.380 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.

00:10:53.700 It is, again, indoctrination.

00:10:55.360 And in the case of the sign of the cross, such a policy would be considered wildly illegal,

00:11:02.240 and any secular school or workplace that initiated it would be sued into oblivion.

00:11:07.400 Pronouns are not treated the same way because they are a symbol of the LGBT religion,

00:11:12.580 which is now our unofficial and maybe eventually official state religion.

00:11:16.860 This is why it's so necessary that we resist the pronoun garbage and mock it ruthlessly whenever we get the opportunity. 0.92

00:11:26.860 People who demand that you adopt their belief system deserve nothing but scorn. 0.87

00:11:33.540 And there is no neutral way to look at any of this.

00:11:36.760 The very concept of an individual having a pronoun,

00:11:40.900 these are my pronouns, what are your pronouns, it's nonsensical.

00:11:46.080 Because in reality, nobody has pronouns.

00:11:48.860 You can't have a pronoun anymore than you can have a preposition or an adverb.

00:11:52.440 The concept doesn't make any sense.

00:11:55.600 Pronouns are not things that you can own.

00:11:57.400 They're not like accessories.

00:11:59.420 They are parts of speech.

00:12:01.880 That's it.

00:12:02.640 You don't get to customize them.

00:12:03.940 So, when someone asks you what your pronouns are,

00:12:08.380 any attempt to sincerely answer the question is a concession that the question makes sense.

00:12:15.880 It concedes that each individual gets to take possession of their own pronoun,

00:12:20.340 which are dependent on their self-perception.

00:12:22.820 So, if you're a man and somebody asks you what your pronouns are,

00:12:27.060 and you think that you're not participating in the game if you just tell them,

00:12:30.440 well, my pronouns are he, him.

00:12:31.440 Well, you actually are taking part in the game.

00:12:35.000 Because you're not actually, in this exchange, the way the symbolism works,

00:12:38.920 you're not actually declaring yourself to be a man.

00:12:41.320 You're rather declaring that you perceive yourself to be a man.

00:12:45.000 As if there's some sort of meaningful or relative or relevant or definitional distinction

00:12:51.300 between what you are and what you perceive yourself to be.

00:12:54.760 You are playing the game, whether you mean to or not.

00:13:01.400 It's really no different than, when someone says, what are your pronouns, what they're really asking you,

00:13:04.360 what gender do you perceive yourself to be?

00:13:06.460 That's what the question is.

00:13:08.280 But if you just say man, then again, you're going along with it. 0.96

00:13:11.840 The actual answer you want to give is like, what do you mean perceive myself?

00:13:15.280 I am a man.

00:13:16.400 That's it.

00:13:16.980 That's what I am.

00:13:17.980 It's not about what I perceive myself to be.

00:13:19.600 It's just simply what I am.

00:13:22.620 So I reject the framing of that question.

00:13:26.480 When it comes to pronouns, the appropriate response then to the question of what are your pronouns

00:13:30.120 must be something along the lines of, that question makes no sense.

00:13:35.320 Leave me the hell alone.

00:13:37.480 Or you can cut out the first sentence and just go right to the second.

00:13:40.720 Either option works.

00:13:42.100 Or come up with your own variation.

00:13:43.920 As long as it's something that communicates your refusal to surrender to this madness

00:13:49.980 and your contempt for the fact that it's being pushed on you to begin with.

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00:14:51.880 Well, I got to start here because we just knew that this was coming.

00:14:56.580 We knew it was probably, not only is it coming, but it's probably going to come from MSNBC, and it did.

00:15:02.500 So here's the headline over the weekend.

00:15:04.960 Again, Brittany Griner is finally freed, but her peril is that of black women in America. 1.00

00:15:12.180 Okay, now reading a little bit from this article on MSNBC.

00:15:15.740 It says, when tennis star Serena Williams gave birth to her daughter in 2017,

00:15:19.700 she nearly died because doctors did not believe her when she cried out in pain.

00:15:23.380 As it turns out, Williams, the most famous athlete, the world's most famous athlete, it says,

00:15:27.860 which I don't think that's true at all, that Serena Williams is the world's most famous athlete, but whatever,

00:15:32.180 was suffering from blood clots in her lungs.

00:15:35.380 It would be hours before doctors agreed to do a CAT scan and rushed to break up the clotting before it reached her heart.

00:15:40.420 Despite all of her prestige and achievements,

00:15:42.880 Williams was at the mercy of a medical system that is uniquely fatal for black women. 1.00

00:15:47.240 The state of powerlessness black women, including Serena Williams, are relegated to 1.00

00:15:50.340 is a phenomenon sociologist and author Tressie McMillan-Cotton discussed in her memoir, Thick, and other essays.

00:15:56.280 It supersedes even the most powerful status cultures in all of neoliberal capitalism, wealth, and fame, Cotton wrote.

00:16:02.680 The same can be said for American basketball player Brittany Griner, 0.97

00:16:05.620 who has been sitting in a Russian prison cell for over five months for carrying 0.7 ounces of cannabis oil in her luggage.

00:16:12.140 Cannabis from a vape cartridge, which her lawyer said she only brought to Russia by accident.

00:16:17.200 Griner, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, WNBA champion, pleaded guilty to drug charges,

00:16:21.100 the result of which could put her behind bars for up to 10 years. 0.99

00:16:23.660 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.

00:16:30.140 So this was written before she was released.

00:16:33.820 It was written back in the summer.

00:16:35.900 And then after she's released, it's repackaged and published again.

00:16:43.560 And what makes that so funny is that the manner and circumstances of her release

00:16:49.600 disprove the thesis of the article.

00:16:54.340 So rather than putting an update and saying, well, forget about all this nonsense.

00:16:57.580 We were actually wrong about this.

00:17:00.100 Rather than doing that, they're just putting it out again, reasserting it.

00:17:05.200 They were trying to position what's happening to Brittany Griner as somehow, you know,

00:17:09.340 she's being uniquely victimized in some way because she's a black woman. 1.00

00:17:14.580 And yet, this again is written in July, and then you fast forward a few months,

00:17:20.280 and they trade the most notorious global arms dealer in the world just for her. 0.91

00:17:27.540 And they've got three people they could conceivably choose between, her and then two white men.

00:17:33.320 And they trade just for her and leave the other two. 0.95

00:17:36.280 And rather than the media, like, reassessing their, you know, claims that she was being uniquely victimized

00:17:47.300 because she was a black woman, rather than doing that, they just go ahead and reassert it.

00:17:49.980 Because it doesn't matter.

00:17:50.580 As always, it's an unfalsifiable theory.

00:17:54.460 And no matter what happens, just like climate change, no matter what actually happens,

00:17:57.680 it proves whatever they already believed.

00:18:01.980 It's interesting, too, starting with this anecdote about Serena Williams.

00:18:06.140 And, you know, as always, the focus on identity politics only ensures that you miss the point entirely.

00:18:16.880 So, the issue with Serena Williams, apparently, is that she was in pain,

00:18:20.720 and the doctors, I guess, weren't taking the pain seriously.

00:18:24.000 And that could have been very, very bad because they weren't taking it seriously enough,

00:18:29.440 and it turns out she had a blood clot in her lungs, which is a very bad situation.

00:18:33.640 But they're trying to connect this to the fact that she's a black woman,

00:18:40.060 which just, it prevents the conversation from reaching any useful conclusions at all.

00:18:48.400 Because, of course, this is an issue that happens to anyone, potentially, when they're in the hospital.

00:18:52.580 I went to, and this wasn't a potentially life-threatening situation,

00:18:55.080 but when I busted my Achilles, I went to the hospital, I went to the emergency room,

00:18:58.620 totally busted Achilles, and I go there, and they tell me that it's just a strain

00:19:03.560 and then I asked, you know, it's the first time I left where I actually asked for pain medication.

00:19:08.200 They wouldn't give it to me.

00:19:09.160 They gave me, they said, well, just take some Tylenol.

00:19:11.200 Go home and take some Tylenol, put some ice on it.

00:19:13.460 A week later, I go to a specialist, and they say, oh, yeah, it's not a strain.

00:19:17.080 It's completely busted.

00:19:18.260 So, suffering and a lot of pain for a week because of this.

00:19:22.020 Now, I'm a white man, so I didn't have the marginalized identity to explain this.

00:19:28.320 And so, how do you explain it?

00:19:29.640 Well, you know, from the perspective of the medical staff,

00:19:37.340 one thing is that they've got a lot of people coming in all the time,

00:19:40.140 and sometimes they are exaggerating their pains,

00:19:42.060 and sometimes they're doing that because they want the drugs and all that,

00:19:44.160 so they're trying to balance these things.

00:19:47.700 Doesn't make it okay, but it just means that, again,

00:19:50.280 when you're trying to explain everything through identity politics,

00:19:53.740 it makes you miss, it's a very narrow lens,

00:19:57.920 and you're going to miss a lot of the picture.

00:20:02.160 Back to the Brittany Griner trade. 0.97

00:20:04.060 Meanwhile, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, 0.99

00:20:07.160 you know, because Democrats, they've spent time over the weekend

00:20:11.280 doing some of the Sunday shows and some of the cable news shows

00:20:13.520 trying to explain why this was a good trade,

00:20:16.680 and here was Sheila Jackson Lee's attempt.

00:20:18.840 As the facts would tell them.

00:20:22.220 He was sentenced to 25 years.

00:20:24.700 He served 11 to 16 years.

00:20:28.100 I don't know, I can't remember the exact number.

00:20:30.660 But in actuality,

00:20:32.340 his weapons might have been used to kill Americans.

00:20:35.660 He has not killed Americans. 0.92

00:20:37.300 I'm not saying he's not a nasty bad guy,

00:20:39.980 but I will tell you that I believe

00:20:42.400 that Americans should know that the sovereignty of their nation

00:20:46.060 will always be behind them,

00:20:47.620 and they'll never be forgotten.

00:20:48.840 Hmm.

00:20:51.860 Right.

00:20:52.500 Unless you're Paul Whalen or Mark Vogel, right?

00:20:54.560 They're still sitting in a prison cell.

00:20:57.420 His weapons were used to kill Americans, 0.97

00:20:59.540 but he didn't kill them.

00:21:02.300 I wonder, and I don't have any clips to back this up,

00:21:05.620 because I haven't looked it up,

00:21:07.500 but I'm going to go out on a limb here,

00:21:09.920 wild, crazy limb,

00:21:11.280 and I'm going to say that Sheila Jackson Lee,

00:21:14.240 like every other Democrat on the national stage,

00:21:18.980 has multiple times in her career blamed,

00:21:22.420 you know, the NRA,

00:21:24.580 gun rights advocates

00:21:26.220 for mass shootings

00:21:29.020 that they had no direct tie to whatsoever.

00:21:33.540 So if you advocate

00:21:34.680 for legal gun ownership

00:21:37.580 and then a mass shooting happens,

00:21:39.160 then it's effectively like you killed those people.

00:21:43.760 And yet, if you're Victor Bout,

00:21:44.760 and you actually give the weapons

00:21:46.560 to the bad guys

00:21:48.160 who are telling you, 1.00

00:21:50.640 hey, I want to go kill Americans with this, 1.00

00:21:52.080 and you sell them weapons, 1.00

00:21:52.840 and then they go kill them, 1.00

00:21:53.500 well, it's like you didn't kill them, 0.95

00:21:54.560 so it's not quite as bad.

00:21:58.480 Speaking of Victor Bout,

00:21:59.360 he himself,

00:22:00.960 again, the arms trafficker,

00:22:04.640 he did his first interview

00:22:06.020 where he was surprisingly sympathetic

00:22:09.840 to the United States,

00:22:11.440 and this whole clip

00:22:12.880 has been making the rounds online.

00:22:13.940 Let's watch a little bit of it.

00:22:16.120 Do you hate America?

00:22:17.400 No.

00:22:18.160 You know, in fact,

00:22:19.660 knowing many inmates,

00:22:21.380 I figured out

00:22:22.060 we're sharing way more common.

00:22:24.800 Maybe America

00:22:25.540 is very much similar.

00:22:28.940 Look, it's the same size,

00:22:30.500 they have a,

00:22:31.560 it's the same kind of this,

00:22:32.960 and when you talk to them,

00:22:34.000 there is nothing there

00:22:34.860 even to beef about.

00:22:36.280 We are naturally,

00:22:38.580 you know,

00:22:39.380 born not to be enemies.

00:22:41.340 And whenever there's conflict,

00:22:43.080 it's elites.

00:22:44.180 You know,

00:22:44.920 every, you know,

00:22:46.820 American I met

00:22:47.860 in a prison

00:22:48.480 who is from rural area

00:22:50.360 was very easy to deal with.

00:22:53.940 He has no problem with Russia,

00:22:55.840 and he was curious about Russia,

00:22:58.320 despite all propaganda.

00:22:59.780 They're losing their Christian values.

00:23:02.000 They're losing their families.

00:23:03.580 They're losing,

00:23:04.340 literally,

00:23:04.800 their countries.

00:23:05.400 It's not anymore the same country

00:23:08.360 we knew America

00:23:09.500 who used to be a model

00:23:10.660 for entire world

00:23:11.660 and lead and be an example.

00:23:14.040 You know,

00:23:14.220 like they say,

00:23:14.920 a shiny town on the,

00:23:16.740 you know,

00:23:17.320 sparkling town on a hill.

00:23:18.800 And this is,

00:23:20.420 of course,

00:23:20.760 pity.

00:23:22.020 It was a strong country

00:23:24.920 who was really,

00:23:26.620 you know,

00:23:27.880 industrial might,

00:23:29.140 you know,

00:23:29.380 this one.

00:23:30.280 And look,

00:23:31.020 for 30,

00:23:31.460 40 years,

00:23:33.380 deindustrialization,

00:23:34.760 drug problem,

00:23:35.780 crime waves.

00:23:36.720 You can understand,

00:23:39.760 and I feel more empathy

00:23:41.600 to American after death's experience

00:23:43.480 than I would feel any hate.

00:23:45.540 What would you consider

00:23:46.460 as the most important event

00:23:48.820 of the years

00:23:50.320 that you have spent in prison?

00:23:53.940 Which events?

00:23:54.940 International?

00:23:56.020 Well,

00:23:56.400 it doesn't matter.

00:23:57.160 Maybe international.

00:23:58.080 2014.

00:23:59.800 It is quite,

00:24:00.980 quite,

00:24:01.920 quite sad

00:24:02.380 that the guy,

00:24:05.440 the international,

00:24:06.720 armed smuggler

00:24:08.080 that we traded back to Russia

00:24:10.220 appears,

00:24:12.700 based on what he said,

00:24:13.440 to love America

00:24:14.620 more than the woman 0.79

00:24:15.900 we traded for.

00:24:18.780 Okay,

00:24:19.520 those are sentiments

00:24:20.720 that you're never

00:24:22.540 going to hear

00:24:23.480 from Brittany Griner.

00:24:25.140 She wouldn't even be able

00:24:26.340 to express it.

00:24:28.820 Both because she lacks 1.00

00:24:30.000 the articulation required,

00:24:31.600 but also because

00:24:32.340 she just doesn't,

00:24:33.380 she doesn't see America,

00:24:34.320 though. 0.93

00:24:34.400 She hates America.

00:24:35.140 She really does.

00:24:37.720 When you refuse to,

00:24:39.020 when you say,

00:24:39.500 I'm not going to go out

00:24:39.960 into the court

00:24:40.380 while the national anthem

00:24:41.020 is played,

00:24:41.660 that is,

00:24:42.280 I mean,

00:24:42.520 that can only be driven

00:24:43.500 by pure scorn

00:24:45.940 and resentment

00:24:46.700 for your home country.

00:24:50.760 You would never hear

00:24:51.820 that from Brittany Griner.

00:24:53.340 Instead,

00:24:53.740 we hear from the,

00:24:54.320 from the Russian guy

00:24:55.920 that we're trading,

00:24:56.700 the guy that we're trading

00:24:57.420 back to Russia.

00:24:58.980 So we're sending away

00:25:00.180 the person who loves

00:25:00.860 America more

00:25:01.480 and bringing in

00:25:01.900 the person who hates America.

00:25:02.500 Now,

00:25:02.740 now,

00:25:03.000 look,

00:25:03.180 what you're hearing there,

00:25:05.800 like,

00:25:06.040 there's a reason why

00:25:06.740 they did the interview

00:25:07.740 in English,

00:25:08.600 right?

00:25:09.380 Is this,

00:25:09.960 is this perhaps

00:25:10.620 a ploy

00:25:11.520 on the part of Russia?

00:25:12.960 Is that,

00:25:13.580 is that an,

00:25:14.180 you know,

00:25:14.540 a part of this?

00:25:15.300 That's probably the case.

00:25:16.340 But even so,

00:25:18.960 it's still quite sad

00:25:21.100 that the woman

00:25:21.980 we're bringing in

00:25:22.640 would never say

00:25:23.400 anything like that.

00:25:26.260 And everything he said

00:25:27.260 is,

00:25:27.540 is true.

00:25:30.180 Whether he really

00:25:31.040 believes any of that,

00:25:32.360 I have no idea.

00:25:33.840 But what he said

00:25:34.740 is true.

00:25:37.660 All right.

00:25:40.140 Dr. Fauci,

00:25:41.360 over the weekend,

00:25:41.980 was asked about

00:25:42.860 the dangers

00:25:43.820 posed by,

00:25:45.400 as we get into

00:25:46.040 the holidays

00:25:46.620 and people are worried

00:25:47.520 about,

00:25:48.260 you know,

00:25:48.520 the holidays

00:25:48.960 and they're going

00:25:49.880 to be around

00:25:50.160 their families.

00:25:50.840 It's a very

00:25:51.160 terrifying prospect.

00:25:52.840 So he's asked

00:25:53.240 about the dangers

00:25:54.000 posed by

00:25:54.720 unvaccinated

00:25:55.840 grandchildren.

00:25:57.480 Listen to this.

00:25:59.240 And with the holidays

00:26:00.140 approaching,

00:26:01.480 we've had lots

00:26:02.140 of questions

00:26:02.660 about safety

00:26:03.540 of gathering

00:26:04.280 with friends

00:26:04.940 and family,

00:26:05.700 especially

00:26:06.160 if loved ones

00:26:07.540 haven't been vaccinated.

00:26:09.120 So Lucy from Maine

00:26:10.620 asks,

00:26:11.480 since we've been

00:26:12.200 vaccinated,

00:26:13.040 how dangerous

00:26:13.680 is it to be

00:26:14.520 near our grandchildren?

00:26:15.980 They have not

00:26:16.840 been vaccinated

00:26:17.660 beyond what's

00:26:18.520 required in the schools.

00:26:19.660 Right.

00:26:20.400 Well,

00:26:21.380 vaccination,

00:26:22.320 again,

00:26:22.760 is the answer.

00:26:23.800 So if you want

00:26:24.540 to protect

00:26:25.160 your grandchildren

00:26:26.540 and vice versa,

00:26:28.160 even though

00:26:28.920 the grandchildren

00:26:30.240 are not required

00:26:31.420 to get vaccinated,

00:26:32.620 if they are

00:26:33.160 within the age,

00:26:33.960 which is now

00:26:34.480 six months or older,

00:26:35.820 I would encourage

00:26:37.240 the family.

00:26:38.280 So if you're

00:26:38.800 the grandparent,

00:26:39.560 I would encourage

00:26:41.000 my child,

00:26:42.440 who is the parent

00:26:43.760 of my grandchildren,

00:26:45.060 to get their

00:26:46.600 children vaccinated.

00:26:49.740 Now,

00:26:50.460 needless to say,

00:26:52.160 well,

00:26:52.260 I guess maybe it's

00:26:52.660 not needless to say

00:26:53.240 it should be,

00:26:53.680 but if you're

00:26:54.520 bringing your kids

00:26:55.920 in to get vaccinated, 1.00

00:26:56.820 you're just a maniac, 0.99

00:26:59.860 especially at this point. 1.00

00:27:02.240 You know,

00:27:02.440 there was never

00:27:03.520 any good reason

00:27:04.100 for it,

00:27:05.480 especially not now.

00:27:06.900 although I also

00:27:12.120 have to say,

00:27:12.620 and I listened

00:27:13.040 to that and we hear

00:27:14.720 from Lucy,

00:27:15.960 whoever that is,

00:27:16.760 that says,

00:27:17.260 what danger,

00:27:18.060 what danger is posed

00:27:18.960 by,

00:27:19.280 how dangerous is it

00:27:20.220 to be around

00:27:20.620 our grandchildren?

00:27:21.860 And look,

00:27:22.520 I know this does not

00:27:23.300 apply to all older people.

00:27:25.100 I realize that.

00:27:27.240 But speaking in

00:27:27.840 very general terms here,

00:27:28.940 okay,

00:27:29.960 for me,

00:27:31.220 this speaks to

00:27:31.880 one of the saddest

00:27:32.800 things about

00:27:33.540 the COVID panic.

00:27:35.400 One of the saddest

00:27:36.720 things,

00:27:36.940 one of the most 0.99

00:27:37.320 pathetic, 1.00

00:27:38.780 saddest, 1.00

00:27:39.160 and disgraceful

00:27:39.880 things,

00:27:40.880 it was not just

00:27:41.800 that children

00:27:42.440 were kept away

00:27:43.280 from their grandparents.

00:27:45.380 Okay,

00:27:45.800 that was disgraceful.

00:27:47.380 But also,

00:27:48.220 and this is the part

00:27:48.860 that people don't like

00:27:49.500 to talk about

00:27:49.980 quite as much,

00:27:51.560 but also that

00:27:52.560 so many grandparents

00:27:53.860 went along with it

00:27:56.180 and wanted it,

00:27:58.540 you know,

00:27:58.780 pushed it,

00:27:59.980 pushed this,

00:28:00.400 they pushed this

00:28:01.060 separation.

00:28:01.720 They wanted that.

00:28:04.960 And we hear

00:28:05.480 many stories about this.

00:28:06.480 we all know

00:28:07.020 like anecdotally,

00:28:07.980 you know,

00:28:08.080 you hear stories

00:28:08.720 from people

00:28:09.040 in their own lives

00:28:09.740 and,

00:28:09.880 you know,

00:28:10.200 they have grandparents.

00:28:11.340 I don't want to be around

00:28:12.100 anyone in the family

00:28:13.000 who's not vaccinated.

00:28:16.200 It's just,

00:28:17.240 it,

00:28:17.380 it, 0.99

00:28:17.700 it's absolutely pathetic. 0.99

00:28:23.580 And I would have hoped, 0.99

00:28:25.060 you know,

00:28:25.260 before all this happened,

00:28:26.640 I would have thought

00:28:28.360 that,

00:28:29.900 especially when they started,

00:28:31.640 when they started telling us

00:28:32.640 that,

00:28:32.920 you know,

00:28:33.220 kids are not allowed

00:28:33.800 to be around their grandparents.

00:28:35.400 I thought there would be

00:28:36.300 an uprising of grandparents.

00:28:38.540 I thought grandparents

00:28:39.020 would be out in the lead

00:28:40.400 of this thing

00:28:40.980 and say,

00:28:42.160 are you kidding me?

00:28:42.680 You're gonna try to keep me

00:28:43.180 away from my grandkids?

00:28:44.280 No way.

00:28:46.260 You know,

00:28:46.740 I've,

00:28:46.920 I've lived a long life.

00:28:48.100 I've lived a good life.

00:28:48.980 I,

00:28:49.080 I don't,

00:28:49.800 you know,

00:28:50.060 I've only got so much time

00:28:51.320 left in the first place.

00:28:52.720 Now you're trying to,

00:28:53.700 you know,

00:28:53.940 rob my,

00:28:54.660 my,

00:28:55.060 my final days,

00:28:55.920 my final years of,

00:28:56.980 of,

00:28:57.260 you know,

00:28:57.360 the experience of being

00:28:58.200 around my,

00:28:58.820 my kids.

00:28:59.700 I would rather be,

00:29:00.640 I thought we would have

00:29:01.560 millions of grandparents

00:29:04.680 saying,

00:29:05.200 I would rather be dead

00:29:06.880 than be isolated

00:29:08.400 from my,

00:29:09.320 from my family,

00:29:10.380 from my grandchildren.

00:29:11.980 Yes,

00:29:12.240 I will risk my life,

00:29:13.760 my life to see my grandchildren.

00:29:14.940 If that's what you're telling me,

00:29:15.620 it is,

00:29:16.180 which it isn't.

00:29:17.600 Because,

00:29:17.980 because kids were,

00:29:19.760 they were never at a high risk

00:29:20.800 of contracting COVID,

00:29:21.980 also never at a high risk

00:29:23.000 of spreading it.

00:29:23.580 So it was never like

00:29:25.720 you're risking your life

00:29:26.580 to see your grandchildren.

00:29:28.320 But I would have thought

00:29:29.020 there'd be millions

00:29:29.700 of grandparents

00:29:30.200 that would say,

00:29:31.600 I'm willing to risk my life

00:29:32.820 to see them,

00:29:33.280 even if that's what it is.

00:29:34.420 I don't believe

00:29:35.240 your,

00:29:35.560 your,

00:29:35.900 your hysterical propaganda,

00:29:37.840 but I also don't care about it.

00:29:39.780 Because if it's true,

00:29:40.520 you know what,

00:29:40.860 I'll take that risk.

00:29:43.400 Yeah,

00:29:43.620 I will risk my life

00:29:44.680 to spend a couple hours

00:29:46.280 around my grand.

00:29:46.760 I thought this was,

00:29:47.420 and yes,

00:29:48.000 there was certainly

00:29:48.780 some grandparents

00:29:49.540 that,

00:29:49.980 that was their view

00:29:51.980 of things.

00:29:52.460 And when,

00:29:54.060 when the uprising

00:29:54.920 against the COVID,

00:29:57.140 you know,

00:29:57.520 the,

00:29:57.780 the oppression

00:29:58.620 in the name of COVID

00:29:59.360 happened,

00:30:00.260 there are many older people

00:30:01.100 that were a part of it,

00:30:01.800 but I'm,

00:30:02.100 I'm again,

00:30:02.660 talking in general terms.

00:30:06.160 There,

00:30:06.680 there's also a,

00:30:07.760 a very common sentiment

00:30:10.660 that we just heard from,

00:30:11.900 you know,

00:30:12.100 like we just heard from Sally.

00:30:13.400 Is it dangerous

00:30:14.160 to be around my grandkids?

00:30:16.180 My God.

00:30:18.840 For the sake of extending

00:30:20.280 a life that you've already,

00:30:21.980 not,

00:30:22.100 not that you're,

00:30:22.680 you know,

00:30:22.860 life is less meaningful now

00:30:24.340 just because you're older,

00:30:25.280 certainly not the case,

00:30:26.060 but you have lived

00:30:26.760 a long life

00:30:28.540 and for the,

00:30:28.900 and for the,

00:30:29.460 for the sake of extending it,

00:30:33.000 you know,

00:30:33.260 isolate yourself

00:30:33.940 from your family,

00:30:34.620 you see your grandchildren

00:30:35.460 as dangerous to you.

00:30:37.660 What kind of life is that?

00:30:40.740 And after all this time

00:30:41.860 to still have that attitude?

00:30:45.140 I just can't even imagine that.

00:30:46.420 I can't imagine being older,

00:30:48.620 you know,

00:30:48.900 whatever,

00:30:49.220 being in your 70s

00:30:50.260 or something,

00:30:50.580 you're 80s

00:30:51.000 and you've been isolated,

00:30:52.600 you've isolated yourself

00:30:53.420 for two years

00:30:54.000 and you're still not sick of it?

00:30:57.840 There's just something,

00:30:58.840 there's something very,

00:31:00.040 very sick about that.

00:31:02.400 I don't mean physically sick,

00:31:03.600 I mean spiritually,

00:31:04.880 mentally.

00:31:06.760 All right.

00:31:07.640 This is from

00:31:08.140 the Washington Examiner.

00:31:09.060 A school board in Pennsylvania

00:31:10.400 had voted 8 to 1 this week

00:31:12.220 against allowing

00:31:13.020 one of their colleagues,

00:31:14.240 Gregory Delia,

00:31:15.700 uh,

00:31:17.180 De,

00:31:17.600 Delia,

00:31:18.120 I guess,

00:31:18.500 to become the president

00:31:19.560 of the board 0.65

00:31:20.060 because he is a cis white male.

00:31:22.060 He is the cis white male 0.76

00:31:23.840 school board member,

00:31:24.540 was supported by the

00:31:25.620 Upper Moreland Democrats

00:31:26.660 when he ran in 2019.

00:31:28.300 The father of three children

00:31:29.380 attended Penn State

00:31:30.860 and received a bachelor's degree

00:31:32.220 in mechanical engineering

00:31:33.200 in 2005.

00:31:34.500 According to a 2019

00:31:35.580 candidate questionnaire,

00:31:36.940 he holds four U.S. patents

00:31:38.460 and headed design

00:31:40.160 and installation

00:31:40.720 on,

00:31:41.400 uh,

00:31:41.700 lines on the new

00:31:43.000 One World Trade Center.

00:31:45.080 His interest in the school board

00:31:46.280 grew when one of his children

00:31:47.420 struggled with school

00:31:48.240 and was having

00:31:48.680 a very bad experience.

00:31:50.040 He was able to get

00:31:50.580 the IEP special education resources

00:31:52.760 that his son needed.

00:31:53.880 His goal in running for office

00:31:54.980 was to improve access

00:31:57.180 to special services

00:31:58.020 for students.

00:31:59.180 Okay, so,

00:32:00.160 very qualified person

00:32:02.240 is the point.

00:32:03.520 And yet,

00:32:04.420 the school board

00:32:05.340 voted against

00:32:07.900 making this individual

00:32:09.040 the president of the board

00:32:09.940 because,

00:32:11.560 you know,

00:32:11.860 all that might be true.

00:32:12.780 He's got all those qualifications,

00:32:14.340 but he has committed

00:32:16.220 the unpardonable sin

00:32:18.380 of being a,

00:32:19.980 quote,

00:32:20.140 cis white male.

00:32:21.520 So let's listen to that clip.

00:32:24.220 Having said that,

00:32:25.280 I believe that

00:32:26.960 Mr. DeLeo

00:32:28.420 would make an excellent president.

00:32:32.280 However,

00:32:33.040 I feel that

00:32:34.040 electing

00:32:34.980 the only 0.51

00:32:36.880 cis white male

00:32:38.900 on this board

00:32:40.220 president

00:32:41.140 of this district

00:32:42.220 sends the wrong message

00:32:45.180 to our community.

00:32:47.600 A message

00:32:48.520 that is contrary

00:32:49.560 to what we

00:32:50.780 as a board

00:32:51.760 have been trying

00:32:52.480 to accomplish.

00:32:54.880 I think that it's important

00:32:56.520 that we practice

00:32:57.360 what we preach

00:32:58.180 and that

00:32:59.500 our words

00:33:01.220 have strength

00:33:01.900 when they

00:33:02.400 are spoken,

00:33:04.120 whether we speak them

00:33:05.380 from the neighborhood

00:33:06.260 sidewalks

00:33:07.060 or from behind

00:33:07.760 these tables.

00:33:11.520 Mrs.

00:33:11.820 Steinbeck has done

00:33:12.580 an exemplary job

00:33:13.620 as president

00:33:14.100 these last few months

00:33:15.220 and the strength

00:33:16.700 of her performance

00:33:17.520 has earned her

00:33:19.060 my vote tonight.

00:33:20.040 So all of that

00:33:23.520 they can never be

00:33:25.500 they go almost

00:33:27.180 to the precipice

00:33:28.420 of being somewhat

00:33:29.160 honest about their

00:33:29.840 intentions

00:33:30.200 and then they always

00:33:31.060 pull back at the end.

00:33:32.680 Because she said all

00:33:33.480 she said all of that

00:33:34.340 about well he's a cis white

00:33:35.580 male and so we can't

00:33:36.600 vote for him

00:33:37.180 and then at the very end

00:33:39.240 after explaining that

00:33:40.040 at the very end

00:33:40.540 she says well I voted

00:33:41.280 for this other person

00:33:41.880 because of the strength

00:33:42.960 of her performance.

00:33:43.820 No that's not why.

00:33:44.600 You just said

00:33:45.380 you just admitted

00:33:47.320 that you're voting

00:33:47.980 for this other person

00:33:48.600 because of her demographics 0.68

00:33:49.840 and her identity.

00:33:51.100 It's got nothing to do

00:33:51.660 with her performance.

00:33:54.940 And by the way

00:33:55.640 this cis thing 0.70

00:33:58.140 you know you want

00:33:58.660 to talk about

00:33:59.380 symbolic gestures

00:34:02.560 that are meant to

00:34:03.620 signal your

00:34:04.640 ascent to LGBT dogma

00:34:06.360 that's another one

00:34:07.780 using the term cis.

00:34:10.580 And they're being used

00:34:11.680 by a woman who 0.84

00:34:12.720 I don't know how old she looks

00:34:13.500 she's in her 40s

00:34:14.720 or 50s at least

00:34:15.560 which just tells me

00:34:18.440 that she's gone

00:34:19.320 the majority of her life

00:34:20.600 never using

00:34:22.420 that term

00:34:24.020 cis.

00:34:25.760 In just over the last

00:34:26.720 couple of years

00:34:27.340 I started injecting

00:34:28.720 it into her vocabulary.

00:34:31.860 And what is cis supposed to? 0.67

00:34:32.760 When you say someone's

00:34:33.320 a cis white male

00:34:34.480 it's supposed to

00:34:35.100 you know

00:34:35.440 a cis is someone

00:34:36.640 who is not transgender

00:34:38.100 who identifies

00:34:39.240 as their actual

00:34:40.320 biological gender. 0.99

00:34:42.360 The whole point

00:34:43.080 of calling someone cis

00:34:43.980 is to make it seem

00:34:46.000 like being a

00:34:47.020 just being a

00:34:47.780 normal man

00:34:48.820 who sees yourself

00:34:49.580 as a man

00:34:49.920 making it seem like

00:34:50.840 that's just one

00:34:51.740 potential variation.

00:34:54.740 You know

00:34:54.960 there are many

00:34:55.340 variations on

00:34:56.480 being a man

00:34:57.300 and cis is just

00:34:58.140 one of them

00:34:58.540 and there's also

00:34:59.480 trans

00:34:59.900 and there's non-binary.

00:35:04.440 Even by using

00:35:05.440 the term cis

00:35:06.340 you're basically

00:35:08.660 taking everyone

00:35:09.420 that's just

00:35:09.860 that's a way of taking

00:35:10.760 it's like this

00:35:11.420 forced baptism

00:35:12.580 of everyone

00:35:14.420 and in the end

00:35:16.020 you force everyone

00:35:16.900 under the LGBT

00:35:17.620 umbrella

00:35:18.040 because that is

00:35:20.340 an LGBT term

00:35:22.000 and all of that

00:35:26.560 to say that

00:35:27.060 they can't vote

00:35:27.680 for this guy

00:35:28.460 because of his

00:35:29.200 race and his sexuality

00:35:31.200 which just goes

00:35:33.540 to show once again

00:35:34.380 that we talked

00:35:34.860 about marginalized groups

00:35:35.920 well in reality

00:35:37.380 the most marginalized

00:35:40.740 group in America

00:35:41.860 heterosexual white males

00:35:44.760 there's just 0.97

00:35:45.560 no way around it

00:35:46.700 and you know

00:35:47.160 the only thing

00:35:47.940 whenever you make

00:35:48.640 a claim like this

00:35:49.420 the only thing

00:35:49.860 the left can do

00:35:50.300 in response

00:35:50.720 is just scoff at it 0.99

00:35:51.540 that's ridiculous 1.00

00:35:52.340 white males 1.00

00:35:52.960 but they can't explain

00:35:54.860 why you're wrong

00:35:55.680 because they know

00:35:57.380 of course you're right

00:35:58.100 and they know

00:35:59.680 that you take that clip

00:36:00.960 and you have her

00:36:03.540 explaining

00:36:04.200 why they can't

00:36:05.960 make someone

00:36:06.360 school board president

00:36:07.280 because of their identity

00:36:10.660 and make it any identity

00:36:12.520 other than

00:36:13.460 straight white male 0.52

00:36:14.260 and this is

00:36:16.540 a national scandal

00:36:17.740 everyone on that

00:36:18.800 school board

00:36:19.180 is getting fired

00:36:19.780 and they're probably

00:36:21.180 going to be

00:36:21.480 criminally prosecuted

00:36:22.540 can you imagine

00:36:23.720 if it was

00:36:24.120 the exact same conversation

00:36:25.700 except instead

00:36:27.420 she said

00:36:27.840 well

00:36:28.200 you know

00:36:29.080 D'Elia is

00:36:29.960 unfortunately 0.97

00:36:30.860 he's a gay black man 0.98

00:36:32.500 very qualified 0.98

00:36:33.580 but he's a gay black man 0.99

00:36:34.920 so it would send 1.00

00:36:36.040 the wrong message 0.97

00:36:36.680 to make a gay black man 1.00

00:36:38.040 the president of school board 0.99

00:36:38.740 if she said that

00:36:39.560 she's going to prison 1.00

00:36:40.500 for that

00:36:40.800 she's going

00:36:41.100 she's actually

00:36:41.700 that's a hate crime

00:36:42.440 she's going to jail 1.00

00:36:43.260 the only group

00:36:45.780 you could possibly

00:36:46.800 get away with saying

00:36:47.420 that about 0.72

00:36:47.800 would be straight white men

00:36:48.680 and you also see

00:36:50.060 the reverse happening

00:36:50.940 here right

00:36:51.420 we talked about

00:36:52.220 with LGBT

00:36:52.720 you have their percentage

00:36:53.760 in the population

00:36:54.480 which is still quite small

00:36:55.460 although it's growing

00:36:56.200 all the while

00:36:56.760 because they're recruiting

00:36:57.720 and indoctrinating children

00:36:59.240 into this cult

00:36:59.880 but still

00:37:01.860 it's still a small minority

00:37:03.660 of the population

00:37:04.280 you compare their percentage

00:37:06.200 to the amount of representation

00:37:09.340 and coddling

00:37:10.860 and celebration

00:37:11.620 that happens in the culture

00:37:12.380 it's wildly out of balance

00:37:14.140 and it's the reverse

00:37:16.800 for straight white men

00:37:17.680 there's a lot of straight white men

00:37:18.880 in the country

00:37:19.560 but increasingly

00:37:21.500 you don't see them

00:37:22.280 in the commercials

00:37:23.040 you don't see them

00:37:23.800 in shows

00:37:24.380 you know

00:37:24.660 they're certainly not celebrated

00:37:26.400 you're not allowed to do that

00:37:27.280 you are not allowed

00:37:29.860 to express

00:37:30.660 any specific appreciation

00:37:32.940 for

00:37:33.400 you're not allowed to say

00:37:34.380 you know

00:37:34.980 I appreciate everything

00:37:36.060 that straight white men

00:37:36.860 are doing for our culture

00:37:37.580 you're not allowed to say that

00:37:38.600 you cannot say it

00:37:39.560 I mean I'm saying it

00:37:42.100 but

00:37:42.340 if you care about having

00:37:44.600 any kind of mainstream

00:37:45.260 approval and acceptance

00:37:46.120 you can't say it

00:37:47.120 alright

00:37:48.240 what else have we got here

00:37:49.700 I wanted to play this

00:37:50.820 for you too

00:37:51.460 here's a teacher

00:37:53.300 explaining why

00:37:54.480 parents should just 0.97

00:37:56.540 shut up

00:37:57.040 and let the school system 1.00

00:37:58.300 sexually indoctrinate 0.67

00:37:59.540 their children 0.94

00:38:00.160 here's what she says

00:38:00.820 I have a thought

00:38:02.800 now I know the trolls

00:38:04.160 are going to be like

00:38:04.800 uh oh

00:38:05.120 she should have stopped there 0.97

00:38:06.220 but I'm not going to do that

00:38:08.240 so there's a lot of

00:38:09.420 controversy about

00:38:10.700 whether or not

00:38:12.340 sex education

00:38:13.280 health education

00:38:14.280 relationships

00:38:15.360 gender

00:38:15.980 all that stuff

00:38:16.640 should be taught

00:38:17.280 in the classroom

00:38:18.140 here's what I think

00:38:20.240 you

00:38:21.400 you as in parents

00:38:22.760 send their kids

00:38:23.560 to school

00:38:24.100 to learn math

00:38:24.980 reading

00:38:25.360 writing

00:38:25.800 history

00:38:26.400 science

00:38:28.080 from a professional

00:38:28.940 right

00:38:29.500 but in the same token

00:38:32.020 a lot of people

00:38:32.720 who do that

00:38:33.640 also

00:38:34.940 think that they're

00:38:36.520 experts

00:38:37.240 in sexuality education

00:38:39.080 because they've had kids

00:38:40.000 with all due respect

00:38:41.920 just because you've had kids

00:38:43.400 does not mean

00:38:44.220 that you are a sexuality 0.91

00:38:45.820 education expert

00:38:46.900 it does not mean

00:38:48.120 you are an expert

00:38:48.760 in sex

00:38:49.400 it does not mean

00:38:50.240 you are an expert

00:38:50.780 in the body

00:38:51.300 it does not mean

00:38:52.280 you are an expert

00:38:52.840 in gender

00:38:53.320 it does not mean

00:38:54.300 you are an expert

00:38:54.820 in relationships

00:38:55.440 so the same way

00:38:57.700 that we're sending

00:38:58.160 our kids to school

00:38:58.900 to learn

00:38:59.580 these skills

00:39:00.620 these life skills

00:39:01.620 like math

00:39:02.560 and quadratic equations

00:39:03.700 and calculus

00:39:04.360 and whatever else

00:39:05.680 from a professional

00:39:06.760 we also need to be

00:39:08.480 ensuring that our

00:39:09.320 students are learning

00:39:10.200 information

00:39:11.440 about their health

00:39:12.780 about identity

00:39:14.300 about very complex

00:39:16.100 issues

00:39:16.700 from a

00:39:17.960 professional

00:39:18.720 I mean

00:39:20.380 like

00:39:20.900 it makes sense

00:39:22.620 it makes sense

00:39:23.840 okay

00:39:25.960 well

00:39:26.280 if you say

00:39:26.760 it makes sense

00:39:27.320 then that's

00:39:27.800 that's

00:39:28.540 that is

00:39:29.820 an argument

00:39:30.920 that I just cannot

00:39:31.780 she's

00:39:32.640 she's

00:39:33.080 that's it

00:39:34.340 it makes sense

00:39:35.080 they need to learn

00:39:37.260 from like a professional

00:39:38.260 it makes sense

00:39:39.460 well okay

00:39:40.980 if you say so

00:39:41.620 of course

00:39:43.180 it doesn't make sense

00:39:43.760 at all

00:39:44.060 it doesn't make sense

00:39:44.780 on multiple levels

00:39:45.880 the first being

00:39:48.740 you know

00:39:49.120 even if the school

00:39:51.020 is staffed

00:39:51.800 with experts

00:39:52.640 on sexuality 0.63

00:39:54.100 whatever the hell

00:39:54.660 that means

00:39:55.060 that still

00:39:56.740 would not make it

00:39:57.700 you still have not

00:39:59.360 explained

00:40:00.000 why it's

00:40:00.860 appropriate

00:40:01.520 why the school

00:40:03.200 is a place

00:40:04.000 for those kinds

00:40:04.840 of conversations

00:40:05.520 if there could be

00:40:07.940 something

00:40:08.380 such as

00:40:09.500 a human sexuality

00:40:10.800 expert

00:40:11.440 you still have not

00:40:14.180 explained

00:40:14.720 why we're putting

00:40:16.180 them in schools

00:40:16.740 and

00:40:18.280 how it could

00:40:20.160 possibly be

00:40:20.660 appropriate

00:40:21.020 to have those

00:40:22.140 conversations

00:40:22.540 with an 8 year old

00:40:23.540 because it's not

00:40:25.300 school's not the place

00:40:26.400 for that

00:40:26.700 just because

00:40:28.640 the kids are there

00:40:29.560 doesn't mean

00:40:31.560 that you are

00:40:32.640 justified

00:40:33.360 in just

00:40:34.460 talking to them

00:40:35.540 about whatever

00:40:35.860 you want to talk

00:40:36.340 to them about

00:40:36.780 but then

00:40:40.020 also

00:40:40.720 teachers are not

00:40:42.380 experts in these

00:40:43.140 subjects

00:40:43.540 you don't need

00:40:45.540 to be

00:40:45.980 on any

00:40:46.700 you don't need

00:40:47.360 to be a

00:40:47.740 subject matter

00:40:48.480 expert

00:40:48.980 on any subject

00:40:50.120 to teach you

00:40:50.700 in a public

00:40:51.020 school system

00:40:51.620 you don't

00:40:52.420 like the people

00:40:54.600 that are teaching

00:40:55.040 mathematics

00:40:55.660 to sixth graders

00:40:57.260 these are not

00:40:57.820 expert mathematicians

00:41:00.020 and the

00:41:03.400 reality is

00:41:04.400 that if

00:41:04.860 they were

00:41:06.020 they probably

00:41:06.460 wouldn't

00:41:06.860 you know

00:41:07.100 it's a cliche

00:41:08.200 but those who

00:41:09.140 can't do

00:41:10.000 teach

00:41:10.480 and there's

00:41:11.080 like some

00:41:11.420 truth to

00:41:11.780 that

00:41:12.020 it's not

00:41:12.960 always the

00:41:13.400 case

00:41:13.740 but often

00:41:15.820 times it

00:41:16.200 is

00:41:16.560 if you're

00:41:17.300 an actual

00:41:17.720 scientific

00:41:18.420 expert

00:41:18.880 you're

00:41:19.260 probably

00:41:19.700 not

00:41:19.880 teaching

00:41:20.100 science

00:41:20.500 in third

00:41:20.800 grade

00:41:21.080 I get a lot

00:41:23.860 of respect

00:41:24.100 for people

00:41:24.320 to teach

00:41:24.720 science

00:41:24.980 in third

00:41:25.240 grade

00:41:25.400 but it's

00:41:25.680 not

00:41:25.880 that

00:41:26.080 you're

00:41:26.380 not a

00:41:26.700 scientific

00:41:28.240 genius

00:41:28.740 necessarily

00:41:29.220 just because

00:41:29.640 you're doing

00:41:29.900 that

00:41:30.140 and that's

00:41:32.880 especially

00:41:33.340 the case

00:41:33.820 when it

00:41:34.060 comes to

00:41:34.760 sexuality

00:41:36.080 these are

00:41:37.920 not experts

00:41:38.560 in these

00:41:38.880 subjects

00:41:39.320 again

00:41:40.080 even if

00:41:40.580 they were

00:41:41.120 wildly

00:41:42.140 inappropriate

00:41:42.760 grotesque

00:41:45.440 abusive

00:41:47.000 to be having

00:41:48.160 these conversations

00:41:48.820 to little

00:41:49.220 kids

00:41:49.580 with little

00:41:50.720 kids

00:41:50.960 in a

00:41:51.320 school

00:41:51.980 system

00:41:52.360 but they're

00:41:53.560 also not

00:41:53.860 experts

00:41:54.140 in that

00:41:54.500 just the

00:41:57.980 fact

00:41:58.300 this is

00:41:58.960 something

00:41:59.100 maybe

00:41:59.320 the left

00:41:59.720 doesn't

00:41:59.900 understand

00:42:00.120 just because

00:42:02.100 you're

00:42:02.660 a deviant 0.55

00:42:03.960 you're

00:42:04.340 like a 0.99

00:42:05.020 sex

00:42:05.300 obsessed 1.00

00:42:05.820 deviant

00:42:06.580 and you

00:42:08.540 have

00:42:09.100 lots of

00:42:10.100 different kinds

00:42:10.740 of sexual

00:42:11.240 encounters

00:42:11.740 it doesn't

00:42:12.360 make you

00:42:12.640 a sexuality

00:42:13.540 expert

00:42:14.280 if anything

00:42:16.200 it's quite

00:42:16.520 the opposite

00:42:17.040 because you're

00:42:18.560 so consumed

00:42:19.540 by your

00:42:20.360 own

00:42:20.920 deviancy

00:42:21.700 your own

00:42:22.300 perverse

00:42:23.100 desires

00:42:23.680 your own

00:42:24.120 fetishes

00:42:24.480 that you

00:42:25.120 couldn't

00:42:25.340 possibly

00:42:25.680 be an

00:42:26.000 expert

00:42:26.240 you can't

00:42:27.340 think

00:42:28.000 objectively

00:42:28.500 about this

00:42:29.060 you're just

00:42:29.420 you're just

00:42:30.140 you're

00:42:30.560 you're consumed

00:42:32.440 by it

00:42:32.960 mentally

00:42:33.340 and spiritually

00:42:34.440 again

00:42:36.500 certainly not

00:42:36.940 an expert

00:42:37.280 all right

00:42:37.940 let's get

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00:43:53.940 having kids is they do keep you humble, and it's always a nice ego check. So we took the family to

00:44:02.120 here in Nashville. It's the Gaylord Opryland Resort, and they have this whole winter Christmas

00:44:09.560 Wonderland thing they do every single year, and you go, and there's like different winter-related

00:44:16.300 activities, including ice skating. So we went there, and I think I've gone ice skating maybe

00:44:23.280 twice in my life, but in this case, you know, the kids wanted to go ice skating, and they didn't

00:44:29.840 want to be out on the ice alone. My wife obviously can't go because she's pregnant, so I said, okay, 1.00

00:44:33.880 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

00:44:39.740 fall. I actually thought I did very well. You know, I was proud of myself. I was skating around with the

00:44:47.680 kids, and I thought, like, I'm pretty good at this. I'm actually a natural. I might get into hockey or

00:44:51.520 something. This is, wow, I am good at this, and then on my way, on the way home, and I was still,

00:44:58.380 you know, thinking about what a good skater I am. My son says to me, because my youngest son didn't

00:45:04.580 want to go skating, so he was sitting with my wife and, like, watching us, and he says, Daddy,

00:45:09.960 you look funny out there. You look like a penguin out on the ice. I said, oh, thanks, because you were

00:45:15.000 waddling. Yeah, thanks. You looked really funny. I got it. Thank you. So, I thought I looked great,

00:45:22.100 but apparently I was humiliating myself the whole time. Joke's on you, though, because penguins are

00:45:26.060 very gifted on the ice, so I take that as a compliment. This from Lil One says, I'm a black

00:45:34.100 woman, and I think it's ultra ridiculous that they traded a gay weed smoker for a Russian arms dealer 0.99

00:45:40.980 in the middle of a Russian war. That is ridiculous, and that's, you know, you don't need to be any 1.00

00:45:46.560 particular identity to see the absurdity of this. Lauren the Wolf says, the issue is not that we are 0.89

00:45:51.060 treating weird as normal. It's that we're treating sin as virtue. Yeah, I think, I don't think it has to

00:45:58.700 be either or, Lauren. I think it's a false choice. I think it's, I think the issue is both. Yeah, we

00:46:04.320 are treating sin as virtue. When we talk about virtue signaling, that's why I've never, I use the

00:46:10.700 phrase because we all kind of know what it means, what we're referring to, but it's, virtue signaling

00:46:17.080 is actually vice signaling. It's sin signaling. The things that are being signaled are never actually

00:46:23.100 virtues. So that is the problem in the culture, but it is all, it is also the, the, we have this attack

00:46:31.120 on normalcy. We're conditioning people, especially kids, to believe that normal doesn't exist. There's

00:46:39.480 no such thing as normal, or even that normal is bad. You don't want to be normal. And so I think both

00:46:48.000 are happening. Let's see. Summer says, am I the only one who has become increasingly more frustrated

00:46:55.460 every time someone says that she, Brittany Griner, was wrongfully detained? She broke the law and got 0.99

00:47:00.100 caught. What am I missing? Yeah, she wasn't wrongfully detained. I mean, the, the, the sentence of

00:47:05.820 whatever, I forget what the sentence was supposed to be, but many years in, you know, forced, a forced

00:47:09.920 labor camp for having a vape cartridge. I think we can agree that that's an overly harsh, and I'm all

00:47:15.800 about law and order. Uh, I don't think I would advocate for, for that in this country. Now I do

00:47:23.500 advocate for, uh, for labor camps for prisoners. I think we should go back to that, but, uh, I don't

00:47:29.080 think I'd give you 10 years in forced labor because you had a vape cartridge, but she did break the law 1.00

00:47:37.000 and she was detained for that the same way that any of us would be. Including by the way, in, in American

00:47:44.620 airports. If you try to go through an American airport with, with drug paraphernalia, you're

00:47:50.080 going to get arrested for that. You get arrested for a lot less than that in American airport.

00:47:54.940 So I think you're right. Uh, Sam says, hi, Matt. Last week, a coworker actually confided in me that

00:48:02.420 his two children are experiencing a lot of anxiety about the climate crisis. First time I've ever

00:48:07.380 encountered that level of wokeness in the wild, apparently it's not all just on Twitter. That's,

00:48:14.060 it is absolutely not just on Twitter. Just like with the pronouns, it's, uh, some of this stuff

00:48:18.400 might in some ways, you know, uh, social media is a, a vector for this. Um, this is how it spreads,

00:48:26.360 but it is out in society as well. Including for the, for, uh, you know, kids having climate anxiety,

00:48:33.260 which will never fail to infuriate me when I hear about that. Because there's, kids are not

00:48:41.320 coming up with that on their own. Okay. A child is not going to walk outside in the summertime

00:48:48.260 and just on his own, come up with this idea that, well, this signals that the ice caps are going to

00:48:54.620 melt. We're all going to drown. He has to be told that. So we are, we are giving this anxiety to

00:48:59.320 children, which by the way, even if it was true that we're on the verge of planetary extinction

00:49:07.420 because of climate change, which it isn't, but even if it was, it would still be unthinkable

00:49:13.780 to put that on a child. What's he going to do with that? Aside from be plagued by anxiety with

00:49:24.060 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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00:50:19.080 today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Now this may surprise you, but I'm going to disagree

00:50:27.960 with the majority opinion about something. I don't think of myself as a contrarian,

00:50:33.200 contrary to what most people say about me, but on this, I must dissent. A manager in Olive Garden

00:50:38.940 in Kansas has been fired after sending an angry email to employees telling them that they may not

00:50:45.240 call out of work for any reason. And if they claim that their dog died as an excuse for coming to

00:50:50.520 work, they have to bring the dead dog in as proof. Now the manager, whose name has not been published,

00:50:56.380 thankfully, was fired. And most people have applauded the decision after the email went viral,

00:51:01.080 but I'm on the manager's side of this and I'll explain why. But first here's the story from a

00:51:04.720 local CBS affiliate. It says a Johnson County restaurant manager sent a harsh message to employees

00:51:10.260 about taking time off and was subsequently fired. An Olive Garden media relations representative

00:51:14.180 confirmed to KCTV5, a manager at the restaurant on 95th street sent the below message to staffers.

00:51:21.020 And here's the message in full. This is what it says. Quote, our call-offs are occurring at a

00:51:26.640 staggering rate. From now on, if you call off, you might as well go out and look for another job.

00:51:30.960 We are no longer tolerating any excuse for calling off. If you're sick, you need to come prove it to

00:51:36.120 us. If your dog died, you need to bring him in and prove it to us. If it's a family emergency and you

00:51:40.680 can't say, too bad, go work somewhere else. If you only want morning shifts, too bad, go work at a

00:51:45.780 bank. If anyone from here on out calls out more than once in the next 30 days, you will not have

00:51:50.940 a job. Do you know in my 11 and a half years at Darden how many times I called off? Zero. I came in

00:51:57.040 sick. I got in a wreck literally on my way to work one time. Airbags went off and my car was totaled.

00:52:01.460 But you know what? I made it there on time. There are no excuses. Us collectively as a management team

00:52:06.400 have had enough. If you don't want to work here, don't. It's as simple as that. If you're here and

00:52:10.660 want to work, then work. No more complaining about not being cut or not being able to leave early.

00:52:15.900 You're in the restaurant business. Do you think I want to be here until midnight on Friday and

00:52:19.760 Saturday? No, I'd much rather be at home with my husband and dog going to the movies or seeing

00:52:23.220 family. But I don't. I'm dedicated to being here, as should you. No more excuses or complaints. I hope

00:52:28.900 you choose to continue to work here. And I think we, the management, make it as easy as we can on

00:52:32.720 y'all. Thank you for your time. And thank you to those who come to work every day and work hard.

00:52:38.600 I wish there were more like you. Okay. That's a message. Olive Garden announced that it had parted

00:52:44.360 ways with the manager after this was released. It was a predictable decision, but the wrong one.

00:52:50.080 Now, obviously there's some hyperbole there. You shouldn't actually bring a dead dog into a

00:52:56.140 restaurant. This is Olive Garden, not Panda Express, for God's sake. And of course, it's conceivable

00:53:02.040 that a person could have a reason to call out more than once in a 30-day period. I rarely call in sick

00:53:07.360 to work, but I missed an entire week a few months ago after I lost my voice. Not a lot I can do

00:53:13.360 without a voice. Though even then, I still dragged myself to work and I recorded a segment in subtitles.

00:53:19.740 That's how committed I am to my job. Or it's how committed I am to trolling. You decide. Perhaps

00:53:24.680 there's not much difference between the two. At any rate, the point is that there is reason to object to

00:53:31.260 this manager's message to employees if you insist on taking it absolutely literally.

00:53:36.860 But a more charitable interpretation is that this person is trying to run a restaurant and yet is

00:53:41.920 sabotaged every step of the way by spoiled, entitled brats who want a paycheck but don't want to put the 1.00

00:53:48.160 work in to earn it. And these are frustrations shared by a great many managers in the restaurant 0.71

00:53:53.260 and retail space and other industries. Call-outs and no-shows are at an all-time high.

00:53:58.780 And it's not because everyone's dogs are dying all of a sudden. It's not because there's a record

00:54:04.160 number of family emergencies. If it's a medical emergency driving this problem, the medical

00:54:10.580 emergency is a severe allergy to hard work. I think that's the real epidemic happening here.

00:54:16.200 This is an affliction which has spread across an entire generation and beyond. And the people who are

00:54:21.120 trying desperately to keep our economy afloat by keeping these businesses open, they're fed up

00:54:26.980 and they're furious and they should be. If I was in charge of Oligarden, I wouldn't fire that manager.

00:54:33.640 I'd give them a raise and a promotion because this is exactly the no-nonsense, get-your-crap-together 0.98

00:54:39.960 attitude that we need. Now, of course, there is another side to the story. I made a condensed 0.94

00:54:45.320 version of the point I just articulated on Twitter over the weekend and Lauren Southern responded,

00:54:50.160 disagreeing with me, saying, quote,

00:54:52.020 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 0.71

00:55:01.420 a manager that asks you to bring your dead dog in clearly doesn't care about them either.

00:55:06.480 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

00:55:20.400 disagree with. It's true that many people are disillusioned and demoralized and they have no

00:55:25.920 hope. They're dropping out of a system that they feel is rigged against them. So she's right about

00:55:31.020 that. And I made a similar point, or at least a related point, in one of my monologues last week.

00:55:35.920 It's an important aspect of this problem and it's important that we talk about it. But there are other

00:55:41.960 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,

00:56:07.820 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

00:56:19.420 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.

00:56:27.940 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

00:56:50.520 done. You're in your early twenties. How do you think life is supposed to go for you at that age?

00:56:57.020 Do you think you're supposed to enter adulthood and immediately be rewarded with the kind of wealth

00:57:00.840 and fortune and job security that most people work decades to attain? What did you expect?

00:57:06.760 Working at Olive Garden sucks. Of course it does. Of course it does. No one ever said it doesn't. 1.00

00:57:12.920 There's no version of working at Olive Garden that won't suck. But you got to start somewhere.

00:57:18.660 You got to pay your dues. You have to work your way towards whatever it is you want. It's not going

00:57:23.500 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

00:57:47.940 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

00:58:16.560 never available to most humans who have lived on the planet. But it is available for us.

00:58:23.260 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.

00:58:41.880 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

00:59:12.940 life of mere existence, mere satiation. You will not find success. You will not find dignity. You will

00:59:20.480 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

00:59:34.980 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.

00:59:48.640 You notice that there's employees at the Olive Garden that don't want to put the work in.

00:59:51.760 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 1.00

01:00:11.660 open so that they can keep getting the paycheck they want. So they are just handing off all of those 0.98

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,

01:00:33.460 you're passing it off to the other, just whoever there at Olive Garden, to whatever patsy you can find

01:00:39.040 to do the work that you won't do. Because in the end, you must work. You don't have to like it.

01:00:45.580 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

01:01:00.420 manager, and they live accordingly. And so often, the ones who do the work only get insult to add to

01:01:07.600 injury time and time again, they become the bad guy. They're doing everything. They're the only reason

01:01:14.580 that these good-for-nothings have a freaking paycheck to begin with, and they end up the bad guys.

01:01:21.920 No. Not in this segment, anyway. That's why it is not the Olive Garden manager who is canceled,

01:01:27.120 but the lazy employees with their fake dead dogs and made-up sick family members. They are the ones 0.98

01:01:32.600 who are today canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the

01:01:37.320 members block. Thanks for, I hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - December 12, 2022

Ep. 1079 - The 'Preferred Pronoun' Ritual Deserves Nothing But Mockery And Scorn

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