Ep. 1101 -Â Why They're Filling Our Cities With Hideous Modern Art
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A New York City courthouse adorns its building with a satanic monument to abortion. Also, Project Veritas caught a Pfizer executive on camera and what he reveals is truly explosive. Plus, Eric Swalwell is traumatized after being kicked off of the Intelligence Committee for sleeping with a Chinese spy, and Google has massive layoffs, leading to some unintentionally funny TikTok videos. We ll take a look at those today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a New York City courthouse adorns its building with a satanic
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monument to abortion. The statue is creepy and depraved and also hideous. In fact, our whole
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society is plagued now by hideous and creepy artwork. It's all part of a larger agenda I'll
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explain today. Also, Project Veritas caught a Pfizer executive on camera and what he reveals
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is truly explosive. Stick around to hear about that. Plus, Eric Swalwell is traumatized after
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being kicked off of the Intelligence Committee for sleeping with a Chinese spy. And Google has
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massive layoffs leading to some unintentionally funny TikTok videos. We'll take a look at those
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today. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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One of the great tragedies of my life is that I wasn't doing a show last week when Boston's MLK
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statue, the news cycle, came and went and passed me by. The thing that motivates me to get up every
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day and host this show is the very hope that one day I'll be able to deliver a monologue on something
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as hilarious as a statue that's meant to honor Martin Luther King Jr., but instead looks like a
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disembodied pile of limbs that arranges itself into a different sex act depending on the angle you view
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it from. It's supposed to be a memorial to King, but the sculptor accidentally made a memorial to
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Pornhub. Well, I assume it was an accident. Whether he meant for the thing to be sexualized, to be sort of
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a sexualized three-dimensional Rorschach test is anybody's guess, but we do know that what he
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created, whatever the intention was, is a giant $10 million hunk of garbage. There's a lot to be said
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about the subject, not just to simply point and laugh at it, I mean mainly to point and laugh, but also
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to discuss the continued and rapidly increasing uglification, if I can coin a term, of our society.
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This is a process that is deliberate and systematic. Beautiful art is taken down and replaced by hideous
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vomitous nonsense. Why is this happening? What is the end game? These are the important questions,
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but I missed my chance, or so I thought, to talk about them. That is until New York City came to
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the rescue. Only a week after the MLK sex sculpture revolted and amused us all, NYC has made their own
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contribution to the conversation. They are attempting valiantly, I might say, to recover their crown as
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the ugly statue capital of the country, and with this latest eyesore, they may have succeeded.
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Here's the article from Time Out, which is a New York City news site. It says, statues of nine men
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from history and religion perch atop the courthouse near Madison Square Park. Now, for the first time,
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the representation of a woman has joined their noble rooftop plinths. Hava to Breathe Air Life,
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an exhibition by artist Shazia Sikander, focusing on things of justice, has brought stunning golden
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sculptures to Madison Square Park and the nearby courthouse at 27 Madison Avenue. Inside Madison
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Square Park sits Witness, a monumental female figure measuring 18 feet tall and wearing a hoop skirt
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inspired by the courtroom's stained glass ceiling dome. The figure's twisted arms and legs suggest
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tree roots, referencing what the artist has described as the self-rootedness of the female
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form. It can carry its roots wherever it goes. You can even use your smartphone to bring the figure
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to life through AR technology. Adorning the nearby courthouse now, an eight-foot-tall female figure
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resembles the park sculpture, but a lotus symbolizing wisdom replaces the hoop skirt. Her horns indicate
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sovereignty and autonomy. A delicate collar nods to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
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Ginsburg, who often wore detailed collars with her traditional black robe. The statue, the only woman
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represented, sits next to figures including Confucius, Justinian, Moses, Zoroaster. At last,
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this work puts a female figure on a level plane with the traditional patriarchal depictions of justice
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and power. Well, not quite a level plane because those other sculptures are legitimate works of art.
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This one is a satanic monstrosity. It's a woman with tentacles for arms and horns on her head, resembling
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like a doodle that a very disturbed 10-year-old might draw. It's the kind of thing that the child in the
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horror film sketches in his notebook right before his parents realize he's possessed. And on top of all that,
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it looks cheap as though it was sculpted out of plastic. It looks like it was made of the same
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material they use for those little green toy soldiers that you buy in a bag at the dollar
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store. This is modern art in a nutshell. Cheap, ugly, stupid, and vaguely, or not so vaguely in this
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case, demonic. New York City, by the way, is no stranger to ugly statues. Just a couple of years ago,
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they confused us all with a monument sculpted by a, quote, conceptual artist and placed outside the
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Rockefeller Center that looks like a giant cartoon head, like something that a not very talented
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caricature artist might sketch. Really, it looks like a parody of African art, though the artist is
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black, so he escaped the racism charge, I guess. But he certainly cannot escape the charge of being
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a talentless hack, which is what he is. Now, to add insult to injury, while New York litters its streets
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and buildings with these unsightly lumps, it's also actively removing its good art. Just a few days ago,
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the city finally removed the statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has adorned the outside of its
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Museum of Natural History for nearly a century. The stated reason for removing this statue is that
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the depiction of a black man and a Native American man walking alongside Roosevelt makes the whole scene
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somehow inexplicably racist. No one ever explains why, by the way. Just the fact that you've got a
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white man and then there's a black man there also, that's racist. But the real reason it was taken down
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is that the work of art commits two unforgivable sins in the modern age. One, it memorializes a heroic
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white man, which, of course, you can't do. And two, it's beautiful. That's a beautiful work of art.
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And beautiful art is no longer allowed. Of course, you don't need to live in New York or Boston to
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have your eyes assaulted by these memorials to ugliness. Every American city is plagued by these
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sorts of modern art mutations popping up everywhere like tumors. A while ago, I mentioned this art display
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sitting outside the Tennessee Welcome Center right off of Interstate 81. So when I'm driving,
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if you're coming down from Virginia into Tennessee and you stop off because you've got to use the
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restroom, you'll be forced to look at this. Now, in times past, they may have welcomed you with a
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glorious sculpture representing the state's unique culture and history. Instead, they give you this
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weird orgy of malformed, ambiguously humanoid shapes. And again, you find this stuff everywhere.
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We were visiting Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina, not to be confused with Nashville,
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Tennessee, not long ago. And we found ourselves gawking at this towering pile of shapeless scrap
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metal, which the artist calls Passage, but should have just been called Tetanus. And we could go on
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with examples. In fact, a Twitter follower, this might be the worst one. A Twitter follower sent me this
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photo that I had to look this up because I didn't quite believe that it was real. This is a photo of a
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recently installed statue in Carmel and Indiana. And the statue is titled Rising Sun, but instead it
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looks like a hairy potato or perhaps like something more anatomical in nature perched on a misshaped
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platform of some kind. It has the aesthetic quality of like a Nickelodeon cartoon from the 90s,
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except a lot more explicit. So what's going on? I mean, why are they making this ugly nonsense? Why
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are our cities pockmarked with these hideously sculpted abscesses? Why are we all forced to
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live in towns with the artistic equivalent of skin cancer? I think there are a few reasons.
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And the first is pretty simple. Great artists have skill and they have training and they have
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proper education. Our artists have none of those, so they're not capable of making anything that rises
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to the level of classical art. I mean, they couldn't produce a sculpture that could pass for
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something sculpted 200 years ago, even if they wanted to. One thing is like, notice the lack of
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detail in all of these statues. This is the thing with all modern, you go to modern art museum, it's
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the same deal. There's no detail in anything. The demon statue in the New York courthouse is mostly
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just smooth and featureless, which gives it that kind of cheap flavor. And the artists didn't even
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attempt to make arms or hands because those are the most difficult to get right. And so instead they,
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look, when I was in art class in like seventh grade, I used to do the same thing. I couldn't,
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I didn't know how to draw arms and hands because they're difficult. And so I would do something like,
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oh, you know, I'm using my imagination. This is a person with, you know, tentacles for arms instead,
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easier to draw. The sculptor in Boston did make arms and hands, but that's all he made
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because it requires great skill to sculpt heads and faces. So he simply left them headless.
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Meanwhile, the other statues didn't attempt to resemble anything at all so that there's no
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standard they can be judged against. You know, if you try to make something that looks like something,
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then everyone can look at your art and say, well, they can, they can judge it against what you're
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trying to capture. If they, you know, it's the thing, if you make art and you're trying to capture
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something or, or actually say something, then, then that gives people a frame of reference that
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they can judge your art against. And so all of this in part is a cover for the fact that these artists
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have no talent, but then even if they could make something beautiful, they probably wouldn't.
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Modern art is ugly because modern artists can only produce ugliness and also because
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they only want to produce ugliness. We are witnessing, as I noted at the top, the systematic
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uglification of society. They make ugly things on purpose because to them, to make an ugly thing is
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to commit a revolutionary act. They despise tradition. They despise all that came before us. And their ugly
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art is an attack on tradition. All of this garbage is the diametric opposite of the sort of art that
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our ancestors produced and celebrated and passed down to us. And that's reason enough for our cultural
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elites, those in charge of facilitating our cultural decline, to prefer the garbage.
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But most of all, they make, they make ugly things because they hate beauty. The artists of antiquity
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made beautiful things, objectively beautiful. Things that all human beings can recognize as
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beautiful. And they did this in order to lift the viewer up, to bring them up and into the experience
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of beauty. Whereas the modern artist, clouded by his own ego, obsessed with his own hangups and
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preoccupations and anxieties, creates things with the purpose of dragging the viewer down, sinking them
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into a state of anxiety and confusion. A man named Jeremy Wayne Tate on Twitter made this point very well.
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He wrote, quote, Renaissance artists aim to uplift the viewer and draw them into beauty. They were primarily
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interested in their subjects. Modern artists aim to shock and confuse their primarily interested in
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themselves. And that is the truth, no doubt. And truth ultimately is the enemy here, as always. Modern artists
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hate beauty because they hate truth. The left in general hates beauty because it hates truth.
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And as the English poet John Keats said, truth is beauty, beauty is truth, and that's all you need
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to know on this earth. They know it and they hate it. And so they give us this ugliness instead.
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We begin with this news, major news. I'll read the Postmillennial report because I don't know
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how well the audio will translate if you can't see the subtitles, but you should go and watch
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the full video after the show. This is the report though from Postmillennial. It says,
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Project Veritas released a new video Wednesday in which a Pfizer executive claimed the company
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is attempting to mutate COVID via directed evolution in order to preempt the development
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of future vaccines. As a result, hashtag directed evolution trended worldwide. Jordan Tristan Walker,
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Pfizer's director of research and development, strategic operations, and an mRNA scientific
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planner claimed that directed evolution is not the same as gain of function research,
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which according to the outlet is defined as a mutation that confers new or enhanced activity
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on a protein, meaning that the virus in question can become more powerful depending on the mutation
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or scientific enhancement. Walker told an undercover Project Veritas journalist,
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One of the things that we, Pfizer, are exploring is like, why don't we just mutate COVID ourselves
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so we could create preemptively new vaccines, right? So we have to do that. If we're going to do that
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though, there's a risk of like, as you could imagine, no one wants to be having a pharma company
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mutating effing viruses. He added, from what I've heard is they, the Pfizer scientists are optimizing
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the COVID mutation process, but they're going slow because everyone is very cautious. Obviously,
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they don't want to accelerate it too much. I think they're also just trying to do it as an
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exploratory thing because you obviously don't want to advertise that you're figuring out future
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mutations. And then Walker pleaded, don't tell anyone, promise you won't tell anyone. The way the
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experiment will work is that we'd put the virus in monkeys and we successfully cause them to
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successively, successively cause them to keep infecting each other and we collect serial samples
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from them. You have to be very controlled to make sure that this virus that you mutate doesn't
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create something that just goes everywhere, which I suspect is the way that the virus started in Wuhan,
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to be honest. It makes no sense that this virus popped out of nowhere. It's BS. Okay. Like I said,
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you could watch this whole, I think it's about 10 minutes. You see this whole conversation
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where a Pfizer executive is saying that they intend to do the same thing they did in Wuhan,
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but we've got to be really careful. It's like the safety of the human race is at stake and we're
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just going to trust that Pfizer is careful. Like they can do things that if it goes wrong,
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millions will die, but it's all right because we could just trust them to be careful.
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Because we know that these people historically have been very careful, right?
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Now, I mean, this obviously should be breaking news in every media outlet. We have a high ranking
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official advisor admitting that they're working on mutating the virus, admitting that it's the same
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kind of thing they did in Wuhan, pleading that nobody finds out about it. Like how much more
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explicit can you be? Yes, we're doing this dangerous thing. Please don't tell anyone we're doing it.
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What else do you need to hear? Big pharma must be stopped. And I'm not interested in voting for
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any Republican who isn't serious about holding these psychos accountable. They've been operating
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with impunity for way too long, way before COVID, way before COVID. Okay, before COVID came along,
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and before the vaccines came along, how about turning half the country into drug addicts,
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inventing diseases to treat and profit off of, conducting dangerous experiments that imperil the human
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race, injecting whatever they want into our bodies, lying about it the whole time. It's got to stop it.
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We need leaders with the wherewithal to stop it. Now, I've already told you, we talked yesterday about
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the penalties that I would prefer to see for drug traffickers. So you know what I would like to do
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with drug traffickers? Well, let's start here. I mean, let's start with the ones who wear suits and
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have offices on the top floor of fancy sky rises. I mean, after we try them for their crimes and convict
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them in a court of law, because that has to be the first step, we're way past the point of congressional
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hearings and investigations. We need both of those things, but they don't mean anything if they don't
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lead to trials and criminal charges, convictions, punishments. And there are other actual policy
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changes too that could be made if we really wanted to rein in big pharma. And some of this might seem
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slightly indirect, but really it's not, and we need to be doing it. Reining in big pharma, right,
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means, either it means it's simply a talking point, something that you say, but if it's more
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than a talking point, it means cutting off the funds. It means taking money away from these people.
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That's how you do it. Or that is at least a major part of any effective plan to rein them in.
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Another big part is, again, criminal charges, trials, punishments. You got to take the money away.
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And I'll tell you one way to do that. We've talked about this plenty of times on this show.
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Ban the pharmaceutical companies from advertising their products directly to consumers.
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Whether it's a pill that they're pushing or a vaccine or anything, they should not be allowed
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to advertise it directly to consumers. And that is already the policy in almost every country in the
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world. Almost every country in the world, most countries, they don't let the pharmaceutical
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companies advertise directly to consumers. That was the policy in this country until I think it
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was the mid-90s when the FDA changed it. The fact that this policy was changed and has not been changed
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back, the fact that we still allow them to advertise to consumers only shows you that our politicians
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are in their pockets because there's no good argument for allowing this.
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I just read an article a couple days ago, and I'll pull it up maybe tomorrow. We'll talk about
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this in more detail because it's very important. But basically, according to this article, the drugs,
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there's kind of an inverse correlation here because the drugs with the biggest ad budgets
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have the lowest therapeutic value. And why is that? Because drugs that work and are safe are actually
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safe and actually effective. They don't need to be advertised. Doctors will prescribe them because
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they work. There's no reason to advertise it. Okay, if the drug works and it's effective and all that,
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then you don't need to go to your doctor and ask about it. Can I have this drug?
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No, it's supposed to be you go to the doctor with your symptoms and then your illness is diagnosed
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and treated. But drugs that don't work need advertising because they need you as the patient
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to go to your doctor and ask for them. And then they need to incentivize the medical industry to
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distribute these drugs, whether they work or not. And the other thing that they do with these
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advertisements, the drug ads, they're not just selling drugs that are ineffective and potentially
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dangerous. I mean, they're doing that. But they're also selling the disease. They sell the disease.
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Right? That's why all the ads are the same. They say, do you have this XYZ symptom? Well,
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talk to your doctor about this drug. They're not even asking you, oh, well, if you already have this
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disease, here's a drug for you. It's like, let's convince you that you have this disease,
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a disease that you might not actually have, diseases that might not even exist. Because
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big pharma, they also invent diseases that don't exist so that they can treat them and profit off
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of them. And then once they've toyed with your hypochondriac mind and convince you, you have this
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thing, you go to the doctor and you plead for the pills that you want. And then most of the time you get it.
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There is no good reason to allow this. There is just no good reason. The only reason to allow the
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drug companies to advertise directly to consumers is if you're very concerned about making sure that
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the big pharma executives make a lot of money. That's the only benefit. The only benefit is that
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they make tons of money doing this. If you don't let them do it, they make a lot less money.
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There is no benefit to the population. There's no benefit to me or you. It's only harm.
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I bring all that up because, again, this is one way you rein in big pharma. But also,
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if you're wondering why nothing is being done by the powers that be,
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to hold big pharma accountable when it comes to COVID and the vaccine and the lies that we're told,
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if you're wondering why, well, all you need to look at is this. I mean,
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direct consumer, banning direct consumer ads, that should be a bipartisan. That should be one of those
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very rare bipartisan issues because it should appeal to both sides. The right pretends to be skeptical of
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the pharmaceutical industry. The left pretends to be skeptical of corporations and corporate greed in
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general. Well, here you go. Here's an issue that both sides should agree on. And they don't, at least
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not in Washington, because obviously they're in the pockets of this industry on both sides.
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All right. I'm sure you recall a few weeks ago when there was great panic across the land because
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Republicans couldn't agree on who to appoint as the new Speaker of the House. And this was a source
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of tremendous heartache and fear and misery in the population. And I mean, specifically the population
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of corporate media offices in D.C. Nobody else really gave the slightest damn about any of this,
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nor should they have cared about it. But for those, particularly on the right, who are concerned
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that not handing the Speakership over to Kevin McCarthy automatically, concerned that if we didn't just
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give it to him, that it would somehow have disastrous effects, I think those people should
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check out what Kevin McCarthy, now the Speaker of the House, has been doing over the last several
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days. One of his first acts as Speaker of the House was to kick Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff off of the
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House Intelligence Committees, which is a very good thing. But the fact that he's doing these good
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things is not evidence that we shouldn't have resisted his Speakership, but rather it's evidence that
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it's a very good thing we did. Because it's clear that McCarthy's resistance from the base
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has resonated with him. We do have some power and control here, but we have to use it.
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And even if it didn't provoke an authentic conversion experience for Kevin McCarthy,
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it at least is forcing him to act like something other than an establishment shill for right now.
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And that's just as good as far as I'm concerned. I don't, like, frankly, I don't care if these
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people mean it or not. I don't care. I don't care what they actually think in their hearts. I don't
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care about any of that. It doesn't make any difference to me. Who cares about that? All I
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care about is what they do, the policies they implement, even if they do it begrudgingly.
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If they do it and they wish they didn't have to do it, but they're only doing it because
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they're being held accountable by the base and they hate us and they're muttering about us the whole
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time. Fine. I don't care. Just do it. If they're doing it to appease us, good. That only shows the power
00:24:49.240
that we have. So McCarthy kicked them off the intelligence committee. And then he had this
00:24:53.700
really fantastic exchange with the DC journalists who challenged him on it. And again, what you're
00:24:59.560
about to hear from him, you would not have heard had we not challenged. If the base had not challenged
00:25:04.280
him, you wouldn't hear this. And we never, we haven't heard anything like this from Kevin McCarthy
00:25:08.520
until now. That's not a coincidence, but we'll watch a little bit of this exchange.
00:25:16.760
Okay. Let me be very clear and respectful to you. You asked me a question. When I answer it,
00:25:24.120
it's the answer to your question. You don't get to determine whether I answer your question or not.
00:25:28.140
Okay. In all respect. Thank you. No, no. Let's answer her question. You just raised a question.
00:25:35.360
I'm going to be very clear with you. The intel committee is different. You know why? Because what
00:25:39.340
happens in the intel committee, you don't know. What happens in the intel committee of the secrets
00:25:43.940
that are going on in the world, other members of Congress don't know. What did Adam Schiff do as
00:25:49.140
the chairman of the intel committee? What Adam Schiff did, use his power as a chairman and lie to the
00:25:54.620
American public. Even the inspector general said it. When Devin Nunes put out a memo, he said it was
00:25:59.580
false. When we had a laptop, he used it before an election to be politics and say that it was false
00:26:05.280
and said it was the Russians. When he knew different, when he knew the intel. If you talk
00:26:09.820
to John Radcliffe, DNI, he came out ahead of time and says there's no intel to prove that. And he
00:26:17.280
used his position as chairman, knowing he has information the rest of America does not and
00:26:22.440
lied to the American public. When a whistleblower came forward, he said he did not know the individual,
00:26:27.400
even though his staff had met with him and set it up. So no, he does not have a right to sit on that.
00:26:32.280
But I will not be like Democrats and play politics with these, where they removed Republicans from
00:26:38.060
committees and all committees. So yes, he can. Okay, good. Yeah. And then he goes on to talk
00:26:42.920
about Eric Swalwell. I mean, Eric Swalwell was involved in a, in a romantic affair with a Chinese
00:26:47.060
spy. So yeah, should he be on the intelligence committee? I mean, he's involved in a romantic
00:26:52.340
affair with Chinese spy. He also has chronic flatulence. So those are two good reasons why,
00:26:56.320
I mean, it's not fair to the other people on the committee to have him in there for really both of
00:26:59.960
those, both of those reasons. And that's the point that Kevin McCarthy made. Well, he didn't
00:27:04.780
bring up the flatulence thing. I wish he had. That's the, that's the only criticism I have of
00:27:08.180
this moment from Kevin McCarthy, a moment that once again, I, I do not believe we would have if we
00:27:13.520
hadn't challenged him to what we did. Now Swalwell for, for his part is very upset about not getting
00:27:19.860
his committee assignment. It's another one of those things, right? The DC shows how,
00:27:25.480
how terminally out of touch they are with any normal American that they think we care about.
00:27:34.240
Like they can come to us, they think they can come to us with a, with a sob story about not
00:27:38.900
getting a committee assignment. And they think that we'll care about that. They think there's anyone
00:27:43.600
in the country who's sitting around going, I really feel bad for Eric Swalwell, not getting his
00:27:49.000
committee assignment. So he's, he's addressing the media about it and holding back tears. He's very
00:27:55.320
upset. Let's listen. So this is purely about political vengeance. The cost is not only removing
00:28:01.380
us from the committee on the intelligence committee. The cost is not only breaking, shattering the most
00:28:07.720
precious glassware in the cabinet, a committee that's always been bipartisan. The costs are the
00:28:12.580
death threats that Ms. Omar, myself and Mr. Schiff keep getting because Mr. McCarthy continues to aim
00:28:19.320
and project these smears against us. Even though we have said publicly, these smears are bringing
00:28:25.500
death threats. He continues to do it, which makes us believe that there's an intent behind it.
00:28:31.260
But we will not be quiet. We're not going away. I think he'll regret giving all three of us more time
00:28:36.620
on our hands. Oh, he made a threat there himself. That's a threat, isn't it?
00:28:45.920
Yeah, actually, I am worried about Eric Swalwell having more time on his hands.
00:28:50.400
How many other foreign spies can he sleep with in a given year with all that extra time? So I am a
00:28:57.920
little bit concerned about that. By the way, nobody is making death threats to Eric Swalwell. I don't think
00:29:03.940
anyone's ever made a death threat to Eric Swalwell. No one would take him seriously enough
00:29:08.080
to actually make a death threat. He's not a serious enough figure in politics to warrant that to begin
00:29:14.000
with. But also, he wants us to believe that people are making death threats because of him not being
00:29:21.020
appointed to the House Intelligence Committee. No one is even aware of that or cares. And the kinds of
00:29:28.840
people who would send random angry death threats to politicians, these are not the kinds of people
00:29:34.360
who are paying attention to what the committee assignments are. So that's all, all very good
00:29:41.500
stuff. All right. Damar Hamlin, after his cardiac emergency on the football field a few weeks ago,
00:29:48.900
we're told he spent several days in the hospital, but he's now out, though still in need of lots of
00:29:55.720
physical assistance, including oxygen, is what we're told. Now, Hamlin showed up to the Bills
00:30:00.800
playoff game on Saturday or Sunday, whenever it was, and they lost. But the big story was Hamlin's
00:30:06.200
presence, at least according to the media. This is a big story. And he was up in a box seat. He wasn't
00:30:10.240
on the field. He was up in a box seat. He was watching. And the announcers referred to him frequently
00:30:14.580
throughout the game. Cameras kept showing him. And the TV production made a really big deal about him
00:30:20.360
being there. The weird thing is that Hamlin, though he was on camera a lot, he never, we never saw his
00:30:28.100
face. They never showed his face. He wouldn't show his face. And there are a few times where they showed
00:30:31.960
him up in the box seat, but it was like you, you, it was at such an angle that you couldn't really
00:30:37.580
see anything. All you could see is silhouette, had his face covered and all that. So, so he showed up,
00:30:45.480
but they didn't want to show him and he didn't want to be seen. It's a kind of bizarre. And then
00:30:51.600
any kind of bizarre thing will lead to theories on the internet. The internet theorists, some of them
00:30:57.320
speculated about or wondered whether Hamlin wasn't actually at the game, but rather was represented by
00:31:03.300
some kind of body double. And then from there, you know, from that theory, then it branches off and
00:31:08.460
then it could get, you know, even more implausible. But so maybe he's alive, but they sent the body
00:31:13.940
double to the game so they could get the storyline of him being there. Maybe he's dead, you know,
00:31:18.420
and, and this is a body double that they put. So all kinds of theories like that. As you can imagine,
00:31:22.440
the media does not like any of this one bit, very upset about the theories. As this, just one
00:31:28.380
example, this NBC sports article makes very clear headline, crazy, disturbing Damar Hamlin conspiracy
00:31:34.640
theory emerges. And it says in many respects, the modern world has lost its damn mind. Conspiracy
00:31:40.640
theories abound over everything. And it was unavoidable, we suppose, that some nutty conspiracy
00:31:45.540
theory would emerge regarding Bill's safety to Damar Hamlin. Our original plan was to ignore it,
00:31:50.020
to give it no attention, no credence, no oxygen. Sometimes, however, it's important for the rational
00:31:53.420
to expose the irrational so that some of the irrational aren't tempted to swallow the crazy
00:31:58.560
ass cheese. What? Who wrote this? I wish I had to swallow the, what kind of writing is this? So
00:32:06.560
they're not tempted to swallow the crazy ass. First of all, is that, what are we, the crazy ass cheese or
00:32:13.500
the crazy ass cheese? Which one are we talking about? Both are disgusting, but one is particularly
00:32:20.520
more disgusting. Anyway, how does the phrase crazy ass cheese make it into an article that is then
00:32:29.680
published by NBC News? How does that make it through the editing process? What is your editor doing if
00:32:37.120
they allow, if they're not going to flag you down and say, hey, you know that part about crazy ass
00:32:40.840
cheese? I don't know if we maybe would at least take out the ass. Anyway, as it relates to Hamlin,
00:32:49.120
there's actually a theory, completely unsupported by a shred of evidence that Hamlin died from the
00:32:53.260
COVID vaccine and that he has been replaced by a body double. Think about that one. The person who
00:32:57.020
attended Sunday's game between the Bengals and Bills isn't Damar Hamlin. It's someone else disguised
00:33:01.360
as Damar Hamlin and presumably his family and his teammates are in on it. And then it goes on and on
00:33:05.740
and on and it, you know, scolding the people that have spread this conspiracy theory around.
00:33:15.120
Now, a few things about this. First thing is that, as always, actually the media,
00:33:21.120
while they complain about these conspiracy theories and they pretend to be very offended,
00:33:25.980
upset by it, they actually like them and they want more, they want to encourage them.
00:33:29.800
That's the only reason to report on this. I didn't know that this theory existed until I read
00:33:35.380
some of the news articles condemning it. Like so many other people, I only found out about the theory
00:33:41.180
because of the left-wing media scolding those who were propagating the theory, but really they
00:33:47.240
themselves are the ones propagating it because they like it. They want that.
00:33:53.260
Now, I don't think Damar Hamlin is dead and replaced by a body double. Okay. I don't think
00:33:58.020
that for a lot of reasons. I mean, for one thing, just the sheer number of people who have to be
00:34:01.460
involved in a conspiracy of that sort. We're talking about family and friends and doctors and teammates,
00:34:05.580
the NFL, the media, like all of them would have to conspire to remain silent for what, forever?
00:34:11.560
You'd have to keep it going forever and pretend this guy is still alive. And doing that so they
00:34:18.060
can cover up what? I guess the idea is that he died from the vaccine. Well, they already gave their
00:34:22.460
version of why he was in the hospital. So if he died, they would have just blamed that. They would
00:34:27.020
have said he died from the football injury. And if you think that there's some sort of cover-up
00:34:30.900
going on, then that would be the cover-up. It's a lot simpler and you don't need to enlist
00:34:34.680
hundreds of people across multiple industries to cooperate in this conspiracy to pretend someone
00:34:42.100
is alive for the next several decades when he's actually not. Anytime you're theorizing a massive
00:34:48.560
elaborate scheme involving thousands of people who all must stay perfectly in line and silent,
00:34:53.320
this scheme is like hatched in order to achieve some extremely negligible benefit or whatever.
00:34:57.840
Anytime there's a theory like that, it demands a lot of evidence to believe and otherwise you
00:35:02.960
should be extremely skeptical. Doesn't mean that those kind of theories are always wrong. It just
00:35:06.120
means that I'm going to need to see some real good evidence for that. Especially in this case when
00:35:10.800
there's a much more plausible explanation, which is that DeMar, my theory would be that DeMar
00:35:16.540
Hamlin's face got kind of messed up from a stroke related to the incident and he doesn't want people
00:35:21.980
to see. Like that's my, that would be my theory. So that's the most plausible sort of explanation.
00:35:27.840
Which brings me to, if there's a, if there's a scandal here, you know, the real scandal,
00:35:33.460
if there is one, is that the NFL insisted on making Hamlin, they wanted the story.
00:35:40.520
Okay. That's the thing. That's what the NFL cares about. They care about the ratings,
00:35:43.400
obviously. This is what the media cares about. They care about the ratings. They care about the
00:35:46.740
story. They care about that more than anything else. And so, uh, the moment this happened to
00:35:54.120
DeMar Hamlin, the, uh, parasites in the media and NFL corporate offices, they were like,
00:36:02.040
you know, they were, they, they saw the money signs and being able to capitalize on this storyline.
00:36:10.680
Now they wanted a storyline. And so that's why they wanted to trot them out at this game,
00:36:15.660
you know, insisting on making Hamlin into some kind of hero, some sort of like martyr. And, uh,
00:36:22.920
and, and, and, and, you know, and they really wanted that storyline of him. And in reality,
00:36:27.240
DeMar Hamlin suffered something very terrible, feel very sorry for him. And that's it. Like that's,
00:36:34.260
that's, there's not much else to be said about it, but they wanted to make it a lot more than that
00:36:39.640
because they wanted the ratings and they wanted the storyline. So they brought him out when he clearly
00:36:43.900
was not ready to be out there. And they exploited the whole situation throughout the entire broadcast
00:36:49.960
by going back to it again and again and again. And, uh, the fact that he didn't want to show his
00:36:54.020
face just makes the whole thing all the more bizarre and weird and, and just, uh, you know,
00:37:00.920
gratuitous, I think. But, you know, also, as I've said before, I don't, the people that indulge in
00:37:09.600
elaborate conspiracy theories. Oftentimes I don't believe those theories for the reasons I've said,
00:37:14.880
but I don't blame people anymore for it. I just don't because there's been a total collapse of
00:37:21.900
trust. People simply don't trust any of the supposed authorities that are supposed to be in charge of,
00:37:32.260
you know, disseminating information and telling us what's going on.
00:37:35.600
The public doesn't trust any of those people anymore for good reason.
00:37:40.520
And because they don't trust anyone, then everyone is left to kind of make their own
00:37:44.420
assumptions about everything. And some people tend to make more kind of cinematic assumptions than
00:37:51.680
others. But I think the blame ultimately goes with, uh, the people who have lost our trust
00:37:58.660
and have created this situation. All right, let's get to the comment section.
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LFTR says, steep and highly socialized penalties work. It's called a deterrent. As society has
00:39:03.340
backed off and reduced penalties for crime, our cities have become graffiti-tagged, crime-ridden
00:39:07.800
hellscapes. This is not a coincidence. It's a direct result of choosing not to punish criminal
00:39:11.780
behavior. Right. Of course it is. That's obviously what's going on. Anyone who claims that, oh,
00:39:18.980
punishments are not a deterrent for behavior. This is someone who is denying one of the most
00:39:23.780
basic realities of human psychology, including their own psychology. Okay. Everybody is motivated
00:39:31.400
by incentives and disincentives. Which isn't to say that people are directly, perfectly controlled by
00:39:39.460
such incentives. No, you can incentivize a certain behavior and there will be some people who still do
00:39:45.120
not engage in that behavior. You can disincentivize certain behaviors and there are people who still will
00:39:48.680
engage in that behavior. So that will happen. But still, people are highly influenced by incentives
00:39:54.200
and disincentives. That's, everybody is. So to deny it outright, as people do, to claim that,
00:40:00.680
you know, no matter how much we clamp down on criminal behavior and no matter how much we punish it,
00:40:09.220
no matter how severe the punishments are, it'll have essentially no effect on the frequency of that
00:40:16.340
criminal behavior. That claim is not credible at all. Let's see. Jay Anderson says, from a historical
00:40:25.600
perspective, drowning women as witches was normal. Just because it was normal in history is no
00:40:30.080
justification for the same actions today. Obviously, I hope. Yeah. Which is why my argument for
00:40:37.760
corporal punishment and, uh, and the increased use of capital punishment, my argument is not simply
00:40:42.760
based on the fact that people have always done it. That's not my only reason. Though it is true
00:40:48.720
that, um, when it comes to, we hear cruel and unusual punishments. Well, these punishments are
00:40:54.020
certainly not unusual. They are probably the most usual punishments in the world historically.
00:41:00.360
That's not the be all and end all of the argument, but that is a reality and it's worth pointing out.
00:41:05.980
Because yes, the fact that something has always been done a certain way is not in and of itself
00:41:13.100
a sufficient reason necessarily to keep on doing it. But it does mean that if you are suggesting that
00:41:20.500
we do things in a radically different way, then you need to have a good reason for that.
00:41:27.420
It does shift to a large extent, the burden of proof over to you. Okay. If human society has always done
00:41:33.960
something a certain way and we've got the, the, the testimony of our ancestors going back through
00:41:38.480
the ages saying, this is the way to do it. This way works. It could be that, that we need to change
00:41:44.420
courses and not do it this way anymore. Sure. But if you're coming along and saying that, if you're
00:41:48.620
saying, no, let's cut, no, let's, let's cut it off right here and go in this radically different
00:41:52.940
direction because all those people are wrong. Okay. I'm, I'm open to hearing your argument. I really am.
00:41:57.860
But you got to make the argument. You have now assumed a burden of proof that in so many cases,
00:42:05.320
the people who are demanding that we sever ourselves from our ancestors never meet,
00:42:11.320
they never meet that burden of proof. Instead, they try to go the other way, the other way. It's
00:42:15.860
almost like for a lot of people, the fact that our ancestors did it is reason enough to not do it.
00:42:22.740
And that's supposed to be self-evident, which it isn't.
00:42:28.760
And these days we do have, many people have anyway, a radically different concept of what
00:42:34.440
constitutes justice and what, and, and, and, and, you know, how we should deal with and punish crime.
00:42:42.780
We have a radically different notion of it today. A notion that would have been totally foreign to
00:42:48.100
most people who've lived on earth. That in and of itself doesn't make it wrong, but you got to be
00:42:54.600
able to defend it. And defending it essentially by just saying, well, corporal punishment for thieves
00:42:59.680
is a, that just makes me squeamish. I don't, it doesn't make me feel weird.
00:43:04.920
That seems to basically be most people's argument and I don't find it particularly compelling.
00:43:10.620
B. Reese says, I once spoke to a woman who was against the death penalty. She had bumper stickers
00:43:14.420
that mocked the death penalty. One time, one, one said, why do we kill people who kill people to
00:43:18.420
show that killing people is wrong? I said, we don't do that. I said, uh, we kill people who
00:43:22.520
kill people so they don't kill more people. Her response, I hadn't thought about that. I said,
00:43:26.900
well, think about it. After the death penalty is executed, the person will never have a,
00:43:30.840
will never be a repeat offender. Never have a nice day. Well, you're right about that. That is one
00:43:34.640
of the benefits of death penalty is that, uh, the recidivism rate. Okay. So we can talk about the
00:43:38.280
deterrence rate, but certainly the recidivism rate for the death penalty is zero. So that is a benefit
00:43:42.440
of it. But, you know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, uh, I w I also wouldn't surrender to her argument in
00:43:49.560
that way. Like it's, yeah, you can, it is a valid method to communicate the severity of a crime
00:43:58.640
through the, through the death penalty. So, I mean, look at it this way.
00:44:06.100
Kidnapping someone, right? If you, if I were to take someone and lock them in a cage in my basement,
00:44:11.920
I would be kidnapping them and I'd go to jail for that, but I'm going to jail and they're locking
00:44:17.500
me in a cage. So would this woman say, we shouldn't lock people in cages to show them
00:44:21.860
that locking people in cages is wrong. Now, the answer to that is, yeah, that's exactly what we
00:44:27.840
should do. What are you talking about? That's actually a great way to show someone that what
00:44:32.780
they've done is wrong. Okay. If you don't know that locking people in cages is wrong, probably the,
00:44:37.700
the best way to show you that it's wrong is to put you in a cage. How else? What's a better way
00:44:44.080
is a better way. If you really want to show them locking people in cages is wrong is a better method
00:44:49.220
to keep them out of a cage and just, uh, sit them in a classroom and, you know, and give them
00:44:53.880
instruction. Maybe have a, have them talk to a therapist who tries to convince them by the force
00:44:59.900
of argument that they shouldn't lock people in cages. No, the best way to communicate it is,
00:45:04.560
okay, here's what that feels like. Here you go. And so, yes, it is entirely valid to make a
00:45:13.220
societal statement that, uh, that killing is wrong by killing people who kill as an entirely valid
00:45:20.600
method. And, uh, let's see what else. Finally, Kenny says, let's, we'll end on one person who agrees
00:45:31.360
with me anyway. Uh, I was a career criminal. I was in prison. Guess what? Mr. Walsh speaks truth.
00:45:35.920
And I have to tell you, Kenny, that I, that I, I hear this a lot from people who've actually been
00:45:39.540
in prison and who have lived a criminal life and have, uh, come out on the other end of it and have
00:45:44.040
reformed themselves. They tend to be bigger fans of law and order and criminal justice and punishment
00:45:52.140
than the people who have never experienced this.
00:45:54.900
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00:47:17.660
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00:47:22.820
spite or just for fun. But recent events would suggest that Musk was only ripping the Band-Aid
00:47:28.160
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00:47:33.520
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00:47:54.160
will reduce headcount to streamline operations. The announcement implies that 600 of the company's
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9,800 employees will lose their positions. Spotify is one of the several technology companies to
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announce layoffs in recent weeks as a response to overzealous hiring in the sector and broader
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economic woes. Microsoft revealed that the company would dismiss some 10,000 employees while
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Google will reduce its headcount by approximately 12,000 positions. And Amazon plans to dismiss
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18,000 employees. More than 46,000 workers have been discharged from prominent American technology
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companies in the first month of 2023, according to a report from Crunchbase, even after firms in the
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sector dismissed 107,000 positions last year. So perhaps, as it turns out, the most successful
00:48:32.860
businessman in the world made those layoffs because it was the right business decision.
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Maybe he didn't become the richest human in history by doing things haphazardly or without
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good reason. There's an interesting thought. And what's even more interesting is that big tech
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employees themselves, while still complaining about layoffs, have in the past inadvertently
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revealed why the layoffs were necessary. Case in point, Nicole Tsai, who's a partner services
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program manager at Google, or I should say a former partner services program manager at Google.
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Tsai, like several infamous examples from the Twitter ranks, enjoyed posting these insufferable
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day-in-the-life videos to TikTok, where she documented her exploits throughout the day,
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which mostly consisted of bragging about all the perks that she enjoyed as a big tech minion.
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I still remain personally perplexed as to why or how these day-in-the-life videos become so popular.
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I can understand watching such a video about somebody who lives an interesting life
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and does interesting things, like maybe a day-in-the-life of a scuba diver who explores shipwrecks,
00:49:32.780
or of a scientist on a remote research station in Antarctica, or even one of those guys who
00:49:38.700
repairs power lines 150 feet up. Like, I'd watch that. That, a day-in-the-life of that guy, I want
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to see. These are impressive jobs that would make for fascinating content. A day-in-the-life
00:49:50.100
of a Silicon Valley pencil pusher doesn't exactly measure up. Yet, even so, Nicole Tsai posted this.
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Here it is. A day in my life working from the Google LA office. I always grab some candy from
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the reception before heading in. This used to be an old aircraft hangar, so the decorations hanging
00:50:08.160
from the ceiling kind of looks like an aircraft flying in. Before it was a Google office, this
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aircraft hangar belonged to Howard Hughes, so there's tons of memorabilia. Next, I'm going to pass
00:50:16.640
by these art installations. They're a really good photo op, or you can sit in there and get some work
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done. I'm going to head to the coffee shop to grab some coffee and a fruit cup since I missed
00:50:25.200
breakfast, and then I'm heading over to this butterfly-themed room to take my first meeting.
00:50:28.880
Then I'm going to head over to the confetti room to take my next meeting. It's so sparkly
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and beautiful in here. I love that a lot of our rooms are themed. Then I'm going to grab my two
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favorite drinks, which is this green tea and coconut water. Next, I'm going to go upstairs and grab some
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lunch. They always have pizza and a variety of different vegetables and meat. The food is always
00:50:46.360
really good, and of course, everything you see in the office is free. On my way out of the cafe,
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I ran into a doogler, which is a dog googler, and ran into some ghosts. When they were renovating the
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office, there were a lot of spooky stories from the crew, so there's a whole area in the office
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where you can listen to them. Then I got more work done and headed over to the massage chairs to wrap
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up my day. Let me know what you want to see next. Well, it's important to get that massage in
00:51:11.360
after a grueling day of eating candy, drinking coconut water, taking selfies, perusing art
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installations, petting the dog Googler. Now, in fairness, she did take two meetings, okay? So
00:51:24.180
there were two meetings, and that was her entire day. She had the two meetings and the rest of that
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mostly just hobnobbing around, taking it easy, attending a meeting or two. The one thing missing
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from her day is work or anything that we might call work. She didn't do anything or create anything or
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make any important decisions from the looks of it. It's not clear from that video why Google needs her
00:51:52.000
in the building, and it apparently wasn't clear to Google either, which led to this unintentionally
00:51:56.460
hilarious follow-up video. Here it is. A day in my life getting laid off at Google. So I woke up to
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this really ominous text from my boss, and I honestly had no idea what it was going to be about. So I called
00:52:06.540
her the minute I woke up and saw this, and she told me to check the news and my email. So I rushed
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downstairs to find out that I had lost access to basically everything. I couldn't log into my email
00:52:15.940
or even check my calendar. I called my boss back, and we just sobbed over the phone because she was
00:52:20.760
also finding out about my layoff for the first time today too. I started getting calls from a bunch of
00:52:24.960
my co-workers and started finding out who else was let go on my team and some neighboring teams as well.
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But I think the worst part is that it seems like no one was consulted on this decision, and everyone was
00:52:35.260
just finding out about the layoffs at the same time. It just felt like a really bad game of Russian roulette,
00:52:40.140
and there was no consistency around who was let go. It was also not performance-based,
00:52:44.920
so it just felt really random. I opened up LinkedIn, which honestly was not great for my
00:52:49.160
mental health. There were so many people who were in the same boat that were both equally as shocked
00:52:53.900
and blindsided, but it did help me feel a little less alone. Honestly, I spent so much of the day
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crying that I just felt so tired from being sad and wanted to do something that would just make me feel
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better. Luckily, I have an annual pass, so I headed over to Disneyland because I wanted to go eat my
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feelings. So I started off with a cinnamon galaxy churro and then went to the teriyaki turkey leg.
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This is a special limited edition item for the Lunar New Year celebration at Disney California
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Adventure. I had some Rice Krispie, a corn dog, did some drawing, and even had another churro. I don't
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really know what's next for me, but I'll be vlogging my journey and posting more content about it,
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I have a sick sense of humor, so I really want someone with an even sicker sense of humor to make
00:53:38.940
a parody video of what would happen if one of these people was on death row and had to do a day in the
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life of their execution. I just think that'd be fun. Here's a day in the life when I'm being executed.
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I woke up, had my last meal. A couple of things. First of all, she says that the layoffs were a
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really bad game of Russian roulette, which seems to suggest that there's such a thing as a good
00:54:05.520
game of Russian roulette. The whole point of Russian roulette is that someone dies at the end,
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so it's going to be a very bad day for someone at least. Although maybe not for you, so okay.
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Second, she just got laid off, lost her source of income, and her first reaction was to run down to,
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was it Disneyland, to blow her discretionary funds on carnival snacks? Doesn't seem like a great
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strategy. Third, listen, I don't have anything against this woman. I'm predisposed to dislike
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her because she works for big tech, but for all I know, she's a very nice and delightful person,
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for all I know. But my ability to feel sympathy for your tears is severely limited when you take
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out your phone to capture your tears on video. I have been sad in my life. I've experienced setbacks
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like we all have. I've never once felt the urge in the midst of that sadness to document it with my
00:54:52.200
phone. That's actually the last thing I would want, is I'm very sad about something and then
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I have a phone in my face. It's the last thing I want. The instinct to pull out your phone while
00:55:02.340
you're crying is not one that I can begin to understand, and it automatically makes your
00:55:07.360
sadness at least partially performative because you're using it for content. You're using it for
00:55:12.640
clout. You're not taking your own misfortune seriously, and so why should I take it seriously?
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Finally, there's a lesson here that I hope Nicole learns and all younger people learn.
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It's not fun, but it's the truth. In the working world, everyone is expendable. Everyone is
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replaceable. Now, you're not expendable as a human being. I'm not saying that you as a human are
00:55:39.560
expendable. You're not expendable in certain contexts, like in the context of your family. You're not an
00:55:44.780
expendable person. But at your job, you can be replaced. And eventually, one way or another,
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you will be. Whether you quit, fired, laid off, retire. I mean, one way or another, eventually,
00:55:55.920
you're replaced. And that's the case for all of us. But you can greatly mitigate your replaceableness.
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You can make yourself much less expendable. You can make it so that though you can still be replaced,
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there are not that many people who can replace you. Your own vulnerability in this regard,
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the reality that you will never be entirely indispensable, that shouldn't be a cause for
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despair, but rather it should drive you and make you more ambitious and innovative and propel you
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to work harder. Not in a paranoid way, but just in a like staying humble and working hard kind of way.
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And if it does, if it does motivate you that way, then even if and when you are replaced,
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you're nearly certain to continue on the path to success, though by the way of a detour.
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We will always be, to one degree or another, expendable at our jobs, but you can become
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virtually undeniable in pursuit of your larger goals. If you hone your abilities, if you never
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become entirely complacent, if you work harder than everybody around you, you will be successful.
00:56:59.360
It is virtually guaranteed. I have never known in my life a hardworking, talented person who was
00:57:06.220
not by some measure successful. Maybe not rich, but rich is not, rich is one potential manifestation
00:57:13.740
of some forms of success. It is not in and of itself success. So maybe I'm not saying that every
00:57:18.160
hardworking, talented person is a millionaire, but they are all successful at the same time.
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So here's your problem, Nicole, and it's a problem shared by many. You don't seem to be doing anything
00:57:30.960
or even attempting to do anything that cannot be done by virtually anyone. That is the most
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vulnerable position you can put yourself in when you are contributing in a way that could just as
00:57:43.780
well be emulated by nearly anyone who walks in the door. In fact, your contributions can be absorbed
00:57:50.320
by other people without anything really being lost. You've made yourself highly, highly replaceable
00:57:57.860
and you've deprived yourself of any leverage. Further down the professional ladder, there are some
00:58:03.660
workers in the fast food industry who find themselves in the same position. They clamor for higher wages,
00:58:07.600
but they have almost no leverage because their positions can be simply erased and replaced by touch
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screens. Now, the best response then is to work hard, develop your skills, become innovative,
00:58:18.740
put yourself in a position either in the same industry or somewhere else where you bring something
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to the table that very few people can match. Now, this isn't about defending corporations or greedy
00:58:29.540
billionaires. I'm not telling you how I wish things were. This is not my vision of how I want the world
00:58:36.320
to be. I'm telling you how it is. And all we can do is to start with confront the fundamental reality
00:58:44.000
for what it is and figure out how to succeed within its confines. Whether you like the confines of reality
00:58:51.920
or not, there they are. You have to figure out how to operate in spite of them. That's the way forward.
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Though for now, I must say you are still canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move
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over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.