Ep. 1185 - The Entertainment Industry Is Collapsing, Thank God
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The media is warning of the impending doom of the entertainment industry as Hollywood actors join the writers on strike. Plus, the Pentagon tries to explain why it s so important to provide abortions for female military members, and a beautiful parade float causes chaos and consternation in Alaska.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media is warning of the impending doom of the entertainment
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industry as Hollywood actors join the writers on strike. One executive worries that we might
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soon run out of shows to watch. Imagine that. What a horror. But if the entertainment industry
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collapses, will this really be the cause? And either way, would it actually be a bad thing?
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Also, speaking of impending doom, we're told that the rest of the planet will also be destroyed as
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well because of global warming. In fact, one prominent Democrat claims that this week we
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experienced the hottest temperatures in 120,000 years. Plus, the Pentagon tries to explain why
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it's so important to provide abortions for female military members. And a beautiful Johnny
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the Walrus parade float causes chaos and consternation in Alaska. We'll discuss that
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important story and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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in democracies is that they get to vote on the things that could change their lives forever. Nothing happens,
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we think, that reorders the lives of millions of people all at once without some sort of a referendum
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or an election or whatever. Now, things have never really worked that way, of course, and for a few
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generations now, since the advent of modern technology, that has become more and more evident.
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What happens in practice is that some new technology arrives and life changes forever all at once for
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countless people. In one generation, watching a movie meant driving down to the theater, buying a ticket
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in person. It meant, you know, doing things like putting on clothes and interacting with other human
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beings. No alternative was imaginable. But then just a few years later, watching a movie is as simple as
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sitting inside your house, pressing a few buttons on a remote or yelling commands at your remote like some
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sort of schizophrenic. It becomes archaic to think of anything else. So we're all used to this kind of rapid
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social change at this point. These massive shifts happen before anyone studies the effects that these new
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technologies might have on our brains or our interpersonal relationships. The changes just
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happen. Very quickly, we all take them for granted. And that's all very familiar. What's not familiar,
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what most people are not used to, is what happens when there is a rollback on all of this? What happens
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when a modern convenience, for one reason or another, suddenly just stops? Well, as of this week, that's no
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longer a hypothetical question. After screenwriters in Hollywood went on strike a few months ago last Friday,
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the Screen Actors Guild joined them on the picket line. And the combined strike means that for all
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intents and purposes, the entertainment industry in the United States has been shut down, doesn't exist
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right now. The strike affects movies, television shows, video games, and more. It's the first time
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that this kind of strike has happened in more than like six decades, I think, in our always online
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world of Netflix and Hulu and HBO Max and Xbox Live. This is unprecedented. And for some people,
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it's quite terrifying. For journalists and corporate media who spend more time glued to
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screens than anyone on the planet, what we're seeing is something of an extinction-level event.
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This is a catastrophe approximately on the scale of like a Texas-sized asteroid hitting the Earth.
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Now, these journalists didn't care much about the explosion of that Russian gas pipeline, even though
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that might have caused a world war. They didn't care about the strange disappearance of the 911 call
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from Jeffrey Epstein's jail the night that he died, even though that raised a lot of questions,
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shall we say, about corruption at the highest levels of the federal government. Journalists
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didn't bother to panic over any of that, but a strike in Hollywood, well, they're all over that
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story. The Associated Press, for example, just published this dire headline, quote,
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Hollywood plunges into all-out war on the heels of the pandemic and a streaming revolution.
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Well, that sounds pretty serious. And according to the allegedly venerable Sunday show,
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Face the Nation on CBS, it is quite serious. Face the Nation just invited the former CEO of
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Paramount, Barry Diller, on the show to explain the fallout of the ongoing strike in Hollywood.
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And here's what the Hollywood shutdown means for you. And it has really serious implications,
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okay? This is what it means for you, according to Barry Diller. Listen.
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At this moment, this kind of perfect storm, it's okay if it gets settled in the next month.
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But I'll posit what happens if it doesn't. And there doesn't seem to be enough trust and energy
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to get it settled soon. What will happen is, if in fact it doesn't get settled until
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Christmas or so, then next year, there's not going to be many programs for anybody to watch.
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So you're going to see subscriptions get pulled, which is going to reduce the revenue of all these
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movie companies, television companies, the result of which is that there will be no programs. And at
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just the time strike is settled, that you want to gear back up, there won't be enough money.
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Terrifying stuff. So the former Paramount CEO wants you to know that, quote, what will happen is,
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in fact, if it doesn't get settled until Christmas or so, the next year, there's not going to be many
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programs for anybody to watch. Do you hear that? Are you trembling in fear yet? There might not be
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any programs for you to watch next year. The programs are going away. Think of the programs.
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What will you do without the programs? Now, it's kind of funny when you think about it. The
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implication conveyed with total sincerity is that it would be somehow a bad thing if people stopped
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staring at screens for 10 hours a day, actually went outside and got some exercise and maybe developed
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real human interests and personalities. Barry Diller is assuming that you'll agree with him on that
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point, that that's all a bad thing, as if it's a given. If people went outdoors and got some sun,
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Barry Diller fears, then one thing might lead to the next. And after a while, they might be, you know,
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thinking actual thoughts in their brains and interacting with each other.
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People's testosterone levels might even go up. We simply can't have that.
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What Diller said is interesting, not because he's worth listening to,
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but because his desperation is obvious. Diller and the rest of Hollywood want to make sure that
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you're always consuming content on one subscription service or another. These people never pause to
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consider whether the content they're forcing down your gullet is good or worthwhile, whether it helps
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you to be a smarter, better, more interesting person, whether it makes your life better.
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Like these are actually things you should consider before consuming any content. I know it's sort of
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unimaginable that you would take these into consideration at all. They never ask themselves
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if people actually want to watch and listen to the slop they're putting on these streaming services
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and in movie theaters. They just expect that you'll be horrified at the prospect that all this stuff is
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no longer available, that the morphine drip of content has been shut down. Unfortunately for these
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executives, in recent months, there have been a lot of data points that contradict their theory here.
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Look at the pathetic box office returns of the new Flash movie or the Mission Impossible sequel that
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just came out, performing in a pretty mediocre way, at least when measured against expectations,
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or the Indiana Jones and Little Mermaid catastrophes. All of these failures reveal that people are
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growing weary of what Hollywood is producing. They're exhausted by it, bored of it, but the numbers
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make that clear. For example, The Flash had a budget of roughly $220 million, and as of the latest
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estimates, it's barely broken even. The latest Indiana Jones film cost around $300 million,
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made about as much in the global box office, so that's a wash. The latest Mission Impossible movie,
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meanwhile, had a budget of around $300 million as well. As of today, it's only made less than $250
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million. Now it's only been out for a week or two, but again, well below expectations.
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These kinds of shortfalls happening so consistently for big budget films are unheard of in Hollywood. I mean,
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it's bomb after bomb after bomb. So what's going on here? What could possibly explain these numbers?
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Rather than confront that question honestly, corporate media is rushing to blame, can you guess,
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COVID. According to the AP, quote, disaster loomed in Hollywood when COVID-19 in March 2020
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shuttered movie theaters, emptied TV studios, and shut down all production. The recovery is still
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ongoing. Box office remains about 20 to 25 percent off the pre-pandemic pace. Now, in other words,
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by the media's telling, the problem isn't the content of these Hollywood movies. It's not that
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people are tired of woke propaganda or derivative storylines or franchises that tell one story
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repeating itself ad nauseum, never coming to a conclusion. That's not the problem. The problem
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is that more than three years ago, COVID happened, and that's what explains all this. So it's like the
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same excuse that the government used to fundamentally change the election system in this country is also
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the same excuse that explains why no one is watching Hollywood movies anymore. That's what
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explains everything. Whenever the corporate media needs it to explain something, they can always pull
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out COVID and say, well, that explains it. And it's always COVID, by the way, that they blame,
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not the shutdowns. It's not the government's response to COVID, but COVID itself.
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It's all a pretty neat explanation, but is it true? Well, let's see.
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Because if that explanation made any sense whatsoever, you expect that every movie, regardless of genre,
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would be having similar problems, you expect that viewers would be tuning out across the board.
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But that's not what's happening. Not even close. The film Sound of Freedom, which tells a true story
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about a hero who rescued sex-trafficked children, is currently pushing $100 million at the box office.
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Word of mouth is especially strong. The film's audience in its second week in theaters grew by nearly 40%.
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And now, you might say, well, it's $100 million. It's less than $200 to $300 million that, say, Indiana Jones made.
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You said that was a failure. But the difference is that Sound of Freedom managed to make all that money
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and build all that buzz on a shoestring budget of less than $15 million. That's $1.5 million.
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Somehow, the pandemic from three years ago didn't cut into their revenues. How is that possible?
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When all is said and done, Sound of Freedom will likely earn something like 10 times its production budget.
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And to put that into perspective, for Indiana Jones 5 to earn 10 times its production budget,
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it would need to make $3 billion at the box office. And to put it simply, that ain't happening.
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As it happens, it's not just Sound of Freedom that's reaching a large audience on a small budget.
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The Christian horror film Nefarious managed to make it into the box office top 10 despite basically
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no marketing, no budget, no stars. Nefarious came out at the same time as the Super Mario movie
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and still managed to beat expectations. And there are many more examples of this.
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Also this year, of course, my own documentary, What is a Woman, became arguably the most viewed
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documentary of all time. Again, with very little marketing compared to something like
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Indiana Jones or Mission Impossible. So what explains all this?
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The answer is that people are still interested in films. They are still interested in the art form.
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The pandemic hasn't changed that. No matter what the AP and Hollywood executives tell you,
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what has changed is that people have grown tired of Hollywood. Mainstream films are redundant and hollow
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and blatantly politicized. It's an industry entirely out of ideas and people are noticing.
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And they're also noticing that it treats its customers with contempt.
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And it's why, despite what the panic executives and journalists will tell you,
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the collapse of the mainstream entertainment industry would be no tragedy. In fact, it's a
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necessary step in the process of creating something sustainable, an industry that produces content
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people actually want to watch. And that industry is coming, whether Hollywood executives and screenwriters
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Well, it's summertime and that means that it's hot outside. If you hadn't noticed, that's generally
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how it works. It's generally how it has worked. As long as the earth has had seasons, it's summertime and
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then it gets hot. And that's like, it's a, it's kind of a, it's a, it's a process that we've seen
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play out a few times now, at least. And with the summer season comes certain traditions. People go
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on summer vacations and they go to the pool and they go to the beach and the more stylish men break
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out their cargo shorts and all the rest of it. Lots of great, wonderful traditions. And then there's
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the not so great modern summer tradition of panicking hysterically because it's hot outside.
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And this is when the media, as it does every year, claims that the hot weather is a sign of our
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impending, uh, planetary doom. So here's CNN, just a quick clip. We'll play for you reporting on our
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quote, heat hell. That's what they're calling it. It's not summer. It's not just hot out. It's a heat
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hell. Uh, watch. These long stretches of extreme heat are what they see as cause for alarm. That extreme
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heat is not just being felt here in the United States. It's being felt by millions of people
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all around the world as the heat wave sweeps across parts of Europe and Asia too. One top
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climate group warns that quote, heat hell is worldwide at the moment and that those extreme
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temperatures are nothing short of dangerous. Bill Weir, we don't usually see these record
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breaking temperatures that we usually until later in the summer. Why is this summer expected
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to be hotter than last summer? Cooling patterns in the Pacific there, which actually hit a lot of
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the pent up energy in the oceans, which have been hiding a lot of the heat for the last century or
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so. Right now, every second of every day, uh, our planet absorbs as much extra heat as 10 Hiroshima
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sized atomic bombs per second. And now we're seeing the full result of that. Now we have wildfire smoke,
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which is a result of drier forests up in Canada and easier burning, uh, conditions there. We have
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those devastating flash floods that took the lives of those children, as you were describing north of
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Philadelphia. Those are the results. But heat is really the engine of all of this. A warmer planet
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holds too much water in some places, not enough in others. And the rate that it's going up now,
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scientists are used to seeing sort of ocean temperature records broken by a half a degree.
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It's been shattered by five degrees in the North Atlantic.
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Hmm. So in other words, it's hot. Uh, yes, it is hot. The hottest it's ever been,
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they tell us. It's never been hotter than this. Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted this. This is the
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claim that she's making and not just her. She said the earth just broke the record for the hottest day
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in 120,000 years. In fact, we broke in on three separate days. We broke it. I think she meant to say
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we broke it on three separate days. National climate emergency now. Wow. The hottest day in
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120,000 years. Now, I mean, that sounds pretty bad. I admit if we just experienced the hottest day in
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120,000 years, then, uh, then something's going on. Like that's, that's a, that's bad news.
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Probably. We still couldn't do anything about it. You can't actually do anything about it,
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but that would be bad news. The hottest day in 120,000 years that, I mean, that's significant
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at the very least. Uh, but before you go building your arc in preparation for the coming worldwide
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floods from the, uh, polar ice caps melting and all the rest of it, you should take some solace in
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the fact that what Ilhan Omar has claimed here is total absolute nonsense. Okay. That's the one,
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there's really only one problem with it. The one problem is that it's completely bogus. Other than
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that, it's, it's, it's true. Other than the fact that it's entirely false, it's actually true. Now,
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how do I know that it's bogus? Well, because needless to say, we do not have daily temperature
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records dating back 120,000 years. Okay. So you can't, you can't say it's the hottest day in 120,000
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years because that would require you to know how hot it has been every day for the last 120,000 years.
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And you don't know that nobody does. In fact, we can't get anywhere close to that in terms of
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our records. And that's why it's not possible to go and look and find out what the weather was like
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on say, I don't know, August 7th in the year 4,000 BC, much less the year 40,000 BC. That
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information does not exist. We have no idea. It was not recorded. So what the hell is she babbling
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about? I mean, where is Omar and where's the rest of the media getting this? Is she getting it from her
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own fevered imagination? Sort of, but, but not entirely. Her imagination is being fed by the
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media. So the Hill, for example, published an article with this headline a couple of weeks ago.
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And here's the headline. We're experiencing earth's hottest weather in 120,000 years,
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and it's just getting started. So that's, that's probably pretty directly where she got it from.
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Although even there, you see, it's, it's, that's not exactly the same claim. She said,
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this is the hottest day in 120,000 years. And, but the headline is we're experiencing
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earth's hottest weather, which is a little bit more vague. Um, but even so, how do they know that?
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I mean, uh, uh, how could they possibly know that we're, that we're experiencing the hottest weather
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120,000 years? Well, they answer that question. They pretend to answer it anyway with this. So I'm
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reading now. It says, how can experts be so confident of these bold assertions? As a climate
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specialist, I'll do my best to explain. It's all fairly simple and fully expected by the climate
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science community. First, researchers know using observations that temperatures over the past
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decade have been warmer than any ever seen since record keeping began in the 1800s. Since then,
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earth has warmed by 1.2 degrees Celsius or two degrees Fahrenheit. Scientists also know through
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sophisticated methods of examining copious climate clues in proxy data, like tree rings, ice cores,
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ocean sediments, et cetera, that earth's average temperature has not been this warm since the
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ice age ended 20,000 years ago. Between 10,000 years ago in today's rapid man-made warming,
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earth's average temperature was relatively constant, allowing human civilization to thrive. There were
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disruptive regional cooling episodes like the disparate, uh, little ice age events, but the
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impact on overall global temperature was relatively minor. Since at the peak of the last ice age,
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earth's average temperature is about 10 degrees cooler than today. And it's not been this warm since the
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last ice age. We call that time the last interglacial in between glacial periods, which peaked around 125,000
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years ago. Okay. So that's it. That's the, uh, that's the science using proxy data like tree rings and ocean
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sediments. Scientists can come up with a guess as to the average global temperature dating back thousands
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of years, supposedly, but here's the problem. Well, there are too, there are too many problems to count,
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but let's, I mean, here's one, even if these guesses are correct or approximately correct, and that's a
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big if, okay, they are averages. They are not precise daily measurements. Okay. Ilhan, that's not what they
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are. You can't look at a tree ring, Ilhan, and find out what the temperature was at 4 56 PM on July 13th
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in the year 7 AD. Tree rings are not that specific. Just doesn't work that way. Which means that the
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claim that yesterday was the hottest day in over a hundred thousand years or 120,000 years is not
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supported by any science at all. It just is not. There's no basis for it. Um, even the more ambiguous,
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more vague version of that claim, there is still no science for it. There, there simply isn't,
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uh, none at all now. So that's all, that's all nonsense, but there's one other point that I have
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to make here. And this is, uh, so if there's a tradition of panicking over the hot weather,
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or at least some people, the media and Democrats panicking over it, the other tradition is where
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it seems like every year I have to explain what I'm about to explain here. Um, and, and it, and it's
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this, and I know for a lot of you, this is not going to be news to you, but just bear with me because
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there are some people who need to hear it. Now, here's what I'll tell you. If you're wondering about the
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hot weather, you're looking around and you're saying, wow, man, it's hot out. Where's all this
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hot weather coming from? Where's it coming from? Is it coming from my, my SUV that I drive to the
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store? Is that where it's coming from? Um, is it coming from all the cows farting and sending a
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methane gas to the air? Is that what it is? Well, I'll, I'll, uh, point your gaze in a different
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direction. Although don't look directly at it because in case you hadn't noticed there is up in the sky,
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about 90 million miles away, a giant glowing ball of gas, uh, which is big enough to fit a million
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earths inside of it. And it burns at its core at about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. It is so big
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and so powerful that it's gravitational pull extends 50,000 astronomical units into space.
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And one astronomical unit is 93 million miles. So 93, uh, million times 50,000. You do the math on
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that. That's how far this object's influence extends in modern terms. You might even say that
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when I'm talking about here is the sun. If you didn't already guess the sun is the greatest
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influencer in the solar system. You could search all of Tik TOK and you would find very few influencers
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who are as influential as the sun. That's how influential it is. So here's my point. That big
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old thing in the sky, that glowing ball of gas. Um, we just heard a comparison to, uh, atomic bombs.
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Well, the, the, the sun generates the equivalent of like several billion atomic bombs of energy every
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second. And that's what calls the shots on earth. It determines the temperature. Uh, it determines
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everything in terms of weather. And it could get a, you know, the sun could get a case of indigestion
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tomorrow and burp and, uh, knock out our entire power grid, send us back to the stone age. That
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thing, that thing is what you can blame the temperature on. And until you figure out a way
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to literally control the sun, there is basically nothing we can do to intentionally and significantly
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raise lower or otherwise affect the temperature on earth because they're going to be competing with
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that thing in the sky there. Um, and that's, that's what we are not as significant as apparently
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we are not as powerful. Uh, we are not as powerful as many people, especially corporate media apparently
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think we are. Um, here's a tweet from someone whose ego is about as big as the sun. Barack Obama posted
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this. He said, today, some of the books that shaped my life and the lives of so many others
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are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. And librarians are
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on the front lines fighting every day to make the widest range of viewpoints, opinions, and ideas
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available to everyone. So that's what he tweeted. And then he included this letter. Let me see if I
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can pull it up. Um, this is very interesting. You need to hear this. This is what, uh, this is what,
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this is the letter that he, that he posted as well to the dedicated and hardworking librarians of
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America. In any democracy, the free exchange of ideas is an important part of making sure that
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citizens are informed, engaged, and feel like the perspective matters. So important. In fact,
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that here in America, the first amendment of our constitution states that freedom begins with our
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capacity to share and access ideas, even, and maybe especially the ones we disagree with more often
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than not, someone decides to write those ideas down in a book more often than not. So of all the
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ideas that have ever been had more often than not, they are written in books. I don't think that
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makes any sense, but we're not going to get, we don't have time to get hung up on all the little
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details here. Books have always shaped how I experienced the world. Writers like Mark Twain
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and Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman, James Baldwin taught me something essential about our country's
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character. Reading about people whose lives were very different from mine, showed me how to step
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into someone else's shoes, blah, blah, blah, blah. Today, some of the books that shaped my life and
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the lives of so many others are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas of
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perspective. It's no coincidence that these banned books are often written by or feature people of
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color, indigenous people, and members of the LGBTQ plus community. All right. So
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the headline here is that Barack Obama has finally come out as gay. We knew it would happen
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eventually. And, and, and, and here we are, it finally happened officially. At least that must be
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what he's saying. I can only assume that's what he's saying because he says that the books that are
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being challenged, quote unquote, are the ones that shaped his life. But literally the only books that
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anyone on the right is challenging are pornographic books about gay sex. Okay. Those books are the,
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the focal, not just the focal point. They are the entirety of the discussion about quote unquote
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banning books that you find on the right. That's what we're looking at. Those are the only ones
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that, that anyone on our side has raised an objection to. And when it comes to challenging them,
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we have specifically challenged their presence in schools. We have challenged the schools
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that distribute pornographic books to kids. That is what we are challenging. That is the challenge
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that Barack Obama is referring to. That's it. That's the whole challenge.
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And so if some of these challenged books are what shaped his life, then we can only assume that his life
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was shaped by pornographic books about gay sex. That's what Barack Obama is saying.
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I'm not going to pretend it's breaking news. I'm not going to pretend it's a huge surprise,
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And that of course, as always is when we hear about banned books
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from the left, that is always what they're talking about.
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We are, are we trying on the right? Are we trying to ban books in a certain context? Yeah,
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we are. We, we want to ban pornographic books from schools. Absolutely. Um, we want to
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ban anyone, whether they're working at school or not from, uh, distributing pornographic material to
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children. That's what we're looking to do. But when they talk about book bans, that is 100% of the
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time what they're referring to. And you notice something else too, that, uh, it's, it's very
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easy. It's very interesting and convenient that when you have people on the left, like Barack Obama,
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um, who talk about the, you know, the importance of, of being able to access ideas and access
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perspectives, it's our capacity to share and access ideas, even, and maybe especially the ones we
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disagree with. Okay. He says freedoms, freedom begins with that, that we can't have the first
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amendment without that, without the ability to, uh, to freely access and share ideas,
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including ones we disagree with. Well, it's, it's really interesting that anytime they talk about
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that, um, they, they want to relegate it to books. And that's why he immediately in the next sentence
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makes the kind of odd claim that more often than not, these ideas people have are written down in
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books, which of course, most of the time, that's not the case. Like most people have never written
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a book. Everyone has ideas and opinions and the vast majority of people will never write them in a
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book. Most people are not authors. So they want to relegate it to that. They want the conversation to
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be about books, physical books that you can go out and pick up and read. And even then it's
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actually, it's, it's an even, it's a much more limited conversation than that, because once again,
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no one is trying to ban books broadly. Uh, so what they're really talking about are books and
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specifically pornographic books in schools. But you notice what they're leaving out of all this?
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Um, what about the ideas and opinions that are shared in every other context? Like on social media,
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on the internets. Okay. Cause everyone has ideas and opinions that they want to share.
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Almost no one, save a very small minority are writing them in actual physical books,
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but most people in the modern world are sharing them online.
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And so if you really believe that freedom begins with our capacity to share and access ideas,
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then before we talk about books, you should, you should be starting with, uh, the, you know,
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social media needs to be a place where people can openly share their opinions, especially Barack Obama
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says the ones we disagree with, but he's not going to say that because he knows that in these forums,
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you know, the exact forums where regular people actually do go to share and access ideas.
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Most people are not writing books that end up in libraries and most people are not going to
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libraries these days, but people are online. Uh, but it's in that, it's in that forum of the
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internet where you're not going to hear someone like Barack Obama talk about the importance of
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free speech because it's exactly there where they want to shut down free speech and they want to shut
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down, uh, you know, the free exchange and expression of ideas and opinions.
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That's when their, their, uh, tone suddenly changes really drastically.
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And now instead of talking about how freedom begins with our capacity to share and access ideas,
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now they're going to talk about things like stochastic terrorism, how you could be a terrorist
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for having a viewpoint that other people find disturbing. Yeah. They care so much about,
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uh, sharing and access, accessing ideas, but they think that you should be banned from every social
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media platform in the world. If you say that, you know, a male is a man and not a woman, that's how
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much they care about free speech, obviously. All right, moving on. Here's Pentagon spokesman,
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John Kirby, um, answering an important question. Let's listen.
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Why is the new DOD policy on abortion critical to military readiness?
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I'm really glad you asked that question. No, I mean, I really am. One in five members of the U.S.
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military are women, 20%. We're an all volunteer force. Nobody's forcing you to sign up and go.
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People volunteer to go. You raise your right hand. You say, I'm going to, I'm going to do this for a few
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years or even for my life. And it might cost me my life to do it. And when you sign up and you make
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that contract, you have every right to expect that the organization, in this case, the military is going
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to take care of you and they're going to take care of your families. And they're going to make sure
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that you can serve with dignity and respect, no matter who you are, who you love, uh, or, uh, or
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how you worship or don't. And, um, and our policies, whether they're diversity, inclusion, and equity,
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or whether they're about transgender individuals who qualify physically and mentally to serve to be
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able to do it with dignity, or whether it's about female service members, one in five, or female family
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members, being able to count on the kinds of healthcare and reproductive care specifically
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that they need to serve. Uh, that is a foundational sacred obligation of military leaders across the
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river. Uh, I've seen it myself and it matters because it says we're invested in you because you
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are being willing to invest in us. You're investing your life, your family's livelihood with us. We owe you
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that back in return. I had a chance a couple of weeks ago to meet with some military spouses here at
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the White House. Um, some were active duty members, some were spouses, all were women. And 201, they told
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me, uh, that abortion laws in this country that are now being passed are absolutely having an effect
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on their willingness to continue serving in uniform or to encourage or discourage, in this case,
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their spouses from continuing service. Wow. So he had a bunch of, uh, military members and
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military spouses, all female at the, uh, at the White House or the Pentagon. And every single one
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said that abortion, that being able to kill babies is a, is a necessity in order to have women in the
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military. Well, all right, here's an easy solution. Then here's my solution. If that's the case,
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I'll adopt your premise for a moment. Well, then get women out of the military, you know,
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ban women from the military. That's the solution. Get women out. I have never heard a better argument
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for excluding women from the military than this. There are actually a bunch of arguments for it.
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All of them quite compelling. Um, but this is the best argument. He claims that, that a, a necessary
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prerequisite for having women in the military is killing babies. That's what he is saying. That's
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the spokes spokesman for the Pentagon. In fact, using tax money to kill babies, tax funded baby
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murder is necessary. Kirby claims in order to have women serve. Well, okay, then get them the hell out.
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If children must be sacrificed on the altar of female inclusion, then that is the best possible
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indication that there should be no female inclusion in this facet of society, which is the military.
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Best argument you can make. Now we know that oftentimes historically members of the military
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have been called on to sacrifice their lives, which is a heroic sacrifice. And, uh, we honor that.
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What we do not honor is a member of the military or anybody else sacrificing their children
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for, for, for the sake of their own opportunities. That is an exact inversion. Okay. That is the
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opposite of what someone in the military should be doing. Right. Ideally, you join the military to
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protect your children and other people's children. You, you, you, you go there to protect your country
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and especially the future generations, the current younger generations, children,
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but children being killed. So for the sake of these members of the military is, um, backwards.
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It is again, a complete inversion of, of the, the, what is supposed to be the basic function and purpose
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of the military. And there's a lot of that going on. We know, uh, the Biden administration wants to
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invert everything, especially when it comes to the military so that in every area it, it, it does
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exactly the opposite of what it's supposed to do and functions in exactly the opposite, uh, way that
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it's supposed to function. But we can begin here. If that's what it takes, then no problem. Just get
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women out of the military. Um, you know, historically we know that, uh, you know, in every thriving and
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successful civilization, uh, that, that men are what are the people that go to war to defend it
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anyway, to begin with. And this is not a problem that you have. Like when men are exclusively in the
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military, this is not even a conversation we even need to have. Maybe that should tell us something.
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All right. One of the thing I want to play for you, another quick clip, and I haven't even seen
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this whole clip. I just saw it pop up, uh, right before we started filming today. Speaking of women,
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Jared Polis, governor of Colorado and Spencer Cox, who's the governor of Utah, that is a Democrat and
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alleged Republican have come together for some sort of PSA. They have combined their cringe powers.
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When their cringe powers combine, it creates, uh, this. Let's watch.
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I'm Spencer Cox, Republican governor of Utah. And I'm Jared Polis, Democratic governor of Colorado.
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And we're here to help save your family dinners. You know what we're talking about. You're halfway
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through your second helping of mashed potatoes when your MAGA uncle decides to share his thoughts
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on the latest election conspiracy. We all have that uncle. Or instead of passing the salt,
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your woke niece passes along a particularly controversial fact that she read on social media.
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Or maybe you're the one with the strong opinions. You know you're right. And the other side is a bunch
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of misguided weirdos. But there's a healthy way to deal with conflicting opinions. Actually,
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it's okay to disagree. It's not just okay. It's crucial. Did you just disagree with me about
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disagreeing? Healthy disagreement means not assuming that the other side is deluded, misinformed,
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or actively trying to overthrow America. A little respect and curiosity keeps resentment off the
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dinner table. And out of your social media feeds. Our nation was founded by people who profoundly
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disagreed. So next time your uncle, your niece, or anyone else brings up that one topic that just
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drives you nuts, take a deep breath. Be curious. Ask questions. If you still disagree, that's okay.
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But you might find that you aren't as far apart as you think. Conflict isn't bad. It's the way we
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disagree that matters. Please join us in showing America the right kind of conflict. Together,
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No, I was expecting cringe, but that was overload. That was a lot. And I don't apologize
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for very much on this show. But I am sorry to have inflicted that on you. I didn't realize quite,
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like I said, I didn't read the whole, I didn't watch really any of it before. I just saw,
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I saw it. I saw the thumbnail and then that was it. And we played it and now we've all experienced
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it and there's no going back. We can't go back. We can't go back to who we were before. We just sat
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through that for 90 seconds. First of all, who speaks like, no one speaks like this. What do you do
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if your niece passes along a controversial fact that she read on social media? This is not,
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it's not how human beings speak. And we, of course, also don't need politicians to
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tell us how to function as human beings. That's not what they're there for. That's not what we
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elected them. Like, we don't need you to help us become better people. That's not your job,
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which is a good thing because you two in particular are not equipped for that job whatsoever.
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Whatever. But, you know, and most of this you could say is basically harmless. It's just your
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standard cliches and platitudes about, oh, why don't we all get along?
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And for the most part, that's what it is. It's cringy, it's embarrassing, all that,
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but you can roll your eyes and move on. But what underlies this is really a misconception
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and it's, it's a, it is a fact, talking about controversial facts, is a fact that many people
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are too afraid to face, which is that what we just heard from one of those guys there
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that, well, a lot of times you think you disagree, but you find out you're not that far apart.
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The fact is that that is not true. We want to believe that. That's what we tell ourselves.
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So we look at all the contention in our culture and the disagreements and the culture war battles
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that, that rage. And we want to believe that, you know, we're really, we're really all the same at
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heart and we, we want the same things and we have the same basic values. And so most of these arguments
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and, uh, and everything, but most of this is, these are all really grounded in, in, in, uh,
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misconceptions, miscommunications. Really, that's what all this is.
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That's not the case. I, I wish that were the case. Okay. I wish that was true, but it's not
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because what we find in our culture, as I've, uh, said many times, there is a, you know,
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it is an oversimplification to talk about two sides because each side is fractured into splinter
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groups, apparently, especially on our side being, uh, conservatives, whatever you want
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to call us, uh, that you, you find that fracturing and splintering, especially, um, among people
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on the right. But if we were to broadly lump the two groups together and talk about left
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and right, which you can do, and it's coherent, it's a coherent thing to do. Um, what you find
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in between these two groups is a vast and deep Canyon, uh, and it's, it's far too wide
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for any bridge to be built across it. Okay. There are, well, it turns out, um, we as Americans
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do not share any universal principles or universal fundamental beliefs about life and about the
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world. We, we don't, we used to, that used to be the case. I mean, you could go back 150 years
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to a time when there were, when there was obviously intense disagreement about really important issues
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and even civil wars that were fought. Uh, but if you get down to it, you would find that there are
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some basic fundamental agreements and we don't have that anymore. Now, obviously, you know, on this show,
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uh, we talk a lot about gender ideology and, uh, and everything related to that. And one of the
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reasons we talk about that, that is one of the most glaring examples of this total lack of commonality
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between the two sides, because that's one of the things you go back to, you know, the civil war,
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600,000 Americans died. They were killing each other on the battlefield. Um, but if you had taken a
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poll of everybody involved in the civil war on both sides and ask them, um, do women have penises?
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You would find that 0% say yes. So at least they all understood like basic facts of physical reality
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that they all understood. They had that in common, at least. Um, they all also, almost all of them would
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have also believed in God, would have believed, uh, therefore in some of the, you know, the, the
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basic ideas about the meaning of life and the purpose of human beings. I mean, these things are
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important, but we don't have any of that anymore, at least not shared across both sides and across
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the culture. Um, and that's, that's the reality. And you might find that in your own family. A lot
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of people do might have somebody in your own family. So this is not just annoying conversations
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at the dinner table. Uh, you might have an uncle or niece or whoever, or a parent or, uh, uh, you know,
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sibling, God forbid a spouse who it's not just that you disagree with them. It's that they might as well
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live in a different universe. Their conception of reality is completely foreign and alien to you.
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That's, that's what we're dealing with. And, uh, you know, we have to begin by at least recognizing that.
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swapping of the seven dwarves is that in their attempt to not perpetuate the discrimination of
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little people that are actively taking jobs away from little people. Yeah, that's exactly the point
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that I think I made also on the show, uh, yesterday that this is, it's one of the many ironies here,
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um, is that, is that actually snow way in the seven doors, but that was an opportunity to actually,
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we, we, we hear about, it's so important to have representation and opportunities for all different
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kinds of people. Well, if you are, um, if you are, if you are someone suffering from dwarfism and you're
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an actor in Hollywood, it's like, they're not, they're not many roles that are open to you.
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And so if they're making a snow white remake, well, here's an opportunity.
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And in their wokeness, Disney came back around and said, no, nevermind.
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We're going to exclude you in the name of inclusion, in the name of inclusion, we're going to exclude
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you. That's often the way it goes. Knowledge and faith says no white and the seven Dwights.
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But I like that one. I mean, seven Dwights doesn't make a lot of sense, but it kind of does. I, I,
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I sort of understand what you mean by that. Um, Sylvia says something is wrong with your hair.
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Well, I think, uh, what's wrong with it is that we're on the road and I don't have, uh,
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hair and makeup. Not that I use that anyway, but that's what, if there's anything wrong with how
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I appear, that's, that's who you can blame it on. Um, because of course I don't know how to groom
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myself or comb my own hair. The cultured swine says, I don't think you understand how close some
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of the SPG came to converting to Michael Knowles's creme de la creme while you were gone. Glad you're
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back. Please never leave for that long. Yeah. Well, they're not, they're SPG for life. Well, it's don't,
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don't insult me by saying SPG for life. If you're going to then, if you're SPG for life after you
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just said that after three weeks, you're going to convert to Michael Knowles's cult. So it's not
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SPG for life is it? It's SPG for, for, you know, three and a half weeks. How dare you? Creme de la
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creme. Come on. That's almost as bad as Candace's attempts. Look, there's just, there's just, uh,
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everyone at the daily wire has tried to make their own cult. It's end and it doesn't,
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you know why it doesn't work because it's too intentional. As I've tried to explain the SPG
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was, uh, it, it was, it was something that happened organically. It was almost, it's like it fell out
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of the sky. It was, it was birthed by the universe itself. I would even say not to put too fine a point
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on it. And what you have from the other people at daily wire is that they look at that and say,
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I want my own. I want my own. You end up with creme de la creme. Come on. Uh, Christina says,
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so they don't know who had access to a secure area of the white house and are dropped off hard
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drugs. What else did this person slash group have access to? Sensitive documents talk about
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massive security breach. They are trying to cover their ass, but end up making a situation look even
00:49:53.900
worse. Right. It's, it, it's whoever left the cocaine in the white house. Um, and we can assume
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that it's someone that is close to people in power in the white house because we can assume that
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because if it wasn't, they would just tell us if it really was some visitor.
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That's what they keep telling us. They keep saying that us, you know, it's an area that
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visitors have access to hundreds of visitors. You really want us to believe that a visitor to
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the white house brought cocaine? Like someone, what, maybe someone's going for a tour.
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Someone is stopping by for a tour of the white house. Some tourist
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decided to bring some Coke into the white house. And then really what the halfway through the tour
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said, Oh crap, I brought my cocaine with me and then took it out. It just left it somewhere.
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Uh, we're supposed to believe that of course that doesn't make any sense, but if it is true,
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they have no idea than that. That does indeed raise lots of questions about, uh, security or
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lack thereof at the white house. Michael says, honestly, Disney is trying to cater to a much
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larger and more diverse audience than they did in the 1950s. The backlash is partly cultural
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dissonance because things are changing. Partly hate speech. Yes, it's hate speech. If you don't
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want to go watch the new, uh, uh, snow white, of course, what you're saying is completely wrong on
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many levels, starting with the fact that, um, it is not catering to a much larger audience. Okay.
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I can guarantee you that the snow white remake will not reach a larger audience than did the original
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snow white. How many people have seen the original snow white that was made in what it's in 1940s or even
00:51:30.440
earlier, perhaps how many people have seen it? It's like, I don't, I'm sure we could probably look
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that number up as hundreds of millions, if not more than that. Um, and it's not just people that
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have seen it. It's how it's, it's the influence that, that, um, that that film has had on the
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culture and on people. Do you think that the, the, the remake is going to come anywhere close to that?
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No, of course not. Like these remakes are not even reaching, uh, the new generations and the newer
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audiences. I know that for my own kids, they have no interest in watching any of the remake versions
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of any of these films. They're, they're bored to death by all of them. So if this is about reaching
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a larger and more diverse audience, it totally fails in that regard. It would be hard to reach
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a larger audience than the Disney classics have already reached. And because they reach everyone,
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everyone knows about those films and has seen them. So what they're going to reach a larger audience than
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everyone. You know, that's the thing about, um, fairy tales, right? It's like fairy tales.
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These are stories that have been written and have been retold and passed down through the ages and
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that they are designed already to connect with people of all ages and all backgrounds and quote
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unquote diverse audiences. That's what fairy tales already do. That's why these, these stories have
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stood the test of time, not just since the original Disney films, which we call original, but you know,
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they're not, they didn't originate the stories. These stories go back, many of them go back hundreds
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of years, if not longer. So you're not going to improve on them. Um, and often what, what ends
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up happening, not often, every time what ends up happening in the woke remakes is that they take
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these, these enduring stories that have stood the test of time and they remove everything about them
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that made them enduring, that made them relatable in the first place. Um, and finally, Nick says,
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Matt, seriously, man, I'm starting to think you didn't work on for the past. It seems like a
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month. Well, you have little faith. You will. I like it keeps telling you is that, is that listen,
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I know there are many people in media, even in conservative media that they like to hype things
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up and they like to say, Oh, we've got some, something big's coming. And then, and then they
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don't follow through. So I'm aware that that happens, but I would hope that at this point,
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you at least have noticed that when I say, Oh, we've got some big stuff coming. Like we actually,
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we're going to do it. I don't say that if it's not true. So just patience is all we need.
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This may very well be my favorite story that I've covered all summer. Though in fairness,
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I've only done like three shows this summer, so the bar is not very high. Be that as it may,
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we must extend a hearty congratulations to Fairbanks school board candidate Michael Humphrey,
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who won the prize for the best political float at the city's Golden Day Festival Parade.
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I have no idea what the Golden Day Festival is, except that the parade is apparently the largest
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in the state every single year. This is a big deal as far as Alaskan parades go. I mean,
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it is the biggest one. Suffice to say that it is an enormous honor for Mr. Humphrey,
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who won the award, and also for yours truly, as the winning float was apparently inspired
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by my best-selling children's book, Johnny the Walrus. Now, as you can see here, I put the
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pictures up. It is a, it is a, the float is a massive walrus with the name Johnny emblazoned on
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the front. Now, this should be a time of celebration in Fairbanks. Celebration of the Johnny the Walrus
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float. Indeed, it should be a time of celebration across the entire world. Michael Humphrey's Johnny the
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Walrus float has achieved the highest honor ever awarded to a giant inflatable walrus. And yes, we
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have kept daily records on that, and so I know I can say that. If we cannot all come together to
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applaud this man and his walrus in this time and honor their accomplishments, then what does that say
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about us as a culture, I ask you? But that is where this story takes a dark turn. That becomes a tale
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of treachery and betrayal. The judges who gave the award to Johnny the Walrus have now come out,
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after giving the award, have now come out and denounced Johnny the Walrus. As it turns out,
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these judges are libs who did not understand until after the fact that the walrus they awarded is based
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on my children's book. These poor libs, like so many libs before them, did not even realize they were
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being owned. And by the time they found out, it was too late. The website Must Read Alaska reports,
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the judges awarded the walrus the top prize, and then the fun started. Someone figured out that this
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was Johnny from the pro-child book Johnny the Walrus. One of the judges, a hardline leftist, went to
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Twitter to express her utter horror that she had helped Johnny the Walrus win. She didn't know, she said,
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that Johnny the Walrus was transphobic. Quote, so it turns out that the best political float was an
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anti-trans float. The judges had no idea. We had two floats to choose from for political. You know what I hate?
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Hateful people. Of course, the irony is lost on her on that. She continued, we both feel sick about it,
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and especially on how it reflects in our community to those who don't know that the judges did not
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have context. We thought, guy has a mustache like a walrus. We're in Alaska. That's a walrus
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inflatable. Okay. The controversy quickly spread from there to other social media platforms.
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On Facebook, a Fairbanks resident anonymously posted, quote, this was afloat in today's Golden
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Day Parade in Fairbanks, Alaska for school board candidate Michael Humphrey. His giant walrus named
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Johnny is a reference to a transphobic kids book that compares being a trans child to pretending to
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be a walrus. Please help get the word out about this disgusting candidate and ensure that he does
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not get elected. He is running against incumbent Tim Doran. Soon, TikTok got in on the action where a man
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with a Hanna-Barbera cartoon villain mustache expressed his deep outrage. Listen.
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So, get a load of this transphobic bullshit that just showed up in Fairbanks. So, you may ask
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yourself, how does a walrus equate to transphobia? Well, let me explain. So, Michael Humphreys,
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he's a conservative Christian Republican who's running for a school board in the Fairbanks area.
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He decided to announce his candidacy by running afloat in the Gold Days parade through Fairbanks as a giant
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walrus. Oh, neat. Most people thought that the walrus's name is Johnny. Well, for those of you who are not
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Johnny the walrus actually means a lot more than it appears. Johnny the walrus is a book that was
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written by Matt Walsh. Johnny the walrus is based off of a kid who has an overactive imagination. One
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day he wants to be a dinosaur. One day he wants to be a knight in shining armor. Well, one day he
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decides he wants to be a walrus. He puts spoons in his mouth, tells his mom he's a walrus. His mom
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thinks it's adorable, puts a picture of him online. That's when the internet people come and get her and
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tell her that she's a bigot if she doesn't help him transition to be a walrus. So, the mom complies and
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starts forcing Johnny to become a walrus. And that's when Johnny's like, I don't know if I want to be a walrus.
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So, this is trying to draw false parallels with the trans community and gender-affirming healthcare
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and trans kids. It's utter bulls**t. It has no place. And the fact that this guy has the audacity
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to go out in public and actually announce this is embarrassing. Unfortunately, this is a dog whistle.
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He's meaning to appeal to an extremist base. Because you go to his website, guess what? It just backs it
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up. He says he wants to fight gender ideology when it comes to kids. These kind of people have no place
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in elected office. Fairbanks, your election is October 3rd. Do your part, Fairbanks.
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Okay. First of all, it's not a dog whistle. A dog whistle is like something subtle. And
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it's a giant inflatable float, parade float. It's not a dog whistle. I don't think it's hiding.
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It's not hiding what it is. Now, not to resort to cliches here, but this guy really does say the
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quiet part out loud. He insists directly that people who want to fight gender ideology when it
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comes to kids have, quote, no place in elected office. According to Mustache Man, endorsing a radical
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sexual ideology and indoctrinating children into it should be a prerequisite for holding public
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office. You must be a cult member in good standing, an evangelist for the cause. This, of course,
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is what everyone on the left believes, but it's always interesting when they state it so explicitly
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as he does here. That part of the video is disturbing, but I appreciate the rest of it because
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he at least offers a pretty decent synopsis of the book, which you can buy for yourself at
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johnnythewalrus.com. It's amusing that he meant to criticize Johnny the Walrus, but instead spent
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almost the entire rant simply summarizing the plot. In any case, putting all that aside,
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I do have some questions about this whole saga. Really just one question, actually.
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For the parade judges who accidentally gave the award to a transphobic walrus,
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what did you think the walrus signified? I mean, even if somehow you've never heard of the greatest
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piece of children's literature ever written, didn't you wonder why a giant walrus was submitted under the
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political category? Like, didn't you stop and say, hmm, it's a political parade float featuring
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a 20-foot walrus named Johnny. What's that all about? What's the significance? This is why it's
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so important to do your own research, because if you don't, you might accidentally give the first
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place prize to a giant transphobic marine mammal. It happens all the time. Now, I'm not agreeing that
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Johnny is transphobic. Johnny is just an innocent walrus, for God's sake. He harbors no ill will towards
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anyone, but my point is that if these judges feel somehow misled, they only have themselves to blame,
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okay? Though I can understand why they might have been swept away by Johnny's sheer beauty and majesty,
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perhaps lost their ability to think clearly in the process. I get that. I do.
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Of course, there will always be something very funny about the claim that my children's book is
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transphobic, given that the book never once mentions transgenderism or gender at all.
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So, if you truly believe that there is simply no comparison between a boy pretending to be a
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walrus and a boy identifying as a girl, if these situations are, in your mind, truly not analogous
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at all, then you should have no issue with the book. Indeed, you could even buy the book for your
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own children with no fear that it will cause them to question the trans agenda, God forbid.
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If, again, you truly believe that there is no similarity between a child pretending to be an animal and a
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child identifying as the opposite sex, then you should have no issue with this book, no fear about
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its effect on children. From your perspective, Johnny the walrus should then simply be a silly
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little story about a boy playing make-believe. But you see, these leftists know better, despite how it
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may seem. They know that there really isn't any substantive difference between a young boy pretending
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that he's a walrus and a young boy pretending that he's a girl. In both cases, it is nothing more than
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an imaginative game being played by an innocent and impressionable child. They know this, which is
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why they hate Johnny the walrus so much. And that ought to tell you something about, or rather tell
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them something about their own ideology, and tell us. Because, you know, if you have to fear that a
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preschool board book about a kid in a walrus costume might somehow undermine your worldview,
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then there's something deeply wrong with your worldview. And that is where the problem lies here.
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It does not lie with Johnny the walrus, or Michael Humphrey, or his brilliant award-winning
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parade float. And that is why Johnny the walrus's detractors are yet again, his detractors and
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betrayers, I must say, are yet again today canceled. And that'll do it for the show today, or rather this
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portion of the show, so we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you