Ep. 1206 - ‘Traditional Masculinity’ Is The Solution To The Male Loneliness Epidemic, Not The Cause
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1 hour and 2 minutes
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182.60564
Summary
There is an epidemic of loneliness and despair in our culture, and all the evidence shows that it s hitting men the hardest. But our culture s prescription for this problem only makes it worse. We re told that the way to make men happy is to make them act like women. I ll explain why that s horribly wrong.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, there is an epidemic of loneliness and despair in our culture,
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and all the evidence shows that it's hitting men the hardest.
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But our culture's prescription for this problem only makes it worse.
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We're told that the way to make men happy is to make them act like women.
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Also, Michael Orr, the subject of the hit film The Blind Side,
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now says that he was taken advantage of by the family that took him in,
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but I am highly skeptical of this story. I'll tell you why.
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In the story, the star of the Snow White remake just can't stop talking about how much she hates Snow White.
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In our daily cancellation, a viral video explains why parents are jerks
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if they bring their children basically anywhere in public.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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If for some reason you're still holding out hope that some of the public health experts
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that you see all the time in the national news media actually care about the public or health,
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consider the story that did not dominate the news cycle this week.
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And here's the headline, 49,449 Americans killed themselves last year.
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That's the highest number of suicides ever recorded in the country's entire history.
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Now, if you viewed that as a problem worth solving as quickly as possible,
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then you'd want to dive much deeper into that data.
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You'd want to know who exactly is committing all these suicides.
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You'd want to know their age, sex, race, occupation, and so on.
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And then you'd present your findings honestly as a starting point to addressing the problem.
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But nobody from any major media outlet or public health institution is doing that.
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Instead, we're getting these quick hit reports like this one from Good Morning America.
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Now, with America's favorite doctor, Dr. Zan, and she's looking at a pretty alarming statistic.
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You guys, just under 50,000 Americans died by suicide last year.
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That is thought to be the highest rate since the dawn of World War II.
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And, you know, you guys know that I lost my ex-husband to suicide in 2017.
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There are certain groups at higher risk than others, veterans, physicians, LGBTQ youth.
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What we do know is that we have got to reverse this trend before someone becomes a statistic.
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So what the doctor tells us is that veterans, physicians, and LGBTQ youth are particularly at risk.
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And she doesn't delve more deeply into the numbers, though.
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Neither does anybody else in that segment, which lasts less than two minutes.
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You have to wonder if that's deliberate, because there's a certain demographic group that's somehow missing from the ones the doctor mentioned in that segment.
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It's a demographic group that commits suicide at a far higher rate than any other, and has for many years.
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Last year, men accounted for roughly 80% of suicides.
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I had to go back and check it, because I almost didn't believe the number.
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Now, men living in rural areas were particularly vulnerable.
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As of the latest data, men working in the professions of mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction have the single highest per capita suicide rate in the country, and more than 54 deaths per 100,000 men.
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Now, ask yourself why Good Morning America made special mention of LGBT youth and physicians, but forgot to mention that nearly all of the suicides are men, and blue-collar men in particular are at the highest risk.
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You hate to think that media producers in New York don't want you to hear about the fact that men are killing themselves.
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You'd like to believe that they care about men, and miners, and oil and gas workers, and not just physicians, and LGBT youth.
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Most outlets are doing exactly what Good Morning America did.
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In their write-up on the data, for example, Reuters didn't mention the difference between male and female suicide rates at all.
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Instead, they implied, in the second paragraph of their article, that the problem is not enough gun control.
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The real problem, according to Reuters, is that there isn't enough gun control.
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And so that means that the real problem is that you haven't given the Democrat Party enough power.
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Which is a very dumb conclusion to draw, first of all because it's an assault on our constitutional rights,
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but also because getting rid of guns would simply eliminate one of the dozens of possible ways for a suicidal person to commit suicide.
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It wouldn't do anything to address the fact that he is suicidal in the first place.
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Scour through the last year or so of coverage on suicide rates in this country,
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and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone talking about how many men specifically are killing themselves.
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To the extent you do find any reports on men committing suicide,
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it's always filtered through some lens of racial equity and BLM.
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Here are just a few examples from recent months. Watch.
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And Boss's death comes on the heels of new CDC data showing suicide rates have risen for Black and Hispanic men between 2000 and 2020.
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ABC's medical contributor, Dr. Darian Sutton, joins me live now to talk more about this.
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And we should note that this topic can be triggering.
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Sometimes we just have to have some tough conversations to bring to light issues plaguing our communities.
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This morning, we're talking about suicide in Black men.
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New research shows an alarming number of young Black men are dying by suicide, and the numbers are growing.
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Health experts from across the state have gathered in Columbus to address suicide awareness in the Black community.
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NBC4's Jonathan Jackson met with those experts to discuss what is leading to the growing rate of suicide.
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So there's an epidemic of suicides by Black men, the media insists.
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Well, here are the numbers from the CDC to the extent that you can trust them.
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Last year, white Americans accounted for more than 37,000 suicides, while Black Americans accounted for a little over 3,800 suicides.
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Now, accounting for population differences, that means white people are killing themselves at roughly twice the rate of Black people.
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And that's in keeping with data we have going back the past few years, data that's widely known.
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In 2017, the New York Times ran a whole story about how Black people were about one-third as likely to kill themselves as white people.
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Of course, the Times suggested that there was some unknown flaw in the data that explained the disparity, and they sort of hand-waved it away.
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Why are so many media outlets unwilling to talk honestly and directly about the suicide rate afflicting men in this country?
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Whatever the reason, they're not just hiding data on suicide rates.
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They also rarely talk about all the other obvious, verifiable signs that men are suffering in this country in ways they never have before.
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And the total number of homeless people in this country has more than doubled in the last three decades.
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Meanwhile, men are far more likely than women to use and overdose on virtually every illicit drug that exists.
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The number of these overdoses has increased dramatically in just the past 20 years.
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As you can see on this chart here, fewer than 20,000 people overdosed in 1999.
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Men account for the vast majority of those deaths.
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Along the same lines, young men report that they're single at more than twice the rate of young women.
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Statistics concerning unhappiness and depression are similar.
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We all know that men are far more likely to end up in prison, to drop out of school, to fall victim to violent crime, etc., etc., etc.
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Is it some combination of globalization, feminism, hashtag MeToo, and modern monetary theory?
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To find anyone talking honestly about these problems and what's causing them, you have to turn to YouTube personalities.
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For example, here's one YouTube channel's attempt to address what's happening to men in this country.
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And this person begins by talking about social media, the rise of dating apps, the decline of the economy, among other factors.
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A lot of men's value comes from the money they make, unfortunately.
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Men are natural providers, and if they have nobody to provide for, they get into Findom or send random girls on the internet money.
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I'm just kidding, but the fact is, a lot of men simply feel like they don't have a purpose anymore.
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Whether a job or a career that's fulfilling and pays well, or a woman or family to protect and take care of and provide for,
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And a man will crawl through a broken glass for a purpose.
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And there's a lot of truth to what she's saying there and in the whole video, which is worth watching.
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That video has 1.5 million views in just the last week.
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So you can tell that people are desperate to find answers to this problem,
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but they can't look to the corporate media to provide it or even to acknowledge that the problem exists.
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What this YouTuber, who goes by the name Shoe On Head, talks about would go a long way towards explaining the rise of despair,
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And that's where this conversation really starts to break down.
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Here's one corporate media outlet that is willing to acknowledge some of the struggles men face,
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but the prescription they offer is downright terrible.
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It would be hilarious if the issue wasn't so dire.
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This article that was just published comes from the Washington Post and is written by a woman, of course.
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And it's impressive in one sense, which is that it manages to reach exactly the wrong diagnosis on every single aspect of the problem.
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Men's Groups Are Embracing an Alternative Conception of American Masculinity.
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So if you're able to, you should check it out immediately.
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Now, the Washington Post wants to give us the real story about why men are lonely and how best to combat that epidemic.
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Well, just to summarize, basically, they say that dudes should lie around doing breathing exercises and smelling incense
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while some guy named Rua gropes them and whispers stuff like this.
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The men's groups that are, the article profiles are not, these aren't Bible studies or flag football leagues.
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You know, the kinds of men's groups that men would actually want to join.
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No, these are new age, touchy-feely group hugs where men learn how to get in touch with their feminine side.
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Later in the session, that is being documented there by the article, the men start screaming and sobbing and crying
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and letting their emotions, quote, flow freely as they are, quote, released into the darkness.
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Now, the article goes on to quote a bunch of experts who, quote-unquote experts,
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who all say the familiar things about how men are lonely and lost because of toxic masculinity
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that encourages us to be too stoic and too reserved and so forth.
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It laments the, quote, cowboy mentality that has allegedly contributed to the problem.
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Now, the masculinity expert who coined that phrase about the cowboy mentality is a woman named Niobe Way.
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And she, of course, quickly identifies the real victims in the story of male loneliness.
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She says, quote, women end up being the therapists for their husbands and more are getting sick of it.
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Yes, God forbid wives have to listen to their husbands and offer them solace and comfort.
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They're sick of it, says masculinity expert Niobe.
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That's not a conflicting message at all, is it?
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But on the other hand, if they do open up, then they're putting an unfair burden on their wives who are being asked to do too much emotional labor.
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If you feel like you're sick of hearing about your husband's troubles, just keep in mind that he hears about yours about a thousand times more often.
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Now, meanwhile, a consultant named Mark Green says this, quote, if a boy expresses too much emotion or too much need for connection, is too giddy, is too joyful, what we say to that boy is, what are you, a sissy?
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It's your job to dominate those around you or you'll lose status and that will increase the number of individuals above you who can dish out dominance to you.
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And what we find is that in that system, in that structure, men are constantly in competition with each other and constantly driven by this sense of anxiety.
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Too much competition, too much stoicism, too much men are too combative and aggressive and we've got to calm all that down.
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Well, the problem with this theory is obvious, or it should be.
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Okay, if a cowboy mentality and too much macho stoicism is what is driving the epidemic of lost and lonely men, then why is the problem getting worse over time?
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Everyone agrees it's worse now than ever before.
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I just went through some of the many statistics that prove that.
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But if that's all getting worse, then how can we blame traditional notions of masculinity?
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There's no doubt that it's far less common for boys to be called sissies these days or labeled gay as a pejorative.
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I can't remember the last time I saw a boy being lambasted as a sissy because he's being emotional.
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And again, it certainly was more common back in the day, 50 years ago, or at any other time in human history.
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Indeed, historically, the push for a man to be strong and dominant and unemotional was much more pronounced than it is today.
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In fact, historically, if a man didn't exhibit those traits, then he would die and his whole family would die.
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It's only in recent times that it's even been a feasible option for men to be feminine and soft and in touch with their feelings.
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And it's also in recent times that men have lost all sense of themselves and their purpose and place in the world.
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Speaking of the cowboy mentality, why didn't actual cowboys have these problems?
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If a cowboy mentality leads to despair and suicide, then we should find a whole hell of a lot of it when we look back at the latter half of the 19th century, which was the era of the cowboy.
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You know, the Post's overall thesis can probably be best summarized in this sentence from the article.
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The absurdity of the premise could not be any more clear.
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Would anyone argue that the cultural belief that men should be self-reliant and hide their emotions is more pervasive today than it was half a century ago?
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Of course not. So again, if that's the cause of the problem, why is the problem worse today?
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The correlation works entirely in the other direction.
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As society loses traditional notions of masculinity, suicides increase.
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You could try to explain that correlation away all you want, but if you deny it or pretend it doesn't exist, you lose all credibility in this discussion.
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Now, these experts are correct that men need fellowship, and men are missing it these days, and that is part of the problem.
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Even when they're right, they end up being wrong because they encourage men to fellowship in the way that women fellowship.
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You know, they tell men to sit around and talk about their feelings, do some yoga, listen to soft music, hold each other and cry.
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That's not the kind of fellowship men need or want.
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Okay, we can't expect corporate media's masculinity experts to understand this because their masculinity experts are all effeminate.
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But any normal man can attest that men tend to bond while engaging in a shared activity.
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I mean, like, one that doesn't require a lot of talking, like sitting and watching the game or fishing or golfing, playing pickup basketball and so on.
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I went out fishing with my brother-in-law a few weeks ago, and when we came back, my wife asked me what we talked about.
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She was shocked and confused because women don't operate that way.
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And you cannot hope to help men nor offer them any roadmap out of despair if you don't start by acknowledging that basic fact.
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Now, when it comes to true male fellowship, the problem is that society has closed off many of the opportunities for that kind of fellowship.
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There are very few bowling leagues and that sort of thing.
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Most men's spaces have either been shut down or feminized.
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It's been decided that men should socialize like women and with women or not at all.
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You know, women barge into every male space and say, I want to be a part of this too.
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And then the men just end up walking away from it.
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It's pointless now, now that you're here, frankly.
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It's like the men's lodge exists to be a place where you aren't so that we don't have that.
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And then those same women turn around and say, well, why aren't men fellowshipping at all?
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Maybe because you want to make everything about you.
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Society beckons to men and tells them that their salvation is to be women.
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And then we wonder why so many men are killing themselves.
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We live ultimately, ultimately, for all the talk of patriarchy, we do not live in a patriarchy.
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Ultimately, we live in a matriarchal society with institutions either run by women or by effeminate men
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who, in their arrogance, simply cannot accept the fact that men are different from women
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It's not that men are too focused on masculinity.
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It's that masculinity has been neutered, castrated, driven out of society,
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Our notions of masculinity aren't too traditional.
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On the contrary, they aren't nearly traditional enough.
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The solution isn't that we sit around and talk about our feelings.
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It's that we do a whole lot less of that sort of thing and get back to being men again.
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And if we can be men in a society that embraces and values our masculinity,
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suddenly this tide of male loneliness and despair will start to ebb.
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I want to start with this story that's gotten a lot of attention recently.
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And here's the report from ESPN a couple days ago.
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We'll have the update in a moment, but here's the report.
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Retired NFL star Michael Orr, whose supposed adoption out of grinding poverty by a wealthy
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white family was immortalized in the 2009 movie The Blind Side, petitioned a Tennessee court Monday
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with allegations that a central element of the story was a lie concocted by the family
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The 14-page petition filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, alleges that Sean and Leanne Toohey,
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who took Orr into their home as a high school student, never adopted him,
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Instead, less than three months after Orr turned 18 in 2004, the petition says,
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the couple tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators,
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which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.
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The petition further alleges that the Toohey's used their power as conservators
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to strike a deal that paid them and their two birth children millions of dollars in royalties
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from an Oscar-winning film that earned more than $300 million,
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while Orr got nothing for a story that would not have existed without him.
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In the years since, the Toohey's have continued calling the 37-year-old Orr their adopted son
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and have used that assertion to promote their foundation, as well as Leanne Toohey's work
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the lie of Michael's adoption is one upon which co-conservators Leanne Toohey and Sean Toohey
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have enriched themselves at the expense of their ward, the undersigned Michael Orr.
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Michael Orr discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023,
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when he learned that the conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so
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would make him a member of the Toohey family, in fact, provided him no familiar relationship
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with the Toohey's at all. And that's the basic story. So the media loves this story. They're so
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happy about this. ESPN reporters, it's orgasmic for them. They are in orgasmic delight over this
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story. Because you have to understand, the media and the left hated the Michael Orr story. They hated
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the blindside story because it's a story of a white family rescuing a black kid from his abusive and
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neglectful parents and giving him a better life. It's a story, in their phrase, of a white savior.
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And so they hate it. Now, when the movie first came out, a movie that I didn't particularly like,
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by the way, I thought it was like cheesy and hammy, and I didn't like it that much.
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But when it first came out, the media loved it. And it won Oscars and everything like that.
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Because that was in 2009, before Barack Obama had a chance to set race relations back 50 years.
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But in recent years, the leftists started to view the movie very differently. And now they hate it.
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And then Michael Orr comes out. And what do you know? Look at that. Turns out, the media realized
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suddenly that the story was actually bad. And soon after that, Michael Orr also realized that the story
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was bad and went to the media and said, hey, by the way, you're right. It was bad. This is all very
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bad. Let me tell you how bad it was. And the media goes, oh, we were right that we were right.
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But I mean, we have a narrative, and it just so happens that it fits right into the narrative.
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Wow, that's great. So this already makes me highly skeptical. I mean, if you hear about this
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story as told by ESPN or any outlet like that, and you accept it at face value, then I don't know
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what to say. You are too stupid. Just in general. Like, you need to not be that stupid. Stop being stupid.
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You need to not be stupid anymore. If you hear a story like this, you'll see many people on social
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media, including conservatives, sharing this. I can't believe that they would do that to him.
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Clearly, you know, the original reporting on this story must be absolutely correct. There's nothing
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to be skeptical about it at all here. And I am shocked and appalled.
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No. Anytime something allegedly happens that seems like the media wished it into existence,
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you need to take it with an enormous heap of salt. Now, it doesn't mean that it's automatically
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false. Just playing the odds, like every once in a while, something will really happen in real life
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that works with the media narrative. Most of the time, they have to lie to make things fit the
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narrative. Every once in a while, just, again, play the odds. Like, every once in a while,
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something will happen that the media doesn't even need to lie about. And they'll say, well,
00:26:31.000
that's nice. We can take a break from lying for the next 45 seconds. But that's very rare. That's
00:26:39.460
few and far between. And so you've got to be very skeptical. And I am here. This one doesn't pass the
00:26:43.840
smell test at all. You know, I go with my gut on these kinds of stories. And I've literally never
00:26:48.900
been wrong. Okay. I mean, I'm batting a thousand. So when I see a story like this and it's race
00:26:54.920
involved and all this, like this kind of thing, I go with my gut. I make a call. I've never been
00:27:01.060
wrong. I've never led you astray. So when I'm looking at something like this and I say, no,
00:27:05.040
this isn't right. This doesn't sound right. I've never, I just, I've never been wrong. And so I'm
00:27:09.400
telling you, and if this ends up being the first time I'm wrong about it, then fine. But I'm telling
00:27:14.360
you this, I'm not buying it. I don't buy it. And more is going to come out about this thing that
00:27:19.800
is going to cast, we're going to start to see, you know, start to see it very differently. That's
00:27:25.280
my prediction. And now that's, obviously we know that the blind side movie is a movie. Okay. So you
00:27:37.300
don't need to tell me, well, you know, it's not all correct or detail. Of course it's not all right.
00:27:41.380
It's a movie. I'm not a moron. Like I know that. Okay. It's, it's, it's probably 85% made up.
00:27:48.620
That's it's based on a true story. Usually means like maybe 15% correct. Even if they can have 2%
00:27:55.420
correct, they can still say that it's based on true story. Um, so that I don't doubt, but if you
00:28:01.260
want to tell me that the two is are actually, you know, and if you want to tell me that they're not,
00:28:06.440
well, you know, they're, they're not selfless heroes. That it's more complicated than that.
00:28:09.980
I believe that too. Most people aren't selfless heroes. Most people are just human beings. And,
00:28:14.560
uh, so that doesn't surprise me, but the narrative we're getting now feels to me like a shakedown
00:28:22.520
and it doesn't make a lot of sense. Okay. Uh, like he's 37 years old and just found out that he wasn't
00:28:28.700
adopted. He didn't know that before at the age of 37. You just, how, how did you not know that?
00:28:34.920
Also, where did anyone ever claim that he was adopted? Now I admit that I haven't watched the
00:28:42.980
movie in a long time, but I don't think that claim was even made. The ESPN starts their,
00:28:49.540
their article. How do they phrase it? Um, whose supposed adoption, did they ever claim that he
00:28:58.100
that was illegally adopted? So, so what's going on here? Did Michael or squander his NFL money?
00:29:09.000
And now he's turning on this family to try to shake them down. Is he going full Kaepernick?
00:29:14.320
Is he looking for relevance and attention? Does he want another movie deal? Here's the real blind
00:29:18.960
side story. You know, that kind of thing. Um, that to me seems more plausible. And then we get the
00:29:26.660
update. This is from the New York post. Michael or the ex NFL star whose story inspired the Oscar
00:29:31.380
winning, uh, film, the blind side allegedly asked his adopted family for $15 million, not to go public
00:29:39.140
with claims. They swindled him according to the family's attorney. Sean and Lee Antui said through
00:29:44.920
their legal representatives, there is no credence to or his claims that he was fooled into a conservatorship
00:29:49.240
and rubbished claims. The couple made millions off his life story. Their lawyer told TMZ sports or was
00:29:55.300
instead the principal offender who has repeatedly threatened to plant a negative story about the
00:29:59.520
two is in the press. If they didn't cough up an eight figure check. Attorney Marty Singer said over
00:30:05.200
the years, the two is have given Mr. Orr an equal cut of every penny received from the blind side.
00:30:11.060
Even recently, Mr. Orr started to threaten them about what he would do unless they paid him an
00:30:14.960
eight figure windfall. And as part of that shakedown effort, refused to cash the small profit
00:30:19.020
checks from the two is they still deposited Mr. Orr's equal share into a trust account. They set up for
00:30:24.500
his son. So that's, that is the, now the good thing is there's, this is a dollar and cents thing,
00:30:30.500
much of it. So if they get, you know, they're saying, yeah, we gave him plenty of money.
00:30:35.480
And if that's not true, if they're lying, then it'll be easily disproven or it could be easily
00:30:40.920
proven if it is true. It's like, this is one of those literally show the receipts thing. If they
00:30:45.580
can show the receipts, then the whole claim is bunk by Michael Orr. So maybe they're making some kind
00:30:52.240
of claim publicly that they, that is false and that can be easily disproven. I tend to doubt it.
00:30:58.120
But this is the version that sounds like that, that lines up with just what makes sense. It's,
00:31:04.140
it's the most plausible version. It's exactly what it sounds like to me. You know, even before I saw
00:31:08.840
this update about their, them saying this is a shakedown, he was demanding money from us so that we
00:31:14.160
wouldn't, I wouldn't, he wouldn't go public. Like before I read that update, it's exactly how it seemed to
00:31:20.280
me. And if that's the case, then this is a guy who was, who was taken out of this horrible
00:31:29.820
circumstance, rescued from an abusive and neglect of house, you know, neglectful house and family
00:31:36.000
cared for by this other family, given a chance in life. And now he's turning around in public
00:31:45.000
and, and, and throwing them under the bus for money, which, you know, even if he has some legitimate
00:31:55.280
complaints, which he probably does, like in any human relationship that goes bad, there's almost
00:32:03.400
always blame, some kind of blame on both sides. It's very rare that you've got a clear cut villain and
00:32:10.440
then a clear cut victim and the victim hasn't done anything wrong at all. Doesn't usually work that
00:32:14.940
way in human relationships, especially when there's time and money involved. So even if he has some
00:32:25.760
legitimate complaints, he can say, oh, they did this, they did that, whatever. You are still turning on
00:32:31.280
these people in public, throwing them under the bus, crucifying them in public, people who have cared for
00:32:38.580
you and you're doing it for money. And there, there are, that is almost never justified because
00:32:49.340
that's what it's all about. Like he's a, they're all millionaires. He's a millionaire. If he's not a
00:32:53.420
millionaire, millionaire anymore, then he's an idiot who managed to, to waste all that money.
00:32:59.840
And I don't know if that's the case. Wouldn't surprise me, but, uh, he was been paid millions of
00:33:07.000
dollars and he's doing this for money. And even he doesn't deny that. And it's just, to me, it's
00:33:13.980
just despicable. All right. I also want to mention this story. It's from a couple of days ago. Um,
00:33:21.580
and some people are asking me about it. You know, I kind of skipped over it. I suppose the Daily Mail
00:33:25.500
candy brand Skittles is facing backlash after partnering with GLAAD and alerting some of its,
00:33:30.880
uh, altering rather some of its packaging to include black trans lives matter messaging.
00:33:36.540
Images of the packet on social media prompted an outpouring of criticism on Twitter with many
00:33:41.640
likening the woke marketing to Dylan Mulvaney being used in Bud Light advertising. It's the
00:33:46.500
fourth year Skittles has teamed up with GLAAD to support the LGBTQ plus community by amplifying and
00:33:51.400
celebrating their stories according to Skittles official website. So, um, that's the story.
00:33:57.160
They put the trans stuff on the packaging and, uh, there, and there were, there have been calls
00:34:01.680
that I've seen on social media, uh, over the last few days of conservatives to boycott Skittles.
00:34:09.100
And I think this is just, and that has not gone anywhere. Um, those calls, uh, haven't gone anywhere.
00:34:15.920
And so if you're, there are people asking, well, why didn't you jump on the Skittles thing? Why
00:34:19.260
weren't you calling for a boycott? Well, because boycotts, as I've, as I'm always preaching,
00:34:24.640
boycotts are not, if they're going to be effective, it's not just an opportunity for
00:34:29.880
you to vent for your frustrations. That's not what a boy, that's how conservatives have handled
00:34:34.100
boycotts historically. That when we say boycott, we just mean I'm mad. And I just want to say that
00:34:40.260
I'm mad. So I'm saying boycott because I'm mad. Um, I'm not interested in that. Boycotts are
00:34:46.740
strategic. They have to be strategic, which means that you pick your targets strategically just because
00:34:53.160
a company does something egregious as Skittles did, that doesn't make them necessarily a good
00:34:59.620
target. And that's why I didn't jump on the boycott bit. Now I'm not going to go. I don't,
00:35:04.640
yeah, don't buy Skittles. Absolutely. I don't buy Skittles anyway. I have no interest. Um,
00:35:09.880
I'm not going to buy Skittles for my kids. Okay. And I certainly won't now. That's true. So yeah,
00:35:15.000
I'm not going to buy Skittles and you shouldn't either. Um, but they're not a, they are, they are
00:35:23.020
not a good strategic boycott target. Um, Bud Light, very good strategic target because we as
00:35:33.760
conservatives, the ones who are rightly, rightly upset about this, about what Bud Light did,
00:35:38.220
we had a lot of leverage that we could use. Okay. Cause we could say to Bud Light, like you need,
00:35:44.640
you can't exist as a brand without us. So you have just spit in the face of the people you need.
00:35:52.380
And that was a mistake. And now you're going to feel the pain and we're going to make an example
00:35:55.480
out of you. And we did Skittles as conservatives. We don't have a whole lot of leverage. Like do we
00:36:01.160
have do red state conservatives, uh, does that make up the predominant, you know, customer base
00:36:08.040
for Skittles? Probably not. So that's the main point. It's just, there's not enough leverage to
00:36:14.860
have a successful boycott campaign. And, um, if, if you don't have the leverage to make the campaign
00:36:20.600
successful, then it's just dumb to call for one because then it doesn't work and you look bad.
00:36:25.680
You look stupid. Uh, it sends exactly the wrong message. So this is one of those things where it
00:36:32.660
makes much more sense to say, that's gross. That's stupid. I'm not going to buy Skittles. Um,
00:36:37.540
and then, and then just kind of, and then move on. Um, uh, because this is what we don't want.
00:36:45.300
We don't want conservatives calling the shot and say, we're going to boycott. And then nothing
00:36:49.820
happens. And the, and the, the, the brand suffers no losses whatsoever. Again, for, for years,
00:36:57.020
that's what happened with conservatives. We call it boycott them, boycott them, boycott them.
00:37:00.600
Um, and it amounted to nothing because we were randomly choosing targets that we had no leverage
00:37:06.840
over at all. And it made us look bad. And it sends the wrong, it sends exactly the opposite message
00:37:11.460
that we want to send. And the message is like, we have, we have power here. We're going to use it.
00:37:16.280
We're going to leverage it. And so you better stop spitting in our faces. Um,
00:37:21.700
and also again, just don't buy it. It's good. It's like basically poison. You're giving kids
00:37:26.080
Skittles. You're like, you're, you're essentially giving them poison. Why would you do that?
00:37:30.220
Uh, let's see. Here's a one, here's one where we do have some leverage. Daily wire
00:37:35.340
has this report. Branding experts warn that Disney's live action Snow White remake could become a
00:37:42.100
colossal failure based on comments made by the lead actress, Rachel Zegler. The 22 year old star
00:37:47.860
had been making headlines recently for comments regarding the original 1937 film storyline,
00:37:52.500
which is based on a German fairy tale. Zegler said she hated the classic love story and thought
00:37:56.440
it was weird. Plus labeled the prince as a stalker. Uh, these are the latest comments. I think we have
00:38:01.680
those. Let's play those. I mean, you know, the, the original cartoon came out in 1937 and very
00:38:07.160
evidently. So, um, there's a big focus on her love story, um, with a guy who literally stalks her
00:38:14.900
weird, weird. So we didn't do that this time. So no prints or a different kind of prints? We have
00:38:22.260
a different approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because
00:38:27.080
like we cast a guy in the movie, Andrew Burnup, great dude. Um, it's, uh, it's one of those things
00:38:33.620
that I think everyone's going to have their assumptions about what it's actually going to
00:38:36.140
be. But, uh, it's really not about the love story at all, which is really, really wonderful. And
00:38:40.540
whether or not she finds love along the way is anybody's guess until 2024. Um, all of Andrew's
00:38:45.760
scenes could get cut. Who knows? It's Hollywood baby. Okay. I gotta say one of the reasons why
00:38:50.960
I find this so personally annoying is that, uh, I have enjoyed, I have enjoyed joking around about
00:38:58.740
like taking these stories way too literally. This is a, what she just said there is a joke that I have
00:39:04.200
made in the past, I think on this show about Snow White, where I just take the story way too
00:39:08.540
literally. And in a literal version of the story, you've got this woman who's like, first of all,
00:39:12.320
breaks into the house with a bunch of midgets and like just spreads out on their bed and falls asleep.
00:39:20.280
Like who does that? And the prince shows up out of nowhere and she's like dead as far as he knows
00:39:24.560
and kisses her. Um, it's a necrophilia. Uh, and, but now it's not funny anymore because now the people
00:39:32.940
actually remaking the story are unironically taking that perspective of taking it way too
00:39:39.460
literally and deciding that it's creepy. So they've taken the joke and now they are literally
00:39:44.800
interpreting the story that way and correcting it accordingly. Uh, and this is only the latest
00:39:51.340
comment from Rachel Zegler, who this is apparently the marketing strategy by Disney to take the lead
00:39:58.340
actress for Snow White and have her spend the year up to the release of the film talking openly about
00:40:08.760
how much she hates the story. And she has made this very clear in many comments and many public
00:40:16.040
comments. She despises this story. She has no affection for it whatsoever. And so we're, we're long
00:40:22.900
past the days where Disney does a remake and the remake is kind of bad, but at least the actors who
00:40:29.280
involved in a remake come out and they talk about how much the story means to them and how much they
00:40:32.900
want to stay faithful to the original. And it just means so much. And they're so excited to be a part
00:40:36.840
of it. She's not doing that anymore. She's like, I hate this story. This sucks. Okay. And this is the
00:40:44.960
strategy that Disney is. This is the marketing strategy that Disney has decided to go with. Uh, and it's,
00:40:50.100
it's going to be, I mean, they are, they are gearing up for, I think many of these recent Disney remakes
00:40:55.320
have been flops. They're gearing up for what might end up being Disney's worst flop of all time. Uh, I
00:41:01.520
think this is what they're, they're headed for because this isn't unlike with Skittles. This is an area
00:41:05.500
where we, as the people who are annoyed by this, we have a lot of leverage because we're the ones with
00:41:10.200
kids who would take our kids to see a movie like this, like not even conservative, but just normal
00:41:16.380
families and parents with kids. We are the ones Disney that you need. You need us to buy tickets
00:41:24.240
for this movie. You need us to find the story and the movie appealing and say, wow, I want to take my
00:41:29.960
kids to that. And not only do I want to take my kids to that, but I want to sit and watch it. I want
00:41:33.300
to, I want to experience this as a family. And so we're all watching this and saying, no, I want no
00:41:39.540
part of this. Why would I want, this is not a remake. This is like a, this is, this is reparations.
00:41:45.880
This is a correction. Okay. That's what we need to start looking at these. That's how we need to
00:41:49.800
start looking at these Disney remakes. They're not remakes. They are corrections. They are PC
00:41:55.340
corrections. This is the 2023 correction of Snow White where they're going back and they're not
00:42:01.600
retelling the story. They are correcting it according to their own ideological proclivities.
00:42:07.860
companies. And very few people would have any interest in that whatsoever. You're advertising
00:42:16.100
ahead of time. You know what? We're taking all the magic out of this, all the charm, all the romance,
00:42:21.500
all the love, all of that. Everything is gone for the sake of being empowering because that's
00:42:27.940
empowering, right? I know I feel empowered. Just watching something that is lifeless and dull and
00:42:37.120
cynical and just with no charm or magic to it. Very empowering. All right. Here's something
00:42:46.500
empowering too. One more thing before we get to the comments. Subway is from Forbes. Subway,
00:42:50.260
the international quick service restaurant chain is offering free sandwiches for life to one lucky
00:42:54.660
winner who agrees to legally change their first name to Subway and said Tuesday, nearly 10,000 people
00:43:00.380
answered the call in just four days. This is not the first time Subway has asked fans to commit
00:43:04.260
outrageous acts in exchange for free sandwiches. In 2022, Subway gave James Coons of Fort Collins,
00:43:10.580
Colorado, free sandwiches for life via a $50,000 gift card after he got a 12 by 12 inch tattoo of the
00:43:18.540
logo of Subway's latest promotion, the Subway series. It's amazing there are people that are this loyal to
00:43:26.820
the Subway brand. I mean, a $50,000 gift card to Subway is not a gift. It's a punishment. It's like a life
00:43:33.280
sentence because Subway is awful. And I'm not even just talking about the whole thing where they made
00:43:38.500
their brand, uh, synonymous with a pedophile. And yet people still want to change their name to it,
00:43:43.140
which is, uh, amazing. But the product itself is also terrible. Like every Subway smells weird to
00:43:50.380
begin with. They don't, they don't smell like fresh bread or deli meat. I don't know what that smell is.
00:43:54.380
They smell bizarre. They smell like sadness. Uh, they smell, I've never been inside one,
00:43:59.540
but they smell to me like the, the, maybe the employee break room at a DM, like a DMV.
00:44:06.260
I don't know why they just, they do. I can't explain that. They do. And the bread is always
00:44:11.660
stale. The deli meat tastes like it's been sitting at room temperature since last Wednesday,
00:44:16.940
because it was, the lettuce is wilted. The green prep peppers taste like E. coli. The service is
00:44:23.460
usually terrible. The employees are high. I mean, they put these things in gas stations. So you got a guy
00:44:28.260
that was just cleaning up a gas spill at pump 12, now making your Italian BMT. And, uh, don't get
00:44:33.480
me wrong. I'll still eat it. Like I was just at a Subway a couple of days ago. So I'll still eat
00:44:38.800
there because I'm a fat American shoveling garbage into my face, but that doesn't change the fact that
00:44:43.380
it's bad, which is why everyone is like angry at Subway. I don't know if you've noticed that when
00:44:49.080
you're outside. No one is, it's not, it's not, it's not like a Jersey Mike's or a firehouse subs where
00:44:53.680
there's some, there's some life and laughter when you go in at Subway, everyone's mad while they're
00:44:59.880
eating their stale bread and their Oscar Meyer mystery meat. And this is what you want your name
00:45:05.640
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00:45:12.960
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Sarah says, Matt, I know you're a big advocate for marriage, but what do you say to a wife whose
00:46:25.060
husband transitions, quote unquote, to a woman without her consent or agreement? Is she justified
00:46:29.380
in leaving him? I believe in preserving the marriage, but in some cases of extreme abuse or
00:46:33.980
infidelity, the marriage cannot be saved. Does this rise to that level? No, it doesn't rise to that
00:46:40.160
level. It rises considerably above that level. Uh, your husband transitioning is worse than abuse
00:46:47.620
and it's worse than infidelity because it's an extreme form of both combined. Um, he is abusing
00:46:56.160
you and your children, you know, if you have children, abusing emotionally, psychologically,
00:47:02.680
spiritually. He's inflicting his delusions and fetishes on you and the family. And it's infidelity
00:47:08.580
because he's betraying his vows. He's betraying you, betraying the family for the sake of, uh,
00:47:12.520
chasing his fetish. So should you leave him? Well, absolutely. No question. That's not even
00:47:17.560
a tough call. Um, he's already made the call. He's gone. I mean, he's committed basically a form
00:47:23.820
of suicide, killing off the husband and father that you knew and the one you pledged yourself to
00:47:28.780
and your life to. And what stands in his place is still a man. Yes, but it's not, it's not that man.
00:47:34.280
It's something else. Are you required to stay in a marriage with a guy who's mutilated himself and
00:47:39.640
spends every day pretending to be a woman? Absolutely not. Uh, I mean, not only are you
00:47:44.020
not required to, but you shouldn't. He chose a fantasy over your family and now, and now he can
00:47:50.060
be alone with that fantasy. That's the only way. In fact, it's almost certain that the marriage was
00:47:55.460
never valid to begin with if the husband transitions at any point, really. I mean, uh, to me, that is,
00:48:01.180
that is a very clear indication when the husband transitions, very clear indication that the
00:48:06.420
marriage never even existed. Actually, uh, it was never real because the man apparently had these
00:48:12.820
delusions and fantasies that he never disclosed. Um, so the marriage was on false pretenses. Like
00:48:18.800
this is a, this is a crucial fact that right. If you're a woman in a situation like this, a crucial
00:48:25.760
fact that if the man had told you this, oh, by the way, I think I'm a woman. I like dressing up
00:48:31.140
like one. If he had told you that you would not have married him. Um, and he, and he withheld that
00:48:36.200
information. And so the marriage is on false pretenses. It never existed in a, in the Catholic
00:48:40.140
church. It's, you know, in my mind would be a definite, like slam dunk case for annulment. Um,
00:48:48.580
and so, uh, yeah, you, you, uh, I would say to any woman in that situation, you should leave or, or more
00:48:54.540
precisely, you don't leave. He leaves, kick his ass out and he can go get an apartment somewhere and have
00:49:00.240
his little fantasy, but not around you and not around the kids. Um, all right. Cool Papa J magic
00:49:09.780
says, apology doesn't help when you're facing a social lynching. It makes everything worse.
00:49:14.420
You absolutely must double down and stick to your guns. Uh, yeah, that's the only thing you really
00:49:20.620
can do. It's, it's, it's, that's why I'm always, uh, preaching against the public apology. And, um,
00:49:28.660
the only course of action that you even have available to you is exactly that is to double
00:49:34.180
down, refuse to apologize. And at the very least, if you do that, then you have your defenders on your
00:49:42.460
side. But, you know, one of the many problems with the public apology is that once you've done that,
00:49:48.220
the people that are, you know, the, the people in the, the outrage mob, they're not going to be
00:49:53.820
satisfied with it. They're not going to be on your side, even after you apologize, the people that you,
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that have been defending you. Now you've stabbed them in the back. You've pulled out the rug from
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under them. And now you're left really alone and isolated. Um, Anna Maria says, no, you're not crazy.
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You are correct. That is not the same person talking about the plain, uh, plain lady who,
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who did issue a public apology in the video. Didn't look the same to me at all. And there was
00:50:19.060
a lot of comments saying, Oh, she's just wearing makeup. Uh, you know, I don't know. Maybe it's
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makeup. Maybe it's lighting. Maybe it's a deep fake who knows, but it does not look like the same
00:50:31.420
person to me. Um, Justin says, I want an apology, but from the lizard person who upset the nice lady.
00:50:40.220
That's a very good point. And I mean, I, and I say this in all sincerity. Okay. Cause I actually
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had this thought too. Okay. She thought she saw some kind of shape-shifting lizard person on the
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plane. Um, she thought she saw someone who's not real and, and maybe she was wrong. Maybe like we
00:51:01.580
don't even know if she was wrong or not. That has not been confirmed yet. And I don't think it ever
00:51:05.580
will, but she, that's what she thought she saw. So, so what does she, if you think that you saw
00:51:13.080
a lizard person on the plane, in fact, alerting everybody is it's, that's a selfless act. That's
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pretty courageous. Honestly, I mean, you can make the argument that what she did was pretty courageous.
00:51:24.460
You know, setting herself up for, uh, for mockery because she thought she saw something. They always
00:51:30.820
say, if you see something, say, say something. And so what, if you think you see a lizard person
00:51:35.800
on the plane, you're not going to say anything. Here's my point. If I'm on the plane and you think
00:51:41.440
you see a lizard person, definitely tell me, okay, maybe you're wrong, but I would rather know. And
00:51:46.860
give me a chance to look, cause I might look back and I'll say, no, it's just an ugly person. That's
00:51:50.420
not a lizard person. I don't think. So give us all a chance to assess the situation. What I would not
00:51:56.800
want you to do is to say, oh, that's a lizard person on a plane. And then just quietly get off
00:52:01.600
and then whisper, good luck, everybody. And walk and walk off and go get a different flight. Right.
00:52:07.520
That's not what I would want you to do. Um, I don't think that's the right approach. And so I,
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here's what I'm worried about is that from all of this, now we're going to have a real problem
00:52:16.920
where we've set a precedent that if you see a lizard person on a plane, you don't say anything.
00:52:20.980
And now there might be a lot of, uh, you know, plane crashes in the future from lizard people
00:52:28.340
taking over planes because the people who see it don't say anything because they're remembering
00:52:34.120
crazy plane lady. So that's a whole other way of looking at this situation, whether it's changing
00:52:44.120
the definition of words or trying to convince you that two plus two actually equals five. It sometimes
00:52:48.320
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get to our daily cancellation. Well, a couple of times a year as a nation, we return to this topic,
00:53:36.440
this great question, where should parents be allowed to bring their kids? What parts of society
00:53:43.520
should families with young children have access to? Now I'm not talking about the debate over
00:53:48.280
children at things like drag shows, which is not a debate at all. They just simply shouldn't be
00:53:52.140
there. The problem with, with bringing your child to a drag show is that the content of the show
00:53:56.340
is not appropriate for the child. It is for the child's sake that we object to the child being there.
00:54:01.860
What I'm talking about is the debate that centers around the needs and preferences of other adults.
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In what context is your child's presence going to be an unfair burden on other adults?
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Predictably, it's always the childless adults who have very strong feelings about this subject. And
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this week, one such childless adult went viral with her video demanding that parents stop bringing
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their kids to bars, breweries, and potentially dozens of other places as well. This video has
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150,000 likes. So apparently a great many people agree with her. And here's what she says. Watch.
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2023 parents are my favorite. Like we're not just bringing our kids. We're making ourselves at home.
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Now you can consider me biased because I'm aggressively opposed to the idea of having
00:54:43.800
children for myself. That is. But if you take your child to a place where they are actively engaged in
00:54:53.580
the process of producing or processing an age restricted substance, alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes,
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whatever. If you take your child into one of these places, you are objectively and unequivocally the
00:55:09.200
asshole in that situation. It's a non-negotiable. It's there's nothing to debate. You are the asshole
00:55:15.540
in that situation, not only because your child just doesn't belong there, but because you are actively
00:55:21.480
making the experience worse for every other adult present. You don't want me to curse around your
00:55:29.040
child. You don't want me to talk about who I was on over the weekend. You don't want me to have an
00:55:34.720
adult conversation around your child. Here's a thought. Stop bringing your children into bars
00:55:40.100
and breweries. There's literally nothing for them to do there. They're bored and you're all. Thank you so
00:55:46.680
much. Okay. Now, because this point of view is widely shared by other bitter childless spinsters,
00:55:54.040
it's worth responding to in some detail. And we're going to leave aside the irony that this woman would
00:55:58.920
almost certainly tell us that children shouldn't be allowed in places that serve alcohol unless that
00:56:04.480
place is a drag show. I highly, highly doubt that this person agrees with our law here in Tennessee,
00:56:09.900
for example, banning children from attending sexualized performances. I highly doubt she agrees
00:56:15.360
with that, but we will not allow that glaring issue to sidetrack us. There are too many other glaring
00:56:20.140
issues to deal with. So first, you don't want children in places that produce or process an
00:56:27.640
age-restricted item. And you then list bars as one of those places, which means that by process,
00:56:32.480
you apparently mean sell. And if that's the case, then you have also banned children from nearly
00:56:37.800
every restaurant, every plane, every gas station, most grocery stores, every pharmacy, every convenience
00:56:43.560
store, every Best Buy or Walmart that sells R-rated Blu-rays, et cetera. You've basically banned
00:56:49.120
children from all of society, which I understand is a feature, not a bug as far as you are concerned,
00:56:54.180
but that is what you're talking about. Second, you say that, you know, I as a parent, that I don't
00:57:00.560
want you talking about who you were having sex with over the weekend because my kids might hear you.
00:57:05.180
And it's true that I don't want my kids to hear that gross conversation, but I don't want to hear
00:57:09.160
it either, even if I don't have my kids with me. Okay, you shouldn't be going around having
00:57:13.320
conversations like that loud enough that any stranger of any age can hear it. Actually, it's better just to
00:57:17.720
not have that conversation at all. See, part of the miscommunication here is that you think that
00:57:21.800
we don't want you to act like a gross, vulgar pig because our kids are with us, but you're only half
00:57:26.420
right. We also just don't want you to act like that at all, period. So you don't have a problem
00:57:32.600
with kids. You have a problem, apparently, with being a civilized human being. You say that cussing
00:57:37.520
loudly and talking about your revolting sexual exploits is an adult conversation, but this only reflects
00:57:42.340
the very unfortunate way in which the word adult in our culture has come to mean profane and crass.
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But that's not what it really means or should mean. The kind of conversation you're talking about,
00:57:52.800
it's not an adult conversation, and the behavior you want to engage in is not adult behavior. It's actually
00:57:57.300
childish, not in content, but in the fact that you apparently have a problem conforming yourself to a basic
00:58:03.220
standard of conduct. Ironically, you don't want to be around children because you are childish.
00:58:08.620
It's not that children prevent you from acting adult. It's that they interfere with your ability
00:58:12.980
to act like a child. So it's not that you want there to be no children at the brewery.
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You just want to be yourself the only child at the brewery. Third, I am biased also, I admit.
00:58:26.180
You're lonely and single. I have a family and six kids, but it's not just my bias talking when I tell you
00:58:31.500
this. If you hate children and don't want to be around them at all, anywhere, then you are the
00:58:38.680
asshole in this situation and in life generally. It is not okay to hate children. That's just like
00:58:43.960
not an okay opinion to have. You can have it, can't stop you, but it's not an okay thing to think.
00:58:50.860
You shouldn't think that. It reflects a profound character flaw in yourself. It reveals a deep
00:58:55.820
sickness in your soul. Of all the people to reflexively despise, children are the absolute
00:59:02.260
least deserving. Kids are innocent, naive, energetic, fun. Sure, they can wear on the
00:59:09.020
nerves sometimes, but at least they have a valid excuse whenever they act annoying and disruptive.
00:59:13.480
They're kids. They're still learning. Their brains aren't fully developed.
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You, on the other hand, are an obnoxious, irritating jerk without any of those built-in excuses.
00:59:22.080
You don't want to be around kids. I don't want to be around people like you, but we live in a society
00:59:28.200
together, so I know that I have to deal with such encounters just like you do. It's funny to me that
00:59:33.380
our culture pretends to oppose bigotry, and yet the one group of people that it's socially acceptable
00:59:38.200
to openly despise, aside from heterosexual white men, is children. We have no problem with someone
00:59:44.860
simply stating that they don't like kids and don't want to be around them. And yet, if I said the same
00:59:49.720
thing about any other group, it would be considered horribly bigoted. Meanwhile, again, kids are the
00:59:56.400
least deserving of that treatment out of all the groups on earth. If you're going to have an
01:00:01.820
instinctive revulsion towards any group, kids should be the very last on that list. But the good news,
01:00:09.280
for me anyway, is that your hang-ups and your bitterness are your problem. That's why I will gladly
01:00:16.520
walk into any environment with my six kids. We just went to a restaurant on Sunday, and I will think
01:00:23.420
nothing of the dirty looks we get. And we get a lot of them, okay, when we go in there with our circus.
01:00:29.480
And parents of large families, they know these looks very well. People do not disguise their disgust
01:00:35.020
and reflexive contempt as soon as we walk in the door. Our presence is already a burden on everyone else,
01:00:41.820
even before my kids have opened their mouths. It's like they don't even, we don't even get a chance to prove
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how well-behaved my kids are at public, because as soon as they're there, everyone's looking, oh my god,
01:00:51.720
look at this. And some parents of large families are bothered by this treatment, but I'm not, I'm really
01:00:57.320
not. I will come and sit right next to you with my school bus load of kids, and if you don't like it,
01:01:02.560
that's your problem. You can glare all you want. I don't care. You can ask for the check and leave if you
01:01:07.840
want. We've seen that too. Doesn't matter. Doesn't bother me. It's your problem. My family is allowed
01:01:14.400
to participate in society same as you. My children aren't going to stay locked up in the house until
01:01:19.600
they turn 18 for fear that their presence might be an encumbrance on any resentful losers we happen
01:01:24.280
to come across. Society should welcome and celebrate families. It should go out of its way to include us
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as much as possible. That's what a healthy society does. In a healthy society, people are happy when
01:01:39.880
they see families with young, happy kids. This should make you happy to see that. If it doesn't,
01:01:46.780
again, there is something wrong with you. You know, as families with young kids, we make the world
01:01:53.180
younger, more vibrant, more beautiful, more alive. We ensure the very future of the human species. What
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the hell are you doing besides gossiping at the bar about sexual conquest that, let's be honest,
01:02:04.680
you're probably making up? That's what you should ask yourself. While I order my kids some chicken
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tenders from the kids' menu and you glare at us, secretly resenting the fact that we have the life
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you want but will never have. And that's why you're canceled. And I'll do it for this portion of
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shows. Move over to the members block. You become a member today by using code Walsh to check out for
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two months free on all annual plans. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow.