Ep. 1208 - Why The Media Is So Eager To Smear The 'Blind Side' Family
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The media has been excited this week by the supposed revelation that the family from The Blind Side are really villains who exploited a Black kid for their own gain. But this narrative is almost certainly false. We ll talk about the latest in the Michael Orr saga, and what the left's hatred of so-called white saviorism says about them and the culture. Also, the day after being attacked by a Republican congressman for declaring her faith in Christ, the same woman has now been fired from her position at Ohio Right to Life. What's going on there? And a mother brags about having her minor daughter mutilated for the sake of, quote, "gender affirmation."
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media has been very excited this week by the supposed
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revelation that the family from the blind side are really villains who exploited a black kid
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for their own gain. But this narrative is almost certainly false. We'll talk about
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the latest in the Michael Orr saga and what the left's hatred of so-called white saviorism says
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about them and the culture. Also, the day after being attacked by a Republican congressman for
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declaring her faith in Christ, the same woman has now been fired from her position at Ohio
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Right to Life. What's going on there? And a mother brags about having her minor daughter
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mutilated for the sake of, quote, gender affirmation. But I thought we were told that this sort
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of thing never happens. Well, we'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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at Hallow.com slash Matt Walsh. In the final seconds of the 2009 film, The Blind Side,
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Leanne Toohey, played by Sandra Bullock, reflects on the murder of a 21-year-old black athlete in a
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local housing project. The young man had dropped out of school, fallen in with the wrong crowd,
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and had died in a gang-related shooting. That could have been my son Michael, Leanne says,
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right before the credits roll. I suppose I have God to thank for that. A decade later,
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it's hard to imagine a film from a major studio ending that way. The film began with Leanne Toohey
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seeing a homeless teenager named Michael Orr walking down the street in the cold. She and her
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husband, Sean, decided to take care of the kid. And finally, after years of sacrifice, Orr goes to
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college and eventually goes on to become a successful NFL player. In 2009, when audiences
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weren't lobotomized by procedurally generated Marvel slop, that plot line resonated. And The Blind
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Side made over $300 million on a relatively small budget. Sandra Bullock won an Oscar, although she
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herself admitted during filming that her acting wasn't even that good. Leanne Toohey used the film
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success to help children find foster homes on social media. And outside of a few whiny articles
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on NPR or The Daily Beast, people basically loved the movie. The media loved the movie for the most part.
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In the years that followed the film's release, though, the tone changed. As Barack Obama set race
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relations in this country backwards by 50 years, academics, who are the source of most bad ideas
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and cynicism in the world, for some reason began obsessing over The Blind Side. They kept writing
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about it years after everyone else had moved on. In 2015, for example, a Clemson professor wrote this
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article in the journal Studies in Popular Culture. Here's the title, Racial Discourse in the Blind Side,
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The Economics and Ideology Behind the White Savior Format. That same year, a University of New Mexico
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professor authored a piece entitled The White Cinematic Lens, Decoding the Racial Messages in the Blind
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Side. As the years progressed, so did the left's obsession with the blind side. Their fixation
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continued after the Obama years. In 2019, a professor at Texas State University somehow attempted to
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connect Donald Trump with the blind side, with a piece entitled Colorblind Racism, The Trump Effect,
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and The Blind Side. And if you want to lose 50 IQ points, you can read the abstract online, but I'm not
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going to bother reading it to you. That same year, 2019, the popular YouTube channel BeKindRewind
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released this video explaining that the movie has a white savior problem. Watch.
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This movie could have included the black families that united to support Michael before he lived with
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the Tuys full-time. It could have been about organizing pickup football games as a kid with
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his friends, fostering a love of the game that he honed in high school. But John Lee Hancock chose not
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to do that. Instead, he canonizes a singular white family and de-platforms the supportive black
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community that Orr did have. That decision empowered Sandra Bullock with ample opportunities to
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demonstrate wit, vulnerability, self-confidence, and kindness in the process. To be the spitfire the
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critics noticed. In other words, it gave her an Oscar bait role. That's what white savior films do.
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They shift focus and blame. They implicitly tell audiences that white stories are more interesting
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or worthy of your time than the stories of people of color. So you got it. The film should have been
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about all the people who didn't house or educate or care for Michael Orr. It should have been about
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the kids who played basketball with him. I mean, why? Like what kind of movie would that even be?
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What's the story there? Well, just because they're black and the family that took care of Michael Orr
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is white. That's the level of analysis. All of these articles and videos and plenty more examples
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I could have used demonstrate that the blind side triggered a deep underlying pathology that tortures
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the supposedly intellectual left. They simply can't tolerate the film's message. To this day,
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they just can't get over it. And they definitely can't allow any other major studio to make a film
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like it. I mean, that's never going to happen. In the past few days, predictably, this effort has
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entered a new, somehow even more demented and tragic stage. Michael Orr filed a legal complaint
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against the Tuohys, as we talked about a few days ago. The media is promoting it relentlessly.
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They could not be more thrilled by this development. Watch.
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We all remember the 2009 Sandra Bullock movie, The Blind Side, the true story of NFL star Michael Orr,
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who was adopted out of poverty by a wealthy family. But new court docs filed by Orr paint a far
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different picture. I was just enthralled by her. I didn't think I could play her. It was just such
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a beautiful story. Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for portraying Michael Orr's adoptive mother,
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Leanne Tuohy. The southern mother of two took in the six foot four, then homeless and traumatized
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teenager when no one else would. Michael was portrayed by Quentin Aaron.
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Do you want to stay here, Michael? I don't want to go anyplace else.
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But now the former NFL star alleges Leanne and her husband Sean never officially adopted him,
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but instead allegedly deceived him into making them his conservators just after his 18th birthday.
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An illegal petition filed today in Tennessee, Michael claims the Tuohys used the conservatorship
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to make themselves and their birth children millions of dollars in royalties from the blind side.
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The Tuohys haven't responded to our request for comment. Back when the movie came out,
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I sent him a letter yesterday I'd gotten from someone in Atlanta,
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and I forwarded it to him, and I got back the sweetest text, and he said,
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I'm really proud this is making a difference. And so he knows it is.
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Well, I'm glad we're past that. I'm glad we found a way to take this heartwarming tale and
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turn it into a problem. Thank God. But you certainly can't have a story like that. You can't have a story,
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especially of one race of people helping another race of people. We can't have that. We can't allow
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it. Now, the crux of the legal complaint is that the Tuohys tricked Michael Orr into thinking that
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he was adopted when, in fact, the Tuohys simply had a conservatorship over him, allowing them to
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take most of his money. So they're not good-hearted white people helping out a black kid. They are
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evil white supremacist thieves. That's the idea. But before we get into the actual complaint,
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there's a couple of points. First of all, that report you just saw implies that the Tuohys
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defrauded Orr because they wanted money. And what they don't mention is that the Tuohys are
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extraordinarily wealthy, independently wealthy. In fact, they're far wealthier than Orr has ever
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been, even after his NFL career. But we're expected to believe that this family, which is
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worth well over $200 million, schemed to rip off Michael Orr. Is that plausible? I mean, right away,
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it doesn't pass the smell test, as I said a few days ago. It sounds a lot like a washed-up athlete
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who burned through the cash he made in the league, and now he's looking for a payday and some relevance.
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And indeed, Orr's claim is especially suspicious since, according to the Tuohys, Orr has been
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shaking them down for $15 million for a long time now. Allegedly, he filed this lawsuit only after
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trying to get the quick cash from a family he knows is rich and which still loves him. But there are
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more problems with this complaint beyond the ones that I just mentioned. For this accusation to make
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sense, for one thing, the Tuohys would have had to see this homeless teenager walking on the side of
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the road and say to themselves, this kid's going to make us rich. His grades are terrible. No college
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program is interested in him. His father abandoned him. His mother's a drug addict. But he's going to
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make us a lot of money someday. And then there's going to be a movie about him, and we'll get royalties
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from that. And then through all this, as they raised him and sent him to college, Orr would
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be blissfully unaware of this dastardly scheme for more than a decade. And then it hits him
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somehow. Quoting from Orr's legal complaint, quote, the lie of Michael's adoption is one upon which
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co-conservators Leanne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their war to
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the undersigned Michael Orr. Michael Orr discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of
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2023, 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 Tuohy family, in fact, provided him with no familiar relations with
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the Tuohys. So the claim is that Michael Orr realized only in February of 2023 that he hadn't
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been legally adopted. It took him until this year to figure that out. Is that possible? Well,
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corporate media is certainly buying it with no skepticism whatsoever. NBC wrote up the allegations
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without applying any form of scrutiny at all. MSNBC wants you to know that this is all your fault,
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actually. Quote, Orr's lawsuit is an indictment of movie audiences that over and over again lap up
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stories about white people saving some downtrodden black person. Now, you might listen to that quote
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from the MSNBC article and wonder what universe MSNBC is living in. In fact, if you read any MSNBC article,
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you're going to wonder that, but especially this, because in this universe, movies about white people
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saving black people are extremely rare. And at this point, basically non-existent. I mean, can you name
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the last one besides the blind side? Go ahead. What's the last major Hollywood film where the good guy,
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the protagonist is a white person who is helping out a black person? That's really none come
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immediately to mind. Now, for its part, the Guardian brought out the big guns. They report
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that, quote, the blind side's white savior tale was always built on shaky ground. According to the
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piece, quote, the movie version of the blind side has come to represent a low point for the white savior
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trope, the unlikely story of the rich white lady who turns a downtrodden black teen Hulk into an
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improbable Sunday pro. Jeffrey Montez de Oca, the founding director of the Center for Critical
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Study of Sport at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, took aim at the film's framing
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of adoption as a signifying act of whiteness that obscures the social relations of domination that
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not only make charity possible, but also create an urban underclass in need of charity. In her
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seminal tome, White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo excoriates the film as fundamentally and insidiously
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anti-black. What all these stories have in common, though, is that they don't interrogate the claims
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in Orr's lawsuit at all. They don't spend any time looking at it. The media is so giddy that the
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blind side is under attack that they don't care to actually do any journalism. They just trot out the
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usual fake experts to call it racist, as they've been doing for a decade now. Inside Edition even got
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in touch with the actor who portrays Michael Orr in the film to ask him whether Sandra Bullock should
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surrender her Oscar, which is a question so stupid that the actor should respond by just laughing
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hysterically at it. But that's not exactly what happens. Watch. Michael Orr is now saying the
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Tui family never adopted him as everyone thought. He claims in his lawsuit that the Tuis tricked him
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into becoming his conservators, meaning they have control over his money. What is your reaction to
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what he's alleging? I wasn't expecting that. I think a lot of people, myself included, had such high hopes
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for the family and that union that we felt they had put together. Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for
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playing Leanne Tui. But now some people on social media are actually calling for Bullock to return her
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Oscar. Can you tell me what you think about this call by some for Sandra Bullock to return her Oscar?
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She was an actress who did her part and was recognized for it. Michael Orr, who went on to
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become an NFL star, also says he resented how the movie made him appear less intelligent.
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I didn't know who Michael was before The Blind Side. It wasn't my intention to make him look that way,
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and I'm sorry that he took it that way. Lawyers for the family say they are stunned by Orr's actions,
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which they say are designed to drum up publicity for his new book. The Tui's treated him like a son.
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They loved him. They don't need his money. They didn't, they've never needed his money.
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Mr. Tui sold his company for $220 million. The Blind Side movie grossed $309 million.
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Mm. Got him at the end there, right? Notice the snark at the end. The movie grossed over $300
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million, the anchor notes, implying that the Tui somehow received all that money or even a
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significant amount of it. Like if you, if you're, if someone writes a book about you and that's
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turned into a movie, if you're the subject of the movie, you get 100% of the profits because that's
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the way it works. No, in reality, they received less than 3% of the proceeds, which is nothing
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compared to the $200 million they sold their company for. So this is the level of reporting
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we're seeing on this, with one exception. Over at The Blaze, Jason Whitlock decided not to simply
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rewrite Orr's complaint to push a narrative. He's written some fantastic articles on this topic you
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should read, and he motivated me to personally go and read some of the many pieces of documented
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evidence contradicting Michael Orr's claims. These are pieces of evidence that every major media outlet
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is ignoring. For example, here's what Orr himself wrote in his own memoir in 2012. Quote,
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since I was already over the age of 18 and considered an adult by the state of Tennessee,
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Sean and Leanne would be named as my legal conservators. They explained to me that it
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means pretty much the exact same thing as adoptive parents, but that the laws were just written in a
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way that took my age into account. Honestly, I didn't care what it was called. My mother was going to be
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at the hearing to agree that she supported the decision to have the two he's listed as my next
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of kin and legal conservators. So that was more than a decade ago. Michael Orr, an adult in his
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mid-20s at the time, when the memoir was published, clearly acknowledges the distinction between being
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adopted and being a legal conservator. Clearly acknowledges that he was not adopted. He uses the
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term conservators several times in the book, but we're told to believe that more than 10 years later,
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he finally decided to look into it and realized he had been tricked. We're supposed to believe that
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he just realized some truth that he himself had already publicly acknowledged in a book
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he published over 10 years ago. So how was Michael Orr supposedly not aware of this? Did he not read
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his own memoir? Did he not watch the movie The Blind Side? There's a scene in the film where Leanne
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establishes legal guardianship over Michael Orr. There is no scene where she says that she's legally
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adopting him. That claim was never made by anyone, ever. Now, to be clear, I can't say for sure who's
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right or wrong in this case, though I have my very strong suspicions. I wouldn't be surprised if all
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parties concerned, or at least partially in the wrong to some extent. That's usually how these kinds
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of conflicts go. And if the media wants to tell us that the two he's aren't really saviors, I'd
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certainly agree with that. There's only one savior. His name isn't two he. But then again, the two he's,
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to my knowledge, have never claimed to be saviors. They also never claimed to be saints or martyrs.
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They did a nice thing for a kid who needed help. That's a fact, and that's all.
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Does this conflict stem from the fact that although the two he's became Orr's guardians and treated him
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like a son, they didn't intend to actually pass their fortune down to him because they wanted to
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go to their actual kids? Is Michael Orr upset that he's not now today as a 37-year-old man reaping the
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financial benefits of being a blood relation to the two he's? I mean, these are purely speculations,
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but I think reasonable ones. But I don't know. The key point is that the media's complete lack
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of curiosity on all of these obvious red flags tells you everything you need to know about the
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left's perspective on race. A decade ago, only a handful of insufferable outlets complained about
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the blind side, and now all of academia and the major media outlets are doing it.
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You know, they're united to smear a family that helped save a young black teenager's life without
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any regard for facts or contrary evidence. They're just running in and running with the narrative.
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After eight years of Barack Obama and all those BLM riots and George Floyd funerals,
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we've arrived basically at this moral guidance. Let the black teenager on the side of the road
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freeze to death. Don't help him, or you're a racist. Well, at least we now have some clarity from
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the party of Black Lives Matter and from the corporate media. Somehow a sports movie from 2009
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has led them all to admit what they really think, which is better to leave the black kid languishing
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in the gutter than reach out and help him. Better to look the other way than be a white savior.
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That's the message coming in loud and clear. And I suspect that a lot of white people who have
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watched this Michael Orr saga play out and who have seen everything that's happened over the past
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decade or so are going to take that message to heart and respond accordingly. The next Michael Orr,
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the next disadvantaged black kid who needs a helping hand, might not get it. He might end up suffering
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the fate that Orr likely would have suffered had the two he's not stepped in. That's apparently what
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So we told you yesterday about the story of the GOP congressman who attacked a woman because she
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posted about her Christian faith on Twitter. She said that there is no hope but in Jesus Christ,
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which is a very standard Christian belief and sentiment statement. And this guy,
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Representative Max Miller, told her it was bigoted and she needs to delete it. Miller is Jewish,
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not Christian, so he found her statement of her Christian faith to be somehow offensive and
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excluding to him. Now, he did apologize later, but as I said yesterday, the apology only goes so far
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because he still expressed something he truly believes, which is that it's bigoted to profess
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your Christian faith. He said that. And my suspicion was that the apology wasn't exactly sincere,
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and that has now been lended some extra credence after this development. This is from the Post
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Millennial. A woman who worked at Ohio Right to Life has been fired after posting the gospel on
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social media. Lizzie Marbach was given the opportunity to resign or to receive a transition
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period before her official dismissal, but reportedly declined both per the Sentinel.
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There's no hope but for any of us outside having faith in Jesus Christ alone. Marbach wrote
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on August 15th, stating that a tenet of Christianity, that Jesus Christ is a Savior,
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Son of God, and one true God. In response, Ohio Republican Representative Max Miller quoted the Post
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with the statement, this is one of the most bigoted tweets I've ever seen. Delete it, Lizzie. Religious
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freedom in the United States applies to every religion. You've gone too far. So somehow that was also
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putting aside how outrageous it is to have a congressman, especially a Republican congressman,
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telling someone not to express their Christian faith, but to suggest that her tweet was somehow
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an infringement on his religious freedom. So you hear someone else, not even here, you see them
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expressing their religious faith on Twitter, and that infringes on your freedom somehow to practice
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your own religion? That's what he said. Sorry, Congressman Marbach replied, but these are the words of
00:22:24.680
Jesus himself. Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
00:22:28.660
but through me. No one has hope outside of Jesus Christ, and every knee will bow one day
00:22:32.820
declaring Jesus Christ as Lord. Miller's wife, who sits on the board of the organization from
00:22:37.340
which Marbach has now been terminated, also said that she should delete the Post. And now
00:22:44.180
she's been fired. So that's what happened. Ohio Right to Life, who she worked for, fired her
00:22:52.980
the day after all this, and it just so happens that Miller's wife is on the board of this
00:22:59.820
organization. Now the organization did put out a statement saying this, quote,
00:23:04.200
Ohio Right to Life can confirm that Elizabeth Lizzie Marbach is no longer employed at Ohio Right
00:23:08.100
to Life. This decision was not based on any single event, as some social media claim. We appreciate
00:23:14.300
Lizzie's service and wish her the best in future endeavors. Okay, well notice what they don't say.
00:23:19.000
They don't say that the Post had nothing to do with her termination. They just say that it's not
00:23:24.160
one single event. So I don't know what's going on here. I can tell you I am very familiar with the
00:23:32.160
Right to Life organization on the national level, not as much with the Ohio chapter, although I'm sure
00:23:37.240
I've worked with them in the past at some point, as I have with Right to Life across the country.
00:23:41.920
And the organization nationally has done great work for many years. I've been to many Right to Life
00:23:48.480
events. I've given speeches at many of them. And the Christian faith is central to what they do.
00:23:54.880
I mean, they've always been extremely open about it. In my experience, you go to one of their
00:23:57.900
events, there's going to be a prayer before, you know, a banquet. And I've spoken many of their
00:24:01.200
banquets. And you're open with a prayer. You know, in my speeches, I always talk very openly about my
00:24:06.480
faith. It's never been a problem. So the idea that they would fire someone for expressing their faith
00:24:13.440
is like, it's, I mean, it's shocking to me. It's not remotely consistent with the organization as I
00:24:19.180
have known it. Now, I have been told behind the scenes, their claim is that this parting of ways
00:24:26.800
was in works, in the works for months. So that's what I was told. And the timing of the tweet is just
00:24:33.120
really bad. But if it was in the works for months, and then this happens with the tweet,
00:24:38.300
you don't pull the trigger on the firing the very next day after this. You just don't do that.
00:24:45.640
So it's been in the works for months, then like, what's another month? You might as well wait another
00:24:49.420
month. You just don't fire a woman a day after she was publicly rebuked for her faith by a congressman
00:24:57.120
whose wife is on the board of your organization. You just don't do that. And at a minimum, if you do
00:25:05.540
fire her and it's all just bad timing, quote unquote, you would unequivocally state publicly
00:25:11.500
that it wasn't because of the tweet where she professed her faith. You would say that explicitly.
00:25:16.380
You would come out, your statement would be, it's had absolutely nothing to do with that tweet at all.
00:25:20.660
We are very, you know, we, many of our members are open Christians and we think it's a wonderful thing.
00:25:27.960
It had nothing to do with that. Like, you would just be very clear about it.
00:25:30.120
But they weren't. So, uh, it just doesn't make any sense.
00:25:37.580
And like I said, you know, I like these people. I like the organization.
00:25:40.500
I've heard their version behind the scenes from people who've reached out to me, but, uh,
00:25:44.620
I got to call balls and strikes as I see them. And I have to be honest about it.
00:25:48.400
And this story from Ohio right to life doesn't make sense to me. It just doesn't.
00:25:53.460
I'm sorry. Like, I mean, you call it bad timing. Yeah, that's a real bad timing.
00:25:57.580
Every, every part of this. Like if Max Miller's wife was not on the board,
00:26:05.380
uh, that would make it a little less suspicious, but she is apparently. So,
00:26:10.860
so this woman, uh, Lizzie Marbach is attacked by a Republican congressman
00:26:17.780
and by the wife who's on the board. And a day later she's gone.
00:26:22.360
I don't know what's really going on behind the scenes, but the story doesn't make sense to me
00:26:26.620
at all. And, um, and, but it also doesn't make sense that they would fire someone for expressing
00:26:32.440
their Christian faith. Because like I said, this is something that like everyone in, in right to,
00:26:36.520
pretty much, I mean, it'd be very hard to find someone who works in right to life who is not an
00:26:40.580
open Christian. I mean, there are some, but it's, uh, it's, they're not many. I mean,
00:26:45.440
the vast majority are open to professed Christians. Um, so the whole thing, it's just
00:26:51.320
doesn't make sense. And it's, it's very bad. And this, for me, it still goes back to Max Miller,
00:26:57.440
who is the public, who is the representative here is that he's a government official.
00:27:03.460
And he's the, the one first and foremost, who owes an explanation.
00:27:07.860
Like, what did you mean by the original tweet? I don't care about the apology.
00:27:13.640
I mean, you know how I feel about public apologies and all the rest of it. I don't care about that.
00:27:18.140
Uh, what, what did you mean by it? It's see, the other problem with public apologies,
00:27:24.160
aside from the fact, you know, you know all my issues with that genre, the public apology genre,
00:27:29.840
but, um, they could, they could also be sort of a dodge sometimes, a way of changing the subject.
00:27:37.860
And so to just come out and say, Oh, I'm sorry. I said that. Well, okay. You're sorry.
00:27:41.520
But what did you mean by it? What you said was that this expression of the standard expression
00:27:51.740
of Christian faith is bigoted. That's what you said. What do you mean? So you said it because you
00:28:00.880
believed it. I mean, did you not believe it? Was this like a personal grudge? Were you just trying
00:28:05.760
to attack this woman? That's not good either. But is that what you want to tell us?
00:28:11.400
So either you said something, either you attacked a woman personally by saying something you don't
00:28:18.000
even believe, which makes you a hypocrite and a pretty bad person, or you did believe it. And
00:28:26.600
that's why you said it, which means that you, that's how you feel about the Christian faith.
00:28:31.280
You, you, you feel that it's fundamentally bigoted, right? Max. I mean, it's one of those
00:28:37.860
two. I don't know. What's the third option here. And I think we need, uh, you, you need to flesh
00:28:45.260
that out a little bit more, uh, because you are a government, you, you are, you know, you represent
00:28:51.140
the voters in your district in Ohio. And I think that they probably want to know.
00:28:56.160
And I'm going to guess that the majority of them are Christian. So which is it? Are you, uh, saying
00:29:01.680
things you don't, don't believe because you have a problem with this particular woman and you just
00:29:05.560
wanted to send the, send the hounds after her by calling her a bigot? Or do you really believe this?
00:29:12.540
That anyone who believes that, you know, Christianity is the way that Christ is the way, the truth and the
00:29:16.980
life is, uh, is a bigot. So we're going to need a lot more. Uh, Jen Psaki is an MSNBC contributor now
00:29:26.160
or host. Uh, I don't know what she is, but she works for them. And here's the level of analysis
00:29:30.820
that we get from her. Watch this. So you take a step back from all of the developments of the
00:29:36.520
legal trials and tribulations of Donald Trump is that the Republican party has moved in a direction
00:29:42.620
that's out of touch with the American electorate. And you gave a number of examples there, but if
00:29:48.140
any party, a political party is trying to make it harder and more difficult to vote, which is
00:29:53.480
something we've seen the Republican party do in a number of States across the country over the last
00:29:57.920
couple of years, it's because they don't want more people to go out there and voice their view and
00:30:03.060
voice who they want to support. That means fundamentally you're scared of more people being out there voting
00:30:09.220
because they're going to vote for your opponent. And the Ohio example you gave is such a good one.
00:30:13.400
And unfortunately, there's a number of other cases in States across the country where there have been
00:30:17.840
efforts to make it harder for people in, in red States and purple States and lavender, whatever States
00:30:24.740
color States they are to express their support for abortion rights and the ability of women to make
00:30:30.700
choices about their own healthcare, because there's a fear that women will do exactly that, that men will do
00:30:36.840
exactly that because those positions are popular in the country. So even as we're working through
00:30:42.240
navigating, litigating, explaining every detail of Trump's legal issues, the challenge here is that
00:30:49.580
the positions that the core candidates and leaders of the Republican party have on issues people care
00:30:55.320
about, whether it's access to voting choices about your own healthcare, all of these crazy wackadoo
00:31:01.840
cultural debates about gay marriage. First of all, gay marriage is the lava land. It's out of touch with
00:31:07.660
the public. And that is a core problem for the party. So I, I think that that's, it's important to
00:31:15.780
see that because I mean, they're in the process of talking about Trump's indictment and his supposed
00:31:21.380
efforts to overturn the election and, you know, calling our elections into question and claiming that
00:31:26.340
they're rigged. But what she's describing here, what she's advocating for is in fact the primary way
00:31:34.060
that the Democrats go about rigging elections, which is by opposing any effort to ensure any kind
00:31:44.880
of election integrity whatsoever. And there's a reason why they don't want that. Because when she says,
00:31:51.840
well, they want to make it more difficult to vote, they can never explain that. They can never explain
00:31:55.500
what they mean by that. In, in what way, you know, I don't want to, we don't need generalities here.
00:32:03.120
Give me specific examples of people who, because of some Republican law or policy of this past,
00:32:10.220
are now having a difficult time voting. And in, and in what way is it difficult for them?
00:32:16.560
Um, because voting is, it is intentionally made to be idiot proof. Um, and it is that way all across
00:32:29.460
the country. And as you know, how I feel about it, I don't think it should be. Um, I don't think we
00:32:36.300
should idiot proof voting. I think it should go the other way. We should, we should put things in place
00:32:40.620
intentionally that would, that would make it difficult for idiots to vote. Uh, you, we should,
00:32:47.100
we should have filters in place to try to filter out the idiots because we don't want them voting.
00:32:53.440
I mean, that's how you really undermine our democracy and our way of life is by having a
00:32:56.720
bunch of oblivious idiots flooding, uh, the voting booth and basically negating the votes of all of the
00:33:05.680
people who are actually contributing members of society who, who know what's going on. And that,
00:33:10.200
and that is precisely the plan. That's what the Democrats want to do. That is their whole strategy.
00:33:15.280
And it's been incredibly effective on a political level. You know, they're worried about people like,
00:33:22.180
like you, people like us, just people who just, we don't have to be geniuses. Okay.
00:33:27.420
People who pay attention and know what's going on.
00:33:29.620
And you go to vote and you, you, you are, uh, a, a sentient conscious human being and you go to vote
00:33:37.700
and you have a basic idea of what's going on in the world. It, they don't want that. I mean,
00:33:42.340
they, they don't want us to vote, but they can't really stop us at this point. And so instead the
00:33:47.320
plan is to just send like for every vote made by a sentient aware human being, they want to have
00:33:58.280
a busload of morons to cancel it out. Literal busloads. Um, which means making voting as effortless
00:34:10.020
and easy as possible. And it's important to understand this. It's not all about, you know,
00:34:15.300
the, uh, the early voting and mail-in voting, you know, we'll give you, we'll give you, uh,
00:34:20.340
we'll give you seven and a half months to vote and we'll send ballots to your house and we'll have,
00:34:25.260
you know, we'll have someone come and fill it out for you. We'll have someone come in and pick you
00:34:29.940
up and carry you to your own mailbox so that you don't have to make any effort whatsoever. Right.
00:34:37.980
Um, and when conservatives criticize these kinds of policies, usually what we're worried about
00:34:43.540
is fraud, which is something that we should worry about because it does happen. Uh, it's a
00:34:51.000
considerable problem. But what I'm trying to say is the problem is bigger than that
00:34:54.740
because, you know, when, when they, when they go out of their way to get people to vote who have
00:35:05.220
no idea what's going on in the world and are not interested in, in, in exerting any effort towards
00:35:11.480
voting at all. Yeah. Those are actual votes. That's not fraud, but, uh, it is a way of rigging the
00:35:19.800
system. When, if we actually cared about our demo, our, our precious democratic system,
00:35:27.000
what we would do is we would have a system in place that tries to weed out that actually tries
00:35:31.020
to weed out fraud and make sure that you're, make sure that you're, you know, you're voting,
00:35:34.480
you're, you're a, a, a, of legal voting age or an American citizen. You've, this is,
00:35:38.880
you've only voted once. This is not your third time. Um, all of that, but then we would also have
00:35:46.060
a system to make sure that on top of like, that's just bare minimum, that's entry level.
00:35:51.180
And then as well, we would make sure that you are a contributing and, um, aware member of society.
00:36:03.500
So if you, if you really care about the democratic system, that's what you would do. If you really
00:36:09.280
want to protect it, if you actually cherish it as some sacred thing, then that is what you would
00:36:15.700
want, but that's not what they want very clearly. All right. Um, this is from Yahoo, uh, posting to
00:36:27.100
TikTok, a mother named Jana shared her reasons for allowing her 17 year old son, Cody to undergo top
00:36:33.760
surgery and she couldn't be more proud to be his mother. And of course, when Yahoo says son
00:36:40.300
and he, they mean daughter and she, you know, we understand that top surgery also known as chest
00:36:45.920
surgery and masculine, masculinizing chest surgery is a type of gender affirming medical procedure
00:36:50.720
that alters the chest area that requires the removal of breast tissue. And it's typically performed
00:36:54.980
for transgender men or non-binary people who are assigned female at birth. Um, so there are some,
00:37:01.400
this is what this woman does and she's got a big following on TikTok and she talks all about,
00:37:06.200
um, her daughter who she's abusing and who has been mutilated with her help and her funding.
00:37:13.500
And let's just watch one of these, let's just clip six. Let's watch one of these videos.
00:37:18.540
Why would I ever allow my 17 year old to have top surgery? Why would I do that? That's insane.
00:37:24.680
That's crazy. It's child abuse until you look at the really, really happy kid who walked out of the
00:37:30.360
doctor's office today, feeling really great about himself for the first time. And I don't even know
00:37:34.220
how long his chest looks great. It looks absolutely great. And, um, here's how my kid feels here. It
00:37:41.860
is from the horse's mouth. Enjoy. So how are you feeling? Really good. What did it feel like when
00:37:47.240
you saw your chest for the first time? No. I'm super excited for you. I'm happy. Wow. This is,
00:37:58.280
this is amazing. Isn't it? You look so amazing. You look so good.
00:38:06.940
Finally feels right for the first time. Right? And that's just it. It feels right for the first
00:38:11.900
time. You look so good. I'm so proud of you. I love you so much. Thank you.
00:38:17.940
There's one other clip that we were going to play, but I can't, I just can't watch clips like this.
00:38:21.520
I can't, I don't know. We've seen enough of this, uh, of, of Munchausen mommy here and you get the
00:38:28.640
idea. It's always the same, you know, and once again, and I don't know where the dad is in this,
00:38:32.640
in, in this, uh, I assume he's nowhere, but it's like, it's always the, almost always the mom with
00:38:38.440
the exception of Dwayne Wade. It's almost always the mom. And when you see these videos and we've seen
00:38:43.460
a million of them, it's always the same video. It's the same. It's like the moms even look the same.
00:38:47.840
It's like, it's just, they're interchangeable, everything about them. Um, telling her daughter,
00:38:54.880
oh, you look amazing. She doesn't though. I mean, she looks mutilated, butchered and confused.
00:39:02.600
It's not amazing at all. And you just have to, let me ask you this. Uh, this mom, what was her name
00:39:12.720
again? Janna. Okay. Janna, if you walked into your daughter's room and she was cutting herself,
00:39:24.240
you know, mutilating herself, cutting herself, cutting her wrists, let's say with a razor blade
00:39:28.420
and you said, oh my God, what are you doing? Don't, don't do that. And she said, well,
00:39:34.180
it makes me feel good to do this. Would you then say, oh, well, okay. If it makes you feel good.
00:39:39.820
And then would you pull out your phone and do a, uh, an inspirational TikTok video
00:39:45.060
with the inspirational piano music in the background? You know, many people say that my
00:39:50.740
daughter, uh, shouldn't cut her wrists with a razor blade, but you know, what they don't
00:39:55.500
understand is that she feels good when she does it. Would you do that? Now I might not be making
00:40:02.720
the point I'm trying to make here because when you hear that question, you, because you're a psychotic
00:40:06.860
barbarian, you, you might, yeah, for all I know that that it might be exactly how you respond
00:40:14.120
because you're a monster. But any parent who actually loves their child and you don't love
00:40:20.580
your child at all. Um, any parent who actually loves their child would not respond that way. You
00:40:26.080
walk in and see your child destroying, hurting herself. Uh, the fact that it makes her feel good,
00:40:32.180
that it's, it's some, it gives her some kind of release, um, in, because she's, uh, confused and
00:40:38.860
lashing out. And this is the way that she's looking for this, this release. Uh, you know,
00:40:45.460
you, you would not be okay with that. You wouldn't say, well, as long as it makes you feel good.
00:40:49.760
In fact, if you are a, even halfway decent and competent parent, and again, you love your child,
00:40:57.500
you're never going to think because it feels good is, you know, a, a, a good enough justification
00:41:08.400
for anything that your child does. Instead, as the parent, what you say to your child is, yeah,
00:41:13.660
that you might think that this makes you feel better in the moment, but, but this is not the
00:41:19.840
right way. You know, you're not making anything better. You're hurting yourself. You can't do this.
00:41:25.540
And you would try to get your child the help that she desperately needs.
00:41:29.200
And this is no different. You know, every, every, uh, video or image we see of a, of a girl who's had
00:41:35.260
quote unquote top surgery, it is no different in kind to a girl who cuts herself. And in fact,
00:41:43.200
it's not a, also, by the way, there's a lot of crossover here. Very often the girl who goes
00:41:49.640
on to get top surgery also has a history of, of cutting and self mutilation because it's the same
00:41:55.540
kind of thing. She's confused. She's in despair. She hates herself. She hates her body. Uh, what she
00:42:04.360
needs is someone to help her accept herself for who she is. And because she doesn't get that in your
00:42:11.460
case because she has a terrible mother who hates her, um, she just ends up looking for
00:42:22.140
So it's a very similar kind of thing. The only difference, you know, top surgery and cutting,
00:42:27.460
very similar. Only difference is that top surgery is so much worse, obviously, because it's a permanent
00:42:32.520
damage. And, uh, this again is something that any, any decent parent understands. But what we've
00:42:41.240
learned time and time again, is that there are a lot of, uh, very not decent parents out there.
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an interesting comment section today because I'm going to pull all these comments from the video we
00:44:06.180
posted from a segment, I guess it was two days ago now, um, where I was responding to a woman on
00:44:13.240
TikTok who was getting childless woman who was giving her rules for where you as a parent are
00:44:18.660
allowed to bring your kids in public. And she was taking a special exception to, uh, parents who
00:44:24.040
bring their kids to bars and breweries. But then she went on to explain that, um, you, you really
00:44:30.560
can't bring your kid to anywhere that has age risk, quote unquote, age restricted items. Said you're
00:44:34.640
an a-hole if you do. And she doesn't want to be around your kids because she wants to be able to be
00:44:38.760
vulgar and crass and talk about sex really loudly. And she can't do that when your kid is there.
00:44:44.760
So I disagreed. I obviously, well, I thought it was obvious that I would disagree with that
00:44:50.660
position. I explain why. Um, and, uh, I'm getting killed in the comments by it, by a bunch of people
00:44:59.160
that are completely wrong. You know, it happens sometimes with the SPG. It doesn't happen very
00:45:02.800
often. But every once in a while with the SPG, you guys are all just wrong. And, uh, and, uh, as the
00:45:08.320
cult leader, I need to be here to let you know that. That's one of my sacred, solemn responsibilities.
00:45:14.100
So let me just read a couple of these comments. Swifty says, as a father, I agree with her. Not
00:45:18.100
sure why you'd want to take your child to a place where drunk adults are likely to be. Porter Wake
00:45:22.000
says, eh, you made a mountain out of a molehill here, Matt. Don't take your kids to taverns drinking
00:45:25.720
or weed smoking places. Latch says, I don't think it's good for children to be surrounded by a bunch of
00:45:30.460
intoxicated adults. So I'm standing, I'm siding with her. Lara says, I'm sorry, but kids absolutely
00:45:35.540
do not belong in bars. And a restaurant is not a bar. Bars are for drinking. What parents bring a
00:45:40.240
child to a bar while on a night out of drinking in a place filled with drunks? Uh, Karfty says,
00:45:47.580
nah, she's right for this. Children shouldn't be in bars. Mary says, I'm shocked that people glare
00:45:51.660
at Matt's family in restaurants. It's just weird. But I'm also shocked at his response to this woman.
00:45:55.380
The bar is a place where, uh, there is bound to be raunchy talk. For instance, dirty jokes. It's also
00:45:59.480
a place where hostilities could break out. Bars are an adult venue, just like drag shows should be.
00:46:03.960
I don't know where you guys are going to bars or what, or where are you getting your,
00:46:07.200
where are you getting your perception of a bar from like, uh, Pirates of the Caribbean or something.
00:46:12.320
Um, but you're all missing the point by a country mile. First of all, the woman says in the video,
00:46:18.200
you should not bring your kid to any place that sells quote age restricted items. She includes
00:46:23.120
cigarettes on that list. Okay. So I have to assume y'all didn't hear that part of the video,
00:46:27.080
even though I specifically highlighted and center my entire argument around it, but somehow you didn't
00:46:30.640
hear, um, to exclude children from all places with quote age restricted items, which is what she was
00:46:35.780
talking about is to exclude them from all restaurants, all gas stations, basically all of
00:46:41.560
society. Okay. That's my point. Okay. It's the whole point of the video. I don't know how else to put it.
00:46:46.560
Also, obviously, you know, obviously you shouldn't bring your kid to a rowdy bar, uh, with a bunch of
00:46:52.800
drunken pirates. Um, you shouldn't bring them to like a college bar at 2 AM. Um, the reason you
00:47:00.240
don't bring them to places like that is that it's not appropriate for them. It's inappropriate for
00:47:04.320
them. And I also say at the beginning of my video that there are places you don't bring your kids
00:47:08.460
because of the effect it would have on them. Okay. Obviously, but there are like thousands of bars,
00:47:15.620
you know, bars and restaurants, sports bars, beach bars, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera,
00:47:19.580
that serve food that are perfectly family friendly. Uh, you can go at, you can go there
00:47:24.660
at lunchtime and nobody is drunk. You know, uh, where we used to live right down the street,
00:47:29.700
there was a sports bar. I'd take my kids there all the time. I would get them chicken tenders from
00:47:33.360
the, from the kids menu. It's a sports bar. Nobody was drunk. Everything was fine. It was a good,
00:47:38.080
there were lots of families there. I don't know. Is, are people not aware that this exists? Like
00:47:41.660
this is, it's not just that there are some bars that are this way. It's like most of them.
00:47:46.520
Okay. If I say to someone, eh, I got to meet you at the bar down the street,
00:47:48.880
it's like almost always a bar and restaurant. Now there are some bars that are just bars where
00:47:53.000
it's like, you literally just sit at the bar and all they have is, is the liquor and beer. And yeah,
00:47:57.060
obviously you're not gonna bring your kid to a place like that, but it's also clear. I would
00:47:59.600
think that I'm not talking about that. Um, and to drive the point home. And so, so that's what
00:48:06.900
she wants to exclude kids from those places, you know, like a bar and restaurant, Buffalo Wild Wings
00:48:12.800
is a bar. Okay. Um, and to drive the point home, her video starts by showing one of those places
00:48:21.180
that she wants the kids, keep kids away from the video starts, but it shows one of the places that
00:48:25.380
she thinks kids shouldn't be allowed at. And it's an outdoor spot with sand and picnic tables and
00:48:31.180
families. And it's the middle of the day, clearly a family friendly place, clearly a place where they
00:48:37.860
want families to come. And she is saying, I don't want kids there that place specifically.
00:48:46.220
And what's her reason? See, that's the third point. The third point is the reason her reason
00:48:50.720
for not wanting kids is not that it's bad for them to be at these places, but that she wants to be able
00:48:57.360
to curse loudly and talk about her sex life. That's her reason. And that's also why she, she doesn't
00:49:03.300
just want to exclude them from, from the kinds of places that, that everyone agrees kids should be
00:49:08.240
excluded from. She wants to exclude them from anywhere that she likes to hang out. That's what she
00:49:14.380
says. That's her whole reasoning. So I don't know how else to put this. Um, and, uh, you know,
00:49:26.260
there is no one or almost no one who thinks that you should actually bring a kid to, for example,
00:49:33.220
to a college bar at 1am or bring them to the kind of bar where there are a bunch of drunk, rowdy
00:49:38.280
adults and fights are breaking out. Like if you've ever been to a bar like that, you've probably never
00:49:43.740
seen a kid there. It's so that's not an issue. Everyone agrees. Of course you don't bring a kid
00:49:46.680
to a place like that. Um, so that, that's not a viewpoint that exists. Okay. So we all, that's one of the
00:49:52.840
reasons we know her video wasn't targeting those kinds of parents because those parents don't
00:49:56.320
exist. You ever been to a bar at 1am? I have. Have you ever seen a kid at one? Never, ever,
00:50:02.240
ever. It doesn't happen. So that's not something that exists. So she wasn't targeting this thing
00:50:07.400
that doesn't exist. What she was targeting is when you just bring your kids to any place that like she
00:50:13.920
wants to hang out and, and, and, but that mentality on her part does exist. That's a common thing.
00:50:20.840
And that's why I talked about in that segment that I know, you know, bringing my kids when I go out
00:50:26.780
as a family and we got six kids and we go to a place, we go to a restaurant. It's a perfectly
00:50:31.560
appropriate environment for kids. Um, and you know, we get the dirty looks and all that.
00:50:37.680
And the reason is people like her who just like, no, I just don't want your kid here. Cause to me,
00:50:43.120
it's, I consider it annoying just to have them in my presence. That's a, that's a very common
00:50:48.420
mentality that people have as evidenced by that. Now I talked about this on, on Twitter and, uh,
00:50:53.040
I talked about the dirty looks that big families get. And of course I heard from a lot of people,
00:50:57.020
none of them actually have big families, but a lot of people who just denied that is all you're
00:51:01.500
making that up. That never happens. Okay. Yeah, it doesn't, I don't know. It's just what I've,
00:51:06.720
I grew up in a big family. I have a big family. It's been, I've experienced it countless times in my
00:51:11.160
entire life. Um, and you talk to any parent who actually has a lot of kids and they will tell you
00:51:16.160
this is a very common thing. As I said, I don't care. It's not a big deal. It doesn't bother me.
00:51:21.340
Um, but one of the ways, you know, that that does happen is because of people like this one.
00:51:27.620
And in fact, I, I, I, even though there were, there were those denying, it's like,
00:51:31.520
oh, it's just never, no one has that attitude. No one can shoot dirty looks at the same time,
00:51:35.720
even under the comments on those tweets, you had a bunch of adults saying things like, well,
00:51:41.240
your kid shouldn't go to any restaurant where there's not a kid menu, like that kind of thing.
00:51:44.320
Okay. So, uh, which, which is crazy by the way, and I don't abide by that.
00:51:51.100
Yeah. One guy tell me, just bring your kid to Chili's. Okay. Yeah. So that's,
00:51:54.800
so if you have a family, you have to relegate yourself to bad restaurants with crappy food.
00:52:00.380
That's where the family should go as a second class citizen, stick with Applebee's and Chili's.
00:52:04.640
Don't go to the actual good restaurants because he doesn't want to be around your kids.
00:52:09.700
Again, this is a, this is an actual common attitude in society that people have.
00:52:13.140
And, uh, and it's, it's, uh, worth explaining why that attitude is wrong.
00:52:21.220
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A few years ago, the author Ross Douthat wrote a book called the decadent society. And in the book,
00:52:59.940
he argues that, um, we're not headed for any kind of catastrophic civilizational collapse,
00:53:04.560
but rather we are on our way to, and in fact, already in a period of stasis of cultural paralysis,
00:53:11.720
what he calls decadence. A decadent society is one that treads water that goes nowhere in particular
00:53:16.160
and kind of drifts along to various dead ends. One of the hallmarks of the decadent society is that
00:53:21.040
it has no new ideas. Instead, it simply repeats itself or repeats itself and repeats old ideas
00:53:26.700
over and over again. Constantly recycled and remade movies and lifeless movie franchises that never end
00:53:33.580
are the perfect example of this kind of thing. Another is the endless invention of new sexualities
00:53:37.880
and genders, which are all just different versions of being gay. A slightly less noticeable,
00:53:43.220
but for me, even more annoying example is this insistence on taking normal things and making
00:53:49.020
them into trends. Every week, there's another trend to taking social media and Gen Z by storm. But
00:53:55.200
when you investigate, you discover that this is something people have always been doing. It's just
00:53:58.760
that they never felt the need to make it into a hashtag. I've just been made aware of a particularly
00:54:04.120
egregious variation on this theme. For example, this is a new trend that's been written about in
00:54:09.600
many media publications. It's called Girl Dinner. And here's the National Geographic report, because
00:54:15.520
this is the kind of thing that National Geographic now concerns itself with. Long gone are the days when
00:54:19.520
you go to National Geographic to learn about a lost tribe in South American jungle somewhere.
00:54:25.240
Now you learn about the eating habits of 23-year-old women on TikTok. So here's what they
00:54:30.680
say. Quote, picture this. You're home alone and it's nearing dinnertime. You grab a box of crackers
00:54:36.020
from the cabinet, some olives, baby carrots, and leftover falafel from the fridge. You can take your
00:54:40.400
masterpiece to the table, but why bother? There's something satisfyingly deviant about eating it right
00:54:44.700
off the kitchen counter with your fingers. All told, the meal takes five minutes, one plate, no utensils.
00:54:50.040
You, my friend, have just made yourself a girl dinner. What once may have been a sheepish,
00:54:54.500
solitary tradition has recently attained viral internet status thanks to Olivia Marr, a TV show
00:54:59.860
runner's assistant who first christened the phenomenon in a TikTok posted in May, a sort of
00:55:04.280
choose-your-own-adventure tasting platter. Girl Dinner can include anything and often includes
00:55:08.840
everything, from applesauce and salami to Cheetos and guacamole. The trend has since amassed nearly
00:55:13.460
one billion views on TikTok, where users have started sharing their own smorgasbord creations
00:55:17.520
and absurdist parodies. Social media hype aside, might the Girl Dinner girls and their fellow
00:55:23.420
partakers be on to something? Food experts weigh in on the potential merits and pitfalls of this
00:55:28.420
low-effort snack-forward meal and what it reveals about a relationship to food and each other.
00:55:34.220
Now, first of all, this is not an innovative trend. You haven't discovered anything new. You're just,
00:55:39.160
you're eating, okay? You're consuming food. That's what it's called. People have been doing that for as
00:55:43.580
long as people have existed. And second, to the extent that there is a particular method or approach
00:55:48.700
here, it's not fair to call it Girl Dinner. In fact, I would go so far as to label this a form
00:55:54.200
of cultural appropriation. Single men have been doing this forever. Maybe not with falafels and
00:55:59.920
olives, but the general strategy is very familiar. When I was a single man, I don't think I ate a dinner
00:56:05.300
on a plate with an entree and a side dish even one time. If I was hungry, I went to my kitchen,
00:56:11.500
opened up the fridge. I stood facing the fridge with the door still open, and I ate whatever random
00:56:18.820
items I happened to have in there, which wasn't much. Never heat anything up. You know, I didn't
00:56:24.700
put it on a plate and sit by myself at the dining room table, mostly because I didn't have a dining
00:56:30.040
room table or plates or a dining room or really any furniture at all except for a couch and a mattress
00:56:36.280
and box spring with no bed frame. The point is that the Girl Dinner trend directly steals from
00:56:41.620
ancient bachelor tradition. Our culture is not your TikTok trend, you damned plagiarists.
00:56:48.820
But when it comes to doing something that people have been doing forever, pretending that you
00:56:51.800
invented a hot new trend, nowhere is this more common than in the workplace. We've discussed several
00:56:56.500
times in the past these alleged new workplace trends that are not new at all and are almost always
00:57:02.000
just a version of being lazy. Quiet quitting is one we've discussed. There have been others in
00:57:07.140
that same vein. And now Business Insider has compiled, for whatever reason, the whole list.
00:57:11.540
So we now have all of the workplace trends, quote unquote, that Gen Z has invented this year in one
00:57:17.740
handy list. Headline, from lazy girl jobs to loud quitting, here are the biggest workplace buzzwords of
00:57:24.400
2023 and what they mean. The article begins, fed up employees are starting new workplace trends that push
00:57:30.620
back on exploitative employers. Enter lazy girl jobs, loud quitting, and bare minimum Mondays.
00:57:36.900
Check out these and other big workplace buzzwords of 2023 and what experts have to say about them.
00:57:42.600
Now, a few of these buzzwords actually have the effect of taking a healthy and productive thing
00:57:46.720
and making it sound worse than it really is. So here's one, rage applying. Business Insider says,
00:57:53.580
rage applying is the practice of mass applying to jobs fueled by feelings of unhappiness at work.
00:57:57.820
And it seems it has the potential to pay off. After being passed over for a promotion, Jordan
00:58:02.840
Smith, a 28-year-old working in the music industry in LA, rage applied for five jobs and landed a
00:58:08.660
better paying role within a week. However, rage applying might not be the best approach for
00:58:12.500
everyone. Career coach Kelsey Watt advises against conducting a job search from an emotional place of
00:58:17.320
fear, resentment, or burnout. Okay. Well, this is not rage applying. This is just applying. This is the
00:58:24.620
standard application process. If you're looking for a new job, especially if you're looking for
00:58:28.480
an entry-level job, it's a good idea to fill out multiple applications or send in multiple resumes.
00:58:36.340
Applying for five jobs is not anything excessive or impressive. It's what you do if you're serious
00:58:42.120
about finding a job. Now, you probably don't want to be in a state of rage while you're filling out the
00:58:46.620
application, but I don't think that's happening anyway. I'm not even sure what that would look like.
00:58:50.560
Like a guy sitting at his computer, faces red, frothing at the mouth, trembling with rage
00:58:56.580
while filling out his employment history and contact information. It just seems somewhat
00:59:00.620
incongruent. You can't maintain actual rage while filling out a form. It's more of a feeling of
00:59:06.920
numbness and quiet despair, if anything. But now we get to the fancy workplace buzzwords that all
00:59:12.680
describe the same kind of laziness and incompetence. Now, reading from the article, it says,
00:59:16.620
As major tech companies continue laying off significant numbers of workers,
00:59:20.940
another workplace trend has emerged. Resenteism. It describes the act of staying in an unsatisfying
00:59:27.020
job due to a perceived lack of options, even as resentment grows. After resenteism came the
00:59:33.140
synonymous loud quitters and grumpy stayers. Gallup's 2023 State of the Global Workplace report found that
00:59:40.460
roughly one in five workers are loud quitting at their jobs, which means just that they're actively
00:59:45.060
disengaged at work, as opposed to quiet quitters who are simply not engaged. Wait, what?
00:59:52.600
So on one hand, you are disengaged. On the other hand, you are not engaged. Wow, that's quite a
00:59:58.440
distinction. Now, just as a quick note, that goes without saying, if you have ever referred to
01:00:03.320
yourself as a grumpy stayer, you should not only be fired from your job, but you should also be
01:00:08.640
deported to Venus. But there's a lot more in this vein. There's also bare minimum Monday,
01:00:13.900
which we're told is a way to ease into work at the start of the week. TikToker Marissa Jo popularized
01:00:19.340
the term, which describes a way to resist the Sunday scaries and the pressure many people feel
01:00:24.040
to hit the ground running full speed when they return to work again on Monday. Quote,
01:00:27.920
the second I got rid of the pressure and allowed myself to have whatever kind of day unfolded,
01:00:31.580
I was able to do stuff, she said. In a video documenting one of her bare minimum Mondays,
01:00:36.660
Jo goes through activities like journaling, her skincare routine, making progress on a creative
01:00:41.220
project before beginning work, which she notes doesn't start until noon on bare minimum Mondays.
01:00:47.180
Yes, you know, it's important to ward off the Sunday scaries by having a bare minimum Monday so
01:00:52.380
you don't become a grumpy stayer who is quiet quitting. And if you've not already overdosed and
01:00:58.320
died of cringe just from hearing that sentence, don't forget about chaotic working. Business Insider
01:01:03.420
explains, chaotic working, aka malicious compliance, involves employees using their position at work to
01:01:09.420
help customers or clients at the employer's expense. Though it often entails breaking some
01:01:14.280
rules, workers may do it without fear of repercussion because they're simply fed up with
01:01:17.960
their job, their employer, or their general state of work. Anti-work sentiments have helped the trend
01:01:22.760
grow. Now that last sentence is really the key here. Putting aside how unfathomably cringy all of this
01:01:28.860
is and how it's all just trying to make trends out of simply being a garden variety loser with no work
01:01:33.280
ethic, the real point is that it grows from, as Business Insider says, anti-work sentiment.
01:01:39.440
Now, to a certain extent, everybody has experienced anti-work sentiment. Everyone who, you know,
01:01:43.820
everyone who among us has not had the alarm go off in the morning and thought to themselves,
01:01:48.780
damn, I don't feel like going to work today. We all have. And everyone has lapsed into laziness,
01:01:53.180
some more often than others. So that isn't new. But these days, thanks in part to the trend-defying
01:01:59.280
of everyday life, if I can coin my own dumb and clunky term, being lazy and anti-work is now presented as a
01:02:06.500
legitimate lifestyle choice. Okay? It's one thing to have lazy moments. Everyone does. It's another to
01:02:14.900
declare your laziness proudly, to participate in laziness like it's a valid life strategy.
01:02:22.080
And that's where we are now, especially with the younger generations. I mean, you can feel anti-work
01:02:26.980
sometimes. Everyone does. But to make that into your motto, to march under that banner, is to embrace
01:02:34.540
failure and misery and mediocrity. And this is the part that gets me. Because look, if you want to be
01:02:42.560
mediocre, unimpressive, unproductive, achieve nothing of value with your life, that's your choice.
01:02:48.540
It's a bad choice, but it's yours to make. The problem, though, is that the people who openly
01:02:54.360
admit that they do the bare minimum and that they walk around at work with open resentment and
01:02:58.700
hostility to their own employer, they put in no effort, et cetera, these people will still complain.
01:03:05.020
In fact, they will complain the loudest about their financial hardships and their lack of opportunities
01:03:10.800
and so on. You know, if you want to work little and you want to have little and you want to live a
01:03:18.420
humble life without much luxury or comfort, if you want to go live in a one-bedroom cottage in the
01:03:24.120
woods somewhere with no streaming services or designer clothes or anything else, if you want
01:03:28.620
to embrace a very modest life so that you can devote more of your time to your hobbies or your
01:03:34.800
art or simply to contemplating the mysteries of the universe, that I can more than respect. That's a
01:03:40.160
respectable choice. If you want to leave, quote, hustle culture behind and go full monastic or close
01:03:46.260
to it, great. That is an absolutely respectable approach to life and you can find plenty of joy and
01:03:51.820
fulfillment living that way. But that is not what most of the quiet quitters and bare minimum Monday
01:03:58.220
participants are doing, not even close, because they still want to live a fully modern life with all
01:04:04.220
the trappings, all the luxuries, all the streaming services, all the nice clothes and gadgets, but
01:04:10.200
without putting in any of the effort to obtain and maintain that kind of lifestyle. So they are the worst
01:04:15.940
of all worlds. That's the point. It's materialistic and lazy. Okay. It's one thing to choose one of
01:04:25.120
those. So if you've got, if you have to be like, at least choose one. Okay. If you want to be lazy,
01:04:32.220
but not materialistic, that's, that's what I'm saying. Then we can say, oh yeah, they're lazy,
01:04:36.620
but they're not materialistic at all. They don't care about, you know, they don't, they don't need to
01:04:39.180
own anything and they don't care about it. Or you could be materialistic, but ambitious.
01:04:43.920
And people could say about you, yeah, he's real materialistic, but man, he's, he's ambitious.
01:04:47.400
He's a real go getter. That's something. I mean, you could work with that and you could be a
01:04:52.100
successful person in your own way. That way you can be happy to that way. The problem is that,
01:04:58.080
that modern people, many modern people want both of those vices. You can't have both of them.
01:05:05.640
You got to choose one. You can't be materialistic and lazy because that's where it all breaks down.
01:05:11.200
That's a recipe for being eternally frustrated and unfulfilled.
01:05:16.940
And that is the fate of so many people in our culture today, which is why all the people
01:05:22.060
participating in these trends that are not really trends are today canceled. That'll do it for the
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show today and this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.