Ep. 1290 - The DEI Rot In The Airline Industry Is Way Worse Than You Think
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When a mother sees her baby on an ultrasound and hears her baby's heartbeat, she's twice as likely to choose life. That s why Preborn is dedicated to helping women everywhere choose life for their babies. Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we've talked before about how the DEI agenda is infecting the airline industry and putting all of our lives in jeopardy. It turns out the rot is much worse and goes much deeper than you know or want to know. Also, Cori Bush introduces a resolution so that Black Americans can get the reparations they are quote unquote owed. And degenerate rapper Lil Nas X makes another desperate bid for attention, this time by portraying himself as Jesus Christ.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we've talked before about how the DEI agenda is infecting
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the airline industry and putting all of our lives in jeopardy. It turns out the rot is
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much worse and goes much deeper than you know or want to know. Also, Cori Bush introduces
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a resolution so that black Americans can get the reparations they are quote unquote owed.
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The newest consumer product that people are lining up and camping out overnight for is
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a cup. Yes, just a cup. And degenerate rapper Lil Nas X makes another desperate bid for
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attention, this time by portraying himself as Jesus Christ. All of that and more today
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In December of 2022, a Boeing 777 operated by United Airlines took off from Hawaii in heavy rain. And
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about a minute into the flight, the aircraft plummeted towards the ocean. It came just 750 feet
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from hitting the water at high speed, which almost certainly would have killed all 280 people on board.
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In the end, the pilots saved the aircraft by just a matter of seconds. Now, for more than two months,
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no one heard about this incident. It was as if it had never happened. And by the time the mainstream
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news reports began appearing in February, more than two months later, United assured the public that
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the FAA had been notified and that an investigation would be forthcoming. Watch.
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All righty. Scary moments like this, though, for some passengers on a United flight out of Hawaii.
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Just moments after takeoff, the plane took a steep nosedive coming within 800 feet of the ocean's
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surface. This happened December 18th. Flight tracking data shows the Boeing 777 took off from
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Maui in a huge storm. You can see their climb to 2,200 feet, then descended at 8,600 feet per minute
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towards the water. A passenger told CNN it felt like a roller coaster and that people were screaming
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on board. Oh, my goodness. The pilots recovered from the nosedive and then safely made the trip
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to San Francisco. United says a formal report was filed with the FAA. The pilots then received
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additional training. The whole incident lasted around 45 seconds.
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That's a long flight after something like that happens on takeoff. Now, notice how there's not
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much curiosity from the news anchor there about why this incident took so long for the airline to
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disclose to the public. It's the kind of thing that you'd like to think we'd hear about right
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away. There's also not much of an explanation about what happened exactly. It's implied that the
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pilots may have made a mistake because they're getting more training. But what mistake did they make
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exactly? Well, late last year, we got something of an official answer. It turns out that according
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to the NTSB, the captain called for the flaps to be retracted to the five-degree setting, which is a
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normal setting for takeoff. But the first officer thought the captain had called for a 15-degree
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setting, so he selected that one, which was the wrong one. And that misunderstanding caused a major
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problem because the plane was going far too fast for that flap setting. To avoid damaging the plane,
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the captain started to slow the aircraft while he tried to diagnose the problem. Instead of realizing
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his mistake, the first officer suggested that maybe the instruments were malfunctioning, and the two
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pilots continued to kind of troubleshoot the problem. In the process, they became disoriented
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as the plane quickly lost altitude. The pilot's confusion continued until the plane blared an alarm
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telling them that they were about to die if they didn't apply maximum power and pull up, and they did.
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And fortunately, nobody was harmed. Incredibly, both pilots of the flight are still employed by United
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Airlines, we're told. They nearly killed everybody on board through their incompetence, but that's not
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disqualifying, apparently. Beyond some basic information about their flying experience, we still
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don't know much about those two pilots. For example, we know that the first officer has a total of 5,300
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hours of flying experience, which is respectable for his position. But at the time of the incident,
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he only had 120 hours in the Boeing 777. And according to a report by Tucker Carlson last year,
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which cited an anonymous source at United shortly after this near catastrophe took place,
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this first officer was a new hire at the airline. Could that lack of experience have played a role?
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And more to the point, could either of the pilots' identities have played a role in their hiring?
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Or the airline's refusal to terminate them after they almost steered a passenger jet
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into the ocean? We don't know. We're not allowed to know because the federal government and the
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airlines don't want us to know any more information about the identity of these pilots or any of their
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pilots who are involved in near disasters or anything else about what actually happened.
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There is an ongoing information blackout about these kinds of events, and it's deliberate.
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But in their various public statements and press releases, United Airlines has made it very clear
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that they are mainly interested in hiring pilots on the basis of skin color and gender rather than
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competence. In fact, they participated in a Vice documentary back in 2022, United did,
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So we are in a plane right now, about to take off with a student from United's new ABA Academy.
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Purefoy is training to become a pilot with United Airlines, which became the first major airline to
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launch its own flight school at the beginning of this year. But United is making another push.
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It said half of its recruits are going to be women or people of color.
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A pretty ambitious goal for airline pilots who are 93% white and 95% male. Black women make up less
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I have a confession, guys. I have never seen a black woman fly a plane.
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So I was a flight attendant for three years on a major U.S. airline and absolutely loved it.
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So a couple of years ago, United decided that 50% of its new pilot recruits are going to be
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women or people of color, and they're promoting flight attendants to make that happen. Later on
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in that Vice documentary, it suggested that the point of this initiative is to alleviate
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the pilot shortage. Well, how is that going? A few days ago, the conservative commentator
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Ashley St. Clair posed a few questions to United based on some information that she had received,
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and here's what she wrote, quote, on July 29th, a United plane was nearly totaled after a hard
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landing. Who was flying that aircraft? Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was fired
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and then rehired through United's DEI program despite being on a list to not return to United?
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Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings, including simulator training?
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Am I also correct that United has covered up this DEI disaster and many others?
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That's the question she posed again from based on insider information that she had received.
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Now, United didn't reply, which you may have noticed is something of a pattern.
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No one thinks we deserve to know anything about what's going on in the cockpits of the planes
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that we are flying in. You're just supposed to assume that everything's fine and that the
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flight attendants are transforming into master pilots at United's training academy.
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But the more you look into the specifics of United's diversity initiatives,
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the less solid that assumption seems to be. It turns out that United partners with several
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historically black colleges and universities or HBCUs as a way of recruiting pilots. One of the
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popular statistics focused accounts on X, which uses the name IO, noticed that two of the schools
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that United has decided to team up with, which is Delaware States and Elizabeth City State University,
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are, quote, in the bottom 2% of all undergraduate institutions in the United States.
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The bottom 2% is where they're finding their pilots. Elizabeth State, the account noted,
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quote, had the distinction in 1980s of being the only university in which the average SAT math score
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was lower than that score which would have been produced if a person had guessed B on all multiple
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choice questions on the test. That's a pretty sobering reality, especially if you plan on flying United
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anytime soon. Now, to be fair to United, they don't just recruit from HBCUs with no standards.
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As a writer who goes by the pseudonym Peachy Keenan found, United also recruits
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from an organization called Sisters of the Skies.
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Yes, that is an organization that sends pilots to United Airlines,
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At least you can rest assured that they have a sense of humor at United as your plane is plummeting
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to the ground. Maybe that will give you a little bit of a laugh. And it gets better. Watch.
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Jada Williamson's always dreamed of sitting in the cockpit and calling the shots.
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What I like about flying is you get to see different things you've never seen.
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But that dream of a career in aviation is a rare one for black girls to accomplish,
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It was tough, I won't lie, because there was no one that looked like me.
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Now, Captain Teresa Claiborne is part of a group of trailblazing black women pilots,
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She was the first black female pilot in the U.S. Air Force and is president of Sisters of the Skies.
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Why do you think more black women aren't becoming pilots?
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I mean, it takes upwards of $100,000 to get your licensing to fly.
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So, if our young ladies are not seeing it, if their parents don't have the funding for it,
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If you're flying in a plane, you know, that's what you want out of your pilot,
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That's the qualification that they fall into, that they saw it and they became it.
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Now, again, this is an organization that's training the pilots that are flying commercial aircraft.
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And with these vapid self-help slogans and inspirational slogans,
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at no point are these people concerned about safety or competence.
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They want to put black women in the cockpit because they want to inspire more black women.
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Not because they think they're getting smarter or better pilots.
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Because if you want to get smarter or better pilots, then that's all you're concerned with.
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You just go looking for pilots who fit these qualifications, regardless of what they look like.
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If they happen to be a black woman, then great.
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If it ends up that you have no black women pilots, then that is also great.
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Because if you're just hiring and recruiting based on merit,
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then whoever's in there is the best for the job.
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According to United's latest corporate diversity report,
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of the 51 students that graduated from United's first class of pilots,
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quote, nearly 80% were women or people of color.
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And you can just decide for yourself whether they got to that 80% figure
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because it just so happened that almost all the most qualified people were women or people of color.
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They've almost completely eliminated white men in their training classes.
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And we're led to believe that this is progress.
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Meanwhile, pay no attention to the planes plummeting towards the ocean
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or smashing into the runway, which is happening right now.
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To be clear, this is a problem that extends far beyond United Airlines.
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I mean, they're maybe the most vocal about their DEI practices, but every airline does.
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Well, the first officer, Conrad Aska, accidentally pressed the button,
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giving the plane a massive jolt and thrust, which pitched the nose up.
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And instead of reacting calmly to the situation,
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he panicked and he forced the control column all the way down.
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The plane broke through the clouds and disintegrated on impact with the water.
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Now, Conrad Aska never should have been flying that plane.
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Prior to joining Atlas Air and Amazon, he had worked for seven different airlines
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where he developed a reputation for pressing random buttons in emergencies.
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He would always panic in the simulator and just lose all situational awareness and start pressing buttons.
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But airlines kept putting him in the cockpit anyway.
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And that's why, in its final report on the crash, the NTSB cited,
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Now, what explains those systemic deficiencies?
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We do know that Conrad Aska was born in the Caribbean nation of Antigua.
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He was a black man, which certainly checks some diversity boxes.
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And we also know that Atlas Air's website is full of platitudes about the importance of hiring candidates
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based on certain characteristics like their race and gender.
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So, we can come to some unauthorized theories here about why Conrad Aska was flying that plane.
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Now, this is not to single out Amazon or United or Atlas.
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This kind of diversity hiring is endemic in the aviation industry.
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Keenan says that she's received several messages from pilots warning her of this danger in recent days.
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So, here's one anonymous message that she posted, quote,
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Every airline has an informal pilot assignment program that makes sure their unfireable DEI problem children are always paired with adult supervision.
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These programs are maintained by aging boomers who are immune to the Kool-Aid.
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As these guys retire, every flight will be a roll of the dice.
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Now, remember back, we just talked about that flight that almost crashed into the ocean.
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And you had the one person who didn't know what they were doing and pressed the wrong button.
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And then the other guy that's trying to figure out.
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This rampant DEI mandate doesn't just extend to airlines either.
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A few weeks ago on the show, when I predicted that we're due for a major air disaster soon, I talked mainly about DEI-based hiring and air traffic control.
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There's also a push to diversify the ranks of companies that manufacture and install various airline parts.
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And that includes companies like Spirit Aerosystems, which is no relation to Spirit Airlines, which manufactured that door that blew out on the Alaska Airlines flight over Portland the other day.
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Like United and Atlas Air, Spirit Aerosystems' website is full of DEI propaganda.
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In fact, just days before the door blew out on the plane, Spirit executives were posting eagerly on LinkedIn about their next big diversity event.
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Meanwhile, the company knew they had more serious problems.
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Shortly before the door fell off of a passenger plane mid-flight, Spirit Aerosystems was hit with a class action lawsuit in federal court.
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And in the lawsuit, investors alleged that Spirit was aware of the systemic defects in their products, but ignored them and falsified documents to hide them.
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auditors repeatedly found torque wrenches in mechanics toolboxes that were not properly calibrated.
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This was a potentially serious problem, as a torque wrench that is out of calibration may not torque fasteners to the correct levels,
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resulting in over-tightening or under-tightening that could threaten the structural integrity of the parts in question.
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But the mechanics didn't want to comply with the audit.
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Now, obviously, if these accusations are even remotely true,
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they reveal some very concerning problems at a company that makes critical components for the planes that you are flying in.
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Well, it turns out that according to the lawsuit,
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Spirit fired roughly 50% of its workforce in response to the COVID lockdowns.
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They terminated many experienced mechanics, quote, unquote,
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in response to the economic consequences of those shutdowns, according to the suit.
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how did Spirit decide who to retain after these unnecessary lockdowns?
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How did they decide who to hire after the lockdowns ended?
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Why did they keep the engineers who apparently don't understand how to calibrate their torque wrenches?
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they probably hired a bunch of diverse mechanics.
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That's what all their marketing materials and investor pitches dictate.
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But the truth is, at this point, we can't be more specific than that.
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manufactured the doors on all of these United and Alaska airplanes?
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Maybe the fault lies not with Spirit, but with Boeing,
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which has been in decline ever since it made the decision to outsource key elements of its business
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to overseas programmers and penny pinchers in Chicago.
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But at a certain point, we're entitled to some answers.
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We shouldn't have to guess or speculate about this.
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We should know the qualifications and the identities of the people manufacturing and installing these airplane doors,
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just like we should know the qualifications and identities of the United pilots who are skimming the water with Boeing passenger jets.
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We shouldn't have any doubts about their competence.
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We're the ones who just funded the bailouts for all these companies.
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We're the ones risking our lives when we board these planes.
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Last night, I put out a general invitation to commercial airline pilots to message me anonymously if they prefer,
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which, of course, most of them do, to tell me their firsthand experience of how DEI is impacting their profession.
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But what I can tell you is that as I sit here today after reading everything that I've read,
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I am not at all eager to ever board a plane again.
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I mean, the airline industry is in the process of actively making itself less competent and less reliable.
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And the pilots themselves will tell you that if they're in an environment where they can say it without getting fired.
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When it comes to the pilots, you know, the old guard, the masters of their profession,
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who were hired and promoted based on their skill alone, they are still mostly in control.
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And meanwhile, the airline industry is hiding the truth and lying about the dangers we face.
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Like the COVID cultists who wrecked the economy, the DEI cultists desperately don't want you thinking
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about the downstream effects of their ideology.
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And as a result, every time an airplane takes off in this country,
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we are getting closer and closer to discovering those downstream effects the hard way.
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Speaking of DEI hires, Representative Cori Bush was talking about her reparations plan yesterday.
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Representative Cori Bush got a virtual earful in response to her latest demands for reparations
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in which she claimed that black Americans were owed restitution for the damages wrought by slavery,
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Bush took to X to outline her grievances and announced that she had put forth a resolution
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Our country owes a debt to the descendants of enslaved black people, not just for slavery,
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but for what followed, like black codes, redlining, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.
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That's why I introduced my reparations now resolution.
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Critics questioned Bush's knowledge and understanding of history,
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noting that everyone of the policies she had taken issue with
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had been authored, supported, and even championed by her own party, the Democrats.
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All Democrat policies, radio host Dana Lash pointed out,
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I'm totally for your party, making amends for what it did,
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including to indigenous Americans when they sent them on the Democrat genocide trail.
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Okay, so some of the Dems are the real racist stuff,
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which to me is by far not the most compelling response to the claim that we should have reparations.
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just reading a little bit here, because it gets into some of the specifics about
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and the other representatives, and there are several of them who signed on to this resolution,
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recognizing that the United States has a moral and legal obligation
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to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans
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and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of black people in the United States.
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Whereas black people are and always have been human beings,
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yet the federal government has historically failed to recognize our dignity and humanity,
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blah, blah, blah, so on and so forth, historical sins.
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Whereas financial reparations must be paid by the federal government
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for an amount that respected economists have estimated totals
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to eliminate the racial wealth gap that currently exists between black and white Americans. Okay,
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so only $14 trillion. What's $14 trillion between friends? And by the way, why should it be $14
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trillion? Well, because economists have said so. And which economists? Well, respected ones.
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Respected economists have said that we should pay $14 trillion. Well, okay, that's all we need to
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know. Whereas scholars have estimated the United States benefited from 22 million hours of forced
00:26:32.120
labor between 1619 and the end of slavery in 1865, which can be valued at $97 trillion today.
00:26:40.040
Whereas if the United States closed racial gaps for black people in the areas of housing, education,
00:26:44.640
wages, and investment 20 years ago, $16 trillion could have been added to the economy. So we're
00:26:49.560
throwing around a lot of figures here, $14 trillion, 22 million hours, $97 trillion.
00:26:55.900
And again, if you're wondering where these numbers come from or anything, don't worry about it.
00:27:00.780
Economists have said so. The experts and scholars and economists who are all respected have said that
00:27:06.840
these are the numbers. And so that's it. What else is there to talk about? You know, I look at this kind
00:27:14.120
of thing, and I go back to that phrase, this country owes a debt to black people. Now, putting aside all
00:27:21.480
of the many moral and logical and legal problems with reparations, you know, the fact that you're
00:27:28.320
allowing people to cash in on suffering that they themselves did not personally experience,
00:27:33.460
the fact that you are penalizing and stealing from people who did not commit this historical sin
00:27:39.320
or have anything to do with it, nor did they know anyone who committed it, nor did their parents
00:27:43.540
or their grandparents commit it. The fact that plenty of black people themselves in this country
00:27:49.800
are not even descendants of slaves, just as plenty of white people are not descendants of slave owners.
00:27:58.040
The fact that if you go back far enough, every black person in this country is also likely a
00:28:03.960
descendant of slave traders and slave owners themselves. And every white person is descended
00:28:09.520
either from slaves or from people who suffered similar forms of oppression because slavery and
00:28:15.040
oppression are global phenomena stretching back thousands of years. And so everybody with maybe
00:28:20.420
very few exceptions can tie them, can say that they were, can trace their bloodline back to those
00:28:27.640
sorts of things. But leaving all that aside, it is just poisonous to promote this idea that you are owed
00:28:37.840
something just by virtue of your mere existence. We have come a long way from ask not what your country
00:28:46.020
can do for you. Now it's demand what your country owes you. Except that this country does not owe a
00:28:51.660
damned thing to black people or to white people or to anyone else. At least it doesn't owe, I guess we
00:29:00.240
should stipulate there, the country doesn't owe anything special to you or to anyone else based on
00:29:08.080
your skin color or any other demographic fact about you. Now we are entitled to our legal rights. We're
00:29:15.220
entitled to having our basic human dignity respected. We're entitled to the basic protection of the law.
00:29:20.760
We're entitled to, we're entitled to the sovereignty of our country, the protection of our borders. We
00:29:26.860
are owed that as American citizens. The government specifically owes that to us. It's their job to
00:29:34.780
provide that. And these are things that we are collectively supposed to have by virtue of being
00:29:42.280
Americans and of being human beings. Like again, your human dignity should be respected because you're
00:29:48.520
human. But even then, even in those cases, owed is, uh, is, is, is not the word that I would use
00:30:00.060
because owed carries too much baggage. And when you talk about owed, it quickly becomes the childish,
00:30:09.140
ridiculous, spoiled entitlement of somebody like Cori Bush. And at any rate, beyond these basic legal
00:30:17.520
rights and so forth, beyond that, you know, what there's that category. And then once you get
00:30:24.240
outside of that category, you're not entitled to anything. If you want something great, we all want
00:30:30.960
things. Go get it, go earn it. Don't tell me that you're owed it. I don't give a damn what you think
00:30:38.220
you're owed. The world cares even less. I mean, you can stand outside at night and shout into the
00:30:46.760
universe about what you think it owes you. It doesn't matter because the universe is going to
00:30:52.620
look back at you, uh, totally indifferent. And if you're a black person and you want whatever,
00:30:59.700
whatever amount you think that should be given in reparations, if you want that amount, well then go
00:31:03.580
work and go find a way to earn that amount, go get your own reparations. It's just the most toxic
00:31:10.000
thing. The most untenable situation is to have a bunch of people in this country who, uh, are, are
00:31:16.640
sitting around waiting for what they're owed. And this is what we have, not just when it comes to
00:31:21.740
reparations, but in general, this is the mentality that's been inculcated in entire generations of
00:31:28.720
people. So you have a bunch of people who've never done anything, have never achieved anything,
00:31:32.800
have never really worked for anything or earned anything in their lives. And they're sitting around
00:31:38.000
on their useless asses and crying about what they're owed. You know, we can't have a functional
00:31:44.300
country with people like that. And also, by the way, you, you cannot be a happy person in life
00:31:50.600
if that's the way you operate. If you spend every day thinking about what you're owed,
00:31:59.620
you're not going to be a happy, well-adjusted, and certainly not a successful person.
00:32:06.440
All right. Fox News has, uh, this story. Famed radio host Howard Stern, who has voiced concerns
00:32:13.160
about getting COVID-19 for years and was absent from a show last week, announced Monday that he had
00:32:18.520
finally contracted the virus. Uh, Stern told listeners, we were supposed to be back last
00:32:23.340
week. We weren't because I got COVID-19. Stern has regularly expressed his fear of COVID, admitting
00:32:27.940
that it has gotten him into fights with his wife because he's paranoid and neurotic, especially when
00:32:32.080
it comes to the virus. Stern, who turned 70 this week, said that he had never felt that sick before
00:32:36.680
and credited being vaccinated for not making him feel worse. Uh, so he got it, he got it. And it was,
00:32:43.560
and according to him, it was really bad, but, uh, thank God for the vaccine because otherwise
00:32:48.380
he would have gotten it and it would have been bad. I mean, the exact same thing would have
00:32:52.920
happened. Um, he said, I just want to announce something. COVID is really bad. You don't want
00:32:58.380
COVID. Oh, F he says. So this is just a funny story because Howard Stern has been vaxxed and boosted
00:33:07.700
like, I think like eight times. Uh, I don't even think that's an exaggeration. And he's been hiding in
00:33:13.480
his house for three years and, uh, and then he got it anyway. And my favorite part maybe is this guy
00:33:20.340
announcing that COVID is really bad and you don't want this. Let me tell you guys, you heard about
00:33:26.780
this COVID thing. Have you heard about it? You don't want it. Trust me. Like as if we haven't all
00:33:32.380
already had it, you know, we know what COVID is. Okay. And it really isn't that bad, but especially now
00:33:39.280
it's, it's literally just a cold. It's a head cold. Who's, how would you, I think it's funny
00:33:44.240
now when I, when I hear, even when I hear anyone say, Oh, I got COVID last week. How do you even know
00:33:50.940
that you had COVID? Are you still testing? Are you still going to Walgreens and getting tests to find
00:33:56.520
out if you have COVID? Why? Why do you need to know? What difference does it make? You'll have a
00:34:01.780
cold. Like, what do you need to know the specifics for? But we can imagine that Howard Stern probably
00:34:07.020
takes tests every single day. So that's how we know. And, you know, I do want to say one thing
00:34:11.340
about this and I was thinking about it because on the show over the past few days, we've talked about
00:34:16.840
the issue of aging gracefully. And I have been critical of Madonna, who's, who's around the same
00:34:26.340
age. She's 65. Howard Stern's almost 70 or just turned 70 or whatever. And I've been critical of
00:34:31.120
Madonna for good reason, because she is humiliating herself by refusing to age gracefully and trying to
00:34:36.700
pretend that she's still 25 when she's really 65. But I think, I think in fairness, we should point
00:34:42.460
out that there are other ways to age poorly. And Howard Stern gives us another example. He has aged
00:34:50.380
very poorly. He is not aging gracefully at all. And it's got nothing to do with how he dresses. As far
00:34:57.320
as I know, he dresses like a normal person. And thank God he isn't up on stage anywhere, like twerking
00:35:02.760
in spandex like Madonna. As far as I know, he's not doing that. But he has aged poorly because as
00:35:08.800
he gets older, the only thing he cares about is self-preservation. He's terrified of his age. He's
00:35:14.180
terrified of his impending death. He's terrified of the inevitable. And so he's 70 years old, locking
00:35:21.640
himself away in his house so he doesn't get a cold. And then he gets it anyway. Hiding from the world so
00:35:27.280
that he can prolong his own existence just a little bit longer. And it's not just physical,
00:35:33.440
you know, there's the physical self-preservation, which for some people as they get older become,
00:35:39.920
again, a form of not aging gracefully, becomes an even more of an obsession. But he's also become a,
00:35:49.640
there's also the kind of economic self-preservation. He's become, Howard Stern has a watered down,
00:35:54.640
neutered, pale imitation of his past self. He stopped taking any sorts of risks, which includes
00:36:00.960
the risks that you might take with ideas and content that you put out into the world. And he's,
00:36:06.820
you know, he's become woke and uber liberal and turned into this, this neutered dog,
00:36:13.580
whimpering and whining and begging for treats from the left. And I'm not, when I say that, you know,
00:36:19.860
I'm not saying that Stern should still be acting the way that he did back in the nineties or saying
00:36:27.540
all the same things or, you know, a lot of the stuff that he said and did back in the nineties was
00:36:31.760
truly objectionable. Like when he was, when he was perving after the Olsen twins when they were 13 or
00:36:36.920
14 or whatever. So it's not that he should continue doing that or when his whole show was just bringing
00:36:42.760
in women and having them get naked. The point isn't that he should still be doing that. It's that
00:36:48.340
even as you get older, you can find other ways, better ways to, uh, be innovative and push the
00:36:58.260
boundaries and be interesting. And instead he has collapsed in on himself and turned into this
00:37:03.840
pathetic, sterile creature because he doesn't want to lose money. He doesn't want to lose invitations
00:37:10.440
to the cocktail parties, even though he's not going to them because he's afraid of COVID.
00:37:13.180
Uh, and he's clinging on to everything pathetically until death takes him, which,
00:37:21.280
which it will, as it will for all of us. All right. Speaking of clinging to things pathetically,
00:37:29.000
the Today Show has a report about the hot new consumer product on the market that, uh, everybody
00:37:36.480
is raving about. Apparently this, this is all completely news to me. I'm not even pretending
00:37:43.600
to be out of the loop to be cool or something. I really didn't even know. I, I didn't know that
00:37:47.620
this was a thing. Apparently it's a thing. There's a cup, um, a new cup. Actually, it's not a new cup.
00:37:52.920
It's a cup brand that's been around for a hundred years, but recently people are very, very, uh,
00:37:59.280
determined to get their hands on this particular cup. Here's the Today Show with the report.
00:38:04.380
The hot gift drawing screams and sobs of joy and all this hysteria over a cup.
00:38:15.980
The Stanley quencher cup that is sold in over a hundred different colors. The $45 reusable
00:38:22.120
bottles are flying off shelves. The hashtag Stanley cup racking up 6.7 billion views on TikTok
00:38:29.820
with videos of fans collecting them, decorating them, naming them, even camping out for them.
00:38:36.320
So it's almost three o'clock in the morning. People lining up overnight at Starbucks and Target
00:38:45.500
Aaliyah and Sarai dives cups runneth over after unwrapping theirs on Christmas morning.
00:38:53.820
So everyone in school basically has them. Usually I don't drink a lot of water, but like when I have
00:38:59.720
this cup, I drink like more water. Believe it or not, the Stanley brand has been around for more than
00:39:04.900
a century. These cups used to be favored among construction workers, but in 2017, after a popular
00:39:11.500
mommy blog posted about them, the company introduced new pastel colors and sales skyrocketed
00:39:17.200
from 73 million in 2019 to 750 million last year. Stanley's CEO spoke to CNBC's Make It.
00:39:25.340
So it was a slow build over many months. And then you could see that the waiting lists began to grow.
00:39:33.400
Adding to the hype, viral videos of the cup's apparent indestructibility,
00:39:41.400
Well, that's good. I mean, it's important to have a cup that can survive a car fire.
00:39:45.540
I mean, you yourself probably won't survive the car fire, but at least your cup will be okay.
00:39:50.620
And that's all that matters. Your cup will survive. Your cup will live on to tell your story through
00:39:56.300
the ages, I guess. So this is the new sensation. It's an insulated cup. I mean, that's all it is.
00:40:03.160
There are millions of insulated cups on the market. They're all the same. The Stanley cup is not
00:40:09.180
functionally different from any other insulated cup, but this is the one that everybody wants right now.
00:40:14.180
And why do they want it? They don't know. They couldn't tell you. But they'll camp out overnight
00:40:21.720
for it. They'll camp out overnight for a cup. And they want it because everyone else has it,
00:40:28.720
which by the way, from a child, as we saw in the Today Show report, asking children why they want the
00:40:36.380
cup, for a child to say, oh, I want it because all my friends have it, like that is understandable
00:40:39.880
from a child. Now, what I don't understand, first of all, is like how, what's the background? I always
00:40:47.980
want to know what's going on behind this. What's the behind the scenes story for how those two random
00:40:53.080
little girls ended up on the Today Show to talk about their cups? Like I assume a Today Show producer
00:40:59.620
would have had to contact those girls' mother and say, oh, we, can we have your kids on the show to
00:41:09.580
talk about their cups? So I don't, and I don't know why you'd agree to that as a parent, but in any,
00:41:16.140
in any event, it's one thing for children. It's another thing for adults, but this is what they're
00:41:21.560
doing and they're waiting in long lines for it. And there are, there are, there are a lot of videos
00:41:26.280
like this. So here's one of a very long line of people at Target waiting for, apparently it's
00:41:32.220
a, specifically a pink Stanley cup. They all want a, the pink cup is the, is the one that everyone
00:41:37.340
wants the most. Even guys, even, even, even men want the pink cup. And then an argument breaks out
00:41:43.260
when a group of young guys who, again, for some reason want a pink cup, uh, and they cut in line
00:41:49.000
and it starts an argument and let's watch this. They're like you. Yeah. Okay. Keep talking.
00:41:56.180
This is going to go mega viral. So these two got, these three cut in line behind the rest of these
00:42:03.380
people who are all here waiting. So I'm just going to protect the collectors and the people who
00:42:09.200
rightfully get here. Bye. So line etiquette. If you wait, it doesn't matter. She's going to bring
00:42:18.180
out the video proof and that's what's going to go on. So it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to
00:42:24.040
me. It doesn't matter to me. I'm just here to advocate for the people who are waiting.
00:42:27.820
You can tell me anything you want. It's good. We have a line judge here. No, I'm not a line judge.
00:42:33.820
I'm just, I'm just a decent human being. I'm a decent human being who waited. And I know I heard
00:42:41.060
this gal behind you wait a long time and she was unhappy. If you guys want to watch this jokester
00:42:47.060
on live, Ray is sunshine on Tik TOK. Uh, I hate everything about this. This is everything I hate
00:42:54.580
altogether. You got a bunch of mindless morons waiting in line for some consumer product threat.
00:43:03.820
Target. You got a guy cutting in line. You've got a woman taking a video bragging that it's going to
00:43:10.980
go mega viral. Everything. Now, normally I would say that line cutters are the scum of the earth
00:43:15.680
and deserve to have their voting rights taken away, except in this case, which they do. But in this
00:43:20.860
case, everyone in that line should have their voting rights taken away. Now I know that I say this
00:43:25.920
about a lot of different people that should have their voting rights because there are a lot of people
00:43:28.360
that should have their vote. There should only be like five people in this country that have the right
00:43:30.960
to vote at this point. Um, but, but at least we could start here. Like if I was in charge,
00:43:37.120
I would just show up anywhere. They're selling a Stanley cup, anybody in line. It's like, okay,
00:43:41.960
what's your name? You can't vote anymore. You're done. You're vanished from you'd never,
00:43:45.320
you're never allowed to vote again for the rest of your life. Cause you're a way like maybe
00:43:50.760
if there are two people, like if you're waiting in line and there's two people and you're waiting
00:43:55.300
in a line that's three people long, I could accept that. But you go to the end of that line,
00:44:03.060
but how do you, you walk in and you see that line. How do you not just immediately turn around? Oh,
00:44:06.300
the line's this long for a cup. I don't, I'm not gonna wait this line.
00:44:10.560
And then you say to yourself, okay, you know what? I'll do this. This will be my day. I'll spend my day
00:44:17.100
doing this. Um, and those cups, by the way, are all like 50 bucks. I looked it up unless you get
00:44:25.560
them on the secondary market for $10,000. So we've got inflation. We have people that are having
00:44:31.380
trouble making ends meet. Uh, the economy's in the toilet and yet people are also spending 50 bucks a
00:44:38.860
pop on a trendy cup. And the thing is, if you were to ask any of the people standing in that line,
00:44:47.880
you look at all the dead eyed and dazed people in any of these lines waiting for the Stanley cup,
00:44:54.060
none of them would be able to explain why they want that particular cup. If you went up to them
00:44:59.020
and said, what are you waiting in this line for? Oh, I want a Stanley cup. Why that cup? What do you
00:45:03.980
need that cup for? Uh, I don't know. It's a cup. They don't even seem excited about the cup. They're not
00:45:11.780
standing there with wild anticipation for their treasured cup. They're just there. It's almost
00:45:17.900
business-like as if they're required by law. It's like, you'd think that was a line at the DMV. You'd
00:45:23.100
think that people are required to be there by law, but they're not. They've decided to spend their day
00:45:29.240
doing this for a cup. What would a Stanley cup fan say if I were to, because this is a cup that has
00:45:35.960
fans. If I asked them to explain their fascination, what would they say? Oh, I like it because it can
00:45:43.720
hold liquids and it can keep my coffee hot. Yes. And you can go to Walmart and find literally hundreds
00:45:52.100
of cups that perform both of those functions just as well. In fact, the first function of holding
00:45:57.280
liquids, I got news for you. Every cup on earth can do that. Find any cup at all and it can hold your
00:46:05.720
liquids or it's not a cup by definition. And as far as keeping it warm or cold, that that's an insulated
00:46:12.720
cup and, uh, and any cup. Look, I know this is nothing new. These pointless trends to consumer
00:46:19.640
obsessions. Uh, I lived through the Beanie Baby craze of the nineties. Okay. So, uh, I know all
00:46:25.040
about it, but it is, uh, it is, it's just pathetic. Even so a cup is a cup. So get over it. That is
00:46:33.540
unless it's a leftist tears tumbler or a sweet baby gang insulated mug. Now these are real high
00:46:42.260
quality cups. Now these are cups that you should pay a premium for. And you will, if you go to
00:46:47.580
dailywire.com slash shop, which you should right now, let's get to what was Walsh wrong.
00:46:58.440
Julian says, when you got to the scientists pull data out of their asses, you have no idea how much
00:47:02.880
you embarrassed yourself. Please invite someone to show you, uh, to your show so you can debate on
00:47:08.160
the issues you can't understand. I think you should stick to fighting against LGBT insanity.
00:47:13.360
Uh, Julian, that's fair. You're right. I do apologize. I said that scientists are pulling,
00:47:17.460
uh, climate change data out of their asses. The, the, the, the, you know, alleged information that
00:47:22.780
says that the world is the warmest it's been in 125,000 years, which they couldn't possibly know.
00:47:29.040
But in fairness, I don't know for a fact that they extracted this information directly out of
00:47:34.100
their own ass. Uh, I don't know that that was, that was really my theory. I think I said that
00:47:38.960
that was my best guess. Um, but you're right. It's an inappropriate guess. And I'm sorry for that.
00:47:45.440
It's because it's possible that they got this information by digging directly into a literal
00:47:50.380
pile of so they could have gotten it that way. Um, so they got it out of their own ass. They got a
00:47:57.560
pile of, you know, there's a few different places, a few different sources of this kind of
00:48:01.580
information. Um, and, uh, I guess we didn't, we just don't know for sure, but if I had an expert,
00:48:07.100
if I was able to ask an expert, I would certainly ask them that question. Uh, let's see. Matt doesn't
00:48:13.940
realize that in most discussions, he's the random guy, the boyfriend's friend who brings zero expertise
00:48:19.760
and training to the table. He gets that the boyfriend's friend should be easily beaten,
00:48:24.560
but doesn't see how easily beaten he is by experts. First of all, what do you mean beaten?
00:48:31.240
Like beaten in what way? What's, what's the competition? When I offer my perspective and
00:48:38.380
opinion about topics, uh, what, what competition am I in? And also it's interesting that whatever
00:48:48.380
topic I'm talking about, um, and you said, well, you should have an opinion about that unless you're
00:48:53.880
an expert. I can pretty much guarantee that you yourself have an opinion on that topic and are
00:49:00.740
more than willing to share it with anyone. So you can do it, but other people can't unless they're
00:49:05.100
a quote unquote expert. In fact, even your opinion that only the experts should talk about that,
00:49:09.580
that is also an opinion that I could argue you don't have the expertise to share.
00:49:15.920
Um, but of course the, the biggest problem is that when you talk about experts these days,
00:49:20.520
uh, you know, I wish that meant something I do. I wish that saying the word expert had some meaning
00:49:29.940
and some weight behind it, but it just doesn't because when you have the quote unquote experts
00:49:34.120
claiming that they can, for example, read a tree ring and tell you exactly what the temperature was
00:49:40.740
on, uh, July 12th, uh, 45,000 BC, like when the experts are saying that means you can't trust
00:49:48.500
them. And when the experts are telling you that men can have babies and so on, uh, it just means
00:49:52.840
that, uh, the experts don't really mean anything anymore. Finally, Jen says, I did not do track
00:49:57.440
and field in high school for two years in a row. I was the fastest person in my high school. Even the
00:50:02.980
guys who did track and field in football, stop acting like a woman can't possibly be better at a
00:50:07.300
sport. No, you weren't Jen. That no, you weren't that fact. That's not true. Yeah, sure. You were
00:50:13.900
the, you were some rent. You didn't even run track. You were a girl in high school and you could beat
00:50:18.820
every male athlete in your, did, did they all race you? You didn't even run track. How do you know
00:50:24.700
that you're the fastest? Did they all line? Did you have some kind of school wide race with every
00:50:28.700
single, uh, boy in the school and you beat them all? Is that how it worked?
00:50:33.320
Uh, now look, Jen, I, I, I never said that a woman can't possibly be better at a sport.
00:50:42.300
Of course a woman can be better. What do you mean better at it? Like a woman
00:50:45.340
can be better than someone else in a sport. A woman could even be better than a man in a sport.
00:50:51.540
Serena Williams, uh, would beat me in tennis. It wouldn't even be close. I've never played tennis
00:50:58.500
in my life. I've never watched it. I don't even know how to play. Uh, so anyone, I mean,
00:51:03.300
a 12 year old who, who has played tennis in an organized way for a couple of years would beat
00:51:09.080
me easily. Uh, so yes, there's plenty of women that could beat plenty of other men. What we're
00:51:14.040
talking about though is on average, you know, on average, who is faster, who is stronger? Well,
00:51:20.320
there's just nothing to talk about there. It's a fact that men on average are faster and stronger.
00:51:24.080
And when you look at, when you do a one-to-one comparison and you look at the top athletes
00:51:31.440
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You probably remember the alleged musical artist Lil Nas X, real name Montero Lamar Hill. He came on to
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the scene five years ago, marketing himself primarily to young children performing at
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elementary schools and singing duets with Elmo. Then after going out of his way to amass this
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audience of minors, Hill switched course dramatically and came out as gay and then started releasing
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ridiculously vulgar and graphically sexual songs and videos. Only a year after dancing on stage with
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the Sesame Street gang, Hill put out a music video where he performs a lap dance on Satan. So that kind of
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gives you an idea of the pivot here. There is of course nothing especially new and certainly nothing
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interesting about a pop star who makes obscene and deviant and stupid music, but Hill set himself
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apart as an especially creepy predatory scumbag by taking the time to lure in an audience of
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elementary age children before making the pivot to the obscene and deviant and stupid stuff. Well,
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I should amend that, I guess, because his original single, Old Town Road, was definitely extremely
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deviant or obscene. He saved that rebrand for later. And now Lil Nas X has reemerged, promising
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a new single that will be released on Friday titled J Christ. As you've already predicted, given the
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title, Hill is going the sacrilege route this time around as he desperately begs for our attention.
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In the lead up to his crappy song coming out, he's put out a bunch of blasphemous images and promos.
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In one ad, he is seen crucified on a cross. Here's what that looks like.
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So there's that. In another, he is again dressed as Jesus while scarfing down the Eucharist and
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taking shots of communion wine. And then once again, he's on the cross, as you can see in this
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promo image where he's on a cross being hoisted up. Don't worry, though, as the media insists,
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Lil Nas X is not trying to make a mockery of Jesus. Just because he's mocking Jesus doesn't mean he's
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trying to make a mockery of Jesus, you see. People.com reports, Lil Nas X is leaning back
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into biblical imagery for his new era. On Monday, the Grammy winner unveiled the cover artwork
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for his upcoming single, J Christ, featuring himself resembling Jesus on a cross,
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shortly before clarifying he's not looking to offend any religious group with the photo.
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Quote, my new single is dedicated to the man who had the greatest comeback of all time,
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wrote Lil Nas X, 24 on X, alongside the J Christ cover image and announcement.
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The Old Town Road performer then quoted a previous post claiming that his upcoming single features
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a very beloved pop star and said it was God. After reposting some fans' tweets expressing
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excitement for his new music, Lil Nas X took to the social media platform once again, less than an
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hour after sharing the J Christ single cover, to clarify his motive. The crazy thing is nowhere in
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the picture is a mockery of Jesus. He wrote, Jesus's image is used throughout history and people's art
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all over the world. Lil Nas X continued, I'm not making fun of S. Y'all just got to keep trying
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to gatekeep a religion that was here before any of us were even born. Shut the F up.
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Well, yes, it's true. Jesus has been depicted in art for hundreds of years, but historically,
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he was depicted in a way meant to venerate and glorify him. There was a lot of Jesus-related art
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being produced in Europe in the 14th century, for example. But here's the thing. If you went back in
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time and showed people an image of yourself on the cross in 14th century Europe, or you showed
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yourself pounding shots of communion wine, well, you're going to have to explain that to the
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Inquisition, and it's probably not going to go well for you. And that's because this is obviously
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meant to ridicule Christianity and blaspheme Christ. And that's why, you know, when I say that
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it won't go well for you, I mean that you'll be burned at the stake, just to be clear.
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But Hill, as usual, even though we don't have an Inquisition these days, lacks the courage to
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stand by his own provocations. He's a coward along with being a sacrilegious degenerate,
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and so he always does these things with a little bit of a wink and a nod and a little bit of a,
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well, I didn't really mean it offensively. Now, speaking of cowardice, that's the first point that
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many people make about this sort of thing. The first thing you can't help but notice is that
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whenever one of these pitiful attention whores decides to grasp for relevance by blaspheming
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a religion, they always choose the same religion. You know, if you get all of your information about
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the world from Hollywood films and pop music, you might come to the conclusion that there's only one
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religion that exists on the entire planet, because there's only one that attracts their mockery and
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derision. But as it turns out, there are many other religions, including ones with billions of
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adherents. Yet these spineless frauds who want to be seen as bold and transgressive are very careful
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to only transgress the one world religion that you can get away with transgressing,
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the one you're allowed to disrespect while still being celebrated in the mainstream and accepted by
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our cultural elites and everything else. You know, there's one religious group that you are allowed
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to offend without suffering any consequence whatsoever. And these brave and daring artists
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are very careful to stay safely inside that particular box. Why is that? Well, first, because
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people like Hill are, again, fraudulent cowards. They want to build a transgressive brand without doing
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or saying anything that actually is transgressive in our culture. You know, I'm not sure there's much
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value in being shocking and offensive just for the sake of being shocking and offensive, but I know
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for sure that there's absolutely zero value in pretending to being shocking and offensive while
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studiously avoiding doing anything that our society actually deems shocking and offensive. You know,
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it's one thing to be a shock jock. It's another thing to be a neutered, ball-less little puppy
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pretending to be a shock jock. And that's the category that Lil Nas X falls into. But I must admit,
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we as Christians are not blameless here. The other reason that Christianity is the only mockable
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religion is that we have allowed it to be the only mockable religion. You know, Hill will dress up like
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Jesus and pretend to be crucified, making a parody out of our most sacred image. But we all know
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that he would never in a million years even consider dressing up like Muhammad, for example.
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And why is that? Well, that's because Muslims simply will not tolerate that sort of disrespect.
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They just won't tolerate it. And that's why it doesn't happen. And there was a time many centuries
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ago when Christians wouldn't tolerate it either. But then Christianity in the West became infected
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with the disease of liberalism. And most of our leaders started preaching that tolerance is our
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greatest virtue. Never mind the fact that Jesus Christ himself never once called us to be tolerant,
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never talked about it. And in fact, demonstrated forceful, even violent intolerance when he drove the
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money changers out of the temple with a whip. But that story, like so many others in both the old and
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New Testament, isn't mentioned very often by our priests and pastors. Instead, they preach about
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some new, modern, totally invented version of Jesus who, from the way they tell it, would likely be a
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corporate DEI administrator if he was walking the earth today. We have become a weak and impotent
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church that tolerates ridicule. And so that's exactly what we get. But whatever the reason for this
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dynamic, the fact is that there is nothing provocative or new or bold or interesting about
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somebody making fun of Christianity or engaging in anti-Christian sacrilege. Pop stars have been doing
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that for 40 years. Marilyn Manson was portraying himself as crucified back in the 90s. Modern artists
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were submerging crucifixes in tanks of urine in the 80s. You're not being subversive with this stuff.
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You're just jumping on a bandwagon that's been chugging along for decades.
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Now, it may be blasphemous and objectionable, but it's also played out and boring. And that's
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where we're left in our culture of decadence. These people have been trying to shock us with
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the same tired routine since the Reagan administration. A guy like Lil Nas X, he has no
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musical ability to speak of, no artistic integrity, no skill or talent of any kind. And so he relies on
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empty provocation. But even his provocations are trite and derivative. We're not shocked anymore by
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the profane and the vulgar, because we've seen it a million times where we are swimming in this sewage
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every day of our lives. He's just adding another bucket and no one even notices anymore.
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And that is why Lil Nas X is again today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for
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watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.