Ep. 1488 - Why We Should Stop Apologizing for Our History
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On today's show, we'll dive deeper into the utterly dystopian policies being put in place all over the world in the name of so-called "Indigenous Rights." Also, the Biden regime has decided to leave Trump a nice gift for his first day in office, and that gift is World War III. The Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight played out exactly as I said it would. We ll talk about the lessons we can learn from that sad spectacle, and a writer for Variety is very personally hurt and offended that we submitted our film, "Am I Racist?" for Oscar consideration. All that and more, coming up today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we'll dive deeper into the utterly dystopian policies being put in
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place all over the world in the name of so-called indigenous rights. Also, the Biden regime has
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decided to leave Trump a nice gift for his first day in office, and that gift is World War III.
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The Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight played out exactly as I said it would. We'll talk about
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the lessons we can learn from that sad spectacle. And a writer for Variety is very personally hurt
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and offended that we submitted our film, Am I Racist, for Academy Awards consideration.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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with my own savings. And you can too. That's Walsh to 989898. Text now. On the rare occasions that I
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wade into the political situation of a foreign country, I inevitably receive a lot of very impassioned
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feedback from the locals. It's especially true when the country is relatively small. Discussing
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political developments in a tiny, out-of-the-way country is a bit like talking about, say, anime or the
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video game industry. Ordinarily, it doesn't take long until I'm swarmed with people who insist that
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I'm in way over my head. I don't know what I'm talking about. After all, I'm a podcast host in
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Tennessee talking about some country thousands of miles away. They're the ones who are actually
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living through whatever nightmare I'm describing. So naturally, they can probably pick me apart on some
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of the finer details if they want to. And that's why I was surprised to see the reaction after my
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commentary on New Zealand on Friday. It wasn't what I was expecting. In case you missed it,
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on Friday, I discussed the outbreak of a primal Stone Age war chant on the floor of New Zealand's
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parliament. Here's a mercifully short clip of the chant, if you missed it, which is all over
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Now, the lawmakers in that clip, who identify as Maori, the allegedly indigenous people of New
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Zealand, were furious about a bill that was introduced by a politician named David Seymour.
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The bill had a pretty simple premise that should have been completely uncontroversial. It would restore
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equal rights to everybody living in New Zealand. On Friday, I pointed out that these supposedly
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indigenous lawmakers are a shining example of why it's a bad idea to kowtow to any demographic group,
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particularly one with a violent and brutal history like the Maoris. Even if you spend decades showering
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them with reparations and affirmative action, as New Zealand has, they will still act like petulant
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children. Giving them free stuff only emboldens them further. They'll turn your government into a
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laughing stock as they demand even more privileges and handouts indefinitely. It's like a real life
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version of the children's book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, which has proven to be one of the most
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prophetic works of literature of our time, for my money. Now, what I didn't realize when I made these
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points is that actually the situation in New Zealand is even worse than I thought. It has deteriorated in
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ways that are actually difficult to comprehend if you live in the United States, even given our
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trajectory towards racial equity and DEI and so on. And as demonstrated by the comments I received,
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all of this is happening to the dismay and bewilderment of many people living in the country.
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But it has happened to them in the same way it's happening to alleged colonizers all over the world
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from Canada to Australia. This is a global problem that's getting much worse with each passing year.
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We're not just talking about reparations here, as unjust as reparations are.
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And we're not just talking about the denial of equal rights, as serious as that is. Those are
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abstract terms that paper over what's actually happening, which is truly disturbing. So here's
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just one example that somebody living in New Zealand sent in, in response to the commentary.
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This may be one of the most dystopian, vindictive policies you'll ever hear about. And it's the kind
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of thing that can happen when your government decides that indigenous rights or the rights of any special
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demographic group matter more than equal rights. So it turns out that without holding any kind of
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vote, New Zealand's public health system has decided to allow so-called Maori patients to skip ahead
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in the wait list for surgery. And solely because these patients identify as Maori instead of as
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colonizers, quote unquote, hospitals will give them preferential treatment for medical treatments.
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And this change happened in secret. It was only exposed when some reporters received a tip
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about what was going on. As the Guardian reports, quote, a new algorithm used in some New Zealand
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hospitals means Maori and Pacific patients for elective surgery will be pushed higher on waiting
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lists than those of other ethnicities with identical other factors like level of sickness, location,
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and time on a wait list. At this stage, it will only be applied to elective surgeries and not to
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emergencies. Now, last line is supposed to make this seem better somehow, but it doesn't.
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First of all, the fact that a surgery can be classified as elective doesn't mean it's not
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an important surgery. A hip replacement surgery, for example, which is necessary to alleviate
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extraordinary debilitating pain, is considered elective. So is gallbladder surgery. So elective surgeries
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are often a big deal. They're often medically necessary, even if they are classified as elective.
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And there's no universe in which someone's race should decide who gets access to them.
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Unless, of course, you just want white people to suffer for the sake of it, which is the idea here.
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On top of that, this is clearly a stepping stone to making race-based healthcare the norm across the
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board. If they're willing to delay an elective surgery for a white guy, why exactly wouldn't they
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delay his emergency surgery too? What exactly is the reason that wouldn't be acceptable? Nobody's
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explained that. And we know why. It's because that's coming next. Hospital administrators in
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New Zealand apparently thought that they could implement an algorithm like this without telling
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anyone. And once it was exposed, they weren't ashamed in any way. Instead, they doubled down
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on it. For example, a professor of public health at the University of Auckland gave this comment to
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The Guardian, quote, we've had these inequitable differences in health outcomes for decades,
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and it doesn't appear that we've been able to affect the changes that we want.
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If you don't make these courageous decisions, like introducing an ethnic dimension to the
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decision-making, we'll never make the changes that we want to make in terms of health outcomes.
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So to restate, he's saying it's courageous to introduce an ethnic dimension to the decision-making
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at a hospital. So that's either a quote from early 90s Rwanda or New Zealand today. Take your pick.
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Now, the thing with a surgery wait list is that it's a zero-sum game, obviously. When you give
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somebody a boost, you're hurting somebody else. So the solution is telling these Maori people to
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get in line and treat them like anybody else. Maybe they should have some self-respect instead of
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constantly freeloading and demanding special privileges. They don't need an equity adjuster
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that prevents a white guy from getting the surgery he needs. They need to take some responsibility
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for their own culture, and it's many problems. And if they're having unequal health outcomes,
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if Maori people are often more unhealthy than other people, which is the reasoning that they're
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giving for making this change, well, then maybe you should take responsibility, live a healthier
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lifestyle. But in New Zealand's media, which is mostly controlled by the government, the equity
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adjuster is being portrayed as a positive development. The Maori are happy about it, we're told.
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The equity adjuster waitlist tool, and it's being used to prioritise patients for non-urgent
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surgeries in Auckland. And it takes into account a range of factors. So including clinical needs,
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so how sick a person is, as well as their socioeconomic status, where they live, whether they're in a
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rural location or in a city, and also their ethnicity. So it's sort of like a point system.
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And within this system, people of Pacific Islander and Maori heritage are awarded an additional point
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based on their ethnic background. And that goes into the overall calculation of where they sit on the
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surgery waiting list. There are some people that have backed those comments, calling this policy
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discriminatory. But certainly, among Pacific Islanders that I've spoken to, they're very much
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in support of this policy and say that it's long overdue that something is done.
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Okay, well, that makes it okay. Yeah, the people that are being discriminated against
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say that it's discriminatory, which it is by definition. But it's okay, because the people
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that are getting the privilege are happy about it. Well, I talked to Pacific Islanders, and they said
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they're happy that they get to cut in front of the line and get the surgery first. So if they're happy
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about it, then what's the problem? Now, this is what those politicians who were doing the
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haka in parliament were upset about. They don't want this kind of overt anti-white racial
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discrimination to end because it benefits them. After all the billions of dollars in reparations
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payments and all the apologizing and land acknowledgements and flying the Maori flag,
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they still want to deny the colonizers, quote unquote, access to surgeries. This is why they're
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opposing a bill that would restore equal protection under the law. Now, from the comments I received,
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this is just one of about a million other examples of the indignities that people living
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in New Zealand have to deal with. One of them reads, quote, I work for a council in New Zealand.
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It's super racist. We have a whole team dedicated to grifting and apartheid. Our senior leadership
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team are all on board with the grift. It's disgusting. Another reads, it's horrendous here
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in New Zealand. I work for a government department. Before and after every meeting, we're required to say
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a Maori prayer. Regular cultural supervision is mandatory. Here's another quote. Matt is spot on.
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Here in New Zealand, we've apologized, pay compensation, seen privileging of the Maori perspective at all
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levels of government, media, academia, and bureaucracy for decades. It's never enough. It just leads to more
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and escalating demands. Now, it goes on and on and on. Many hundreds, thousands of comments really like that.
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Many people also pointed out that New Zealand has something called Maori electorates, which are
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basically DEI for the government. There are seven Maori electorates in New Zealand and 65 normal
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electorates. In the Maori electorates, only self-identifying Maori people can vote. That's
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how the woman who tore up that bill got into parliament. So they rigged the whole system to get
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these Maori in government. And the Maori turned around and turned the government into a laughingstock.
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Now, people made a few other important points in response to my commentary as well. One of them
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is that, you know, it's pretty much impossible to define who qualifies as Maori anymore, as you'd
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expect. They have the same Elizabeth Warren problem that we do. But maybe the most striking comments were
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the ones where people said that in New Zealand, you're not really allowed to be honest about any of
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this. One of the comments reads, quote, so refreshing in New Zealand, we can't mention this. Thanks,
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Matt, for making this clear to everybody. And here's another great video, Matt. Come down these
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ways and do a talk, please. If we explain New Zealand like this in New Zealand, we get labeled
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a racist. It's not racism. It's truth. David Seymour is part Maori. Now, there are hundreds
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of comments like this. In New Zealand, you're apparently not allowed to mock all of this madness
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and these Maori chants, as ridiculous as the chants are, by the way. You're not supposed to tell
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them to stop freeloading. You're not supposed to tell them even that they should be treated equally.
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Well, they should be given equal treatment as everybody else. You're not supposed to say that.
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And as unfortunate as that is for the people living in New Zealand, the truth is that the
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problem is much bigger than any one country. It's now endemic to the Western world. Exacting
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vengeance against the colonizers is now an explicit goal of public policy. And left-wing politicians are
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latching on to any pretext they can find in order to justify more of these crackdowns.
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A year ago, for example, I went into some detail about the mass graves hoax that's been unfolding
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in Canada. The idea was that ground-penetrating radar has supposedly found graves at various sites
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that were once occupied by Canada's residential schools. These were boarding schools that were
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funded by the Canadian government and run by Christian churches. And according to the Canadian
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media and Canadian politicians, the graves provided evidence that Indians endured horrible abuses at
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these schools to the point that Indian children were buried on site. Dozens of churches were promptly set on
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fire in Canada, which the country's prime minister said was an understandable response?
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Now, the problem is that to this day, none of this has panned out. They have not found a single
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confirmed grave site at any of these schools. All they have are suspicions, which always turn out
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to be false. In Kamloops, for example, we're told that, we were told that ground-penetrating radar had
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supposedly identified hundreds of unmarked graves. They also reportedly found the tooth of a juvenile
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nearby. But a year or so later, we learned that the tooth actually belonged to an animal
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and that the unmarked graves were really a septic field. Now, how has Canada's government responded to
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these revelations? You can probably guess. They're responding the way that they respond when you
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question the narrative on climate change. They're accusing you of denialism. In fact, members of
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Canada's parliament are proposing legislation that would make it illegal to tell the truth about the
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complete lack of unmarked graves at these residential schools. They want to label the truth about this
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subject as hate speech. Watch. There's a difference between free speech and hate speech. This MP already
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got the House of Commons to acknowledge genocide happened at residential schools. Now she wants parliament
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to legislate denialism as hate speech. That kind of speech is violent and re-traumatizes those who
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attended residential school who constantly have their experience of genocide left out for debate. But author
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Michelle Good, who wrote an award-winning book about residential schools, says Ottawa needs to take this new
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threat of denialism seriously. My mother watched her friend Lily hemorrhage to death from tuberculosis at the
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Onion Lake Residential School. We've known this. And so to have people respond to our lived experience
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as though it never happened is devastating. Good says unless that rhetoric is outlawed, the country will never be able to
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achieve meaningful reconciliation. Well, she says lived experience, but maybe your lived experience didn't happen. Maybe it
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wasn't an experience at all, except in your fevered imagination. Again, the point here is to provide a pretext for a wave of
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anti-Christian violence and ultimately destroy Canada as a Western country. That's their only goal. And you can see it everywhere in
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Canada. For example, the country recently implemented indigenous sentencing circles for serious crimes, including assault and
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theft. This is where instead of a judge sentencing someone, they sit in a circle and talk about how tough life must be for the
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Whether you've been to court or not, you can probably still picture it. That wooden paneled courtroom with a judge sitting up high,
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looking down and delivering a sentence. But for the first time, this courthouse was host to an indigenous proceeding.
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And it's the subject of a new documentary. It's so powerful that they're owning it. So if we can help heal the victim and
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heal the offender, then all of a sudden we can work towards solution. It's called a sentencing circle where an
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indigenous offender who has pled guilty joins their victim, a judge, lawyers, police officers and community members
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impacted all sitting at the same level discussing the crime and how to address it. I spoke with circle keepers,
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Ramona Cardinal and Stacey Harrison from Saddle Lake.
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It's like, how do we address the issue? The First Nations people only make up 8% of the population in
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Canada. And yet we have an 85% population when it comes to crime and courts and in the jail system. So
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Not shunning shame on them or being punitive. We are simply trying to get to the truth to help them
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We get creative with some of our recommendations like, yeah, go and cut wood for an elder, go,
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you know, go shovel their sidewalks and stuff like that, just so they have some ownership.
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So the indigenous activist there says, if I had, if I remember the number correctly,
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he said 8%, only 8% of the country is indigenous, so-called indigenous. Yet, did he say 85%?
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They make up 85% of the criminals or something. Whatever the actual number is. And then he says,
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well, what's wrong with this picture? Yeah, a lot is wrong with it. Turns out the indigenous people
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are committing a lot of crimes. That's what's wrong with it. Why are your people committing so
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many crimes? Maybe they should stop doing that. Like you have a problem in your community. You need
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to turn, you need to turn your gaze back at yourself and ask yourself why that's happening.
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Oh, but we can't do that. No, no, indigenous people, they have no problems of their own. I mean,
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they don't do anything. They never do anything wrong. They can't possibly do anything wrong.
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Everything that happens to them, anything they do, actually, anything they do is actually the
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fault of somebody else. And as the video continues, they go on to claim that actually these
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sentencing circles are even harsher than Canada's normal court system. And actually, unfortunately
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for Canadians, that might be true. Even outside of these sentencing circles, traditional courts in
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Canada are allowing so-called indigenous people to commit crimes with impunity. Recently in Canada,
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for example, a man slashed the throat of a complete stranger on the train. And the victim was 65 years
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old and the assailant very severely, actually nearly severed the artery on his neck. But the judge
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decided that sending the perpetrator to federal prison would be a bad idea. Why? Well, quoting
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from the Calgary Herald, quote, the judge said the generational trauma European society has caused to
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indigenous communities had to be addressed. Quote, the history of colonialism has to be taken into
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account, he said. Therefore, the stabber received a sentence of less than two years in a provincial jail.
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Yes, the history of colonialism and generational trauma have to be taken into account when you're
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dealing with somebody who tries to murder a guy on the train. Maybe it's okay to stab random white
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people. That's the message they're sending when they refuse to throw this criminal in prison for
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the rest of his life. Yeah, this kind of sentencing is happening all over the place. In Australia,
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the judges are allowing criminals to put on performances in the courtroom before they're allowed to go free.
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As the Knightley reports, quote, a New South Wales district court judge invited a teenage criminal
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appearing before her to be sentenced over violent home invasions to give a welcome to the country in
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the middle of her courtroom. The 17-year-old teen had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the
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homes of a 92-year-old and an 88-year-old woman who he also admitted to sexually touching. The elderly
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women were left traumatized. A welcome to the country usually occurs at the beginning of a formal event
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and can take many forms, including singing, dancing, smoking ceremonies, and or a speech.
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It's performed by traditional owners or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have been
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given permission from traditional owners to welcome visitors to their country.
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So the judge lets this guy do a fun little dance and then releases him on parole after
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sentencing him as a child. This is a 17-year-old who sexually touched, quote, unquote, otherwise known as
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sexually assaulted elderly women. And instead of throwing him in prison for the rest of his life,
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he gets to effectively become an officer of the court and perform some ceremony to make a mockery
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of the entire judicial system. And then he walks free. Now, the point of all this couldn't be any
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clearer. Last year, there was a referendum in Australia called the Indigenous Voice Referendum.
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It would have modified Australia's constitution in order to create more carve-outs for so-called
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indigenous people. The referendum failed, thankfully, in part because its backers were so explicit about
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what they were attempting. A professor named Marsha Langton, for example, stated, quote,
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people who are opposing the voice are saying that we're destroying the fabric of their sacred
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constitution. Yes, that's right. That's exactly what we're doing. Now, pretty much anywhere you look
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in Australia in day-to-day life, you can see how this strategy is being implemented. They even do land
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acknowledgments on buses in Australia to send the message that Australians don't actually own their land.
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Owners of NARM, also known as Melbourne, we pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging,
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and acknowledge that sovereignty of the land we know as Australia has never been ceded.
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The land was never ceded. Yeah, but you know what? It was taken. It was conquered. That's the way it goes
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when it's conquered. You don't get to sit there and say, yeah, but we didn't cede it. That's how
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conquering works. And you should know that because if you're an indigenous person, then your ancestors
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did quite a lot of conquering themselves. And so that's the game. That's the way it goes.
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Now, just like in New Zealand, all of this deference doesn't accomplish anything. It's never
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enough. The indigenous folks just keep coming up with more and more demands, which usually entails
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giving them more and more money. And as one Australian politician pointed out recently,
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it's not clear exactly where that money is going. Australia even set up something called the National
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Indigenous Australians Agency with the goal of advancing reconciliation. And now billions of
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dollars are, of course, unaccounted for. Watch. For the 2022-23 financial year, the National
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Indigenous Australians Agency, the NIAA, total resourcing was $4.5 billion on programs. The results,
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rank failure. Where did the money go? The closing the gap annual report is clear. A total failure in
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closing the gap. Only four of 17 targets met or goals achieved, and some gaps actually worsening.
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Now, I'm not going to play the guy's full speech, but he goes on to draw the wrong lesson from all
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this. He points out that the indigenous agency is embezzling money, but his solution is to give the
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money to indigenous people directly. In other words, even as Australian politicians point out the obvious
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fraud of reconciliation, they still want to participate in it. They still want to pay for
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the alleged sins of their ancestors. They still agree with the underlying premise that colonization
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was a horrific evil that we have to make amends for. But that isn't true. European colonization has
00:24:46.880
been, on balance, a force for good in the world. If you don't believe that, try comparing the life
00:24:53.740
expectancy of indigenous Australians, Canadians, or New Zealanders pre-colonization to what they
00:24:58.980
are now. They're doing a lot better today than they were hundreds of years ago by pretty much any
00:25:03.760
metric. They're not bartering with severed heads anymore, New Zealand, or eating the flesh of their
00:25:08.820
enemies. That's progress. They're using money for commerce now rather than severed heads. Money that
00:25:15.800
often they don't even have to earn. And instead of doing their haka dance half naked outside of
00:25:20.420
their mud huts, they're doing it in the halls of parliament. That's what the kids call a glow-up,
00:25:25.540
isn't it? Now, the only way to move past this endless guilt is to recognize that the so-called
00:25:31.660
colonizers never committed any unique acts of evil. Whatever alleged atrocities they can be charged
00:25:41.400
with, slavery, torture, mass murder, etc., were committed often in much more brutal forms by the
00:25:47.480
natives that they conquered. But there are many unique blessings that colonization has brought to
00:25:52.720
the world. That list would include pretty much every conceivable thing that makes our lives enjoyable
00:25:57.600
and worth living today. You name it, you have colonization to thank for that. It's time for us to
00:26:05.980
start taking pride in our history and speaking up to defend our ancestors. I mean, there's a crazy
00:26:14.640
thought. We also have to start being honest about these native cultures that are so often romanticized
00:26:20.540
and idealized. These were not peaceful people living in harmony with each other in nature. The real
00:26:26.340
world did not bear any resemblance to Disney's Pocahontas. In reality, these were violent, brutal,
00:26:33.780
primitive conquerors who were in turn conquered by a superior civilization that was, at the absolutely
00:26:41.160
very worst, just as brutal as their own, though often they were downright gentle and progressive
00:26:46.960
by comparison. All across the world, both sides slaughtered and enslaved. That's the way it happened
00:26:53.960
everywhere in the world among all people. But only one side had a propensity to eat their captives or
00:27:01.280
rip their still beating hearts out of their chests. And it wasn't the Europeans doing that, I can tell
00:27:06.200
you that. I've gone through all these examples to make the point, as I did on Friday, that we need to
00:27:11.460
avoid a similar regression here. We're already seeing signs of it happening, of course. Kamala Harris openly
00:27:17.220
proposed allocating disaster relief on the basis of equity. During the lockdowns, government scientists
00:27:22.320
floated the idea of giving certain demographic groups preferential access to the COVID shot. Not that that
00:27:28.640
would have actually been much of a blessing, but they thought that it was. The Biden-Harris
00:27:33.260
administration provided various benefits, including farm aid to certain people on the basis of skin
00:27:37.740
color and so on. But as bad as things have become, this cancer hasn't yet metastasized here to the
00:27:45.320
extent that it has across the world in places like Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. And one of the
00:27:50.760
top priorities of the incoming Trump administration should be to ensure that it never does.
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exactly what it sounds like and what it looks like. The Biden administration is trying to start World
00:30:02.260
War III on its way out the door. So you know all that stuff. This is a really important point because
00:30:08.580
all that stuff that you, that we've heard about a peaceful transfer of power, you know, and they're
00:30:16.920
bragging about, it's the same, Kamala Harris did this in her concession speech and we've heard it from
00:30:22.800
Biden and some of the leftist media that, well, we're, we, we believe, on our side, we believe in a
00:30:30.920
peaceful transfer of power. Well, that's total nonsense, of course. Now, sure, they're not going
00:30:37.780
to riot outside of the Capitol building. Maybe they will, but it's, it, that remains to be seen. But
00:30:44.020
even if, even if they don't, they are going to do everything they can to spark a global war
00:30:51.940
between a bunch of nuclear armed superpowers. Okay, that's, I'll take the riot at the Capitol over that
00:30:58.660
personally. I don't know about you. So this is their peaceful transfer of power. The peaceful
00:31:05.720
transfer involves doing something that could kill tens of millions of people. So we've heard of
00:31:13.600
mostly peaceful riots and now we have a mostly peaceful nuclear war is where we're headed. And
00:31:19.880
that's what they're trying to start. And you know, there is of course no excuse for this administration
00:31:25.840
to put in place any significant changes in policy, given that they won't be around in two months.
00:31:34.660
Part of the peaceful transfer, that's why we call it a transfer. You're transferring the power. And
00:31:39.640
that means that you should be gearing up to hand off the reins to the next guy, not doing stuff at the
00:31:45.040
last minute that will intentionally make it harder for the next guy. If you're doing that, that's not a
00:31:51.940
peaceful transfer of power. That's not what that's supposed to be. But, and that's if you're making
00:31:57.520
any big change to policy, but a change in policy that has enormous global implications. I mean, that's
00:32:06.460
just evil. You know, that, that it's evil. Um, and why are they doing it? Like why do that right
00:32:19.620
now? You have two months left in office. And, uh, when I say, and you know, I'm not even talking
00:32:25.780
about Biden personally, cause we know that he's gone, but his, his, the, the, the, um, his handlers,
00:32:31.040
the, the, the, the puppeteers, uh, why do this right now? Two months out. Well, I think there
00:32:39.200
are two reasons. And one, the biggest one is the most obvious one is that they're trying to screw
00:32:44.880
Trump over. They're trying to, you know, Trump has promised a more peaceful world when he's in office,
00:32:51.620
like we had in his first term. So their idea is to make sure that, that, that promise can't be kept
00:32:57.620
by starting world war three before he even gets in office and even better for them. And this is why
00:33:04.000
they're waiting until now to do it. Even better for them is to set world war three in motion,
00:33:10.600
right? To, to knock over the domino, but then leave before any kind of official war sort of breaks
00:33:20.040
out, but you've set it in motion, maybe, uh, irreparably, but we won't actually be in the
00:33:27.020
middle of world war three until Trump's been in office for five months. And then they could turn
00:33:31.320
around and say, yes, you see, this is all his fault. Um, and that's what, I mean, when I say
00:33:42.900
they're evil, this is the level of evil that we're talking about. They will happily get a hundred million
00:33:48.860
people killed for the sake of hurting Trump. I mean, a world, world war three, actual world war
00:33:58.460
three, you're talking about tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people dying
00:34:01.320
most likely. And they, they would happily do that. They would like, there's no price. They wouldn't
00:34:07.000
pay. If you came to them and said, would you, you know, what if in order to ruin Trump's second
00:34:13.400
term, you had to kill 3 billion people? What do you get? What if you had to kill half of the globe?
00:34:18.660
They wouldn't even have to think about it. It wouldn't be worth thinking about.
00:34:22.960
That's how evil these people are. They just, they have, they don't value human life. They don't care
00:34:27.160
about human life and, um, whatever it takes to advance their political, you know, cause. Um,
00:34:36.920
and then on top of it, I think that this is really, this is like the secondary benefit is that they're
00:34:42.160
trying to help their friends in the defense industry. Um, they want to make sure that, you know,
00:34:49.600
the cash cow is intact. Uh, they want to keep the money and the weapons flowing. Um, and so that,
00:34:59.560
that's the other thing too. So there's two, two big reasons. Um, one thing that they're certainly
00:35:06.000
not trying to do is calm tensions, prevent more people from dying, you know, bring about any kind
00:35:12.980
of peaceful, like they're obviously not trying to do that. And they haven't been doing that this whole
00:35:16.040
time. So it's just, I mean, my God, these people are absolute monsters, just total monsters.
00:35:29.240
Okay. Time for a quick update on Friday. We talked about the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight,
00:35:35.400
uh, which was set to happen that night. And I said that I was, if you watched on Friday,
00:35:40.200
you may remember, I said I was extremely confident that Jake Paul would win because Mike Tyson is too
00:35:46.440
old. And it's really as simple as that. Uh, he's almost 60 and 60 year old men don't win professional
00:35:53.360
boxing matches. Okay. That's all. Uh, that's it. He's going to lose. And I made the same prediction
00:35:59.460
on Twitter and, uh, I was roundly mocked and derided for it at the time. Lots of people claiming
00:36:05.420
that I don't know anything about boxing, which I don't, but I still knew that, that Mike Tyson would
00:36:11.360
lose and lose easily. Um, and of course he did, you know, that's the, if as I'm sure you heard
00:36:19.220
the fight happened and he lost, I mean, it was, um, I actually watched this debacle and I didn't
00:36:27.840
watch it cause I was expecting it to be any kind of real fight. Uh, I, I just wanted to see,
00:36:32.180
I, what I was hoping is that it would be an entertaining debacle, maybe at least.
00:36:37.120
And it wasn't even that actually turns out. And on top of that, Netflix had all these buffering
00:36:41.120
problems. And so you couldn't even see half the fight is a total disaster for Netflix, but, uh,
00:36:44.940
they're claiming it was the most viewed fight of all time, which it probably was. If, if you,
00:36:50.580
you know, you consider it in, in the past boxing was pay-per-view, you had to like call up and pay,
00:36:58.060
you know, call a phone number and pay for, um, pay-per-view, uh, pay-per-view event. And you
00:37:04.020
just had fewer people doing that than would watch something on Netflix. So they're claiming
00:37:06.840
most viewed boxing match of all time. One of the most viewed sporting events of all time of any,
00:37:12.820
of any sport. And it was a total, it was awful. It was just boring and terrible. And, um,
00:37:21.220
Tyson was totally dominated. It wasn't close. Uh, it went to a decision, but only because Jake
00:37:27.020
Paul clearly chose not to try to knock him out. Um, even, even at the end, like he stopped boxing and
00:37:35.460
sort of bowed in a, in a, in a, in a gesture of a goodwill and humility, bowed to Mike Tyson. Uh,
00:37:43.840
and yeah, which, which I thought was, I mean, it was a, it was a classy thing to do.
00:37:52.720
It also kind of, this is sort of a side note, but, uh, one thing that's come out of this fight
00:37:59.120
and the lead up to it is, uh, people just re a lot of people just really hate Jake Paul.
00:38:04.280
And I'll be honest, I haven't really followed. I haven't followed his career or his brother. I
00:38:07.700
don't, you know, I had nothing against them. I just haven't, I haven't followed their career at all.
00:38:11.960
Um, so I'm very much, uh, just looking from the outside at all this, but the, the amount of hate
00:38:18.480
that people have for this guy, it's, it's ridiculous. I mean, I was reading a couple of the,
00:38:23.120
I forget which outlet it was, but, uh, some major outlet that did an article about the, the fight
00:38:31.320
and the whole first paragraph is just this sort of like violent fantasy about punching Jake Paul
00:38:38.280
in the face and talking about what a punchable face he has and how badly the writer wanted to
00:38:43.400
see this guy get beat up. And I'm like, what is that? Okay. Is it just, and this gets printed
00:38:49.740
by a major publication. The whole point of the article is just, you really hate this one guy
00:38:54.400
and you want to see him get beat up, but he wasn't. And you're sad about it.
00:38:59.520
So I don't quite get that. I, you know, to be honest, everyone hates Jake Paul. I don't know.
00:39:04.720
I mean, it seems whatever he's, I don't, I don't get it. And then Mike Tyson is this totally beloved
00:39:09.900
figure. Everybody loves him. And it's like, and then if you ask anyone, well, what do you hate Jake
00:39:14.000
Paul? Why do you hate him so much? From what I've seen, they'll, they'll dig up like, well, you know,
00:39:18.640
he did this on his YouTube channel and look at these problematic posts that he's sent in the past
00:39:23.640
and look at all this stuff. Well, you know, Mike Tyson also has what we might call a bit of a
00:39:28.920
problematic past. Okay. Uh, so that doesn't count. And yet we hate this guy because he made YouTube
00:39:35.080
videos. He didn't like, I don't quite get it. But anyway, um, it was, uh, Mike Tyson, you know,
00:39:43.200
he looked 60 year old, 60 years old in the ring cause he is, or almost 60. Uh, he looks slow and
00:39:49.000
lethargic and weak and, uh, it was just really bad. So all that to say, I told you so. So I just
00:39:58.160
wanted to circle back. I want to make sure I took time out of the show to circle back around and say,
00:40:03.460
I told you so. Uh, and I want to say that because it's fun to say, but also because it's important.
00:40:08.620
Um, it's important that I say, I told you so it's very important. It's important. It's important
00:40:13.260
that the world knows that I did say it and that I did in fact tell you so.
00:40:18.840
And, and let me tell you something else. All you people don't try to claim now that you knew that
00:40:25.280
Tyson would lose and that nobody really believed that he would win. Cause I, you know, I have,
00:40:29.880
I have people telling me that on Twitter now. Cause of course, after the fight,
00:40:32.760
I immediately, I was waiting. Like, I'll tell you, I'll be honest. I had the tweet drafted
00:40:37.360
before the fight even started. I had to try. I had the quoting my prediction with told you so.
00:40:42.260
And I was like, ready. That's really the whole reason I watched the fight. Actually,
00:40:46.040
it was mainly that I just wanted to write, right at the moment it was over. I wanted to get that
00:40:51.000
told you so out there. Uh, cause I'm a very mature person. I'm a very mature person, but,
00:40:55.860
and then I, all these responses from people saying, well, we knew, what are you talking? We,
00:40:59.400
of course everyone, of course we knew he wouldn't win. We just really wanted him to win.
00:41:03.440
That's all we knew. This was, Oh, shut up. Don't please don't, don't tell me that a lot of people
00:41:10.940
legitimately thought that Tyson would win and we're legitimately angry that anyone would predict
00:41:17.460
otherwise. Okay. Um, not just thought he would win, but we're supremely arrogantly confident that
00:41:24.400
he would, uh, not only win, but win in dominating fashion. So don't, don't backtrack now. Don't try
00:41:34.820
to walk it back. Okay. Too late for that. Just, just own it, own it. You know, when you have a bad
00:41:43.280
take and you're wrong, you got to own it. I, I, I mean, I've never had a bad take that I've had to
00:41:49.220
own, but if I ever did, if I ever had a bad take ever in my life, I would own it.
00:41:55.560
And it really goes to show that, and this is actually the point aside from, I told you so,
00:42:01.160
um, the, the lesson, the moral at the end of the story is that it's basically what I said on Friday
00:42:08.360
that, that so many people in this country are totally delusional about the concept and reality
00:42:14.460
of aging. They just refuse to accept it. I mean, we really are a society that refuses to accept it.
00:42:22.540
Um, and that's how we end up with a government run by 97 year olds. It's how we end up with a
00:42:26.880
senile president. Uh, it's how we end up with a bunch of 50 year old women walking around who look
00:42:32.200
like the evil puppet from saw because of all the fillers and Botox and all that stuff. Um, it's how we
00:42:38.000
end up with Madonna, you know, still trying to be a sex symbol at the age of 65. And it's how you
00:42:44.380
end up with the tragic spectacle of a boxer, 30 years past his prime, stumbling around on the ring
00:42:52.600
and only escaping without getting knocked out because the other guy took pity on him.
00:42:59.300
All of this happens solely because we are a culture that refuses, refuses to just age with dignity.
00:43:06.420
Okay. A culture that refuses to be even mildly realistic about what aging means.
00:43:14.800
And, and, and part of that is, you know, and, and why is that happening? Like, like
00:43:20.740
why did, again, all the people that say, Oh, Mike Tyson, he, he could, he could still,
00:43:27.660
he could beat up any, it is, he hasn't lost a step. He hasn't lost this. But do you,
00:43:33.420
do you think he's literally magical? Do you think he has magic powers?
00:43:36.980
Everybody loses a step. Once you get your physical prime as a man is, you know, probably your mid to
00:43:45.960
late twenties. Now it doesn't mean that you have to be, uh, out of shape and that you have to,
00:43:52.240
you know, get fat and all that as you get older. It doesn't mean that you could still stay in good
00:43:55.700
shape, but your physical prime is in your mid, is your mid to late twenties.
00:44:02.000
And, uh, so if you're not there, you're not in your physical prime. I'm not anymore.
00:44:10.760
Again, doesn't mean I have to be fat. Doesn't mean I have to be out of shape,
00:44:14.280
but I'm not ever going to be, you know, it's like mid to late twenties was the, the most in shape
00:44:25.220
and strongest and fastest that you ever could be. Now it could be that in your mid, in your twenties,
00:44:31.000
you were a fat slob and that you didn't get your act together until later in life,
00:44:34.700
which means that in that case, you might end up being in better shape than you were in your twenties,
00:44:39.320
but you could have been an even better shape than you are now in your twenties. If you had taken
00:44:43.180
your health seriously back then. Um, and, uh, and that's fine. Okay. It doesn't even me saying this
00:44:49.940
now with the evidence of Mike, I'm still going to get comments from people saying, well, it's not
00:44:53.260
true. That's not true of everybody. Well, you don't, well, you don't, it's I, my grandfather,
00:44:58.000
he was, he could bench press with the best of them until he was 75. I just stop, please everybody.
00:45:06.020
It's fine. It's not an attack. Just to say that aging is real and that you start to physically,
00:45:12.260
you know, you, you start to slow down and you start to get, you get, you know, it's just,
00:45:16.960
it's not an attack. It's not an insult. It's just, it's just true. Like, am I attacking anyone or
00:45:23.840
being ageist? If I point out that you're not going to live to the age of 150? Is that, is that
00:45:30.460
mean? Is that ageist? Is that, no, it's just, you're not because you're a mortal person and there
00:45:38.260
are laws of biology and physics that come into play here and you, you can't get around them,
00:45:45.540
unfortunately. So let's just be, uh, that's all, let's all just be realistic about it.
00:45:54.980
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00:49:02.860
filmmakers need to know their place. They need to stay out on the fringes, out in their ghettos,
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away from polite society. And he made that perfectly clear in his piece in Variety titled,
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Matt Walsh is a hypocrite for submitting Am I Racist to the Oscars? Why are right-wingers seeking
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liberal validation? Now, that title may sound like some sort of intentional self-parody, but it's not.
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Well, it is self-parody, but not intentional. Clayton writes,
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in a twist as predictable as a Hollywood sequel, conservative media and alt-right commentators
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have made it their mission to ridicule the entertainment industry's award circuit.
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And it's an annual ritual from the Oscars to the Emmys to the Grammys. Commentators use YouTube
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podcasts and op-eds to denounce Hollywood as a cesspool of liberalism and a bubble of elite
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self-congratulation. Yet here's the irony. Many of those same voices who openly deride the industry
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quickly seek its validation when they enter its arena. Case in point, conservative media company
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The Daily Wire recently submitted the satirical documentary Am I Racist, featuring Matt Walsh,
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an anti-transgender commentator, for Oscar consideration. Oh my God, can you imagine
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Emilia Perez star Carla Sofia Gascon being forced to share the same air as him? Now you can imagine
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Clayton repeatedly fainting as he typed those words. He is horrified, scandalized. Here Clayton is
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unironically playing the role of like the stuffy snob in an 80s movie who strenuously objects to those
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troublemaking rascals coming around here where they don't belong. Who do they think they are? They
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shouldn't be here. This is downright improper. Improper, I say. You can see Clayton with the
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back of his hand against his forehead, face flushed with outrage, furiously fanning himself.
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He continues, though the film directed by Justin Folk has indeed found financial success,
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documentaries like Chuan Liu's Beijing 22 and Brett Morgan's David Bowie doc, Moonage Daydream,
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outperformed it globally, grossing $22 million and $13 million this decade, respectively.
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And it's worth keeping in mind that box office successes don't automatically translate to awards
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recognition. If it did, Marvel Studios would have countless best picture statues by now.
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The real story here is the apparent contradiction. Conservative voices denounce woke Hollywood
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while actively seeking its approval. Now, I don't mean to besmirch either of the movies he mentioned
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there. I'm sure, you know, they're fine films. I haven't seen them. But I will say that to begin
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with, neither of those movies came out in 2024, so they wouldn't be in the discussion for the Academy
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Award this year. So it's not clear why he even brought them up. Also, Beijing 2022 is a documentary
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about the Winter Olympics in Beijing. From what I can tell, it made exactly $0 in this country. Its
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whole gross came from China and Japan, which is what you'd expect. So comparing our domestic gross to
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the domestic gross of a Chinese movie in China is, in a word, stupid. Another word might be desperate.
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Meanwhile, Moonage Daydream, another movie that did not come out this year, grossed $4.2 million
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in this country. So we tripled its domestic total. It earned about $13.1 million worldwide when you add
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together the 40 other countries where it was theatrically released. So another way of putting it
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is that we did almost as much in one country as Moonage Daydream did in 40. So if Clayton is trying
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to prove how incredibly impressive our film's performance was, he's doing a great job. Reading
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on, quote, going down what can only be described as the dark web, I came across a video of Walsh's
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reaction to the Oscars when Bong Joon-ho's Parasite won Best Picture in 2020, the first non-English
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language film to achieve the honor. The day after the Oscars, Walsh posted a video titled
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The Incredible Heroism of Hollywood. Despite claiming he only spent 90 seconds watching the
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ceremony, he dedicated 30 minutes to critiquing a moment in which Sigourney Weaver declared,
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all women are superheroes. This line struck a nerve. Walsh dismissed it as utterly vacuous and
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meaningless and continued to probe his viewers with pointed questions such as, is Eileen Wuornos a
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superhero? By the way, when he says he went down what can only be described as the dark web,
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he means YouTube. You went to my YouTube channel, Clayton, okay? You weren't on some sort of
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dangerous journey into the unknown. It's called You Were On YouTube. Also, yeah, it is objectively very
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dumb to say that all women are superheroes. That would in fact mean that serial killers who happen
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to be women are superheroes. Now, maybe Clayton is confused by this point because he has no problem
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with serial killers, especially ones who kill men. So I'll put it in terms that might get the point
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across to somebody like him. If all women are superheroes, Clayton, that means that Melania
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Trump is a superhero. Now, you certainly can't agree with that, can you? Sure, a female serial killer
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might be a superhero, but a female with the last name Trump? Now, for that, you certainly would make an
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exception, which means you and I both agree that all women are not superheroes. Although, I'm not sure what
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any of this has to do with the subject at hand. So you seem to be arguing that I'm a hypocrite for
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submitting my hit film for Oscar consideration since I once mocked an acceptance speech given by
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somebody at the Oscars? I mean, is that the standard now? Must every potential Oscar nominee not only
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praise the Oscars, but also praise every single thing ever done or said at the Oscars? I mean, it's
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really embarrassing. I'm truly embarrassed for you, Clayton. One of us has to be, because I know you've long
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since lost your capacity for shame. Continuing, quote, but now the Daily Wire, co-founded by Ben
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Shapiro, is also making strides in film production despite spending years lambasting Hollywood as a
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liberal echo chamber. But we will see them submit their films to various industry competitions,
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seemingly oblivious to the hypocrisy of seeking approval from an industry they claim to despise.
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I can't wait for the year they throw a temper tantrum, losing the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
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Their underlying message seems to be, these awards mean nothing unless I can win one.
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Now, before I respond to that, I'm going to backtrack and read a line from earlier in the
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article that I skipped because it's all part of the same theme here in this portion of the article.
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He said, quote, so which is it? Do the Oscars truly lack relevance or do they need to validate
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right-wing work to prove its legitimacy? Well, yeah, Clayton, those are indeed the options.
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The Oscars are either completely irrelevant or they must be at least willing to, as you put it,
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validate work produced by conservatives. So the Academy Awards are either dedicated to
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recognizing and awarding the best and most important films of the year, regardless of the
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politics of the people who make them, or the Academy Awards are an insular left-wing ceremony
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where films are not recognized based on their merits, but rather on the ideological conformity of
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the filmmakers. And in the latter case, yeah, they would certainly be irrelevant.
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So the actual irony here is that you are taking exception to the claim that the Academy Awards
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have a liberal bias while at the same time admitting that they do. So you are at once
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mocking conservatives who say that Hollywood discriminates based on politics and simultaneously
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saying that conservatives need to stay the hell out of Hollywood because we don't belong there.
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Now, if you thought that Clayton had not yet sufficiently made the point that he is a
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pretentious dork, well, wait until you hear how he wraps all this up. Quote,
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And as award season progresses, if or when M.I. Racist doesn't receive the recognition its backers
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believe it deserves or doesn't appear on Variety's inevitable snubs and surprises list, the outcry will
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likely follow the same script. In an era where conservatives champion the rhetoric of former
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President Donald Trump, perhaps they remember his famous line, when you're a star, they let you do
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it. You can do anything. Sorry, baby, you're not a star. Now, first of all, I hate to have to remind
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you about this, Clayton, but and I know that it's traumatic for you, but he's not just your former
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president. He's also your future president. Now, second, this finally brings us to the crux of the
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matter, doesn't it? You spend the whole article claiming that I'm a hypocrite for thinking that my
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successful film ought to be treated like any other successful film and taken into consideration at
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awards time. But your closing argument is that according to you, I'm not a quote star. Once again, what
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does that have to do with your thesis? The answer is nothing at all. It's just that it took you 10
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paragraphs to get to your real point. And your real point is that you want to be able to determine who
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the stars are. We aren't supposed to be able to do what we did. We aren't supposed to create a hit
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mainstream film from far outside of Hollywood without even so much as one mainstream film critic
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giving us a positive review or any review or even acknowledging our existence. Now, me, I've been to
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Hollywood, I think, once in my life as a tourist, and I hated it. It was pretty gross. I live with my
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wife and six kids out in the woods in Tennessee. I'm a podcaster. I never went to film school.
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I have no friends in the film industry. I don't know anyone. I have no contacts, no connections.
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I'm about as much of a Hollywood outsider as a person can possibly be. And yet, I starred in a
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film that is not only the top movie in its genre this decade, and not only one of the top 35 in its
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genre ever made, but is still attracting a huge audience on the Daily Wire platform.
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None of that is supposed to happen. But it did, Clayton. I know it makes you sad, but it did happen.
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And I'll tell you something else. It will happen again. See, the business is changing. Everything's
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changing. You're clinging on to the past, terrified that people like us will make people like you
00:59:09.840
totally irrelevant. And we will. That's just the way it is. Time to accept it. Maybe you should try
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keeping up with the changing times, Clayton. In the words of a woman who will never be president,
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let us become unburdened by what has been. And sorry, buddy, you're a has-been. Also, you are today
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canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you