The Matt Walsh Show - December 11, 2024


Ep. 1503 - Caitlin Clark Bends The Knee To The Left-Wing Racial Narrative


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Length

54 minutes

Words per Minute

174.88939

Word Count

9,473

Sentence Count

616

Misogynist Sentences

46

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, in a move that should surprise no one,
00:00:02.680 Caitlin Clark has officially bent the knee to the left-wing racial narrative.
00:00:06.780 Daniel Penny gives his first interview after his acquittal
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00:02:32.080 Here's a little case study that they probably won't be teaching
00:02:34.700 anytime soon in business school,
00:02:36.360 even though it's pretty eye-opening.
00:02:38.180 This was by far the best year the WNBA has ever had.
00:02:42.460 They set an all-time record for total television viewers at 54 million.
00:02:46.100 They set an all-time record for the number of telecasts that reached at least a million viewers.
00:02:50.100 They had their highest total attendance in more than two decades,
00:02:52.680 up roughly 50% from last year.
00:02:55.100 The All-Star game recorded its most fan votes in history at 10 million votes,
00:02:58.700 more than a 500% increase from last year.
00:03:02.100 The Indiana Fever, the team Caitlin Clark plays for,
00:03:04.900 set an all-time single-season record for attendance by a WNBA team.
00:03:08.940 The league saw a 350% year-over-year growth in subscriptions to their paid streaming service.
00:03:14.980 The league had more social media engagement, more sellout crowds,
00:03:18.400 more news coverage, more merchandise sales than ever before.
00:03:22.500 This was the kind of season that WNBA executives never imagined was even possible.
00:03:28.120 Now, given all these facts,
00:03:30.940 how much money do you think the WNBA made this year?
00:03:35.220 How much cash did this historic season actually bring in?
00:03:38.440 What kind of profit were they able to reap from all of this success?
00:03:42.760 You might remember that earlier in this year,
00:03:45.420 there were some estimates that maybe things weren't looking all that great.
00:03:50.080 And it turns out that now that the final numbers are in,
00:03:53.680 those estimates were very accurate.
00:03:55.560 In total, according to New York Post,
00:03:56.900 the WNBA lost $40 million this year in its best year on record.
00:04:03.600 They exceeded pretty much every metric in the book,
00:04:06.160 and they managed to earn negative $40 million.
00:04:11.240 This is a business that has never been profitable in its history,
00:04:14.480 and it's now abundantly clear that nothing can ever change that.
00:04:19.180 I mean, it is a fatally flawed concept
00:04:20.960 because the overwhelming majority of Americans
00:04:22.840 Americans have no interest in watching women play basketball.
00:04:27.060 Even when record numbers of Americans are interested,
00:04:30.660 it's still not that many.
00:04:33.700 And that's one of the many reasons it was illuminating
00:04:36.040 to read Caitlin Clark's recent front page article in Time magazine,
00:04:39.820 which is something that apparently still exists,
00:04:42.580 and which just named Clark their athlete of the year.
00:04:46.500 And this is an interview that includes
00:04:48.120 probably the single biggest backhanded compliment
00:04:50.940 that's ever been printed in the history of backhanded compliments.
00:04:54.420 And at the same time,
00:04:55.580 it includes Caitlin Clark's official capitulation
00:04:57.680 to the left's anti-white racial narrative,
00:05:00.400 which everyone should have seen coming a long time ago.
00:05:03.060 But here's the part that I'm talking about
00:05:04.500 straight from Time magazine.
00:05:05.640 It says this, quote,
00:05:07.060 Clark is cognizant of the racial underpinnings of her stardom.
00:05:11.280 I want to say I've earned every single thing,
00:05:13.180 but as a white person, there is privilege, says Clark.
00:05:15.560 A lot of those players in the league
00:05:17.000 that have been really good have been black players.
00:05:19.300 This league has kind of been built on them.
00:05:22.140 The more we can appreciate that,
00:05:23.960 highlight that, talk about that,
00:05:25.920 and then continue to have brands and companies
00:05:27.640 invest in those players that have made this league incredible,
00:05:30.480 I think it's very important.
00:05:31.820 I have to continue to try to change that.
00:05:34.240 The more we can elevate black women,
00:05:36.500 that's going to be a beautiful thing.
00:05:39.740 Okay, two things are happening here.
00:05:41.580 First of all, Clark is crediting black women
00:05:44.400 for building the WNBA.
00:05:46.720 Without black women, she says,
00:05:47.940 there is no WNBA,
00:05:49.100 and she apparently means that as a kind of a compliment,
00:05:51.820 even though in practical terms,
00:05:53.140 it's a bit like praising Bernie Madoff
00:05:55.000 for managing a successful asset management firm,
00:05:57.820 or Elizabeth Holmes for founding Theranos,
00:06:00.660 or Kenneth Lay for running Enron.
00:06:03.300 Normally, when someone creates a business
00:06:04.920 that serves no purpose
00:06:06.160 other than to light people's money on fire,
00:06:08.780 it's not something you praise them for.
00:06:11.120 Okay, so if black women built the WNBA,
00:06:12.700 they built the least successful professional sports league ever.
00:06:18.200 And also, it's not even true, by the way,
00:06:19.920 the WNBA was built and is still maintained by the NBA.
00:06:23.680 So men built the WNBA.
00:06:25.900 Without men, the WNBA would not exist.
00:06:28.880 But Caitlin Clark is coming out
00:06:30.280 and crediting black women for their role
00:06:31.900 in establishing a league that nobody watches.
00:06:34.800 She says that black women in particular
00:06:36.240 deserve to be elevated,
00:06:37.660 and it's clear why she's saying this.
00:06:39.460 She's saying this because she is,
00:06:42.400 I'm sorry to say, a coward.
00:06:44.880 To protect her endorsement deals
00:06:46.200 and her good status at the WNBA,
00:06:47.760 Clark has decided to affirm
00:06:49.020 the single most destructive lie of the generation,
00:06:52.320 which is that white people are inherently indebted
00:06:54.840 to black people because of their skin color,
00:06:56.980 and that black people solely on account of their skin color
00:06:59.380 deserve special treatment at the expense of whites.
00:07:01.440 That's what she just came out and endorsed.
00:07:04.580 Now, there's no need to explain in any detail
00:07:06.480 how much damage this ideology has caused
00:07:08.480 this country over the past decade.
00:07:11.020 It's led to grave injustices in every single area of life
00:07:14.580 for people of every race and both genders.
00:07:16.920 But more importantly than that, of course,
00:07:18.820 it's wrong as a matter of principle.
00:07:21.200 And most Americans realize it's wrong.
00:07:22.720 That's a big part of the reason Kamala Harris
00:07:24.560 was just defeated.
00:07:25.720 It's why DEI departments are being gutted all over the country,
00:07:29.140 from college campuses to Fortune 500 companies.
00:07:32.220 But Clark is clinging to this ideology,
00:07:34.400 and she's not the only one doing it.
00:07:36.300 And we'll have more on that in a moment.
00:07:37.580 But to be clear, it's not surprising
00:07:40.260 that Clark would come out and say this and bend the knee.
00:07:45.120 A lot of conservatives are kind of acting shocked
00:07:47.300 by this Time Magazine profile,
00:07:49.180 but you should not be shocked by it.
00:07:51.080 Did you actually think she wouldn't bend the knee
00:07:52.920 to this stuff?
00:07:53.500 Of course, of course she did.
00:07:54.880 Of course she did.
00:07:55.620 And there were signs.
00:07:57.380 Just a few months ago on SNL, for example,
00:07:59.200 Clark went out of her way
00:08:00.340 in the middle of an alleged comedy segment
00:08:02.500 to credit a series of black women for her success.
00:08:06.820 Watch.
00:08:07.920 Good luck in the WNBA.
00:08:09.560 I hope you have a great first season.
00:08:11.940 Thanks.
00:08:12.380 I'm sure it will be a big first step for me.
00:08:14.400 But it's just one step for the WNBA.
00:08:16.540 Thanks to all the great players like Cheryl Swoops,
00:08:18.880 Lisa Leslie, Cynthia Cooper,
00:08:21.080 the great Don Staley,
00:08:22.460 and my basketball hero, Maya Moore.
00:08:24.100 These are the women that kicked down the door
00:08:26.060 so I could walk inside.
00:08:27.740 So I want to thank them tonight
00:08:28.940 for laying the foundation.
00:08:30.120 And Michael, since you're such a big fan,
00:08:32.720 I brought you a souvenir.
00:08:34.180 It's an apron signed by me.
00:08:38.860 Just another hilarious SNL bit there.
00:08:42.400 Just great, great funny stuff.
00:08:45.480 Now, she doesn't name a single white player,
00:08:47.180 and that's not because there haven't been
00:08:48.400 good white players in the WNBA,
00:08:50.520 at least by the standards of the WNBA.
00:08:52.020 According to the internet, which I'm relying on
00:08:53.820 for all of my information about the WNBA,
00:08:55.660 somebody named Sue Bird was pretty good, for example.
00:08:58.660 She played for something called the Seattle Storm,
00:09:00.820 which exists.
00:09:03.060 And Sue Bird became the first player
00:09:05.200 in the history of the WNBA
00:09:06.700 to win titles in three different decades.
00:09:09.300 One of the greatest female point guards
00:09:11.020 of all time, apparently.
00:09:12.940 So why isn't Sue Bird getting credit
00:09:15.000 for kicking down the doors
00:09:16.260 so that Caitlin Clark could walk through them?
00:09:18.580 Now, of course, maybe the biggest sign
00:09:19.920 that Clark would start openly apologizing
00:09:21.960 for being white was that she got assaulted
00:09:24.380 all season long and never seemed
00:09:27.280 to have a big issue with it.
00:09:29.300 And I'm talking about flagrant attacks on the court
00:09:32.060 where she was knocked over, jabbed in the eye, etc.
00:09:35.780 All of these attacks were committed
00:09:37.100 by black players, as far as I can tell.
00:09:39.460 And these players never really even expressed remorse.
00:09:43.080 In fact, in some cases,
00:09:44.540 is they taunted Caitlin Clark afterwards.
00:09:47.300 So here's just a small selection
00:09:48.640 of this sort of treatment.
00:09:53.000 Following the pass to Boston.
00:09:57.040 In pain after she caught that fingertip in the eye
00:10:02.880 or right around it from Carrington with no whistle.
00:10:05.860 Now, there's nothing Indiana can challenge here
00:10:18.820 because no call on the floor was made.
00:10:22.320 One-on-one Sammy Wickham with eight seconds left
00:10:27.380 goes around Agumake, drives baseline,
00:10:29.840 and shot rejected by Izzy Magmagor.
00:10:32.920 Second opportunity is up and in by Nalissa Smith.
00:10:36.120 Very entertaining first half about Seattle
00:10:39.680 and all of a sudden, we're pretty close.
00:10:42.040 This has been as close as it's been
00:10:43.560 all second quarter long, 44.
00:10:47.140 New reaction after this controversial foul
00:10:50.140 on Caitlin Clark.
00:10:51.200 Unnecessary.
00:10:52.940 Clark's Indiana fever taking on the Chicago Sky
00:10:55.520 on Saturday.
00:10:56.720 The Sky's Kennedy Carter hitting a shot,
00:10:59.700 then heading over to Clark
00:11:01.640 and shoulder checking her.
00:11:03.620 The refs called it a common foul,
00:11:05.480 but the league yesterday upgraded the call
00:11:08.080 to a flagrant foul.
00:11:09.440 In Truss Arena, the fever really stretched out this one
00:11:12.200 in the second half
00:11:14.020 as we look at Diamond DeShields and Caitlin Clark.
00:11:19.040 Okay, so just that kind of stuff all season long.
00:11:21.200 And if the clips demonstrate anything,
00:11:23.040 it's that Caitlin Clark doesn't seem
00:11:25.220 to have privilege in this league,
00:11:27.640 although she says she's privileged.
00:11:30.280 As a white woman in the WNBA,
00:11:32.340 she seems to have anything but privilege,
00:11:34.200 and she knows this.
00:11:35.320 She knows it better than anyone.
00:11:36.520 Yet she claims that she has privilege,
00:11:37.980 even after suffering through a season
00:11:39.240 where she was repeatedly physically assaulted
00:11:40.780 because of her race.
00:11:42.320 That's the privilege of being white in the WNBA.
00:11:45.140 The reason she's getting attention,
00:11:47.040 on the other hand,
00:11:47.660 is not that she's white,
00:11:48.720 it's that she's good by league standards.
00:11:50.840 Despite getting physically attacked all the time,
00:11:53.320 she set WNBA records for most points by a rookie,
00:11:55.900 most assists,
00:11:56.540 becoming the fastest player to record 300 points,
00:11:59.020 and so on.
00:11:59.880 The reason she's reviled and abused,
00:12:03.000 on the other hand,
00:12:04.280 is purely because of her race.
00:12:05.940 I mean, that's the only reason
00:12:07.920 that anyone wouldn't like her,
00:12:10.280 that her teammates or competitors wouldn't like her.
00:12:13.120 In fact, this Time Magazine profile
00:12:14.520 makes that very clear.
00:12:15.660 They quote her teammate,
00:12:17.880 a woman with a name I can't pronounce,
00:12:19.880 as saying, quote,
00:12:21.260 in a sport dominated by black
00:12:22.860 slash African-American players,
00:12:24.660 white America has rallied around Caitlin Clark.
00:12:27.240 The support looks mostly amazing,
00:12:28.660 sometimes fanatical and territorial,
00:12:30.300 sometimes racist.
00:12:31.680 It seems that the great white hope syndrome
00:12:33.440 is at play again.
00:12:35.000 That's quite a teammate.
00:12:36.920 In other words,
00:12:37.500 she's saying white people
00:12:38.560 are only supporting Caitlin Clark
00:12:40.660 because they want to see a white person
00:12:42.880 dominate a sport
00:12:43.720 that's mostly played by black women.
00:12:45.860 That's supposedly the only reason
00:12:47.020 some white people are now
00:12:48.060 actually watching the sport
00:12:49.100 and going to the games.
00:12:50.600 They're such committed white supremacists
00:12:52.180 that they're willing to subject themselves
00:12:53.360 to hours of WNBA games
00:12:55.540 just to stick it to black women, apparently.
00:12:57.920 This is the kind of thing
00:12:58.500 that makes it very obvious
00:12:59.520 that WNBA is never going to have
00:13:01.880 another decent season ever again.
00:13:04.000 Because the moment they get some new fans,
00:13:05.940 they immediately smear their new fans
00:13:08.340 as racist.
00:13:09.760 And a lot of these players are doing it.
00:13:11.760 The Time Magazine piece also contains
00:13:13.260 this insight from another player,
00:13:15.720 Asia Wilson is her name,
00:13:17.540 quote,
00:13:18.280 it doesn't matter what we all do
00:13:19.620 as black women,
00:13:20.500 we're still going to be swept
00:13:21.760 underneath the rug.
00:13:22.940 That's why it boils my blood
00:13:24.440 when people say it's not about race,
00:13:26.000 because it is.
00:13:28.120 This has become part of the mythology
00:13:29.720 in women's basketball for a long time.
00:13:31.960 They seem to have convinced themselves
00:13:33.620 that nobody watches their games
00:13:35.520 because of racism.
00:13:37.020 That was the message
00:13:37.620 that a UConn player
00:13:38.640 named Paige Buechers
00:13:40.600 delivered at the ESPYs
00:13:42.160 a few years ago
00:13:42.860 at the height of the BLN mania.
00:13:45.240 Watch.
00:13:45.500 As a white woman
00:13:48.840 who leads a black-led sport
00:13:50.640 and celebrated here,
00:13:52.840 I want to show a light
00:13:53.740 on black women.
00:13:55.260 They don't get the media coverage
00:13:56.620 that they deserve.
00:14:01.580 They've given so much to this sport
00:14:03.300 and the community
00:14:03.900 and society as a whole,
00:14:05.260 and their value is undeniable.
00:14:08.220 In the WNBA,
00:14:09.860 last season,
00:14:10.380 the postseason awards,
00:14:11.780 80% of the winners were black,
00:14:13.420 but they got half the amount
00:14:14.500 of coverage as a white athlete,
00:14:15.680 so I think it's time for change.
00:14:18.040 Sports media holds
00:14:19.100 the key to storylines.
00:14:23.780 Sports media and sponsors
00:14:25.220 tell us who is valuable,
00:14:26.620 and you have told the world
00:14:27.960 that I matter today,
00:14:29.100 and everyone who voted,
00:14:30.480 thank you,
00:14:31.380 but I think we should use
00:14:32.720 this power together
00:14:33.620 to also celebrate black women.
00:14:38.180 So it's the same script
00:14:39.400 that Caitlin Clark is reading
00:14:40.480 three years later,
00:14:41.140 as if nothing's changed,
00:14:42.280 and hopefully I don't need
00:14:42.980 to explain the problem here.
00:14:44.180 To claim that, you know,
00:14:45.340 people don't care about
00:14:46.440 black basketball players
00:14:47.880 or that black basketball players
00:14:49.180 are getting swept under the rug
00:14:50.600 is to ignore the fact
00:14:52.520 that out of the 100 most popular
00:14:55.400 and wealthiest
00:14:56.340 and most praised
00:14:57.100 and adored basketball players
00:14:58.260 of all time,
00:14:59.280 maybe like 10 of them are white.
00:15:01.520 Maybe.
00:15:02.920 Obviously, the vast, vast majority
00:15:04.740 of the greatest
00:15:05.420 and most visible
00:15:06.120 and most widely loved
00:15:07.200 and admired basketball players
00:15:08.360 of all time are black.
00:15:10.220 I mean, the most marketable
00:15:11.300 and marketed athlete
00:15:12.560 in history in any sport
00:15:14.280 is a black guy
00:15:15.440 named Michael Jordan.
00:15:16.260 Maybe you've heard of him.
00:15:17.320 So this narrative
00:15:17.960 wants us to pretend
00:15:18.820 like none of that exists.
00:15:20.760 But things have changed.
00:15:22.180 Most people aren't willing
00:15:23.180 to play, you know,
00:15:24.100 this game of pretend anymore.
00:15:26.180 People are no longer
00:15:26.920 willing to believe
00:15:27.620 that there's a vast conspiracy
00:15:30.060 to ignore the many accomplishments
00:15:31.760 of black women in the WNBA.
00:15:33.660 Now people are more likely
00:15:34.600 to believe the truth,
00:15:35.620 which is that people
00:15:36.360 are ignoring the WNBA
00:15:37.340 because it's just
00:15:38.060 not a great product
00:15:38.920 and people aren't interested in it.
00:15:40.880 If you don't believe that,
00:15:41.640 consider the overwhelmingly
00:15:42.420 negative response
00:15:43.400 to a message
00:15:44.060 that was posted yesterday
00:15:44.880 by outgoing Congressman
00:15:46.120 Jamal Bowman.
00:15:47.460 Now Bowman, of course,
00:15:48.160 is best known
00:15:48.620 for pulling a fire alarm
00:15:49.680 and lying about it.
00:15:50.880 Here's what he wrote on X,
00:15:52.420 totally unprompted.
00:15:54.460 Quote,
00:15:54.860 Dear white people,
00:15:56.760 I don't know why I feel
00:15:57.760 the need to keep talking to you.
00:15:59.960 I don't know why part of me
00:16:00.980 still has hope for you
00:16:01.940 and for us.
00:16:03.040 Some of you are too far gone,
00:16:04.920 but maybe enough of you aren't
00:16:06.680 and will join us
00:16:07.720 in a fight to end
00:16:08.680 white supremacy.
00:16:10.920 Now,
00:16:11.880 yeah,
00:16:12.560 goes without saying,
00:16:13.600 like,
00:16:13.880 you cannot imagine a white,
00:16:15.460 this guy's still a congressman
00:16:16.640 at the moment.
00:16:17.920 Now we can see why
00:16:18.600 he's not going to be one anymore,
00:16:19.760 but you just cannot imagine
00:16:21.820 a white congressman
00:16:22.980 posting a note
00:16:23.840 on social media saying,
00:16:25.580 Dear black people,
00:16:26.640 I don't know why
00:16:27.180 I still bother talking
00:16:28.100 to you people.
00:16:28.780 You know,
00:16:29.060 most of you are too far gone.
00:16:30.880 You can't,
00:16:31.560 it would never happen.
00:16:32.320 I mean,
00:16:32.520 not in a million years
00:16:33.440 would that happen.
00:16:35.740 Bowman then followed up
00:16:36.560 this open letter
00:16:37.940 to white people
00:16:38.660 by lying about
00:16:39.640 the Rodney King trial
00:16:40.640 and the Daniel Penny case,
00:16:41.600 among others.
00:16:42.700 In response,
00:16:43.380 thousands of people
00:16:43.920 pointed out to Jamal Bowman
00:16:45.060 that he should probably
00:16:46.660 move to Liberia
00:16:48.060 if he hates white people so much.
00:16:49.760 And putting it mildly,
00:16:50.600 the reaction was
00:16:51.380 overwhelmingly negative.
00:16:54.000 And then Bowman
00:16:54.360 responded with this,
00:16:55.380 quote,
00:16:56.100 Wow,
00:16:56.560 this has been so triggering
00:16:57.660 for so many of you.
00:16:58.880 Do you realize
00:16:59.360 you're actually proving my point?
00:17:00.820 If you're triggered by this,
00:17:01.940 imagine how I must feel
00:17:03.080 when black people
00:17:03.820 are murdered consistently
00:17:04.920 and there is no justice.
00:17:06.620 Y'all can't handle a tweet.
00:17:08.340 Fascinating.
00:17:11.980 Now,
00:17:12.480 back at the height of BLM,
00:17:13.820 this series of posts
00:17:15.080 probably would have been effective.
00:17:17.140 You know,
00:17:17.260 there was an appetite
00:17:17.820 for this type of low effort
00:17:19.060 race baiting.
00:17:20.800 But there's no appetite
00:17:21.880 for this stuff anymore
00:17:22.720 as the response
00:17:23.380 on X demonstrates.
00:17:24.800 But there are other members
00:17:25.840 of Congress
00:17:26.260 who will actually
00:17:27.220 be returning next year
00:17:28.260 who are just as committed
00:17:29.160 to this anti-white orthodoxy,
00:17:31.240 even though it's well past
00:17:32.180 its expiration date.
00:17:33.640 Several of them
00:17:34.100 just came out
00:17:34.700 and demanded
00:17:35.280 that Joe Biden
00:17:36.080 commute the sentences
00:17:37.800 of everybody on death row
00:17:40.120 on racial grounds.
00:17:42.400 Watch.
00:17:42.560 Today on Human Rights Day,
00:17:46.240 we call on President Biden
00:17:48.120 to do the right thing,
00:17:50.180 to use his clemency authority
00:17:52.320 to commute the death sentences
00:17:54.820 of the 40 individuals
00:17:56.740 on death row,
00:17:58.020 to resentence them
00:17:59.980 to a prison term
00:18:01.740 and to save lives.
00:18:04.540 State-sanctioned murder
00:18:06.300 is not justice.
00:18:08.320 And the death penalty
00:18:09.900 is a cruel, racist
00:18:11.320 and fundamentally flawed punishment
00:18:13.440 that has no place
00:18:15.180 in our society.
00:18:17.060 It is deeply discriminatory
00:18:18.840 and has disproportionately
00:18:20.360 been weaponized
00:18:21.300 against black, brown
00:18:22.540 and low-income families
00:18:23.720 for far too long.
00:18:25.680 It is long past time
00:18:26.820 for President Biden
00:18:27.740 to make good
00:18:28.560 on his campaign promise
00:18:30.300 to address
00:18:31.700 the federal death penalty.
00:18:34.440 With 40 days left
00:18:36.400 in his presidency,
00:18:37.700 we must move
00:18:38.520 with urgency
00:18:39.200 and ensure
00:18:40.120 that history
00:18:41.200 never repeats itself.
00:18:43.660 Now, the claim
00:18:44.520 you just heard
00:18:45.100 that federal death row
00:18:46.460 disproportionately consists
00:18:47.720 of black and brown people
00:18:48.740 just isn't true.
00:18:49.880 Black people commit
00:18:50.620 something like 50%
00:18:51.720 of the murders
00:18:52.300 in this country
00:18:52.760 according to FBI data.
00:18:54.040 But the federal death row
00:18:55.900 is only about 38% black.
00:18:57.900 It's 15% Hispanic
00:18:59.100 and 45% white.
00:19:00.420 So, if anything,
00:19:01.860 death row is disproportionately
00:19:03.220 affecting white people.
00:19:04.180 That's what the numbers say.
00:19:05.600 But nobody in their right mind
00:19:06.680 thinks along these lines
00:19:07.760 because everyone on death row
00:19:08.980 obviously deserves to be there.
00:19:10.700 These are criminals,
00:19:11.760 almost always repeat offenders,
00:19:13.060 who have been convicted
00:19:13.760 of some of the most heinous crimes
00:19:15.160 it's possible
00:19:16.700 for a person to commit,
00:19:17.640 including kidnapping
00:19:18.320 and murdering 12-year-old girls,
00:19:19.860 executing bank guards,
00:19:21.540 shooting witnesses
00:19:22.180 so they can't testify in court.
00:19:24.200 It includes a police officer
00:19:25.240 in New Orleans
00:19:25.720 who conspired with a drug dealer
00:19:26.920 to murder a woman
00:19:27.760 who filed a police brutality
00:19:28.820 complaint against him.
00:19:29.680 It includes a mass shooter,
00:19:31.240 includes the Boston bomber,
00:19:32.860 Boston Marathon bomber.
00:19:34.920 I mean,
00:19:35.140 these are the kinds of people
00:19:36.300 that Democrats have decided
00:19:37.420 after their crushing defeat
00:19:38.500 in November
00:19:39.260 must be defended.
00:19:41.880 I mean,
00:19:42.060 Americans made it very clear
00:19:43.220 that they're unhappy
00:19:44.160 with the cost of living,
00:19:46.200 with public safety,
00:19:47.520 with illegal immigration.
00:19:49.280 And Democrats have responded with,
00:19:51.320 well,
00:19:51.620 best we can do
00:19:52.140 is commute the sentences
00:19:53.080 of death row inmates.
00:19:54.140 How about that?
00:19:55.680 I mean,
00:19:55.840 these inmates are the absolute
00:19:56.860 dregs of society,
00:19:57.840 but Democrats in Congress
00:19:59.100 have decided to campaign
00:20:00.480 on behalf of these murderers
00:20:03.100 because some of them are black.
00:20:06.120 Now,
00:20:06.600 what this means is that
00:20:07.520 despite the results
00:20:08.920 of last month's election,
00:20:10.060 the left is pushing ahead
00:20:11.140 with the same racial narrative
00:20:12.540 we've seen so many times before.
00:20:14.440 They're completely oblivious
00:20:15.460 to the fact that no one,
00:20:16.580 except apparently Caitlin Clark,
00:20:18.380 is receptive to this
00:20:19.840 kind of demagoguery anymore,
00:20:21.660 or very few people are.
00:20:23.780 For her part,
00:20:24.680 Caitlin Clark has endorsement deals
00:20:26.440 to worry about.
00:20:28.500 No one else really
00:20:29.840 has any incentive
00:20:30.640 to tolerate this stuff.
00:20:32.660 And if there's a reason
00:20:33.400 to be bullish right now
00:20:34.660 about Republicans' prospects
00:20:35.820 in future elections,
00:20:36.880 it's that Democrats,
00:20:38.720 whether they're in Congress
00:20:39.620 or the WNBA,
00:20:41.380 seem incapable
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00:21:59.500 All right, Daniel Penny
00:22:00.260 was interviewed
00:22:01.140 on Fox News yesterday.
00:22:02.800 This is his first interview
00:22:03.600 since being acquitted
00:22:04.520 on Monday.
00:22:05.480 And let's check out
00:22:06.640 a brief clip of that.
00:22:08.440 I mean, I'm not
00:22:09.580 a confrontational person.
00:22:10.840 I don't really extend myself.
00:22:13.920 I think this type of thing
00:22:15.480 is very uncomfortable.
00:22:16.700 All this attention
00:22:18.080 and limelight
00:22:18.700 is very uncomfortable.
00:22:21.640 And I would prefer
00:22:22.620 without it.
00:22:23.540 I didn't want
00:22:24.200 any type of attention
00:22:25.700 or praise.
00:22:27.760 And I still don't.
00:22:31.560 The guilt I would have felt
00:22:33.220 if someone did get hurt,
00:22:36.060 if he did do
00:22:38.720 what he was threatening to do,
00:22:40.660 would never be able
00:22:41.480 to live with myself.
00:22:42.340 And I'll take a million
00:22:44.960 court appearances
00:22:47.960 and people calling me names
00:22:51.260 and people hating me
00:22:53.580 just to keep one of those people
00:22:57.720 from getting hurt or killed.
00:23:00.400 So this is the first time
00:23:01.460 we've heard from him
00:23:03.800 throughout this whole ordeal.
00:23:05.780 We hadn't even really heard
00:23:07.000 his voice except for
00:23:08.160 a few of the clips
00:23:09.880 of the police interrogation.
00:23:11.120 And now that we finally
00:23:12.300 hear from him,
00:23:12.880 it's exactly what
00:23:13.860 I expected.
00:23:17.140 Pleasantly not surprised.
00:23:18.500 He's humble,
00:23:19.520 not interested in the attention,
00:23:20.900 not interested
00:23:21.440 in the fame,
00:23:23.420 not really comfortable
00:23:24.120 with all the praise.
00:23:25.480 And why did he step up
00:23:27.720 on the train that day?
00:23:28.580 Simply because
00:23:29.240 he wouldn't be able
00:23:29.820 to live with himself
00:23:30.440 if he didn't.
00:23:31.920 And this is such a rare
00:23:32.820 quality these days
00:23:33.900 that it's
00:23:34.340 almost shocking
00:23:36.000 to see it.
00:23:36.520 But just somebody
00:23:37.700 doing the right thing
00:23:38.560 only because
00:23:39.360 it's the right thing.
00:23:40.740 Not for praise
00:23:41.560 or attention,
00:23:42.220 but just like
00:23:42.780 it's the right thing
00:23:43.440 and I'm going to do
00:23:43.760 the right thing.
00:23:45.080 This is what qualifies
00:23:46.160 him as heroic.
00:23:47.520 And personally,
00:23:49.840 I hope he continues
00:23:50.540 to be shy
00:23:51.160 about the public attention
00:23:52.340 and just moves
00:23:53.860 to some friendly state
00:23:55.140 like Florida
00:23:55.760 or Tennessee
00:23:56.280 and just gets back
00:23:57.600 to normal life
00:23:58.200 to the extent
00:23:58.640 that that's possible.
00:23:59.360 but that's what
00:24:01.220 my hope would be
00:24:02.100 for him.
00:24:03.080 I know there are
00:24:03.640 going to be
00:24:04.200 conservatives
00:24:06.380 who try to turn
00:24:07.220 this guy
00:24:07.780 into a public figure,
00:24:09.320 into an activist,
00:24:10.440 into a public speaker.
00:24:12.820 I'm sure he's
00:24:13.180 already been invited
00:24:13.820 to give speeches
00:24:15.280 at a million
00:24:15.860 different things
00:24:16.740 and God forbid
00:24:19.000 he's got a podcast
00:24:19.780 deal coming down.
00:24:20.840 I mean,
00:24:22.180 I hope that doesn't happen.
00:24:24.200 And I mean,
00:24:24.520 if that's what
00:24:25.160 Daniel Penny decides
00:24:26.780 he wants to do,
00:24:27.500 then more power to him.
00:24:29.360 That's great.
00:24:30.080 But for his sake,
00:24:32.020 I hope he's able
00:24:32.640 to go off
00:24:33.180 and just live
00:24:33.700 a private life again.
00:24:35.840 And that's one
00:24:37.640 of the reasons
00:24:37.980 why even though
00:24:38.640 I'm a huge
00:24:39.560 Daniel Penny supporter,
00:24:41.740 I haven't tried
00:24:43.600 to reach out to him
00:24:44.320 to do an interview
00:24:45.040 or come on the podcast.
00:24:46.580 And I don't think
00:24:48.040 the podcast circuit
00:24:48.760 is the best thing
00:24:49.460 for him right now.
00:24:50.740 That's just my opinion.
00:24:51.580 You know,
00:24:51.720 I think back to someone
00:24:52.640 like Kyle Rittenhouse,
00:24:54.520 who, as you know,
00:24:55.320 I also supported
00:24:56.080 all the way through
00:24:56.880 his whole ordeal.
00:24:59.360 And,
00:24:59.800 but immediately
00:25:01.540 after he was acquitted,
00:25:02.740 you know,
00:25:03.000 he was on podcasts
00:25:04.260 and giving speeches
00:25:04.960 and making public appearances
00:25:06.180 and basically ensuring
00:25:08.380 that he would never
00:25:09.060 be able to have
00:25:09.660 anything like
00:25:10.240 a normal life
00:25:10.940 ever again.
00:25:11.560 And, you know,
00:25:14.260 I just,
00:25:15.480 that's usually not,
00:25:16.660 not good.
00:25:18.140 Like that's,
00:25:18.740 not for me to decide,
00:25:21.260 obviously,
00:25:21.840 but that's just my opinion.
00:25:22.720 And,
00:25:23.100 and especially
00:25:25.120 for someone like this,
00:25:25.940 he clearly does like,
00:25:26.940 just doesn't want
00:25:27.480 the attention.
00:25:28.680 He wants to live
00:25:29.620 a normal life
00:25:30.580 and hopefully
00:25:31.720 he's able to do that.
00:25:33.800 Now,
00:25:35.320 AOC had some thoughts
00:25:37.020 on all of this.
00:25:38.380 Let's,
00:25:38.800 let's listen to that.
00:25:41.560 She said that he would,
00:25:43.080 he would do it again
00:25:44.040 if necessary,
00:25:45.840 if there was a,
00:25:46.620 as a threat.
00:25:47.240 What do you make
00:25:47.760 of the comments?
00:25:48.740 you know,
00:25:49.300 doesn't that,
00:25:50.280 I just feel like
00:25:51.140 that,
00:25:51.960 that tells us everything.
00:25:53.860 if we do not want
00:25:55.740 violence on our subways
00:25:57.100 and the point
00:25:58.440 of our justice system
00:25:59.960 is a level
00:26:01.500 of accountability
00:26:02.200 to prevent
00:26:03.280 a person
00:26:03.860 who does not
00:26:05.180 have remorse
00:26:05.980 about taking
00:26:07.020 another person's life.
00:26:08.340 I mean,
00:26:08.740 even people
00:26:10.260 who have engaged
00:26:13.220 in manslaughter
00:26:14.040 or have
00:26:15.120 taken a life
00:26:16.240 accidentally
00:26:17.020 express remorse.
00:26:18.240 And so the fact
00:26:19.680 that a person
00:26:20.280 has,
00:26:20.980 may express
00:26:21.540 no remorse
00:26:22.280 indicates that
00:26:23.240 there's a risk
00:26:23.700 that it may happen again.
00:26:25.600 And if we do not
00:26:26.460 want to unleash
00:26:27.200 that level of violence,
00:26:28.560 then we should
00:26:29.580 exert a level
00:26:30.180 of accountability
00:26:30.880 to prevent that
00:26:32.180 from happening again.
00:26:33.960 So AOC says
00:26:35.360 that New Yorkers
00:26:36.780 are less safe
00:26:37.940 with Daniel Penny
00:26:38.720 out there.
00:26:39.460 He may strike again.
00:26:41.100 He may strike again.
00:26:43.120 That is,
00:26:44.020 he may prevent
00:26:44.900 another psychotic
00:26:46.180 vagrant
00:26:46.600 from killing people.
00:26:47.540 That's what
00:26:50.100 she's worried about.
00:26:50.620 But the problem
00:26:50.980 with this analysis
00:26:51.600 is that if Penny
00:26:52.460 does present
00:26:53.360 that sort of risk,
00:26:55.060 it means New Yorkers
00:26:56.060 are more safe,
00:26:57.640 not less,
00:26:58.940 obviously.
00:26:59.660 So she has this
00:27:00.520 exactly backwards.
00:27:01.920 New York is safer
00:27:03.000 with people like
00:27:03.880 Daniel Penny
00:27:04.480 than without him.
00:27:05.800 Though, honestly,
00:27:07.020 I hope she gets her wish.
00:27:08.760 Hopefully Penny
00:27:09.640 has already left New York
00:27:11.340 so that no more
00:27:13.400 New Yorkers
00:27:14.060 will be plagued
00:27:14.800 by the presence
00:27:15.500 of a heroic,
00:27:16.720 humble,
00:27:17.020 selfless man
00:27:18.060 who steps up
00:27:19.360 to do the right thing
00:27:20.140 at great risk
00:27:20.960 to himself.
00:27:23.100 Because New Yorkers
00:27:23.980 don't deserve
00:27:24.640 Daniel Penny.
00:27:26.520 Honestly.
00:27:29.600 I mean,
00:27:30.160 I give the jury credit.
00:27:31.580 Give the jury credit.
00:27:32.460 They got it right.
00:27:33.940 Took them a while.
00:27:35.780 Like,
00:27:35.900 it should not have taken
00:27:36.500 five days
00:27:37.340 to figure it out.
00:27:38.220 But, you know,
00:27:39.260 they got it right.
00:27:40.840 Fine.
00:27:41.240 But also,
00:27:43.140 let's be honest,
00:27:43.800 New Yorkers
00:27:44.280 did not show up
00:27:45.340 en masse
00:27:46.060 to support
00:27:47.100 Daniel Penny.
00:27:48.400 They really didn't.
00:27:51.080 Maybe some of them did.
00:27:52.120 I'm sure there were
00:27:52.560 some supporters
00:27:53.160 outside the courthouse
00:27:54.160 and all that.
00:27:54.700 But,
00:27:55.120 there should have been
00:27:56.820 an overwhelming
00:27:57.660 outpouring of support
00:27:59.520 in his community
00:28:02.800 for him.
00:28:04.280 And there wasn't.
00:28:06.500 That's a fact of the matter.
00:28:07.520 So, you know,
00:28:09.540 there are a lot of people
00:28:10.020 giving the jury credit
00:28:10.960 and saying,
00:28:12.200 hey,
00:28:12.700 and again,
00:28:13.920 I give him credit too.
00:28:15.100 But, first of all,
00:28:15.840 you can only give people
00:28:16.460 so much credit
00:28:17.020 for just doing
00:28:17.680 what's obviously right.
00:28:19.400 Like,
00:28:19.580 I don't give you
00:28:20.040 a lot of credit
00:28:20.760 for not falsely
00:28:22.160 convicting a man
00:28:23.300 of a crime
00:28:24.320 he didn't commit
00:28:24.800 and sending him
00:28:25.580 to prison for 10 years.
00:28:27.940 That's just basic level
00:28:29.180 human stuff
00:28:29.940 that we expect of you.
00:28:31.340 And so,
00:28:31.900 you did the right thing,
00:28:33.060 but the alternative
00:28:34.400 would have been
00:28:35.020 hideously evil.
00:28:36.200 So, you know,
00:28:37.120 great,
00:28:38.020 thanks for doing
00:28:38.440 the right thing.
00:28:39.640 Thanks for not being
00:28:40.620 hideously evil,
00:28:41.360 but still,
00:28:42.200 it seems to me
00:28:43.920 that he was not
00:28:47.180 getting anywhere near
00:28:49.680 the kind of support
00:28:50.540 in his own community
00:28:51.600 that he should have.
00:28:54.060 And I brought this point up,
00:28:55.940 you know,
00:28:57.000 throughout the trial
00:28:57.700 that you get all these
00:28:58.740 BLM activists
00:28:59.580 outside screaming,
00:29:01.760 why aren't there more
00:29:03.700 on Daniel Penny's side
00:29:05.300 out there?
00:29:07.840 And, you know,
00:29:08.420 you get a lot of excuses
00:29:09.300 and one thing
00:29:10.520 I heard a lot is,
00:29:11.360 well, you know,
00:29:12.100 conservatives are,
00:29:13.320 have jobs
00:29:14.080 and these leftist
00:29:16.200 activists don't.
00:29:17.840 And yeah,
00:29:18.340 I know,
00:29:19.000 that's true.
00:29:22.200 Another one is,
00:29:24.300 well, people,
00:29:25.500 again,
00:29:25.880 people have jobs,
00:29:26.620 they have lives,
00:29:27.120 they don't want to,
00:29:27.840 you know,
00:29:28.120 you're risking something
00:29:29.900 if you show up
00:29:30.600 and support Daniel Penny.
00:29:32.040 Yeah,
00:29:32.220 it is,
00:29:32.800 I suppose,
00:29:33.400 a risk,
00:29:33.820 but at a certain point,
00:29:36.860 like if you're not willing
00:29:37.840 to stand up
00:29:40.460 at a certain point,
00:29:43.020 like we have to expect
00:29:44.500 that of people.
00:29:46.880 It kind of goes back
00:29:47.780 to the Caitlin Clark thing,
00:29:48.700 by the way,
00:29:49.560 because there are
00:29:52.880 plenty of conservatives
00:29:53.760 I've seen that
00:29:54.460 are kind of giving
00:29:55.720 Caitlin Clark
00:29:56.680 the benefit of the doubt
00:29:57.500 and,
00:29:57.900 you know,
00:29:59.000 trying to be gracious
00:29:59.940 and saying,
00:30:00.580 well, listen,
00:30:01.740 she has to bend the knee,
00:30:02.900 she has to come out
00:30:03.880 and do the whole
00:30:05.000 sort of land acknowledgement
00:30:06.700 thing in the WNBA
00:30:07.800 and she has to do that
00:30:09.080 because she plays
00:30:10.000 with these people
00:30:10.580 and it would be really hard
00:30:12.720 for her to do anything
00:30:13.900 but that.
00:30:16.540 Yeah,
00:30:16.680 but see,
00:30:17.000 this is the,
00:30:17.560 this is how we end up
00:30:18.680 in a situation
00:30:19.440 where the left-wing
00:30:22.020 racial narrative
00:30:23.000 seizes control
00:30:24.680 of society.
00:30:25.820 It's how you end up
00:30:26.940 with,
00:30:27.460 you know,
00:30:28.100 the trans agenda
00:30:29.100 gaining all the power
00:30:31.400 and prominence,
00:30:32.260 prominence it does.
00:30:34.160 You end up there
00:30:35.280 because
00:30:35.800 just normal people,
00:30:38.820 not enough normal people
00:30:41.120 speak up against it.
00:30:44.680 You know,
00:30:45.640 that's how you end up there.
00:30:51.240 So,
00:30:51.840 we got to start expecting
00:30:53.060 just a little bit
00:30:54.220 of courage
00:30:54.700 from people.
00:30:56.940 Yeah,
00:30:57.400 Cailin Clark,
00:30:58.020 a little bit of courage.
00:30:58.780 I'm not,
00:30:59.260 I don't expect her
00:31:00.260 to come out
00:31:01.000 and say,
00:31:02.360 you know,
00:31:03.240 there's an anti-white
00:31:04.120 racism problem
00:31:05.060 in the WNBA.
00:31:06.220 It'd be great
00:31:06.600 if she said that.
00:31:07.460 She should say that
00:31:08.300 but I know she's not
00:31:09.340 going to say that
00:31:09.780 and I don't even
00:31:10.200 really expect that.
00:31:11.860 But just don't,
00:31:12.880 just don't bend the knee.
00:31:14.260 Don't,
00:31:14.480 don't,
00:31:14.780 don't go out of your way
00:31:15.700 in the other direction.
00:31:16.920 Just don't do that.
00:31:17.880 And if you're
00:31:21.940 in New York
00:31:22.960 and someone
00:31:23.300 in your community
00:31:24.000 who's
00:31:24.880 stepped up
00:31:26.580 to protect you
00:31:27.400 is getting railroaded,
00:31:29.340 then yeah,
00:31:30.220 like,
00:31:30.920 yeah,
00:31:31.200 I expect you to put
00:31:31.940 a little bit on the line.
00:31:34.160 You know,
00:31:35.180 find a way,
00:31:36.780 find a way
00:31:37.200 to schedule around it
00:31:38.260 and just show up
00:31:38.980 and support him
00:31:39.520 at least once.
00:31:40.340 Too many excuses.
00:31:46.720 All right,
00:31:46.960 Daily Wire has this.
00:31:47.940 President-elect Donald Trump
00:31:48.720 referred to Canadian
00:31:49.580 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
00:31:50.880 as the governor
00:31:51.600 of the great state of Canada
00:31:53.140 in a Truth Social post
00:31:54.740 on Monday.
00:31:56.300 He said,
00:31:56.920 here's the post.
00:31:58.420 It was a pleasure
00:31:58.860 to have dinner
00:31:59.300 the other night
00:32:00.020 with Governor Justin Trudeau
00:32:01.840 of the great state of Canada.
00:32:03.760 I look forward to seeing
00:32:04.520 the governor again soon
00:32:05.720 so we may continue
00:32:06.800 our in-depth talks
00:32:07.860 on tariffs and trade.
00:32:09.020 the results of which
00:32:10.580 will be truly spectacular
00:32:11.880 for all.
00:32:15.060 So,
00:32:15.800 you know,
00:32:16.500 this is very funny
00:32:17.280 trolling by Trump,
00:32:18.160 but I do think
00:32:19.440 it should maybe
00:32:21.180 not be trolling.
00:32:21.980 I think this is worth
00:32:22.620 thinking about.
00:32:23.660 Do we annex Canada?
00:32:26.840 I've heard the proposal
00:32:27.820 for maybe we take
00:32:28.820 Canada and Mexico.
00:32:30.420 Maybe we can have both.
00:32:31.560 For me,
00:32:31.880 I'd say I'm not interested
00:32:32.640 in Mexico.
00:32:33.400 No thanks.
00:32:34.120 Just wall it off
00:32:35.140 and leave it alone.
00:32:36.560 I'm not sure we gain much
00:32:37.640 by conquering Mexico.
00:32:38.460 Like,
00:32:38.720 why would you want that?
00:32:40.420 What about Mexico
00:32:41.380 is appealing?
00:32:43.980 But Canada,
00:32:44.980 that's interesting.
00:32:47.340 You know,
00:32:47.540 sure,
00:32:47.940 if you take Canada,
00:32:49.700 then you have to
00:32:50.220 unfortunately deal
00:32:51.080 with all the Canadians,
00:32:52.160 but the good news
00:32:52.680 is that it's a huge country
00:32:53.800 with only like 14
00:32:55.600 or 15 people living in it,
00:32:56.860 I think,
00:32:57.240 was the latest
00:32:57.840 population estimate.
00:33:01.500 Bigger than the United States
00:33:02.600 in terms of the
00:33:03.360 total land mass.
00:33:04.520 A lot of it is basically
00:33:05.440 frozen,
00:33:06.020 a frozen wasteland,
00:33:06.880 but still,
00:33:07.800 it's worth thinking about.
00:33:09.760 What would Canada
00:33:10.600 even do
00:33:11.340 if we decided
00:33:13.280 to conquer it?
00:33:14.540 Does Canada
00:33:15.180 have a military?
00:33:17.640 And their military
00:33:18.320 is like
00:33:18.840 three guys
00:33:20.980 with slingshots
00:33:21.920 on a toboggan.
00:33:23.480 So you could probably
00:33:24.360 pretty easily
00:33:24.940 take it over
00:33:25.560 and, you know,
00:33:26.380 maybe you worry about
00:33:27.340 the European countries
00:33:29.400 being upset,
00:33:30.760 but why would you worry
00:33:31.900 about that?
00:33:32.240 What are they going
00:33:32.600 to do?
00:33:33.400 You know,
00:33:33.780 do they even
00:33:34.240 have militaries?
00:33:37.180 And even if they
00:33:38.520 could do something
00:33:38.940 about it,
00:33:39.340 nobody would care
00:33:39.940 that much
00:33:40.540 because it's Canada.
00:33:41.680 Everybody would just
00:33:42.160 look over there
00:33:42.720 and go,
00:33:42.920 what's going on over there?
00:33:43.940 Oh, you're conquering
00:33:44.500 Canada?
00:33:45.000 Nah, okay.
00:33:46.020 Whatever, it's Canada.
00:33:47.300 And I like Canada,
00:33:48.060 by the way,
00:33:48.400 just to be clear.
00:33:49.120 I don't like its culture
00:33:50.700 or its politics
00:33:51.420 or its government,
00:33:52.280 but it's a beautiful country,
00:33:54.740 which is why I'm saying
00:33:55.960 we should consider
00:33:56.600 maybe taking it.
00:33:59.740 And by the way,
00:34:01.140 the Canadians
00:34:01.740 are all plagued
00:34:03.340 by this colonial guilt,
00:34:06.820 right?
00:34:07.240 The land acknowledgement
00:34:09.540 thing in Canada
00:34:10.340 is huge.
00:34:12.500 So,
00:34:13.300 they really would
00:34:14.580 have no right.
00:34:15.840 By their own logic,
00:34:16.940 they have no right
00:34:17.520 to the land anyways,
00:34:18.780 so they can't really object
00:34:20.600 if we come in
00:34:21.920 and take it.
00:34:23.440 By their logic,
00:34:24.620 we're just stealing land
00:34:26.040 from people
00:34:26.720 who already stole it.
00:34:27.920 So it's a little bit like
00:34:28.900 stealing a car
00:34:31.300 from a car thief.
00:34:32.280 It's like,
00:34:32.620 who's really the victim here?
00:34:33.880 I mean,
00:34:34.180 the victim is
00:34:34.780 down the line somewhere,
00:34:36.480 but the thief
00:34:37.680 is not a victim.
00:34:39.880 So,
00:34:41.080 I don't know.
00:34:42.020 Something to think about.
00:34:42.720 We're just thinking about it,
00:34:43.520 Canada.
00:34:44.040 Relax.
00:34:44.760 I mean,
00:34:44.880 it's not saying
00:34:45.680 we will conquer you.
00:34:47.440 We're just saying
00:34:48.200 we could.
00:34:49.760 And maybe we should.
00:34:51.580 And maybe we will.
00:34:54.840 Here's an article
00:34:55.580 that I found
00:34:56.280 interesting.
00:34:58.900 I don't know
00:35:00.520 how you'll feel about it,
00:35:01.560 but I thought
00:35:02.480 it was interesting.
00:35:03.000 It's from the Daily Mail.
00:35:04.460 A study conducted
00:35:05.240 by U.S. Army Intelligence
00:35:06.600 has suggested
00:35:07.260 that reincarnation
00:35:08.460 is real
00:35:09.040 because consciousness
00:35:10.660 never dies.
00:35:12.780 Entitled,
00:35:13.260 Analysis and Assessment
00:35:14.300 of the Gateway Process,
00:35:15.680 the 29-page report
00:35:17.000 was drafted
00:35:17.480 by U.S. Army Lieutenant
00:35:18.520 Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell
00:35:20.500 in 1983
00:35:21.900 and declassified
00:35:23.040 by the CIA
00:35:23.680 in 2003.
00:35:24.580 The research
00:35:24.920 has resurfaced
00:35:25.600 on social media
00:35:26.380 with Chicago-based
00:35:27.940 comedian Sarah Holcomb
00:35:29.200 summarizing the findings
00:35:30.800 saying,
00:35:31.220 we're pretty sure
00:35:31.660 reincarnation is real.
00:35:34.680 The report says
00:35:35.760 consciousness is energy
00:35:37.060 and it exists
00:35:37.740 outside of our
00:35:38.480 understanding of reality
00:35:39.520 and energy never dies.
00:35:42.140 The mind-bending
00:35:42.780 official Pentagon study
00:35:43.780 was commissioned
00:35:44.260 to better understand
00:35:45.280 what its Army
00:35:46.080 intel colleagues
00:35:46.960 were doing,
00:35:48.220 sending personnel
00:35:49.040 to a small institute
00:35:49.920 in Charlottesville,
00:35:51.640 Virginia
00:35:51.940 that was working
00:35:52.660 on the Gateway Experience.
00:35:56.000 The then-secretive
00:35:57.120 Gateway Project
00:35:58.040 based on McDowell's analysis
00:36:00.560 was a training system
00:36:01.860 designed to bring
00:36:02.580 enhanced strength,
00:36:03.720 focus,
00:36:04.040 and coherence
00:36:04.700 to alter consciousness.
00:36:07.380 Okay,
00:36:07.620 so that's the report.
00:36:08.520 I have no idea
00:36:08.980 why the article
00:36:09.460 is telling us
00:36:10.000 what some random comedian
00:36:10.920 thinks about all this,
00:36:11.860 but the actual story
00:36:13.340 is quite fascinating.
00:36:16.120 Consciousness never dies
00:36:17.300 according to the study.
00:36:19.120 Now,
00:36:19.440 I don't buy
00:36:19.940 the reincarnation angle here,
00:36:21.360 obviously,
00:36:23.800 but it does go
00:36:25.720 to show
00:36:26.280 just how insufficient
00:36:27.600 are these secular
00:36:28.700 explanations
00:36:30.600 for consciousness
00:36:31.520 because secular
00:36:34.200 mainstream science
00:36:35.400 really has no explanation
00:36:37.140 for consciousness.
00:36:38.540 It can't say
00:36:39.220 how consciousness
00:36:39.860 came about
00:36:40.560 or even what it is
00:36:42.220 exactly,
00:36:43.040 but its guess
00:36:45.900 is that consciousness
00:36:46.820 is somehow
00:36:47.380 the byproduct
00:36:48.460 of the brain's
00:36:49.700 functioning.
00:36:50.420 It's a physical process.
00:36:52.080 It's a physical product.
00:36:54.740 It's like how
00:36:55.380 fire produces smoke,
00:36:57.020 basically.
00:36:58.340 But the purely physical
00:36:59.420 theory of consciousness
00:37:00.960 has some major problems.
00:37:02.200 I mean,
00:37:02.320 for one thing,
00:37:03.560 you're left with
00:37:04.220 kind of the fundamental problem
00:37:05.580 of how a physical process
00:37:06.960 could become aware
00:37:07.920 of itself.
00:37:09.980 This is me
00:37:11.080 nerding out now
00:37:11.720 and probably nobody cares
00:37:12.680 anymore,
00:37:12.900 but I'm just going to
00:37:13.300 talk about it anyway
00:37:13.780 because I find it
00:37:15.980 very interesting.
00:37:16.640 I don't know how
00:37:16.920 you could not be interested
00:37:17.700 in the phenomenon
00:37:20.580 of consciousness
00:37:21.440 and what exactly it is.
00:37:23.300 And I think ultimately
00:37:24.220 is where I'm getting at
00:37:25.140 that I think that
00:37:25.740 when you talk about
00:37:26.860 the proofs of God
00:37:27.900 and I think that
00:37:30.420 there are many proofs
00:37:32.060 that are quite compelling.
00:37:32.920 This, to me,
00:37:33.720 is the most compelling
00:37:34.580 proof of all.
00:37:36.440 Not often used
00:37:37.500 in these debates
00:37:38.220 about the existence
00:37:38.980 of God with atheists
00:37:40.000 and so on.
00:37:41.080 I rarely,
00:37:41.900 and I watch a lot
00:37:42.580 of these debates
00:37:42.980 because I find them interesting,
00:37:43.640 but I rarely hear anyone
00:37:46.140 use this proof,
00:37:47.820 but to me,
00:37:48.300 it's the most compelling one
00:37:49.560 because, again,
00:37:51.020 it's this,
00:37:53.080 the mainstream secular science
00:37:54.320 has no explanation for it.
00:37:57.760 So,
00:37:58.800 you know,
00:38:00.300 if you want to say
00:38:01.280 that some mindless
00:38:02.580 physical process
00:38:03.680 produces some other
00:38:05.300 mindless physical thing,
00:38:07.480 then fine,
00:38:08.260 but how does a mindless
00:38:10.140 physical process
00:38:11.360 produce an awareness
00:38:12.780 of itself?
00:38:14.260 So,
00:38:14.520 how can a bunch of
00:38:15.200 inanimate,
00:38:16.540 mindless things
00:38:18.120 combine together
00:38:19.980 to form
00:38:20.920 a mind?
00:38:23.440 So,
00:38:23.900 you know,
00:38:24.120 put another way,
00:38:24.820 the brain is made up
00:38:25.720 of cells,
00:38:26.240 of course,
00:38:26.600 but if each individual cell
00:38:27.980 does not have,
00:38:29.020 you know,
00:38:31.420 some degree of consciousness,
00:38:33.460 then how can it
00:38:34.240 all together
00:38:34.960 have consciousness?
00:38:36.280 How can the,
00:38:36.680 how can the combination
00:38:37.760 of material
00:38:38.860 create a property
00:38:40.220 that was never present
00:38:41.240 in the smaller parts?
00:38:45.480 You know,
00:38:46.080 there's,
00:38:46.360 there's one attempt
00:38:47.200 to solve that,
00:38:48.960 you know,
00:38:49.240 I guess the one sort of,
00:38:51.100 from a secular perspective,
00:38:52.460 it's called panpsychism,
00:38:53.880 and that's the idea
00:38:54.980 that consciousness
00:38:55.920 is a fundamental brute
00:38:57.200 fact of the universe,
00:38:58.220 and so every bit
00:39:00.060 of matter
00:39:00.620 has a certain amount
00:39:01.760 of kind of latent
00:39:02.540 consciousness,
00:39:04.120 and,
00:39:04.480 and so it's just,
00:39:05.660 so their way of explaining
00:39:06.540 it is like,
00:39:07.060 why does consciousness exist?
00:39:08.080 Well,
00:39:08.180 just because it does,
00:39:08.840 it's just part of reality,
00:39:10.040 and so when you combine
00:39:11.440 it together,
00:39:11.820 you get more
00:39:12.400 sophisticated consciousness.
00:39:13.820 Now,
00:39:13.940 of course,
00:39:14.120 if that was true,
00:39:14.700 then that would mean
00:39:15.100 that like something
00:39:15.480 like the sun
00:39:16.240 is conscious,
00:39:17.120 because it's a combination
00:39:18.140 of all these,
00:39:19.300 of material
00:39:20.560 that is itself conscious,
00:39:22.320 which of course,
00:39:23.880 you know,
00:39:24.180 that's kind of wacky,
00:39:25.400 but it is,
00:39:26.100 it's very wacky,
00:39:26.820 it's not true,
00:39:27.320 but it's their way
00:39:27.960 of kind of getting
00:39:28.920 around this problem,
00:39:30.640 and the other big problem
00:39:32.740 is that consciousness,
00:39:34.200 if it's a blind
00:39:35.040 physical process,
00:39:36.160 you know,
00:39:37.320 as mainstream
00:39:38.120 secular science
00:39:38.940 would say,
00:39:40.100 that would mean
00:39:40.580 that it's a,
00:39:41.000 it's a product
00:39:41.680 of evolution,
00:39:43.200 but,
00:39:44.320 which is what
00:39:44.780 they would say,
00:39:45.300 right,
00:39:45.620 you know,
00:39:46.100 the kind of godless
00:39:47.840 explanation of consciousness,
00:39:48.940 well,
00:39:49.080 it's a,
00:39:49.260 it's a product
00:39:49.940 of evolution,
00:39:50.300 everything's a product,
00:39:51.080 everything about us
00:39:51.940 is a product of evolution,
00:39:53.000 which is a blind process
00:39:54.520 with no designer
00:39:55.640 overseeing it,
00:39:56.360 you know,
00:39:56.640 they would say,
00:39:58.640 but,
00:39:59.700 you know,
00:40:00.300 that doesn't make
00:40:01.220 any sense either,
00:40:02.060 judge,
00:40:02.540 judge purely on like
00:40:03.580 a Darwinian level,
00:40:04.600 if you're just to take
00:40:05.300 their premise,
00:40:06.160 it makes no sense
00:40:07.700 that consciousness
00:40:09.180 would ever come about
00:40:10.160 because it really has
00:40:11.580 no evolutionary advantage,
00:40:13.140 right,
00:40:13.220 I mean,
00:40:13.360 the only thing
00:40:13.740 evolution,
00:40:14.380 right,
00:40:14.640 cares about
00:40:15.300 is just the propagation
00:40:16.120 of the species,
00:40:17.680 that's the only,
00:40:18.220 that's the only
00:40:18.860 objective of evolution,
00:40:21.680 so,
00:40:22.980 what is,
00:40:23.980 how does it help
00:40:24.660 propagate the species
00:40:25.480 to make us
00:40:26.440 aware of ourselves,
00:40:29.120 to have the kind of
00:40:29.860 vivid sense of
00:40:31.880 awareness that we all have,
00:40:33.940 that's just,
00:40:34.740 you know,
00:40:34.960 unique and distinct
00:40:36.060 for humans,
00:40:37.400 as far as we know,
00:40:38.380 no other creatures
00:40:38.960 in the universe have,
00:40:40.620 how does that help,
00:40:42.680 why would,
00:40:43.400 why would,
00:40:44.180 you know,
00:40:44.560 why would evolution
00:40:45.780 be interested
00:40:46.480 in creating something
00:40:47.560 like that,
00:40:48.000 what is the,
00:40:48.360 what is the,
00:40:48.940 the evolutionary advantage,
00:40:51.320 and I don't see how
00:40:53.800 there would be the one,
00:40:54.540 so from the purely
00:40:55.780 physical perspective,
00:40:57.400 it just doesn't make
00:40:58.540 any sense,
00:40:59.180 and that leaves us
00:40:59.840 with the idea
00:41:00.480 that consciousness
00:41:02.200 is something that
00:41:03.280 transcends the physical,
00:41:04.580 consciousness is a function
00:41:05.580 of the spirit,
00:41:06.480 of the soul,
00:41:07.620 which requires there
00:41:09.660 to be something
00:41:10.120 like a soul,
00:41:11.220 which requires there
00:41:12.800 to be a god,
00:41:14.040 and so,
00:41:15.600 I've always found that
00:41:16.300 to be an interesting
00:41:16.840 explanation.
00:41:18.600 Man,
00:41:18.840 have you heard
00:41:19.140 about Rose Sparks?
00:41:20.620 This dual action
00:41:21.320 prescription merges
00:41:22.280 the powerhouse ingredients
00:41:23.620 found in generic
00:41:24.620 Viagra and Cialis,
00:41:25.900 Sildenafil,
00:41:26.520 and Tadalafil
00:41:27.100 into one formidable
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00:43:00.340 Now let's get to
00:43:00.860 our daily cancellation.
00:43:08.120 So I'm going to do
00:43:09.000 a service today
00:43:10.020 for our daily cancellation
00:43:10.940 as I do so often
00:43:12.160 during this segment.
00:43:13.420 Every daily cancellation
00:43:14.440 is in effect
00:43:15.400 a public service
00:43:16.380 and that will essentially
00:43:18.700 and especially
00:43:19.740 be the case today.
00:43:20.840 Out of the kindness
00:43:21.880 of my heart
00:43:22.840 and an abundance
00:43:23.760 of Christmas joy
00:43:24.780 and generosity,
00:43:25.420 I'm going to help anyone
00:43:27.020 who is still trying
00:43:27.780 to figure out
00:43:28.420 what sort of gift
00:43:30.020 to buy for any dad
00:43:31.740 in their life
00:43:32.440 for Christmas
00:43:33.020 or any other
00:43:33.900 gift-giving occasion.
00:43:35.280 I'll also be helping out
00:43:36.140 all the dads out there
00:43:37.040 by hopefully rescuing them
00:43:38.360 from the plague
00:43:39.080 of bad gifts
00:43:40.000 that we dads
00:43:40.900 suffer from
00:43:41.580 by the millions
00:43:42.280 across the globe
00:43:43.020 every year.
00:43:43.740 It is the silent epidemic
00:43:45.280 that nobody talks about
00:43:46.440 but today it ends.
00:43:47.520 So we're going to run down
00:43:48.840 a list of some
00:43:49.940 of the most popular
00:43:50.680 and common categories
00:43:53.060 really of dad gifts
00:43:54.380 and I'll tell you
00:43:56.480 which of these gifts
00:43:57.500 are canceled.
00:43:59.500 And these are gifts
00:44:00.540 that you just simply
00:44:01.320 should not give
00:44:02.160 your dad
00:44:02.600 or your husband
00:44:03.220 even if you've given him
00:44:04.960 this kind of gift
00:44:05.520 in the past
00:44:05.960 and he claimed
00:44:06.440 that he liked it.
00:44:07.740 So we're always going
00:44:08.440 to pretend that we
00:44:09.160 like anything you give us
00:44:10.580 that doesn't mean
00:44:11.040 we actually do.
00:44:11.940 So let's go through
00:44:12.460 some of these
00:44:12.880 and at the end
00:44:13.880 I'll also tell you
00:44:14.520 which gifts you should buy
00:44:15.560 so I won't just leave you
00:44:16.560 with the negative.
00:44:17.640 We'll get to the
00:44:18.200 constructive part of it.
00:44:19.960 But as for the bad gifts
00:44:21.060 there are really
00:44:21.500 three categories.
00:44:22.660 Okay, these are bad gifts
00:44:23.800 for a dad
00:44:25.700 but also very common.
00:44:29.500 Bad gifts category number one.
00:44:32.140 Anything that qualifies
00:44:33.500 as a gag gift.
00:44:35.400 Okay, now dads
00:44:36.820 have been the primary recipients
00:44:38.880 of gag gifts
00:44:40.300 since the beginning of time.
00:44:41.940 The entire gag gift market
00:44:43.600 is kept afloat
00:44:44.580 by our wives and children
00:44:46.360 buying this crap for us.
00:44:48.720 Like no one else
00:44:49.380 gets to gag gifts
00:44:50.320 as much as we do.
00:44:52.040 Across the world
00:44:52.720 like nine trillion dollars
00:44:54.260 are spent on gag gifts
00:44:55.420 every year.
00:44:55.820 I don't know if that's
00:44:56.240 the exact number
00:44:56.780 but I'm sure it's
00:44:58.040 something around there.
00:44:59.100 And all that money
00:44:59.800 is a waste.
00:45:00.320 You're wasting money
00:45:01.720 and our time
00:45:03.580 on a thing
00:45:04.220 that we will open
00:45:05.140 and pretend to find
00:45:06.240 vaguely amusing
00:45:07.160 and never think about again.
00:45:09.380 There are a million examples
00:45:10.300 of this sort of thing
00:45:10.980 but here's just one.
00:45:12.260 This was apparently
00:45:13.300 featured on Shark Tank
00:45:14.380 at one point.
00:45:15.040 It's a toilet timer
00:45:16.420 and Amazon tells me
00:45:17.840 it's a funny gift for men.
00:45:19.600 And there's like a million
00:45:20.140 of these things.
00:45:20.720 Funny gift for men.
00:45:21.920 The gag is that
00:45:22.580 it's a timer
00:45:23.080 that you keep on the toilet
00:45:23.940 so that I guess
00:45:24.700 you can keep track
00:45:25.420 of how long it takes
00:45:26.180 you to finish your business.
00:45:27.100 I don't know.
00:45:27.820 Now what's the problem
00:45:28.440 with this?
00:45:29.300 It's the same problem
00:45:29.880 with any gag gift.
00:45:30.560 It's just not that funny.
00:45:31.840 Like why isn't it funny?
00:45:32.680 Well because the companies
00:45:33.540 that make cheap novelties
00:45:34.860 are not comedic masterminds.
00:45:36.600 If you're a true comedy
00:45:37.800 like genius
00:45:39.360 you're not working
00:45:40.280 at the toilet timer company.
00:45:42.160 You're not getting
00:45:42.740 a job coming up
00:45:44.240 with wacky slogans
00:45:45.340 for mugs
00:45:45.960 or t-shirts
00:45:46.560 or ties.
00:45:48.240 So the people
00:45:48.840 producing this stuff
00:45:49.520 aren't funny
00:45:50.120 and so we're not amused
00:45:51.120 which is why
00:45:51.720 whenever you
00:45:52.540 your dad or your husband
00:45:53.880 opens a gag gift
00:45:55.000 you've probably noticed
00:45:56.580 he always has the same reaction.
00:45:57.640 He goes like
00:45:58.360 yeah
00:45:59.520 that's a good one.
00:46:01.720 And then you have to
00:46:02.360 spend the next five minutes
00:46:03.140 explaining why it's funny.
00:46:04.560 So the real gift here
00:46:05.360 I guess is that
00:46:06.020 we get to listen to you
00:46:07.560 explain a joke
00:46:08.500 a joke that by the way
00:46:09.300 really doesn't need explaining.
00:46:10.640 The problem isn't that
00:46:11.240 it's abstract and cerebral
00:46:13.260 it's just that it's not funny.
00:46:14.400 So let's just
00:46:15.880 cut that out.
00:46:17.600 Number two
00:46:17.980 here's another
00:46:18.640 for the bad gift column.
00:46:20.200 This is very broad
00:46:21.020 I know
00:46:21.280 but it's important.
00:46:23.080 It's an important point.
00:46:23.980 It's maybe the most important thing
00:46:25.180 that I've said so far
00:46:26.560 during this
00:46:26.880 really at any point
00:46:27.800 this year.
00:46:30.460 So listen very carefully
00:46:31.520 to this.
00:46:33.140 Do not buy
00:46:34.700 the dad in your life
00:46:36.140 any kind
00:46:37.740 of object
00:46:38.880 tool
00:46:39.640 gadget
00:46:40.780 gizmo
00:46:41.840 thingamajig
00:46:43.200 instrument
00:46:44.260 apparatus
00:46:45.640 that you haven't
00:46:47.580 seen him use
00:46:48.680 before.
00:46:50.020 So here's what you have
00:46:50.920 to understand
00:46:51.320 about dads.
00:46:51.980 By the time
00:46:53.440 we become dads
00:46:54.480 we will have
00:46:55.740 already picked
00:46:56.780 all of the types
00:46:58.240 of things
00:46:59.000 that we will
00:46:59.720 ever want
00:47:00.440 to use
00:47:01.040 ever.
00:47:02.240 We are not
00:47:03.080 adding
00:47:03.580 any more
00:47:04.500 things.
00:47:05.500 Now
00:47:05.660 here's the important
00:47:07.480 part.
00:47:08.180 That's not to say
00:47:09.100 that we will have
00:47:09.760 all of the things
00:47:10.800 we will ever use.
00:47:12.120 I said we've selected
00:47:13.220 all of the types
00:47:14.440 of things.
00:47:15.160 So
00:47:15.360 your job
00:47:16.840 as the gift giver
00:47:17.960 is to figure out
00:47:18.740 what types of things
00:47:20.060 your dad or husband
00:47:20.980 uses
00:47:21.400 and buy him
00:47:23.000 something within
00:47:23.880 that type.
00:47:25.740 Okay
00:47:25.960 don't try to
00:47:26.800 introduce him
00:47:27.560 to a new
00:47:28.120 type of thing.
00:47:30.020 Let me show
00:47:30.620 what I mean.
00:47:31.080 For example
00:47:31.540 if you've never
00:47:32.820 seen him wear
00:47:33.480 a watch before
00:47:34.400 don't get him
00:47:35.460 a watch.
00:47:36.260 He's not a watch
00:47:37.240 guy.
00:47:38.120 A watch is a
00:47:39.200 type of thing
00:47:40.040 that didn't make
00:47:41.120 the cut
00:47:41.620 in his life.
00:47:43.100 And now
00:47:43.400 if he's 35
00:47:44.220 or 45
00:47:44.980 and he's never
00:47:45.560 it just didn't
00:47:46.320 make the cut.
00:47:46.920 He's not
00:47:47.240 that guy.
00:47:48.200 He's not ever
00:47:48.920 going to wear one.
00:47:49.460 If he likes
00:47:50.300 coffee but you've
00:47:51.080 never seen him
00:47:51.980 in your entire
00:47:52.400 life use a
00:47:53.140 French press
00:47:53.760 don't get him
00:47:54.800 a French press.
00:47:55.640 He's not a
00:47:56.100 French press guy.
00:47:57.340 He's not going
00:47:57.720 to start to
00:47:58.700 become one
00:47:59.200 just because
00:47:59.580 you buy him
00:48:00.080 one that's
00:48:00.360 asking too much.
00:48:01.060 That's a major
00:48:01.640 lifestyle change.
00:48:02.980 You can't expect
00:48:03.520 him to make.
00:48:04.820 This goes
00:48:05.240 especially for
00:48:05.820 any kind of
00:48:06.260 electronic gadget.
00:48:08.180 You know
00:48:08.300 if you've never
00:48:08.680 seen him use
00:48:09.160 a tablet
00:48:09.620 don't get him
00:48:10.860 an iPad.
00:48:11.980 It's a nice
00:48:12.400 gift.
00:48:12.920 It's an expensive
00:48:13.480 gift.
00:48:15.060 He thanks you
00:48:15.920 for it but
00:48:16.340 he'll never
00:48:16.780 use it.
00:48:17.820 He appreciates
00:48:18.500 the idea
00:48:19.100 of it.
00:48:19.500 He likes it
00:48:20.100 in theory
00:48:20.660 maybe but
00:48:21.340 he won't
00:48:21.660 use it.
00:48:22.260 He just
00:48:22.480 doesn't use
00:48:22.980 that type
00:48:23.380 of thing.
00:48:24.260 If you've
00:48:24.580 never seen
00:48:24.880 him wear
00:48:25.120 slippers
00:48:25.600 don't buy
00:48:26.100 him slippers.
00:48:26.620 He's not
00:48:26.860 a slippers
00:48:27.200 guy.
00:48:28.020 I'm a
00:48:28.300 slippers guy.
00:48:28.860 Slippers
00:48:29.100 for me
00:48:29.660 are a great
00:48:30.020 gift.
00:48:30.980 But only
00:48:31.760 because that
00:48:32.320 type of
00:48:32.700 thing has
00:48:33.060 made it
00:48:33.460 onto my
00:48:33.920 roster.
00:48:34.580 You see
00:48:34.760 if you've
00:48:35.440 never seen
00:48:35.920 him use
00:48:36.900 any kind
00:48:37.380 of electronic
00:48:38.460 back massager
00:48:39.560 thing or
00:48:40.100 whatever.
00:48:40.620 Again
00:48:40.780 don't buy
00:48:41.140 him one.
00:48:41.820 He doesn't
00:48:42.080 use that
00:48:42.380 type of
00:48:42.640 thing.
00:48:43.680 These are
00:48:44.100 not bad
00:48:44.700 gifts per
00:48:45.260 se.
00:48:45.560 They could
00:48:45.880 be amazing
00:48:46.440 gifts but
00:48:47.260 only if it's
00:48:47.860 a type of
00:48:48.420 thing that
00:48:48.760 has already
00:48:49.260 made it
00:48:49.920 onto your
00:48:50.480 dad or
00:48:50.980 husband's
00:48:51.440 menu of
00:48:52.160 things that
00:48:52.700 he uses.
00:48:53.840 Don't try
00:48:54.440 to add to
00:48:55.080 the menu.
00:48:56.540 It never
00:48:56.940 works.
00:48:58.140 Now there
00:48:59.480 is a wrinkle
00:48:59.900 here that I
00:49:00.460 have to
00:49:00.700 mention.
00:49:01.020 It's possible
00:49:01.720 that a
00:49:02.100 man later
00:49:05.600 in life as
00:49:06.100 a father may
00:49:07.480 try to
00:49:08.300 expand into
00:49:09.540 a new type
00:49:10.200 of thing.
00:49:11.500 That can
00:49:12.060 happen.
00:49:13.220 But if
00:49:13.500 that's the
00:49:13.920 case you'll
00:49:14.480 know it
00:49:14.820 because he'll
00:49:15.220 announce it
00:49:15.680 to you.
00:49:15.980 He'll be
00:49:16.180 excited about
00:49:16.820 his journey
00:49:17.380 into a
00:49:17.880 new thing.
00:49:19.220 The new
00:49:19.740 thing probably
00:49:20.180 won't take.
00:49:20.960 He probably
00:49:21.240 won't stick
00:49:21.660 with it or
00:49:22.120 remain interested
00:49:22.700 in it for
00:49:23.020 very long.
00:49:23.720 But for a
00:49:24.660 few months or
00:49:25.160 weeks he'll
00:49:25.680 be very gung
00:49:26.240 ho about it.
00:49:26.660 For instance I
00:49:27.500 use the example
00:49:28.060 of a watch.
00:49:28.940 Well in fact I
00:49:29.540 am thinking
00:49:29.980 about becoming
00:49:30.460 a watch guy.
00:49:31.400 Never worn
00:49:31.800 one before.
00:49:33.200 Randomly I
00:49:33.660 decided one
00:49:34.240 day maybe I'll
00:49:35.180 do the whole
00:49:35.520 watch thing.
00:49:36.000 I told my
00:49:36.320 wife.
00:49:36.920 I was excited.
00:49:37.500 I told her
00:49:37.860 because she was
00:49:38.200 asking me
00:49:42.540 watch you're
00:49:42.740 not a watch
00:49:43.140 guy.
00:49:43.640 And I said
00:49:43.940 I know but
00:49:44.440 we're going
00:49:44.640 to try this
00:49:45.080 out.
00:49:45.720 I'm going on
00:49:46.220 the watch
00:49:46.600 journey.
00:49:47.080 Who knows
00:49:47.400 where to
00:49:47.620 lead.
00:49:48.080 Let's get
00:49:48.420 crazy.
00:49:48.900 Let's throw
00:49:49.220 caution to
00:49:49.740 the wind.
00:49:50.500 Try this
00:49:50.880 whole watch
00:49:51.400 deal.
00:49:51.760 See what the
00:49:52.100 fuss is about.
00:49:53.080 So she'll
00:49:53.340 probably buy
00:49:53.840 me a watch.
00:49:54.420 I'll wear it
00:49:54.840 once and
00:49:56.200 never again
00:49:56.740 in my life.
00:49:57.860 That's how it
00:49:58.400 goes when a
00:49:58.800 man tries to
00:49:59.380 expand.
00:50:00.060 So it's sort
00:50:01.180 of the exception
00:50:01.720 that proves the
00:50:02.280 rule.
00:50:03.000 Finally this is
00:50:03.700 a note for
00:50:04.200 wives specifically.
00:50:06.640 Don't buy
00:50:07.220 your husband a
00:50:08.080 gift that's
00:50:08.780 really a gift
00:50:09.320 for you.
00:50:10.640 We see what
00:50:11.420 you're doing.
00:50:12.040 We're on to
00:50:12.520 you.
00:50:12.880 We know what
00:50:13.240 game you're
00:50:13.620 playing.
00:50:14.420 Ladies I'll
00:50:15.480 give you an
00:50:15.720 example.
00:50:16.520 My wife usually
00:50:17.480 an expert level
00:50:18.400 gift giver truly
00:50:19.260 a master of
00:50:19.860 the craft.
00:50:20.740 She can still
00:50:21.500 occasionally try
00:50:22.180 to sneak one
00:50:22.680 of these things
00:50:23.080 past me.
00:50:24.140 So recently
00:50:24.660 she gifted me
00:50:26.540 something that
00:50:27.840 is called and
00:50:28.520 I'm not making
00:50:29.340 this up a
00:50:30.720 beard bib.
00:50:32.120 So this is a
00:50:33.000 large bib that
00:50:34.380 yes a bib that
00:50:36.500 you wear when
00:50:37.800 you're trimming
00:50:38.160 your beard and
00:50:38.840 it attaches by
00:50:40.440 suction cups to
00:50:41.600 the mirror in
00:50:43.180 the bathroom.
00:50:44.100 You wear it
00:50:44.440 around your neck
00:50:44.960 and it goes to
00:50:45.560 the mirror.
00:50:46.060 And the idea is
00:50:47.660 that it catches
00:50:48.160 the beard
00:50:48.700 trimming so that
00:50:49.480 they don't clog
00:50:50.240 up the sink.
00:50:52.100 This is the
00:50:52.820 gift my wife
00:50:54.560 gets.
00:50:54.900 Why did she
00:50:55.280 give me this
00:50:55.640 generous gift?
00:50:56.180 Well because she
00:50:57.020 is tired of the
00:50:58.480 sink being clogged
00:50:59.280 with beard
00:51:00.000 trimmings.
00:51:00.420 I on the other
00:51:00.860 hand am not
00:51:01.840 tired of it.
00:51:02.400 I think it's
00:51:02.780 fine.
00:51:03.440 I think it's
00:51:03.800 not a big deal.
00:51:04.480 So this is a
00:51:05.580 gift that she
00:51:06.020 bought for
00:51:06.500 herself.
00:51:07.820 It's also
00:51:08.380 something that
00:51:08.900 I in a
00:51:09.500 million years
00:51:10.040 would never
00:51:10.520 use.
00:51:11.440 You could put
00:51:11.980 a gun to my
00:51:12.620 head and tell
00:51:13.260 me to choose
00:51:13.740 between a
00:51:14.180 bloody death
00:51:14.860 or the beard
00:51:15.520 bib and I
00:51:16.920 would take
00:51:17.320 death and it
00:51:18.300 would not be a
00:51:19.140 hard decision.
00:51:20.200 So the beard
00:51:21.000 bib violated
00:51:21.820 basically every
00:51:22.700 rule I've just
00:51:23.240 laid out.
00:51:23.720 It's a type of
00:51:24.400 thing I've
00:51:24.780 certainly never
00:51:25.600 used and would
00:51:26.880 never use and
00:51:28.240 it's a gift for
00:51:28.760 my wife not for
00:51:29.500 me.
00:51:30.120 I'll let it
00:51:30.440 slide because my
00:51:31.200 wife bats like
00:51:31.840 900 with gifts but
00:51:32.840 still it's the sort
00:51:34.120 of thing you don't
00:51:34.580 want to do.
00:51:34.920 So, with all
00:51:36.520 that said, what
00:51:38.560 gift should you
00:51:39.520 buy the dad in
00:51:40.900 your life?
00:51:42.480 And I'll tell
00:51:43.040 you, and this
00:51:43.660 may sound like an
00:51:44.380 unhelpful answer
00:51:45.100 but it is the
00:51:46.900 answer.
00:51:47.800 Okay?
00:51:48.040 And this is all
00:51:48.480 you need.
00:51:48.720 So you don't
00:51:48.900 need a million
00:51:49.520 articles online all
00:51:50.480 the time.
00:51:50.940 What do you buy
00:51:51.520 the dad in your
00:51:52.240 life?
00:51:52.720 I'll tell you.
00:51:53.700 Forget about it.
00:51:54.340 You don't need
00:51:54.600 any of the articles.
00:51:55.340 I'm telling you
00:51:55.700 right now.
00:51:57.520 Just buy him
00:51:58.540 something that he
00:52:00.440 likes.
00:52:00.820 That's it.
00:52:03.680 Every dad has
00:52:04.940 about three, maybe
00:52:06.520 four things that
00:52:07.740 he likes.
00:52:09.280 No dad likes more
00:52:10.720 than five things.
00:52:11.700 Five is the top.
00:52:12.960 No one likes five
00:52:14.080 things at most.
00:52:15.300 Some like fewer
00:52:16.040 than three.
00:52:16.820 There are dads who
00:52:17.340 only like one
00:52:17.900 thing.
00:52:18.960 But usually it's
00:52:19.840 like three, three to
00:52:20.440 four.
00:52:20.920 That's the average.
00:52:22.240 So, for example, I'll
00:52:22.900 give you another
00:52:23.140 example.
00:52:23.440 My dad likes to
00:52:25.080 eat at Ruby
00:52:25.840 Tuesday.
00:52:26.840 It's one of the
00:52:27.480 three things he
00:52:28.140 likes.
00:52:29.100 Ruby Tuesday, it's
00:52:29.760 not my thing.
00:52:30.360 I don't quite
00:52:30.940 understand his
00:52:31.620 brand loyalty to
00:52:32.400 Ruby Tuesday, but
00:52:33.100 that's fine.
00:52:34.120 My dad likes it.
00:52:34.960 So, over the
00:52:35.960 years, I have
00:52:37.080 probably given him
00:52:37.760 a gift card to
00:52:38.460 Ruby Tuesday for
00:52:39.260 probably like 20
00:52:40.360 different gift-giving
00:52:41.280 occasions.
00:52:43.200 And so, my wife,
00:52:44.560 every year, she'll
00:52:45.980 look at that and
00:52:46.640 say, it's hard to
00:52:47.500 figure out what to
00:52:49.000 get your dad.
00:52:49.560 And I say, what do
00:52:50.720 you mean it's hard?
00:52:51.340 He likes Ruby
00:52:51.860 Tuesday.
00:52:52.640 What's complicated
00:52:53.280 about this?
00:52:53.940 It's not hard.
00:52:55.100 This is what he
00:52:55.740 likes.
00:52:56.020 Just get him that.
00:52:57.320 See, when people
00:52:57.780 say that their dad
00:52:58.720 or husband is hard
00:52:59.480 to shop for,
00:53:00.360 which you hear a
00:53:01.240 lot, what they
00:53:02.780 mean is that it's
00:53:03.580 hard to find them
00:53:04.420 a gift other than
00:53:05.600 the three kinds of
00:53:06.520 gifts that he likes.
00:53:09.100 They feel like they
00:53:10.240 need to switch it up,
00:53:11.260 get creative, expand
00:53:12.300 his horizons.
00:53:13.020 No.
00:53:13.780 We don't want our
00:53:14.500 horizons expanded.
00:53:15.900 We've set our
00:53:16.720 horizons exactly where
00:53:18.240 we want them, and they
00:53:19.360 will stay there until
00:53:20.560 we die.
00:53:21.720 And that's it.
00:53:22.740 All that said, we
00:53:26.080 don't care that
00:53:26.600 much, so you
00:53:27.240 really just get
00:53:27.800 whatever you want.
00:53:28.500 It's fine.
00:53:29.720 I mean, in truth, if
00:53:30.560 we want something, we'll
00:53:31.420 just buy it for
00:53:32.000 ourselves anyway, so
00:53:33.020 the whole thing is
00:53:33.900 sort of pointless.
00:53:35.360 Even so, for the
00:53:36.080 record, these are the
00:53:38.120 gift-giving rules, and
00:53:39.760 these are the dad
00:53:40.500 gifts that are today
00:53:42.020 canceled.
00:53:44.200 That'll do it for the
00:53:44.800 show today.
00:53:45.100 Thanks for watching.
00:53:45.660 Thanks for listening.
00:53:46.760 Talk to you tomorrow.
00:53:47.620 Have a great day.
00:53:48.720 Godspeed.
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