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The Matt Walsh Show
- December 11, 2024
Ep. 1503 - Caitlin Clark Bends The Knee To The Left-Wing Racial Narrative
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Sentence Count
616
Misogynist Sentences
46
Hate Speech Sentences
15
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Here's a little case study that they probably won't be teaching
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anytime soon in business school,
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even though it's pretty eye-opening.
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This was by far the best year the WNBA has ever had.
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They set an all-time record for total television viewers at 54 million.
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They set an all-time record for the number of telecasts that reached at least a million viewers.
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They had their highest total attendance in more than two decades,
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up roughly 50% from last year.
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The All-Star game recorded its most fan votes in history at 10 million votes,
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more than a 500% increase from last year.
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The Indiana Fever, the team Caitlin Clark plays for,
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set an all-time single-season record for attendance by a WNBA team.
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The league saw a 350% year-over-year growth in subscriptions to their paid streaming service.
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The league had more social media engagement, more sellout crowds,
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more news coverage, more merchandise sales than ever before.
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This was the kind of season that WNBA executives never imagined was even possible.
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Now, given all these facts,
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how much money do you think the WNBA made this year?
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How much cash did this historic season actually bring in?
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What kind of profit were they able to reap from all of this success?
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You might remember that earlier in this year,
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there were some estimates that maybe things weren't looking all that great.
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And it turns out that now that the final numbers are in,
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those estimates were very accurate.
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In total, according to New York Post,
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the WNBA lost $40 million this year in its best year on record.
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They exceeded pretty much every metric in the book,
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and they managed to earn negative $40 million.
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This is a business that has never been profitable in its history,
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and it's now abundantly clear that nothing can ever change that.
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I mean, it is a fatally flawed concept
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because the overwhelming majority of Americans
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Americans have no interest in watching women play basketball.
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Even when record numbers of Americans are interested,
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it's still not that many.
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And that's one of the many reasons it was illuminating
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to read Caitlin Clark's recent front page article in Time magazine,
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which is something that apparently still exists,
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and which just named Clark their athlete of the year.
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And this is an interview that includes
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probably the single biggest backhanded compliment
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that's ever been printed in the history of backhanded compliments.
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And at the same time,
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it includes Caitlin Clark's official capitulation
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to the left's anti-white racial narrative,
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which everyone should have seen coming a long time ago.
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But here's the part that I'm talking about
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straight from Time magazine.
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It says this, quote,
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Clark is cognizant of the racial underpinnings of her stardom.
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I want to say I've earned every single thing,
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but as a white person, there is privilege, says Clark.
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A lot of those players in the league
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that have been really good have been black players.
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This league has kind of been built on them.
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The more we can appreciate that,
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highlight that, talk about that,
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and then continue to have brands and companies
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invest in those players that have made this league incredible,
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I think it's very important.
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I have to continue to try to change that.
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The more we can elevate black women,
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that's going to be a beautiful thing.
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Okay, two things are happening here.
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First of all, Clark is crediting black women
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for building the WNBA.
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Without black women, she says,
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there is no WNBA,
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and she apparently means that as a kind of a compliment,
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even though in practical terms,
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it's a bit like praising Bernie Madoff
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for managing a successful asset management firm,
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or Elizabeth Holmes for founding Theranos,
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or Kenneth Lay for running Enron.
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Normally, when someone creates a business
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that serves no purpose
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other than to light people's money on fire,
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it's not something you praise them for.
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Okay, so if black women built the WNBA,
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they built the least successful professional sports league ever.
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And also, it's not even true, by the way,
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the WNBA was built and is still maintained by the NBA.
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So men built the WNBA.
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Without men, the WNBA would not exist.
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But Caitlin Clark is coming out
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and crediting black women for their role
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in establishing a league that nobody watches.
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She says that black women in particular
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deserve to be elevated,
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and it's clear why she's saying this.
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She's saying this because she is,
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I'm sorry to say, a coward.
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To protect her endorsement deals
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and her good status at the WNBA,
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Clark has decided to affirm
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the single most destructive lie of the generation,
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which is that white people are inherently indebted
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to black people because of their skin color,
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and that black people solely on account of their skin color
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deserve special treatment at the expense of whites.
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That's what she just came out and endorsed.
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Now, there's no need to explain in any detail
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how much damage this ideology has caused
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this country over the past decade.
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It's led to grave injustices in every single area of life
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for people of every race and both genders.
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But more importantly than that, of course,
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it's wrong as a matter of principle.
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And most Americans realize it's wrong.
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That's a big part of the reason Kamala Harris
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was just defeated.
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It's why DEI departments are being gutted all over the country,
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from college campuses to Fortune 500 companies.
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But Clark is clinging to this ideology,
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and she's not the only one doing it.
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And we'll have more on that in a moment.
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But to be clear, it's not surprising
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that Clark would come out and say this and bend the knee.
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A lot of conservatives are kind of acting shocked
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by this Time Magazine profile,
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but you should not be shocked by it.
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Did you actually think she wouldn't bend the knee
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to this stuff?
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Of course, of course she did.
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Of course she did.
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And there were signs.
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Just a few months ago on SNL, for example,
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Clark went out of her way
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in the middle of an alleged comedy segment
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to credit a series of black women for her success.
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Watch.
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Good luck in the WNBA.
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I hope you have a great first season.
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Thanks.
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I'm sure it will be a big first step for me.
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But it's just one step for the WNBA.
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Thanks to all the great players like Cheryl Swoops,
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Lisa Leslie, Cynthia Cooper,
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the great Don Staley,
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and my basketball hero, Maya Moore.
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These are the women that kicked down the door
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so I could walk inside.
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So I want to thank them tonight
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for laying the foundation.
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And Michael, since you're such a big fan,
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I brought you a souvenir.
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It's an apron signed by me.
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Just another hilarious SNL bit there.
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Just great, great funny stuff.
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Now, she doesn't name a single white player,
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and that's not because there haven't been
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good white players in the WNBA,
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at least by the standards of the WNBA.
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According to the internet, which I'm relying on
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for all of my information about the WNBA,
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somebody named Sue Bird was pretty good, for example.
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She played for something called the Seattle Storm,
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which exists.
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And Sue Bird became the first player
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in the history of the WNBA
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to win titles in three different decades.
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One of the greatest female point guards
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of all time, apparently.
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So why isn't Sue Bird getting credit
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for kicking down the doors
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so that Caitlin Clark could walk through them?
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Now, of course, maybe the biggest sign
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that Clark would start openly apologizing
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for being white was that she got assaulted
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all season long and never seemed
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to have a big issue with it.
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And I'm talking about flagrant attacks on the court
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where she was knocked over, jabbed in the eye, etc.
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All of these attacks were committed
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by black players, as far as I can tell.
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And these players never really even expressed remorse.
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In fact, in some cases,
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is they taunted Caitlin Clark afterwards.
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So here's just a small selection
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of this sort of treatment.
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Following the pass to Boston.
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In pain after she caught that fingertip in the eye
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or right around it from Carrington with no whistle.
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Now, there's nothing Indiana can challenge here
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because no call on the floor was made.
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One-on-one Sammy Wickham with eight seconds left
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goes around Agumake, drives baseline,
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and shot rejected by Izzy Magmagor.
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Second opportunity is up and in by Nalissa Smith.
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Very entertaining first half about Seattle
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and all of a sudden, we're pretty close.
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This has been as close as it's been
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all second quarter long, 44.
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New reaction after this controversial foul
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on Caitlin Clark.
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Unnecessary.
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Clark's Indiana fever taking on the Chicago Sky
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on Saturday.
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The Sky's Kennedy Carter hitting a shot,
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then heading over to Clark
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and shoulder checking her.
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The refs called it a common foul,
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but the league yesterday upgraded the call
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to a flagrant foul.
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In Truss Arena, the fever really stretched out this one
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in the second half
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as we look at Diamond DeShields and Caitlin Clark.
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Okay, so just that kind of stuff all season long.
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And if the clips demonstrate anything,
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it's that Caitlin Clark doesn't seem
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to have privilege in this league,
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although she says she's privileged.
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As a white woman in the WNBA,
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she seems to have anything but privilege,
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and she knows this.
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She knows it better than anyone.
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Yet she claims that she has privilege,
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even after suffering through a season
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where she was repeatedly physically assaulted
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because of her race.
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That's the privilege of being white in the WNBA.
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The reason she's getting attention,
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on the other hand,
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is not that she's white,
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it's that she's good by league standards.
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Despite getting physically attacked all the time,
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she set WNBA records for most points by a rookie,
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most assists,
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becoming the fastest player to record 300 points,
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and so on.
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The reason she's reviled and abused,
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on the other hand,
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is purely because of her race.
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I mean, that's the only reason
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that anyone wouldn't like her,
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that her teammates or competitors wouldn't like her.
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In fact, this Time Magazine profile
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makes that very clear.
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They quote her teammate,
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a woman with a name I can't pronounce,
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as saying, quote,
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in a sport dominated by black
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slash African-American players,
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white America has rallied around Caitlin Clark.
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The support looks mostly amazing,
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sometimes fanatical and territorial,
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sometimes racist.
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It seems that the great white hope syndrome
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is at play again.
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That's quite a teammate.
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In other words,
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she's saying white people
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are only supporting Caitlin Clark
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because they want to see a white person
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dominate a sport
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that's mostly played by black women.
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That's supposedly the only reason
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some white people are now
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actually watching the sport
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and going to the games.
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They're such committed white supremacists
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that they're willing to subject themselves
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to hours of WNBA games
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just to stick it to black women, apparently.
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This is the kind of thing
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that makes it very obvious
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that WNBA is never going to have
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another decent season ever again.
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Because the moment they get some new fans,
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they immediately smear their new fans
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as racist.
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And a lot of these players are doing it.
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The Time Magazine piece also contains
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this insight from another player,
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Asia Wilson is her name,
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quote,
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it doesn't matter what we all do
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as black women,
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we're still going to be swept
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underneath the rug.
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That's why it boils my blood
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when people say it's not about race,
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because it is.
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This has become part of the mythology
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in women's basketball for a long time.
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They seem to have convinced themselves
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that nobody watches their games
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because of racism.
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That was the message
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that a UConn player
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named Paige Buechers
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delivered at the ESPYs
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a few years ago
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at the height of the BLN mania.
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Watch.
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As a white woman
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who leads a black-led sport
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and celebrated here,
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I want to show a light
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on black women.
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They don't get the media coverage
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that they deserve.
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They've given so much to this sport
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and the community
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and society as a whole,
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and their value is undeniable.
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In the WNBA,
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last season,
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the postseason awards,
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80% of the winners were black,
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but they got half the amount
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of coverage as a white athlete,
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so I think it's time for change.
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Sports media holds
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the key to storylines.
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Sports media and sponsors
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tell us who is valuable,
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and you have told the world
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that I matter today,
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and everyone who voted,
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thank you,
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but I think we should use
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this power together
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to also celebrate black women.
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So it's the same script
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that Caitlin Clark is reading
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three years later,
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as if nothing's changed,
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and hopefully I don't need
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to explain the problem here.
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To claim that, you know,
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people don't care about
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black basketball players
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or that black basketball players
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are getting swept under the rug
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is to ignore the fact
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that out of the 100 most popular
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and wealthiest
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and most praised
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and adored basketball players
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of all time,
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maybe like 10 of them are white.
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Maybe.
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Obviously, the vast, vast majority
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of the greatest
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and most visible
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and most widely loved
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and admired basketball players
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of all time are black.
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I mean, the most marketable
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and marketed athlete
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in history in any sport
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is a black guy
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named Michael Jordan.
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Maybe you've heard of him.
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So this narrative
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wants us to pretend
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like none of that exists.
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But things have changed.
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Most people aren't willing
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to play, you know,
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this game of pretend anymore.
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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
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00:20:33.400
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about Republicans' prospects
00:20:35.820
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it's that Democrats,
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00:20:39.620
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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
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So I'm going to do
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a service today
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for our daily cancellation
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as I do so often
00:43:12.160
during this segment.
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Every daily cancellation
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is in effect
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a public service
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and that will essentially
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and especially
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be the case today.
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Out of the kindness
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of my heart
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and an abundance
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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.
00:53:55.820
Today on the Ben
00:53:56.600
Shapiro Show, Bill
00:53:57.460
Burr, Jimmy Kimmel, a
00:53:58.440
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Pennsylvania professor,
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and Joy Reid all smile
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UnitedHealthcare CEO.
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Bowman lose their minds
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acquittal, and Donald
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Trump prepares to
00:54:07.160
unleash the forces of
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