Ep. 1517 - The Gender Ideology Movement Is Now Exploiting The Disabled For Clout
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Summary
A horrifying video goes viral of a severely disabled young woman showing off her scars from her gender-affirming top surgery. We have to talk about that. The FBI shuts down its DEI office ahead of Trump s inauguration, and a flight attendant starts a GoFundMe after she gets fired for twerking on an airplane. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh show, a horrifying video goes viral of a severely disabled young woman
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showing off her scars from her quote-unquote gender-affirming top surgery.
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The FBI shuts down its DEI office ahead of Trump's inauguration,
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and a flight attendant starts a GoFundMe after she gets fired for twerking on an airplane.
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One of the ways that trans activists have been able to sell gender ideology to mainstream audiences is by hiding its consequences.
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They would rather use sanitized terms like gender-affirming surgery and gender-affirming care as opposed to actually showing people what these procedures entail in real life.
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In that sense, gender activists have a lot in common with abortion advocates.
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They'll throw a million euphemisms against the wall, but they definitely don't want you to see what this stuff is in practice.
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They don't want you to see an abortion in practice because once any moral, sane person witnesses something as grotesque and abhorrent as an abortion, they'll oppose it immediately.
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No amount of political indoctrination will convince them otherwise.
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And by the same token, trans activists have generally understood that nobody wants to actually see these gender-affirming procedures or their immediate aftermath that they talk about so much.
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They know that support for trans ideology would collapse if more people observed what exactly this butchery entails.
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Indeed, support for trans ideology has collapsed precisely for that reason.
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But there are some activists who are so committed, so brainwashed, that they can't help themselves.
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They are the true believers of the religion to the point that they genuinely can't perceive how even the most shocking barbarism will come across to everyone else.
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They revel in the kinds of horrors that will shake any morally decent person to his core.
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And that's why millions of people have just become familiar with an Instagram account called Disabled Trans Boy.
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It's everywhere on the internet at the moment, largely due to reporting by Sarah Fields, Andy Ngo, Billboard Chris, and a few others.
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The account belongs to somebody using the name Micah Leroy with he, him pronouns listed.
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Now, before I play some videos from this account, I want to make it clear that this is a very troubling story.
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The details and kind of the full picture are emerging gradually thanks to the journalists I just mentioned.
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And then finally, the Daily Mail, which I'll get to in a few moments.
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So I'm going to present the information as we currently have it.
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Over the past several weeks, the Disabled Trans Boy account has uploaded videos that appear to document the process of a 19-year-old woman who is disabled obtaining a quote-unquote gender-affirming double mastectomy so that she looks less feminine.
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This is someone who has cerebral palsy, a disorder that severely affects motor control.
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It also is a disorder associated, in many cases, with a significant degree of cognitive impairment.
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And yet this person was able to obtain, apparently, top surgery.
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A doctor permanently altered her body with irreversible surgery, despite the fact that she is very severely disabled.
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Now, here's the most recent video on the account, which, again, is extremely hard to watch.
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So if you're watching the video version of this podcast and you have any kids in the room with you at the moment, I would pause the show and come back to it when they're not around.
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But it's what's happening right now in this country.
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It's so unimaginably horrific that your first reaction,
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or hope, anyway, is that it must be some kind of bizarre hoax.
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I mean, you want to conclude that there's no way that any doctor would agree to perform this procedure or that somebody would film any of this proudly and put it on the Internet.
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It seems like it has to be some kind of setup, or maybe it's being taken out of context, you might think.
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You may wonder whether this young woman actually had a double mastectomy because she had breast cancer or something.
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But that does not appear to be what happened here.
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All of the evidence, including a Daily Mail interview with this disabled woman and her family that we'll get to in a moment,
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clearly indicates that, indeed, doctors removed the breasts of a disabled young woman in order to try to turn her into a boy.
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There are posts documenting this woman's journey.
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There's one video, for instance, which was uploaded just prior to the double mastectomy being performed.
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And there's content like this going back for several years.
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I'm so excited to get my name changed on my birth certificate.
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Another caption appears next to this image from March 2023, which shows the girl in a parking lot.
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I saw a doctor today that said that I'm almost ready to get on tea.
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Everyone should be able to live as their true self.
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A few weeks later, there's a bunch of posts documenting her use of testosterone.
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And then there's this footage in which someone who identifies as autistic persuades this, quote,
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disabled trans individual to touch a pot, even though the pot says that disabled people shouldn't touch it.
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Says, do not let people with disabilities or children approach the pot to avoid burns.
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So, I mean, the whole thing is just painful to watch, so we'll just cut it off there.
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She's clearly being used for clout by activists who don't care about her.
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And she clearly doesn't have the capacity to consent to any of this stuff, even as an adult.
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Spoiler alert, in case you're interested, they both do touch the pan.
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I mean, the reason why you wouldn't want someone like that touching a pot like that is that it gets really hot, and she obviously does not have full use of her extremities.
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And so trying to manage a very hot pan like that could cause severe burns.
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Now, the woman's name, before she or her parents changed it, was Mara J. Leroy, and she's from Minneapolis.
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Andy Ngo reports that Mara's mother is, unsurprisingly, a DEI-slash-anti-Trump activist who is, quote, extremely woke and has involved her child in her leftist activism.
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She's been separated from the girl's father for some time.
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And Billboard Chris reports that the divorce was finalized about two years ago.
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So, Ngo says that Mara was medically transitioned, quote, unquote, in high school, presumably as a minor, prior to receiving this double mastectomy.
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And the Instagram account that we were just looking at would certainly support that reporting.
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Ngo also reports that a state representative named Alicia Lish-Klazowski was recently photographed with Mara and her mother to celebrate legislation that would advance gender-inclusive restrooms, among other left-wing agenda items.
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And as you can see, Mara and her mother appear to be in the bottom corner there, along with the legislator who uses they-them pronouns, by the way.
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And since these videos and images began going viral, this legislator hasn't responded in any way.
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I mean, this is how normalized all this insanity is in left-wing jurisdictions like Minneapolis.
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Democrat politicians openly, of course, supporting it.
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And then there's this from the journalist Sarah Fields.
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She found this post from the Disabled Trans Boy account from a year ago.
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This literally changed my whole life in five minutes, being there my first year of YIG, because before I had no idea about pronouns, but now look at me.
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Y-I-G, in case you're unfamiliar, stands for Youth in Government.
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It's a YMCA program that puts high schoolers and middle schoolers in model governments in states across the country.
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And apparently, with support from the government, they are indoctrinating disabled children into gender ideology.
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Late last night, the Daily Mail picked up this story.
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They reached out to the disabled woman and her family to kind of get their side of the story here.
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And I'm going to read a section of this article.
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A transgender teen with cerebral palsy who went viral after posting about her breast removal surgery has told DailyMail.com that she knew what she was doing and is happy with her choices.
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Michael Leroy, 19, a University of Minnesota student, had a double mastectomy last month and shared footage about the procedure.
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And her painful but swift recovery on Instagram.
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Those videos exploded on conservative social media on Thursday with critics calling Micah a victim who should not have been greenlighted for a sex change because of her disability.
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But speaking with DailyMail.com, Micah said she had a long history of gender identity issues and that she is glad she provoked a reaction because she wanted to blow up the internet.
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Micah's case raises tough questions about whether disabled people and minors should be allowed to take puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones and undergo sex change operations.
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Micah's disability, cerebral palsy, affects movement and muscle control.
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She's able to speak and write for herself, get straight A's in college, and is involved in state politics.
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Now we'll get to the kicker because, you know, you might hear that she's able to speak and then you get these very clear quotes.
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I'm making my own decisions and it might seem a little bit odd to you because we just played the video of this person and it seems pretty apparent from that video that she really can't speak.
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So what do you mean she can speak and communicate?
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Micah can speak on her own, but was aided in this interview by her mom, Kathy Leroy, who was effectively translating her words.
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Micah explained how she's not being exploited and coerced by her parents.
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And we know that because her parents translated and told us that that's what she said.
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Now, needless to say, the doctors and parents in this situation deserve to be in prison.
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This is one of the most horrific cases of abuse of the disabled that we've ever seen.
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Which explains why trans activists see this not as shocking and horrific and the sort of thing that should send multiple people to prison,
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but as something wonderful and worth boasting about.
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Now, as terrifying as all this is, you might be tempted, if you're extremely naive, to kind of dismiss this story as an aberration,
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as not reflective of the gender transition industry broadly.
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You might say, for example, that some doctor must have gone rogue here to perform this operation on someone who's so clearly disabled.
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As the Post Millennial reported several years ago, leading experts in the field of so-called trans medicine have said that autistic nonverbal minors can consent to sex changes.
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In fact, there was a conference recently featuring a lead author on the WPATH transgender guidelines in which this very topic was discussed.
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Some of the world's leading experts in transgender health care convened in San Francisco.
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Psychiatrist Dan Karasik delivered a talk titled,
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Managing Patients with Co-Occurring Mental Health Diagnoses.
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And in the audience was none other than Dr. Diane Aronsaft, a leading figure in the field of child sex changes,
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who shared baffling anecdotes about nonverbal children expressing their gender identities.
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The Post Millennial says it obtained audio of the talk,
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in which, quote, Karasik can be heard asserting that severe autism should not prevent a person from being approved for an experimental medical sex change,
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dismissing the common concern of parents that a fixation on gender is due to the intense focus of interest typical of autism spectrum disorder,
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and engaging in the bizarre exchange of ideas about youth communicating their transgender identity through drawing.
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In other words, the bleeding edge of so-called trans medicine is that children who can't even speak
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are somehow capable of revealing that they're born in the wrong bodies.
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And of course, this is a fundamental tenet of trans ideology.
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They often talk about recognizing, quote, trans children shortly after birth.
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But this ideology is now being put into practice in a new way.
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It's resulting in irreversible surgeries for young people, even severely disabled and impaired young people,
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Now, yes, it's true that the woman in these videos is not a minor legally.
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She's 19 years old, according to the reporting we have.
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She was brought into the sex change pipeline as a minor.
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And then shortly after she became an adult, the surgery was apparently done.
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She may be suffering from a crippling disability, and she may be extremely easy to coerce and manipulate.
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But according to leading experts in the field of gender-affirming care,
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she can consent somehow to having her body permanently disfigured.
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So this is a story that underscores, once again, the need to abolish all of these so-called gender-affirming surgeries,
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it is still unspeakably evil to remove the healthy body parts of people who are confused about their identity.
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The gender transition industry does not suddenly become ethical just because the patient happens to be 18 years old.
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Regardless of the person's age, they're still being manipulated and led into doing things which have consequences that they do not fully comprehend.
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And the result, as you saw, is horrifying beyond all imagining.
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The truth is that nobody, regardless of disability or mental capacity or lack thereof,
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should be subjected to medical experimentation and disfigurement.
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So once we outlaw the mutilation of children, the next step is to ban it for everyone.
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Protecting kids, as I've always said, is only step one.
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Step two is to take down the whole industry entirely, every piece of it, and leave nothing standing.
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A full ban across the board, regardless of age, regardless of circumstance, is the only way.
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It is the only way to end this wickedness once and for all.
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Kathy Hocule gave her state of the state address for New York a couple of days ago.
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You've got psychotic hobos running wild on the subway.
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You've got crime, violence, drugs, vigilantes gunning people down in the street.
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You know, she wanted to make up for how horrible things are.
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She did that by opening the state of the state address with a dance performance.
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She didn't start dancing, but she brought in an allegedly professional dance troupe to
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perform for the assembled crowd who thought that they were coming just to a, you know,
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I'm going to leave it all on the floor tonight.
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You know, there are just, in my opinion, there are just far too many people dancing these
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And I just think we need to get a hold on this.
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I'm not saying that people should be banned from dancing generally.
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I'm not like the bad guy from Footloose who, I mean, I never saw Footloose.
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But I assume that it's, what is there, the villain wants to outlaw dancing.
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And then Kevin Bacon is like, no, I'm going to dance.
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And then he dances and the other guy, I don't know, but it's not that.
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I'm not saying, but I'm saying that we should only allow those who are qualified to dance.
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There's just so much dancing happening these days on camera so often for people who don't
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And I don't think the rest of us should be subjected to it.
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It's a public health crisis is what it is that the rest of us have to watch this.
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You should have to go to a DMV, Dancing Management something.
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But you should go to a DMV style place to show off your dance moves and then you get a license.
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And that performance would be unlawful, unlicensed dancing.
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And everybody involved would be executed or just sent to prison.
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In recent weeks, the FBI took steps to close the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, effective
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The agency didn't specify why it had closed the office, although many Republicans have been
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critical of it, and it's prioritizing of diversity, equity, inclusion, saying that it overshadowed
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Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn sent a letter earlier this month to FBI Director Christopher
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Wray claiming that radical DEI practices had endangered Americans following the New Year's
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And now with just a few days until Trump officially takes office, they're disbanding the DEI office.
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Now, and it also says the FBI's Office of Diversity and Inclusion was created in 2012 during the Obama
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administration with its goal to provide guidance and implement programs that promote a diverse
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and inclusive workplace that allows all employees to succeed in advance.
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So it's very encouraging to see that these massive changes are happening already, and Trump still
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DEI is careening rapidly towards the trash bin of history.
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It's not only being defeated, it's not only being torn down, but it is barely, it is going to be barely
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Because keep in mind, most of these institutions adopted DEI, well, they said with the FBI, it was in 2012,
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still very recent, but many of these institutions adopted DEI, and it kind of was mainstreamed
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Most people had never even heard of it before then.
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And it becomes this weird little blip on the radar, this short and rather bizarre episode of history,
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which is why the major risk that I can see right now, and the thing that we need to look out for
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as we head into the coming months and years, the potential problem caused by all of these victories,
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one after another, politically and culturally, it really has been win after win,
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So, but the risk is that it will, as we've discussed, potentially cause a sense of complacency.
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And that's the one thing we need to guard against, not to rain on the parade or take away from the
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You know, I've said many times, it's important to celebrate the wins.
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But once we've done that, you got to get back in the game.
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Because here's the thing, what's important to understand is that,
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I mean, look at all these things that are crashing and burning right now.
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Wokeism, DEI, gender ideology, the left-wing race hustle, it's all collapsing.
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And so it might feel like society is kind of waking up from a stupor.
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And people are looking around and going, man, how did I ever support that?
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I mean, there are some people who are almost literally waking up.
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And for those specific people, you don't have to worry about them
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So the person who was tolerant of or even actively supportive of something like
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gender ideology a few years ago, but now sees it as the insanity that it is,
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and there are a lot of people in this category,
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it's very unlikely that that person, a couple of years from now,
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Because once you wake up and see this stuff for what it is,
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But the point is that the people, the forces that pushed this stuff,
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the institutions, the powerful people who use these things to manipulate and coerce
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and gain and retain power, they never believed any of it to begin with.
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There's been no conversion experience, no revelatory moment for them.
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They're not going to say, oh, man, we really screwed this one up and then just go away.
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They aren't just going to give up their power and influence.
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So now they're looking for the next DEI, the next gender ideology,
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All of these events and ideas that they use to manipulate so many people
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in so many horrifying ways, they're looking for the next one.
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And the important thing to understand about that is that the next one,
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when I say the next one, that doesn't mean that we're going to see an exact replay
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It's like they say history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.
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And so they're going to look for the thing that rhymes with the thing before,
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So you hear people say, oh, they're looking for their next George Floyd.
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Um, and certainly they are, but the next George Floyd won't necessarily be
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just another black guy killed by the cops, where they try to recreate the hysteria that followed.
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And with that hysteria, they were able to exploit to maximum effect.
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Um, now maybe that will be the next George Floyd.
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They've made some attempts to kind of recapture that magic.
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Uh, but most likely the next George Floyd is some other kind of singular event taken wildly out of context
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and used to inflame the resentments and anger of certain groups against others.
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And, you know, it, it, it doesn't necessarily have to be another quote unquote police brutality event.
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Everyone says, wow, they're looking, what's, what's the next COVID?
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And yeah, maybe when we talk about the next COVID,
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it's going to be some other virus disease that they come along and say,
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Um, but most likely it won't be that, at least not anytime soon.
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The next COVID will be, it could be something else.
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It could be some other kind of thing that they tell us is a public health crisis.
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And you have to radically, radically change the way that you go about your everyday life because of this thing.
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Um, and we've seen this repeat over and over again.
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That's how they get, that's how they get away with it.
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That's how they get away with repeating and using the same kind of tools and methods
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to control people is because if you're not aware and if you're easily manipulated,
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you'll look at it and you'll say, no, this is totally different from that thing before.
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So we have to, we, we cannot, um, not become complacent, as I said.
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A headline that is supposed to, I guess, sound sinister.
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Um, the headline is anti-abortion advocates look for men to report their partner's abortions.
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The article says, as anti-abortion advocates launch legal efforts to stop abortion pills
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from reaching women in states with bans, they are increasingly turning to one group with
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uniquely intimate and specific information to help them find cases.
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Male sex partners of women who decided to end their pregnancies.
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The strategy propelled a first of its kind lawsuit filed last month by Texas Attorney General Ken
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Paxton that cited firsthand information from an unnamed biological father to accuse
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a New York doctor of illegally providing abortion pills to a woman in the Dallas area.
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Uh, the case was inspired by a report Paxton's office received from the man and emerged as
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part of a broader abortion law enforcement operation the Attorney General's quietly created
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that includes searching for potential plaintiffs.
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Um, this partner-focused approach will shift to a more public phase next month when Texas's
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largest anti-abortion organization launches an advertising campaign on Facebook and X
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to reach the husbands, boyfriends, and sex partners of women who have had abortions in
00:30:50.320
the state with the goal of recruiting them to file lawsuits against those who has assisted
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Um, quote, the strategy right now is to tell dads that if you're the father of a child victim
00:31:04.520
There may be a way to hold these people accountable.
00:31:06.400
That's according to John Siago, the president of Texas Right to Life.
00:31:11.400
Um, and so that, that's what they're going to be looking to do.
00:31:14.720
And this is what in, of course, the Washington Post reporting and left-wing media in general,
00:31:19.780
this is what they're, um, going to try to portray as this deeply sinister, um, thing.
00:31:26.500
Because, oh, they're, they're trying to get the husbands and boyfriends and sex partners
00:31:33.620
of women to, uh, you know, to turn around and narc on their own, you know, wives and girlfriends.
00:31:41.500
Um, no, what's actually happening here is, well, it's exactly what the president of Right
00:31:49.220
It's actually empowering the men who are fathers of these children and who historically, thanks to,
00:32:00.740
to so-called, to so-called abortion rights, have had their, their parenting rights totally stripped from
00:32:08.780
them. You know, if you live in a state where abortion is legal and you're a father, you have
00:32:16.280
zero rights over your own child. You have zero parenting rights, um, for the first about nine
00:32:25.940
months of that child's existence. Because the first nine months of a child's existence occur in the womb.
00:32:32.260
And during that time, if you are, as I said, a man in a place where abortion is legal,
00:32:39.240
then you have no parenting rights. You have no parent parental rights whatsoever.
00:32:48.100
Which, which means that to the extent that you, that your child can be killed, can be removed from
00:32:55.400
the earth and you don't even get a vote. And this has obviously been going on for as long as abortion
00:33:04.700
has existed in this country legally. Um, men are, when we talk about the kind of unseen, unheard victims
00:33:16.380
of abortion, um, I mean, all the victims really are unheard. I mean, the, the, the first and primary
00:33:24.160
victims obviously are the children who are unheard, who don't have a voice. Um, but there are also the
00:33:32.320
men who are barely even talked about. Now we do hear even from pro pro-lifers quite often about the,
00:33:42.300
the men who on the other side, on the flip side of this coin are actually pressuring, you know,
00:33:50.640
their wives and girlfriends, uh, to get abortions. So we hear about that and we hear about, we hear
00:33:57.660
those men being condemned constantly and their behavior deserves to be condemned. I mean, that's
00:34:02.320
contemptible, evil, um, those kinds of cases where in fact the, the man wants the abortion to happen
00:34:07.760
even more than the woman does. And the man's pressuring the woman. Now, of course, the difference
00:34:12.540
there is that the man actually has no legal authority to force it. Um, so the woman still has all the
00:34:19.840
rights in that scenario, but yeah, there are plenty of cases where a man uses other means to
00:34:25.880
pressure a woman to get an abortion. It's an awful thing. So we, we do hear about that.
00:34:32.180
But we, we hardly ever hear about are the men and there are thousands of them. I mean, at this point
00:34:39.120
through the whole history of legal abortion, this country, probably millions of men who, um,
00:34:44.480
who lost their children and did not want that to happen. We're not supportive of it, did not want
00:34:51.400
it. In fact, even, even, even begged the mother of the child, please don't do this. Don't take my
00:34:59.420
child from me. Who told the mother, I will raise the child and had no voice and no rights and had to
00:35:07.300
just sit by and watch as their child was killed. And it's, um, and we, these men are almost never
00:35:15.040
acknowledged and are given no recourse. So this is a, what's happening now, uh, at least in Texas will
00:35:26.300
be a, a, a, a, uh, the tiniest little move in the direction of actually giving men some kind
00:35:37.140
of power or at least some recourse when this happens to them. And, um, and that is, uh, a, a very good
00:35:45.480
thing. A very good thing amid a, in, uh, just incomprehensibly awful, uh, situation. All right.
00:35:54.480
We'll lighten things up considerably here. Uh, here's a viral TikTok video that, um,
00:36:03.660
I've been tagged in this a million times and this is the only reason I know about it, but it's, uh,
00:36:07.900
it's got millions of views. And in this case, this is a guy who made a video that, uh, seems to be
00:36:13.660
really resonating with a lot of people. And here he's calling out the, uh, white conservative men
00:36:18.440
who are judgmental of his hobbies. As I said, it's been viewed millions of times.
00:36:24.480
Um, the apparently great insights here in this video. Let's, let's watch it.
00:36:31.120
Why is it that old men, especially old white men and particularly old white conservative men
00:36:36.560
are so concerned with what other men do in their own free time. I'm sitting in the sauna today.
00:36:42.000
And since your phone will explode, if you bring it in there, I bring books or comic books in to
00:36:46.320
entertain me because I'm in there for a while. And this older guy walks in and he kind of mutters
00:36:50.520
some under his breath at me. And I said, I'm sorry. And he goes, well, don't you think it's
00:36:54.200
kind of childish to be reading comic books? And I said, no, brings me happiness. Does that bother
00:36:58.460
you? He goes, well, someday you're going to grow out of it and realize it's for kids. And I said,
00:37:02.260
well, then I guess I'll be a kid who benches two 90. Have you seen one of those before? And he goes,
00:37:07.040
no. And I said, yeah, so leave me alone. It's not hurting you, but I do not understand this
00:37:11.400
incessant need to critique what other men do in their own free time. And if you ask me,
00:37:15.620
it's because they never realized that they had a choice. You can do both. Yeah. I bench
00:37:20.740
two 90 and I read Batman hush in the sauna. Does that bother you? I deadlift almost 500 pounds
00:37:27.440
and I wear hoochie daddy shorts. My PB bass is almost 10 pounds. If you fish in the Midwest,
00:37:32.420
you know, that's crazy. And yet I let my girlfriend put nail polish on my nails sometimes because it
00:37:38.020
looked nice. If that bothers you, you need to take a long, hard look in the mirror for the people who
00:37:43.400
are so willing to call other people, betas and sheep. You guys follow the word of people you
00:37:47.860
think are more masculine than you. And we'll only do the hobbies that they say is okay.
00:37:52.300
I, okay. So I should chime in here because I'm, I'm often accused of being one of those old
00:37:56.860
white conservative men who judges other men for their hobbies. And let me say, first of all,
00:38:02.400
I'm skeptical of this conversation, the sauna actually happened. Uh, it probably didn't happen.
00:38:07.180
Basically anytime a content creator recounts some conversation with somebody out in public that
00:38:13.540
becomes the basis of a viral video after the fact, uh, you should always just assume that it's made
00:38:18.980
up, you know, maybe it isn't, but it probably is general rule. Uh, second, what are you doing in
00:38:25.780
the sauna? I don't understand saunas. I've been in a sauna one time for 30 seconds and I sat down and I
00:38:32.500
said, what, so is this it? It's just really hot. What's the point? I'm just going to sit and be
00:38:39.800
extremely uncomfortable and sweating. Why would, I don't get it. Why would anyone do that? Um,
00:38:44.840
choose to do it. It's like, it's a torture chamber. Uh, I would, it would be a great way to torture
00:38:50.660
someone. Um, so I don't understand that as for me personally, you know, I would not judge a guy for
00:38:57.180
reading a comic book. I certainly wouldn't confront him about it. I don't care nearly enough or at all.
00:39:04.200
Frankly, I really don't care. Uh, I do judge men who wear nail polish on the other hand,
00:39:09.520
pun intended. Um, comic books are legitimate forms of art. It may surprise you that I have that opinion,
00:39:16.380
but I do, you know, so I have no issue with it. It's not for me, but if you enjoy them, cool.
00:39:21.540
Who cares? Nail polish though is feminine. It's, it's for women. Um, and as men, it is good and
00:39:29.540
healthy for us to act and dress as men. Why? Because that's what we are. You should act and
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dress as you are. Nail polish is for women. A man ought not behave like and dress like a woman. Why?
00:39:42.740
Because he's not a woman. I mean, that's it. I don't know how else to explain it.
00:39:46.600
Even if you did catch a 10 pound bass, which is impressive, especially for the Midwest.
00:39:52.500
So congrats on that. My PB is eight pounds and I live in Tennessee. So, you know, we're,
00:39:57.540
we're literally every angler, but me has got a 10 pounder. Uh, so I bow to you on that point,
00:40:02.540
but wearing, although you probably made that up too, wearing nail polish as a dude is girly and
00:40:11.240
embarrassing and you shouldn't. Uh, and, um, and you could say, well, it's none of your business.
00:40:15.060
What do you care? I don't know. You volunteered that information about yourself. You didn't have
00:40:18.460
to, you did. Okay. So don't do that either. Well, you're, you're violent. No one asked you.
00:40:22.660
Not one single person said, ask for, for information about whether you wear nail polish.
00:40:27.180
You just told everybody. And so when you tell us, this is what happens when you tell people things
00:40:33.120
and they have brains, they cannot help, but form opinions about it because we're humans.
00:40:39.660
We're human beings with our own perspective. And so any information you give us,
00:40:43.600
we are going to have a perspective on it. And if you don't care about our perspective,
00:40:48.060
don't tell us. You told us, you said I wear nail polish. Okay. I'm hearing that with my own brain.
00:40:54.000
And my perspective is that's girly and embarrassing. What kind of man wears nail polish?
00:40:59.680
Don't want our opinion. Don't tell us. You told us that's my opinion. Okay. But that's not even the
00:41:05.160
point that I want to make. What I want to say is this, whatever your interests and hobbies are,
00:41:11.220
the manliest thing is, I mean, if your interest is wearing nail polish, there's no manly way to go
00:41:18.220
about it. But when we're talking about actual hobbies, whether it's fishing or comic books,
00:41:24.740
the manliest thing is to be confident about them and not need anyone's approval. And yet this guy made
00:41:30.240
a whole video angrily defending his hobbies and his nail polish habit. Didn't have to. Nobody asked
00:41:35.320
for it. Nobody cared about it, except for the guy in the sauna who probably doesn't exist.
00:41:39.760
And if he does exist, you already had that conversation with him. You didn't need to
00:41:42.460
launch into this story and this angry defense to the whole world. The rest of the world didn't
00:41:46.020
know about it. We don't care. So the fact that you did tells me that you actually are not all that
00:41:50.780
confident. You obviously do care what other people think of your hobbies. If you didn't,
00:41:55.240
then the video wouldn't exist. And I noticed this a lot because anytime I make,
00:41:58.620
you know, I talk about, give my opinion about some piece of media or movie or video game,
00:42:05.260
whatever it is, I get flooded with these extremely angry comments from people desperately, furiously
00:42:12.200
defending the piece of entertainment that they like. I mean, I was getting angry comments for days,
00:42:19.540
days, because I said I didn't like Sonic. Okay. And that's my opinion. I watched the movie and this
00:42:26.700
is my opinion. Okay. My opinion is that it's horrible, but days of angry comments,
00:42:33.340
not a joke as Biden would say, not a folks, not a joke, not a joke. I'm serious. And the funniest
00:42:41.880
thing is that the people, those people all would say, I don't care what you think about the movies
00:42:46.620
and shows I watch. No one cares about your opinion. Well, but you do, you clearly do. You obviously care
00:42:53.460
a lot. I mean, that's what gets me. You need other people to approve of the thing you like.
00:42:59.400
If you didn't need their approval, you would not be talking about it. You wouldn't be getting angry
00:43:03.240
that people don't like it. Getting angry that someone doesn't like something you like is weird.
00:43:08.800
It's weird actually. And it shows an extreme lack of confidence on your part.
00:43:14.180
Um, I have hobbies that I like. Fishing is one of them. I don't, I've never made a single
00:43:21.140
video ever like angrily defending fishing. Cause I don't, why would I, I, I know there are people
00:43:27.060
who think it's a dumb hobby. I, I truly don't care. Um, I have no hangups about it. So you're not
00:43:33.860
going to see me, you know, going into a whole long rant about it. And if someone else made a video
00:43:41.500
where they're saying that fishing is dumb and it's pointless, I'm not going to leave angry
00:43:47.520
comments. How could you say this? What, what kind of person are you? I was a fan of yours for a long
00:43:52.820
time, but no more. If this is your opinion of fishing, uh, I would never do that because I
00:43:58.500
actually don't care what other people think of the hobbies that I have. Um, I think there are a lot of
00:44:04.200
people running around who do care a lot and claim they don't. And, um, I don't know, just something
00:44:10.680
you got to think about, uh, if you're, if you're, if you really are that upset by other people not
00:44:15.540
approving of, or thinking your hobby is a little silly, then, uh, that's something you need to
00:44:19.360
think about. And, and, um, maybe it means your hobby is pretty silly, uh, or, or maybe, or I don't
00:44:25.500
know. I don't know what's going on, but that's a, that's a you thing. That's a you issue. You need
00:44:29.320
to work out. Let's get to the comment section. Imagining Matt Walsh and customer service is
00:44:44.940
mind boggling. Uh, yeah, it's mind boggling for me too. And I was there. I also can't imagine it
00:44:51.060
anymore. And I was there. I was there the whole time. And I was as bad at those jobs as you would
00:44:59.160
think that I would be. That's all I can say. Uh, jobs today are literally the easiest they've
00:45:04.560
ever been saying it's the hardest is the most insane position I've ever heard. People used to
00:45:08.300
work on a farm 15 plus hours a day, every day, no air conditioning, just plowing and backbreaking
00:45:12.800
labor and hopes they survive, not take a vacation every year, not get enough Starbucks, et cetera,
00:45:17.580
but to just not die. The idea of a 40 hour work week is historically brand new. These people don't
00:45:24.420
have the slightest clue about history and don't even get me started on the great depression.
00:45:28.160
Uh, yeah, that was my point. When you, when you compare our situation historically, we all have it
00:45:33.760
very easy. And yet you've got people claiming that it's harder now than it's ever been, which is just
00:45:39.100
preposterous. Um, and I think some of the people who make these claims obviously know better, but some
00:45:44.200
of them really believe it. I think that there's this deep chronic kind of historical
00:45:47.340
illiteracy that people have, which, which by the way, the fact that other people have had it harder
00:45:51.620
than you, uh, doesn't make it any easier for you. Right. Uh, just like, you know, if you grew up
00:46:00.200
with a boomer parent and so you got the classic thing where you said you're hungry and, uh, or,
00:46:06.820
or you didn't eat your meal or something and says, Oh, they're starving people in China, that whole deal.
00:46:10.900
Um, that, that might be, but it doesn't actually change whatever I'm experiencing.
00:46:17.520
Um, so I, I understand that, but it does, that's like I said yesterday, it, it should put things
00:46:23.220
into context for you and it should be a point of inspiration to know that, um, however hard your
00:46:31.260
challenges are, there are people who've gone through much, much, much harder things and have
00:46:38.600
started much lower kind of on the totem pole than you did and they still succeeded. So I don't know.
00:46:42.860
I look at that as inspirational. I look at that as, okay, well, it's, it's not whatever I'm trying
00:46:51.560
to achieve. Here are the obstacles. Here's what I'm trying to achieve. Okay. Well, here are countless
00:46:56.840
people over here who are trying to achieve something that had a much bigger obstacle. They got over it.
00:47:00.720
If they can do it, then I can do it. Um, Matt, we have a recruiting crisis in the military. Also,
00:47:11.640
Matt, we need to massively raise the standards for entry into the military. Yeah. Well, those,
00:47:16.560
those ideas are not in conflict actually. When you have higher standards and you're trying to recruit
00:47:21.040
men, men who want to defend the nation and kill the bad guys, uh, you're going to succeed in bringing
00:47:26.100
in a lot of those kinds of men. But when you lower the standards so that fat unfit men and women can
00:47:32.640
also join, that doesn't mean that you end up with the same number of strong warrior types. And then
00:47:37.660
you're also just adding the fat guys and the women on top of it. Um, I don't think it works that way.
00:47:42.340
I think you begin to lose the warriors because they don't want to be a part of it anymore. It just
00:47:48.300
doesn't appeal to them the way that it did before. Uh, your advice about young men, what young men
00:47:56.880
should do is good. But as a 23 year old, I've given up on marrying the right woman and raising
00:48:00.320
kids, even though it's been a lifelong dream and a true purpose to existence. I live in Baltimore.
00:48:04.100
Go Ravens. Hope we beat the bills this weekend. But I'm a white guy in a radical liberal city that
00:48:08.040
hates white men. My dreams are just unrealistic. Love the advice, but not everyone can achieve their
00:48:13.420
dreams. Dude, you're 23 years old. You're 23. I mean, your dreams are unrealistic at 23. What are
00:48:26.140
you talking about? You're just at the starting gate. I mean, things have barely begun for you.
00:48:31.980
The whole adventure is still in front of you. Everything is in front of you. I mean,
00:48:35.620
talk to any successful person, talk to anyone who you trust, who's, uh, in their late thirties,
00:48:44.460
forties, fifties, sixties, and ask them like, where were they when they were 23? You're going to
00:48:50.240
hear the same kinds of stories. You'll hear the same kinds of stories you'll hear from me. You know,
00:48:54.420
23 for me was 15 years ago. Do you understand what an epically long and winding and sometimes
00:49:00.620
frustrating and difficult and, uh, exciting and unexpected and just wild road it's been for the
00:49:07.820
last 15 years? I can tell you 15 years ago, right? There wasn't a soul. There wasn't a single person
00:49:14.360
in my life who would have thought that I would be where I am at this exact moment. Uh, if I had said
00:49:21.320
to anyone 15 years ago that in 15 years, I would be married with six kids living in a nice house,
00:49:29.780
the major question in my career would be, what should I do for my third movie after the box office
00:49:35.920
success of my second? I mean, if I had said that to anyone, that that's where I would be in 15 years,
00:49:40.060
they would have looked at me living in a barely furnished 400 square foot roach infested apartment
00:49:45.520
with no college education, no training, apparently no skills of any kind and no future, no prospects.
00:49:52.960
And they would have said that I was crazy. So your path, you know, is going to be different
00:49:59.340
than mine or any other, anyone else you talk to is older than you. Uh, my only point is that it's
00:50:04.460
just at the beginning and no matter how humble and how seemingly hopeless your situation is right now,
00:50:09.800
I mean, your goals are not out of reach. They're just a long way off, right? You have to,
00:50:15.520
they're out of reach. Like you can't literally reach right now and, and grab them, but they're,
00:50:21.620
that doesn't, maybe there's another way of putting it. They're out of reach right now,
00:50:24.520
but they're not unattainable. Uh, you just have to start moving towards them.
00:50:29.800
So when you say your dream's unrealistic, that just doesn't mean anything to me. I mean,
00:50:33.240
I don't care about unrealistic. Uh, people have been telling me about unrealistic my whole
00:50:38.640
damn life. I mean, even now, guess what? Like it doesn't, doesn't stop even now. I'll have people
00:50:44.100
saying to me, if I say, well, here's what I want to do next. I'll hear, well, you can't,
00:50:47.980
you can't do that. I mean, that's a little much that that's outside your wheelhouse.
00:50:53.060
Okay, fine. You can sit on the sidelines and watch me do it or watch me try and fail. At least I tried
00:51:00.020
like, what the hell are you doing? You bench warmer. I mean, not talking to you. I'm talking
00:51:04.600
to this hypothetical person. That's the attitude you have to have it. It's not ego. It just means that
00:51:08.580
you, you know what you want and you see the path and you're going to go get it. So the great thing
00:51:13.380
for you, and I say this all the time to young men of your age, uh, the great thing for you is that
00:51:18.220
things are very low stakes. Um, when you get older, for me at this stage of my life, if I take a big
00:51:24.360
gamble and I fail, the consequences can be severe. I'll still take gambles, but I have to be smarter.
00:51:30.540
I have to be more calculated. I have to always have contingency plans in place. You though,
00:51:34.720
you're 23 and single, no kids. It's just you. So you're lonely. I get that. I was too at your age,
00:51:41.400
but you're also in a position where you can be nimble and adaptive and a risk taker. Uh, you know,
00:51:46.920
if you don't like where you live, you said where in the city you live, you don't like it, then move.
00:51:52.200
But why you still live there, just get up and move. And I know when I say that there's going to be
00:51:56.540
people, Oh, it's not that simple. You can't just get it. Yeah, it is. No, it's not that simple for me
00:52:01.840
to move. Cause I have six kids. It's not that simple for a lot of people, my age to me, but for
00:52:06.540
you at 23, no kids, not married. Yeah, it is actually that simple. It is that simple. Yes.
00:52:13.920
Um, so look, I don't know what your dreams are. I mean, you said you want to get married and have
00:52:19.880
a family. That's a great dream. That's a great goal. Uh, I assume you have other dreams to dreams
00:52:24.840
of what you want to do in your life and your career, what you want to accomplish professionally.
00:52:28.220
Uh, it sounds like you're demoralized across the board, both in terms of finding a wife and having
00:52:32.760
success in life. Um, your dreams are unrealistic. You say now, look, if you were 23, if you're 23
00:52:38.940
and you told me that your dream is to be a power forward in the NBA, uh, then I would tell you that
00:52:43.680
you need to recalibrate drastically. That's not going to happen. Okay. There's no path to accomplishing
00:52:47.680
that right now. If you were six years old and you were in the 0.5%, uh, percentile for height and
00:52:53.780
athleticism, and you said your dream is to be in the NBA, then I would say, yeah, go chase it,
00:52:57.360
go chase it. Um, for you though. And for me, that that's just not a possible world,
00:53:02.560
but I'm going to assume that that isn't your dream. I'm going to assume your dream is something
00:53:07.140
at least theoretically achievable. And, uh, and, uh, and we know one of them, you just said start a
00:53:13.020
family. So there's no reason to give up on it. Just don't focus on the grand vision. Just, just focus
00:53:18.640
on like, okay, you know what you want to do. Uh, you can imagine theoretically the steps that would
00:53:26.260
need to have to be taken to get to that point. So you can, you can conceptualize that in your head.
00:53:32.320
And so all you have to think about is like, well, what's the first thing, what's the very first thing
00:53:36.180
I need to do? If, if this is, if this is a hundred steps from now where I want to be, uh, what, what is
00:53:42.400
the very first thing that a person who wants to achieve that should do? And then just do that.
00:53:47.140
Just take that first step. Uh, and then, uh, and then the second and the third and, and, uh, you can't
00:53:54.220
plan it all out right now because once you get to like step 40 and 50, it may turn out that step
00:54:00.640
50 is something you can't even imagine right now because that's just life. But the first step you
00:54:05.800
can imagine and you just, uh, you have to go do it, turn this show off and go do that thing today.
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our daily cancellation. One of the first rules of the aviation industry is that in general,
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you don't want to be in the news when you're running an airline and everything's going well,
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then you're out of the headlines. It's only when things go wrong that you start to get noticed.
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It's like playing on the offensive line in the NFL. If fans are noticing you and announcers are saying
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your name, it means you're screwing up. It's not a good thing. And by that metric,
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things have been going pretty badly as of late for Alaska Airlines. The last 14 months or so have not
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been kind to the airline. First, there was the whole situation on board Alaska Air Flight 2059
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operated by Horizon Air for Alaska Airlines. As I remember, an off-duty pilot who was tagging along
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in the cockpit decided to try to crash the plane mid-flight. He attempted to disable the engines with
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the fire suppression system while they were flying over Portland, Oregon. That episode didn't
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exactly inspire confidence in Alaska Airlines hiring process. By the way, that pilot was charged with
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83 counts of attempted murder, but he immediately got out of jail after posting a $50,000 bond. So
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that's what, like 600 bucks per person he tried to kill, just in case you're wondering how the legal
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system works in Portland. In any event, back to Alaska Airlines. Then there was the whole door incident
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where the door blew off the Alaska Airlines passenger jet in midair. Again, took place over Portland,
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Oregon. And again, it made people wonder what exactly was going on at this airline and how
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they were overseeing quality control in our planes. I probably didn't help matters for the airline when
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I found this footage on TikTok from the contractor that assembled the door, which is called Spirit
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Aerosystems. The footage identifies the engineering dream team at the organization. And in case you missed
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it might actually be the exact same. Those are the, those are Kathy Holkeul's dancers too, I think. These,
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these people get around. Now, to be fair, those sassy women didn't work for Alaska Airlines, but Alaska
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Airlines does still rely on these sassy women to make sure the doors don't fly off in flight.
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There's a lot of trust there. It turns out, despite these ladies' obvious dancing prowess,
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that that trust was sorely misplaced. That brings us to the third and most recent embarrassing episode
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for Alaska Airlines, which was just reported a couple of days ago. And once again, it appears that
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Alaska Airlines has put far too much trust in women who like to dance instead of doing their jobs.
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Specifically, a flight attendant decided to celebrate the end of her six-month probationary
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new hire period by twerking on an empty flight during a layover at 6 a.m. while waiting for the
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pilots to arrive. And she then posted the footage to TikTok. Here's what the video looked like,
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although the audio was originally a rap song called Ghetto that's been dubbed out for copyright reasons.
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For context, the caption on this video on TikTok, as written by this flight attendant, was, quote,
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Ghetto bit till I D-I-E. Don't let the uniform fool you. B-I-H? Is that a typo? That's supposed to be...
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Oh, that's... Okay. Is that how the kids are saying these days? Do they say it that way or do you just
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write it that way? They say it that way. All right. Those sons of biz. Now, because, of course,
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when you're 30,000 feet in the air cruising along at 400 miles an hour, you really want the crew in
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charge of your comfort and safety to be ghetto. I mean, that's what you're looking for. I can't tell
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you how many times I've had a flight and afterwards somebody asked me how it went and I was like,
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oh, it was nice. It was a great flight. Crew was very ghetto. It was wonderful.
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Oh, yeah. There's no music. So anyway, well, there she is talking. It's so much more awkward
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without the music. And okay, good. Now, very soon after Alaska Airlines saw this clip and a rare
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example of accountability in modern society, they fired a flight attendant for violating their social
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media policies. And that decision led the flight attendant to set up one of the most entertaining
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GoFundMes that we've seen in a while. As of today, it's raised about $2,000 of its $12,000 goal and
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which is way more than it should, but not exactly hitting the goal. Not hard to see why. The pitch
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isn't exactly the most compelling. It reads, quote,
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I never thought a single moment would cost me everything. I worked as a flight attendant for Alaska
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Airlines for over six months. In between those six months, both of my English bulldogs died
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unexpectedly. My relationship was rocky because of the time I spent away, but I love my job,
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meeting new people, seeing the world, and creating a safe, welcoming environment for passengers.
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Although this was my dream job, I was using the income to fund my blossoming lingerie and dessert
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business. And she gives the name, which I'm not even going to pass along.
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Um, both of your dogs died. First of all, that's a bit, I mean, sorry for your loss. That's a bit
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suspicious. Were you too busy twerking and you forgot to feed them? I mean, how did they both die?
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So she's a bit of an entrepreneur, uh, already identified something of a marketing opportunity
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here. It's enough to make you wonder if that was her goal all along. But then again, the GoFundMe
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isn't exactly generating a lot of interest. So it stands to reason that these businesses aren't taking
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off either. And as she goes on, she says that she's desperate to find another flight attendant job.
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And she also launches into a series of additional excuses. Quote,
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I was also celebrating the end of probation and making it out of a hard upbringing in San
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Francisco, California. Life, something many people in the industry could relate to. The video went,
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yeah, they could relate to life. I mean, yeah, any true. I mean, we can all relate to life. We're all
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living where we all are alive. So we can relate to that experience, but I just don't,
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why does your life involve twerking on an airplane? I don't know why, what are the,
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what's the, why is that necessary? Uh, she said the video went viral overnight,
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but instead of love and support, it brought unexpected scrutiny without warning. They
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terminated me, no discussion, no chance to defend myself and no chance for a thorough and proper
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investigation. Losing my job was devastating. I've always been careful about what I share online.
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And I never thought this video, which didn't even mention the airline by name would cost me my
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career. That's you being careful. I would hate to see if you got a little reckless,
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what you'd be putting online. Um, so I guess she thinks that Alaska airlines should have called in
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the FBI to investigate whether she was indeed the ghetto B who was responsible for twerking on the
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plane. Maybe she thinks there's some mitigating factors the airline should have considered,
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even though she uploaded everything she did on camera by herself was clearly,
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clearly having a good time. And also apparently the airline isn't supposed to be grateful that she
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didn't explicitly mention them by name in a video where she's in uniform dancing on one of their
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planes. So no, this is not any kind of grave injustice, but I will say one thing in defense
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of this flight attendant, which is that by the standards of modern air travel, she didn't do
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anything that unusual. I mean, pretty much everything about aviation is now as demeaning and low class
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as it can possibly be. All this flight attendant did was sort of embrace the fact as openly as she
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could. And this is a decline that accelerated during the lockdowns from four years ago. As the New York
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Times reported late last year, quote, unruly passenger behavior surged during the pandemic,
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prompting the FAA in 2021 to implement a zero tolerance policy for such conduct and begin issuing
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fines instead of warning letters to offenders. The agency reported approximately 6,000 such incidents
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in 2021, a sharp rise compared with about 1,000 reports in 2020. The number of incidents reported
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in 2023 fell to 2,100, but still represented an uptake from the years preceding the pandemic.
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One of those bras, by the way, took place at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. If you never saw this one,
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I'm not sure that using those plastics, so they're using the plastic signs that say, you know,
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the floor is wet. I mean, for a brawl, first of all, this is really lethargic. This is a pretty
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low energy brawl. If you're going to do it, and also if you're going to get charged for using a
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weapon in an assault, like that's the weapon you're choosing, at least make it count is what I'm trying
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to say. So this is something that at one time in our nation's history, not too long ago, you would
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just never see in an airport. And now it's common. I mean, at least there were no illegal migrant
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encampments in the shot, so that's something. And meanwhile, along with flights, customer complaints
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are also way up. By some estimates, there were roughly 15,000 complaints filed by air travelers
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in 2019. By 2023, that number had risen to 78,000, which is an increase of more than fivefold.
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And these are statistics that, if you've been to an airport recently, are not exactly surprising.
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We're also clearly a sign of much larger problems. We went from people flying in their Sunday best
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to twerking flight attendants and fistfights, you know, WWE royal rumbles in the terminal.
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And we made that transition because air travel is a microcosm of American culture at large.
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More people are incapable of behaving like adults in public than at any other time in American history.
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We've become far too tolerant of this decay to the point that it's actually kind of surprising
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that Alaska Airlines actually fired this flight attendant.
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But you can't stop there. We have to make it very clear that anyone who behaves like this
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and then proudly uploads the footage to social media will be shamed and ridiculed
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until they never dream of doing it again, much less sending up a GoFundMe to beg for money.
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And that is why the self-described ghetto stewardess and every other professional who refuses to act
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in a remotely professional manner while at work, especially on an airplane, are all today canceled.
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That'll do it for the show today and this week.
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We'll talk to you next week in D.C. for the inauguration.