Ep. 1583 - The Left Uncovers The Sinister Conspiracy Pushing Women To Be Healthy And Happy
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The media has discovered a nefarious right-wing plot to encourage women to be thin and fertile. We ll get into the details of this sinister conspiracy. Also, Facebook officially ends its ban on misgendering, a list of the dirtiest, grossest cities has been released, and an embarrassing scandal involving sports commentator Shannon Sharp proves again why you should just get married.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media has discovered a nefarious right-wing plot to
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encourage women to be thin and fertile. We'll get into the details of this sinister conspiracy.
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Also, Facebook officially ends its ban on misgendering. A list of the dirtiest, grossest
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cities has been released. Unsurprisingly, they're all run by Democrats. And an embarrassing scandal
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involving sports commentator Shannon Sharp proves again why you should just get married.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Now, normally, I don't consider myself much of a trendsetter, especially when it comes to the
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online discourse among middle-aged, cosmopolitan, liberal women. To the extent that these people
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talk about me at all, it's usually to call me a misogynist or to praise my brief appearance on
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Dancing with the Stars. In any event, on a typical day, they certainly aren't reading my social media
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feeds and watching my podcast in order to pick up new lingo. We can be certain of that much, or at least
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I thought. So, I was more than a little surprised to see an article that was just published by The
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Guardian entitled, Now Comes the Womanosphere, the Anti-Feminist Media Telling Women to be Thin,
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Fertile, and Republican. According to this article, the Womanosphere is, quote,
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an organized effort to create an alternative right-wing media ecosystem targeting young
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female U.S. audiences, one of the few demographics that has until now lean substantially democratic.
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This new Womanosphere includes Brett Cooper's channel, as well as lifestyle magazines like
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The Conservator and Evie, Candace Owens' Club Candace, Alex Clark's Maha, Make American Healthy
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Again, talk show cultural apothecary, conservative Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey's Relatable,
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and swimmer-turned-anti-transgender activist Riley Gaines' podcast, Gaines for Girls, close quote.
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Now, before we get into the substance of this article, such as it is, I need to pull up something I wrote.
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Quote, online a few weeks ago, and here's what I said at the time, quote,
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we hear a lot about the Manosphere. I think it's time we start talking about the Womanosphere and
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the corrosive effect that these shrill, toxic feminist influencers are having on the minds of
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young women and their marriages. That was from my podcast, also was a piece on Daily Wire.
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So there you have it. Long before The Guardian demanded that everyone talk about the Womanosphere,
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I was demanding a public conversation about the Womanosphere. All they did was add an O in the
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middle to change Womanosphere to Womanosphere. I like my version better. It flows a little bit
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better. And then they completely changed the meaning of the word as I was using it. To me,
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the Womanosphere are the anti-man, bitter feminists on TikTok. And to them, the Womanosphere is a
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collection of the most normal and pleasant women you'll ever meet. And of course, the other problem
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is that no one at The Guardian even knows what the word woman means, of course. But other than that,
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you can't deny the striking similarity between these two made-up words. If The Guardian actually
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made any money, this is the part where I'd start demanding royalties. But in this case,
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I'll let it slide. As the old saying goes, great minds think alike. And the not-so-great minds just
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steal everything and pass it off as their own. But I don't want to dwell on how much money The Guardian
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owes me, even though it's obviously substantial. The bigger issue with the article, as with everything
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else published by The Guardian, is the content. And the tone for this particular hit piece is set
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right in the headline. We're supposed to see the right-wing womanosphere as somehow nefarious and
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sinister because it encourages women to be thin and fertile, as The Guardian puts it. These two words,
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thin and fertile, are like kryptonite to the staff of The Guardian, apparently. Now, you might observe that
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words like thin and fertile are just ways of describing someone as healthy. And it's like,
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if you're a woman of childbearing age, there's like two things that you should be, right? Unless
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something has gone wrong or you're unhealthy. And you might wonder why, you know, wonder what's so bad
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about the womanosphere encouraging women to be thin, fertile, and healthy. But all you'll get from The
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Guardian is this paragraph, quote, the type of women these commentators valorize is thin, straight,
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fertile, traditionally feminine, conventionally attractive to men, and white. Though they tried
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to avoid overt racism, anyone who falls outside of this narrow mold is subject to relentless mocking
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and disparagement, close quote. Now, just to be entirely clear here, the narrow mold that The Guardian
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is complaining about is simply being healthy, feminine, and attractive to men. They do add that
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you have to be white as well, but they contradict themselves in the same breath because one of the
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commentators they attack in the hit piece is Candace, who, last I checked, is not white.
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So all we're left with is the narrow lane, the narrow lane that literally billions of women through all of
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human history have fit through. You know, that's the virtually impossible standard that you have to
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meet. If you don't want to be relentlessly mocked and disparaged by the online womanosphere, the impossible
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standard is the standard that billions and billions of women have already, like, lived up to without even
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trying. Now, we all know why The Guardian believes that only a small subset of the female population can
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qualify as healthy. For one thing, they believe that men can become women. So that probably skews their
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perspective a little bit, given that trans-identifying males aren't usually paragons of
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physical fitness. And additionally, it's long been established that left-leaning individuals,
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wherever they are in the world, tend to be less healthy. I mean, not too long ago, there was a study
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from researchers at Harvard and Columbia, which found that, quote, findings from cross-sectional studies
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conducted in Japan and Europe have reported that individuals expressing a conservative ideology as
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compared to liberal ideology tend to report better self-rated health. In the USA, it has been reported
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that Republicans are less likely to report poor health in comparison to Democrats. Now, these
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findings shouldn't surprise us because an ideology that doesn't care about personal responsibility
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is not going to have the healthiest followers. The only people who are surprised, apparently,
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are the writers of The Guardian. But in their confusion, they do manage to hint at one point that I think is
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worth thinking about, which is this, that the left has decided to give the right a monopoly on advocating
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for healthy lifestyles. You know, it is true that if someone in this country these days promotes health,
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fitness, marriage, family life, you know, any of these normal healthy things, then we can assume that
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they're probably conservative. All of that has become right-wing coded. But that's only because
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the left has gone to war against everything healthy and normal. You know, the right is not dominating
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this issue because they're mind-controlling women or something. They're dominating the issue because
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the left has abandoned it. Not just abandoned it, but militated against it. As this article continues,
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The Guardian doubles down on its attempt to make being healthy sound like an act of terrorism.
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At one point, they quote a piece from Evie, and then they have a coronary over it. So here's the line
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from Evie followed by The Guardian's meltdown. Quote, our reproductive organs are made for just
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that, creating new life, not warding off sperm and altering our insides to make conception close
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to impossible. Read a recent Evie piece. Though some young women may recoil when conservative men like
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J.D. Vance and Elon Musk opine on birth rates and fertility, outlets like Evie are able to repackage
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a similar message in a more approachable way. Maggie Bullock, a women's magazine veteran who co-writes
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the spread, a newsletter about the industry, said that she saw outlets like Evie as trying to be
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something of a gateway drug into more extreme conservative ideologies. Like, we're pretty
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nice, and we're pretty, and we're not that radical. Don't worry. We're just telling you the truth,
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she said. It feels like a wolf in sheep's clothing. Yes, these are the women who are saying,
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like, it's okay to have babies. They're the wolves in sheep's clothing. So here we have Evie
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magazine stating that women's reproductive organs are intended for reproduction, and the Guardian
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devotes about a thousand words to declaring how outrageous that statement is, even though it's
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probably the least controversial thing that anyone can say in the English language. They even bring
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in an alleged expert, a women's magazine veteran, to establish that Evie magazine is a gateway drug
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to extremism because they don't think women should sterilize themselves. Now, what's especially amusing
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about the accusations that this article makes against Brett Cooper, Riley Gaines, Candace Owens,
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Allie Bestucki, Alex Clark, and others is that, first of all, the article, again, wants us to see
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these women as this dark and sinister force, but as someone who knows all of them, Allie I've known for
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years, Riley I've met a few times, I went on Alex's show a few months ago, Brett and Candace are both
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friends, and they're some of the nicest, most cheerful people you'll ever meet. The article uses
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the word scary to describe them, which is just hilarious from my vantage point or the vantage
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point of anyone who's watched any of their shows, although I will say that Alex forced me to drink
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raw milk when I was on her show, and that was deeply disturbing and also injurious to my health,
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I still maintain. But aside from that, it was not a very scary experience until the milk came out.
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The other thing is that all of them, of course, have jobs, and yet The Guardian concludes that all
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of these women in reality want women to be nothing but submissive homemakers, quote-unquote,
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who never leave the home for any reason, I guess. Quote, while the women behind these outlets all have
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different styles and tactics, they are mostly aligned in their desire to return to a gender
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essentialist worldview, women as submissive homemakers, men as strong providers. Now, first of all,
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anytime you hear a phrase like gender essentialist being used unironically, you can immediately stop
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paying attention to the person who says it. The term is nonsense because everyone in a sane world
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is a gender essentialist. Everyone understands, everyone should understand, that gender is an
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essential concept, or at least sex is, and they use the term interchangeably. This is an essential
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concept because it's what allows human beings to reproduce. It also dramatically affects human
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behavior in every significant way. So if somebody calls you a gender essentialist, the appropriate
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response is, yeah. And by the way, the left is also gender essentialist, albeit in a completely
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demented way. They don't understand the concept, but they certainly obsess over it, as you may have
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noticed. They take their fake genders extremely seriously over there. It is an essential concept in
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their worldview, just in a very confused way. And the other irony here is that it's the Guardian
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that wants these women, like Brett and Candace, to be silent, apparently. They've written a gigantic
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article about how all these women should, I guess, shut up and stop expressing their views.
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Apparently, they can't grasp the idea that, as I've said many times, different people can choose to do
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different things. I've gone on record many times saying that, in general, women should prioritize
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raising families. Men should prioritize providing for their families. That's the system that's been
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in place for thousands of years. It works pretty well. That doesn't mean that women should never have
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jobs under any circumstances. And obviously, all of the women that the Guardian is attacking in this
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article would agree with that statement because they all have lucrative careers of their own.
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And we could go on for the next hour, you know, picking apart the article, but it's honestly not worth
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the time. It is worth noticing, though, one aspect of this issue that the Guardian doesn't talk about
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and that, you know, this side, the feminist side, never talks about. Throughout all of this angst and
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misdirected, incoherent frustration, the one thing the Guardian doesn't do is grapple with the fact that
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the alternative, you know, the alternative to the woman-o-sphere has already been tried and it has
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completely and utterly failed. The alternative to the quote-unquote narrow lane espoused by Brett
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Candace and company is the lane of left-wing secular feminism where women find their purpose in the
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workplace and either reject family and marriage altogether or place it second in importance to the
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pursuit of professional success. It's the lane where a woman doesn't submit to her husband but
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instead submits to her employer, who, as it happens, is often also a man. It's the lane where a woman is
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so committed to her independence and to her supposed autonomy that she will purchase it with the blood of
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her own children, which is the whole point of abortion. Now, we've tried this approach, the feminist
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approach for a few generations. It is actually the new thing. It is the trendy thing, the narrow thing.
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And, well, how has it worked out? We don't need to speculate. I mean, we've got two basically,
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you know, we've got two approaches here, broadly speaking, and they've both been tried. We can take
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a look at them and see how they've worked out. So how has feminism worked out? Divorce rates have
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skyrocketed. The institution of the family is in shambles. And by all available metrics, including
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the prevalence of antidepressants, women and men are miserable. Here's just one indicator. For more
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than 20 years, Gallup has asked women if they're happy with how they're being treated by society,
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whatever that means exactly. And in 2022, Gallup recorded the lowest level of satisfaction among women
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since they began asking the question. Yes, after all the alleged advancements in women's rights
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over the last 20 years, women seem to believe that they're more oppressed than ever. But you don't
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need to, you don't need Gallup to tell you that. You can either, you can, you know, either talk to
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women who made the decision to enter the workforce, or you can go on TikTok. Every day, there's another
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viral video of some young woman in tears because she went out into the working world and found it
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horrifically dreary and depressing and demoralizing. I mean, that's a, that's a whole genre. We've talked
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about it before on TikTok is women complaining about the fact that they have to work. Um, so we've seen
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the alternative to women being thin and fertile and prioritizing their families. And it has been a
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disaster. We got millions of broken homes, millions of dead children, and millions of extremely depressed,
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but allegedly liberated women to show for it. Now the traditional approach has thousands of years of
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success under its belt. The new approach crashed and burned 30 seconds after takeoff. The Guardian is
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using the lame new womanosphere branding to suggest the opposite. They want to suggest that this is some
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dangerous new trendy right-wing ideology, but it's not. It happens to be the ideology, the approach,
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not even an ideology, the approach that clearly works best for everyone, including women. It's
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the philosophy that built human civilization and maintained it and helped it to thrive for
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millennia up until the last several decades. Now the Guardian might not know what women are or what
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they want, but these women do. And the more the left mocks them for wanting to be healthy and to raise
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families, the more I think women will turn away from leftism, just as so many men have. And so the only
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women left supporting Democrats are men with wigs on. I mean, that's the Democrat Party's absolute
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worst nightmare. And with every garbage article like this one, the nightmare for Democrats,
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otherwise known as progress to the rest of us, is becoming more and more real by the day.
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Daily Wire reports Facebook's parent company, Meta, said that two posts that include misgendering,
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quote-unquote, were not a violation of its policies in a case that appears to have involved
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content from The Daily Wire. The social media giant's oversight board ruled that two posts
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about trans-identifying males do not violate the company's hate speech rules. The oversight board
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said in a statement, despite the intentionally provocative nature of the posts, which misgender
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identifiable trans people in ways many would find offensive, the majority of the board found that
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they related to matters of public concern and would not incite likely and imminent violence or
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discrimination. Back in September, Meta's oversight board announced it was looking into two posts from
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last year that involved videos of trans-identifying males. One of the posts appears to be a video
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posted by Libs of TikTok on Instagram that shows an Oregon high school boy getting booed by the
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crowd when he finished first place in the girls' 200-meter race. Here's a boy who thinks he's a girl.
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Libs of TikTok captured the post. Around the same time, The Daily Wire posted the same video on Instagram
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using male pronouns for the trans-identifying high schooler. And this apparently is the video that
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they were looking into. So finally, it's been officially ruled after months of deliberation that
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misgendering is not hate speech. And of course, misgendering is also not misgendering. What they
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call misgendering is actually correct gendering. It's just gendering. But in any case, quote unquote,
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misgendering is no longer hate speech, apparently on Facebook. This is, I guess, a new development
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officially. Facebook is the first platform outside of X to officially say, as far as I know, that
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they will no longer ban or censor you for so-called misgendering. But in reality, this is a shift that
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started months ago. Every platform, as far as I know, maybe with the exception of TikTok,
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has pulled back pretty significantly on the censorship campaign that it was waging against
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basic biology. And soon, this will be a distant memory. Soon, people won't be able to believe that
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it even happened. They won't be able to believe that in the 2017 to 2023 era or thereabouts,
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every single major social media platform would not allow you to point out that a man in a dress is a
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man. And it's one of several episodes over the past five or six years that nobody will want to
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admit that they were a part of or that they supported. Now, we've talked a lot about the
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collapse of the transagenda, the fact that gender ideology is losing, and it is. It still exists.
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It's still a problem that needs to be dealt with. But it is losing. And this is probably the nail in
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its coffin. The platform's making it legal, you know, to just speak honestly about the subject.
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This is not what turns the tide, because they're making these changes in response to the tide turning.
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But now that it has turned, and you're allowed to just be honest about the topic again,
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the trans activists are even more screwed than they already were. Because this was always their
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only hope. They cannot compete on a level playing field. They know that. They can't win or have any
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hope of winning if the rules are not rigged in their favor. Because our position is so obviously
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correct, so incontrovertible, so palpably, plainly true, that there's no way to compete with it,
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except to just shut it down. They can only win the argument by not allowing the other side to make
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an argument. And even in that case, as we've seen, they still didn't win. I mean, think about that.
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There was a period of years when we weren't even allowed to make our arguments in most of these
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public forums, and yet we still won the argument. We had tape over our mouths and two hands tied behind
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our backs, and we still won the fight. And now the tape is mostly off, and at least one hand is free.
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And so, you know, they're in big trouble. Postmillennial reports, a new study has revealed
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that Baltimore, Maryland is the dirtiest city in the country. In determining the nation's dirtiest
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cities, House Fresh reviewed 12.3 million sanitation-related complaints to 311 over the past year.
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Cities that had over 250,000 residents were ranked based on the number of sanitation-related reports,
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such as garbage waste and recycling, per 100,000 residents. And they came up with this list of the
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dirtiest cities. So Baltimore is the dirtiest city. No big surprise there. Here's another thing that's
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not a surprise. Let's go down the list of the dirtiest cities and see what they all have in common.
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So we'll look at the city and then also who runs the city, and we'll see if we can notice any
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patterns emerging. Baltimore, Maryland, number one, Mayor Brandon Scott, Democrat. Sacramento,
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Mayor Daryl Steinberg, Democrat. Charlotte, Mayor V. Lyles, Democrat. Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass,
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Democrat. Memphis, Mayor Paul Young, Democrat. Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu, Democrat. San Antonio,
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Mayor Ron Nierenberg, Democrat. Chicago, Brandon Johnson, Democrat. Philadelphia, Jim Kenney,
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Democrat. Houston, Sylvester Turner, Democrat. All down the list until we get to Las Vegas,
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Carolyn Goodman, who's a Republican apparently. So of the 15 dirtiest cities, 14 are run by Democrats.
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And what that tells us is that the Democrat Party fails at the most basic level of civilization.
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And that's why I think this is like worth talking about for a moment. Because this is actually,
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even before crime, before safety, this is the first step, the first thing, really, I think,
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that distinguishes a first world nation from a third world nation. This is the first test of
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several. Can you get your trash off the street? Waste management. Can you maintain some level
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of sanitation? If you go to a third world country, this is the first thing you notice is that it's
00:24:55.380
dirty. Everything is filthy. They leave their trash strewn all over the place. You know, I mean,
00:25:01.400
the ancient Roman Empire 2,000 years ago figured out waste management. And yet there are modern
00:25:10.340
countries who have not figured it out. So this is the first test of civilization. What do you do with
00:25:17.580
your trash? Human beings create a lot of trash. They create a lot of waste. In spite of that,
00:25:24.980
can you have a bunch of humans living together and still keep the trash off the streets? Third world
00:25:32.520
countries fail this test. They all do. And it's one of the main things that makes them third world
00:25:36.780
countries, which is what tells you that third world countries will, most of them, always be third world
00:25:44.440
countries. They are, for the most part, I'm afraid to say, basically hopeless cases.
00:25:49.820
Because when it comes to the most basic things, they are literally thousands of years behind the
00:25:56.080
civilized world. But the tragic thing is that lots of American cities also are increasingly failing
00:26:01.660
this test. Because they have third world populations, thanks in part to mass migration,
00:26:06.500
and they have leadership that lacks the will or even the ability to maintain basic levels of
00:26:11.060
sanitation. And so everything is filthy. I mean, I'll never forget the first time I went back to Los
00:26:16.640
Angeles. I'd been there like 15 years ago and didn't go back for a while. And then I went back
00:26:20.340
for the first time maybe three or four years ago. And I'll never forget driving from the airport to
00:26:25.400
our hotel downtown and just driving past this sea of trash, just trash everywhere. And it reminded me
00:26:33.640
of driving through Kenya. It reminded me of our five or six hour car ride from Nairobi down to where the
00:26:41.040
Maasai tribe lives when we were filming What is a Woman? And we drive past town after town that had
00:26:46.320
these giant piles of garbage just sitting there in the middle of the town. And you know, traditionally
00:26:52.020
back in the, you go back to like the Middle Ages, and churches were always built in the middle of
00:26:58.820
the town. Each town was built up around a church, which served as the focal point, the literal centerpiece
00:27:04.600
of public life. And I remember thinking about that as I'm driving past all these towns, how instead of a
00:27:10.860
church at the center of the town, they had this temple of trash, this monument of garbage and waste.
00:27:17.280
And now a lot of American cities are exactly the same. And this to me is the number one thing that
00:27:23.760
makes city life these days incredibly unappealing. It's not even the crime primarily. I mean, that's
00:27:29.280
number two on the list. That's also important. And it's not the cost of living. It's the trash.
00:27:35.240
It's the garbage. It's how dirty and depressing it is, how bad it smells, just all of that.
00:27:39.820
How can you live that way? You have to be, to live that way, you have to be like spiritually broken.
00:27:49.740
You just have to be a spiritually, mentally broken down person to live among this filth, to just like
00:27:55.720
walk around every day and just see garbage and smell it. Human beings are not meant to live that way.
00:28:03.920
And it doesn't have to be that way. You know, you can have a highly populated city
00:28:08.800
that is also clean. There's plenty of examples in the world. Tokyo is famously a very clean city.
00:28:16.820
I've never been to it, but this is what you hear. It's a very clean city. How do they achieve that?
00:28:24.920
Well, for one thing, Tokyo is like 95% ethnically Japanese. So they're not importing third world
00:28:31.080
immigrants who have a culture of just throwing their trash on the ground. Also, you know, in Tokyo,
00:28:37.100
you can go to prison for five years for illegal dumping, for disposing of your trash improperly.
00:28:42.240
They even got rid of most of their trash cans, most of their public trash cans, and they just make
00:28:46.180
the residents bring their trash home with them. And then they put in place, you know, these
00:28:50.540
potentially very severe punishments and fines and even jail sentences for littering. And, but the
00:28:56.760
truth is that they could probably get rid of those penalties and they'd still be extremely clean
00:29:01.460
because that's their culture. They have a culture of cleanliness. Dumping trash on the ground,
00:29:07.380
throwing, you know, drinking a can of soda and just throwing it on the sidewalk is not something
00:29:13.420
that most Japanese people would ever do, even if they were allowed to do it. And, uh, there are
00:29:20.800
still places in America that are like that, you know, where there's a culture of cleanliness and
00:29:26.100
orderliness. They're rapidly vanishing, but they do exist. You know, I used to live in a small town
00:29:32.780
out in the country and I remember once at the gas station, we had one small gas station in the town
00:29:37.480
and I remember a trash can had somehow tipped over at the, I don't know if it, whatever,
00:29:42.940
it tipped over and it was like the trash was spilling on the ground. And like four different
00:29:46.880
people, the guy that works there and three other customers, myself included, went over immediately
00:29:51.340
to help clean the trash up. This, you know, just clean it up. And, um, they took the bag out and put
00:29:56.020
a new bag in. So it's a small thing, no great act of service, right? We're not heroes. But my point is
00:30:01.100
that in Baltimore, that's not happening. You know, in Baltimore, the trash spills over and everyone just
00:30:06.660
leaves it there. Certainly you're not going to get all customers at the gas station chipping in
00:30:11.460
unprompted to help clean up the mess. It's just not going to happen because it's a, it's a, it's
00:30:16.840
a culture of disorder. It's a culture of waste. It's a culture of, again, when you're in the city and
00:30:23.720
you, and you're, you're walking down and you see just some bag of trash or some, whatever piece of
00:30:28.440
litter on the sidewalk, that means obviously, right, that somebody was walking along and they just threw
00:30:33.700
the thing on the ground. Think about what kind of mentality it's like, it seems like such a, this
00:30:38.020
is why I'm at, even though I'm not much of an environmentalist, I am on this point when it comes
00:30:41.840
to littering, I'm like an extreme environmentalist when it comes to litter. I, I, I would, I honest
00:30:47.320
to God would be fine if we had five-year prison sentences for littering. Cause I, I think that that
00:30:53.180
behavior is so, it's such an attack on civilized society. It's, it's, it says so, it says so much
00:31:00.620
about you. It like tells me immediately that you are a person who we don't need living in, in, in
00:31:06.040
society, that you would drink something and throw it on the ground and just keep walking. I can't even
00:31:13.300
wrap my head around that. The total disregard for everybody else around you. Um, I'd be in favor of,
00:31:21.740
of ratchet up the penalties times a hundred for that. I'd be in favor of it. Um, you know,
00:31:30.380
even here in Nashville, I try, this is why you can't, you can't go to the, I love to fish. You
00:31:34.080
can't go fishing at a lot of the lakes here that are close to the city because you just find this
00:31:39.880
trash floating in the water. People, people, they just throw their trash, like a whole bags of trash.
00:31:44.880
It's like, uh, I was, I was at a, one of these lakes last year. It's a, a bag of a McDonald's
00:31:51.520
McDonald's bag float. Someone had McDonald's and threw it in the water. Okay.
00:31:56.900
How about 10 years in prison for that? I, I, I swear to you, I would support it. I don't
00:32:02.240
care who it is. Find whoever that was that threw that in there. 10 years in prison.
00:32:07.560
Um, but in some ways it's like you're, even if you tried to do that, you're fighting this
00:32:13.100
kind of losing battle because, um, you're in these communities that have a culture of,
00:32:17.960
uh, as I said, disorderliness and waste. All right. Uh, here's something not worth talking
00:32:26.280
about it all. Uh, Megan Markle sat down with time magazine to talk about how she introduces
00:32:33.600
little moments of magic into her life with flower sprinkles. And this is, I don't know,
00:32:40.320
it's pretty inspiring. Uh, I thought this was inspiring. It's like a good little, some,
00:32:45.260
some good advice is this is what she is now. She's a, she's a sage. She's a guru of sorts.
00:32:50.520
Well, I don't know what exactly she is. That's what I wanted to talk about. But first here's the,
00:32:53.800
the clip of Megan Markle giving some important life advice. All things to be talking about for
00:33:00.500
time 100. Let's talk about flower sprinkles. Um, but let's, because I think it speaks to
00:33:05.520
the tiny moments of joy that are so effortless and just create a little bit of magic that we're all
00:33:14.040
craving in our everyday. They're tiny little flower petals that are dried. I started putting
00:33:20.240
them on salads. I started putting them on scrambled eggs. It didn't actually matter on a yogurt parfait.
00:33:27.220
The level of charm that you find people have when they see these tiny little dried petals
00:33:33.600
is something I can't fully wrap my head around, but I appreciate that there is a love for the detail.
00:33:41.120
Uh, flower sprinkles. That's where it's at. And you know, if I had a dime for every time I've
00:33:47.480
sprinkled my food with some flower petals, I'd have no dimes at all. But if Megan wants you to do that,
00:33:54.580
that's fine. For me, the question with Megan Markle, she's actually kind of fascinating,
00:34:00.440
not fascinating in the way that she wants to be in the way that she tries to be, but in a different
00:34:05.040
sort of psychoanalytical way. Because to me, the question is, is what is Megan? Like, what is she
00:34:12.120
trying to be? Who does she think? Who does she think she is? Uh, it would be one thing if Megan
00:34:18.620
gave up the royal life, came back to America, started acting in movies or something, maybe started
00:34:26.000
a talk show on a network TV, uh, channel somewhere. And then you'd say, okay, well, she wants to be an
00:34:30.880
actor. She wants to be a TV star. That's not really it. She, she has, she has her various failed
00:34:35.240
Netflix shows or failed podcasts, but she doesn't seem committed to any of those paths specifically.
00:34:39.600
What she wants to be clearly is royalty. She wants to be the first American princess. She essentially
00:34:45.060
wants to have the job that the royal family has in the place that she dragged her husband away from.
00:34:49.680
But it doesn't work because as much as I might make fun of the royal family in the UK,
00:34:55.120
at least there's a history there. At least there's, it's rooted in a deep kind of ancient tradition.
00:35:00.880
We don't have that tradition here. So we're supposed to embrace Megan as our princess,
00:35:05.520
our royalty based on what? Based on, based on her winning personality, I guess.
00:35:10.360
Uh, there's a mystique that surrounds the royal family. There's no mystique with, with Megan
00:35:14.520
Markle. She's the most mystique less person. If that's even a word that I've ever seen. Now you can
00:35:21.640
have a job in this country of just being famous. I think those jobs are maybe a little bit harder to
00:35:27.900
come by now than they were at the peak of the reality TV show era. That's, you know,
00:35:33.580
that's what the Kardashians are or were. But if you want that job, if you want that job in this
00:35:39.040
country, you have to be willing to be a sideshow freak. You know, the Kardashians were glorified
00:35:44.320
circus clowns. The whole family is a freak show. So she could do that. Do some kind of reality show
00:35:50.760
where she debases herself and gives people something to gawk at. Um, that's how you become
00:35:56.380
royalty in this country, I guess. But it is interesting. It's an interesting case.
00:36:01.600
Megan Markle is a very boring person, but she's an interesting case. And I think the history books
00:36:05.420
will find her more interesting than we do because her story is tragic and fascinating that she rejected
00:36:10.620
a life of actual royalty in favor of, you know, seeking fame and admiration in the U.S.
00:36:17.320
and instead she was reviled and mocked and she's despised by basically everyone.
00:36:25.400
Is there, are there any Megan Markle fans? When's the last time you met someone who has a positive
00:36:31.040
view of her? This is one of the, one of the few bipartisan issues that still exists in this country
00:36:38.600
is Megan Markle that everybody hates her. Um, there, there, and even with, there are very few people
00:36:48.100
in this country that everybody can agree on, you know, on the other side too, there, there's like
00:36:55.780
almost nobody who's universally beloved anymore. I think Alex Trebek was probably the last one.
00:37:02.600
Alex Trebek was the last universally beloved person who was not quote unquote problematic
00:37:06.900
according to either side. And, uh, and he's dead. So there's, there's no one left.
00:37:13.500
All we have now, so we can't agree. We can't agree on, on who we admire, but we can agree
00:37:19.380
on hating certain people. That's the only place where we can find, we don't have universally admired,
00:37:26.160
but we do have universally reviled. And, uh, Megan Markle is one. It seems like Katy Perry is another one.
00:37:35.000
Interestingly enough. And so that's what she ended up with. She gave up the life of royalty and she
00:37:40.740
was, uh, ended up being universe, basically universally reviled and relegated to the C-list.
00:37:45.820
So that's, uh, it is, it's a, it's a, in a way it's a tragic story. Not that I'm shedding any tears
00:37:51.940
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If you don't spend much time following celebrity drama, then you are a healthy person and you should
00:39:34.500
be proud. It also means that you may not have heard about the controversy surrounding prominent
00:39:38.280
sports commentator and former NFL star Shannon Sharp. Shannon has, as of yesterday, stepped away
00:39:43.880
from his role on ESPN just a few days after a $50 million lawsuit was filed alleging sexual assault.
00:39:50.320
Now the allegations are coming from an OnlyFans model named, model in quotes, named Gabby, who also
00:39:58.220
apparently goes by Carly, but we'll just call her Gabby. Shannon has stridently denied any wrongdoing
00:40:03.420
and claimed that his relationship with Gabby was entirely consensual. But things took a turn,
00:40:07.600
took a turn earlier in the week when a phone call was released. And in the call, you can hear Shannon
00:40:13.240
threatening to choke this woman, Gabby. Listen.
00:40:19.320
I'm not really interested in getting choked, so I guess we're going.
00:40:51.520
Not a good look, bitch. You did what you did to me.
00:40:56.520
Okay. Now, Gabby is obviously recording the call. We don't know what was said earlier on the call or
00:41:03.320
before the call was made. She was clearly recording it for a reason, but even so, telling a woman that
00:41:08.980
you're going to choke her is very bad. It, you know, there's no, like, context that makes that okay.
00:41:14.600
It does not, however, prove that he's guilty of rape. Now, there is apparently some kind of
00:41:19.340
video, a sex tape, that Shannon's legal team has alluded to a few times. They claim that Gabby is
00:41:25.060
using this video to blackmail Shannon and that it's been taken out of context, possibly edited to make
00:41:29.600
the sexual encounter look non-consensual when it is, in fact, they say, consensual. And attempting to
00:41:35.520
get ahead of this, his team also released a collection of extremely graphic text messages sent
00:41:40.440
by Gabby to Shannon over the course of several months. And, you know, I can't read any of them
00:41:47.340
to you. Even if I could read them, I still wouldn't. They're very sexual. They are very graphic in
00:41:51.500
nature. Gabby repeatedly says that she wants to be abused, wants to be choked, and she wants to have
00:41:58.480
other things, unspeakable things done to her. Some of these texts were sent after the alleged rape
00:42:06.100
occurred. I think she alleged two incidents, and this was after one of them. Now, Shannon claims
00:42:13.440
that, you know, if he did, in fact, rape this woman, then she wouldn't be sending him graphic
00:42:19.200
texts weeks and months after the fact, saying, among other things, that she wants Shannon to put a,
00:42:25.540
quote, big black baby in her. So what's the truth here? Did Shannon Sharp rape this woman? I have
00:42:33.840
absolutely no idea. If I had to guess, if I was just guessing, I'd say probably not. I mean, assuming
00:42:42.300
that the texts are legitimate, it's hard to believe that a woman who was actually the victim of a
00:42:46.840
violent rape would be texting her rapist and begging for him to come back and violate her again.
00:42:53.720
Although it wouldn't shock me all that much if he was evil enough to do that awful thing, and if she
00:42:58.240
was twisted enough to start sexting with her rapist. So I have no idea. Now, you know, I cannot
00:43:03.180
personally reach a verdict on this allegation, and that's not my job to, so that's the good news.
00:43:08.900
All I know is that whatever happened, it was weird and bad and gross, and I wish I didn't know about
00:43:15.860
it, but I do, and now so do you. Now, this whole thing, of course, was very avoidable. You know,
00:43:23.880
false accusations can happen, and they're always terrible, assuming that these accusations are false,
00:43:28.200
which they may or may not be. But the fact is that, you know, a great many, not all, but a great
00:43:34.180
many false accusations and questionable accusations could have been very easily avoided. And here's how
00:43:43.880
you avoid them. Get married to one woman. Stay married to that woman. Have zero sexual encounters
00:43:53.740
outside of your marriage. In fact, don't even spend time alone in the same room as any woman who is not
00:43:59.840
your wife or a family member. When it comes to women of low character, such as one who, you know,
00:44:04.960
that you would find on OnlyFans, for example, don't have any interaction with them at all. Don't speak
00:44:11.280
to them. Don't befriend them. Don't text them. Don't call them. Don't have them in your life in any
00:44:18.320
capacity, period, at all. And, you know, it's not hard to put these boundaries up. These are the
00:44:23.760
boundaries that I live within, that many married men live within. It has not intruded on my life or
00:44:29.300
even caused the slightest inconvenience ever. It's very easy for a grown man to not get mixed up with
00:44:37.340
the Gabby's of the world. It's very easy to put yourself in a situation where Gabby could simply
00:44:43.000
never credibly accuse you of anything. Of course, anyone can accuse you of anything, but you'll have a much
00:44:48.160
easier time clearing your name if you can point out that you've never interacted with this person in
00:44:53.840
any capacity at any point in your entire life. Now, Shannon Sharp's story, though gross and embarrassing,
00:45:02.620
is in a way helpful because it demonstrates two things. And first of all, it reveals that there is
00:45:10.240
a risk of staying single. You know, we often hear about the risks of marriage, the risks like you can end
00:45:16.800
up divorced, you can lose half your stuff, you can lose custody of your children, if you're the man
00:45:22.920
anyway. And all of that can happen, of course. I mean, there are lots of things you can do to greatly
00:45:28.780
reduce your risk of winding up in that position, but it does happen. We all know that. And the fear of
00:45:34.960
that result is what leads some men to avoid marriage entirely. But as Shannon Sharp and many other men have
00:45:39.980
demonstrated, the other option is not without very significant dangers. I mean, unless you plan to be single
00:45:46.780
and also celibate for your whole life, then you'll be getting involved with a succession of women you don't
00:45:52.320
know and who don't love you or necessarily even care about you in the slightest. And that will make you
00:45:58.200
very vulnerable and susceptible. And same goes for the woman, of course, on the other side. There's vulnerability
00:46:03.840
and susceptibility and dangers of a different kind that perhaps if the allegations are true,
00:46:10.760
you know, this woman fell victim to. But either way, you know, it's, it's, this is the point that
00:46:15.940
there are, we talk about the dangers of getting married, dangers for men, dangers of women, for women,
00:46:22.580
many, many dangers, you know, involved in not getting married. Second, Shannon has shown us how pitiful
00:46:30.000
and sad, you know, this kind of lifestyle is, even if he isn't a rapist, even if he isn't,
00:46:36.580
he's still a pathetic, ridiculous man. I mean, Shannon Sharp is 56 years old. This woman would have
00:46:45.720
been, I guess, about 20 when this relationship, if you can call it that, started. So this is a 56-year-old
00:46:52.460
man, you know, hooking up at best with a 20-year-old OnlyFans prostitute. This is a man who,
00:47:00.380
at his age, you know, should be sitting at his house with his wife, watching his grandchildren
00:47:07.920
play, maybe having a beer with his adult son. But instead, he's wrapped up in an embarrassing,
00:47:14.480
disgraceful public feud with a 20-year-old girl. He should be reading his grandchildren a bedtime story.
00:47:20.920
Instead, he's reading us his sex messages with a chick from OnlyFans. And now he's been disgraced
00:47:27.240
and his career is destroyed. And when he dies, he'll be remembered mostly for this, not for anything
00:47:34.180
he did before it. And whether he's guilty or not, he brought all of that on himself.
00:47:41.380
And that is why he is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching.
00:47:47.840
Thanks for listening. Talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.