Ep. 180 - The Despicable Campaign Against Covington Catholic Boys
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A group of Catholic schoolboys have been hideously defamed and slandered all over the internet and the media. We are going to sort through this issue and figure out who the real bad guys are in this situation. Also, a company responds to that stupid Gillette ad with an ad of their own which I think is pretty fantastic. And finally, I'll answer some of your emails today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a group of Catholic schoolboys have been hideously defamed and
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slandered and smeared all over the internet and the media. We are going to sort through this issue
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and figure out who the real bad guys are in this situation. Also, a company responds to that stupid
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Gillette ad with an ad of their own, which I think is pretty fantastic. And finally,
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I'll answer some of your emails today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Hello and welcome, everybody. I missed you terribly since we last spoke. So thank you for
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coming back here again. Hey, remember one thing really quickly, if you're watching on Facebook
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that or go to YouTube or become a premium subscriber to The Daily Wire, where you get this show and
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lots of other great content as well. Okay, I want to get to a story that just absolutely
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infuriates me. I can't tell you how angry I am by this. I've just been like stewing over it for
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the last 24 hours. If you were on social media at all this weekend, you probably already heard about
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it. If you were not on social media, maybe you didn't hear about it. And also, if you weren't on
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social media this weekend, I think that you made a very good choice, a choice that I wish that I had
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made. So the story revolves around a bunch of kids from Covington Catholic High School in Covington,
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Kentucky. They were in DC for the March for Life, which of course happened on Friday. And there was
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a great turnout for that, by the way. You're not going to hear about that from the media. We heard
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plenty about this incident that we'll talk about, but very little about the hundreds and hundreds of
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thousands of people that were marching for the unborn the day before. So these kids, they were
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in DC for the March for Life on Friday. And then on Saturday, they were supposed to board their buses
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and go back to Kentucky. So they were in downtown again, apparently waiting for their bus so they
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could board and go home. Now, that's when the incident occurred. And the incident, according to the
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initial media reports, involved only these kids and a group of Native Americans led by a guy named
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Nathan Phillips. And the Native Americans were in DC for apparently an indigenous people's march,
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which was happening the day after the March for Life. The original story went viral on Saturday.
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And it was that the kids randomly swarmed this group of Native Americans and started berating and
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heckling them and mocking them and taunting and threatening them, not letting them leave while the
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Native Americans were simply just playing the drums and singing a spiritual song. So this was just a,
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according to the initial story, which went viral, this was a straightforward, blatant case of,
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you know, privileged white boys acting in an outlandishly racist manner. And that's what millions of
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people believed. That's what the media reported. That's what many prominent folks on both sides of
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the political aisle said. But I'll tell you, when I first heard the story, and look, this is not,
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I'm not like spiking the football because a lot of people got this wrong and I didn't kind of thing.
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I'm just saying, you know, here was my thought process, okay? Well, I did, I went online briefly on
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Saturday. I heard about this story and my first thought was, uh, what? You know, it just, it didn't
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make sense to me. Um, it didn't sound believable. I'm not saying that it sounded impossible, but it
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didn't sound believable or necessarily plausible that a group of Catholic high school boys would
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just randomly start berating Native Americans for no reason. That's the kind of thing that you think
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is plausible. If you have a cartoonish idea of human nature and especially of white teenage boys,
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but maybe it's because I used to be a white teenage boy. Um, and, uh, so I can think back to then and
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it's just, I can't imagine like you're in DC with a bunch of your friends and then you see some Native
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Americans over there and you say, Hey, let's go over there and taunt them guys. Come on. Hey fellas,
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let's go do something racist. Um, that's just, it doesn't re I'm not saying that's impossible that
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that could happen. It's just, it's just seems very, very unlikely. That's just not how people act.
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Right. Uh, but there was allegedly video of the incident, uh, video that shows that's what the media
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said. The media said the video shows high school boys harassing Native Americans. And, um, the video
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was a short clip. It turns out of a much longer piece of footage. Of course, the longer piece of
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footage didn't, didn't surface magically until like 24 hours later after the kids already had already
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been getting death threats and were facing possible expulsion and had been denounced, um, hither and
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beyond. So let me show you, this is what the short clip looked like. This is, this is the, the clip
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that most people saw on Saturday and that engendered all of this outrage. Here it is.
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Okay. So a lot of people saw that video out of context and concluded that it definitely shows
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high school boys harassing Native Americans. Um, I watched it on Saturday when there was,
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well, there's footage. So I, I watched it and I, I didn't really, I didn't see it. I didn't see what
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everyone was claiming even out of context. It just, I didn't see, it looks weird. It looks strange.
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It looks like the kind of video that screams out of context. I mean, there might as well be a giant
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neon sign in the background of the video saying, this is out of context because you see that and
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you think there's gotta be more to that. Even if the, even if the boys are the bad guys here,
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there's just, how did this even come up? What was the scenario where these two groups even met?
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These are just obvious questions that people should ask. And very few people did. Um, also it was claimed
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initially that the boys were chanting, build the wall at the Native Americans. Well, again, you watch
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that clip of the video, you, they're not chanting that that's not, that's not in the video. Um, which
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is, which should be a giant red flag, right? If, if there's a viral story saying that this or that
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happened and Hey, there's a video to go with it and the video doesn't match up with the story.
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Well, that's a red flag because it, again, it shows you that at the very least there's more to
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this that didn't make it on the video. Um, so personally on Saturday I saw the video, I heard
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the story. And so I just, I didn't say anything about it. I didn't, I didn't chime in. I gave no
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opinion, uh, for or against the students because I had no idea what was going on. It seemed, you know,
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it's possible that the kids were in the wrong, uh, but it, or maybe they, they aren't, but I just,
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I had no idea. So I didn't say anything. Um, but there were a lot of people who felt like they did
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have a pretty good idea. So these kids were slandered and defamed and doxxed and, uh, threatened
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for a full 24 hours. And they were even denounced by the mayor of their town, denounced by millions
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of others, including very prominent, uh, powerful, influential people in the media and celebrities
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and so on. Before finally this full story emerges, a much longer video surfaced as usually happens
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with these sorts of situations. Um, one of the longer videos is over an hour long and was shot
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apparently by a member of a group called the black Hebrew Israelites. Now the black Hebrew Israelites
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are a very important group in this whole situation, but nobody even heard about them until a day
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later. And by the way, the, uh, the black Hebrew Israelites, the BHI will call them. They are
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essentially cult members. They're radical fringe people who think that they're descendants of the
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Israelites and, uh, they, they hate everyone. Okay. This is their whole shtick. They stand on street
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corners and they shout slurs at random passersby. I've seen them myself downtown. I've been downtown and
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seen these, uh, these people, you know, set up with their little display, just screaming at pedestrians
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who were happened to be walking by, um, screaming offensive things oftentimes. So in the video,
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their video, you hear them screaming insults at random. The video goes on for like an hour before
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we even see the, uh, the students and they're screaming insults at random people for a while.
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They even, they, they're even insulting native Americans. They call them, uh, idol worshipers,
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totem pole worshipers, and these sorts of things. So they're insulting everyone. They're,
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they're, they're shouting anti-gay slurs. I mean, these are, these are not, this is not the group
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that, that you would think leftists would want to, um, would want to defend. Um, then finally,
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this group of people, they set their sights on the white kids who were standing around waiting for the
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bus, the Covington kids. And, uh, they, the, the black radicals start hurling insults at the kids,
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calling them incest children, calling them crackers, uh, at other points, call them a future
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school shooters, tell them they should go back to Europe. Um, they, um, as I said, they're using,
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they're using anti-gay slurs, the F word, the, the gay slur F word. And so the kids
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respond to this provocation by just kind of trying to drown out the slurs with, with laughter. And
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they start doing these kinds of like pep rally style school cheers. And at one point, one of the
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kids, I mean, you know, they're teenage boys. So one of the kids takes his shirt off and starts
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kind of like dancing as if they're at a football, um, game or something like that. And so everyone,
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they're, they're just, they all have smiles on their faces. They're doing their cheers, their school
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cheers. Um, they're laughing and singing and sort of dancing, responding to the hate with positivity.
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Now, this seems like if you're, you know, in that situation and you've got these people shouting
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slurs at you, uh, that seems like a perfectly good way to respond. The point is they didn't respond
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in kind. They didn't respond by shouting, uh, slurs, much less racial slurs back at the black Hebrew
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Israelites. Instead, they just kind of, like I said, they try to drown it out. Um, this goes on for a
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while until finally this native American group comes in. Uh, now remember the original story was that
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the, the white kids, I guess, track down these native Americans, found them and surrounded them
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and, and accosted them verbally. Um, but then you see the video and you see that the white kids are
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in the process of being accosted, verbally accosted by the black Hebrew Israelites. And then the native
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American group comes in and walks up to the white kids playing the drums in their faces. And while this
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is happening, the black Israelites are still shouting slurs. Someone tells us that someone tells the kids
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to go back to Europe and so on. Um, but the kids, they just continue their strategy of kind of keeping
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it positive, staying above the fray. They're doing their school cheers. I never, I watched a video. I
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watched the full video. I never heard anyone chant, build the wall. Maybe somebody said that, but there
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was never a point where the whole group was shouting, build, build the wall, uh, which is what Nathan
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Phillips claimed. And, um, and then that's the incident. Okay. So that's it. That's what happened.
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It was provoked by the black Israelites who were racially harassing a group of white kids.
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Then the native American group comes in and tries to provoke things even further. It's clear that
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that's what they're doing. Now there are some people claiming now that, Oh, you know, they were
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trying to settle things down. And really, that's how, that's how you deescalate a situation. You come
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into the middle of it and start banging drums in the kids' faces. That's deescalation. No, it's very
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clear to me watching it that the, what Nathan Phillips was trying to do was provoke them even
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more. And actually he failed. And if there was any, if there was any doubt about what Nathan
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Phillips, what his motivation was, well, all we have to do is look at what he said after the fact,
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because after this whole incident that again, he inserted himself into, he immediately went to the,
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to the media and blatantly lied about the situation. He called the white kids beasts.
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Okay. You're not, you're not going to, you're not hearing this in the media. He called them beasts
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and said that they were, they were harassing the group of black people. He painted the white kids
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as the aggressors and the instigators in the situation. He said that he heroically put himself
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in between beasts and their prey. And then he said in a separate interview that the kids surrounded him
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and that they wouldn't let him leave. And he felt threatened. Uh, they said, he said they were
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chanting, build the wall at him. These are just lies. Okay. Uh, they are lies contradicted by the video
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evidence. He is a liar. This is a hands up, don't shoot level lie. Um, Nathan Phillips apparently is a
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scam artist who played half the country. A bunch of people just fell for it. The media ate it up,
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reported it as fact uncritically. And these kids have been smeared all over the internet and cable
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news because of it. Uh, the main kid that was featured in the video, the one smiling at Phillips
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wrote a statement and explained his side of the story. Here's the crucial thing. His side of the story
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is exactly what the video shows. His side of the story lines up with what you see in the video.
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The other version, the verb version we got from Phillips does not line up with the video evidence
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and never did. Um, and also Phillips version of the story as a secondary issue doesn't line up with
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common sense. So it doesn't even make sense. And also it doesn't work with the video, but then we have
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the video and it just so happens that the reports we're getting from the kids matches up. So I think
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we basically know what happened here. Okay. So what, what did we, what have we learned from this? I
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think, uh, most people probably have learned absolutely nothing, but if you are a more observant
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sort of person, what, um, what, what could you learn from this incident? I think a few things.
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Number one, uh, and this is very important. Your social media hot take can wait for a day or two.
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Uh, we all seem to be under this very mistaken impression that the world will like stop rotating
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on its axis. If we don't immediately offer our own two cents on every event, the moment it transpires.
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And there are many otherwise intelligent people who have made fools of themselves,
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myself included in other cases, because they felt the need to voice an opinion on an issue,
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um, as soon as it came to their attention without waiting to actually find out what happened.
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But there isn't much good that can come of that. There is, there isn't really any good that can come
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out of a, an opinion that's just sort of dashed off and published in a hurry as if to meet some sort
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of deadline, uh, because you want to be in that first wave of opinion about something that happened
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there. There's just, there's nothing good that can come of it. The most you can hope for is something
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is neutral, that it will just have no effect, but there's no, there's no scenario where some sort of
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really good thing happens because even if you're right in that first wave of opinion, even if you
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happen to take the right point of view, which will be really just a matter of luck because you didn't,
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you had no idea what the, what the, all the facts were. So you just happened to get it right.
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But even if you're right, your perspective is redundant and useless because everyone else is
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already saying that. That's the stupid thing about the mass outrage, um, that you see on the
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internet, aside from any of the ethical or moral concerns, which are primary, but secondary, what's even
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the point? Like if, if you see a video like this, even if, let's just say that, that, um, the video was
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not misrepresented and these kids really are guilty of being racist, uh, obnoxious jerks.
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And, you know, 10 million people have already chimed in saying, well, they're racist and obnoxious.
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Why do you even need to be, why do you need to be the, the 10 million and one voice? 10 million
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other people have already said it. So you need to say it too. Yes. I also agree that they are obnoxious.
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Hey everybody, just so you know, I agree with what 10 million people have already said.
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So at best, you're just repeating what everyone else has said. So your, your opinion is useless.
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At worst, you are going to be a contributing member of, uh, of, uh, of mass hysteria. You are
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going to be part of a pitchfork mob. So why not, why not wait? Everyone can survive without your
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opinion for a few hours. Uh, everyone can survive without your opinion forever and without mine.
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That's the other thing. None of our opinions actually matter that much. That's, I hate to,
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I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you're, you've, you've never said anything on the
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internet that really made that much of a difference. That's in me. I'm in the same camp. It's like,
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nobody really cares that much anyway. Um, which just, which I'm not saying that it doesn't mean that
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we should stop giving our, obviously I'm giving my opinion right now, but it doesn't mean we stop
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giving our opinion, but it just means that you, you, we can all afford to wait for a minute
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because it doesn't matter that much. Um, so you might as well hold off and, uh, uh, so that you
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don't embarrass yourself. And also by the way, so that you don't participate in the defamation of an
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innocent person accidentally. So there is no downside to taking your time before offering a point of
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view. There is enormous downside to jumping the gun. Second thing. Uh, and you know, it's unfortunate
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that this even needs to be said, or that this is a lesson that needs to be learned by anyone, by anyone,
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but, but white teenage boys are not evil. Okay. Again, like I said, I'm not spiking the football.
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I've spoken too soon on many other occasions, but I held my tongue on this one when I first heard about it,
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mainly because I know that, that white teenage boys don't generally behave like the villains in
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some sort of socially conscious cartoon. Okay. They're not cartoon villains. Maybe you'll come
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across a white, a white guy, a white teenage boy here or there who does really act like that, but,
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but most of them are not. And what are the chances that you're going to have a whole school filled
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with racist sociopaths who all happen to be, you know, they all went on a field trip together.
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Well, what are the chances of that? It just, it seems like very unlikely. Um, but a lot of people
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had no problem accepting the narrative that was first presented because they really do think,
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or at least want to think that white boys carry on this way routinely. Um, and these are mostly the
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same people who ate up all the rumors about Kavanaugh because they wanted to believe they
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desperately wanted to believe that privileged white teenagers go around casually gang raping women
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for sport. But again, with that, it was, it was, yes, I'm, there are white teenage boys out there who
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are that evil. Um, but the idea that you would have a whole group of teen teenage boys who coordinate
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with each other to drug and rape women. It's just, it's not impossible, but that is a remarkable claim.
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Um, which would require some kind of really compelling evidence with Kavanaugh. There was no evidence
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and with this, uh, with this most recent incident with the teenagers, there was a little bit of
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evidence, but the evidence didn't line up with the claim. Um, so these false narratives, you know,
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they tell us nothing about white teenage boys, about young white men. They do tell us a lot about
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the members of the pitchfork mob. Namely, it tells us that these people, the people in the pitchfork mob,
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they hate white men, hate them, especially young ones and especially Christian ones.
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And that's why, um, they were so eager to jump on this because this is really, this shows you,
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this is what they think of a, of a, of a young white man. This is what they think a young white man is.
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So they heard this story about the Covington kids and they thought to themselves, oh yeah, well, sure.
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That's exactly what white teenage boys do all the time. And that's why it's, it's been, it's been
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pretty incredible over the last 24 hours or so, as this, as the full story has emerged, as it's become
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clear that, um, that this was a false narrative, that Nathan Phillips lied and so on, there had still
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been plenty of people who are clinging, who are acknowledging that, um, that there's more to the
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story now, but they're still clinging to their initial reaction, um, or at least justifying their
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initial reaction on the, in fact, just to, to quote here, there was someone, uh, one person on Twitter
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said that, um, you know, she said her reaction, she had that reaction because, um, the, the sight of that
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face, talking about one of the teens, the teenage boy who was smiling, she said, the sight of that
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face caused a visceral reaction. So she's admitting that just the sight of a, of a young white man's
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face is so repulsive to her and so offensive that she can't help but defame and slander him. It's just,
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it's a, it is a knee jerk reaction. It's a reflex. She's saying that tells you a lot about her.
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It tells you absolutely nothing about the, um, about the boys in question though.
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Third thing we can learn is that the media really is the enemy of the people. Uh, I think Trump was
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right about that. The news media is the enemy of the people, certain types of people anyway, maybe
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that's where he got it wrong. He said the people, um, but not all people, only certain types of people,
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because if you happen to be a member of the wrong demographic, the media will eagerly spread
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lies about you. They will destroy your life. They will send the mob to your front door. They will
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try to get you kicked out of school, kicked out of your job. They'll incite threats against your
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family. They will tear you to pieces if you are a member of the wrong sort of demographic group
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and you, and you come to their attention. They will not hesitate to do that to you. So what else can
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we call them, but enemies? I mean, this certainly isn't how friends or allies behave last I checked.
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So I am a white Christian conservative man. They are obviously my enemy, not because I want them to
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be. I'm not saying, or maybe I should rephrase it. I am their enemy and they have made that completely
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clear. If there was any kind of video or anything that gave them a video like this or any kind of video
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that gave them, uh, an excuse, a reason, the ability to destroy my life, they would not hesitate to do
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it. But if I was a member of a different demographic group, uh, or if my politics were a little bit
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different, they would hesitate. So I am there. They see me as an enemy. There's just, there's no getting
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around that. And here's the fourth thing. And this is really important. Um, this is less of a lesson
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and more of a warning. Somebody is going to get killed. Okay. It's only a matter of time before a
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victim of one of these media led smear campaigns winds up dead. It's going to happen. Um, and what,
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what, what, what will the inciters and orchestrators of the outrage mob say then? What are they going to
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say? Are they going to say, Oh, we had no idea it would come to this. Well, yes, you did. When you
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put a person's name and face out there and you tell the world these outlandish, outlandish lies
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about them, what do you think is going to happen? You are basically lighting a match in a forest full
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of dry dead leaves. And if somebody finally gets burned, that's your fault. And I can only hope when
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that terrible day comes that at least a few of the smear merchants will end up in jail because this
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is, you know, this is incitement. This is not free speech. And in the meantime, and hopefully to stave
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off this, this very tragic, but I think inevitable eventuality, we need some, you know, there need to
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be repercussions, which means that because unfortunately most of the people who are targeted in these
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situations like these, like these school kids, they don't have a lot of resources. All right. These
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are not, these are not necessarily going to be millionaires. So there need to be ethical and
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generous lawyers who are willing to jump in and, and come to the defense of the victims pro bono
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and sue the defamers and inciters into oblivion. News outlets that run defamatory and libelous reports
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about innocent people should face severe consequences. Celebrities like Kathy Griffin,
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who encouraged her fans to retaliate against these boys, encourage them to dox him, which is,
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you know, dig up, uh, private information about him and put it out there on the internet, invade his
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privacy, uh, influential, powerful people who do stuff like that. They should be bankrupted by lawsuits.
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Um, not, as I said, this has nothing to do with free speech. This is libel. It's, this is incitement.
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It's illegal. And that's how it should be treated. Um, and if we don't start treating it that way,
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you know, things are, things are going to get really bad and there are going to be very serious
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consequences. Uh, I should say permanent consequences for somebody one of these days.
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All right. Um, I didn't want to, I wanted to mention this very quickly as we, we spent a lot
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of last week talking about that Gillette ad, which was, um, insulting to, to men. So this is kind of
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in the same vein. This is all, it's all part of the same, part of the same theme. Um, but a watch
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company, I was, I was waiting. I knew that some company would do this. I was waiting. I didn't know
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which company would be the first. I've never heard of this company. Eggert Watch Company put out
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an ad on YouTube, um, responding to that infamous Gillette ad. And, uh, I think it's pretty good.
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What is a man? Is a man brave? Is a man a hero? Is a man, is a man a protector?
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Okay, I mean, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this because I've said plenty.
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I said probably way more than enough about an ad about a company that makes razors.
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So I'll say I like that ad, and you see very clearly the difference there.
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Building men up, building up their customer base, which is a smart marketing idea, but
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just in general, building men up, a positive message.
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Now, personally, I don't think that, I don't feel like I need to be built up or challenged
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But I do appreciate commercials that do it well and have a positive tone, and that's
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So there's a challenge there, but it's in a positive context, saying this is what a man
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is, and so if you're a man, that's how you should be.
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But the thing is, they don't need to say that last part.
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They don't need to say the part of, this is what you should do.
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That's already implied through the kind of inspirational message.
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So I've decided that I'm going to try and go to the mailbag, the inbox, I'll call it,
00:32:10.240
I'll go to the inbox every show, if I remember to anyway, just to give more people kind of
00:32:17.400
So if you want to send an email to me to give your opinion or ask a question or whatever,
00:32:26.680
And also, if you have inquiries about speaking engagements or media requests or anything,
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I got a lot of messages and things over the weekend.
00:32:39.760
Jennifer says, Matt, wanted to let you know you are ugly inside and out.
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Jennifer, I thank you for that valuable feedback.
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I always look forward to a new video of yours to come out.
00:32:53.100
I'm a sophomore in an all-girls Catholic high school, and many of my friends, teachers,
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and even priests have made comments implying or outright saying that they are against organized
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Could you make a video defending organized religion, especially the Catholic Church, from
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I've written about it other places, so I'm not going to go into, you know, you could find
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I will say that the backlash against so-called organized religion is the result of many things,
00:33:27.940
But primarily, it's shallow thinking, especially if you have a priest who's against organized
00:33:36.120
But really, for anyone, for any Christian who says, oh, you know, I don't like organized
00:33:43.620
If these folks stop to think about what they're saying for just a minute, they would realize
00:33:50.140
Because religion in this context means, by definition, a belief in and worship of a supernatural
00:33:57.900
Now, you can have religions without supernatural beings, but if there is a supernatural being
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So, if Christianity is a religion, you can't say, well, it's not a religion.
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You may as well claim that an elephant isn't a mammal.
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No, an elephant is many other things as well, but it is definitely a mammal.
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You can't just come up with a new definition for it.
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Christianity is absolutely, by definition, a religion.
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So, the only question is, will it be an organized religion or a disorganized one?
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There is no option of Christianity not being a religion, because if you take the religion
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out of Christianity, then you're taking the worship of a supernatural being out of Christianity.
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So, then you've just taken Christianity out of Christianity.
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Will it be organized or will it be disorganized?
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So, someone who says, I don't like organized religion, though I'm a Christian, what they're
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really saying is, I prefer a more disorganized, chaotic, confused version of Christianity,
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which, you know, I'm not really sure I see the plus side to that.
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And, in fact, that is sort of what we have in American culture right now.
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We have a very disorganized, fractured into a million pieces kind of Christianity where,
00:35:25.300
you know, everyone believes is kind of making it up as they go along, makes up their own
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So, that is what a disorganized Christianity looks like, and there is nothing positive
00:35:43.580
I wanted to share something with you in regards to your thoughts on the Gillette ad.
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My wife disagreed and told me it was fine to call out all these bad things so men can behave
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I explained to her that there's nothing wrong with saying these behaviors need to stop,
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but the ad made it seem like the majority of men brush off this stuff with boys will be
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boys, when most men I know have never even said that phrase.
00:36:08.440
Today, I was coaching my son's baseball team, and my older son accidentally hurt another boy
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My son immediately apologized, and I apologized to the mother.
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The mother was very understanding and then said, boys will be boys.
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It wasn't that I never heard that statement before.
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It was that I've mostly heard it from women in my lifetime.
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Immediately after the game, I told my wife what happened and explained again why the
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The majority of the time, it's women who say the phrase, which is, I thought that was
00:36:39.080
interesting because when I thought about it, and as I said last week, this is a phrase
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that I very rarely hear anyone say unironically, and I never have ever heard anyone say it to
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But of the times when I've heard it used in a sincere way, it is very often women who
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say it, and justifiably so, because usually boys will be boys just has to do with boys
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kind of roughhousing and being active and energetic and that sort of thing.
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Kevin says, what's it like being an uneducated bigot?
00:37:18.440
Jordan writes, Matt, on the Covington Catholic School Kids issue, you may be right that the
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You may be right that Phillips lied, but still, they were disrespectful and obnoxious, and
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I feel like you're just trying to be a contrarian by defending them.
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Lost some respect for you today, and I say this as a fan.
00:37:46.860
These kids, again, they were just standing there.
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They're being harassed and verbally assaulted by this black radical group.
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And then this Native American group marches in and starts playing a drum in their face.
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When I looked at that video, you know the main thing I saw on the faces of these kids?
00:38:08.580
And there's been a lot of, a lot of people have had a lot to say about the facial expressions
00:38:13.060
of these white kids, especially the one, the main one featured in the video, and how he's
00:38:21.240
But the main thing that I see is they're just, they're perplexed.
00:38:29.580
And they're just, so they're kind of, it's a nervous sort of laughter.
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It's the kind of thing you do where you're like, okay, it was that kind of smile.
00:38:40.260
As in, why is this guy coming in here and playing the drum in my face exactly?
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Who are these people over here shouting all this stuff about, about, you know, it was,
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If you were in that exact situation, Jordan, and, but you had never heard of this before,
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so you weren't prepared for it, what would you do?
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Were they supposed to lie down in the fetal position?
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And I will, I will also say that I believe completely in respecting your elders, but this
00:39:18.420
guy, it appears to me, was trying to provoke these kids.
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And then he went and turned around, called them beasts and lied about them.
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So this is not a man who is worthy of very much respect.
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Because, you know, you can, you can lose your right to respect.
00:39:33.120
And when you lie and slander and defame somebody and try to manipulate and coerce a situation
00:39:38.940
and all that, you just, you're, you're, you're just not worthy of that much respect.
00:39:43.360
It's got nothing to do with you being native Americans.
00:39:49.000
And finally, Mitchell writes, Matt, I saw you kissing Tom Brady's butt on Twitter.
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I thought I admired you, but now I have to reconsider.
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I hate the Patriots with a passion and I don't like Tom Brady, but what Tom Brady is doing,
00:40:09.240
no player in the NFL has ever done anything like this.
00:40:12.980
This is, this is the greatest NFL player to ever play the game without a doubt.
00:40:20.520
There's no one else who you could possibly put in this category because no other NFL player
00:40:30.940
Now, some of the other great QBs you can think of were very dominant for, you know, seven or
00:40:37.640
eight years, sometimes a decade, but two decades.
00:40:40.920
Tom Brady came into the league, I think in 2003, it's now 2019.
00:40:46.980
And he's going to his, uh, to yet another Superbowl.
00:40:50.420
Um, so to, to be this good for this long against this level of competition.
00:40:57.780
Now you might, I know you might say the AFC East is a pretty weak division and it is, but
00:41:02.080
just in general in the NFL, the athletes are so good.
00:41:05.700
Um, so everyone you're playing against is really, really good these days.
00:41:09.260
It's not like, it's not like the NFL in the sixties when, uh, you'd be playing a bunch
00:41:14.200
of, uh, against a bunch of just sort of like ordinary dad type people.
00:41:19.120
Um, no, these days, these are just athletic machines that you're playing against.
00:41:24.660
And so for Tom Brady to be this good for that long, it's, it is the only other professional
00:41:30.360
athlete that is maybe as impressive as Tom Brady is, uh, LeBron James, who again, there's
00:41:39.620
Um, he's obviously the best basketball player to ever, ever play the game.
00:41:58.420
Today on the Ben Shapiro show, Buzzfeed's big Trump scoop implodes the media botcha hit
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on Christian high school students and the media try to target me with selective editing.