Ep. 279 - No, We Are Not Running Concentration Camps On The Border
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Summary
Alexandria Ocasio-cortez makes a startling claim about the United States running concentration camps on our southern border. Is it true? And is it a good idea to tell kids that they can achieve anything they set their mind to as long as they work hard enough?
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims that we're running
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concentration camps on the border down south. Is that true? Well, no, of course it's not true,
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but we'll discuss. We'll try to figure out what exactly is happening down there and what's the
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right way to characterize it. Also, the Huffington Post just published maybe the most horrifying
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and disgusting, outrageous, and offensive article that I have ever read, and I'm not exaggerating.
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And finally, is it really a good idea to tell kids that they can achieve anything they set
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their mind to as long as they work hard enough? I think probably not, and I'll explain why today
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on the Matt Walsh Show. Are we running concentration camps at our border? That's what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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claims, and we'll take a look at that claim, that rather stupid claim here in a moment. But first,
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Okay. Now, let's try to get ourselves caught up to speed on this. Our friend Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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was doing one of her iconic Instagram live performances where she just rambles incoherently
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about whatever subject happens to pop into her head. And in the course of that spectacle,
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she made a rather startling claim. Listen, listen to this.
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The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border. And that is exactly what
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they are. They are concentration camps. And if that doesn't bother you, I don't...
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I don't... I don't... I like... We can have... Okay, whatever. I want to talk to the people
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that are concerned enough with humanity to say that we should not... That never again means something.
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And that the fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the home of the
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free is extraordinarily disturbing. Okay. Now, this isn't really the point, but personally,
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my favorite part of that clip, I thought the part where she is the most eloquent is this part right
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here. If that doesn't bother you, I don't... I don't... I like... We can have... Okay, whatever.
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I want to talk to the people. Very profound... Profoundly eloquent. She truly is the voice of her
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generation. But more to the point, I suppose, she says that we are sending immigrants to concentration
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camps. And she says, never again. Concentration camps, never again. Now, any reasonable person
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hears that and immediately knows that it is a Holocaust reference. Jews were sent to concentration
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camps and never again has been the mantra among the Jewish people and among all people the world over
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saying, we're never going to have another Holocaust, right? That's... Everybody knows that. You say
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concentration camps and never again, you are evoking the Holocaust. Period. Very clearly.
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But of course, it's inappropriate and absurd and hyperbolic and manipulative and exploitative and
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any other words you could think of to compare immigrant detention centers to Nazi death camps.
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So people reacted to AOC's remarks negatively. They were very critical of it. And AOC, true to form,
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being the brave warrior for truth that she is, responded by lying and claiming that she was not
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referencing the Holocaust and that it's not what she meant. And just because you're talking about
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concentration camps doesn't mean that you're necessarily talking about the Holocaust, which is
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technically true, right? I mean, you can have... If you want to look up the dictionary definition of
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concentration camp, it's not going to say a Nazi death camp. Technically, there are other
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concentration camps and it doesn't necessarily refer to that. But when you throw in never again,
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it's pretty clear the comparison you're trying to make. AOC followed up with a tweet saying,
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and for the shrieking Republicans who don't know the difference, concentration camps are not the
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same as death camps. Concentration camps are considered by experts as the mass detention of
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civilians without trial. And that's exactly what this administration is doing. It's kind of funny to
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hear AOC accuse anyone else of shrieking, considering she's the most shrieky politician in Washington right
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now. But never mind that. Now, in one of the weirdest displays I think I've ever seen,
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leftists spent the day on social media yesterday trying to parse sort of the difference between
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concentration camp and Nazi death camp, claiming that AOC was talking about concentration camps,
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which are just places for the detention of people without a trial and not Nazi death camps.
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But this is obviously ludicrous for a number of reasons. First of all,
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everyone knows, as I said, everyone knows what comes to mind. Forget about dictionary definitions
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for a minute. When you say concentration camp, if we're playing a word association game and I say
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concentration camp, you're going to say Holocaust or Nazi or Hitler. That's why people, that's the
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association we all make. And that's precisely why people use the phrase concentration camp in a
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context like this, because they're trying to evoke that imagery and the emotions that are associated
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with it. That's why she used the term, because of those associations. Second, as I said, she said never
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again. That's an explicit Holocaust reference. Third, if concentration camps are just places where people
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are detained without a trial, then the county jail is a concentration camp, right? The drunk tank
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is a concentration camp. Security at the airport is a concentration camp. We've really made the term
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into something ambiguous and innocuous, which is not what the left wants to do. They want the term
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to retain the Holocaust associations, and they want you to believe that there is a Holocaust happening
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down at the border. That's their point. It's just that when they get called on it, they look for a
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back exit because they know they can't possibly offer any rational defense for the claim that we're
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running, you know, Nazi, we're doing a Nazi-like operation down on the border. So here's the real
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question. Putting all that to the side, however you characterize these detainment centers, which is
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what they are, and I think that's the most straightforward way of describing them. They
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are centers of detainment, places where we detain people. So however you characterize it, if you don't
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like that, if you don't like what we're doing, what should we be doing in your mind? As it stands
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right now, we have detention centers or detainment centers that are used because there's a flood of
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people coming across the border. Some are sneaking across, some are claiming asylum. Well, we can't just
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let them all waltz into the country and then go about their merry way. And backing up for a second,
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this is another difference between what we've got going on and a concentration camp because
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people are choosing to come here knowing what's going to happen, knowing that there are detainment
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centers and that's where they're going to end up. I mean, people come here. This is their choice.
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Generally, a concentration camp is, well, like in Nazi Germany. The Germans went in and they rounded up
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not, uh, uh, they rounded up, uh, people, they rounded up their political enemies. They rounded
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up Jews and, and, um, anyone else that they wanted to kill or, or, uh, get rid of. They rousted them out
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of their home and they put them on train cars or buses and they brought them to these camps.
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That's not what's happening here. These are people who come to us, their own choice. They don't have
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to come. They could turn around and go home anytime they want. Do you think people in concentration
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camps have the option to just say, uh, you know what? Nevermind. I'll go home. If you have that
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option, you're not in a concentration camp. Um, so again, what's the other option?
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And even if someone's applying for asylum, well, those claims need to be processed and investigated.
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And during that period, before the asylum is approved or not approved, what do we do
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with the asylum seeker? We can't send them home because, because that's where they're trying to
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get asylum from, right? Uh, they're, they're trying, they're trying to leave their home. Okay. So they
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don't want to go home. We can't just let them go because then we'll never see or hear from them
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again. And then there's no point of the asylum process because they'll get a de facto asylum
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just by disappearing into the interior of the country. Um, so what's, what option do we have?
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We have to detain them while we process the claims or if they're sneaking across,
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then we detain them while we get ready to send them back.
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And how do we detain them? A lot is made over the separation of families at the border, but
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we don't have the facilities to give entire families, their own little homes, their own little
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cottages to live in while we sort everything out. Uh, and as a matter of safety, you don't want
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to throw a bunch of kids in to the same detainment facilities as, uh, as you know, as, as, uh, a bunch
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of unknown grown men. We also don't even know if the kids who are coming across with, with the adults
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really belong to those adults. They don't always, there's a lot of human trafficking and stuff that
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happens at the border as well. So there are a lot of complications and that's how families end up
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getting separated. Is it nice? Is it pretty? I guess not, but I honestly don't know what the
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alternative is. I've never heard anyone suggest an alternative. I've heard a lot of people complain
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about the situation as it stands right now, but I've never heard a better suggestion. I've never heard
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someone say, okay, here's what we can do instead. Because as I said, just letting them go, that is
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not a plan. That's not a strategy, but I've never heard a plan. If your issue is just with the
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conditions of the camps, if you claim that the conditions are not up to snuff, then okay, then
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complain about that. Call for better conditions. But AOC and the other leftists, they seem to be
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taking issue with the whole practice of detainment itself. Yet again, they don't offer a better
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solution. It's like, I mean, think about actual prisons. Now the stuff we got going on down at the
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border, those aren't prisons. But as a different example, if you think about prisons, the whole idea
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of a prison is kind of grim and ugly and not ideal, right? I mean, in an ideal scenario,
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you wouldn't have any prisons because you wouldn't have any need for them.
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You're locking people in cages, not letting them go outside except for brief stretches. And they're,
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you know, they've got people, men with guns trained on them at all times. It's not a fun thing, but
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what's the other option? I mean, it's very easy to walk into a prison and say, oh, this is horrible.
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You got all these people locked up and chained up and this is a terrible. Okay. Yeah, it is kind of
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horrible. But what choice do we have? Just let the murderers go free? Make them promise not to do it
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again? That's not going to work. You see, when someone goes and commits a serious crime, they put
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us as a society in a lose-lose situation because we don't want to have prisons. We'd prefer not to
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have them. No one has, prisons are not fun things, but we also can't let this person go because they're
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a danger to society. So they're the one, they create a lose-lose situation where there is no
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great option and you just have to make do and deal with the situation. And that's what they,
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they're the ones who do that by committing the crime. It's the same thing on the border. When
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people flood across the border into our country, even if they aren't murderers or whatever else,
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the fact is they are creating a situation where there just isn't any perfect or even very pretty
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way of handling it. They're doing that. So we can only handle it the best we can. We should always
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respect their dignity as human beings because we should respect everyone's dignity as a human being.
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But we also have to enforce our laws and we have to do our due diligence and we have to process
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claims when the claims are made and we have to do all that stuff. It's really easy to complain about
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this, but suggesting solutions is a different matter. And, um, and by the way, I'm not dogmatic
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on immigration personally. I'm not one of these people who thinks that, um, you know, every single
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illegal in the country right now should be rounded up and deported regardless of circumstance. Uh, we
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need to build an 80 foot wall across the entire border, like the great wall of China. Uh, I'm,
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you know, I'm not, I'm not that hard line. I mean, I'm, I do believe in protecting the border and
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enforcing our immigration laws. Don't get me wrong, but, um, I'm open to any and all solutions.
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Personally, I'm, I'm willing to have that discussion, but the problem is that leftists for the most part
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don't have any ideas. They don't have any, so they don't offer anything. They don't bring anything to
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the table. They just complain. And, um, you know, they, they, they come basically their argument
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with immigration, much like their argument with, with, with many other issues is essentially just
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to sing the John Lennon song. Imagine, you know, imagine there's no war. Imagine there are no
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countries. Imagine there's no violence. Imagine, I mean, it's just, just an, it's just terrible,
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trite, stupid song. Uh, that is, it's just very little redeeming about it, but, um, that's their
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argument. That's not an argument. It's like, yeah, we can imagine that. That'd be great. It, it, it,
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again, it would be great if we didn't need the Tame and Centers. Um, it would be great if, uh,
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the whole world could live in harmony with one or another holding hands and singing Kumbaya and all
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that. I mean, that would be fantastic, but it's not the reality that we live in. And so we need to,
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the reality is that we live in a world with countries, countries that, uh, are not all the
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same and often don't get along. And, um, so we need borders. Uh, and it just so happens that the
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country to the South of us, in fact, that whole region to the South of us is not in good shape.
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And there are a lot of, uh, there's a, uh, there's a lot of chaos and anarchy and drug cartels and
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violence and human trafficking and all this stuff. And so we have to be very careful about who we let
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through. And then when you end up with floods of people trying to barge their way in, we've got to
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take them, detain them and figure, figure it out. Not ideal, but that's the way it is.
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Well, three female athletes in Connecticut are, I just want to mention this briefly because in
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Connecticut, these three female athletes are filing a discrimination complaint against the
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policy in the state that allows biological males to compete against girls, uh, which is something
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we've talked about many times up there in Connecticut. And they're saying that this robs
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them of medals and, uh, that they should have won and, uh, it's discriminatory and they're against
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it. And they're completely right. Of course, that's completely accurate. Um, there just is
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the case that they make. And I, I mean, thank God that this is happening. I've been waiting for,
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for someone to step up and file a complaint like this.
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And to force those who support the idea of putting this crazy, insane idea of sending,
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of putting biological males in female sports, those people should be forced to go to court
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and defend that idea because it is indefensible. The case that these girls are making is a rock solid
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indisputable case. There is no argument against them. As I've said plenty of times in the past,
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I have never heard this. This is the fascinating thing about this subject is that even though you
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have these, these laws now across the country and you find this increasingly the situation where
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boys are put in with girls in sports because they claim to be girls, even though this is happening
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and it's so common now, I have never heard a good argument for it. It's kind of like the
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immigration thing. I've never heard anyone suggest an alternative. Well, for this, I've never even
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really heard anyone even try to defend it. I don't even know what the, what, what the argument in
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defense is. I've never heard one aside from just, well, uh, these boys say they're girls and it would
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hurt their feelings if they can't. That's not an argument. That's not even close to an argument.
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And because we can, we can just get rid of it immediately by saying, yes, but then all these
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other girls who now can't win because the boys, their feelings are hurt. And so you've got a lot
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more hurt feelings on the girl's side. So that's not good enough. You've got hurt feelings versus
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hurt feelings. And, uh, there are a lot more hurt feelings on the one side. So that outweighs it.
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You gotta, you gotta come with something else. You get, because then your next argument has to be,
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well, yeah, but the boys, you see, uh, their feelings matter more. That must be your argument.
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And that, again, that's not an argument. That's just nonsense. There is simply no good reason to
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allow this. And there are a lot of good reasons not to. So I'm very glad that, um, we're seeing this.
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All right, let's see. Uh, here's something else. We, we, we, we talked about this last week and
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we, we talked last week about the sexualization of children, right? That is going on, especially
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by leftists, their agenda to sexualize children, to normalize pedophilia. And this is a, a theme
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that I talk about frequently, something I've been warning about for years. I didn't plan to bring it
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up again this week, but I saw this article in the Huffington Post and I just can't ignore it. I,
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uh, I have to tell you about it because it's so, I mean, I wish I had noticed this last week when I
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was talking about this, because this is, this is exhibit a right here. Okay. Here's an article
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in the Huffington Post, allegedly a, uh, uh, prominent and respected publication.
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The headline is, are pride parades kid-friendly? Parents say children can handle the kink.
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Children can handle the kink. That is, that, that, that is a sentence written in the headline of an
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article in the Huffington Post. Children can handle the kink. Now, if, if you ever find yourself,
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uh, making that argument, if you ever find yourself in a situation where you are sincerely
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making the argument that children can handle the kink, that here's what you need to do.
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You need to go to NASA and you need to ask if you can board one of their rockets and then ask them to
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shoot you directly to the moon. You need to deport yourself. I don't know if it works that way down
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and I'm not sure if they'll, but at least try. I mean, this is what you, you need to get to the
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nearest rocket ship and just deport yourself to the moon or, or really any body, any, any heavenly body
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that is not the earth because you don't even belong on planet earth. If that's, if that's your,
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you just, there's no place for you here. I'm afraid. Uh, let's read a little bit from this article.
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It says each year in the blaze written by Brianna Sharp, by the way, Brianna Sharp is the one who
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thinks that children can handle the kink or, well, she says, parents say that children can handle the
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kink. Um, each year in the blaze. And if you're a parent arguing that your own children can quote,
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handle the kink, then you just need to go to prison because you're an abusive, disgusting,
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horrible parent and your children are in danger because of you. Each year in the blazing sun of
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the pride parade and Nelson, uh, uh, I guess this is in Canada, uh, Pega, I don't know that Pega
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Ren is the name here. And her two young grandkids seek shade under the spinning rainbow Paracels.
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Ren, a semi, a semi-retired sex therapist told HuffPost Canada, the Paracels were a magical find
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and have come to symbolize the importance of this event for her family. Uh, blah, blah, blah,
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blah, blah. She says, I can't imagine a safer place for families to bring children. Um, but then
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the article goes on to say anyone who has been to a parade has likely seen the procession of leather,
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animal costumes, kinky costumes, and every hue and more skin than is normally exposed in public.
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Now it's interesting to hear them finally admitting this because usually when you accuse
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pride parades of being overly sexualized affairs, uh, where there's people dressed up in bondage
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gear and stuff like that, because that's what she's talking about. Usually when you say that,
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they'll deny it and say, what are you talking about? You're crazy. It's just a pride parade.
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People are just coming out and kids are there. They're waving flags. It's just, it's just, you know,
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it's, it's no different than any other parade. Uh, it's perfectly family friendly. Um, but here they
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are admitting that, yeah, well, there's more skin than what you'll normally see. And yeah,
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there are people dressed up in bondage gear, but, um, or dressed up, uh, you know, in leather
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animal. Let's be clear about what that means, by the way, leather animal costumes and other kinky
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costumes, quote unquote. So those are people who have a sexual fetish for pretending to be an animal.
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And then they engage in sexual exploits with people who have fetishes of copulating with animals. I
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mean, that's, that's what that means. That's your, your fetish is to pretend to be an animal.
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And you're with someone who likes to be with people or pretend to be animals. I mean, this is,
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this is sick, gross stuff that no person should be exposed to, let alone kids.
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Um, and then it goes on to talk. I'm not going to write, actually, I can't, I was,
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my plan was to read from this article. Uh, I can't do it because it's just too disgusting,
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but suffice it to say that they, they go on to, uh, uh, justify having kids there saying the kids
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can handle it. Um, writer, educator, and publisher S bear Bergman told the Huffington post Canada,
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uh, there's absolutely no reason not to take our kids to pride. It's a fun day. There are a lot of
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bubbles, rainbow streamers and enjoyable performances and bondage gear. Uh, it's their
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right as queer spawn. And as a parent, I might want to take my kids to pride because they might be
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lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, or two spirit queer spawn. That's what you call your kids.
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What in God's name? There's a line here at the very end that I need to, I just need to read and
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then we'll just be done with this. Um, if I can find it. Oh, here it is. Bergman says,
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first of all, nobody likes nakedness more than children. And we're just going to, you know what?
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I'll just, I'll just, I'll, I'll cut it off right there because that's the argument that this Bergman
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is making about the quote queer spawn. He's saying that, uh, well, children, you know,
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children love being naked. Children, uh, no one, no one loves nakedness more than children.
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No one loves nakedness more than children. Children can handle the kink. Okay. These are the arguments
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being presented. These are the arguments made by pedophiles. These are pedophilic arguments.
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These are arguments for pedophilia. I mean, it's right there in front of our face.
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They're not even trying to hide it anymore. Guys, they're being very explicit about it.
00:27:47.720
You've not yet. You've now got gay activists saying, yeah, sure. You got bondage gear and all
00:27:51.340
that kind of crap. Right. But yeah, bring the kids as they, they, they love nakedness and they can
00:27:55.200
handle the kink. That's an, that is a pedophile argument. So when I say that the left wants to
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normalize pedophilia, I'm not exaggerating. This is not fear-mongering. This is not a conspiracy
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theory. This is just literally what they're doing. I'm just telling you what they're doing.
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And we have to decide if we want to put up with that or not.
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Um, let's see. One other, uh, one other thing I wanted to mention. There's an article in time,
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time magazine that I found interesting. The headline, uh, headline is we tell our kids that
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hard work always pays off. What happens when they fail anyway? And I was ready. I saw this article
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online and I was, I was ready to laugh at the article, uh, when I first started reading it
00:28:50.100
because it sounds like the typical, you know, Oh, the poor kids, what happens when they start to fail?
00:28:55.900
Well, you know, you tell them to get back on the horse and try again. Right. I mean, pretty simple,
00:28:58.960
but the point that the article makes article written by, by Rachel Simmons, uh, it makes the point that
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we, uh, we stuff a lot of positive mindset propaganda into our kids' heads. We tell them they can
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achieve anything if they work hard enough. Um, we tell them that positive attitude and hard work can
00:29:18.460
accomplish any goal. We tell them that they can do whatever they set their minds to and so on.
00:29:23.080
Um, they can be whatever they want to be when in reality, that isn't true. Right now the author
00:29:31.040
Simmons gets into a lot of identity politics stuff, talking about minority students and discrimination
00:29:36.760
and bringing like that sort of thing into it, but which things that I think are irrelevant to this
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issue, because this is not a rate. She makes it into kind of a racial thing. I don't think it's a
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racial thing at all, but if we could put the SJW stuff to the side, the central thesis is correct
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and important that people actually cannot achieve anything they put their mind to. Sometimes you,
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you can really try very hard and still discover that you just don't have what it takes to do
00:30:07.480
whatever you're trying to do. I mean, you can give it your all practice makes perfect, blah, blah,
00:30:13.120
blah. And at the end of the day, discover that you're still not good enough. That does happen.
00:30:18.640
It happens to everyone. I mean, the average person could practice day and night from the age of four
00:30:24.800
and still by the age of 19 or 20, not be nearly good enough for the NBA because only a very small
00:30:32.180
fraction of all basketball players will ever make it to the NBA. And those are the people ever in the
00:30:36.920
NBA, right? If you make the NBA, all those people worked hard. They all are hard workers. They've all
00:30:41.600
been practicing since the moment they could walk. Um, they're all determined. They all have ambition.
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So they've all got that, but the ones in the NBA, they also just have natural skill and ability
00:30:55.080
and talent. Uh, they, they, they have something else that even if you practice as much as them,
00:31:02.860
you might never have. Um, or you could put all your heart and soul into math and science and
00:31:11.180
never get a job as a NASA engineer. You could try really hard to be a writer and still never
00:31:18.820
write anything that's any good. Um, I see this sometimes with people, people will send me emails,
00:31:25.020
you know, asking how I got into writing and, uh, working in media and doing whatever it is I do.
00:31:31.020
I don't even know what I do. Uh, but sometimes people will ask, send emails, how'd you get into
00:31:35.500
that? And they'll tell me they want to get into it too. And, um, they'll send me links to the blog
00:31:40.000
that they've been updating every day for the last five years and the YouTube channel. They've been
00:31:44.520
vlogging on every day since 2016. And, um, they'll show me all the hard work and effort. They put in
00:31:50.220
a day. They can tell you, they've been working at this hard for a long time and which is admirable,
00:31:56.360
but sometimes I'll, I'll look at it. And, um, it's very clear to me that it's just not good.
00:32:04.340
Unfortunately, it's they're, they're just not good at this. And even after all that time,
00:32:09.580
they're still just not good at it. And so they're not ever going to be successful doing it
00:32:15.300
because they're not good enough. And that that's also an important reality that our kids need to
00:32:21.420
understand. It is possible to simply be not good enough for something because you're not going to
00:32:28.020
be good at everything. And sometimes what you want to do doesn't match up with what you can do.
00:32:36.160
And that is a really important lesson. The way to be successful at anything in my mind is,
00:32:43.080
is to be undeniable. It's not just to work hard. It's to be undeniable, to be so good
00:32:49.240
that you cannot be denied. Um, that you will absolutely get a spot on the team, get the job,
00:32:57.020
grow the audience, whatever it is you're trying to do. You're undeniable. You cannot be denied.
00:33:01.200
You are so good at it. You are, you are, you're better than most everyone else trying to do it.
00:33:07.380
That's how you succeed. Be undeniable. That's the key to success. But hard work is not the only
00:33:13.420
ingredient necessary in being undeniable. You also need skill. You need talent. You need a certain
00:33:17.900
flair for whatever it is you're trying to do. Um, you need to be good in essence. And, uh,
00:33:24.420
what if you aren't good? What if, what if you'll never be good at the thing you're trying to do?
00:33:28.900
Well, at a certain point you need to realize when to move on. Um, I think, uh, it's kind of like,
00:33:35.660
you know, I, I, I, I like to fish. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a big fan of fishing and this is a mistake you
00:33:44.520
can make as a fisherman or, or as an angler is the politically correct term to use as an angler.
00:33:49.940
A mistake you can make is, uh, it's almost, there is a mistake in fishing where you could have too much
00:33:57.340
patience. Like if you want to, if you want to fish, you have to have patience, but you can also have
00:34:00.540
too much patience because you could, you could find a great spot. You've got shade, you know,
00:34:07.440
you're on the water, you find a great spot, there's shade, there's structure in the water,
00:34:11.020
there's tree stumps, there's, uh, uh, maybe an old broken down dock or something for the fish to hide
00:34:16.060
under. There's cover, there's weeds and stuff. There's a, there's a steep ledge, which goes into
00:34:19.760
the deeper water. So the fish can come up. Uh, it's a wonderful spot. You see bait fish around
00:34:23.680
great spot. That's where you should be able to catch fish, but you cast the lure out. You don't
00:34:28.040
get any bites. You cast again. You don't get a bite. You cast again. You don't get a bite.
00:34:31.120
Um, and then for, you stay there for like an hour or two and you, you never get a bite. Uh,
00:34:35.620
that's a mistake. You stayed too long because even though everything was right, you had all
00:34:39.500
the ingredients, you did, you did everything right, but it's just not working. It's just not
00:34:45.600
happening. Maybe it should, it's just not happening for you. And so you need to know when to cut
00:34:50.040
your losses and just go find a different spot because there's a spot there, the fish are
00:34:55.780
somewhere. You will find them. They're somewhere on the lake. You just got to find them. And
00:34:59.660
I think it's the same thing. It's kind of a same lesson we need to teach our kids, which
00:35:03.140
is, um, it's important to try hard. It's important to put in the effort. It's important to do things
00:35:08.480
the right way. Those are the ingredients, but sometimes even if you have all those ingredients,
00:35:14.140
the spot you chose, the thing you're trying to do just isn't right for you. And you got to go find
00:35:20.440
a different spot and you need to know when to do that, when to switch things up. Think about all
00:35:27.740
those, you know, reality talent shows, um, where they, uh, you know, they'll have people come on.
00:35:35.400
There are some people who are really good. And then you always have those people who the only reason
00:35:38.660
they made it on the show is because they're terrible at what they're trying to do. And so then we all
00:35:43.640
can laugh at how bad they are, which I think is kind of cruel and awful, honestly. But, um,
00:35:48.840
well, you find these talent, whatever singing competitions or talent shows, you find these
00:35:52.140
people that get up there and they're on TV and they're trying out and they're awful. And then
00:35:57.960
they get shut down by the judges and they start crying and they say, I've been, I've been working
00:36:01.880
at this since I was three years old and I'm not going to give up when really, no, someone should
00:36:08.300
have sat them down long ago and said, no, give up on this. Don't give up on life.
00:36:13.640
But just give up on this. You're not a good singer. You never will be, uh, give up, do something
00:36:21.160
else, find something else. I think if you, if you, if we never are willing to say that to someone,
00:36:33.340
And that's something that this is where the schools should come in. Uh, if we're sending
00:36:41.900
kids to schools for, uh, you know, seven hours a day, nine months a year for 12 or 13 years,
00:36:49.840
uh, the school should help them figure out not just what they want to do, but what they're good
00:36:56.380
at, what their skills are, what their aptitude, where their aptitude lies. Uh, but unfortunately
00:37:01.500
the schools are not doing that. And so you've got a lot of kids who graduate, have no idea what
00:37:07.340
they're good at or where their skills are. And so they're just kind of deciding randomly what they
00:37:12.980
want to do, even if they have no aptitude in that area whatsoever. So I think that's something that
00:37:20.000
the school should be doing as well. All right. Um, I think we'll leave it there.
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Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.
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