Ep. 305 - Trump Is Right About Baltimore
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, President Trump says that Baltimore is a dump, a rhyme not intended
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there. His observation, of course, is factually correct, but is it racist to make that observation?
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Democrats say so. We'll talk about that today. Also, a mother complains about childless millennials
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ruining Disney World. Should grownups without kids be banned from theme parks?
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We will tackle that important question today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Well, this just changed the whole game, folks. I think this changes everything. Kamala Harris
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this past weekend announced a plan that will reshape our economy and really reshape the world,
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I think. Here's what she said. I'll establish a student loan debt forgiveness plan for Pell Grant
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recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities.
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Okay, did you get that? You have to be a Pell Grant recipient. You have to start a business.
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The business has to be in a disadvantaged community, and you have to have the business
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for three years. That is the most weirdly specific plan that I think I've heard. And the great thing
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is she unveiled it like it would be this huge deal. And meanwhile, it'll probably help three people,
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which is good as far as I'm concerned, because that means it'll be cheap.
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And it actually inspired me to come up with my own proposal. And so here's what I'm thinking.
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When I am president, I pledge that I will offer loans to diabetic Hawaiian amputees who lost a limb
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in mining accidents between September of 1998 and January of 2003, and who plan to open a business
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in a town with 17% spruce trees and a guy named Lenny sitting on a park bench trying to feed beef jerky to squirrels.
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That is a group of people that has been for too long ignored by our government, and I plan to change that.
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So I actually, in all seriousness, Kamala Harris's loan plan or loan forgiveness plan is probably 100 times
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more reasonable than what other Democrats have offered. So I guess I should be in support of it,
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but instead I decided to be a sarcastic jerk about it, because that's just who I am. That's my identity.
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Okay, don't discriminate against me. Now, all right, let's, we're going to spin the wheel today
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and find out why Donald Trump is a racist this week. It's always something new. And so we spin the
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wheel and it goes around and we find out that he's a racist this week because he insulted
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the city of Baltimore. Baltimore, which apparently is a race now. You are, because if you insult Baltimore,
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you're insulting, you're racist, which means I guess that's, there's a race, the Baltimore race
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of people. I'm from the Baltimore area myself. So I guess I'm, that's my race, Baltimore. I can put
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that down if I'm filling out a, you know, an application or something I can put out where it
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says race, I'll put down Baltimore. So we'll talk about this in more detail today, and we'll get into
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the day is, uh, Baltimore. We're going to talk about that. Why not? Well, let's talk about Baltimore
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for a few days. Okay. Um, now this is a subject that is, that is, uh, near and dear to, to my heart
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because as I think some of you know, I grew up in the Baltimore area, lived there for, you know, 25 years
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or so, not in the city, uh, in, in the area, in the County, I wouldn't, I wouldn't live in the city,
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uh, for reasons that I will now flesh out. But, um, even living in the County, I've, I've been
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into the city hundreds of times in my life and, uh, and I think significantly hundreds of times
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over the course of about three decades. So I've seen firsthand, um, as anyone in the area has seen
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the, uh, the progression or degression, I think in this case of Baltimore. Um, and I've, uh, I've been
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through pretty much every part of the city at one time or another. And I say all of that just to
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establish that I am actually familiar with the city, unlike a lot of the people who've been talking
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about it the past few days. Um, and of course we've been talking about it because of the tweets
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that Trump sent out over the weekend. Um, he sent a bunch of tweets about Baltimore tweets targeted at
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Elijah Cummings who represents the seventh district, which, uh, encompasses a chunk, a big chunk of
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Baltimore. I think about half of the city and then Howard County as well. Um, what did Trump say?
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Well, I'm not going to read the, all the tweets. He sent several of them. I think you've probably
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seen them or you can look for yourself if you haven't, but, um, he said that the city is rat
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infested, which it is. He said that it's dangerous, which it is. Um, he's, you know, said that it's,
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uh, it's a, it's essentially in shambles, which is, um, that wasn't his exact word. I'm, I'm
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paraphrasing. And he said that, uh, and these were his exact words. He said, no human would want to
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live there, which his general point about Baltimore is correct. Um, that part is not exactly correct.
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There are people who want to live there. Now, I think a lot of the people who do live there,
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live there because they were born there and would probably prefer if they weren't, but they were,
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um, there are though people who do move into the city. I have friends who moved into the city.
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Um, into the nicer parts of the city. But the problem is that, that the nicer parts are shrinking
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while the more dangerous parts expand and sort of bleed into the County, um, to the point now where
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the place where I grew up, which was, you know, 20 minutes outside of the city, 30 minutes outside
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of the city is now, um, is, you know, now you see more drugs and more crime even there. So that's the
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effect that it has. So, uh, Trump is, is substantially right about what he said. Uh,
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there's no question about it. Baltimore's a mess. And there's also no question that it's
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been under Democrat leadership for decades, which is significant. That's not just a coincidence here.
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That's the point that we don't need to speak theoretically, right? About, um, about Democrat
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policies and Democrat ideology. And then, you know, does it work? Does it not work? We don't need
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to, sometimes we speak about these things as if we're speaking theoretically or abstractly when we
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don't need to, we can, we can see how we can see whether they work or not. There are, there are not
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just Baltimore. There are many cities in this country that have been under Democrat rule and have been
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run according to Democrat views and philosophies for decades. All we have to do is go look and see
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if it's working out and what you're going to find out in every case is no, it's not really. The only
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question is to what degree of a disaster is it? Um, in a, in a, you know, in, in, in Baltimore, it's a,
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it's a full on disaster. So, um, but what we've seen over the past few days now, interestingly,
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are leftists valiantly defending Baltimore, claiming that it's not so bad. It's a, it's a nice
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city. Um, if now keep in mind, if you go online and you see a leftist, or if you, if you, if you
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look on, if you turn on the TV and you see leftists on the media, uh, defending Baltimore, talking about
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what a nice city it is, all of those people, if you had talked to them privately, um, or even not
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privately anytime up until this weekend about Baltimore, and you had said, Oh man, that's a,
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that's a rough city that Baltimore, you know, that's, that's not a city I'd want to live in.
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All of them would agree. That's hell yeah. Baltimore. Sure. Have you seen the wire? No, no,
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thanks. But now they're all pretending. They're all pretending that, uh, they love the city and it's,
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it's, it's like a second home to them. Hashtag we are Baltimore was trending this weekend with,
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again, a bunch of people who don't live in the city have some, many of them probably never even
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been to it who are now coming to its defense, which as someone who's, who's, who's lived in
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the area for so long that it's been interesting to see because, um, up until now, if, if Baltimore was
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ever talked about on a, on a national level, it was almost always in a negative light, but, but for
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the most part, it really isn't talked about. Baltimore is kind of an ignored city, even though
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it's historically significant and it's been around for a long time. Um, but it's always been this city
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that everyone ignores. And now all of a sudden everyone's pretending that, uh, that, you know,
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they love Baltimore and they just love going there and everything else. It's all, it's all quite stupid.
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Um, and I say that as someone who is not generally a fan of Trump's tweeting, which I've, I've been
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open about. I'm not a fan of Trump randomly deciding what he cares about for the day, uh, based on Fox
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and friends segments, which I can pretty much guarantee you, I haven't checked, but I'm 98% sure
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that if you went and checked either on a Thursday or Friday, Fox and friends did a segment about
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Baltimore. And, uh, or they met one of their guests mentioned it or something. And then that's,
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and that's when Trump started tweeting about it. Um, which, because that's most of his tweets, you
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will match up with a Fox and friends segment. That's where he gets most of his content from,
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which kind of, uh, I think debunks this whole idea that Trump is this genius guy doing 3d chess. Um,
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and that there's some plan behind his tweeting. Um, we know that's not the case because he gets it
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all from Fox and friends. He just, he talks about whatever they talk about. So if there's any genius
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chess master pulling the strings, it's not Trump, it's, it's Fox. They're the ones because they decide
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what he talks about. Um, and I, you know, I'm not, I'm not a fan of that. Uh, I don't really think,
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and I know this apparently puts me in, I guess, a minority among, at least among, you know,
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hardcore conservatives, but I don't really think, uh, that the president's main job is to just run
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his mouth on Twitter. I think that, you know, in fact, he should be doing almost none of that
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and instead governing. That's my opinion. That's just, that's the way I look at it.
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But, um, all the same, he is right about what he said. That ball Baltimore is indeed in shambles.
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And by the way, another aside here, um, Baltimore, it is Baltimore. It's not Baltimore. So if you do,
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if you are a liberal and you're trying to pretend today that you love Baltimore, uh, and then, you
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know, it's a second home to you and you, you go there all the time. Then if you say Baltimore or
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Baltimore, it's going to make it clear that you don't know anything about the city. It's Baltimore,
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B-A-W-D-I-M-O-R-E. Now, if you really, if you want to get really serious, you could say Balmer,
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B-A-W-M-E-R. And if you really want to sound like a local, it's Balmer Merlin. Okay. So it's
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not Maryland or Maryland, M-E-R-L-I-N, Balmer Merlin. Um, but that's, you know, that's,
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that's, as I said, that's one step up. I just start with Baltimore and then you'll send,
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you'll sound more authentic. Um, so with liberals rushing to the fence, to the defense of Baltimore,
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of Balmer, uh, I've seen a lot of tweets like this one here, um, with the, you know,
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hashtag we are Baltimore. And then a nice little photo there. You see the photo. Well,
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that's a photo of the aquarium at the inner Harbor. And yeah, Baltimore does have a very nice
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aquarium. There's no question about it. In fact, I would recommend it if you ever do go to Baltimore,
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um, or if you live anywhere around and you want to, I think it's the best aquarium. It's certainly
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in the, in the country. I think probably one of the best in the world, not just my opinion. I think
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that's how it's ranked. It's a very nice aquarium. That's all I'm saying. We also have a nice zoo too.
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Uh, I think very nice zoo, but the aquarium does not represent the city. And in fact, what that nice
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little picture posted by someone who's probably been to the city twice doesn't show is that even
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in the inner Harbor, which is one of the safest and certainly the most touristy place in the city,
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there's a significant amount of crime even there. So if you really want to cherry pick,
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if you're, if you're trying to pretend that what Trump said about Baltimore isn't true and say,
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well, that's not true. Look at the inner Harbor. Yeah. Even there. Now, of course that's most of the
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city is not that, but even there you've got big problems just a few years ago. Um, stuff like this
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started happening. Watch this. Laying in a hospital bed with no sight out of his one eye. It's a
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horrifying ordeal. Trichelle May says no mother should ever have to endure. I am disgusted and,
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and I'm upset because my son got hurt. May's son is just the latest victim of yet another attack at
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the inner Harbor, a story she's only sharing with WJZ. 10 days ago, a Saturday night out for the 18
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year old and friends turned to bloodshed when they were bombarded by a group of teens. May's not the
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only one who's outraged and disgusted. On Monday, WJZ first told you about a family from New Jersey who was
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attacked by a group of teens at the inner Harbor on the same night. It's what's become a disturbing
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trend downtown. Last year, a man was jumped on his way home from work by a group of teens. And
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before that city councilwoman, Ricky Spector was attacked by a group of juveniles. While the entire
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city tries to get a hold on the random attacks, these victims say it's the last time they'll visit
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the heart of Baltimore. And again, that's the Harbor. That's one of the safest, most family-friendly
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parts of the whole city. And you have that. Now, as I said, that was a couple of years ago.
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So you might say, well, the one-off event. Not really. Let me show you. Let me play a different
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clip for you. Local news clip. And this is about something that happened in the inner Harbor just
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a few months ago. Watch this. Six people were arrested in the inner Harbor Saturday night
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to police say fights broke out among a crowd of teens. WJZ is live at the inner Harbor. Kelsey
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Kushner with a reaction for witnesses. What the mayor is saying tonight. Kelsey.
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Well, Vic, witnesses say it was complete chaos here. Hundreds of people were seen running around.
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Fights were breaking out in that crowd of people. City officials say the mayhem needs to stop.
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It was chaos at the inner Harbor Saturday night. Cell phone video shows crowds of people running away.
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Others witnessed the mayhem from the ground. Just children of all ages running amok,
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and then they would just start hitting people. They would try to split in different directions
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to get away from the cops. And it was just a massive rush of kids.
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Baltimore City police tell WJZ they received calls around 6.30 p.m. of a large crowd of juveniles
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at the inner Harbor near the corner of Light Street and East Pratt Street. A short time later,
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they received reports of teens fighting and called additional officers downtown to assist.
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Police say no major injuries were reported and six people were arrested.
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City leaders calling it a violent turn during a holiday weekend.
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Random assaults and fights and everything are pretty common in Baltimore, even in broad daylight.
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Now, let's look at, here's security camera footage of another random assault, a pretty brutal one,
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that happened to a city employee in broad daylight just down the street from the harbor.
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So, this is not like this guy was walking through West Baltimore at 2 o'clock in the morning.
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This is broad daylight, supposedly safe part of the city, and here's what happened to him.
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And then, going back a couple of years, here's something that happened.
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This was a guy walking back, I believe he was walking back from Power Plant, which, once again, near the harbor,
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it's a touristy spot. As far as the bar scene, that's kind of the most touristy sort of bar scene you can go to.
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Like, if you don't know anything about the city and you're not from around there,
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you'll end up at Power Plant rather than Canton or Fed Hill or something.
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So, this guy was walking back from Power Plant, and here's what ended up happening to him.
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It's 2 o'clock in the morning in downtown Baltimore, the day after St. Patrick's Day.
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Parties are winding down. Watch what happens to the guy in the green shirt.
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Police say he has been drinking, and he appears a little dazed.
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A rowdy crowd gathers. Women start dancing around him suggestively, people messing with him.
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You see someone grabs something from his pocket. He goes to get it back.
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But it doesn't stop there. This is a second view. Someone else is also recording the incident.
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The man who has been identified as a 31-year-old Arlington, Virginia resident is kicked and punched and then stripped of his clothes.
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Interestingly enough there, as you notice, that was a white man who was beaten, robbed, and stripped naked by a group of black people.
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Those people, they were apprehended. They were not charged with hate crimes.
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Now, of course, it goes without saying. Just imagine the reverse. Imagine reversing the races in this altercation.
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And let's say that it was a black man being beaten, robbed, and stripped naked on camera by a bunch of white people.
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You can absolutely guarantee that these would be federal hate crime charges, but not with the races going the other way.
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It's one of the reasons why, like, you know, I've taken my kids down to the harbor because we know the area pretty well.
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We know even around there which parts to avoid.
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But I wouldn't generally recommend, if you don't know the area, I wouldn't recommend taking your kids down to the harbor,
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even though it's supposed to be a place where you can bring your family because of things like that.
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But if that's what happens in the supposedly safer parts of town, even in broad daylight—
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Now, the one I just played, that assault wasn't in broad daylight, but the other ones were.
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If that's what happens in broad daylight in safer parts of town, what does it look like in the not-so-safe places?
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Well, here's a video from someone, Kimberly Klaychik.
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She's a resident of Baltimore, and here's a quick video of her showing us what the not-so-pristine parts of the city look like.
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Three to six months—I mean, I mean, he said two to three months just to bring me a trash can like that.
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And the reason why I picked this already to show you is because of the colleges, right?
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They spent all that money on the college and just left everything around it.
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But do people live in—I mean, live in the college area?
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That's why I say, tell you, I know the best neighborhood.
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It's probably home people live over here somewhere.
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That's—I mean, that's the least of your problems there.
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Certainly, you have a lot of rats in a place like that, but that's understating it.
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That really does look like a third-world country.
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It looks like the kind of place that you don't expect to exist in America, in a modern, civilized country.
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But that's what it looks like, and it's not just that one little block.
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This is the kind of scenery that you could enjoy if you take the Amtrak out of Baltimore or through Baltimore.
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You can judge a book by its cover when it comes to this city.
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The murder rate in Baltimore is famously sky high.
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It's like—that's a problem when the—when you talk to anybody, you say Baltimore, the first thing they're going to think of is murder.
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That's—and it's not just because of the wire.
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It's because the murder rate is ridiculously high.
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I think there was 330 or something murders last year.
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You know, it's bad enough that in Baltimore, if you get the murder rate down to 250 or 200, that's cause for celebration.
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You know, it's like a five-year low, and people are excited about it.
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You have to have a parade down the street because of it.
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But the actual murder rate itself is around 50, so that's 50 per 100,000 people, which is really, really high.
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More people have been killed in Baltimore since the turn of the century than have U.S. troops been killed in Afghanistan.
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Okay, let me repeat that just so you—the casualty count in Baltimore is higher than it is in Afghanistan, at least as far as U.S. citizens are concerned.
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Someone told me—I was talking about this on Twitter—someone said, oh, you're exaggerating.
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There were about 12,000 violent crimes reported in the city last year for a rate of 2,000 per 100,000 people.
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So what that means is that for every 100,000 people in the city, you're going to have about 2,000 murders, rapes, assaults, and robberies.
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That's over 400% higher than the national average.
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And this is to say nothing of the schools in Baltimore, which are among the worst in the country.
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There was a report done recently, a couple of years ago, that found that a third of the schools in the city—a third of the schools in the city have a 0% proficiency in math.
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So for a third of the schools, 0% of the students are proficient in math.
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Proficient just means at grade level, you know, just accept—they have an acceptable ability and knowledge when it comes to mathematics.
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0% fall into that category in a third of the schools.
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Economic, well, the poverty rate in Baltimore is 23%.
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That's more than twice the overall average in Maryland.
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That's eight point higher than the national average.
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I mean, any indicator you look at, Baltimore is going to be among the worst in the country, if not the worst.
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And it is not compassionate or progressive or enlightened to ignore this.
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These are real human beings who are living amid this filth and this crime.
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Hundreds of thousands of people living with this.
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And many of them, especially if they're kids and they were born there, they can't leave, at least not yet.
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So pretending that it's not the case, that's not the answer.
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And I say that as someone who, you know, I still love the city in a certain way.
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I consider it home as someone who grew up in the area.
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I love the history of it, the American history.
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And then just my own kind of history of visiting there over the years.
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Um, and, uh, you know, I, I, I, I love the football team.
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The aquarium, as I mentioned, Fort McHenry, we got a pretty good bar scene, some good food, um, seafood, uh, you know, crabs, of course.
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I think the crab, crabs are a little overrated in general, but, you know, as far as steamed crabs, you can't do better than Baltimore.
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So, yeah, I mean, there's some, some good things about the city.
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It's, it's, it's not like it's, it's a total loss.
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But there's just no doubt that the city in general, as a whole, is a disaster zone.
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I mean, it literally looks like a disaster zone.
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It looks like something out of a zombie movie for a lot of places in the city.
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There's nothing racist about pointing that out.
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In fact, if anything is racist, as far as this conversation goes, I would think it'd be a lot more racist to ignore the problem.
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Especially if you're a privileged white person living somewhere else, uh, living in a nice area somewhere far away from, from, uh, the slums of Baltimore.
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But that's racist, or at least it's, it is cruel and callous and, uh, and shows a disregard for the suffering of, of, uh, people, many of them minorities.
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Let's talk about a place that's even worse than Baltimore.
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There's this Facebook post, um, that's gone viral.
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I feel like this exact post went viral a couple of years ago.
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Maybe it's a rerun or anyway, this, this post was written by a mom on Facebook and then it was screenshotted and put on Twitter.
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And that's when it went viral with a lot of people, very mad and angry at this mom for what she had to say.
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There's a lot of outrage, yada, yada, so on and so forth.
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Um, but this is a mom who's complaining that there are too many childless adults at Disney world clogging up the lines, getting in the way.
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So this has sparked a spark to conversation, which is one of my least favorite phrases that I just used.
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It's sparked the conversation about whether or not, um, childless grownups should be going to, uh, amusement parks like Disney world.
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Let me read this, the, the original Facebook post from this mom, whoever it is.
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Um, she says it pisses me off to no end, multiple exclamation points.
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When I see childless couples without at Disney world, wait, what?
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When I see childless couples without children at Disney world, um, DW is a family amusement park.
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Yet these immature millennials throw away their money on useless crap.
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They have no idea the joy and happiness it is to mothers who buy their babies treats and toys.
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They will never experience the exhaustion that it is to chase a three-year-old around and getting stares at assuming I'm a bad mother.
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I can't, this is, you know, now I'm going to get off on a whole tangent that I didn't mean.
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Um, and I really wanted to defend this woman actually, but she, I can't even, I can't defend her even if I want to.
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Now, if you're going to accuse other people of being immature and needing to grow up.
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If you yourself are not able to write a coherent sentence and there's no excuse for being unable to write a coherent sentence, but yet this is 90% of, of the stuff you read online.
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It's like this, it's, you can't even hardly read it.
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And yet these people, all of them had formal schooling for 12 or 13 years.
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I could write that or something in first grade, but all these adults on the internet, they can't even, they can't even manage that.
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How could you be an adult in modern America, having gone to school?
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And I know the public schools aren't the greatest, but, but how could you make it to the age of 25 or 30 or 35 and not be able to write a sentence?
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And this is, this is not, this is really a question I'm asking you.
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How do you not, you're going to post it on Facebook.
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You're posting this, this for, for potentially thousands or millions of people to read.
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Don't you stop and you don't, you don't see a problem here?
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How do you make it to 30 and you don't even know where to put punctuation in a sentence?
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I, it wasn't, it wasn't supposed to be the point.
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Um, I, I, I basically agree from what I could tell of what this woman is trying to say.
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I basically agree that Disney world is a, is a place for kids.
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And that doesn't mean that you shouldn't be allowed to go.
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If you are a childless grownup, I can't for the life of me.
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Figure out why you would want to, I mean, I can't figure out why anybody would want to
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go to any amusement park as a grownup, even with kids.
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Now I understand why you would take your kids because it's for them.
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You're doing it for them, but you're not going to enjoy yourself.
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I was just having this argument with my wife recently.
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She was trying to convince me to, um, that we should bring the kids to Disney world.
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I would, I would, I would, I would, I think I would more enjoy the experience of dying
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I, why would you go down in the heat, um, to stand in line and, and spend thousands of
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It's going to cost, it's going to cost 300 bucks.
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Wait, and this is your vacation and this is how you want to spend it.
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I mean, if you considering the money that it costs to go to Disney world and the time,
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if you have that kind of time and money, good for you.
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There are so many other ways you could spend it.
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And then if you're a grownup without kids, you know, so you have the money, you have no
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kids, you got a week or two off work, you want to go somewhere with, somewhere with
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your grownup friends and Disney world is what you come up with.
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You could go anywhere, you know, as without kids, if you got money and no kids, you could
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If you want to, you could go wherever you want to go.
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Let me spend four of those days consecutively standing in line.
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I, you know, I don't get it personally, but, um, to each their own, I suppose.
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I do feel though, that you go to Disney world, you've got, it's, it's Disney.
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I mean, you've got what someone dressed up as snow white, someone else dressed up as
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Um, you've got a bunch of rides and everything.
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And so I actually agree in part with this woman that, you know, kids take priority.
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You, you went, you, you had your childhood thing at Disney world.
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Let, let, let another generation of kids enjoy it.
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Let go of your childhood a little bit, be an adult.
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Like, can you develop some interests and, and some, some, uh, some hobbies that, you
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know, that you, that you, that aren't holdovers from when you were eight years old.
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That's what gets me about it is that when, when my generation, when we were kids, Disney
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You went with families, you went with little kids.
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You didn't have a lot of grownups walking around, clogging up space in the line by themselves.
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It didn't really exist when we were kids, right?
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We're going to deprive the next generation of kids from that experience because we can't
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Um, so I guess if, if it were up to me, I wouldn't ban childless grownups from going
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to Disney world, but I would discriminate against them.
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I would advocate, and that's all I just advocate.
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I would simply advocate discrimination against childless grownups at theme parks.
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Uh, so you can come in, but you're going to, it's going to cost you more and, um, which
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So if you're in line and you're about to get on the roller coaster and a kid walks up and
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he wants to get on, you have to step back because this is mainly for the kids.
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And if, if, if God forbid, for some reason, as a grownup, you're taking a picture with
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Snow White and a kid comes up, you got to get the hell out of the way because this is
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If there's no other kid around, I guess it doesn't, not hurting anybody.
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It's a little bit weird for the person playing Snow White that they have to, you know, take
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a picture with a grownup, but, um, it's not hurting anybody else.
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So if there's, that's my point, if there's no kids around, it's not hurting anybody.
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But if there are kids there, get out of the way.
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That's, that's my thought because it does annoy me.
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I know anytime I talk about this, people get very upset.
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They say, well, you care how people enjoy themselves.
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But I'll tell you why I care because I have kids now and it seems like many of these things
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in our culture that should be geared to kids and should be for kids now are more geared
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to adults like my age because the people of my generation can't let go of their childhood
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and have not developed any more mature interests than what we liked when we were eight or nine
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I think, and you've got superhero movies coming out six times a week.
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Well, that should be great for a, for a kid, my son's age.
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Um, I should be able to take him to a superhero movie and, and it should be great for him.
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Uh, and every once in a while you get a, you get a superhero.
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Well, the only superhero movies nowadays that are really geared towards children are if
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they're Legos, like if it's a Lego superhero movie, then yeah, you can bring the kids to
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Um, but the problem is that these superhero stories, which are for kids, because it's,
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these are stories about people in tights running around and fighting bad guys.
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This is for kids, for little boys, but the primary audience now are people my age.
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So they make these stories that are fundamentally childish and for kids, but then they put in,
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you know, they put in extra violence and some language and mature themes that make it inappropriate
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So this, it's, it's, it's a story that should be tailored to a six-year-old boy, but I can't
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bring my six-year-old son because the movie studios are catering towards people my age
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because the people my age haven't grown up and that annoys me.
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You know, I, I tried to, in fact, uh, just the other day I put on, um, whatever it was
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Avengers, uh, whatever the Avengers end game or something, whatever it was, whatever the
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most recent Avengers thing is that's out now on, on demand.
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And, uh, I said, I, you know, I'll give it a try.
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I wanted to put it on and watch it with my son because again, he's a little boy.
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I had to turn it off after 20 minutes because it's just, it's, it's, it's too intense for
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So that's my issue is when you've got these adults who won't let go of their childhood.
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And they're, and the problem is my generation, they're rather than leaving the childhood
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things in their childhood and passing them on to the next generation, bequeathing them
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Instead, we are dragging all of these childhood things into adulthood with us because we refuse
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Uh, yeah, you've got adults who are still watching like Rugrats reruns and stuff on
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Just, there's so much, there's a whole world out there of, of, of, uh, in, of, you know,
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Um, maybe explore some of that and leave the kid stuff for kids.
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That's my, and last thing I'll say is the way it's supposed to work is you get to relive
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relive your childhood once you have children, because then you go and you do all these things
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again with your kids and you sort of experience it again, but, but from a different perspective,
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And so that's the way the cycle is supposed to, and then you experience it again as a grandparent.
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So it's, it's, it's supposed to be a cycle like that where, so it's not even that you
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completely live your childhood behind, but you, you live your childhood and then you sort
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of relive it in a sense as an adult though, as a parent, because now you are passing it
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That's the way it's supposed to work that cycle.
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But instead, uh, with my generation, we're not having kids.
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So instead we are just staying, uh, uh, you know, entrenched in our own childhoods.
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And, uh, I think that's, uh, a kind of annoying.
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