Ep. 333 - The Real Kavanaugh Bombshell
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Summary
The story just gets more and more embarrassing for the media as we continue to do this, ringing in the anniversary of the Brett Kavanaugh hearing by rehashing all of it. And so it's appropriate that the media embarrass itself yet again.
Transcript
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Well, the story just gets more and more embarrassing for the media as we continue to do this Kavanaugh thing for a second time,
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ringing in the anniversary of the Kavanaugh hearing by rehashing all of it.
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And so it's appropriate, I suppose, that the media is embarrassing itself, humiliating itself yet again,
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because that's what it did the first time, and so now it's going to become a tradition annually.
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We talked yesterday about this debunked claim in the New York Times about another alleged sexual assault that happened 30 years ago,
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though, as I said yesterday, even if this thing actually happened, which it didn't, but even if it did, it wouldn't be sexual assault.
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If someone somehow forced Kavanaugh's penis into a woman's hand at a party, as the story goes,
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that would, if anything, be sexual assault by the person who did the forcing, and Kavanaugh would be one of the victims of it.
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But however that would work, logistically, I have no idea.
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I can't even figure out what the accusation is supposed to be.
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But then it turns out that the woman, the alleged victim, didn't want to be interviewed about the incident
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And yet the Times left that detail out of its report, had to go back and add in the correction.
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Now the authors of the piece are trying to explain why that detail was left out,
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and they've thrown their editors completely under the bus, which is kind of hilarious.
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...draft of the article, did it include those words that have since been added to the article?
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So somewhere in the editing process, those words were trapped.
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Yeah, I mean, I think what happened actually was that, you know, we had her name,
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and, you know, the Times doesn't usually include the name of the victim.
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And so I think in this case, the editors felt like maybe it was probably better to remove it.
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And in removing her name, they removed the other reference to the fact that she didn't remember it.
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Okay, so the way, in your draft for the Times, you used basically the exact words that are in the book
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that I deliberately left off the name, because that passage begins with the name.
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And so in their removal of the name, they ended up removing what follows it.
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Yes, and I mean, so I think it was just sort of an editing, you know,
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done in the haste in the editing process, as you know, for closing the section.
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Were you involved in the decision to amend this and do the correction on the addition online to the piece?
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Yeah, I mean, we think we felt like there was so much heat.
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You know, there's so much, everyone has been kind of seizing on various aspects of this,
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that we certainly didn't want this to be an issue anymore.
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And we certainly never intended to mislead in any way.
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Something tells me these two probably aren't going to be getting, you know,
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any more jobs writing pieces for newspapers anytime soon,
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because throwing your editor under the bus is not ideal.
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Well, yeah, the editors are partly to blame, but so are they.
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Because here's the thing, they didn't speak up when the article was published without that information.
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They didn't speak up and say, hey, wait a second, something was left out here.
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They only said something after other people discovered the omission and brought it up.
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So I wish that these people would just be honest.
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And I know that's too much to ask, but I'd almost respect it if they came out and said,
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hey, listen, we hate Kavanaugh because he's pro-life,
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and we're just doing what we need to do to get rid of him.
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So that's why we omitted it, because obviously it's not going to help our case,
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I would almost respect the honesty if they just said that.
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to smear Kavanaugh because they're afraid that he's going to repeal Roe v. Wade.
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And that, of course, is what this is all about.
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But meanwhile, Kavanaugh almost certainly would not vote to repeal Roe v. Wade.
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So all of their hysterical fears are completely misplaced.
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You know, there's a reason why most pro-lifers, if you had paid attention when Kavanaugh was announced,
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most pro-lifers were not jumping for joy the way they would have been if, for example,
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But with Kavanaugh, most pro-lifers were like, eh, that was our reaction.
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Now, we started rallying behind Kavanaugh when all these fake rape accusations came out
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and they were trying to destroy his life and destroy his family.
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And then, of course, we're going to rally behind him
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because this is just to do that to any person is wrong.
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But no, there is actually little evidence that Kavanaugh is pro-life, is a conservative pro-lifer.
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For all we know, and this actually is my guess,
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and this is why I wasn't too excited about the nomination,
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my guess is that he's going to, when it comes to these kinds of issues,
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he's going to be kind of like a Kennedy, basically liberal.
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I would be, if I had to put all of my money on one outcome or the other,
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and if there was a Roe v. Wade challenge before the Supreme Court,
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I would definitely put my money on him not voting to repeal it.
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The double irony is, if there's any chance of Kavanaugh actually voting against Roe
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and actually becoming a social conservative on the bench,
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it would probably be because of how he's been treated by the left.
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So they're doing all this because they're so afraid of how,
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meanwhile, he's a moderate, probably kind of liberal guy.
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But if that changes, it's going to be because of how he's being treated by them.
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And their wager is that, well, they treat him this way,
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and he's going to be too afraid when it comes down to it.
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He's just going to do what they want because he'll be too afraid of provoking their wrath,
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But there's also a possibility, and this is what I would root for,
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that he says, you know what, screw these people.
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Oh, I forgot to mention, one of the reporters, quote, unquote,
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who authored the piece that is now being torn apart, and rightfully so,
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is suggesting that the alleged victim doesn't remember what happened because she was drunk.
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So talk about victim blaming or alleged victim blaming.
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They've gone from smearing the alleged perpetrator to smearing the alleged victim.
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Now, I predicted yesterday that the narrative from the left,
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given the fact that this alleged victim doesn't remember it,
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the narrative is going to be, well, she suppressed the memory because it was so traumatizing.
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So actually, the fact that she doesn't remember it is proof that he did do it
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And in fact, I did have some people on Twitter tell me that.
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That is an actual argument that was presented to me, that it's a suppressed memory.
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But here's another way to go and say, wow, she was drunk anyway.
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Speaking of evil, Leland Kaiser, friend of Christine Ford,
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and one of the supposed witnesses at the supposed party where her alleged supposed rape occurred,
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And when I say speaking of evil, I don't mean Leland Kaiser as the evil.
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I mean what she's had to endure and what's happening apparently behind the scenes to this woman,
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Kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed after a gut-wrenching day of testimony from him and Christine Blasey Ford,
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who accused him of assaulting her at a high school party.
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Speaking publicly for the first time to The Times reporters,
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Ford's close friend Leland Kaiser, who Ford said was at the party,
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said she didn't believe Ford's account and that it just didn't make any sense.
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She also says she told the FBI that Ford's allies pressured her to say otherwise.
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She's enduring all this abuse behind the scenes.
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oh, well, the fact that you're saying that her not believing Christine Ford is this huge,
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this significant thing, but if she came out and said she did believe Christine Ford,
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Now, if she had come out and said, I saw it, I remember it, I'm a witness,
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But if she just said as a friend, yeah, I don't remember it, but I believe her,
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which actually was what was originally reported.
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Originally, what was reported is that Leland Kaiser, there was always this weird thing where
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She said she didn't remember, but originally reported by, I think,
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I think it was the Washington Post, I don't remember which, but it was originally reported
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that Leland Kaiser said, I don't remember it, but yeah, I believe her.
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But it was always weird that Kaiser was not more public about coming out in support of her friend.
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That her family didn't really come out publicly in support of her.
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Well, now we find out behind the scenes, Kaiser was being pressured.
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And now she's saying, you know, in honesty, I don't believe her.
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And yet, that to me is more significant than her saying she believes her.
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So she has a very obvious bias, a very obvious personal reason to say,
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She has no obvious reason to say she doesn't believe if she in fact does.
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So the fact that she's going against her own interests, against her own friendships in order
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Just like the silence from Christine Ford's family not coming out publicly and being out there
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and supporting in a really visible way, that is also significant.
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Christine Ford has no witnesses, no evidence, doesn't remember where it happened,
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doesn't remember when it happened, doesn't remember what happened before or after.
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There's just no reason at all, period, to take her seriously or to take any of this seriously.
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So the people who are still going around and claiming that Kavanaugh's a rapist and so on,
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And we talk about how this is backfiring on the left because it's only, in a lot of people's minds,
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and you hear this from a lot of people, that they don't really like Trump.
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They even dislike him strongly, but they're still going to vote for him because of this kind of thing,
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because of Kavanaugh, because they've seen how the left acts.
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And they realize they have to do whatever they can to stop the left from taking control.
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And so the thought is, well, this is backfiring on the left.
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It's a really, on top of being morally wrong, it's a really bad strategic political move,
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But if there isn't, but I think there is a strategy also on their side.
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I'm not saying it's a good strategy, but there is a strategy.
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I think part of the strategy is this is a warning shot.
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This is a message to when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is no longer on the bench, her replacement.
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This is a message to Ginsburg's replacement if that person is nominated by a Republican.
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Like, this is a message, you know, if you're nominated, you probably want to decline
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Because they're trying to say to the next potential conservative nominee or Republican nominee,
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if you accept this, we are going to ruin your life and we are never, ever going to stop.
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And it could be an effective strategy, as morally abominable as it is.
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I mean, look, if it were me, if Trump came to me and said, we want to have you on the Supreme Court,
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which is unlikely to happen, well, honestly, I'd probably take it.
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But I think a lot of people, a lot of more normal people, would probably say it's not worth it.
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I'm not going to have my whole life turned out.
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I'm not going to have my family destroyed over this.
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Okay, well, speaking of evil, that's my second time I've used that transition.
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That's really my transition from every, that's always my transition.
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Speaking of evil, let's go to the next evil thing.
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Okay, well, the woke rage mob has found another scalp.
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But when it was announced, of course, people had to go digging to see if he'd ever said anything controversial.
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And so we go and we dig through their closet for skeletons.
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And we say, let's go find a reason to hate this person.
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Oh, this person is being, this person is being, is, you know, getting honored or something good is happening.
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You know, everyone complains that the news only reports negative stuff.
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But here's what happens when there's a positive news story.
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If there's a positive news story, if someone makes it into the news for a positive reason, it's turned into something negative because we find a reason to hate that person.
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So in this case, it turned out that Shane Gillis had in the past made offensive remarks about Asians on a, on a podcast, on a, on a comedy podcast with another comedian.
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He used slurs about Asians and he made fun of their accents and he was talking about, uh, Chinatown and the city and, and all of that.
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Yes, obviously he's a comedian on a comedy podcast doing a bit that that's what, that's what comedians do on podcasts.
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It's a joke, bad joke, fine, but still a joke, but that doesn't matter to the rage mob.
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And, uh, now he has been SNL cave predictably as always.
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Um, this doesn't need to be a conversation about whether, about whether, you know, the, the, the C word for Asians is offensive or whatever.
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I don't think you should go around saying that, but, but, but, but here's the point.
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If we could establish, let's say, let's just say we establish, he said that's offensive.
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Everybody in the world, everybody, there's 7 billion people in the world, everybody in the world, all 7 billion.
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If they have the power of speech, they have all said offensive things.
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Whoever you are watching this right now, you have said so many offensive things and you know you have.
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Now, that, that doesn't mean, and you could say, oh, I've never used that word though.
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I'm not saying everyone's used that word or I'm not even saying everyone's used racial slurs.
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Maybe, maybe you've never said offensive things in that vein.
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Maybe that's not a genre of offensive remark that you have ever engaged in.
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But on whatever topic, in whatever way, you have said very offensive things.
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You have said things that you wouldn't want plastered all over the headlines.
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You have said things that you wouldn't want people digging for and, and, and, and putting out there the moment that you're promoted or given a new job or whatever.
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You, you, you definitely, definitely, definitely have.
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If, if, if, if you're a human being and you can speak, you say a lot of things in a day, you say even more things in a month, even more than that in a year.
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And a certain percentage of that stuff is going to be offensive.
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When you think about it, it really doesn't make sense.
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When we find out that someone said something offensive for us to go, what?
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It was statistically certain that he has said offensive stuff.
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And, and if you're someone, now, if, if you're not in the public eye at all, if you're not in media, if you're not a comedian, if you're not, you know, whatever, then, then probably the offensive things that you've said, for the most part, have not been on camera.
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But if you're someone who does a lot of talking on camera, on microphones and podcasts, doing interviews, doing this and that and that, now you're on stage, you're doing this, there's just a lot of, there's a huge volume of material of you talking off and off the cuff, then it's just, it is statistically certain that some of that is going to be offensive.
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And again, if you don't have video of you saying offensive things floating around out there, that's only because you're not on video that often.
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I think the proper reaction with this kind of thing is for us to say, okay, yeah, well, okay, we all say offensive things.
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It's that, you know, we all say things we shouldn't say.
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Here is example number 552 trillion of people saying things they shouldn't say.
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I mean, he came out and he said, now, if his response to this was for him to come out and say, oh, no, you know what?
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If he had done that, then, yeah, SNL wouldn't have, I couldn't even quibble with SNL firing him.
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And I also know, as I have myself pointed out so many times, that this is all performative.
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Because what I'm saying right now, everybody knows this.
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So everyone, people that act offended by an offensive comment, they all know about themselves.
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Oh, man, I've said worse stuff than that about this or that, you know.
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Back in the Roman days, you could go to the Colosseum and you could watch someone get torn apart by the lions.
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I have no doubt that if we had something like that, it would be enormously popular.
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It's enjoying the watching someone get torn apart.
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If not physically, then at least metaphorically.
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This, as always, this is where the Bible, once again, has something to say about it.
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And you go to the famous story, he without sin cast the first stone.
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Because really, at the end of the day, you know, it's, and the point of that story, let he without sin cast the first stone.
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But Jesus wasn't saying, we cannot objectively make judgments about what's right or wrong.
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He wasn't saying, this woman was caught in adultery.
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Jesus wasn't saying, despite how it's commonly translated or interpreted these days, he wasn't saying, oh, no, you know what, actually, adultery is okay.
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And he wasn't saying, the people that were disgusted by adultery and opposed it or whatever, he wasn't saying they were wrong for that.
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That's why he said, go and sin no more to the woman.
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But he's also saying, you're not really in a place to literally throw a stone at this woman.
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Maybe that's not, you know, with your, maybe that's not a type of sin that you've committed.
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You have certainly done really bad things in your life.
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If there's anyone around here who can throw a stone, it's not you.
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I think that applies very much in these, in these situations.
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Let he who has never made an offensive comment in their life, not a single one, let he be the one to cast the stone.
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This isn't so much evil as just, just, just sad.
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So Sean Spicer was a former White House press secretary.
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And as you may recall, Trump's press secretary.
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And he was, he's on Dancing with the Stars now for some reason.
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And he debuted his, he did his debut dance last night.
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I admit I don't watch the show, but I did see this clip online.
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Now, in fairness, in fairness, I do have that exact shirt.
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I must admit. For those listening on iTunes, Spicer is wearing a fluffy, frilly, neon shirt
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while doing the salsa. I think that's supposed to be the salsa. I'm not really sure. And he's
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dancing to the Spice Girls. So I don't know what his dance moves look like. Well, first of all,
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they look like I would look if I was trying to do the salsa, which is why I would never do it,
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especially not on camera. But really, he looks like a Little League baseball coach having a
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seizure in a pirate shirt. That's kind of what his salsa looks like. And I don't get it. But Mike
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Huckabee, Mike Huckabee, who, thank God, has not gone on the show yet. He wrote on Twitter in support
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of Sean Spicer. And he said, want to create an emotional meltdown in Hollywood? Hollywood instead
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of Hollywood. Clever stuff. Vote for Sean Spicer to win Dancing with the Stars tonight and every
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night that he's on. Sean Spicer is a good guy and a brave sport to go on Dancing with the Stars.
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Let's show him some love. And then Spicer responded, thank you, Mike Huckabee. Clearly, the judges
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aren't going to be with me. Let's send a message to Hollywood that those of us who stand for Christ
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won't be discounted. May God bless you. He really tried to turn this into a Jesus thing.
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He's really claiming that he's standing with Christ by dancing to the Spice Girls in a frilly
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neon shirt. See, me, I don't get it. I don't quite get the connection. When I see that, when I look at
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that clip, I see a guy who's desperate for attention and still wants to be famous and will do literally
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anything for it, I don't really see the gospel being spread quite. I don't see where that comes
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in. And this is a thing that we talk about victim culture and how victimhood has been turned into a
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currency these days and everybody wants to be a victim. And we put that on the left most of the time
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and for good reason. But it's not just the left that does this. And this is something that you see
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among conservative Christians sometimes. I have to admit, there is a tendency sometimes
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where Sean Spicer now is turning himself into a victim, where the judges didn't like his dance
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moves and it's because he's a Christian. No, it's because you suck at dancing, Sean, which, look,
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I do too. So I'm not, but that's why, again, I don't, I'm not going to do it in front of judges.
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I'm not going to do it in front of anybody. Um, in fact, I, I, you know, we're going to a wedding
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this weekend and this will be the second wedding that I've attended while, um, after my Achilles
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injury. And in both cases, these are times where I actually thank God that I have an Achilles injury,
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even though now I'm kind of overcoming it, but I still have it. But I thank God for it because it's
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my excuse. I don't have to dance. Um, I can just sit there, which is what I would do anyway,
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in fairness, but, and now I have a reason. And I can say, I was at the last first wedding I went
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to was, I was still had the cast on and everything. And people are dancing and people are coming up to
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me. And I was saying, Oh man, I'd love to be out there. I'd love to be out there dancing.
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I tell you, I live to dance, but you know, I just can't, I just can't. It's, it's really,
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at least it's tough for me to sit here and not be able to dance anyway. Um, so that, that's my
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theory. My theory for Sean is that, is that they, they, they didn't like the dancing because it's
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bad. Um, not because they're against Christ. And so this victimhood thing, now there are,
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there are examples of conservative Christians in this country being victimized. There are many
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more examples across the world of Christians actually being victimized and martyred in this
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country. It does happen. Uh, talk to, talk to, to, uh, uh, masterpiece cake shop, Jack Phillips,
00:31:54.460
and he'll tell you about that. But there are also examples of, of, of, of the victimhood mentality
00:32:00.440
among Christians where, you know, so someone is insulted or, or, or whatever. And they try to turn
00:32:07.100
it into, and I, I don't, I don't think we should do that. I think it's, it's almost blasphemous.
00:32:12.600
Really? That's almost blasphemy. Don't bring that spectacle there. Okay. If you want to do that,
00:32:19.800
do it, but don't bring Jesus into that. He didn't have anything to do with that. Don't blame him.
00:32:26.260
Why do people, I really don't, I don't understand, you know, this thing that, that people do where
00:32:32.260
they, when you've got F list celebrities who someone who's famous, you know, for being a white
00:32:40.080
house press secretary, former white house president, and then they, and then they, they go and they
00:32:43.720
embarrass themselves on TV intentionally just to keep the attention on them. I don't understand it.
00:32:51.600
How are you that desperate for attention that you'll even take negative attention?
00:32:56.640
That I don't get. If somebody came to me and said, Hey, would you love to come on? Would you like
00:33:03.220
to come on this show here and be humiliated in front of everybody? I would have to say, not really. No,
00:33:08.940
thanks for the offer. Are you sure? Because millions of people are going to be watching. You could be
00:33:12.500
really, really embarrassed. Yeah, no, no, thanks. I don't think so. I humiliate myself all the time as
00:33:19.440
it is. And sometimes on camera, as anyone who watches this show can attest, I don't need help.
00:33:23.120
All right. Uh, let's go to emails. Matt wall show at gmail.com. Matt wall show at gmail.com.
00:33:31.100
Although all that being said, I do, the other part of me does have some kind of respect for people who
00:33:38.360
are very bad dancers like me and yet are willing to do it in front of other people.
00:33:44.460
I do have some respect for that. I have to say, um, all right, let's go to emails. Uh, again,
00:33:51.080
matt wall show at gmail.com. This is from Rebecca says, Matt, I was wondering if you could tell us
00:33:56.780
your thoughts on the conversation among Christians following the recent suicide of the very successful
00:34:00.740
young pastor, Jared Wilson. It's very hard for some of us to understand why someone in his position
00:34:05.580
would want to end their own life. Yes. Depression most often is never about circumstances, but when
00:34:11.080
you're young, have a beautiful wife, two healthy young kids and success above the ordinary, it's really
00:34:16.980
baffling. Now, even some Christians are saying that he didn't choose to commit suicide, but that he
00:34:21.620
lost his battle and died by suicide. Um, many in quotes, died by suicide. Many are also saying that
00:34:28.820
because he professed to believe in Jesus, that he's also, um, that he's automatically in heaven that,
00:34:35.200
and that he's quote, finally free. If that were the consequence of suicide, shouldn't we all do it
00:34:39.880
then? I'm not saying that he is or isn't in heaven, but how can we know for sure? And why would we
00:34:43.860
even assume? To not murder is one of the 10 commandments and murder of the self is self
00:34:48.660
murder. As a Catholic, I believe and hope he is in purgatory, but irregardless, I don't think
00:34:52.980
Christians should ever advertise to the world that suicide is a solution. Every single day,
00:34:57.980
it seems like more and more Christians are not standing on the foundation of truth, too scared
00:35:01.080
to offend anyone. I'd really like to know what you think of all this. Thanks. Um, yeah, Rebecca,
00:35:06.900
I've gotten a few emails about this, and so I wanted to address it. This is an awful
00:35:13.620
situation, obviously. I didn't know Jared personally at all. Um, we had, we debated once on a podcast
00:35:19.920
years ago, and that was pretty much the extent of our interaction. I think we interacted maybe on
00:35:24.660
Twitter a few times, but by all accounts, uh, a decent guy, a good guy, and this is just terrible.
00:35:34.260
It's, I can't, it's the kind of thing when you hear stories like this, it kind of takes your breath
00:35:39.660
away. Um, when you think about, especially the, the family, uh, wife and two kids and, and how
00:35:48.460
they're, it puts me at a loss for words when I think about where you go as a spouse after something
00:35:58.360
like this as a child. Um, it's just terribly tragic. So you raise two points, which I think
00:36:07.640
are important and, um, which also troubled me greatly. And this is a delicate subject and people
00:36:17.320
get upset when you start talking about these things and they say, well, you shouldn't be talking
00:36:21.000
about them or you should talk about it now. I was like, well, when are we going to talk about it?
00:36:24.140
Because you gotta, we, we need to talk about it. And the two points you raise, I think are, are good.
00:36:31.340
Um, important. So one is this idea that we should completely remove the choice, the willfulness
00:36:38.000
from suicide and talk about it, talk about it as if someone who quote dies by suicide might as well
00:36:45.160
died of cancer. And, and, and this is something now where, where you hear this, that, that every time
00:36:49.900
there's a suicide of a, of a, of a prominent person you hear from the media and social media, people
00:36:56.100
say, no, don't say he committed suicide, say died by suicide to make it into a passive and to sound
00:37:01.820
like something that happened to him rather than something that he did. Um, and I'll tell you why
00:37:07.140
that concerns me. I think probably for the same reason it concerns you, Rebecca, because it makes
00:37:11.500
the person, here's what I think about. It makes the person who is depressed, who feels hopeless,
00:37:18.480
whoever that might be. And there are a lot of people in that boat right now, someone in that boat.
00:37:25.780
I don't see how it doesn't make them feel powerless. I mean, think about what you're saying
00:37:31.000
to a potentially suicidal person. You're saying you have no choice. You have no power to prevent
00:37:36.020
this from happening. You have cancer essentially. And, and, and there's nothing you can do. Suicide
00:37:41.720
might just happen to you. Like getting hit by a car might just happen. You can't stop it. You can't
00:37:46.020
prevent it. And I really worry that that might lead to more suicides. I worry that it does lead to more
00:37:51.420
suicides. I worry that the way that we talk about suicide of prominent people, the way the conversation
00:37:56.780
happens and the things people say, and I, and, and I know they say it with, with good intentions.
00:38:02.500
I know that, but I, I really worry that it caused that causes the wrong word, that it, that it helps
00:38:08.300
to promote an atmosphere that encourages suicide. I think, I think the, the, the worst thing that you
00:38:19.420
can do for someone who is on the verge of, of that is make them feel powerless because they already feel
00:38:28.860
powerless. They already feel like I have no choice. I have to do this. So how, for us to respond and
00:38:34.660
say, you're right. I just think that's extremely dangerous, extremely. Now I get why we use this
00:38:42.240
language. We don't want to be seen as blaming or condemning. Um, we don't want to seem disrespectful.
00:38:47.300
We don't want to add to the family's pain. I'm very sympathetic to that. I get that. I do. I really do.
00:38:52.580
But we have to think also about, um, we have to think about the living. We have to think about the
00:38:58.360
next potential person who might go down that road. What do they need to hear? I think we need to think
00:39:03.820
about that more. And I think you have no choice. You have no power is a terrible message for them.
00:39:10.240
It's the worst thing you could say to them. Um, think about someone who is literally standing on a
00:39:19.120
ledge and they're about to jump. Would you ever say to them, you have no choice. You have no power.
00:39:25.960
This might just happen to you. No, no, no. Your message would be the opposite, right? Wouldn't it
00:39:30.300
be? No, you don't have, when they're screaming down to you from the ledge, I have no choice. I have to do
00:39:35.460
this. There's no way out. Aren't you saying, no, you do have a choice. You don't have to do this.
00:39:39.860
There is a way. Isn't that your message to them? Isn't that what anyone would say? Well, if that's what
00:39:45.200
we would say, then isn't that what we should say? Um, as for saying he's in peace, he's with Jesus,
00:39:52.980
uh, uh, again, yeah, I see your concern because that, that does seem to promote suicide. I, I,
00:39:58.660
and nobody means it that way, of course, but how would it not? Well, if, if that's the case,
00:40:07.860
you commit suicide, just go right to heaven and then, then why, why, why don't we all do it then?
00:40:15.080
Heaven's definitely better than earth. And so, so, uh, why even treat suicide like a sad thing in
00:40:20.540
that case? Now, at the same time, of course, we're not going to sit here and say everyone who does that
00:40:28.500
is not in heaven, right? We're not going to say that either. I'm not saying that. And you didn't
00:40:32.500
say that. Nobody can say that. I think we, we can't say where anybody is, no matter how they died,
00:40:39.680
even if they did die by cancer, no matter how anyone died, we can't say where anyone is or what
00:40:44.000
happened to anyone after death. And so I think it's best to just leave that alone for everybody
00:40:48.740
and, and, and not make definitive declarations about where they are, what happened or, or we can't
00:40:56.420
because we, we're not God. We can't do that. Um, it's best to say, you know, we can say what we hope
00:41:03.080
and what we pray and all of that. But I think we should as much as possible refrain from saying
00:41:10.200
things that we know we can't possibly actually know to be true. Um, anyway, it's a delicate subject,
00:41:18.580
as I said, but an important one. And, um, the main thing here is, is, you know, we pray for his family
00:41:25.540
and encourage anyone who's feeling like Jared was feeling at the end to encourage them to seek
00:41:31.920
help, to get help, to talk to somebody. Um, you know, you don't have to be alone. Even if you feel
00:41:40.140
alone, you don't have to be alone. You're not. And there is help out there. Um, and suicide is just
00:41:49.860
never a solution to anything. All right. Um, and I, and, and, and to look and see when, when,
00:42:02.300
when this kind of thing happens and you look and you see the, the families that are left behind,
00:42:06.280
um, which proves, you know, these are people who felt alone, but obviously we're not, we're very,
00:42:15.960
very, very far from being alone. In fact, they had, their lives were incredibly important and
00:42:23.580
integral to the lives of so many other people who now will have this massive hole in their lives
00:42:28.980
that will never, ever be filled. All right. Um, this is from, uh, see how much time we have here.
00:42:39.100
This is from Jean says, dear Matt, due to my long commute each day, I listen to daily wire as follows.
00:42:44.780
Ben on my way home, Michael in the evening while cooking dinner and you on my morning commute this
00:42:49.080
morning. You know, it's a good system. Um, if you need to cut the other two out, just listen to me.
00:42:54.880
I mean, you can listen to me three times if you wanted to. I'm just saying it's, it's up to you.
00:42:59.140
Um, this morning while in bumper to bumper traffic, I was laughing out loud, listening to you talk about
00:43:03.100
the Ravens game bathroom dilemma with your son. The people in the cars next to me probably all thought
00:43:07.400
I was a nut job due to laughing so hard. I'm glad you didn't have to crawl in urine. Me too.
00:43:11.160
You also discussed your pet peeve of not being able to watch people eat bagels.
00:43:16.160
One of my pet peeves is rubber bands. Give me the creeps. I won't touch them. I avoid them as
00:43:20.380
much as possible. Would you mind sharing your top five pet peeves? I appreciate your unique,
00:43:25.040
unique perspective, insight, and commentary on our news and culture. Keep up the fantastic job you're
00:43:29.280
doing. Yeah. Some people ask me, why do you have a pet peeve about bagels? It's just the way they
00:43:33.360
sound when people are eating them. I don't know what it is. Um, just the kind of, it's kind of like
00:43:37.940
swishy, squishy kind of sound people make when they, I can't describe it. The sound of people
00:43:44.860
eating chips or something crunchy, that doesn't really bother me, but something that there's just,
00:43:50.480
I don't, I can't, I, it's a pet peeve. That's the point. I can't really explain why it annoys me so
00:43:54.480
much, but it does. As far as my other pet peeves, I can't rank them because honestly, everything's a
00:44:00.320
pet peeve for me. Everything annoys me. I can find a reason to be annoyed by anything and everything in
00:44:05.560
life. It's one of my great talents. If you can really call it a talent. So, uh, I don't even
00:44:12.400
know if I can, if that's a question I can answer, but I appreciate the question. This is from LJ says,
00:44:17.060
Matt, what do you think of the rule change in the NFL allowing challenges on pass interference?
00:44:21.100
I think, um, the NFL is like Congress where they get together every year and they feel like they just
00:44:28.320
have to do, they have to pass laws and change things. And they just cause, well, we're together,
00:44:32.960
we might as well. Um, when really with Congress, I always say people complain, Oh, Congress isn't
00:44:37.740
doing anything good. That's what we want. We don't want them to just pass laws for the sake of it.
00:44:42.420
Might as well pass some laws fellows. Um, that's not good. And the NFL does the same thing where
00:44:47.040
every year they just, they make rule changes because, because they have to, because they feel
00:44:52.460
like they have to, or they feel like they, they might as well. And those rule changes are almost
00:44:57.140
always bad. They almost always make the game worse except for this rule change. I totally support it.
00:45:02.720
I think, um, pass interference calls. Look, you give coaches three challenges. I think let them
00:45:08.900
challenge whatever they want. It's not like, you know, you're not giving them 50 challenges or
00:45:13.100
unlimited, but they have three and, uh, they should be able to challenge anything that affects the
00:45:17.380
outcome of the game. The idea that the calls made by the refs should be above challenge is to me so
00:45:24.980
absurd, so ridiculous, um, that it doesn't make any sense. A pass interference call has, is an
00:45:34.600
enormously important call and it can really affect the outcome of the game. It can, it can lose or
00:45:39.240
win a game in the end. And if an erroneous pass interference is called, think about a pass
00:45:44.880
interference. If it's a spot foul pass interference, that could, that could be a 55 yard penalty.
00:45:51.260
Um, and if it, if it was wrong and if the ref was wrong and there was no pass interference,
00:45:56.960
of course we should be able to go, we have the technology to go back and look at it. And so of
00:46:01.080
course we should, it's, it's worth a couple of minutes to look at it rather than just saying,
00:46:05.080
ah, give them the 55 yards. Uh, that could be the, that could be the difference between winning
00:46:09.260
and losing a game. And, and you want as much as possible to minimize having refs be the ones who win
00:46:15.840
or lose games because nobody's watching for that. That, that, that destroys the product. Nobody's
00:46:20.740
watching to see what the refs do. The refs are supposed to be as much as possible invisible. Um,
00:46:29.040
some, uh, there, there are people who argue, well, human error is part of the game. Yeah. Human error
00:46:33.540
of the players. If players are making mistakes, then yeah, that's part of the game, but mistakes by
00:46:39.000
the refs, that is only by default part of the game. It's just, it's part of the game because we
00:46:43.840
haven't had any, any way of removing it from the game. But if we can remove those human errors by
00:46:47.960
the refs as much as possible, we should do it. Um, finally, this is from Rose says, Matt, I've been
00:46:54.740
a fan for a long time, but no more. Your comment on Chick-fil-A, uh, was beyond the pale. You should
00:47:00.260
be ashamed. Yeah. I said on Twitter yesterday and it was, uh, I think I, someone told me I was trending
00:47:05.060
on Twitter briefly because of, uh, people were attacking me because I said that Chick-fil-A is
00:47:10.980
overrated. I stand by what I said. Uh, and the treatment that I have gotten
00:47:18.420
only brings to mind what Jesus said in the gospel is blessed are those who are persecuted for
00:47:25.200
righteousness. Speaking of victim mentalities by Christians, there you go. Uh, no, I look,
00:47:32.520
I'm not saying that Chick-fil-A is bad. When I call something overrated, that doesn't mean it's bad.
00:47:37.760
It just means that it's overrated. It means that it's not as good as everyone says.
00:47:42.560
Chick-fil-A is a good fast food place. I like it. I go to it. I think it's top five. It's not number
00:47:49.940
one. That's all I'm saying. It, it, it, they do a good chicken sandwich. That's all they really do
00:47:55.660
that well. Uh, I think their fries are not good. They're not crispy enough. They're too greasy.
00:48:01.200
Um, they're undercooked much of the time. There, there, there are probably 10 different fast food
00:48:06.920
places that do better fries than, than a Chick-fil-A, but they got the chicken sandwich.
00:48:10.000
They do a good chicken sandwich and it is good. It's the best chicken sandwich on the market, but
00:48:13.720
you know, it, it's a chicken sandwich. And so it's just, it's, it's, it's, they don't have a diversity
00:48:19.000
in the menu, which is fine because this is what they do. But a really good chicken sandwich is not
00:48:24.580
going to be, it's not going to be better than, for instance, a really good hamburger. So I'm going
00:48:31.780
to take a place that does a really good hamburger because hamburgers are superior to chicken
00:48:36.200
sandwiches and they're going to be above Chick-fil-A. So that's why five guys, for example, is above
00:48:40.260
Chick-fil-A. Chipotle, if you, if you don't mind the, the E. coli every once in a while, Chipotle is
00:48:47.080
better than Chick-fil-A. Um, you know, Arby's, I got news for you, is better than Chick-fil-A.
00:48:53.440
Chick-fil-A is a top five place and they got great service. The fact that all the protests
00:49:00.860
and everything and the freak out by the left, that does make the stuff taste better. Okay. So when
00:49:06.100
you, when you, when you're eating the chicken sandwich and you're thinking about how it makes,
00:49:09.640
uh, uh, leftist cry, that does make it taste better, but still it doesn't quite put them over
00:49:15.200
the hump to get them into the top three. I'd say they're, you know, number four or five on the list.
00:49:19.320
Very solid. They're never going to get into that top three because
00:49:23.260
chicken sandwiches can only bring you so far in life, unfortunately. And, and listen,
00:49:28.540
chicken is just never going to be beef. Uh, it's always going to be chicken. And so
00:49:33.360
it's always going to be behind the places that excel in beef. And that's, look, these are facts.
00:49:40.260
Okay. I'm not, you, you, you, you can react however you want, but, but what I'm telling you,
00:49:49.940
All right. We'll leave it there. Thanks everybody for watching. Uh, have a great
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