Ep. 335 - Justin Trudeau Stars In Aladdin Remake
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Justin Trudeau dressed up as Aladdin in blackface for an Arabian Nights themed party in 2001. Did God have a hand in it? Or was it a divine intervention? And if so, what did He have to say about it?
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You know, I want to get serious here for a minute, if you don't mind, right at the start of the show.
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Over the last few days, especially during the email portion of the show at the end, we've been talking about the problem of suffering and the question of why would a good God allow all this pain and suffering in the world?
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And it's a very serious question and one that I've been grappling with.
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But, you know, sometimes in the midst of the darkness, there comes a ray of light, a beam of sunshine, a reminder that God is there and he does love us and he wants us to be happy.
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And that came last night, I think, in the form of Justin Trudeau in blackface.
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A lot of people are wondering, you know, who leaked these photos of the Canadian prime minister in blackface?
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Anyways, where did that come from? Is it really too much to speculate that maybe there was some divine intervention here?
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Is it is it am I overstating it if I say that maybe God has sent these photos to us?
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As a way of saying, listen, guys, things are getting pretty serious down there here.
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I don't know, because I will say this whole story makes me very happy.
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It is absolutely hilarious, you know, because the wokest white boy this side of the Atlantic has a long and sordid history of blackface.
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Everything about that is amazing and hilarious.
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Well, not really amazing, actually kind of expected, but certainly hilarious.
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And so we're going to talk about that and and we're going to talk about all the implications, spiritual and otherwise, of this story.
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All right. So let's get to this this this great story.
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Justin Trudeau, an insufferable, faux enlightened, faux liberal, faux progressive hack.
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Who loves nothing more than to flaunt his moral superiority over all of us, all of us mere mortals.
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Blackface has apparently a very nasty habit of dressing in blackface.
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Or as as the Daily Beast has put it in one of their headlines, face darkening makeup.
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You know, because they're not going to come out and say if it's a liberal, they're not going to say blackface face darkening makeup is what they're saying.
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Well, he's there's several incidents, at least now that we know of, of Justin Trudeau and blackface.
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Here he is in 2001 dressed as Aladdin for an Arabian Nights themed party.
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He could have done blue face and I don't think anyone would be upset.
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The Trudeau remake of Aladdin is at least better than Will Smith's remake of Aladdin.
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But still, I go with the original, the 90s version.
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And but if I'm going to dress up as a character from Aladdin, which I have done myself many times, but you know what I'm going to do is I'm going to dress like the magic carpet.
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And I'll tell you why, because there is nothing woker than a white man dressing like a rug to be literally stepped on.
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That is showing that as a white man, you know your place, which is on the floor, splayed out with people stepping on you.
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But, you know, the idea of dressing like Aladdin, like an Arab man, well, you know, I would never dream of it.
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But then again, I'm not racist like Trudeau apparently is.
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Here he is dressing up again in blackface, this time in high school, to perform the Jamaican song Deo.
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So we have cultural appropriation, first of all, singing this song, originally a Jamaican song.
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So we got cultural appropriation with the song.
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He has taken that lovely song, that upbeat, fun song, and turned it essentially into a clan ritual.
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And it doesn't end there because Trudeau is apparently addicted to blackface.
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Here's a third instance, a very grainy video obtained by Global News is, and this is allegedly, apparently, Trudeau in what appears to be blackface.
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Not sure the context there, but it doesn't matter.
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If there's one thing I've learned from the left, it's that context doesn't matter.
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So, as this controversy is swirling, Trudeau faced the media last night to explain himself, and here's what he had to say.
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In 2001, when I was a teacher out in Vancouver, I attended an end-of-year gala where the theme was Arabian Nights.
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And I dressed up in an Aladdin costume and put makeup on.
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I think there are people who've made mistakes in this life, and you make decisions based on what they actually do, what they did, and on a case-by-case basis, I think.
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Is that the only time you've done something like this, Mr. Trudeau?
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Is that the only time in your life you've ever done something like that?
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When I was in high school, I dressed up at a talent show and sang gay with makeup on.
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Because he was asked also if there are other incidents of him being racist.
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And here's what he had to say to that question.
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Mr. Trudeau, you've mentioned the incident in high school, and we just found out about the photo tonight.
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Do you want to tell Canadians about any other instances where you were concerned that you were racist, or that you had walkers around?
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The fact of the matter is that I've always, and you'll know this, been more enthusiastic about costumes than is sometimes appropriate.
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But these are the situations that I regret deeply.
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That is one of the funniest lines I've ever heard from a politician.
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Unintentionally funny, of course, but that is an all-time great line.
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I don't think you guys understand how great that line is.
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That is, I just like to see people try that in other contexts.
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Like, imagine a cop pulls somebody over, and they find meth in the car.
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And then the officer asks, are we going to find more drugs if we search your car?
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Well, well, officer, the fact of the matter is that I've always, and you'll know this, been more enthusiastic about chemistry than is sometimes appropriate.
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I think the end, you'll know this part of it, just really, I mean, that's just bon appetit.
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Adding that part in just made it all the better.
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But even better, maybe, than that was his refrain of, what was at the end?
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Yes, but these are the situations I regret deeply.
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Now, okay, let's talk about this situation on, yeah, it's hilarious.
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It's great, but let's talk about it on an objective level for a minute, all right?
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Objectively, is it automatically racist for a white person to darken their skin, to use face-darkening makeup, quote-unquote,
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for the sake of a costume party or Halloween or whatever, talent show, whatever?
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Is it automatically racist for a white person to be enthusiastic about costumes, as Trudeau puts it?
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Do I actually think that Justin Trudeau's a racist?
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I think he's a lot of things, many of them bad, including utterly incompetent as a leader, but no, I don't really think he's racist, no.
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The blackface used at minstrel shows, when you say blackface, originally that's what it meant, that sort of thing.
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Now, that kind of blackface was specifically meant to mock black people.
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It was meant to be a racially insulting thing, mocking black people, dehumanizing, making a caricature out of them.
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And so it was offensive, it was obviously racist.
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But, you know, a white person dressing up as a character or a famous figure of a different race and darkening their skin complexion in the process,
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I mean, it's meant to be, oftentimes in these contexts, it's meant to be a tribute.
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So Ralph Northam with the KKK and the black, now that, again, clearly that's extremely racist.
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But I would argue that that is a little different from even the Trudeau thing where he's wearing the blackface to be Aladdin.
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It's a lot of things, a lot of ways you could describe it.
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I seem to remember somebody making this exact argument not too long ago.
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But, yeah, well, let's go back and listen to this from about a year ago.
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There was a controversy on the Real Housewives of New York with Luann.
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And she made her skin look darker than it really is.
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I don't know how, like, that got racist on Halloween.
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Well, you just saw, she got fired for saying that.
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A much bigger outrage than what is happening right now to Trudeau or what happened to Northam.
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Okay, so Megyn Kelly simply talked about blackface.
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She offered a defense of it in certain contexts.
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Saying, look, if it's meant to be a tribute, it's not racist.
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She wasn't saying, I've done it myself or I would do it.
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Remember, that was like a two-week news cycle of people upset about that.
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And yet, Trudeau actually wears the makeup himself.
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Trudeau probably, for right now anyway, will still have his job.
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I don't think he's going to step down or resign or anything.
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And it goes back to what we talked about yesterday.
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Objectively, I think that this is not or shouldn't be much of a scandal.
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Because, personally, I don't give a crap what costume you wore 20 years ago.
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And, you know, as someone of Irish descent, if somebody, if there was a costume of someone
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dressing up like a drunken Irish leprechaun or something, it wouldn't bother me at all
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But at the same time, on the other hand, and here's the rub.
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Think about the argument that the left makes about Republicans who, for example, get caught
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in affairs, like Mark Sanford, or Republicans like Larry Craig, who end up being closeted homosexuals
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soliciting gay sex in a bathroom, like Larry Craig did.
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This is, from their perspective, this is what they say.
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Not really, you know, objectively, not really a scandal.
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If someone's gay, you know, objectively, not a problem.
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But, they'll say, these Republicans, their whole brand is family values, Christian values.
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They're the ones who go around talking about that stuff all the time.
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They're the ones who, from their perspective, throw it in your face, so on and so forth,
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So, it's a scandal for them because of the hypocrisy.
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And I think the same kind of thing applies in the other direction with this blackface stuff,
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or any other example of racial insensitivity among liberals.
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Their political brand, Justin Trudeau's political brand, is all about being progressive.
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It's all about being racially enlightened, et cetera.
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Their whole MO is to go around accusing everyone else of being racist for the slightest little thing.
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Just like, again, the liberals would say, an affair from a socially conservative Christian or, you know,
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turns out that he's gay or whatever, that is a hypocrisy scandal.
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Well, I would say the same, it's the same thing here.
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Again, personally, I don't give a damn what costume anyone wore 20 years ago.
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But, my lord, the audacity, the sheer audacity to go around screaming racist at everything that moves
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while you know you have this in your background, that's what gets me.
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And that's why Trudeau deserves to be pilloried over this.
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You know, and that's why I think I could say, look, if there was some,
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if you take someone who is not in the habit of calling everybody racist and takes a more reasoned
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approach on those sorts of things, and then it turns out that they, 20 years ago, were wearing
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a blackface costume, I would say in the case of that person, politics aside, no matter what
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political party they're affiliated with, who cares?
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If they're the ones out there saying, look, people do insensitive things sometimes, and
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let's not try, if that's the argument they make, then it seems perfectly fair to apply
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that argument to them and say, not much of a scandal.
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But if you've got someone who is constantly trying to whip the outrage mob up against others
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and calling everything racist, well, then I think you've got an issue of hypocrisy.
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We talked about this yesterday in regards to a different, it was a New York Times editor
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who in the past had sent racially insensitive tweets, racist tweets.
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According to the left, they would normally call them racist tweets.
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And this is someone, New York Times, liberal, this is someone who had been retweeting things
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in agreement with getting rid of the SNL guy because of the comments he made about Asians.
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So she was participating in cancel culture, and it turns out that she's done similar things
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And there is, the argument among conservatives now these days is, well, what do we do?
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Because we usually argue that cancel culture is BS, and to try to dig up dirt on people,
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hold things, freak out about jokes or things they said a long time ago to try to throw that
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But do we put that to the side, though, when the liberals in the crosshairs and say, you
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know what, fine, give them a taste of their own medicine?
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Now, the argument I made yesterday is we have to have a consistent standard.
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And so if we have an argument against cancel culture, and if we're the ones saying, you
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know, let's be reasonable, someone said something or did something offensive a long time ago,
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that doesn't mean we need to destroy their life now.
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If that's our argument, we can't all of a sudden put that to the side when it concerns
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But maybe this is how we thread the needle, where we simply say, you know, with these
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The left is the one, they're the ones who say this is a big deal.
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And so you should have to live up to your own standards.
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So I think that's what we would say to Justin Trudeau, that these are your standards.
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By your standards, that stuff is extremely racist and unforgivable.
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So you should live up to your own standards, not ours, yours.
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The right thing for you to do by your own standards will be to resign in disgrace.
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And live the rest of your life in, you know, begging for repentance, because that's what
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I think everybody has to live by the standards that they set for other people.
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And I don't think it's a double standard for us to simply point that out.
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What would be a double standard, though, is if we pretended all of a sudden that we actually
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thought this was a big deal ourselves and that it's automatically racist and all that.
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All jokes aside, I know I said it at the beginning, but all jokes aside, that's not what I'm saying.
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The media this week is is trumpeting a study that makes a rather shocking claim.
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The claim is maybe you've seen this study floating around or articles about it.
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The claim is that one in every 16 women say that their first sexual experience was rape.
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Now, one in every 16 women between the ages of 18 and 44 say that their first time, you
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know, they had a sexual experience, it was rape.
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NPR wrote did a write up on this, and they say that this is just the quote, the tip of the
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That in fact, the one in 16 figure, which is over 6 percent of all women between the ages
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of 18 and 44, that could even be an underestimate, we're assured.
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Now, news reports of this study have, of course, tried to tie these revelations to the Me Too
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movement and were meant to come away with the impression that America's chock full of rapists
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and millions upon millions of women have fallen victim to the millions upon millions of predators
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That's the impression we're supposed to take away.
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But you take a closer look at the data, and every time you see these these kinds of really
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shocking, seemingly incredible statistics, especially around issues like sexual assault
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and rape and everything, you got to take a closer look because, you know, there's no
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reason to artificially inflate rape statistics.
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Already, it's far too common enough as it is already.
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However, whatever the numbers are, however common it is, whatever the real percentage
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It's the same thing that the left does with mass shootings.
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I would be the first to say, I think everyone would agree that mass shootings are too common.
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You don't need to go and try to inflate it and say there are 200 mass shootings a year
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There's maybe, I don't know, there's these days, it seems like there's five, six, seven
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Maybe more than that, but still, they feel the need to go and inflate the statistics,
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and that's what they do with rape and sexual assault.
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Now, here's the key portion of the NPR report about this study.
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It says about 6.5% of women, an estimated 3.3 million nationwide, said that their
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The average age of most victims was about 15 when they were assaulted.
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The average age of their partner or the assailant was 27, Hawks notes.
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Hawks is the primary author of this study that's being quoted.
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This suggests a major power discrepancy and possibly a difference in physical size as well.
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She says more than 26% said they were physically threatened during the encounter.
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Over half, 56% of them, said they were verbally pressured into having sex.
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And 16% said that their partner threatened to end the relationship if they didn't have sex.
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These forms of coercion were not mutually exclusive.
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The definition of rape is, this is Hawks now again, she says,
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the definition of rape is any sexual encounter that's unwanted or non-consensual.
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And when a woman or girl is coerced into having sex that she doesn't want to have,
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Now, there's quite a lot going on in these few paragraphs.
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First of all, NPR misquotes the study's findings.
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They say the average age of most, quote-unquote, victims was actually,
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Well, actually, the study says the average age of most victims was 15 and a half, 15.6.
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And the average age of the assailant, quote-unquote, was six years older.
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More to the point, verbal pressure has been lumped together with physical force.
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Dr. Hawks says any sexual encounter that's unwanted or non-consensual is rape.
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Now, the or in the phrase unwanted or non-consensual makes it clear
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that the sexual act could be in every sense consensual,
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meaning both partners actively, affirmatively agree to participate in it.
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It's what's happening, you know, this is what we hear from feminists.
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And what they hope you do is you just, you just, you, you, you, you allow them to conflate
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Unwanted and non-consensual are two completely different things.
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Now, it's true that if something is non-consensual, it's, it's, it's probably not unwanted, but
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just because it's unwanted doesn't mean it's non-consensual.
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Now, traditionally, uh, uh, traditionally, I guess we have to say traditionally now,
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rape is something that hinges entirely on consent.
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The department, the department of justice defines rape this way.
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The penetrate, the penetration, no matter how slight of the vagina or anus with any body
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part or object or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person without the consent
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I don't mean to get graphic there, but I think it's important to establish that this
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is what, uh, this is what, you know, the federal government considers rape to be.
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And it is important that we keep these distinctions in mind.
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Now, of course, we understand that verbal consent is not always legitimate consent.
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So just because some, there is a verbal agreement, yes, I will do this.
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That doesn't mean that it's really consent because somebody could be incapable of offering
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That's why, you know, um, that's what state, that's what statutory rape is all about.
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Um, uh, a, a minor, a child is not capable of consenting no matter, no matter what they say,
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not capable of offering full consent because they lack the psychological and emotional faculties
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Um, and for a similar reason, you can't get consent from a woman by drugging them, by slipping
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a roofie or whatever, uh, that is non-consensual because you have drugged them.
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You have removed their ability to, to, to knowingly and, and, and, uh, with full understanding
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consent to, to do, uh, whatever, whatever it is.
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That's one of the reasons why unwanted cannot enter into the definition of rape because rapists
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themselves could try to use this and sometimes do try to use it as an excuse, as a defense
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And we say, no way, because the only question we need to ask is this, did you have sex with
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Um, now that doesn't mean, so here's, here's, here's the problem, the issue.
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Um, there are many different sort of categories of sex.
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The problem on, uh, in our culture now is that what we want to say is the only kind of
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We only allow for two moral categories of, of sexes, you know, non-consensual equals immoral
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Now we can all agree that non-consensual does equal immoral.
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But what I would argue is that there are forms, there are forms of consensual sex that are
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And so we don't have the language anymore to condemn some forms of immoral sex.
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So instead we try to find a way to say, oh no, that's actually not consensual or, or, or
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So for example, they, they use the example of, um, of, uh, a man who pressures a woman
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to have sex by threatening to end the relationship.
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Because the woman, if she, if she is a mentally competent adult, she can make her own choice.
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If she's being forced either physically or through a physical threat of some kind, then
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Um, but if the man is just trying to emotionally, you know, say, I'm going to, and there's no force
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And if she chooses to do it, she could terminate the act at any time.
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She could walk out of there at any time and she should walk out.
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Her situation, however unpleasant it may be, cannot be compared to a woman who is physically
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But what I would say about that second woman who has a choice, but it's being pressured.
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It is immoral though, because the man is not respecting her.
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And this is a, this is too, this is selfish on his part.
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So there are a lot of things, ways we could describe it and say it's immoral.
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But again, the problem is in our culture, we don't have the language anymore to call consensual
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forms of sex immoral because we say, as long as there's two consenting adults, it's all
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And then when we come across these kinds of consensual sexual activities that are clearly
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still immoral, since we don't have the language, we say, oh, okay, there must be some way in
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which it's actually not consensual, even though it is.
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Um, and this, this new definition of rape though, it doesn't just make everyday jerks
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It would turn any man who has ever used any form of persuasion, flattery, sweet talk, whatever
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I mean, arguably any, any man who's ever hit on a woman is now a rapist because that's a
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Um, in all of those cases, it could be argued that the woman didn't really want to, wasn't
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Any wife that has ever had begrudging or unenthusiastic sex with her husband, not because she was forced,
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but just because she doesn't want to, he wants to, so she doesn't.
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According to Dr. Hawks and this study and much of the media, she's now a sexual assault
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Now, I think Dr. Hawks is right that by this definition, the actual percentage of quote unquote
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Um, and that's sort of the point, you know, because what we're, what they're really telling
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us is no, you know, 6% of right now, the actual percentage is 95 or something.
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They, they are turning pretty much every woman who has been in a sexual relationship into
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Now, to make matters worse, the standard is inconsistently applied because if a man who
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convinces a woman to have sex is a rapist, what about a woman who seduces a man?
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And in fact, I think feminists would, would not deny that, right?
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Women are, are, are empowered, independent and, and, and, you know, they, they have their
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And, uh, and, and so sometimes they, they want to have sex with a man.
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It's not just always the man initiating it, right?
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Isn't this, isn't that what feminists would, would agree with?
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So what about a woman who takes charge of the situation?
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She finds a man that she desires and, um, and, and does her own form of convincing.
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What about men who, who weren't as into it as the woman that, that, that does happen.
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What about a man who wakes up the next day and regrets it?
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Despite what we're told that this is not just a, a, a woman, a phenomenon that women experience.
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Um, aren't, so should they all be rape victims?
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What about, what about, uh, strippers who are coaxing money out of men's pockets now?
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I mean, isn't any woman who uses emotional pressure, pressure of any kind to extract any
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concession or compromise out of a man now, now essentially guilty of assault.
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Now it's true that men can be manipulative and getting what they want out of a relationship.
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It's also true that what a man wants out of a relationship oftentimes is sex.
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That's a reality of, of, of men, but women, uh, to put it mildly here.
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Um, women have been known to employ their own forms of manipulation, particularly emotional
00:36:03.240
manipulation to achieve their own ends in relationships.
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Coercion, pressure, manipulation is far from a one-way street.
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As anyone familiar with male female relationships knows now, and this is all to say nothing of
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pressure and coercion in other contexts by this standard, isn't any effective salesman who
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convinces, um, convinces somebody to, to, to buy something they don't really want.
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What about a homeless person who, who, who's, who's, who guilt trips people out of, out of,
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Isn't persuasion of all kinds in all contexts problematic at best and violent assault at worst?
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See, this is what happens when coherent definitions are broadened into these ambiguous, incoherent,
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So rape went from the definition that the department of defense provides or the department of justice,
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uh, you know, very specific, um, uh, very clear thing.
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It went from that to this broad sort of concept that just, that just stretches and covers almost
00:37:45.400
And there are many problems that come from that.
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Uh, one of them is, and this is a, not a small problem, is that the real victims, the real
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rape victims of which there are many are left high and dry because they have been lumped in
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with all of this stuff and they get lost in the shuffle and they're being told that their
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experience of being physically forced, of being physically by force violated, that awful,
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They're being told is equal to a woman who has begrudging sex with her husband.
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Um, one other thing to mention before we get to emails.
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Uh, so NBC now, if you go to their website, you'll have an opportunity to confess your sins,
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Uh, NBC has a place for you to go and, uh, uh, to anonymously confess your climate sins.
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So remember yesterday we talked about that seminary, the union theological seminary in
00:39:17.040
New York, where people were confessing their sins to plants, sitting there literally talking
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Now, now you have a, uh, an opportunity to confess to a website about what you've done
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So if it's too awkward for you to confess to plants about what you've done to plants, then
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you could always go to the website and anonymously confess it.
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It says climate confessions, even those who care deeply about the planet's future can slip
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up now and then tell us where do you fall short in preventing climate change?
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Do you blast the AC, throw out half your lunch, grill a steak every week, share your
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I did, um, it's very, it's difficult for me to talk about.
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Um, I said, you know, I slaughtered a whole family of polar bears and then left my fridge
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One of those sort of everyday slip ups where you say, oh man, I'm such a bonehead.
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I've been carrying this moral burden of, of, of, of a sin on my shoulders for so long.
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But I, and I would encourage everyone really to go to NBC news and, um, offer your own
00:40:51.560
It feels so much better to be relieved of that burden.
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This is from Josiah says, greetings, supremely bearded, glorious one.
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Whilst I greatly enjoy your show, I must run the risk of, uh, of, uh, uh, bringing on
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Every show you say, be sure to check out the other Daily Wire podcasts, including the,
00:41:21.600
the Ben, the Ben Shapiro show, the Michael Knowles show, and the Andrew Klavan show.
00:41:24.780
It makes absolutely no sense to say, including when you name all the shows will be like Anderson
00:41:29.920
Cooper telling you to check out the other Democrat candidates, including, and then proceed
00:41:34.800
I bet you, um, I beg you to drop the including from all future shows and the future and the world
00:41:47.300
Is there any more criticizing you want to do, Josiah?
00:41:54.100
Is there any more abuse you want to heap on me?
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No, actually, I think including, you can say including and then list all of the things.
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Uh, for example, if I were to go to McDonald's and say, what's included in the number one
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And I'm asking them, what are all of the things in the value meal?
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And so they're going to say Big Mac fries and a soda.
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If I said, what's included in the number one value meal?
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And they said, uh, Big Mac and some other stuff.
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I would say, no, I said, what's included in it?
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So, Josiah, not only are you a bully, but you're wrong.
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From Simon says, Arby's, Arby's tastes better than Chick-fil-A.
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How can I ever believe a thing that comes out of your mouth again?
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I got so many emails because I said that Arby's is better than Chick-fil-A.
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Now, all these people who have sent me emails, again, bullying me because of what I said about
00:42:59.020
Arby's, none of them have even tried to present an argument.
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Don't just sit there and say, oh, no, Chick-fil-A is better than Arby's.
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I said very clearly that a chicken sandwich is good, but the ceiling on a chicken sandwich
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is lower than the ceiling on a burger or a roast beef.
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Yes, the restaurants that serve beef dishes, beef sandwiches, they have an advantage because
00:44:05.600
You take a good roast beef sandwich and a good chicken sandwich.
00:44:16.700
If I go to Arby's and I get a roast beef sandwich with barbecue sauce and an onion ring on it and
00:44:23.960
I get the curly fries, okay, and I get a large soda, enough to give me a heart attack right
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You're going to tell me that that's not better than a chicken sandwich?
00:44:40.580
Finally, from John says, Matt, with Eli Manning getting benched, what are your thoughts on whether he belongs in the Hall of Fame?
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Eli Manning, quarterback of the New York Giants.
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I think, first of all, if he did not have the last name Manning, I don't think we'd even be talking about it.
00:45:08.180
I think, no, he doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame.
00:45:15.680
Now, those are two different questions, two different answers.
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He'll get into the Hall of Fame because he has the last name Manning.
00:45:21.020
And because the Hall of Fame is sort of bogus now, it's become more of the Hall of Pretty Good.
00:45:27.380
So any player who plays for a long time and is pretty good gets it into the Hall of Fame.
00:45:31.620
And so the Hall of Fame is almost meaningless now.
00:45:33.980
What the Hall of Fame is supposed to be is a place to commemorate and remember and honor the all-time great talents.
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Those are the people who are supposed to make it into the Hall of Fame.
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Whether you're looking at his QBR, you're looking at career completion percentage, career yards, TD versus INT ratio.
00:46:21.400
The only thing he's got going, he's got Manning and he's got two Super Bowl rings.
00:46:26.100
But Super Bowl ring, look, a Super Bowl ring, Trent Dilfer has a Super Bowl ring.
00:46:34.540
Quarterbacks don't win Super Bowls by themselves.
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So Eli Manning, yeah, he won a couple of Super Bowls.
00:46:53.260
To beat Tom Brady in the Super Bowl, the first thing that needs to happen is the defense needs to slow down Tom Brady.
00:47:00.940
If they've done that, that's already more than half of the job done without the quarterback even throwing a single pass.
00:47:07.060
So I don't think on the strength of that he makes, he should make it to the Hall of Fame.
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You have to look at his individual stats and they are pedestrian.
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So Eli Manning has, for most of his career, been pretty decent.
00:47:29.240
And then for the last few years, he's been really, really bad.
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And I just think that trajectory does not justify the Hall of Fame.
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If it did again, Joe Flacco should be in the Hall of Fame.
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Joe Flacco has been, you know, for much of his career, he's been okay.
00:47:47.000
Maybe the best postseason run statistically of any quarterback ever.
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That's how he got paid $120 million at the end of that season.
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If Eli Manning makes it in, Joe Flacco makes it in.
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Open the doors and let everybody in the Hall of Fame.
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