00:00:00.000Well, I hope you had a great weekend. I know that I did because I am emotionally dysfunctional and codependent. And that means that my mood is determined by the fate of my favorite football team, which is really strange when you think about it and kind of sad and pathetic. But the Ravens dominated yet again yesterday, so I'm feeling pretty good. In fact, I'm feeling even better because I get to spend the first part of this show discussing a football-related topic, which I always enjoy.
00:00:27.480And that's the one thing that I will thank Colin Kaepernick for is that he gives me an excuse every once in a while to talk about football in the show. So I do like that. Yes, Kaepernick over the weekend exposed who he has been all along, who I think he has plainly been all along, which is that he is a con man. He's not interested in playing football. He's interested in PR stunts. This shouldn't be news to anyone, but I think maybe it is. And so we'll get into that. We'll talk about it.
00:00:57.480Along with several other topics, including speaking of people being exposed, Prince Andrew was interviewed by the BBC in regards to rape allegations against him and in regards to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein, who, by the way, didn't kill himself.
00:01:12.600And Prince Andrew offers what I honestly think is the worst alibi I have ever heard in my life. And I'm not exaggerating. It's not hyperbole. I think it really is the worst alibi anyone has ever given for anything.
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00:02:53.900Okay. Colin Kaepernick, the former mediocre NFL quarterback who coincidentally discovered a passion for social justice once his star had faded already after an abysmal 2015 campaign with the 49ers when he lost six of the eight games that he started and posted only six touchdowns against five interceptions.
00:03:18.440That Colin Kaepernick was scheduled to work out for 25 teams this past Saturday.
00:03:24.880And I think the circumstances of this workout are unusual and worth reflecting on here for a moment.
00:03:33.120Kaepernick, of course, has been out of the league since 2016.
00:03:36.480That's the same year that he began his infamous anthem protest.
00:03:39.740But I think more salient to his three years of unemployment is the fact that not that he had the anthem protest in 2016, but that he went one in 10 that season, posting only about 2,000, 2,241 yards, passing 16 touchdowns before getting benched for Blaine Gabbert.
00:03:58.780And if you don't follow football, let me just tell you that getting benched for Blaine Gabbert is the NFL equivalent of your dance troupe replacing you with Sean Spicer.
00:04:08.280It really doesn't get any more humiliating than that.
00:04:11.540Kaepernick, though, as he's been unemployed, has done pretty well for himself during his period of joblessness, better than most people do when they're out of work for three years.
00:04:19.480He's signed a multimillion-dollar ad deal with Nike, and he's been hailed across the media as a civil rights martyr.
00:04:27.900So not a bad side gig while you're out of work.
00:04:32.000But the point here is that he'd fallen out of his short-lived prime well before his anthem antics started.
00:04:42.460And you might even say that that's not a coincidence.
00:04:45.760In fact, that's the reason why he started with the anthem antics then and not before.
00:04:52.900So he'd fallen out of his prime, and then he spends three years shooting Nike ads instead of playing football.
00:17:21.180But nonetheless, he is a washed-up, second-string quarterback who, in the very best-case scenario,
00:17:28.620if he's able to reach the meager heights from which he fell in 2016, maybe could get you
00:17:35.3202,000 yards and a dozen or so touchdowns at best.
00:17:41.100Now, most backups in the league can get you that or better.
00:17:46.500And the thing is, none of them are going to bring the media circus along with them.
00:17:52.300None of them will threaten to turn your fan base against you.
00:17:56.180None of them have the potential to rip your locker room into pieces the way that Kaepernick does.
00:18:03.040And none of them are likely to call you a racist if you have to cut them, which eventually you will.
00:18:07.940All backup quarterbacks basically inevitably get cut or retire.
00:18:12.180So Kaepernick's production, even in the best-case possible scenario, could not possibly come close to compensating for the massive downside.
00:18:24.400I'm not sure that even Tom Brady in his prime could compensate for a downside as steep as Kaep's.
00:18:32.200And Kaepernick is no Tom Brady, to say the least.
00:18:35.720This is not everyone talking about it's a conspiracy by the league.
00:19:03.960And he wasn't a team player even back when he was in the league.
00:19:09.920And you just absolutely know that if you cut him or if you bench him when he thinks he should be playing, he's going to start accusing you of racism and all this stuff.
00:19:20.020Why would you ever bring that on yourself?
00:20:18.140And you bring Tebow in, and you're going to have all, you know, now all of a sudden half of the fans are going to be chanting for him to go on the field,
00:20:24.680even if the starting quarterback is better than him.
00:24:05.900I mean, I've gone through this in my mind so many times.
00:24:09.240At the end of the day, with the benefit of all the hindsight that one could have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do.
00:24:20.780But at the time, I felt it was the honorable and right thing to do.
00:24:25.660And I admit fully that my judgment was probably colored by my tendency to be too honorable, but that's just the way it is.
00:24:40.560Yes, he stayed with a convicted pedophile at a convicted pedophile's house because he's too honorable.
00:24:50.420I mean, this would be a terrible answer in a job interview when they ask you, what are your weaknesses, your greatest weakness, that question.
00:24:56.860Now, my answer to that used to be the classic of, well, I work too hard.
00:25:01.620You know, sometimes I forget to stop and smell the roses.
00:26:10.760And that was actually, yes, I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War when I was shot at.
00:26:22.940And I simply, it was almost impossible for me to sweat.
00:26:29.860And it's only because I have done a number of things in the recent past that I'm starting to be able to do that again.
00:26:37.660So I'm afraid to say that there's a medical condition that says that I didn't do it.
00:29:43.000But then on the other end of that extreme, there's the mistake of thinking that everything that is a tradition should just be preserved simply because it's a tradition.
00:29:53.400Even if it no longer serves the purpose it once served, even if it's now extremely counterproductive, even if it's, you know, even if it's sort of devoid of all the meaning it once held, just preserve traditions at all costs simply because they're traditions.
00:30:07.800And, you know, if people a long time ago did something and they can continue doing it, then we should keep doing that same thing just because those people did it.
00:30:16.060I think that's also the wrong approach.
00:32:54.480Now, I did have there's this speaking of disturbing and creepy, there's this legitimately disturbing and creepy Sprite ad.
00:33:04.280Where Sprite is trying to because this is what this is what companies do now with their advertisements, trying to push delusion and confusion onto kids and onto the culture.
00:33:18.460But I think I'm going to save this discussion because it deserves a longer discussion, I think not at the very end of the show.
00:33:24.340So I'm going to save that for tomorrow.
00:34:09.600I, so the only thing that could make it more obvious, and maybe she's already done this, but if she's given you ring sizes, when you get to the, to her bringing up her ring size casually.
00:34:23.980Hey, by the way, just, just so you know, my, my, I'm a, my ring is a size seven.
00:34:27.880Um, in case you were wondering, uh, is that how ring sizes work?
00:34:36.680Anyway, that's the only thing that when, when she does that, that's the equivalent of, you know, one of those banners that the, that a helicopter flies across the beach.
00:34:45.540When you're at the beach and there's a big helicopter advertising a deal at the car dealership or something.
00:36:24.960You know, if you're going to, I don't know how she prepared the green beans, but if you want to season green beans, the classic salt and pepper will do just fine.
00:36:36.820You want to throw a little bit of garlic powder, some Parmesan on there.
00:36:39.640I'm not going to have a problem with that ketchup.
00:36:43.220There's no place for ketchup on green beans.
00:36:44.940There's no place for ketchup period on any dish.
00:36:47.800Because as I said, if you're putting ketchup on your fries, it means your, your fries were poorly seasoned.
00:36:55.840If you're putting ketchup on your hamburger, uh, it means that, uh, it means that number one, the hamburger was poorly cooked and poorly seasoned.
00:37:05.900And also, apparently you don't have access to any of the other sauces or condiments that would be acceptable on a hamburger.
00:37:12.920If you want to go mayonnaise, that's fine.
00:37:39.620I have enjoyed reading your insightful commentary and wit for several years and was pleased to hear that you joined the Daily Wire team.
00:37:44.340Your podcasts are a highlight of my weekly listening experience.
00:37:48.320And while I generally concur with most of your opinions, I have on occasion disagreed, such as with your take on internal household temperatures, but hadn't felt the need to write.
00:37:55.200After laughing at your incredulity concerning chili and cinnamon rolls, however, I thought it important to educate you on the culinary virtue of such a combination.
00:38:04.320I'm a Missouri girl and had never had chili with anything other than crackers.
00:38:07.760My husband, who hails from Kansas, grew up with chili and cinnamon rolls, served in school back when school kitchen ladies actually cooked good homemade food.
00:38:16.060Well, apparently not, Suzanne, if they're serving cinnamon rolls and chili.
00:38:20.600Eventually, I learned to make exceptional cinnamon rolls, which I baked several times a year and always when I make chili.
00:38:25.900As we say in our household, it's against the law to serve chili without cinnamon rolls.
00:38:28.960That's the exact, I think the truth is the exact opposite of that, actually.
00:38:34.680And we've converted several guests to this belief as well.
00:38:37.720They are simply a complementary combination of savory and sweet, like peanut butter and jelly, sea salt and caramel, or popcorn and candy.
00:38:43.880The biggest difference is one bite typically wouldn't contain both, except by those who are extremely adventurous.
00:38:48.580Depending on preference, they can either be eaten by alternating bites, as one would eat a piece of garlic toast with an Italian dish,
00:38:55.560or most popularly, by eating the savory chili as the meal and finishing with the sweet rolls as dessert.
00:39:03.000This brings a hearty cold-weather meal to a satisfying close and agreed upon by more than Midwesterners.
00:39:08.460I don't know what else to say on this.
00:39:14.460I've already just, I've already communicated my disgust, my moral outrage about chili with cinnamon rolls.
00:39:24.260And I've gotten so many emails from people defending this abomination before God.
00:39:29.440And I also want to make it clear, because a lot of these emails are making straw men of my position.
00:39:34.620There have been a lot of emails defending cinnamon rolls in principle.
00:39:38.460I don't have any issue with cinnamon rolls.