Ep. 415 - The Staff Of Color
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Summary
Mayor Pete Buttigiegiegieg is a man who is trying to cultivate a brand as inclusive, tolerant, reasonable, and yet also the wokest one of the bunch. He wants to be all of those things, but in the end, those things don t really go together. And in a similar way, he's trying to be nice and relatable, even while he is clearly simmering with rage and disgust towards those people who don't think like him.
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Welcome to the show, everybody. Friends, neighbors, fellow countrymen. We begin today with the esteemed
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mayor, Pete Buttigieg. It's interesting to watch Buttigieg because you see a man who is trying to
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cultivate a brand as this inclusive, tolerant, reasonable candidate, and yet also the wokest
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one of the bunch. He wants to be all of those things, and those things don't really go together
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in the end. And in a similar way, he's trying to be seen as nice and relatable, even while he is
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clearly simmering with rage and disgust towards those people who don't think like him. And so
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there's this constant tension with this guy that you can sense and you can see it and hear it by
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listening to him speak for five seconds. It's so obvious. Here's a great example, and this isn't
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the one that I want to focus on today. But this just happened a few days ago, so it's worth
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mentioning. Buttigieg did a town hall on Saturday, and during the town hall, he was asked by a pro-life
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Democrat. There are still some of those left, apparently, whether he thinks that she, a pro-life
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Democrat woman, should be welcome and included in his party. And here's how that went.
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We have a question now from Kristen Day about abortion. Kristen.
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Well, I am a proud pro-life Democrat. So do you want the support of pro-life Democrats,
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pro-life Democratic voters? There are about 21 million of us. And if so, would you support more
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moderate platform language in the Democratic Party to ensure that the party of diversity and inclusion
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Well, I respect where you're coming from, and I hope to earn your vote, but I'm not going to try
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to earn your vote by tricking you. I am pro-choice, and I believe that a woman ought to be able to make
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that decision. But I know that the difference of opinion that you and I have is one that we have
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come by honestly. And the best that I can offer, and it may win your vote, and if not, I understand.
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The best I can offer is that if we can't agree on where to draw the line, the next best thing we can
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do is agree on who should draw the line. And in my view, it's the woman who's faced with that decision
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So you notice there, he never said, yes, of course you're welcome. And there was a follow-up too,
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because he dodged the question basically, and he was asked again directly, do you think the
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Democrat Party should add language to its platform saying that pro-life Democrats are welcome? And he
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refused to say that, yes, I think they should be welcome. Point being, no, you're not welcome.
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You are not welcome. That was his message. He, a man, to this pro-life woman said, you are not
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welcome. Which is true. It reveals something about himself, but it's also true that pro-life people
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absolutely are not welcome in the Democrat Party. So what I would say to that woman and to any other
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lingering pro-lifers in the Democrat Party, you are definitely unwelcome, if you didn't get the hint yet.
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And you've been unwelcome in that party for decades now. So I would go and make other arrangements.
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I'm not saying go become a Republican. I don't care what you are, but the Democrat Party, it doesn't
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work with your pro-life ethics. So, but he had, but, you know, so his message is you're not welcome,
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but he said it with a smile on his face. And so it's okay, I guess. Now this dynamic of Buttigieg being
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angry and spiteful and exclusionary, even while trying to cultivate the opposite kind of brand and
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image, is even more apparent on issues of race. And so I want to talk about that. There's, he did
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something. He sent out a memo that is, it's quite easily one of the most racist things we've seen an
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spiteful and exclusionary Mayor Pete. Case in point, the Buttigieg campaign sent around a survey to their
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staff a few days ago. And Reid Epstein, reporter for the New York Times, has more information about this
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survey. So I want you to take a look at this. Here's the screenshot of his tweet about it.
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Epstein reports, Buttigieg staffers circulated a survey of microaggressions on the campaign.
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Please only fill out this survey if you identify as a person of color, it reads. Answers, quote,
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will be used to inform our white colleagues about privilege and microaggressions. And then you can see
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the actual survey there. Not sure if it's too small to read. It says, you know, yes, please only fill out
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the survey if you identify as a person of color, so on and so forth. And then it says,
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in the workplace, have you ever experienced the following from a white colleague? Been interrupted
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slash talked over? Left off a relevant email chain? Not invited to a meeting directly related to your job?
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Idea was ignored slash dismissed without explanation? Someone else taking credit for your idea or insight,
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even accidentally? Been called the name of a different staff member of color? All of the above or other.
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So you can fill in your complaints if they weren't included on the checklist. And then there's a next
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part where it's sort of more essay type questions where you can elaborate. It says, what does good
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allyship look like to you? What does good allyship feel like? What does bad allyship look like to you?
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What does bad allyship feel like? What does allyship in the workplace look like to you? What
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does it feel like? This is starting to feel a little bit redundant. Think of a moment or moments
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during which you experienced microaggressions. Without naming names of the people, can you name
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the microaggression? Describe those moments. What was the physical environment like? If it happened in
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in the ether, for example, in Slack, email, or text, identify that. Were there witnesses to it? And
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if so, do you think they recognized it? You know, microaggressions in the ether, you've got to look
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out for that. That's really the main place. If you're in the ether, I spent a lot of time in the
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ether, right? And that's where the microaggressions really come on pretty hard. Okay. There's so much
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going on here. I don't even know where to begin, but I'll, first of all, notice the word identify
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there. Identify as a person of color. What does that mean? Well, we know what it means. Anytime
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somebody on the left uses the identify as qualifier, what is meant is anyone who is this or anyone who
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has delusions of being this. So Buttigieg is leaving the door open for the Rachel Dolezals of the world.
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He's saying that even our race is subject to feelings and we can change our race based on how
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we feel, which if we can do that with sex, of course we can do it with race. Making race fluid and
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subjective is much less extreme than making sex fluid and subjective. Because in fact, race is in a
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way a fluid thing. Now it's not so fluid that you can decide 32 years into your life that you want
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to be a different race. It's not that fluid, but there is an actual spectrum of race and ethnicity,
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whereas there isn't one with sex. So if you're going to do it with sex, then of course you can do it with
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race. And it's not a surprise then that the left is doing this, but I do want to point out that they
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are doing it. They are now officially making even race and identify as sort of thing.
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And then also just the phrase person of color, I have to say, and I know that Buttigieg didn't
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invent this phrase himself. He's dutifully using the phrase because it is the politically correct
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phrase of the moment. It'll change five years from now or two years from now or six months from now,
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it'll be a different phrase. And all of a sudden, if you use that phrase, you're a racist. But right now,
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this is the phrase to use. But it's sort of a nonsensical phrase because it includes everybody,
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person of color, Caucasians, contrary to popular belief. We are not colorless, translucent monstrosities.
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I know that I personally, as a white person of Irish ancestry, I may get close to that,
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but I'm not actually that. We do have color on our skins. And it's not even like we have less color.
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That doesn't make any sense. It's not less color. It's not even a different color. It's just a
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different shade of brown. That's what we all are. We're all different shades of brown.
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So once again, the politically correct term actually causes more division and more segregation,
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which, in fact, is what it's intended to do. Because it sets up this dichotomy of people with
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color and people without color, even though that category doesn't exist. Imagine what you would
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think. Okay. What would you picture if you were a space alien in another galaxy and you were eavesdropping
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on our radio transmissions. And you kept hearing about people of color who exist on earth as opposed
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to other earthlings who apparently have no color. So you would imagine that there must be on earth
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this group of earthlings who are like ghostly apparitions wandering the countryside, no color,
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like walking jellyfish, almost entirely see-through. That's what you imagine. That's the image you would
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have in your head. Anyway, then you get to the actual survey, a survey about how his staff feels,
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a survey about their fragile emotional states. But he clarifies at the outset, if you're white,
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I don't give a damn. I don't want to hear about it. I don't care about your experiences.
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How is this not racist as hell? I mean, how is it even legal? Forget about ethical. How is it given
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all the laws governing these sorts of things? Is it actually legal for an employer to send out a survey
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asking his employees, have you ever had problems with people of this particular race? Think about that
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for a second. Just think about what's going on here. This is what he asked. He starts out,
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if you're this race, I don't want to hear from you. Shut up. Okay, people of the other race over
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here, have you had any trouble with these folks, with these people? How is that, again, is it even
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legal to do that? It feels like it's probably not. Imagine, imagine this survey, but with black
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colleague instead of white. Imagine a survey that begins with, this is a survey for white people.
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If you're black, please, we don't want you to fill it out. And then it begins with, to any white
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people, have you had any problems with your black colleagues? Here's a list of problems you might have
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had with them. Imagine a survey like that. Imagine the reaction. It's literally unimaginable because
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it would never happen. But think about it just for a second. Think about the reaction in our culture
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to something like that. If they're a Republican, and you could say, well, Buttigieg is white, so it's
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okay. Okay, well, fine. Imagine a black Republican sending a survey like that about his black employees
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to his white, I mean, it's, it's the, it would be a, an explosion of outrage, unlike anything we've seen
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in recent years. But somehow it's supposed to be okay in the reverse. Somehow. This kind of grotesque,
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explicit racism is supposed to, for some reason, somehow be okay.
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No one can explain that. There's this, there's this constant double standard with racial issues.
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No one can explain the double standard or justify it. There is no justification. It's obviously a
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hypocritical double standard. But the answer is, well, deal with it. And then what are the
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questions? What are these horrible things that these people of color on the staff are experiencing
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at the hands of their translucent, ghostly counterparts? Well, a whole bunch of stuff that
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all adult humans experience all the time. A whole bunch of stuff that all, this all just simply comes
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with the territory when you're a grownup in modern society. I was interrupted. I wasn't invited to
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a meeting. Oh, what persecution, what a burden. First of all, not being invited to a meeting is a
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blessing. Who complains about not being invited to a meeting? When I don't get invited to meetings,
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I throw a party. It's the greatest thing in the world to not have to go to a meeting.
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But yes, what a, you are the only person ever in history to experience such trials.
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People are so desperate for persecution that they cling to these minor social miscues and
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annoyances. That's what it is. Being talked over, that happens to everyone literally every single day.
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It happens to every person. If during their time, during the day, they speak and have conversations
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with other people. If you do that, it is 100% guaranteed you're going to be talked over
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at some point, probably multiple times. It happens to everybody.
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So we take these really super minor, we call them micro, microaggression. Well,
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it's that, that actually is an apt phrase. It is micro, it is microscopic. And what you're doing
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is you're taking this a microscope, you can barely even see it. You're taking with tweezers out of a
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petri dish, this microscopic, little, tiny, small, social annoyance, and you're lifting it up and
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saying, look what happened to me. But what we do is we take these things, turn them into a race thing
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or a gender thing. This is, you know, feminists complain about this too. Oh, I'm talked over in
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meetings. Meanwhile, it happens to everyone. So, okay, if you're talked over or not invited to a
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meeting, and then you say, oh, it's racism, or oh, it's sexism. Well, what about when it happens to a
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white man? How do you explain that? You're not going to call it racism or sexism. So in that case,
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it's just stuff, it's, in that case, you're going to say, well, it just happens. So why couldn't it
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just happen over here? Every time it happens here, it's racism or sexism, but what happens here every
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single time, it's innocuous? Does that actually make sense logically? No. By the way, before we move
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on and stop picking on Buttigieg, speaking before about the person of color phrase, I should mention
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that Buttigieg did think of an even more bizarre variation of person of color. And anyway, I have
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to play this for you. Listen to this. Mayor Buttigieg, just to follow up on that, it seems like some of
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the concerns within your staff have to do with how they are personally affected by your inability to
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make movement with voters of color and some of the controversies that have popped up over the last
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several months. What have you done personally to address some of those concerns from your own staff who
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have to answer to their friends and their families about why they support you for president? First of
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all, I just want to say I'm so thankful to staff of color who brings so much to this campaign.
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Surrogates, staff, and supporters who put a lot on the line in their own lives when they decide that
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they're part of this effort. And I think we're part of it because we share the same values and because
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we share the same goal of what we want to do in this campaign and for the presidents. And I want
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everyone on our team to know that I'm proud of them, that I'm thankful for them, and that I support
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them. Staff of color. Staff of color. That sounds like, it sounds like something a flamboyant wizard
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might wield against his adversaries. The staff of color.
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Now, do you think, staff of color. But do you think any of this, all this stuff that Buttigieg is
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doing, using phrases like staff of color and sending out these racist memos, dividing his own
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staff down according to their race, do you think any of this is succeeding in doing what it's supposed
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to do, which is impress the radical left? That's what he's trying to do, obviously.
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He's trying to impress them. And you think any of this is succeeding? You think the left,
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you think the radical left, they're seeing all this and they're going, wow, gee, this fella gets it.
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He's not like those other white folks. You think that's happening? No, it's not. It's not happening.
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The reaction generally from the left to all of this has been, you know, not good enough, not enough.
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Or I've seen some of them saying this is actually insulting and demeaning, which it is,
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in fact. Because not only, with an amendment like this, not only is it racist to the white people,
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but it's patronizing and paternalistic to the, quote, people of color or the staff of color.
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But, um, so it's not even succeeding. And this is the same theme we always go back to where you've
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got people embarrassing themselves, humiliating themselves, groveling, saying all these things
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they don't believe. You think Pete Buttigieg actually think, cares about microaggressions or,
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you think that's a phrase he would ever really, sincerely, authentically use on his own? No, of course not.
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There are about 15 people in the whole country who really think that microaggressions exist.
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And all 15 of them have blue hair and they're college sophomores, okay? Everybody else, no one else actually,
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with so many things on the left that they get away with, it's almost nobody really believes it.
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Another, of course, big example with the gender stuff. How many people really, actually, honestly believe
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that the, you know, muscle-bound male running in the girls' track team is really a girl in some
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mysterious, mystical way? How many people really believe that? Really, in their, in their heart of
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hearts believe it. I think, again, it's the 15 blue-haired college sophomores and no one else.
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And Pete Buttigieg is more than happy to do that
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Okay. So I finally have a chance to talk about this. I've been meaning to talk about it for a few
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days now. Paula White, prosperity gospel televangelist, theological scam artist, also
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spiritual advisor to the president, unfortunately was recently doing some preaching and had some
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interesting things to say, including appearing to pray for miscarriages. Although she says it was
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taken out of context, but let's play the clip first. And then we'll talk about her context for
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this. Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, we interrupt that which has been deployed to hurt the church in this season,
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that which has been deployed to hurt this nation in the name of Jesus, forgive us
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for our sins. Come on. I need you guys to pray. We cancel every surprise from the witchcraft and the
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marine kingdom, any hex, any spell, any witchcraft, any spirit of control, any Jezebel, anything that
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the enemy desires through, through spells, through witchcraft, through any way that is manipulation,
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demonic manipulation. We curse that we break it according to the word of God in the name of Jesus.
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We come against the marine kingdom. We come against the animal kingdom, any, the woman that rides upon
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the waters. We break the power in the name of Jesus. And we declare that any strange winds,
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any strange winds that have been sent to hurt the church sent against this nation, sent against our
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president, sent against myself, sent against others. We break it by the superior blood of Jesus right now.
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In the name of Jesus, we arrest every infirmity, affliction, fatigue, weariness, weakness, fear,
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sickness, any self-righteousness, any self-serving action. God, let pride fall. Let pride fall. Let
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pride fall. Let pride fall. Let pride fall in the name of Jesus. We command all satanic pregnancies
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to miscarry right now. We declare that anything that's been conceived in satanic wombs, that it'll
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miscarry. It will not be able to carry forth any plan of destruction, any plan of harm.
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Okay. She's praying that satanic pregnancies will miscarry, miscarry. And she has, she's, uh, well,
00:26:33.440
she's responded to, to the controversy over these remarks, explaining that it was taken out of
00:26:39.520
context. She wasn't talking about physical pregnancy. She says she meant spiritual, spiritual
00:26:45.520
pregnancy. And, um, as in, I guess anyone who's pregnant with an evil plot that the evil plot
00:26:54.660
will miscarry. This is what she says, quoting her, this is how she contextualized it. She
00:26:59.260
said, anything that has been conceived by demonic plans for it to be canceled and not prevail in
00:27:05.160
your life. That is any plans to hurt people. All right. So, so that, so the satanic pregnancy,
00:27:13.780
so Satan then is, Satan is pregnant with plans to harm you. And, and she's praying for a miscarriage
00:27:19.660
of those dastardly plans. Listen, I, here's the thing. I believe her. Actually, I believe her
00:27:27.720
explanation. I a hundred percent believe it. It doesn't make sense. It's the dumbest, clumsiest,
00:27:33.660
crassest metaphor I've ever heard in my life. I mean, literally any other imagery, any other words
00:27:39.900
would have been better to get her point across. She chose the worst possible way to phrase it
00:27:44.640
and a way that even as metaphor is insensitive to women who've had miscarriages. There's why evoke
00:27:51.500
that imagery at all? Um, why evoke miscarriage as a positive thing that you pray for? Why do that?
00:27:59.060
There's no reason to do it. But, um, but I do believe that, that, that is what she meant because
00:28:06.260
it, it makes even less sense. Literally, it makes no sense either way, but it makes slightly,
00:28:12.500
it's slightly more, uh, nonsensical in a literal way. So fine. Whatever. I'll, I'll, I'll buy her
00:28:19.660
excuse. Um, that was metaphor. Of course, she said, she said, she has said a lot of things that
00:28:27.620
are not metaphor. Like for example, this, wherever I go, God rules. When I walk on white house grounds,
00:28:36.240
God walks on white house grounds. I had every right and authority to declare the white house as holy
00:28:42.180
ground because I was standing there. And where I stand is holy. Where she walks is holy. Where she
00:28:51.320
walks, she herself has the power in herself to sanctify any place that she walks.
00:29:00.300
But of course we could spend all day going through Paula White's various heresies and blasphemies and
00:29:05.160
the like. The point is that this person is such a blatant huckster. So explicitly in it for her own
00:29:12.620
fame and wealth and gain. Uh, so damaging to Christianity in so many ways that she shouldn't
00:29:21.880
have a following at all. We shouldn't be talking about her satanic pregnancy concept at all because
00:29:27.280
she shouldn't have any congregation to say that stuff in front of. I think what Christians,
00:29:32.760
what Christians have to think about and understand is that when we follow and listen to and give
00:29:37.020
credibility to and money and a platform to people like this, it's not only ourselves and our own
00:29:43.880
souls that we're harming. We also damage the church as a whole, Christendom as a whole by elevating
00:29:48.880
these people into visible positions who are so obviously corrupt, so absurdly obvious in their,
00:29:55.620
in their grift. Um, and, and people who are, who are not Christian, you know, they look at someone
00:30:07.300
like Paula White and they say, well, yeah, see, this is what I'm talking about. This is Christianity.
00:30:15.520
This is why I'm not Christian. Here's something we should think about. I think, I think, I think
00:30:20.700
every Christian should, should, should think about this. And it's a difficult thing to think about.
00:30:24.600
It's a difficult thing to try to, you know, it's a difficult perspective to adopt, but we should
00:30:31.140
think, okay, what if I wasn't Christian? What if I wasn't Christian? What if I wasn't raised in the
00:30:38.280
faith? And now I'm looking as an outside observer. I'm looking out at the scene. I'm surveying modern
00:30:46.040
Christianity. I have no bias in favor of it because I wasn't raised with it. And let's say that I don't
00:30:53.780
have any bias against it particularly either. Let's just say I, you know, I was raised kind of neutral
00:30:57.380
on the subject of Christianity, which a lot of people are. Um, I'm coming at it from, at it from that
00:31:04.780
perspective with that mentality. And I'm looking at modern Christianity in America. What would I think?
00:31:11.320
What would I think? What would you think? Would I look at this landscape replete with
00:31:20.000
televangelist, con artists, and hacks, and charlatans, and unthinking sheep who follow these
00:31:25.660
clowns around? These, I mean, I'm sorry, these frankly idiots that you see in the, in the audience
00:31:33.000
of these, you know, clapping and applauding. Would I look at that and think, wow, these Christians
00:31:39.360
really seem to be onto something? I've got to pay closer attention to what they're saying.
00:31:44.900
Would you think that? Would you? I wouldn't. I can tell you right now, I wouldn't. I wouldn't
00:31:53.180
look at modern Christianity, American Christianity from the outside and think to myself, this seems
00:31:58.860
like a system of thought, a belief system that holds within it the very keys to the meaning
00:32:05.000
and purpose of life and of the cosmos. I don't think I'd think that from that perspective.
00:32:15.040
And we could say all we want. No, but you can't, that's not fair. You can't judge us by
00:32:18.560
Paula White. All right, fine. I mean, we can say that. But the problem is there's a lot of
00:32:25.260
Paula White's out there. Maybe they're not all as bad as her, but there's a lot of them.
00:32:32.620
And, and that's a problem. And it's a problem we need to be very much conscious of.
00:32:43.620
I mean, it, and we, you know, it's easy for us to do this with other religions. I mean,
00:32:50.540
we look at Islam, for example, and we see how there is obviously a huge problem with people
00:32:56.800
committing heinously violent acts in the name of Islam. And then we hear Muslims say, well,
00:33:04.140
but you can't judge it based on that. That's not, you know, and yeah, they're, they're in a
00:33:07.580
better position to talk about what Islam actually teaches than we are. We're not experts on the
00:33:11.700
subject. I'm certainly not. But even so, from the outside, we listen to that excuse, even if
00:33:18.420
it's true, but we listen to it and we say, yeah, I don't know. Well, what do people say? What do
00:33:27.920
they think with the Paula White's of the world? By the way, I'm going back to that Paula White clip
00:33:36.000
again. I just want to rewind the tape. We don't have to actually play it again, but because we've
00:33:42.160
addressed the miscarriage part. I didn't, I didn't want to completely skip over the other thing she
00:33:45.700
said, she mentioned twice, the Marine kingdom, the evil spirits of the Marine kingdom. She's
00:33:53.540
praying that we come against the Marine kingdom. You know, I heard this and I didn't, I didn't pick
00:34:00.220
up on it the first time that I listened to the clip. I listened back to it and I thought, wait,
00:34:03.840
wait, what Marine, what is she talking about? And I, you know, I've been a Christian for 33 years.
00:34:09.580
I've been to hundreds of churches in my day. I've never heard that before. I've never heard anyone
00:34:14.540
praying against the Marine kingdom. And so I looked it up to see like, what is this?
00:34:19.180
And apparently this is a thing among some Christians. None, no, it's not a thing in any
00:34:24.840
of the churches I've ever been to. Thank goodness. But it is a, it is actually a thing.
00:34:30.840
There are some who believe in an actual aquatic kingdom of like monsters and demons who live in
00:34:37.420
the sea. I read somewhere, I forget where I read this, but I was reading somewhere online,
00:34:43.160
some website about this. And apparently this includes mermaids. There are satanic mermaids
00:34:49.540
who are part of this belief that some people believe that like, I mean, if you go into the
00:34:57.480
ocean, there's an actual underwater, like Atlantis kind of demonic community living there.
00:35:06.860
And this, but again, this is the kind of thing it's, it's so embarrassing.
00:35:11.140
And, you know, this is not a widespread belief, thankfully. Actually, I don't know how widespread
00:35:18.240
it is. I never even heard of it before. But it's, it's, it's so stupid and, and, and, and
00:35:27.100
embarrassing that it does great damage to the credibility of the Christian faith.
00:35:33.140
Okay. Now, before we move on, if you're a regular listener, you've obviously heard me talk plenty
00:35:46.180
about the pro-life issue, which is the great civil rights issue of our time. Joe Biden says that
00:35:52.060
transgender rights, transgender equality is the great civil rights issue of our time. I tend to
00:35:56.720
disagree. I'd say that the killing of 60 million human children is the greatest civil rights issue of
00:36:02.260
our time. Uh, and there have been few civil rights issues in the history of, of the human race that
00:36:09.340
have been as serious as this. When you consider, uh, the, the death toll of 60 million. But what we
00:36:16.120
know is that while this is happening and, and we as pro-lifers are doing everything we can hopefully
00:36:21.040
to, uh, oppose it and fight against it and protect these, uh, these unborn children, these victims,
00:36:27.240
we know that the left is going further and further off the cliff, getting more extreme and more radical.
00:36:32.760
And while they do that, they're also, um, working to shut down the opposition. And we've had that
00:36:40.520
happen to us. Uh, when Ben Shapiro spoke at the March for Life last year, uh, there were, you know,
00:36:46.340
our advertisers being targeted by left-wing media watchdogs and pitchfork mobs. And we lost a lot of
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00:36:57.520
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voice heard today. Um, all right. So I thought this was, was powerful. I think we'll, I was going
00:37:53.740
to read some emails, but I think instead I wanted to talk about this. So we'll, we'll do this instead
00:37:57.520
of emails today, but you can email the show, mattwalsshow at gmail.com. I thought this was
00:38:03.840
powerful. Uh, me along with every other person with a pulse who saw it, if you haven't seen it,
00:38:08.060
I think you should a segment on ESPN. This is L Duncan reacting to Kobe Bryant's death by sharing
00:38:15.180
a brief story. And it's a story that I think is worth hearing. Listen to this. I met Kobe one time
00:38:21.600
backstage at an event for ESPN in New York. And I saw him and I thought, Oh my gosh, that's Kobe.
00:38:27.540
I got to get a picture for the gram. That's the picture. I didn't get it for a few minutes because
00:38:32.920
as I approached him, he immediately commented on my rather large eight month pregnant belly.
00:38:38.000
How are you? How close are you? What are you having a girl? I said, and then he high five me
00:38:43.860
girls are the best. I asked him for advice on raising girls, seeing as though he quite famously
00:38:48.600
had three at the time. And he said, just be grateful that you've been given that gift because
00:38:53.240
girls are amazing. His third daughter, Bianca was about a year and a half old at the time. So I asked
00:38:58.680
if he wanted more children. And he said that his wife, Vanessa really wanted to try again,
00:39:02.620
for a boy, but was sort of jokingly concerned that it would be another girl. And I was like,
00:39:08.140
four girls. Are you joking? Like, what would you think? How would you feel? And without hesitation,
00:39:13.820
he said, I would have five more girls if I could. I'm a girl dad. When it came to sports,
00:39:18.620
he said that his oldest daughter was an accomplished volleyball player and that the youngest was a
00:39:22.480
toddler. So TBD. But that middle one, he said that middle one was a monster. She's a beast.
00:39:28.300
She's better than I was at her age. She's got it. That middle one, of course, was Gigi.
00:39:34.660
When I reflect on this tragedy and that half an hour that I spent with Kobe Bryant two years ago,
00:39:39.340
I suppose that the only small source of comfort for me is knowing that he died doing what he loved
00:39:44.060
the most, being a dad, being a girl dad. Now, this sparked a girl dad hashtag, hashtag girl dad on social
00:39:53.960
media, with men talking about their experiences of being fathers of girls. And a little corny,
00:39:59.600
admittedly, but also that's not a bad thing. It's one of the more wholesome and constructive trends
00:40:05.800
to gray social media. And certainly a nice change of pace from the usual petty outrages that suck up
00:40:11.520
all the oxygen. I'll take the corniness every once in a while over the petty outrage that pretty much
00:40:20.100
seems to be 98% of the content on social media these days. Now, as a girl dad and myself, two daughters,
00:40:25.860
two sons also, I can relate. And this is the thing that I haven't been able to get out of my head the last
00:40:35.640
few days. I've been thinking, did Kobe Bryant and the rest of the people on that chopper, and remember,
00:40:44.780
there were nine people. So there were seven others alongside Kobe Bryant and his daughter. But
00:40:50.380
did they realize what was happening? Did the helicopter start going down and they had a minute
00:40:57.220
or 30 seconds or 15 seconds where they understood what was happening and they understood that there's
00:41:02.800
a good chance they weren't going to make it? It sounds like the thing maybe just crashed right into
00:41:07.240
the side of a mountain because of the fog and, you know, they couldn't see it. They didn't see the
00:41:12.340
mountain that crashed into it. I don't know if that's what happened exactly. It sounds like that
00:41:16.060
may have been what happened. And in that case, probably there was no warning, no moment of
00:41:21.080
realization before the end. It just happened. So I don't know. But whether it happened that way or
00:41:29.480
not, I still can't get out of my head the image of a man sitting there with his daughter
00:41:36.620
knowing what's going to happen and knowing that he can't protect her. Because as girl dads and boy
00:41:45.880
dads and as dads in general, the thing we want most is to protect our children. That is our number one
00:41:51.680
goal with respect to our kids, is to protect them. Not just physically, but emotionally, psychologically,
00:42:00.140
spiritually, to create security and give them a secure environment and to protect them and to
00:42:08.200
get them into adulthood safely, intact in every sense of the word. So the thought of a man staring
00:42:17.440
at his little girl, looking her in the eyes, knowing that he can't protect her, knowing that pain and
00:42:22.060
death are coming and he can't stop it, that really gets me. And it's something that I think about.
00:42:28.380
I mean, I think about this, it's sort of morbid. I tend to be kind of morbid. Maybe you've
00:42:33.620
noticed. So it was one of the reasons why my mind went here is because I've thought about
00:42:38.040
this. I've flown with my kids several times, as a lot of people have. And I think about
00:42:43.980
this every time I'm on a plane with them. Plane starts going down. What would I say to my
00:42:50.380
kids? But then I think, as I was thinking about that, I realized that all of us,
00:42:58.380
all dads, all moms, too, we're all in that situation all the time, in a way. And this is
00:43:04.660
why there's always this undercurrent of sadness. And it's hard to put your finger on, it's hard
00:43:10.300
to understand as a parent. But I've talked to a lot of parents that have experienced the same
00:43:13.280
thing and know what I'm talking about, that even in your happiest moments as a parent, and in some
00:43:19.240
ways, especially in the happiest moments, there's the happiness and the joy. But underneath that,
00:43:24.300
there's this bittersweetness, this sadness and the sort of longing that lies there, barely beneath
00:43:32.740
the surface, all the time. And it's hard to know exactly why it's there. But I think this is it,
00:43:39.960
because we want nothing more than to protect our children. And we would die to protect them. We
00:43:44.280
would do anything for them. Yet we know that our efforts will prove futile eventually. Hopefully not
00:43:51.440
in this tragic, dramatic, sudden way, like it did, sadly, for Kobe Bryant and his daughter. But
00:43:57.760
maybe it will. I mean, that could happen to any one of us at any time, something like that,
00:44:03.640
sudden tragedy. But however it happens, we know eventually pain and suffering will come for our
00:44:09.360
children, no matter what. This is guaranteed. And we won't be able to stop it. So you look at your
00:44:16.780
child now, if you have young children, especially, you look at your children, young and innocent.
00:44:22.200
They haven't suffered yet in life at all. You know, their worst suffering is when they want a
00:44:27.060
snack and you won't give it to them or something. But, and you think eventually, they're going to
00:44:32.820
suffer one way or another. Not now, we hope not soon. But everyone dies. Everyone suffers.
00:44:41.800
Everyone experiences despair and heartbreak and misery. Everybody does. No exceptions. It's the lot
00:44:48.300
that we have all, it's the, it is the, it's all, for all of us, it is our lot in life. And for our
00:44:55.260
kids as well. One day. Tomorrow, maybe, or maybe many tomorrows from now, it will happen. And that
00:45:04.040
reality, that helplessness is, I think, a source of great pain for parents. We don't dwell on it.
00:45:09.620
We try not to. But it's always there. And that's where parenthood's bittersweet flavor, I think,
00:45:17.460
comes from. So I think about Kobe Bryant on a helicopter with his daughter. Maybe he had a
00:45:25.460
warning. Maybe he didn't. But either way, in microcosm, he was in the same situation we're all in.
00:45:33.480
And not to resort to cliches, but sometimes when talking about these sort of things, it's impossible
00:45:38.820
not to resort to cliches because there's a reason why they're cliche. There's truth to it. So the
00:45:42.320
cliche here is that, you know, as parents, we have to cherish all the more the moments that we have
00:45:47.400
with our kids now. Give them all the love now, all the protection, all the security we can,
00:45:52.000
knowing that it won't last forever. There's a real finitude to it, which is another thing we don't
00:45:59.240
like to think about and don't like to dwell on or obsess over. And we shouldn't. But we shouldn't
00:46:03.980
forget it either, I think. So that's what I was thinking about, wanted to share. On that note,
00:46:13.480
a little bit of a sad note, but I think we will wrap it up for the day. Thanks for watching and
00:46:17.960
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00:46:23.780
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