Ep. 419 - Democrat Clown Show Wants To Run Health Care System
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On today's show, Wolf Blitzer and Sean Sebastian talk about the Democratic Party's complete failure to deliver on their promises after the Iowa Caucuses, and what it means for the future of the country. Plus, a new book from the author of Church of Cowards about the problem of apathy, cowardice, and complacency in the church.
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Welcome to the show, everybody. Obviously, there's quite a lot happening in the world today,
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in the country. We're going to talk about all of that, lots of important news.
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But I want to begin by discussing something even more important than any of that, namely
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myself. Well, not myself exactly, but my book. I did just announce yesterday that I have a new
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book coming out, being released February 25th, but you can pre-order it now. And I would ask
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that you do pre-order it rather than waiting to the last minute, you damn procrastinators.
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The book is called Church of Cowards, and it brings together in one volume my thoughts on
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the subject I've spoken about often on this show, written about, and that is the problem
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of apathy, cowardice, and complacency in the church. And this is a problem that cannot be
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pinned entirely on church leadership, on the so-called Christian leaders in the country
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and throughout the world. Though, obviously, of course, there's a significant portion of
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blame that goes to them. And I talk about that in the book. But this is also an issue
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that implicates everybody. Me, you, everyone. I don't think any of us are entirely innocent.
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So I try not to spare anybody in this book, myself included. And I hope you'll give it a
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read. Church of Cowards, go to Amazon, look it up, buy the book before it comes out on February
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25th. Okay, speaking of bad leadership, the Democrat Party continues to somehow make the
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Republican Party look like it has its crap together by comparison, which, if you've been
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following politics for any length of time, that is an incredible accomplishment. That's
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a remarkable feat to be able to do that. As you know, as you've probably no doubt heard
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by now, the Iowa caucuses were last night. Somehow they managed, after three years of preparation,
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to completely bungle it. The night ended with no winner, no results, nothing, which threw everybody
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into disarray, including the media, which led to, and I want to play this just at the front of the
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show, because I think this is one, this is just a great moment, a great moment in media, was this
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right here. Watch this. Sean Sebastian's joining us right now from Story County. He's a precinct
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secretary out there. What can you tell us about this delay in getting any results, Sean?
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Well, Wolf, I have been on hold for over an hour with the Iowa Democratic Party. They tried to,
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I think, promote an app to report the results. The app, by all accounts, just like doesn't work. So
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we've been recommended to call into the hotline, and the hotline has not been responsive.
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I can hear you. Have you gotten any explanation, Sean? Sean, have you gotten any explanation at all
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as to what's going on? No, I have not. No. I'm just waiting on hold and doing my best to report
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the results from my precinct. What are you hearing? I know you're listening to a conversation
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from the Iowa Democratic Party. This is a real coincidence, Wolf. I just got off hold just now,
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so I've got to get off the phone to report the results. All right. Go ahead. Report your results.
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Can we listen in as you report them, Sean? Yep. All right. Let's listen. All right. Okay. Hi. Hello?
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Hello? They hung up on me. They hung up on me. Okay. I've got to get back in line on hold.
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They just hung up. It's so frustrating indeed. Now, on one hand, I really love that. It's good
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stuff. But on the other, I feel for that guy. I feel I can relate to it, especially as a parent,
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because this has definitely happened to me before, where I'm waiting on hold with Comcast or somebody
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for 45 minutes. And then after 45 minutes, my kids come into the room and they distract me.
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And I'm telling them to, you know, I'm yelling at them. And then in the melee, the customer rep comes
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on the phone, but I'm distracted and he takes the opportunity to just hang up. So, and of course,
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in this analogy, Wolf Blitzer would be like my kids. So that was fun though. But the utter incompetence
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of the Democratic Party here, and not just here, but over the past three years and beyond
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slash Walsh. Okay. So there are a few lessons that we can learn, I think, from the disastrous
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beginning of the Democrat Party's primary process. A process that, as they boasted in a tweet on Monday
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afternoon, they'd spent the last three years preparing for, that's what they said. And,
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you know, the pilot of the Hindenburg also spent time preparing, but all of the preparation in the
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world can't compensate for incompetent execution. So somehow after the buildup, Monday night ended
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without a winner or any results at all. And, uh, it's, it, it seems part of the problem is that the
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Democrats decided to hand the facilitation and management of its primary in Iowa over to a
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secretive firm in DC called literally Shadow Inc. So that's literally the name of the, of the
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organization, Shadow Inc, which is a bit like sending your children to a daycare center called
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like child neglect LLC. So I, I can only, I just, I just imagine the, you know, the bosses of the
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Democrat Party in the offices of Shadow Inc. And there's a guy, you know, sitting at a, at his desk
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with his, with his chair turned around, looking out the window, his back to them, puffing on a cigar,
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stroking a cat. And they say, yeah, I think this, this is the guy, this is the guy that needs to
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handle our primaries. Um, and these are the sorts of unforced errors that the, the Democrats can't
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seem to stop themselves from making as they continue, as I said, to, to achieve the remarkable
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feat of making the Republican Party look good somehow. Now, of course, I may be giving them
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too much credit when I say that this is an error. Um, I, I'm not sure that this, that this debacle can
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be called an error necessarily because that categorization assumes that there's no deliberate
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corruption at, at work here. And that's probably not a safe assumption, especially given the
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Democrats track record with primaries. But all in all, this amounts to more good news for Donald
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Trump, who is a man that has been blessed with the most impotent and ineffectual adversaries that
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probably the world has ever seen. This is, Donald Trump is so fortunate. Uh, he, God has blessed him
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with these, with these buffoons as his enemies. And as, as many of us have been saying for,
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for years now, ever since Trump came on the scene, especially ever since he became president,
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all the Democrats really have to do is just be basically normal and sane
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and, um, and that's, and that probably be enough to get the edge and to win in 2020. It's all they
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need to do. And, and they can't even do that. They, that really, uh, that, that bar as low as it is,
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they're not able to, to get over that bar, uh, which, which means that, you know, that, that I think,
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uh, the possibility of Trump still losing to these blundering clowns is a possibility that
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seems less and less likely with each passing day. But if he does lose to them, this is an ominous
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warning, I think for the future, because we should keep in mind that these people who cannot figure
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out how to operate their own primary also want to operate the entire healthcare system.
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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in particular have promised a complete government takeover of
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healthcare. In fact, Sanders is on record saying that he wants, he's advocating a complete government
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takeover of all industry, of all major industry. He has said this specifically, explicitly.
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Now he, he, he was, he hasn't been, he hasn't been quite that explicit in recent years, but this is
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what he said back in his thirties. I think it was back when he was 35 or 36. He's on record saying
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the government should take over all major industries. Now, if we had a real media,
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they'd be following up with, with that and, and saying, Hey, is that still what you want to do?
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I mean, think about it. We've got a Democrat candidate who, who very well could win the nomination.
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Who's a, who's in the past advocated for a government takeover of all major industries
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and nobody in the media has asked him about it. And this, by the way, is full-blown communism,
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not communism in the loose kind of pejorative sense that people use it, but actual, literal,
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real communism. Bernie Sanders is an actual communist. So this is the communism of Soviet
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Russia and Pol Pot and, and many of the, the most evil and blood drenched regimes of the 20th century.
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That's, that's, that is the ideology that, that in the, the government, the governing philosophy
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that he aligns himself with. And, but he's not asked about it by the media, which is really
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incredible. And I think this, this, this latter fact, the fact that we've seen how communism works
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in other countries, especially in the, in the, in the bloodiest, deadliest, uh, century in human
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history, the 20th century, because of communism. So that should be enough to cause us to run far
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and fast away from any candidate who advocates a full government takeover of any industry, let alone
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the healthcare industry, let alone every other industry, as well as the healthcare industry.
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But if the 20th century is too far in the past to make an impression somehow, then I think this
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Monday is less than enough. In order for the plans proposed by Sanders, Warren and, and company to
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have any appeal, we first have to place our trust in the skill and competency and integrity of
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government bureaucrats. And this is the part you notice, this is the part of the case that the
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socialists never bother trying to make. Yes, they can tell a harrowing tale about all the evils of
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capitalism and the problems of free of the free market. And they can convince you to look with
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suspicion on corporations and the dreaded billionaires. And I don't even necessarily disagree with them on
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that point that in a way we should be suspicious of, of corporations. We shouldn't just blithely trust
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them. You know, if you've got, if you've got one of these tech companies asking you to hand your
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privacy over to them, which most of us have already done, but we shouldn't trust our privacy with them
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and all of our sensitive information. So that part, fine. But then there's the next part where they
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never get around to explaining why we should trust them, the politicians, instead.
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And, and that's because I don't think even they could make that argument with a straight face.
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And this again goes back to, to malpractice by the media, which is a very intentional malpractice.
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You're going to let Bernie Sanders stand up there all day at debates and, and, and, and interviews
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and so on, talking about the problem with, with capitalism and, and, and billionaires and why
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they shouldn't have control over this and that. Nobody ever stops to ask them, okay, but why should
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you control it though? Why should we trust you? Why should we trust bureaucrats? What's the reason?
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Give us a, give us one good reason. That's all I'm asking for. One good reason why we should trust
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bureaucrats instead. Well, because the billionaires, no, no, I didn't ask about the billionaires. That's
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not what I'm asking. Let's go from the billionaires to the bureaucrats. Why should we trust them? One
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good reason. That's it. Just give me one. And, and don't tell me because, uh, they're, they're subject
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to elections. They're not. Our government is massively, massively, enormously gargantuan,
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monstrous, huge. And, um, and 99% of the people in the government who work for the government,
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So, um, they can't make the argument. And besides which, we've all been to the DMV. So we know how
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the government works. And this week is just the latest example. And that, I think, is the, the
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highlight and the point of this madness in Iowa. There are some people trying to make it a point
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about, well, this is why Iowa shouldn't be the first primary in the country. And this is why we
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need to change the way we do primaries. I don't, I don't disagree with that either, by the way, but
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that's not really the point. Though on an almost unrelated note, I do agree that it doesn't make
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any sense to me why Iowa arbitrarily gets this, gets this privileged position where they're, the
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decision they make in the primary has all, has all of this enormous weight, Iowa and New
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Hampshire, Iowa and New Hampshire, right? It's like, all that really matters is them. And then,
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uh, and then you have states that by the time they go, it's already been decided. So I don't
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see how that makes any sense. At a minimum, if we're going to, no, I, I, you know, there's a,
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there's a part of me that would be sympathetic to a call for a national primary where you do all
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the primaries on the same day. Now the argument against that is that then it, well, there are a
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few arguments. One of them is that it would make it a lot harder for the lesser known candidates
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who need that staggered process to build momentum. If you just do it all on one day, then really the,
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just the most famous, most well-known candidates going to win every time. Okay. I get that. But if
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you're going to do the staggered thing where we're holding these, these primaries over the course of
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many weeks, there's no reason why one state should always go first and always have this, this, this,
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uh, disproportionate influence over the way the rest of the primary goes. There's no reason for
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that other than it's tradition. Okay. Well, just because it's tradition doesn't mean we keep doing
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it forever without ever stopping. Okay. Let's, um, let's move on. You know, the, uh, the guardian
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and the daily wire have both reported on an exciting new business venture that I wanted to
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mention. And this is for the low price of just $2,500 to, uh, particularly industrious race hustlers
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will come to your house, eat your food and call you a racist. This is a real business. And this is
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not some sort of strange masochistic sexual fetish as far as I know. It is, it's an opportunity for
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white people to learn that they are abysmal sacks of garbage, if you didn't already know.
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So it's kind of like a self-empowerment thing, but, but the opposite of that, the opposite of
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self-empowerment. Let me read, um, this is the guardian explaining this business. It says,
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uh, a white woman volunteers to host a dinner in her home for seven other white women, often
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strangers, perhaps acquaintances. Each dinner costs $2,500, which can be covered by a generous
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host or divided among guests. A frank discussion is led by co-founders, Regina Jackson, who is black
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and Syrah Rao, who identifies as Indian American. Uh, they started race to dinner to challenge liberal
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white women to accept their racism. However, subconscious, uh, if you did this in a conference
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room, they'd leave Rao says, but healthy white women have been taught never, or, but wealthy white
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women have been taught never to leave the dinner table. So this is a service, yes, offered, offered
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only to white women. Unfortunately, white men are irredeemable. The guardian says Rao and Jackson
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believe white liberal women are the most receptive audience because they are open to changing their
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behavior. They don't bother with the 53% of white women who voted for Trump. White men, they feel,
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are similarly a lost cause. Jackson says, quote, white men are never going to change anything. If they
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were, they would have done it by now. And then, uh, here's an inspiring example of one such white
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woman finally admitting and accepting that she is essentially Hitler. Uh, Alison Goobser says,
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recently I've been driving around seeing a black person and having an assumption that they're up
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to no good. Immediately after that, I'm like, that's no good. This is a human just doing their
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thing. Why do I think that? Because of course, you know, it's only white people who engage in this
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sort of negative stereotyping. Other races of people, they never do this ever. Doesn't happen.
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Only white, right? Now we're told that they've conducted 15 of these dinners at 2,500 a pop.
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So that, that totals to almost 40 grand they've made. Not a bad business plan, especially when you
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consider this is nearly all profit. I guess the only real overhead is, uh, is the only cost that they
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incur, I imagine, are the medical treatments for their vocal cords after they spend a whole evening
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shouting racist in the faces of cowering, uh, uh, soccer moms. So I must say, I was thinking about
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this, you know, I, I find their efforts inspiring and so inspiring that in keeping with the, with the
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traditions of my people, of white men, I'm going to appropriate this idea. Now I have no doubt,
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and, and I don't mean to cast aspersions here. I have no doubt that the certified haranguing
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offered by these two women is well worth the money, but why spend more than you have to?
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Um, and this is where I'm, you know, this is me. I announced the book and so now this is a business,
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a new business I'm opening that I'm excited to announce as well. So it's kind of a big,
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a big day for me for a number of reasons. Uh, here's my business model. I would be willing
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to perform the exact same service at half the price. Okay. So for a measly $1,250, $1,250,
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that's it. I'll sit at your table, gorge on your food and ceaselessly belittle you.
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Uh, now here's what I'm saying. Don't pay full price for a scolding when you could get a perfectly
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acceptable scolding for half of that. It just, it doesn't make any sense financially is what I'm
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trying to say. And don't think for a second that my accusations and my insults that I hurl at you
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will be tamer just because I'm the bargain bin option. Uh, and I understand like a good wedding
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DJ, you have to play the hits. So that means, of course, I'm going to call you a racist. I'm
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going to call you a sexist. I'm going to call you a transphobe. I'm going to call you a homophobe,
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et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But I'll pick, I'll even mix in a few of the more cutting edge,
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uh, is and phobes that maybe you haven't heard of. So after my dinner, you may discover
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that you're not only an ageist, ethnocentric, cis-normative biphobe, but also a gooberphobe.
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You know what a gooberphobe is? A gooberphobe is someone who is discriminatory against gay
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Uber drivers. Okay. That's a real thing that I just made up. But this is, this is the kind
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of ingenuity that I bring to it. Uh, and it gets better because for a small, let's say $75, uh,
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upcharge, I'll also yell at your pets. And you have to think about this because you are racist scum,
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as we've established. Do you think your pets have not absorbed any of that? Any of your bigot
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fumes? See, living with you is like, is like, is like living near Chernobyl. The toxicity radiates
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off of you and infects everything in the vicinity. So after I finish with you dinner, um, I'll go to
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your, you know, dog, I'll go to the hamster, I'll go to the goldfish, whatever, and I'll scream at
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them. Uh, and it'll be a very cleansing experience for them as well. And so once my session is
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complete, everybody in the house is going to feel like total dirt. That is my guarantee
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or your money back. Just kidding. Of course, I would never give money back to a racist.
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Um, so look out for that as I, as I, uh, bring that business to the masses. Now a couple of things
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to talk about, but first a quick message about this show, as you know, we rely in part on our
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hear from. Okay. Uh, I've been wanting to talk about this issue for a few, few days now. And, uh,
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now, now I will. Um, it's a story that hasn't gotten a lot of attention. Michelle Carter.
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I don't know if you remember the name. She was released from prison last week after serving 11
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months in jail, 11 months. Carter, as you may or may not recall, was the sociopath who repeatedly
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encouraged her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself. And then when he did at her urging,
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she told no one, pretended to be shocked and saddened and had apparently done the whole thing
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to get attention. This was according to the prosecutors and she was convicted.
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This was all a ploy because she wanted sympathy and attention. And so she managed, she decided to
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get that by manipulating her boyfriend into killing himself. Now, this is a case that has really stuck
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with me because I think it's stuck with a lot of people. It's just because it's, it's, it's just
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how absolutely evil this is. It's the kind of case that sends chills right down to your bones in a way
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that some other bad cases don't quite to the same degree, because this, this gives you a unique look
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into the depths of human evil. I mean, let's recall what this girl did. This was not her saying
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once, kill yourself out of anger or half joking or something like that. That's not what this was.
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This was not her putting kill yourself in the comment section under, under a YouTube video.
00:24:34.160
Or sending it in an email to a podcast host she doesn't like. Not some of this was. This was a
00:24:38.620
depressed boyfriend who came to his girlfriend for, you know, for emotional support. And instead,
00:24:48.400
her girlfriend repeatedly over a period of time, methodically tried to break his will,
00:24:54.300
break him down and get him to kill himself, including berating and insulting him for not doing
00:24:59.460
it. And on the night when he did it, she was on the phone with him, berating him for trying to back
00:25:06.480
out. You know, he wanted to back out at the last minute and she was urging him, insisting that he
00:25:12.040
do it. And when he did and was dead, she didn't call anybody, didn't tell anybody, certainly didn't
00:25:18.320
try to get a medical treatment, of course, and just pretended to be shocked and sad and everything
00:25:22.780
when she heard the news. Now, incredibly, in my view, there are plenty of people who've defended this
00:25:29.100
person, the girlfriend, the Carter, or at least if not defended her, said that at a minimum,
00:25:35.280
she shouldn't go to jail. People have even tried to make this a free speech issue, which is what
00:25:40.820
her defense team argued. And I understand her defense team arguing it. That's the only defense
00:25:46.160
they could possibly offer. And so they did. But if you're not one of her lawyers, I don't understand
00:25:51.640
arguing that. Free speech? Really? And this only proves my point that free speech has come to mean
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almost nothing. All of the freedoms and rights we talk about, it's as I discussed at length yesterday,
00:26:07.240
these phrases mean almost nothing now. Nobody knows what they mean. No one can define them.
00:26:13.280
We just throw them out there randomly to make a point. And that's what's happening here.
00:26:20.000
Trying to manipulate a suicidal depressive into killing himself is not free speech.
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And I can't believe I even have to say that. By the way, if you think it is, and this is
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absolutely inescapable, if you think that what she did is covered under free speech, then you have
00:26:39.840
to argue that Charles Manson never should have gone to prison. Because Charles Manson, many people don't
00:26:44.400
know this, never killed anybody. No, he brainwashed his groupies into killing people. He didn't do it
00:26:51.060
himself. Yet he went to jail for life until death, which is how life in prison works. Now, I would say
00:26:59.340
that's clearly not free speech. When you take mentally unbalanced people and you urge them, try to
00:27:07.000
get them to kill somebody, that's not free speech. That's murder. That's what I would say.
00:27:13.480
But if you're going to tell me that it's free speech for this girl to manipulate her mentally
00:27:22.060
unstable boyfriend into killing himself, then you have to argue that Charles Manson was
00:27:26.380
covered under free speech when he manipulated mentally unstable people into killing other
00:27:30.540
people. This is logically inescapable. But of course, with Charles Manson, nobody would argue
00:27:38.800
that because it's totally crazy. And what exactly are people worried about? That this is a slippery
00:27:45.000
slope? I've heard that. I was talking about this on social media this week, and some people
00:27:51.180
were saying, it's a slippery slope, you know. A slippery slope into what? Into some sort of
00:27:56.860
dystopian horrorscape where you can no longer tell people to kill themselves? Oh, the humanity,
00:28:04.900
how horrible that would be. That's not even where this is headed at all, because she embarked on a
00:28:11.540
campaign, a long campaign to manipulate him into killing himself. This was not a one-off thing.
00:28:17.460
This was not a moment of passion and her just saying, kill yourself. Obviously, if she had done
00:28:22.460
that, she wouldn't have gone to jail. It's not what this was. So this is not heading to a place where
00:28:28.440
you're not allowed to leave a YouTube comment telling someone to kill themselves. That's not where
00:28:34.140
this is headed. But my point is, even if it was heading there, who cares? Is that really,
00:28:39.900
would you be oppressed and persecuted if you lived in a country where you can't tell people
00:28:44.480
online to kill themselves? How would that harm you in any way whatsoever? In any case,
00:28:53.740
manipulating a man into killing himself so you can get attention, I would say, horribly evil.
00:29:00.760
And this is a dangerous person. She gets out of jail. And if you don't think she's dangerous,
00:29:07.780
what do you think is going to happen when she gets kids? How's that going to go? When you have
00:29:14.760
somebody this emotionally manipulative, and a sociopath, a psychopath, who only cares about
00:29:21.840
attention to themselves, and they've got kids, how do you think that's going to go?
00:29:25.720
Munchausen by proxy? What do you think that is? That's a parent making a child sick or causing
00:29:39.140
the child to think that he's sick so that the parent can get attention. So that's where this
00:29:45.380
is headed. This is a dangerous person. 11 months in jail. And she gets out. Now, you cannot convince
00:29:56.140
me that the fact that she's a blonde chick didn't help her. Because I would say it absolutely did.
00:30:01.540
I don't really see any scenario. Can you imagine, let's reverse the genders for a moment. Let's say
00:30:07.660
you've got a man over a period of many months manipulating a mentally unbalanced, depressive
00:30:16.360
woman into killing herself. Can you imagine him getting out of jail in 11 months?
00:30:23.160
Now, granted, she was only sentenced to 15 months, which is bad enough as it is. She didn't even serve
00:30:29.720
the whole year. Can you imagine that with a man? I can't. This is where female privilege comes in.
00:30:36.200
And this is a real thing. This is not, they've done studies on this. The statistics are right
00:30:40.920
there. You can go look them up yourself. Women get, I think on average, on average, men get
00:30:46.260
sentences that are 63%, like 50 to 60. I want to say 63% is a number that's on top of my head here.
00:30:54.580
But they get, men on average, for the same crimes, get significantly longer sentences than women do.
00:31:01.460
And that's even when controlling for factors like previous criminal history.
00:31:06.760
Okay, so it's not like, well, the men get longer sentences because they've got a track record.
00:31:10.420
No, even when controlling for those sorts of things, women get significantly shorter sentences.
00:31:15.560
And in fact, men are twice as likely to get sent to prison in the first place.
00:31:19.500
Meaning, in many cases, the women don't, in many, in many situations, there are crimes where if a man
00:31:27.040
commits it, he goes to jail for a period of time. If a woman commits it, she doesn't go to jail at all.
00:31:34.160
So that is, that's, that's, that is actual female privilege that is really happening.
00:31:40.040
Um, systemically, we hear so much about systemic bigotry and systemic, this is systemic, it's in the
00:31:48.340
justice system, systemic discrimination against men in favor of women. And, uh, you just, you can't
00:31:55.420
convince me that this is not an example of that. I think, I think it very clearly is. So we'll get
00:31:59.640
to emails in just a second here. But first, um, I want to tell you about this offer we have. This has
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00:33:19.380
This is from Kurt says, Matt, very dumb question, but I hope you, I'm hoping you can give me a simple
00:33:23.320
explanation. What exactly is a caucus? How does it work? How should it work? I know the Iowa situation is
00:33:31.260
a mess, but how is it supposed to go? Seriously, I've never understood it. Well, Kurt, you're right.
00:33:37.480
This is a rather, uh, dumb question. I'm, I'm afraid caucuses like the one in Iowa, uh, putting
00:33:44.120
aside all the, this debacle that happened, it's, it's a, it's a pretty simple process and I can't
00:33:49.040
believe you don't understand it. I don't mean to, you know, I don't mean to judge you or anything,
00:33:54.520
but fine. I'll explain it. You see, and I can easily explain it to you. And it goes like this.
00:34:01.860
I'll explain it right now. In fact, um, what happens as it proceeds, the caucus is that there
00:34:09.660
are actually, well, essentially decisions, okay, are made. And let's just say basically what it comes
00:34:16.500
down to when in fact, it's all said and done at the end of the day is that determinations are made.
00:34:25.400
All right. Important determinations. And those determinations are at the conclusion of a process,
00:34:34.100
let's call it, uh, they're going to lead to the formulation of what you might even call results.
00:34:39.800
results. And those results are really going to tell you who wins. Okay. So do you understand?
00:34:47.860
That's as simple as I can put it. Okay. Because I definitely understand how caucuses work myself.
00:34:55.060
This is from Carlos says, hello, Matt. Yesterday, the Superbowl was a good game,
00:34:58.840
not as exciting without my Patriots on it, but I'm glad the Chiefs won. I saw that people were accusing
00:35:03.520
you of being anti-Latino for saying that the halftime show was inappropriate. However,
00:35:07.200
as a Hispanic born in Latin America myself, I agree with you. If anything, what I find offensive is
00:35:11.960
their implication that our Latin culture can be reduced to that garbage. A show of over-sexualized
00:35:16.620
50-year-old women stripping and pole dancing on the stage is not representative of Latin culture.
00:35:21.540
Everybody, white, Hispanic, or otherwise should be free to say so. It is a shame because Shakira
00:35:26.280
wasn't too bad back when she started in Columbia before she went full Hollywood around 2008.
00:35:31.340
Thank you and keep up the good work. Well, thanks, Carlos. And, um, it, yeah, it's,
00:35:36.580
it's funny because I noticed perhaps unsurprisingly that many of the people who were making the argument
00:35:40.760
that it's anti-Latino or racist or whatever to criticize the halftime show were not Latino
00:35:46.480
themselves. So once again, we have the bigotry of low expectations on display here, which is very
00:35:52.040
common among liberal white people where they, you know, I mean, imagine, uh, imagine being,
00:36:00.400
you know, non-Latino, just a white person like me and arguing that strip shows and simulated orgies
00:36:08.700
are Latin culture. What are you actually saying about Latin culture and how is that a defense of
00:36:15.780
Latin culture and not an attack on it? So that's, that's kind of the, with these, with these liberal
00:36:23.320
white savior types. That's the kind of patronizing undertone, which you can hardly even call an
00:36:29.580
undertone because they sort of smack you in the face with it. It's so obvious and explicit.
00:36:35.060
But what they're saying is, oh no, we, you know, we can't expect, I'm here arguing, let's have some
00:36:40.660
basic decency. That's all. As I said yesterday, let's have basic decency. I'm not saying that
00:36:46.080
everything on TV has to be appropriate for kids all the time. Obviously not. You turn on premium
00:36:50.500
channels at 10 PM, you turn on HBO or something. I'm not asking for that to be appropriate for kids.
00:36:54.140
Obviously it won't be. Uh, and I'm not even asking that the halftime show be tailored for kids. Okay.
00:37:01.380
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not asking that you have the Wiggles performers. That's the last thing I'd want
00:37:04.700
to say in fact, but just basic decency. Just keep in mind that families are watching and don't go out
00:37:11.640
of your way to be wildly offensive and inappropriate. That's what I'm arguing. And when a white person comes in
00:37:18.260
and says, oh no, we can't expect that, they're a different culture. We can't expect that of them.
00:37:24.180
I cannot think of a more racist sentiment than that. Okay. Let's go to, uh, Paul says,
00:37:33.240
you win the internet. I hate this phrase and all variations of it. It is stupid. Your thoughts.
00:37:39.980
Well, Paul, I got to say you win the internet for that email. I agree with you. Uh, this is just one
00:37:45.460
of dozens of phrases and memes that represent to me, a person's inability to form original thoughts.
00:37:52.540
If you want to communicate to someone that you like what they posted on the internet,
00:37:56.720
instead of using this phrase, which has been used 6 billion times before, just use your own distinct
00:38:02.700
voice and describe how you feel in a way that is not this, this, uh, this cliche. I don't even,
00:38:12.540
what's the point. Like if you're going to comment under something on the internet and say you win
00:38:16.980
the internet, why even say it? What's the point of even saying it? You, you, it's already been said
00:38:24.060
a million times. So this is why under my regime, you win the internet will be a banned phrase along
00:38:30.260
with, um, many other overused internet phrases and jargon, such as you hate to see it. Yikes.
00:38:38.120
Just going to leave this here. Um, sorry, this is happening to you. Said no one ever let that sink
00:38:49.600
in. Hold my beer. Sir, this is a Wendy's. Let's be clear shots fired. I'll take blank for a thousand
00:38:58.340
Alex full stop. Um, don't at me this period. This didn't age. Well, asking for a friend RT. If you
00:39:09.120
agree, I'll wait big, if true louder for the people in the back. I don't know who, I don't know who needs
00:39:16.560
to hear this, but clap back, uh, bruh, I'm dead. I'm old enough to remember when, okay, boomer,
00:39:27.700
raise your hand. If, uh, delete your account, hard pass, hot take TBH. The thing where people repeat
00:39:38.500
the same phrase over and over in all caps, you can't make this up. And then, so all of those are
00:39:45.320
banned internet phrases now. And then by a mile, my most hated is you're really going to die on this
00:39:52.400
hill. I, I hate that one the most because it's so, it is so incredibly overused and painfully
00:40:00.680
unoriginal, but it's also this, this way of mocking someone for committing the sin of having a conviction
00:40:06.680
of some kind. And it also implies that every opinion somebody expresses is somehow the most
00:40:12.260
important thing in the world to them. And they're taking some kind of last stand to defend it.
00:40:17.560
It is just a boring, bland kind of cynicism where someone expresses an idea and you're just sitting
00:40:23.820
there going basically, yeah, whatever. That, that, that's essentially what it is. Um, because you're
00:40:30.580
going to die on this hill is almost always used specifically for people who share a counterintuitive
00:40:36.720
or original opinion. And it's a way of trying to shut down that opinion, which is the last thing
00:40:42.440
we should be doing. I don't understand people who react so harshly to original ideas. You know,
00:40:47.960
I'm at the point where I don't even care what the original idea is. It doesn't even matter to me.
00:40:53.820
If you, if you can, if you're on the internet or anywhere in life sharing an original opinion,
00:40:59.660
I'm going to, I want to hear you out. I want to hear it. I don't care what it is because I am so
00:41:06.740
sick to death and tired of the same old thing and the same old talking points from everybody all the
00:41:11.820
time about everything. So that, you know, are you really going to die on this hill? I get that all
00:41:19.740
the time as you may, it may not surprise you to learn, especially when I'm talking about some kind
00:41:25.980
of more minor thing. And, uh, and, and, and, uh, it's all, you're going to die on this hill. Well,
00:41:33.560
according to people, I've died on about 6 million hills and yet I'm still standing. So no, I don't
00:41:39.220
think I'm dying on a hill. I think I'm just expressing a point of view. The other day I made
00:41:45.240
the point, I've made this point plenty of times in the past because it is important that, um, you
00:41:50.640
shouldn't, you shouldn't use ketchup with your fries. That if you're using ketchup with your fries,
00:41:55.260
that's an indication that your fries are not well-seasoned. If you have well-seasoned fries,
00:41:59.540
then ketchup actually, um, dulls the, the seasoning in the fries. And it's, it's, is a,
00:42:05.160
it's, it's not as rich, um, of an experience anymore. And so you shouldn't use fries. Ketchup
00:42:10.360
is really for children. It's not for adults. That's the point I made. And I, someone said,
00:42:14.660
are you going to die on this hill? How am I dying on a hill of ketchup? I'm just saying,
00:42:20.120
this is just my opinion about ketchup. You don't have to care. You don't have to agree.
00:42:25.260
I'm not standing here taking some last desperate stand with my dying breath saying, don't eat
00:42:32.600
ketchup. I wouldn't put it past me to make that the thing I say in my last words. My last words
00:42:38.240
probably will be something petty and stupid like that, but still, that's not really what I'm doing
00:42:42.100
right now. All right, let's go. One last, uh, email here. This is from Dan. Matt, I think you're
00:42:49.840
contradicting yourself. You complain at length about the inappropriate halftime show and said,
00:42:53.320
your kids should be able to watch the game with you. But other times I've heard you say
00:42:56.540
of people who complain about your social media content, that they can just unfollow you and
00:43:01.040
about your show that they can just stop listening. So why can't you just stop watching and turn the
00:43:05.580
channel? Why bitch about it? You're really going to die on this hill, Dan? Really? Uh, well,
00:43:12.520
there are, there are a number of differences, Dan. First of all, I think there's a rather obvious
00:43:18.660
distinction between an expressed opinion, which is all I ever do expressing opinions and something
00:43:25.560
like objectionable sexual content. So your comparison would make sense if I was rather
00:43:32.000
than sharing opinions on my podcast and on social media, if I was sorry to put this image
00:43:36.700
in your head, but if I was stripping on my podcast, um, if I was doing my, my podcast from a stripper
00:43:42.080
poll, uh, and then complaining about JLo at halftime, then maybe you'd have a case, but I'm not. All I'm
00:43:49.960
doing is talking about ideas. Second, actually you wouldn't even have a case even then, even if I was
00:43:56.560
stripping on my podcast, you still wouldn't have a case because my point is that there should be spaces
00:44:01.240
in society that are appropriate for children. I think that a football game, the biggest TV event of
00:44:07.080
the year is such a space or should be, it is such a space because you have to go out of your way,
00:44:13.620
uh, to make it not appropriate to take away that space from children. If you just played the game
00:44:19.420
and had a normal halftime show, it'd be perfectly fine for families and children, but it only becomes
00:44:25.100
inappropriate when you again, go out of your way, way wildly out of your way to make it objectionable.
00:44:32.080
My point is don't do that. Don't do it. It's, it's, it's, it's kind of, it's egregious. It's,
00:44:38.540
it's pointless. I mean, I understand the point. The point is, is, is about rating. So I get that,
00:44:44.260
but that is the point. It's a cynical point, but there's, there's, there's still, I mean,
00:44:51.340
ethically it just, it's, I don't think it's the right decision. They have every right to do it.
00:44:55.400
I'm not saying they don't have a right to, they have a right to do it. I'm saying it's the wrong thing to
00:44:58.720
do. They have a right to it, but it is not the right thing to do. Uh, and when they do,
00:45:04.960
they're taking away this space from kids. Not that kids have a God given right to it. That's not my
00:45:10.860
point. Putting that, the rights aside, I think a football game should be a space for kids and
00:45:16.520
families. That's it. My podcast, on the other hand, should that be a space for kids? I don't see any
00:45:24.600
reason why it needs to be, or should be. There are millions of podcasts out there. You know, you have
00:45:29.080
to go and seek this one out. And if your kid is interested in podcasts, well, they can, uh, they're,
00:45:34.480
they can surely find one that, that, that works for them. Um, it's different from the Superbowl,
00:45:40.240
which is a game broadcast to billions of people at a time. Something that literally the whole world
00:45:45.920
participates in almost at some level. So turning that into a nod, a non-kid friendly space
00:45:54.900
is very different from me turning this little old podcast into a non-kid friendly space.
00:46:03.280
You see the difference between those two things? I'm, I'm flattered by the comparison that you think
00:46:10.240
this podcast is as relevant and pervasive as the Superbowl, but I can assure you that it is not
00:46:17.920
put it mildly and we will leave it there, but thank you for the email. Thanks everybody for
00:46:22.560
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