Ep. 480 - Christians Volunteer To Treat Coronavirus Patients, Gay Activist Bullies Attack Them
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Gay activists are fighting to have a Christian field hospital that was treating coronavirus patients in New York City shut down because it's run by a Christian organization, Samaritan's Purse. They argue that the field hospital is anti-gay, anti-Islamic, and anti-Christian.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, gay activists campaigned against a Christian field hospital
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that was treating coronavirus patients in New York. They apparently succeeded in having the
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hospital shut down early. We'll talk about the incredible arrogance and pettiness and bigotry
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and narrow-mindedness of left-wing gay activists, which of course is everything they accuse
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their opponents of being, but they are the ones who exemplify it. Also, five headlines,
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including a video of NYPD officers making a violent social distancing arrest. And finally,
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many musical artists have released coronavirus-themed songs in the last month, as we might expect. So
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today we're going to listen to some of those songs, and we'll rate them and decide which is the best,
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because it's always fun to do that. But first, as I mentioned, Samaritan's Purse is a charitable
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organization that has been essentially run out of New York City after opening a volunteer field
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hospital to care for COVID-19 patients. Their operation in the city was coming to an end soon
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in any case, as the outbreak is increasingly brought under control in New York. But local media reports
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that controversy over the group's religious views contributed to the decision to shut it down earlier
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than expected. Now, to be absolutely clear about this, the controversy is that Samaritan's Purse is
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Christian. That's the controversy. And radical LGBT activists hate Christians. It really is as simple
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as that. Now, it should go without saying that Samaritan's Purse never discriminated against any
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patients. Okay, so this is not a controversy that stems from anything that Samaritan's Purse did.
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It volunteered to help and serve anybody, no matter their sexual orientation or their race or creed or
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anything else. And that's exactly what they did. But extremist gay groups, like the group Reclaim Pride
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Coalition in New York, rallied to have the volunteers chased out of town and are now celebrating the closing
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of a field hospital during a pandemic as a, quote, victory of the LGBT community and other oppressed
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groups. That's a quote from one of the people from the organization. A member of the coalition
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attacked New York City for, quote, bringing a huge dangerous bigot into our midst, which, you know,
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I think is maybe an overly hostile way of describing a field hospital. A huge dangerous bigot is the way it
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was described. But of course, overly hostile is the name of the game where LGBT activists are concerned.
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Another example of that, a video posted by Reclaim Pride a few days ago features a drag queen named
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Marty Cummings ranting that Samaritan's Purse is a, quote, bigoted anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ institution
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that has, quote, instilled bigoted beliefs into the world, whatever that means. I don't know how you
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instill beliefs. But in fact, let's, now that I mentioned it, let's watch this video of Marty
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Cummings, the drag queen, talking about health care volunteers. Watch this.
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Hi, I'm Marty Gold Cummings, and I'm calling upon Dr. Kenneth Davis and Dr. David Reich,
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the CEO and president of Mount Sinai, one of the foremost medical institutions in our country.
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I'm calling upon them to amend the relationship that they have with Samaritan's Purse. Samaritan's
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Purse is a bigoted, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ institution run by Franklin Graham. It's an
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organization that has used its platform to instill bigoted beliefs into the world. It is shameful
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that this organization is using a crisis as an excuse to peddle their anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ
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agenda. I am calling upon Mount Sinai to require that if the relationship with Samaritan's Purse
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continues, that Samaritan's Purse stops the practice of making volunteers sign a pledge saying
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that they will have a statement of faith, a statement of faith saying that they do not
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believe in the LGBTQ lifestyle. It is homophobic and transphobic, and it is wrong. And this
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organization is about to expand from 68 beds to hundreds of beds in the city. I urge you and
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demand you to require Samaritan's Purse to drop this part of their agenda immediately.
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Now, there is, of course, no doubt that a man who provides the essential service of dancing in
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women's clothes is in a good position to criticize volunteer health care workers. No doubt about that.
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But even so, I have to wonder why Cummings, if he cares so much for LGBTQ people and Muslims,
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why he's calling for the banishment of an organization that serves LGBTQ people and Muslims,
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among others. Also, speaking of Muslims, I'd like to know if Cummings has ever spoken out against any
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Muslim group for their bigoted quote-unquote views about the LGBT community. If it was a Muslim
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charitable organization serving the sick in New York, it's not, it's Christian. But if it was Muslim,
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would Cummings be making these same criticisms? Or would he, in fact, be attacking anyone who says
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exactly what he is saying about Samaritan's Purse? Everything he's saying about Samaritan's Purse,
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if someone else were to say that about a Muslim group, he'd be calling them, not the Muslim group,
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but the person saying it, a bigot. And we all know that. We'll talk more about this in just a second.
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off. Okay. So back to Samaritan's Purse and Reclaim Pride and guys like this drag queen here
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attacking Christians. Now, they would never do this with any other religious group, especially
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a Muslim group. And I would say the same thing of, for example, New York City Council Speaker
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Corey Johnson, who excoriated the Christian group in a lengthy Twitter tirade, claiming that Samaritan's
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Purse is, quote, an affront to our values of inclusion and is painful for all New Yorkers.
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He's describing it as painful and an affront to our values for Christians to help sick people.
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That's what he's talking about here. Johnson said that Samaritan's Purse, the founder of Samaritan's
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Purse, Franklin Graham, is notoriously bigoted and hate spewing. And he said that Samaritan's
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Purse, quote, came at a time when our city couldn't in good conscience turn away any offer to help.
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I think we should pause here for a moment and appreciate the just awe-inspiring pettiness
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of this accusation. Because it's not very often that a person is accused of nefariously taking
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advantage of a crisis in order to provide kindness and charity. That's what he's saying.
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He's saying these dastardly evildoers came here and they offered their help and their kindness at a
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time when we couldn't turn them away. Okay, so what's the problem exactly? Now, Johnson, along with
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many other critics of the organization, such as Cummings, like you heard, they also take issue with
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the statement of faith that all volunteers of Samaritan's Purse are required to sign. But contrary
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to how this statement is characterized by LGBT activists, there is nothing bigoted about it.
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Okay, now this is a long statement. It's not just about marriage and sexuality. I think there's
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like 11 or 12 points of Christian doctrine that volunteers are asked to affirm. Only one of them
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touches on the issue of marriage and sexuality. But here's what that relevant portion says.
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We believe God's plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage.
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That God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. God instituted
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monogamous marriage between male and female as a foundation of the family and the basic structure
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of human society. For this reason, we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic
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male and one genetic female. This is a basic Christian tenet. It does not
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require or even imply bigotry towards anyone. And to me, it seems a rather reasonable thing for a
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Christian organization in order to preserve its identity as a Christian organization to ensure
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that its members are in fact Christian by having them sign a statement like this. Now, what would be
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unreasonable and truly bigoted is if patients who came there sick and were in need of help were made to
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sign a statement pledging their fealty and obedience to Christian doctrine before receiving the treatment
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they need? If that's what Samaritan's Purse was doing, then I would agree that we've got a huge
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problem here. But that's not what they do. They serve everybody. So what's the lesson here?
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The real lesson is one that we've learned many times over by now. Left-wing gay activists are so
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often bullies who wish to impose their priorities and their viewpoints on everybody else in every
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situation, no matter the context. These are people of such narrow minds and such prejudicial
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dispositions that they would actually hail the shuttering of a Christian field hospital during a
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pandemic as a victory for their cause. And it is a victory for their cause if their cause is to be so
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unsympathetic and so unlikable that even people who disagree with the Christian teaching on human
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sexuality are tempted to defend it just to spite them. Gay activists always claim
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that they just want to be left alone, to live their own life, make their own choices.
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But, you know, that's exactly what they won't allow anyone else to do.
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It turns out that, you know, they don't just want their choices to be tolerated or allowed. They want
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their choices to be affirmed. And as far as they're concerned, it's our job. The rest of society,
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it's our job to provide that affirmation to them all the time, constantly, even during a pandemic.
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During a pandemic, our primary duty is still, as far as they're concerned, to provide affirmation,
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to be affirmation providers to the radical LGBT left. Now, Samaritan's Purse, on the other hand,
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if you compare their approach, they were just trying to help people. And if there was any attempt to
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evangelize, which there's no doubt that Samaritan's Purse, one of their great goals is to spread the
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gospel. Okay? Guilty as charged, I'm sure. I'm sure they would admit that. But they aren't doing it
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through bigotry. They aren't doing it through imposing themselves on anyone. They aren't doing
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it by, you know, as like I said, requiring that patients be baptized in order to receive treatment.
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That's not how they're doing it. If they're evangelizing it, they're doing it by deed and
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example. They're setting a good example, and then they're hoping that people will see this and ask
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themselves, well, why are these people doing this? Why are they serving? Why are they? And then they'll
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get a chance at that point to talk about the gospel. Maybe gay activists should try a similar strategy,
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because right now they're doing the opposite. Maybe rather than going around screaming and crying and
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accusing everyone of being a bigot, even as you yourself are a bigot, maybe rather than trying to
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shut down field hospitals, maybe rather than trying to make everything about yourself all the time, maybe
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rather than trying to shove your sexuality in everybody's face while you claim that's not what
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you're doing, but that's exactly what you're doing. Rather than doing that, maybe just like
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be good people and go out and help people. Why aren't you out there volunteering if you're trying
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to shut down other volunteers and lead by example? And then when someone sees your great example and
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they talk to you and they ask, why are you doing this? Why are you being so kind? Then you'll get a
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chance to open up and talk about your worldview and what deeply motivates you. How about that for
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a, for a, for a, for an idea? But don't let me stop you if you're a, you know, a radical leftist LGBT
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activist, because what you're doing right now is your strategy right now is completely undermining
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everything you want. You know, it's good for the people who oppose you because like I said, even,
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even people who are inclined to agree with you cannot stand you with this kind of thing. How could they?
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I mean, what do you think's going to happen? What do you really think people are going to rally to
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your, to your cause and to your position and find you sympathetic when you are protesting field
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going to news. First of all, number one headline daily wire, uh, it says more than 40% of small
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businesses may close in the next six months. Reading from the article a little bit, it says
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in addition to record unemployment numbers, experts now predict that a wave of small business
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bankruptcies is on the horizon and it could leave the United States with 40% fewer small businesses.
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The New York Times reports that the United States chambers of commerce estimates more than 40% of
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the nation's 30 million small businesses could close permanently in the next six months. A statistic
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entirely attributable to the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing lockdowns. Now, when you read something
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like this, um, it, this should be headline news everywhere. I mean, this, this should be the main
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thing we're talking about right now. 40% of small, small businesses going under is an absolute
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catastrophe. And the economy doesn't simply bounce back from that. Like it never happened.
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Uh, you can't lose 40% of your small businesses and continue along like nothing happened. It doesn't
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work that way. And it's important to remember that, you know, a lot of these big corporations
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are doing perfectly well through all of this or doing even better. Some of them, you know,
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the Walmart's of the world, they're, they're, they're even hiring workers right now, which is
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good that they're hiring, but because they get to be open. And, um, what's, what's happened in so
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many cases is that all the small businesses, the small businesses that were already struggling to
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compete with these big box stores, they'd been shut down while the big powerful, uh, retailers get to
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stay open. And now all of those customers who used to go to the small businesses, now they're all being
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forced to go to the big box stores. And, uh, it's, it's, you know, I don't think that this is a,
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this is a coincidence that it just so happens that the big powerful corporations with all this money
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and influence, they get to stay open while the businesses that don't have that influence have to
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shut. Um, I think it's just a, an absolute outrage. Number two, New York times reports a new book in
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the twilight series titled midnight sun will be told from the perspective of Edward Cullen. So a
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new twilight is coming out. And all I can say about that is that it proves without a shadow of a doubt
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that God's wrath has truly come upon us. Um, epidemic murder hornet hornets now twilights
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repent ye sinners. Okay. This is, this is truly,
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this is truly the apocalypse. Number three, CNN reports, Joe Biden says his vice presidential committee
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is looking at more than a dozen women. That's a direct quote. His vice presidential committee is
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looking at more than a dozen women. And I know what you're thinking when you hear that. If he's
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just looking, that's at least a little progress. And I agree. So it's good to see this kind of
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personal growth from the democratic nominee. Number four, police officers in New York were attempting to
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make a social distancing arrest a few days ago and things went sideways and it was caught on video
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as it so often is when things go sideways in these situations. Um, before I play it a little bit of
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context. So apparently according to the police commissioner, two people were on the sidewalk in
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New York, um, talking, one was sitting on a milk crate and another was standing there and they were,
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I don't know, having a conversation. Police approached and, uh, uh, uh, approached them
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because they were violating social distancing. And then supposedly it's also added that they noticed
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marijuana that one of them had on them. Now this doesn't make a lot of sense to me because it's
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being reported at a, as a social distancing arrest. Then the reports also mentioned that,
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oh yeah, the cops said there was marijuana. So which is it? Was it a, was it a drug arrest or was
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a social distancing? Um, or did they, were they arresting them for the social distancing thing?
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And then they found the marijuana in the process? I don't know. So, but that's what leads up to
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Hey, come on. Stop. No, no, y'all going to jail.
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What are you doing? What are you doing? Yo, come on. Yo, what's going on? I didn't do nothing.
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Move back. Move the f**k back right now. Move the f**k back right now. Move the f**k back. Move the f**k back.
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But you got lost on the truth. He ain't f**k here.
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Look, look, look. He ain't even do nothing. He ain't even do nothing. He ain't even do nothing. He ain't even do nothing. Look.
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He ain't even do nothing. He ain't even do nothing. He's f**k.
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Okay. A lot of additional context is needed here. Obviously we don't, we don't know everything we
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need to know. Um, and we do know that you can't always take these videos at face value. So that's
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true. But with that said, a few things I think can be stated with a degree of confidence. First of all,
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slapping a guy in the face repeatedly is not necessary. Is those, those open hand slaps.
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You're not, you're not going to subdue someone that way. It seems to me just matter of human
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psychology. All you're going to do is piss somebody off doing that. So that, that, that can't possibly
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be a legitimate tactic for police to use when arresting someone. There's no way that that's,
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that that actually helps in the, in the, in the effort of arresting them. The only reason you slap a guy
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in the face is if you're mad, it's the same reason anybody else would do it. So that cop was mad. It
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was very clear in the video. He was ticked off and, uh, he was taking it out on the other guy,
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but call me a libertarian, I guess, because I have to take the rather radical position that cops don't
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have the right to physically take their frustrations out on the population. They have as much a right to
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slap somebody in anger as I do. And I have no right to do that. So neither do they.
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Um, now you can say the other guy should have backed off. He should have complied, whatever.
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Fine. That doesn't mean that the cops can just kick your butt because they feel like it because
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they're, they're mad. Um, and if, if they're arresting you, I mean the idea, and you see these
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in the video sometimes where they're arresting someone and they'll just, they'll just get a few
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shots in just for the sake of it while they're arresting somebody. How is that acceptable?
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Um, second, whether the arrest of that guy was justified or not, I'll tell you right now that
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these kinds of incidents and these kinds of videos, uh, tied one way or another to social distancing
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enforcement is how you get a complete breakdown of the whole social distancing scheme. Uh, it's how you
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get riots and chaos. So if you want riots, this is how you get them just like this with videos of
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cops beating the hell out of citizens in an effort to enforce social distancing. It doesn't matter that
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more context is needed. It doesn't matter if there's more to the story. When people start to get the
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impression that they are in a, that they are living in a violent police state where if they, you know,
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don't keep a proper distance from someone else, they can get their asses kicked by the cops.
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That's when the backlash really starts. I mean, these protests we've seen are nothing in comparison
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to what you get when, when, when you have mass amounts of people who start to believe that they're
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in a police state. And the thing is we are in a police state. This is just a dramatic illustration of
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that fact. Five, finally, just to give you yet another, another thing to worry about, um, monkeys
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on motorcycles are now patrolling the streets, trying to kidnap our children. Watch this.
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I just have so many questions about this, but I want to focus on, on just one right now. Um, and that
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is why is everybody else so lackadaisical in their response to what's happening? A monkey,
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rode up on a miniature motorcycle and dragged away a child. Why is there not more of a freak out over
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this event? You see the woman on the bench, she, I assume that's her kid. She's just watching it
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happen. Like this is some kind of everyday occurrence. She doesn't even get up. You see that she sits
00:26:00.860
there and watches the kid get dragged away by a monkey. The guy on the balcony is shouting at the
00:26:06.140
monkey, but not with anything near the sort of urgency and surprise that you might expect.
00:26:10.720
Then the other guy comes walking in casually after the monkey already ditched the child. The guy,
00:26:16.000
the guy comes walking in not, not, not very, you know, upset, just sort of like, Hey monkey,
00:26:22.100
come on, come on, come on. What are you doing? Enough with the kidnapping. All right. Sheesh.
00:26:28.320
But then I think I'm actually sort of envious that these people are apparently living the kind of life
00:26:34.340
where a kidnapping monkey on a motorcycle isn't all that interesting. Can you imagine living a life
00:26:41.500
where that doesn't interest you? That's not even anything to like talk about. You go to dinner,
00:26:48.480
you sit down at dinner later and you don't even bring it up what you saw because it's, it's,
00:26:52.500
it's such a normal occurrence. That seems like an exciting life. I'm wondering what would it take
00:26:57.980
to rate a surprised reaction from the people in that video? Would they need like a machine gun wielding
00:27:06.320
flamingo on a pogo stick, robbing a bank? Would that, would that do it? I don't know, but I,
00:27:16.820
I for one am flabbergasted. That's the only word that would describe what we just watched flabbergasting.
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whiny parents who don't like being around their own children. We talked about this briefly a few
00:29:04.780
days ago. Somebody wrote into the show and brought up this issue of, um, parents complaining about being
00:29:10.680
around their kids during quarantine. And I said at the time that yes, I being under house arrest with
00:29:15.540
young children is stressful. It is, and challenging. No doubt about that. I'm under house arrest with, uh,
00:29:22.760
four kids, six and under. It's a stressful time, you know, but everybody's stressed out. So there's,
00:29:28.600
there's nothing unique about that. And it is true that some parents have certainly gone way overboard
00:29:33.700
in their complaints as evidenced by this New York post story headline. Can parents survive months of
00:29:41.420
hell as the coronavirus cancels summer camps. Hell yes. Months of hell. It is hell to be with your own
00:29:49.580
child who you birthed and raised hell. Um, now let's read a little bit from this. It says going down in
00:29:57.340
the article a bit, it says as camp programs around the country, pull the plug to stop the spread of
00:30:02.360
COVID-19. It's the grownups who are in a pandemic panic over the loss of a summer break. Parents pay
00:30:09.920
thousands of dollars for these annual weeks of kid-free bliss and maybe even some sexy adult
00:30:15.600
adventures. I don't know why we had to add that in there, but we did. Now folks face surviving summer
00:30:21.340
trapped with their stir crazy kids after an already chaotic month of homeschooling and quarantine.
00:30:26.940
Um, Forest Hills mom, Deborah Davis Hurwitz says, I almost cried. It's a bad blow. Her 11 year old
00:30:35.900
Jordan was all set for his sleep away camp at Massachusetts Six Points SciTech Academy, which
00:30:41.540
runs, uh, you know, about $3,500 to almost $5,000 per session until bombshell bad news dropped on
00:30:48.700
Thursday. It's going to be bedlam, especially for us parents in the city. Hurwitz says of the closure,
00:30:53.920
he took it better than me because I'm going to be stuck with him. Uh, Debbie, this is
00:31:00.880
your child. You're talking about, you're saying this publicly. He's 11 years old. He can read,
00:31:07.380
I assume. So he can, he knows that you said this, you're going to be stuck with him and you're dreading
00:31:13.780
it. Amanda Goldberg says I'm 100% in panic mode. Her son, 12 years old, Justin was set to attend the
00:31:23.200
exclusive $14,000, um, Explo overnight summer program for the third straight year. The idea
00:31:32.320
that both kids will be home with no town pools, no beaches open. What will we do? How will we make
00:31:38.560
it through the day? Two kids. Okay. You got two kids. One of them is 12, which is no big deal.
00:31:46.460
I've got four kids again, six and under. We don't have pools. We don't have beaches.
00:31:50.700
Suck it up, buttercup. While the 43 year old from Mount, uh, Kisco in Westchester already got
00:31:59.660
the, her, her jaw dropping deposit back for the six week program. The mom of two and full-time
00:32:05.400
real estate agent is stumped about how to entertain her little darlings all summer long. It seems like
00:32:10.360
a first world problem, but these kids have been home since March. Yes, you got it right there.
00:32:16.580
It is. Uh, it's a first world problem. Um, uh, let's see. Parents like Brett, who also has a 10 year
00:32:25.320
old son, Zach are scrambling to come up with contingency plans that will both keep him and
00:32:29.860
his parents and his kids sane this summer. So far, they've only come up with gulp in old school sleep
00:32:36.280
over with friends. If it's safe, Brett says the important thing is camp is not a place. It's an
00:32:41.980
emotion, a feeling of value, and that can't ever be taken away. You can't cancel that.
00:32:49.520
Okay. First of all, I don't know where to begin. Brett camp isn't a place. It's an emotion of what a
00:33:01.200
value. What the hell? What are you babbling about? How is summer camp a value? What's your
00:33:09.940
value system? Um, summer camp. That's my value system. That basically sums it up. You get what
00:33:16.480
I'm saying. Don't you? What? Oh man. Can you imagine your dad saying this? I cannot imagine my dad.
00:33:26.220
I can't imagine my dad, that sentence coming out of his mouth. Camp isn't a place. It's a feeling.
00:33:32.460
It's an emotion. It's a value. And then all the rest of them, um, you know, get over yourselves,
00:33:40.120
you ridiculous babies. God forbid you have to spend some time with your kids. I mean, think about these
00:33:48.300
parents, what it's normally like for them under normal circumstances. The kid spends nine months at
00:33:55.180
school. Uh, so, and for these parents, I'm sure it's private school, not public, but either way
00:34:00.560
under normal circumstances, they're at school all day, nine months, and then summer rolls around and
00:34:06.460
you immediately ship them away to sleep, to sleep away camp. Like, do you not want to be around your
00:34:12.120
kid at all? Do you dislike your children that much? Why did you even have kids if you have no interest in
00:34:18.000
ever being around them? Also keep in mind that, um, a lot of these rich families have nannies too.
00:34:26.640
So they've got school during the week, nannies and babysitters for the weekend, um, camp in the
00:34:33.400
summer. Their goal is just to never, ever, ever spend one second alone with their child.
00:34:40.840
And that's why it's hell for them right now. That's why it's hell. It's for the rest of us. It's
00:34:45.280
stressful. It's difficult, right? It's there, there are aspects of it when your kid is trapped
00:34:50.120
inside. Now, as I said, we've got a yard, so our kids can play outside at least, but, uh, they can't
00:34:54.520
be with their friends and all this because it's tough on the kids too, but I wouldn't call it hell.
00:35:00.880
It's hell for these people because this is the first time in their lives that they've been forced
00:35:05.140
to actually be parents. Yeah. You got, you got a, uh, whoever the Deborah or Amanda, they've,
00:35:12.080
they've got a 12 year old kid. This is a, they've had kids for 12 years, first time in 12 years that
00:35:18.200
they've actually had to be a parent. And that's why it's hell. They, uh, they just, they don't know.
00:35:24.820
They're like starting from scratch. You know, it's for them, it's like the experience of a,
00:35:28.540
of most parents when you've got a newborn, your first newborn. And it's this huge adjustment
00:35:33.400
because you went from having no kids to having kids. And for some of these parents,
00:35:37.660
uh, these rich yuppie parents who send their kids to sleep away camps and private schools
00:35:42.100
for them, this is like being a parent of a newborn again. Like it's like you're experiencing
00:35:47.680
parenthood for real for the first time and they're having difficulty with it. Okay. Um,
00:35:54.020
moving on in lieu of emails today, I wanted to do something more important. Uh, I read an article
00:35:58.520
from the AP yesterday about all these bands and artists who are, um, putting out coronavirus songs.
00:36:05.640
And, uh, I think it's great that, uh, you know, coronavirus has now become its own genre of music.
00:36:13.520
And I hope that that continues even when the coronavirus goes away, whenever that happens,
00:36:17.880
if it ever does. But the important question is out of all these coronavirus songs,
00:36:22.180
which one is the best? So I'd like to go through some of these songs that the AP mentions,
00:36:27.220
and then a few others that I found on a random YouTube search, um, to find the absolute best,
00:36:32.580
the champion. What is, what is the, the, the, the quintessential coronavirus song that will stand
00:36:39.780
as the anthem for these times that we're living in? Okay. First, here's a John Bon Jovi looking like
00:36:46.680
Richard Gere's great uncle, even though I'm pretty sure Bon Jovi is younger, I think, but here is, um,
00:37:07.380
Tonight they're shutting down the borders and they boarded up the school. Small towns are rolling up
00:37:14.940
the sidewalks, one less paychecks coming through. I know you're feeling kind of nervous. We're all a
00:37:22.240
little bit confused. Nothing's the same. This ain't a game. We gotta make it through.
00:37:29.140
When you can do what you do, you do what you can. This ain't my prayer. It's just a thought I'm
00:37:38.640
wanting to send. Round here we've been, but don't break. Down here we all understand. You can do what
00:37:47.560
you do. You do what you can. All right. See, I'm always a sucker for a song where it's just an old
00:37:54.480
guy with a limited vocal range, strumming an acoustic guitar, singing about the troubles in the
00:37:59.560
world. I pretty much will love any song like that. It doesn't matter. I like all those songs without
00:38:04.640
exception. And this is no exception. Um, I, I do like it. I feel like Bon Jovi probably needs to
00:38:12.020
work on the hook a little bit. When you, when you can't do what you do, you do what you can.
00:38:19.820
But what I do is what I can. So how can I do what I can if I can't do what I do?
00:38:26.940
It's not like I do what I can't. I can't, I can't do what I can't because I can't. So I only ever do
00:38:36.040
what I can. So doing what I can is synonymous with doing what I do. So if I'm not doing what I do,
00:38:42.380
I'm not doing what I can. You see, I, I, the, the chorus raises all kinds of philosophical and
00:38:49.680
ontological questions, which maybe is the point of it the more I think about it. Um, so yes, I like this
00:38:54.560
one. The philosophical bent to it is interesting. I'll give it three and a half stars out of five.
00:38:59.800
Now here's the artist Pitbull with a song called, I believe that we will win parentheses world anthem.
00:39:08.160
So he's setting the bar pretty high here. He's saying this is a world anthem.
00:39:12.120
Let's see if Pitbull can pull it off. Here it is.
00:39:16.280
You know, it spreads faster than any virus. It's fear.
00:39:21.360
Now when it comes to fear, you can either forget everything and run.
00:39:33.480
Let me tell you what I believe. I believe that.
00:39:38.780
I believe that we will win. I believe that we will win.
00:39:43.280
it's not how you fall it's how you get back up and what don't kill us make a stronger boy
00:39:59.500
okay just stop stop it right there stop right there because i can't
00:40:09.680
um i can't do this i'm gonna have a seizure first of all from the video for one thing for another
00:40:18.380
how many cliches can you pack into 50 seconds he just front-loaded this song with every cliche
00:40:26.740
known to man this is the laziest song i've ever heard in my life this makes i mean this makes
00:40:33.820
like an ariana grande song sound innovative and creative by comparison i believe that we will
00:40:41.120
win it's not how you fall it's how you get back up well don't but what doesn't kill us it will make
00:40:46.120
us stronger you really put all of that into the first verse it's just it's just a parade of cliches
00:40:53.160
and none of that is true by the way as it pertains to a virus the virus definitely will not make you
00:40:59.620
stronger necessarily if you get it now you could get a you know it's maybe you'll um you get a bit
00:41:06.680
of immunity from it but at the same time it can cause lung damage permanently so there's no guarantee
00:41:13.200
at all that it's going to make you stronger and i would also say that from the government seizing all
00:41:18.880
of our civil liberties we are not stronger as a country after this we have less liberty fewer rights
00:41:24.180
so it's not even true um so i don't know this guy's a millionaire musical artist one of the
00:41:32.640
most successful in the world and this is the kind of songwriting talent he has i i could have written
00:41:37.340
this song when i was seven years old i give this negative 15 stars out of five and may god have mercy
00:41:42.880
on pitbull's soul all right here's uh the band 21 pilots with a song called level of concern
00:41:51.780
panic on the brain world has gone insane things are starting to get heavy
00:42:07.900
i can't help but think i haven't felt this way since i asked you to go steady
00:42:15.680
wondering would you be my little quarantine or is this the way it ends
00:42:23.680
cause i told you my level of concern but you walk by like you've never heard
00:42:31.020
you could bring down my level of concern just need you to tell me we're all right tell me we're okay
00:42:39.740
panic on the brain michael's gone insane julie starts to make me nervous
00:42:47.120
i don't really care what they would say i'm asking you to stay
00:43:03.040
okay see again i i'm i'm listening to the songwriting and i i'm just not impressed with the songwriting at all
00:43:08.880
would you be my little quarantine i don't know what that means i don't i don't understand what that means
00:43:13.920
this is a big moment for musicians all around the world
00:43:17.600
okay they should be making classics distilling how we feel putting it into song lighting the path
00:43:32.520
zero out of five stars disgraceful let's go to a guy named tom mcdonald with a song called
00:43:38.720
coronavirus not a lot of creativity put into the title so we're not off on a good foot here
00:43:42.420
but um tom mcdonald i've never heard of this guy
00:43:45.960
sounds like this is another old guy with an acoustic guitar
00:43:52.320
i don't know what to think about this virus okay just pause it there for a minute scratch that
00:44:07.280
not an old guy with an acoustic guitar turns out this instead is a guy who has
00:44:15.280
because that's the only career path you can choose with all the face tats
00:44:19.300
well that's not true you could be a rapper you could be a tattoo artist you could be um
00:44:23.960
member of a biker gang or any gang really probably a youth pastor
00:44:28.740
maybe all four of those at once so he's got some options he's got some options um let's go back to
00:44:34.280
the song i don't know what to think about this virus started in china now everybody in america's hiding
00:44:40.080
there's no groceries because people start to panic and buy it the shelves are empty the ones
00:44:43.720
with plenty already stockpiling y'all making memes think it's funny wait a week till the riots
00:44:47.580
wait a month till the only way to eat is be violent it's not the sickness is scary it's all
00:44:51.620
the people who are in the government lying they trying to keep us calm through the sirens you know
00:44:55.300
it's for real and all the pharmaceutical giants don't have a cure that they can sell you so now
00:44:59.180
everyone's dying there's no vaccines or medication made they can fight it i guess it's time to pray to god
00:45:03.660
we can't rely on the science and everyone around me in a mask and some gloves the stock market crashed
00:45:08.780
and the banks bought the bus tell us sanitize our hands this will pass it's a bug stay inside you'll
00:45:13.240
be fine till we're trapped there for months it's a ghost town we're in this together they're closing
00:45:20.580
all the stores down we're heading for shelter it's all war now they'll always remember we're locking
00:45:30.460
all our doors down we're sticking together okay we could stop it there and i funny enough um i was
00:45:40.460
actually thinking about getting the same piercing that he has on the lip right here so i like that
00:45:44.040
but you know what i do like i i appreciate the fact he's he's actually trying to say something
00:45:49.960
he has something to say he's a message to send you can tell he pulls put some thought into this
00:45:55.780
whereas pitbull scratched his song on the back of a on the back of a of a napkin in in 15 and a half
00:46:02.360
seconds um he put a little bit of thought into this so i'll give this four out of five i'll give
00:46:06.360
this four out of five stars okay that's a high rating for me a couple more this is benjamin gibbard
00:46:11.840
of death cab for cutie with a song called life in quarantine let's take a listen
00:47:42.800
because again you know it is a guy with an acoustic guitar
00:49:02.800
okay wait let's just stop it there for a second
00:49:18.660
you know i i guess this is this is what rappers do when they're home alone
00:49:27.400
but i guess if you're rich and you're a rapper this is what you do
00:49:31.760
because i'm liking this i'm i'm vibing to it as the kids would say
00:50:08.940
i've ever seen somebody flaunting hundred dollar bills