The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 536 - Genius Woman Says America Is Too Violent, Moves To Mexico

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, we'll discuss the very funny but also instructive story of a woman who left America because of its violence and racism and moved instead to Mexico, a country that is, of course, far worse than America in every category and by every measure.

00:00:15.900 Also, five headlines, including Joe Biden continuing to fall apart on camera and supposedly the supposedly surging QAnon movement that the media is talking a lot about.

00:00:25.100 Why are they talking so much about QAnon? We'll talk about that. And in our daily cancellation, I'll cancel Ryan Reynolds for being the latest celebrity to issue a groveling and ridiculous apology.

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00:02:15.120 OK, so an article published this week on CNN is worth a closer inspection for two very excellent reasons.

00:02:23.200 First of all, it's unintentionally hilarious.

00:02:25.640 Second, it reveals the total incoherence and rampant self-contradiction of the America is racist and evil crowd.

00:02:33.580 The piece titled, She Packed Her Bags, Quit Her Job in Law Enforcement and Moved to Mexico After George Floyd's Death.

00:02:41.760 That's the title.

00:02:42.400 Tells the story of a woman named Demetria Brown, who, as the title suggests, fled alleged systemic persecution in America

00:02:53.320 and sought refuge in the peaceful utopia of the second most violent country on Earth, right behind Syria, by the way. 0.92

00:03:00.080 Let's read a little bit from this article.

00:03:03.540 It says,

00:03:03.900 On June 1st, a week after Floyd's death, Brown quit her job as a detention officer for the Los Angeles County Probation Department.

00:03:11.080 In the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, she sold her house, stuffed her belongings into 13 duffel bags,

00:03:16.900 and relocated to Puerto Vallarta on Mexico's Pacific coast.

00:03:24.460 Brown, 42, is one of many African Americans leaving the United States permanently for many reasons, including racism and fear of police brutality.

00:03:32.540 Her flight landed in her new hometown on June 25th, a month to the day that Floyd died.

00:03:38.160 We're then informed that a number of black Americans have chosen to engage in what is apparently by some people being called Blacksit.

00:03:44.460 And the article goes on from there.

00:03:48.340 A little bit more from CNN.

00:03:49.640 It says,

00:03:49.960 While there are no official statistics on how many have left the country, black people have turned to social media to get insight from those who've relocated,

00:03:57.880 especially to African and Caribbean nations, where some say they feel safer as part of the majority.

00:04:05.080 Majority.

00:04:05.500 For Brown, following her heart and living without fear of racism, keep that in mind,

00:04:10.860 meant moving to the resort town 1,200 miles from the city she'd worked as a detention officer since 2004.

00:04:18.520 It also says that she visited Mexico several times before she decided to relocate to the nation,

00:04:25.200 which the State Department says is home to 1.5 million U.S. citizens.

00:04:29.180 That number includes U.S.-born children who've returned to their Mexican parents, American retirees, and digital nomads.

00:04:37.760 It continues, she calls the move the best decision she's ever made.

00:04:43.320 And it says,

00:04:44.100 While Mexico is not perfect and has its own problems, she says,

00:04:48.340 she's never encountered any racism in the tourist destination made famous by the 1960s film The Night of the Iguana.

00:04:55.700 Now, we're also told that Brown is a life coach now and a travel blogger.

00:05:01.020 And I admit, I don't know much about the life coaching business,

00:05:04.920 but I would highly recommend that if you pay someone to coach you through life

00:05:09.080 and their coaching tip is to move to a crime-ridden third-world country where severed heads litter the streets,

00:05:17.420 ask for your money back.

00:05:19.020 That's just, that's the advice I would give, all right?

00:05:21.040 Now, granted, Brown, because she is so dedicated to equality and social justice,

00:05:26.720 has chosen to live in a resort town where, you know, rich people go to be pampered by impoverished locals.

00:05:32.900 That's how, that's how socially aware she is.

00:05:35.240 And that should afford her some measure of insulation and protection from the horrors that are a daily part of life for many Mexicans.

00:05:42.040 But that doesn't change the fact that Mexico is, by every conceivable measure, considerably worse than the United States.

00:05:50.720 Let's go through some of those measures, shall we?

00:05:53.000 Mexico's murder rate is seven times higher than the U.S.

00:05:57.060 Police corruption is so bad that entire police forces are arrested for being on the payroll of the drug cartels.

00:06:03.740 What about racism?

00:06:05.020 Well, funny enough, CNN has itself reported that racism in Mexico, quote,

00:06:09.700 hides in plain sight and that, quote, the best, highest paying jobs, the most important jobs in Mexico often seem to go to those who,

00:06:17.500 in addition to having the best education, the strongest connections, have the lightest skin.

00:06:21.140 That's what CNN told us in an article.

00:06:23.140 What about treatment of immigrants?

00:06:24.440 USA Today reports that immigrants in Mexico are treated, quote, much worse than they are in, quote, any other country.

00:06:31.340 Someone who moves to Mexico, especially from countries to the south,

00:06:34.100 faces a significant chance of being kidnapped by a cartel, robbed or extorted by police or other government officials.

00:06:42.740 Mexico is indeed far tougher, both in legal and illegal ways, on immigrants and refugees.

00:06:49.920 And if Brown thinks that, well, at least Mexico is a place where income equality reigns supreme, she is again delusional.

00:06:56.420 The vast majority of the wealth in the country is concentrated in the hands of the elites, while nearly half of the population lives in poverty.

00:07:04.480 By comparison, the poverty rate in the United States is less than 12 percent.

00:07:08.920 It's like 48 percent or around there in Mexico, 12 percent in the United States.

00:07:13.940 Mexico is less safe, less equitable, less tolerant, less progressive, right down the line in every category.

00:07:22.420 Though I'm sure it's still nice in the resort towns, I guess, and maybe pretty there.

00:07:28.320 There's pretty views, provided you don't travel too far outside of them and find yourself getting robbed at gunpoint by a federally or kidnapped and beheaded by a cartel.

00:07:37.000 But this is, as I said, instructive.

00:07:40.860 Those who complain about all of the alleged systemic problems in America tend to have a childishly simplistic, if not hallucinatory view of the issues in question and the world at large.

00:07:51.620 You know, they look through a cartoon lens and believe, despite a total lack of evidence or logical reasoning, that America is uniquely racist, uniquely unjust, uniquely evil.

00:08:02.720 The absurdity of this perspective becomes all the more obvious when they act on it by leaving and seeking shelter on some other country's shores.

00:08:10.160 Because the fact is that wherever they choose, especially if they choose Mexico, but the same holds true almost anywhere else, they will end up somewhere that has quite a bit more of whatever it was they were trying to escape. 0.64

00:08:22.520 In fact, they may well find themselves in a place where the cartoon in their head has come to life.

00:08:28.820 Police in America are not prowling the streets, robbing and murdering innocent people for no reason, despite what BLM tells us.

00:08:37.360 It's not happening. It is not happening.

00:08:40.240 Police in Mexico actually are doing that.

00:08:44.160 People like Brown, you know, invent problems that don't exist in America and then move to countries where they really do exist.

00:08:51.220 And that is that is the great irony here.

00:08:56.960 So, you know, the response to America haters for a long time from the other side has been, hey, if you don't like it, get out.

00:09:05.340 And the interesting thing is that I guess now, according to CNN, some of the America haters are saying, OK, fine, we will.

00:09:14.760 But it's only proving the point of the other side because they get out and go to a place that's way, way worse.

00:09:22.980 Because as it turns out, you know, the United States of America is certainly not a perfect country by any means.

00:09:28.780 There are changes to be made. There are things to improve.

00:09:32.640 There always will be because countries are human institutions and we are a fallen species.

00:09:37.880 And that's just the way it's going to be.

00:09:39.740 So you keep working to make it better.

00:09:41.460 But in spite of all that, America is in a much better position and a much better state, again, by almost any measure when compared to nearly every other country on Earth.

00:09:58.780 And by the way, that's especially the case, especially the case when it comes to issues like racial tolerance.

00:10:06.700 Racial tolerance in many other countries, especially non-Western countries, isn't even a concept.

00:10:15.500 It's not even something that is, it's, it's, there is no real concern for it.

00:10:20.840 It isn't even discussed on an aspirational level.

00:10:24.900 Meanwhile, the United States of America, being the most diverse country on Earth, with 330 million people of many different races and backgrounds and ethnicities, all living together.

00:10:38.240 I mean, if you, if you tried that experiment in many other countries, it would be a total unmitigated disaster.

00:10:44.420 Um, and, uh, here it works better than it would work anywhere else.

00:10:50.380 And that's just the simple fact of the matter.

00:10:52.960 Let's move on to our five headlines.

00:11:01.020 Well, these are always, uh, fun.

00:11:03.300 Joe Biden was interviewed by, I believe, Yahoo News and was asked whether he would take a cognitive test.

00:11:10.420 Uh, and his answer, you might say, proves why he needs one.

00:11:16.340 Watch.

00:11:17.380 Have you taken a cognitive test?

00:11:19.540 No, I haven't taken a test.

00:11:21.440 Why the hell would I take a test?

00:11:24.180 Come on, man. 0.69

00:11:25.800 That's like saying you, before you got in this program, you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not.

00:11:30.500 What do you think, huh?

00:11:32.140 Are you a junkie? 0.87

00:11:32.800 What do you say to President Trump, who brags about his test and makes your mental state an issue for voters? 0.98

00:11:42.480 Well, if he can't figure out the difference between an elephant and a lion, I don't know what the hell he's talking about.

00:11:48.960 Did you watch that?

00:11:49.840 Look, come on, man.

00:11:50.720 I know you're trying to goad me, but, I mean, I'm so forward-looking to have an opportunity to sit with the president or stand with the president in debates.

00:12:01.680 There are going to be plenty of time.

00:12:03.660 And, by the way, as I joke with him, you know, I shouldn't say it.

00:12:08.320 I'm going to say something I don't – I probably shouldn't say.

00:12:10.560 Anyway, I am very willing to let the American public judge my physical and mental – my physical as well as my mental fitness.

00:12:21.200 Oh, Joe.

00:12:22.160 Joe, Joe, Joe.

00:12:23.720 That – you know, I'm at the point now where I actually am rooting for Joe during these interviews.

00:12:28.900 I really am.

00:12:29.680 I don't say that ironically.

00:12:31.160 I really want him to get through it and perform well in the interviews.

00:12:33.840 I don't want him to win the election, but just from the sheer weight of the second-hand embarrassment watching this, I want Joe to do well.

00:12:43.540 I really am pulling for him.

00:12:46.140 Though, watching this, I'm not really sure if dementia is the problem versus drunkenness because he really came off like a drunk guy, especially in the first part of that interview.

00:12:58.300 Come on, man.

00:13:00.440 Come on, man.

00:13:01.160 That would be like me asking you if you were taking cocaine.

00:13:08.620 Come on, man.

00:13:13.440 It's bad news, and this is – and here's the difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

00:13:22.340 We played that interview yesterday of Donald Trump, Axios, and it was – I mean, unless you have completely –

00:13:31.140 sacrificed your brain to partisanship, there's no denying that that interview was a disaster for Donald Trump.

00:13:35.900 But – and he did stammer around like he tends to do, and it was relatively incoherent.

00:13:42.740 But it's not incoherent in exactly the same way.

00:13:47.100 There's sort of a difference.

00:13:48.060 Whatever else you say about Donald Trump, you don't really get the impression that he's plunging into senility, even though he's not much younger than Joe Biden.

00:14:00.620 You don't get that impression.

00:14:02.420 With his incoherence and his eccentricity, shall we say, it's just that's who he is.

00:14:07.080 That's how he's always been.

00:14:08.400 That's just his personality, for better or worse.

00:14:11.560 With Joe Biden, though, it's a very different sort of thing, as I think most people can tell if they're being honest.

00:14:18.020 Number two, this was interesting.

00:14:19.120 Kindergarten Cop – the movie Kindergarten Cop is now canceled.

00:14:23.000 As we go through and belatedly purge all books, shows, movies, films that might be offensive to anyone, anywhere for any reason.

00:14:30.600 Kindergarten Cop, the movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher.

00:14:34.960 I don't remember why he did it.

00:14:37.240 What was the reason for that?

00:14:39.740 Was one of the kindergarten students in a drug gang or something?

00:14:44.240 He was trying to – I don't remember.

00:14:46.800 Anyway, that's now on the chopping block.

00:14:48.820 It was supposed to be shown at a film festival in Portland, and it was pulled after activists complained about it, which really is not a surprise.

00:14:56.220 I mean, it's a film festival in Portland.

00:14:59.000 I would already assume that you can't show any movie in Portland unless it's a movie about a black transgender polygamist furry overcoming adversity and learning to embrace his sexuality.

00:15:12.860 As far as I know, there isn't any such movie.

00:15:15.000 So I guess that's another way of saying you can't show any movie in Portland until someone makes that movie, and then that will be the only movie you can show in Portland.

00:15:22.120 But anyway, Kindergarten Cop got pulled, and get this, the reason it got pulled is because it normalizes the police, and it promotes the idea of having police in school.

00:15:35.380 And that's a very terrible thing, apparently.

00:15:37.320 We don't want that.

00:15:38.400 I was actually surprised by that because the moment I saw the headline of Kindergarten Cop getting canceled, I assumed they were dumping the movie because of this scene. 1.00

00:15:48.320 Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina. 1.00

00:15:57.380 Thanks for the tip. 1.00

00:15:58.780 What a transphobic bigot. 0.80

00:16:00.580 Was that kid ever arrested? 0.95

00:16:02.220 I hope so.

00:16:03.440 Probably not, though.

00:16:04.240 He's probably still prowling the streets promoting, you know, biological science and thereby killing people somehow.

00:16:11.920 Better do something about that.

00:16:13.580 But no, that was not the reason that the movie was canceled.

00:16:17.780 All the more reason to cancel it, of course, but I guess no one noticed that.

00:16:22.300 And by the way, the reason no one noticed it is because the people that are outraged by the movie clearly have never seen it.

00:16:30.080 They just, all they heard is the title, Kindergarten Cop, and that's all they needed to know.

00:16:35.540 Number three, Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, raised some eyebrows, as they say,

00:16:40.180 when he apparently posted on his Instagram a photo of himself and a young lady on a yacht in revealing outfits,

00:16:50.040 drinking what would very much appear to be alcohol.

00:16:53.740 Here's the picture, which was deleted, but not before a reporter for the Houston Chronicle grabbed it and put it on Twitter.

00:16:58.280 So there you go there.

00:17:00.200 You've got the young lady, unbuttoned mini shorts, the shirt hiked up, Falwell too, horrifyingly has his own pants unbuttoned and his midriff showing.

00:17:10.320 And, you know, now I, looking at this, really feel the urge to burn out my eyes with a soldering iron.

00:17:17.200 Like I said, these pictures were deleted.

00:17:18.740 And from what I've read, this was on a yacht, some kind of, or some other kind of boat, and was apparently a costume party.

00:17:25.280 I'm not sure what costume this is supposed to be.

00:17:28.460 And let me also point out that Falwell is 58 years old, and this really only proves my point that grown men, grown adults, should not wear costumes.

00:17:36.840 Certainly not that costume, but really any costume.

00:17:40.440 As a male, once you get over the age of, like, 10, you're too old for costumes.

00:17:47.120 And if you're a grown man, you're especially too old.

00:17:50.740 Now, you can say that this isn't a huge deal, and it isn't in the grand scheme of things.

00:17:57.040 But the problem is that he's the president of Liberty University.

00:18:02.600 And Liberty has very strict guidelines and rules.

00:18:05.120 And according to those rules, students could be fined or even expelled about five times over for taking that same picture.

00:18:12.860 That's the issue.

00:18:13.620 So he violates multiple rules that students not only can be penalized for, but are penalized for, have been many times.

00:18:23.500 The alcoholic beverage, the outfits.

00:18:28.360 Students have faced very harsh penalties for exactly this kind of thing.

00:18:32.960 And now, you can say that, well, it's different because he's not a student and he's not on campus.

00:18:40.820 Okay, fine.

00:18:42.160 All right.

00:18:42.760 But it is, to put it mildly, extremely poor leadership to go and do, not just do, but then publicize yourself doing the very thing you punish other people for doing.

00:18:53.580 And, you know, I've never been a big Jerry Falwell fan, to be honest with you, and for this reason.

00:19:00.640 This is why. 0.97

00:19:02.420 Christian frauds who enrich themselves. 0.98

00:19:04.860 There's just something about those types that I don't like. 0.98

00:19:11.920 I don't know.

00:19:12.240 Maybe it's just me.

00:19:13.020 It's just they rubbed me the wrong way.

00:19:14.700 Number four.

00:19:15.460 There's been a lot of coverage recently of the QAnon conspiracy theories and, you know, followers of Q.

00:19:21.760 And just to be clear, a follower of Q is someone who's a follower of random trolls who post things on message boards claiming to be operatives in the government.

00:19:31.780 Of course, no evidence is ever provided for any of these claims, and no one asks for it.

00:19:38.460 They just follow along anyway.

00:19:41.500 That doesn't stop, you know, with the conspiracy theories, of course, that never stops anyone from latching on.

00:19:46.760 But there's been a lot of coverage of this recently.

00:19:48.720 The media is trying to gin up concern about QAnon.

00:19:52.960 And this is not to be conspiratorial myself, but I think this is deliberate.

00:19:57.200 The outlet Axios, which the ones who did the interview with Trump yesterday, they have an article claiming that QAnon is rising, becoming more prominent.

00:20:06.220 This is what they say, among other things.

00:20:09.480 They say conspiracy theories tied to QAnon are growing more popular.

00:20:12.480 There was more than 10 times as much Google search interest in QAnon in mid-July than in mid-January, according to Google Trends data.

00:20:20.720 QAnon pages and groups on Facebook had nearly 10 times more likes at the end of last month than they did in July or last July.

00:20:28.000 There has been a 190% increase in the daily average number of tweets with popular QAnon hashtags since March.

00:20:36.500 And the article claims parts of the mainstream Republican Party have latched on, helping drive its conspiracy theories mainstream.

00:20:43.060 11 QAnon supporters are now 2020 Republican congressional nominees.

00:20:47.880 That I would have to look up myself before I would take them at their word on that one.

00:20:51.680 But either way, two points to be made here.

00:20:55.340 The first, as I said, I think there's a deliberate attempt right now by the media to make the QAnon people more visible.

00:21:01.860 And the obvious reason to do this is to discredit conservatives and, by extension, Donald Trump. 1.00

00:21:07.960 And this is one of the main reasons why I hate these delusional, idiotic conspiracy theories, because they make us all look like morons. 0.99

00:21:17.880 And even though QAnon are in a tiny fringe, it doesn't matter. 1.00

00:21:22.100 It's embarrassing to all of us.

00:21:24.240 The second point, you know, the question always is, like, why do people go in for these kinds of conspiracies?

00:21:31.660 Especially one like Q, that is so absurdly lacking in any supporting evidence whatsoever.

00:21:39.020 And I think part of the reason for that, as I've been thinking about it, in fact, I was reading a book recently, not about QAnon,

00:21:43.820 but that mentions this phenomenon called agent detection.

00:21:46.980 And this is a phenomenon in all sentient creatures where, you know, animal or human assume, we tend to assume that there's purposeful intention behind events

00:21:57.340 that may or may not actually have purposeful intention behind them.

00:22:01.120 And this is an evolved capacity, and it's necessary for survival.

00:22:05.020 You can see why.

00:22:06.040 So, for example, a deer in the woods hears rustling in the leaves and runs off, assuming that the rustling was caused by a predator.

00:22:13.900 It could have just been the wind, but instinctively the deer assumes intent, assumes there's an intelligent agent behind the noise, and runs off,

00:22:23.620 which you can see how that would aid in survival.

00:22:25.560 We do this too.

00:22:26.260 We hear a bump in the night, you know, at your house, and immediately you assume that there's an intruder, right?

00:22:32.160 Even though almost always, for almost everyone, in almost every case, the noise has some innocuous cause,

00:22:38.920 but it's a survival instinct where the first thing you think is someone's in the house.

00:22:43.960 So, sometimes people can have what's called hyperactive agent detection,

00:22:48.820 where they're inclined to find intelligent and purposeful agency behind every corner lurking in everything.

00:22:53.600 And I think that's the problem with conspiracy theorists.

00:22:58.360 Perfect example.

00:22:59.300 I mean, you could, there are thousands of examples you could use.

00:23:02.760 But perfect example of this, not from QAnon, but from a different conspiracy theory,

00:23:07.040 the grotesque and horrendous Sandy Hook conspiracy theory.

00:23:10.680 The claim that there was no massacre, it was all an act, and the parents of these murdered children are lying.

00:23:15.880 One of the lines of, quote, evidence for this was that an article was posted after the attack, about the attack,

00:23:26.780 but with a timestamp from before the attack happened.

00:23:31.740 The conspiracy theories with their hyperactive agent detection jumped in

00:23:34.780 and presumed that there was some sinister intention behind this, right?

00:23:39.880 Some actual willful reason for it.

00:23:42.940 Now, there wasn't.

00:23:43.860 The timestamps on the internet are often wrong.

00:23:46.040 It's totally normal.

00:23:46.980 There's nothing even very strange about it.

00:23:49.460 And besides, what even would be the claim here?

00:23:51.880 That the media was in on the conspiracy theory and knew that they were going to do this hoax

00:23:56.320 and then posted an article about it before they even did it?

00:24:00.860 Why would they do that?

00:24:01.880 It doesn't even, even on the conspiracy theories, theorists' theory,

00:24:06.400 it doesn't make any sense at all.

00:24:09.460 But even so.

00:24:11.120 Not to mention the whole idea of having a conspiracy theory that is that wide-ranging,

00:24:16.420 that includes all these government agencies and the media,

00:24:19.460 and somehow everybody keeps the secret?

00:24:22.000 No.

00:24:22.280 Have you ever met a person?

00:24:23.760 They're horrible at keeping secrets.

00:24:25.040 The idea that hundreds of people in all these different industries could be involved in something

00:24:29.800 like that and never tell anybody is just another reason why the whole thing is absurd.

00:24:35.340 But in any event, that's what agent detection is.

00:24:37.820 Conspiracy theorists see something that's kind of an anomaly or a coincidence or an unexplained detail,

00:24:43.040 and they, in their heads, extrapolate this entire wild story that is purely an invention of their imagination,

00:24:48.900 but they don't realize it because it's an instinct.

00:24:52.220 And for them, it's an instinct gone completely mad.

00:24:55.620 Or in any case, that is my theory, to explain their theories.

00:25:01.500 Number five, from the BBC, German carmaker Audi has apologized for an advert showing a little girl eating a banana

00:25:10.180 in front of a high-performance car after it drew a torrent of criticism on social media.

00:25:14.860 So I almost feel like I don't have to read past that, that that's just all you need to know.

00:25:21.100 They were, it's a girl eating a banana next to a car, and that people were upset.

00:25:26.520 I don't even, there's, you can see the picture there.

00:25:29.840 I can't even quite imagine, you have to be pretty creative.

00:25:34.240 Speaking of agency detection, you have to be pretty creative to find a way to be,

00:25:37.760 it wouldn't occur to me to be offended by that.

00:25:39.420 And that's the one thing I respect about these politically correct whiners, 0.99

00:25:44.500 is that the one thing, they're very creative, just like the QAnon conspiracy theorists, actually.

00:25:50.340 They're creative as well, and I respect that.

00:25:52.700 So very creative in finding, find something as innocuous as a child next to a car.

00:26:00.000 And you find multiple reasons to be offended by it.

00:26:03.700 There's something, that's an actual skill.

00:26:06.080 I don't think it's a skill that really will do you much good in life.

00:26:09.660 And certainly it's harmful to society, but it's a skill all the same.

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00:27:30.360 Today, I'm going to cancel Ryan Reynolds.

00:27:33.280 And in some ways, I hate to do it, to be honest, because prior to his cancellation, he

00:27:39.740 probably would have been considered one of the last universally liked and likable celebrities.

00:27:44.640 And there's not a lot of them left.

00:27:46.020 We've got Regis.

00:27:47.300 Well, he just died.

00:27:48.640 So we lost him.

00:27:49.900 Alex Trebek is battling cancer.

00:27:51.940 Um, who else is there besides them?

00:27:55.380 There was probably a time when you would have said, I don't know, Will Smith, but then

00:27:58.240 he went off on the Scientologist deep end.

00:28:00.300 So he's out.

00:28:01.640 The Rock, maybe.

00:28:03.060 But he's been canceled a few times recently.

00:28:05.040 I don't remember why, but I know he has been.

00:28:07.320 Um, you know, Tom Hanks has gotten too political.

00:28:10.180 Who else is there?

00:28:11.100 Denzel, I guess.

00:28:12.060 Keanu Reeves.

00:28:13.240 Betty White.

00:28:13.880 A lot of people like, is that it?

00:28:16.000 Are we down to them?

00:28:18.320 Uh, well, Reynolds is off the list now, unfortunately.

00:28:20.840 It's only canceled because of this.

00:28:22.720 Reynolds has apologized because he got married to Blake Lively at a former slave plantation

00:28:29.380 eight years ago.

00:28:30.860 Speaking to, uh, Fast Company, this is what Reynolds says as, as, as he groveled and wept,

00:28:35.720 presumably.

00:28:36.060 He said, it's something we'll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for.

00:28:40.120 It's impossible to reconcile.

00:28:42.100 We saw at the time, uh, what we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest.

00:28:45.780 What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy.

00:28:49.200 Years ago, we got married again at home, but shame works in weird ways.

00:28:52.440 A giant effing mistake like that can either cause you to shut down or it can reframe things

00:28:57.000 and move you into action.

00:28:58.560 If it doesn't, if it doesn't, uh, it doesn't mean you won't F up again, but re-patterning

00:29:03.400 and challenging lifelong social conditioning is a job that doesn't end.

00:29:08.580 Uh, okay.

00:29:09.280 First of all, he deserves to be canceled just for using the word re-patterning.

00:29:13.600 That's definitely not a real world word, but it's exactly the kind of jargon that I'm sure

00:29:19.140 therapists in Hollywood use all the time.

00:29:21.640 Re-patterning.

00:29:24.160 Second, um, he's canceled of course, because this is a ridiculous reason to apology.

00:29:30.280 The place he got married is called Boone Hall in South Carolina.

00:29:33.500 You can take a look at some of the pictures here.

00:29:35.780 If you're wondering why somebody would get married here, well, this is it.

00:29:40.280 It's just a beautiful spot for a wedding.

00:29:42.080 That's all.

00:29:42.940 That's why you get married there. 0.96

00:29:44.160 That's the whole reason.

00:29:45.860 Despite its ugly history, it is now a quite beautiful place.

00:29:49.740 And that would be a quite logical reason for a person to get married there.

00:29:54.240 There's no reason for an apology.

00:29:56.400 So what exactly is the thought process here?

00:29:58.260 You can't get married at a place where bad things happened 150 years ago?

00:30:03.680 And is it just slavery?

00:30:05.420 What if other kinds of bad stuff happened?

00:30:07.560 What if you're getting married in an old mansion that's now a wedding venue, but it used to

00:30:11.160 be owned by a rich guy who beat his wife?

00:30:13.160 Can you get married there?

00:30:14.920 How far does this go?

00:30:16.340 And how much research are you expected to do into the history of a place before choosing

00:30:20.500 it as a wedding venue?

00:30:22.080 How far back do you need to go?

00:30:23.940 And is it just weddings?

00:30:24.840 Can you live in a place where bad stuff happened?

00:30:27.960 I've lived in some very old houses in my life, some going back nearly to slavery times.

00:30:34.700 Was I supposed to check to see if slaves were once kept in that house?

00:30:40.080 And why?

00:30:41.020 What is the reason for that?

00:30:42.400 Is the land cursed?

00:30:43.340 Is this some kind of superstition where there's some kind of residual evil left over and lurking?

00:30:52.140 If you're not superstitious and you don't believe that a place can be cursed because of events

00:30:57.840 that occurred there a long time ago, then what is the issue?

00:31:01.040 It's just a place.

00:31:02.900 It was used once for one thing, which was evil.

00:31:06.440 Now it's used for something else, which is good.

00:31:08.640 I don't see the problem.

00:31:11.880 By the way, if we're ruling out all places where there were once slaves, that pretty much

00:31:18.260 means we're all going to have to live, work, and get married in Antarctica.

00:31:22.980 That kind of is all we've got left.

00:31:26.560 Maybe some spots like in the middle of the desert in Australia, maybe there.

00:31:31.140 Maybe the top of Mount Everest and certainly anywhere in the ocean, you know, if you want

00:31:39.200 to just float out into the middle of the ocean, make sure you're not on an old route where

00:31:42.580 slave ships used to sail.

00:31:43.880 But other than that, you know, and you don't want to stop on any islands unless they're uninhabited.

00:31:49.540 So I guess there are a few options.

00:31:51.060 I guess I'm not being totally fair here.

00:31:52.760 There are a few places.

00:31:53.700 You've got Antarctica, Mount Everest, middle of the ocean, deserted islands, and deserts.

00:32:01.600 That's five places.

00:32:02.940 Not too bad.

00:32:04.880 And Antarctica, I guess, could be a lovely place for a wedding.

00:32:07.740 Might be a little cold for doing the wedding, the photo shoot and all that.

00:32:11.260 But yeah, that's completely reasonable, isn't it?

00:32:14.320 Nothing wrong with that.

00:32:16.060 No, there is something wrong with it. 0.97

00:32:17.200 And to apologize for that is cowardly and ridiculous and many other things.

00:32:24.800 So Ryan Reynolds, unfortunately, is canceled for that.

00:32:28.220 And it goes without saying, everybody that was actually offended by this, the people that

00:32:32.100 precipitated this apology, are also canceled.

00:32:36.180 And we'll leave it there for today.

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