Ep. 537 - The Problem With Pretending That Beyonce Is An Artistic Genius
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Beyonce just released a new album, and as always, the media tells us that it is a work of staggering artistic genius. In reality, though, she s a mediocre pop star. But what does it say about our culture that these are the artists we elevate, and the art that we hail as especially significant and beautiful? We ll talk about that, plus five headlines, including riots continuing in Portland even though we were assured that they would end as soon as the feds left.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, Beyonce just released a new album, and as always, the media tells us
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that it is a work of staggering artistic genius. And that's all anyone is allowed to say about
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Beyonce, of course. In reality, though, she's a mediocre pop star. But what does it say about
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our culture that these are the artists we elevate and the art that we hail as especially
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significant and beautiful? We'll talk about that, plus five headlines, including
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riots continuing in Portland, even though we were assured that riots would end as soon as
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the feds left, yet they didn't. So what's up with that? In our daily cancellation, I am forced to
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cancel Tommy Lahren. She has left me no choice. I must do it. And that's all coming up on the show
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Okay. Now, if you happen to hear collective shouts of near orgasmic adulation and delight echoing
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from C to shining C last Friday, it was because Beyonce released a new album and the screams were
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coming from music critics and others in media who want us to know that Black is King, the new album,
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is quite possibly the greatest artistic achievement of all time, equaled only by Beyonce's other albums,
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together comprising a catalog of music so breathtaking and awe-inspiring that Beethoven,
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if he wasn't deaf and also dead, would be plunged into despair upon realizing that he could never hope
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to produce anything as heart-wrenchingly beautiful as what Beyonce can make. This latest offering from
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Beyonce, released as a visual album on Disney+, their streaming service, as a companion piece to
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last year's rather abysmal Lion King remake, and also as a traditional album on iTunes, is, according to NPR,
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a, quote, sumptuous search for divine identity that, quote, resonates deeply. Critics of the New York Times
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were beside themselves with joy, using words like overwhelming and extravaganza and comparing,
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I'm not making this up, comparing Beyonce to, quote, the rising sun. The AV Club exclaimed that the pop
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album inspired by Disney cartoon is an unfettered celebration. Mashable said that Beyonce is, quote,
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the only artist to exist at her level. She is, in their words, quote, magical. Phrases like,
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a tribute to her artistry and supreme black art have been wielded by these gobsmacked critics.
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Everyone seems to agree that Black is King is a masterpiece. Coincidentally, we were also told
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that her last album was a masterpiece, and the one before that, and the one before that, and all the
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rest of them, all the way back to her first album in 2003, which was also a masterpiece. The only
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possible exception was her fifth album, her eponymous fifth album, which was merely, according to one
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critic, close to a masterpiece. Well, I guess even the queen has her off days, I suppose.
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The only thing more effusive than the praise that Beyonce receives for her music is the praise she
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receives for simply existing. An article in W Magazine written to defend her against charges
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that she doesn't write her own music insists that the pop star is, quote, an exceptional human being
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at everything she tries. And by the way, the defense is that she doesn't write her own music,
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but she is involved, okay? And truly, it takes an exceptional woman to be involved in the song
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that she is singing. Another article calls Beyonce an irreplaceable force for inspiring change.
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Elsewhere, she's called, quote, the greatest artist of the decade, and from a more timeless
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perspective, she has also been routinely called a goddess. The point is clear. Beyonce is an extraordinary
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artist, an extraordinary woman, an extraordinary human, and everything she does is equally as
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extraordinary. This is American society's official Beyonce position, and dissent will not be tolerated.
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Those few who do dare to commit the unspeakable sin of failing to squeal with delight every time
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Beyonce does or says anything at all are, we are told, racist. Fellow singer Lana Del Rey was forced
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to defend herself against racism charges after offering mild criticism of Beyonce a little while
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ago on Instagram, because according to the worshipful masses, you could not possibly have
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any reason to dislike any aspect of Beyonce or her music unless you simply hate all black people in
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general. And that is the only explanation, we are told. Or maybe not. Let me offer another potential
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reason to be slightly less enthused about Beyonce than the reverent critics already mentioned are.
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She's not that great. She is not a staggering genius, no matter how often we are instructed to
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view her that way. For better or worse, her music is rather run-of-the-mill pop fare. It isn't
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particularly innovative. It certainly isn't insightful. One of the most popular songs on her latest album,
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a jaw-dropping track and the best on the album, according to Billboard, is called Mood Forever,
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the number four, Eva, Mood Forever. And the lyrics are about what you'd expect from a song that uses
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a number in place of a word. Here's Beyonce's opening verse. I'll just give you the lyrics.
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I know my enemies prey on me, so pray for me. Tick, tick, wait on it. I'm keeping down my body count.
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I'm finessing like a trap bounce, a trap bounce, because every day above ground is a blessing.
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I done leveled up now, view panoramic. None of my fears can't go where I'm headed.
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Had to cut him loose. Now I'm loose. Break the levy. Yeah, I'm about to flood on him. Flood on a
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sinner. The rain and thunder gone fall. Go Montumbo. No, no center. You can't dim my light.
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That song has 14 credited writers. Now, admittedly, it's practically Virgil in comparison to some of her
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past lyrics. Bow down, b****s. Bow, bow down, b****s. Bow, bow down, b****s. Bow down, b****s.
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From the song bow down comes to mind. But it's very hard to see how this rises to the level of
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masterpiece. You could argue that her music, especially on this most recent album, is judged
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as much by the accompanying visuals as by the songs themselves. Fine. But the visuals are fairly
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standard for modern music videos. There's nothing very special about it. She's a good dancer,
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certainly. But even as a dancer, she isn't doing anything that other young pop divas can't do.
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Michael Jackson was a genius dancer because he redefined the art form and moved in ways that
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seemed almost physically impossible. He reinvented dancing. Beyonce is not doing that. She isn't doing
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anything remarkable. She delivers a product that is visually and audibly a perfectly acceptable entry
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into an already existent genre. Her dancing and singing are pretty good. Her lyrics and the messages
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they contain generally straddle the line between vapid and repugnant. In other words, she makes pop
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music. Nothing less. Certainly nothing more. Now, I wish I could say that this attempt to turn the
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single ladies singer into pop's version of Michelangelo was merely dumb and annoying. It is both of those
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things, of course, but it's also more toxic than that. You can judge a culture in many ways by its most
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celebrated art. And the people within a culture will judge themselves in many ways through the
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same lens. Our art is the story that we tell about ourselves, to ourselves. It's how we grapple with
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the problem of existence. It's how we search for deeper truths. There's a reason why art and religion
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have been inextricably tied since the dawn of civilization. Speaking of Michelangelo, the people
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of the 16th century, in Italy, they could step into the Sistine Chapel, look up in wonder, and feel
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themselves and their spirits drawn into a beauty that was and still is truly transcendent. This is
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quite different from the experience modern Americans have when they listen to Beyonce sing
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Can You Eat My Skittles? It's the Sweetest in the Middle from the song Blow in 2013. Beyonce's music,
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like most pop music, is diverting and catchy at its very best. At its worst, it's so ugly and stupid
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as to induce despair. The point is not that our culture has no great art. That's not my point.
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Musicians of the last several decades have given us many authentic masterpieces, and geniuses and
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other mediums like film and television have produced art that will stand the test of time for sure, but
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the art we choose to elevate the highest and praise the loudest is the art that will influence us.
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And especially our children the most, and define us, define our era. So I suppose it's appropriate
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that Beyonce claims that honor as the defining artist, because ours is an era that is loud and
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extravagant, but empty at its core, and not as impressive as it appears on the surface, like
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Beyonce. So if Beyonce is our queen, our empress, then someone has to say, the empress has no clothes.
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That's Bambi.com slash Walsh, spelled B-A-M-B-E-E dot com slash Walsh. All right. Remember when we were
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told that the rioting in Portland was all in response to the presence of federal agents, even though it
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started before the federal agents got there, it was still because of them somehow. It was their
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fault. And that as soon as they left, the rioting would go away. That's what we were told. Of course,
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you know, many problems with that logic from the beginning. You would have to have the IQ of a
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spatula to have believed it to begin with. But if you do have the IQ of a kitchen utensil, and you
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actually believed that the rioting would stop because law enforcement left, then this footage will
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be very shocking to you. Watch. What you can see there, that's that's rioters in Portland after
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feds had already left trying to burn down a police precinct. So I, I not very peaceful,
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not very peaceful. Um, that's not, not exactly joining hands around a campfire singing Kumbaya.
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Now there was a fire, but it wasn't a campfire. So, uh, no, I, I, I think it turns out
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that when you have a lawless mob of criminals and you do less to enforce the law, you end up with more
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crime. Crazy, crazy how that works. Really shocking. Number two, we begin, um, or not begin,
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we, we, we go now to a news story. This is a new story that doesn't really exist. I guess the news
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here is that there is not any news. Um, and I think in this case, the fact that there is no news is news
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indeed. I'm starting to confuse myself now. Here's what I'm talking about. You may remember the story
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from about six weeks ago, a woman by the name of Althea Bernstein in Madison, Wisconsin called the
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police late at night, claiming that she had just been attacked by a gang of racist white men.
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And she said that this roving gang of white supremacists, they were all wearing Hawaiian
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shirts. They were like frat boys. She said they came to her at a, at a stop light. They sprayed her in
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the face with lighter fluid. And then they threw a lighter into her car and set her on fire. Her face
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was actually on fire is what she said. Now this was huge news when it happened. It was reported
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everywhere. I heard it all over the place. Megan Markle even reached out to Bernstein to express her
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condolences. It was a pretty big deal. And sure. I mean, if something like that happens, of course it's a
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big deal. You got a group of murderous bigots patrolling the streets of an American city,
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literally trying to burn women alive in the middle of the street. That that's a big deal.
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But then, and this brings us to our update today. Um, then there was nothing. It was six weeks ago
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and it was a big story for a few days. And then it just disappeared. Madison police said they were
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investigating the attack. Then the feds got involved. And, um, you know, this is all good
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because it happened at a, at an intersection in a major city. So there has to be cameras all over
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the place and witnesses. Surely these flame throwing racists are on tape. Someone else must have seen
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them also. I mean, it should be pretty easy to track them down. Yet six weeks later, we've heard
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nothing about this case. Nothing, not a word. Hmm. Hmm. I mean, it really makes you think. In fact,
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I went to Google and I searched for Althea Bernstein. I searched her name. Story, news stories from the
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last week. Zero, zero reporting. Not one story on the entire internet was published in the last week
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about this case. Isn't that pretty strange? I mean, it's almost like this story vanished into thin air
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and so did the white boys with the lighter fluid and the lighter that somehow could stay lit when
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they threw it. Now let's just imagine crazy thought, crazy thought, but let's just thought
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experiment. Let's imagine that possibly the white boys vanished into thin air because, and nobody ever
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noticed them except for her. Uh, and they weren't recorded by any camera. As far as we know,
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let's imagine again, hypothetically that all of that is the case because they don't exist. Pretty
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easy to vanish when you never existed to begin with. So let's say wild theory, none of this ever
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happened. It's yet another hate crime hoax. On that theory, the cops would, would of course know that
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it's BS and they would know right away. I mean, they would know probably from the moment they hear it,
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but all they'd have to do is look at the surrounding video footage, talk to some people that were in the
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area and they would know right away. This just, this simply didn't happen. Um, and yet, I mean,
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again, on this theory, they're just not saying anything about it, hoping we all forget. And the sad
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thing is that plan seems to actually be working just fine, but it's scary to think that we've arrived at
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this point where a person can invent a hate crime, file a false police report and just get away with
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it. No penalty whatsoever because the police are too afraid to tell the public that it was all a load
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of horse manure. That's a scary thought. Number three, um, you know, I have to throw this in here.
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Credit where it's due. Uh, I, uh, I am capable of, of, you know, of giving credit sometimes. I mean, I,
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I, you know, that I've, I criticize Trump sometimes and I especially criticize his tweeting. Uh, but
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sometimes I have to admit even that he puts out one hell of a great tweet and this is one of those
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times. So, like I said, credit where it's due. I just want to show you this tweet because I thought
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it was so good. And I really just, I wanted to give all the credit to Donald Trump on this one.
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Um, here's the tweet for me. He says, uh, look at the, here's the, here's the quote. He says,
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um, cities across the nation that are run by Democrats are in shambles. Matt Walsh.
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Yeah. He seems to be quoting someone there. Someone, someone who was on Tucker last night.
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He was watching Tucker and he was quoting, uh, I don't know. I'm not, I'm not sure who that guy is
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really, but brilliant point. Uh, that man, whoever that is, I think we can all agree has
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the powers of insight that would rival Aristotle. Um, so a great job by Trump putting that, that quote
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out there. That's all I want. I really like, like I said, this is really about giving Donald
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Trump credit for a great tweet. Number four, it was just announced that, uh, the live adaptation
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of Mulan will go straight to Disney's streaming service. And, uh, right when you're done, after
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you're done watching black is King, you can go and watch Mulan, except it's going to cost you $30.
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It's going to come out in a few weeks, $30 plus the subscription. You pay for the subscription
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to Disney plus, and they're going to charge you an extra 30 bucks to see this.
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And this is all I'm going to say. If you pay $30 to watch a lifeless, pointless, rehashed
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remake of a Disney cartoon that you've already seen, I don't think it's too much to suggest
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that you should lose your citizenship rights. And I don't even say that ironically. I would
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with all sincerity support a policy that stripped you of your constitutional rights, all of them
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for paying $30 to watch the Mulan remake. Number five, um, just a policy proposal I'm throwing out
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there. If any, if anyone wants to run with it. Number five, finally, Oprah Winfrey, who we should
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note is worth $2 billion spoke out this week against the scourge of white privilege. Um,
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Oprah with her $2 billion is very concerned that white people in trailer parks wearing goodwill
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hand-me-downs might be a little bit too privileged. And here's part of her discussion, uh, on that
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subject. There are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people, the caste
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system that's been put in place, but they still, no matter where they are on the wrong or the ladder
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of success, they still have their whiteness. I just love how she's having this discussion
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about white privilege while sitting in a room that looks like that room from the last matrix film.
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She she's literally controlling the whole matrix from that room and yet complaining about other
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people having privilege. This is weapons grade irony right here. I, I really know what I really like
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to imagine is her shouting something like white people are too privileged and then walking directly
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into her 98 room mansion, tossing her $40,000 coat made of the skins of albino seals at her butler,
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you know, petting her Siberian tiger. And then just heading to her golden crusted bathtub filled with
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champagne and caviar and jumping in. Um, that's how I imagined that Oprah Winfrey must live, but yeah,
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you know, really, really Rick and Maureen down the street driving their minivan to Home Depot on a
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Saturday, stopping at Ruby Tuesdays for their, uh, early afternoon special on the way back. Those are
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the people that are privileged, not Oprah Winfrey, those people. Sure. You know, we make a joke out of
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it, but this is because it is a joke. You see the farce that this, that this white privilege concept,
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uh, has become that now even the richest woman in America, uh, one of the richest in the world
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is complaining about other people having privilege. It's just fantastic. Okay. Speaking of, uh,
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fantastic. Now we're going to go to our daily cancellation. Um, and for our daily cancellation
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today, I'm afraid that I have to cancel Tommy Lahren. Now I used to work with Tommy full disclosure.
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We were both over at the blaze for a while. Uh, I mean, we were different, we were in different
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states, so it's not like we, we collaborated closely together, but I went on our show a few
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times and it was great. Um, and so this, this cancellation is nothing personal, but it must be
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done because nobody escapes the wrathful gaze of the daily cancellation. You know that by now,
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even my wife and kids don't nobody, no mortal, even immortals. Okay. They aren't necessarily
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off the hook either. So Tommy has canceled for a lengthy PSA that she, she published yesterday,
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a 14 minute minute video criticizing men, talking about why men are terrible and why her own
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relationship problems are the fault of men. And men are, as she said, trash. Uh, take a listen.
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These women range in every body type and every, everything they're all successful. They're all
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intelligent. They're all good people. But if all of these women, including myself are having issues,
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then I have to think it might not be us. It might be you. It might be men. It might be men.
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Now I've often talked about the pussification of America and how men are no longer men. I talked to
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my mom about this a lot and she says, well, maybe it's just the guys in Texas. Maybe it's just the guys
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in Los Angeles. It is not just the guys in Los Angeles, Nashville, Dallas, and it's not,
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they're not any better in the Midwest. They, quite frankly, I think they're trash all over this
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country and the age range of about 20 to, I think about 55, maybe even 60. A lot of men are trash.
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A lot of men don't know how to treat women. A lot of men don't know how to really, quite frankly,
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pull their heads out of the sand and pay attention. So I am going to help you.
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Tommy also said, reading now from Amanda Presta-Giacomo's Daily Wire article about it,
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she also said, I'm not a feminist, so please don't take this as a feminist rant.
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Laren interjected after imploring men to follow up with plans instead of merely texting women.
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I love men. I think men are great. I think men have failed themselves and they failed us.
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And I'm trying to help you out because I love men. I think they're great. They're just failures.
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That's all. They're great, but they're failures. That's all I'm trying to tell you. They're great
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failures. They're great at failing. Anyway, she says, and I'm just trying to help you out because I
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think there are a lot of really great guys out there who need a little help. And I don't think there
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are a lot of women that are stepping up and saying these things. This isn't patronizing at all,
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is it? I think you're fantastic. I just think you need a little help. That's all. You need help from
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me, a 27-year-old blonde woman. So continuing, she says, so I'm going to go ahead and say them
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because they need to be said. I am really so sick of my friends having to deal with trash men. I'm
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tired of dealing with trash men. The pundit also told men to value value and not, quote, mix in people
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like me and my friends who have something going on with your other girls that have nothing going on.
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Tatianas. Is that a, is that a, what is that? T-H-O-T-I-N-A-S. Is that a thing the kids are
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saying now? I don't know what that means. Don't mix us in with the Tatianas. Anyway, and then she
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goes on from there. Okay. Now it goes without saying that if a man were to ever make a video
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claiming that most women between the ages of 20 and 60 are trash, it would be roundly condemned
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as insanely sexist. And he would be written off as a bitter, lonely, virginal incel. That's what
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would happen. We all know that. Women have a better chance of getting away with something like this.
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Now, at least the consequences aren't as severe. Tommy is sustaining quite a bit of criticism for
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this and rightly so, but it's not the same as it would be if her name was, you know, Thomas or her
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name was spelled T-O-O-M-M-Y instead of with an I. It'd be a totally different ballgame. We all know
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that. Now, yes, it's true that men have issues in this culture. It's true that, that, that men,
00:26:10.580
many men are not living up to their calling as men, are not fulfilling their masculine duties. It's true
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that, that some men are soft and pathetic and rather wimpy. It's true that some men would rather
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lay around the house all day playing video games than actually go out and live a real active assertive
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life. All of that is true. And you could argue that all Tommy was doing was pointing these things
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out, but there are two problems. Number one, first problem is this. We get it. Okay. We really do.
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We all know this stuff about men. We've heard it a million times. Men are lectured constantly
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everywhere by everyone. Always men are lectured at in school, at work, in, in their homes, on TV,
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at church. You'll notice speaking of church, um, and I'm, I'm, I'm certainly not the first person to
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have noticed this, that mother's day sermons at church are usually about how wonderful and amazing
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and underappreciated mothers are. While father's day sermons at churches are often focused on how
00:27:13.000
men need to step up and do a better job. Okay. And that's the dynamic in the culture that we get.
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So we get it. We've heard it. That doesn't mean we never need to hear it again or that it never
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needs to be said again, but it does mean that if all you have to offer is the same old tired lecture
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without any, without any, you know, additional insight, um, with, with, with, with nothing unique
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to, to add into it, then they just don't bother. Save your breath, save your energy. Because once again,
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we've heard it. We know we get it. I promise you. Number two, women are not innocent in this.
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They are, they aren't even more innocent than men. It's more than just, oh, women have faults too.
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No, it's women are just as bad. They're just as guilty. They're just as culpable.
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Okay. You want gender equality, right? Well, here it is. Enjoy.
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Gender equality means that if there's a problem in, you know, in relations between men and women,
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you don't get to just assume that it's all a man's fault. Because when you do that,
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what you're essentially saying is that, you know, this is all entirely up to the men,
00:28:25.300
to the man. I mean, he has the lead and, uh, and, you know, he's in charge. And so if things go
00:28:31.060
sideways, it's going to be his fault. That's the only way, the only way you could put all the blame
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on men is by saying that men are totally in charge and should be. And so that whenever things don't
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work out, it's going to be their fault. But something tells me that that's not Tommy's perspective.
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Um, something tells me that Tommy is not someone who would say that women should always be submitting
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to the leadership of men. Could be wrong, but I'm guessing that's not her position. And if it's not
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your position, then you don't get to put all the blame on men or even most of the blame on men or
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even 51% of the blame on men. It is 50-50 because guess what? I know you want to talk about anecdotal
00:29:11.460
evidence here. I know plenty of great guys who've had trouble finding, um, women, uh, trouble finding
00:29:18.460
women who are not, to use Tommy's phrase, trash. And do you know why they've had trouble? Well,
00:29:24.740
because in some cases they don't make a lot of money or, you know, they've got, you know, they're
00:29:29.700
employed. They, they, they have good jobs. They just, they don't make tons of money or, you know,
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maybe they don't necessarily look like Calvin Klein models, but they're good men, hardworking men,
00:29:39.640
loyal, intelligent, all of that. Sometimes I know men like this. I think we all do.
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They've had trouble finding a woman because in their experience, women will find superficial and
00:29:50.400
materialistic reasons to turn away men who definitely are not in any way trash. So this
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is a knife that cuts both ways. And here's the thing. If you're having trouble finding a match for
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you, and if you find that everyone you come across is trash and that there's a fatal flaw with every
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member of the opposite sex that you've ever encountered, then yes, it could be that you
00:30:14.200
have horrible luck. It could be, woe is you. You're a victim. Uh, this is all everybody else's
00:30:19.440
fault and not your own. That's possible. You could keep, keep getting stuck with duds through no fault
00:30:24.080
of your own. You could keep reaching your hand into the barrel of apples and taking out a rotten one
00:30:28.260
by accident. Maybe. Sure. But it's quite possible. And I would say even likely, and in fact, quite
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probable that the problem is at least partially you. It's, it's, it's quite likely that some of
00:30:43.000
those men who you dismissed as trash actually aren't trash, but you toss them aside as trash
00:30:50.280
because they failed to meet your expectations in some relatively unimportant area. You might even say
00:30:57.400
you toss them aside as trash for trashy reasons. It's quite possible that many of the, of the trash
00:31:04.920
men actually are trash, but there's something about you and your personality that attracts those kinds
00:31:11.620
of people. Those are all possibilities too. And so if I was in this spot and which I'm not,
00:31:19.360
and believe me, here's, here's the other, here's the other stipulation I'll make is that anyone who's
00:31:23.620
single man or woman in, in this culture, God be with you. Uh, I, I, I have nothing but sympathy for
00:31:30.800
you. And I thank God every day that I'm not. Okay. I couldn't be happier to be married. So, um,
00:31:37.300
but even so, if, if, if I was in that spot and I found that, uh, you know, I'm looking for a woman,
00:31:44.640
but every woman I meet is, is horrible and selfish and materialistic and a bimbo and all this stuff,
00:31:53.080
then I'm going to start to think to myself, you know, I, I, I, I think there's going to be a moment
00:31:57.840
where I, where I really stop and I think, Hmm, what am I doing wrong here? Maybe everyone else is
00:32:06.960
doing something wrong. It's possible, but then it's weird because I look around and I see that
00:32:13.660
there are plenty of people who managed to find other good people and they have good relationships
00:32:18.220
that does exist. There are plenty of married people in this country, even young married people who have
00:32:24.020
good marriages that does exist. It's, it's not, it's, it's not a myth. It's not an urban legend.
00:32:29.980
It exists. I'm telling you, I can tell you from an experience that exists. So I think I would look
00:32:36.760
at that and I would say, Hmm, okay. So it is possible to find a good person. Plenty of other
00:32:43.780
people have done it and yet I can't. Why is that? I could be a victim of the universe. Yeah, that's true.
00:32:54.400
The universe is picking on me. I don't know. Maybe, geez, maybe there's something about me that
00:33:00.600
just attracts these types. Am I, am I attractive to horrible people? Or, or, or do I, am I someone
00:33:13.520
who doesn't even, can't even identify a good virtuous person because I'm so lacking in virtue myself.
00:33:20.080
And so I have possibly thrown out a lot of virtuous people because I didn't recognize them for the
00:33:25.580
virtues they had. I mean, so these, these are all, these are, these are, this is a self-analysis that
00:33:29.880
I would undergo. And I guess that would be my, here's my PSA that I'm going to throw out there
00:33:35.040
to not just women, men and women. You know, if you're having problems in this regard, rather than
00:33:40.840
blaming everybody else and giving tips and advice to other people, by the way, I always love it when,
00:33:47.380
when people who have not had a successful relationship give relationship advice.
00:33:55.080
Okay. That's like, if you're training someone on a, on a, how to fly, but every plane that you've ever
00:34:03.640
piloted has crashed. It's like, if I'm a rookie pilot looking for some advice, I'm probably not going to
00:34:10.800
go to you. But in any case, um, rather than going and giving advice and all of that and blaming
00:34:17.860
everyone, maybe do a little bit of a self-analysis and, uh, the speech and lecture you want to give,
00:34:24.320
maybe go into your bathroom and give that lecture into the mirror, because I think that's probably
00:34:30.440
the number one person that needs to hear it. And, uh, for that reason, Tommy Lahren is canceled.
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