Ep. 560 - The Government School System Reaches Its Slimy Tentacles Into The Home
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Two Colorado kids have been suspended for having toy guns in their rooms while attending a Zoom class. We ll talk about why this push for online classes represents a threat to parental rights, and also why online learning for kids is a terrible idea in general. Also, five headlines including Kaepernick s return to the NFL, and in our daily cancellation, we ll discuss the Academy s hilarious new diversity standards for any Best Picture nominee.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, two kids have been suspended for having toy guns in their rooms
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while attending a Zoom class. We'll talk about why this push for online classes represents a
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threat to parental rights and also why online learning for kids is a terrible idea in general.
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Also, five headlines, including Kaepernick's return to the NFL, virtually anyway. And
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in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the Academy's hilarious new diversity standards for
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any Best Picture nominee. I actually like them. I think it's a great idea and I'm excited about it.
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And I'll explain why, even though they are being canceled for it. Before we get to any of that,
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are attending online school, school systems are deciding that this expands their jurisdiction
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and authority into the very homes where the children are sitting. So two recent and egregious
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examples, both in Colorado. In one case, a seventh grader at Grand Mountain was suspended after his
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art teacher saw him during his online art class playing with a gun. Teacher wasn't sure if the gun was
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real or not. Perhaps it's relevant here to note that the gun was neon green with an orange tip and
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it said zombie hunter on the side of it. Who knows? Maybe the kid was a real zombie hunter.
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So the police were called and the police then showed up to the child's house and the child was
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suspended for the zombie hunter neon green Nerf gun. Another case for this one. Let me play a clip
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from the local Fox 31 news report. Watch this. For sixth grader Maddox Blow, target practice is just
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a regular part of being an 11-year-old kid. That's why he says he didn't think anything of it when he
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picked up the air soft gun in his bedroom after completing a quiz during a remote school session
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online. I was just fiddling with it because, like, I was bored and so I just fiddled with the nearest
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object at hand. Maddox said he didn't even realize he was on camera, but hours later,
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a teacher noticed the air soft gun while reviewing the recorded session, according to Maddox's dad.
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The Fox 31 problem solvers learned a resource officer then called the Wheatridge police to ask
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for a welfare check and report that Maddox had a toy gun. And now Maddox is suspended from school
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for four days. This is a blatant overreaction on everyone's part. Maddox is owed an apology.
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The Jeffco Public Schools wouldn't go on camera, but in an email confirmed the incident
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and said the student was disciplined according to their district code of conduct.
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Yeah, you know, we're going to leave entirely to the side the fact that suspensions in general are
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a supremely stupid form of punishment. The only kids who care about getting suspended are the kids
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who don't deserve to be like the two students in these stories. In other words, only good students
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consider it a punishment to not be allowed to go to school. But good students don't get suspended,
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or if they do, they probably don't deserve it. So the bad students deserve the punishment,
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but they're the ones who don't consider it a punishment. You're bad in school and you act
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like you don't want to be here. Your punishment is a one week vacation, mister. That'll teach you.
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Not very effective. But more to the point, there are all kinds of horrifying implications
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to public schools now punishing students and getting law enforcement involved for things
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they're doing inside their own homes. Yes, bringing a fake gun to school will get you in trouble, but
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now you aren't allowed to have one in your home, and all because the teacher can see inside your home.
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So a teacher can punish a child for anything the teacher sees the child do, no matter where he is
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when he's doing it. A teacher has authority over the actions of a child inside his home, and all because
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Zoom grants the teacher a view of inside the home. What this COVID panic-inspired rush towards online
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learning, or distance learning as they call it now, represents, what it represents is, among other
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things, a massive power grab by the state. Government schools had already, over the course of the past
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several decades, been intruding more and more into home life, taking more and more power away from the
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parents, as the school itself increasingly assumes the position as surrogate parent. But now, with this
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online learning stuff, with households apparently required to function as the school and obey its
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rules, what should be a reclaiming of power by the parents has worked exactly the other way around.
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The schools have just extended their reach, slithering their tentacles into the home and claiming it
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as their domain now. And all of that is also almost beside the point when it comes to online
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classes. The most important point of all is simply that online learning for kids in grade school
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doesn't work. In fact, it's debatable whether it works at all at any age, even at the older ages.
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A report published by Inside Higher Ed in January of last year, so way before the COVID panics and
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everyone running into their homes for months on end, found that students who are fully online,
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taking all of their college classes on the internet, underperform and experience poor outcomes.
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Now, I ask you, is there any reason to think it'll be better for 10-year-olds?
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There are, I'm sure, some adults who can be successful with online classes. There might be
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some kids too, but that percentage is going to be much smaller. And that's why the reviews after the
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last, you know, the last three months of the past school year spent learning online, the reviews for
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that were generally poor. It was an article in the Wall Street Journal in June, headline,
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the results are in for remote learning, it didn't work. Of course it didn't. You can't plunk a child in
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front of a computer for hours a day and expect him to absorb even a fraction of the information that's
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thrown at him. Children need an education that is hands-on, immersive, personalized. In fact,
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the whole problem with the public school system, where 30 kids are plunked into a classroom and
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information is spewed at them, which they're expected to memorize and regurgitate, the whole
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problem is that it's not nearly personalized enough. Now take that same approach, except have the kids
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sitting and staring into a screen. And all of the bad things about public school education, at least
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all of the bad things about the education itself, if not the environment, are amplified. You simply
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can't expect kids to learn this way. There's a reason why for years, the complaint has been that
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kids spend way too much time sitting around and staring into screens. Suddenly, because people are
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scared of a virus that rarely affects kids at all, many kids are required to do the thing we've all said
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they do too much of already. So we go from you look at screens too much to sit here for six hours
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today and look at screens. One thing we can certainly expect, there is going to be a huge,
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and I'm sure we will be told, mysterious rise in ADHD diagnosis this year. Kids who have trouble
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engaging and staying invested and interested and focused in a crowded classroom while a teacher reads
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information off of a worksheet are already diagnosed as somehow disordered, when their only real
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disorder is that they're disengaged and bored by stuff that's disengaging and boring. So expect a similar
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approach to kids who have trouble sitting still and staring at a screen for hours each day. Well, you know,
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this eight-year-old boy isn't learning much from five hours of Zoom meetings each day. He must be diseased.
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Let's shove some pills in his mouth. That's what's coming, I guarantee you. For a long time, the approach to
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education has been to do it in a way that is most convenient for all of the adults involved.
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And if the kids struggle to learn that way, well, then drug them until they get with the program.
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So a parent says, I need to be able to ship my kid off to a government building for eight hours a day
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because that's easiest for the lifestyle that I want to have. If my kid doesn't thrive in that
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environment, well, there must be something wrong with him. Put him on drugs.
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No, there's nothing wrong with your kid. There's something wrong with your approach to parenting.
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And now Zoom classes and online learning for elementary schoolers is just the latest example
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of educating kids in a way that makes us feel most comfortable as adults
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and is most convenient for us and what we want to do,
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but is not good for the kids. And so what do we say? If it doesn't work for the kids,
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then yet again, there's something wrong with them. That's what's coming down the pike. I guarantee
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Colin Kaepernick is returning to the NFL virtually anyway. EA Sports announced that Kaepernick
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will be in the new Madden game. You can choose him to quarterback any team you want. Apparently,
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his avatar, his character in a game will have an 81 rating, which the kids tell me is good. So that
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places him like among the elite quarterbacks in the game, which is obviously absurd. He wasn't an
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elite quarterback when he played five years ago. Here's the statement from EA Sports. It says,
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Colin Kaepernick is one of the top free agents in football and a starting caliber quarterback.
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The team at EA Sports, along with millions of Madden NFL fans, want to see him back in our game.
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Knowing that our EA Sports experiences are platforms for players to create,
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we want to make Madden NFL a place that reflects Colin's position and talent,
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rates him as a starting quarterback, and empowers our fans to express their hope for the future of
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football. We've worked with Colin to make this possible, and we're excited to bring it all to
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you today. Yeah, I'm sure you did work with Colin Kaepernick for that. I'm sure he was fully on
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board. All in the name of social justice. This is all about social justice, racial justice.
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But getting Colin Kaepernick in the game, you know, it's all in the, when he was working with
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Madden, making however much money he was making from them to get himself in a video game, it is all
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for racial and social justice. Okay? And money, but mainly for racial and social justice.
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Now, of course, the claim, as I said, the claim to him being a starting caliber player at the age
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of 32, five years removed from the game, is ludicrous. Just to give you an idea, Kaepernick
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lost his starting job to Blaine Gabbert while he was still playing. Okay? And if you aren't familiar
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with pro football, suffice it to say that losing your starting job to Blaine Gabbert is one of the
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great humiliations that you can possibly suffer in an athletic context. It's like, it's maybe a notch
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below losing an arm wrestling competition against your wife. Okay? It's only slightly less humiliating
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than that. In his final year in the league in 2016, he went one for 10. He went one in 10, I should say.
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That was actually his record as a starting quarterback. He won one game, played 11,
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threw 16 touchdowns in 11 games. So again, this was at best, I mean, generously, this was a mediocre
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player when he was in the league. He had one or two good years, and then it was sort of a rapid descent
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from there. He's not going to be any better now that he's 32 and has been doing nothing but
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shooting Nike commercials for the last half a decade. But this all again proves my point
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that Colin Kaepernick is one of the great con men in American history. And I really believe that. I
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think he's almost at the level of maybe the kid from that the Catch Me If You Can was based on.
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He's almost at that level. I mean, if you think about it, Colin Kaepernick realized that he was
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washing out as an NFL starter. He faced a career as a journeyman backup quarterback, you know, signing
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two or three or really one or two year contracts in different places around the league, you know,
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coming in for training camp and then maybe signing somewhere else. And he didn't want to do that. So
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it was at that moment that he launched his fake social justice crusade. Fast forward five years,
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he's far richer and more famous than he ever would have been as a professional bench writer.
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It's it's a hell of a scam. It really is. And this is why I've never been able to generate the same
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sort of anger towards Colin Kaepernick that other conservatives have, I guess, because I'm a
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capitalist at heart. And so when I see this guy running a con like this and raking in millions because
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of it, I can't help but have some level of respect for it. Yeah, he's a scumbag and he's a liar and
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fraud. But at the same time, this is just a massive course change. And he was able to sell himself as
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some sort of social justice crusader and make tens of millions of dollars off of it. Now, granted,
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he had a lot of help from the media and everything else. So you could say it really wasn't that
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difficult, but still hell of a con, hell of a scam that he's running. Number two, you may remember,
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speaking of scams, Jessica Krug, the African studies professor who was who was white, but
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claimed to be black for many years. Video has surfaced of this person back in 2019 when she was
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still pretending to be black. And here she is on a Columbia University panel seemingly justifying and
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defending some gang members who hacked apart a 15 year old kid with machetes. And she says that it's a
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it was a revolutionary political act and seems to have a not very disapproving attitude about it.
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Watch. How many people in this room are familiar with Leandro Guzman? Feliz. It's a 15 year old boy
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who was murdered in the Bronx last year. So if you're in New York, you probably heard a lot about this.
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And the narrative around it is that he was an innocent kid who was mistaken for a bad kid.
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He was the kid who was hacked apart with machetes in front of a bodega in the Bronx. And the idea is
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that he was mistaken for someone else by Trinitarios, right, who are a Dominican gang that comes out of
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Rikers as most of the radical politics of New York City has done for many, many years. But the part of
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the story that gets emphasized in different ways is that he was an explorer, right, which is a program
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that the NYPD has to bring youth in to eventually work for them. And so when I think about this
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politics of silence that I'm talking about in the archives, right, and how silence can be a really
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radical presence historically, I think it's a radical presence today. When people talk about
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snitches get stitches, right, or when we think about a history of anti-apartheid struggle in South
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Africa and necklacing, right, and that kind of violence towards people who are collaborating or
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who are working against their communities, we have to consider a radical moment in 2018 in which people
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are using machetes to hack apart a 15-year-old boy who's working with the police.
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Now, this is not the point, I suppose. But my first question is, how the hell did anyone ever take that
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woman for a black person? She's paler than me. She sounds like a valley girl. I mean, speaking of
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scams, how did this go on for years? Couldn't everyone tell she wasn't black just by, you know,
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looking at her? Did she surround herself with visually impaired people? Did she work at a camp
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for the blind? I mean, I really don't. It's amazing to me that that person passed herself off as black
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all those years. But really, I guess it's not that amazing. The reason she got away with it is that
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we live in a country where everyone feels like they have to take everyone else's self-identification
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seriously, no matter how obviously absurd it is. So when she went around introducing herself as a black
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woman, people were afraid to just go, no, no, no, you're not. You're not that. You're certain. I don't
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know exactly where you're from or what, but no, no. To use basic common sense is considered an act of
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violence now. And so people were afraid to do that. And everybody forfeits their common sense
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willingly, you know, choosing wokeness over common sense. We're at the point now where I could walk into
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a room and say, but howdy folks. Great to meet you. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a Jamaican woman. And also
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I'm 72 and pregnant and I can fly. And everyone would feel obligated to say, oh, okay, great. Nice
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to meet you. How's Vietnam these days? That's where we are. And that's, that's, that's how she got away
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with it. And that's, I guess it's a similar thing to Colin Kaepernick. I want, I want to, the positive
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side of me wants to laud them for being great scam artists. But then I realized the culture and the
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environment has made it so incredibly easy to run these kinds of scams. Number three, Michelle Obama
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is offering some marriage advice in a recent podcast. She said, quote, um, there were times that
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I wanted to push Barack out of a window. And I say that because it's like, you've got to know the
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feelings will be intense, but that doesn't mean you quit. And these periods can last a long time.
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They can last years. Periods of wanting to murder your spouse can last years. Um, you know,
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having murderous rage towards your spouse for any amount of time, let alone years. I, I, I'm not sure
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that that's actually good or healthy or normal. Um, I haven't been married for as long as, as the
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Obamas have been married, but you know, we've, we've got nine years under our belt. Uh, you know,
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we have four kids. And so we've been around the block a few times and I can say that I've,
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I've never wanted to push my wife out of a window. I can say that, which actually would make for a
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very romantic Valentine's card. Honey, I swear, I will never chuck you out a window. A little too
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sentimental. I don't know, but I, you know, I'm a, I'm a romantic at heart. Number four, finally,
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TEDx London has, oh no, not, not finally. This is number four. We've got one after this. TEDx London
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has announced that it will no longer use the word women and instead we'll use women with an X
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instead of an E. So, uh, Wim, Wimixen, Wimixen. Uh, they explain their decision here. They say,
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why we're using Wimixen? No, that's not a typo. Wimixen is a spelling of women that is more inclusive
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and progressive. The term sheds light on the prejudice, discrimination, and institutional
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barriers Wimixen have faced and explicitly includes non-cisgender women.
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Actually, okay. There's a, there's a lot to unpack here. Um, or maybe there's nothing to
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unpack. This is just a load of nothingness. This is utterly vapid, meaningless. Women with an X is
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more inclusive. How, how exactly? It sheds light on prejudice. How, what, why, when, where? So many
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questions. Um, though I do appreciate this new leftist trend, I guess, of, of injecting the letter
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X into words randomly because it demonstrates that progressivism has no ideas of its own,
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no real vision, no plan, no goal, no coherent thoughts of any kind to offer. It's really reactionary
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in the most literal sense of the word because it simply reacts to what already exists. Its whole
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thing is just to arbitrarily tear down and get rid of what already exists for no reason other than
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just to do it. Um, that's the only discernible or vaguely discernible reason to replace women with
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Wimixen. It achieves nothing other than to get rid of the word women. And the only problem with the word
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women is that it's a word people have used for a long time. And so we're going to get rid of it for
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that reason. Uh, it's the same thing with Latinx and all of these, uh, or Latinx. I'm still not
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clear on how to pronounce any of these words. Um, or maybe you're not supposed to pronounce them. I
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don't know. It's like, uh, you know, Prince replacing his name with a symbol. Is it that kind of thing? I'm
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not sure. Number five, finally, for our most important story of the day, huge controversy ignited
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yesterday when Kim Klaychuk, a congressional candidate from Baltimore, she's the woman who
00:24:09.560
made that viral ad about Baltimore, uh, where she announced her campaign. She, she posed, uh,
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for her picture at Jimmy's seafood, which is a Maryland institution, best crab cakes in the
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country, in the world, on the planet without question. But the picture sparked debate because
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as you could see, she's eating sushi with a fork. Uh, and the comments about this have been vicious,
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all focused on the fork because people say you're supposed to use chopsticks when eating sushi.
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But let me just say right now, and, and, and I will say this publicly, and I really did appreciate
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this, this picture from, from Kim. Um, I am also a forker as we call ourselves. Maybe we should think
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of a different label than that. Uh, I eat sushi with a fork. I've been doing it for years. I also have
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endured the scorn and disdain from my fellow man because of it, but it is time that we forkers come out
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of the shadows and speak our truth. There's nothing wrong with it. I use a fork for sushi. Yes, I do
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sometimes use a fork for pizza, for hamburgers. I use a fork for anything. It is a, it is a, it is a,
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one of the great inventions in the history of, of, of mankind, and there's absolutely nothing wrong
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with it. So I appreciated that from Kim Klachik. Okay, let's get to our daily cancellation. Today for
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our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling the Oscars. Uh, the Oscars have been canceled for me
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on a personal level since, well, forever. I don't think I've ever watched more than five minutes of
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an Oscars telecast. That's because I'm not a masochist, but today we're going to be canceling
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the Oscars for everybody else too. Um, you aren't allowed to watch it either now after this, which I
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think will, will be one rule that you should have no problem following under my theocratic, uh,
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dictatorship. Reading from the Hollywood reporter, the headline is film Academy sets inclusion
00:25:53.280
requirements for Oscars, which will take effect in 2024. And this is good as we all know,
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because, uh, history proves that quotas, inclusion, stringent PC standards, all of that makes for
00:26:06.160
great art. For example, fun bit of, bit of trivia here. Um, the Sistine Chapel was painted by a committee
00:26:11.640
of racially diverse LGBT activists. It's true. Um, that's a, a lot of people don't know that now
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let's read the article, uh, to find out about these, these requirements. It says to encourage
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equitable representation on and off screen in order to better reflect the diversity of the movie
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going audience, films will have to meet minimum requirements pertaining to representation and
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inclusion to be eligible for the best picture Oscar beginning with the 96th, 96th Oscar race,
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uh, which will recognize achievements from 2024 and be held in 2025. The Academy of Motion Picture
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Arts and Sciences announced, uh, on Tuesday saying that, uh, in the meantime, an Academy inclusion
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standards form will have to be submitted to the Academy for a film to be considered for the 94th
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Oscars, um, and 95th Oscars. Although meeting inclusion thresholds will not yet be a requirement
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and no action will be required for films wishing to compete for the 93rd Oscars, which are to be held
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on April 25th. Okay. Now there are four standards by which the films will be judged before being admitted
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into consideration for a best picture and they must meet two of the four standards. So here's the first
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of the four standards. Uh, as a standard a it's on screen representation themes and narratives. That's
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the category. This means that at least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from
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an underrepresented racial or ethnic group. These groups can be Asian, Hispanic slash Latinx, black
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slash African-American, indigenous slash Native American slash Alaska native, Middle Eastern slash North
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African Hawaiian, Hawaiian, uh, native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander or other underrepresented race
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or ethnicity. They might also qualify under standard a, if at least 30% of all actors and secondary and
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more minor roles are from at least two of the following underrepresented groups, women, racial or
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ethnic group, wait, women, racial or ethnic group, LGBTQ plus people with cognitive or physical
00:28:09.320
disabilities or who are deaf or hard of hearing. Or then there's a three, which is another way to
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qualify as if the main storylines theme or narrative of the film is centered on an underrepresented group
00:28:20.220
such as women, racial or ethnic group, LGBTQ plus people with cognitive or physical disabilities
00:28:26.860
or who are deaf or hard of hearing. And then there are other standards to, uh, standards B through D,
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but frankly, I think we all get the point. Now, a number of things jump out at, uh, jump out at us here.
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First of all, how is racial or ethnic group an underrepresented group? So racial groups in general
00:28:45.720
are underrepresented in Hollywood. How could that be? Who are the people who've been starring in these
00:28:50.560
movies? What are they, robots, space aliens? They have no race at all. That would explain a lot, I guess.
00:28:56.020
But it seems to me that literally every movie that's ever been made has featured people of racial and
00:29:01.340
ethnic groups. Ah, but you know, they're, they're, they're looking now for certain racial and ethnic
00:29:07.180
groups and they want less of other groups. They just don't want to put it that way because it would
00:29:12.500
sound racist as hell, which of course it is. Second, how exactly are women underrepresented in Hollywood?
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I feel like I see women in movies all the time. Women are in movies. Movies are about women.
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There doesn't appear to be a problem here. In fact, these days you can't even watch an action movie
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without at least one of the main characters being a 120 pound supermodel who can somehow beat up
00:29:36.860
300 pound men. So there are plenty of women in movies. Um, and the third point of course is that
00:29:43.180
this is all completely arbitrary. You know, you got 30% of the people in the supporting cast have to
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belong to two or more of this and that group. Uh, it's, it's all entirely arbitrary. And the fourth
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point is, and this is, this is the main thing I think I want us to take away from this.
00:30:02.220
This is all good. This is all very good. We should be happy about this.
00:30:07.300
Yes, I am. I am canceling the Oscars because of it, but it's a joyous cancellation. It's a,
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there should be confetti raining down from the ceiling right now. This is a happy, I am happy to do it.
00:30:18.060
We should be happy about it because there are, there are two consequences from this.
00:30:22.420
Both of them very good. One is that, and I think this is the less likely consequence that movie
00:30:30.020
studios decide that they don't care about winning Oscars anymore, uh, because the Oscars are such a
00:30:35.460
joke, uh, because it's been turned into, you know, like an HR seminar. Now that you have to,
00:30:42.000
you have to follow all these different rules, uh, and meet all these quotas. And so maybe movie studios
00:30:46.620
will say, well, we don't care anymore. We're just going to make, we're going to make good movies.
00:30:49.500
And, uh, and, and as long as people watch them, then it doesn't matter to us. And if that happens,
00:30:54.320
then the Oscars become entirely irrelevant, which I would say they already are, but they,
00:30:59.080
they are pushed even further into irrelevance, which I would say is a positive thing.
00:31:05.020
Second consequence potentially is that movie studios decide, no, they, they want to win the Oscars.
00:31:12.900
Maybe they want to win even more now because they get woke points for doing it, uh, because then it
00:31:18.220
will show that not only is it a good movie, but it's a, it's a progressive movie. And so they'll
00:31:22.460
win a lot of credit that way. Um, and so they'll, they'll, they'll start making their movies in
00:31:28.260
accordance with all these ridiculous rules so that they can win the Oscars. And that will just be the
00:31:32.880
end of Hollywood. That will, that will be the end of Hollywood. Hollywood will officially be getting
00:31:37.260
out of the business of making art and, uh, it will be fully and totally and nothing but in the
00:31:44.440
business of progressive politics. And I know you could say that that's already happened and it has
00:31:50.880
largely, but I still think that there are, you know, you do find real art sometimes coming out
00:31:56.040
of Hollywood. There are, they, they, they do sometimes produce a movie, a TV show, um, that
00:32:02.540
seems to have been made because simply for the quality of it, um, for, for the art itself. I think
00:32:08.320
this could represent the end of that. And now it's just totally about the progressive politics
00:32:14.660
and nothing more. And if that happens, then it's the end of Hollywood and it leaves a giant
00:32:20.080
opening, a giant gap for somebody to come in and fill and make real art. Um, because they're still
00:32:30.840
going where we are human beings and we still have an appetite for art. That's not going anywhere.
00:32:38.320
And if Hollywood's not going to fulfill that appetite, um, if they're not going to satiate
00:32:43.960
that human need people have for art, then, uh, then somebody else will, will come in and take
00:32:48.900
Hollywood's place. And I say, that's good. That's a positive thing. So this is all good. We should
00:32:54.480
celebrate this. There's nothing, there's no, there's no reason to be, uh, to be annoyed by it. We should
00:32:57.940
laugh and be, and be happy as Hollywood continues to self-destruct and commit, uh, collective,
00:33:03.180
you know, uh, artistic suicide right in front of our eyes. It's all a very good thing.
00:33:08.320
And though they are canceled again, it is something that we, we do so, uh, joyfully,
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not a lot of joyful moments, unfortunately on this show, but that's, that's one of them right
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there that we can all take. And we'll end it there for today. Thanks for watching everybody.
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