The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 560 - The Government School System Reaches Its Slimy Tentacles Into The Home

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, two kids have been suspended for having toy guns in their rooms

00:00:04.340 while attending a Zoom class. We'll talk about why this push for online classes represents a

00:00:09.320 threat to parental rights and also why online learning for kids is a terrible idea in general.

00:00:14.420 Also, five headlines, including Kaepernick's return to the NFL, virtually anyway. And

00:00:18.400 in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the Academy's hilarious new diversity standards for

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00:02:25.680 are attending online school, school systems are deciding that this expands their jurisdiction

00:02:32.340 and authority into the very homes where the children are sitting. So two recent and egregious

00:02:37.900 examples, both in Colorado. In one case, a seventh grader at Grand Mountain was suspended after his

00:02:43.220 art teacher saw him during his online art class playing with a gun. Teacher wasn't sure if the gun was

00:02:49.100 real or not. Perhaps it's relevant here to note that the gun was neon green with an orange tip and

00:02:55.540 it said zombie hunter on the side of it. Who knows? Maybe the kid was a real zombie hunter.

00:02:59.840 So the police were called and the police then showed up to the child's house and the child was

00:03:04.260 suspended for the zombie hunter neon green Nerf gun. Another case for this one. Let me play a clip

00:03:10.360 from the local Fox 31 news report. Watch this. For sixth grader Maddox Blow, target practice is just

00:03:18.560 a regular part of being an 11-year-old kid. That's why he says he didn't think anything of it when he

00:03:24.000 picked up the air soft gun in his bedroom after completing a quiz during a remote school session

00:03:29.400 online. I was just fiddling with it because, like, I was bored and so I just fiddled with the nearest

00:03:36.000 object at hand. Maddox said he didn't even realize he was on camera, but hours later,

00:03:40.680 a teacher noticed the air soft gun while reviewing the recorded session, according to Maddox's dad.

00:03:46.300 The Fox 31 problem solvers learned a resource officer then called the Wheatridge police to ask

00:03:51.880 for a welfare check and report that Maddox had a toy gun. And now Maddox is suspended from school

00:03:58.720 for four days. This is a blatant overreaction on everyone's part. Maddox is owed an apology.

00:04:06.100 The Jeffco Public Schools wouldn't go on camera, but in an email confirmed the incident

00:04:10.720 and said the student was disciplined according to their district code of conduct.

00:04:15.300 Yeah, you know, we're going to leave entirely to the side the fact that suspensions in general are 0.99

00:04:20.500 a supremely stupid form of punishment. The only kids who care about getting suspended are the kids 0.98

00:04:25.820 who don't deserve to be like the two students in these stories. In other words, only good students

00:04:31.320 consider it a punishment to not be allowed to go to school. But good students don't get suspended,

00:04:36.540 or if they do, they probably don't deserve it. So the bad students deserve the punishment,

00:04:41.020 but they're the ones who don't consider it a punishment. You're bad in school and you act

00:04:46.040 like you don't want to be here. Your punishment is a one week vacation, mister. That'll teach you. 0.88

00:04:51.020 Not very effective. But more to the point, there are all kinds of horrifying implications

00:04:56.040 to public schools now punishing students and getting law enforcement involved for things

00:05:02.080 they're doing inside their own homes. Yes, bringing a fake gun to school will get you in trouble, but

00:05:08.000 now you aren't allowed to have one in your home, and all because the teacher can see inside your home.

00:05:14.180 So a teacher can punish a child for anything the teacher sees the child do, no matter where he is

00:05:21.660 when he's doing it. A teacher has authority over the actions of a child inside his home, and all because

00:05:28.460 Zoom grants the teacher a view of inside the home. What this COVID panic-inspired rush towards online

00:05:36.020 learning, or distance learning as they call it now, represents, what it represents is, among other

00:05:41.840 things, a massive power grab by the state. Government schools had already, over the course of the past

00:05:47.320 several decades, been intruding more and more into home life, taking more and more power away from the

00:05:52.420 parents, as the school itself increasingly assumes the position as surrogate parent. But now, with this

00:06:00.920 online learning stuff, with households apparently required to function as the school and obey its

00:06:06.280 rules, what should be a reclaiming of power by the parents has worked exactly the other way around.

00:06:12.980 The schools have just extended their reach, slithering their tentacles into the home and claiming it

00:06:20.060 as their domain now. And all of that is also almost beside the point when it comes to online

00:06:28.800 classes. The most important point of all is simply that online learning for kids in grade school

00:06:34.640 doesn't work. In fact, it's debatable whether it works at all at any age, even at the older ages.

00:06:42.260 A report published by Inside Higher Ed in January of last year, so way before the COVID panics and

00:06:48.080 everyone running into their homes for months on end, found that students who are fully online,

00:06:52.940 taking all of their college classes on the internet, underperform and experience poor outcomes.

00:06:58.580 Now, I ask you, is there any reason to think it'll be better for 10-year-olds?

00:07:03.800 There are, I'm sure, some adults who can be successful with online classes. There might be

00:07:08.560 some kids too, but that percentage is going to be much smaller. And that's why the reviews after the

00:07:13.860 last, you know, the last three months of the past school year spent learning online, the reviews for

00:07:18.900 that were generally poor. It was an article in the Wall Street Journal in June, headline,

00:07:23.560 the results are in for remote learning, it didn't work. Of course it didn't. You can't plunk a child in

00:07:29.800 front of a computer for hours a day and expect him to absorb even a fraction of the information that's

00:07:35.580 thrown at him. Children need an education that is hands-on, immersive, personalized. In fact,

00:07:43.400 the whole problem with the public school system, where 30 kids are plunked into a classroom and

00:07:48.120 information is spewed at them, which they're expected to memorize and regurgitate, the whole

00:07:52.700 problem is that it's not nearly personalized enough. Now take that same approach, except have the kids

00:07:59.900 sitting and staring into a screen. And all of the bad things about public school education, at least

00:08:05.100 all of the bad things about the education itself, if not the environment, are amplified. You simply

00:08:11.260 can't expect kids to learn this way. There's a reason why for years, the complaint has been that

00:08:17.180 kids spend way too much time sitting around and staring into screens. Suddenly, because people are

00:08:23.180 scared of a virus that rarely affects kids at all, many kids are required to do the thing we've all said

00:08:29.160 they do too much of already. So we go from you look at screens too much to sit here for six hours

00:08:35.380 today and look at screens. One thing we can certainly expect, there is going to be a huge,

00:08:40.740 and I'm sure we will be told, mysterious rise in ADHD diagnosis this year. Kids who have trouble

00:08:47.300 engaging and staying invested and interested and focused in a crowded classroom while a teacher reads

00:08:51.700 information off of a worksheet are already diagnosed as somehow disordered, when their only real

00:08:57.460 disorder is that they're disengaged and bored by stuff that's disengaging and boring. So expect a similar

00:09:05.500 approach to kids who have trouble sitting still and staring at a screen for hours each day. Well, you know,

00:09:10.400 this eight-year-old boy isn't learning much from five hours of Zoom meetings each day. He must be diseased. 0.92

00:09:15.900 Let's shove some pills in his mouth. That's what's coming, I guarantee you. For a long time, the approach to 1.00

00:09:22.160 education has been to do it in a way that is most convenient for all of the adults involved.

00:09:30.120 And if the kids struggle to learn that way, well, then drug them until they get with the program.

00:09:35.120 So a parent says, I need to be able to ship my kid off to a government building for eight hours a day

00:09:39.640 because that's easiest for the lifestyle that I want to have. If my kid doesn't thrive in that

00:09:44.900 environment, well, there must be something wrong with him. Put him on drugs.

00:09:48.100 No, there's nothing wrong with your kid. There's something wrong with your approach to parenting.

00:09:55.280 And now Zoom classes and online learning for elementary schoolers is just the latest example

00:09:59.680 of educating kids in a way that makes us feel most comfortable as adults

00:10:05.600 and is most convenient for us and what we want to do,

00:10:10.320 but is not good for the kids. And so what do we say? If it doesn't work for the kids,

00:10:15.720 then yet again, there's something wrong with them. That's what's coming down the pike. I guarantee 1.00

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00:12:19.500 Colin Kaepernick is returning to the NFL virtually anyway. EA Sports announced that Kaepernick

00:12:23.760 will be in the new Madden game. You can choose him to quarterback any team you want. Apparently,

00:12:30.320 his avatar, his character in a game will have an 81 rating, which the kids tell me is good. So that

00:12:38.180 places him like among the elite quarterbacks in the game, which is obviously absurd. He wasn't an

00:12:43.620 elite quarterback when he played five years ago. Here's the statement from EA Sports. It says,

00:12:48.600 Colin Kaepernick is one of the top free agents in football and a starting caliber quarterback.

00:12:52.400 The team at EA Sports, along with millions of Madden NFL fans, want to see him back in our game.

00:12:57.200 Knowing that our EA Sports experiences are platforms for players to create,

00:13:01.820 we want to make Madden NFL a place that reflects Colin's position and talent,

00:13:06.680 rates him as a starting quarterback, and empowers our fans to express their hope for the future of

00:13:11.260 football. We've worked with Colin to make this possible, and we're excited to bring it all to

00:13:15.460 you today. Yeah, I'm sure you did work with Colin Kaepernick for that. I'm sure he was fully on

00:13:20.680 board. All in the name of social justice. This is all about social justice, racial justice. 0.97

00:13:27.200 But getting Colin Kaepernick in the game, you know, it's all in the, when he was working with

00:13:33.380 Madden, making however much money he was making from them to get himself in a video game, it is all

00:13:39.560 for racial and social justice. Okay? And money, but mainly for racial and social justice.

00:13:47.440 Now, of course, the claim, as I said, the claim to him being a starting caliber player at the age

00:13:52.440 of 32, five years removed from the game, is ludicrous. Just to give you an idea, Kaepernick

00:13:58.520 lost his starting job to Blaine Gabbert while he was still playing. Okay? And if you aren't familiar

00:14:04.940 with pro football, suffice it to say that losing your starting job to Blaine Gabbert is one of the

00:14:11.440 great humiliations that you can possibly suffer in an athletic context. It's like, it's maybe a notch

00:14:19.200 below losing an arm wrestling competition against your wife. Okay? It's only slightly less humiliating

00:14:27.040 than that. In his final year in the league in 2016, he went one for 10. He went one in 10, I should say.

00:14:33.680 That was actually his record as a starting quarterback. He won one game, played 11,

00:14:39.420 threw 16 touchdowns in 11 games. So again, this was at best, I mean, generously, this was a mediocre

00:14:47.060 player when he was in the league. He had one or two good years, and then it was sort of a rapid descent

00:14:57.500 from there. He's not going to be any better now that he's 32 and has been doing nothing but

00:15:02.940 shooting Nike commercials for the last half a decade. But this all again proves my point

00:15:08.080 that Colin Kaepernick is one of the great con men in American history. And I really believe that. I

00:15:16.880 think he's almost at the level of maybe the kid from that the Catch Me If You Can was based on.

00:15:22.600 He's almost at that level. I mean, if you think about it, Colin Kaepernick realized that he was

00:15:28.960 washing out as an NFL starter. He faced a career as a journeyman backup quarterback, you know, signing

00:15:35.400 two or three or really one or two year contracts in different places around the league, you know,

00:15:41.860 coming in for training camp and then maybe signing somewhere else. And he didn't want to do that. So

00:15:49.480 it was at that moment that he launched his fake social justice crusade. Fast forward five years,

00:15:57.420 he's far richer and more famous than he ever would have been as a professional bench writer.

00:16:02.960 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

00:16:10.340 sort of anger towards Colin Kaepernick that other conservatives have, I guess, because I'm a

00:16:16.040 capitalist at heart. And so when I see this guy running a con like this and raking in millions because

00:16:22.460 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 1.00

00:16:30.120 fraud. But at the same time, this is just a massive course change. And he was able to sell himself as 1.00

00:16:39.060 some sort of social justice crusader and make tens of millions of dollars off of it. Now, granted,

00:16:44.000 he had a lot of help from the media and everything else. So you could say it really wasn't that

00:16:47.320 difficult, but still hell of a con, hell of a scam that he's running. Number two, you may remember,

00:16:52.820 speaking of scams, Jessica Krug, the African studies professor who was who was white, but

00:16:58.400 claimed to be black for many years. Video has surfaced of this person back in 2019 when she was 0.97

00:17:04.180 still pretending to be black. And here she is on a Columbia University panel seemingly justifying and 0.84

00:17:09.640 defending some gang members who hacked apart a 15 year old kid with machetes. And she says that it's a

00:17:16.600 it was a revolutionary political act and seems to have a not very disapproving attitude about it.

00:17:24.040 Watch. How many people in this room are familiar with Leandro Guzman? Feliz. It's a 15 year old boy

00:17:32.200 who was murdered in the Bronx last year. So if you're in New York, you probably heard a lot about this.

00:17:38.020 And the narrative around it is that he was an innocent kid who was mistaken for a bad kid.

00:17:44.260 He was the kid who was hacked apart with machetes in front of a bodega in the Bronx. And the idea is

00:17:51.340 that he was mistaken for someone else by Trinitarios, right, who are a Dominican gang that comes out of

00:17:57.660 Rikers as most of the radical politics of New York City has done for many, many years. But the part of

00:18:05.660 the story that gets emphasized in different ways is that he was an explorer, right, which is a program

00:18:11.620 that the NYPD has to bring youth in to eventually work for them. And so when I think about this

00:18:18.500 politics of silence that I'm talking about in the archives, right, and how silence can be a really

00:18:23.500 radical presence historically, I think it's a radical presence today. When people talk about

00:18:28.700 snitches get stitches, right, or when we think about a history of anti-apartheid struggle in South

00:18:33.980 Africa and necklacing, right, and that kind of violence towards people who are collaborating or

00:18:39.820 who are working against their communities, we have to consider a radical moment in 2018 in which people

00:18:46.240 are using machetes to hack apart a 15-year-old boy who's working with the police.

00:18:50.820 Now, this is not the point, I suppose. But my first question is, how the hell did anyone ever take that

00:18:55.900 woman for a black person? She's paler than me. She sounds like a valley girl. I mean, speaking of 0.99

00:19:07.080 scams, how did this go on for years? Couldn't everyone tell she wasn't black just by, you know, 0.97

00:19:13.820 looking at her? Did she surround herself with visually impaired people? Did she work at a camp 0.81

00:19:19.420 for the blind? I mean, I really don't. It's amazing to me that that person passed herself off as black 0.98

00:19:27.600 all those years. But really, I guess it's not that amazing. The reason she got away with it is that

00:19:32.680 we live in a country where everyone feels like they have to take everyone else's self-identification

00:19:38.360 seriously, no matter how obviously absurd it is. So when she went around introducing herself as a black 0.73

00:19:44.220 woman, people were afraid to just go, no, no, no, you're not. You're not that. You're certain. I don't

00:19:52.360 know exactly where you're from or what, but no, no. To use basic common sense is considered an act of

00:19:59.160 violence now. And so people were afraid to do that. And everybody forfeits their common sense

00:20:03.720 willingly, you know, choosing wokeness over common sense. We're at the point now where I could walk into

00:20:13.160 a room and say, but howdy folks. Great to meet you. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a Jamaican woman. And also

00:20:20.100 I'm 72 and pregnant and I can fly. And everyone would feel obligated to say, oh, okay, great. Nice

00:20:28.360 to meet you. How's Vietnam these days? That's where we are. And that's, that's, that's how she got away 1.00

00:20:34.540 with it. And that's, I guess it's a similar thing to Colin Kaepernick. I want, I want to, the positive

00:20:38.740 side of me wants to laud them for being great scam artists. But then I realized the culture and the

00:20:43.760 environment has made it so incredibly easy to run these kinds of scams. Number three, Michelle Obama

00:20:49.460 is offering some marriage advice in a recent podcast. She said, quote, um, there were times that

00:20:54.640 I wanted to push Barack out of a window. And I say that because it's like, you've got to know the

00:20:59.820 feelings will be intense, but that doesn't mean you quit. And these periods can last a long time.

00:21:05.040 They can last years. Periods of wanting to murder your spouse can last years. Um, you know,

00:21:13.780 having murderous rage towards your spouse for any amount of time, let alone years. I, I, I'm not sure

00:21:20.780 that that's actually good or healthy or normal. Um, I haven't been married for as long as, as the

00:21:26.380 Obamas have been married, but you know, we've, we've got nine years under our belt. Uh, you know,

00:21:32.080 we have four kids. And so we've been around the block a few times and I can say that I've,

00:21:36.660 I've never wanted to push my wife out of a window. I can say that, which actually would make for a 0.99

00:21:41.960 very romantic Valentine's card. Honey, I swear, I will never chuck you out a window. A little too

00:21:48.500 sentimental. I don't know, but I, you know, I'm a, I'm a romantic at heart. Number four, finally,

00:21:53.020 TEDx London has, oh no, not, not finally. This is number four. We've got one after this. TEDx London

00:21:57.360 has announced that it will no longer use the word women and instead we'll use women with an X 0.99

00:22:03.040 instead of an E. So, uh, Wim, Wimixen, Wimixen. Uh, they explain their decision here. They say,

00:22:11.360 why we're using Wimixen? No, that's not a typo. Wimixen is a spelling of women that is more inclusive

00:22:18.020 and progressive. The term sheds light on the prejudice, discrimination, and institutional

00:22:21.900 barriers Wimixen have faced and explicitly includes non-cisgender women.

00:22:27.360 Actually, okay. There's a, there's a lot to unpack here. Um, or maybe there's nothing to

00:22:33.320 unpack. This is just a load of nothingness. This is utterly vapid, meaningless. Women with an X is 1.00

00:22:40.460 more inclusive. How, how exactly? It sheds light on prejudice. How, what, why, when, where? So many

00:22:52.340 questions. Um, though I do appreciate this new leftist trend, I guess, of, of injecting the letter

00:23:00.400 X into words randomly because it demonstrates that progressivism has no ideas of its own,

00:23:07.060 no real vision, no plan, no goal, no coherent thoughts of any kind to offer. It's really reactionary

00:23:14.540 in the most literal sense of the word because it simply reacts to what already exists. Its whole

00:23:21.280 thing is just to arbitrarily tear down and get rid of what already exists for no reason other than

00:23:27.140 just to do it. Um, that's the only discernible or vaguely discernible reason to replace women with 1.00

00:23:33.520 Wimixen. It achieves nothing other than to get rid of the word women. And the only problem with the word 1.00

00:23:39.420 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 1.00

00:23:44.380 that reason. Uh, it's the same thing with Latinx and all of these, uh, or Latinx. I'm still not 0.99

00:23:50.200 clear on how to pronounce any of these words. Um, or maybe you're not supposed to pronounce them. I

00:23:55.260 don't know. It's like, uh, you know, Prince replacing his name with a symbol. Is it that kind of thing? I'm

00:24:00.980 not sure. Number five, finally, for our most important story of the day, huge controversy ignited

00:24:04.980 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,

00:24:15.700 for her picture at Jimmy's seafood, which is a Maryland institution, best crab cakes in the

00:24:20.500 country, in the world, on the planet without question. But the picture sparked debate because

00:24:24.920 as you could see, she's eating sushi with a fork. Uh, and the comments about this have been vicious,

00:24:33.140 all focused on the fork because people say you're supposed to use chopsticks when eating sushi.

00:24:39.700 But let me just say right now, and, and, and I will say this publicly, and I really did appreciate

00:24:44.000 this, this picture from, from Kim. Um, I am also a forker as we call ourselves. Maybe we should think

00:24:49.700 of a different label than that. Uh, I eat sushi with a fork. I've been doing it for years. I also have

00:24:55.660 endured the scorn and disdain from my fellow man because of it, but it is time that we forkers come out

00:25:02.580 of the shadows and speak our truth. There's nothing wrong with it. I use a fork for sushi. Yes, I do

00:25:08.000 sometimes use a fork for pizza, for hamburgers. I use a fork for anything. It is a, it is a, it is a,

00:25:14.680 one of the great inventions in the history of, of, of mankind, and there's absolutely nothing wrong

00:25:19.780 with it. So I appreciated that from Kim Klachik. Okay, let's get to our daily cancellation. Today for

00:25:25.960 our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling the Oscars. Uh, the Oscars have been canceled for me

00:25:30.480 on a personal level since, well, forever. I don't think I've ever watched more than five minutes of

00:25:35.420 an Oscars telecast. That's because I'm not a masochist, but today we're going to be canceling

00:25:39.380 the Oscars for everybody else too. Um, you aren't allowed to watch it either now after this, which I

00:25:43.960 think will, will be one rule that you should have no problem following under my theocratic, uh,

00:25:48.940 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,

00:25:59.120 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

00:26:18.200 let's read the article, uh, to find out about these, these requirements. It says to encourage

00:26:22.360 equitable representation on and off screen in order to better reflect the diversity of the movie

00:26:27.220 going audience, films will have to meet minimum requirements pertaining to representation and

00:26:31.680 inclusion to be eligible for the best picture Oscar beginning with the 96th, 96th Oscar race,

00:26:37.260 uh, which will recognize achievements from 2024 and be held in 2025. The Academy of Motion Picture

00:26:43.240 Arts and Sciences announced, uh, on Tuesday saying that, uh, in the meantime, an Academy inclusion

00:26:48.200 standards form will have to be submitted to the Academy for a film to be considered for the 94th

00:26:53.640 Oscars, um, and 95th Oscars. Although meeting inclusion thresholds will not yet be a requirement

00:27:00.420 and no action will be required for films wishing to compete for the 93rd Oscars, which are to be held

00:27:06.260 on April 25th. Okay. Now there are four standards by which the films will be judged before being admitted

00:27:13.960 into consideration for a best picture and they must meet two of the four standards. So here's the first

00:27:20.180 of the four standards. Uh, as a standard a it's on screen representation themes and narratives. That's

00:27:26.780 the category. This means that at least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from

00:27:32.400 an underrepresented racial or ethnic group. These groups can be Asian, Hispanic slash Latinx, black

00:27:40.000 slash African-American, indigenous slash Native American slash Alaska native, Middle Eastern slash North

00:27:45.700 African Hawaiian, Hawaiian, uh, native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander or other underrepresented race 0.61

00:27:51.040 or ethnicity. They might also qualify under standard a, if at least 30% of all actors and secondary and

00:27:56.500 more minor roles are from at least two of the following underrepresented groups, women, racial or

00:28:01.960 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

00:28:14.800 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,

00:28:32.500 but frankly, I think we all get the point. Now, a number of things jump out at, uh, jump out at us here.

00:28:37.940 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? 1.00

00:29:21.340 I feel like I see women in movies all the time. Women are in movies. Movies are about women. 1.00

00:29:27.000 There doesn't appear to be a problem here. In fact, these days you can't even watch an action movie

00:29:31.220 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 0.99

00:29:43.180 this is all completely arbitrary. You know, you got 30% of the people in the supporting cast have to

00:29:50.400 belong to two or more of this and that group. Uh, it's, it's all entirely arbitrary. And the fourth

00:29:57.600 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,

00:30:12.940 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,

00:33:13.560 not a lot of joyful moments, unfortunately on this show, but that's, that's one of them right

00:33:18.640 there that we can all take. And we'll end it there for today. Thanks for watching everybody.

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