Ep. 561 - Netflix Gets Into The Child Sexual Exploitation Business
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Summary
Netflix has officially released the movie about twerking 11-year-olds. Many defenders of the film and the media said that the outrage against the film was off-base and that its detractors were taking things out of context. Well, now the full movie is publicly available, and it turns out it s even worse than we thought. Also, five headlines, including another shocking scandal that is sure to bring down Donald Trump.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, Netflix has officially released the Cuties movie about
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twerking 11-year-olds. Many defenders of the film and the media said that the outrage against the
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film was off-base and that its detractors were taking things out of context. Well,
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now the full movie is publicly available, and it turns out it's even worse than we thought.
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Also, five headlines, including another shocking scandal that is sure to bring down Donald Trump.
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At least that's what they tell me on CNN. But what's the truth behind that? We'll get into it.
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Okay. Here's a company that does not share our values. Several weeks ago, Netflix began promoting
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a new film from French director Maimouna Dankore, probably mispronouncing that, but the movie is
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called Cuties. And the poster featuring scantily clad children posing suggestively caused well-deserved
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outrage when it first appeared. The Sundance Film Festival, which honored the film with a directing
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award, provided a synopsis that didn't do much to quell the anger either. According to Sundance,
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it says, Cuties tells the story of an 11-year-old girl named Amy who, quote, through an ignited
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awareness of her burgeoning femininity, propels the group to enthusiastically embrace an increasingly
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sensual dance routine, sparking the girls' hope to twerk their way to stardom at a local
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dance contest. It's perhaps worth mentioning here that Sundance was co-founded by a man who
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is now in prison for child sexual abuse. I don't know, I just wanted to throw that in there.
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The film's official description from Netflix was only slightly less grotesque-sounding,
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and they said Amy Levin becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them,
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she starts to explore her femininity, defying her family's traditions.
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Now, after the backlash, Netflix apologized, not for the film itself, but simply for the
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inappropriate artwork, they said. The streaming service also changed the synopsis, getting rid of
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any mention of twerking, and instead calling it a free-spirited dance crew.
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Netflix did not bother to explain why they used that, quote-unquote,
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inappropriate artwork in the first place to promote the film. You know, if it doesn't actually
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reflect the content, and if they're not trying to attract an audience of pedophiles who wish to
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see pubescent girls gyrate on stage, then what was the thought process behind the way it was
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originally marketed? We were never told. The website Bustle said that the poster was simply
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botched. Now, I can understand botching a poster with a typo or some other error due to carelessness,
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but how do you botch something by accidentally turning it into softcore child porn? That's my
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question. Many other media outlets rushed to the defense of the twerking children movie.
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An article by Anna Menta on The Decider scolded the film's detractors, baselessly linking the
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criticism to the QAnon conspiracy theory and said that we all owe the director an apology. Richard
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Broder at The New Yorker called the movie extraordinary and blasted the scurrilous campaign
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launched by right-wingers to criticize the movie. The Rolling Stones' David Feer gave Cuties a
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positive review, saying that the outrage is all the product of a major misleading marketing mistake.
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The Independent joined the chorus of defenders, declaring, quote,
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Cuties on Netflix is too moving a film to be marred by one bad taste poster. Many outlets such as NPR
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claim that the film actually criticizes and exposes the sexualization of children. Actress Tessa Thompson
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said that she was gutted by the, quote, beautiful film and that the, quote, current discourse misses the
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fact that the movie comments on the hyper-sexualization of pre-adolescent girls. Overall, the outrage
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certainly did not deter the media from hailing Cuties as an artistic triumph, as you could tell.
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In fact, as we speak, it sits at 90% fresh on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, with critics
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saying other things like, it's refreshingly frank about class, religion, and burgeoning sexuality
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in ways that mainstream American movies would never dare. And also, quote, Cuties certainly deserves to be
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seen. For a while, the film's valiant defenders in the media and Hollywood had the advantage of being
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the only people to have actually seen it. The rest of us could but make assumptions based on the,
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it would seem rather significant fact, that it's a movie about 11-year-olds twerking, which Netflix
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had decided to market with a picture of said 11-year-olds barely clothed in striking sexual poses. But you
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can't judge a movie by its child porn cover, we were told. And then yesterday, the film was finally
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released. It turns out, unsurprisingly, you can. As fuller clips from the film now circulate online,
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I won't play any of them here because honestly, I'd worry about the FBI breaking down my door if I did.
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It's clear that those of us who criticized the movie actually understated our case. It is, if anything,
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way worse than we assumed and feared. Some examples. One scene features the 11-year-old
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girls gyrating and slapping each other on the butt as the camera zooms in for close-ups. Another
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shows Amy in her underwear furiously thrusting her body as she lays on the floor. Again, camera gives
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close-ups. In another, the girls dance provocatively for two grown men, one of whom looks on with obvious
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and creepy satisfaction. In still another, Amy pulls down her pants and takes a picture of her
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crotch and posts it online. In the penultimate scene, which was featured on the original poster
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before Netflix changed it, that scene is significantly more disturbing than the already disturbing image
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let on. The scene drags on for several minutes, the dancing is highly, highly sexualized, and the
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camera, as always, zooms in for crotch shots and other close-ups. This is not a commentary on child
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sexual exploitation. It is child exploitation, clear as day, in all its sadism. And remember,
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the characters and the actors who play them are 11 years old. With these horrific scenes now publicly
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available, it seems almost pointless to engage with the plainly absurd notion that the filmmakers had
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11-year-old children writhe around and gyrate on stage while barely clothed as some kind of protest
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against the sexualization of children. It would be like a slasher film featuring several scenes of
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various screaming victims being disemboweled, claiming in its defense that it only meant to comment
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on the problem of graphic violence in film. Indeed, that actually is the defense often offered for
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slasher flicks, and it's as weak in that case as it is here. The guy who made Texas Chainsaw
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Massacre may have told himself that he had higher intentions, but the fact remains that most people
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who watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre just want to see, well, a Chainsaw Massacre. I suppose when it
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comes down to it, no filmmaker wants to come out and admit that they produced gratuitous garbage for a
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lowest common denominator audience, but many filmmakers do produce that sort of material for that sort of
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audience, whether they admit it or not. And Cuties belongs on that ghastly heap for sure, hopefully
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buried underneath it somewhere deep where it cannot be seen. Despite the pretensions of Anna Menta at the
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Decider and many others in media, the normalization of pedophilia is not a right-wing fairy tale or a
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QAnon conspiracy theory. It is real. It is happening. Here's exhibit A, or, you know, not even exhibit A.
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This is a long line of exhibits. It's right in front of us for us to see. You know, yes, do you have the
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normalization of pedophilia in a culture where a movie like this not just exists, okay? It's not just
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this, that some pervert, some creep made this movie, and it's out there in the hinterland somewhere,
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out on the fringes, and no one's seen it. This is being promoted and supplied to us, to the American
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audience, by a billion-dollar streaming platform. And major media publications have come out in its
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defense, strenuously, to defend it. You wouldn't have that in a culture that didn't normalize pedophilia
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in child sexual exploitation. I mean, this is a country where children are sent to the library
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to be read stories by drag queens. This is a country where, you know, Planned Parenthood goes
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into middle schools and high schools to hand out birth control. This is a country where we've got,
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you know, quote-unquote, sex ed in elementary schools telling kids about masturbation and other things.
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So yes, this is a real plan among the powers that be in our culture to sexualize children.
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There is no doubt about it. And this right here from Netflix. I mean, if this is not reason, if this
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does not convince us all to cancel our Netflix subscriptions, if we still have them, then I don't
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know what will. There have to be real penalties for something like this. We can't just complain about it
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and say how horrible this is and then go about our merry way while still paying Netflix our
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subscription fee. We cannot do that. If there was ever a reason for a boycott, this is it right here.
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So let's all do that today. Let's cancel our Netflix subscriptions. That's the least we can do.
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That's step one. Let's get to our five headlines.
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Let me pull up our news headlines if I can find them. Here they are. Okay. Of course,
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you know, the big news I'm told supposedly is President Donald Trump telling Bob Woodward
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in March that he wants to play down the coronavirus. This is all going to appear in Woodward's
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forthcoming book, Rage, about the Trump administration. I wonder if it's going to
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have a positive or negative spin. I don't know. It's hard to tell. You can never tell. Who knows?
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It's impossible to predict. This conversation between Trump and Woodward is on tape. You've
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probably heard the tape by now, but if not, here it is again. It goes through air, Bob. That's always
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tougher than the touch. You know, the touch, you don't have to touch things, right? But the air,
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you just breathe the air. That's how it's passed. And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very
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delicate one. It's also more deadly than your, you know, even your strenuous flus. You know,
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people don't realize we lose 25,000, 30,000 people a year here. Who would ever think that,
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right? I know. I mean, it's pretty amazing. And then I say, well, is that the same thing?
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This is more deadly. This is five per, you know, this is 5% versus 1% and less than 1%.
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So give me a moment of talking to somebody, going through this with Fauci or somebody who
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kind of, it caused a pivot in your mind, because it's clear just from what's on the public record
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that you went through a pivot on this to, oh my God, the gravity is almost inexplicable and
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Well, I think, Bob, really, to be honest with you, I wanted to always play it down. I still like
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playing it down because I don't want to create a panic.
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Okay. There you go. And he also said, Trump said at other times early in February, that the virus
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is deadly stuff and worse than the flu. And the claim from Trump's critics is that these private
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statements contradict what he said publicly and show that he lied to the public. There's a lot more
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in these interviews. He did 18 interviews with Woodward, 18. Many of them apparently recorded 18
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interviews. Here's what I'll say about this. First of all, he did say in those comments,
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just played that he was, he was, he was playing it down, quote unquote, in order to prevent the
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public from panicking. Now, I don't think preventing a panic is a good reason for a public
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official to lie. If you're going to accept that excuse from the government for lying, then you
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can't ever criticize the government for lying because that's always the excuse for lying from
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the government. But on the other hand, I don't think that Trump actually was lying necessarily.
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I think that what you heard there was more a reflection of Trump's limited vocabulary than
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anything else. He said, play it down. But in the context, it seemed like he really meant to say
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something like allay fears or something like that. That probably would have caught his meaning a little
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bit better, I think. And besides, his public comments were also all over the place. So if his
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private comments were all over the place and his public comments were all over the place,
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there are a lot of criticisms you can make towards him about that, but I don't think you can accuse
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him of deception or conspiracy or a coverup or something like that. It sounds like the guy was
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sort of flailing, which is certainly the impression he gave publicly as well as privately. So I think
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all in all, this is not a huge, it's not the huge scandal the left wants it to be. It doesn't reflect
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well on Trump either, but it's not a breathtaking scandal, which is of course what they, what they are
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hoping for. Now that said, my real issue here is that Trump decided to do 18 recorded interviews
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with a guy who was writing an expose about him, which would come out before the election.
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That is inexcusably stupid. And it shows what I've always said, which is that Trump is not
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media savvy at all. He gets credit for that. He's a master at media manipulation. No,
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he just does and says stuff randomly. And the media is so incompetent that it often works out
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in Trump's favor, but a media savvy president would not do recorded interviews 18 times with a guy who
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is clearly against you and wants to write a hit piece on you. If Trump actually thought there was
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any chance that Bob Woodward would write a positive book about him, then that's the dumbest thing of
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all. Um, there is just no scenario where that works in your favor. The best you can hope for.
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I know that the people defending Trump are saying, Oh, this isn't going to hurt him. Okay. Well,
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that's the best you can hope for. You sit down for 18 recorded interviews with, with Bob Woodward.
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Best possible outcome is that it's, it's neutral. It doesn't hurt you. In which case it was a waste of
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time. Worst outcome is that it does hurt you. There is no universe at all in which it helps you,
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in which prattling to Bob Woodward 18 times, uh, with recordings somehow works in your favor. It
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just, it just, it's not going to. So there's no reason to do it. Uh, why did Trump do it then?
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Well, because Trump is incapable of saying no to someone who wants to give him attention. Yeah. You
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know, it's, it really is that simple and that's one of his great weaknesses. Uh, I think. Okay.
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Number two from the daily wire. It says attorney general, William Barr announced Wednesday that
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operation legend, a department of justice program designed to supplement major city to police
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departments with federal agents and resources amid an unprecedented national crime wave has cut the
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Chicago murder rate roughly in half since launch and has reversed a surge of violence that was leaving
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dozens killed. Uh, it says looking for the actual numbers here about Chicago. Um, the results of those
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actions speak for themselves over the past five weeks of operation legend in Chicago, murders dropped
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by 50% over the previous five weeks, August ultimately saw a 45% decrease in murders compared
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to July and a 35% decrease compared to June. Okay. So if I'm interpreting the data here correctly,
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it would seem that the takeaway is that enforcing the law helps reduce crime. Yes. When,
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when you allow criminals to commit crime without consequence, you get more crime. When you impose
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a consequence, you get less crime. There would seem to be a cause and effect relationship here
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possibly. And this is why I've been saying for a long time that, that, that all of this talk about
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criminal justice reform is focused on reforming in exactly the wrong way. There is not a crisis in
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our country of innocent people being sent to jail or criminals being given sentences that are too
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harsh. That's not now that kind of thing does happen on occasion, but that's not the systemic
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issue. The systemic issue is that violent, dangerous people are filtered quickly through the system and
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then sent back out onto the streets. That's the systemic problem. The systemic issue is that many
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people, um, many of the people out in the street committing crime are known to the system to be
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criminals and to be dangerous. And yet they're allowed to remain free. Great example of this.
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Okay. Just from this week as well in New York, a guy named Daniel Biggs, you can see the video here.
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He rode his bike past a six year old woman, punched her in the head and knocked her to the ground and,
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and just kept on riding. Now, fortunately, a bunch of firefighters saw this happen and were able to
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chase him down and apprehend him, which is good. But Biggs is 53 years old, apparently has 18 prior
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arrests for robbery, assault, and other crimes. Now he's out randomly assaulting women who were just
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walking down the street. This is a man with nothing to offer a society, um, just violence and crime.
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That's all he's got to offer. That's all he's got to give. Uh, the re there, there is just no reason
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to have him out on the street. There's no reforming somebody like this. Someone who's been a scumbag
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their entire life. And now at the age of 53 is still out randomly assaulting people just for fun.
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Um, there's no reforming. There's no real hope that one day this will be a productive member of
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society. This is someone who you throw into a cage and you keep them there forever. Okay. You say to
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that person, you're done. You've had your chance. You've had many chances. You clearly don't want to
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behave like a human being. You're not interested in that. So this is what you get. We're going to
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throw you in a cage. Um, but what happened to Biggs though? Well, he was charged a few days later
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and released on bail. They released him 18 arrests. He's doing that. They release him out on bail.
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What do you think? Is Biggs going to show up diligently for his court appearance? Is he going
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to wear a nice suit, come to the court on the day that's assigned and, you know, face his,
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the consequences like a man? No, of course not. So this is the way it works. Guys like this filter
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through the system and they end up back on the street, commit more crimes. The system is way,
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way, way too lenient, not too harsh. And that's where the reform should be focused. So it's good
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that, um, at least on the federal level, we're starting to see some of that. Okay. A man named
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Safwan Chowdhury, uh, posted video yesterday that he says shows him and his family being kicked off a
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WestJet flight. In fact, the whole flight was, was canceled as a matter of fact, because his 19 month
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old child was not wearing a mask. You can't see or hear much in the video, but I'll play it for you
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What is bullsh**t? Bullsh**t! Bullsh**t! Bullsh**t! We've all seen it! We have all seen it!
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This isn't going to get finished. Dude, you suck to this chair. You can tell him, load up the plane.
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You goofy f*****t! Beat it! Excuse me, what is your, what is your f*****t?
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This is not my decision. Everyone has to hear it. No, no, your partner, everyone has to hear it.
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We've got one mob, we've got one problem. There is a law. Where were you riding a bicycle at this f*****t time?
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You don't be ignorant. You don't be ignorant. You don't be ignorant.
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You told the last child when you were asked several times. How do you know that you are here?
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Now, WestJet, in defense of itself, says that, no, the problem was not the 19-month-old. It was the
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three-year-old daughter was not wearing a mask. So they canceled the flight because of that. Chowdhury
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disputes that claim, and so there's a he said, he said thing going on. Here's how it shakes out,
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as far as I can tell. Number one, expecting a baby, a 19-month-old, to wear a mask is madness
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and dangerous. Babies can suffocate very easily. You don't put any kind of fabric or anything around
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the face of a baby, period. Any business that requires that should be sued. Any parent who
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complies with that is stupid and gutless beyond words. Absolutely, you don't put a mask on a baby.
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You lunatics. But what if it was just the three-year-old that was the issue? Well, guess
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what? Still stupid. Just as stupid. Many three-year-olds aren't going to cooperate with having
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a mask on and shouldn't be required to. And it doesn't seem very healthy to me to have a three-year-old
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who's panicking because they don't understand why they have to have this thing on their face
00:24:26.840
restricting their breathing. And now they're trying to breathe hard. They're panicking. They're
00:24:30.740
screaming. They got the mask on. No. I have a three-year-old myself. He's not going to wear
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a mask for any long period of time. He'll put one on for like 45 seconds, mainly just because
00:24:40.340
he sees everyone else doing it. But then it's going to come off and I'm not going to force
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him to wear it. I've said many times that as far as I'm concerned, if a business wants
00:24:47.840
me to wear a mask, I will respect their property rights and comply with that, even though I don't
00:24:53.120
like it. But no, you're not going to force me to put a mask on my three-year-old. It's just
00:24:56.980
not going to happen. But here's the thing that really gets to me about this. Going back
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to that video, okay, you heard the child crying, obviously scared, confused. So when you think
00:25:09.700
about that, requiring little kids to put masks on or, you know, the latest now they're going
00:25:14.660
to be canceling trick or treat in, I think Chicago said they're probably going to cancel
00:25:19.100
it. Even though you're outside, the kids are already wearing masks and costumes, so there's
00:25:24.880
no reason to do it, but they're going to do it anyway. Or any of the other millions of
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examples of the ways that kids have been affected by this. What gets me is that none
00:25:34.280
of this is about protecting the kids themselves. Okay, this is not some sort of misguided but
00:25:41.120
well-meaning attempt to protect children. I personally have a lot of sympathy for misguided
00:25:47.000
but well-meaning attempts to protect children. I sympathize with that because I get it. You
00:25:51.960
know, I understand as a father, I understand how sometimes you could go a little overboard
00:25:56.660
in your zealousness to protect children. I can certainly be guilty of that sometimes.
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I mean, you should see the way that I cut up food for my three-year-old as if he's an infant.
00:26:05.940
Cut it up into these little tiny, like microscopic bits because I'm terrified that it'll choke.
00:26:10.360
And it's way overboard. My wife makes fun of me, but I can't help it. It's my greatest fear
00:26:16.220
as a kid choking. So I go way overboard sometimes too to protect them in certain areas. But that's
00:26:23.580
not what this is about with the coronavirus. No, this is about selfish and scared adults trying to
00:26:29.120
protect themselves from the kids. Insisting that a baby wear a mask, and I'm counting a three-year-old
00:26:36.340
as a baby in this context. Insisting that a baby wear a mask, no matter how scared and confused and
00:26:42.500
terrified he is, or how unhealthy it is for him, in order so that you can be protected from him,
00:26:49.420
is the height of cowardice and selfishness. I mean, even leaving aside the fact that the kid's
00:26:56.140
not going to spread coronavirus to you. Kids, this has been established many times over. Kids are very
00:27:02.280
unlikely to contract it and spread it. But even aside from that, we're doing all of this to kids
00:27:08.800
to protect ourselves. Because we're afraid. These aren't things we're doing for them.
00:27:16.220
It's things we're forcing them to do for us. Which is exactly backwards.
00:27:22.900
Number four, I canceled gender reveal parties on the show earlier this week. You may remember the
00:27:26.880
Daily Show with Trevor Noah is behind the times. They came in and canceled them too. But frankly,
00:27:31.660
I thought my cancellation was, uh, way better than this. Watch. But guys, this has to stop.
00:27:38.020
Right? Or at least if you insist on a gender reveal, you should do something that helps the
00:27:42.400
situation. The water's pink! It's a girl! And aside from all the damage it can cause,
00:27:48.380
celebrating a baby's genitalia is starting to feel very outdated. Like, given everything we're
00:27:53.680
learning about gender, gender reveal parties should only happen when the child is old enough
00:27:58.720
to know their actual gender and to pitch in some cash for the fire damage. And honestly,
00:28:04.680
I don't even know why we need gender reveal parties. You know what we do need, though?
00:28:10.100
Trevor Noah really has the charisma and comedic chops of, like, a pillowcase filled with wet sand.
00:28:18.700
Um, and I've never heard the guy tell a funny joke. Have you? I've never, I, if anyone is aware
00:28:26.360
of a funny Trevor Noah moment, um, from any point in his career, pre-Daily Show or, or during the Daily
00:28:33.320
Show, let me know because I've never, I, I, I've never seen it and I've looked. And the thing,
00:28:37.660
what, the thing is, there, there was a time long ago when the Daily Show might have done that exact
00:28:42.660
same segment with the same lines and everything. And it would have been funny because the bit at the
00:28:48.020
end about choosing gender would have been satirical. It would have been a joke. Ten years
00:28:51.560
ago, that bit would have been satire. And today it is something that is delivered in earnestness
00:28:57.160
and sincerity. Um, by the way, Trevor, you say, uh, everything we've learned about gender is,
00:29:05.360
what, what is that exact? What, what have we learned? What exactly have we learned scientifically
00:29:09.880
proving that gender can be chosen rather than, uh, rather than it being something you're born with?
00:29:15.220
I'd really like to know. You said we've learned. Okay. We've learned a lot. Everything we've learned.
00:29:20.040
Give me like one thing we've learned that justifies what you just said. Well, he can't,
00:29:25.780
he can't, they never can. All right, we're going to get to our daily cancellation in just a second.
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that I must cancel once again, my wife for the seventh time. I believe no husband wants to cancel
00:31:09.000
his wife seven times. This is not what I wanted for us, for our marriage, for our family, but I have
00:31:13.840
been left with no choice. Um, and I present you now all of the damning evidence that will be needed
00:31:18.260
to convict my wife in cancellation court. Here it is right there. This monstrosity, um, this psychotic
00:31:26.680
assortment of stains and splotches is allegedly a painting, a piece of artwork that my wife went out and
00:31:32.860
bought presumably either from a crack addicted hobo or a 10 month old child or some combination
00:31:38.320
of the two. Uh, she brought it home years ago. And for years I've tried to explain to her that this
00:31:44.020
looks like a Kmart brand Jackson Pollock and it brings shame to our family name, but she claims,
00:31:50.120
here's what she claims that no, this is not in fact a canvas filled with random dribblings,
00:31:55.020
but is actually a painting of a sailboat, two sailboats. She claims, I ask you, do you see the
00:32:01.680
sailboats? Where are the sailboats? Show me the sailboats in that picture. You can't.
00:32:07.000
And so we have waged a years long cold war over this thing. It has changed locations in the house
00:32:11.740
multiple times. Um, at first it was in our living room, uh, so that, you know, any guest who came in
00:32:19.260
could see it and we could announce to all of our guests that we are apparently schizophrenic serial
00:32:23.260
killers. And then she moved it to our room right above our bed. Every night I fell asleep with it,
00:32:28.340
watching me. It invaded my dreams, feasted on my soul as I slept. And more recently it changes rooms
00:32:33.900
randomly. I never know if it's going to be there when I come around the corner and she does this
00:32:38.060
to torment me. Now you might be saying to yourself, well, Matt, you're the man of the house. Uh, why
00:32:43.160
don't you take the thing down and just throw it away? Why don't you take it down, drive it out to
00:32:48.860
the sea and throw it in, let it drift away. Let some lonely deep sea fishermen out in the Atlantic,
00:32:54.240
find it there floating and assume that it's a bad omen, which would cause him to drown himself on
00:32:59.160
purpose to escape the coming wrath. Yes, I've thought about that. Believe me, I would, uh, I
00:33:04.240
would do that, but I haven't told you the most sinister part of my wife's scheme. She claims
00:33:09.280
that the painting reminds her of the eulogy the priest gave at her grandmother's funeral.
00:33:15.480
He spoke of the afterlife and made an analogy to ships sailing over the horizon, the beautiful
00:33:20.140
eulogy. And so she says this painting is meaningful to her. So she has emotionally blackmailed me,
00:33:25.300
but this is a one way street. I assure you, if I were to go out and buy like a plastic singing
00:33:31.560
trophy fish and hang it in the living room and then say that it reminds me of my deceased
00:33:35.820
grandmother who was an eccentric taxidermist, my wife would very sweetly say, okay, honey, well,
00:33:41.640
let me help you find something that we can put here to remember your grandmother by just not this
00:33:45.880
as she takes the fish down and escorts it respectfully to the garbage can. So the thing
00:33:52.340
is I like sailboats. Okay. Sailboats are fun. Yes. Let's have a painting of sailboats. You want a
00:33:58.200
painting of sailboats in the living room? Great. Let's get a painting of sailboats. Let's have a
00:34:02.000
painting of a sailboat in every room. Let's go live in a sailboat. I don't care. This is not an attack
00:34:08.100
on sailboats. My problem is precisely that those are not sailboats. This is a Rorschach test. And if you
00:34:14.720
say that it looks like a sailboat, what that tells us is that you don't have any idea what a sailboat
00:34:19.580
is. This is when it comes down to it really modern abstract art, isn't it? It is nonsense. In other
00:34:26.600
words, it is an assault on beauty and objective truth. It does violence to the very foundations
00:34:32.360
of human civilization. It erodes the societal fabric. I've tried to explain all of this. It contradicts
00:34:38.380
our deepest held principles as people. It, well, what it, what it really means is that my wife by
00:34:44.440
buying and defending this painting has revealed herself to be a total lib and libs are canceled
00:34:52.440
on this show in perpetuity. And so sadly today is my wife. Very difficult moment for all of us,
00:35:03.560
but a man reaches a point where he must cancel his wife on his podcast. I believe it was
00:35:11.680
Socrates who first said that. We're going to leave it there for today. Thanks for watching,
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everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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