Ep. 586 - Why Christians Can’t Support Biden
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Why Christians should and cannot vote for Joe Biden. Also, Trump receives an endorsement from another famous rapper, and in light of recent events involving Jeffrey Toobin, I will be canceling Zoom and all other forms of video calling.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, this shouldn't need to be explained, but it does apparently.
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Today we'll talk about why Christians should not and cannot support Joe Biden. Also,
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five headlines, including Trump receiving an endorsement from another famous rapper.
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And in our daily cancellation, in light of recent events involving Jeffrey Toobin,
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I will be canceling Zoom and all other forms of video calling. All of that coming up. But
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let's, we begin here. You know, every few days it seems there's another news article, blog post,
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editorial, making the rounds on Facebook and stuff with a title like, you know, why this
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evangelical minister is voting for Joe Biden, or I'm an actual pro-life Christian, so I'm voting for
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, or faith leaders back Biden in sign that evangelical support for Trump
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is waning. The polls still say that Trump is leading as expected with Protestants,
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though Biden also, as expected, I'm afraid, has majority support among Catholics. Overall,
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people who qualify, at least according to pollsters, as highly religious, still tend not to vote for
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Democrats. But the trends are troubling. Support for Joe Biden or any other Democrat candidate among
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religious people ought to be steady at around zero percent, but it's quite higher than zero and rising.
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And that's a problem. Now, I'm not here to claim that a Christian has any obligation to vote for
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Republicans. That's not the point. The Republican Party is not the official Christian party, and
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Christians have no obligation to it. I'm also not going to argue that Donald Trump is a man of deep
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faith or high moral character, because I don't believe he is either of those things. You know,
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if you happen to listen to Ben Shapiro's show yesterday, I agree with his take on Trump and the
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reasons to vote for him. That's not going to be my focus, though. Whatever you decide to do on
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election day, what I can say is that if you're a Christian or an adherent to any other major religion,
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for that matter, you simply cannot vote for Joe Biden. You can, obviously, in the sense that you
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have the right to and the physical ability to, but you can't do it justifiably or in a way that is
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consistent with your professed worldview. And the reason for that is very simple. Let's leave aside
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any question of personal character. You know, I don't think that Biden is unassailably decent and
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honest the way he's been branded, but never mind that. It comes down to what sorts of things Biden will
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do, the policies he supports, the bills he will happily sign. I would say that it's not possible to
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be a decent man who enacts evil policies. But even if it is, what good is that alleged decency? If a
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man smiles while he punches you in the face, your nose will be no less broken for it. And in the case
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of Biden, the consequences are far worse than a broken nose. Like this, 60 million children have
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already been slaughtered by abortion since Roe v. Wade. The grotesque and ludicrous Supreme Court
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decision that Biden supports and has pledged to defend with all his might. As a Christian or simply as a
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person with a functioning moral compass, there is no way to minimize 60 million murdered babies. We are
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compelled to see it just as it is. Unthinkable wickedness, a historic atrocity, an injustice of
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unfathomable proportions. Joe Biden intends to continue this slaughter, indeed to fund it. After opposing
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tax funding for abortion for many years, Biden recently reversed himself and decided that American
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citizens should be forced at proverbial or maybe not so proverbial gunpoint to contribute financially
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to the extermination of human beings. Biden does not support any restrictions on abortion. Biden
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believes that mothers have a God-given sacred right to execute their offspring. And he plans to do
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everything in his power to protect that right. His running mate, we should note, is even more radically
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infanticidal than he is. Kamala Harris has been given a 100% perfect score from the pro-abortion group
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NARAL for a reason, a good reason. And this is all that should need to be said about good old decent
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Joe. It's all that a Christian needs to hear. But there's more. Even so, Biden is an enemy of
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religious liberty, vowing, among other things, to reinstate Obama's policy of forcing nuns to allow,
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quote, access to contraception. Biden's also said that passing the Orwellian and inaccurately named
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Equality Act would be one of the first priorities of his presidency. This law would make both sexual
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orientation and gender identity into protected categories under the Civil Rights Act, meaning
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that a man who identifies as a woman would now be the victim of a civil rights abuse should this
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self-identification not be respected by, say, a women's shelter that he is demanding access to.
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This is not only an assault on religious liberty, as it forbids the people who run these organizations
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from operating according to their religious and moral beliefs, but also an assault on science
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and basic common sense and decency. Speaking of which, Joe Biden very recently endorsed the notion
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that an eight-year-old boy ought to be able to transition into a girl. Now, whether he really
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believes this madness or not is another question. The fact remains that he's bought into it, acquiesced to
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it. The most dangerous and fantastical claims made by the most radical elements of his base,
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he has acquiesced to, and pledged to govern accordingly. And on the same topic of a dangerous
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and radical element, Biden is a staunch proponent and supporter of the racist Marxist organization
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Black Lives Matter, a group that has in its spare time between fomenting race riots and calling for
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the defunding of police departments in the most crime-plagued communities in the nation,
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also publicly pledged to disrupt the nuclear family. You know, this is what Joe Biden supports.
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These are the things he plans to actually do. Granted, he probably won't send very many mean
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tweets and his speeches will be less ad-libbed and probably include fewer profanities, though there's
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no guarantee on that second point. But that's window dressing anyway. What should matter most to us
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as Christians is that even if he's less bombastic about it, he will help to shape America into a
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country that is even more hostile to faith, even more dangerous to children, even more fundamentally
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opposed to us and what we believe. He doesn't deserve our support, shouldn't receive it. So do what you
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like with your vote, but don't use it to undermine yourself and the values that you supposedly hold dear.
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All right. It's been announced by the debate commission that Trump and Biden will have their
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mics muted during the last debate this Thursday night. They're going to be debating, final debate,
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I believe. And they're going to have their mics muted, not for the entire debate, which actually
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wouldn't maybe be such a terrible thing. But no, while one is speaking and giving their two-minute
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spiel, the other one's going to have their mics muted. Now, Trump has protested this decision and said
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that it's very unfair, quote unquote. And a lot of conservatives are upset about it
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because they see it as a, you know, something that's being done specifically targeting Trump,
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which of course it is. And they see it as something that's supposed to hurt Trump,
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which of course it is. But my point is that although it is targeted at Trump,
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I don't think it's going to hurt him. I'm actually in favor of this. I think it's going to help Trump.
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I, my biggest frustration in the last debate was that Trump would not just shut up and let Biden
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speak and bury himself, metaphorically speaking, with his own words. We know that Biden struggles
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to string together two minutes worth of coherence, you know, of two minutes worth of coherence in
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general. We know he struggles to do that, just as I clearly struggle to do it too. So let,
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let him do it. When you only give him 30 seconds to speak, he's going to sound like
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he's really with it. Give him the full two minutes. That's good strategy. Um, now if Trump
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had a certain measure of discipline and self-control, then he could just do that without the mics being
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muted, but he, but he doesn't. So that's why it helps to have the mics muted. So I, I think in the
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end it's going to, it's going to help Trump. Um, although of course in reality, it, it, he's right.
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It is an unfair decision. The fact that it's targeted to him. And also it, this is not really
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how a debate's supposed to work. I'm talking from a purely political optics sort of standpoint. I think
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it will help Trump ultimately, but it's all, it all, it does defeat the purpose that the actual real
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purpose of a debate, which is you're supposed to debate. There's supposed to be a back and forth.
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That's what a debate is. All this stuff, these things we call debates, none of them are debates.
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They don't qualify. Think about if you've ever been in a real debate with, which are, if you're a human
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being, you probably have with, with just another person, like in your living room, this is not how
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it works. It isn't okay. I'll, I will, I will state my case for two and a half minutes and then you
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could go and then we'll go back. No, it's, then we'll have 30 seconds for rebuttal. And no, you
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just, you just go back and forth and you have a conversation. That's what the debate should be,
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but that's never going to happen. So we make do, I suppose. Uh, number two, speaking of Trump,
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he has, uh, picked up an unexpected endorsement. Another rapper, another famous rapper, 50 cent
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has come out in support of Trump. So maybe, so you got Kanye West, 50 cent, maybe they,
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maybe they'll have a collab next in time for the election. Who knows? Um, 50 sat on Instagram,
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posted a screenshot of Biden's tax plan, showing that people in his tax bracket will have to pay
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62% of their income. And he had this caption. He said, what the F, uh, vote for Trump. I'm out.
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Or first of all, a lot of emojis here. So this is upsetting me right now. This is a, I've already
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made my point here, but this is a grown, this is, uh, if you're watching this right now on YouTube,
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the emojis, do they help enhance the point at all? He says, I'm out of New York. The Knicks never win
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anyway. And he's got a little emoji of a guy running. Yeah, I get it. You know, you've already
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told me you're leaving. I understand what leaving is. I don't need it. I don't need an illustration.
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You know what leaving is. Are you sure? Cause I got to, I'll draw you a picture. So no,
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I don't need that. Anyway, he says, I'm out of New York. The Knicks never win anyway. I don't
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care. I don't care if Trump doesn't like black people. 62% are you out of your effing mind.
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Now, obviously the left is, is having a fit over this, but you know what, leaving aside the emojis
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and everything, this is a very normal, very adult reason to vote a certain way. People on the left
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are upset at 50 cent and say, Oh, you're so selfish. You're so selfish that you want to keep
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your own income. Well, you say you don't want to work in order to give more than half of your
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income to the government so they can squander it. You selfish bastard. No, normal adults
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who work for a living, have responsibilities, maybe have family to take care of. We prefer to keep
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as much of our own money as we can. Not because we're a bunch of Ebeneezer Scrooges. Maybe we are,
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that's our own business. That doesn't have to be the reason. It's just that this is why we're,
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I don't go to work every day. Um, I mean, if I had a real job, I wouldn't go to work every day
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feeling like, okay, I gotta, I gotta do a good job here so that I can, uh, support the system and
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support the government. No, this is a normal thing. And, and of course the problem is a lot
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of the people on the left, especially the activists and so forth who get upset at those of us who want
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to keep our own money and who don't want to pay, you know, for example, 62% in taxes, which, which,
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which you are out of your effing mind to quote 50 cent if you support that. But a lot of people don't
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understand this. Um, they don't pay anything in taxes because they don't have jobs. The activists
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who are out on the street every single day, it's pretty clear they don't have jobs. So they just,
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you know, they, they, they got mommy and daddy taking care of them. Either they're real mommy and
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daddy or mommy and daddy government taking care of them. So they just don't understand how demoralizing
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it is. And as I've said before, I don't think anyone, even if you have a job and you pay taxes,
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even if you pay a lot of taxes, you still don't really understand how bad the taxes are and how
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demoralizing it really is or should be until you've, until you have physically written checks
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to the government. If it's all W2 withhold withholding, you don't re you still don't
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really understand how bad it actually is. So you got to write that check, send it in,
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watch the money, leave your bank account. Okay. Number three, Disney has added racism warnings to a
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number of its classic films. Um, Disney explains it this way. This is on their Disney plus streaming
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service. I believe it says, uh, as part of our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion,
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we are in the process of reviewing our library and adding, add, uh, advisories to content that
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includes negative depictions or mistreatment of people or cultures. We can't change the past,
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but we can acknowledge it, learn from it and move forward together to create a tomorrow that today
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can only hang on a second, learn from it and move forward together to create a tomorrow that today
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can only dream of. Oh my good Lord. This is Disney we're talking about. So I guess I have to expect
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stuff like this created tomorrow that today can only dream of that is. All right. Um, I'll just
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let that go. And then they go on to explain why many of their past films are horrifically racist and
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offensive. Um, this is what they say about Peter Pan, for example, and my kids love this movie. So I,
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I read this one with interest because I, my kids love it. Uh, it wasn't my favorite growing up,
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but my kids, so I've watched it with my kids a bunch of times. Uh, I, I never noticed really
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anything offensive about it. I never, to me, it just seemed like it's a, it's a story about a kid
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who flies around and fights a pirate. Uh, but Disney, they'll, they will tell me why I should
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be offended by their own film. This is what they say. The film portrays native people in a
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stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity of native peoples nor their authentic
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cultural traditions. It shows them that it shows them speaking in an unintelligible language and
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repeatedly refers to them as redskins, an offensive term. Peter and the lost boys engage in dancing,
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wearing headdresses and other exaggerated tropes, a form of mockery and appropriation of native
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peoples, culture, and imagery. Well, that's pretty bad. Yeah, it's, it's pretty bad when the magical
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boy who flies because of pixie dust is culturally appropriating. You know, he should know better if he
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existed. He should know better than the Aristocats. This is the, uh, warning. It says the cat is
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depicted as a racist caricature of East Asian peoples with exaggerated stereotypical traits
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such as slanted eyes and buck teeth. He sings in poorly accented English by a, uh, by a, uh,
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voiced by a white actor and plays the piano with chopsticks. This portrayal reinforces the perpetual
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foreigner stereotype while the film also features lyrics that mock the Chinese language and culture,
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such as, quote, Shanghai, Hong Kong, egg foo young, fortune cookie, always wrong.
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I've never seen Aristocats. I might have to check that out. Uh, Swiss family Robinson. Here's the
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disclaimer there. The pirates who antagonize the Robinson family are portrayed as a stereotypical
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foreign menace. Many appear in quote, yellow face or brown face and are costumed in an exaggerated,
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an exaggerated and inaccurate manner with top knot hairstyles, uh, robes and overdone facial makeup
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and jewelry reinforcing their barbarism and otherness. They speak in an indecipherable language
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presenting a singular and racist representation of Asian and Middle Eastern peoples. Okay. Well,
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you know, that one's a really important too, because you have to make sure that, uh, you portray pirates
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with sensitivity. You gotta be very sensitive to the pirates when you're portraying them. Uh, and they
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are a sensitive bunch. And so that's essential. Um, what, what does it really say about this? It's
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obviously ludicrous and embarrassing for Disney, but if, if Disney here, here's really my point. If Disney
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had the courage of its convictions, it would just get rid of these movies. It would take them out of
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circulation, destroy them, uh, save our children from being corrupted by the racism and bigotry
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because most kids who watch Peter Pan anyway, probably can't read the disclaimer. And so now
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you're relying on parents to read it for them. And I can tell you as, as a parent, I'm not going to read
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the disclaimer to my kids. I'm sorry. I'm just not going to read it. If they ask me, daddy, what does that
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say? I'll say, I don't worry about it. Just something stupid. Don't worry. And if I do read it,
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I'll probably, I won't be able to help myself from laughing while I read it. And that's going
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to send the wrong message. So my point is don't put the ball in my court as a parent. You should
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just get rid of the movies. Don't stream them. Don't sell them on DVD or anything. Um, not, uh,
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merchandise, get rid of all that, but they don't want to do that. Why is that?
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If you've noticed, they could, they could take that approach. That would really send the best
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message. And again, if these are really racist, horrible movies, then why are you choosing to,
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you're choosing to stream them on your own platform while you apologize.
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I'm so sorry for this. I'm so sorry that I'm showing you this right now as I show it to you.
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I'm so sorry. Please forgive me while I continue doing this thing right now that I can stop doing.
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But they don't want to do that because they make a lot of money. Uh, they make, they make a lot of
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money from, from some of these properties. I don't know how much they make from Aristocats,
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but they make a lot of money from Peter Pan. I'm sure. Um, especially the, the merchandise and the,
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the, the, you know, the, the Peter Pan property and brand and all of that. So
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they want to, they want the money, but they still want the wokeness.
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So this is just performative fake wokeness, which is all, which is the only kind of wokeness we ever get
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anymore. Of course. Number four, uh, Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh on his show on, on Monday had an update
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on his battle with lung cancer. It wasn't a good update, but I thought, I thought, um, his whole
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segment on it was pretty powerful. I can't play the whole thing. This is several minutes long, but
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let me play just part of it. Listen to this. From the moment you get the diagnosis, there's a part of
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you every day. Okay. That's it. Life's over. You just don't know when, but when you get that
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diagnosis, I mean, that's so during the period of time after the diagnosis, you do what you can to
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prolong life. You do what you can to prolong a happy life. You measure a happy life against whatever
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medication it takes. And at some point do you decide, you know, this medication may be working,
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but I hate the way I feel every day. This is just, I'm not there yet. I'm just, but, but, but it is
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part and parcel of this. It's, it's, it's tough to realize that the days where I do not think I'm under
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a death sentence are over. Now we all are is the point. We all know that we're going to die at some
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point, but when you have a terminal disease diagnosis that has a timeframe to it, then that
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puts a different, a different psychological and even physical awareness to it. We are all under a
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death sentence. He says, and that's, that's true. That's a profound truth. One that I think most of
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us simply refuse to accept. Um, certainly we don't want to think about it. We don't want to face the
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implications, but Rush Limbaugh here is staring into the abyss, facing down his own mortality, his own
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death and doing it with courage and dignity. And you know, the leftist critics of his, uh, excitedly
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preparing to dance on his grave, reveling in his suffering. And I'm sure you've seen, if you go online and
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you really want to see this sort of thing, you can go find it. I don't know why you'd want to see it,
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but you can. Um, but all the ones doing that, we know that most of them will not have the strength
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to confront their death, um, their impending death, the way that Rush is confronting his.
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And that's what makes it so stupid, by the way, so stupid to delight in another person's death
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or eventual death. I mean, obviously what the people are doing with Rush Limbaugh is also evil and
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vile and disgusting and grotesque from a moral standpoint, but I'm talking even aside from the
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morality of it, it's stupid because what do you think? You're going to live forever? You don't
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think this is going to happen to you? You will also be dead very soon, relatively speaking.
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You're, you're, what you're doing when you delight in someone else's death and suffering,
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you are essentially pointing and laughing at someone while they walk down a road that you
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are also walking on. Or maybe, maybe a better analogy, you're on the same train as them heading
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over the same cliff and laughing as their train car goes over the edge. Well, you're in a train car
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just a few cars back. Your time is coming in mere moments, relatively speaking. You're going where
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they're going. You're under the same sentence, as he points out. So it's, but I, but I think it is,
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it is in recognition of that. That's one of the reasons why people react this way to the death,
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sometimes to death, and especially to death, the deaths of people they don't like.
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Uh, it's a defense mechanism. It's a way of sort of convincing themselves or pretending that this
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is never going to happen to them. That death is somehow this sort of like absurd, abstract,
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far off thing, and something that only happens to people they don't like.
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But that's not true. And they'll get a wake up call. Um, but anyway, a lot of dignity and courage
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from Rush Limbaugh. So God bless, God bless him. Um, number five, finally,
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we talked about dignity. Let's go to the other end of the spectrum. Uh, headline in the Wall Street
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Journal says men's nail polish is taking off. Why now? Uh, and then the, the, the subheading says
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influenced by celebrities like Bad Bunny, Harry Styles, and Aesop Rocky. I only know who one of
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those people are. Harry Styles is, uh, who's, what's he from? He's a singer, right? I sort of know him.
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I don't know. Bad Bunny. There's a male celebrity who goes by Bad Bunny. Um, anyway,
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it says young guys nationwide are turning to nail polish and companies are meeting the demand
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with muted male shades. Now I can't read the article because it's behind the paywall and I'm
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not going to pay for this kind of content, but, uh, I don't really need to read it. I can simply
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answer the question being posed in the, in the headline. And by saying, uh, it's, it's not
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happening. You're asking why it's happening out. It's not, it's not taking off. This is what we call
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an attempt at a self-fulfilling prophecy. And the media does this all the time, all the time,
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especially when it comes to masculinity and those sorts of things. They're always finding
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these absurd effeminate styles that like two guys are wearing. And they put out these headlines and
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saying men everywhere are doing this. Look, men everywhere are wearing lipstick and yoga pants.
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How did this style take off? No, it didn't. You just want it to, you freaks. That's the difference.
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Um, okay. Another seamless transition, because speaking of freaks, we'll talk about, um,
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something related to that just a second in a daily cancellation. But before we do,
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you know, as with everything in 2020, there's been a lot of drama with the presidential debates.
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We already talked about that, but we're ready for the next and final debate this Thursday.
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today, sort of a sequel to yesterday's cancellation, which I destroyed phone calls with facts and logic.
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I explained on the show on Monday that nobody's allowed to talk on the phone anymore. Phone calls
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are officially canceled and I gave my reasons, which I won't rehash here. But in response to that
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segment, there were a number of people who suggested that perhaps video calling of some kind,
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Skype, FaceTime, zoom, et cetera, would be a way around this cancellation. Yes, phone calls are
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canceled, but when you can see the other person's face, it isn't technically a phone call. So shouldn't
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it be exempt? The answer is no. And also stop trying to play fast and loose with the rules.
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You are expected to obey both the letters of my commands, uh, when it comes to the cancellations,
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but also the spirit of the law, as well as any arbitrary exceptions or addendums I might come up with.
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Um, and as if in a concerted effort to prove my point or, or perhaps as an, as an indication that
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my cancellations also have the power of prophecy, a news story broke shortly after my show yesterday,
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demonstrating the dangers of all forms of phone or internet related audible communication,
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and also demonstrating why video chat cannot be an exception. And for that, we turn to New Yorker
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writer and CNN contributor, Jeffrey Toobin, who has been suspended by the New Yorker after, um,
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reportedly exposing his genitals during a zoom call with coworkers. And, um, actually it's reported,
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I'm afraid to say he was, uh, well, engaging with himself, uh, in an intimate fashion.
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Um, if you catch my drift right there on, on zoom. Now, um, many questions present themselves here.
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So, you know, just as Toobin apparently presented himself, uh, questions such as what and, but why?
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And seriously, bro, perhaps the details of the case as reported by vice will satisfy some of these
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inquiries. Justice Toobin was, well, nevermind, uh, vice reports to people who were on the call
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told vice separately that the call was an election simulation featuring many of the New Yorker's
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biggest stars. Jane Meyer was playing establishment Republicans. Evan Osnos was Joe Biden. Jelani
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Cobb was establishment Democrats. Masha Gessen played Donald Trump. Andrew Marantz was the far right.
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Sue Halpern was left-wing Democrats. Dexter Filkins was the military and was the military. And
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Jeffrey Toobin playing the courts. Dexter Filkins was the military. Well, uh, now let me step this
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aside to say that actually I have no clue what the hell any of that means. They were, they were
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play-acting the election on zoom. Why? Is this what New Yorker staff does for fun? It wouldn't
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surprise me, I suppose, though Toobin would seem to have taken the role play in an unexpectedly
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sexual direction. Uh, vice has more says both people who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order
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to speak freely noted that it was unclear how much each person saw, but both said that they saw Toobin
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pleasuring himself. Uh, the sources said that when the groups returned from their breakout rooms,
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Toobin lowered the camera. The people on the call said they could see Toobin
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compromised. Toobin then left the call. Moments later, he called back in, seemingly unaware of what
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his colleagues had been able to see. And the simulation continued. The simulation continued.
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They just charged right along as if they hadn't just seen Jeffrey Toobin's tube. You have to respect
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that in a certain way. Um, but the truth is you can kind of see Jeffrey Toobin's point. I mean,
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you can literally see it, but that's not, that's not what I'm trying to say. Toobin says that he didn't
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know the camera was on, which is an explanation that leaves quite a lot to still be explained. Even so,
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that if not for video calling, none of this would have happened or it probably would have happened,
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but nobody would have seen it. This brings to mind the old riddle. If Jeffrey Toobin touches
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himself in the forest and no one is there to see it, did it really happen? Answer? Yes, but no
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psychological damage was caused to any unwilling spectators. And that's really what we're trying to
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prevent here. Look, let's get away from Jeffrey Toobin for a moment, uh, mercifully. The fact is that
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video calling and video conferencing itself presents all kinds of potential pitfalls,
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even if they're less pornographic in nature. It could put you in a difficult spot when someone
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insists randomly on speaking to you in a, in a, in a virtual face-to-face setting.
00:31:10.020
Inevitably, if you're at home, you haven't combed your hair, you haven't showered since last Tuesday.
00:31:14.720
Now, all of a sudden you have to put minimal effort into your appearance when the whole point
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of being home is that you don't have to do that. It's an intrusion, an imposition. But most of all,
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a la Jeffrey Toobin, it forces me to see you and whatever you might be doing. The person who
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initiates the video call format is a narcissist who's basically saying, hey, wouldn't it be really
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great right now if you could see my face? The answer is no, it wouldn't. And in a professional
00:31:42.100
setting in particular, I can say that nothing has ever been achieved on a Zoom conference that
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couldn't have been achieved in 15 minutes through a group email. One last point here, and this is
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important. This is perhaps the most significant problem with especially FaceTime and Skype.
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People have decided apparently that because it's a video call, it's okay to do it in public.
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Now, most people know that you shouldn't sit in a coffee shop and speak to another person on
00:32:07.080
speakerphone. Some people still do that, sociopaths. But for some reason, if the speaker has a video
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component, suddenly it's assumed the rules have changed. They haven't. I shouldn't have
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to hear your discussion with another human being if that human being is not physically in the room
00:32:23.360
with you, especially if they aren't wearing pants. And that's why, see, if you think I would just
00:32:31.920
cancel Jeffrey Toobin, I'm not. Well, him too. Although I don't think I need to cancel him. It's a bit
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redundant at this point. Really, I'm canceling Zoom and video calling, all of that. And this just
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brings us back to where we were yesterday. What are we left with? No phone calling, no video
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calling, no video conferencing. Fine. You got a text message, you got email, and you also have good
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old-fashioned snail mail. Okay? If the New Yorker staff, if they had conducted their election
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simulation through some sort of PayPal system, or rather a PenPal system, sending letters back and
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forth across enemy lines, then certainly this wouldn't have happened. And that's why all of
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that is canceled. All right. We'll leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening.
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