The Matt Walsh Show - December 01, 2020


Ep. 612 - The Petty Tyrants That Rule Us


Episode Stats

Length

40 minutes

Words per Minute

182.15646

Word Count

7,408

Sentence Count

471

Misogynist Sentences

22

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

A California official votes to ban outdoor dining and then immediately goes to eat at a restaurant outdoors. We have gotten used to this sort of hypocrisy from our rulers, but we should not be used to it. Also, a restaurant owner who scolded his patrons for twerking. People are offended that he told them to stop. But reasonable people are more concerned that he had to tell them in the first place. And in our daily cancellation, as we get into the holiday season, I will be canceling Christmas Trees.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, an official in California votes to ban outdoor dining and then
00:00:05.080 immediately goes to eat at a restaurant outdoors. We have gotten used to this sort of hypocrisy from
00:00:09.960 our rulers, but we should not be used to it. So we'll talk about that today. Also, five headlines,
00:00:14.240 including controversy over a restaurant owner who scolded his patrons for twerking in his
00:00:19.380 restaurant. People are offended, you know, that he told them to stop twerking, but reasonable people
00:00:24.400 are more so concerned that he had to tell them in the first place. And in our daily cancellation,
00:00:28.460 as we get into the holiday season, I will be canceling Christmas trees, unfortunately have
00:00:34.520 to do it. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show. Well, you know, we all like to complain.
00:00:46.420 I know I do in general, just in general, I like to complain, but if you haven't noticed,
00:00:50.100 but we like to complain, especially as conservatives about the fact that so many companies out there,
00:00:54.620 a lot of the companies that we, let's be honest, give our money to, patronize, are not on our side
00:01:01.000 and are working against us in the culture. And, you know, it's one thing to boycott companies you
00:01:05.880 don't like. That's one thing we could talk about. But one thing I think we could all agree on is that
00:01:09.920 we should be supporting companies that support us. And that's especially the case with Charity
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00:02:26.560 with them online at charitymobile.com. So we all know how this story goes by now. We've heard a
00:02:31.800 version of it dozens of times. The latest twist, Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Cole voted to
00:02:38.600 ban outdoor dining in Los Angeles County, which would mean shutting down tens of thousands of
00:02:42.980 businesses and putting many of them under permanently. And then promptly, right after
00:02:47.500 this vote, went and dined outdoors at a restaurant. Here's the Fox 11 report from LA. It says,
00:02:53.740 quote, Fox 11 received multiple tips that shortly after her vote on Tuesday, Cole was seen dining
00:02:57.900 outside at Il Forno Trattoria in Santa Monica, an Italian restaurant near her house that she has
00:03:03.060 previously described as one of her favorite restaurants. When Fox 11 investigative reporter
00:03:07.900 Bill Mulligan stopped by the restaurant to ask about Cole's visit, managers told him they,
00:03:13.420 quote, didn't want to get involved and they have no comment. Now, just a side note here. I understand
00:03:18.540 that the managers don't want to get involved, but they should get involved. This ridiculous tyrant
00:03:25.140 is trying to destroy your business. She wants to take you down. She wants to impoverish your children.
00:03:31.040 You should have banned her from the restaurant when she showed up. You should have had security
00:03:36.780 escort her out the door in front of everybody. You should have embarrassed and humiliated her.
00:03:43.160 See, one of the aspects of this whole farce of the lockdowns and everything that else is going on
00:03:49.160 is the submissiveness of people, the people who should be standing up for themselves. Churches not
00:03:55.120 willing to fight back against insane infringements on their First Amendment freedoms. Business owners not
00:04:00.240 willing to defy the orders from psychopaths like Sheila. People obediently wearing masks even just to
00:04:08.000 walk outside down the street because that's what they've been told to do by people who don't wear
00:04:12.940 the masks themselves. The only way out of this, the only way to stop it, the only end game is for
00:04:19.500 people to refuse to comply with the dictates and commands of petty tyrants like Sheila. Just refuse.
00:04:26.560 Scoff at her. Waiver off. Continue doing what you want to do. That's the only way.
00:04:34.160 As long as we cooperate, as long as we submit, it's not going to end. It will never end.
00:04:40.900 All right, back to the article. It says, during Tuesday's LA County Board of Supervisors meeting,
00:04:45.600 Cole referred to outside dining as a most dangerous situation over what she described as a risk of
00:04:53.300 tables of unmasked patrons potentially exposing their servers to the coronavirus. She says,
00:04:58.080 this is a very serious health emergency and we must take it seriously. The servers are not
00:05:03.160 protected from us and they're not protected from their other tables that they're serving at that
00:05:07.160 particular time, plus all the hours in which they're working. Cole went on to vote in support
00:05:12.200 of restricting outdoor dining in Los Angeles County, which passed by a three to two margin
00:05:15.940 of the Board of Supervisors. Cole's visit to the restaurant came before the outdoor dining ban took
00:05:21.120 effect Wednesday evening, but her decision is likely to draw criticism from those who have
00:05:25.020 grown frustrated with elected officials taking a hypocritical approach to what they have preached.
00:05:29.960 As Cole dined at the restaurant a mere hours after she said doing such a thing would be unsafe
00:05:34.940 and would contribute to the surge in COVID-19 cases. Now, Sheila did provide a statement to Fox
00:05:41.000 via a spokesperson. You can tell me if you think this is sufficient. Does this, is this enough
00:05:46.520 to make you say, okay, I'm satisfied. She said, this is from the spokesperson says she did dine at
00:05:52.700 al fresco, uh, did dine al fresco at Il Forno on the very last day. It was permissible. She loves
00:05:58.480 Il Forno has been saddened to see it like so many restaurants suffer from a decline in revenue. She ate
00:06:04.080 there taking appropriate precautions and sadly will not dine there again until our public health orders
00:06:09.300 permit. Oh, she loves it. You say she, she loves it, but is in the process of demolishing it.
00:06:17.460 She hates to see its decline in revenue, but she is personally and specifically working to take away
00:06:24.060 its revenue. You see how that works? Does that make sense to you? No, it probably doesn't because
00:06:30.160 you're not a sociopath. In order for there to be this much of a disconnect between what you say and
00:06:35.900 what you do. And in order to so casually decimate the lives of so many millions for no reason at all,
00:06:43.480 and then to go and enjoy a nice meal served to you by the very people whose lives you are in the
00:06:48.420 process of ruining, you must be a sociopath. No mentally healthy person could manage this.
00:06:54.060 And there are a lot of sociopaths ruling us right now, as we have discovered. So a few points that I
00:06:59.860 want to make here in no particular order. First is this, I have a modest proposal for politicians or
00:07:06.300 public health officials who violate their own lockdowns or operate in their personal lives in
00:07:12.620 a manner inconsistent with their public fear mongering. I propose that they be dragged into the
00:07:19.180 town square, tarred and feathered, and then loaded onto a helicopter and sent to Gitmo for 30 years.
00:07:25.780 Now, I'm not advocating vigilante justice, to be clear. I'm calling for actual legislation to be
00:07:31.840 introduced. I want this all done legally. We could call it the tar and feather hypocritical scumbags
00:07:37.040 act of 2021 or something. I might be a little too on the nose. I don't know. We can brainstorm that part
00:07:43.180 of it. The main point is that people like Sheila should be treated with utter contempt and disregard
00:07:50.300 and loathing. That's what she deserves. That's what she would receive in a healthy republic.
00:07:57.140 Other than, you know, besides or instead of politeness and submissiveness,
00:08:04.640 you know, a restaurant politely serving her after she just voted to destroy them.
00:08:11.180 Second point, it's worth reflecting on another aspect of the problem,
00:08:14.740 namely that the lockdowns and mask mandates and all the rest of the COVID-related initiatives
00:08:21.060 have empowered dozens, hundreds of these kinds of people all across the country.
00:08:26.440 Now, we already know about the governors like Cuomo and Whitmer who have gone mad with the power
00:08:30.760 they've been given or rather have taken. And we know about the incompetent, floundering,
00:08:35.220 nitwit mayors like de Blasio and Lightfoot who have also enjoyed play acting as Roman emperors.
00:08:40.480 But the real danger is that we have to deal with lower level bureaucrats, especially old ones like
00:08:46.180 Sheila, who would have loved to have, you know, to have gained real power and maybe be mayors or
00:08:51.580 senators or governors or something on that level, but somehow lack the talent and charisma of even
00:08:56.480 Bill de Blasio. And so we're stuck for decades as county supervisors or town councilmen or whatever.
00:09:02.860 Now, even those people have the power to, with the swipe of a pen, lock people in their homes,
00:09:09.360 impoverish them, plunge them into destitution. And many have taken full advantage. See,
00:09:15.700 a tyrant is not just a dictator or like a warlord. A tyrant is someone who gets off on exploiting
00:09:25.960 whatever power they have and whatever control they have over other people. There are parents who are
00:09:32.140 tyrants. There are assistant managers at Home Depot who are tyrants. Hell, there are customer service
00:09:37.880 reps at the cable company who are tyrants. They have a little bit of power and control over you
00:09:42.200 when you call the company and they're, and they're manning the phones and they answer
00:09:45.880 and they're going to use it. Whatever little power they have, they're going to use it to make your life
00:09:50.440 miserable because that makes them feel better. We've all, we've all dealt with people like this.
00:09:54.460 They are tyrants just on the smallest imaginable scale because that's as far as they've been able to
00:09:59.540 go. The problem now is that a lot of low scale tyrants have been given way more power than they
00:10:06.060 were ever supposed to have. They've been given real power over your life. And now we're all
00:10:11.400 paying the price for it. Third final point. And this has been explained many times and shouldn't
00:10:16.860 need to be explained at all because I think it's rather obvious, but I will explain it because there
00:10:19.940 are still many people who are confused on this point. When we talk about politicians or public
00:10:24.680 officials not practicing what they preach when it comes to COVID, we're not playing a game of gotcha.
00:10:31.600 Okay. That's not the point. We're not going for a ticky tacky hair splitting sort of thing here.
00:10:35.800 The point is that if they really believe what they say, they wouldn't even be tempted to act in a way
00:10:43.800 that's inconsistent with what they say. If they really believed that eating at a restaurant is a
00:10:49.920 very dangerous situation, they wouldn't want to do it themselves. You know, so when you catch it,
00:10:56.040 whether Gavin Newsom was caught and he said, well, you know, we all make mistakes.
00:11:00.360 Yeah. Okay. That, that excuse might work in, in some scenarios with politicians who do,
00:11:08.600 do one thing and you'll say one thing, do another when they're making the kinds of mistakes that
00:11:13.700 normal people would be tempted to make. But in this case, I mean, you said it's dangerous. It
00:11:18.900 could kill you. Why would you even be tempted to do that? If you really believe it,
00:11:22.560 the fact that they do things that they have called dangerous and deadly shows that they don't believe
00:11:30.120 that those things are dangerous and deadly. Obviously they are passing these laws and
00:11:35.100 ordinances and regulations and decimating the economy and destroying lives on a basis and using
00:11:40.340 a logic that they do not believe, which means they aren't doing it for the reasons they give.
00:11:47.280 Because again, they don't believe those reasons. They're doing it for some other reason. And our
00:11:52.860 point when we bring up the hypocrisy is simply to ask, what's the real reason? Sheila doesn't want
00:12:00.500 to, doesn't want to shut down outdoor dining because she thinks it's dangerous. She doesn't
00:12:04.320 think it's dangerous, clearly. So why is she really shutting it down? That's our point. That's our
00:12:10.800 question. It's a good question. And the answer to the question seems clear and has already been
00:12:16.020 alluded to. She's doing it for power and control. That's why they're all doing it. That's what all
00:12:22.220 of this is about. It has always been about. And it's time that the American public finally wake up
00:12:28.480 to that fact. Now let's get to our five headlines. So we'll start with this from the Daily Wire and
00:12:40.540 kind of, we were just talking about, you know, people cooperating with, um, with, with these
00:12:45.700 mandates when they shouldn't be. This has especially been the case with churches. And it says police
00:12:50.080 blocked congregants from attending a drive-in church service at a church in rural Manitoba,
00:12:54.940 Canada on Sunday morning. As depicted in a Facebook video, which we'll play for you in a second,
00:12:59.280 police blocked cars from entering the parking lot of the Church of God Steinbach, forcing them to line
00:13:05.460 up on the adjacent street to listen to senior pastor Heinrich Hildebrand preach from over a
00:13:10.620 loudspeaker. Um, Hildebrand preached, God has given us the right to worship him together and he wants to
00:13:17.160 see his people united. It seems like we're living in a different Canada. It's very heartbreaking to
00:13:21.340 be the Church of God at Steinbach, which is about a 40 miles Southeast of Winnipeg was fine $5,000 last
00:13:27.900 week for holding services in defiance of what Hildebrand describes as draconian and unconstitutional
00:13:32.380 orders. So there's a Facebook live stream that one of the congregants recorded and, um, showing the
00:13:40.000 police presence and, and how, how they were, how the congregants were forced to line up on the street
00:13:46.020 to listen. And we'll play a little bit of that for right now. Watch this. Good morning. Thank you for
00:13:52.320 joining us this morning. As you can see, the police have decided to not allow us to have service this
00:13:57.660 morning. We have speakers set up and are playing songs. I'm not sure if you can hear me. It's quite
00:14:05.000 loud right here, but just showing you what's going on. Police have showed up in droves to decide that
00:14:12.840 they're not going to let us have service this morning in glorious and free Canada. Can you believe
00:14:19.540 it? Look at this? Look at this. We've got media. We've got police on site. Lots and lots of police
00:14:30.860 here today. Yeah. That's a, if you couldn't see the video there, I mean the, it's just an absurd
00:14:36.160 spectacle where they, they were lit. The cars are lined up on the street and you've got the pastor in
00:14:42.100 the parking lot shouting to them through a loudspeaker because they weren't allowed to go into the parking
00:14:47.300 lot just for a drive-in service. You know, if you've been to a drive-in service, it's just, you're in
00:14:52.680 your car in a parking lot. How could you possibly be spreading a virus? But even that was not allowed.
00:15:00.580 Now this church though, okay, here, here, this, this church in Canada, this is a good example of the
00:15:07.700 opposite of what I was talking about before. Okay. There are a lot of people submissively going along
00:15:11.780 with it, a lot of church, but here, here's a church that's not, they've already, they've already been
00:15:15.360 fined and they're still going forward and doing whatever they can, um, to still meet and worship
00:15:21.560 and pray together. But so many churches across America, Canada, across the West, uh, the government
00:15:29.400 showed up and said, Oh, you know, you're not, we're not, we're not going to let you. We tell you
00:15:33.400 what, we've just decided to take your first amendment rights away. We we've decided that you're not
00:15:37.960 essential anymore. And because we've called you, that's the, um, the back door apparently that we're
00:15:44.120 allowed to, to, to exploit in order to take your first amendment rights away is all we can do is
00:15:47.760 no. Okay. We could take your first amendment rights away, but first we just have to declare
00:15:51.440 you non-essential. And then as soon as we do that, you no longer get, um, get first amendment rights.
00:15:56.780 Now, even though, as far as I'm aware in the first amendment, it doesn't say anything about
00:16:00.360 this only applies to people, the government deems essential. This goes for everybody,
00:16:05.920 but for so many churches, the government came and said that. And, uh, they said, okay,
00:16:15.160 if you say so, and they went home, pastors, bishops, leaders of the church.
00:16:23.180 And now here we are, you know, begging for the courts to bail us out
00:16:28.040 and maybe they will. The Supreme court had the case up in New York found that those, uh, that,
00:16:36.360 that New York didn't have, didn't have the, uh, didn't have the authority to shut down the
00:16:40.700 churches like it had. And that that's good. But what a pitiful sight it is that we as Christians
00:16:47.380 in a free country with the first amendment, this is what we're reduced to sitting here and just
00:16:52.340 begging Supreme court, please bail us out. What should have happened from the very beginning
00:16:57.380 is that the government says, Oh, you're not essential. You can't, you can't gather. You
00:17:01.700 can't exercise your first amendment rights. And what should have happened is everyone listens to
00:17:07.440 that and says, Oh, is that your opinion? Okay. Well, good. Thanks for sharing. And then you just go
00:17:13.480 to church and continue on what you're doing, completely ignoring it. If they want to go in,
00:17:20.960 arrest everybody, cart the little old ladies out of church, put them in jail. They can do that.
00:17:25.980 If that's the level they want to take this to, we didn't even try to call their bluff.
00:17:34.240 Um, let's go here. Number two article from eater.com says over the weekend, Dallas newcomer,
00:17:42.340 true kitchen and cocktails as a restaurant was at the center of a social media firestorm after video
00:17:47.480 of the restaurant restaurant's owner ranting about the ills of twerking went viral on social media.
00:17:52.860 The vital video posted to Twitter by user, uh, doesn't matter the user's name depicts a person
00:17:58.640 looks a whole lot like true kitchen owner, Kevin Kelly, throwing a massive fit over a group of
00:18:04.220 women. This is, I'm reading from the article. This is obviously there's a lot of editorializing in
00:18:07.780 the way that in the, in the tone of this article, throwing a quote, massive fit over a group of women
00:18:13.040 who were reportedly twerking to the music played by the restaurant's DJ. According to one source,
00:18:17.300 the song that spurred the incident was Dallas rapper Lil Roni, mother F's circle.
00:18:25.760 That's the name of the rapper. I think Lil Roni, mother F's.
00:18:31.920 I'm sure his music is, um, is, is very worthwhile listening to, uh, someone says in part all,
00:18:41.580 uh, well, instead of quoting him, I think we'll just play the video for you. So this was uploaded
00:18:45.900 to Twitter and it was trending on Twitter yesterday. A lot of people, very upset with
00:18:53.600 what I'm about to play for you. Uh, media writing articles about it, you know, almost unanimously
00:18:59.620 panning this guy for what he said to the restaurant patrons who were twerking. And, uh, here it is.
00:19:05.380 I invested a lot of money into buying this building, into developing this concept. So
00:19:11.280 black people can have somewhere nice to go to, okay? Somewhere where we can feel good about
00:19:15.440 ourselves as a, come on, stop the music, please. Somewhere where our people can feel good about
00:19:21.880 ourselves as a culture, okay? No, no, real talk. And so all this twerking and sh**, taking the prime,
00:19:27.940 taking the pink, don't bring it here because we're a restaurant. And so beyond that, 75% of my
00:19:33.040 customers are ladies and I'm on being to show respect for themselves for how they carry themselves
00:19:36.880 here. So how can I tell the men to respect themselves? And you guys are talking on glass
00:19:40.880 here. Do you want to do it? Get the f**k out my restaurant because I did it for our people and I
00:19:44.480 did it for our culture. So don't do it. Don't do it again. I don't want to hear it. If you don't like
00:19:48.100 it, get out because I don't need your money. I need to provide something for my people and don't do
00:19:52.960 it again. Thank you. So that's what people were upset about. Now I hear that as a relatively
00:19:58.280 normal person. I hear that and I think that guy's awesome. Let's give him the Nobel peace
00:20:02.800 prize. That's the greatest thing. I love every bit of that. The only issue I have with what he
00:20:09.880 said is that he had to say it. There were people apparently, as you heard there in the clip,
00:20:15.580 standing on the furniture at a restaurant, putting their hands on the glass on the window, I guess,
00:20:22.000 and twerking. And it's controversial for the restaurant owner to tell them to stop.
00:20:27.900 You know, we have reached peak entitlement. Okay. We have reached peak entitled society
00:20:34.100 with an expectation of the most basic civilized behavior is considered over the top. It's not
00:20:40.720 just controversial. It's not just that we're having a debate about, I don't know, should
00:20:45.260 restaurant managers tell people to stop twerking in the restaurant? No, it's just for a lot of people,
00:20:49.980 it's for them, it's self-evident that this is way over the top. Whoa, what are you doing? Tell them not
00:20:56.120 to, not to twerk. What is this? The 1950s? The expectation here, again, is just, is, is simply
00:21:05.480 don't stand on the furniture. So really it's two things. Um, don't stand on the furniture. I have
00:21:11.000 to, and I admit, I have to tell my own kids that part of it. We're at a restaurant, they're running
00:21:14.700 all over the furniture. Tell them don't, don't, it's not a jungle gym. So don't stand on the furniture
00:21:21.200 and don't twerk. And especially don't do both of those things at a restaurant. There are places,
00:21:28.020 unfortunately, in society where you can go and do those things. Just not here at a restaurant where
00:21:31.940 people are trying to eat. It is the lowest possible bar. But these girls, apparently, I mean, these are
00:21:38.980 the kinds of girls who they see a really low bar and they think it's a stripper pole.
00:21:42.800 Now, one of the excuses, and I'm not making this up. Okay. Because I, I did dive into the, um,
00:21:51.680 into the abyss a little bit, uh, of this on Twitter and reading some of the reactions.
00:21:57.800 And the, the one excuse that kept coming up over and over again is that, um, really this is the
00:22:03.560 restaurant owner's fault because his, his, uh, he was playing music. Like he was playing club music.
00:22:10.080 He was playing music that you would find here in a club. And so it's his fault. If you don't want
00:22:16.740 people twerking in your restaurant that don't play that kind of music as if so, you hear a certain song
00:22:24.180 and that gives you the right and permission to just twerk matter where you are. Like if you're in a
00:22:32.300 funeral procession and someone drives by and they're playing that song, you just start twerking at the
00:22:40.080 and then people also took issue with, uh, with not just that he was telling, telling the patrons not
00:22:46.960 to twerk, but that he said that women are disrespecting themselves by behaving this way
00:22:52.160 and degrading themselves. And of course, these days you can't say that. No, no, no. But he's,
00:22:58.860 he's exactly right. Obviously, um, as a woman, you know, really twerking in general,
00:23:05.740 you are disrespecting yourself, uh, making an absolute fool of yourself, degrading yourself,
00:23:11.720 doing it in public at a restaurant, even more so. I just want to be clear about one thing here,
00:23:17.660 just, just so you know, and I think all the women who watch this show, you don't need to hear this,
00:23:22.740 but in case this clip ends up on media matters and gets shared, then maybe someone that needs to hear
00:23:27.480 it, we'll hear it. Um, if you are a woman behaving this way, you're going to find that a lot of men
00:23:35.960 support it. There's gonna be a lot of, there's a, there's, there's a lot of supportive men. You
00:23:40.520 want to go out in public and twerk and act like a stripper, uh, any whorish behavior. There's a lot
00:23:45.820 of men very supportive of the whorish behavior. The reason for that in every single case, all of those
00:23:53.580 men who are very supportive of you behaving in this, in this way, they support it because they
00:23:59.220 don't respect you at all. They have no respect for you as a person. That's why they support it.
00:24:08.960 So if that's what you want, if you want to be not respected at all, then continue right along.
00:24:16.560 This, and I, that's just the one thing we need to be clear about. They don't support it because they
00:24:22.240 respect you and they respect your autonomy. No, no, no. The exact opposite is the case.
00:24:31.640 All right. Number three, Greta Thunberg, child prophet, um, tweeted this last week. I just saw
00:24:37.580 this. She, uh, tweeted school strike week 119. Today is black Friday. Over consumption is wrecking
00:24:44.600 present and future living conditions and the planet itself. Don't buy stuff you don't need.
00:24:49.680 Now I saw this and a couple of things came to mind. Number one, a school strike. Like that's,
00:24:55.080 that's what we need. We need to ever, the kids are on a school strike, uh, not by their own choice.
00:25:00.200 So I don't, I don't think, I think, I think it's a little bit, a bit redundant to have a school
00:25:03.500 strike at this point, uh, when kids haven't gone to school in like six months. But the second thing is
00:25:10.120 this, you know, you've got this kid saying, don't buy stuff you don't need. Um, obviously nobody asked
00:25:16.960 you, we don't need, you know, we don't need your permission to buy stuff. Um, but it does bring
00:25:23.980 to mind for me a real problem here that sometimes from the socialists and the Marxists and the far
00:25:29.520 left radicals and everything, you hear this, this message about overconsumption and consumerism and,
00:25:34.900 you know, don't run out and buy a bunch of stuff you don't need. That part of it,
00:25:38.760 I agree with them. They're right. You shouldn't buy stuff you don't need.
00:25:41.940 Like there's a, there's a real criticism, an important criticism of consumerism that could
00:25:48.920 be made. And that's, that is an important conversation that we could have because you've
00:25:55.060 got capitalism, free market capitalism. People can do what they want with their own money.
00:25:59.680 They could start businesses, you know, pursue the American dream, that sort of thing. So you've got
00:26:04.380 that and it's possible to support that while not supporting consumerist culture where the entire
00:26:12.640 society depends on and runs on people going out and spending more than they have living beyond their
00:26:19.480 means, buying a bunch of junk and filling their house with it. We live in a consumerist culture.
00:26:25.320 A capitalist culture doesn't have to be consumerist. Ours is. And so we could, we could, uh, we could have a
00:26:32.760 real conversation about that. But the problem is that the socialists, they go from there and they
00:26:38.120 go all the way to, therefore the government should be in control of the means of production and
00:26:43.260 everything else. And so this, this discussion about consumerism, unfortunately we can't have
00:26:48.780 because of the socialists. Uh, number four is from the daily wire. It says the star studded,
00:26:53.880 this shocking report here. You're not going to believe this star studded Hollywood charity times up,
00:26:59.380 you know, that's the, the meat, the meat to charity times up founded after dozens of women came forward
00:27:04.380 to speak up about sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and even sexual assault raised more than $3 million
00:27:09.800 last year, according to a New York post report, but spent most of that on, you guessed it, salaries,
00:27:17.000 uh, not helping the victims at all. Uh, it says times up has plenty of A-list backers ranging from
00:27:23.540 media mogul, Oprah Winfrey to Hollywood social justice elites, like Brie Larson, Reese Witherspoon,
00:27:29.020 Amy Schumer. Um, but it says, as we get to the New York post reports, the organization,
00:27:35.740 which is comprised of the times up foundation and times up now incorporated raised 3 million,
00:27:41.520 about $3.6 million in 2018, its founding year, but spent 1.4 million on salaries and only 312,000
00:27:49.700 on a times up legal defense fund for people who have experienced sexual harassment altogether.
00:27:53.800 Time's up spent nearly 40% of its income on salaries. Another additional 150,000 went to
00:28:00.040 conferences and retreats. Um, so even the, even of the, the, the, the little bit of money that
00:28:06.460 actually went ostensibly towards the goal of the organization, uh, a lot of that was, was squandered
00:28:12.380 as well on, uh, on nonsense. And, you know, this brings up, brings to mind the whole thing about
00:28:18.320 how every movement event eventually becomes a racket. Um, the only difference is that with the
00:28:24.420 Me Too movement, it was always a racket. Like it, it, it never had that time of being a sincere,
00:28:30.040 useful thing. It was always a racket from the very beginning. Five. Finally, a headline from
00:28:35.200 New York Post, it says, Kazakhstan-y bodybuilder marries a sex doll after a whirlwind romance.
00:28:42.660 Uh, it says, proving that love is blind and sometimes kooky, a bodybuilder from Kazakhstan
00:28:46.640 has tied the knot with his dearly beloved, a sex doll he dated for eight months before proposing
00:28:51.180 a year ago. There is a video of their, of their nuptials, which I'm not going to play just on the
00:28:58.180 principle of it. But it says, clad in a black tux and bow tie, Yuri Tolochko, uh, is seen planting
00:29:04.980 a gentle kiss on Margo, who appears a bit stiff in her revealing white gown as she clutches a bouquet
00:29:10.420 of flowers and stares into the distance. And, uh, and this article's so stupid I can't continue to
00:29:16.180 read it, but they did have a wedding ceremony and somehow family members and friends actually
00:29:21.820 showed up for the wedding ceremony with the sex doll. You know, I think it's pretty obvious that
00:29:28.060 something like this was sort of a publicity stunt. I think mostly a joke, a really weird joke
00:29:35.120 that you've invested way too much time and money in. I think that's mostly what it is. I'm, I, I hope
00:29:41.140 I'm, I'm, I'm assuming, but there is a, uh, a very real thing underneath all this, a real cultural
00:29:47.760 phenomenon of people giving up on relationships. And we see that, you know, with the millennial
00:29:52.780 generation, many of them not getting married, just giving up on it. Now, most of them aren't
00:29:57.880 running out and buying sex dolls, uh, rather than replacing human relationships with sex dolls
00:30:02.360 and marrying sex dolls. Instead, they, you know, have pornography and Pornhub and that sort of thing.
00:30:06.600 But that is a very real, uh, problem in our society. People giving up on relationships and,
00:30:12.020 you know, maybe down the line as sex dolls and sex robots become more, uh, technologically
00:30:18.060 advanced. You know, this, this is, this is, um, this may be, this may be the one thing in the
00:30:23.120 sci-fi movies. You know, there's a lot of things in the sci-fi movies that haven't happened.
00:30:27.040 We all thought we'd be in flying cars by now and have hoverboards and everything. That's not
00:30:31.080 happening. The one thing though, people running off and marrying sex robots. Yeah, probably I could
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00:33:23.920 already ordered them, you can check out our daily wire Christmas ornaments. Uh, all of us daily wire
00:33:30.000 hosts plus God King Jeremy Boring are Santa's adorable elves made out of painted metal. I'm being
00:33:37.780 forced to tell you about this. It's on the sheet of paper. Um, but it would not be my, here's what,
00:33:44.660 here's all I'll say. I was converted into an adorable Christmas elf and made into an ornament
00:33:51.700 to hang on Christmas tree against my, without my approval. I did not consent to this. Okay. I did not
00:33:58.740 consent to being an adorable Christmas elf at no point. Did anyone call me up or they could even come
00:34:04.100 into the studio and say, Hey, do you want to be an adorable Christmas elf? We're making these
00:34:07.960 ornaments. Do you want to be one? If they'd asked me, I would have said, Oh, no, thanks for asking.
00:34:12.920 No. So just know when you buy these ornaments, you are buying them and putting me on your tree
00:34:19.040 against my consent, but you can text Christmas to eight, three, four, zero, zero to get your tree
00:34:26.180 decorated. They're going fast. So get yours now. That's a Christmas to eight, three, four, zero,
00:34:31.760 zero. And, uh, on that note, let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:34:39.020 Now today for our daily cancellation, now that Christmas season has officially, or rather
00:34:43.680 unofficially, but officially the Christmas season actually starts on Christmas. I don't know if you
00:34:47.520 knew that. I'm going to take a bold, bold step that will only shock and offend you until you realize
00:34:53.140 that I come not as your oppressor, but as your liberator. I seek to free you and free all of us
00:34:58.340 once and for all from the tyranny of Christmas trees. Christmas trees are canceled. This madness
00:35:04.320 has gone on for long enough. I'm drawing the line in the sand right now. No more Christmas trees. We
00:35:09.580 are done with Christmas trees. Now it may come as a surprise, but the early Christians never thought
00:35:16.380 to cut down a tree and put it in their house for three weeks as part of their Christmas celebration.
00:35:21.800 One could only imagine how the conversation would have went had anyone suggested something like that.
00:35:27.760 Hey, it's almost Christmas. What do you say we go and chop down that perfectly healthy tree out there,
00:35:31.960 drag it inside and watch it slowly die? It'll be so festive. The idea probably would not have been
00:35:38.260 warmly received. And that's why nobody had a Christmas tree until some depraved lunatic in Germany,
00:35:44.060 as always, in the 19th century, decided that there weren't enough distracting hassles associated with
00:35:49.540 the holiday and came up with this idea. And it was the worst thing anyone had done related to
00:35:54.800 Christmas since St. Nick started the whole gift-giving thing, which is another problem in
00:35:59.320 of itself. Now, admittedly, this history of Christmas and its traditions may not be entirely technically
00:36:04.600 accurate, but that's not the point. The point is that we are all burdening ourselves with this
00:36:09.940 demented custom for no reason. So there are, of course, two ways to approach the problem of
00:36:16.300 obtaining, transporting, and erecting a tree inside your living room. This, again, is a problem of our
00:36:22.320 own making. It's like if we're all stressed out about how to capture a squirrel from the forest
00:36:27.780 and train it to do jumping jacks. The most stress-free way of doing that is to not do it because it's
00:36:34.900 bizarre and pointless. And there are a million better ways to spend your time. But as far as trees go,
00:36:41.160 you have two options, right? You can go out and buy a real tree, or you can purchase an imposter,
00:36:46.920 a fake tree, an avatar of a tree. The problem with the fake tree is that it's a fake tree.
00:36:52.680 It's expensive and clunky. It doesn't actually look anything like a real tree, much less does it smell
00:36:58.480 like one. So it's always awkward when you go to someone's house and they have a fake tree and they
00:37:03.080 go, doesn't it look real? No, it doesn't. Have you ever seen a real tree? They're outside. You should go
00:37:09.360 check them out because this doesn't look anything like it. See, whatever joy there is to be gained
00:37:15.800 from a Christmas tree, you aren't going to get it from a fake one. A family with a fake tree has
00:37:19.900 given up. They are just checking the tree box, trying to slide by on a technicality. You might
00:37:26.260 as well put a deflated basketball on your porch at Halloween instead of a pumpkin. The stand-in is
00:37:32.160 significantly more depressing than just not having it at all. So that doesn't work. But the real tree is
00:37:37.860 worse. First of all, it's going to run you upwards of $75 these days. $75 for a hunk of lumber that
00:37:44.560 will be decaying in a heap on your front lawn in less than a month. You could buy a bottle of
00:37:49.020 Blanton single barrel bourbon, Elijah Craig barrel proof even, for that price. And it will make you
00:37:54.840 far jollier than any Christmas tree ever will, I assure you. So after you've been basically stripped
00:37:59.700 naked and robbed by the Christmas tree salesman, you schlep the thing back to your house, you drag it
00:38:03.840 inside, pine needles falling and dispersing themselves into areas of the house that you
00:38:07.740 won't notice until sometime after Memorial Day. Then begins the process of somehow getting this whole
00:38:12.540 entire actual tree to stand up straight in your house with nothing but a plastic tree stand and a
00:38:18.160 couple of screws keeping it in place. If you do get it to stay in place, it'll inevitably be knocked
00:38:22.760 over multiple times by the dog, the cat, your kids, people and pets getting practically crushed to
00:38:27.300 death left and right. Meanwhile, the thing requires about 19 gallons of water a day just to keep it alive
00:38:32.260 and barely so. Now you have a half dead dried out chunk of wood in your house with electrical wires
00:38:38.580 draped around it. Maybe next we can develop an Easter tradition where everybody jumps into a pool
00:38:44.900 and plays catch with a toaster plugged into an extension cord. And then what happens as soon as
00:38:50.000 Christmas is over? It's like waking up with a hangover. You look at that thing and all of the joy and
00:38:55.480 spirit is sucked out of it. Now you see it for the giant pile of sticks that it always was.
00:39:01.440 And you just want it out of your house. Literally the day after Christmas, you're looking at your
00:39:06.260 tree with disgust. Everybody does. Or if you have a fake tree, you just put off the hassle of taking
00:39:11.060 it down for months until you finally get around to it only because you don't want people judging you
00:39:16.220 when they come over for your 4th of July barbecue. So the whole thing is madness and it must end.
00:39:21.820 We must free ourselves. We must stand up with one voice and refuse to be enslaved to this lunacy.
00:39:28.600 It's gone on for too long. It ends today. Christmas trees are canceled once and for all.
00:39:36.320 And that's going to do it for me. My wife wants to go get a Christmas tree today,
00:39:39.540 so we're going to go through that. Speaking of not practicing what you preach.
00:39:43.940 Have a great day, everybody. Godspeed.
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