Ep. 613 - Women Are Not Men
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Summary
Ellen Page, formerly known as Ellen, revealed that she is a man named Elliot Page. Of course, the media has been in a state of rapturous celebration over this. Also, 5 headlines including Chuck Schumer endorsing Joe Biden s plan to force women to share the bathroom with men, and Biden s Treasury Secretary nominee explains how she will use the Treasury to heal racism, heal sexism, and fix climate change. Finally, today, Breathing is canceled.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, the actress Ellen Page has announced that she's actually an actor
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named Elliot Page. She came out as a man. Of course, the media has been in a state of rapturous
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celebration over this, but I have some questions. I think they're fair questions. I'll ask them
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today. Also, five headlines, including Chuck Schumer endorsing Joe Biden's plan to force
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women to share the bathroom with men. And Biden's Treasury Secretary nominee explains how she will
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use the Treasury to heal racism, heal sexism, and fix climate change. Finally today, breathing
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is canceled. This was not my decision. USA Today canceled breathing in a recent op-ed,
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and it's my duty to share the news with you, which I will today. All of that and more on The Matt Wall
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Show. Well, before we get going here today, you know, we all love underdog stories. I think that's
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trueunderdog.com or anywhere you get your podcasts. So there was celebration yesterday. Confetti was
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thrown. Champagne was poured. Tears of joy were wept when the actress Ellen Page revealed that she
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is a man named Elliot. Yes, apparently it seems Ellen Page, who has been a woman for 33 years of
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life, is actually a man, she says. And for this urgent news bulletin, as always, we'll go to People
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Magazine. Here's their report. Elliot Page is living his truth and coming out as transgender.
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Page, formerly known as Ellen, released a heartfelt statement on Twitter Tuesday, writing in part,
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quote, I want to share with you that I am trans. My pronouns are he, they, and my name is Elliot.
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Page added, I feel lucky to be writing this, to be here, to have arrived at this place in my life.
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The 33-year-old, known for his Oscar-nominated role in the film Juno, goes on to express overwhelming
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gratitude for those who have supported his journey, adding, quote, I can't begin to express how
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remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. Page also asks
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fans for patience in the statement, explaining that his joy is fragile and that he is scared of
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invasiveness, hate, jokes, and violence. He also addresses the discrimination against the trans
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community, calling it insidious and cruel, resulting in horrific consequences. According to Page's post,
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in 2020 alone, it has been reported that at least 40 transgender people have been murdered.
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He adds that the majority of those victims have been Black and Latinx trans women.
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Page also calls out political leaders who continue to criminalize trans health care
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and deny individuals their right to exist. He states that those who spew hostility towards
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the trans community have blood on their hands because 40 percent of trans adults report attempting
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suicide. Page goes on to directly address trans people who deal with a, quote,
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threat of violence every day, saying he sees and loves them and promises that he will do everything
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he can to change this world for the better. Last year, Page revealed that he married dancer Emma
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Portner, who reposted this statement on her Instagram Tuesday, writing in the caption that she is proud
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of Page and calling his existence a gift in and of itself.
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Okay, everything you heard at the end there was completely false. Actually, it was all completely false,
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especially the part where she said her authentic self is a man. But the claim that trans people are the
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victim of a hate crime epidemic has simply no evidence to support it. There is a similar lack
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of evidence to support the claim that health care for trans people is being criminalized and that
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trans people are being denied the right to exist. There's only one group of people in this country
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who are denied the right to exist, and they're still in the womb. The pro-abortion Page doesn't
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care about that group, though, of course. She'd rather fight imaginary injustices than real ones.
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Speaking of imaginary, especially imaginary injustices, you may recall a couple of years ago,
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Ellen Page on TV with Stephen Colbert, blaming Mike Pence for the hate crime that Jussie Smollett
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committed against himself. It's worth revisiting that rant, I think, because it raises an
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It feels impossible to not feel this way right now with the president and the vice president,
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Mike Pence, who, like, wishes I couldn't be married. Let's just be clear.
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The vice president of America wishes I didn't have the love with my wife. He wanted to ban that in
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Indiana. He believes in conversion therapy. He has hurt LGBTQ people so badly as the government
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of Indiana, and I think the thing we need to know, and I hope my show, Gaycation, did this
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in terms of connecting the dots, in terms of what happened the other day to Jussie. I don't know him
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If you are in a position of power, and you hate people, and you want to cause suffering to them,
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you go through the trouble. You spend your career trying to cause suffering.
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Kids are going to be abused, and they're going to kill themselves, and people are going to be
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I have traveled the world, and I have met the most marginalized people you could meet.
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I am lucky to have this time and the privilege to say this.
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Okay. Leaving aside the rather stupefying fact that Ellen Page was somehow trying to blame the
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vice president for the fact that two imaginary men beat up an actor in Chicago while he was walking
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to Subway at 2 a.m. in sub-zero temperatures, we do have to ask one question. Ellen Page was
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referring to her own same-sex lesbian marriage to another woman. Now, with this revelation that
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she's a man named Elliot, does that mean she was never really a lesbian? Was she a straight white
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male this whole time? And if so, does that mean a straight white male was playing all those roles
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in all those films that should have gone to real women? Does she have to give back all of the awards
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she's received for best female lead in a film? Well, maybe all of the awards overstates it a little
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bit, but she has won a couple of awards, I think, at least. Do those get returned? Or did she just
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become a man now? If so, how did that happen? And if she did just become a man, doesn't that mean
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she actually changed her sexual orientation going from gay to straight? Isn't that impossible?
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Haven't we been told that's impossible? By the way, mere nanoseconds after Page made the
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announcement, her Wikipedia pages and IMDB pages had been changed immediately to include the new
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pronouns. Lightning speed. This change was made. Creepy enough. But to make things weirder,
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Page's Wikipedia page now, if you go and check it out, identifies her as a gay man married to a woman.
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Does that make sense? How does it make sense? These are just a few of the questions that those who
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promote left-wing gender theory, the theory that makes it possible, allegedly, for Ellen Page to
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become a man or be a man or to have always been a man while also being a woman, cannot answer.
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Will not answer. We're meant to simply accept that this woman is a man,
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even though nobody who makes the claim, including Ellen herself, can offer any explanation of it.
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They cannot tell you when she became a man, how she became a man, how any of this is possible,
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scientifically or logically. In fact, the people making the claim cannot even so much as explain
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what the claim actually is. Think about that for a moment. Ellen Page says she's a man. Okay.
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What does she mean by that? With all these people announcing that they're really a gender other
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than the one that they were, quote, assigned at birth, the crazy thing is that nobody ever stops
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to ask the simplest, most basic question. What do you mean? What do you mean? That's a fair question,
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isn't it? That's not a transphobic question or a question that otherizes anyone or denies anyone
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the right to exist. It's also not a question that shuts anyone down or shouts them down or censors
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them. Quite the opposite. This is a question that seeks to understand, that seeks even to
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take the claim seriously. But I cannot understand you or take you seriously if I don't even know what
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you mean. So Ellen Page says she's a man. All right. What do you mean, Ellen or Elliot? What do you
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mean that you're a man? In what sense are you a man? How do you define the word man? What is a man?
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I'm a man myself, always have been as far as I know. And it's clear that Ellen Page is not exactly
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like me. I mean, you could look at Ellen Page and look at me and say, well, there's a very clear
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difference here. There's even a difference of kind, of category, it would seem. There are a number of very
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significant differences between the two of us, differences that go all the way down to the level
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of DNA, chromosomes, reproductive capabilities, bone structure, muscle mass, etc. It seems that
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we're both humans, certainly, but different kinds of humans, different categories of human.
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Now you say now we're the same kind, the same category. Well, again, then what kind is that?
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Explain that kind. Define the category. And it does no good to say that the word man is fluid or an
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artificial construct or that it has no fixed meaning, because if that's the case, then it doesn't
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mean anything to identify yourself as one. You may as well still call yourself a woman then,
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because the words don't mean anything. You can't very well insist that your identity as this
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particular thing is important and fundamental, and we all have to respect it, and also insist that this
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particular thing has no meaning and could be anything and is nothing but a social construct.
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You do see how those two propositions are in direct contradiction, don't you?
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See, I want to understand you. I do. I just need you to explain what you mean in a way that's
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coherent. Now, it's not that you owe me specifically an explanation, but if you want to be understood,
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then you have to explain what you're saying. If you don't want to be understood, then what's the
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point of making the announcement in the first place? You know, I could stand up in front of the
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whole world and say, everyone, I want you to know I am a who's he, what's it? That's what I am.
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That's how I identify. If I were to say that, the immediate response from the world would be,
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you're a what now? What's that? What's a who's he, what's it? What do you mean?
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I can't very well then respond, well, I don't owe you an explanation. Stay out of my business.
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I'm the one who brought it up. The world didn't bring it up. I did.
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The world is just trying to understand what the hell I'm talking about.
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But of course, when it comes to a woman saying she's a man or a man saying he's a woman,
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no one ever explain, explains what's that supposed to mean? Nobody ever explains anything related to
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left-wing gender theory, a theory that, as we've covered on this show, was invented about 70 years
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ago by a lunatic child abuser named John Money, who experimented on two young boys and caused them
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both to kill themselves. He's the guy who came up with most of what the left says about
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gender today, including the idea that a person can have a gender that is at odds with their
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biological sex. He came up with it. This is his idea. We are meant now to simply accept and believe
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and parrot these ideas, even if they make no sense. And even if the people making the claim
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cannot themselves make sense of it. Does it matter, though? That's the other question. Should we care?
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You know, many on the right realize that left-wing gender theory is nonsense. They realize that men
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are not women and women are not men. They realize that this preferred pronoun stuff is absurd. You
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know, they realize that you cannot claim your own pronouns for yourself any more than you can claim
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your own nouns or prepositions or your own adverbs. It doesn't make any sense. Grammar doesn't work
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that way. Language doesn't work that way. They realize all of this, but they retreat from the battle
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over these ideas, crawling under their beds to hide while murmuring something about how this is
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all a sideshow and it doesn't matter. That is the rationalization of a coward. Yes, it matters.
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The truth matters. The truth, in fact, is all that matters. It's the only thing that matters.
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I don't care about anything else but the truth. And I don't care to spend my time defending anything
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else but the truth. The left's gender ideology is, among many other things, all of them bad,
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a direct assault on the truth. They want to deny basic truth, to build a culture that denies it,
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to force you to deny it. And that matters. It matters a lot. It's also an assault on children,
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our children, your children. Gender confusion is an epidemic among kids today. Many lives are being
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destroyed by it. We talked about this last week as well. And we've talked about this many times
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because it matters. Other conservatives and many other conservatives with platforms pretend it
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doesn't matter, but it does. The left wants to infuse confusion into your child's mind. They want to
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rob your child of his understanding of himself. They're trying to take from him what is most basic,
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most essential, most needed for a happy and healthy life. Does that matter? I can think of very few
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things that matter more. So yes, we do need to say, it is important to say, that Ellen Page can change
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her name. Fine. She's Elliot now. That's fair. You can be whatever name you want to be. But she cannot
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be a man. She's not a man. She will never be one. And I say that not because I'm trying to hurt her
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feelings or deny her right to exist, but just because it's true and the truth matters. Now let's get to our
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five headlines. Well, speaking of gender madness, Chuck Schumer was asked yesterday about Joe Biden's
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plan to let men into the women's restroom. And here's how that conversation went.
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Joe Biden said that on his first day of office, he will give transgender students access to sports,
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bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity in all federally funded schools.
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Do you think he has the ability to do this? And do you agree with this decision?
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I agree with the decision and I know he'll check things out thoroughly legally.
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Yeah. So this is to get men into the women's restroom is a top priority now for Joe Biden
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and guys like Chuck Schumer, they're fully on board with it. Oh yeah. First day in office. This is a,
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this is a first day priority to make sure we get the dudes into the women's bathroom. Very,
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very, very important stuff. Now the question I always ask, um, with, when, when, when this,
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when this comes up, especially coming from someone like Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer and
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Joe Biden, both of them decrepit, ancient old men. Okay. These guys are, are in their upper nineties,
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I believe. And they've been in public life forever. Decades and decades, right? They'd never mentioned this
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before. So right now for Joe Biden, who's been trying to be president for like 50 years. Um,
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and now he says first day in office, he's got to get, he's got to get women into men into the women's
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restroom. Why didn't you ever mention that before as a priority? Decades of public service,
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if we can call it that never once mentioned it. Someone could fact check me on this and go back.
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If you can find an example of Chuck Schumer or Joe Biden in, you know, I don't know, 1997 or
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something, or any time prior to about 2012 saying anything about gender, transgender women in the
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women's room, then let me know. I've looked, I haven't seen it. As far as I can tell, they never
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once mentioned once mentioned it. Now it's a top priority. So the question always is, okay, you're,
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you're, you're, uh, you're 78 years old. Um, you decided, I don't know, maybe around the age of 70
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that actually men can be women and that it's okay to have men in the women's restroom.
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What changed your mind? I mean, you live 70 years, apparently completely confident that men
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have penises and women have vaginas. And, uh, around the age of 70, you changed your mind. That,
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that's, that's, that is quite a flip-flop, isn't it? We're always talking about politicians who flip-flop
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on issues. I can't think of an, I cannot think of a more profound, a, a, a bigger, more shocking flip-flop
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than this. You flip-flopped on the issue of whether or not men have vaginas essentially. So why?
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It's a question the media never asks. How did you decide this? What convinced you? What scientific
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evidence did you see? Well, we, we all know the answer, of course. These are men without spines.
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These are men without anything going on. These are men without substance. And so they saw that the winds
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were shifting that way. And so they, they shifted with it. We know that's the real answer, but I would
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love it if one day they would have to give some kind of answer. Cause they're not going to say that
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even though it's true. Number two, Janet Yellen, Joe Biden's treasury secretary pick, uh, has revealed
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what she plans to do with the position. And here's what she said about that. We risk missing the
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obligation to address deeper structural problems, inequality, stagnant wages, especially for workers
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who lack a college education, communities that have seen industry disappear with no good jobs,
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replacing lost ones, racial disparities in pay, job opportunities, housing, food security,
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and small business lending to deny wealth building to communities of color, gender disparities that keep
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women out of the workforce and keep our economy from running at full force. It's a convergence of
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tragedies that is not only economically unsustainable, but one that betrays our commitment to giving every
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American an equal chance to get ahead. But I know this team will never give up that commitment.
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As you've said before, Mr. President elect out of our collective pain as a nation,
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we will find collective purpose to control the pandemic and build our economy back better than
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before to rebuild our infrastructure and create better jobs to invest in our workforce to advance
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racial equity and make sure the economic recovery includes everyone to address the climate crisis
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with American ingenuity and American jobs. Okay, sorry, that was that was too long. I can't even react
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to that because I couldn't stay awake for it. That's one thing about these bureaucrats, they just speaking
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of having no substance, just put your right to sleep. And that's how they get away with doing a lot of the
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stuff they're doing. What you just heard there was radical. But it was said in such a in such a such
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an intolerably dry and boring way that you can't stay awake for it to listen to what their actual
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plans are. And so you just kind of want to wave at them and say, fine, do whatever you want. Just stop
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talking, please. In reality, though, she's talking about, you know, using the Treasury to fix climate
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change. How are they going to do that? Of course, it's not possible. But this is this is another
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thing. This is another another another promise that Joe Biden has made. He's going to stop
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hurricanes. He's he's going to fix the weather. Can't explain how he's going to do it, but he's
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going to do it. Going to stop gender disparities, women not in the workforce. By the way, if you want
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to know, in most cases, you know, women who are not in the workforce, my wife, for example, not in the
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workforce. OK, so someone like Janet Yellen and other Democrats will look at that as a problem
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and they see that my wife is not in the workforce. They say, well, we got to do something to get to
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get this woman into the workforce. You know why she's not in the workforce? Because she doesn't
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want to be. She could be. It's it's pretty much anyone can get into the workforce if they want to.
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It's not hard to get into the workforce, the sacred, hallowed workforce. It may surprise
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especially Democrats to learn, especially feminists. Not everybody wants that. My wife doesn't want
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to be in the workforce. She wants to be at home with the kids, raising kids. So that's what she's
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doing. You know, that's that explains a lot of the, quote, gender disparities, whether it's less
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women in the work, fewer women in the workforce, I should say, or, you know, women in jobs that don't
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pay as much. It's because they make different choices. And those choices are great. Those
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choices are more than fine. They're great, in my opinion. But it's their choice. To call that a
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problem, I would say, seems rather presumptuous, to say the least. Number three, Barack Obama, in an
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interview with Stephen Colbert, wants us to imagine, if you can imagine this, a fantasy world where
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Democrats question the results of an election. Pretty, pretty wild stuff. But here, here he is.
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Listen. You imagine the Super Bowl and, you know, the game's going on and touchdowns are supposed to
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be worth six points with the extra points, unless you go for two and field goals are worth three
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points and you're keeping score the whole time and the refs and so forth. And then at the end of the
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game, a team's won. And somebody says, no, field goals aren't worth three. Or that wasn't really a
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touchdown. Well, Hugo Chavez kept blocking the field goal from the grave. We've all been watching. And I guess
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if you had the other team just refused to acknowledge it and you had half the league say, we're not sure it's
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true. Um, you'd have a similar controversy, but when that starts happening, the game itself breaks
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down, right? The, the, and in, in this case, it's not a game. It's our democracy. Our democracy
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starts falling apart. Imagine if going forward, every single election is treated this way at every
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level. Imagine if Democrats start acting this way. Uh, is that part of the danger that he's broken
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the seal on that idea? That is the concern that I think we all have. It's Joe Biden is going to be
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the next president. Kamala Harris is going to be the next vice president, but, but we don't want to get
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into a pattern where we just, uh, uh, are, are willing to throw out what we've agreed to previously,
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uh, including our constitutional structure, just because we find it politically expedient.
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My God, these people are just shameless, just shameless. Oh, imagine if Democrats didn't accept
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the results of an election hard to imagine. I mean, they've only done that for every major election
00:24:35.160
in, in recent memory. Other than that, really difficult to imagine. They only spent four years
00:24:42.400
claiming that the, that president, president Trump's election was illegitimate and he's a Russian spy
00:24:47.860
sent here by Putin to destroy the country. They only spent four years claiming that they only tried
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to impeach him based on that with no evidence. Hillary Clinton has been on TV for four years.
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The woman can't get past it and get over it. Um, it saying that Trump is an illegitimate president.
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Those words. Exactly. Election was stolen. Those words. Exactly. But of course, Barack Obama,
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and this, this is what you get from the left. Always. They just expect you to, they're, they're just
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going to wave away reality and say, no, that's not reality. You, you, you, no, we're not. Nope.
00:25:28.100
You can't acknowledge that. Didn't happen. You think it happened, but it didn't. Just like Ellen
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Page. You thought she was a woman. She's not just, nope. Stop asking questions. Stop asking questions.
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All right. This is from USA Today. Um, let's see. My producer sent me this one, uh,
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about the McRib. How far would you go for a free McRib? Well, first of all, I wouldn't go far at all.
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I literally would not walk across the room for one. You, you could have a free one just right across
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this room here and I wouldn't get up. I would get up and walk out of the room. Just, I don't have to
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be anywhere near something that tastes and smells like stale dog food smothered in barbecue sauce.
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Not even barbecue sauce. Just, just basically ketchup and vinegar, which is part of a barbecue sauce,
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but not the whole thing. Um, anyway, McDonald's iconic barbecue sandwich returns to restaurants
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nationwide beginning Wednesday, but before the McRib's arrival, which McDonald's has dubbed the
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sauciest moment of the year, the fast food chain is giving away 10,000 free sandwiches to hungry fans
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with its shave for McRib sweepstakes. Shave for McRib sweepstakes. Um, McDonald's said in news release,
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beard or no beard, prepare for the McRib with a shave because anyone could participate from your
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brother to your mother, sister-in-law, or cousin's roommate. Post a picture of your clean, cleanly
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shaven or baby smooth face on your public Twitter or public Instagram profile using shave for McRib.
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Okay. So there, what in the hell is this? First of all, how weird is it? What, why do we just accept
00:27:08.260
this? Speaking of things we should be asking questions about, they're trying to convince
00:27:12.700
people to shave and post it online. Is this some sort of weird fetish from the, the McDonald's
00:27:19.320
marketing? Some, some, some depraved fetishist works for the McDonald's marketing program department.
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And he, uh, he suggested this. He said, you know what we should do? We should have people shave and
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post it online. That'll be a great, yeah, that'll be a great marketing campaign. People will love it.
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I mean, I'll love it at least. Uh, but then on top of that, this again is, is, is anti-beard bigotry.
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Why wouldn't it be the opposite of that? Especially if this is supposed to be barbecue. Now it's,
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it's fake barbecue. So it's appropriate, I suppose, you have to shave your beard and be a fake man in
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order to eat it. But, um, if this is supposed to be real barbecue, real barbecue ribs, if that's what
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you're going for, then it should be the opposite. It should be grow a beard and we'll give you
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barbecue as a reward. You can eat this manly meal, that meal now that you have the face of a man
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rather than the face of an overgrown child. I'm telling you, I've, I've been, I've been telling
00:28:16.260
you this for a long time, that anti-beard bigotry is one of the last acceptable bigotries. And I think
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the most, uh, the most sinister bigotry in our society today, pretty infuriating. Um, number five,
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finally, new details is from the daily wire says new details have emerged about the disappearance
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of a 10 to 12 foot monolith that mysteriously appeared in the Utah wilderness earlier this
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month. By the way, with this monolith thing, it's, it's weird how we all just decided to call it a
00:28:45.960
monolith instead of like the, the, the pole, the podium, something we all just decided to go with
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monolith. It does say it makes it sound more epic, I suppose. So I guess that's why we're doing that.
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Four men removed the monolith and hauled it away in eyewitness claims. Ross Bernards,
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a 34 year old photographer from Colorado told the newspaper that he went to the site on Friday,
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hoping to get a glimpse of the monolith. He said he saw, how did he know where the monolith was?
00:29:12.060
Because I thought they weren't telling us the, they were keeping it a secret about where the
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monolith was for some reason. So this guy says he went, he's a photographer. He said he saw four men
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push the shiny structure to the ground, break it apart and haul it away in a wheelbarrow.
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Then he says, as they walked off with the pieces, one of them said, leave no trace.
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I don't know. I'm doubting this. I personally, I've always wanted to be in a situation where I
00:29:40.860
could say to someone unironically, leave no trace. It sounds a little bit too cinematic for me,
00:29:47.140
but James Newland, who traveled with Bernards to the site, gave more details. He said, it must have
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been about 10 or 15 minutes at most for them to knock over the monolith and pull it out.
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We didn't know who they were and we were not going to do anything to stop them. Cowards.
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While Bernard snapped no pictures, Newland reportedly grabbed a few cell phone images of the men,
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but the cell phone images are grainy. Okay. So this is a professional photographer. He goes all
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the way to the monolith. He happens to get there at the same moment where, where, where mysterious men
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are in the middle of the night dragging it away. He doesn't take any pictures, but his friend with a
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somehow grainy, uh, cell phone camera takes a picture. How do you get a, what does he have a
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flip phone from 2004? How do you even get grainy pictures on cell phones anymore? Um, and then,
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um, let's see, there was, there was, uh, uh, another set of hikers who, who, uh, Ricardo Marino and Sierra
00:30:44.940
van meter went to the site on Friday. And what they claim, this is a, one of the guys Marino says,
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we believe we might be the first people to come to the Utah monolith and have it not be here anymore,
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unfortunately. But what we do see though, is someone wrote by B word and clearly took a P on
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where the monolith once stood. I don't know. The mystery deepens. So, okay. So they drag it away.
00:31:11.580
They say, leave no trace. And yet they, they scrawled by on the sand and peed.
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I don't think these guys quite understand what leave no trace means. So the mystery, uh, continues,
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but I, of course I will, I will continue in my theory that obviously this in some way involves,
00:31:30.340
involves aliens. I'm sure before we get to our daily cancellation today, you know, one of the
00:31:35.300
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Dear God, I beg you. Let's get now to our daily cancellation.
00:34:42.060
So today we're going to cancel breathing. To be clear, I'm not canceling breathing myself.
00:34:46.860
I kind of like breathing personally. Most of the time I actually enjoy breathing unless I'm in a
00:34:51.960
rest stop bathroom or someplace similar like a Burger King. But USA Today in an op-ed has canceled
00:34:59.380
breathing. No more breathing. It's not allowed. The article written by Michael Stern and which I'm
00:35:03.520
pretty sure is not parody has this headline. COVID has turned breathing into a deadly event
00:35:09.900
and all of us into potential serial killers. Now at a different time and place, that headline would
00:35:16.760
be the kind of thing you might hear if you work with paranoid schizophrenics in a psych ward of a
00:35:21.620
hospital. But now it's the subject of an editorial in a major American publication and it gets worse.
00:35:27.040
So listen to this as we read the article says, as coronavirus burns an exponential path of
00:35:32.760
destruction across the American terrain, an insidious blanket of shadow damage is quietly
00:35:38.620
unfurling in its name. It's not just the death and scarred lungs. COVID-19 has turned every man,
00:35:44.420
woman, and child into a potential serial killer. Let's, let's just try to look past the abysmal
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writing here. I mean, an insidious blanket of shadow damage. That sounds like a lyric from a
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dashboard confessional song in 2002. Or maybe shadow damage could be the title track of an album by a band
00:36:04.040
called the Insidious Blankets. Anyway, the real issue is that you have just been accused of being
00:36:10.500
a serial killer for breathing. Every time you walk down the street breathing, you're joining the likes
00:36:15.420
of John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. And, you know, by the way, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy also,
00:36:21.620
they would also breathe, I'm told. Even Hitler could breathe. And now you're breathing. Coincidence?
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I think not. Let's keep reading. It says, so far I've been fortunate, but not a day goes by that I
00:36:36.260
don't wonder whether my streak of good luck is about to end because the person in front of me in the
00:36:40.760
grocery line is wearing a mask below his nose, expelling a cloud of radioactive COVID dust that
00:36:46.020
I cannot escape, short of dropping $50 on the conveyor belt and trying to outrun the security
00:36:50.420
guard. So another side note here, are we going to get a fact check on this? Is Twitter going to flag
00:36:57.260
this? Is Facebook going to put on, put one of their third party fact checkers on the case? Radioactive
00:37:02.500
COVID dust? That might actually be another good band name. But aside from that, is there any science to
00:37:09.460
this claim? That there's such a thing as COVID dust and that it's radioactive? For that matter,
00:37:15.500
is there any science to the claim that the breath from a person's nostrils could carry enough viral
00:37:20.560
load to infect you if you're standing behind them for three minutes at the grocery store?
00:37:24.600
Where's the science on that? Well, it doesn't matter. You know, we know that by now. The science
00:37:29.580
doesn't matter as long as what you're saying about COVID is scary. If you're saying scary stuff
00:37:35.500
that, you know, that, that, that, that, that, that terrifies people, it doesn't matter if it's
00:37:41.060
factual or if there's any evidence. If you're saying stuff that makes COVID seem a little less
00:37:45.180
scary, then you better come armed with volumes of studies, research, medical charts, everything.
00:37:51.740
Back to the article, it says, um, it's bad enough that we have to fear contracting a deadly virus from
00:37:57.480
a stranger at TJ Maxx who reaches for the same decorative throw pillow. What's worse is the brutal
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reality that the people we love and trust most in this world bring us the same risk? More risk
00:38:07.980
because these are the people with whom we have regular and close contact. Any sustained encounter
00:38:12.620
with those we love, kisses, hugs, laughs, conversations could bring fever, blood clots, fluid filled lungs,
00:38:19.520
and death. Okay. Sidebar again. First of all, what kind of man is shopping for decorative throw pillows
00:38:27.780
at TJ Maxx. This is, see that I don't have to worry about getting COVID while I shop for decorative
00:38:34.260
throw pillows because I would never do that. I've always said that the decorative throw pillow
00:38:39.500
industry would completely collapse if all women on earth were raptured, you know, into the sky.
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That industry is done along with the decorative soap industry, the wrapping paper industry, because
00:38:51.820
man, we would just put everything in paper bags. But apparently this guy is breaking ranks and he's
00:38:56.080
doing his part to keep the decorative throw pillow industry going. But more importantly,
00:39:02.280
no, you don't have to fear contracting a virus because you reached for a pillow.
00:39:06.520
You can fear it if you want to. You don't have to. And you shouldn't. There are many more worthwhile
00:39:13.020
things to fear. Back to the article. It goes on for a while, but this is how he wraps it up. He says,
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and so as the world eagerly awaits a vaccine that promises to be rolled out over the next six months,
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the wrath of the coronavirus will not end with inoculation. The way we look at our own survival,
00:39:29.560
the dangers faced by those we love will be stamped with COVID's dirty fingerprint for years to come.
00:39:36.680
Yeah. Speak for yourself. I can tell you right now, I didn't learn anything about my own mortality or
00:39:43.240
about the dangers faced by those I love from this. I already knew that I was mortal. I knew that the world
00:39:49.740
is full of dangers. None of that is news to me. But as we recently discussed, for those who have
00:39:55.940
lived their whole lives without ever confronting or acknowledging their own mortality, this has,
00:40:00.760
I suppose, indeed been a wake-up call. And many of them, as we see exhibited here, are not handling
00:40:05.520
it well at all. And that's what this is really about. The author of this delusional, paranoid piece
00:40:11.760
of psychotic fear-mongering, either had pre-existing mental illnesses that are now being aggravated during
00:40:17.700
the COVID crisis, or he had lived such a psychologically sheltered life beforehand that
00:40:23.260
the existence of a threat, any threat, however comparatively mild, is intolerable for him.
00:40:28.840
He can't process it. He can't deal with it. Yes, it's true, technically, that someone could
00:40:34.880
indirectly kill you by breathing too close to you. It's possible that you could indirectly kill
00:40:40.000
someone by breathing too close to them. It's also possible that a rock could fly out of the sky,
00:40:44.940
crack open your skull. It's possible that you might get a brain-eating amoeba by jumping into
00:40:49.340
a lake or even taking a shower. Did you know that? Did you know you could get a brain-eating amoeba
00:40:53.640
from taking a shower? I think. Don't quote me on that. It's at least possible. I mean, it's a logical
00:41:00.580
possibility. It's possible that the pain in your side is a symptom of stage four cancer and you'll be
00:41:05.780
dead in a week. It's possible that somebody will break into your house tonight and chop off your
00:41:09.900
head while you sleep. Look, a lot of things are possible. Are any of them likely? Not really. Some
00:41:16.980
are more likely than others. But the chances in all these cases are far less than 50%. Far, far, far
00:41:23.460
less. And so the job of an adult human who wants to function in society and have any chance of being
00:41:30.300
successful and well-adjusted and happy is to keep all of the terrible possibilities in proper
00:41:35.760
perspective and to accept that, yes, one day a terrible thing will happen to you. A fatal thing,
00:41:41.640
in fact. One day a fatal and terrible thing will happen to everyone you know and love. Your spouse,
00:41:47.260
your children, everyone. You do have to accept that. You can't function if you don't. That doesn't mean
00:41:54.720
we should be apathetic or that we should accept or embrace unreasonable risk. It just means that you
00:42:00.000
confront and acknowledge your mortality, humanity's mortality, and go about your life, taking precautions
00:42:05.760
but never to the point that it causes you to forfeit all of the things that make living life
00:42:09.900
worthwhile in the first place. And so on second thought, breathing is not canceled.
00:42:17.360
This paranoid, cowardly, insane panic porn is canceled. Everybody else is free to go and even
00:42:24.460
to breathe for now until the next cancellation at least. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching,
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everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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00:43:18.100
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00:43:23.100
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