Ep. 621 - Putting Children In Masks To Make Adults Feel Safe
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A two-year-old girl and her family were kicked off a United Airlines flight because she refused to wear a mask. Bill Gates says we cannot go back to normal for a while. The Cleveland Indians have solved racism by changing their name, and in our daily cancellation, I ll cancel Jill Biden.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a two-year-old child and her family has kicked off a United
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flight because she wouldn't wear a mask. We'll discuss why masking children is an especially
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pointless, cruel, and cowardly move, so much that it manages to stand out amid all the other
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pointless, cruel, and cowardly things happening right now in relation to COVID. Also, five
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headlines, including Bill Gates telling us that we cannot go back to normal for a while,
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you know, even over a year. In his opinion, it's supposed to matter about this for some reason.
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Also, the Cleveland Indians have solved racism by changing their name, and in our daily
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cancellation, I will cancel Jill Biden. One of many Jill Biden cancellations yet to come,
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something tells me. All of that and more coming up today on the Matt Wall Show.
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slash Walsh spelled B-A-M-B-E-E.com slash Walsh. You know, it's long been clear to anyone with a
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discerning mind that many of the measures we've seen ostensibly meant to curb the virus are actually
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just for show. They are at best psychological protections designed not to make people not to
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not to make people safer, but to make people feel like they are safer. You know, they might be
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likened to the signs you see in restaurant bathrooms that say employees must wash hands before returning
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to work. Hopefully the employees already know to wash their hands. If they don't know about that basic
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hygiene practice, probably the sign's not going to do much good and you already have food poisoning
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anyway. But the sign is there just to make you feel like the employees are practicing good hygiene,
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whether they actually are or not. A video went viral over the weekend, which reveals, I think,
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the charade in poetic fashion. An unnamed DOJ official can be seen preparing to walk onto the stage for a
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press conference. Right before walking onto the stage, he puts on his face mask. Then he travels from
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the side of the stage to the podium and takes it off to speak. So he has it on for all of about 10
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seconds. It's absurd, but in fairness to the bureaucrat in the video, it's really no different
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from the now common practice of wearing a mask as you walk through a restaurant only to take it off
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and speak loudly at your table for 90 minutes. You are least likely to spread COVID while walking
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quietly to your table. Yet that's the precise time when you're made to wear the mask. There's no
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scientific reason for this, except in the sense that a placebo effect is, in its way, a scientific
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phenomenon. The problem, one of them anyway, is that the charade around COVID, the many placebos
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put in place, often go beyond merely annoying and venture into outright cruelty. The cruelty,
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for example, of telling restaurants they can't even have outdoor dining, thereby dooming many of
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them along with their employees and owners to financial ruin, even while allowing, as we saw
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last week, movie studios to have large catered lunches in the same parking lot where the restaurants
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you just destroyed were having their outdoor dining that you just said was dangerous. That's not just
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hypocritical and arbitrary. It's monstrous. The people responsible are sociopaths who care for nothing
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and about no one, as long as they can project the appearance that they're doing something.
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But when it comes to theatrical but cruel and ineffective COVID safety measures, near the top of the list
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has to be the requirement that kids, especially very young children, wear masks. So we've seen episodes
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like this play out many times over the last several months. But this latest incident has gotten special
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attention for good reason, I think. A young family, mother, father, and daughter, kicked off a United
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Airlines flight and initially banned, they said, from future flights because the daughter wouldn't wear
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a mask. The daughter is two years old. I say again, two years old. Now, before we play the footage from
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the plane, here is the mother, Eliz Orban, talking about their experiences when they attempted to take a
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United flight from Denver to Newark. And here's what she had to say.
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We just got kicked off the flight because our two-year-old would not put on a mask. And we tried.
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I mean, I'm going to put a video on. And they're sending all of our bags and Adeline's car seat
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to New York. And we're banned off of United forever because a two-year-old would not put on a mask.
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So they kicked them off the flight, banned them, and still sent their bags to their destination.
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Like I said, cruelty. She says here that they tried to get the child to wear the mask, but she just
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wouldn't do it. Indeed, they did. In fact, as you can see in the video, if anything, they tried too
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much. If you can fault the family at all in this situation, it's for being too compliant, if anything.
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Though I don't fault them or blame them because it's difficult for families to navigate this
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insanity, you know. And I would know as someone who has two toddlers and two other young children,
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it's very difficult. We're being put in very difficult situations. Anyway, here's what
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I don't know. Why? We're over here holding this mask on her face. I'm sorry, sir. I didn't
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know the opportunity. And I took that opportunity and I ran with her. You see this? I'm literally
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covering her face. You guys do this all the time or what? This is compliance. I'm literally
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holding it over my daughter's face. This is compliance right here.
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We can't force her. She's literally holding it and she's crying.
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Okay, so then they get kicked off the plane. They were so desperate to get the two-year-old
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to wear the mask that the father was initially holding the mask over the child's face as she
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squirmed to get away. But, which I wouldn't recommend doing, by the way, but that wasn't
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good enough. And they were kicked off the flight and humiliated anyway. This, of course, is total
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madness. For several reasons, let's establish just two of them. Number one, have you ever
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tried to get a two-year-old to wear like a hat or gloves in the wintertime? Even just getting
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them into the gear is like trying to force a cat to take a bubble bath with them squirming
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and fighting and kicking to get away. And once you manage to get them into their Eskimo suit,
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they will immediately begin shedding all the pieces as soon as they get outside. Hat comes off,
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one glove, a boot, you know, and they're strewn somehow across like a mile, even though the kid
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wasn't even a mile away. It's all off. And then, of course, they cry because they're too cold and you
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have to go back inside. 90 minutes of preparation for nine seconds of fun. That's parenting in a nutshell.
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But the point is, if you can't get a two-year-old to wear a hat or gloves, even when it's cold
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outside and they at least partially understand why they're supposed to wear that stuff, you aren't
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going to get them to wear a piece of cloth over their face, especially when they have not the
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slightest clue why they have to. Of course, every time I talk about this, I invariably hear from
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some proud parent somewhere who says, hey, I have a two-and-a-half-year-old and
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he wears the mask without a problem. What's the issue with your kids? Well, good for you.
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Or maybe not, because if your two-year-old does wear the mask, either he's naturally one of the
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most remarkably compliant young children on planet Earth, which may not be as good as it sounds in
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the long run, or you have successfully scared him so badly that he wants to wear it because he
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thinks he'll die or get screamed at if he doesn't. And I'm guessing that most young children who wear the
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mask without a problem fit more into that latter category. The fact is that most normal children
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at that age, if they have parents who are not willing to bully and terrify them, won't wear the
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mask. And for whatever amount of time they do wear it, they're going to be chewing it, licking it,
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doing all kinds of other gross things with the mask. And it will quickly make them far more susceptible
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to germs than they would have been without it. That's the first point. Second point, if we're supposed
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to follow the science, why aren't we doing it here? Children are not at all likely to spread the
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virus. This is the whole reason why shutting down schools is such a monumentally terrible idea.
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New York City shut down schools a few weeks ago when the positivity rate in the general population
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of the whole city supposedly had reached 3%. But the positivity rate at school were somewhere around
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0.2%, not 2%, 0.2%. What this means is that children are only rarely contracting the virus and
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even more rarely spreading it. And a study just published out of Iceland involving 40,000 people
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confirms this. National Geographic report just came out yesterday, says this 40,000 person study found
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that children under 15 were about half as likely as adults to be infected and only half as likely as
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adults to transmit the virus to others. Almost all the coronavirus transmissions to children came from
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adults. So half as likely to be infected and half as likely to transmit it. So then what's the likelihood
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that a toddler with no symptoms both has the virus and will spread it if she does have it?
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Very small. But even that doesn't tell the whole story because we can probably assume that the
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rare child who does spread the virus likely is symptomatic when they do. That just seems like
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the most likely thing. The chances of an asymptomatic child spreading the virus must be even tinier than
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these numbers then indicate. Point being, that toddler on the plane is almost certainly not going to get
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you sick. I mean, there's a chance. It's just not a very high chance. Toddlers walking by you on the
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street or sitting within proximity of you for a few minutes somewhere are even less likely. And yet
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toddlers across the country on planes and off planes are forced to wear the mask. Why? Well, the answer is
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what we've already said. It's a charade. It's theater. The point is to make people feel better, feel safer,
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feel like something is being done. But it's certainly not making the children feel better.
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You know, we're only confusing them at best, traumatizing them at worst. So this is all about
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the adults. That child had to be muzzled and then thrown off the plane so that the adults around her
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could have their hysterical paranoia assuaged. Adults are making children suffer so that they,
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the adults, can feel safer. This is the exact opposite of how society is supposed to work.
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We're supposed to be the calming voices, the rational ones. We're supposed to be the ones
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saying to the children, it's okay. Everything will be fine. Don't be scared. Instead, now the adults are
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growling, put the mask on, put it on, put it on. You're scaring me. It's cowardice unlike anything
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I've ever seen before. It is the most ridiculous and undignified display I can possibly imagine.
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But it's also not all that new. I mean, this is par for the course in a certain way.
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After all, we're a country that kills babies for being inconvenient,
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drugs children in school in order to make them cooperative in class.
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So this is a logical extension of what we've already been doing.
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It is then not surprising, but we should be no less embarrassed and ashamed for it.
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By the way, you can see behind me on the set there, my banjo, my cherished banjo, which I play
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all the time, as you know, sitting on top of a couple of books. If you want to know what that's
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all about, you could go to my Instagram page. I do have Instagram. You can go there and check it
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out. I don't want to say much more about it than that. I'm not happy about it, is all I can say.
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When am I happy about anything? Let's go number one here. Bad news, I'm afraid. Bill Gates,
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whose opinion on COVID is supposed to matter for some reason, says that it's going to be a while
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before life can return to normal. And it's going to be a while before restaurants can open again.
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And he was on with Jake Tapper and was talking about it. This is what he had to say.
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Certainly by the summer, we'll be way closer to normal than we are now. But even through early
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2022, unless we help other countries get rid of this disease and we get high vaccination rates in
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our country, the risk of reintroduction will be there. And of course, the global economy will be
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uh, slowed down, which hurts America economically in a pretty dramatic way. So we'll have starting
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in the summer about nine months where a few things like big public gatherings, uh, will still be
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restricted. But, you know, we can see now that somewhere between 12 to 18 months, and we have a
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chance if we manage it well, uh, to get back to normal. Yeah, it's, it's still not, uh, and I was,
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it's a, it's a longer clip that I'm not going to subject you to, but I watched the whole clip and,
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um, it's never really explained why we should care what Bill Gates has to say or why he should have any
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say in this. It's, it's, it's not even like he he's, he's predicting what will happen. And that would
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be bad enough because again, why do his predictions matter? But it's, he's just saying he's, he's just
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saying, well, here's what we're going to be allowed to do now. And in the, by, by summer of, uh, next
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year, you can go fully back to normal. Who says who you, but of course, Bill Gates has the, um, has
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the, the, the ability and, and is, is, is able, um, has the luxury of sort of sitting back and
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speaking about these things. Oh yeah. You know, a few more months, well, I keep the restaurant shut
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down, you know, keep him down, shut down for four or five months, maybe, maybe longer because
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he's a multi-billionaire. And we should also mention that Microsoft, um, during this pandemic,
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like so many other giant billion dollar corporations has done very, very well. They've, they've, they've
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done record profits, especially with everybody, you know, moving even more online, doing online
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meetings and stuff. Um, Microsoft, other big tech companies are doing very well. Bill Gates,
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of course, owns a lot of shares of Microsoft. And, uh, so he's, he's, he's recording record
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profits. He he's making lots and lots of money and he's sitting there and saying to, to restaurant
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owners, oh yeah, just, just stay down, just, just stay shut down for four more months.
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We talked about being a sociopath. I mean, this to me is sociopathy. Just don't care at all.
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Not even pretending to care, not even pretending to acknowledge the suffering.
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That is what of everything else. That's one of the main things that has graded me. I think
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has graded all of us throughout this entire thing is that you not only have people like
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Bill Gates and Fauci and all of these other, um, bureaucrats and, and, and, uh, billionaires
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and, and rich people, not only are they, are they pushing for these lockdowns, but they're
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not acknowledging at all the suffering. They're just being flippant about it because to them,
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it just doesn't matter. And again, this makes them feel safer. If society shuts down, Bill Gates
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feels safer. All right. Um, speaking of symbolic moves, moving on number two, Cleveland Indians
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baseball team are going to be changing their name. Um, after, uh, I think what is a hundred years
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over a hundred years, 105 years or something. They've been the Cleveland Indians and now they've,
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uh, it's, uh, it's been announced that they're going to change their name. We don't know what
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they're going to change their name to yet. Uh, I don't think, I don't think they've officially
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come out with their statement, but this is the report. I think we can pretty reliably say
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they're going to be changing the name. Um, probably for 2021, I guess they're going to be the Cleveland
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baseball team, like the, like the, the, the Washington football team and why are they
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changing it? Because it's offensive. Just the Cleveland Indians is somehow offensive,
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at least with the Redskins. Now I was against the Redskins changing the name.
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And the main reason I was against the Redskins changing the name because in a vacuum, you know,
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putting everything else aside, if none of this other PC craziness was happening and it was suggested
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that just the Redskins might change their name, I wouldn't have a big problem with it.
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But when you're doing it in response to, um, this, this PC title wave and you're responding
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to the pitchfork mob, that's when I say we can't do it. It's just like with tearing down statues
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of all the statues that have come down. There might be a couple of them of all the dozens that have
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been turned up, maybe a couple of them. You could make an argument for, for taking those statues
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down a couple of them. But even for those, I would say in this environment, they should stay up
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because even if you can make an argument for it, what I know for sure you shouldn't do is take down
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a statue because the pitchfork mob is demanding it. The pitchfork mob should never get what they
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want, period. And if they demand it, that's reason enough not to do it. At another time,
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if we can have a, just a thoughtful, intelligent conversation about this and be normal,
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civilized people, then maybe you could present your argument, but not in this environment.
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So that was it with the, with the Washington Redskins. The Cleveland Indians though,
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it's just Cleveland Indians. What's offensive about that? And of course it immediately brings
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to mind the comparison as, as people often do. And I have, you know, the, uh, the fighting Irish,
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Notre Dame, that name's still there. No one gets offended by that, but even more than that,
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because at least that comparison does come up. Here's something that rarely comes up.
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The Boston Celtics, their mascot is a, is a, is a stereotypical leprechaun.
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Nobody ever thinks to get offended by that. I'm of Irish ancestry. I'm not offended by that.
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I'm not offended by that because I'm a, I'm an adult with a brain and I know that it wasn't meant
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in an offensive way. They didn't put that name on there because they had some plot to offend Irish
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people. Same with the Cleveland Indians. But, uh, you know, I did read what is Cleveland Indians
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been around for a long time. The, the name they had before the Cleveland Indians was apparently
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the Cleveland Naps NAPS. I don't know why. I don't know where, I guess if I, if I wanted to
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research it, I could, but I don't care that much. So they were the Cleveland Naps before maybe they
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could go back to that. Um, I think that, you know, that is an appropriate name for a baseball
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team at least. Okay. Number three, I just want to play this for you. Uh, see if you can make sense
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of it. A little bit of word salad on MSNBC. Mainly, I just want to, I just want your help
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deciphering this. So, so listen and tell me if you can, if you can understand what's being said,
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listen. Can I just add to that a second, Nicole, because you know, in, in Joe Biden's absence,
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in the years that he's been away from the Senate, you know, who has been there? Vice President
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elect Kamala Harris, who is in the Senate, even as we speak and has had a front row seat to
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the climate that exists, uh, in the Senate and, and, you know, is probably, uh, you know,
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giving Joe Biden quite an update on, on the Senate that, that he, uh, you know, may now, uh, be about
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to, to, to work with or not be able to work with, uh, you know, based on the, the, uh, up close view
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that, that, and, and, and involvement that, that she has had in, in trying to, uh, you know, see how
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Democrats, you know, can potentially work with Republicans. She is somebody that, that has had direct
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experience with, uh, the, the exact, uh, players that, that he is going to have to attempt to,
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to reach out to and attempt to maybe restore bipartisanship with, uh, if anybody knows the
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potential for that, I think that this is another potential way in which she can be an asset to him.
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Got it. Did you get that? I mean, I didn't get it, but I hope you did.
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I don't know. I'll have to run that through Google translate. Number four, the Vatican
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debuted its official nativity scene. And, um, this is it. You can see some of the pictures.
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If you're watching the show right now, you can see it. If you're, if you're listening,
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um, I'll describe it to you. And of course, the Vatican has their nativity scene every year.
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Um, usually, usually quite, quite beautiful this year. Not so much. And, um, I'm looking at some
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of the pictures now I can't, it's, it's hard to even describe what's going on here, but it looks like,
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uh, first of all, just rant, just basically just random objects sitting there. And it, I'm,
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I'm guessing that this is, um, the Virgin Mary with holding the, the, the baby Jesus, but it looks
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like she has a, almost like a, uh, an astronaut helmet on. So this is like Darth Vader. And then
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there's some weird demon like creature in the background. Um, this won't surprise you learn
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is modern art, art, big scare quotes around that. Uh, this is a nativity scene. These were
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sculptures that was, that were sculpted in, I think 1965 or something. And this is what,
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this is the nativity scene. The Vatican is giving us, uh, modern art, once again, proven to be
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incredibly ugly and pointless and sort of revolting and slightly disturbing.
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But also, you know, maybe one of the main things that bothers me about modern art is how
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sort of cowardly it is. Uh, is it, it's afraid to say anything just abstract and weird. And it does,
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it's not really anything into, Oh, you can interpret it. And that's some of the defenses of, of, uh, the
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Now today for our daily cancellation, we must discuss the huge, massive, important scandal
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surrounding a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. That op-ed, if you can believe it, if you can even
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stomach hearing about it, if you can endure the shock, that op-ed criticized Jill Biden. Shocking stuff.
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Yes, the big news here is that first ladies are off limits again. After four years of Melania Trump
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being mocked and belittled and criticized ruthlessly, even having her, you know, private
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conversations secretly recorded and published, I can now report that it is once again sexist to say
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anything bad about the first lady. The ring of protection is being placed around her once more.
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That this ring of protection only seems to descend from the heavens when there's a Democrat in the White
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House is, of course, entirely coincidental. Whether it'll be sexist or not to criticize the first
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lady, that is something decided by the alignment of the planets and the stars. It's quite mystical
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and mysterious. There is nothing political about it. Trust me on this. And that is why this editorial
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from a man named Joseph Epstein has been met with extraordinary, unquenchable rage. Here's the report
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The Wall Street Journal is facing backlash to its December 11th op-ed that chided incoming First
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Lady Dr. Jill Biden and suggested that she drop the doctor from her title during her time in the
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White House. Written by Joseph Epstein, the column states that Dr. Jill Biden, that, quote, Dr. Jill
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Biden sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic, contending that because Biden has her
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doctorate in education, not medicine, she should drop the title. The piece also calls Biden a, quote,
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kiddo. Sorry, excuse me. I'm, I'm so scandalized that she called, that he called her kiddo that I
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have to stop and collect myself for a moment. That's rough stuff. That is rough, rough stuff.
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Kiddo. My God. That piece also suggests that, that someone should only be called doctor if they
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have delivered a child and undermines the value of her education. But many people on Twitter felt
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differently and didn't hold back in expressing their opinions. Jill Biden's spokesman, Michael
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LaRosa, blasted the essay's sentiments and the journal's decision to run it. Addressing the Wall
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Street Journal's editorial features editor, LaRosa wrote on Twitter, James Toronto, you and the Wall
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Street Journal should be embarrassed to print the disgusting and sexist attack on Dr. Biden running
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on the opinion page. If you had any respect for women at all, you would remove this repugnant
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display of chauvinism from your paper and apologize to her. Hillary Clinton tweeted a simple yet
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effective statement. Her name is Dr. Jill Biden. Get used to it. Will and Grace actor Debra Messing
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told the Wall Street Journal that their hatred for women is showing and called the whole ordeal
00:31:55.940
a disgusting display of misogyny. Jamal Bowman, the Democratic representative elect for New York's
00:32:01.480
16th congressional district and former middle school principal wrote that quote, the erasure
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of Dr. Jill Biden's expertise is shrouded in both sexism and disrespect for the teaching
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profession. Educators are experts, he continued. While we're at it, it's also Dr. Jamal Bowman.
00:32:19.040
And on and on. Lots of histrionics, lots of tearful sexism accusations, lots of academics
00:32:25.100
without medical degrees touting their own credentials. Jill Biden, excuse me, Dr. Jill Biden did not
00:32:32.220
address the controversy directly, but did offer this response on Twitter, which is being hailed as an
00:32:36.580
epic clapback. She said, together, we will build a world where the accomplishments of our daughters
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will be celebrated rather than diminished. And to that, I would say, yes, we should celebrate our
00:32:49.060
daughter's accomplishments. We should also celebrate Jill Biden's accomplishments as soon as she has one.
00:32:55.180
For now, I must admit, I tend to agree with Joseph Epstein. Jill Biden got a doctor in education at the age
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of 55. So good for her. But I'm just not terribly impressed by a rich woman with lots of time on her
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hands and no young kids to care for getting a doctorate in education. I certainly don't see why
00:33:14.280
I should have to acknowledge the achievement every time I say her name. You know, you could say it takes
00:33:19.520
a lot of work to get a doctorate in education. I'm skeptical, but maybe that's true. What I do know,
00:33:24.560
though, is that it takes a lot of work to become a great mechanic or an expert electrician.
00:33:29.160
There are carpenters with so much skill and experience that they have reached the level of
00:33:33.700
master carpenter. And yet, if I was a master carpenter and insisted that you address me as
00:33:38.660
Master Walsh, you'd think I was insane. And that's exactly how I feel about people without medical
00:33:44.940
degrees going around calling themselves doctors and demanding that you address them accordingly.
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In fact, even medical doctors shouldn't want you to call them doctor outside of the doctor's
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office or professional, you know, similar professional setting. I can see the need to single out
00:33:58.720
the doctors with a special title when you're actually in a medical environment. It's important
00:34:03.320
to acknowledge who's the doctor and who isn't, right? I don't see any reason to treat doctors
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with greater reverence or courtesy than I would anyone else in general society, though. So even a
00:34:13.080
medical doctor is only Mr. or Mrs. to me when I see them on the street. But somebody with a doctorate
00:34:18.900
in education, why would I give any special notice to that whatsoever? I could sooner be convinced
00:34:25.740
to honor a, you know, to honor someone with a title if they're, you know, a long tenured shift
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supervisor at Wendy's. As I find his achievements far more impressive than earning a useless degree
00:34:38.540
because you're in your 50s and looking for something to do. In fact, given that the fast
00:34:42.920
food industry has been deemed essential by the government, maybe all the people in that line
00:34:48.140
of work can affix essential to their names as a permanent honorific. Actually, media is essential
00:34:53.460
too, apparently. So I can do the same. My name is Lord Matt Walsh Essential. Pleased to meet you.
00:35:00.100
Or it would be, I guess, just Lord Walsh ES in writing. The Lord part I'm just throwing in there
00:35:05.560
because why not? You know, I mean, we could just add whatever titles we want, I guess. I could go buy
00:35:10.160
a plot of land in Scotland or something and officially earn the title, I suppose. In the end, of course,
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it doesn't matter what Jill Biden calls herself. It's just sort of annoying and pretentious.
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The main thing that makes me want to defend Epstein is that all of the most irritating and
00:35:25.580
absurd people are losing their minds over what he said. The more they demand that we call Jill
00:35:31.620
Biden doctor and cry that it's sexist if we don't, the more I must insist otherwise and laugh at their
00:35:38.500
tears or bottle them in the handy vessel I have here for such purposes. And that's why all the people
00:35:45.320
whining today are canceled. Dr. Jill Biden is also canceled. So says I, Dr. Lord Sir Mr. Walsh Esquire,
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the fourth. Also, by the way, Ben Shapiro is going to have more, a lot more to say on this subject.
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And his wife is a doctor, by the way, if you hadn't heard. So I'll be interested to hear his
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take on this issue. But in any case, Jill Biden is still canceled, I'm afraid. As I said,
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many more cancellations to come in the future. But we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for
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watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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