Ep. 629 - Kamala Harris： Fraud, Failure, Liar, Inspiration
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Kamala Harris, perhaps the most inauthentic politician in America today, is now inventing anecdotes about her childhood by plagiarizing Martin Luther King Jr., apparently. Also, Antifa thugs harass Senator Hawley s wife and baby, and a Hollywood actress brags about her gay, genderfluid 12-year-old. And in our daily cancellation, I will cancel tipping.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Kamala Harris, perhaps the most inauthentic politician in
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America today, and that's saying something, is now inventing anecdotes about her childhood
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by plagiarizing Martin Luther King Jr., apparently. Also, five headlines, including Antifa thugs
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harassing Senator Hawley's wife and baby, and a Hollywood actress brags about her gay,
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gender-fluid 12-year-old. And in our daily cancellation, I will cancel tipping. I'm
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usually a big tipper, but I think it's gotten out of hand. I have to cancel it, and I'll explain
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why. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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be Joe Biden's vice presidential nominee, there's been a nonstop flow of worshipful articles and
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essays from the bootlicking media trying to convince us to see this vapid, unimpressive bureaucrat
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as a civil rights pioneer and a transcendent political leader. Truly, of all the false absurdities
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that the media has insisted we take seriously in recent years, none have been as false and absurd
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as this. Now, in the initial tidal wave of fawning Kamala Harris hagiographies, a particularly
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sickening and yet somehow still hilarious, I think, example was originally lost in the shuffle.
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This was published back on October 6th, a piece in L titled Kamala Harris is our new vice president
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elect. And it's finally gone viral this week for all the wrong reasons. Author Ashley C. Ford
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reporting with the critical objectivity of a 16-year-old girl profiling Harry Styles for her
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high school newspaper tells us in the subheading that Harris has been fighting for justice and
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freedom since birth. Since birth. Those are quotes. Now, I have four children myself, and in my experience,
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infants just lounge around all day, defecate in their pants, cry when they're hungry. I have never seen
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an infant demonstrate any real interest in justice or freedom. But then again, none of my children are
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like Kamala Harris. Or so I pray. And the first paragraph of the piece, we're given an example,
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supposed example, of what Kamala's childhood freedom fighting supposedly looked like. And here's what it
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says. Quote, Senator Kamala Harris started her life's work young. She laughs from her gut, the way you would
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with family, as she remembers being wheeled through an Oakland, California civil rights march in a
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stroller with no straps with her parents and her uncle. At some point, she fell from the stroller.
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Few safety regulations existed for children's equipment back then. And the adults caught up in
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the rapture of the protest just kept on marching. By the time they noticed little Kamala was gone and
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doubled back, she was understandably upset. Quoting Harris, she says, my mother tells the story about
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how I'm fussing. And she's like, baby, what do you want? What do you need? And I just looked at her
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and I said, freedom. Now, I'm told that in the rough draft version of the story, the young Kamala
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smeared blue finger paint across half her face, shouted, they may take our lives, but they will
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never take our freedom. And then galloped into battle on her trusty steed. Now, I'm joking, of course,
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Kamala Harris would never plagiarize a Mel Gibson movie. She will, however, plagiarize
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Martin Luther King Jr. As some observant folks on the internet pointed out, this anecdote
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from Harris sounds strikingly similar to one offered by MLK to Playboy in 1965. Here's
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what he said. Quote, I never will forget a moment in Birmingham when a white policeman accosted
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a little Negro girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with
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her mother. What do you want? The policeman asked her gruffly. And the little girl looked
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him straight in the eye and said, feed him. She couldn't even pronounce it, but she
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knew. It was beautiful. Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations, the
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memory of that little one comes to mind and has buoyed me. Now, if we can fairly discount
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the possibility that the little girl in King's story was Kamala Harris herself, it would seem
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that Harris is cobbling together a fake childhood. And in that same genre, over the holidays, Harris
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released a video in commemoration of Kwanzaa, claiming that she's been celebrating the holiday
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her whole life. And recalling a time when, quote, multiple generations, including, quote,
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the elders, would gather together to engage in these sacred Kwanzaa rituals. Here's that.
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Happy holidays, everyone. I wanted to take a moment to send my warmest wishes to everyone
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celebrating Kwanzaa. Like so many other holidays, we will be celebrating Kwanzaa a little differently
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this season in our home. We'll be doing it over Zoom. You know, my sister and I, we grew
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up celebrating Kwanzaa. Every year, our family and our extended family, we would gather around
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across multiple generations and we'd tell stories. The kids would sit on the carpet and the elders
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would sit in chairs and we would light the candles and, of course, afterwards have a beautiful
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meal. And of course, there was always the discussion of the seven principles. And my favorite, I have
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to tell you, was always the one about self-determination, kujichagalia. And, you know,
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essentially it's about, you know, it's about be, be and do. Be the person you want to be and do the
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things you want to do and do the things that need to be done. It's about not letting anyone write our
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future for us, but instead going out and writing it for ourselves. And that principle motivates me
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today as we seek to confront the challenges facing our country and to build a brighter future for all
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Americans. So to everyone who is celebrating, happy Kwanzaa from our family to yours.
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Sure. Sure, Camila. Yeah, to everyone who's celebrating, which would be nobody. That was a happy
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holidays to nobody. Let's recall that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by, by the way, by a violent
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felon who would go on to serve several years in prison for kidnapping and torturing a woman. But
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that's neither here nor there, I suppose. While it's perhaps easy to understand why Harris would
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relate so much to something that's meaningless and fake, just like herself, it's, it's still,
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it's hard to believe that her whole family, including the elders, so strictly observed a holiday
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that didn't even exist when she was born. She was born in 1964. This thing didn't, didn't exist until
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1966. Bear in mind that Harris also claims to have a deep and personal attachment to Christmas and
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Hanukkah. What a fortunate coincidence that a politician should happen to connect so deeply to
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every holiday and cultural tradition on the calendar. I just can't wait until May 5th,
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when we'll no doubt find out about her previously unknown Mexican family heritage.
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Now, going back to the L profile for a moment, we should note that the freedom story isn't the
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only fabrication, creating sort of a sense of symmetry. The piece ends with an anecdote nearly
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as fraudulent and ludicrous as the one it began with. Here's the one that it ends with. It says,
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quote, she, Camilla Harris, relays a story about the night she became the second black woman in
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history elected to the U.S. Senate. In every one of my elections, part of our routine is we do a small
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friends and family dinner before we go to campaign night celebration. She, presumably the elders are
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at that, the elders are at that celebration too, sitting in their, in their chairs. Anyway, she
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explains that it was, uh, it was looking like the election was going to be called for Donald Trump.
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Quote, my godson, Alexander, who was seven years old at the time, came up to me crying and said,
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Auntie Camilla, they're not going to let that man win, are they? And you know, the baby's in your life.
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She closes her eyes and swallows. I held him. I mean, it still brings me pain to remember how he felt
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and what it made me feel, which is that I need to protect this child. I had one way in my mind
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I thought that evening would go. And then there was this way it turned out. And so by the time I took
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the stage, I had ripped up my notes and all I had was Alexander in my heart. And I took the podium and I
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said, I intend to fight. I intend to fight. If there's anything we know about Senator Kamala
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Harris, it's that when it comes to freedom, she will fight. Now, by the way, I just delivered that
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line from Kamala Harris, probably more convincingly than she did. And I wasn't convincing at all.
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Of course, we can assume that the bit about the seven-year-old godson distraught over Trump's
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election never happened. But the most egregious fabrication is the final line and the whole
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premise of the article that Kamala Harris is a fighter for freedom. Where's the evidence of that?
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Harris's actual biography is far less inspiring than the mythology that's currently being constructed
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around her. In reality, okay, she began her political career through a sexual relationship
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with an influential and still married politician in California named Willie Brown. Brown, who was
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corrupt, dogged by FBI investigations throughout his career, appointed Harris to her first state
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commission while they were still together. From there, she would become district attorney and then
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attorney general of the state. But her record as attorney general was criticized by many on the left
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and by the same media that now hails her as the second coming of the civil rights pioneer she
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plagiarized. Indeed, it's one of the reasons why she garnered almost no support during her run for
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president and flunked out of the race before voting began. So despite what we're now being instructed to
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believe, Kamala Harris is, in reality, a pathological liar, a failed presidential candidate, a mediocre
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political talent at best who slept her way to power, achieved little of note as a California
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bureaucrat or a United States senator, that was eventually given the VP nod by a man who declared
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ahead of time that he was making the choice based on race and gender. But other than that, sure,
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she's an inspiration. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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So the Georgia runoffs today, by the way, so if you live in Georgia, please go vote. Please go vote
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Republican. And all I can say to you is, if you've never believed or trusted anything I've ever said,
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at least believe this, that if you're a Republican in Georgia, the people who have been telling you,
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who call themselves Republican or conservative, and have been telling you not to vote or insinuating
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that maybe you shouldn't vote, these are, without exception, carnival-barking grifters who don't care
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at all about the future of this country and are just in it for attention, or Democrats in disguise.
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Without exception. I mean, I guess we could possibly leave open the possibility for a third category of
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just absolute morons. So maybe there are a few of those, but that's basically all you got. The people
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that are telling you not to vote and to allow the Democrats to take over the Senate, these are
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grifters, frauds, morons. Or all three. If you yourself are not a grifter, fraud, or moron,
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then please go vote, because it would be fairly disastrous to have the Democrats controlling the
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entire government for at least two years. That's not something we can afford, so please vote. All right,
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number one, Senator Josh Hawley, who will be objecting to election certification tomorrow,
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was not at his home in D.C. last night, but his wife and baby were at home, and so were a bunch of
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left-wing scumbags who came to his house to harass them, and here's how that went.
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We're not going to let people hold our democracy hostage. We're not going to let them infringe on
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our rights. Every ballot, if we count it, it is over. So when democracy is under attack,
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what do we do? When democracy is under attack, what do we do? What do we do? We are not going to let
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these fascist, racist, and ignorant people come into our towns and come into our communities. D.C.
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has a mass mandate on coronavirus cases as twice as high as they were on March when the
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pandemic first came out. Nine months later, ten months later, our government...
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Okay, so you see there, they're at the door, megaphones shouting and screaming in the neighborhood
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at night, and he's not there. He's in a different state. His wife and child could not travel with
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him, so his wife and child are there. He's not, and they're shouting. Now, of course, the claim from
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the left today is, oh, they're being peaceful. They didn't kill anybody this time. It's a very
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low bar now for these people, but no, this is obviously intimidation. There's only one reason
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why you go uninvited to somebody's house at night to scream at them. There's only one reason you do
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that, and that is to intimidate them, especially if their wife and child is there, and they're not
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even there. So this was an intimidation tactic, the kind of thing we see from the left all the time,
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the kind of thing that is openly encouraged by leftist Democrats, politicians, and it's one of
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these days it's going to have a disastrous end. Number two, this is interesting. Cardi B was on
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Instagram Live doing some kind of broadcast on New Year's Eve and singing along to her song WAP.
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And now you may recall this is a song that prompted criticism from people like myself,
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people like Ben Shapiro, and we were mocked and made fun of. We're used to it. I mean,
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I could speak for myself. I think probably Ben is too. So it didn't really hurt my feelings,
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but we were attacked for criticizing this song WAP and saying that it's degrading to women.
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And in fact, part of our argument is it's not the kind of song you'd want your daughter to listen to
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or to hear, right? And we were told that this is ridiculous. It's empowering. It's a wonderful
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song. Well, apparently Cardi B agrees with us. She's the person who made the song. She agrees
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with us because here she is singing along to the song and then her daughter walks in and watch what
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happens then. Watch. Okay. So she's singing to the song. The daughter walks in. She quickly turns it
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off and says, no, no, no, no. And now she's ushering the child. It looks like her daughter's
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about, I don't know, probably her daughter's about five years old or something, four or five years old.
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You could easily say, well, it's different because it's a, it's a child. Of course, this is a, and this,
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this has been the justification given by Cardi B. She was, she, she, this, this was, she was criticized
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for this and people were pointing out, seems like a kind of a contradiction on your part because you
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don't want your own daughter to hear the song. And she says, oh, I make songs for adults. These are
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adult songs, which first of all, can I, can I just point out how sad it is that the word adult has now
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become associated with this kind of toxic sewage? It should be, if you're making something for adults,
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it should be that it's intelligent and substantive and it would go over the heads of the children.
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That's why it's not for children, right? It's like Russian literature is not for children
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because it's for adults because it's, the kids wouldn't understand it. It's too intelligent for
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them. But now when we say, oh, it's for adults, we mean it's actually, it's actually even dumber than
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the kinds of things that we would let our kids watch. But anyway, is the issue just her age?
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So you say, no, I just don't want my daughter to listen to it right now. Okay. Well then I would
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ask you Cardi B or anyone else, if you don't want your daughter listening to that song at the age of
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six or seven, I agree. I don't want my seven-year-old daughter listening to that. But my question is,
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at what age do you want your, your daughter to listen to that? You don't want her to listen to it at
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seven. Do you want her listening to the song at 12? Do you? Do you want her listening at 16?
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Do you want her listening when she's 30? Now when she's 30, you can't stop her from listening,
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but do you want her to? Is that, is that the kind of thing? Is this the kind of material? Is this the
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kind of message that you would ever actually want your daughter to be exposed to?
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I'm not saying, you don't have to point out, well, we can't, we can't, we can't protect our
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kids from this forever. Eventually. I understand that. But is there ever a time you take a song
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like this? Will there ever be a time in your daughter's life when you actually would really
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actively want her to be exposed to it? I think unless you're an abusive parent or an absolute
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creep, the answer is no. Of course you would never actually want your daughter listening to that,
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whether you could stop her or not. And that's the point. That's our whole criticism.
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If there's something being put out into the world that no parent would ever actually want their child
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at any age to be exposed to, that should tell you something about that material.
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Just something to think about. Number three, here's a creepy PSA from the government in Canada.
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So we'll just play this and then talk about it. Check it out.
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Every time you wear a mask, remember, it's so one day we can all go back to doing this
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and this. Every time you wash your hands, remember that eventually it'll all be worth it for them
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and them. Every time you hang out here, remember that at some point we'll all be able to get
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together here, here and here. Protect yourself and others from COVID-19. A message from the
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Every time I see PSAs like this, I always think, well, I've been doing that kind of stuff the whole
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time. So not so much the, well, some of that there, dancing. I haven't really been doing that
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and we can't go to sporting events, but getting together with people, getting together with
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friends, going to restaurants, I'm doing that right now. So I think you can actually still do
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that even when there is a virus out there. It's not the virus that's stopping us from doing that.
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It's the government stopping us from doing that. So the government is saying, we're stopping you
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from doing this, but obey us on this piece over here and do as you're told. And then we'll let
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you start doing this again. That's the part they leave out. It's, we will let you do this once you
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do that. Number four, from the Daily Wire, it says, actress and abortion activist, Busy Phillips
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has revealed that her 12-year-old child is gay and uses they, them pronouns. Speaking on episode of
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her podcast, Busy Phillips is doing her best. That's the name of the podcast.
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Um, she said that her child, Bertie came out as gay. Uh, she said, quote, for those of you who are
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my friends listening at home, this is the first year hearing that Bertie is gay and out. Bertie told
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us at 10 years old and we immediately, uh, we immediately knew we knew that Bertie knew. So let's
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go to a clip from the podcast. Now here, here she has Busy Phillips recounting a conversation with her
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12-year-old daughter who she saddled with the name Bertie, which was really just the first of many
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abuses, it turns out. Listen to this. Bird said, um, I said, you know, Bert, I've been doing a bad job
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with the pronouns because Bertie said that they would like their pronouns to be they, them.
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And I haven't been doing it. And I said, because like, I have this, um, public persona and I want
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Bertie to be in control of their own narrative and not have to answer to anybody outside of our
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friends and family if they don't want to. And then Bird was like, I don't give a f***.
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Like, I would, I, you can talk about that I'm gay and out. You can talk about my pronouns. I,
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that would be cool with me. That's great. So I said, okay, I'm just, I'll, I can talk about it on the
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podcast. And Bertie was like, and Bertie was like, yeah, talk about it on podcast, mom. I'm like, okay.
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Throw my phone on the ground. Sorry. Anyway. So, um, yeah, it's been wild. So Bertie, my out kid
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prefers, they, them, I f*** up sometimes, but we're, I'm trying my best.
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I wish this was similar to the Kamala Harris situation. And I could say that this is an
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invented conversation that she had with her 12 year old, her 12 year old daughter. Um,
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but I don't think it is. I think that unfortunately that conversation really happened
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where her 12 year old daughter was telling her pronouns. And then when busy Phillips asked whether
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she could reveal this on the podcast, the shot, the 12 year old daughter responded, I don't give an F.
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I think that's, that's a real conversation because that's the kind of mother that busy Phillips is.
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Now it shouldn't surprise us as, as was noted, she's an abortion activist and, uh, she's bragged in
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the past about getting abortions. So this, this is how she sees her children.
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And she sees her children as unfortunately many parents, especially in the left do in a dehumanized
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way. You know, she sees her child as either trash that can be discarded, like the one that she killed
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or as political prop, uh, or even not a political, just a prop, something to, to be shown around.
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Um, an accessory, maybe there's a better word for it. And that's what she's doing here.
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Kind of like locking her daughter in to this identity by announcing it publicly.
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There's, there's, there's no good reason. There's no good loving parenting sort of reason
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to take your child's confusion and they're working through it and, and you just broadcast it to the
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entire world. That's not going to help you. I mean, even, even for a moment, just putting aside
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everything else and, and, um, pretending that it could be legitimate for a 12 year old to identify
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as they, them, or it could be legitimate for anyone to identify as they, them, which of course it isn't
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because it doesn't mean anything. But putting that aside, just there's no reason to tell the world
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about it. There's no reason to publicize it. She's 12 years old for God's sake.
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How will it benefit her for the whole world to know about this? And busy Phillip says, well, I asked
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her, I asked her and she said, she doesn't give an F. So I did it. Yeah. Once again, this is the
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theme we see so often, especially with, with, uh, with, with parents who have children who are gender
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confused. So often what we see are the parents looking to the children for guidance. The parents
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saying to the kids, you show me the way you, you, you, you tell me what I'm supposed to do here.
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I'll let you take the lead. No, no, that's not what you say to your 12 year old. You,
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that's not what you say to your 12 year old. Your 12 year old needs you to be the adult. Your 12 year
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old needs you to be the rational one. Your 12 year old needs you to be the one who can see beyond
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the nose on your face, who can think in the longterm. Kids can't do that. That's the point.
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Psychologically, they don't, they don't have the capacity yet for things like long-term planning.
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They can't do that at 12. They can't even, they can't do it at 16. They certainly can't do it at
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seven or eight or whatever other age now where kids are just quote unquote deciding they want to
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transition. They can't do, they, they don't have the psychological neurological capacity for it.
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You do, or you're supposed to as an adult. So you're supposed to be the one who says,
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listen, no, I'm not going to put this out there for the whole world. We're going to keep this
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between us private. And also, you know, you're obviously confused. You're working through some
00:26:45.600
things. Let me help you out. We'll take you to counseling. Let's try to, let's try to figure out
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what's really going on here. You're, you're a girl. It's wonderful that you're a girl, but you
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don't want to identify as a girl. There's obviously something happening here. So let's figure it out.
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You take the child to counseling, you help them. If your child comes to you and says, I'm they, them,
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that is your child saying, I am confused. I don't understand. I don't know who I am.
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And I don't know who I am because you, the parent have failed. It's your job to help me figure out
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who I am, to help me figure out if I'm a girl, what it means to be a girl in the world. You're the
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mother. That's what you're supposed to be doing. That's what your child is really saying to you.
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Only if they're not saying exactly that audibly because they don't have the capacity to say it.
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This kind of thing will never fail to just infuriate me, especially as a parent. I don't
00:27:56.360
think you need to be a parent to be disgusted and infuriated by this kind of madness, but as a parent,
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I just, I have kids myself and the idea of me turning to them for guidance or the idea that they
00:28:13.160
would make some mostly incoherent declaration about their own identity and I would just take
00:28:20.360
it seriously and assume that it's, that it's meaningful and just go with it.
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I'm the adult. That's the way the relationship is supposed to work.
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All right, let's go. Speaking of mind boggling, but in a different way, in a better way, in a good
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way, uh, there's a book coming out, which I will be sure to purchase, uh, titled extraterrestrial,
00:28:49.040
the first sign of intelligent life beyond earth. And it's authored by a Harvard professor who says
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that alien life has been confirmed. He says that we, we know it's, it's real. It's been confirmed.
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We've already seen the evidence and he makes a persuasive case. In my mind, it's persuasive,
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though. Admittedly, I'm mostly persuaded because I really want, I'm persuaded by every UFO claim,
00:29:10.820
basically because I want it to be true. And so I'm letting my emotions guide me, uh, which is
00:29:14.940
exactly what adults aren't supposed to do. But in this case, I think I'll make an exception for
00:29:17.800
myself. Anyway, here's the, uh, the report from Fox five in New York. Listen, this is the very first
00:29:24.100
object that we have detected, uh, from outside the solar system that entered the solar system and
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passed near the earth. Harvard university astronomy department chair, Avi Loeb also serves as director
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of the Institute for theory and computation, the founding director of the black hole initiative and the
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chairs of both the breakthrough star shot advisory committee and the national academy's board of
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physics and astronomy. Next week, a paper he coauthored appears in the astrophysical journal
00:29:49.540
letters providing one, he would say the first scientific explanation for a mysterious something
00:29:54.540
now named a muamua that passed by earth on its journey from another solar system a year ago.
00:29:59.820
It happened to be very weird, weird first because of its shape, either very long or very flat based
00:30:06.060
upon the sunlight reflected from it. But most peculiarly, a muamua appeared to accelerate.
00:30:11.580
We see such an additional force in comments, and that's due to the evaporation of ice on the surface
00:30:18.460
of the comment. But a muamua displayed no commentary tail or change in its rotation, leaving the source
00:30:23.740
of the push and the identity of the object, not only a mystery, but one without seemingly any credible
00:30:29.020
explanations until Loeb's paper, which hypothesizes sunlight provided the extra push. And for that to be
00:30:35.500
effective, the object needs to be very thin, less than a millimeter in thickness, sort of like a
00:30:42.540
sail that is being pushed by the light from the sun. What Loeb is suggesting is that some other living
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being not from this solar system created that light sail, which we earthlings also aspire to build,
00:30:54.060
and a muamua represents not a piece of space rock, but a highly technologically advanced probe
00:30:59.340
from some alien civilization. I haven't seen any other compelling possibility at the moment.
00:31:04.700
I'm sold completely. But again, only because I want to be. The more critical side of my brain,
00:31:11.820
though, says that this is the kind of thing that makes people sometimes skeptical of scientists,
00:31:18.700
because what do we really have here? What we actually have is a tiny, from our perspective,
00:31:26.620
as far as we could see, this tiny infinitesimal blur on a screen. You know, some small object is
00:31:35.500
out there, millions of miles away in space. And that's all we know. That's all we've got. And so
00:31:41.580
this Harvard professor has constructed this whole narrative around, he's wrote an entire science
00:31:48.700
fiction novel, basically, around that little blur on the screen. And he's just, he's proposing it as
00:31:54.780
fact. Like, this is what happened. It's a light sail from an extinct alien civilization.
00:32:01.260
And, but I mean, I want to hear the whole story. I don't know if I really, but you know,
00:32:04.700
it's, I like the story. I want to hear the story, whether it's true or not. But it is,
00:32:11.820
it is, it is fascinating stuff. Who knows? It could be. So you can't prove that it's not a light
00:32:17.500
sail from a, from a extinct alien civilization. And that's enough for me personally. You know,
00:32:23.100
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that's PetSmart.com. Let's get to our daily cancellation.
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Now, today we're going to be canceling tipping. I am at this moment calling for a complete and
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total shutdown of tipping until we figure out what the hell is going on, to paraphrase Donald
00:33:49.820
Trump. Now, to be clear, I don't consider myself to be a cheap person. Growing up, my dad would always
00:33:55.260
tip 20 to 25% as a baseline starting point at restaurants. I have inherited this custom and will
00:34:00.940
also generally tip 20 to 25%, sometimes more actually, partly as an act of generosity and
00:34:07.660
partly as an apology because I have four young kids. And as a consequence, we leave our tables
00:34:12.300
looking like a pack of wild dogs has just been dining there, except the dogs at least would
00:34:16.540
eat all their chicken nuggets, which is more than I can say for my daughter. But in any case,
00:34:19.820
the point is, I have always tipped well, I think. And I've tipped the pizza delivery guy well also,
00:34:26.540
and the cab or the Uber driver. And of course, if I'm staying at a fancy hotel, then I know I'm
00:34:32.220
supposed to tip basically everyone who happens to glance at me. At fancy hotels, employees will invent
00:34:37.740
weird and unnecessary things to do for you just so they can get a tip. Somebody will like come to your
00:34:43.500
room at eight 30 in the morning and spoon feed you granola and clip your toenails. You're supposed
00:34:48.540
to tip them $5. And I've always gone along with that. I have prided myself as a tipper.
00:34:54.460
But recently I have reached my limits because the problem is that now everybody expects a tip.
00:35:01.020
Whereas before you were only supposed to give a tip and in certain limited and specialized
00:35:05.260
circumstances. Now, every person who rings up a purchase at a cash register or pours you a cup of
00:35:11.500
coffee wants to be tipped for their trouble. The solicitation for tips can come in only these
00:35:19.420
mildly invasive ways, like there's a tip jar left out on the counter, or sometimes in slightly more
00:35:24.380
obnoxious forms, like when you're handed a receipt or told to confirm your purchase on an iPad. That's
00:35:28.860
a big one now. They flip the iPad around and you're supposed to click through. How much gratuity do you
00:35:35.260
want to leave? But sometimes, and I've had this experience more than once, especially recently,
00:35:39.420
the person ringing up the purchase will actually ask you outright whether you would like to add
00:35:44.540
a gratuity. Like asking you verbally, applying social pressure and attempting to make you look
00:35:50.140
like a jerk to the other customers in line if you say no. Now, fortunately, in my case,
00:35:55.020
I'm used to being a jerk in public, so I have no problem responding with,
00:35:58.620
no, I don't want to add a gratuity. Or the more passive aggressive, no, but thanks for asking.
00:36:03.180
Many kinder and gentler people than myself, however, are guilted into tipping a dollar or
00:36:08.860
more on a coffee that's already twice as expensive as it should be. The situation is entirely untenable.
00:36:15.980
The average cost of living in America has increased by upwards of 65% in the last two years because of
00:36:21.180
excessive tipping. Don't fact check me on that figure. It's emotionally correct, if not factually
00:36:25.820
correct. So I have to put tipping on probation, banning it across the board temporarily until
00:36:32.700
sanity can be restored to the proceedings. And here's some sanity. Just because you work in customer
00:36:38.140
service doesn't mean you automatically deserve a tip. You are getting paid a wage after all.
00:36:44.940
Customers are already paying for the good or service you're providing. Here's the way I look at it.
00:36:50.300
Tipping should only come into play if three conditions are met. Number one, it's a low-paying
00:36:55.660
service job. Two, it's a service that I could not or would not want to perform myself. And three,
00:37:03.580
my experience as a customer can be greatly enhanced by your excellent performance or greatly diminished
00:37:10.300
by your poor performance. So those are the three conditions. This is why we should and always have
00:37:15.180
tipped waiters. Waiter has a low-paying job. And, you know, the fact that the customer is at a sit-down
00:37:22.220
restaurant means they don't want to cook and serve themselves. And the quality of the customer's
00:37:25.920
experience at the restaurant is highly dependent on the quality of the waiter's service. A bad waiter
00:37:30.620
means a bad time. A good waiter means a good time. Barbers and pizza delivery guys also meet all three
00:37:35.820
conditions. But what about a cashier ringing up my items at a grocery store? Often they ask for a tip now,
00:37:41.900
too. But they shouldn't receive one because, yes, condition one, low-paying job is met. But conditions
00:37:47.260
two and three are not. I would gladly use the self-checkout if it's an option. So it's not a
00:37:52.920
service I couldn't or wouldn't do myself. And though there are people who somehow find ways to be very
00:37:56.960
bad at running cash registers, there really isn't any way to be excellent at it. So my experience as a
00:38:02.780
customer will be about the same with an excellent cashier as it is with a mediocre one. The barista
00:38:09.020
pouring my coffee also should not be tipped because she fails to meet all three conditions. Again,
00:38:14.780
condition one is met, okay, low-paying job. But I could, without much trouble, pour my own coffee if
00:38:21.240
given the option. In fact, at some places, they'll just hand you the empty cup and have you fill it
00:38:25.520
yourself, yet even then they want a tip. The simple act of picking up an empty cup and doing this, like
00:38:31.600
just that. This is it. This is what earns you a tip now. Here you go. That'll be three extra dollars.
00:38:42.540
Like you get a financial bonus for doing that. This system with the three conditions I've outlined
00:38:49.580
also explains why we don't tip, say, airline pilots. You know, in their case, conditions two and three are
00:38:55.160
met. I can't fly the plane myself. And my experience as a customer would be quite unpleasant if the pilot
00:39:01.440
isn't good at his job. But condition one is not met. Airline pilots are paid handsomely and for good
00:39:05.680
reason. Now, the only category that throws my system for a loop are the endangered species known as
00:39:12.280
bathroom attendants. It used to be a lot more common than they are today, but you still find them
00:39:16.700
sometimes standing by the sinks at like a bar or restaurant handing out towels and mints. I've always
00:39:24.620
tipped them, even though I could quite easily grab my own towel and I'm really not interested in mints that
00:39:29.300
have been saturating in the fumes of strange farts all day. But I tipped mainly out of pity because
00:39:35.040
they have to stand there in the bathroom experiencing the sounds and smells of human waste
00:39:38.880
plopping ominously into toilets or near toilets at any rate. An exception was made for bathroom
00:39:46.240
attendants, but now everybody wants the bathroom attendant exception. Now everybody expects a tip.
00:39:52.220
Even random people online will post their Venmo or GoFundMe soliciting funds for no reason
00:39:58.620
after having provided you absolutely no service of any kind whatsoever. They just say, hey, by the way,
00:40:04.120
if you want to give me some money, here it is. It's not even tipping anymore. This is panhandling.
00:40:10.740
And we have to pull back from it while we still can. Before it gets so out of hand that you'll be
00:40:15.120
bankrupted just by running errands for three hours on a Saturday afternoon. So tipping is canceled.
00:40:20.540
At least for now. And if you enjoyed what I had to say here, you can always send me a few bucks
00:40:27.020
through PayPal or Venmo if you want, if you want to give me a tip. But otherwise, tipping is
00:40:32.420
canceled. And that's going to do it for us today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening.
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