The Matt Walsh Show - January 26, 2021


Ep. 644 - Extortion By The Teachers Unions


Episode Stats

Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

182.62733

Word Count

7,756

Sentence Count

505

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Teachers are demanding to be put at the front of the vaccine line in order to resume classes, but now that they ve gotten the vaccine, they re still refusing to go back to work. Also, the Biden administration is announcing that the military will pay for sex change operations.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, teachers unions are demanding to be put to the front of the vaccine
00:00:04.120 line in order to resume classes. But now that they've gotten the vaccine, they're still refusing
00:00:08.840 to go back to work. We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including the Biden administration
00:00:12.060 announcing that the military will pay for sex change operations. Again, hooray. This is supposed
00:00:17.420 to be a win for diversity. But even if that were true, does diversity actually matter at all,
00:00:23.040 or especially in the military? And in our daily cancellation, some on the left are complaining
00:00:26.320 that Tom Brady still has a job in the NFL, but Colin Kaepernick doesn't, which is a little bit
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00:02:24.640 dailywire. Our society, you know, has always hailed teachers as heroes, selfless, noble, courageous
00:02:31.420 educators and caretakers of our children. The teaching profession was one of the few we were
00:02:36.080 supposed to celebrate unquestioningly. Teachers were one of only a few professional groups.
00:02:40.440 We were meant to applaud simply for existing. Now, this attitude towards really any profession
00:02:46.040 at all was and is and has always been wrongheaded. Nobody is a hero merely for working in a certain
00:02:52.780 occupation. I don't care what the occupation is because they're getting paid. Whatever the line
00:02:58.000 of work is, most people get into it because it's something they think they can do and they want to
00:03:02.880 do. And they think they can make money doing it. It's not a bad reason to take on a job by any means.
00:03:07.320 It's also not heroic. I mean, it's sort of a morally neutral motivation most of the time.
00:03:13.020 Doing something because you want to do it and you think you're good at it doesn't make you a martyr
00:03:17.660 or a saint. Doesn't make you a bad person either. Just makes you a person like the rest of us.
00:03:22.100 So there are good teachers, plenty of them, even heroic teachers. I've known some. But they aren't
00:03:27.920 good or heroic simply for being teachers. And that's the distinction to keep in mind.
00:03:32.280 The problem with adopting a romanticized view of any profession is that it makes it impossible to
00:03:38.660 hold the people in that profession accountable or to criticize them when they deserve it.
00:03:43.800 This is exactly why this romanticized idea was cultivated in the first place. It becomes
00:03:49.380 especially problematic when we're talking about people who work so closely with and have such an
00:03:53.620 influence over our children. This should be cause for extra scrutiny, more accountability,
00:03:59.580 louder criticism when warranted because the consequence of turning a blind eye or ignoring
00:04:05.100 the bad things when your children are concerned could be catastrophic. The teachers unions have
00:04:11.900 made this situation so much worse, but worse, but both by framing any criticism of teachers as an attack
00:04:18.100 on the teaching profession, haranguing the public into turning that blind eye and ignoring the neglect or
00:04:23.720 abuse of our children in the school system, which does happen and has always happened. And also by
00:04:29.140 fiercely protecting the bad teachers while demanding ever more considerations and benefits and perks
00:04:34.120 for all teachers, irrespective of their job performance. The whole situation is quite a mess,
00:04:39.960 to put it mildly. And that mess has been thrown into much sharper relief over the past nearly,
00:04:44.980 what, a year now when schools across the country have been shut down. It was of course known almost
00:04:49.600 from the beginning, as we've talked about many times on the show, that there was no real reason to have
00:04:54.040 schools shut down at all, as children are not likely to contract or spread the virus. It became even
00:05:00.520 clearer as time went on that the consequences of having the schools shut down and trying to replace
00:05:07.540 them with Skype and Zoom sessions were dire. We talked yesterday about the child suicide epidemic in one
00:05:13.240 of the largest school districts in the country, prompting a renewed push for classes to resume in person in
00:05:17.920 that district. And yet still, the teachers unions and many teachers themselves, though certainly not all,
00:05:24.680 have demanded that schools stay shut, education be damned, the children be damned, goalposts keep
00:05:31.620 moving. And there's no end to this process of goalposts shifting, as we have learned. Here's how bad it's
00:05:37.840 gotten. The Washington Post has an editorial, an appropriately critical, even fiery editorial,
00:05:43.520 about the teachers union in Fairfax County and everything that teachers union is doing to avoid
00:05:49.500 going back to work. Let me read a bit. This is written by Rory Cooper, who's a parent to three
00:05:53.700 students in the district. It says, quote, the Fairfax County school system demanded and then
00:05:58.640 received high priority placement for teachers and administrators to be vaccinated against the
00:06:02.780 coronavirus. Those vaccines began a week ago. And according to the Fairfax County public school
00:06:07.920 superintendent, Scott Brabrand, yes, his name is Brabrand. Anyway, 5,000 teachers have received
00:06:15.940 their first dose and an additional 22,000 teachers are registered to receive their first dose soon.
00:06:20.640 And yet, having jumped to the front of the vaccine line, Brabrand, the FCPS school board and the,
00:06:27.740 I can't even say the last name without laughing. You know, I should be in public school myself.
00:06:31.700 Um, and the FCPS school board and the teachers union are delaying opening schools. That raises
00:06:39.140 the question of why they have the priority placement to begin with and whether these vaccinations should
00:06:44.900 be immediately halted so that high risk individuals or public servants who have been working outside of
00:06:48.860 their homes for the entirety of the year have access. Okay. So let's not, um, understate what's
00:06:55.180 happened here. The teachers union engaged in a form of extortion, really holding the education
00:07:00.800 system hostage so that they themselves could get to the front of the vaccine line, butting in front of
00:07:07.140 the elderly people, sick people, other high risk people. Keep in mind that the average age of a
00:07:13.940 teacher in the U S is 42. About 15% of teachers are under 30, under 30. So these by and large are not
00:07:24.680 high risk people. Many of them have little to worry about. Even if they get sick, if you're 27,
00:07:30.800 even if you're a teacher and you get sick, you're probably going to be fine. So the statistics tell
00:07:36.820 us yet they were put to the front of the line. And after being given what they want, they still
00:07:43.120 refuse to go to work. And when I say they, I mean the union, you know, we have to keep in mind again,
00:07:48.340 that there are plenty of individual teachers who oppose this and vocally. So though not enough are
00:07:52.960 being vocal to my mind, but it gets worse. Listen to this at the January 21st school board meeting,
00:07:59.480 Fairfax education association, present Kimberly Adams said she received her first vaccine dose
00:08:05.200 on January 14th, two days ahead of the scheduled start for school personnel. She has said that her
00:08:10.820 union would not support a return to full-time education, even in the fall, the fall as in
00:08:17.760 September, 2021, nine months after she was vaccinated. The union says that all students must also be
00:08:24.480 vaccinated. Adams also wants 14 days of zero community spread. Yes. She now wants the students
00:08:32.760 to be vaccinated too. But kids again are a very, very low risk group. Also, and this seems like a
00:08:37.420 relevant problem, a little bit of a logistical issue here. There aren't any vaccines currently
00:08:42.140 available for kids under 10 or rather under 14 actually. And her demand for two weeks of zero
00:08:49.060 spread is a demand for schools to never resume ever. And yet these people still want to get paid,
00:08:55.560 have been getting paid. They're demanding front of the line for the vaccine, full pay, full benefits,
00:09:02.880 but without having to do their job for a year now and counting. This is quite simply one of the
00:09:10.380 greatest displays of cowardice and selfishness I have ever witnessed. And if you think I'm exaggerating,
00:09:15.620 remember again, that children are not learning anything through zoom class, listen to the
00:09:21.100 teachers themselves. They'll tell you. So the kids, their education is being stunted. And meanwhile,
00:09:25.540 they're increasingly falling into depression and suicide. The teachers unions look at this
00:09:30.700 and just shrug their shoulders. The only thing they care about, the only thing period at all
00:09:37.360 is that they personally get the most amount of money and the most amount of benefits for doing the
00:09:43.120 least amount of work possible. And that has always been the concern of the teachers union always.
00:09:48.700 And don't expect anybody in the current administration to speak up forcefully against
00:09:51.800 this. It's the, uh, the Chicago's teachers union is also refusing to return to work, even though a
00:09:57.120 plan was put in place to open schools again. So the city wants to open the schools, but the teachers
00:10:01.520 union saying, we're not going to go, they're stamping their feet and saying they're not going to go back
00:10:05.100 to the schools because they're too afraid. President Biden was asked about this yesterday and had a
00:10:09.400 chance to stand up for, you know, the kids and for the education system. But instead here was his
00:10:14.940 answer. Right now, the Chicago teachers union has refused. They've defined an order to return to
00:10:20.400 in-person classing for in-person classrooms because of a lack of vaccinations. Do you believe,
00:10:27.580 sir, that teachers should return to schools now? I believe we should make school classrooms
00:10:35.260 safe and secure for the students, for the teachers and for the, the help that's in those schools,
00:10:45.540 maintaining the facilities. We need new ventilation systems in those schools. We need testing for
00:10:53.060 people coming in and out of the classes. We need testing for teachers as well as students.
00:10:59.300 And we need the capacity, the capacity to know that in fact, the, the sick of the circumstance in the
00:11:07.040 school is safe and secure for everyone. For example, there's no reason why the clear guidance
00:11:15.520 will be that every school should be thoroughly sanitized from the, from the laboratories to the
00:11:22.320 hallways. And so this is about making, and none of the school districts that I'm aware of,
00:11:27.400 there may be some public school districts have insisted that all those pieces be in place.
00:11:33.760 Yep. There's his answer. What, what, what talk about cowardice? That's the theme here. What an
00:11:38.700 absolute coward. He had a chance to stand up. I mean, Democrats are terrified of teachers unions.
00:11:45.080 We know that. Uh, he had a chance to stand up and say, listen, get back to work. The kids need you
00:11:51.040 stop whining and get back to work. Instead, he talks about new ventilation, new ventilation systems
00:11:58.840 in all of the schools in the whole country. Why do they all even need it? What else do you want?
00:12:07.800 Maybe we should demolish all the schools and just rebuild them from scratch just to be safe.
00:12:11.740 You know, there could be some leftover, um, viruses in there or, or, or, you know, you never know.
00:12:16.020 There could be a virus hiding somewhere under a floor tile. So let's just, let's just demolish them all.
00:12:21.040 Or better yet, demolish them all and not rebuild them because, you know, we might as well if they
00:12:25.580 aren't being used. The upshot here is that school will not return this year for millions of kids and
00:12:32.960 probably not in the fall either. When all is said and done, millions of kids might end up missing
00:12:39.060 two years of their education. Missing one year is now the best case scenario. Think about that.
00:12:47.420 Now for any kid whose parents took over and homeschooled, they won't have missed anything.
00:12:54.440 In fact, they're going to be better off, but most parents aren't doing that. Um, there are many
00:13:01.520 parents who, who can't do it because they still have to work. Uh, and so those kids, millions of
00:13:08.820 them are simply going without, and that will now continue indefinitely because of the, the,
00:13:16.500 the chronic, unadulterated cowardice, self-interest, callousness, and laziness of the teachers unions
00:13:23.820 and many of its members. It's as simple as that. Now let's get to our five headlines.
00:13:29.180 Yeah, I just, this isn't one of the headlines, but I just read, uh, that the, the CEO of Delta
00:13:40.080 airlines is saying that they're going to ban, they're ramping up, um, they're banning
00:13:46.400 system and they're gonna be banning a lot more passengers. And he says, any passengers who refuse
00:13:52.680 to display basic civility will be banned. And you know, it kind of sounds like, okay, now you're just
00:13:57.800 going to ban everybody because who in America at this point would fall, would actually displays
00:14:03.560 basic civility. But I'm actually, I'm in favor of this. Now the problem is when, when airlines talk
00:14:07.740 about banning people these days, it's all about the masks and I'm not in favor of that. But if you
00:14:11.840 were to take this logic and apply it, you know, across the board, I'm totally in favor of that.
00:14:16.640 I mean, the basic idea of banning people from planes for acting like jerks, fine with me. And I'll give
00:14:21.980 you one example. I was just on a plane. I mentioned yesterday, we were traveling over the weekend
00:14:25.320 and I was on a plane and, um, uh, fully packed flight. So I guess we're forgetting about the
00:14:32.860 coronavirus thing now. Of course you have to be socially distanced to get on the plane as we know,
00:14:38.500 but then you get on the plane and you're just packed in like sardines. Um, and there's someone
00:14:42.940 sitting next to me in the middle seat. And so here's, here's the kind of person that you ban,
00:14:46.860 I think. And if I'm, if I'm setting the rules for an airline, this is what I'm doing.
00:14:51.280 When you're sitting in the middle seat, a lot of times there's controversy over
00:14:54.700 who gets the armrests. Well, I'll tell you right now. And I'm surprised so many people don't realize
00:15:00.340 this. When you're in the middle seat, you get no armrests. You have no right to any space at all.
00:15:07.800 You are an imposition on the people around you. And when you're sitting down in the middle seat and
00:15:13.340 you have to kind of do that awkward thing where you say, Oh, can I sit there? Is anybody sitting there?
00:15:15.920 And you feel like both the person in the aisle and the, and the, and the, uh, window seat is
00:15:20.320 looking at you and judging you and hating you for being there. That's right. They are. And they do
00:15:24.620 hate you for being there. So all you're allowed to do in the middle seat, this is all you can do.
00:15:28.520 You sit still, do not move, do not speak, do not eat. Don't put your tray table down. Don't get on
00:15:37.680 your laptop. Don't even read. Cause that involves moving your elbows. This is all you do the entire time.
00:15:42.480 Just like this. Do not move. I don't care if it's six hours. Anyone who doesn't follow that rule
00:15:49.860 should be banned. So that's the first thing I would do. Middle seat. Yeah. Middle seat. You have,
00:15:55.120 you are basically less of a person. You have, you have no constitutional rights, no rights of any kind
00:16:00.280 because you're sitting in the middle seat. I'll send that memo to Delta. Maybe they could think about
00:16:05.360 that policy or just get rid of the middle seats entirely. I think maybe that might be the better
00:16:08.920 situation. All right. So, um, number one, the white house announced that it will be continuing
00:16:14.180 Trump's travel restrictions. Now this is interesting. We have two things we'll play for
00:16:19.160 you. They announced they're going to continue the travel restrictions. And these are, as we recall,
00:16:25.740 travel restrictions that Biden himself called xenophobic before we play that clip. Um, here,
00:16:30.440 here we are at the white house press conference announcing these continued travel restrictions that
00:16:34.580 are supposedly xenophobic. Let's listen. This proclamation is part of the Biden administration's
00:16:39.040 whole of government, decisive and science driven response to the COVID-19 pandemic of particular
00:16:45.940 note on advice of our administration's medical and COVID team. President Biden has decided to
00:16:51.840 maintain the restrictions previously in place for the European Shenzhen area, the United Kingdom,
00:16:59.280 Republican Republic of Ireland and Brazil with the pandemic worsening and more
00:17:04.560 contagious variants, contagious variants spreading. This isn't the time to be lifting restrictions
00:17:10.300 on international travel. And in light of the contagious variant, uh, B one three, five, one
00:17:16.720 South Africa has been added to the restricted list. Additionally, beginning tomorrow, international
00:17:22.480 travelers to the United States must provide proof of a negative test within three days of travel
00:17:28.520 to airlines prior to departure. The president is taking these steps on the advice of his COVID-19
00:17:34.560 and medical team. My God, the xenophobia and racism here. It's traumatizing to me on a,
00:17:42.520 on a personal level. It really is. That's difficult to listen to. At least that's what Joe Biden said.
00:17:49.160 He, he, he tweeted it, um, a few months ago when president Trump announced, uh, travel bans from China,
00:17:57.940 uh, Joe Biden said it was xenophobic. And that was brought up at this same press conference. The answer,
00:18:04.900 um, to this objection was not very convincing, but, uh, I don't know. You, you can decide for yourself.
00:18:09.420 Here it is. When president Trump was imposing travel restrictions in March, specifically on China,
00:18:15.180 then candidate Biden called it xenophobic and fear mongering. So now president Biden is putting
00:18:23.100 travel restrictions on people coming in from other countries. What word do we use to describe that?
00:18:28.660 Well, I don't think that's quite a fair articulation. Uh, president has been clear that he felt the
00:18:34.160 Muslim ban was xenophobic. He overturned the Muslim ban. Uh, he also though has, uh, supported, um, and he
00:18:41.740 himself even before, or we did, I should say even before he was inaugurated, steps, uh, travel restrictions
00:18:47.160 in order to keep the American people safe, uh, to ensure that, uh, we are getting the pandemic
00:18:52.380 under control. That's been part of his policy, but he was critical of the former president for
00:18:56.920 having a policy that was not more comprehensive than travel restrictions. And he conveyed at the
00:19:01.980 time and more recently, the importance of having a multifaceted approach, mask wearing, vaccine
00:19:07.800 distribution, funding in order to, uh, get a hundred million shots in the arms of Americans in the
00:19:12.920 first hundred days, not just travel restrictions. Okay. What does the so-called Muslim ban have to
00:19:18.900 do with anything? Well, it has nothing to do with it at all. That's just, that's just a deflection.
00:19:21.880 So this is, this is obviously nonsense and this is what you find. It's, it's very, it's very easy,
00:19:26.400 uh, when you're the candidate to look at really common sense policies, like we're in the middle of
00:19:33.380 a global pandemic. So you start putting travel restrictions in place and it's easy to throw words
00:19:38.360 like bigot and xenophobia, but then you get into office and these are the things that you have to do.
00:19:42.920 Um, from the daily wires, as president Joe Biden repealed a Trump era executive order,
00:19:49.120 barring people who identify as transgenders from serving in the military in most cases,
00:19:52.520 as well as preventing military funding from paying for sex reassignment surgeries,
00:19:56.960 big quotes around sex reassignment surgery, of course, because there is actually no way
00:20:01.180 to reassign your sex. It's a, you can, you can, you can mutilate your genitalia, but in no sense
00:20:07.320 whatsoever do you have now a, a new sex. Anyway, uh, it says Biden's executive order,
00:20:11.900 which the white house announced on Monday morning rescinds one Trump, uh, one that Trump issued
00:20:16.280 in 2017 implemented in 2019. The white house said allowing all qualified Americans to serve
00:20:21.520 their country in uniform is better for the military and better for the country because an inclusive
00:20:25.700 force is a more effective force. Simply put, it's the right thing to do and is in our national
00:20:31.260 interest. The white house also said, um, this question of how to enable all qualified Americans
00:20:37.420 to serve in the military is easily answered by recognizing our core values. America is stronger
00:20:43.320 at home and around the world when it is inclusive. And they also said that diversity. So they said
00:20:48.720 diversity and inclusivity are our core values. Well, first of all, that's not the case at all.
00:20:56.860 So we can talk about this on a, on a general nationwide level, but speaking specifically
00:21:04.400 about the military. Now I never served. So anyone has been in the military, especially if you served
00:21:09.020 in combat, correct me if I'm wrong, right? But, uh, so go ahead and correct me if I'm wrong, but
00:21:16.400 when you're on the battlefield, simple diversity isn't going to do you much good, right? There's probably
00:21:26.080 not a time on the battlefield when you're in a situation you say, oh, thank God it's diverse. Thank
00:21:32.720 God we have a diverse fighting force right now. Unless we're talking about a, uh, you know, a diversity
00:21:37.720 of weaponry or something like that, but we're talking about diversity in the way that they mean
00:21:40.800 it here. Once again, if, if I'm wrong, tell me it's just hard for me to envision a scenario where
00:21:47.360 that would happen. And the reason it's hard for me to envision a scenario is that there's really
00:21:51.500 no scenario in life. When that works in any institution, there's no scenario where any
00:21:57.320 institution is better at doing its job simply because of diversity or because of inclusion in
00:22:04.240 and of itself, diversity in and of itself, inclusion in and of itself. These are not virtues.
00:22:10.800 It depends on who you're including, why you're including them, what you are including them into.
00:22:19.780 And especially with the military where it's supposed to be right about uniform, uniformity,
00:22:25.780 one fighting force working together to accomplish a mission. It's not about the individual.
00:22:32.340 So any, any, any focus on the individual, on an individual's desires and whatever else,
00:22:42.120 orientations, um, that's not going to help you in the accomplishment of your mission.
00:22:48.480 And that's not even the case anywhere else in any other institution. I would, I would imagine it's
00:22:51.940 especially the case in the military. No diversity. I know that it's, it's heresy these days to say it,
00:22:58.160 but diversity is not a virtue in and of itself. You know, we have to think about what, what are we
00:23:07.780 including people into and what's the, what's the purpose of that inclusion? What is our objective?
00:23:13.840 And when it comes to, as we talked about, I think we talked about, yes, uh, last week,
00:23:20.700 multiculturalism, this is, you know, it's basically the same thing. These are synonyms.
00:23:25.080 The problem with multiculturalism, what's the problem with multiculturalism? Well,
00:23:28.240 with what we have multiculturalism within a country, within a society, it means that you have
00:23:32.760 no shared culture, which is to say the country has no real culture at all. It's just a mishmash of
00:23:38.780 different cultures, all living in the same general area, but there's no shared sense of purpose,
00:23:44.540 no shared sense of identity. And that of course is, is the plan. That's, that's the point for the
00:23:50.380 left. That's what they're trying to do. Um, number three, our article in the New York times,
00:23:54.920 and I'll just give you the headline. It says two masks are the new mask. Double masking is a sensible
00:24:01.160 and easy way to lower your risk. When you have to spend more time around others in a taxi,
00:24:05.740 on a train or plane or at an inauguration. Um, and on this, so now this is, this is not just
00:24:12.260 the New York times. This is because there's a new push last few days. Dr. Fauci came out and
00:24:17.960 endorsed double masking and said that, yeah, well, it's better than wearing one. Speaking of being
00:24:24.440 on a plane, I was actually sitting near someone who was wearing, they're wearing at least two masks.
00:24:28.760 It kind of looked like maybe there were three. I saw somebody else in the airport, they had,
00:24:32.940 they had two masks and the visor on. And yeah, so two masks is better than one. You know,
00:24:39.860 what's even better than two masks. Listen, listen to this idea. Brilliant strategy, three masks.
00:24:46.700 Why not? See, when there's, when there's no limiting principle, when it comes to masks,
00:24:51.900 then why not wear, why not wear two? Why not require two? If it's really going to make people safer,
00:24:57.640 it's going to save lives. Maybe we should insist on it. You can't go anywhere. You can't go to the
00:25:02.320 grocery store unless you wear two masks or three. There's no limiting principle. It doesn't,
00:25:08.140 there's, there's, there's no, there's no, this doesn't end anywhere. Because if the idea behind
00:25:13.160 masks has always been, if the, if the justification for masks has always been, what does the justification
00:25:18.920 always been? It's been that, um, it's no big deal to wear it, supposedly. Uh, you know, it's no,
00:25:25.500 no skin off your nose and, uh, it'll make you safer. So, and if, if that's true and if that's
00:25:32.280 enough reason to mandate it, then we might as well just mandate it forever. Two masks,
00:25:36.460 three masks, whatever's necessary. Number four from the New York post, it says humans could live
00:25:40.800 on giant orbs floating in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter within the next 15 years.
00:25:47.640 This seems like big news to me. I don't know. That's the claim made by top scientist,
00:25:52.460 Dr. Pekka, um, John Hunan, who says millions of people couldn't have it in mega city in space by
00:25:58.760 2026. That's not 15 years or like five years. Uh, John Hunan and astrophysicists at the Finnish
00:26:05.560 meteorological Institute, uh, described his vision in a research paper published this month. He laid
00:26:10.220 out the blueprint for floating mega satellites around the, um, Dorf planet series, which lies
00:26:16.720 roughly 325 million miles from earth. Um, and he says that this is something we could do the next
00:26:22.920 few years and what people will do. They would live in these, these floating satellites and then they
00:26:29.060 would, they would mine series. And I guess some of the other asteroids, they would mine them for
00:26:33.260 resources and then bring it back to their floating cities. A few problems with this. One is that I think
00:26:38.760 it would take like eight or nine years even to get out there to begin with, which is going to make
00:26:43.520 the process of building these floating cities kind of hard. Also who in the hell, you know,
00:26:48.160 you hear about these plans. Oh, we'll set up, we'll set up a colony on Mars. I kind of like that idea,
00:26:54.080 but okay, we'll go, we'll be in the asteroid belt. Who would volunteer for this? Who would volunteer
00:27:00.400 to go live forever floating in the black abyss with asteroids flying past you at all times, just waiting
00:27:08.300 to smash into you and kill everybody. Who would, who would ever sign up for that? Unless we set it
00:27:14.160 up as a prison colony, which is that idea. I kind of like just take people the worst kinds, especially
00:27:20.580 as we're getting rid of the death penalty. So we can't just banish them out into space. Now that idea
00:27:24.400 I like number five from the Hill says Anheuser-Busch will not advertise its Budweiser products during this
00:27:30.260 year's Superbowl for the first time since 1983. Instead, putting that money toward promoting
00:27:35.240 vaccination awareness. This according to the company, which they announced this week,
00:27:39.520 the company will retain four minutes of ad time for its other brands, which include Michelob Ultra
00:27:43.840 and Bud Light, according to the Associated Press. Uh, that's the, speaking of heroes. So they're not,
00:27:51.820 they're not going to, they're not going to advertise Budweiser, but they, they're still going to
00:27:54.800 advertise their other brands, but then the money that would have went to the Budweiser ad, they're
00:27:58.560 going to, they're going to put towards vaccination awareness. A couple of things about this. Number one,
00:28:02.260 who exactly at this point is not aware of the vaccine? What exactly does vaccination awareness
00:28:12.080 consist of? I think we all know about it by now. And also just, just to be clear, uh, the reason
00:28:19.020 why, and they're not the only brand that's doing this or say, they're, they're saying, Oh, we're not
00:28:22.040 going to, we're not going to advertise during the Superbowl. We've decided we don't want to do that.
00:28:26.020 But the real reason they're not doing it is because the ratings of the Superbowl are expected to be
00:28:30.420 way down. And so they've decided it's just not worth the money, which I totally understand,
00:28:34.900 but stop trying to dress it up as some noble thing they're doing. Um, finally, this is kind
00:28:39.160 of a bonus thing I wanted to play for you. I've had it for a few days. I wanted to play, you know,
00:28:41.820 the girl who did that, uh, that bad slam poetry at the inauguration. Um, she also has no surprise
00:28:50.780 here. I'm sure this is the reason she was selected. She has, she, she did a couple of years
00:28:55.500 ago, a slam poetry performance where she was celebrating abortion. And, uh, I thought this
00:29:00.800 would be a treat for all of us just to listen to some poetry. So here we go.
00:29:04.500 Eight reasons to stand up today against abortion bans in the United States.
00:29:09.980 One, let's get this straight. When the penalty for rape is less than the penalty for abortion
00:29:15.580 after the rape, you know, this isn't about caring for women and girls. It's about controlling them.
00:29:21.860 Two, through forcing them into motherhood before they're ready, these bans steadily sustain the
00:29:27.980 patriarchy, but also chain families in poverty and maintain economic inequality. Three, pregnancy
00:29:34.940 is a private and personal decision and should not require the permission of any politician.
00:29:42.500 Okay. Three is enough. She goes on. She goes on to, to, to eight. Yeah. Point number one,
00:29:48.900 by the way. What was it? The, the penalty for, uh, abortion is worse than the penalty for rape.
00:29:57.440 What? These are the kinds of claims that pro-abortion people make all the time.
00:30:02.920 Totally untethered from reality. Oh, you know, you go to prison longer for getting abortion than you do
00:30:08.700 for, for, for rape. What are you talking about? That's not even remotely true. There's,
00:30:15.000 there is no legal penalty for abortion in case you haven't noticed Roe v. Wade is still in effect.
00:30:20.540 I wish it weren't in effect, but it is. And I don't expect that to change anytime soon. So that's,
00:30:25.860 that's just, that's her first point. That's point number one. And it's a total fantasy.
00:30:30.580 It has no bearing whatsoever on reality, no relationship to reality.
00:30:36.160 And then the rest is, I, I, how is this poetry? Someone explain it to me. I already admitted last
00:30:42.360 week. I'm a, I'm a Philistine. I don't, I don't know anything about, about art. I admit that, but I
00:30:46.280 hear this. It doesn't rhyme at all. There's no real rhythm. You're, you're just, you've, you've
00:30:52.680 written down your little editorial about abortion and you're, you're speaking it, moving your hands
00:30:59.060 around a lot. And that's all you're doing. You're just moving your hands and speaking,
00:31:03.100 which I do that. I'm a hand talker. So I guess I'm also a poet. You didn't know, you didn't know
00:31:08.920 that when you listen to this show, you're, you're listening to poetry, poetry in motion.
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00:32:16.080 off. Let's get now to our daily cancellation. Today, we're going to cancel everybody involved
00:32:23.540 in making this happen on Twitter. Yesterday, Kaepernick was trending and Twitter provided
00:32:29.520 this explanation or context, they would say for the trend. They said, as Tom Brady makes
00:32:35.820 his way to another Superbowl, some football fans are pointing out that the quarterback's
00:32:39.560 politics, i.e. his friendship with Donald Trump, haven't derailed his career in the way
00:32:44.000 that Colin Kaepernick's peaceful protest of police violence did, arguably leading to his
00:32:48.640 exit from the NFL. Okay, now just to give additional context to Twitter's context, the people making
00:32:55.340 that claim are not football fans. A football fan knows that comparing Colin Kaepernick to
00:33:01.100 Tom Brady is like, well, it's like comparing Colin Kaepernick to Tom Brady. There's no analogy
00:33:06.960 I can draw that would be more absurd than that. And as if to illustrate my point that the people
00:33:11.320 making this comparison cannot really be football fans, here's a woman called Samantha Polino and
00:33:16.840 she says in her bio that she dances on Broadway and she also gives her pronouns. Now, I don't want
00:33:22.680 to stereotype, but my immediate assumption would be that Samantha the Broadway dancer with pronouns
00:33:27.720 in her bio probably isn't a football expert, I would guess. And my suspicions are potentially
00:33:34.680 confirmed by this. She says, quote, as we approach another Tom Brady Super Bowl, let's remember he's
00:33:40.840 friends with Trump and has endorsed Republicans in their policies. While one of the greatest
00:33:45.200 quarterbacks of our generation, Colin Kaepernick, had his career derailed for kneeling during the
00:33:51.080 anthem. Hashtag hypocrisy. Samantha, you're not doing your gender any favors with statements like
00:33:58.640 that. One of the greatest quarterbacks of our generation, Colin Kaepernick. This is true in the
00:34:05.860 same sense that Pete Davidson is one of our greatest thespians and Eric Swalwell is our greatest
00:34:11.840 statesman, which is to say it's not true in any sense at all. So I can't believe I have to do this,
00:34:18.740 but let me just give you some of the numbers here, especially maybe if you're not a football fan
00:34:23.780 and you hear a claim like this, just I'll give you a few numbers you can throw out there
00:34:28.420 to correct the record. Colin Kaepernick had a career completions percentage of 59.8,
00:34:35.060 which is not very good, with 72 touchdowns against 30 in their interception. In his final three seasons,
00:34:42.760 he went 8-8, then 2-6, then 1-10 as a starter, and was eventually benched for Blaine Gabbert,
00:34:49.140 which is the football equivalent of losing an arm wrestling match to your niece.
00:34:53.780 All that said, he did have some historic moments on the football field, like when he threw two
00:34:57.900 pick sixes in a row on the first two drives of the game against the Cardinals in 2015.
00:35:03.300 Very few QBs have ever done that. In fact, I think he might be the only one to start a game. His
00:35:08.420 first two throws were intercepted for touchdowns. Now, let's consider Tom Brady. Tom Brady has never
00:35:16.800 had a losing season in 21 years. He has six Super Bowl rings, 10 Super Bowl appearances. He owns the
00:35:23.200 record for the most playoff wins, most playoff completions, most playoff passing touchdowns,
00:35:27.260 like 50 other records. He left New England at the age of 43, went to a previously mediocre Tampa Bay
00:35:33.840 team, and immediately brought them to a Super Bowl too. I don't like saying it or admitting it,
00:35:39.100 but he is the undisputed greatest football player of all time, and there is no other credible candidate
00:35:44.560 for that position, period. He has won as many NFC championships as Brees and Rodgers, and he's been
00:35:50.760 in the conference for one year, and he was 43, again. So this guy is the Michael Jordan of football,
00:35:56.740 only better because Jordan played on a different team in his 40s and didn't have this kind of
00:36:00.600 success at all. So, if you're wondering, that is why Tom Brady has a career and Colin Kaepernick
00:36:07.580 doesn't. One of them is mediocre by every conceivable statistical measure, while the other
00:36:12.420 is the greatest of all time by every conceivable statistical measure. So, just a slight difference,
00:36:17.520 a slight difference between greatest of all time and not very good. But a worldview that doesn't
00:36:26.220 recognize merit or take it into account and fundamentally denies that merit should have
00:36:30.660 anything to do with success is bound to have some really, really bad sports takes,
00:36:36.520 as this proves, and as, in fact, ESPN proves every single day. Now, with that said, it is true that
00:36:46.140 Kaepernick's politics, his protest, played a factor in his not having a job in the NFL for the past five
00:36:52.520 years. I mean, absolutely. I think sometimes conservatives make a mistake in denying this,
00:36:57.980 where they try to say, oh, it had nothing to do with it. No, it did have something to do with it. It is
00:37:01.380 true that Kaepernick was essentially blackballed by the league. It's also true that there are people
00:37:08.960 in the league now who are probably worse than him. There are quarterbacks in the league right now that
00:37:14.320 are probably second and third string quarterbacks, but there are second and third string quarterbacks
00:37:18.220 in the league right now who are not much better than him, possibly worse.
00:37:24.860 But he still deserved it. He deserves to be blackballed by the league. He deserves
00:37:31.360 to not have a job in the league. There are two very good reasons for that. The first is that he
00:37:36.180 doesn't seem to really want a job in the NFL all that much, or at least he doesn't want it enough
00:37:41.080 to cool it with the fake freedom fighter routine. The second, if we could put the first to the side for
00:37:45.020 a moment, the second is that his mouth and his antics consistently write checks that his skills
00:37:52.020 cannot cash. This is actually a good lesson for all of us because you can in life, and especially
00:37:57.500 in your career, be as big of a jerk as your skills and therefore your value will compensate for.
00:38:04.660 Now, it's better not to be a jerk at all, but if you're going to be a jerk,
00:38:08.120 you better calibrate your jerkiness so that it doesn't exceed your talent.
00:38:13.300 That's the equation. That's the calculation you always have to make. Tom Brady could basically be as
00:38:18.920 awful as he wants to be because he's going to come in, he's going to bring your team to a Super
00:38:22.860 Bowl single-handedly. So he can kind of be however he wants. But even with that being the case,
00:38:27.760 he's really not that much of a jerk at all. And though he's accused of being political,
00:38:32.480 he's not political at all either. It's revealing how being friends with someone, Donald Trump in
00:38:39.040 this case, is construed as a political statement by the left. But whatever Brady's politics are,
00:38:44.280 he's not taking the field in a MAGA hat or doing anything else on the field to call attention to
00:38:49.720 his political viewpoints. He goes onto the field and he plays the game and that's it.
00:38:54.120 So the calculation for Brady is very simple. He's a team player. He doesn't bring any unwanted
00:38:59.500 attention to himself or to his team. He's insanely great. Oh, and he takes less money in his contract
00:39:07.420 than he has to so that his teams can spend money elsewhere to bring in other good players.
00:39:11.580 That makes him about the most uncontroversial and obvious hiring decision imaginable.
00:39:18.340 He has made it so that for his team, he represents all upside in every area.
00:39:26.180 Again, there's a good lesson for us in our own careers, even if we're not professional athletes.
00:39:30.140 The goal is to be all upside or at least to have enough upside to overshadow your downside.
00:39:35.340 You want to be net upside, right? What about Kaepernick? Well, here we have almost
00:39:41.020 exactly the reverse situation. He's a second string caliber player at best, doesn't have a
00:39:48.000 winning pedigree, turns the ball over a lot. He's not a great passer. On top of all that,
00:39:51.920 he brings a circus of media attention and political attention, which he both craves and cultivates on
00:39:56.640 purpose. He's a divisive presence. And you know, as an owner or a coach, that if you bring him in,
00:40:03.960 he's going to accuse you of racism should you put him on the bench or cut him due to his poor
00:40:07.740 performance. You also know that there are dozens of guys in the league who could bring you the same
00:40:12.060 kind of production as a player, but with none of the same headache. So this is another no-brainer.
00:40:18.000 Whereas Tom Brady is net upside, Kaep is net downside. Whatever meager upside he has as a
00:40:24.420 player is vastly outweighed by the drama he brings with him. That's why he doesn't have a job,
00:40:30.220 doesn't deserve a job. Though, you know, if you're concerned, there's no need to worry about him
00:40:35.760 starving to death. Fortunately, he's getting paid millions of dollars by Nike and a bunch
00:40:39.780 of other corporations to walk around scowling and calling people racist. Hell of a job if you can
00:40:44.680 get it. And when it comes to that job, scowling and calling people racist, his abilities are
00:40:50.000 undeniable. He isn't quite the Tom Brady of race hustling. That title probably still belongs to
00:40:55.240 Sharpton, but he's well on his way. We'll give him credit for that. As a football player, though,
00:41:00.160 his career is dead and richly deserves to be. And anyone who doesn't understand that is canceled.
00:41:09.680 And anyone who tries to make any point about football without ever having actually watched a
00:41:14.960 game is also very much canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching,
00:41:21.080 everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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