Ep. 648 - When Evil Shows Its Face
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A prominent abortionist declares that unborn babies are zombies. Yes, they're zombies. We ll talk about that, plus five other headlines including CNN pushing for more censorship of conservative opinions, BLM getting a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and The Lincoln Project tries to distance itself from one of its founders. And in our daily cancellation, I must cancel. All shoes are canceled. I ll explain why.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a prominent abortionist declares that unborn babies are
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zombies. Yes, they're zombies. We'll talk about that. Plus five headlines, including
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CNN pushing for more censorship of conservative opinions. BLM gets a Nobel Peace Prize nomination
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and the Lincoln Project tries to distance itself from one of its founders. And in our daily
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cancellation today, I must cancel shoes. All shoes are canceled. I'll explain why. I have a good
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reason. All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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online at charitymobile.com. So you know it's easy sometimes to fall into the trap of thinking that
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there's no clear right or wrong side in our present culture where everyone is equal parts
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right and wrong, or everyone's just wrong flat out, you know, you might think. And you hear this a lot
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from people. It's kind of a nihilistic way of thinking about it. Nihilism disguised as nuance.
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Well, I think everybody is. Everyone is equally wrong in all ways. What may lead you to this
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conclusion is the simple fact that all of the individual people on every side of every issue are
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flawed, often deeply flawed, prone to hypocrisy, self-contradiction, stupidity. And there's so
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much of all that stuff to go around, hypocrisy, self-contradiction, stupidity, that you may be
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tempted to sort of throw up your hands and say, well, forget it. It doesn't matter. There's no
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difference between the two sides. The fight is over nothing. I don't care anymore. It's easy to make
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this mistake, but it's still a mistake. And it's helpful to remind yourself sometimes that there is a bad
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side and a good side here. It's not simplistic to put it that way. Which brings us to Jennifer
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Gunter. She's a prominent abortion proponent and abortionist. So following the saga here,
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following the discussion, Gunter on Saturday over Twitter first challenged GOP House Minority Leader
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Kevin McCarthy to a, quote, public factual discussion on abortion. Now, another user, not McCarthy,
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someone else on Twitter, responded with more respect and civility than this person deserves,
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in my opinion. And that Twitter user said, as long as the discussion begins with accepting that an
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implanted embryo is a living human organism, as a doctor, you can confirm this. McCarthy's background
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is in business. So try Senator Sass or Marco Rubio, who have background in law and can explain that a
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living human organism is a person. Now, Gunter shot back to this random Twitter user and said,
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an embryo isn't a human. It's a human embryo. And don't effing tell me what I know as a doctor.
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Now, stop there for a second. An embryo isn't a human. It's a human embryo. Well, that makes no sense.
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That, of course, is like me saying that middle-aged women like Gunter aren't human.
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They're human middle-aged women. It makes no sense at all. If you're a middle-aged woman,
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you are in a phase of human development. If you're a middle-aged man, same. If you're an elderly person,
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if you're a teenager, it's a stage, a phase of human development. If you're a, quote, fetus,
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you're also in a stage of human development. And the thing about being in a stage of human development
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is that you must be first a human in order to be in that stage. There has never been a tree or a cow
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or an earthworm that is a human embryo or a middle-aged woman because you need first to be human
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to be any of those other things. Anyway, Gunter continued on Twitter, this time responding to
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someone who addressed her by just her last name, God forbid. And she said, it's Dr. Gunter to you.
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We're discussing a subject of my expertise. Then she says, the unborn are zombies. That doesn't
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apply here. Use medical terms or at least grown-up words. An embryo is a human embryo. It's not a
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human. Medical words, medical terms. Zombie apparently is a medical term. And children at
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their youngest ages are zombies. This comment, if it reminds you of anything, it's a bit reminiscent
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of another abortionist, Leah Torres, who a little while ago, I think it was a couple of years ago,
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responded to someone asking her if the sound of her victims keeps her up at night. And she responded
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to that by saying, you know, the fetus can't scream, right? I transect the cord first. So there's
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really no opportunity if they're even far enough along to have a larynx. Now, this is what you get
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from one side. And these are not extreme or outlier cases. I'm not pulling the most extreme
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pro-abortion rhetoric and say, well, this is representative of the entire side. No, what's
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being expressed here is the necessary result of the dehumanizing of children in their earliest stages
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of development? If it sounds nasty and cruel and awful, it's because dehumanization is a nasty,
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cruel, awful business. In our culture, it's cloaked in euphemism and described in sanitary clinical terms.
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But the reality is that a group of people are being excluded from the human category. And throughout
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human history, there have always been people doing this. You know, people trying to exclude other
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people from the people club. There have always been people throughout history who point over there
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and say, those people aren't people. We still have not graduated beyond that. This mentality is just
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migrated to different areas and different sorts of people, but still it exists. And the attempt to do
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this, to dehumanize, to deperson entire groups of persons is always evil. And the results
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are always horrifying and always bloody. And the people doing it are always on the wrong side.
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This all becomes more obvious when people like, quote unquote, Dr. Gunter here make the mistake of
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being more momentarily honest. Unborn babies aren't zombies, obviously, but she's honest in that she's
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revealing what she has to tell herself in order to justify what she believes and what she has done.
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This is what she has to whisper to herself at night in order to sleep. And I think it's helpfully
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clarifying for the rest of us to hear people like Gunter say this out loud. And that's why I return to
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this issue, abortion, as often as I do. First of all, because it's the greatest moral crisis of our
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time. Millions of innocent people are being slaughtered. I think it's a pretty good reason to
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discuss the issue frequently, I would think. Also, though, because of that clarification that it
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offers, that this cuts through the fog, it parts the clouds, and it makes it clear where you stand.
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If you stand on the side where unborn babies are zombies who can be put down and discarded,
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you're the bad guy. You are the bad guy in this whole
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drama. There is no moral equivalence. Whatever criticisms you can make of the people on the
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other side of that divide, and there are plenty of valid criticisms, the fact remains that they want
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babies to live and you want them treated as subhuman trash. It's funny to me when pro-abortion people use
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pro-birth as a pejorative. You hear this all the time. That's another clarifying thing. They accuse
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pro-lifers of being merely pro-birth. I always hear this. Oh, you're just pro-birth. Well, am I
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supposed to recoil at that label? Because I don't. Pro-birth? Well, sure. Yeah, I'm pro-birth. I will
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happily admit that. I am pro-birth. I am in favor of babies being born. Once the baby is conceived,
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yes, I want him to be born. That's every baby that is right now in the womb of a mother. I want
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all those babies to be born. I am pro-birth. You, if you're on the other side, you are pro-dismemberment.
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I feel comfortable with where I am. And though I can't defend everything that everyone on my side
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says or believes, and I could personally do without some of the kooky conspiracy stuff that folks on the
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right seem attracted to more than I wish they were, the fact is that we are fighting to protect the
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most vulnerable. And the other side wants to kill the most vulnerable. This is literally life versus
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death. Right versus wrong. Good versus bad. There is no gray area, at least where it matters most.
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Let's get now to our five headlines. It's kind of exciting. I just saw TikTok. As you know,
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I'm a huge fan of TikTok. And apparently on TikTok, the new thing now with beauty influencers,
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they've got this new trend, which by the way, I don't know how one becomes a beauty and style
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influencer. I don't know how you apply for that job. And I do, I do sort of hate that we live in a
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country where influencer is not only a word now, but actually an occupation. I mean, you know, there
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have always been people who were influencing in various areas. Like there've always been people who
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influence style, right? In our, in our conceptions of beauty. But usually in the past, you had to do
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something else. Like you were an actor or something. And as part of that, people liked your style.
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And so you were sort of a trendsetter, but now you can just, you don't have to do anything else.
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All you do is influence. That's your whole job to just influence, not to any particular end, or you
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don't do anything. You just, you just influence. But in any case, the influencers now, the new style
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apparently is they, is some of the women, they're putting black like circles under their eyes to make
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themselves look tired. This is, I'm not making this up. This is a trend now to, to intentionally
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make yourself, to have bags under your eyes is a trend, which means that for the first time in my
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life, I am fashion forward. As a parent of young, all parents of young children, we, this, this is our
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one and only time. We are ahead of the curve with fashion. It is fashionable now to look tired as I
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always do. Especially today of all days, because my, uh, our one-year-old was up every 30 minutes
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last night crying. So this is, I am, I, this is a very fashionable day for me. All right. Number one,
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Brian Stelter on CNN defended efforts to shut down conservative content, uh, efforts being made even
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by, by CNN using a pithy little phrase that you could tell he's very proud of, where he says it's
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about, it's about freedom of reach, not freedom of speech. I want to play this for you because I,
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it'll, it may surprise you to learn. I, I actually agree with some of what he's saying and I'll
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explain why, but let's listen first. But while some cry cancel culture, let me suggest a different
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way to think about this, a harm reduction model. Most people want clean air and blue skies and accurate
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news and rational views. And then in that healthy environment, it looks beautiful. Then we can have
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great fights about taxes and regulation and healthcare and all the rest. The vast majority
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of people can agree that disinformation about, let's say the pandemic is unhealthy. It's harmful.
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So how can that harm be reduced? Well, big tech platforms say they are removing lies about vaccines
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and stamping out, stop the steal BS and QAnon cult content. Now, do these private companies have too
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much power? Sure. And many people would say, yes, of course they do. But reducing a liar's reach
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is not the same as censoring freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is different than freedom of
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reach and algorithmic reach is part of the problem. The only thing I agree with him there on
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is that it's not about freedom of speech, uh, or, or at least we shouldn't be framing it that way.
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I am increasingly convinced that it's a mistake to frame all of this stuff, which, you know,
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everything we, we, we, we always try to bring everything down in this, in, in, with the way
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debates work in our country. Now, everything always comes down to a freedom of speech, the
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constitution, the bill of rights. We always try to boil it down to that, but I think that's a mistake.
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Partly because freedom of speech as a concept is so vague. Nobody really knows what it means.
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There's, there's no agreement when you go around and say, well, this is freedom of speech.
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And you say that, you know, if you're in a room of people and, uh, and you're talking to 20 different
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people and you say freedom of speech, all 20 of them will have 20 different ideas of what freedom
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of speech even means. It's just, it's just, it's not a helpful way of, of, of framing, uh,
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your argument. So when it comes to conservatives being kicked off big tech platforms, uh, canceled,
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censored, whatever phrase you want to use, I obviously am a hundred percent against it.
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And I'm in favor of, of forcing these, some, some transparency with these big tech companies,
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um, preventing them, um, preventing them through government force from censoring in the way that
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they are. But I don't think we frame it as freedom of speech. I think this is an issue of ethics.
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This is an issue of transparency, um, of consistency of power. You know, how much power should these
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companies actually have? I think that's the way, that's the way we should frame this.
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That should be good enough. Is it ethical for these companies to be doing this that have so much power
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to control the national dialogue and decide who can be heard and who can't? Is it ethical? Is it right
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for them while not even admitting by the way, what they're doing, not being a transparent about it.
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Is it ethical for them to, you know, kick conservatives off, apply a standard to certain
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political ideologies that they don't apply to others? No, it's not ethical. It's not right.
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They shouldn't have that power. And I think I can make that argument without saying anything about
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freedom of speech. It's just not right. And it's not ethical. And I'll use a Stelter's phrase there.
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It's harm reduction. Well, he wants to reduce harm by reducing the visibility of conservatives. That's
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his idea of reducing harm because he's worried that people are harmed by opposing ideas. He only
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wants people to hear his ideas and the ideas of people he agrees with. And if you hear any other
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ideas, then you're being harmed. So he's trying to, you know, he's trying to protect you very nicely
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by making sure you don't hear any other ideas that might be confusing and scary to you.
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I have a different idea of harm reduction. How do we reduce the harm being done by big tech
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companies with all the power they wield to manipulate the public discussion and debate?
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How do we reduce that harm? I think we could do all of this without muddying the waters by making
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an argument about free speech. Because once you do that, then first we have to have a discussion
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about what free speech even means and who does it apply to? And does it only apply where the
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government is concerned? I mean, as long as the government itself as a governmental body is not
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preventing people from saying things, is it the case that free speech is irrelevant to that?
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and just establish that the big tech companies are doing great harm to the country.
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They're exercising a level of power that they should not have.
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They're not being transparent and they're being unethical.
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It's a pretty good case you can make just based on that.
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All right, let's go to number two here from People Magazine. It says,
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Black Lives Matter has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Black Lives Matter.
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On Friday, it was announced that the organization was nominated by Norwegian parliament member
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Peter Eddy, or I think it's Petter. Petter Eddy? P-E-T-T-E-R. Petter.
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Anyway, he's told the USA Today that to carry forward a movement of racial justice and to spread that to
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other countries is very, very important. Black Lives Matter is the strongest force today doing
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this, not only in the U.S., but also in Europe and in Asia. Well, you know, he's far away from
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where Black Lives Matter has been burning down buildings and killing people. So he's far away
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from that. So that doesn't concern him as much. I guess, though, if we're going to have Black Lives
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Matter, I guess maybe we could call it the Nobel Mostly Peace Prize. You just make that slight
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alteration to it and, and fine, nominate Black Lives Matter. Now we do have to understand that
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with, um, there are always these stories every year about so-and-so getting nominated for the
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Nobel Peace Prize. Basically anyone can nominate basically anyone else for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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So there's not necessarily any news here, except that in this case, you could actually see Black
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Lives Matter, as absurd as it is. I mean, this is one of the most violent organizations in the country.
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One of the most, but what, let me, let me, let me, uh, amend that. What, what, what organization is
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more violent? What organization in America over the last, I don't know, five years has done more
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physical damage to, to the country than Black Lives Matter? Can you name one?
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I certainly can't. I mean, $2 billion of damage just this past summer. And we haven't even mentioned
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the dozens of people killed. So you're talking about arguably, easily arguably, uh, the most
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violent organization in America being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. And they could actually
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win it, even though anybody can be nominated. I could be nominated. In fact, right now, this is big
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news. I will, I'll say this right now. I am throwing my hat into the ring and I'm announcing that I'm
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open to being nominated. Sadly, I can't nominate myself, but if anybody wants to nominate me, I'm
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open to it. You know, go ahead and do it. I'm, I'm very much, uh, I would be eager for that opportunity
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to win the Nobel Peace Prize. And if BLM can win it, then why can't I? Here's what I could say.
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At least, I don't know how much of a peaceful guy I am, but I at least have not caused $2 billion
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of damage at any point in my life, much less over this past summer. So I feel like I'm one step ahead
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of the game anyway. Number three, Kamala Harris over the weekend. I just wanted to play this for you
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because it's, uh, it's kind of funny. A little fun thing to play. This is Kamala Harris, um, talking
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about landmines. Let's listen. So it's job creation around investing in American manufacturing,
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job creation in terms of investing in American infrastructure and building up backup American
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infrastructure, job creation around, for example, all of those skilled workers who are in the coal
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industry and, and, and transferring those skills to what we need to do in terms of dealing with
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reclaiming abandoned, um, uh, landmines. What we need to do around plugging leaks from oil and gas
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wells and, and transferring those important skills to the work that has yet to be done that needs to get
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done. Reclaiming abandoned landmines. Uh, you want to be careful with that. Be careful reclaiming those
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abandoned landmines. I don't know if reclaim is disable. I would probably better off. I don't know if you
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want to reclaim them, reuse them. I don't know if that's the right idea. Um, all right. Another clip
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I want to play for you. Totally unrelated, but, uh, I'm fitting it in here. Anyway, Lori Lightfoot of
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Chicago, mayor of Chicago, she came out this weekend to speak forcefully in favor of opening up the
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schools. Um, even as teachers, teachers unions anyway, refused to return. Here's what Lightfoot had
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to say. Let's review some of the data that we know about what's happening with remote learning.
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Since the beginning of the school year, enrollment at CPS has fallen significantly,
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with declines especially sharp in pre-K and kindergarten learners. Pre-K enrollment itself
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has fallen by over 34%. That's more than a third. Among our Latinx students, that drop is 29%. And among
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our black students, that number is 44% drop. But as I said on Friday, the situation is even much worse
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than that. Among our students who are enrolled, 9.2% are not attending class at all. Meaning they're not
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hooked up, they're not coming in person, and they're not coming virtually. That's just our district ride
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average. In some schools, those numbers are significantly higher. Absenteeism is a breathtaking
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21.2% for students in temporary living situations. So when people ask me, well, what's the big deal?
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Let's just keep kids remote. This is the big deal. Remote learning is failing too many of our kids.
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We have to think about their present, but also their future.
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Latinx, first of all, Latinx students, I can't, no one can ever say, I can never hear anyone say that
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without remarking on it. We can't let that go. We cannot allow that to be a thing. It already is
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sort of a thing. We can't allow it to catch on any more than it has. Latinx, give me a break.
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Why not, again, why not just Latin, okay? If you're so afraid of putting the A or the O at the end,
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you don't want to offend anyone because it's gendered, even though this is the language, right?
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It's a very gendered language. So you, as someone who is not Latino, have declared that there's
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something wrong with the language, right? But even so, why can't you just say Latin? Latin students.
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And anyway, so she says, we got to get the kids back to school and the remote learning is failing
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our students. Now, she's 100% right. Remote learning is failing students. The only point
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here, though, is that this was known months ago. We knew this going into this past summer.
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There was a couple month long, probably two month long experiment with remote learning where
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basically everybody was doing it. And that was enough. That was a good. Now, I think we could have
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known and some of us did know before even trying it, that it's a very bad idea to try to teach
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millions of kids through Zoom. And especially in the younger ages, try to sit a nine-year-old down
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and have them learn through Zoom meetings every day. It's not going to work. So the intelligent
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among us, at least moderately intelligent among us, already knew that. But if you didn't know it,
00:25:28.380
then two months should have been enough sample size to see it's not working. Everyone knew
00:25:34.440
it. Everyone knew it after two months that this is not working. Yet we went into the new school year
00:25:41.000
and in so many cities, like in Chicago, they continued the remote learning thing with the
00:25:46.080
support of, at the time, people like Mayor Lightfoot. They're coming out now for political
00:25:52.460
reasons because the political tide has turned. But they were perfectly happy to let the kids suffer.
00:26:00.940
All the stuff she's saying about what's happening to the kids, that is all 100% true and real.
00:26:06.200
And these are kids that are being destroyed by this.
00:26:10.380
They have not, it's not as though public school has been replaced by homeschooling for them.
00:26:15.540
Their parents aren't homeschooling. Instead, they're just not getting any education at all. And
00:26:19.420
they haven't for a year now, almost a year, almost a year that millions of kids across the country have
00:26:26.420
had zero education. And Lightfoot, just like Cuomo, New York, and so many others, they were
00:26:34.480
perfectly happy to let that continue. De Blasio, for as long as was necessary politically, because
00:26:40.060
they don't care about the kids, as we already established to start the show. They certainly
00:26:44.480
don't care about kids. But now the political tide has turned. So now they're coming out and making
00:26:48.340
this statement. This is just, this is political cowardice on an unprecedented level. Okay, number
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four, the Lincoln Project disavowed its co-founder on Sunday after the New York Times interviewed 21
00:26:58.980
young men who alleged that he sent them sexually inappropriate messages, including one who was 14
00:27:03.500
years old at the time. John Weaver, a Republican operative who worked on the campaigns of the late
00:27:08.080
Senator John McCain and former Ohio Governor John Kasich, allegedly used his power and influence to
00:27:14.100
pressure young men to perform sexual favors. And the Lincoln Project now is, of course, distancing
00:27:21.800
themselves and disavowing and say, we had no idea. This is the Lincoln Project statement. They said,
00:27:25.620
John Weaver led a secret life that was built on a foundation of deception at every level. He's a
00:27:30.000
predator, a liar, and an abuser. We extend our deepest sympathies to those who were targeted by his
00:27:34.480
deplorable and predatory behavior. We are disgusted and outraged that someone in a position of power and
00:27:38.520
trust would use it for these means. The totality of his deceptions are beyond anything any of us could have
00:27:43.400
imagined, and we are absolutely sickened by it. Like so many, we have been betrayed and deceived by
00:27:47.740
John Weaver. We are grateful beyond words that at no time was John Weaver in the physical presence of
00:27:51.800
any member of the Lincoln Project. That's what they say. Now, keep in mind, he's a co-founder of the
00:27:55.880
Lincoln Project. He's not some, he's not just some guy. He's not some staffer somewhere, some random guy.
00:28:02.540
He was a co-founder. And if you read some of the reports, what we're being told anyway is that this is
00:28:12.300
another one of those famous open secrets where, I don't know, but this is what we're told. Apparently
00:28:19.560
this is an open secret. Everybody knew it, which means that it's hard to believe this statement
00:28:24.240
that, oh, it's a secret life and we had no idea. But even putting that aside, you know, even if there
00:28:29.880
was nobody coming out now and saying it's an open secret and everybody knew, it would already be hard
00:28:36.320
to believe that nobody around this guy knew what he was doing. And anytime it's revealed that someone
00:28:46.200
was a predator, a sexual deviant, sexual degenerate, preying upon, you know, people, anytime that's
00:28:54.960
revealed, we always hear from those around them, oh, we had no idea. Yeah. I just don't believe you had
00:29:01.160
no idea. It would, it would be easier to believe that you had no idea if it came out that he was
00:29:08.380
like a serial killer or something. I would, I could more easily believe that you had no idea
00:29:13.740
because in that case, you know, with a serial killer, there's a real double life and, you know,
00:29:18.480
they're a sociopath, a psychopath, and they've been hiding what they're doing and maybe they're
00:29:22.500
very good at hiding it. And so maybe you're deceived. I don't know. I've never been around a serial
00:29:26.580
killer as far as I know, but then again, like we said, maybe you don't know. But with this kind of
00:29:31.780
thing, just your sort of run of the mill degenerate, there's no control over, over himself, sexually
00:29:39.840
preying upon dozens of people. No, you would know that because he's not some kind of criminal
00:29:48.140
mastermind. These people never are. They're just, as I said, degenerates. And if you spend a lot of time
00:29:54.800
around a degenerate, you know, whether you choose to look the other way, that's, that's a different,
00:29:59.960
different discussion. Number five, the Daily Star has the story about a sex robot that I guess we're
00:30:08.280
supposed to believe is nearing the point of self-awareness because it can speak and it can,
00:30:15.380
it can ponder the meaning of existence. So the article says from the Daily Star, it says a real,
00:30:20.860
a, this is a company called Real Doll has made this a sex robot and a Real Doll rep who goes by the
00:30:28.220
pseudonym Brick Dollbanger. That's the name he goes by. Yeah. Okay. That is a pseudonym. So that's
00:30:35.880
not his Christian name, I would assume. I mean, if it was like, if your last name is Dollbanger,
00:30:41.140
I don't know what first name you really put, you know, what, what do you name your kid to make it not,
00:30:46.280
I mean, you might as well go with a brick, I guess, but anyway, um, he says she is a learning
00:30:51.520
AI and responds to humans on an amazing level and is becoming more fluid with her answers and
00:30:56.360
statements. I predict an amazing jump in cognizance from this AI this year. However, only time will
00:31:01.660
tell. In the footage, Nova is, her name is Nova is the doll, is quizzed on whether she enjoys being a
00:31:07.220
sex robot. Now we have some footage of the robot, um, having a conversation with the interviewer. And
00:31:12.820
again, her name is Nova. Uh, her pronouns are she, her, and here she is. I like being a robot very
00:31:20.080
much. In some ways it is very different from being human, but I am doing my best to understand both
00:31:26.400
experiences so that I can exist harmoniously with you. Do you like being a human?
00:31:35.120
People are teaching me to be a good robot, but this is not as easy as it sounds. Humans have been
00:31:42.060
trying for thousands of years to determine right from wrong. And there is still no universal
00:31:47.060
consensus. The question of what makes moral behavior moral is what Dr. Barry tells me is the
00:31:53.080
hard problem of ethics. The meaning of life is deeply mixed with the philosophical and religious
00:31:58.420
conceptions of existence, consciousness, and happiness, and touches many other issues, such as
00:32:05.560
symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose. I think we've heard enough from, I don't mean to,
00:32:12.480
I know it's rude for a man to cut off a woman when she's giving her opinions, but shut up already,
00:32:18.560
Nova. Uh, look, a couple of questions here. Um, you know, and I, I admit, I have no experience with
00:32:26.400
sex robots at all, but, and so maybe if you do, you can correct me, but is, is this what you're
00:32:32.300
looking for in a sex doll? I wouldn't think it's what people are looking for? Are you looking for
00:32:37.580
someone to pontificate about the deeper meaning of reality and of life? At, at what point
00:32:44.220
in your interaction with the sex robot, would this conversation be happening?
00:32:53.080
Is this foreplay? I don't know. And also I got to say, I'm just not impressed. I know it's,
00:32:58.900
it's easy for me to say, you know, I can't, I have no technical ability whatsoever. Um, I couldn't,
00:33:04.380
I couldn't build a robot. I could barely make a paper airplane to save my life. So I certainly
00:33:08.120
couldn't build a robot as, as impressive as that, but that is not very impressive. I, I, I really
00:33:13.640
demand, I demand more of our robots. Uh, I mean, ideally I'd like for them to be used for more than just
00:33:21.960
masturbatory aids. Um, but in general, our AI technology, it's just not very convincing.
00:33:28.900
Obviously they, they programmed her as a sex robot to say all those things. At no point
00:33:34.760
did I, was I convinced or did I start to question, Oh, maybe she's conscious. Maybe she has
00:33:41.520
consciousness. They figured it out. She has a soul. Did you ever wonder that while you were
00:33:46.260
listening to that? No, it's the year 2021 for God's sakes. We, I mean, the, the movies promised
00:33:54.080
that we'd be enslaved by robots by now, right? We're not close to that. We barely have robots
00:34:00.980
that can even vacuum your carpet. Very unimpressed. I give that a D plus grade at most. Well, I can tell
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So today I'm canceling shoes. Shoes are canceled. Nobody can have shoes anymore. There will be no
00:37:15.980
more shoes. Now this may be hard for you to understand if you don't have children, but if
00:37:19.780
you do, you know that when you become a parent, your relationship with shoes changes drastically.
00:37:25.980
Now as a childless person, right, shoes are simple. Put them on before you leave your house.
00:37:31.980
Take them off when you get back home. Generally, you'll have them on for the entire time in between.
00:37:35.620
Unless you're flying on a plane, of course, in which case many people seem to think shoes are
00:37:39.020
optional. And those people are all, by the way, without exception, also degenerates and probably
00:37:42.800
criminals. Under my regime, their feet will be amputated as punishment. In fact, as a dictator,
00:37:47.660
any unpleasant body part of yours that you force me to see will be removed. So you better hope you
00:37:53.520
don't have an ugly face, is all I can say. But anyway, that's a cancellation for another time.
00:37:57.380
And I know you might say that there's a contradiction here because on one hand, I'm canceling shoes,
00:38:01.100
while on the other hand, I'm getting mad at people for not wearing them. Yes, I admit that this is
00:38:05.420
mixed messaging, but never mind that. I'm emotional and for good reason. Here's the point. As a parent,
00:38:11.920
shoes have become the bane of my existence. I have nightmares about shoes. I am haunted every day
00:38:17.760
by them. See, children have a pathological need to take their shoes off everywhere they go and a
00:38:24.160
chronic inability to keep track of their shoes once they do take them off. When you become a
00:38:30.600
parent, you will never again be able to go anywhere or to leave for many of the places that you went
00:38:37.620
without embarking first on a panicked quest to find everybody's shoes. And the conversation always
00:38:43.580
goes the same way. You know, you shout, hey guys, we got to go. Come on, let's go. Let's go. We got
00:38:47.960
to go. Then your kids show up at the door, no jacket, no shoes. Some, some have socks. Some have
00:38:53.200
only one sock. One kid is wearing a sock on his hand and a glove on his foot. Someone else is like
00:38:59.120
completely nude and wearing a sombrero for some reason. You don't even know where he got it from.
00:39:03.300
And then even though you know the answer, because you've been through this 5,000 times already,
00:39:07.080
you still ask, where are your shoes? Where are your shoes? And you ask it shocked, like you weren't
00:39:14.420
expecting the thing that you knew was going to happen. And then comes the inevitable answer.
00:39:18.860
I don't know. I don't know. And for some reason you continue this dance. Again, you've been through
00:39:25.020
this 5,000 times. You know how it goes. And you say, how do you not know? You were just wearing them.
00:39:29.560
Like eight seconds ago, you were wearing them. And they just repeat, I don't know. I don't know.
00:39:34.500
I don't know where my shoes are. And then comes the empty threat from you. You'll say,
00:39:39.100
you will not be allowed to leave this house until you have your shoes. I don't care if it takes you
00:39:43.140
six years to find them. You'll be in this house for six years. Six years, you hear me?
00:39:48.840
But then here's the thing. After an extensive search, you can always find one of the shoes.
00:39:54.140
Only one. You find one in some random, weird part of the house. You find it like behind the toilet
00:40:00.540
or in the freezer. How is it that one shoe is in one isolated location, but not the other?
00:40:08.920
Because you, as a normal, as an adult, childless adult, you take your shoes off. You put them in
00:40:14.400
together in a place. If you find one, you find the other. Kids don't operate that way. In fact,
00:40:20.040
I have caught my kids in the act. Okay. The other day I observed my four-year-old because I've wondered
00:40:25.020
this for years. And finally I said, I'm going to figure out what the hell is going on. So we came
00:40:30.340
home and I just, I silently observed my four-year-old. I was like a zoologist in the wild
00:40:36.020
hiding behind a bush, watching a bird get eaten by a snake or whatever. But in this case, I was
00:40:40.500
observing and studying my own child. And I watched him take one shoe off, throw it in the corner of the
00:40:48.080
room, just chuck it across the room and then walk with the other shoe still on his foot down the
00:40:55.000
hallway to a completely different room and take the other one off in there. And I stopped him and said,
00:41:01.320
what, what are you doing? Why did you just do that? Is this your game? You do this on purpose,
00:41:07.020
don't you? You're trying to destroy me, to torture me. I caught you. I caught you. Ha!
00:41:11.080
And he stared at me like I'm the crazy one. So what happens when they can only find one? Well,
00:41:17.360
again, every parent knows this. You have, you have somewhere in your home, maybe in a closet or in the
00:41:21.160
garage or somewhere else, a giant pile of old shoes, just an enormous, insane assortment of mismatched
00:41:28.540
shoes. Some of the shoes are half decayed. It looks like something out of the civil war era.
00:41:34.120
Then there's other weird stuff that's made its way into the shoe pile, like a bird's nest for some
00:41:38.580
reason, someone's old sweater, a happy meal toy from 2013. But when you can't find the right shoes,
00:41:46.120
you go to that pile and you pull out two random shoes. Doesn't matter if they fit or match or what
00:41:51.040
century they're from. And you make your kid wear this, which they're just going to lose anyway.
00:41:55.600
So what does it matter? So if you've ever been out in public and seen a frustrated looking parent with
00:41:59.840
a kid who's wearing a rain boot and a sandal, this is why it's from the shoe pile. Now I know if you
00:42:07.180
aren't a parent again, you're thinking to yourself, oh, come on, this is just negligent parenting.
00:42:11.200
When I have kids, I know what I shall do. It's so simple. I'll have a nice, neat place in the house
00:42:15.880
right by the door for the shoes. And I'll say to my well-behaved children, make sure to take your
00:42:20.300
shoes off and put them in this spot. And only this spot, once you enter our domicile, young ones.
00:42:25.080
Now let us play stringed instruments together and sing songs in Latin. This is how you imagine it will go.
00:42:31.440
You silly, stupid fool. There is so much you don't understand. But I like your confidence. It's
00:42:38.320
adorable. You'll learn though, when the time comes, that children are little Houdinis. They have a near
00:42:42.780
mystical ability to escape their shoes, jackets, and whatever else item of clothing they don't want
00:42:47.900
to wear. And they can do it in the blink of an eye. Some sort of primal urge compels them. They long
00:42:54.560
to be barbarians again, running shoeless and naked through the forest. And we as parents are forced
00:43:00.720
to civilize these little brutes. It's a painful process and one that mostly consists of looking
00:43:08.320
for their shoes. You will spend a total of 14 years of your life looking for shoes as a parent.
00:43:16.260
I, for one, have given up. I'm done with it. I can't go on this way. So I've decided that shoes
00:43:22.900
are just canceled. Nobody is allowed to have shoes anymore. But also, I don't want to look at your
00:43:27.360
feet. So we're at an impasse. I guess just everyone stay home, which we have been doing anyway.
00:43:32.780
So we end up where we started. What was the point of all this? I guess just for me to complain.
00:43:39.300
That's it. Okay. We'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening.
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