Ep. 649 - AOC Finds The One Rioting Victim She Cares About
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Summary
Today, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tearfully describes the trauma she suffered during the Capitol Hill riot. But how much sympathy should we have and feel for a woman who encouraged and applauded this kind of rioting until it arrived on her front door? Also, five headlines: including Chicago teacher still bravely refusing to return to work, Dr. Fauci reverses himself on masks again, and Kamala Harris s stepdaughter is hailed as a style icon. And in our daily cancellation, we ll discuss HBO s new documentary, Celebrating Open Relationships.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, AOC tearfully describes the trauma she suffered during the
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Capitol Hill riot. But how much sympathy should we have and feel for a woman who encouraged and
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applauded this kind of rioting until it arrived on her front door? Also, five headlines, including
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Chicago teacher still bravely refusing to return to work. Dr. Fauci reverses himself on masks again,
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and Kamala Harris's stepdaughter is hailed as a style icon. And in our daily cancellation,
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we'll discuss HBO's new documentary, Celebrating Open Relationships. We know that's got to be good.
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All of that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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So to a certain degree, this is a flaw we all share. You know, all of us will take a thing
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more seriously, care more about it when we or someone close to us is involved in it.
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None of us are capable of absolute altruism or perfect empathy. But if we have absolutely no
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concern for the tragedies that befall others, even while demanding vocal and unending sympathy
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whenever we are the ones suffering misfortune, then we've gone far beyond the universal flaw of
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fallen humans everywhere. In that case, we're sociopaths. We're even worse than sociopaths if
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we outwardly applaud and encourage bad things when they happen to others while still pulling the woe is
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me card. Should we ever get a taste of our own medicine? Many of our politicians in DC quite
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clearly fall into this second category. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has
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especially provided an illustration of what happens when that naturally imperfect capacity for empathy
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gives way to full-on sociopathy. AOC was talking to her fans on Instagram, Instagram Live last night.
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And the fact that she has fans to talk to on Instagram is a problem in and of itself. But
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she began describing in dramatic and tearful terms, the trauma that she suffered during the Capitol Hill
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riots. The description was replete with visual demonstrations, plenty of cinematic, dramatic
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pauses and all the rest of it. Let's listen to some of this.
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Like I'm here and the bathroom door starts going like this, like the bathroom doors behind me or rather
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in front of me. And I'm like this and the door hinges right here. And I just hear, where is she?
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Where is she? And, um, this was the moment where I thought everything was over.
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Um, and the weird thing about moments like these is that you lose all sense of time. Um,
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in retrospect, um, maybe it was four seconds, maybe it was five seconds, maybe it was 10 seconds,
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maybe it was one second. I don't know. It felt like my brain was able to have so many thoughts
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in that moment, um, between these screams and these yells of where is she, where is she?
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And so I go down and I just, I mean, I thought I was going to die.
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And it gets even more dramatic from here. Next, she began to describe
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what and who she was thinking about as she confronted her own mortality. It turns out she
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was thinking about the American people and comforted by the knowledge that her work would be
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continued by those who come after her. Let's listen to that.
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And I had a lot of thoughts. You have a lot of thoughts. I think when you're in a situation
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like that, um, and like, also one of those thoughts that I had was, you know, I just happened
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to, you know, be a spiritual person and be raised in that context. And I really just felt like,
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you know, if this is the plan for me, um, then people will be able to take it from here.
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Um, I had a lot of thoughts, but that was the thought that I had about you all. Um,
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um, I felt that, um, if this was the journey that my life was taking, that I felt that things were
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Now, she also said that she simply cannot move on from this trauma and anyone who demands that we
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move on is acting like an abuser. She said that she has been sexually assaulted before in her life.
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And she compared, uh, those who, who wished to move past the Capitol Hill riots to her own sexual
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abuser. And if all that wasn't enough for one Instagram live chat, AOC also, also threw the
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Capitol police under the bus, the very people who put themselves on the line to protect her.
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She tells us about one of the police officers who came to take her to safety. And she said that she
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was scared of him because he was being mean about it. And he was yelling. Yes, he was yelling.
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It's almost like, you know, there was a mob of people this guy was trying to deal with,
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and he didn't have time for pleasantries. Seems understandable to me, but AOC thought and still
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thinks that it's quite suspicious. And it was happy to tell us about that. The media, of course,
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ate all this up, insisting that her description of the riot was emotional and compelling and
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demanding, uh, and that it was demanding of our attention and affirmation. And under normal
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circumstances, I would have little problem with anything that she said, aside from the part where
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she've smeared the men who have, who were protecting her. I have a problem with that, but the rest,
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under normal circumstances, I would say, okay, well, if that's how she felt, that's how she felt.
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But her description of the fear she felt and so on, um, you know, it would provoke no protest for me,
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if not for the fact that this same woman had spent the last several months ignoring, excusing,
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and romanticizing the very same kind of chaos that she in turn fell victim to. Now I've played this
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before, but let's remind ourselves, I think it could be helpful too. Let's remind ourselves what
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AOC said about BLM rioting back in May. Let's listen to that. If you're trying to call for the
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end of unrest, but you don't believe healthcare is a human right, if you're afraid to say black lives
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matter, if you don't, if you're too scared to call out police brutality, then you aren't asking for an
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end of unrest. You are asking for injustice to continue and for your people to continue to endure
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the violence of poverty, the violence of a lack of housing access, the violence of police brutality,
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and not say a damn thing. That's what you're asking for. So if you're out here calling for the end of
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unrest, then you better be calling for healthcare as a human, right? You better be calling for
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accountability in our policing. You better be supporting community review boards. You better
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be supporting, uh, you know, the end of housing discrimination. You better be standing up to
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for-profit real estate developers that are intimidating people and trying to evict them
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from their homes. That's what you better be calling for. Because if you don't call for those things
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and you're asking for the end of unrest, all you're asking for is the continuation of quiet
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oppression. Oh, okay. Yeah. If you want rioting to end, it means that you just want oppression
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to continue. You want quiet oppression to continue. And you have no right to call for the end of
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unrest, uh, uh, unless you want, unless you call out real estate developers, the whole list of, of
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demands. So, so, but what, what she's doing here, of course, is she's, she's completely ignoring
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and erasing the people in these communities, actual human beings who are affected by this,
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injured by it, damaged by it, killed by the unrest, as you call it. But for her, it's all academic.
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So, sure, we could, we could get around to caring about that. But first, I've got a whole list of
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issues we need to, uh, discuss first. Note that she said all of that only two days after a police
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precinct was invaded and burned to the ground. And on the same day that she recorded that video,
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she also shared an image on her Instagram, giving people advice on how to protest safely. And this
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advice, advice included things like wear nondescript solid colored, solid, solid colored clothing,
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uh, cover identifying tattoos. She exhorted protesters to put their phone on airplane mode and not to
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bring anything they don't want to be arrested with. The point of this advice quite explicitly
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was to help people commit crimes and to engage in mob violence without getting caught or while at
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least limiting their legal liability if they are caught. And this is the stance she had towards
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riding all through the summer, $2 billion in damage, 25 people killed. The only people she condemned
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throughout all of that were those who wanted the violence to end. Those who wanted to be safe in
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their own communities again. But the shoe ends up on the other foot and she comes face to face with
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the kind of anarchy that she fomented and encouraged. And she responds by crying and pointing fingers and
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demanding sympathy and understanding from the whole world. What happened to her is the greatest crime
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in history, a staggering tragedy because it happened to her. As for the violence, death, and destruction
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visited upon average Americans, the convenience store owners who saw their businesses incinerated,
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the retail employees whose places of work were ransacked, the neighbors who were too afraid to leave
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their homes because of the mayhem outside, the cancer stricken children huddling in fear in their
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cancer centers while BLM rioters smashed the windows downstairs, the woman in Rochester who was beaten
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by two by fours while trying to stop looters from destroying her business, the retired police captain shot
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dead, left to bleed out in the street, random pedestrians harassed and assaulted and so on. As for all of
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them, AOC has no concern, doesn't care, never said a word about them ever, still has not, never even
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acknowledged them. In fact, she applauds their victimization. She sits back at a distance and
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pontificates about their suffering and declares that their suffering is worth it because it's all
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in service to a good cause because we're sticking it to those real estate developers. Yeah, I mean,
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so they burned down apartment complexes. That'll really show the real estate developers. No,
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well, the problem is that there are people who are going to live in those homes, actual regular
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people. AOC doesn't care about them. She doesn't give a damn about them. You know, it's all for a
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good cause. What is that cause exactly? And how does, how does this advance it? Well, she can't say
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precisely. Nobody ever could. All she was sure of is that $2 billion of property damage and 25 people
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dead wasn't enough to earn condemnation. Indeed, anyone who condemned it was racist. And then one day she gets
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an up close and personal look at what rioting is and what it feels like on the ground. And she sees
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that it's not just unrest. It's terrifying. She was fortunate enough to get that look, have that
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experience as a heavily protected public figure with cops around to whisk her to safety, which they
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did. Not that she has any gratitude for those people who protected her, of course. But the fact
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remains that she had that protection. You know who didn't have that protection? How about the elderly man
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in Kenosha who went to stop the BLM riders from looting his mattress store only to be attacked, bashed over
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the head and left lying on the sidewalk with a broken jaw? He had no protection. He had no defense after the
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fact either from people like AOC. She didn't give a damn about him or anyone else, any of the thousands
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of others victimized in similar ways over the summer. Quite the contrary. She romanticized the sort of
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violence that he fell victim to while her Democrat pals helped to bail out the rioters and put them
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back on the street to do it all again the next day. She wants us now to forget all that and focus on
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her and her own alleged trauma. That really is the motto she lives by, isn't it? Forget all that and
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focus on me. Hey guys, I feel like we're not talking about me enough here. But sorry, AOC, a lot of us are
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just not going to play that game. We're not. We have no doubt that what you experienced was quite
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unpleasant. Not as unpleasant as being beaten or brutalized or shot dead as so many Americans were
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during the BLM riots, but unpleasant all the same. Maybe if you admitted your role in normalizing and
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encouraging this sort of violence and apologized for it and held yourself to account, then we could
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make some progress. We could get somewhere. But you won't do that. You aren't capable.
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And so you just can't get the sympathy you desire.
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Well, I won't even count this as a headline because it's not worthy of it. But I do have to
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mention that today is February 2nd, which means that's Groundhog Day. And that's when we pull the
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Groundhog out, of course, and we see if it saw its shadow. I still don't know, but we got the footage
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here. And for some reason, I'm going to play this. We'll play some of it anyway. They pulled out
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Punxsutawney Phil to see what's going on. Are we going to have more winter or not? And let's play
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the footage. Let's find out what Phil has to say. Come round. Hi. What do you think? Wait a minute. Let me...
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He's talking to the Groundhog right now, by the way. You look beautiful today. All right.
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He's whispering sweet nothings in the Groundhog's ear. We think we have a prediction.
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Shingle shaker. Can you read the prognostication? I've never seen this before. I didn't know how
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this actually worked. Okay. Here's the prediction. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. Now, this second day of
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February 2021, the 135th annual trek of Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. Punxsutawney Phil, the seer of
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seers, the prognosticator of all prognosticators, was awakened from his burrow at 725 a.m. Can we get
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to the point? Is there going to be more winter or not? By his handler and friend on this quiet morning
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where few can attend. Yes, we get it. In Groundhog he's, Phil directed the precedent
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and the inner circle to his prediction scroll that reads,
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it's a beautiful morning. This I can see. Okay. I give up. I've listened to enough. You know what?
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We're not, we're just not going to know. We're not going to know if there's going to be more winter
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or not. We never got the prediction. I mean, I get, see, I understand you have to drag it out
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because you've made this tradition out of talking to a groundhog. And so you've got to figure out
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ways to add pageantry to it, but just get to the point. I have to, I have to, I've actually never
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watched that before. I think my only, um, experience with Groundhog Day, like everybody else is the Bill
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Murray movie. And, uh, but I've never actually watched it live like that. I've never, I've never
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seen the real thing and it's even dumber than I ever expected it would be. It's kind of embarrassing
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to watch. Are we, can we be done with the whole Groundhog Day thing? I get it. It's a,
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you know, it's a quaint tradition. I understand, but is it, look, I'm not trying to be a hater.
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I, well, I guess I am, but isn't it a little bit too stupid? It's a, it's a little bit too stupid,
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right? Um, okay. I did just look it up and it turns out we're going to have six more weeks of winter.
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So just bad news. All we ever get is bad news anymore. Now the, even the Groundhog,
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couldn't even do us a favor by, by giving us spring early. All right. Um, okay. Let's move
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on to real news. A Chicago teachers union member was on CNN yesterday to, um, talk about what it
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would take to get her back to work. And here's what she said. Your union says that agreements
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were reached on some serious issues like health and safety protocols, ventilation, contact tracing,
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and safety committees. Um, what is outstanding? What are your concerns that remain?
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Well, my concerns that remain, um, the number one concern I have is that COVID is still spreading
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in Chicago. Many of the communities in which we teach COVID is well above, uh, 10%, uh, community
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spread. And I don't believe that we've reached, um, an agreement on the question of how are vaccines
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going to be distributed to the people who work in the schools, uh, let alone people in those hardest
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hit communities. We really have not reached agreement on the question of accommodations
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for people like myself. I live with, um, in a multi-generational household with, um, my public
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school student, as well as my elderly parents. My mother has very serious health, um, concerns
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and disabilities come so far in COVID. We see the vaccine, it's like a light at the end of the
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tunnel. And the idea of exposing her now to this virus is terrifying. So, um, really big issue.
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Sorry. I was still just thinking about the groundhog. Actually, I was thinking about
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groundhog state. Those, these people, they put on a suit and top hat to go talk to a groundhog.
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And the thing about it is that there's no, it doesn't appear to be any, it's not like tongue
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in cheek. They don't, they don't appear to be in on the joke. It was like, they're really
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taking it seriously. It seems like, yeah, I say it's run its course. Uh, they've been
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doing groundhog's day for like a hundred, over a century, well over a century. This
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of all the traditions, all traditions are getting torn down all around us. This is the one we
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keep doing talking to the groundhog. I guess I should take the opposite approach because
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we're getting rid of all the other traditions. Let's cling on to any that we still have.
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And groundhog day is one of them. So anyway, uh, yeah, the teacher was just, uh, speaking
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there. I did tune her out a little bit because you know what? I'm tired of the excuses. And
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uh, what, what's her, she, she was asked, you know, what's it going to take to get back
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in the schools? And you notice she didn't say, well, I want to get back in the school, but
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to, to, you know, be there for the kids and educate the kids. This is never about the kids.
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You notice that with these teachers that are refusing to go back to work. It's not about
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the kids. The kids are just, just disregarded. It's not even that they're worried, um, about
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the kids getting sick. It's not about the kids at all. The kids are disregarded, are
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not a concern whatsoever. It's all about them. And so she said, me, me, me, this is how I
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feel. This is what's going to make me feel like. And so she says, what's going to take
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to get her back in the school is if there's no more community spread, which is another
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way of saying she's never going back because coronavirus is going to be here. It's going
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to be with us probably forever to some degree or another. And if it ever completely goes
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away, it could be years down the line. I mean, literally years. It's already been one
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year. So that's the standard she set. Here's the great thing though. You got to look at it
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from the, from the other way. Look at the kind of silver lining that the teachers at this
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point who are still refusing to go back to work are all of the worst teachers anyway.
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These are all the worst ones. These are all the ones that you don't want teaching your
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kid. So fire all of them, that lady, fire her, take her job away, fire the rest of
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them. If that means you're firing thousands of teachers all at once. Fantastic. These
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are all the terrible ones. The good ones want to go back. And you know what you separate?
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Here's the main way you separate the good teachers from the bad ones. Okay. Um, it, this
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is not the only thing, but this is a big part of it. The good teachers care about their
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students and they actually want to educate their students and it matters to them. The
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bad ones don't care. And as I can tell you from experience being in the public school
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system for 13 years, as I was growing up, you can tell when you're in the classroom with
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a teacher who doesn't care about you and doesn't care about the education and doesn't care about
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anything. And it's just there because it's a, because you know, she wants to sit on her butt
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at the, at the desk, hand out busy work and make a paycheck. You know, as the students
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aren't stupid, they can tell the difference. This is a great opportunity really, because
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all of the sit on the button, hand out busy work type teachers, they're all, they're all
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identifying themselves. So what we should be doing is saying, awesome. You're all fired.
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Thank God. Literally nothing is lost. All right. Number two from Vanity Fair. It says in the past,
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actor and activist, Evan Rachel Wood has spoken about the alleged abuse she was subjected to by
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an unnamed ex. In an Instagram post early Monday morning, she put a name to the allegations.
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She wrote, quote, the name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson.
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He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. I was brainwashed
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and manipulated into submission. I'm done living in fear of retaliation, slander, blackmail.
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I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that have enabled him
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before he ruins any more lives. I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silent.
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And apparently, so this has started a sort of a me too thing with Marilyn Manson. Other women have
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come forward and said he was abusive to them. Now, you know, innocent till proven guilty and all that
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kind of stuff. So we can't declare what is actually true and what isn't. I will say that
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I find his accusations to be very credible, considering it's Marilyn Manson we're talking
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about. There's nothing shocking here at all. I mean, this is a guy, like if you go back,
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apparently he's still making music, which that's the only surprising thing to find out. He was dropped
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by his record label. The only surprising thing about that is that he had a record label still.
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So he's still making music, but at least going back to the nineties, all the 90 kids, 90s kids know
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Marilyn Manson. He used to, he would get arrested for committing sexual assault on stage.
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And if my memory serves me correctly, this happened more than once where he would commit sexual assault
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for everyone to see on stage and he would get arrested for it. And then he would just be back
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out doing it again. So, um, yeah, no, not a surprise there. And although it does make you wonder like
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why. So Evan Rachel would apparently got, got mixed up in this when she was a teenager. Um, so,
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you know, there was a grooming that went on. She was a kid. And so you can not, you'd understand that.
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Right. A lot of other women are coming forward. I don't know. Um, it's, it's, you do wonder how a guy
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like this managed to have any women interested in him at all. Um, or why anyone would come anywhere
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near this freak in the first place. But that's, uh, one of the mysteries. Um, then again, you know,
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there are serial killers in prison who, you know, end up in, end up getting married. So
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it's not surprising after all. Number three, we played the clip for you last week of Dr. Fauci saying
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that it's common sense, um, to wear two masks, to double mask. He said, that's common sense. Let's
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play that clip again. Again, this is him. He was asked about, about wearing two masks. He said,
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he said common sense, but let's play it. So if you have a physical covering with one layer,
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you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective.
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And that's the reason why you see people either double masking or doing a version of an N95.
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Okay. So he says, uh, common sense where to mask. There you go.
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Couple days later, this is, I don't know, three, four days later. Uh, he, the, the subject of double
00:24:28.220
masking is broached again. And this is what he says this time. There are many people who feel,
00:24:33.620
you know, if you really want to have an extra little, uh, bit of protection,
00:24:37.560
maybe I should put two masks on. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's no data that indicates
00:24:44.240
that that is going to make a difference. Okay. Okay. So it's common sense to do it, but there's
00:24:51.960
no reason to think it'll make any difference. Probably won't make any difference. There's
00:24:56.020
nothing wrong with it, but it's common sense to do it. I guess there's a way you could make all of
00:25:04.980
that make sense together. Uh, I mean, I guess there could be things that seem like common sense,
00:25:10.920
even though there's no data supporting doing it. I guess you could say that. Um, but that's,
00:25:19.640
that doesn't appear to be his. And here's, here's the problem that we get these, these messages that
00:25:25.300
contradict or seem to contradict. And it's never explained. He doesn't, he doesn't say in that
00:25:32.840
interview. Oh, you know, I know I said this before about a double masking. Let me clarify.
00:25:37.120
Here's what I meant to say. Let me give you the whole deal. Well, they just say one thing one day,
00:25:41.900
something else three days later, and it's up to you to interpret and to figure it out.
00:25:47.540
A lot of people a long time ago threw their hands up and said, forget this. I just don't trust these
00:25:53.120
people. They're telling me different things. They're contradicting themselves. I don't care what
00:25:56.680
they say. It's hard to blame people for taking that attitude when you consider this. And you consider
00:26:02.460
the fact that we're a year into this and we're still getting contradictory information. So you
00:26:06.480
can't even use the excuse anymore that it's early on and they're confused and they don't really know
00:26:11.140
themselves. They're trying to, they're trying to feel their way through it. Um, that excuse,
00:26:16.940
I wasn't convinced by that excuse back last March. Certainly not convinced by it now.
00:26:22.600
Number four, this is from the daily wire. It says the news website of a Christian organization
00:26:26.220
was suspended from its Twitter account last week for saying that Dr. Rachel Levine,
00:26:29.920
the assistant secretary for health at the department of, um, health and human services
00:26:34.120
and the former health department secretary of Pennsylvania is a biological male. So they were
00:26:40.240
suspended for saying that Rachel Levine is a biological male. The daily citizen, which is a
00:26:45.040
part of focus on the family engaged in hateful rhetoric, supposedly according to the social media
00:26:50.260
platform when they tweeted January 19th, this is what they tweeted. On Tuesday, president-elect Joe
00:26:55.840
Biden announced that he had chosen Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as assistant secretary for health
00:26:59.920
at the department of human of, of HHS. Dr. Levine is a transgender woman. That is a man who believes
00:27:05.640
he is a woman. Twitter suspended the account for that. Now they did apparently, um, after, I don't know,
00:27:14.040
a couple of days or several hours, they did reverse the suspension without explanation and put after a
00:27:20.000
little bit of a timeout in the corner, they just, they let the account go back up again. Never
00:27:24.120
explained anything. They never explained how this is hateful rhetoric. And it's not. What was said
00:27:30.160
there, there was no value judgment. There was no insult. Um, nothing like that. They correctly observed
00:27:40.120
that it's a biological male who believes he's a woman. That's what it is. It's what, that's what,
00:27:48.260
that's what it is to be a, it's what the trans woman, that's what it means. Now I realize that people
00:27:53.540
on the left, they don't like that definition, but once again, the same problem we always go back to,
00:28:00.980
they don't like that definition, but they've never given their own. Just like they don't like the
00:28:05.500
definition of woman, but they never told us what they think the definition should be because they
00:28:11.520
just want everything hazy and, and obscure and, and, and undefined. And the great thing about that is
00:28:18.620
if a word and a term, if a concept is hazy, obscure, and undefined, then they can use it however
00:28:22.860
they want. And you can't criticize them because it doesn't really mean anything anyway.
00:28:28.060
Now, although Twitter reversed the suspension, this is, you know, this to me is kind of,
00:28:33.020
this wouldn't become sort of the final straw. Um, and I, we are heading to this point.
00:28:39.080
We're not quite there yet. I think Twitter and the social media companies, they're experimenting.
00:28:44.960
They're kind of treading lightly and seeing what they can get away with. But, um, this is when it's
00:28:50.520
sort of game over when you're at the point where you cannot even speak accurately about biological
00:28:57.920
sex without being banned from the platforms. As it stands right now, most of the time you can.
00:29:04.160
So for Twitter, the rule is, as far as I can tell, and it's not that they ever explained these
00:29:09.960
things, but as far as I can tell, most of the time, if you go out and say, for example, this,
00:29:16.820
a trans woman is a man who believes he's a woman, uh, most of the time you'll be fine. You could talk
00:29:21.100
about, you know, you can even criticize the concept of transgenderism. What they won't let you do is say
00:29:27.000
this directly to a trans person. You do that, you're gone. You quote unquote misgender a
00:29:34.140
trans person. You're gone. But as far as speaking in general abstract terms, they'll let you do that.
00:29:42.040
Not for long. Eventually you won't be able to do that anymore. And when that happens,
00:29:45.400
it's just game over. There's at that point, it's there's, there's, they've made it so that you
00:29:50.580
cannot engage honestly, um, on these social media platforms. And in order to be on the platform,
00:29:56.940
you have to, you have to buy into and affirm a lie in order to even be there.
00:30:01.860
And that's when real decisions I think have to be made by conservatives on these platforms.
00:30:06.660
Not there yet, but that's where we're headed. Uh, all right. This is from Yahoo says a week after
00:30:11.640
turning heads at the inauguration in support of her stepmother, vice president Kamala Harris,
00:30:15.500
um, which her stepmother is vice president Kamala Harris. Of course, Ella Emhoff has landed a lucrative
00:30:21.680
modeling contract. So this is the 21 year old stepdaughter of Kamala Harris, uh, the daughter of
00:30:29.860
second gentleman, Douglas Emhoff. She signed on with a, with a modeling agency and we're told that
00:30:37.240
she's the new style icon. She's a modeling sensation. I think we have a few, do we have
00:30:45.160
some of the pictures, do we have some of the pictures of her, of her modeling, of her, uh,
00:30:50.640
modeling stuff. I don't know if we could play this pictures. Um, I don't know. I, I look at the,
00:30:56.040
I look at the images and okay, there's one. Here we go. So we got the armpit hair. We've got like
00:31:03.020
the, looks like a knitted pink eyebrows. It's like blue and pink knitted sweater.
00:31:12.200
Kind of a weird perm thing going on with the hair. I don't know. I don't know what this,
00:31:15.380
what this is here. Black and white striped hat with little like dog ears and a bright,
00:31:22.100
what is that? Orange or red. I'm colorblind also. That's the other problem. I don't know. I,
00:31:26.440
once again, I have the same problem. It's the same problem I had with the slam poet.
00:31:31.920
You know, I'm not a poetry expert to me. I hear that poetry and I think that's not real poetry.
00:31:37.740
I think anyone could do that. And I look at these pictures and I think, again, not a look at me.
00:31:43.780
I'm not a style. What do I know? I'm wearing my whole style is I wear gray, blue, and plaid.
00:31:47.440
If you haven't noticed, that's all I have. If you go into my, into my closet, I'm like a cartoon
00:31:52.360
character, which is just like the same outfit. I just have 50 of the same outfit. Um, so I'm not
00:31:58.960
a style expert, but I look at some of those pictures and I think, is that really? Cause I
00:32:03.480
could do that. It looks like you just were, you know, you, you didn't have anything clean that day.
00:32:09.860
You're just rifling through your dirty laundry and doing the smell test and grabbing whatever is
00:32:16.120
not completely pungent and throwing it on. And now we're told that's a style icon.
00:32:22.720
Well, all right. What do I know? That's style. Now, if you want to be stylish,
00:32:28.260
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to our daily cancellation. Today, we're going to cancel open relationships, open relationships,
00:35:08.560
polyamory, whatever you want to call it. All of that is canceled. Now the catalyst for this
00:35:13.140
cancellation is a new documentary soon to be released on HBO max called there is no I in threesome.
00:35:18.460
Hopefully someone in the film points out that there's no I, but there is a me.
00:35:23.920
And that's sort of the point. A review of the film on the website, uh, the rap describes it this way.
00:35:28.980
It says after a few years of dating his actress, girlfriend, Zoe, New Zealand based filmmaker,
00:35:33.500
Ali Lux decided to document the year leading up to their marriage, but they aren't focused on
00:35:38.540
invitations and flower arrangements. There is no I in threesome tracks their attempt to open their
00:35:42.860
relationship to others. The likably awkward Ali feels that he missed out sexually during his twenties,
00:35:48.460
and he sees the next 12 months as his last chance to explore before committing to one person forever.
00:35:53.580
Zoe, a beguiling extrovert is game is game. So they establish a monogam ish manifesto and set out to
00:36:00.540
make the most of our bodies while they're still stretchy. Okay. So the plan is to prepare themselves
00:36:07.200
for marriage by whoring themselves out to random strangers. I'm no Nostradamus, but I can safely
00:36:13.840
prophesy that this probably will not end well. And based on what I've read, it doesn't. And when I
00:36:18.680
say based on what I've read, I don't mean what I've read about this documentary. I mean about open
00:36:22.260
relationships in general, it seems here's a shock. Very often they fall apart due to jealousy and
00:36:27.820
resentment. Who could have guessed it? Yes. It turns out that when you love someone, it can be quite
00:36:33.500
difficult to watch them become romantically involved with a third party. And if it's not difficult,
00:36:38.780
then you probably don't love them. And there's the rub pun sort of intended. Now I wish I could,
00:36:45.820
I could say that this topic is limited to a weird HBO documentary or to a small group of,
00:36:50.640
of swingers and other assorted weirdos. But surveys tell us that monogamy is increasingly
00:36:57.040
unpopular among the younger generations. You take these results with a certain grain of salt, but,
00:37:01.920
but almost all the polls on the subject show an unmistakable trend. So for example,
00:37:06.280
YouGov just last year had these, had a, did a poll on this and here are the findings. They said,
00:37:12.400
quote, a January poll of more than 1300 U.S. adults find those, finds that about one third,
00:37:17.760
32% of U.S. adults say that their ideal relationship is non-monogamous to some degree.
00:37:23.960
Millennials, 43% are particularly likely to say that their ideal relationship is non-monogamous,
00:37:28.880
although an equal percentage, 43% of this generation says that their ideal relationship is completely
00:37:33.620
monogamous. According to this poll, the number of Americans who desire monogamous relationships has
00:37:38.960
dropped by 5% in the last five years. And that's pretty steep decline in five years. And this is
00:37:45.160
actually a very serious problem. Monogamous relationships form the foundation of the family
00:37:50.880
and the family is the foundation of human civilization. You can't build anything of significance
00:37:55.580
without a proper foundation. And so again, this is a real problem. I know we like to say that our
00:38:00.700
consensual relationships are of no concern to anyone and can't harm anyone else. This is my
00:38:05.040
business, not yours. I'm not hurting you. That's not true, actually. For one thing, if you have
00:38:11.420
children, then your sexual relationship with a person who is not your spouse, even if it's consensual,
00:38:16.580
even if your spouse is dumb or deluded enough to agree to it, will definitely harm your children
00:38:21.840
who are now being deprived of the stable private home they need and deserve. Also, if lots of people in
00:38:28.700
society give up on monogamy and thus choose to stop reinforcing and stop strengthening that societal
00:38:35.620
foundation that's so essential, then it's going to affect everyone. I have to live in this civilization
00:38:41.560
that you are helping to ruin by giving up on the family. I would say the ruination of society has a
00:38:48.020
very real impact on me. It does affect me, just as it affects everybody else. Now, all of that said,
00:38:54.140
it's not hard to see why our culture finds the concept of open relationships so appealing.
00:38:59.220
The reason for the appeal is that, first of all, we, and I'm going to use the term we in a general
00:39:03.780
sense here, we are perhaps the most self-centered society to ever exist. We are self-centered both
00:39:11.380
in practice and theory. We are self-centered philosophically. We have elevated self-centeredness
00:39:16.380
to our highest ideal. We're conditioned to think of everything and to judge everything in terms of
00:39:22.620
how it makes us feel. And this attitude is reinforced and encouraged everywhere we go,
00:39:28.100
in pop songs, in advertisements, in school, even in church oftentimes. And this is how we then approach
00:39:33.920
relationships. The whole concept of an open relationship becomes immediately absurd when
00:39:39.700
you approach your relationship as an opportunity to love and serve the other. Thomas Aquinas said that
00:39:45.340
to love is to will the good of the other. If that's your philosophy, then obviously you're not
00:39:49.900
going to be even tempted towards open relationships. It's clear that you're not willing the good of
00:39:55.560
your spouse or your partner by sleeping with somebody else, right? But these days, people tend to think
00:40:01.420
that love is about willing the good of myself. And so it starts to make sense. The other reason why
00:40:08.300
open relationships hold a certain attraction to so many is that we are materialists in this culture.
00:40:14.040
So we see our bodies as just our bodies. There's no deeper significance. Our only job is to wring
00:40:21.900
out of our physical frames all of the pleasure that we can before we die. So relationships are all about
00:40:27.260
me. My body is nothing but a physical vessel empty of any deeper meaning or significance. And with all
00:40:34.460
that in mind, sure, I might as well go out and have sex with everybody in the neighborhood. You know,
00:40:38.340
that's the attitude. But it doesn't work. The open relationship inevitably gives way to envy,
00:40:45.440
jealousy, anger, and all the other things you expect. Unless, you know, speaking of sociopaths,
00:40:51.160
as we were earlier, if you're a sociopath, well, the only people who can really manage to have a
00:40:56.680
successful open relationship are those who have little capacity for normal human emotions anyway.
00:41:01.440
We used to recognize such people as sick and get them treatment. Now we call them polyamorous and
00:41:07.280
they have their own pride flag they can wave. For everybody else, though, the experiment fails.
00:41:12.420
Why is that? Well, because open relationships are a contradiction. There is a fundamental tension
00:41:18.580
that you can't escape. The whole point of a human romantic relationship is for it to be closed.
00:41:24.220
The closing of it, the exclusivity, the intimacy is the point. And that's because the relationship has
00:41:32.000
two basic functions or purposes. One, as I already covered, is to ultimately serve as the context
00:41:37.100
through which and in which families are formed. The other purpose of the relationship is to experience
00:41:42.460
love, commitment, closeness with another human being in a unique and intimate way. And to experience
00:41:51.480
this for its own sake, to love another person for their own sake, the ability to do this and to have
00:42:00.740
relationships that are defined this way is literally what separates us from the animals.
00:42:06.080
This is what makes your relationship with your spouse different from the relationship between,
00:42:11.420
say, a male rat and a female rat. They're just bodies to be used by each other as a means to an end.
00:42:17.220
As humans, we strive for something deeper, something more, something more meaningful.
00:42:23.860
Why do we strive for it? Because we can. Because it's a depth and beauty available to us to experience.
00:42:31.440
Because it makes us better people. Because it makes life more worthwhile.
00:42:36.820
Now, people these days who reject monogamy, they want to free themselves from meaning and beauty
00:42:43.520
by behaving more like rodents. And they think they'll find happiness there. But they don't.
00:42:50.780
They won't. At most, they find a fleeting good time, followed by heartbreak, followed by intense
00:42:58.340
loneliness. Especially as they get older, and now they're left alone, and their bodies aren't so
00:43:04.340
stretchy anymore. And they can't, they don't have the same opportunities for those fleeting good times
00:43:09.560
anymore. But by then, unfortunately, it's too late. It's too late to find, as they, as they get older now,
00:43:16.400
and they're alone, and they start to see the value and meaning in that, in that close, intimate,
00:43:22.280
monogamous, exclusive, committed relationship, for a lot of them, they find it's too late to form one.
00:43:27.960
And so they die alone, and there's no one there to mourn them.
00:43:31.320
If you want to avoid that fate, then don't take the advice of this HBO documentary.
00:43:38.720
Especially because open relationships are officially canceled. And that'll do it for us
00:43:44.400
today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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