The Matt Walsh Show - February 17, 2021


Ep. 660 - How The Left Creates A Society Of Self-Loathing Narcissists


Episode Stats

Length

58 minutes

Words per Minute

180.61255

Word Count

10,650

Sentence Count

727

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

30


Summary

A school in New York encourages its white students to be white traitors and white abolitionists. We ll talk about how this is only one of the ways in which our culture instills self-loathing in people, especially children. And in our 5 headlines: The media starts to update its reporting on the death of Officer Brian Sicknick. The update is that their original reporting was absolute bunk. Also, Bill Gates tells us that we ll have to stop eating meat so says him. And for our daily cancellation, we ll discuss the story of the father who sent out a few bad tweets and then ended up with child protective services showing up at his house because of it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a school in New York encourages its white students to be white
00:00:03.800 traitors and white abolitionists. We'll talk about how this is only one of the ways in which
00:00:09.160 our culture instills self-loathing in people, especially children. And in our five headlines,
00:00:14.200 the media starts to update its reporting on the death of Officer Brian Sicknick.
00:00:19.040 The update is that their original reporting was absolute bunk. Also, Bill Gates tells us plebs
00:00:24.760 that we're going to have to stop eating meat. So says him. And for our daily cancellation,
00:00:28.380 we'll discuss the story of the father who sent out a few bad tweets and then ended up with child
00:00:34.540 protective services showing up at his house because of it. All of that and much more today
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00:02:20.380 Well, maybe you've noticed I've made it a habit to base monologues around the reporting of Chris
00:02:25.560 Ruffo, who's the City Journal writer, does a lot of reporting on critical race theory and other things.
00:02:32.960 But the reason why I base a lot of my monologues around him is that he's doing some of the most
00:02:36.740 important reporting in media for my money. Granted, the most important reporting in media is kind of
00:02:43.080 like talking about the cleanest highway rest stop bathrooms in New Jersey, kind of a low bar. But in
00:02:48.480 this case, it really is important. So here's his latest. He says, quote, the principal of Eastside
00:02:54.900 Community School in New York sent white parents this, quote, tool for action, which tells them that
00:03:00.140 they must become white traders and then advocates for full white abolition. This is the new language
00:03:07.200 of public education. Okay, white abolition, white traders. The Federalist also has an article about
00:03:13.320 this. They have more information. They say that the graphic also appears to have been produced and
00:03:16.760 dispersed by the Slow Factory Foundation, a progressive climate and race action group in June of last year,
00:03:23.960 shortly after the death of George Floyd, the organization which claims it is devoted to dismantling
00:03:28.720 colonial systems of oppression and promoting systemic change towards regenerative social and
00:03:34.500 environmental systems, also often advocates for equity centered education focused on creating and
00:03:39.780 delivering resources about power structures and historical social context as a key driver of any
00:03:44.740 topic. So this is a group that is now giving material to schools that the schools then is then sending to
00:03:51.920 parents and using in their classrooms, presumably. Continues, some of the group's initiatives include their
00:03:57.160 study hall conference series devoted to using fashion as a medium for social and environmental
00:04:03.140 change. And they're sponsored by many big name donors, including Adidas, Tesla, YouTube, TED, other other things
00:04:11.980 as well. So this is a far left organization. And this is what they're putting out. And now this school is using
00:04:16.880 it. As for the graphic itself, it says, this is what they're telling the parents. There is a regime of
00:04:24.600 whiteness and there are action oriented white identities. People who identify with whiteness are
00:04:30.700 one of these. It's about time we build an ethnography of whiteness since white people have been the ones
00:04:37.340 writing about and governing others. All right. If that makes sense, which it doesn't. But then there's
00:04:44.820 kind of the illustration to maybe help us make a little bit more sense of it. We're given sort of a dial
00:04:49.220 which goes from red to green, showing us the different white identities. All of the white
00:04:56.300 identities are negative. OK, so they're all framed in a negative way. And you wouldn't really want to
00:05:01.380 be any of them. But if you're white, then you have to be one of them, at least according to the people
00:05:06.260 promoting this stuff. And if you have to be one, then you need to be in the green is what we're being
00:05:11.280 told. So here are the white identities. Let me let me read them to you. Let me pull them up.
00:05:15.540 The white identities will go from red to green. So from from bad to worse or rather from from worse
00:05:22.280 to to not as bad, but still bad. OK. Number one, white supremacist clearly marked white society that
00:05:31.880 preserves names and values white superiority. White voyeurism wouldn't challenge a white supremacist
00:05:39.660 desires non whiteness because it's interesting, pleasurable, seeks to control the consumption and
00:05:45.380 appropriation of non whiteness. Fascination with culture. Example, consuming black culture without
00:05:53.160 the burden of blackness. OK, so I guess, for example, a white person who listens to rap music
00:05:59.480 is a white voyeur. All right. White privilege. That's the third identity. May critique supremacy,
00:06:07.520 but a deep investment in questions of fairness, equality under the normalization of whiteness and
00:06:13.440 the white rule. Sworn goal of diversity. OK, so this is this is actually most white liberals.
00:06:19.320 They're not even in the green yet. They're they're just about according to to this. They are only
00:06:26.560 slightly above white supremacist. These are the white people that are going around talking about
00:06:31.140 diversity and all this kind of stuff. And apparently that is that that's for coming from a place of
00:06:37.160 privilege. Number four, white benefit, sympathetic to a set of issues, but only privately won't speak
00:06:44.880 slash act in solidarity publicly because benefiting through whiteness in public. Then there's white
00:06:50.860 confessional. This is another white identity. You could be a white confessional if you want.
00:06:55.900 What that means is that there's some exposure of whiteness taking place, but as a way of being
00:07:00.400 accountable to POC after seeking validation from POC, people of color, white critical take. So
00:07:07.620 now we're getting let's see, let's look at the dial again. All right. White privilege. You're basically
00:07:13.460 so most liberals, most white liberals are back in the white privilege. They're they're all they're
00:07:17.420 kind of orangish, but they're still sort of in the red. Now we're getting to white critical. Now
00:07:21.600 we're getting into the green. So now we're getting closer to where the the the race hustlers want you to
00:07:27.860 be. White critical. Take on board critiques of whiteness and invest in exposing slash marking the
00:07:35.280 white regime refuses to be complicit with the regime. Whiteness speaking back to whiteness.
00:07:40.740 Then seven, white traitor. Now we're really getting there. Actively refuses complicity. Names what's
00:07:48.020 going on. Intention is to subvert while authority, white authority and tell the truth at whatever costs
00:07:53.200 need them to dismantle institutions. And then finally, this is where they want everyone to be.
00:07:58.660 If you're white, a white abolitionist. This is number eight. This is where you're firmly in the
00:08:02.720 green and a white abolitionist is changing institutions, dismantling whiteness and not
00:08:08.140 allowing whiteness to reassert itself. All right. This is, of course, racist in the extreme.
00:08:16.020 Uh, there's probably no reason to belabor that point. Those who know it's racist don't need it
00:08:21.780 explained to them. Those who don't recognize it as racist immediately are hopeless anyway,
00:08:27.360 or at least they're going to require a much longer explanation and a much longer argument than I can
00:08:31.640 provide here. So instead of talking about the fact that this is absurdly racist, which it obviously
00:08:35.760 is, and that this is a form of, of racism that is widespread, indeed systemic in our culture.
00:08:42.680 Instead of talking about that, I'd like to pull back and take a kind of panoramic view of the
00:08:48.000 situation, if I could, because this is just one way that self-loathing is instilled in the
00:08:55.260 population, especially in children. Yeah, this was, this was given to parents, of course, uh, because
00:09:01.660 this is the message that they're sending to everybody, but only imagine what the kids in school, if the
00:09:06.780 parents are being told this, only imagine what the kids, whenever they end up back in school, are going to
00:09:12.000 be told. Um, and this is only one of the ways, it's not the only way that self-loathing is instilled.
00:09:18.700 And it's, it's, it's not like you escape the self-loathing by being another race, because that,
00:09:24.440 that, that's not going to happen either. Boys of all races are told that they're toxic, that they're
00:09:30.280 infected with toxic masculinity, that their masculinity is yet another thing that has to be purged and
00:09:36.220 deconstructed and destroyed. So, uh, think about already now, now imagine a white boy
00:09:40.980 being subjected to this kind of thing in school. They're, they're just toxic down the line, toxic
00:09:47.520 whiteness, toxic masculinity, everything about them, they're told has to be deconstructed. They
00:09:53.380 should hate everything about themselves. And for girls, um, it's, it's the same though. It's not quite
00:09:59.980 as explicit. Now with boys in our culture, they are explicitly told to hate themselves. Girls not
00:10:06.460 quite as explicit, but they're still the same kind of message. A girl who finds quote, traditional
00:10:11.240 femininity appealing, who dreams more of being a mother and a wife than say a business woman
00:10:15.780 is told to reject that, to hate it. Boys and girls together are taught to be suspicious of their
00:10:21.960 parents, their families, their history. Uh, they're taught to hate their country. They're taught to hate
00:10:26.920 everyone who came before them, all of those ignorant bigots who made them and raised them.
00:10:33.240 And it's not like the message to non-white people and non-white kids is positive either
00:10:37.880 because they're taught that they're victims and that they will never not be victims,
00:10:42.440 that they need to be rescued, that they're helpless. There's a lot of self-loathing that comes with that
00:10:48.620 as well. So just think about this. Think about what we're doing. See, we thought that the problem
00:10:56.920 was the opposite, right? This is the way that we've talked about it for so long. We thought that
00:11:00.780 self-love and self-esteem were being overemphasized and they are, but the self-love that kids are
00:11:10.500 conditioned into is very specific and very shallow and weird and backwards. So they're taught to
00:11:17.580 embrace their vices, their sins. They're taught to define themselves by their sexual proclivities.
00:11:24.740 They're taught to reject their biological sex and invent some new kind of gender for themselves.
00:11:31.480 But underneath all of that, underneath all of that, when you get down to the bottom of it all,
00:11:37.260 we are not turning kids into overconfident narcissists, not at all. We may be turning
00:11:44.240 them into narcissists in a certain way because anyone who's focused intensely on themselves and
00:11:50.500 can't see outside of their own interests, can't think about anything other than themselves,
00:11:55.740 that's a narcissist. But just because you're thinking about yourself and you're focused intensely
00:12:00.940 on yourself doesn't mean it's in a positive way. We may be turning kids into narcissists in a certain
00:12:05.880 way, but self-loathing ones, self-loathing narcissists. We live in a culture of self-loathing
00:12:12.840 narcissists. We're raising generations of self-loathing narcissists because that's the message that's
00:12:19.880 being sent at the deepest level, right? Hate yourself. Hate who you really are. Reject it all.
00:12:28.640 If you're a white boy going to school and totally exposed to modern culture,
00:12:35.820 especially if you don't have a family, if you don't have parents, they're going to insulate
00:12:39.740 you to some extent from that, then forget about it. It's nothing but self-loathing all the way down
00:12:44.280 the line. But it's not just white boys. It's everyone to some extent. Hate who you really are.
00:12:52.960 Reject it. Be something else. Be someone else. Be who we want you to be. Who we think you should
00:13:01.880 be. Not who you actually are. And then we wonder. We wonder why our kids are depressed and suicidal.
00:13:11.440 Well, it's no mystery. It really isn't. Let's get to our five headlines.
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00:15:07.660 this is one that I didn't have planned. I didn't have written on my sheet of headlines because
00:15:12.000 I just saw it right before we went on the air. Rush Limbaugh has died at the age of 70 from lung
00:15:19.000 cancer. It feels sudden somehow. Somehow it still feels sudden, even though we knew for months now
00:15:25.040 that he'd been diagnosed and he'd talked about it openly. Still in some way, to me anyway, it feels
00:15:32.120 sudden. And I guess that's the way it goes when you have a man of such consequence, a true legend
00:15:40.360 and pioneer and icon who dies. Someone who is really in every sense irreplaceable when they die
00:15:47.360 and leave behind a hole that cannot really be filled. He was a man of consequence. And no matter
00:15:54.560 how you feel about his politics, you should be able to respect that at least. I know that's not the
00:16:00.560 way it goes now in our culture. You know, we don't admire and respect great men and women,
00:16:06.160 but we should, even if you disagree with them, to be a true original, which he was in a world of
00:16:15.140 copycats. And he spawned a whole generation of copycats. You know, one other thing I want to say
00:16:21.180 here is that obviously you've got these vile ghouls online who are already celebrating his death
00:16:27.420 and dancing on his grave and all of that. And we knew that was going to happen.
00:16:33.020 But I, what I, what I really wish we wouldn't do as conservatives and especially conservative
00:16:39.160 media is amplify that because, you know, the trolls, the reason that they're doing that is
00:16:44.320 because they want attention. So let's not give them that attention. That's what I would rather do.
00:16:48.320 I'm not going to sit here and read, oh, you're not going to believe what this Twitter user said
00:16:51.840 about Russia. I'm not going to do that because that's what they want. That's what they would want
00:16:55.700 me to do. It's what they want all of us to do. You know, the other thing about Rush Limbaugh that
00:16:59.860 I, that I, that I've been thinking about even before this news is that he
00:17:04.920 faced his own mortality and his own death with courage and dignity. Another thing you should be
00:17:12.820 able to respect regardless of politics. And he talked about it openly. And he, he wasn't, he wasn't,
00:17:20.020 especially in one of his last shows right before Christmas. And he was, and he was talking about,
00:17:24.100 it was clear that he was, he wasn't trying to delude himself into thinking that, you know,
00:17:28.900 everything's going to be okay. He knew the end was coming. He just don't know exactly when,
00:17:33.260 but he knew it was coming. And he faced that with courage and dignity. And that's, again,
00:17:37.900 not something that you can say about everybody. And I suspect that a lot of the trolls who are
00:17:44.460 dancing on his grave and having a good laugh when their time comes, they will not face it with the
00:17:49.960 same courage and dignity that, uh, that Rush Limbaugh faces on something to think about
00:17:53.900 before you, if you're considering celebrating anybody's death or laughing about it, like it's
00:17:59.120 a joke, you know, we're all mortal. We're all going to join Rush Limbaugh and every other,
00:18:04.320 all the other billions of people who have died sooner rather than later, we'll all join them.
00:18:08.180 We all live short lives. We're mortal. And that's the lot that we have been given as mortal beings.
00:18:13.940 So maybe, maybe, maybe hold off on the laughter a little bit because your, your, your turn is
00:18:19.180 coming. All of us, it is. Uh, but just another thing to admire about Rush Limbaugh that he was
00:18:24.320 able to do that. Um, and he's, uh, again, legend icon. Um, there'll be a lot of time to sort of
00:18:35.640 talk about and parse out and analyze his, his influence, which was immense and in a lot of ways
00:18:40.320 incalculable. But for now, what I'll say is rest in peace to Rush Limbaugh and, uh, prayers,
00:18:45.500 prayers for his family. You know, I have to say I'm a little bit of a hypocrite because I have been
00:18:50.760 criticizing, you know, the Nashville city government here for, for being completely unprepared for their
00:18:57.600 lack of winter weather preparedness as we go into like day three and I haven't seen a plow touch any
00:19:03.100 road. Um, but we're, we're not much better. You know, I guess I discovered I, we also were not
00:19:10.200 prepared and that's why yesterday I took my kids out to go sledding at the park and, um, we didn't
00:19:15.840 have any sleds. We had no sleds for them. And so we had to take the, uh, lids from, you know, the big
00:19:21.760 plastic storage bins that you put stuff in. So we took the lids from big plastic storage bins and
00:19:27.780 that's what they were sledding on plastic lids down at the park. So that's all we had. We all
00:19:33.080 had for that. We really, and we couldn't get to Walmart to get them new ones. And even if we did,
00:19:36.660 they'd probably all be out anyway. But then we go down to the park and of course, you know,
00:19:41.000 of course a bunch of other kids there and all the kids have the fanciest sleds you've ever seen in
00:19:45.920 your life. A bunch of, so, you know, nobody around here has a shovel or salt for their sidewalk,
00:19:52.540 but they do have $70 sleds. And I had a lot of, I have to say I had, I was experiencing a lot of
00:19:59.140 sled envy and a lot of sled shame at the same time. My kids, not so much. They were, they were
00:20:04.580 having a grand old time on their lids. So that's good. Kids are very simple, which is nice. Uh,
00:20:10.240 okay. Number one, this to me is a pretty big deal. Reading from the national review, a column by Andrew
00:20:15.120 McCarthy. It says a few days ago, the New York times quietly updated its report published over a month
00:20:19.580 earlier, asserting that Capitol police officer, Brian Sicknick had been killed by being struck
00:20:23.940 with a fire extinguisher during the January 6th riot. According to the update, this is the New York
00:20:28.120 times, this is their update. New information has emerged regarding the death of Capitol police
00:20:31.600 officer, Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of death provided by officials close to the
00:20:35.760 Capitol police. Um, as I detailed in a column last week, McCarthy says what the times calls new
00:20:41.200 information actually began emerging the same day the paper filed its January 8th report.
00:20:45.160 And then the column goes on to say that there were reports, there were reports as early as January
00:20:50.300 8th. So that is less than two days afterwards saying that Sicknick may have died of a stroke.
00:20:56.600 And as no evidence has emerged for any other theory, the stroke idea seems extremely credible at this
00:21:03.380 point, which means that his death didn't necessarily have any connection to the riot whatsoever.
00:21:10.960 In fact, it seems to me again, because there's, there's no, there's no other evidence for
00:21:15.800 anything. We have the reports initially saying it was a stroke, uh, that hasn't been confirmed yet
00:21:21.080 as far as I'm aware. And we were, we were never told anything officially about the medical exam or
00:21:25.580 the autopsy report. Um, but if he was beat to death, bludgeoned to death at this point, you would
00:21:32.760 expect there to be some kind of evidence for it, some sort of arrest that had been made. And that
00:21:37.300 hasn't happened. So this seems very credible that it was a stroke. Was it a stroke somehow connected
00:21:44.480 to the riot? Did the riot trigger something? Did he, I mean, it's possible. It's also very possible
00:21:50.800 that it's a coincidence that there was a riot and then he happened to suffer this medical emergency
00:21:56.040 after the fact. I mean, you have to, you have to ask yourself, um, during the whole course of the
00:22:01.300 BLM riots over the, over the summer, hundreds of cities, uh, was there, was there ever during all
00:22:08.160 of that? Did any police officer in, you know, after a riot had occurred, maybe at, at his home or,
00:22:18.340 or back, um, at the station, suffer a medical emergency and die a stroke, a heart attack,
00:22:22.720 something like that. Did that happen? Well, we don't know. I mean, it could have easily happened.
00:22:28.300 The point is it would not have been reported. It wouldn't have made the news, but it easily could
00:22:33.140 have happened. Was there, there was rioting in Portland for months during the whole course of
00:22:40.300 all that rioting in Portland. Did any police officer die of anything? Seems very likely. I don't know.
00:22:46.600 It seems likely, but it wouldn't be reported. That's the difference. And if the media did report it,
00:22:54.940 they certainly wouldn't assume that there's a connection and report it as a connection.
00:23:00.080 If a Portland police officer went home and eight hours after he was, uh, on duty dealing with a
00:23:07.960 riot, he, he died of a stroke. The media would not report it as connected to the riots. And we all know
00:23:15.560 that. But what we've seen here, the way that, um, the Democrat party has exploited this man's death
00:23:23.060 and lied about it. Because let's be real about this, this fire extinguisher story, this, this was
00:23:29.580 a lie. It was a fabrication. I don't know who originally fabricated it, but it was a fabrication
00:23:33.580 because it, it just didn't happen. It's not like something similar happened and it was
00:23:40.380 misinterpreted. It doesn't, it's nothing like that happened to officer Brian Sicknick. So, uh, this
00:23:46.380 appears to be a total fabrication, total lie. We don't really know where it originated. I don't think
00:23:50.400 it originated with the New York times. Maybe it did, but we don't know, but what they've done here
00:23:56.340 by exploiting this man's death and lying about it is, is one of the most craven things we've seen
00:24:03.740 from the Democrat party. Uh, and, and, and I realized what a statement that is, but I want to emphasize
00:24:09.840 how despicable this really has been. And it only shows again, why you, you know, I don't know how many
00:24:15.580 times we have to see this before people, before it really sinks in with all of us. You cannot take
00:24:19.700 the mainstream media narrative at face value ever. Okay. You all, anytime there's a report
00:24:27.440 about anything, especially if it's something that has political significance, the Democrat party is
00:24:35.640 using, uh, to, you know, push some sort of agenda of theirs. Anytime that happens, whatever the report
00:24:41.600 is, you have to be skeptical. And there were signs early on, like the way that this was reported
00:24:49.380 from the very beginning, because it is, you know, we're also at a disadvantage. None of us were there.
00:24:55.960 We, if, and if we don't have our own sources and people on the ground telling us, then how are we
00:25:00.160 supposed to know what happened? We have to, you know, where are we supposed to get our information?
00:25:03.580 And that's part of the problem. But there were signs early on to be skeptical of this, the way it was
00:25:09.560 reported. Yeah. The media was saying that maybe there was a fire extinguisher. We were hearing
00:25:13.660 something about maybe he was hit over the head or whatever. But if you looked at the way it was
00:25:17.400 reported, it was framed in kind of, it was framed in an oddly passive sort of way where they were
00:25:25.000 telling us that officer Sicknick was engaging with rioters and then, and then, you know, and suffered an
00:25:31.440 injury and then later died. And it was just kind of, it wasn't exactly being reported that he had been
00:25:38.120 beat to death right there during the riot. There was this little bit of, there was, there was clear
00:25:44.280 uncertainty enough to make you stop and go, wait, what a second? What exactly happened here?
00:25:52.200 Never take the mainstream media narrative at face value. Always be skeptical.
00:25:58.800 You can't go wrong, right? There's no, there's no real disadvantage to just being skeptical.
00:26:03.060 It doesn't mean you automatically disbelieve every single thing you're told by the mainstream media,
00:26:07.680 but always skeptical, especially when there's political significance. Okay. From the Daily
00:26:13.460 Wire, it says in a never before seen 1992 home video, Dylan Farrow, the adopted daughter of Woody Allen
00:26:18.960 and Mia Farrow is heard as a seven-year-old telling her mother that Allen quote touched her private parts,
00:26:25.040 telling her, um, this Allen told her allegedly, do not move. I have to do this. The young girl then
00:26:31.620 poignantly, poignantly tells her mother, I didn't want him to do it, mama. I didn't like it.
00:26:36.260 The video is featured in a new four-part HBO documentary series about the Oscar-winning
00:26:40.120 director titled Allen vs. Farrow that premieres Sunday on HBO. The series will feature recordings
00:26:45.600 that Mia secretly made of her phone conversations with Allen, including one in which she tells him
00:26:50.560 that Dylan is not all right after the alleged incident. Uh, Mia Farrow and Allen, who had been
00:26:55.520 together since 1979, split after she found out that he was having an affair with her adopted
00:26:59.260 daughter, Sunye Previn. At the time, Allen was 55 and Sunye Previn was, uh, 21. And then it goes
00:27:07.200 into, if you want to watch this documentary, it goes into great detail about Woody Allen. I, you know,
00:27:13.740 it's pretty clear to me, like, of course, we got to attach allegedly to all these claims and
00:27:18.900 everything. And, um, regardless though, I mean, this is a guy 55 years old, marries his girlfriend's
00:27:26.780 adopted daughter who's 34 years younger than him. That's enough right there to know this guy is a
00:27:33.800 degenerate, creepy freak already from that. And then you add in these claim, these, uh, the
00:27:41.640 allegations, I personally find them quite credible given what we know about Woody Allen.
00:27:47.000 But think about all the Hollywood A-listers that have worked with this guy. I mean, almost
00:27:54.020 everyone in Hollywood has. Almost all the big names have at some point worked on a Woody Allen
00:27:58.520 project. And yet these people will still lecture us. And even while the, even, even once Me Too
00:28:06.340 happened and during the Me Too hysteria, Woody Allen was still putting movies out. And a lot of the
00:28:13.540 Me Too champions were still starring in them. Number three, Claudia Conway, um, the daughter
00:28:20.960 of Kellyanne Conway and George Conway auditioned on American Idol a couple of nights ago. Now American
00:28:26.300 Idol came in for some criticism, um, by people calling this exploitative and gross to bring this
00:28:31.960 girl in as fodder for tabloids to bring attention to the show, exploiting her troubled situation. And I
00:28:38.860 guess, um, the question of whether it's exploitative to have Claudia Conway on American Idol, it certainly
00:28:47.220 seems exploitative to me, but it really depends on, on whether Claudia Conway is actually a burgeoning
00:28:53.140 pop star. I mean, if she really is massively talented as a singer, then maybe you can't blame
00:29:00.880 them for, for bringing her on if she's actually that good. But if she's not, then you have to ask
00:29:08.220 why she made the show at all. And I know that they do bring on some bad singers on purpose so that
00:29:13.360 everyone can laugh at them. But then you have to ask, why did they pick her? You see, that would seem
00:29:19.720 especially exploitative if she's not a very good singer. Um, and she wants to be an American Idol and
00:29:25.640 she's only famous because of this deeply troubled, disordered family dysfunction that she's a part
00:29:31.980 of. And you bring her on the show. Well, that's, that's extremely exploitative, isn't it? So that's
00:29:39.100 what it really comes down to for me. Is she a good singer or not? And this is not to make fun of her
00:29:43.700 or anything, but that's, I think that's how you can tell if, uh, if this is blatant exploitation or not.
00:29:50.700 And so let's, uh, she, she did the audition a couple nights ago and let's, let's take a listen.
00:29:57.040 You sound like a song. My God, this reminds me of when we were young. Let me photograph you in this
00:30:11.920 delight in case it is the last time that we might be exactly like we were before we realized we were
00:30:23.300 scared of getting old. It made us restless. Yes. Yeah. Um, yes, it was exploitation. It was,
00:30:33.160 it was exploitation. And I don't mean this, this, this is not about mocking this girl who I feel bad
00:30:39.780 for. She didn't ask to be a part of this. And, um, well, she may have asked to be a part of it.
00:30:46.140 She has to be a part of, of American Idol. And she has been on social media, bringing attention to
00:30:50.760 herself, but she's a kid, you know, we, the kids don't know any better. Um, what she didn't ask for
00:30:59.640 is to be in this deeply dysfunctional family situation with a mother and father apparently
00:31:04.420 seem to hate each other and are pretty public about it. Um, or at least, at least I would say
00:31:10.840 it's, it seems that the father hates the mother and it's pretty public about that. Um, but in any
00:31:16.540 case, yeah, this is Claudia Conway is not going to be a pop star. I think we could tell from that
00:31:22.700 she's a better singer. She's a fine singer. She's a better singer than I am. Uh, she's got a better
00:31:27.520 shot at pop stardom than I do, but even so she's not going to be a pop star and they brought her on
00:31:32.700 anyway. And so yes, confirmed exploitation. Number four, uh, here's some bad news from Jen
00:31:40.880 Pisaki. Listen, I think one point the Europeans would like to better understand it, what he means
00:31:47.300 with foreign policy for the middle class. Does it mean to uphold Donald Trump's tariffs? Like
00:31:53.160 in the case of aluminum from the UAE is the Biden administration used the same reasoning as the
00:31:59.960 Trump administration? I can assure you that the president, this president does not have
00:32:04.880 is not looking to the last presidency as the model for his foreign policy moving forward. Uh,
00:32:10.240 president Biden has been working in the global arena for decades. Uh, and what he means by foreign
00:32:16.880 policy for the middle class is, uh, ensuring that our team working on economic issues, our team working
00:32:23.060 on national security issues, uh, our teams thinking about how policies impact the American people are
00:32:29.220 talking and that we make decisions and make policies through that prison. Uh, we are certainly reviewing,
00:32:35.240 uh, a range of terrorists that have been put in place by the past administration. I don't have any
00:32:39.260 updates on that for you, but what the president is speaking to is the importance of, uh, contemplating,
00:32:45.800 integrating our domestic and national security teams and the policymaking and the process that,
00:32:51.240 uh, they go through and his view that we are stronger globally if we take care of our house
00:32:57.120 here at home. Uh, so that is part of his objective as well. Well, that is bad news. Trump is not a model
00:33:02.880 for their foreign policy. Why not? Why? I think if he's a model for anything, it's actually foreign
00:33:09.500 policy. But I think there are a lot of aspects of Donald Trump that you wouldn't want to model yourself
00:33:16.760 after or your presidential administration after, but, um, foreign policy. Absolutely. We went through
00:33:24.180 four years without a new war, peace deals in the Middle East. That's pretty damn successful.
00:33:33.140 He, one, one thing I think you can't deny is that he is the most successful foreign policy president
00:33:38.740 that we've had in generations. Um, and it's, it's a sad statement though, right? Because the main thing
00:33:48.200 that makes him such a great foreign policy president and makes him so successful is simply that he didn't
00:33:53.480 start any wars. And so it's unfortunate that the bar is that low that all you have to do as a president
00:33:59.300 is not start a disastrous war that, uh, claims thousands of lives and billions or trillions of
00:34:05.600 dollars. Like that's all you have to do is not start a war, but that's where we are. And, uh, and
00:34:10.000 he, and he did get over that bar. He cleared that bar quite easily. And I think it deserves a lot of
00:34:15.340 credit for that. So yes, I, I would like to see, I would like to see the Trump foreign policy emulated,
00:34:20.620 but we won't. Now we're gonna go back to the more traditional, uh, foreign policy, which means
00:34:26.820 droning random villages overseas, starting wars, trying to spread democracy to people who have no
00:34:34.140 interest in democracy whatsoever. Uh, that's what we're going to get from, from Joe Biden.
00:34:38.700 And also another, another thing from, uh, Jen Psaki, I want to play for you more, more bad news.
00:34:43.420 I'm afraid she was asked by someone on Twitter, how she plans to help small businesses.
00:34:50.000 Does, uh, or, or rather how does Biden plan to help small businesses? Does the administration have
00:34:54.700 a plan in place? What are they going to do for all these small businesses that have been
00:34:57.400 devastated by the lockdowns? And here is her answer.
00:35:00.840 What is president Biden doing for my small business? First and foremost, he nominated a
00:35:05.940 woman to lead the small business administration who formerly worked there. Second thing is he
00:35:10.740 signed an executive order to make it easier for, uh, minority owned small businesses to get access
00:35:15.900 to the funding, uh, that they need. And third is that, uh, in the American rescue plan, there's
00:35:21.400 currently about $60 billion, uh, to help a range of small, small businesses, uh, get access to additional
00:35:27.500 funds. So did you get that? The first two things, number one and two, first thing he nominated a
00:35:33.700 woman and also he's going to help minority businesses. Great. Well, so what, so you're a
00:35:39.380 white male business owner. Guess you're out of luck. All business owners are really out of luck when
00:35:44.280 it comes down to it. This is, this is how, because think about it. This was not, um, an off the cuff
00:35:49.760 answer that Jen Psaki gave at a press conference. Uh, this was, this was something that they shot
00:35:55.660 ahead of time and put a little production behind and then released. So they, this, this is how they
00:36:02.400 presented it on purpose, which shows how incredibly out of touch the left is. Democrat politicians are
00:36:09.840 that they actually thought the average small business owner would hear that answer and be happy
00:36:15.340 with it. They, they really thought that the average small business owner who is watching their life's
00:36:22.520 work fall apart in front of them will take solace in the fact that, uh, well, at least a woman was
00:36:28.520 nominated to lead the small business administration. That's what they think. They, they, they, they don't
00:36:35.780 understand how a normal person's brain operates. That is how it operates in a rational, logical kind of way.
00:36:45.340 And the rational, logical conclusion is that I don't give a damn if you get what, what gender
00:36:50.860 is leading, what administration or what agency in government, what do I care about that?
00:36:56.880 These policies have destroyed my life and my business. That's what I care about.
00:37:01.320 It doesn't make it any better because there are more women in the administration now.
00:37:06.600 They do not understand that. They don't understand it. They don't have, they don't have brains that work
00:37:11.780 that they don't have normally functioning brains. And that's the problem. Number five from the Hill.
00:37:17.840 It says Bill Gates recently said that he believes rich nations would help the global fight against
00:37:22.040 climate change by consuming only plant-based meat products instead of beef. In a recent interview
00:37:27.400 with technology review, Gates discussed his new book, how to avoid a climate disaster and emphasize
00:37:32.540 the benefits rich nations could produce by moving to 100% synthetic beef. He says, I do think all rich
00:37:39.580 countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to taste difference. And the claim
00:37:44.260 is they're going to make it taste even better over time. Yeah. No, thanks, Bill. I don't think,
00:37:50.140 I don't think I'll be doing that. I don't think I'll ever be doing that. I'm going to stick with the
00:37:52.600 regular beef. And also I don't, I, I don't really give a damn about your opinion about anything.
00:37:59.880 We're hearing, we're hearing a lot from Bill Gates these last few months. Why should, but no one ever
00:38:07.260 stops to explain why we should actually care what he thinks about anything. I understand that he's
00:38:13.120 rich and he was successful with his business. Good for him. But why should I care what he thinks about
00:38:18.300 what I eat? Why should I care what he thinks about the virus mitigation strategies? Why should I care
00:38:25.120 what he thinks about the climate? That's the part that's always left out when Bill Gates is brought
00:38:30.940 in for an interview or Bill Gates sits down for a written interview or they write another article
00:38:35.080 about what Bill Gates thinks. Nobody ever stops and says, oh, by the way, here's why you should care
00:38:40.280 what this guy says. Until they explain it, I'm going to continue not caring. Unless they can give me
00:38:46.940 some really good reason why I should. And I, you know, as far as Bill Gates' own diet, I have no idea he
00:38:53.860 might be a vegetarian himself, but I would not be surprised at all if that guy's eating, you know,
00:38:58.180 six hamburgers a day while telling the rest of us that we're going to have to move to the plant-based
00:39:02.120 stuff. And, you know, we'll get used to the taste. You'll get used to the taste. I won't. I'm not
00:39:07.120 worried about that because I'm Bill Gates, but you, you know, you'll figure it out. What do you need
00:39:11.120 good taste for? Why do you need good food? You don't need that. Just another basic joy, basic pleasure in
00:39:19.700 life that you don't need. I mean, I'll have all the joys and pleasures for myself, but you don't need
00:39:24.960 it. That's the attitude. Shut up, Bill. Shut up. That's my, that would be my response. Let's go to
00:39:32.960 reading the comments now. Some of the comments under the show on YouTube from yesterday. And if you want
00:39:38.320 me to read your comment, all you have to do is, uh, is leave one. And that's, that's a good, that's a
00:39:42.660 good, at least, at least put you in the running. You can't win if you don't play, as they say.
00:39:46.400 This is from Walt G. He says, a little thought experiment. An alien civilization has the
00:39:50.220 technology to detect life on earth, the ability to travel light years using incredibly advanced
00:39:54.720 technology. They overcome all of these obstacles that we still can't fathom. They achieve these
00:39:59.400 things, get here and crash. Yeah, I do. I do think about that when we hear about the, you know,
00:40:06.500 documents, uh, outlining all of the UFO material that the Pentagon has tested. And again, of course,
00:40:15.640 UFO doesn't, when the, when the Pentagon talks about UFO, or, uh, I guess now the word they use
00:40:22.240 is UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon. Uh, they're not saying that it's a space alien. They're,
00:40:27.740 they're simply saying they can't identify. They don't know what it is. And we talked about yesterday,
00:40:31.640 the, uh, hundreds of, of pages of documents that they released freedom of information act request,
00:40:37.880 um, talking about the unidentified flying objects they recovered and tested.
00:40:44.520 And apparently, allegedly, some of this stuff has material that, uh, functions in a way that is
00:40:51.160 unknown to, uh, to mankind as far as we know. Metal that can be bent, uh, you know, is basically
00:40:57.160 indestructible, but it can be bent in all these different shapes. And then, and then we'll snap
00:41:00.880 back into its original shape, that kind of thing. And yeah, I love these stories. I do find them
00:41:06.400 very interesting. I do think we should at least entertain the idea that, that maybe they are
00:41:11.920 extraterrestrial in origin. But then I also think, man, all of these super advanced civilizations
00:41:18.140 coming here and then they crash. That's, there's something about that. There seems to be a little
00:41:24.040 bit of a disconnect. I don't know. Aaron Peacock says, grown men that take baths also sit down
00:41:30.240 when they pee. I agree. Aaron. Um, I absolutely agree. I'm very anti Beth. Matthew, uh, mill scale
00:41:37.760 says, Matt, I am single right now. And I can tell you that it's awful trying to find someone. I thought
00:41:42.340 being able to go to college would be my chance to meet someone, but instead I get to spend my time
00:41:46.200 behind a computer screen. Yeah. I don't, I don't envy you for that at all. Um, and I feel, I do,
00:41:52.160 I feel terrible for, for people that are in this situation, especially, you know, maybe like you,
00:41:56.420 you're supposed to have your first year at college, looking forward to meeting people.
00:42:00.240 And now you're just sitting behind a computer screen. Um, but it kind of, it, it, it kind of
00:42:07.800 relates back to the meat thing from Bill Gates where he says, yeah, yeah. Hamburgers and meat tastes
00:42:15.620 good. It's a little joy that, that, that, uh, that you have in your life, but you don't need that.
00:42:19.900 We could take that. We can take another little joy away from you. And the people that have engineered
00:42:25.380 the lockdowns and pushed them and keep them in place, they have the same attitude about
00:42:29.840 little, little joys, little human things, like going out and meeting people.
00:42:36.680 They say, you don't really need that. You can survive in your house until you can't anymore.
00:42:42.440 But until then you can survive, you'll have all the food. Food doesn't even need to taste good.
00:42:48.500 See the elites, as far as they're concerned, if they simply keep you alive, then they've done
00:42:56.420 their job. As long as you're still alive, then you have nothing to complain about.
00:43:01.640 While they again, enjoy all of the pleasures and everything that life has to offer.
00:43:07.140 They also have not been staying home. These people, Bill Gates has been flying all over the place,
00:43:11.100 doing interviews. You know, they get, they get, they, they're, they're still going to work.
00:43:17.380 They're having press conferences. In fact, they're more active than they've ever been,
00:43:21.920 but you don't need that. Uh, little things like companionship. Who needs that?
00:43:29.980 Well, in fact, everyone does. People need that. Human beings need companionship. That is,
00:43:34.180 that is an actual human need. Dano says, Hey Matt, you canceling your own fans slash followers
00:43:40.720 gives me anxiety. Please don't cancel me losing Trump and losing my ability to watch your show
00:43:44.780 will destroy my life. Well, Dano, you know, when you beg to be canceled, that's only a recipe for
00:43:52.180 getting canceled and banned from the show. So you're gone, but thanks anyway for listening and
00:43:59.980 commenting for your final time. I'm not big on new year's resolutions because I think that if there's
00:44:05.360 something that you actually intend to do, then you're not going to save it for some moment.
00:44:10.660 Uh, well, I'm going to start doing it on the new year. No, if you want to do something,
00:44:13.700 if you want to improve your life, you can start right now. And so we don't need to call this a
00:44:17.000 new year's resolution. How about a right now resolution? One of them is, uh, to, to learn,
00:44:21.080 to, to grow your, um, your knowledge, to become a more well-rounded person. This is a process we should
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00:47:03.680 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:47:09.360 It's really impossible to remember all of the fake and frivolous controversies that the internet has
00:47:14.280 given us. That's part of the fake and frivolous package, I suppose. They're also forgettable. But
00:47:18.640 one such controversy has stood out and will be remembered, at least by me. That's the controversy
00:47:24.520 surrounding the man who is known now as Bean Dad. Now, some background, John Roderick is a musician
00:47:30.900 podcast host who became infamous on Twitter last month after he tweeted out a thread detailing his
00:47:36.640 daughter's experience with a can opener. Now in a long, very unnecessarily long story, he explained that
00:47:42.980 his daughter wanted to open a can of beans, but rather than do it for her, he, he had, he had her
00:47:48.420 figure it out for herself as a kind of teaching opportunity. And he says it took her hours, hours
00:47:54.240 trying to open the can before she finally did it. And he posted this as sort of a congratulations to
00:47:59.860 himself for being a good dad. But the world and Twitter didn't see it that way. The thread went viral.
00:48:07.580 People were outraged. They accused him of abuse, psychological abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse,
00:48:12.700 they said that he was starving his daughter. They said that he's a horrible person, et cetera,
00:48:16.140 and so forth. Then they started digging up his old tweets, of course. And next thing you know,
00:48:20.320 he's not only a bad father, abusive, but racist too. So he's racist and abusive.
00:48:25.860 All of this stuff happened. And eventually he apologized and deactivated his account,
00:48:30.360 but it was too late. Meanwhile, back in realityville, it's obvious that the story was an
00:48:36.100 exaggeration. The girl was not working on a can of beans for hours. Give me a break.
00:48:40.980 And even if she was, it's not abuse. Presumably she's not malnourished. He is feeding her. He never
00:48:48.940 said that her continued access to food was predicated on her ability to get the can open. He didn't say
00:48:53.960 that. So even if he was being a jerk about the can, whatever. Calling that abuse is insane.
00:49:00.460 And look, I have never been in a situation where my kids were trying to open a can for six hours. So
00:49:10.160 I've never done that. But all of us as parents, we have moments where our kids ask us to do something
00:49:16.280 and we could do it for them. It would be very easy for us to do, but for whatever reason,
00:49:22.100 we just don't feel like doing it. And so we say, no, look, you've figured that out for yourself. I'm not
00:49:26.300 doing it. So all parents have moments like that. And it's good to have moments like that. It's good
00:49:31.840 for the, for the kid to have to figure something out. Um, six hours opening a can is a little bit
00:49:38.400 excessive, but even so. So there was no abuse here. Uh, and being dad's real crime, if he committed
00:49:46.200 one was in being a tool who tries to, you know, brag about his own excellent parenting on the internet
00:49:51.880 or what he thinks is excellent parenting. And if, if that's the crime, then that's the one he
00:49:56.480 committed, but that doesn't make him a child abuser. Right. Or, or so I thought an update on
00:50:01.340 this story from reason written by Lenore Skenazy. It says Roderick recently divulged a new wrinkle in
00:50:06.140 the story, which makes it clear that it was not just an online kerfuffle for his afternoon of bean
00:50:10.620 withholding. Roderick actually earned a visit from the child protective services in Roderick on the line,
00:50:15.980 his weekly podcast with Merlin man. Roderick said a dozen people reported me to CPS and they were
00:50:20.340 obligated to come interview my family and interrogate my daughter. Thankfully the CPS visit
00:50:25.120 went well. They were wonderful said Roderick and they were just doing their jobs. Apparently one
00:50:30.920 investigator, uh, told Roderick's daughter for about an hour or rather, um, spoke to Roderick's daughter
00:50:35.860 for about an hour privately asking questions like, what do you like about your dad? And what do you not
00:50:41.200 like about your dad? Roderick's daughter told him about this afterward. Turns out she doesn't like
00:50:45.820 the fact that he gets tired of playing Legos faster than he does, than she does. Okay. So
00:50:51.020 that's, that's a report from reason child protective services because he made his daughter open a can of
00:50:56.640 beans on her own. This is the kind of thing that keeps parents up at night, right? This, this right
00:51:02.160 here, not because we've had, we have similar family drama involving cans of beans and not because we're
00:51:06.960 abusive, but because CPS can be summoned to our homes very easily. And for the most trivial of
00:51:13.340 reasons, and once they show up, your parental rights are on the line. Of course they're not
00:51:19.380 suspended now. So CPS does not have the right to enter your home without permission or to speak to
00:51:24.260 your child without permission. And that's something that parents, I think a lot of parents don't realize
00:51:28.480 and, um, CPS, I think counts on parents not realizing that. And they show up and knock on the
00:51:34.220 door and they say, can we come in? Can we talk to your kid? And parents, because they are scared and,
00:51:40.480 and, and, and they feel like their backs against the wall. Now they'll say, sure, come in. And
00:51:44.040 you don't have to do that. And it's a mistake to let CPS in, in that situation. Because think about
00:51:50.820 it there, according to, um, John Roderick, they're sitting down there talking to her, his daughter for
00:51:55.340 an hour saying things like, what do you, these are fishing leading kinds of questions.
00:52:01.040 What do you not like about your dad? I mean, who knows what kind of thing a kid will say
00:52:07.600 in response to that? Kids are imaginative, kids that they don't really understand what
00:52:14.520 the consequences are. They don't really know what's going on. A kid could be, you know, you
00:52:19.740 could, CPS could come in at a moment when the child is angry at the parent, not because they're
00:52:23.940 being abused, but because kids get angry about, you know, not being allowed to watch TV when
00:52:27.460 they want to or something. And who knows what they'll say. So the minute you say, sure, sit
00:52:32.840 down and talk to my kid for an hour, that could go anywhere. I mean, that could be the last time
00:52:38.420 you see your kid for a long time, depending on how that goes. Um, but even if you don't let the
00:52:44.900 CPS in, they can, they can go and they're not going to leave you alone after that. They can go get
00:52:49.580 a court order. They can continue harassing if they choose. Once CPS is in your life, it can be very
00:52:56.100 difficult to get them out. And just the simple fact that they showed up at your door carries a
00:53:02.000 stigma that may never go away. Even if again, you're totally innocent. As the article in Reason
00:53:07.740 lays out, the system is broken. Anyone can report abuse. They can do it anonymously. They can do it
00:53:14.440 as many times as they want. And all reports are investigated, no matter how obviously frivolous
00:53:18.760 they are. Um, this was, um, this was a report based on a publicly available internet post.
00:53:26.260 Okay. The people calling CPS on Bean Dad, they were doing it based on a tweet. There is no good
00:53:32.520 reason for the government to respond to that at all. If we allow just a little bit of judgment and
00:53:39.460 discretion, then CPS could have looked at the report, looked at the tweet in question and said,
00:53:47.020 nevermind, this is absurd. Oh, that's what you're calling about that. But no, we're not going to,
00:53:53.220 we're not going to go knock on the guy's door, but instead everything these days, especially in
00:53:57.720 government operates according to the zero tolerance policy, the zero tolerance sort of philosophy. And
00:54:03.800 what that means is that all situations will be treated exactly the same. No discernment,
00:54:09.140 no discretion, no human judgment will enter the equation at all. We are, we are to act as robots.
00:54:15.220 Um, according to the programming, the reason article references a report in the New York daily news,
00:54:21.060 that's a very relevant here. It says quote, over the past 40 years, more and more people have been
00:54:25.260 calling the child abuse hotlines, not because there's so much child abuse going on, but because
00:54:29.560 they've been conditioned to report almost anything, a kid with a scrape, a kid walking the dog,
00:54:33.800 as possible abuse or neglect better safe than sorry, but how safe, how sorry, according to one
00:54:39.520 estimate, more than half of all African-American children, 53% will be visited by child protective
00:54:44.580 services at some point in their childhood that compared to 37% of all children, which is already
00:54:49.320 outrageous. A 37% of all children sounds enormously high. Um, I, I, I almost have to doubt that it could
00:54:59.040 pot 37%. Maybe that is as bad as it's gotten all told. It says 7.8 million kids get reported to
00:55:06.800 child protective services each year. And that is literally 7 million kids too many. The mind bogglingly
00:55:11.620 vast majority of calls turn out to be, to not be cases of abuse and neglect at all. While tragically
00:55:17.020 child abuse and neglect deaths do occur. These cases represent two out of every 100,000 hotline calls,
00:55:24.340 two out of 100,000. Um, and as the number of calls has gone up in the last few, two decades,
00:55:31.340 the number of deaths has not gone down. That's right. Abuse deaths increased possibly because
00:55:36.740 caseworkers are stretched so thin. The important thing to remember here is that all of these millions
00:55:43.380 of frivolous child abuse reports and investigations are not victimless. It's not like nobody is hurt
00:55:49.580 by just checking on the claim, right? Better safe than sorry. No, that's, that's not always
00:55:57.760 the case, but it's a frivolous child abuse, uh, claim or, or report. And then this innocent parent
00:56:07.480 ends up in the crosshairs of CPS and their parental rights are on the line and they're, they could
00:56:14.660 possibly lose their parental rights and lose their children, even though they didn't do anything wrong.
00:56:19.220 That is not better safe than sorry. Lots of families are hurt, destroyed, ripped apart.
00:56:26.460 Once the parents become officially suspected child abusers, uh, that's what happens.
00:56:32.540 The system is indeed broken. Fixing it will be complicated work, but one thing that's needed
00:56:38.520 in order to fix it is a return to situational judgment, discretion, not treating everything
00:56:45.360 the same as everything else. Not all child abuse reports are made or are created equal. They're
00:56:51.720 not all the same. Okay. A kid goes to school and he's got, you know, and he's got very suspicious
00:57:00.560 looking bruises or he looks to be malnourished or something like that. That, you know, that's
00:57:05.480 clearly you, you, you call CPS for that. But someone since writes a tweet about their kid
00:57:12.100 opening a can of beans or you see an eight year old that was allowed to go down to the
00:57:17.220 playground, you know, a hundred yards from the house by himself, walk the dog down the
00:57:22.520 street. He's got a scrape on his knee. No, those are not the same. So this is one thing.
00:57:29.640 Situational judgment, discretion, um, letting human beings discern and make judgments based
00:57:38.140 on, based on that. Not all child abuse reports are created equal. The Bean Dad case shows that
00:57:45.200 as so many other cases show that as well. And that's why the people who reported Bean Dad
00:57:49.640 are officially canceled. And that's going to do it for us today. Thanks for watching everybody.
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