Ep. 673 - Meghan Markle Is Crowned Queen Victim
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Meghan Markle seeks to crown herself queen victim. Also, Pepe Le Pew gets the Me Too treatment, the media freaks out about spring break for a second year in a row, and a medical ethicist argues that people who do not get vaccinated should not be allowed to participate in society at all. In our daily cancellation, we ll discuss GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy making a stand against cancel culture by reading Green Eggs and Ham.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Meghan Markle seeks to crown herself queen victim. Also,
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five headlines, including Pepe Le Pew getting the Me Too treatment. The media freaks out about
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spring break for a second year in a row, and a medical ethicist, quote unquote,
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argues that people who do not get vaccinated should not be allowed to participate in society
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at all. In our daily cancellation, we'll discuss GOP House House Leader Kevin McCarthy
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making a stand against cancel culture by reading Green Eggs and Ham. Is this a meaningful,
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symbolic gesture, or just more hollow right-wing virtue signaling?
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We'll discuss that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Well, welcome again to the show. Before we get going today, I wanted to thank you for watching
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out, that's how you can help, if you so desire. Now, we begin today with Prince Harry and Meghan
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Markle. I must confess at the outset that I don't really care at all about the royal family or any of
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their drama, and I have never been able to understand why anyone does care. The fact that people
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are so interested is what has become interesting to me. Maybe that's how we all get sucked in. I
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don't know. It's like walking by and noticing a group of people staring at the ground and watching
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grass grow, and then you stop and you stare at the people who are staring, fascinated by the fact that
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they're so fascinated. Then the next group stops and they start staring at you and on and on until a
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million people are staring aimlessly, not exactly sure what they're looking at or why.
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Now, I admit that this comparison is probably a little unfair to grass. Grass may be decorative
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like the royal family, but it's also functional, unlike the royal family. In any event, as you
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probably heard, two of these functionless, boring people, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, split off
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from royal family a year ago in what many said was a heroic and brave decision on their part,
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came here to America. They said they wanted privacy and space to themselves, and those are certainly
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respectable things to desire. They could have had both of those things, too, if they really wanted
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them. They could have retreated to a cabin in the wilderness, dropped out of public eye, lived lives
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of private solitude and reflection. But the ironic thing is that only interesting and subsubstantive
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people can live a life like that. To live a life that seems boring like that, you have to be an
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interesting person. As we've established, those are not the kinds of people we're dealing with here.
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So Harry and Meghan courageously stepped away from the pomp and circumstance and wealth of celebrity
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life overseas, only to embrace the pomp and circumstance and wealth of celebrity life in
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America. They purchased a $15 million mansion in Southern California, signed a multi-million dollar
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deal with Netflix, and then another one with Spotify. Meghan Markle says that she bought the mansion in
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California so that she could live authentically and, quote, get back to basics. Sure. Well, you know,
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you know what they say. One man's basics is another man's obscene wealth. Now, you might say that using
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the term back to basics in reference to a $15 million mansion shows an incomprehensible level of
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privilege. And you'd be right, except that we've learned the word privilege in our culture has absolutely
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nothing to do with privilege, just as victimhood has absolutely nothing to do with actual victimhood.
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And speaking of victimhood, as part of this effort to live a humble, basic life in their 18,000 square
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foot mansion with nine bedrooms and 16 bathrooms, what the hell are you going to do with 16 bathrooms?
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I have no idea. And in pursuit of privacy, the Netflix stars did a major primetime interview with Oprah
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Winfrey, which aired last night. During this interview, the celebrity couple reclining on
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their patio that probably costs more than your house, explained in great detail why they are
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victims, especially Meghan, who chose to leave her life as a Hollywood actress after leaving her
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husband, her first husband, and then marry a member of the British royal family. This was her decision.
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Everyone knows the drama and scrutiny that comes with that sort of existence. Even I know it.
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And I follow this stuff about as little as a person in modern Western society can follow it.
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I don't even know all their names. Charles, is that the old one or the much older one? I don't know.
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And she certainly knew this too. Yet she desired fame and wealth enough to jump right into it
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and then immediately became a victim of the very thing she was pursuing. But it's not her fault,
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you see. Yes, everyone who's in the public eye on that level gets criticized,
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but it was different for her. So much worse. For one thing, people were mean to her on the
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internet. That's very different. None of us know what that's like. And she explained this more to
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Because this was different, you know. It was different because of the race.
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That didn't exist. And so it was like the wild, wild west. It was spread like wildfire plus my being
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American. It translated in a different way across the pond. So you had a noise level that was very
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different. But if they can't see that it's different. So you felt bullied on an international
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level. Look, I think the volume of what was coming in and the interest was greater because of social
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media, because of the fact that I was not just British. And that, unfortunately, if members of
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his family say, well, this is what's happened to all of us, or if his, you know, if they can compare
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what the experience that I went through was similar to what has been shared with us, Kate
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was called weighty Katie, waiting to marry William. While I imagine that was really hard, and I do,
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I can't picture what that felt like. This is not the same. And if a member of his family will
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comfortably say, we've all had to deal with things that are rude, rude and racist are not the same.
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Ah, yes. The internet. Different time. I don't know why I laughed the first time I saw that.
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There's something about that line from Oprah that made me laugh the first time I saw it.
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When Meghan says, well, it's different because of the internet. And Oprah says, ah, yes, the internet.
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Different time. And meanwhile, you've got Harry sitting there. What kind of man, you know,
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I'm focusing here on Meghan Markle, but what kind of man brings his wife in front of Oprah for a major
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interview to bash your family? What kind of man finds that acceptable? What kind of man goes along
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with that? No way in hell as a man can you go along with that. Your wife says, you know, I want to do a
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major interview where I just rip your family to pieces. Your response should be, hell no, that's not
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happening. You're not doing that. We're going to have no part of that. That's not how we handle
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problems with the family. But anyway, Meghan Markle is a victim. She's bullied. She's a victim
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of bullying. Many of us would love to be so bullied. Personally, I'd be thrilled to experience this kind
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of bullying that ends with me sitting in my California mansion with a Netflix deal. I've never
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had the good fortune of being victimized in that way. And I'm beginning to fear that I may never,
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I may never have it. But it's different for me, though, because I'm white. Whereas Meghan is only
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mostly white. And that means that she can claim victimhood on explicitly racial grounds,
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as she also did with Oprah. Let's listen to that.
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Concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born.
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What? And who, who is having that conversation? With you?
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What? So, um, there is a conversation. Hold up. Hold up. There's several conversations. There's a
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About how dark your baby is going to be? Potentially. And what that would mean or look like.
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Ooh. And you're not going to tell me who had the conversation?
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I think that would be very damaging to them. Okay.
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Okay. Well, we'll move on then. People are raving about Oprah's, Oprah's another one. Talk
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about things I don't understand, why people are so interested. I've never quite understood
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how Oprah ever became the big thing that she is. You know, it's a fine. That's like the kind of
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standard entertainment sort of interview that you would expect to see. But I think anyone in media
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could do that, um, that's, that's her follow-up. So Megan Markle makes this, this incredible claim.
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Oprah says, what? I just, woo, that's something else. And who said it? Oh, I don't want to say
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because that'd be damaging to them. Well, okay. Moving on. So she never clarified who made that
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alleged comment. What this means is that either Megan made it up, distinct possibility, or someone
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did say it. And she's happy to throw the whole family under the bus as the press wildly speculates
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as to the culprit, rather than simply naming the person who said it. Either way, in handling it the
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way she did, she's not much better morally than the person who made the comment to begin with,
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even if that person is fictional. And also, either way, Megan, Megan Markle is a fabulously rich and
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famous person who has gone to great lengths to be both of those things, rich and famous, and who now
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wants to have her mansion and cry in it too. She gets away with it. The ruse pays off because this
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is how victimhood works in America. And that's the one interesting, or at least important thing to come
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out of this whole story and why it's worth talking about. Because victimhood is the primary social
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currency in our culture today. And Megan Markle seeks to become like the Jeff Bezos of that currency,
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the Bill Gates of victimhood. She has been making and is going to make a career out of being a victim.
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The rules of intersectionality make that possible for her. All the royals and all the people
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affiliated with them are insufferable, spoiled brats. Harry and Megan are no different. But Megan
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is the least white, and so she gets to be the victim. Those are the rules. If she was in a dispute
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with someone who was less white than her, or who could lay claim to one of the letters in the LGBT
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acronym, then she'd be the villain. The details of the dispute don't matter. Actual right and wrong
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don't matter. Intersectionality is what matters. And lucky for her, she's publicly dumping on people
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who are rich and powerful, obviously, yet further down the intersectionality ladder than herself.
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And that's the way the game works. It really is that simple. But it's important for us to see
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how victimhood works. Because this is what drives the culture now. This is, as I said,
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the currency, our culture's currency is victimhood. So she at least is demonstrating that for us.
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And now I'll go back to not caring about these people again. Let's get now to our five headlines.
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By the way, today is, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention, I think today is International Women's
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Day, I believe. I always have it marked out on my calendar. I don't know why I forgot to
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mark it down this time. But big, big deal, International Women's Day. And so today is the beginning
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of International Women's Week, and it's International Women's Day, which is the beginning of International
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Women's Week, and which falls in the middle of Women's History Month. So we got all that
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going on. All of that affirmation for women. And every woman that I personally know doesn't
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desire any of that affirmation or care about it. But whether you want it or care about it,
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there it is, you have it. You are affirmed, ladies. All right. Number one, Charles Blow,
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New York Times columnist, wrote a piece a few days ago defending the cancellation of Dr. Seuss
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and adding a few more people to cancel to the burn pile. Or not really people, actually. Now we're
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going to cartoons. We've done Dr. Seuss, canceling Dr. Seuss books. And now, and we've already done
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the Muppets. Okay, so they're canceled, but they're puppets. So we've gone from there, and now we're
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going all the way to the cartoon characters. He also called for the cancellation of Speedy
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Gonzalez and Pepe Le Pew, both of Looney Tunes' fame. Now, it's been an interesting reaction to
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both of these things, because he mentioned that Speedy Gonzalez is insulting, because it's a
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Hispanic stereotype. And now there have been a lot of Latino people coming out, including celebrities.
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Gabriel Iglesias, who's the Hispanic comedian, who's going to be voicing Speedy
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Gonzalez in the new Space Jam. And he came out, and they said, we love Speedy Gonzalez.
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Which, why, yeah, why wouldn't, if you're a Hispanic child growing up, especially back when
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Looney Tunes was more popular, why wouldn't you love Speedy Gonzalez? He's the hero. He's one of
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the good guys, right? If I remember my Looney Tunes mythology, if I'm getting it correct,
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then he's always one of the good guys, Speedy Gonzalez is. So what's the problem exactly?
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You can say, oh, it's a stereotype. It's a caricature. Well, it's a cartoon. Of course,
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it's both of those things. Yosemite Sam is a caricature. Elmer Fudd is a caricature.
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But isn't it also representation? Isn't that what we want? See, the left can never make
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up its mind. Are we doing, are we getting rid of all of these representations of minority
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characters and minority culture? Are we getting rid of all that stuff? Or should we have more
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of it? Which is it? It can't really be both. So Speedy Gonzalez would seem to be representation.
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You would think it'd be the kind of thing that the left would celebrate, but we were told we
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have to cancel him. And also Pepe Le Pew, who Charles Blow argues, normalizes rape culture.
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Because as you remember, if you, if you can think back to watching Looney Tunes, Pepe Le Pew,
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you know, a rather, a skunk who, you know, has voracious sexual appetites and is always pursuing
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in particular, I think it was a black and white cat that he always, that he always confuses with
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a skunk. And he's always pursuing this, this female cat. The thing is, he always loses. She
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always gets away and he's not the good guy. We're not supposed to empathize. The message in Looney
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Tunes isn't that we should empathize with, uh, with, with Pepe Le Pew. He's absurd. It's ridiculous.
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The kids watch that and they think it's ridiculous. They laugh at it, which is a good message.
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Now the main message, because it's a cartoon, it's Looney Tunes. The main message is this is all
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silly and ridiculous and don't take it too seriously. But if you are going to take it
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seriously, then the real, then if you're looking for a more serious message, then the message you
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would take is that his behavior is bad. Don't act like that. Which is why I could be wrong,
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but, uh, in spite of Charles Blow's claims, you know, I don't think it's, it's very often that
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you hear of sex offenders who cite Pepe Le Pew as one of their primary influences. Could be wrong.
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I haven't really, I haven't looked at this, haven't researched it, but I'm guessing that if I did,
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you're going to very rarely find a real life rapist or sex offender who says that he got into this,
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uh, into this life because he watched a lot of Pepe Le Pew cartoons as a child.
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And by the way, if we're finding a reason for Pepe Le Pew to be offensive,
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shouldn't it be that he, that he's a, that he's a stereotype of the French?
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Isn't, if it's a, if he's offensive for any reason, isn't that it?
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He's a French rapist skunk. Isn't that offensive to, if it's offensive to anyone,
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wouldn't it be offensive to French people? Speedy Gonzalez is a, is a, is a, is a, a hero.
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You know, he's one of the protagonist characters. Pepe Le Pew is a bad guy, basically,
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um, a rapist or attempted a skunk and he's French.
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But no, see that can't be offensive because French people are white.
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Stereotypically they're white. So, so that's, that's okay. We've got to find another reason
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for Pepe Le Pew to be offensive and this is it. Um, and it doesn't stop there. So we're, we are now
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officially, uh, doing a me too with Pepe Le Pew. Pepe Le Pew is getting me too'd a cartoon character.
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You thought they would stop at people, but no, no, no, no. Now we're going to cartoon characters
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and the Hollywood reporter, um, has this. It says the controversial Looney Tunes skunk cartoon character
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Pepe Le Pew was scrubbed from the LeBron James, um, the new LeBron James space jams, space, space
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jam, space jam two is coming out. We just mentioned, uh, Speedy Gonzalez is good. Still is going to be
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in space jam two, as far as we know, but Pepe Le Pew has been removed from space jam two. Now they
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claim that this decision was made a year ago. So not directly in response to this New York times
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piece. That's what they claim anyway, but one way or another, he's being taken out presumably
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because he normalizes rape culture and he's offensive and not because he's offensive to
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French people. Uh, number two, the New York post has this spring break partying could spell the
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perfect storm for triggering the spread of new coronavirus variants across the U S according to
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experts. Dr. Peter Hotez says it's the perfect storm. Hotez said he feared that college kids
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hitting the party scene in Florida could accelerate the spread of highly contagious UK variant, which
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is known as B one one seven. He said, quote, you've got the B one one seven variant accelerating in
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Florida. You've got all these 20 year old kids. None of them are going to have masks. They're all
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going to be drinking. They're having pretty close intimate contact. And then after all that's done,
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they're going to go back to their home States and spread the B one one seven variant. This is the,
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the New York post story, but there are, you know, dozens of them in the media right now.
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So we really are going to do the spring break freak out for a second year in a row. We're going
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to do this all over again. You may recall back last March and April, we did the exact same thing.
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Spring breakers went down to Florida. We were told that this is a bit, you know, disaster in the making.
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Uh, it's going to be a bloodbath. So many of these kids are going to end up sick in the hospital.
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They're going to die and all these things. And that's not actually what happened. If you
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recall, we, we never got from spring break. We never got the apocalypse. We were promised
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stemming from spring break. And now, so if, if, if, if they're panicking ended up being sort
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of a dud the first time last year, well now this year, the virus is receding as we, and we're
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getting now into the warmer temperatures, millions and millions more people are immune
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to it, either because they already had the virus, even if they had it with no symptoms
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or because they got the vaccine. So why would there be more reason to worry this year than
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there was last year? Well, there isn't of course, but the media can't help itself.
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Number three from the blaze, it says a democratic New York lawmaker introduced a bill to teach
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comprehensive sex ed to kindergartners. The sex education will reportedly be outsourced to a
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left-wing organization that believes, quote, sex ed is a vehicle for social change, including
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incorporating social and racial justice messaging into their sex ed lessons. New York Senator
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Samra Brauk, a freshman Democrat from Rochester, introduced a bill to teach comprehensive sexuality
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education in schools, including children as young as five years old. The bill reads, quote,
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each public and charter school to provide students in grades kindergarten through 12 with comprehensive
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sexuality education. Her proposal, the New York Post reported that her proposal would legally link
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New York schools to the shifting recommendations of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of
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the United States. This is what's going to determine, you know, what your kids are taught in school when
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it comes to sex ed. Of course, in reality, there should be no sex ed of any kind for kindergartners.
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This is part of the ever-present effort to sexualize children that we see in our culture,
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especially in the schools. And I always have to remind people when we get into this conversation
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about sex ed and all of the depraved and disgusting and perverted things that kids are taught even at
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young ages in modern sex ed. And this effort to confuse them, we start introducing gender identity
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at very young ages, telling the little boys, hey, if you like playing with dolls, you might be a girl,
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that kind of thing. But the response in many cases from conservatives, especially Christian
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conservatives, when they hear about this kind of stuff is, well, you know, this is why we need
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abstinence education instead of this kind of sex education. And my response to that is, no, we don't
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need that either. The antidote to this kind of depraved sex education for kids is not, well, let's form a
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better version of sex ed. No, it's neither. None of it. That's the answer. Schools shouldn't be doing
00:24:19.540
any of this. You want to teach the biology of human sexuality? Of course, you teach that in biology
00:24:26.800
class. You want to teach about human anatomy and what all the different parts of the body do,
00:24:32.220
including, you know, the sex organs? Well, then at the appropriate age, you teach that in science
00:24:38.180
class. But in terms of a message about sexuality, especially an ethical or moral message, a message
00:24:49.560
about, you know, how to engage in sex and when to do it and all that kind of stuff doesn't belong in the
00:24:56.920
schools. No, I don't want, if I sent my, you know, 12-year-old to middle school, to public middle school,
00:25:04.960
which I wouldn't. But if I did, I don't want their health teacher telling them how to use birth
00:25:11.400
control or condoms. But I also don't want the health teacher to get up there and tell my son
00:25:17.240
about the, you know, the wonders of chastity and abstinence, because I can do that. And that's a
00:25:24.800
really important lesson that I do not trust the schools to impart. That's something that you as a
00:25:33.200
parent need to do. You know, we cannot farm everything out. We can't outsource every aspect
00:25:40.800
of parenting to the schools. And this is a big one. These may be uncomfortable conversations that
00:25:46.600
people, parents don't want to have with their kids, but if you don't, then school's going to do it.
00:25:51.720
And I wouldn't trust the school to do it. So that's the answer. Get all this stuff out of the school.
00:25:56.640
Number four, Arthur Kaplan is a professor of, quote, medical ethics, had some medical ethics
00:26:04.200
advice for us on CNN yesterday. Let's listen to that. Well, remember, vaccine passports or even
00:26:10.200
vaccine requirements do depend on access. It's hard to impose anything unless you are pretty sure that
00:26:16.680
somebody can get a vaccine. So I think it'll be a little while before we see this, let's say,
00:26:21.060
within the U.S. But there are going to be communities and areas of the country where it
00:26:26.360
starts to make sense due to high availability of vaccine to say, you want to come back to work
00:26:31.080
in person? Got to show me a vaccine certificate. You want to go in a bar, a restaurant? Got to show
00:26:36.640
me a vaccine certificate. I think there will be some inequality in the U.S., but hopefully it will wash
00:26:42.960
out quickly as the supplies increase very rapidly. And I think they're going to. It also gives you an
00:26:48.880
incentive to overcome vaccine hesitancy. Some people are not sure still whether they want to
00:26:53.420
do the vaccine. But if you promise them more mobility, more ability to get a job, more ability
00:26:58.540
to get travel, that's a very powerful incentive to actually achieve fuller vaccination.
00:27:05.140
It will never cease to amaze me to see how quickly the bodily autonomy argument has just gone out the
00:27:11.160
window. This has been pretty much the entire argument for abortion.
00:27:15.620
abortion. It's all the left really has when it comes to abortion. And even there, it's not a good
00:27:21.720
argument. But the personhood argument, you know, they've lost all of that because we it's modern
00:27:29.860
science, very clear. And you really didn't even need modern science to tell you that the being in
00:27:36.120
the womb of a mother is a human child. What else could it be? What other species could it be? Of course,
00:27:40.920
it's a living. What else would it be? Dead? Inanimate? So they've lost that. It doesn't mean
00:27:47.720
they won't they won't keep trying to make claims, but but it's a losing argument. So they go over to
00:27:52.640
bodily autonomy, autonomy, which is why I'm engaging with the bodily autonomy argument for abortion all
00:27:57.120
the time. But that argument, in order for that to even begin to work for abortion, you have to take
00:28:06.700
an absolutist view on bodily autonomy where you say, I can do whatever I want with my body because it's
00:28:14.440
my body. That's the only way that it even and it still doesn't work because the problem is there's
00:28:22.040
someone else's body immediately concerned here with abortion. It's not really at all what you're
00:28:28.540
doing with your body. It's what you're doing to someone else's body. That's the issue. That's the
00:28:35.300
whole debate. Should you be allowed to dismember your child in the womb? Stab them in the heart with a
00:28:43.880
poison needle. Should you be allowed to do that? But that's whatever your answer is. That is an
00:28:51.540
answer you are giving in relation to someone else's body, not your own. But even so, in order for this
00:29:01.200
argument to even get started, then you have to take the absolutist view that I can do whatever I
00:29:05.700
want with my body, even to the extent that that, you know, if someone is is reliant on my body, I can
00:29:11.200
kill them. I can I can actually, you know, violate their own body to the extent of destroying them
00:29:17.140
because they depend on my body. So that's the absolutist hard line you have to draw in order to
00:29:25.260
get the wheels in motion for that argument. But now we've just tossed all that out the window
00:29:30.800
with masking laws, you know, the idea of vaccine passports. You just heard from this medical
00:29:38.580
ethicist. By the way, I don't know his view on what his medically ethical view is on abortion. I
00:29:45.500
could guess what it is. But for the left, generally, you know, vaccine passports, masking laws.
00:29:56.300
OK, if you want to argue for those things, I'm not in favor of them. But if you want to do that,
00:30:01.360
then you are forfeiting bodily autonomy. Out the window. Because in this case, you are telling
00:30:08.820
someone what they have to do with their own body, not only that they have to wear a certain
00:30:13.740
thing across their face, but now you're telling them they have to inject a substance into their body.
00:30:19.100
You want to make that argument, go ahead. But bodily autonomy is done. You can't go back to that.
00:30:30.900
All right. Number five, also from CNN, it says the risk of death from COVID-19 is about 10 times
00:30:36.020
higher in countries where most of the population is overweight, according to a report released
00:30:40.420
Wednesday by the World Obesity Federation. Researchers found that by the end of 2020,
00:30:45.840
global COVID-19 death rates were more than 10 times higher in countries where more than half
00:30:50.660
the adults are overweight. 10 times higher compared to countries where fewer than half are overweight.
00:30:57.020
The team examined mortality data from Johns Hopkins University and the World Health Organization and
00:31:01.680
found that of 2.5 million COVID-19 deaths reported by the end of February, 2.2 million were in countries
00:31:08.180
where half of the population is overweight. An analysis of data and studies from more than 160 countries,
00:31:12.720
the researchers found that COVID-19 mortality rates increased along with countries' prevalence of
00:31:17.260
obesity. And this is important too. They note that the link persisted even after adjusting for age
00:31:22.240
and national wealth. Now, this is not new information. We already knew this. We knew this back at the very
00:31:34.120
beginning that obese people were especially susceptible. We knew elderly people and obese. And if you're
00:31:41.780
elderly and overweight, then you're really in the danger zone. So we knew that, but this link,
00:31:47.660
it's something that we've known. It's been reported here and there, kind of scattershot.
00:31:53.140
But it hasn't been emphasized the way that it should be. And the reason that it should be is very clear.
00:31:59.420
That, you know, we want to make it clear. If you are an overweight person, especially if you're older,
00:32:02.780
you've got to be extra special careful about this.
00:32:08.160
But the reason why the link has not been emphasized, I think two reasons. One is just
00:32:13.220
general fear-mongering. You know, the media wants everyone to be equally as frightened by the virus.
00:32:21.660
They, you know, they don't want to be accused of victim blaming if they, if they go and say that,
00:32:27.720
you know, obese people are more likely to die of the virus, which is true. Then it sounds like
00:32:31.840
you're blaming them, you know, for being obese or all these things. So political correctness,
00:32:36.660
hyperdrive, that's why the link is not, is not emphasized. It's the same thing that happened with,
00:32:41.920
you know, the AIDS virus. And even now, we are often told, or it's strongly implied, that, you know,
00:32:52.600
AIDS is an equal opportunity virus. It doesn't discriminate. Whether you're a heterosexual or
00:32:59.920
homosexual, you're just as likely to get it. That's not true at all. The majority of people who get the
00:33:08.380
virus are homosexual. And then the next biggest chunk would be intravenous drug users. And then
00:33:15.260
if you, if you, you know, put that big chunk aside, you're left with a very, very small number
00:33:20.520
of cases. And then from there, if you take medical mishaps out of it, you know, blood transfusions or
00:33:27.320
medical equipment that wasn't properly sterilized, you take that out of it and you're, you're left only
00:33:32.160
with heterosexual people who do not use drugs and haven't had any kind of medical mishap.
00:33:40.460
How many of them are getting the AIDS virus as a percentage? Very, very, very vanishingly small
00:33:46.120
percentage. And that has always been known too. But that reality is de-emphasized
00:33:53.260
in order to send the message that everyone, you know, is, uh, is, is equally as susceptible,
00:34:00.400
which also is not true. And there's a real consequence to de-emphasizing the truth here.
00:34:09.980
Because with, with AIDS, you know, if you're, if you're a homosexual engaging in this kind of
00:34:14.460
sexual activity, there are extra risks that come with it. You want people to know that.
00:34:18.520
And when it comes to coronavirus, if you're obese and you're also older,
00:34:24.000
there's a reason for you to be even more concerned than everyone else.
00:34:27.600
That's not to single anybody out or victim blame. It's to keep people safe.
00:34:31.580
And also to simply tell people the truth. And the truth still matters. I think,
00:34:36.500
even if the media would disagree, let's get now to our, uh, reading the YouTube comment section.
00:34:42.740
We've got a couple here pertaining to the show yet, uh, on Friday, Sebastian says,
00:34:46.860
I'm 15. And even I don't think 16 year olds should vote. I have to say, I saw a lot of comments,
00:34:51.980
uh, just like this kids that are 15, 16, 17 saying, yeah, look, um, I'm in it right now.
00:34:58.820
Don't let me vote, which I appreciate. I appreciate the, the honesty there.
00:35:03.340
OJH says, I looked up Mick Elligott's pool, Dr. Seuss book and read it online. There's a mention of
00:35:08.980
Eskimo fish with little fur coats. Unfortunately, I am now a racist bigot as a result of reading it.
00:35:13.980
So we're going to talk more about that in a moment. Um, but yes, if you actually go now,
00:35:19.520
it's, it's hard to do this now because these books have been erased. But if you have a copy of one of
00:35:24.940
the band, Dr. Seuss books and you go pick them up, you know, several of these books, you're going to
00:35:30.700
have a hard time figuring out what was offensive about them. And Mick Elligott's pool is certainly one
00:35:36.520
of them. As far as I can tell, and I had the same thing. I had to go back and read it. I found it.
00:35:42.400
I found it online anyway, or I could, something I could, you know, the text online that I could
00:35:46.100
read. Um, as far as I could tell what was offensive about that book and why it's on the
00:35:53.080
band list is, uh, is because it says the word Eskimo. We'll talk more about that in just a second
00:35:57.920
though. Doflamingo Don Quixote. Great username says, Matt, could you give us a breakdown of what
00:36:04.480
makeup products you use? I'm aspiring to be TikTok famous, but I need to not look like a corpse.
00:36:10.780
Thank you. That look, I admitted, you know, that I wear makeup on camera. Anyone on camera does.
00:36:16.860
I admitted that that's as far as I go, but we're not at the point now where I'm giving makeup
00:36:21.060
tutorials. I also have no idea. I sit down in the makeup chair and, uh, I, you know, it's like,
00:36:26.460
don't ask, don't tell, just do what you have to do. We're going to pretend this isn't happening.
00:36:32.260
So I don't know what they put on my face. They put something on there.
00:36:34.480
Um, and finally, not important says, does anyone else salute Matt when he says Godspeed to end the
00:36:42.760
show? Well, I assumed everyone was doing that. I, I would demand that kind of reverence and respect.
00:36:49.820
In fact, and obviously if you are not saluting me at the end of the show, then you are banned.
00:36:54.640
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slash subscribe. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. So today we're going to cancel
00:38:45.660
Republican congressman and house minority leader, Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy is canceled today for
00:38:49.980
engaging in what I would call right-wing virtue signaling. Right-wing virtue signaling is a special
00:38:55.420
subgenre of virtue signaling popular among Republican politicians, wherein the signaler jumps into a
00:39:02.340
culture war issue in the hollowest, most superficial and corniest way possible in order to signal to other
00:39:08.260
conservatives that he's down with the cause, even though he isn't really doing anything to help the
00:39:12.800
cause at all. Now, perhaps the greatest possible example of this is what Kevin McCarthy did a few
00:39:17.900
days ago when he filmed himself reading the Dr. Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham. Let's check this out.
00:39:24.720
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. I am Sam. I am Sam. Sam, I am.
00:39:34.340
That's Sam, I am. That's Sam, I am. I do not like that Sam, I am. Do you like green eggs and ham?
00:39:46.720
I do not like them, Sam, I am. I do not like green eggs and ham. Would you like them here or there?
00:39:54.420
I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and
00:40:02.240
ham. I do not like them, Sam I am. Now, leaving aside the fact that his reading voice for
00:40:09.780
children's books needs a little work, reading children's books is all about, and I've done a
00:40:13.820
lot of it in the last seven years, it's all about rhythm and cadence. There's a certain poetry to
00:40:18.300
it, especially with a Seuss book. And all of that is lost in McCarthy's rendition. And it can be
00:40:23.200
canceled just based on that alone. I'm very picky about the reading of children's books,
00:40:27.660
but nevermind. The real point is that this is the cringiest and most pointless display we've seen
00:40:32.780
from an elected Republican in a long time. Why is he reading green eggs and ham? That isn't one of
00:40:37.320
the banned Dr. Seuss books. Nobody has taken issue with green eggs and ham. It doesn't require any
00:40:42.320
courage or boldness to read that book. It's totally irrelevant. It's a signal, not to the left.
00:40:48.260
This is not a signal to the left saying, I will oppose you. I'm not afraid of you.
00:40:51.640
That's a good signal to send. But the left doesn't give a damn if you read green eggs and ham.
00:40:57.800
No, this is a signal to the right. And the signal is supposed to be, I'm on your side. Look at me.
00:41:02.360
I've joined this latest culture war kerfuffle. Aren't I such a brave boy? But the real message
00:41:07.780
he sends is, I am afraid to say anything interesting or valuable about this situation. So instead,
00:41:12.980
I'm going to read from this children's book that nobody cares about. What he could have done,
00:41:17.600
what would have required some guts, not much, but a little, and would have also had some value is if
00:41:22.780
he had read one of the banned Dr. Seuss books. And the point of doing that would be first to just
00:41:28.760
defy the woke mob for the sake of defying it. And second, to demonstrate how political correctness
00:41:34.760
and wokeness have gone way overboard and driven everyone insane. He could have read, for example,
00:41:39.100
as mentioned earlier, McElligott's pool, which is an actual banned Dr. Seuss book. And the only reason
00:41:45.220
it's banned, so far as I can tell, is that it uses the word Eskimo. That's it. That's really it.
00:41:52.180
But Eskimo is not a slur. It's not a pejorative. We don't have to bleep it out when I'm saying it
00:41:57.120
right now. Eskimo, you can say that. It's not offensive. Now, it may not be the popular term to
00:42:03.020
use these days, but it's not a slur. And the idea that it's so offensive that it needs to be taken
00:42:09.260
off of eBay and Amazon and taken out of publication by its publisher because it said Eskimo is simply
00:42:15.540
ludicrous. Now, it would have been interesting if McCarthy had read that book in order to make that
00:42:20.440
point. But then he would have had to say the word Eskimo, and that would be a little too edgy for his
00:42:25.760
taste. I don't want to say that. I don't want to say the E word. Or he could have read one of the
00:42:32.040
titles with offensive imagery and showed the imagery on camera. Now, that would have been
00:42:37.300
interesting. And he could have made the point that people 80 years ago, you know, didn't have
00:42:41.840
the same sensibilities that we do today. We can't hold them to a modern standard or view their work
00:42:46.820
through an entirely modern lens. He could have done that. And that would have been worthwhile and bold
00:42:51.100
and interesting. But instead, he read Green Eggs and Ham, a book that is not in dispute and that nobody
00:42:57.560
is talking about. Yet reading it is the safe, easy, uncontroversial way of dipping your toe into the
00:43:04.340
culture war battle of the moment. And that's all we get from elected Republicans. A bunch of toes
00:43:09.780
dipping barely below the surface. And unfortunately, people fall for this stuff. He tweeted that out and
00:43:14.920
it got like 40,000 or more, I think, likes and a bunch of retweets on Twitter. You know, for what
00:43:23.400
reason? I know that among Republican voters, they might say, well, you know, at least he's doing
00:43:28.820
something. It's better than nothing. No, it's not better than nothing. This is nothing.
00:43:34.280
And there's going to be a lot of this sort of thing from here on out. Remember, the Republicans
00:43:39.080
had total control of the government for two years. They had the White House and the Senate for four
00:43:43.800
years. During that time, they did basically nothing. They passed a few tax cuts, plenty of cable news
00:43:50.460
hits. But they didn't advance the conservative agenda in any significant way. They didn't even
00:43:55.380
try to advance it. In fact, they complain now about, you know, big tech censorship. Well,
00:44:01.520
why didn't you do something about it when you had the power to do it?
00:44:06.260
The same question could be posed about every subject the Republicans whine about today.
00:44:10.680
They could have passed actual laws, set policy, but they preferred, as they always prefer,
00:44:15.860
to bide their time until they're out of power so they can get back to writing big rhetorical
00:44:20.320
checks that they'll never have to cash. That's their specialty. Always has been. Stand on the
00:44:25.660
sideline and talk a big game. But the moment their number gets called and they're out on the field in
00:44:30.020
the starting lineup, all they do is fall to the turf and curl up in the fetal position,
00:44:34.480
yelling, please don't hurt me. Then when they're back on the sideline, they're immediately back to,
00:44:39.280
you know, talking smack. Man, I wish they put me in there. I'd run somebody over, I tell you.
00:44:43.620
The same old song and dance over and over again. I'm not impressed with it. Not fooled by it. I hope
00:44:51.460
you aren't either. And that is why Kevin McCarthy is canceled. Green Eggs and Ham is not canceled.
00:44:59.120
It's a great book. And if, you know, if the mob ever does come for Green Eggs and Ham, I will be
00:45:04.880
there to fight to the death on its behalf. But right now, that is not the subject that we're talking
00:45:10.200
about. So again, Kevin McCarthy is canceled. And we'll leave it there today. Thanks for
00:45:14.680
watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
00:45:22.040
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