Ep. 676 - Playing The Long Game
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The right celebrates a new poll showing a majority of Americans support banning men from women s sports. But I think the truth is not quite as rosy as it's being made out to be. The left is playing the long game, and they're winning, as always. Also, 5 headlines including an abortion ban in Alabama, a new left-wing autonomous zone in Minneapolis, and the soap company Dove has decided to stop using the word normal in its advertising because it might be offensive. And our daily cancellation will deal with a feminist writer who s worried that stay-at-home moms might be setting a bad example for their children. All that and more on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the right celebrates a new poll showing a majority approval for laws
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banning men from women's sports, but I think the truth is not quite as rosy as it's being
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made out to be. The left is playing the long game, and they're winning, as always. Also,
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five headlines including an abortion ban in Alabama, a new left-wing autonomous zone,
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quote-unquote, in Minneapolis, and the soap company Dove has decided to stop using the
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word normal in its advertising because it might be offensive, apparently. And our daily cancellation
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will deal with a feminist writer who's worried that stay-at-home moms might be setting a bad
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example for their children. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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As you know, I tend to focus more on the dark cloud within the silver lining. That's sort of
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my thing. And that's why I can't join in some of the right-wing chest thumping and celebration I've
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noticed over a new poll in Politico, which finds, dear conservatives tell it, wide approval for banning
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males from female sports. Majority of Americans, in fact, do not believe that men who identify as
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women should be allowed in women's sports. A majority. What a victory. Clearly, our arguments
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are winning the day. At least that's how it's being presented by some on the right, ever willing
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and eager to delude themselves. Let's look at the actual numbers. This is from a Politico poll.
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Of course, take all of the necessary spoonfuls of salt to go along with these poll results because
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it is Politico. But to the extent that we can actually trust the results, here's what it says.
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Reading now from Politico, it says, former President Donald Trump railed against transgender
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athletes in female sports in his CPAC speech a few weeks ago. Other prominent voices on the right
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have joined in, calling it an example of political correctness having a real-world impact.
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Our latest Politico slash morning consult poll shows broad support for the GOP position,
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extending across gender, age, and to a lesser degree, party. Overall, 53% of registered voters
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support banning transgender athletes from competing in women's sports versus a third who oppose such a ban.
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Now, broken down into categories, here's what it looks like. Men, 59% support a ban, 29% oppose.
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For women, 46% support a ban, 34% oppose. Then you go to Republicans. Republicans, it's 74% support,
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15% oppose. For Democrats, 40% support a ban, supposedly. 42% oppose. Independents, 49% support a ban,
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33% oppose. Generation Z, 43% support a ban, 44% oppose. Millennials, 56% support a ban,
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28% oppose. Then baby boomers, 50% support a ban, 32% oppose. Now, the one thing that I like about
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this poll is that it further proves that millennial wokeness didn't happen out of nowhere. You know,
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as critical as I've been of my own generation, and for good reason, it's not like we went insane on
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our own. The insane millennial generation was raised by the insane boomer generation. That's
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the way these things go. Apples falling not far from the tree, as we know the saying goes. In fact,
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according to this, the boomers are even more on board with left-wing gender theory than millennials
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are. That also is no surprise, as gender theory was not invented in 2013 or whenever people think,
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but 40 or 50 years before that. But the main point here is that, yes, a majority hold the only sane
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and reasonable position a person can hold on this topic, that a male is still a male, even if he
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identifies otherwise, and therefore does not belong in female sports. Yeah, this is a position held by
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53% of the country. That percentage should be 99%. And if this question had been asked 20 years ago,
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it would have been 99%. Now, I can't prove that because nobody was asking it 20 years ago because
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it was an idea so off the wall and crazy back then that nobody bothered to ask it. What this means is
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that the left has taken this idea from one that was so crazy that nobody even mentioned it to one
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that nearly half of the country believes and accepts, and they've done it in less than two
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decades. See, that's not a win for the right. That's not really encouraging. The long-term trends are
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thoroughly in the favor of the left. So the right looks at this kind of poll and says, phew, looks like
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we win. The left looks and says, we will win. We are winning. The right takes solace in the right now
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at the very moment, you know, that they've got a slim majority on their side. The left is playing the
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long game. The left is thinking about the future. They know that five years from now, those numbers
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in that poll are going to be reversed. 15 years from now, the majority position today will be seen as
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a fringe and radical, crazy minority viewpoint 15 years from now. They can have this assurance not
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based on any one poll because again, take it with a grain of salt. Also, you have to consider with a
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poll like that, how was it phrased? If the question was phrased like, should we ban transgender athletes
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from women's sports? Well, I mean, you could argue that, well, no, we shouldn't because if it's an actual
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female who identifies as transgender, they shouldn't be banned from women's sports. So it could have been
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phrase in a way that's confusing, but I think most people understand what the question means.
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But it's not just this one poll. We talked last week about the Gallup survey showing that trans
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identification among Gen Z is 10 times higher than older generations, 10 times. This poll showing a
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majority of Gen Z opposing a ban goes along with that. So the left knows that it has the future
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because it has your children. It's fighting this fight generationally. And it's been fighting that way
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four generations. What this means is that conservatives, sure, should advocate laws and
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policies like these bans. I've been saying that for years. It's a winning fight for conservatives
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right now. And so we should take advantage of that and act on that right now. But that can't be the be
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all and end all. We have to start thinking long term. We have to start taking radical steps to change
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what now seems to be inevitable in the future. Now, I've talked many times about what some of those
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steps should be. Part of the plan, as you always hear me say, is to raise and educate your children
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in an environment free from left-wing indoctrination. That means no public school system.
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It also means dialing way back on their exposure to pop culture and the internet. None of that is easy
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to do. We are talking about radical lifestyle changes. But if we aren't willing to make radical
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lifestyle changes, then there's no hope. The complacency and self-delusion on the right can't
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continue. This unfounded faith that things will simply work out. That the world can't get any
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crazier. That the left has finally crossed the line this time and people are going to wake up.
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This is too far. All that needs to end. The collapse of our civilization has been a highly deliberate act.
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A result. Part of a long-term plan set in motion by people who say what else you want about them
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certainly know how to play for keeps and win. None of this means that we're doomed or we should give up
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quite the opposite. I'm saying the opposite of that. It simply means that we need to face reality.
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we're all really excited about, I did interview her. Uh, you can go to my, my YouTube page and check out
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that we've got, we pulled out a few interesting clips from there, but then also we've got the full
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interview posted with Candace. Um, and I, I did want to speak to one thing there, because there's,
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there's been controversy that's come out of that interview already. Um, and frankly, lies have
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camera tricks, just kind of the way I was sitting, sitting the lighting, all of those things.
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Those were normal jeans of all of the things I've been accused of in my time doing this,
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all of the accusations leveled at me. That is, uh, perhaps the worst and I'm simply not going to
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stand for it, but you can go check out that, um, that interview where, where me and my normal
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jeans, I am interviewing Candace Owens. Okay. Uh, number one from the daily wire, Republican
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Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson signed Senate bill six on Tuesday that bans abortion unless the life
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of the mother is endangered. So this is almost a full on abortion ban. Supporters of the bill hope
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that it could force the Supreme court to revisit Roe v. Wade, though opponents intend to block it
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before the law takes effects effect later this year. Um, Republican state Senator Jason Rappert,
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the bill sponsor said we must abolish abortion in this nation just as we abolish slavery in the 19th
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century. All lives matter. Um, Hutchinson was at first reluctant to sign the bill because it didn't
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provide exceptions in the case of rape or incest, but explain in a statement that he ultimately decided
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to support it. Um, now a couple of things here. First of all, there, there absolutely should not
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be exceptions for rape, rape and incest when it comes to abortion bans. Um, there should be exceptions
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for the life of the mother either. And the reason for that is very simple that that's a non-existent
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category. So you might say it's no harm to put it in there because that doesn't, that's not something
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that really exists. Um, as in a life-saving abortion is not something that exists. Abortion has never
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saved life of a mother. There's never been a time when a woman needed an abortion, which is an
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abortion. What does that mean? It means to directly and intentionally kill the child. That's never
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been necessary to save the life of the mother. Now there've been plenty of times when, um, you know,
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especially, you know, we hear this, especially with, with late, late term abortions where we're told by
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the left that the only reason why a woman would get a late term abortion is, is, is, you know, in a
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catastrophic medical situation where she needs it to save her own life. Well, yeah, there, there may be
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cases where the pregnancy has to end in order to save the woman's life. The question is whether you
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kill the child before you end the pregnancy because one way or another, especially later term,
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if you're ending the pregnancy, it means there's going to be a delivery. It means you are taking
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the child out of the mother's womb, right? And absolutely, if that needs to happen to save the
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mother's life, do it. The question is, do you, do you take the extra step of killing the child
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before you extract him from the womb or even as you are extracting him from the womb, which is what
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they do in partial birth abortions? There's no way that you would need to do that in order to save the
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mother's life. I mean, there could be other cases, really difficult cases where a woman, where she's
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pregnant, uh, you know, is, is diagnosed with advanced stage cancer. And she's told that, look, if you treat
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the cancer, it might kill the child. Um, but that's not an abortion either. You know, taking a step to
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treat an illness, a disease or cancer in the mother, even if it were to have the effect tragically of
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killing a child, that is not to directly and intentionally kill the child. So that's not an
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abortion. So this is a made up category. The reason I'm actually opposed to putting those exceptions
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in is that, um, the way that, what the left wants to do with the life of the mother, they want to
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expand that to mean, well, not just life, but physical wellbeing. And by wellbeing, we also mean
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emotional wellbeing. And suddenly by the way that they categorize it, every abortion in some sense
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preserves the life of the mother because of nothing else that preserves her emotional wellbeing.
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Um, and for rape and incest, you know, the reason why the exception shouldn't be in there to me again
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is, is, is simple, which doesn't make it easy, but it's simple just in the fact that, uh, we do not
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punish children, especially with execution for crimes committed by their father. That's, that's not
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what, what you do in a civilized society. You want to talk about abortion execution for rapists?
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We can talk about that. I'm all ears, but you can't punish the child for that.
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So that's why I think you don't make the exceptions. But, uh, in this case, this is a,
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uh, even with that, that exception in there, this is something to be celebrated. And, um, will it,
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will it cause this confrontation on the Supreme court? I don't know. It seems kind of far-fetched.
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It also seemed far-fetched that even if it makes it to the, to the Supreme court,
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that this Supreme court with its current makeup would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade,
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Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, I, you know, Roberts, I don't see any of them voting to overturn Roe
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v. Wade, but even so, um, it's, uh, it is certainly a major step in the right direction.
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And Alabama should be, uh, should be praised and celebrated for that. Okay. Number two,
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Fox 40 reports, Minneapolis leaders say they'll reopen a barricaded intersection known as George
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Floyd square after the murder trial of the former police officer accused of killing him. But the
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activists who serve as unofficial leaders and organizers of this area have issued 24 demands
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before they'll step aside, even calling for a recall of the County prosecutor. Uh, so they're
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making demands. They, they've occupied this part of the city and they're not going to leave until
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they, until we, until their demands are met. Um, here's a report done by a reporter, Brian Enten,
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who's exploring this issue further and encounter some of the, um, insurrectionists and terrorists
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occupying this part of the city. Here's how that went. Let's watch this area behind me, uh, is the
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George Floyd Memorial. This is where George Floyd was killed back in May. Take a look. Um, these barricades
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have been set up by, uh, by protesters and supporters of the movement. Uh, they don't allow
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anyone in, not even the police. It's called an autonomous zone. Uh, and yeah.
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You're going to be in a bad situation here in a second. Oh, I thought if we were on this
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side of the barricade. You're going to be in a bad situation in a second.
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What do you mean by bad situation? Because you've been called out for what you are and you need
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to get out of here. Please go. No, we know what you are. You need to get in your car and go.
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It's very tense near the memorial and a militant style group has closed off several blocks with
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barricades. What's the situation at the memorial? The situation at the memorial is, um, from what I
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understand is kind of volatile. Um, people that want to go and support, um, doesn't feel a sense
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of inclusion. Um, there is more of a like militant type atmosphere over there and a sense of fear.
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Kim Griffin supports police reform and was outside the courthouse protesting Floyd's death,
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but she does not agree with what's happening at the memorial. Her nephew, 28-year-old Emez Wright,
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was shot and killed there over the weekend. Were police able to get in and help him?
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Police were not allowed to get into that area. He was carried out of, outside the zone of
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George Floyd Square. But not allowed by who? I mean, they're the police.
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The, uh, the law enforcement, it was made clear law enforcement was not welcome to penetrate that
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zone. Um, so law enforcement isn't welcome. They're just not, that's something you could do if you're on
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the left. If you're a left-wing activist, you can just say, well, you're not welcome here.
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We're going to set up, we're going to set up camp here. You're allowed to play revolutionary
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for several weeks or several months and, and say to law enforcement, yeah, we don't want you here.
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And law enforcement will turn around and say, all right. The thing that, that, the thing that always
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frustrates me about this is that you watch these videos and the people doing this are so
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unintimidating and weak looking, and they're allowed to get away with it. Those two people
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that walked up to the reporter and said, it's going to be a bad situation for you. If you don't
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leave, you got a, it's a woman and some scrawny looking dude walking up. It's gonna be a real bet.
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You better get the hell out of here. What the hell are you going to do? What are you going to do?
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Do something about it. I would love to see that response, but of course the reporter just turns
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around and walks away. And even the police turn around and say, well, yes, sir. I don't want any,
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I don't want any bad news from you. You look like a tough customer.
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And they're allowed to do this. But remember, remember again, what we're told by the media
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that, uh, that, that these people, the left-wing activists, they're the ones who get the real
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tough treatment from law enforcement and the government, as opposed to the, the rioters in January 6th.
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One of whom shot to death on the spot, if you recall. Uh, and then all the others are being
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hunted down by the government and, and, and given, you know, being charged with, with crimes that
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will land them in jail for 10 to 20 years. Meanwhile, the left-wing activists are allowed
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to take over whole city blocks. Oh, but okay. Minneapolis leaders say that we're only going to
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let them do this until the end of the trial. So we give them a few weeks more to take over this
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part of the city. What else are we going to do? I mean, if we, if we tell them to go away,
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they'll be mad at us. They'll be upset. All right. Number three, education week has an article
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titled Texas school districts face safety dilemma after governor lifts mask order. And this is about
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schools in Texas deciding whether to have mask mandates in their individual schools, uh, because
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the statewide mandate has been taken away. But the governor said that, you know, individual districts
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and, and, uh, localities can come up with their own policies. Um, and this is, you're seeing this
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more and more as more schools open. They're, they're dealing with this question of, should we have the
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kids wearing masks all day? And a lot of schools are, they have this kids wearing masks all day while
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they're in, in, in school, but let me help you out. If you're, if you're a school district dealing
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with this question, should we have the kids in masks all day? Should we not? Um, you should not
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very, very easy answer. You absolutely should not masks for kids, especially if they're going to be
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wearing all day in school are not only unnecessary because we know that kids are not a major risk group,
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both for contracting and spreading the virus, but also so unbelievably unsanitary and gross.
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I mean, think about anyone who's a parent of, of especially younger kids. Think about, I mean,
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I think about my, my kids now, my son at the age of seven, at the end of the day, just like his shirt
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will look like he dug it out of the bottom of a dumpster. And it did not look that way in the
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morning when we put it on him. We, everything is nice and clean, put it on him. And within hours,
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really within minutes, sometimes it, it, it looks, um, gross. And he can go through, he can go through
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four or five shirts in a day and make them all look like that because kids are dirty. It's part of
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being a kid, part of the fun of being a kid. They're not very hygiene focused. You work with them on
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that, but that's not a concern that they have. And then you're going to take this piece. So you,
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you think about what a shirt looks like on a child after wearing it all day. Now you can take a piece
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of cloth and put it over their mouth and have them simply stewing in their own germs all day. It's
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disgusting. I have so many times when I've been at the store, been out, um, I have heard parents
00:23:18.400
telling their kids, I've heard sentences like, stop licking your mask. Um, stop chewing on your mask.
00:23:28.620
These are the things you have to, now I don't say that to my kids because I don't really make them
00:23:31.620
wear a mask in the first place. But if I did that, I'd be telling them the same thing. That's what a kid's
00:23:36.020
going to do. A six-year-old. Do you have any idea what they're doing under that mask? It's like
00:23:43.340
snot and they're licking it and just gross. And you haven't wearing it all day. I mentioned this
00:23:52.680
yesterday on Twitter and someone said, well, easy solution. Uh, just give your child an extra mask.
00:24:00.660
Give them two or three extra masks. Then you can change them out. You'll always have a clean one.
00:24:04.340
See, this is the problem. The people pushing for and advocating these policies don't know the first
00:24:10.800
damn thing about kids. Okay. You give them extra masks. Here's what's going to happen.
00:24:17.300
Either of those extra masks are also going to look like they've been stewing in a dumpster
00:24:20.780
or more likely the kid's going to lose them. You think you can give your kid an extra mask
00:24:26.960
and he's still going to have it two hours later? I put shoes on my kids as we've been over and they
00:24:34.280
won't even still have those two hours later. And they're on their, the shoes are on their feet.
00:24:39.260
You think you can just give them a few extra masks? They're going to very responsibly when they
00:24:44.580
notice that the first mask is a little dirty, they'll take that one off neatly, put that away
00:24:48.440
to be cleaned, take out the next one. That's what kids are going to do. Sure. It's so disgusting.
00:24:54.780
There is no way whatever, whatever minor risk, uh, whatever comparatively minor risk there is for
00:25:01.040
kids with COVID and spreading COVID. There is no way that it outweighs the, the, the, the hygiene
00:25:07.600
concerns of having these kids wear masks all day. Meanwhile, Dr. Fauci on CNN was asked to explain
00:25:14.440
why people, um, who've been vaccinated can't return to traveling and other normal activities.
00:25:20.640
And he didn't have a good answer as always, but here's what he said.
00:25:24.580
We know from the Biden administration that they say it will make its decisions based on science.
00:25:29.380
What's the science behind not saying it's safe for people who have been vaccinated, receive two doses
00:25:36.180
to travel? You know, that's a very good question, John. And, and the CDC is carefully heading in that
00:25:44.120
direction. Uh, you know, when we, when, when Dr. Walensky made the announcement a day or two ago
00:25:50.420
about the fact that when you have a couple of people, two or three or more people in a family
00:25:55.340
setting, both of whom are vaccinated, even if it's someone from another, a friend that doesn't have to
00:26:00.920
be a member of the family, that was the first in a multi-step process that they are going to be
00:26:06.400
rolling out. They're being careful. Understandably, they want to get science. They want to get data.
00:26:11.460
And then when you don't have the data and you don't have the actual evidence, then you've got
00:26:16.300
to make a judgment call. And I think that's what you're going to be seeing in the next weeks. You're
00:26:21.280
going to see little by little more and more guidelines, getting people to be more and more
00:26:25.960
flexible. The first installation of this is what can vaccinated people do in the home setting.
00:26:31.900
Obviously the next one is going to be what you're asking. What about travel? What about going out?
00:26:37.060
What about getting a haircut? What about doing things like that? That's all imminently going
00:26:41.440
to be coming out. What about getting a haircut? I can't, is there anyone, I guess if you live
00:26:47.360
in a state or a city where they still have this stuff shut down, there's not a lot you
00:26:50.320
can do, but is there anyone still waiting around in their own personal life to, to hear the
00:26:58.980
guidelines or like, you're not going to do anything, even if it's available to you, you're
00:27:03.260
not going to do it until you get the guidelines from Fauci and see the CDC. Is there anyone still
00:27:06.880
doing that? Well, yeah, I guess a lot, a lot of people are haven't grown tired of it yet.
00:27:14.140
And so Fauci is saying, well, we got to, you know, we don't have the data yet. So we'll just
00:27:19.740
err on the side. We'll err on the side of having people continue to be shut away in their homes,
00:27:24.600
not living their lives. Let's, let's continue to err on that side. Even if they've been vaccinated,
00:27:29.280
you just don't, if you are stop waiting around for this dude and for the CDC and, and simply go live
00:27:39.020
your life. Uh, one other note on COVID here, one other COVID related thing. Number four, this is
00:27:46.060
from CNBC, a story related to something we discussed at the beginning of the week, but more details are
00:27:50.660
now coming out. Uh, it says an overwhelming majority of people who have been hospitalized,
00:27:54.580
needed a ventilator or died from COVID-19 have been overweight or obese. So the story that we had
00:28:00.480
a couple of days ago was that, uh, the, the countries that have obesity epidemics like our own
00:28:06.580
are also the ones that have been hit the, hit the hardest by, by COVID. No surprise there. Now this
00:28:11.840
gets more specific. It says among 148,494 adults who received a COVID-19 diagnosis during an emergency
00:28:18.280
department or inpatient visit at 238 U.S. hospitals from March to December, uh, 71,000 were
00:28:24.460
hospitalized. Of those who are admitted 27% were overweight and 50% were obese. So you've got
00:28:31.720
almost 78% overweight is defined as having a body mass index of 25 or more while obesity is defined
00:28:37.780
as having a BMI of 30 or more. Now you hear that it seems very significant and it is, uh, because we
00:28:45.000
know that this is something that has affected overweight and obese people, um, in a, in a hugely
00:28:52.860
disproportionate way, one word of caution I would mention. And that's why I think we need even more
00:28:58.420
information. I would be curious for more information on this. Um, because the categories
00:29:05.900
overweight and obese are, and I don't mean this as a pun are, are very broad. And so I, I think I'd
00:29:13.220
like to know more when we talk about overweight and obese, what exactly do you mean by that? And the
00:29:17.440
reason I say that is that if you go to CDC website, uh, and you go to their section, their obesity
00:29:24.560
section, and you look at their little charts telling you, you know, based on your height and
00:29:31.360
your sex, um, when are you, what qualifies as overweight or obese for you? You look at that chart,
00:29:38.720
it's madness. I mean, for example, according to the CDC, I'm six foot, six foot one on a good day.
00:29:48.000
Uh, some would say six foot, but six foot one on a good day. And for my height, I I'm told that I
00:29:54.560
think like certainly at 150 pounds, according to the CDC, I'm in the normal range at 150 pounds for a
00:30:02.040
six foot, one inch man, I would be skin and bones. I would look, I would be like Tom Hanks
00:30:09.300
after three, in Castaway after three years on the Island. If I was, if I was 150 pounds at my height.
00:30:16.520
And if I remember correctly, it's like, you know, 140, 145, all the way down to there for my height,
00:30:23.040
you'd be 140 pounds and still be considered normal up to maybe like 180, 175, 180 above that you're
00:30:29.380
overweight. So by the CDC's standards, they expect men to have no muscle mass whatsoever.
00:30:40.780
If you've ever even been inside a gym, if you've, if you've ever taken one rep on a, on a bench press,
00:30:47.980
then you're probably going to be overweight, if not obese by the CDC's definition. So I would be
00:30:54.080
curious about that when they say overweight and obese, are we talking about six foot one men or 200
00:30:59.240
pounds, which I think is a healthy weight for, for a man that height? Uh, are we talking about
00:31:03.180
270 pounds? Is that what you mean? Big difference. Okay. Number five, finally, from the Daily Wire,
00:31:09.440
it says, you know, ever the company that makes Dove soap and other beauty and personal care products
00:31:13.500
announced this week that it would stop using the word normal on its packaging because it's not
00:31:18.060
inclusive enough. Reuters reported that the London based company will also stop digital
00:31:23.900
alterations of body shapes and skin color of models used in its advertising. Um,
00:31:30.140
the, but then it goes on to say there doesn't appear to be any backlash that caused the current
00:31:34.220
move by Unilever to remove the word normal from its packaging, but a poll conducted by the company
00:31:39.320
that surveyed 10,000 people found global support for removing the word. So they're just anticipating
00:31:43.980
it. And this is what companies are going to do now. They're going to drive the woke insanity
00:31:49.540
by trying to get out in front of it, but setting the precedent. So the woke mob hasn't quite yet
00:31:56.500
gotten around to, to actually being offended by the word normal, but Unilever is saying that they'll
00:32:02.020
get around to it soon. So we're going to get rid of the word now. And then woke mob looks at that and
00:32:07.380
they say, yeah, you know what? That is offensive. Good point. Wokeness will eventually make it impossible
00:32:14.000
to advertise anything because advertising is all about advancing some ideal, you know,
00:32:21.000
some notion of how things should be. And that's, that's not inclusive.
00:32:28.720
You can't really advertise your message, um, or advertise your product. If your message is that
00:32:34.500
everyone is perfect and fine, just the way they are. That's the problem. Even with a lot of, you know,
00:32:40.540
Dove, a lot of women's products and toiletries and cosmetic stuff in that vein, you know, for years
00:32:47.440
now, the main, they've been trying to walk this tightrope where the message is everyone is beautiful.
00:32:54.000
Everyone is wonderful. Just how they are. You're all, you're all princesses and goddesses. Uh, but by the
00:33:00.140
way, you'd be a lot better if you had our product. Wait a second. I thought you just said, I'm perfect how I
00:33:04.880
am. So it's going to become, it's going to become impossible eventually for these companies to
00:33:11.140
advertise. Um, which maybe isn't such a bad thing. That might be the one good thing that comes of a,
00:33:17.220
of the woke mob, less advertising from these kinds of companies. All right, we're going to move on now
00:33:22.600
to read the YouTube comments. And remember, speaking of YouTube, if you're watching on YouTube to, uh,
00:33:28.200
smash the like button, as the kids say, comment, subscribe, hit the notification bell. Um,
00:33:33.120
and I, you know, I decided, I think we're almost at 200,000 subscribers on YouTube.
00:33:38.720
And once we get to half a million, we're a long way off, but once we get there, there's going to
00:33:43.360
be a special treat. I don't know exactly what it is yet. Maybe I will perform slam poetry. That's it.
00:33:54.580
I will have a, uh, uh, uh, an original slam work of slam poetry that I will perform on this show when
00:34:01.960
we get to half a million. That's your incentive. Might've been more of like a D incentive than
00:34:05.860
anything else. Okay. This is Miley Z TV says my daily routine has become watching this damn show.
00:34:12.600
I'm addicted. Well, a little aggressive, a little negative in the way you put it, but, uh, but
00:34:18.260
thanks for watching. Bill and Sanchez says, Matt, um, are you rolling around town in a super dope
00:34:24.420
sports car or are you living the dad life cruising in a minivan? Uh, none of the above. We, we,
00:34:29.460
we go the SUV route. I'm fine with the minivan. My wife's still eventually every parent breaks down.
00:34:36.940
I've, I've, I got there a couple of years ago where I said, fine, let's just do the damn minivan,
00:34:41.520
whatever. It's a lot easier. It, you know, we've had the experience with the minivan a couple of
00:34:45.900
times when our car has been in the shop, we've had to rent, rent a car. And, uh, yeah, the minivan,
00:34:50.520
it's not a looker. It's not going to win any style points, but it is so much easier and more
00:34:54.000
convenient than any other kind of car for, for hauling a bunch of kids around. So eventually every,
00:34:58.540
every parent breaks down. I got there. My wife is not, she's not ready yet for that, uh, to be a
00:35:04.060
minivan mom quite yet. And so she'll be there soon, but as it happens right now, we're not,
00:35:09.560
we're not doing that. Levin says on the way we're, we're, we're on the way to Jesus being canceled.
00:35:15.880
Well, we're already there. In fact, one of the, uh, one viral video that I was planning to talk
00:35:21.640
about on the show this, this week, maybe we'll still get around to it, but a viral video,
00:35:26.040
been making the rounds on online. I think originates on Tik TOK of course is, and I believe
00:35:30.640
this guy calls himself a pastor, but he's talking about how Jesus was a racist. So yeah, we're,
00:35:38.500
we're already there. I mean, in a way, you know, we, we've been there for 2000 years,
00:35:43.900
but, um, but eventually a more concerted effort. Now, will we get to a point? I guess the question
00:35:50.040
is where because of the Bible's quote hate speech, it can't be sold on Amazon. Will we get to that
00:35:55.760
point? That's the question. I would say probably eventually. Yeah. Uh, Daniel Steven says, do you
00:36:02.480
Shapiro, Knowles and Clavin share a trauma bond over all the insults y'all get online? Is there any
00:36:08.380
caressing and crying in each other's arms off screen asking for a friend? Don't cancel me. Yeah. We,
00:36:14.300
that's what we need because we know Taylor Lorenz and other female journalists have been talking
00:36:19.120
about this a lot this week, how they get mean comments and there's a lot of trauma and you do
00:36:23.100
need, you do need, you do need a support system. And so at least we have each other for that.
00:36:27.760
It can be very upsetting, the mean comments. Um, and finally, have you noticed that you can freely
00:36:34.820
fulfill any of your wretched desires by simply calling yourself anti wretched desire? If you want
00:36:40.600
to be racist, call yourself anti-racist. You want to practice fascist tactics, boom, call yourself
00:36:46.480
anti-fascist on the flip side. You want to follow the science. You'll be labeled anti-science. You
00:36:52.240
have cracked the code. That is indeed exactly how it works. You know, I really believe the world would
00:36:57.500
be a much better place if people spend at least as much time reading books as they do scrolling
00:37:02.180
through social media, probably more, a lot more time reading books even, uh, but let's start small.
00:37:06.500
Let's try to do a 50 50 split here. If you agree with me and have been looking for a new title to
00:37:11.060
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00:37:15.440
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00:37:25.580
his enemies close on all sides. Despite wild success in life, he begins to realize that a recurring
00:37:30.280
vision is actually a nightmare in disguise. He's caught in the coils of a terrible magic. And the only
00:37:34.300
way he can save his soul is to give up his success, reenter the 11 lands and find the emperor
00:37:38.800
Anastasius so he can restore queen Alinda to her throne. The first two books in the series
00:37:43.340
didn't disappoint. So I will personally be sitting down to find how this, uh, this whole adventure
00:37:48.500
concludes. The emperor sword is now available for purchase online. Go to amazon.com and search
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the emperor's sword. Also, I got to tell you about, um, of course the Candace Owens show. I just
00:37:58.360
mentioned earlier in the show on election night, we announced that Candace Owens will be joining the
00:38:01.860
daily wire and it's finally happening. Candace's new show. Candace will premiere next Friday,
00:38:07.000
March 19th. Um, and this is going to be an exclusive to daily wire members. If you're not
00:38:12.500
a member, go to dailywire.com slash subscribe and use code Candace to get 25% off. Also, as I
00:38:18.160
mentioned, you can go to my YouTube channel. I got an interview with her. Uh, she's got a lot of
00:38:21.880
content, all the different channels, um, as we, you know, start to bring Candace into the, into the
00:38:27.220
fold again, that's dailywire.com slash subscribe, use code Candace to get 25% off. Now let's get to our
00:38:33.100
daily cancellation. So today we have a few cancellations to dole out and it all begins
00:38:40.000
with this question sent into Slate's advice column. Now, anybody who sends a question to
00:38:45.100
Slate's advice column deserves to be canceled on that basis alone. I cannot imagine ever facing a
00:38:49.900
quandary in my life where I think to myself, man, you know, Slate might know what to do here.
00:38:55.440
I have never been in a situation where I wondered what Slate might say about it.
00:39:00.500
And that's mostly because I know what Slate would say. They'd say that the cause of the
00:39:04.780
problem is racism, sexism, and transphobia, literally no matter what the problem actually
00:39:08.560
is. The problem could be like a flat tire or arthritis or anything. And that would be Slate's
00:39:14.100
answer. But this guy who uses the pseudonym suddenly the breadwinner thought that Slate would
00:39:20.000
be the best, best, best place to go with his issue. And here's what he wrote. It's a little bit
00:39:24.380
long, but let's read the whole thing. Bear with me. He says, I am a new father to a beautiful
00:39:28.600
10-month-old girl. My wife's company has a generous maternity leave policy, and she has
00:39:33.420
been at home with our daughter since the birth and is scheduled to go back to work just after
00:39:37.180
her first birthday in January. She recently told me she doesn't want to go back to her
00:39:41.600
job and would like to be a stay-at-home parent instead. I asked her why, and she said she
00:39:45.880
enjoys being a mother too much to leave our daughter to go back to work when she doesn't
00:39:49.060
need to. It's such a departure from our plans before the baby was born. She had a good job
00:39:53.180
that she enjoyed before going on leave and had always been adamant that she wanted to
00:39:57.360
continue working even after becoming a mom. We met when we worked at the same company many
00:40:00.860
years ago, and one of the things I was most attracted to about her was her ambition and
00:40:05.080
tenacity. It's really surprising to hear that her career isn't that important to her anymore.
00:40:09.020
Honestly, I don't want her to quit her job. She earns about the same as I do, and while we
00:40:13.040
could make ends meet on my income alone, it would impact our daily ability or our ability
00:40:17.280
to save and we need to give up one of our cars and cut back on extras that make life
00:40:21.560
more enjoyable. I also just don't want a stay-at-home mom-wife. I really admired my wife for
00:40:28.920
her work ethic, and I want her to set a good example for our daughter too. Seeing her give up like
00:40:34.400
this is really disappointing. I gently asked her if she thought her change in attitude could be
00:40:39.940
related to a possible mental health issue or postpartum depression, but she didn't take that
00:40:45.340
well. She says she only cares about our daughter, and that's where all her energy needs to go right
00:40:49.180
now and that if I love her, I will let her do this. I do love my wife, and I'm not interested
00:40:53.380
in divorce, but I'm seeing a whole side of her that I just don't like or admire. What should I do?
00:40:58.960
Okay, well, I mean, as long as he gently asked, he gently asked whether his wife wants to stay home
00:41:05.840
and raise their daughter due to a mental illness. Hey, honey, listen, I know you said you love being a
00:41:11.460
mother. You want to be home with our child full-time. I'm just wondering. I'm just wondering.
00:41:16.360
Are you having a psychotic break? Is that what this is? I'm only asking. What? I'm just asking.
00:41:23.260
I can't believe that didn't go over well. Now, I admit that I might be judging this man extra
00:41:29.760
harshly because I am also the breadwinner in my family, and we have four little mouths to feed
00:41:34.520
instead of one, and I personally really like supporting my family. I feel honored to do it,
00:41:39.460
fulfilled by it, and I love that my kids have their mom home with them. The idea of being
00:41:46.200
disappointed about being the breadwinner as a man is completely foreign to me. The idea of respecting
00:41:53.080
and admiring your wife less because she loves being a mom too much is also utterly foreign to me,
00:42:01.040
but we'll respond more to these ideas in a second. First, let's loop in our dear friend Jill
00:42:08.300
Falopovic. She's a feminist writer who always has exactly the sort of take you expect on these kinds
00:42:14.280
of issues. In a series of tweets, she responded, empathizing with the man, and empathizing with men
00:42:21.260
is usually not one of her strong suits, and she said in part, quote, I realize this is like the third
00:42:27.020
rail of the mommy wars, but yeah, lots of super ambitious people marry other super ambitious
00:42:31.700
people because they're attracted to ambition. I would have a really, really hard time being married
00:42:36.560
to a spouse who chose not to work, and now I'm really going to get myself yelled at, but I also
00:42:41.700
think the issue of example setting for a kid is totally fair. What example are you setting when dad
00:42:46.900
works for pay and mom does the care work at home? Lots of reasons not to want to set that kind of
00:42:52.240
example for a child. At-home work is incredibly isolating. It also occupies a pretty unique space
00:42:57.700
where it's centered on one of the most fundamental familial relationships, parent slash child.
00:43:02.280
No other job is like that, which is where the claim that staying at home is a job doesn't quite
00:43:06.820
tell the whole story. Okay, now there's a lot to be said on this topic. We don't have time to say
00:43:13.040
most of it. Instead, I just want to focus on two things. Maybe not even the two most important things,
00:43:17.720
but these two things. First, the idea that you have to choose between being ambitious
00:43:25.460
or raising your children full-time is asinine. Ambition in the positive sense of the word
00:43:31.660
is simply a strong desire to achieve some kind of worthwhile goal coupled with the determination to
00:43:39.200
see it through. That's what we mean when we speak positively about an ambitious person. Raising children
00:43:44.800
and tending to your family in your home requires a lot of ambition. Or to put it another way,
00:43:51.100
there's a big difference between children who are raised ambitiously and children who are not.
00:43:56.720
So to have ambition as a parent is to be active, to be present, not complacent. Here's a very simple
00:44:03.500
example of ambitious parenting. And this, again, is by far not the most profound example, but as I said,
00:44:09.640
a simple everyday example. An ambitious parent turns the TV off, says to the kids,
00:44:18.180
hey, let's go outside and play a game. Let's have a scavenger hunt. Let's do some activity that I have
00:44:22.980
planned. Some edifying and educational and fun activity that I have planned that we're going to
00:44:27.240
go do rather than just having you sit here and watch TV all day. Now, this is not necessarily the
00:44:32.580
parent's idea of a good time, but it's good for the kids in the long run. And you're putting the work
00:44:36.900
and effort in, in pursuit of that long-term benefit, rather than simply letting them watch TV
00:44:42.040
and play video games all day. At the end of the day, as a parent, you know if you parented
00:44:47.940
ambitiously or not. And you may be more worn out after the day of ambitious parenting, but there's
00:44:54.300
also a deep fulfillment that you feel from it. And I would submit that in many cases, parenting provides
00:44:59.900
more chances to have that kind of feeling, that sort of satisfied, tired feeling of knowing you
00:45:07.460
put a hard day's work in and you were ambitious and proactive. Parenting provides more opportunities
00:45:14.200
to feel that way than a nine-to-five job does. In many nine-to-five jobs, the structure is already
00:45:20.200
laid out. Your function is limited. Ambition doesn't even come into play most of the time.
00:45:25.640
There isn't much room to set your own path. As a parent, there is no structure but what you put
00:45:32.840
in place. There is no plan but what you devise. And if you don't put a structure in place, if you
00:45:40.020
have no plan, if you don't do anything, if you just let the days flow by, counting on the glowing
00:45:45.500
screens to keep your kids distracted, sure, you're going to feel totally empty, alone, bored, and
00:45:49.920
miserable. But that's where ambition comes into play. Second point, no, being a stay-at-home mom
00:45:58.520
is not a job. It's not. A job is something you get specifically paid to do. Many jobs require you
00:46:07.180
to punch in and punch out. You might even get a name tag. Parenting involves none of that. It's not
00:46:12.100
a job, but it is work. Okay, that's the distinction here. A job is just a type of work. Being a stay-at-home
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mom is not a job, but it is a type of work. Running a self-sustaining farm is also not a job, but it's
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definitely work. The real question is whether a job is a more noble, more worthwhile, more important
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kind of work than parenting. And the answer to that is obviously no. Not all jobs are created
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equal. Some jobs are more important than others. Just as not all parents are created equal, some
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parents are better than others. But speaking in broad strokes here, working for a wage at the
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behest of a large company under the supervision of bosses and managers is not some kind of noble,
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romantic thing. It's also not liberating. The idea that a woman is liberated from the servile bonds
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of motherhood by becoming a wage slave for a corporation is frankly ridiculous. Nothing wrong
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with working a job. I do it. Somebody in the family's got to do it. Let's not delude ourselves
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about the nature of what we're doing at our jobs. Here's the other tough reality. You are replaceable
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at your job. Totally replaceable. We all are. Your value to your employer is entirely based on how well
00:47:29.380
you perform. If they can find someone who performs better than you, you go from limited value to no
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value. And either way, once you exit one way or another, whether you leave on your own or are
00:47:42.300
fired, the hole you leave behind will be filled and you'll be quickly forgotten. That's what it means
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to work at a job. It means that your worth is quantified in dollars and cents. It means that whatever
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you do, you're only doing it because, and so long as, you're given money in return. There's nothing
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fundamentally wrong with any of this. As I said, someone's got to do it. But it's hard to see this
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as somehow more admirable than full-time parenting. Jobs are mercenary. Jobs are temporal. Jobs are
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revolving doors. Parenting is none of that, or at least it shouldn't be. Which is why even though I
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have a job, I find my real worth and value at home with my family, because that's what really matters.
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And even if you don't have a family, well, you still better find your worth and value somewhere
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else. You better find some deeper, more meaningful thing to find your worth and value in than your job.
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That's the case for everybody. And so parents who do this full-time, incredibly worthwhile and
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valuable thing. People who can't see that, like our friend Jill and the guy who wrote that letter,
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are, of course, canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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