Ep. 709 - A Nation Of Paranoid Lunatics Afraid Of Fresh Air
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We ve become a society of adults who fear breathing fresh air, and we re raising our kids to share in that phobia. Also, a totally predictable crisis as police departments across the country struggle to find new recruits. And Lindsey Graham gets in trouble for saying that Obama s election proves systemic racism isn t real.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the state of Michigan has expanded its mask mandates to
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include children who are two, three, and four years old. We've become a society of adults
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who fear breathing fresh air, and we're raising our kids to share in that phobia. So we'll talk
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about that today. Also, five headlines including a totally predictable crisis as police departments
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across the country struggle to find new recruits. I wonder why. And Lindsey Graham gets in trouble
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for saying that Obama's election proves systemic racism isn't real. But isn't he correct about
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that? In our daily cancellation, we'll talk about the man who was doxed and then fired from his job
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for allegedly harassing a dude in a prom dress. But as always with these things, there's a whole
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lot more to the story, and we'll talk about that and a lot more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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I think it was sometime in July or August when I first personally noticed the shift. I've been
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traveling all throughout this past year, living my life basically as normal the entire time. In the
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first few months of the pandemic, when I went out in public, and especially on planes, I would see
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people fidgeting constantly with their masks, pulling them down under their nose, taking them
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off whenever they could. I did the same. I still do the same. Whenever I'm in a situation where I have
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no choice but to wear one, like on an airplane. But, you know, the tactic, one classic tactic now,
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for me anyway, is you, they say you could take the mask off to drink a bottle of water. So just have
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a bottle of water in your hand. And maybe it takes you a lot. Maybe it takes you the entire flight to
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drink it. Who knows? But sometime in the summer, I noticed that most people had stopped doing this.
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They'd put the mask on, keep it on without a break. I flew across the country several times,
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five or six hour flights, and everyone around me kept the mask on over the nose without messing with
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it for the whole trip. Even keeping it on to eat, as I've complained about. Simply lifting the mask,
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inserting a pretzel or peanut one at a time. Now, I guess we're supposed to see this as a positive change.
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But I found it deeply disturbing. It seemed to me that people had gone from wearing the mask
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begrudgingly to wearing it because they wanted to and liked it and didn't want to be without it.
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There was a psychological shift in a lot of people and not a good one. Say whatever you want about
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masks. We shouldn't like them. You shouldn't like wearing a mask. We shouldn't want to cover our faces
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in public. We shouldn't prefer the mask over fresh air or even recycled air on an airplane.
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This psychological shift is why masking may never go away in many corners of society, even in
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situations where they're effectively pointless. For example, vaccinated people are required in most
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situations still to wear masks, even though the CDC itself says that point that only 0.008 percent,
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0.008 percent of fully vaccinated people have had breakthrough cases of the virus.
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That's the CDC's data. Only 1 percent of those of the 0.008 percent have died. So that puts your
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chance of dying from the virus if you've been vaccinated, according to the CDC's data,
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at, if my math is right, and a lot of times it isn't, 0.0001 percent.
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And yet vaccinated people not only have to wear the mask, but many seem perfectly eager and willing
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to do so. They want to. The mask for them serves no medical purpose. It serves a psychological
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purpose. It fills an emotional need. And it's a very disordered, deranged, unnatural need. It
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satiates a fear, a fear of air. There are people in this country, lots of people, who after the
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sustained psychological terror campaign from the media and health experts, quote unquote,
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like Fauci, are now afraid of the air. Now, speaking of the air, study after study shows
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that your chance of getting the virus outside, we read from the latest study on this front yesterday,
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your chance of getting the virus outside, especially from simply walking past someone briefly,
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is, from a statistical standpoint, nearly non-existent. It's as close to non-existent
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as a chance can be. But the fact that it's not entirely non-existent, the fact that there is
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a chance, however slim, however vanishing, a theoretical chance, is too much for some people to bear.
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They've been broken. Their minds have been damaged. And nowhere is that more evident than with
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our approach to children. As the CDC announced guidelines for summer camps calling for children
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and vaccinated adults to wear masks at all times, including outside, the state of Michigan imposed
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its own psychotic mandates, or rather added to the psychotic mandates already in place.
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The state has declared that its mask mandate is being brought in to include two to four-year-olds.
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So children from the age of two must wear masks now in Michigan, everywhere, in all public places,
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including outside. Here's a local news report about the policy. Let's watch.
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Any parent who's ever had a child that age understands how challenging it can be to get them to comply with,
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well, anything sometimes. For many parents, the notion of getting toddlers to wear face masks
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for hours on end seem utterly impossible. Well, I spoke with the president of the Michigan
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chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and he says it is not only possible, but needed.
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Even though data shows there is only a small amount of COVID spread in schools and daycares,
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experts believe we need to do everything we can to improve our numbers here. In fact,
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the CDC has long suggested that people age two and older wear masks. However, some are concerned
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that teachers and daycare providers will have to spend too much time focused on keeping those masks
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on those kids' faces and too little time on normal routines. Again, this kind of goes back to if we're
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modeling good behavior and then talking to them about it, you know, taking away that kind of dogma
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or stigma of it being bad, then they're more likely to wear it. So put it on their stuffed animal,
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show, you know, pictures of other kids wearing it. You know, and as they get older, they're obviously
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going to ask more questions and you can be able to explain, you know, like you're wearing this to,
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you know, help protect yourself and to help protect others and, you know, kind of doing your part
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and to kind of get through this pandemic. Put it on their stuffed animal. If you do that
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as a parent, you are a lunatic. And that guy you just heard from there, that's, I'm not even sure
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who that guy is. We're living under a tyranny of guys like that. Dudes like that have been given,
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have been given incomprehensible power over our lives and over our children. He's worried that
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there will be a stigma. We don't, we don't want to have a stigma around masks. There should be a
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stigma. Okay. It is bad. It is bad to put masks on three-year-olds for hours on end or for any length
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of time. It is bad. It's shameful. It's disgraceful. It's abusive. We know that children are not and have
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never been at any serious risk to contract or spread COVID. The people supporting and imposing
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these mandates admit that openly. There is no articulable and reasonable medical case for putting
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a muzzle on a small child. Whatever minuscule risk it supposedly avoids is far, far outweighed by the
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cost. And there is a cost, a steep one. First, you don't need to be a doctor to apply common sense to
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this. Masks are going to restrict airflow. They're over your face. They weren't made to be worn as
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everyday items by everyone, including children, including during physical exercise and play.
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And on top of the breathing problem, it's also unhygienic. Kids are dirty. Kids are kind of gross,
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frankly. Young kids will wipe their noses with their shirts. They'll pee in their pants. It's a mess.
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What kind of condition do you think that mask will be in by the end of the day? That thing that's been
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attached to their face, that thing they've been breathing through for seven hours. But the brainless
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sheep among us will simply shrug their shoulders and say, you know, that there's no way for us to
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know if it's unhealthy to have young kids breathing through a dirt and snot encrusted rag all day.
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We can't possibly know until someone with public health expert in their title tells us,
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the sheep will say, as they get back to munching on the grass. But the physical risk, as dire as it
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is, must be considered secondary, in my mind, to the psychological risk. We know that many adults
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are now afraid of the air, afraid to walk down the street without a surgical mask. Many adults carry
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on like they're living downwind of Chernobyl. How do you think our kids feel? Well, not our kids. My own
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kids, the older ones, understand that masking is a silly thing that they have to do on occasion if
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we need to bring them into a store or something where it's required. And I've told them this. It's
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silly. It's dumb. We got to do it just because we got to run into the store real quick.
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My youngest, almost two, doesn't think anything about masks and has never worn one and will not wear
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one. But many other kids in this country, kids whose parents have broken brains, are being raised
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to share in their parents' fear of the air. We are raising a generation of children to fear walking
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down the street. Children who think that, you know, they might get sick and die if they play on the
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monkey bars without a piece of cloth covering their face. It's hard to even predict the long-term
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effects because no society on earth has ever done anything quite like this. We are running a
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psychological experiment on our kids and on ourselves. That's what this masking mandate stuff
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is. And the results of that experiment are already horrifying. And I'm afraid we'll only get worse.
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one here from The Blaze, it says, following the Defund the Police movement and the Abolish the Police
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movement, constant negative coverage of law enforcement by the media, anti-police sentiment
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becoming mainstream, and the threat of riots have contributed to a police shortage across the
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country. The Philadelphia Police Department currently has 268 vacancies and is expecting
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even more shortages in the near future. Neighboring New Jersey is facing a recruiting crisis, according
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to Pat Colligan, president of the New Jersey State Policemen's Benevolent Association. Colligan said that
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recent notorious police-involved deaths of citizens such as George Floyd, Tamir Rice, and Breonna Taylor
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have impacted recruiting efforts. Colligan also said the quality has really diminished in the last few
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years in terms of the police officers. Colonel Patrick Callahan said the state's largest police
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agency received a historically low number of applications this year. In some years, the New
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Jersey State Police would usually receive between 15,000 and 20,000. Listen to this. This year,
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they've received 2,000 qualified applications, from 15 to 20,000 to 2,000. In fact, we have a local
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news report here from Philadelphia talking about their situation, which is especially dire. Let's
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listen to that. Local FOP president John McNesby says it's kind of like a perfect storm developing,
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the eye of the storm revolving around several issues, including a dramatic rise in the number
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of Philadelphia police officers filing for retirement, a diminishing pool of young people
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who even want to be a big city cop, and the suspension of new officer training because of
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the pandemic. Under normal circumstances, there would be dozens of new recruits coming in for
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training every three months. But the most recent class graduated last December, and the next one
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isn't even expected to begin until next month. You got to remember, too, that once you go into the
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academy, it takes you about 10 months to finish. So we're not looking at putting any boots on the
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ground until maybe next spring. Then you throw in the recent changes to the department's residency
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rules mandating all police trainees live in Philadelphia before they enter the academy. Nobody's
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going to move to Philadelphia hoping that they get a job. They want to make sure that they secure
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employment and then move in. Richard Vona, director of the Bucks County Police Training Center, says
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all of these issues are also inspiring younger officers from the city to seek employment in the
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suburbs and not just from Philadelphia. Yeah, you think? I mean, the problem, it's twofold that
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you're going to have a lot fewer, as we're hearing, applicants. And right now, we've only talked about
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Philly and New Jersey. This is the case everywhere. And the applicants you do have are going to be worse.
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They're going to have fewer, fewer police. And the ones that you have are going to be worse
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in terms of, of, of quality and, and their, you know, qualifications and skill level.
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Because I think a lot of people who would make great police officers that are highly qualified for
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it, they're going to say to themselves, well, is there somewhere else where I can take these skills,
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maybe get into private security, something like that? Why would I want to take these skills here?
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Where even if I do my job correctly, if I, if I follow the book to a T, my life could be destroyed.
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This is, and you know, Republicans to look at the political end of this.
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Um, this is a problem that Republicans could be trying to address, could be speaking to,
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because it's a very, very serious problem. And cities across the country are dealing with the
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effects of it. And that's only going to get worse because it turns out that, yeah, you, you,
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despite what the abolish the police idiots have to say. And of course the people, you know,
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the, the, the most prominent cheerleaders of that movement, members of the squad and so forth,
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uh, they're doing, they're all well off. They're doing perfectly fine. They're in safe neighborhoods.
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They've, they've got security. They've got all that kind of stuff.
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You know, when they go to their job, they're surrounded by armed men protecting them.
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But just the average people, your average American living in a city, um,
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they're going to feel the effects of that because it turns out you need police officers.
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You do. If you have laws, then you need people to enforce them.
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And right now, the people who are making the laws are doing everything they can to undermine
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and attack the people tasked with enforcing the laws that they made. Like, just think about that
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for a second. It's the legislative branch of the government, people in Congress,
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Maxine Waters and every, every, all the other Democrats who are, who are the ones leading the
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charge against the police, but they're also the ones making the laws that the police have to enforce.
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Um, so that's, you know, that's, that's what's going to happen. You're going to have more and more
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people say, of course, what's, what's, what's the point? Why, why do I want to get into this
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line of work? And Republicans, so Republicans, they could be speaking to this, but instead you have
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Republicans lining up behind, uh, oh yeah, we need police reform. That's what we need.
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You know, Republicans talking about ending qualified immunity. This is becoming a popular
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talking point, obviously on the left, but even on the right. And so what does that mean? You end
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qualified immunity. I'll tell you that you get rid of qualified immunity and you're just, we're not
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going to have any cops. All the cops are leaving because what, what that means is that every, if
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you're a cop, every person you try to arrest anyone, you have to tackle to the ground in a process of
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trying to arrest them, they can sue you now. They can sue you personally. Every single person you
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encounter, try to arrest them. Maybe you, um, you know, you, you put the handcuffs on, it makes them,
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their wrists a little sore. Now they can sue you. They can sue you personally. So if you want a recipe
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for having zero cops, that's the way to do it. And of course, idiot Republicans, you know, they, rather
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than addressing that issue there, yeah, we need police reform. No, police reform is not what we
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need right now. That's not the problem. There's, there's a lot of reform needed in our cities and
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it's not to the police first and foremost. All right. Um, number two, Tulsi Gabbard posted a video,
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which I want to play this for you just because she, she says a lot of things in this video that up
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until about five years ago would have been totally uncontroversial and cliched. If you had heard this
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video five years ago, you would, you would just yawn and say, yeah, well, of course, this is what
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all politicians say, but now this is edgy and controversial. Uh, here she is. Let's listen.
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My dear friends, my fellow Americans, please, please let us stop the racialization of
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everyone and everything. It's racialism. We are all children of God and are therefore family
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in the truest sense, no matter our race or ethnicity. This is Aloha. And this is what our
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country and the world need for the mainstream propaganda media and politicians. They want us
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to constantly focus on our skin color and the skin color of others because it helps them politically
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or financially. Aloha means respect and love for others. It's what enables us to see beyond our skin
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color and see the soul, the person within. So let's do our best to cultivate this Aloha in our hearts
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and see and treat others through this prism of love, not through the prism of race and ethnicity.
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society. Please let us not allow ourselves to be led down this dark and divisive path of racialism
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and hate. Where have we fallen to as a society that what you just heard there is controversial?
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It should be totally cliche. It should require no political courage at all to say that.
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What's she saying? She's saying, let's all be one happy family. You know, we're all,
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we're all Americans. Let's try to get along. That's her message.
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But these days that's, um, that's, that's edgy right there. What you just heard. So is this from
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Lindsey Graham. He got into some trouble for, for this answer about, he was on a Fox news Sunday,
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was asked about systemic racism, uh, and kind of impressively when he was, when he was asked
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whether systemic racism exists, he said, no. And this was the reason he gave.
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Senator, is there systemic racism in this country, in policing and in other institutions?
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Uh, no, not in my opinion. We just elected a two term African American president.
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The vice president is of African American Indian descent. So our systems are not racist.
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America is not a racist country within every society. You have bad actors.
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Pretty reasonable answer. There there's, there's a lot of statistical evidence that systemic racism
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against black people in this country, in modern society is a myth. Um, especially the claim that
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systemic racism in, in, in, in policing, there's, there's a lot, a lot of statistical evidence,
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which we've talked about all the time on the show, that that's a myth, but what Lindsey Graham points
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do perfectly reasonable. If our, if our systems are designed to oppress black people and to keep
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them oppressed and keep them poor and so on and so forth, then how is it that a black man managed
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to become president twice? He's our, if this is, if this is systemic racism, it's pretty ineffective.
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This is the most incompetent systemic racism we've ever seen that a black man managed to get to the top of
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the system. He was at the head of the system. Does that in and of itself by itself, uh, prove that systemic
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racism against black people in modern America is false? Not really, but it's, it's, it's to prove it.
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You can look to all the other statistical evidence, but, um, it's pretty good evidence against that
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proposition. At least it's something that you would have to, if, if you are maintaining the theory that
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there is systemic racism against black people, then a black president is something that doesn't
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really fit into that theory. And so you have to explain it, offer some kind of explanation.
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How did that happen? If there's systemic racism against black people,
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but, but, but the, the people on the left, um, who propagate this theory rather than explaining it,
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what they'll do is they'll simply laugh at you and scoff at you. If you bring this up,
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it's the same thing with, um, when someone says, Oh, you know, I'm not racist. I have black friends
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and we're told that that's a really stupid excuse. That doesn't prove anything. That's,
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that's so dumb. Well, no, I mean, it is pretty good evidence actually that a person isn't racist.
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You would think of somebody who's racist against a particular race,
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they probably wouldn't have friends in that race. That's at least that's not what you would expect
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of a racist person. But that's another one where no one ever tries to deal with that. They,
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they simply laugh at it and, and, and insist that that's a bad excuse. They don't explain why it's
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a bad excuse. All right. Um, number three, LeVar Burton, who's the dude from reading rainbow,
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uh, for some reason was being interviewed by the view. I don't know why. Uh, and that's,
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that's what led to him being asked about cancel culture, especially as it pertains to books like,
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uh, Dr. Seuss. He's a guy who's read many a Dr. Seuss book to, uh, to children during his reading
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rainbow days. And here's what he had to say about cancel. He says, it's not cancel culture. It's
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consequence culture. And it's actually a very wonderful, lovely thing. Here's what he says.
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I think we need to put things in perspective. Um, in terms of cancel culture, I, I, I,
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I think it's misnamed. That's a misnomer. I think we have a consequence culture,
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um, and that consequences are finally encompassing everybody in the society. Whereas, um, they haven't
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been, uh, ever in this country. So, um, I think, I think that there, there are good signs that are
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happening in the culture right now. And I think it has everything to do with a new awareness on people
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who were simply unaware of the real nature of life in this country for people who have been
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othered since this nation began. Hmm. Consequence culture. Yeah. Because when you think of our
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culture, right, that's what you think culture where people are held accountable, culture of mature
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adults who understand there are consequences for their actions. Is that what you think?
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The problem is precisely that the consequences are not the same for everyone. That's, that's what
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cancel culture is. That's the point. It is wielded as a political cudgel and it's not the same for
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everyone. Not everyone is held to the same standard. And it's not enough to simply say, oh, it's a
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consequence. You do this. People don't like it. There's a consequence. Well, shouldn't we talk
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about what the consequence is or ought to be? Yeah. If you want to, if you want to say that
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cancel culture is a consequence, you know, you do something or say something and then the mob comes
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after you and tries to destroy your life. Uh, you lose your job and everything. We'll talk about a case
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of this. The most recent case, we'll talk about that in the daily cancellation coming up,
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but yeah, that's, that's a consequence. Sure. In a certain sense, but is it a proportional
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consequence? Is it a fair consequence? Because the consequence right now is that if you have,
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um, an opinion, you know, or, or if you, if you share a perspective that's outside of the mainstream,
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the consequence can be that your whole life is ruined. Sure. It's like a consequence culture.
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Maybe call it disproportionate consequence, culture, unjust consequence, culture,
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unequally unevenly applied consequence, culture. I'll go with any of those.
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And as I said, we've got a great example of this, um, coming up in, in just a minute,
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we get to the daily cancellation. All right, here's a story out of Oklahoma city. Really
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important story. So we're going to play this for you about a, a fugitive who, um, has finally been
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found after years on the lamb, really harrowing stuff here. Let's watch. First thing she told me
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was felony embezzlement. So I thought I was going to have a heart attack. It was a moment of disbelief
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for Karen McBride as she was talking to the Cleveland County district attorney's office this week,
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where she learned she was a wanted felon for never returning Sabrina, the teenage witch on VHS 21 years
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ago, a movie she says she never even rented. No, actually I had lived with a young man. This was
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over 20 years ago. He had two kids, daughters that were eight, 10, 11 years old. And I'm thinking he
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went and got it and didn't take it back or something. I don't know. I have never watched
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that show in my entire life. Just not my cup of tea. Online documents show McBride was charged
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with embezzlement in March of 2000, but never knew about the charges until recently when trying to
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change her name on her license after getting married. They told me that I had a issue in Oklahoma
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and this was the reference number for me to call this number. And I did. Meanwhile, I'm a wanted felon
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for a VHS tape. Documents show the movie was rented at movie place in Norman, Oklahoma. We've since
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learned that business closed in 2008. So there you see, uh, first of all, what kind of video rental
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place? Why is that? It says Sabrina, the teenage witch it's written. It's like handwritten. It looks
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like this was, it was someone recorded it. It was back in the day. The kids don't know that,
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but back in the day we didn't have, uh, you know, you didn't have Netflix on demand DVR. If you wanted
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to, if you wanted to watch a show again, you had to get out a VHS tape and record it, get all the
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commercials and everything. It looks like someone recorded it and then, and then, uh, just off their
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TV hand and then, and then wrote on the tapes to bring the teenage witch. And then they rented it at
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a, at a video rental place. But now that place is out of business. Whose fault is that? Think about
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it. You're stealing all these movies. You could think of this as a, you might claim this is a
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victimless crime. And that's why apparently, um, this felons, the charges against this felon have
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been dropped, which I think is unjust. Remember this is consequence culture. There's consequences to
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this, but before you think this is a victimless crime, I can remember, you know, 1995, 96 when I
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was a kid going to the video rental place, I wanted to rent, um, mortal combat. There were no copies in
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stock. I came back every day to get a copy of mortal combat, but people weren't bringing them back.
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And so by the time I finally watched mortal combat, all my friends had seen it. They spoiled all the
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good parts. So this is not a victimless crime in my opinion. Consequences. All right, let's move to
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reading the, uh, the YouTube comments. Um, William Baker says, Matt, I'm on a family vacation and
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convinced my family to watch you this week. Please don't embarrass me. Well, it's probably too late for
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that William, but also can I, I would never tell anyone not to watch the show, but you're on a, you're
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on a vacation. We talk about some pretty heavy stuff here. This isn't, this is not how I wouldn't be
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spending a vacation watching me talk about these kinds of issues. Far be it for me to tell you not
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to. Um, Jared says, I thought you were joking about the, my octopus teacher documentary, but that
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actually sounds interesting. It is interesting. It's not everyone's cup of tea. It's, I mean,
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it's a documentary about a guy who formed a bond with an octopus. So if that sounds interesting to
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you, then it's, uh, then go ahead and go ahead and check it out. It's also, I think, Kurt Eichenwald's,
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um, favorite documentary. If you get that joke, you get it. If you don't, I'm not explaining it.
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Uh, the real Bridget says, look at Matt, it's white dad summer and I'm here for it.
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White dad summer. So I was actually trying to explain to, I was trying to explain white dad
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summer and white boy summer to my wife yesterday because she was asking me, she'd been seeing these
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hashtags. She's not as with it as I am. And I'm not very with it either, but she was asking me what
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are these hashtags about white boy summer? And I was trying to explain it. And really the whole point
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is that it doesn't, it doesn't mean anything. It has no point. And that's the point. Um, Alejandro
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says, Hey Matt, how long do you think a self-described crow magnet like you would last in a show like
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alone? Sounds like you wouldn't mind just fishing all day long. I love the show alone. Uh,
00:32:52.460
it's probably our favorite show to watch my wife and I, I think I would do pretty good.
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I mean, that's the show where they, they send these, it's like, it's real survivor where they
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send people out by themselves in the wilderness. They, they film themselves. There's no camera crew
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and, uh, it's just however long you could survive. Whoever survives the longest wins.
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I would do okay with the psychological element of being isolated and alone. It's the survival
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skill part of it where I think I might be lacking. Um, Stuart says, I'd love to try a Matt Walsh
00:33:21.520
Big Mac or should we call it a Big Matt? Well, you know, without context, Stuart,
00:33:26.960
this comment seems strange on a number of levels, but I understand what you're saying. And by the
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way, if I, if I did make my own version of a Big Mac, the first change I'd make is to, um, use beef
00:33:38.420
patties. Well, that are, that are beef first of all. And then, um, that are also thicker than a piece
00:33:45.720
of construction paper. That's the, that's the, that's the first change of many that I would make
00:33:51.520
Well, make sure to join us tomorrow for a special episode of Backstage. We'll be watching Biden's
00:33:55.720
first congressional speech. I cannot tell you how excited I am to sit and watch it. And we'll be
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giving our analysis in real time. As Nancy Pelosi said, he's expected to share his vision for
00:34:06.320
addressing the challenges of this historic moment. So, you know, you don't want to miss it. Uh,
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and by it, I mean our commentary, I don't expect the speech to be very entertaining, but we'll try to,
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we'll try to, we'll try to make up for it as best as we can. It streams tomorrow at 8 30 PM Eastern,
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make sure that you tune in for that. Also another high energy episode of Candace is coming
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00:34:39.380
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with code Candace. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. Let's follow along with this story.
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Um, a man named Sam Johnson, who happens to live here in Nashville has become the latest victim of a
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cancel culture mob that according to the left doesn't exist. We just heard from LeVar Burton
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doesn't exist. It's consequence culture, but cancel culture certainly seems real to the people whose
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lives are destroyed by it. People like Sam Johnson. Now Johnson is the CEO of a company called
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visual, uh, was the CEO. I should say, as the media tells it, he became the subject of national
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outrage and backlash and was fired from his job and had his life summarily ripped apart because he was
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caught on camera, allegedly engaged in the quote, homophobic harassment of two gay teenagers, one of
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whom was wearing a prom dress. Now in the story, the only one we've been told, the one that everyone
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of course automatically assumes is totally true and not in need of any additional context at all.
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In that story, Johnson is the bad guy, the only bad guy. And given that he's homophobic,
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quote unquote, there is no consequence too harsh for him. The video of this supposed harassment went viral
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yesterday. Um, Johnson's name was trending nationwide. The left was calling for his head
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accounts with millions of followers, put Johnson's name and personal information out there. Here's a
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tweet from Kathy Griffin, for example, this is what she tweeted with a, with a, uh, with the video of,
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of, uh, of the incident. She says, if this is Sam Johnson in Nashville, Tennessee, the CEO of visual
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healthcare tech growth strategist married to, and then she gives his wife's name, which I won't give,
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where they may reside in. And then she gives the town where he lives, which I won't give.
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It seems like he's dying to be online famous. So no problem there. Just a celebrity with 2 million
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followers publishing a guy's name, his wife's name, and his town of residence, all because she's mad
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about a video of a dispute between him and two other people, none of whom she knows personally.
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Of course, many headlines in major news publications followed, uh, many of them matter of factly stating
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that Johnson homophobically harassed a teen boy. It didn't take very long with this kind of pressure
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for his company visual to publicly condemn him and announced that he'd been fired. I mean,
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they didn't even wait a day. It just, it took a couple hours and, uh, they were done. Of course,
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they claimed that they investigated the situation only took them, you know, a few minutes to do it,
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but they investigated. Okay. Well, uh, we'll play the infamous video, but before we do that,
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I want you to hear how this incident was framed by the guy who did the filming.
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Jacob Geitman is his name. He recorded the altercation. It was his boyfriend who was wearing
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the prom dress. So here's Geitman on TikTok giving his version of events. And I want to play this first
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because, uh, if you haven't seen the, the, the video of the incident itself, you, when you hear
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it being described, a certain image will be in your head, a certain expectation. And then when we play
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the actual video, I want you to see whether it lives up to your expectation. So here is Geitman,
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um, in two short videos on TikTok, giving his side of the story. Here it is.
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So TikTok has now removed the video of my boyfriend being harassed on our prom night two times for
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harassment and bullying, but I'm still going to give you guys a story time. And I'm going to have
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my friend Brie post the main video on her TikTok account, which I'll comment below if you guys want
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to go and watch it. This is a long story, probably going to have to make multiple parts, but I'm in
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college. My boyfriend's a senior in high school, and he decided that he wanted to wear a dress for
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his senior prom to kind of break the stigma around men wearing dresses. He looked gorgeous.
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Everybody loved it. Nobody had a problem with it, right? We went to this hotel close to where we
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lived and we got a lot of good photos. We were there for about an hour. And right as we were about to
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leave, we were standing outside in this little middle area with a bunch of buildings surrounding us.
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This man comes up, stands about an inch behind my boyfriend, and he's like, what are you wearing?
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And he's like, a dress, why? And he's like, well, why are you wearing that? You shouldn't be wearing
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that. He's like, uh, because I can and I want to, and I really don't give a f*** what you think.
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So this man starts going on and on, throwing insults at him. You look disgusting. You look
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ridiculous. You look like an idiot. Men shouldn't be wearing this. All of this homophobic banter.
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So I grabbed my phone to start to record because I knew I wanted to record this s*** from the get-go.
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So I grabbed my phone, started to record. He slaps my phone out of my hand. It goes flying over on the
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concrete. Part two coming right now. Part two. It was getting hot in my car, so I decided to come inside.
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So he hits my phone out of my hand. It goes flying on the concrete. I go to grab it to start
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recording him again, and he tries to swing at me again, which you can see in the original video
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when the camera goes out for a second. You can see him swinging. He tries to hit my phone out of my
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hand again, but he misses, and he hits my boyfriend in the back. So that's when all of the moms that
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were there, they're getting really involved out. They're like, you need to calm down. Like, this is
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absolutely ridiculous. You were out of your mind. And at this point, the hotel staff had gotten word
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from inside about what was going on. So two other ladies come out, and they're like, okay, guys, what's going on out here?
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He pretends like he has absolutely no clue what's going on. He's standing there. He's like, I've just
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been standing here the whole time. I don't know what's going on. I didn't try to talk to them. I
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didn't hit him. I didn't try to smack his phone out of his hand. I'm like, dude, I have a minute-long
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video of you harassing us. You can't just blatantly deny it like that. The staff was really great about
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everything. They sent him back to the bar because he was pretty obviously drunk just because they were
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calling the police, and they didn't want him to freak out any more than he already was. And as we were
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leaving, they told us that they were kicking him out and calling the police. So. Okay. Now,
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based on that, you have a certain expectation for the video of the incident. You're expecting
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a drunken, a pretty obviously drunken, that's what we're told, probably screaming psychopath,
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yelling homophobic slurs. That's how the altercation has been described, both by Geitman there in the
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video and by the media and by the cancel mob on Twitter. But that's not quite what you see when
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you watch it for yourself. So here is what happened, as documented. Here it is.
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I told you that I wouldn't wear this thing off. Okay? Okay.
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No, sir. No, sir. I can f***ing towards you all I want.
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First of all, this video, as always, picks up in the middle of a confrontation between these people.
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There's quite clearly something that preceded it.
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The guy filming says that Sam Johnson instigated.
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Sam Johnson, for his part, gave a statement to Newsweek.
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Saying that he initially went over to ask the teens to quiet down because they were being loud, obnoxious, and vulgar.
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And so, this wasn't initially about the dress.
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He was going over because they were being obnoxious.
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But neither was anyone else currently calling for Sam Johnson's head on a platter, which they got.
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What I do know is that in that video, the only person screaming and cursing is the guy in the dress.
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I also know that the guy filming is prompting Sam Johnson, literally suggesting insults for him to say.
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That seems like odd behavior for an innocent person who's supposedly being harassed.
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I mean, I don't know about you, but I've never...
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I can't remember the last time I was harassed, but if I ever was, I wouldn't suggest insults for my harasser to say to me.
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I also know that Sam Johnson does not appear drunk, as was claimed.
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He's standing there, hands in his pocket, smiling coyly.
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This is not the demeanor and tone that you'd expect based on how Jacob Geidman described his behavior.
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Remember, what he described it, you were expecting a drunken, shouting guy shouting insults.
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In fact, the person being harassed in that video seems to me Sam Johnson's the guy being harassed.
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Geidman is following him around, camera in his face, while the other guy screams and curses.
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The man does not say even one anti-gay thing in that video.
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Why is it homophobic to say that a dude in a dress looks ridiculous?
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I want someone to explain to me exactly how that's homophobic.
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I mean, he does look ridiculous after all.
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Well, yes, you look, men in prom dresses look ridiculous.
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It is objectively absurd for a guy to wear a prom dress.
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You're wearing something that doesn't fit you, wasn't made for you, and looks silly.
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To call it homophobic is to claim that all gay people wear prom dresses, or like men who wear prom dresses.
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Which, to me, seems like a rather degrading and insulting assumption.
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Indeed, we're told by the boyfriend of the dude in the dress that he wore it not because he liked how it looked,
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And when you're making a statement, you're calling attention to yourself.
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Well, if you wear something to make a statement and call attention to yourself,
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you can't very well complain when you get exactly the attention you were hoping for.
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You know, when the waiter brings out that giant heaping portion of attention you ordered,
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you can't get offended and send it back to the kitchen.
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were these two guys the victim of unprovoked harassment from a drunken homophobic bigot?
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Or were they fishing for a reaction, literally trying to prompt a reaction,
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and then ready to film it and ruin the life of whoever takes the bait?
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Which version of events seems most reasonable and plausible to you?
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This little petty exchange between a guy named Sam Johnson and a guy named Jacob Geitman
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Nothing that happened here, whatever provoked it, whoever's at fault,
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whatever the context, deserves to be in the headlines.
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Even pretending that Johnson was fully to blame,
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Pretend that he was the sole bad guy in the situation.
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Let's pretend that everything happened exactly as it was described.
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Does he deserve to have his life destroyed over that?
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Does that warrant outrage from millions nationwide?
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Does his wife deserve to be named and shamed publicly?
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Does his family deserve to be doxed and harassed?
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I mean, the answer from rational and decent people is no, obviously not.
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But the soulless, mindless, bloodthirsty hordes who make up the cancel mob
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They have the brainpower and discernment of starving vultures.
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They simply swoop down upon any carcass put before them to be consumed.
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And for that, they, not Sam Johnson, are today canceled.
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