Ep. 718 - Dreaming Of A World Where Michelle Obama And Oprah Winfrey Are No Longer Oppressed
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Summary
Michelle Obama is once again complaining about the persecution she has suffered as a Black woman in America. She s not alone. LeBron James, Oprah Winfrey, Meghan Markle, other Black millionaires and billionaires have all frequently complained about our racist system of white privilege. Today, we re going to talk about the victims here and reflect on their stories. Also, five headlines: including Dr. Fauci finally giving a definitive date, sort of, for when we can return to normal. And the CIA doubles down, releasing yet another woke ad. Plus, Sarah Silverman comes after Caitlyn Jenner, proving a few points that I ll explain today. And in our daily cancellation, we ll consider the story of the rapper who was shot and killed by a 15-year-old boy for his Rolex watch.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Michelle Obama is once again complaining about the persecution
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she suffered as a black woman in America. She's not alone. LeBron James, Oprah Winfrey,
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Meghan Markle, other black millionaires and billionaires have all frequently complained
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about our racist system of white privilege. Today, we're going to talk about the victims
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here and reflect on their stories. Also, five headlines, including Dr. Fauci finally giving
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a definitive date, sort of, for when we can return to normal. It's a year away. And the CIA
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doubles down, releasing yet another woke ad. Plus, Sarah Silverman comes after Caitlyn
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Jenner, proving a few points that I'll explain today. And in our daily cancellation, we'll
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consider the story of the rapper who was shot and killed by a 15-year-old boy for his Rolex
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watch. What should we say about a man who promotes street violence and then dies by it? Well,
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we could say a lot, and I will today, and it'll make people very mad probably. All of that and
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casters, xchairwalsh.com. It's good to keep things in perspective. You may believe that
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your life is difficult, but you should realize that there are people out there who face struggles
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and obstacles, hardships and persecution far beyond what you have ever known or will ever
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experience. You've been through your own trials perhaps, but at least your life hasn't
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been as hard on you as it has been on Michelle Obama. The former first lady who graduated from
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two Ivy league schools became first lady by the age of 45 is now worth a combined $135 million
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along with her husband has always been eager to talk about the many ways in which this country
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has oppressed her. She returned to that theme in a recent interview with CBS telling the outlet that
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she quote lived in fear or lives in fear and is afraid of getting randomly gunned down by the cops
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while shopping for groceries or walking her dog. Apparently the fact that she gets secret service
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protection everywhere she goes is not enough to make her feel secure. She considers it plausible
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that a racist cop might run up and execute a former first lady on the spot for no reason.
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Obama is also concerned that her daughters will get racially profiled while driving.
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She lies awake at night tossing and turning, fearing that some police officers, police officer with a
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professional death wish will harass the famous daughters of a United States president.
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These are all very real fears that she has. And don't ever doubt these fears.
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Many of us still live in fear as we go to the grocery store or worry about walking our dogs
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or allowing our children to get a license. I mean, just imagine.
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They're driving. But every time they get in a car by themselves, I worry about what assumption is
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being made by somebody who doesn't know everything about them. The fact that they are good students
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and polite girls, but maybe they're playing their music a little loud. Maybe somebody sees the back
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of their head and makes an assumption. I, like so many parents of black kids, have to,
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that the, the, the, the innocent act of getting a license puts fear in our hearts. Um, so I think,
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I think we have to talk about it more and we have to ask our, our fellow citizens to listen a bit
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more and to believe us. Yeah. Just to be clear again, when she talks about being afraid of walking
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down the street or, or, or, you know, walking her dog or going to the grocery store, that is what
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she's saying. She's saying she's afraid that a cop will shoot her. That's the claim being made by,
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Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama is afraid that a cop will shoot her. She says, and why won't
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someone listen to her? She asks, you know, they just need to listen to us. Yes. Why won't someone
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listen to Michelle Obama? Michelle Obama is tired of being ignored. She wrote a book that sold 10
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million copies in five months. Clearly nobody cares what she has to say. Nobody is listening to her.
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It's just as clear that only black parents have to worry about their kids behind the wheel.
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White parents have no such concern. You know, when I was 17 and I got my license and I went
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out on the roads, my parents were, they were sleeping easy. It was no problem. Weren't worried
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at all. We white parents simply cannot conceive of living a life as difficult as that of a beloved
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multimillionaire celebrity who charges $200,000 to give a 45 minute speech.
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can't even, we can't wrap our heads around it. If you're not yet convinced that Michelle Obama is a
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victim and that her bitterness towards this country is warranted, I need only remind you of a segment
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from her podcast a few months ago where she talked about the racism she experienced even while in the
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White House. What you're about to hear is very difficult to listen to. It'll send chills down your
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spine. Um, but it is your responsibility to confront this because this is what is happening to Michelle
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Obama. You're not going to be able to, you're not going to believe this. Listen.
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So I'm standing there with two little black girls, another black female adult. They're in soccer
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uniforms and a white woman cuts right in front of us to order. Like she didn't even see us. And I
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literally, and the, the, the girl behind the counter almost took her order. And I said, excuse me,
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I said, you don't see us four people standing right here. You just jumped in line. She didn't
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apologize. She never looked me in my eye. She didn't know it was me. All she saw was a black
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person or a group of black people, or maybe she didn't even see that. What white folks don't
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understand. It's like that, that is so telling of how white America views people who are not like
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them. You know, we don't exist. She doesn't exist. Someone noticed Michelle Obama. She's not being
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noticed. You heard that right. Michelle Obama years later specifically remembers one time when someone
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cut in front of her in line and is still complaining about it. Who can blame her? I mean, obviously this
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was racism. There could be no other explanation. Someone cut in front of her in line and she, you know,
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by the way, you remember before she was talking about don't make assumptions about people. She jumped
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to the, she assumed that this person is racist. That's the assumption she made, but, but it's, it's,
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it's, it's, uh, she, she can make that assumption because it's not as though all humans on the face of
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this planet have had similar experiences. It's not as though line cutters are globally reviled precisely
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because we've all encountered this many times. No, this is Michelle Obama's cross to carry. Just think
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about this. Michelle Obama was delayed in getting ice cream for upwards of 15 seconds, 15 seconds.
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Imagine she could have starved. Her children could have starved all because they're black. Now, lest you
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think that Michelle Obama is the only fabulously wealthy, famous, and beloved black celebrity to be
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persecuted by this country. I must also remind you of LeBron James. LeBron net worth $500 million.
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Who's been a millionaire athlete since the age of 18 and was nationally acclaimed even before that.
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It would be accurate to say that LeBron has been a celebrated and nationally recognized athlete for
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the vast majority of his life, almost his entire life going back into childhood. But even so, LeBron has
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suffered the sort of maltreatment that the average white man cannot comprehend. The NBA, the NBA star
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has, like Michelle, often claimed to be too afraid to walk down the street. Despite being surrounded by
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armed security, living in a multimillion dollar mansion in a posh Los Angeles suburb, LeBron is
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worried that some crazed racist cop will run up and shoot him dead. Such a thing has literally never
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happened. Nothing like that has ever happened, but he's worried that it will and his fear should be
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validated. In fairness, LeBron has experienced hate crimes in the past. Who can forget the time when
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LeBron claimed that someone spray painted the N-word somewhere on his property. Now, in fact, I say who
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can forget, everyone has forgotten, but he did actually claim this. And he spoke out against the
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hate crime courageously, was applauded by the media. Now, the funny thing is that the cops showed up to
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investigate and they never found any racist graffiti. It had been painted over already.
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Nothing strange about that. Calling the cops to investigate graffiti, but painting over it before
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they arrive? Who could question that? The media certainly didn't question it. And what about Oprah
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Winfrey? Net worth $2.7 billion. She, especially in recent years, has taken to denouncing white privilege
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as well. Now, sure, she has more wealth and power than the average white person could hope to accrue in
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10,000 lifetimes. But the average white person still has something that Oprah Winfrey doesn't.
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Whiteness. What is whiteness worth? What can you cash it in for? Well, that isn't explained exactly,
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but the point is that if you're a white man living in a 900 square foot modular home and feeding your
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children canned tuna for dinner tonight, you are more privileged than Oprah Winfrey, as she explains here.
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There are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people, the caste system that's
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been put in place, but they still, no matter where they are on the rung or the ladder of success,
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they still have their whiteness. They still have their whiteness.
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So that's what you say to the guy feeding the kids tuna in the modular home. You have your
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whiteness. You got that at least. Can't afford medical bills, but you have your whiteness.
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Cash that in. Cash that in at the cosmic prize counter. Maybe it'd be good for a couple of
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Jolly Ranchers and a Chinese finger trap. Imagine being Oprah. I mean, it must be so hard.
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That's why Oprah was the perfect person to speak to and commiserate with Meghan Markle,
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who's a sort of black, but fully persecuted. A Hollywood actress turned royalty, turned media
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mogul. And it's unclear why she was deserving of any of those titles at all, being that she has no
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talent to speak of whatsoever. But surely she has known troubles and tribulations that a white mother
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waitressing at a Denny's never has or never will. Likewise for Sean P. Diddy Combs, who penned an
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open letter to corporate America a few weeks ago, blasting the corporate world for discriminating
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against people like himself. Now, Sean Combs is worth $900 million, despite the fact that he's
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never produced anything of value in his entire life. He's been a millionaire since his early 20s.
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That's also when he killed Tupac, allegedly. But none of that can erase the pain caused by the
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unspecified corporate villains who have caused him unspecified harm. Who knows? Maybe he could be worth
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$1 billion already if not for that discrimination. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine not being a
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billionaire? That's the sort of reality that Sean Combs has to face every day, at least for a few
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more years until he actually is a billionaire. All of this raises the question, when will America
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finally become the sort of country where black people can succeed? Or at least, I mean, succeed more.
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Succeed more than being millionaires and billionaires and some of the most famous and powerful people
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in the country. That's the question. In closing, I want to give you a statistic that will shock you to
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your core. And you're not going to believe this, but it's true. Did you know that there are today
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no black trillionaires? None? Not one? Not even Oprah? Still think white privilege is a myth?
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Well, clearly, you're wrong. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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You know, you really got to trust your instincts. And so when you hear, you know, I always hear
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these claims from, from, from people when they're pushing like vegan or soy-based substitutes for real
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food, or now they're pushing bugs and they're saying, oh, you know, have a bug burger made of
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grasshoppers and crickets. It tastes just like the real thing. And I never try that stuff, but I always
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know. I'm just like, there's no way it tastes the same. It just doesn't. And so yes, this past
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weekend I tested the theory. I was at my in-law's house and my sister-in-law is a big into vegan ice
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cream. Uh, I don't think she, she hasn't gone full vegan herself, but some of the stuff, so she has
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this vegan ice cream. It was like mint chocolate chip and it looked pretty real. And she was telling
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me like, no, it tastes just, you never know the difference. It's delicious. And so I tried some
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of it. It was my first taste of a vegan substitute. And I said, I took one spoonful and it was
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horrifying. Don't listen to anyone who tries to push a vegan ice cream on you. It tastes, you know,
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it tasted like melted chalk doused in Pepto-Bismol and Splenda. That's what it, it was really unsettling.
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Actually, that's the word I was trying to figure out. There's something, yeah, it's, it's horrible.
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It's bad. It's also kind of creepy. It's, it's weirdly inorganic and inedible. It tasted dyspeptic
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and, and, and dystopian even. It's like a ration they might serve in a prison cell on Mars in the
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year 2075. It was really, I didn't like it. In other words, stick with the real stuff. Um, there's
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my PSA for you. Let's move on. White house COVID coordinator, Jeffrey Zients,
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Zients or Zients. I'm not sure how to pronounce it. He was on, uh, CNN this weekend and he had
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some news on when we might begin earning more privileges as a country, uh, because we have
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to earn our privileges from the government. And here's what Zients has to say.
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I think one of the reasons why journalists are annoyingly harping on this and some health experts
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are is because there is a light at the end of the tunnel and president Biden being able to take
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off his mask in a room full of journalists and white house staffers, all of whom are fully vaccinated
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is a demonstration that the vaccines work. You and I are both vaccinated and you and I are in a room
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together talking and I have no fear that I'm going to get the virus from you. And I assume vice versa.
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And I think the concern is that by being overly cautious, the signal is going out to the public,
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uh, that there isn't necessarily a light at the end of the tunnel. Do you understand why people
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are? I think, I think everyone is tired, um, and wearing a mask is, it can be a pain,
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uh, but we're, we're, we're getting there. And the light at the end of the tunnel is brighter
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and brighter. Let's keep up our guard. Let's follow the CDC guidance and the CDC guidance across
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time will allow vaccinated people more and more privileges to take off that mask.
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He really looks, looks and sounds exactly as you expect. All of these, all of these petty tyrants,
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uh, they, they all have exactly, they, it's hard to really put your finger on, but they have a
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certain look about them. Um, but he says you can earn privileges, you know, kind of like as a parent,
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uh, this is, this is what we, you know, that's what I do with my kids. A lot of parents
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it's you, you can, your kids can earn privileges. You can take privileges away.
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If they're, if they're misbehaving, you say, okay, I was gonna let you watch a television
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show for 30 minutes, but you can't do that anymore. We're taking the privilege away.
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And that's how we're being treated. It is, it is really exactly like we've, we've talked about
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the nanny state for years and years. Um, in the last year, we have fully experienced what a nanny
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state really is because that is how we're being treated as children from the very beginning of
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this thing. That's why the very, that's the reason they gave us when they originally told
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everyone, don't wear a mask. And Dr. Fauci said, don't wear a mask. It's not going to do much for
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you. Um, that's what he originally said back in like March. And then just like that, they changed
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on a dime and said, nevermind, actually wear the mask. And if you don't, you're going to be murdering,
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uh, your, your, your grandparents. And then when a few, and most people just went along with it and
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said, well, okay, don't wear the mask, wear it, whatever you tell me. But when a few people said,
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Hey, hold on a second. You were, you were just telling us don't wear one. It doesn't have any
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effect. And now you're, and the reason we were given, we were given was, uh, well, we had to tell
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you that because otherwise you would have run out and hoarded all the masks and there wouldn't be any
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left for, uh, medical professionals. So treating us like children, but again, plenty of people are
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perfectly happy being treated this way. That is, that's the most disturbing reality of all.
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And those of us who are self-respecting adults, it's hard for us to comprehend,
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but there's so many other adults would be adults, um, supposed adults in this country who, who really,
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you know, they crave that sort of maternal embrace from their government and they're perfectly happy
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with it. Dr. Fauci has had us in his maternal embrace for the last year. And he was asked this
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weekend as the, every, he is on the news every day. And they're asking him this question of when can we
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get back to normal? When can we get back to normal? And, uh, he says something different every day,
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however he happens to be feeling. Um, but I think this is the first time that he gave a pretty
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definitive end date sort of, and here's the end date that he gave. Give everyone a sense of what
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the country is going to look like next mother's day. Well, George, I hope that next mother's day,
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we're going to see a dramatic difference than what we're seeing right now. I believe that we will be
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about as close to back to normal as we can. And there's, there's some conditions to that, George,
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we've got to make sure that we get the overwhelming proportion of the population vaccinated. When that
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happens, the virus doesn't really have any place to go. There aren't a lot of vulnerable people around
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and where there are not a lot of vulnerable people around, you're not going to see a surge.
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You're not going to see that the kinds of numbers we see now, that being the case, I think we could
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approach what we used to remember as normal before all of this tragedy happened. A year for now,
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mother's day of next year is when we get back to normal. Now, of course I've been living,
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I'm certainly living entirely my normal life, uh, now, and I've been living as normal as I can from
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the beginning, the extent that I could when everything was being shut down all around us. But, uh,
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and a lot of us, a lot of you, it's, it's been the same. So it's, it's a very weird thing.
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It had already felt like we're living in different countries ideologically, but now that that's,
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that's, uh, you know, now that's really being emphasized because when you, when you hear people,
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especially living on the coasts or living in blue States still saying, well, when can we get back to
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normal, when can we, when can we go to the sit down at a restaurant? What I've been doing that this
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whole time. We're at a point now where it really doesn't matter. I think what the policies are or
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certainly what guys like Fauci have to say. Um, because I think we're getting to the point where
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the people who are still locked down to whatever extent, or they're under mask mandates or anything
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they, they want it. And that, that's why these places have gotten away with putting these policies
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and keeping these policies in place for so long is because as I've been saying for weeks now, a lot
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of people, their brains have been broken. Their wills have been broken and they're perfectly happy
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with it. They don't want to go back to normal. I was just seeing on, uh, on Twitter, someone,
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I forget who, a blue check saying that he, he, he went to an indoor retail establishment
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a few days ago for the first time in 14 months. Can you imagine that? I can't. He actually had not
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been to a store in over a year. There was never a time when I stopped going to stores inside,
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not one moment during this whole thing, but that's someone like so many others that he just
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is, he's not really hankering to get back to any kind of normal life. He's fine with norm,
00:23:43.280
with that, with that being done. And we talked about masking and there are so many people
00:23:50.160
as startling as it might be to imagine. There are so many people who are fine
00:23:55.760
wearing a mask forever. They don't want to take it off.
00:24:00.900
And so the balkanization that we've already seen in this country is only going to be exacerbated,
00:24:05.840
um, more and more now where I think, you know, two years from now, three years from now,
00:24:12.620
there are going to be places in this country that are still, that are still masking
00:24:17.740
limitations, indoor limits and that kind of thing. I don't know if they'll ever go back.
00:24:24.100
And then there'll be other places like free States where you could basically live your life,
00:24:27.400
which is already where we are for the most part. All right. Um, the CIA is doubling down on its
00:24:33.200
woke advertising. Got a lot of criticism for the last one. You know, the woman bragging about being,
00:24:39.920
uh, a cisgender millennial with, uh, with anxiety disorder and talking about, you know,
00:24:45.360
all, all the different identity boxes that she checks and CIA got criticized for that,
00:24:50.560
but they don't care. And here's the latest advertisement that, uh, they just put out a couple of days ago.
00:24:54.480
As an agency librarian, I work to ensure that our collection and services are matched up with what
00:25:00.840
CIA needs. Not only am I involved in the acquisitions of journals, books, and countless electronic
00:25:06.500
resources. I'm also encouraged to curate special collections that challenge expectation.
00:25:12.120
Recently, I brought in our intelligence gaming collection to give officers unique opportunities
00:25:16.560
to practice skills they need in their various roles. Instead of sitting for hours in front of a
00:25:21.140
computer-based training, they can play a carefully selected game to train a specific set of skills
00:25:26.040
while simultaneously building on the myriad soft skills essential to intelligence work.
00:25:31.040
My favorite thing about CIA is that they encourage the out-of-the-box ideas that drive real progress.
00:25:37.120
Growing up gay in a small Southern town, I was lucky to have a wonderful and accepting family.
00:25:42.560
I always struggled with the idea that I might not be able to discuss my personal life at work.
00:25:46.440
Imagine my surprise when I was taking my oath at CIA and I noticed a rainbow on then-director
00:25:52.140
Brennan's lanyard, which I later learned was designed by Angle, one of the many employee
00:25:56.480
resource groups here at the agency. I remember being stunned. Since then, however, I've learned
00:26:02.060
that far beyond the resource groups, inclusion is a core value here. Officers from the top down work
00:26:07.920
hard to ensure that every single person, whatever their gender, gender identity, race, disability,
00:26:13.900
or sexual orientation can bring their entire self to work every day.
00:26:19.600
Nothing to be worried about there. Just the CIA now spending their time at work
00:26:32.400
That's apparently what CIA agents do now at work. They sit down to build their critical
00:26:38.920
thinking skills or whatever. They play video games and little preschool games, Rubik's cubes.
00:26:46.300
That's the CIA now. And, you know, it's very important that we allow CIA agents on the job to
00:26:54.660
discuss their personal life, to talk about their sexual proclivities, their gender identity. Very,
00:26:59.800
very important. And it is, it's important to the left. It's not just important. It's the whole point
00:27:05.540
of everything. The left does not recognize that anything has a purpose or function beyond advancing
00:27:12.560
its ideas, its worldview. It sees that as the primary function of everything and everyone,
00:27:23.120
especially of every institution. So the CIA, yes. The family unit, yes. That's the primary function
00:27:32.380
of everything. So this isn't, this isn't going to change, but it does show you, um, just how deep
00:27:40.320
the leftist rot is in our country and in our institutions. This stuff is embedded deep in there.
00:27:50.240
And leftists have been working towards this goal. Give them some credit. They've been working
00:27:55.580
towards this goal relentlessly and ruthlessly and, and sort of brilliantly, um, for decades.
00:28:03.440
This is not happening by accident. It's not like everyone woke up yesterday and went insane.
00:28:09.440
And next thing you know, the CIA, they're, they're wearing rainbow pins and playing, you know,
00:28:12.880
playing video games on the job, talking about their gender identity and their gender expression.
00:28:16.820
That's not, it may seem like that to those of us who haven't been paying attention,
00:28:19.880
but, uh, no, this is, this is very intentional. It's a process that's been happening for, for many,
00:28:25.300
many years. And that's why undoing it and getting rid of the rot, revitalizing our, our, our culture,
00:28:34.720
reclaiming our culture, that is not going to be, you know, a one, two, three step solution
00:28:41.480
or just flipping a switch or something. It's not going to happen that way.
00:28:46.500
And it's also a problem that goes way beyond simply electing Republicans to fix.
00:28:54.920
Republicans who have shown no interest in fixing any of this, um, have really been a part of this
00:28:59.920
problem. You know, at best have done nothing to stop it. And at worst have, have taken part in
00:29:04.960
this process. Um, but that's why conservatives need to get out of this, this way of thinking
00:29:14.040
where it always comes down to elections and we just got to get a Republican in the white house.
00:29:22.240
This achieves nothing. If that's all, if we're, if we're only that's, that's surface level.
00:29:26.780
Um, you're only focused at the very, very top, but as I said, this rot goes deep, way deeper than
00:29:34.760
that. Um, kind of related, I guess Sarah Silverman has called out Caitlyn Jenner in no uncertain
00:29:44.540
terms. And I, I, one of the reasons I play this is you, you may remember a few weeks ago, Sarah
00:29:49.480
Silverman was getting credit, um, from conservative media people, uh, and by a lot of conservatives
00:29:55.120
because on this same podcast, she spoke out against the, uh, X, the extremes of leftism
00:30:02.120
and was saying that, you know, leftism is getting too extreme. And anytime someone on the left
00:30:06.640
says something like that, conservatives eat that right up. And I was, I was expecting the
00:30:12.600
Sarah Silverman, she might get a CPAC invitation because she said that. And maybe after what I'm
00:30:16.620
about to play, she'll still get one. I don't know. But I remember saying at the time that,
00:30:23.240
yeah, what she's saying is basically true and good that the left, they are extreme,
00:30:27.620
but she, she's part of that. She is also an extreme leftist as evidenced by this.
00:30:38.080
I saw Caitlyn Jenner saying trans girls, uh, should not play girls sports. Caitlyn,
00:30:44.580
you're a woman, right? A trans girl is a girl. She should have the same rights as cis girls.
00:30:57.180
If you think a trans girl, what you think a trans girl is too strong. I, what about tall girls
00:31:05.100
as opposed to short girls? What about a boys in high school who are teeny tiny and their teammates,
00:31:11.400
uh, have already hit puberty and are shaving? Why don't you just have co-ed sports divided by weight
00:31:17.760
or height? I, you know, this is so dumb. They are legislating this without one single example
00:31:29.380
This is not worrying about girls sports. Uh, believe me, not, I think there are better ways
00:31:37.240
to worry about girls sports. This is not worrying about, this is not what that is. This is not
00:31:42.960
worrying. This is not concern for girls sports. It's transphobia full stop. It's just such a bummer
00:31:50.320
when a, you know, such a prominent trans woman is such a, you know, it's like being Jewish right now
00:32:02.340
and having the most recognizable Jewish names be Weinstein and Epstein, you know, it's like super
00:32:07.920
not awesome, but super, not awesome. Very eloquently put. So, uh, yeah, that's all conservatives that
00:32:17.000
were celebrating. Sarah Silverman, she's on our side. She's, she's tired of the leftist extremism.
00:32:23.980
Well, no, she thinks that she thinks that women have penises. She thinks that men can have babies.
00:32:28.300
Okay. That's as extreme a position as you can take. And it's as insane of a position as you can
00:32:36.480
take. And that's what she believes or claims to anyway. So no, no, no, that's not someone who holds
00:32:43.760
that view cannot be on our side, at least on, on any side that I recognize. There's no like, well,
00:32:51.520
yeah, she, she believes that and is advocating for a world where that is, um, where, you know,
00:32:57.000
that, that operates according to that false reality. Uh, but, but you know, she's, she can
00:33:01.500
be an ally in other areas. No, she can't. And by the way, and you hear this all the time from the
00:33:08.060
left, um, on the trans sports issue where they say, you, there's no examples. This isn't happening
00:33:13.340
anywhere. Give me one example. Okay. I could give you dozens of examples. It is happening.
00:33:17.960
We could start in Connecticut where biological males with, with, with, uh, track times that would
00:33:26.160
not have qualified them for even like the top 20 were crushing the female competition
00:33:32.000
in, uh, in the, the state championships. That's one example. There are plenty of examples of this
00:33:41.120
happening. Um, but with that said, I think, I think Silverman is sort of right about two things.
00:33:52.360
Um, the first thing that she's right about, what are the two things? Let me remember pulling a Rick
00:33:59.220
Perry. Okay. The first thing that she's right about is that this is not just about girls sports.
00:34:04.600
She's right about that. And I think that's a reality that, that that's a truth that conservatives
00:34:09.120
need to be honest about and need to embrace and need to be open about, you know, trying to stop
00:34:14.580
biological males from getting onto girls sports teams. Why are we motivated to do that? Well,
00:34:21.360
let me speak for myself anyway. I can, that's cause I, all I can do. Why am I motivated to do that?
00:34:27.960
Why do I want to prevent this? Is it simply because of my passion for girls sports? Is it my,
00:34:35.600
my ultimate worry? Is it that, uh, we'll live in, in a country where there are no girls sports?
00:34:42.660
No, I want there to be girls sports, but is it the most important thing in the world to me? It's not.
00:34:50.080
Am I up at night, lying awake, tossing and turning, say, what about girls sports? It's an attack on
00:34:55.640
girls sports. No. Um, I recognize that girls sports is, but one battlefield,
00:35:05.600
in the overall war for reality. And it's an important battlefield because it's getting a lot
00:35:11.700
of attention and because of the precedent that will be set if we lost in this battlefield.
00:35:18.800
So that's, I'm not worried about losing girls sports specifically. I'm worried about losing
00:35:26.960
reality. And when you lose reality, girls sports is like the least of your problems.
00:35:35.380
If we live in a country where, where, where we have abandoned reality itself and science and all
00:35:43.920
that makes sense. Uh, yeah, we won't have girls sports anymore. We also won't have like anything else.
00:35:49.260
I fully admit that. So when someone like Sarah Silverman accuses us of, um, being motivated by
00:35:59.640
more than just a concern for girls sports, I say, absolutely. You are damn right.
00:36:07.720
That's what all conservatives should be saying. But instead, most Republicans, if they dare even
00:36:13.460
speak on this issue, they pretend that, no, this isn't about transgenderism at all. This is only
00:36:19.320
about, uh, protecting girls sports. We just care so much about girls sports. Oh, please be honest
00:36:26.620
about what you're doing. I agree with Sarah Silverman on that. Be honest. It's not like we,
00:36:32.780
we have some insidious, it's not like our real motivations are insidious. We're trying to protect
00:36:39.500
reality. That's the point here. Kind of important. What is the other thing she's right about? She's
00:36:47.040
also right that, uh, Caitlyn Jenner's position is incoherent. She's a hundred percent right.
00:36:53.560
Cause Caitlyn Jenner is saying, I'm a woman and we're supposed to accept him as a woman.
00:37:00.480
And yeah, if he's really a woman, then why shouldn't he be able to participate in female
00:37:06.260
sports? And if a trans girl is really a girl, then why shouldn't they be able to participate
00:37:12.220
in girl sports? It doesn't make any sense. See the, the, the objection to trans quote unquote,
00:37:22.100
trans girls participating in girl sports only makes sense if it's grounded in an acknowledgement
00:37:28.860
that trans girls aren't really girls, because if they are girls, then obviously they belong in girl
00:37:34.240
sports. In fact, if they are girls and we are disqualifying them from girl sports,
00:37:39.260
that is discrimination. That's like bigotry, right? Our point is that they're not girls.
00:37:46.980
I am not aware of any argument against allowing quote unquote, trans girls in girl sports,
00:37:52.600
aside from the argument that they're not really girls. That's my whole argument. I have no other
00:38:00.060
argument. It's a pretty simple argument. I think it's a good one. Why shouldn't they go in girl
00:38:04.440
sports? Oh, well, because they're not girls. I understand that you've given them a label with
00:38:10.020
the word girl in it, but they're not really girls though. They're not the same. There's a, an essential
00:38:16.760
fundamental difference between them and the actual girls. That's the argument. That's the whole argument.
00:38:22.320
So if, but if we're accepting that trans girls are girls, then there's no argument. Your argument
00:38:29.900
makes no sense. That's why you might think that Caitlyn Jenner is the perfect mouthpiece for this
00:38:36.940
because, oh, look, a trans person's coming out against it. His position doesn't make sense. It's
00:38:42.600
incoherent. Caitlyn Jenner, are we supposed to accept you as a woman or not? Are you telling us now
00:38:50.420
you're not a woman? Because if you are saying you're a woman, then by, by that standard, yes,
00:38:57.940
these trans people should be in girl sports. This is what happens on the right. And I don't accept
00:39:05.500
Caitlyn Jenner as being on the right, by the way, but this is what happens on the right when we don't
00:39:09.780
have the guts and the intelligence and the wherewithal to be honest about what we're doing
00:39:14.720
and what our argument is and to make the fundamental argument rather than staying on the surface,
00:39:21.200
trimming around the edges, you know, get down to the nitty gritty. This is what the argument is
00:39:26.280
really about. What is the, what is the sports argument really about? It's about the question
00:39:31.480
of whether or not those quote unquote trans girls are actually girls. Our position is no, they aren't.
00:39:35.460
That's it. If you're too afraid to say that, then you're useless and you're worthless in this
00:39:42.640
discussion. Please butt out because whatever argument you're making is pathetic and bad.
00:39:48.040
If that's not your argument. All right. Um, let's move now to reading the YouTube comments.
00:39:56.740
Arthur says the worst part about that mask video is the guy who filmed it is the cry baby who actually
00:40:01.040
thought it was a good idea to post it online. That should scare us more than the virus.
00:40:05.460
Yeah. That's always all of these, uh, many Tik TOK videos are like this and all these mask
00:40:10.760
shaming videos, uh, where the, the, the undisputed villain in the encounter is the one filming it and
00:40:18.380
not just filming it. Like, it's not like they are live streaming it and, uh, they, they, they lose
00:40:23.640
their temper in the moment and it goes out on the internet for all time. No, they film it and then
00:40:30.440
watch it back, but they film their own emotional breakdown and they film themselves being a bully
00:40:36.000
to someone. In this case, this man berating a pregnant woman and getting up in her face.
00:40:41.320
He films it, watches it back and says, this is great stuff. Let me post it online for everyone
00:40:46.340
to see. Um, Maximilian says, Matt, I think you need to pick another hideous shirt because everyone
00:40:53.600
likes the polka dot shirt now. Well, that's why would I pick another one? The plan is working.
00:41:01.660
This is, you know what this is? This is indoctrination. You're all getting a lesson
00:41:05.140
in indoctrination. This is how it works in desensitization, conditioning, and indoctrination
00:41:11.460
and even, uh, hypnotism. All of those altogether. Uh, let's see. WM music says, Matt, do you think
00:41:21.400
rote obedience leads to true obedience or a desire to obey? Uh, there's caveats and qualifiers, but
00:41:29.500
basically, yes, I think so. That's what we were, we were talking about a second ago. That's what we're
00:41:34.540
seeing in our culture right now. Um, people at first being forced to obey mask mandates, shutdowns
00:41:42.860
and all of that. And now there are millions of people who actually have a desire to obey them.
00:41:47.740
They don't want the rules to go away. So yeah, absolutely. Orange banana says, Hey Matt,
00:41:59.040
What? Sauna? Sauna. I was just sitting over there in the sauna. That's not how it's pronounced. It's
00:42:09.700
sauna. Sauna. A U. Sauna. Like I may not have graduated college or even gone to college, but I
00:42:16.940
know it's not sauna. Can you imagine going to, I don't know, uh, uh, like a spa or I can't imagine
00:42:23.400
going to a spa in the first place, but if you do and you walk in, Hey, uh, where's your sauna?
00:42:29.040
Um, and finally, Jesus freak says, I don't have anything important to say. I'm just commenting.
00:42:35.160
So Matt might read it. Well, there you go. And thank you for your service and feeding the algorithm.
00:42:38.660
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00:43:45.620
Now for our daily cancellation, we turn to the tragic story of one pop smoke. He was a rapper
00:43:53.760
from Brooklyn who was shot and killed last year. Apparently little was known about the murder until
00:43:57.900
just the past few days when the media reported that pop smoke's killer was a 15 year old kid
00:44:02.140
who along with a few friends invaded his home at four 30 in the morning to steal his jewelry.
00:44:06.700
In the process of taking his jewelry, uh, they shot him in the chest and killed him. Allegedly a 15
00:44:10.940
year old admitted to the crime in jailhouse conversations that were recorded unbeknownst to
00:44:14.760
the 15 year old. I think ultimately the rapper died over a Rolex watch, which was all they made
00:44:19.520
off with. They sold that for $2,000. So a man died for $2,000 split between four guys. Now when news of
00:44:27.260
the killer's identity broke over the weekend, there was a lot of reaction on social media from people
00:44:30.940
lamenting and wondering how a 15 year old kid could engage in this kind of senseless violence.
00:44:36.520
Now many rap fans and pop smoke fans simply couldn't believe that such a fate could befall
00:44:41.200
pop smoke that his life could be lost for such a frivolous reason. And indeed it is very sad,
00:44:47.740
but it may not be quite as surprising as they make it out to be. I confess that I was not familiar
00:44:55.620
with pop smoke's work, uh, while he was still living, but out of curiosity, I did look up some
00:45:00.120
of his songs, uh, after reading the latest news and not surprisingly pop smoke appears to be a rapper
00:45:06.760
in the traditional variety with lyrics like this from his song Dior. He says, I'll make a movie like
00:45:13.240
TNT Glock 30 on me, ask who really want it. I bet I air it like BNB nappy blue wild into my section.
00:45:20.440
And I keep that 38 for that weapon. Remember when I came home from corrections, all the bad is in my
00:45:25.520
direction and lyrics like this from the song, get it on me or got it on me. Sorry. This AR be my trophy
00:45:32.580
shoot first, shoot back automatic when the woo clap. And there's a poetry like this from welcome
00:45:37.740
to the party gun on my hip one in the head, 10 in the clip, baby, baby. Don't trip. Just lower your
00:45:43.140
tone. Cause you could get hit. And finally, who could forget the song gangsta, which, uh, with a
00:45:47.960
passage like this 44, got a kickback, click, clack, get back shots at your rib pack, or you're going to
00:45:54.380
get chin checked talking about the guns, but never shot. Might as well put a cap on it all over with a
00:46:00.560
chopstick, run up and I'm branding them 38s on the block. Won't hesitate. Okay. Plenty more that came
00:46:06.420
from pretty standard stuff yet. We're never supposed to stop and wonder if this standard may be having
00:46:14.320
perhaps some kind of effect on the world. Is it possible that when the music industry churns out
00:46:21.040
thousands and thousands and thousands of songs every year, directly glorifying and encouraging street
00:46:27.280
violence, that maybe it could after a while actually, actually succeed in helping to create
00:46:33.380
the very behavior that it is so explicitly promoting. Now I'm not suggesting that Pop Smoke's
00:46:38.780
killer was directly influenced by Pop Smoke himself. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn't. I don't know.
00:46:43.620
All I'm saying is that, is that the rapper contributed to a culture that goes out of its way to romanticize
00:46:48.200
exactly the sort of thing that Pop Smoke's killer killer did to him. In other words, when someone in an
00:46:54.980
industry that glorifies street violence dies by street violence, would it perhaps be time for a
00:47:00.900
bit of reflection? Should we consider about, you know, should we wonder about all of these dots that
00:47:06.460
line up so perfectly just begging to be connected? Now I brought this up over the weekend and as
00:47:12.720
expected, most of the responses were rather negative. Some were along the lines of this comment from a guy
00:47:17.940
named Akbar Jenkins who said, I hope Matt experiences street violence. Yes, if you're upset that I said
00:47:24.740
rap encourages violence, the way to prove me wrong is to wish death on me. Good plan. And then many other
00:47:31.000
comments were making points similar to the one that someone named Trevor makes here. He says, this is like
00:47:36.620
saying the writers of the Saw franchise had it coming if some twisted fan decided to ensnare them in a real life
00:47:41.700
jigsaw trap. Now, you often hear these comparisons between violence and rap and violence and film.
00:47:49.560
But there are two very significant differences. First of all, the movie Saw does not glorify or
00:47:56.220
romanticize serial killers. You're not supposed to watch that movie and come away with a sympathetic
00:48:01.000
view of the killer from Saw. You're not supposed to think that it looks kind of cool to trap people in a
00:48:05.380
room and force them to amputate their own limbs in order to escape. Generally, anyone imitating the
00:48:11.040
jigsaw killer from Saw would have done it on Halloween and that's about it. With all that said,
00:48:15.900
I do think that the violence in Saw was grotesque and gratuitous and desensitizing. Those were garbage
00:48:21.320
movies with no artistic value whatsoever. But they very clearly were not trying to send the message of,
00:48:27.380
hey kids, being a serial killer is fun. Second difference, Saw was obviously fiction.
00:48:34.480
It was a story. It was a tale. Most horror movies are the same. You're not supposed to confuse it with
00:48:39.480
real life. And most people don't. You go into the film fully understanding that you're entering
00:48:44.900
into a fictional world where unreal things are happening. Now let's compare all of that to rap
00:48:51.060
music. The rap music like from guys like Pop Smoke. Does rap music glorify and romanticize violence?
00:48:57.340
Does it try to make murder and drug dealing seem cool? Does it try to make these things seem appealing?
00:49:02.400
Yes. No question. Kids don't go around dressing, speaking, and acting like the serial killers
00:49:08.820
from horror films most of the time. Again, unless it's Halloween. But kids, especially kids in the
00:49:14.360
city, do absolutely imitate rappers. Imitate them in every way from speech to style to yes behavior.
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The music is designed to have this effect. Everybody involved in making the music knows that it's
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having this effect. There is no escaping that reality. They can't plead ignorance.
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They're sending a clear message that, especially if you're a boy growing up in an urban area,
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the way to prove that you're tough and cool is to deal drugs and murder people. There is no
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mistaking that message. It is very direct. Second, rap music does not present itself as fiction.
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Now, it might be true that some of these guys are lying about their criminal exploits, but
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they certainly don't try to make it seem like they're lying or telling fables.
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They, again, go out of their way to convince the listener that they really have done and continue
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to do all of the things they describe in their music. Oftentimes, they'll explicitly address and
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reject the claim that they're lying or pretending. Pop Smoke in one of those songs I just read
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makes it clear that some people talk about guns but never shoot anything, and he is not one of those
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people. He wants you to know that he really has killed people, and he's killed them for almost no
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reason. He says, like, kill someone because he doesn't like their tone, and that all of this
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makes him very cool and, in fact, way cooler than the average rapper in the game. That's the message
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he wants you to pick up. A gospel passage about living by the sword and dying by it comes to mind.
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So the fact is clear. These guys definitely encourage the chaos and brutality in our cities.
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They do it for profit. They do it because the human cost means nothing to them.
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And sometimes the monster they help to create turns around on them. Yeah, it's a sad way to die.
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You know, it's an even sadder way to live and make a living. It's all just very sad. And maybe one of
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these days, when everyone gets tired of being sad, we can acknowledge the reality that's staring us
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plainly in the face and have a serious conversation about what exactly we might do to change it.
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Until then, those unwilling to have this conversation and connect all these dots
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are, as you may have guessed by now, canceled. And Media Matters, have fun with that segment.
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