Ep. 719 - Spoiled, Ungrateful Brats
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Tim Tebow is getting another crack at the NFL, but Colin Kaepernick isn t? The media says this is evidence of racism, I say it s evidence of something else. Also, five headlines including: Hackers shut down a major U.S. pipeline, and the GOP says we need to get mothers back to work. Is Alyssa Milano the latest victim of cancel culture? We ll have to talk about that and much more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Tim Tebow is getting another crack at the NFL, but Colin Kaepernick isn't.
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The media says this is evidence of racism. I say it's evidence of something else.
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Also, five headlines, including hackers shut down a major U.S. pipeline.
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And the GOP says that we need to get mothers back to work.
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Is that the right messaging? Is that conservative messaging?
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Also, is a horse the latest victim of cancel culture? We'll have to talk about that.
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And speaking of canceling and our daily cancellation, we'll deal with the morbidly obese model, in quotes there,
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who now says she has anorexia. They just don't make anorexics like they used to.
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We'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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Yesterday, we began the show by talking about the many millionaire and billionaire celebrities
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who are being horrifically oppressed in this country. It's a big problem.
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Michelle Obama, principal among them, a woman who says she fears walking down the street
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because of all the racist cops out there prowling around.
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She also says she was in line for ice cream once and a white woman cut in front of her accidentally.
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These are the kinds of deprivations and persecutions that she has suffered.
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Oprah, LeBron James, Meghan Markle, and others join her in the ranks of extraordinarily wealthy and powerful victims.
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But I feel a little embarrassed today because while listing all of the most prominent and profitable victims in America today,
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I somehow neglected to mention the greatest of them all,
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the man who will surely take center stage on the Mount Rushmore of self-victimizing millionaire brats.
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And that would be, of course, Colin Kaepernick.
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Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL bench writer who decided to start protesting injustice
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at exactly the moment when his NFL career was going off the rails.
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Then when he failed out of the league after a season where he went 1-10 as a starter,
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he started a new career as a professional activist.
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That career has been far more successful and profitable than his playing career by a large margin.
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He's had deals with Netflix, Nike, many other major companies, released his own shoe,
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And all the while, he's being hailed as a martyr for the cause.
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Originally, we were told that his kneeling during the anthem was a protest against police brutality,
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But then a few years ago, Nike released a shoe or tried to release a shoe with an American flag on it,
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Because he didn't want there to be a shoe with a flag on it, and they recalled the shoe.
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Now, apparently, I guess he does have a problem with the flag itself.
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I mean, how could he hate a country that's made him rich and famous beyond the wildest dreams of normal people?
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And given him all this wealth and fame, despite the fact that he's produced nothing of value,
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really nothing at all, and actually flunked out of his chosen field.
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And we have another chance to think about these questions now that Kaepernick is back in the news.
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As Tim Tebow awaits a possible one-year contract to play for the Jacksonville Jaguars,
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progressives on Twitter have excoriated the NFL for leaving former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick out in the cold.
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As Daily Wire reported on Monday, Ian Rappaport of NFL Insider announced that
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Tebow stands on the cusp of signing with the Jacksonville Jaguars and reuniting with his former mentor.
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The Jaguars are planning to sign QB turned tight end Tim Tebow to a one-year deal,
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a deal that could be official in the next week or so.
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Nothing done yet, but he'll have a chance to make the team,
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to reunite with his mentor and college head coach Urban Meyer.
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As Kaepernick fans, many of whom feel the NFL blackballed him in response to his national anthem protests
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in the name of Black Lives Matter, did not welcome the news.
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Interesting how the same people that are praising Tim Tebow for his values outside of football
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see Colin Kaepernick's values as a distraction.
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There's no way you can tell me that Tim Tebow deserves to be on a team as an unproven tight end
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who hasn't played in nine years more than Colin Kaepernick.
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There's just no way that's going to make sense.
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There was plenty more reactions along those lines, all from the usual suspects,
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Corey Booker, a noted NFL analyst, chimed in as well.
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People are saying, you know, there's a little white privilege going on here.
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You know, Tim Tebow has a different, there's different standards for him.
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I don't need to cast a shadow on Tim Tebow in order to point out the injustice of Colin Kaepernick.
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And I don't need to push somebody else down in order to point that out.
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It's, it's, he is an extraordinary athlete who had his career sabotaged by people that were against him
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doing what some of the greatest athletes of all times, from Arthur Ashe to Muhammad Ali, have done,
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Do you think Colin maybe should try a different position or is that, is it just, you think it's,
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It has to do with the NFL and the decisions that were made.
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Perfect timing as they're interviewing Cory Booker in, it looks like D.C.
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Anyway, these comparisons are all coming from people who either don't understand the game of football,
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probably the case for Cory Booker, or who are pretending not to understand.
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Tim Tebow will be attending training camp to try out for a different position
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where he will no doubt be a backup and get paid the minimum salary or close to it.
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So he just wants to play the game and he's willing to do whatever it takes for a shot at playing the game.
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In contrast, Colin Kaepernick has shown no interest in playing at any position,
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let alone, let alone a less glamorous one as a backup for comparatively little money.
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In fact, two years ago, the NFL held a workout for Kaepernick in the middle of the 2019 season.
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The NFL doesn't usually hold personal workouts for aging backup players in the middle of the season
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They certainly didn't do that for Tim Tebow, I can tell you.
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But they did it for Kaepernick because he'd call them racist if they didn't.
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But as it turns out, he'll call them racist even if they do.
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Kaep bailed on the workout, though, and instead held his own media event where he wore a shirt
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comparing himself to a slave, making him the highest paid slave in history, we must say.
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And he blasted the NFL and Roger Goodell, the commissioner.
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He refused to go to it and then did his own event in front of the cameras where he was complaining about the NFL.
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If you really want to play for the NFL, if you want a job in the NFL, is that what you do?
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Demonstrate a little bit of professionalism and humility.
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He's a con man and a grifter, an actor playing a role.
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And we have to also say playing it pretty damn well.
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But NFL head coaches, they don't want actors on their sidelines.
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Colin Kaepernick is not a player and doesn't want to be one.
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He hasn't wanted to be one since he discovered how much money there was to be made pretending to be an activist.
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Another difference between Tebow and Kaepernick.
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If you're a very stupid person, you've probably already shouted, it's racism!
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Except that the NFL is full of beloved black athletes.
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But the key difference, or one of the key differences, is gratitude.
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Both Tebow and Kaepernick have lived a blessed life.
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And this country has treated them extraordinarily well.
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What people like about Tim Tebow is that he seems to be aware of this fact.
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And he exudes gratitude and humility because of it.
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He loves this country, and he's grateful for the opportunities that the country has afforded him.
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People like to be around that kind of attitude.
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Kaepernick, on the other hand, is sullen, spoiled, ungrateful.
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This country has given him everything, but it's never enough.
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Not because he's earned it, but because he feels entitled to it.
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Now, his fellow rich, whiny, entitled complainers in the media,
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they like that about him because they can relate to it.
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But it's not the kind of thing that normal people respect or want to root for.
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And it distresses normal people that this attitude is so common.
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That there is so little gratitude in this country.
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So starting here, number one from the BBC, it says a cyber criminal gang that took a major U.S. fuel pipeline offline over the weekend
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has acknowledged the incident in a public statement.
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The group is called Darkside and they wrote on their website, quote,
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our goal is to make money and not to create problems for society.
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So they're saying that they didn't mean to create problems.
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I don't know, this is kind of an apology in a way.
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They just, they wanted, it was like a ransom thing and they were trying to make money.
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Oh, well, in that case, don't worry about it, Darkside.
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They're saying, hey, all we did was take down a major U.S. fuel line.
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The U.S. issued emergency legislation on Sunday after Colonial Pipeline was hit by a ransomware cyber attack.
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The pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day, 45% of the East Coast supply of diesel patrol and jet fuel.
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That's what, Darkside, they're, they're surprised by this.
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Well, you mean to tell us if we shut down 45% of the East Coast supply of fuel, it's going to make, it's going to create an issue?
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The operator took itself offline on Friday after the cyber attack, after the cyber attack, worked to restore services continuing.
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On Monday, the FBI officially confirmed that Darkside was responsible for compromising Colonial Pipeline's networks, saying that it was continuing to work with the firm and other government agencies on the investigation.
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Now, you read about this and how some sort of hacking group was able to infiltrate and take down a major fuel line.
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And it might make you kind of concerned about what else could they do?
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Could they take down the power grid if they wanted to?
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Okay, don't worry about this, because we know, we know that, that our intelligence agencies, they're on top of it.
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The FBI, the CIA, all the intelligence community, they're on top of this.
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By, right, by putting out advertisements, extolling the virtues of tolerance, and by, you know, bringing people onto the job because they're, because of their gender identity and so on and so forth.
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Doesn't that, doesn't that make you feel pretty comfortable?
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Knowing that our intelligence community, that's where their priorities are.
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Gender identity, tolerance, acceptance, diversity.
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So while they're focused on that, we've got cyber criminals taking down fuel lines.
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Number two, this is from the, is a tweet here from the GOP official Twitter account.
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They said, 1.5 million U.S. mothers have fallen out of the workforce, and many are staying home to take care of their children because schools have not reopened.
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Biden is proving to be a detriment to getting mothers back to work.
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This is why the Republican Party is awful at messaging and at everything else.
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Now, yes, we agree that having millions of people leave the workforce, women or men, is a bad thing.
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And one of the consequences of having all the schools shut down is that, yeah, now you've got either people or you've got to pay more for child care or you've got to, someone has to stay home and take care of the kids.
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Because, and that has been a crisis in a lot of families, even if I think that in the long term, it's better not to have a public school system at all, when you take it away all at once like this, it creates major, major problems for families.
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You should be able to point that out in a way that's consistent with conservative values.
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Because getting mothers back to work, that's not exactly our goal as conservatives.
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That's certainly not the way that I would phrase it.
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Yet we want to get the economy back open again.
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And we want people who want to work to be working.
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This is just another perfect example here of the GOP.
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Biden is proving to be a detriment to getting mothers.
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It's actually, all in all, it's a positive thing to have mothers at home caring for their children.
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Which isn't to say that no women should be out working.
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And presenting it as a negative, like this is a problem.
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We got to get them back to work, out in that workforce.
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This is like, if I, if it wasn't for the, if it wasn't for Biden, the fact that Biden was being attacked here.
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If you didn't know who was in office and you read that, you would assume that was a tweet from the Democrats.
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Because that's their goal is to get the mothers back.
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We want them at, we want them in the workforce.
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But as always, very little difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, as we know.
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Speaking of Biden, number three, Joe Biden addressed the claim that unemployment is high right now because people are being paid to stay at home.
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But at the same, he doesn't see evidence that it's a problem.
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But at the same time, he has a plan for supposedly solving that problem.
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So I'm not really sure how that makes a lot of sense.
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We're going to make it clear that anyone collecting unemployment who is offered a suitable job must take the job or lose their unemployment benefits.
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There are a few COVID-19 related exceptions so that people aren't forced to choose between their basic safety and a paycheck.
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I know there's been a lot of discussion since Friday, since Friday's report, that people are being paid to stay home rather than go to work.
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Look, it's easy to say the line has been because of the generous unemployment benefits that it's a major factor in labor shortages.
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So we'll insist that the law is followed with respect to benefits.
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But we're not going to turn our backs on our fellow Americans.
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Twenty two million people lost their jobs in this pandemic through no fault of their own.
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We still have eight million fewer jobs than we did when the pandemic started.
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And for many of those folks, unemployment benefits are a lifeline.
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No one should be allowed to gain the system and will insist the law is followed.
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OK, so it's not it's not an issue, but here's the plan to solve the problem that doesn't exist in the first place.
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I agree with him that people lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
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I mean, that was like his fault, the fault of the Democrat Party, largely in many of these states run by Democrats, especially that where the lockdowns were particularly strict and in some cases are still in place.
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So I agree that it's not people's fault they lost jobs.
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That's absolutely the case, which is why I've said from the beginning that I support stimulus payments, any unemployment benefits for people who lost their job because the government took it away.
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As I've said all along, that's an example, I think, of an actual entitlement.
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The problem, generally speaking, with what we call entitlements is that oftentimes the people receiving those benefits aren't really entitled to them.
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If you're entitled to something, it means that you're owed it.
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Well, in many cases, the people that are getting entitlements, they're not really owed that.
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And if they are owed it, who is in debt to them?
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In this case, when the government comes along and for no good reason takes your job away, takes millions of jobs away all at once, destroys your business, destroys your entire industry in some cases, you are entitled to restitution for that, I would say, from the government.
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But it's also true, first of all, that we didn't give this entitlement only to people who were actually entitled to it.
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We passed out millions and millions of checks worth billions and billions and billions of dollars, regardless of whether or not someone actually needed it or not.
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I know it can be difficult to do, but these are difficult times.
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It's difficult to first figure out who actually needs the money, who lost their job, and to target it that way.
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Because the other option is just to give the money to everybody.
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And that means there's going to be billions of dollars wasted for no reason.
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But even for the people who really need it, the fact is that there is a tension here.
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When you pay people not to work, when you incentivize not working, then they're not going to work.
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And you're going to have a lot of people staying at home and living off of the government.
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And we're not just talking about mothers who, you know, now they're a single-family household and the father is working.
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We're talking about entire households where nobody's working.
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And that's what happens when you incentivize unemployment.
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I mean, I have to think, okay, if I didn't have a job and I'm getting paid by the government,
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and the only job that I could really get right now is something that pays me less than what the government is giving me,
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yeah, I would certainly be tempted to just continue taking more money for doing nothing.
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You can understand why people would make that calculation.
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I don't think it's right either, but it's not unreasonable.
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But Biden says, oh, we don't have to worry about it because if you're offered a suitable job, you have to take it.
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And if you don't take it, then you're going to lose your unemployment benefits.
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I don't even want to say that there are loopholes.
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It's not like loopholes you have to sneak through.
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Couldn't you just say, well, that wasn't a suitable job by my estimation?
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And how's the government going to know that you were offered a job?
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And aren't you actually only going to be offered a job if you go out and look for one?
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Are they requiring that you go out and look for one?
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Obviously, there's no real way to enforce this.
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And if there is a way to enforce it, our government is not interested in doing that and isn't capable of doing it.
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Again, this is the same government that couldn't be bothered or claimed it was unable to first find out who needed the benefits before doling them out.
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Now we're supposed to believe that they have the capacity and the interest in enforcing these kinds of policies?
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Next, we've got, there's some controversy after the horse that won the Kentucky Derby turned out to have banned substances in its system.
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And here's the horse's trainer on, I think this is on Fox News, addressing the controversy and claiming that the horse is a victim of cancel culture.
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Will you run Medina Spirit this weekend in the Preakness?
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I know you've said that, but they're going to have a meeting tomorrow down there at that race.
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They should arrive this afternoon, and we're definitely planning on running them.
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They were going to have the draw today for the Preakness, and they've kicked it back until tomorrow.
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Those results may not be available for several weeks.
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The Belmont is here in New York four weeks from now.
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I don't know if we have final results even before the Belmont is done, but your plan is to race in the Preakness.
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Is there a chance they may punt and not allow Medina Spirit to run this weekend?
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I know when Churchill Downs came out with that statement, that was pretty harsh.
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And I think they had to just, you know, with all the noise going out, you know, we live in a different world now.
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And it was like a cancel culture kind of a thing.
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But under the rules, does your team get to review the results?
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But you're here to say that Bob Baffert's team did not cheat to win the Kentucky Derby.
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That was a lot more information about horse doping than I really cared to hear.
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And I have no opinion whatsoever about whether or not this horse is guilty of doping.
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But what I do care about a little bit is the claim there of cancel culture.
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And the reason I care about that is the cancel culture is a real thing.
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Many people's lives, many people's actual human, real lives, not horses.
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You can shame a horse, publicly shame a horse, cancel them.
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And they'll probably be okay because they're still going to be a horse at the end of the day.
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If that's what we're canceling, if that's how we're canceling the horse, then I would say that maybe is a little bit harsh.
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But there are real human beings who have been canceled.
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But when we abuse this term and overuse it, as we see all throughout society, same problem all the time.
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But the label loses its meaning because we've applied it to too many things.
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Now, anytime someone's backed into a corner like this guy is, and you can kind of see his heart's not even fully in it.
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As I said, I have no opinion on whether or not he's guilty or whatever.
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He's saying, you know, society is like this right now.
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Now, no, this is not, this is not cancel culture.
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This is, you've been accused of doing something.
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Most people in the horse racing world care about it.
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Like, at any time, as long as there's been horse racing, you know, there are going to be controversies like this.
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So this is not, because of cancel culture, this hasn't been affected.
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It's not like the controversy is amped up now because of cancel culture.
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This controversy is probably what it would have always been, even without the advent of cancel culture.
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And it is, as I always say, it is a left-wing phenomenon.
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Because most of the time, it is about using institutions.
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Either calling for institutions to punish someone, or those institutions actually doing it.
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Punishing someone, deplatforming them, firing them, maybe even arresting them, as the case may be.
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But it's using the power of institutions to destroy someone's life.
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Along with your standard kind of public shaming and all of that.
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Axios interviewed the CEO of GLAAD, which is the Gay and Lesbian, what is that, Alliance Against Defamation, I think is what it is.
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And she talked about how social media companies are unsafe, very unsafe for LGBT people.
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And she's, and we got to do something about that, all these unsafe.
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What should we do about these unsafe conditions?
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And so, the original intention was to give each of these, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, a grade.
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We did come out with grades initially, internally.
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And what we realized was it wasn't the right starting point.
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The right starting point was to give them the information to act and give them a roadmap to be successful.
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This is about less watchdogging, more partnering with these platforms to get it right.
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What we ended up realizing was that if we started grading, they'd all fail, quite frankly.
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You found them all to be unsafe in different ways.
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They are categorically unsafe across the board, yes.
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We're looking for real, concrete changes in the next year and thereafter.
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And I think we live in this space, quite frankly, between government, which is going to take a very long time to put in regulations,
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and these social media companies who have the roadmap but are not enacting it.
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And in the middle of this is the LGBTQ community, who is being profited off of by hate speech and harassment.
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And we needed to step in quickly and make sure that our community is protected.
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Not going to make any comments about the interviewer there.
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We'll move on to the woman who, the president of GLAAD, who is kind of, this is what tyrants look like and sound like now.
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First of all, using the phrase quite frankly a lot, it's a common thing among them.
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But she says, oh, we want to walk alongside you and we want to partner.
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We're going to walk alongside you and take your hand and grab it and not let go.
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And guide you with however much force is necessary to the path that we have decided you need to walk.
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That's the kind of partnering they're talking about.
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Now, I said she explains what she means by social media being unsafe for LGBT people.
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Because if they don't define it, then in any given situation, they want to be able to define it situationally, whatever the situation calls for.
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They don't want to set clear boundaries of like this is what is an unsafe thing for an LGBT person.
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They just want to be able to because really what this is obviously about is shutting down dissenting speech.
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People who fail, it's not just people who are, it's not even just people who actively disagree with the LGBT agenda.
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But if you fail to offer the appropriate amount of applause, and you fail to have the appropriate amount of enthusiasm while giving that applause, then you get shut down for that too.
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Because that makes people feel bad about themselves.
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We just cannot stress enough how, talk about dangerous.
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When we start, when speech and opinions are labeled unsafe successfully, that's the real danger zone.
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Because we've always been told, we all grew up with this idea, sticks and stones, right?
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As long as you're not physically harming another person.
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As long as you're not causing harm to another person, then you're well within your rights.
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It's the old thing about how your fist can travel as far as, your right to move your fist ends where my nose is and that kind of thing, right?
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Um, and what they want to be able to say, what people like over at GLAAD want to say, is that they still believe that.
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That, of course, you have the right to have whatever opinion and express whatever views you want.
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And then what they quickly add is that, oh, by the way, a lot of your opinions do cause harm.
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In fact, asking us to explain it also causes us harm.
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All right, let's move on now to reading the YouTube comments.
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First comment says, when I received my license, my parents instructed me that if I get pulled over, I am to say yes, sir, no, sir.
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Of course, we're told that this is, this is the talk that only black parents have to give their kids.
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But I can remember getting the same talk from, as a white kid, I got the same talk from my parents.
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If you get pulled over, be respectful to a police officer.
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It's not going to do you any good to be disrespectful.
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And also, you know, my parents were of the opinion that as kids, we should just be respectful to all adults in general, whether they're police officers or not.
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Orange Banana says, hey, Matt, sauna is a Finnish word.
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We're continuing this controversy from yesterday.
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In the Finnish language, each letter is enunciated.
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If you did go to a Finnish sauna and pronounced it that way, they'd be impressed and might even give you a deal for saying it properly.
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Well, I would never be in a Finnish sauna or any other kind of sauna.
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Even if you're correct, I don't know if I believe you that it's pronounced sauna.
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But if you're right, this is one of those words where I think the right thing to do is to mispronounce it because the actual pronunciation sounds weird.
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Kind of very similar to when I go to get a gyro, I'm getting a gyro.
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I know it's, you could say it's pronounced gyro or whatever.
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Usually I'm all about protecting the integrity of language.
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Whenever I decide those exceptions are, that's when they are.
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Matt, how do you get to the point where you don't care how many people you offend?
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I'm almost there myself, but I still have a guilty conscience when I hurt somebody's feelings.
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I guess for me, I can't really give you the how-to process.
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For me, it's been really just a process of being numb.
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When everybody is offended all the time by everything you say, and you've got hundreds of people tossing labels at you and calling you a bigot and so on and so forth every single day, eventually you become numb to it and you simply don't care anymore.
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But at the same time, and I think we're at a, we all have to get to that point where you don't care about the labels that are tossed at you and the opinion of the peanut gallery doesn't mean anything to you.
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I think in order to survive, we all have to be that way.
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Now, speaking of cancel culture, in this cancel culture world, we all have to get to that point.
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Because if you allow yourself to be manipulated by those sorts of things, then you're never going to speak up at all.
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But I would almost call it a necessary evil in a way.
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Because, you know, in a perfect world, that's not actually a healthy way to be.
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Psychologically, I don't care about other people's opinions at all.
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And so I could have a thousand people screaming at me and so upset, and it just means nothing.
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But in a perfect world, I probably should care.
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We are supposed to care about what other people think and say.
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So to be completely numb to it, it's ultimately not psychologically healthy, but it is necessary these days.
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Andre says, LMAO at Matt confusing Tupac with Biggie.
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I said that P. Diddy killed Tupac, which I don't know if that's true.
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Are you saying that you think he killed Biggie too?
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And Joshua says, your rap music causes violence argument is no different than video games cause violence.
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It is different for all the reasons I gave yesterday.
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Video games are a separate, distinct thing from music and movies.
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But if I had to put them in one category or the other, I think they're more in the movie category, certainly than the music category.
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With rap music, there is the explicit encouragement.
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You are directly romanticizing this kind of behavior and encouraging it.
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And also the rappers themselves claim repeatedly and passionately that they're not making this up.
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This is how they actually, these are things they really did.
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Even Jay-Z, who's like 67 years old now and worth $50 billion.
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But he's still, when he's rapping, he's talking about when he sold crack 46 years ago.
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He's been a rich multimillionaire for way longer than he was poor.
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And, but he, the only thing he could think to talk about, the only thing in the world that he finds worthy of discussion still is bragging about when he was selling crack and also bragging about how rich he is now.
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Oftentimes that's just, that's how rap music is.
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Rap music presents itself as not fictional, even when it is.
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And you are, and the rapper is explicitly, directly romanticizing and encouraging this behavior.
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Film is different because it's clearly fictional most of the time.
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And in many cases, even if there's a bad guy doing bad things in the movie, it's not being, it's not being encouraged.
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Like that, the bad guy is the bad guy, and he's being presented that way.
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And I think that's probably the case oftentimes in video games, though not always.
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I also don't play video games, so it's hard for me to speak.
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But I would, I would probably say video games belong more in the film category.
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Today for our daily cancellation, we turn our gaze to a woman called Tess Holliday,
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a morbidly obese woman who identifies as a model.
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Holliday has been a plus-size model and body acceptance advocate for many years.
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She feels very strongly that obesity is a wonderful thing, and we should encourage more of it.
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Basically, Tess Holliday will be dead before the age of 60,
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and she very much wants you to join her in this act of suicide.
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And I understand that may seem like a harsh way of putting it,
00:43:04.480
but encouraging morbid obesity is an awful, dangerous thing to do.
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And I think we need to be very exceedingly clear about that.
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Tess Holliday is easily 200 pounds overweight from the looks of it, maybe more than that.
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You have to spend many years eating a lot of food
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and getting very little exercise in order to achieve that sort of size.
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And that's why we have in the past and should continue to put a stigma on morbid obesity.
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It's sloth and gluttony, which is what leads to morbid obesity.
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Well, because those qualities will make you miserable and unhappy and unhealthy and eventually kill you.
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So, when we say that Tess Holliday is an obesity advocate,
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what we really mean is that she advocates the behaviors,
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the self-destructive suicidal behaviors that lead to obesity.
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And for that, she should be thoroughly shamed and condemned.
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She doesn't care about body positivity anyway, much less self-love.
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She is merely trying to justify and feel better about her own vices
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Now, these are all true statements about Tess Holliday,
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but we were never supposed to say any of that out loud.
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And now we're even more so supposed to shut up about it,
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given that Tess Holliday has found a new way to make a victim of herself.
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The morbidly obese woman announced on Twitter a few days ago
00:44:39.880
And we have to say that her recovery appears to be going pretty well.
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Here's what she said, reading from the Daily Wire article.
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This plus-size model and fat activist, Tess Holliday, revealed last week
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I'm the result of a culture that celebrates thinness and equates that to worth.
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I'm finally able to care for a body that I've punished my entire life,
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Responding to criticism concerning Holliday's body acceptance activism,
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To everyone saying that I can't possibly love myself and have an eating disorder,
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that is the actual definition of loving myself,
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being able to prioritize myself and be in recovery.
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I'm more self-aware than any of my critics, but you know, y'all go off.
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In an Instagram post, Holliday similarly talked about her weight
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and scolded people who tell her that she looks healthy lately.
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To everyone that keeps saying you're looking healthy lately or you're losing weight,
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Don't comment on my weight or perceived health.
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Tess Holliday poses half naked in front of cameras every day,
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constantly shares all kinds of information and imagery with the public
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and Tess Holliday is always running up with a bullhorn shouting,
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perhaps Tess Holliday needs to choose a lane here.
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If you're a private person living your everyday life,
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and somebody comes up to you as you walk down the street and tells you that you're fat,
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But if you go up to someone else who's minding their own business and say,
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They are well within their rights to respond and say,
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If you don't want to hear the public's opinion,
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Good Morning America did a segment on the issue a few days ago
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supermodel Tess Holliday revealing her struggle with anorexia.
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The mother of two saying she was recently diagnosed by a psychologist,
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but has ultimately been struggling with disordered eating most of her life.
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And it was almost like I wore it as a badge of honor.
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Known for loving and celebrating her curves as a body positive activist,
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Holliday has been receiving support for her honesty for many,
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but also being questioned by some online about how she could love her body
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I've had a lot of messages from folks that are anorexic,
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that are livid and angry because they feel like I'm lying.
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And so I think for people hearing me say I'm anorexic was really jarring.
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if you think that most eating disorders are visible conditions,
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Eating disorders don't have to look a certain way.
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I understand that people look at me and I don't fit what we have seen presented as,
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which I've been actually saying for years is that we have a lack of diversity and representation in the world.
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We need more diversity and representation in eating disorders.
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skinny women have been getting all the anorexic attention.
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Tess Holliday believes that she's owed some of that attention too.
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She believes that she's owed attention for being too fat and too skinny at the same time.
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She also seems to think she's stumbled on a good excuse here.
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She says that she thought she thought she was overeating.
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obviously a 300 plus pound woman would not qualify under any coherent definition of the term as anorexic.
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The very term anorexia comes from the Greek meaning without appetite.
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And as we've discussed in this segment a few times recently,
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mental illness is a category experiencing its own rapid inflation, shall we say.
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A great many mental illnesses are simply medical labels for normal human behaviors.
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And even many of the ones that describe some kind of legitimate condition have been expanded now into near meaninglessness.
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Listen to the latest definition of anorexia provided by the website nationaleatingdisorders.org.
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To be diagnosed with anorexia, or rather anorexia nervosa, according to the DSM-5,
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One, restriction of energy intake relative to requirements leading to a significantly low body weight
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in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health.
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Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat even though underweight.
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So there's the low body fat, and then also the intense fear of becoming fat.
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Those are the two classic definitions for anorexia.
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That's what you imagine when you think of an anorexic person, right?
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Underweight, little appetite, not eating much, afraid of getting fat, etc.
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But then there's the third definition added recently.
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Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced.
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Undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation.
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Or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.
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Undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation.
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Every single person on earth is anorexic because it could be argued that all of us, at least one point or another, have been overly concerned about our body weight or shape.
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We live in a culture where many people are desperate to be victims.
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Desperate to relieve themselves of the burden of agency and self-determination.
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Unfortunately, the medical industry is more than happy to oblige.
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Which is how Tess Holliday gets to be a morbid, obese, body positivity advocate who brags about her obesity, yet at the same time is not responsible for her obesity because somehow it's a symptom of a disorder which, for everyone else, causes a catastrophic loss of body weight.
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This is what makes Tess Holliday feel the best about herself and her choices, and that's all that matters.
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So, for that reason, we have to say that Tess Holliday today is canceled.
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And, you know, for good measure, we're going to cancel the DSM-5 for, like, the fourth time in the last week and a half.
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We spent much of the last week talking about this problem of how mental illnesses are being expanded, and then this is the story today.
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And our production coordinator is McKenna Waters.
00:54:38.700
And a U.K. pastor gets reported to the terror watch list for questioning the left's weird sex claims.