Ep. 781 -Â If You're Scared, Stay Home. I'll Be Out Here Living My Life
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Summary
As we have seen for many months now, many people in this country and across the West are eager to give up their basic rights and liberties for fear of COVID. They insist that we should all live in the same way, fearful and oppressed like them. But I have a different solution, which I will suggest today.
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, as we have seen for many months now, many people in this country and
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across the West are eager to give up their basic rights and liberties for fear of COVID.
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They insist that we should all live in the same way, fearful and oppressed like them.
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But I have a different solution, which I will suggest today. Also, President Biden warns that
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those in the path of Tropical Storm Henry, they must remember to wear masks when the storm hits.
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Yes, he really said that, wear masks when the storm hits. And the media claims that there's
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a rising trend of anti-mask parents physically assaulting teachers. But the trend doesn't
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exist. They're making it up. We'll look at the facts today. And finally, the cancel mob has taken
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a special interest in the hunt for a new host of Jeopardy. Why do they care so much? Well,
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we'll talk about that today and much more on The Matt Wall Show.
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Well, the situation in Australia seems to get worse by the day. And by situation, I don't mean COVID
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itself. As far as the virus goes, they're experiencing only four deaths per day in a population
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of 25 million. And four deaths per day, we should note, represents the worst of it. That's the most
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they've seen this year and probably the peak or close to the peak of the current wave. By the way,
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four deaths in a country of 25 million represents 0.00001% of the population. And this has been
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enough to justify a de facto martial law with nearly all basic human rights and freedom suspended.
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And public health authorities are now warning citizens that they're not allowed to even speak
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to each other in public. And this is all horrifying enough. But for those who tend to sympathize,
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more with the plight of animals than humans, perhaps this will get the point across.
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A report from Fox News says, a group of dogs that was set to be sent to a rescue were instead shot and
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killed by local officials, according to local reports. This was apparently done in order to
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prevent shelter employees from traveling and potentially spreading infection. A watchdog group,
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the Office of Local Government, says it was informed by the Borkshire Council that the dogs had been shot.
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The incident occurred in an attempt to prevent volunteers from another area
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from traveling to that location. So they're now shooting rescue dogs, perfectly healthy dogs,
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for fear that caring for them may result somehow in the spread of a virus that kills a whopping
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0.00001% of the population per day. Meanwhile, the government is issuing arrest warrants,
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and the local media are delivering urgent news bulletins about COVID-positive people
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who commit the crime of leaving their homes. This is very real. This is not a parody or anything.
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It's hard to tell the difference a lot of times these days. But watch this.
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It's those doing the wrong thing driving our record case numbers. Among the most concerning cases,
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a COVID patient who's tonight on the run from a hotspot. Police and health authorities have issued an
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urgent appeal. Anthony Karam knows he is COVID-positive when he steps into this public lift. Already
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breaking so many rules, he doesn't bother to cover his mouth as he sneezes and splutters. The 27-year-old
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is still infectious, but has gone missing from his Wentworth Point apartment. A warrant now issued for his
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arrest. This 27-year-old chap, who apparently has expressed the view that he doesn't care less
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whether he spreads the virus, is one example of the worst of the worst. The worst of the worst.
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Not murderers, not child rapists. The worst of the worst. A guy who has the virus and got into an
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elevator. By himself, we should know. But as always, the most terrifying thing is that the people
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are cooperating with all this. Going along like mindless cattle. Now, in fairness, a certain brave
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minority have spoken out and protested this dystopian insanity, but most citizens of the country seem to
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be just falling in line. The image that many of us outside of Australia have of the kind of plucky
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and fearless Steve Irwin-esque Aussies who wrestle crocodiles for fun has taken a serious hit, which is a
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tragedy in its own right. But then who are we to judge in America? We are overrun by scared infantile
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cowards in this country as well. A sizable portion of our own population would happily go along with all of
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the measures that have been put in place in Australia, and then some. The fact that most of those measures have
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not been put in place in this country, at least not yet, has caused many of our fellow countrymen real
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distress. They have more freedom than they want. They're begging the government to take freedoms
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away from them. And they certainly believe that you have more freedom than you should have. And their
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fear and panic is really tearing the country apart even more than it was already torn apart before all
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this started. The Wall Street Journal this morning reports on how COVID fear has turned even families
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against each other. They report, quote, weeks of rising COVID-19 cases have hardened divisions within
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families, communities, and friend groups over which members have been vaccinated and which have chosen
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not to do so. Hannah Lindeborg wanted to pull out all the stops for her daughter's second birthday in
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July, especially after the pandemic derailed the family celebration for her first birthday last year.
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The second birthday would be the first big gathering with extended family since COVID-19 came into their
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lives, Ms. Lindeborg said, adding that she looked forward to hosting everybody over at her home in
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St. Paul, Minnesota. When she learned some of her family members had chosen not to get vaccinated,
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quote, it just went downhill from there. From family gatherings to weddings to workplaces,
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vaccinated Americans are drawing new, sharper lines around who they choose to spend time with
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amid the rise of the highly transmissible Delta variant. And the unvaccinated are growing testy over
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being excluded and feeling judged for exercising the right to make their own health choices.
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The divisions are straining relationships among families, neighbors, and colleagues.
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Ms. Lindeborg, 30 years old, is an attorney and mother of four, including a five-year-old son with
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asthma. She and her husband tried to figure out how to host everyone while telling the unvaxxed ones
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to remain outside. They considered uninviting the unvaccinated. Ultimately, they just canceled the
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party. Now, there are many cases like this. Of course, the vaccinated people never seem to pause and
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think about the fact that they're so terrified of the unvaccinated. If they have faith in the vaccine,
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then why should they be so scared of unvaccinated people? If they have little faith in the vaccine,
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that might explain their terror of the unvaccinated, I guess, but it also takes away their right to be
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angry at them. If you don't believe the vaccine works, how can you blame anyone else for not getting
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it? Does it work or does it not work? If it doesn't work, then why should anyone get it? If it does work,
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why do you care if other people don't get it? This is a real logical problem for these people,
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but they are fearful and panicked. And fearful and panicked people never think through these sorts
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of things or anything else. There's very little thinking going on, just raw, trembling emotion.
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And those emotions are taking an increasingly dark turn. More and more, the panicked people are openly
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wishing death on those who do not share in their panic. Every day you see another video just like
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this one. Let's watch this. My daughter just called and her boyfriend has tested positive.
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He's the only person in his work that's wearing a mask out of, you know, 300 people.
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And now my daughter who's 29 weeks pregnant is at risk. And, uh, I hate every single one of you
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who refuses to wear a mask to protect others. I hope this virus finds you. I hope it finds you.
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And I hope it destroys you because the people that are trying to do their part in this are getting
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sick because of you stupid, ignorant morons. So please get vaccinated.
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Real catch there. You got to feel sorry for her husband. I mean, if she has one still,
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um, whatever number she's on. So he, he was vaccinated, presumably the son-in-law and,
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and was wearing a mask and he still got sick. Okay. And if any, but if anyone suggests that perhaps
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those measures don't work all that well, if anyone were to suggest that, uh, and so they
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declined to partake in them, you label them ignorant morons who deserve death. Do you see the
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problem here? Well, no, you know, and I, we can't really expect this screaming harpy to see the
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problem. She's just looking for someone to blame. Same can be said for, uh, one of my fellow Nashville
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residents, Melissa Joan Hart, formerly the star of Sabrina, the teenage witch. And Clarissa explains
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it all for you nineties kids. She is now sick with COVID and explaining why it's all the fault of
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unmasked school children. It's all their fault that she's sick, even though she's vaccinated.
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Uh, let's watch that. I got COVID. I am vaccinated and I got COVID and it's bad. Um, it's weighing in
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my chest. It's hard to breathe. Um, one of my kids, I think has it so far. I'm praying that the other
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ones are okay. I'm mad, really mad because we tried and we took precautions and we cut our exposure by a
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lot, but we got a little lazy. And I think as a country, we got lazy and I'm really mad that my
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kids didn't have to wear masks at school. Cause I'm pretty sure that's where this came from. And
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I nothing I can do about now. My little one, luckily wore a mask every day because he was used
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to it from last year and he came home bragging every day, mom, I wore my mask and I was so thankful.
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And now if he does get it, I can at least tell him he was a superhero to those in his classroom
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because he protected his teacher and his classmates from it. She's, uh, doing everything she can to
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stay healthy. And by the way, you notice how she says, uh, well, they, I'm mad at the school
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cause they didn't require my kids to wear a mask. Well, they're your kids. You could have required
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it. I don't think you should require that of your kids. I think it's abusive to put your kids in,
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in, um, in a mask, but she obviously doesn't think that.
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And so just, just imagine that she's blaming that. Why didn't you require my kids to do this
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thing? But it's not her kids. Well, it's, it's all your kids fault for not muzzling himself at
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school. And yet apparently she says she's doing everything. She took precautions, but those
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precautions did not include canceling her trip to Disney world. A look at the Instagram page where
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this video was posted reveals that just before this video, she was gallivanting around at a,
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at a massive crowded theme park. Could that have been the source of her current ailment? No,
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of course not. It had to be your fault. And this brings me finally to an important point.
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And I know this is fruitless now. Um, but, but I'm going to say anyway, again,
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speaking for myself, I am aware that COVID is endemic, that there will always be new variants.
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Uh, so when I hear about, well, they got Delta variant and then there's the Lambert variant and,
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um, you know, it, it, it, it, it's just like, it's, it sounds like frat row at a, at a, at a university
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with all these different variants and everything. And I know that. And there's always going to be new
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ones. And I know that I will inevitably be exposed to the virus at some point. If I haven't been already,
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I know that I'll contract COVID if I haven't already. And even if I have, or I do, I might
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get it again at some point in the future, just as many people get the flu multiple times throughout
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their lives. I mean, natural immunity is a thing, but it does, there's no reason to think that it
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lasts forever. Now this is not an argument against taking precautions. Washing your hands is a good
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idea in general. Basic hygiene is a worthwhile practice in general. Eating healthy, getting plenty of
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sun, plenty of vitamins. These are all good lifestyle choices and also good protection from
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COVID, at least in, in its most serious forms. As for shots, lots of people get flu shots every
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year, which is a fine thing to do if you want. Just as getting the COVID vaccine is a fine thing to do
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if you want. With all of that established, I choose to live my life and carry on as, as, as normal.
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If I had any reason to believe that we could literally get rid of COVID completely by taking whatever
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steps, then maybe my calculus might change. I don't know. But that's not the situation. We can't.
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It's here and it's not going anywhere. I don't like it, but that's the truth. I wish it weren't true,
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but it is. I'm not saying COVID doesn't exist or that it's all made up or that I know for a fact
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it won't kill me. It probably won't kill me. It probably poses little threat to me, but probably
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isn't definitely. So that means that it could kill me just as I know many other things could kill me.
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And yet I choose to live alongside that reality within that reality. And in spite of it, that's
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my choice. If you feel differently, if you simply are not willing to accept the mild risk of COVID
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mild for most people, anyway, then you are free to make different choices. You're free to stay home
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as much as possible. Nobody is forcing you to go to Disney World. Nobody is forcing you to go
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anywhere, really. In fact, one of the blessings or curses, depending on how you look at it, of modern
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life is that it enables you to rarely leave your home. You can have most things delivered to you,
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including your groceries. Lots of people can work from home. If you can't, I know not everybody can,
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but then if you have to go to work, you're free to go to work in rubber gloves and a gas mask.
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I mean, why not? If you're that afraid of it, then why not do that? You can do that. No one's
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stopping you. And then come right home every day. No social life. Don't go to any restaurants. Don't
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go to any theme parks. Don't go to the movies. Don't go for a walk. Don't do anything. Just stay in
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your home. My point is you are free to drop out of society for the most part or completely.
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Cower in your home. Hide under your blanket. Lock the door. Who knows? COVID may be able to pick,
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may be able to turn a door. I don't know if they figured out how to turn the doorknob yet,
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but make sure you lock the door. Get some dead bolts. Live in fear of this virus. Determined
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that when you die, which you will, something other than that will be the thing that takes you out.
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Now, I think that's an insane way to live. I think it's a tragic way to live. I think it's a
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cowardly and disgraceful way to live, but nobody is telling you that you can't live that way.
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What I'm telling you is that rather than trying to impose your paranoia on the rest of us,
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rather than insisting that we all be hypochondriac lunatics like you, why don't you just do your
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thing? Okay. Live your truth as the left always tells us. This is your truth, right? So go ahead and
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live it. Nobody's stopping you. Let the rest of us live our lives. We have made our choice.
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We'll deal with the consequences. You make yours and good luck to you. Why can't that just be
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the solution? Well, I know why it can't be. This is all a rhetorical question because really
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So I got to tell you about this. I know I've told you several wardrobe malfunctions that I've had
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over the last few weeks, a real, a real trend. And this one, I guess I got to just tell you about
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this because this is sort of like the culminating one. And this was my, my real wake up call that
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maybe I am not qualified to dress myself in the morning. So, you know, my wife, you know, she gave
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me grief last week because I was wearing the tan on tan outfit, tan shirt, tan pants. And that
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apparently you can't do. So yesterday we're about to go to church and, you know, my wife says,
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if you got a shirt for church, I'm going to go iron some stuff. So give me your shirt. And I
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handed her a shirt, which I had recently purchased. And it was like a blue shirt. And to me, it was
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just a blue shirt with some patterns on it. It's a kind of like nondescript patterns, but I was going
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for something, you know, you don't want to go with a solid tan on tan, something with a little bit
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more character, something with more, um, a little bit more, if I, if I, if I could dare say pizzazz
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to it. And I handed to her and then she starts laughing hysterically because it is, according
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to her, it's kind of like a floral pattern. It's a flowery shirt, she said. And then she
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started saying how it looks like something her dead grandmother would have worn. And she
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starts calling me a grave robber. And we're having this discussion about the shirt. And then
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my, my one and a half year old daughter, unprompted, she wasn't, I know she was not set up for
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this. And she's, you know, she's just recently learning how to speak and put sentences together.
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She walks into the room and she points at the shirt and she says, mommy's dress.
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And I just got absolutely owned by my one and a half year old daughter. And this is where
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I realized no matter what I try to do, go with the tan on tan, that's not good. Solid color,
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not good. Try to go with something a little bit more with a little more character to it.
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I end up wearing an old lady's dress by accident. I mean, this is, this is the situation I'm in.
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I think, I think, uh, I just have to accept it, accept when you have a problem and reach out for
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help. All right. Uh, Joe Biden has a lot of problems, one of which is a non-functioning brain.
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So here's a very real tweet from Joe Biden in reference to a tropical storm Henry. He says to
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those in Henry's path, don't forget that you may need to seek shelter while we're still battling
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COVID-19 in the Delta variant. So wear a mask and try to observe social distancing to everyone across
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the country. Don't get caught by the next storm. Get vaccinated now. Wait, somehow I, I, I, I missed
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the second part of this, uh, the, this thing, the third sentence there I missed when I originally read
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this. Don't get caught by the next storm. Get vaccinated now. So what the vaccine is a, I would
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like to think that he means storm in a metaphorical sense. COVID is a storm, but you can never be too
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sure these days. Is he claiming that the vaccine actually protects against hurricanes? It, it really
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is a wonder drug in that case. I'm not sure if that's what he's claiming, but he is saying that
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when planning for potentially devastating storm flooding, maybe your house is destroyed, uh, make
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sure you wear a mask. That's, that should be, now it's interesting here that if, if you got to run to a
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shelter because of massive flooding and, um, you know, uh, a potentially fatal situation, what he's
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saying is make, make sure to keep in mind social distancing and wearing masks, even in, even in the
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face of an emergency situation, always keep that in mind. And yet if you go back and you refer back to
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the picture of the, um, Afghan refugees who are being loaded onto planes in Afghanistan and brought to our
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neighborhoods here in the United States, and especially that first picture where you got 600 Afghans in that
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crowded onto that plane and some, unfortunately on the outside of the plane as well, most of them, you know,
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young, young, young males of fighting age, but, but no masks among them. I assume there was no COVID testing
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done. There was no requirement for a vaccine passport, no masks, crowding them onto this plane and bringing
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them over here. So in that situation, they can say, well, we don't have time to worry about any of that, which makes
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sense in a vacuum. Yeah. It would be crazy in that situation to worry about, oh, we got to make sure
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everyone has masks on. And yet for American citizens in an emergency situation, you got to run to a
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shelter with a hurricane bearing down on you, a tropical storm bearing down on you. They want you
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to worry about the mask. And it's not just Joe Biden. We can't blame only him for this. He is a following
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marching orders from the CDC, because if you go to the CDC page on preparing for a hurricane,
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this again is very real. Here's what it says. Preparing for a hurricane. Follow these important
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hurricane preparedness tips from the CDC. First tip, prepare for a hurricane. Take basic steps now to
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ensure your safety should, should a storm hit. I like how their first, the first step in preparing
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for a hurricane is to prepare for a hurricane. Prepare for a hurricane. Step one, prepare for a hurricane.
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Oh, well, thank you, CDC. That's some, that's some, some very useful advice. Step two, get a COVID-19
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vaccine as soon as you can. So that is the second thing they want you to do in preparing for a hurricane
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is to get, is to get a COVID vaccine. Again, the question is, do, are they claiming, do they think
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that the vaccine actually protects against hurricanes? I would like to assume they can't
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possibly be claiming that, but I don't think we can assume that. Um, also speaking of masks,
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uh, this pediatrician, I want to show you this. A pediatrician, uh, is Scott Hadland is his name,
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Dr. Scott Hadland. And, uh, he put up this post on Twitter a couple of days ago with this smug
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grin where he's got his mask pulled down and he says, pediatrician here, kids should wear masks
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in school. That is all. Thanks. I love the, that is all at the end. He is decreeing this.
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Uh, the pediatrician has spoken. Well, he said it. So I guess this a smug bastard right here says the
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kids have to wear masks in school. Who are we to question? But then you notice something you can,
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you can barely see it, but right behind him on his bulletin board in his office,
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there is a, a little chart there with what, what appears to be like a pink elephant. Do you see
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that sort of a pink elephant wearing a suit? That is, if you zoomed in on that, you would see that
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that is the gender elephant, which is something that's used, uh, with kids to indoctrinate them
00:24:55.320
into gender theory. It's one of the many creepy sort of worksheets that they hand out in school.
00:25:02.980
Sometimes, sometimes it's a gender elephant. Sometimes it's the gender bred man,
00:25:08.060
but you talk about a, a, uh, not exactly a shocking twist
00:25:16.580
that this guy telling kids to wear masks in school also happens to have the gender elephant
00:25:22.900
hanging in his, uh, in his office. I wouldn't personally let that guy anywhere near my kids.
00:25:30.080
I mean, any pediatrician saying that kids should wear math, saying that it's a good idea for kids
00:25:34.780
to wear masks for seven, eight hours a day. I'm not gonna let them anywhere near my kids.
00:25:39.980
They've got the gender elephant hanging in their office on top of that. That's,
00:25:43.560
that really is the icing on the cake, isn't it? All right. Number two, MSNBC has this screaming
00:25:49.900
headline, very startling. It says the next COVID war school vaccine and mask mandates far-right
00:25:56.280
extremists, anti-maskers, and now parents are fueling a rising pattern of violence against
00:26:02.040
educators, a rising pattern of violence against educators. Well, that's very, that's pretty
00:26:07.900
startling, isn't it? There's a, there's a rising pattern of the teachers being physically assaulted.
00:26:15.040
Nobody wants to see that. It's a terrible thing. Um, and it makes you want to click on the article
00:26:22.720
and read some more. Except what, what, of course, what MSNBC wants you to do, they want you to click
00:26:27.560
on the article so they get the clicks, but they don't want you to read it. They want you to see it,
00:26:32.760
react to the headline, click on it, and maybe do a real brief skim and then share it. That's all
00:26:37.740
they want you to do. They don't want you to really bear down and read each sentence, but we're going to do
00:26:43.920
that right now. And you tell me if something seems a little bit amiss here. They remember,
00:26:48.500
they're alleging a rising pattern of violence against educators. And here's what the article
00:26:53.380
says. A California elementary school teacher was hospitalized this week after allegedly being
00:26:58.520
assaulted by a parent who was upset about the school's mask mandate for children. The attack
00:27:02.640
is part of a rising pattern of violence against educators by parents, anti-maskers, and far-right
00:27:07.020
extremists targeting schools that champion critical race theory, transgender rights, and other issues
00:27:11.480
over the past several months. Let's see. But with the school year getting underway across the
00:27:17.480
country, it's the war on masks currently igniting parent protesters and in ways that are rapidly
00:27:22.740
turning violent. Anti-mask protesters and far-right extremists like the Proud Boys have shown up at
00:27:28.040
school board meetings to protest mask and vaccine mandates, heckling and threatening masked people,
00:27:33.380
accusing educators of child abuse, and calling on schools to unmask the children. Well, first of all,
00:27:38.720
I don't know who would go to a school board meeting and accuse, say that it's child abuse
00:27:44.660
to put your kid in a mask. I don't know who, I don't know what sort of extremist would say such
00:27:48.780
a thing, but I condemn that individual, whoever that happened to be. Anyway, continuing, it says,
00:27:54.580
in Texas, repeated altercations between parents and teachers led to a superintendent's letter to
00:27:59.640
parents asking everyone to be kind and stop fighting mask wars in our schools. In a Colorado district,
00:28:04.280
sheriff's deputies were stationed outside schools on the first day of classes to ensure protests did not
00:28:08.720
stop student learning. In some ways, the violence we've seen outside schools reflects broader
00:28:13.600
tensions rippling across the country. You've noticed we're reading all this. They keep saying
00:28:18.640
rising trend, violence. Where is the violence? They haven't actually told us about any incidents
00:28:24.280
of violence except that one. And now trying to jump ahead a little bit here, where do we get to the
00:28:31.200
actual violence? Then they start telling us over a third of parents across the U.S. do not think
00:28:36.720
schools should require unvaccinated students and staff to wear masks. Maybe that's the violence.
00:28:41.720
They have a, their opinion is a form of violence, is maybe what they're saying. And you keep reading,
00:28:51.840
you keep reading, and that is really it. That one, a rising trend of violence, and they have one case.
00:29:00.740
And actually, when you read into that one case, here's a local news report from the NBC affiliate
00:29:06.940
talking about that case where a teacher was allegedly assaulted. And here's what they say
00:29:11.620
about it. A California elementary school teacher was allegedly assaulted by a parent Wednesday during
00:29:16.280
an argument over their child having to wear a mask. The Gibson, who's the district superintendent,
00:29:24.760
Torrey Gibson said the male parent verbally assaulted the school's principal when his daughter walked out
00:29:29.160
of a school building wearing a mask. When a male teacher stepped in, the situation escalated,
00:29:35.200
and a physical altercation happened, resulting in injuries. Now, that is a far cry from saying that,
00:29:43.300
that, um, that this was an assault where the parent was solely to blame. Maybe he was, I don't know.
00:29:50.360
But all we're told is that this, this parent showed up, he was upset about the masks,
00:29:55.060
justifiably so. He confronted the principal, justifiably so. You know, we don't know the
00:30:01.440
full content of what he said because we're not told that. And then a male teacher steps in and an
00:30:08.400
altercation happens and the teacher is, is injured in the process. So this sounds to me like a fight
00:30:17.120
between two guys. And one of them got the better of the fight. Who started it? Who hit first? Was,
00:30:26.180
was the parent reacting in self-defense? Was he hit first? We don't know. So all that to say, we have
00:30:32.480
maybe, maybe one teacher who was assaulted in the entire country. One, maybe, and that's a big maybe.
00:30:40.020
No others. And this justifies for MSNBC and other, um, media outlets, a rising trend. This justifies
00:30:50.720
the claim of a rising trend of violence against educators. In fact, it gets even more absurd than
00:30:55.820
that because in this article, um, from MSNBC, when in the first paragraph, they say the attack is part
00:31:02.860
of a rising pattern of violence. It's a hyperlink and you can click on that rising pattern of violence
00:31:07.680
and it's blue, you know, and you click on it and it brings you. And of course, when you see that link
00:31:11.280
rising pattern of violence and it's in blue and that signals that, oh, it's a link and you assume
00:31:16.380
you'll click on the link and it will take you to some other article documenting other cases of
00:31:21.440
violence. And yet you click on that link and it takes you to a CNN article about the exact same
00:31:27.280
one single incident that happened with this elementary school. Um, and it, oh, I know I will say in
00:31:35.200
fairness, later on in the article from MSNBC, they do mention one other case where a parent allegedly,
00:31:40.800
uh, ripped a mask off of a, of a teacher's face. So if we want to call that physical assault,
00:31:47.160
then we've got, and that's a stretch that we've got maybe two, maybe, and this is a rising trend.
00:31:56.760
How do they justify that? Well, because they have no problem simply lying, but also technically,
00:32:03.180
arguably, you know, arguably two is, it's rising. It's more than there were before.
00:32:11.920
It could be the start of a trend. This, this is a 200% increase over the month before.
00:32:22.340
They hope it's the start of a trend. That's really what they're going for here.
00:32:24.880
Um, they, they want to see more of this a lot more. Um, and, and really the point is that they
00:32:33.980
can't, the arguments that the so-called anti-maskers are making. And once again,
00:32:39.020
we have to stipulate that, um, the, the people who don't want kids to be forced to wear masks in
00:32:45.460
school, they might be anti-mask and that they, they don't want to wear masks. They don't think
00:32:50.020
anyone should wear masks or anyone should have to wear masks. That's where I am personally.
00:32:55.040
Um, but there's a great number of, of these people. And I've talked to many of them
00:32:59.240
who have no problem with masks. They even wear masks themselves.
00:33:03.440
They just don't think kids should be forced to wear them for seven hours a day.
00:33:09.680
But the argument made by that side, which is labeled the anti-mask side, um,
00:33:15.180
it's an argument that they have no response to. They don't have the data on their side. They don't
00:33:21.520
have the science on their side. They know that. And so all they can do instead is paint us as violent
00:33:27.620
extremists and make up these narratives of teachers being assaulted left and right.
00:33:32.660
Okay. The Daily Mail has a story that's, uh, is also not a parody though. Though, again,
00:33:37.220
it's very hard to tell these days. Some police in the UK will now be driving rainbow cars.
00:33:42.320
It says police are painting rainbows on the side of their squad cars in a bid to beat
00:33:47.560
online hate crimes and give confidence to the LGBT plus community. Critics have said forces should be
00:33:53.140
focused on real issues such as knife crime and that the colorful cars might seem less intimidating
00:33:57.640
to the public. You think so? Um, but deputy chief constable Julie Cook says that the, uh, this is a
00:34:04.480
really good idea. And she was interviewed about this and she explains why it's important to have
00:34:12.320
The rainbow cars, the hate crime cars, whatever we want to call them, they are part of our vehicle
00:34:18.960
fleet. So, you know, we're always replacing vehicles. They get, um, all of the police sort
00:34:24.160
of insignia put on them as normal, but there will normally be then something added on that
00:34:28.080
is to do with the rainbow side of things. Um, but they're out there as normal patrol vehicles.
00:34:32.760
Sometimes people will ask us, um, how can you afford to do that? You know, that's not right
00:34:37.040
to, to spend money on putting a rainbow on a car. Well, actually the cost is quite minimal,
00:34:41.680
but the confidence that it can bring by just having that rainbow on there. And people say
00:34:46.240
to me, you know, the impact of seeing the rainbow is so huge. And the idea is that the cars are there
00:34:51.280
in the communities, generally on normal policing patrol, just again, to show the community that
00:34:56.160
we want you to come forward. If something is happening that, you know, isn't right,
00:35:00.400
then we absolutely want you to come forward. So it is there to try and give confidence
00:35:04.400
to our LGBT plus community, but also to other underrepresented groups.
00:35:10.400
Well, there's nothing that would give me greater confidence, right? Than, than seeing police officers
00:35:14.560
driving around in literal clown cars, because that's what they look like. They actually look like
00:35:19.120
actual clown cars. And what could give you more confidence than that? She says that people say to
00:35:25.200
her, the impact of seeing the rainbow is so huge. She claims that's a direct quote from people. Really?
00:35:30.000
Is that what people say? You know, uh, uh, constable, the impact of seeing that rainbow is so huge,
00:35:36.720
such a huge impact. Do they actually say that? Because I don't think they do.
00:35:40.480
But, um, this is when we, as we've discussed many times in this, you want to talk about a real rising
00:35:50.240
trend, um, that I've warned about is that, is that, you know, in our culture now and across the West,
00:35:58.560
the most important thing, of course, is, is a person's psychological state is their, their psychological
00:36:04.720
well-being. And, um, and, you know, and of course not their actual psych, because actual psychological
00:36:10.720
well-being is important. It's not the most important thing, but it is important. Um, but
00:36:15.840
what we consider psychological well-being is just, you know, affirming however a person happens to
00:36:21.360
feel in the moment, even if it's not good for them in the long, in the long run. And since we've decided
00:36:27.200
that this is the most important thing, then it kind of makes sense that the next step now is that
00:36:33.280
police officers, their primary job is to protect, not to protect the physical health and safety
00:36:41.280
of the public, but to, but to primarily protect their psychological health.
00:36:46.880
And that's where the rainbow police cars come in. That's why you're going to have police rolling up
00:36:52.400
in rainbow cars upon reports of, uh, you know, someone saying mean words or being, being mean online to
00:37:00.000
somebody else. This is absurd and, and, uh, embarrassing and also kind of hilarious
00:37:07.920
in a very morbid way, but it's also a logical extension
00:37:13.760
at the same time. All right. Next, uh, you may remember Shacheri Richardson. She was the woman who
00:37:19.040
was disqualified from the Olympics, a sprinter disqualified because she tested positive for weed
00:37:23.680
and she was made into a martyr for this. Everyone felt sorry for her. She was, uh, you know, she's a martyr.
00:37:28.880
And then she was, she was appearing in Nike ads and that sort of thing. Um, and you know, in truth,
00:37:37.520
does it make sense to disqualify Olympians because they tested positive for smoking weed? Uh, marijuana
00:37:44.240
is not a performance enhancing drug. So does it really matter? Does that rule make a lot of sense?
00:37:47.840
I don't think it does, but it was the rule and she knew that. So this is a person. She, she knew
00:37:55.600
that it was the rule for the Olympics that she was going to get tested or she could get tested
00:38:01.120
and she chose to, uh, roll the joint or pack the bowl anyway. So whose fault is that?
00:38:08.480
It might be a dumb rule, a pointless rule, but you know, the rule is there. And if you really care
00:38:12.080
about the Olympics and pursuing that dream, then maybe you just lay off the weed for a few weeks.
00:38:17.840
Possibly hard to see her as the victim, but that's how she was painted.
00:38:22.560
And then, uh, and then the Olympics happened and she starts kind of, she's, she's being very annoying
00:38:26.640
about the whole thing. As one would expect, she starts gloating online when the American women
00:38:32.000
who were actually in the Olympics were struggling at one point, the, you know, the relay team was
00:38:36.480
struggling and she tweeted miss me yet. And then there's this big buildup to her return to the
00:38:43.120
track after her suspension, but it didn't go well. ESPN reports sprinters to Cherry Jefferson,
00:38:49.600
or rather Richardson's return to the track after not being allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics
00:38:54.320
did not go as she had hoped, but she stressed that she's not done.
00:38:57.520
Richardson finished last in a field of nine runners in the, uh, 100 meters and withdrew from the 200
00:39:03.520
meters. Um, uh, on Saturday, her time of 11.14 seconds in the, uh, 100 was well behind winner,
00:39:11.520
Elaine Thompson-Hara, um, who was the Olympic gold medals from Jamaica who clocked
00:39:16.320
10.54 seconds for the second fastest women's time in history. So she came in after all of this buildup
00:39:22.720
and all of her gloating, but how we missed her presence in the Olympics. She comes in dead last,
00:39:29.680
which I think is just great and hilarious, but here she is after the race and she's still not
00:39:34.640
done gloating. Let's watch this. This is one race. I'm not done. You know what I'm capable of.
00:39:41.680
Count me out if you want to talk all the you want, cause I'm here to stay. I'm not done. I'm the six
00:39:48.480
fastest woman in this game ever. And can't nobody ever take that from me. Well, they can actually
00:39:56.000
the sixth fastest woman that isn't it. Look, don't get me wrong. That's an accomplishment
00:40:00.800
to be the sixth fastest, but it does sound kind of funny for someone to be bragging about it.
00:40:04.800
I'm the sixth fastest ever, the sixth fastest. And nobody could take that from me. Well,
00:40:11.600
I mean, they can, I mean, someone else could become the sixth fastest. You're not,
00:40:13.920
you're not as it stands right now. You're not. Look, I'm not saying that, um, all female athletes
00:40:25.440
are irritating, self-aggrandizing people like this, but there's been a lot of them,
00:40:32.960
especially surrounding the Olympics. You know, a few exceptions. Remember that female wrestler was
00:40:39.920
the Olympic gold medalist. She was fantastic. We need some more like that. We need some more
00:40:43.840
really males and females. We need some athletes who are not just absolutely repulsive and annoying.
00:40:55.520
It's, it's just, it's impossible to root for someone like this
00:41:01.520
because you're not, whether it's, it's the Olympics or even, you know, just watching professional
00:41:05.920
sports in, in, you know, in American league, you're, you're not really rooting just for the
00:41:11.040
individual in the Olympics. You're rooting for your country. Uh, if you're watching the NFL or
00:41:15.360
something, you're rooting for your football, the NBA, you're rooting for your team.
00:41:19.840
And so when you have athletes who all they care about is themselves and they're very open about
00:41:24.720
that, it's just, it was never about you. There seems to be a misunderstanding.
00:41:29.760
So you think we care so much about you individually. We don't. It's what you represented that we cared.
00:41:41.920
But when you throw all that to the side and you say, well, it's all about me,
00:41:45.600
then you lose all your fans. Nobody cares anymore.
00:41:48.480
Finally, here's, uh, the second story like this in as many weeks. First, last week, there was a,
00:41:56.640
there was a big brawl at an NFL game after some guys were arguing and then a woman comes in and
00:42:03.200
throws a soda at one of the guys. And, uh, she, so these guys were arguing and this woman comes in
00:42:08.720
from behind and just chucks a soda into the middle, like, like I've thrown her grenade into the middle of
00:42:14.000
the thing. And then this big brawl starts big, big fight. And of course the woman stands back and
00:42:17.920
watches all of it. And then this week on Sunday at a Steelers game, a similar kind of situation,
00:42:23.760
a woman is in a guy's face screaming at him. It's unclear what happens. We don't know what led to
00:42:29.260
this. We don't know who's in the wrong, who started it or whatever. Uh, and it's not clear what exactly
00:42:33.160
happens next, but he kind of lightly shoves her back and says, don't touch me indicating that she
00:42:39.440
had touched him. Although you can't really see that if that happened or not, but then she hauls off
00:42:44.180
and slaps this guy across the face. And then the man retaliates and the guy who was with the woman
00:42:51.440
stands up and starts throwing punches and he gets knocked out in the scuffle. It's a whole thing.
00:42:56.240
I know you're hoping I'll show you the footage, but, uh, that would be, I think inappropriate.
00:42:59.920
We're not going to gawk at something like, I'm just kidding. Of course we're going to show it.
00:43:02.420
Let's, let's play this footage here of this, uh, fight. Okay. So you can kind of see them arguing
00:43:07.400
and what? And then the guy jumps up because he has to. Now the other guy's wailing at all of them.
00:43:15.600
And now he gets knocked. Look at that. He gets just knocked out cold. All right. Now
00:43:21.800
a couple of things, a couple, a couple of points to make here. First of all, and this goes for
00:43:28.480
everybody involved in this. And again, I don't really know what led to it, but in general,
00:43:33.080
you're just trash. If you're getting into fights at football games, I know there's alcohol involved
00:43:38.320
most of the time, but really, I mean, I don't care who you are. It's a game. You're rooting for a team
00:43:44.060
because they have a certain colored Jersey and a certain mascot on their helmet. It's the most
00:43:48.800
unserious thing in the world. And most of these fights, I don't know if that was the case here,
00:43:54.460
but most of these fights start because number one, there's alcohol, but number two, it's a fan from
00:43:58.840
one team, a fan of one team versus a fan of another. No, our team has the better colors.
00:44:05.960
We have a cooler mascot. That's basically what the fight's about.
00:44:11.880
And you're risking felony charges over that. Second point, I think more, more, uh, more to the point.
00:44:18.500
And this goes to the ladies. And I know you already know this. They're all too aware of it,
00:44:24.080
but I'm going to say it anyway. Please remember in these situations that you are writing checks
00:44:31.380
that your man has to cash. Okay. You're not really the one cashing him. He's going to have to.
00:44:37.340
So reflect on that. So that woman screaming at that guy, again, I don't know what precipitated it.
00:44:42.560
I don't know who started it. I don't even know who hit first exactly, but, but you slap a man across
00:44:48.600
the face. Guess who has to live with that decision? Not really you. It's the guy who's
00:44:56.320
with you. He has to. So you should, you should have a certain sense of responsibility. I think
00:45:02.140
because of that, this man did his duty, he stood up, but the thing is whether the woman was in the
00:45:08.540
right or the wrong, who knows? He still has to, he has to throw himself into the middle of that
00:45:13.520
and get risk getting knocked out. So all I would ask is, you know, just keep that in mind.
00:45:21.000
You're at a football game, you know, as, as a woman, you start getting in someone's face and
00:45:24.280
screaming at them. Every word you say, this is a big check you're writing and you're passing it off
00:45:30.920
to the guy with you. Just with, with great power comes great responsibility as uncle Ben would say.
00:45:38.720
All right, next, let's read some of the comments here. Let's see. Paul says, I really hope Carrie
00:45:46.860
Underwood makes a submission for the sweet baby gang anthem. Now that is great. I, somehow I doubt
00:45:52.000
she will, but Carrie Underwood, you know, I was hoping that the, the, all the, the huge controversy
00:45:58.560
over her liking my tweet, I was hoping she would say something about it. It would have been great if
00:46:02.980
she had spoken up and, and doubled down on it. But, uh, I think she's, she's, she has said nothing
00:46:08.800
one way or another. And I'll give her credit for that because most, most celebrities in her position
00:46:13.640
would have just apologized and she didn't do that. And so I'll give her some credit for that.
00:46:17.000
And really, uh, her decision to say nothing at all was, was objectively from a PR standpoint is the
00:46:22.020
smartest, smartest thing. Um, in, in, in most of the time in these situations, if you simply say
00:46:30.920
nothing, it will go away, which it has for Carrie Underwood. So people were upset about it online
00:46:37.560
for a few days, say nothing about it. They move on and everything's fine. Um, Brennan says, Matt,
00:46:44.540
you're the only person in public life who stands up for us members of the anti-dog community.
00:46:49.460
Please don't give in to the pressure. Uh, I, I, I, I can understand that we are a very, very small
00:46:56.940
minority. And I do, it does, I do get the sense that I am committing a form of treason by potentially
00:47:05.200
getting a dog myself. And I do live with that guilt, Brennan. I want you to know that. Um,
00:47:11.740
and, uh, Graham says, Matt, I agree with you about men crying, but I have one acceptable addition to
00:47:18.420
the list. After an 18 day stay in NICU in which he almost passed, we brought my now healthy son home
00:47:24.560
to God be the glory. Well, Graham, that certainly would be an exception for crying and, uh,
00:47:28.780
congratulations to, to you and to, uh, your son and to your family. And we'll, we'll leave the
00:47:33.420
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00:48:36.700
pettiness. This is certainly one thing that comes through in Solzhenitsyn's account of Stalin's Russia
00:48:41.080
or any account of nearly any autocrat throughout history. They are ruthless and megalomaniacal tyrants
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with broad and usually horrifying aspirations, but they also focus just as much, if not more,
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on the slight and trivial. After all, uh, you know that you really have control over a populace
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if they will obey you, even when it comes to the most trifling of matters. If they will not only
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submit to and go along with your grandest ambitions, but also conform themselves to your
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demands in every minor and seemingly insignificant way, then you have total control. The people are
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your marionettes and you are their puppet masters. They've ceded everything to you, given up nearly
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all of their personal agency. This is the goal ultimately. And it's depressing to see how often
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this goal has been realized in different countries and civilizations at different times in history.
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And we're seeing this principle at work, of course, across the world right now, as we discussed
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in the name of stopping the spread of COVID. And we've talked plenty about that and we'll continue
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to discuss it. But right now I want to focus on something else because this is also the point
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behind what we call cancel culture. We've come to think of cancel culture as its own thing,
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right? A separate phenomenon, but really it's all a part of the left's overall plan to control
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and dominate society. We might think of cancel culture as the specific mechanism by which the
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left imposes itself in those especially petty and seemingly trivial ways. That is exactly why cancel
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culture is such an important issue and such a threat. The pettiness is the point. The pettiness
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is power. And speaking of petty, it doesn't get more petty than this. As I briefly discussed
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on the show on Friday, the cancel culture mob has taken a special interest in the hunt for
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a new host of Jeopardy. Why do they care so much about this? Why does the search for a game
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show host matter? Well, because it doesn't matter. It matters because it doesn't. It's important
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because it isn't. In this case, after weeks of auditioning potential hosts, the decision was
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made to bring a guy named Mike Richards on board as host. Now, Mike Richards also happens to be the
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executive producer of Jeopardy. Given that the executive producer of Jeopardy is one of the guys
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primarily responsible for finding a host of Jeopardy, it would seem that he kind of went through
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this whole talent search only to say, never mind, I'll actually do it myself. It may even seem like
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the talent search was a ruse, kind of a symbolic gesture at most. And maybe it was, but who cares?
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They can hire whoever they want to be host of Jeopardy. The decision has no effect, large or
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small, on anyone else's life. Well, maybe I should speak only for myself and say that I have never in
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my life experienced any form of deprivation or suffering that could be traced back to a network
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TV game show. I can't imagine how anyone could have a different experience in that regard. Say what
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you want about Pat Sajak, for example, and I like him personally, but even if you don't, I can't imagine
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anyone in a moment of anguish and despair crying out, damn you, Pat Sajak, this is all your fault.
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Nevertheless, the canceled mob has decided that the game show host issue is now of urgent national
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importance. And that's why once Mike Richards was anointed the new host or anointed himself,
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I should say, the new host, they immediately set out to destroy him. As if he was a front runner for
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the presidential nomination, the mob went digging for dirt, looking for any skeletons they might find.
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The reason for their opposition to Richards is pretty obvious. As described in many articles,
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including this one from the AP, it says, quote, giving the flagship show to Richards,
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who's firmly in the cookie cutter host of a cookie cutter host mold of a white square jawed young man
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struck some as proof of an insincere effort by the studio to consider a woman, a person of color,
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or someone from the LGBTQ community. More than half of the guest hosts fall into one or more of those
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groups. So Mike Richards had committed the sin of being white and male. That's really the problem.
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Of course, Alex Trebek was also white and male, and everybody loved him. Even the left loved him.
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But I think Trebek was kind of grandfathered in. He was a beloved figure who became beloved
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before it was decided that all white men are evil bastards. The left kind of allowed him to retain his
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beloved status, a magnanimous exception fueled by their own nostalgia. But no such exception would be
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granted to poor Mike Richards. So it didn't take long before they found what they were looking for.
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Apparently Richards had made a few offensive jokes on a podcast about eight or nine years ago.
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Again, does it matter that the host of Jeopardy made crude jokes about almost a decade ago
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on a podcast that nobody listened to? Is there any reason why this should preclude him from holding
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note cards and asking trivia questions? No, but once again, the pettiness is the point.
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Richards, not one to break from the mold, immediately issued the standard groveling apology. In a
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statement, he said, quote, it is humbling to confront a terribly embarrassing moment of misjudgment,
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thoughtlessness, and insensitivity from nearly a decade ago. Looking back now, there's no excuse,
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of course, for the comments I made on the podcast, and I am deeply sorry. The podcast was intended to
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be a series of irreverent conversations between longtime friends who had a history of joking around.
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Even with the passage of time, it's more than clear that my attempts to be funny and provocative
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were not acceptable, and I have removed the episodes. My responsibilities today as a father,
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husband, and a public personality who speaks to many people through my role on television means
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that I have substantial and serious obligations as a role model, and I intend to live up to them.
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That was a statement. Now, of course, what he should have said was something like,
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it's come to my attention that many of you are pretending to be offended by comments I made
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on a podcast that nobody listened to or cared about until five seconds ago. But I also realized
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that most of the offended people are too stupid to even watch Jeopardy! in the first place,
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so what do I care? Go watch a sub-95 IQ game show like Wheel of Fortune instead, you dummies.
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Now, if Richards had issued a statement like that, I actually would vote for him for president.
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But we've yet to find almost anyone with the guts to stand up to the cancel mob in such an
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aggressive way, or really in any way at all. And Richards certainly wasn't going to be the first.
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He apologized. They didn't accept it. And then he was forced to step down from the role.
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The same song on repeat over and over and over again. And it doesn't stop there because it never
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does. You see, the producers of Jeopardy! had already tried to preempt the inevitable outrage
00:54:57.640
over choosing a white male by actually appointing two hosts of Jeopardy! They selected a woman,
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actress Mayim Bialik, who was on Big Bang Theory and some other stuff, I don't know,
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to host the primetime Jeopardy! specials that they plan on doing periodically.
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So really, they invented these specials that they're going to start doing just so that they
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could appoint a female host and then not be accused of prioritizing males over females. They
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were trying to be equitable and equal and all that kind of stuff. And that didn't work either.
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The problem is that Bialik is not a person of color and is not trans and is not even gay or
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lesbian or gender nonconforming, as far as anyone knows. And you know what that means.
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Here's Newsweek with the latest article. They say, quote, Mike Richards stepped down Friday from
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his recently announced appointment as Jeopardy! host due to controversial comments he made years
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ago. Now, some people on social media are calling on Mayim Bialik, who was hired to host the primetime
00:55:54.200
version of the show and specials to do the same. Yes, she has to go too. Why? Well, they went looking
00:56:00.400
for reasons and they discovered that about nine years ago, she said that she didn't want to get
00:56:04.680
her kids vaccinated. That's how much they're scraping the barrel right now to find a reason.
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And that's it. She expressed some measure of vaccine hesitancy nearly a decade before COVID-19 existed.
00:56:18.060
And that's their pretense for calling for her ouster. But the real reason is that she is,
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by the canceled mob's estimation, too straight and too white. The mob has decided that the true host
00:56:30.520
of Jeopardy!, the man who is destined for the position, as if it is written in the stars,
00:56:35.460
is LeVar Burton, known to my generation as the man from Reading Rainbow. The problem is that LeVar
00:56:40.160
Burton tried out for the gig and was pretty terrible. But this is no problem at all to the canceled mob.
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It doesn't matter if he's good at it or not, or if he deserves the job on the merits.
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All that matters is that he's black. And having a black host of Jeopardy! is the one piece missing.
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The one box left to check. The one thing that will finally heal our national wounds and
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bring about an era of peace and prosperity. Or maybe not, but it doesn't matter. The point is to
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impose themselves and to bully Jeopardy! into selecting a host that they prefer simply for the sake of it.
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Because they can. Because that's what petty tyrants do. Everything matters to the petty tyrant,
00:57:20.900
especially the things that don't matter at all. And that's why the canceled mob has made Jeopardy!
00:57:26.280
into a central battlefield. And it's also why they today, paradoxically, are the ones who are
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canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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