The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 806 - The Vaccine Sacrament

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, the governor of New York is set to fire hundreds of health care workers for not getting vaccinated, artificially creating a health care worker shortage.

00:00:08.100 And while speaking at a church, she framed her vaccine mandates in explicitly religious terms, which is a blasphemous thing, of course, but revealing.

00:00:15.160 Also, Joe Biden gets his third COVID shot while announcing that things aren't going to get back to normal until 98 percent of all people are jabbed with the vaccine. 0.85

00:00:25.020 Plus, a medical journal refers to women as bodies with vaginas. 1.00

00:00:28.980 And more information has come out about the guy who whipped up a social media mob against the woman who allegedly said something mean about him at a dog park.

00:00:35.860 Finally, the local media here in my home of Virginia are not happy that I've come to speak at the Loudoun County School Board.

00:00:41.800 We'll play a clue, a few clips of that for you today.

00:00:44.340 All of that and much more on The Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:20.380 You know, as a humble man who prefers to shrink from the spotlight, it pains me to have to start another show saying,

00:02:25.880 I told you so, but I did in fact tell you so.

00:02:28.460 You may remember a few weeks ago when Andrew Cuomo had finally been pushed to resign from the governorship

00:02:33.740 and many on the right were throwing the confetti and cheering his demise.

00:02:37.980 And I said that we should slow the celebratory parade down a little bit.

00:02:41.380 It is certain that whoever replaces him will be worse.

00:02:45.240 You know, one thing that we ought to understand about the left at this point is that they never,

00:02:49.140 I mean, never, ever, not ever turn on one of their own as they did Cuomo

00:02:53.000 unless they've got a more dedicated and radical ideologue waiting in the wings to replace him.

00:02:58.080 That's the only time they do it.

00:02:59.280 The media, after months of hero worship, suddenly decided to hold Cuomo accountable.

00:03:04.980 I mean, how could this be explained?

00:03:06.080 Was it a case of sudden onset integrity?

00:03:08.720 Had they seen the light?

00:03:10.140 Were they determined out of nowhere to be fair, objective, and honest?

00:03:13.940 Were the media and Democrats trying to oust Cuomo simply because he deserved to be ousted?

00:03:19.000 No, obviously not.

00:03:20.240 They were doing it because they realized it would benefit them.

00:03:22.920 And part of the reason why it would benefit them is that the person who would replace him,

00:03:27.080 Kathy Hocul, Hocul, Hocul, I'll go with a bunch of different pronunciations because I don't know,

00:03:33.220 would be an even more reliable pawn for the far left.

00:03:36.200 Hocul is a particularly dangerous type of tyrant. 0.91

00:03:38.780 She's a thoroughly mediocre woman, unimpressive in every way, very few accomplishments to her name, 1.00

00:03:43.620 who managed to float on the breeze into a position of power.

00:03:46.680 However, she served one unremarkable term in Congress nearly a decade ago before losing re-election.

00:03:52.960 Next thing you know, she's appointed lieutenant governor, 1.00

00:03:54.880 and now she's governor of one of the most populated states in the country.

00:03:58.620 These are always the types you have to look out for, much like Kamala Harris, 1.00

00:04:02.320 who made her way into politics by sleeping with a married man and then became vice president 1.00

00:04:06.740 despite losing in the primaries in spectacular fashion,

00:04:10.000 garnering essentially zero support from the electorate.

00:04:12.660 These are the types who, along with being communists, also think they have something to prove.

00:04:20.060 And Kathy Hocul has set out to prove whatever it is she wants to prove.

00:04:23.940 Yesterday, she announced that all health care workers in the state had to be vaccinated by midnight or be fired.

00:04:30.020 Listen to this.

00:04:31.420 We'll be nation-leading with our mandate, which strikes at midnight tonight,

00:04:36.480 when everyone is expected in a hospital in the state of New York or a health care facility to have been vaccinated.

00:04:42.160 I will be signing an executive order to give me the emergency powers necessary to address these shortages where they occur.

00:04:49.880 That's going to allow me to deploy the National Guard who are medically trained,

00:04:54.880 deploy people who've been retired who may have had a license lapse, bring in people from elsewhere.

00:05:00.920 That is not my first position, though, my friends.

00:05:03.360 My desire is to have the people who've been out there continue to work in their jobs, work in them safely.

00:05:10.040 And to all the other health care workers who are vaccinated,

00:05:13.280 they also deserve to know that the people they're working with will not get them sick.

00:05:17.580 Okay, so just to be clear about what's happening here,

00:05:22.380 the governor of New York is artificially engineering a hospital staffing shortage,

00:05:27.740 while at the same time claiming that we're in the middle of a deadly pandemic and hospitals are overwhelmed.

00:05:32.260 Hospitals are overwhelmed, so let's start firing health care workers by the hundreds or thousands. 0.95

00:05:39.000 This is, without exaggeration, one of the most twisted and evil things we've ever seen.

00:05:43.700 She's also made it clear that there will be no religious exemptions for any health care worker who refuses a jab.

00:05:50.240 And she makes a, I guess this is her legal argument for disallowing religious exemptions,

00:05:55.440 and I find it, I don't know, a little bit dubious. Listen to this.

00:05:58.380 My default position is to ask people, please do this.

00:06:03.240 This is why. It's been proven to be safe.

00:06:06.040 The vaccine's been out there a long time now.

00:06:08.100 There are not legitimate religious exemptions because the leaders of all the organized religions

00:06:13.280 have said there's no legitimate reason, and we're going to win that in court in a matter of days.

00:06:18.320 And so this is so unnecessary.

00:06:21.840 And I just want to appeal to the individuals to know that, you know, your co-workers want you to do this.

00:06:27.240 Don't make the burden heavier on them as well.

00:06:29.840 So her legal argument for abolishing religious exemptions is that she has conducted a survey of the leaders

00:06:35.920 of all of the organized religions, all of them, and found that all of them agree with her.

00:06:41.140 Even if that were true, of course, it would still, would not negate religious exemptions.

00:06:45.120 The opinions of religious leaders don't supersede the First Amendment rights of individuals, but it's also not true.

00:06:51.680 I mean, there are something like 4,000 religions in the world.

00:06:53.840 When she says that all of the leaders of all of the religions agree with her,

00:06:57.620 she means that she talked to three Episcopal priests and a rabbi.

00:07:00.480 Her arguments may be laughable, but that doesn't matter, as we've seen time and again.

00:07:06.060 She is simply going to impose herself, claim power, and exercise it, regardless of what anybody says about it. 0.98

00:07:12.720 Is there any actual reason, any good reason, I mean, to fire thousands of health care workers,

00:07:17.160 the very workers who were being celebrated as living saints only six months ago?

00:07:21.060 Have these unvaccinated health care workers caused any outbreaks in the intervening months?

00:07:27.500 I haven't heard about that.

00:07:29.760 No one's telling us about that.

00:07:31.240 So if they haven't, that means they've been working in hospitals for 18 months without any problem.

00:07:36.160 Why make it a problem now?

00:07:38.200 And what about those health care workers who understand the science, as you'd hope they all do,

00:07:41.540 though you hope in vain, and haven't gotten the vaccine because they've already been infected,

00:07:45.180 and they know that natural immunity likely provides greater protection than the vaccine,

00:07:49.580 according to the studies we've seen on this.

00:07:53.840 Why should they get the jab?

00:07:55.140 Should they be compelled to inject a substance into their bodies just to, what, be good team players?

00:08:00.720 Is that the argument?

00:08:02.260 There is no response to these questions.

00:08:04.160 Those in power don't need to bother with these kinds of questions at all or responses to them.

00:08:07.560 They simply do what they want to do and inflict the punishment on anybody who defies them.

00:08:12.100 This is about obedience, religious obedience.

00:08:15.640 And Hokiel made that clear a few days earlier while speaking at a megachurch in New York.

00:08:20.840 This is pretty incredible.

00:08:21.680 Listen to this.

00:08:23.160 But I prayed a lot to God during this time.

00:08:26.060 And you know what?

00:08:27.060 God did answer our prayers.

00:08:29.240 He made the smartest men and women, the scientists, the doctors, the researchers,

00:08:34.140 he made them come up with a vaccine.

00:08:36.520 That is from God to us.

00:08:38.720 And we must say thank you, God.

00:08:41.600 Thank you.

00:08:42.580 And I wear my vaccinated necklace all the time.

00:08:45.180 To say, I'm vaccinated.

00:08:46.860 All of you.

00:08:48.300 Yes, I know you're vaccinated.

00:08:49.980 You're the smart ones.

00:08:51.000 But you know there's people out there who aren't listening to God and what God wants.

00:08:54.340 You know this.

00:08:55.400 You know who they are.

00:08:56.980 I need you to be my apostles.

00:08:59.320 I need you to go out and talk about it and say, we owe this to each other.

00:09:03.980 We love each other.

00:09:05.800 Jesus taught us to love one another.

00:09:08.240 And how do you show that love?

00:09:10.280 But to care about each other enough to say, please get vaccinated because I love you.

00:09:14.420 I want you to live.

00:09:15.600 I want our kids to be safe when they're in schools.

00:09:17.760 I want you to be safe when you go to a doctor's office or to a hospital and are treated by somebody.

00:09:22.800 You don't want to get the virus from them.

00:09:26.080 You're already sick or you wouldn't be there.

00:09:28.380 We have to solve this, my friends.

00:09:30.660 I need every one of you.

00:09:32.120 I need you to let them know that this is how we can fight this pandemic, come back to normal,

00:09:38.280 and then start talking about the real issues that we have to.

00:09:41.680 Fighting systemic racial injustice, which exists today.

00:09:45.100 And if there's a denier, I will take you on any date because I've seen it.

00:09:48.600 I know it exists.

00:09:49.920 And we are not going to have a blind eye to this ever again any longer under my watch.

00:09:54.000 Oh, she'll take you on.

00:09:57.260 Hackel is going to take you on.

00:09:59.160 So Hackel has a little bit of Democrat Tourette syndrome at the end there,

00:10:02.080 shouting about systemic racism because these people can't speak for more than 90 seconds

00:10:06.740 without using the term systemic racism.

00:10:08.240 But her statements before that were revealing.

00:10:10.840 She says that the vaccine is from God,

00:10:13.200 except that really the vaccine is from the pharmaceutical industry.

00:10:16.740 And the mandates are from the government.

00:10:19.320 It makes you wonder who God even is according to her usage.

00:10:22.840 Well, she clears that up quickly by imploring the congregation to go out and be my apostles.

00:10:28.780 She, the governor of New York, is recruiting apostles, her own apostles, not apostles of Christ.

00:10:33.800 They're urged to go out and find the lost sheep and bring the sheep into the fold

00:10:38.660 and convince the sheep to stick a needle in their arms and inject a drug into it, 0.62

00:10:42.140 whether they need it or not.

00:10:44.420 Why?

00:10:45.220 Well, her religious framing, I think, is quite appropriate.

00:10:47.680 This is about religious observance, obedience.

00:10:49.620 Not to God, the real God, the one true God, but to the God of the state.

00:10:54.260 As far as the members of the COVID cult are concerned, the vaccine is a sacrament.

00:10:58.160 Getting the vaccine is a sacramental act.

00:11:00.540 At least that's how they see it.

00:11:02.280 As a sign of fidelity and obedience to the state.

00:11:05.200 That's why they insist that children receive it,

00:11:07.000 even though their immune system already provides them with incredibly effective protection from the virus.

00:11:11.240 And they insist that people with natural immunity get it, and everybody else get it,

00:11:16.380 whether they need it or not.

00:11:18.360 Because it's not about needs.

00:11:19.760 It's not about health.

00:11:20.620 It's not about science.

00:11:21.400 It's about compliance.

00:11:23.120 That should be very obvious by now.

00:11:25.280 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:12:36.340 All right.

00:12:36.780 Well, if you're watching the video, as you can see, we're in another hotel today before I move into my new residence in Virginia.

00:12:45.040 And more on that in a little bit.

00:12:46.100 But I sat down to start filming the show today, and the people in the control room back in Tennessee were very concerned that my shirt matches the furniture here and the drapes behind there.

00:13:00.160 And they wanted me to actually go change, which the problem is that it takes effort.

00:13:05.080 But the other thing is that this is something I do on purpose.

00:13:08.480 I actually like to feel at sort of at one with my surroundings.

00:13:14.020 I also like to blend in in case anybody runs in here hoping to do me harm.

00:13:17.440 They won't be able to find me because I'm camouflaged into.

00:13:19.820 So this is something I do very intentionally.

00:13:22.140 And I have no issue with it whatsoever.

00:13:25.480 So, all right.

00:13:26.920 But I expect that the mockery will come in the comments, and I'm fully prepared for that at this point.

00:13:32.920 OK, let's start with this.

00:13:33.920 Joe Biden got his third COVID shot yesterday, his third one.

00:13:38.480 And he was wearing a mask.

00:13:40.220 So now he's triple vaxxed and still wearing the mask.

00:13:44.060 And he was asked while he was getting the shot, when can we all get back to normal?

00:13:50.980 And, of course, there's always this asterisk every time that question is asked because I've been getting back to normal.

00:13:58.800 I've been living my normal life this entire time.

00:14:01.160 So when someone says, when do we get it back to normal?

00:14:03.640 You know, they're asking, for me, it's when can I start doing the things that I've been doing this entire time?

00:14:09.060 But for those who have not been living normal lives, when can they start?

00:14:12.400 And Joe Biden has an answer for that.

00:14:14.560 How many Americans seem to be vaccinated for us to go back to normal?

00:14:19.420 What is the percentage of total vaccinations that have to be deployed?

00:14:23.800 Well, I think, look, I think we get the vast majority, like it's going on in some industries and some schools, 97, 98 percent.

00:14:40.260 I think we've got awful close.

00:14:43.040 But I'm not the scientist.

00:14:45.700 I think, but one thing for sure, a quarter of the countries can't go unvaccinated and us not continue to have a problem.

00:14:52.980 Well, 98 percent, and then we're getting close.

00:14:56.540 So it's not even that 98 percent means we can get back to normal.

00:14:59.360 It means we're close at 98 percent and we're exactly 2 percent away because 100 percent is really what he's saying.

00:15:05.120 The goal is here.

00:15:07.580 He says a quarter of the country cannot go unvaxxed.

00:15:12.760 Well, I'm old enough to remember when they were telling us that 70 percent was the goal.

00:15:17.400 And once you get 70 percent vaccinated, that's the magic.

00:15:21.280 Just like 15 days to slow the spread was the magical was the magical limit.

00:15:25.380 Then, you know, they keep moving it.

00:15:27.200 And at one point it was 70 percent vaccinated and now it's 98 percent.

00:15:31.420 And even then, not really.

00:15:32.740 And even when we get to 100 percent, which we never will.

00:15:35.420 So I can't say when.

00:15:36.280 But in this in this magical, fantastical scenario where we get to 100 percent vaccination, even then it's still not good enough because then we got to start doing the booster shots.

00:15:47.440 Because apparently, I mean, Joe Biden got his full dose of vaccines six months ago and he already needs another one.

00:15:59.620 So once we get to 100 percent, then we got to get to 200 percent because everybody's got to get vaccinated again.

00:16:05.100 And it will never, ever end.

00:16:08.340 They're basically at the point of actually telling us that.

00:16:10.660 I mean, they're never going to come out directly and say that it will never end.

00:16:14.800 But that's that's as close as they're going to come to telling the truth on that point.

00:16:20.500 I think meanwhile, and related to this.

00:16:24.560 The Alberta chief health officer, Dina Hinshaw in Canada, had some of her own thoughts about about covid.

00:16:32.520 And specifically here she's talking about she's being asked about outbreaks, especially outbreaks connected to kids in school.

00:16:40.660 She's explaining what counts as an outbreak now.

00:16:45.240 And it's very interesting. Listen.

00:16:48.880 So we do have that framework where schools, if they see that there are an increased number of children who are ill because of respiratory illness, again, or teachers or staff, they can work with Alberta Health Services.

00:17:01.880 And in some ways that is adding an additional layer of protection, because if individuals choose to not get tested for covid, but are home with an illness, they're now counted in the list as being part of that outbreak.

00:17:17.640 And so it's less dependent on needing a test to be a part of identifying where there is an issue.

00:17:25.420 We are, as I mentioned, working with education to determine if there are any adjustments that need to be made to this framework.

00:17:31.080 But there are no other settings right now, aside from continuing care and acute care, as locations where there's a significant risk of transmission and severe outcomes if there should be an outbreak.

00:17:44.420 In those settings, we are ensuring that follow-up takes place to mitigate and to manage outbreaks.

00:17:54.420 However, in schools, again, we are taking the approach that an illness that fits that definition, a respiratory illness, is treated the same way, whether it's someone who's diagnosed with covid or not, and that additional measures can be put into place.

00:18:08.000 I remember when it was a conspiracy theory that they were pumping up the covid numbers by counting a bunch of things as covid, even if they weren't necessarily covid.

00:18:19.260 I remember that when that was a it was a conspiracy that you couldn't say that you couldn't talk about that.

00:18:23.340 If I had speculated about such things, I would have been kicked off of YouTube and Twitter would have flagged it as misinformation.

00:18:30.180 And here we have the Alberta chief health officer in Canada saying that's exactly what they're going to do.

00:18:36.720 And probably have have been doing.

00:18:40.600 That if someone has covid symptoms and they don't test positive or even get tested at all and they miss school, that counts as covid, which, as we went over yesterday, is a problem because literally every virus, including the common cold, has covid symptoms.

00:18:58.360 If you have if you have a if you have a migraine and you stay home for the day that now it's part of a covid outbreak, you had covid.

00:19:06.980 It's not covid, but it is as far as they're concerned.

00:19:10.740 So this is what we're finding.

00:19:12.160 I think that the powers that be figure at this point after 18 months, they've kind of greased the wheels enough that they can start being more explicit and more direct about some of this stuff where they can come out and actually say, yeah, we're counting it as covid, even if it's not.

00:19:27.240 And 98 percent vaccination rate, they're being more direct about it, finally.

00:19:33.860 Now, one more clip I want to play for you, not related to covid, but Jen Piseki was talking about the the spending bill, three point five trillion dollars.

00:19:43.700 Now, now, remember, it's three point five trillion dollars, but it doesn't actually cost anything at all because it's going to be paid for with taxes.

00:19:53.360 And what we learned yesterday, an economic lesson, it was new to me.

00:19:57.980 And, you know, I'm sorry, I didn't go to college.

00:19:59.900 Maybe this is one of the things I would have learned had I gone.

00:20:02.280 This is the education I missed out on that if you pay for something.

00:20:05.860 Then it's free as long as you if you pay for it up front.

00:20:11.540 Then it doesn't count as paying, which was amazing news.

00:20:15.960 And what they're saying about the spending bill, it's three point five trillion dollars, but they're going to pay for it with taxes.

00:20:20.140 And so that means that it's free.

00:20:22.880 Never mind the fact that that's actually not true and it certainly is going to add to deficit.

00:20:26.320 But even pretending that it is, that's that's the argument.

00:20:30.220 Now, the question arises, well, you start raising taxes, you start taxing corporations.

00:20:35.320 The dastardly corporations, then prices are going to go up because they're going to pass those costs down to the consumer.

00:20:42.780 Well, Jen had something to say about that. 1.00

00:20:45.480 Listen, I want to ask you about what Republicans are pointing to in the analysis from the Joint Committee on Taxation.

00:20:50.460 They say, according to if I've read the chart correctly, more than 16 percent of taxpayers would see their taxes increase under the bill that's approved by the House Ways and Means Committee.

00:21:01.760 Will the president sign that bill as it is coming out of that committee or will he insist on the changes so that he will maintain his commitment that taxes won't go up on people making $400,000 a year?

00:21:13.360 I have not looked at the document or the report that you have put out.

00:21:17.700 Obviously, the president's or that you have referenced, I should say, that the Republicans put out.

00:21:21.000 Obviously, the president's commitment remains not raising taxes for anyone making less than $400,000 a year.

00:21:27.460 There are some, and I'm not sure if this is the case in this report, who argue that in the past, companies have passed on these costs to consumers.

00:21:36.420 I'm not sure if that's the argument being made in this report.

00:21:39.360 We feel that that's unfair and absurd, and the American people would not stand for that.

00:21:43.440 But I will take a closer look at this report and get you a more substantive response.

00:21:49.000 It's unfair and absurd for companies to pass down costs to consumers.

00:21:53.580 That's the way the economy works, Jen.

00:21:56.140 It's always worked that way.

00:21:58.200 And the American people not standing for it, we don't really have a choice.

00:22:02.380 When the costs go up, it's already way more expensive when you go to the grocery store to buy basic groceries than it was before Joe Biden took office.

00:22:10.180 And we're upset about it, we don't like it, but we need, what else are we going to do?

00:22:17.040 Are we all going to start self-sustaining farms and not go to the store anymore?

00:22:20.860 That would be great, but it's probably not practical, so we have to buy the stuff.

00:22:23.980 We don't have a choice.

00:22:25.500 There are a lot of unfair things that happen in the world, and we don't have any choice but to endure them.

00:22:32.660 And one of them is that the costs go up.

00:22:34.560 Like, any time costs go up for a company that supplies goods or services to consumers, that means that the cost is going to go up to the consumers as well.

00:22:45.000 That's just the way that it works.

00:22:46.720 Because the other option is for that company to say, well, you know, we could recoup some of these costs by passing it down to the consumers, but, you know, we're going to be nice and not do that.

00:22:58.660 It doesn't work that way.

00:22:59.700 It never has worked that way.

00:23:01.140 And it's also not unfair or not, and I don't really think that it is unfair.

00:23:05.360 I think it's pretty logical.

00:23:06.560 It's certainly not absurd.

00:23:08.920 That's just, that again is the way the economy works.

00:23:13.880 Okay, moving on.

00:23:14.600 This is from the Daily Wire.

00:23:15.780 Some more information about the guy.

00:23:17.580 We started the show yesterday talking about this guy, Frederick Joseph, who, well, I'll read from the Daily Wire article, and they'll set it up a little bit.

00:23:25.200 It says, a man who posted a short video clip of a woman as he claimed she made a racist comment to him has a history of making accusations to his more than 100,000 followers on Twitter.

00:23:34.580 His latest target, her name is Emma Sarley, was, and I was talking about this story yesterday.

00:23:38.700 I didn't want to say her name, but it's now out there, and it's too late now.

00:23:42.140 So Emma Sarley was fired from her job after she was identified as the woman in the video, and her employer was contacted.

00:23:48.420 Frederick Joseph, who took the video and made the allegation, has written a book on anti-racism that I mentioned yesterday called The Black Friend on Being a Better White Person.

00:23:57.100 He also says on his website that he served as a campaign surrogate for Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

00:24:02.300 Big shock there.

00:24:03.000 So, again, the background here, Frederick Joseph was at a dog park with his fiancée, and this woman, Emma Sarley, was there.

00:24:12.300 And that's all we really know up until this point, but there was some kind of altercation, some sort of back and forth, and next thing you know, the camera cuts on.

00:24:20.980 Emma Sarley is on camera, and the accusation is that she said to Frederick Joseph and his fiancée, go back to your hood.

00:24:28.840 But we didn't know if that was actually said.

00:24:31.600 We didn't know the context behind it.

00:24:32.800 We didn't know anything.

00:24:34.180 That's what he claimed.

00:24:35.960 And he put her information out there, her face out there.

00:24:39.580 He started digging through her life and posting all this information, put her job, her employer's name out there, contacted the employer himself, and eventually got her fired, and was really quite happy about it.

00:24:53.080 Gloating about it, not knowing anything about this woman at all, not knowing her situation, not knowing if she has kids at home that she has to feed.

00:25:03.620 It doesn't matter.

00:25:04.820 We're just going to take her job away because it makes me feel like a big and powerful person.

00:25:08.880 And, you know, just a quick note on that of power dynamics, because what we're told by the left is that, well, Frederick Joseph is a black man.

00:25:18.460 Emma Sarley is a white woman.

00:25:20.460 She's got some victim points because she is a woman, but she's got fewer victim points than Frederick Joseph because he's a black guy. 0.68

00:25:26.720 So she has all of the power in that interaction. 0.95

00:25:32.060 She's the one with the power.

00:25:33.080 Well, that's interesting because it would seem to me that if you have the ability to take this unpleasant interaction you had with some stranger and because you're mad about it, within this space of 12 hours, ruin that stranger's life, even taking her job from her.

00:25:56.000 If you have the ability to do that, whether you do it or not, it would seem like you're the one with the power in that interaction.

00:26:06.980 That's what power is.

00:26:09.060 Now, so we knew about all of that.

00:26:12.680 And here's the latest about Joseph.

00:26:14.560 It says, it should be noted that Joseph has a history of accusing white people of racism over perceived insults.

00:26:19.020 Big shock there.

00:26:20.040 His Twitter account is full of random claims without evidence that white women have wronged him in some way.

00:26:26.000 In one tweet, he took a picture of his car and claimed a white woman approached him while he was looking for his keys to ask him why he was standing next to the car.

00:26:33.900 That didn't happen.

00:26:35.620 I can tell you right now that didn't happen because even if she thought that he was, what, a car thief?

00:26:41.040 Like, this is a man and he's a bigger guy.

00:26:44.200 Some woman is going to come over to a man who she thinks is a criminal and say, hey, say, sir, why are you committing a crime right now? 1.00

00:26:52.520 Even if it was true that she jumped to that assumption, she's not going to confront him over it.

00:26:58.780 So that didn't happen.

00:27:00.920 And then also, in another tweet, Joseph called for protesters to burn down the Kenosha Police Department during the Black Lives Matter riots.

00:27:09.940 His allegations have caught media attention before.

00:27:12.900 In 2020, this one is, this is a strange one.

00:27:14.980 I actually remember this when it happened, although I didn't know the guy behind all of this and his history.

00:27:19.700 But in 2020, Joseph and his family stayed at an Airbnb property and then claimed the house was full of seemingly satanic items and stuff for witchcraft rituals, including imagery, candles, books, et cetera, for rituals and what looked like devil worship.

00:27:35.880 Motherboard participated in a video call with the owner of the house who walked them through the home and pointed out the items Joseph claimed were satanic.

00:27:42.400 Like, in reality, they were just art books and kitschy objects.

00:27:45.840 The ritualistic markings on the basement floor were, in reality, just paint smudges.

00:27:51.580 So this is just a bunch of stuff that this guy, pretty common when you stay like in Airbnbs or you go on vacation, you stay in someone's house.

00:27:59.200 They have all kinds of just weird, kind of like, because they're going for just a general vibe.

00:28:04.660 They find art from thrift stores and they put it up.

00:28:07.000 And that's all it was.

00:28:07.940 And he claimed that this was a, where a witch lived and was participating in witchcraft rituals.

00:28:12.620 And that got media attention.

00:28:14.060 People parroted that like it was clearly true.

00:28:17.320 And this guy had to go to the media and explain himself.

00:28:19.820 So that's the background on Frederick Joseph.

00:28:21.860 And now, we finally hear from the other side of the story.

00:28:28.680 Emma Sarley has issued a statement.

00:28:32.520 And before I read this statement, I'll let you, I'll give you a second to guess.

00:28:37.960 What do you think? 0.98

00:28:38.780 Do you think that Emma Sarley, after being targeted by this scumbag and having her life ripped to shreds for no reason, 0.97

00:28:45.880 by this known hoaxer, do you think that she's coming out and really defending herself and going on offense and saying, 1.00

00:28:56.240 how dare you do this to me, you awful human being? 0.59

00:29:00.780 You think that's what she's doing or is she groveling? 0.99

00:29:02.620 What do you think?

00:29:03.780 Well, let's find out, shall we?

00:29:06.460 Sarley's complete statement obtained by the Daily Wire says, in part,

00:29:11.060 I'm still processing everything that's happened over the last couple days.

00:29:14.860 And I thought it was important to share what I saw and experienced.

00:29:18.120 I absolutely accept responsibility for how I could have handled things differently in that moment.

00:29:22.980 On Saturday evening, I watched a dog get into several aggressive altercations with other dogs in my local park.

00:29:28.280 And as the owners of this dog were leaving, I suggested that they keep a handle on their dog while visiting this particular park.

00:29:32.980 My reference to Back to Your Hood only referred to another dog park outside the neighborhood park.

00:29:37.400 I was frustrated and upset, but just to be clear, I had no intended racial undertones in my comments whatsoever.

00:29:42.340 I said it because it's an unstated rule at our local park that when a dog is being aggressive,

00:29:46.240 owners immediately remove them so it can be a calm, welcoming environment for everybody else.

00:29:50.000 However, I fully understand how my words could have been misinterpreted,

00:29:53.200 and I deeply wish I had chosen them more carefully.

00:29:56.600 A brief and thoughtless moment in my life has now led to nationwide outrage and hurt.

00:30:01.040 For that, I am sorry.

00:30:03.100 I want to clarify that I never threatened to call the police.

00:30:05.340 I never went on a tirade as the dog owners followed me down the street.

00:30:08.160 With the phone camera on, I was filled with some panic because I'd never been in an altercation like that

00:30:11.960 and reacted in an inappropriate way.

00:30:13.600 I've lived in New York for a decade.

00:30:14.760 My Brooklyn neighborhood and dog park is extremely diverse, something I truly love about this city.

00:30:18.700 And I never meant for my words to contribute to pain for anyone.

00:30:21.900 I truly hope we can find understanding and a peaceful resolution to this for everybody involved.

00:30:27.620 Oh, Emma.

00:30:28.160 Yeah, there's a nice peaceful resolution for Frederick Joseph.

00:30:36.140 He rides off into the sunset.

00:30:38.580 He got the attention that he wanted.

00:30:40.340 He got his vengeance on you.

00:30:42.020 He was able to exert this power over you, and he got his rocks off doing that. 0.99

00:30:48.220 That's his fetish, it would seem, is embarrassing and shaming white women. 0.98

00:30:54.860 He seems to really have a thing for that in particular. 0.99

00:30:58.200 So, yeah, it's a peaceful resolution for him, but your life is destroyed.

00:31:02.800 And even more so now, because you didn't defend yourself.

00:31:09.260 Yeah, you didn't say that, you didn't come out and confess to racism exactly, but you took responsibility.

00:31:17.480 You took all the fault and blame on yourself.

00:31:21.840 What do you think is going to happen?

00:31:23.200 Do you think the social media mob that a day ago was happy to ruin your life, not knowing anything about you, happy to take your job from you, not knowing?

00:31:34.280 I mean, again, they don't know if you have kids.

00:31:35.840 They don't know if, you know, you have some sort of medical condition that you need a doctor for.

00:31:42.820 Now they've taken your health insurance away from you, too.

00:31:44.680 I mean, the consequences of taking somebody's job are dire.

00:31:48.620 Sure, it doesn't mean that nobody should ever lose their job, but before you set out to do that to someone, you better have a damn good reason.

00:31:57.920 And there wasn't one in this case.

00:32:00.420 So what do you think, Emma?

00:32:01.580 Do you think that the people that did that to you and Frederick Joseph himself, you think they're going to see this statement and say, oh, gee, all right, I guess that was a misunderstanding.

00:32:12.140 And she said she's apologized and everything's fine.

00:32:14.760 I'm going to call up her employer and say, you know, you should hire her back. 1.00

00:32:18.120 She's a good egg after all. 1.00

00:32:21.480 No, they're going to sit back smugly and cross their arms and nod their heads and say, good.

00:32:26.940 Yeah, I hope you learned your lesson. 0.96

00:32:29.460 You deserve to have your, you still, but you still deserve to have your life ruined.

00:32:34.920 It's just, it's hard.

00:32:36.240 And then I want to have compassion.

00:32:39.160 I want to feel sorry for the Emma Sarleys of the world. 1.00

00:32:41.640 But I can't.

00:32:43.140 I just can't find it in myself.

00:32:45.500 If you won't defend yourself, then what can the rest of us do?

00:32:50.500 All right. 0.96

00:32:51.040 From the Daily Wire, it says, the editor of the leading medical journal, The Lancet, which embroiled itself in controversy when it referred to women as bodies with vaginas,

00:32:59.620 on the cover of one of its September issues, apologized Monday for causing offense, but chose to defend the obtuse phrasing used in the publication.

00:33:06.920 The weekly medical journal called women bodies with vaginas in an article titled Periods on Display for the September 1st issue.

00:33:15.280 The quote, historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected.

00:33:20.660 And it was featured on the cover.

00:33:22.120 But The Lancet was met with criticism from many who argued that the journal was itself marginalizing women by referring to them in such a strange manner.

00:33:32.320 And there was some pushback against that.

00:33:34.780 And that's reasonable pushback.

00:33:37.020 There should be pushback.

00:33:38.180 And this is what Richard Horton, the editor-in-chief, this is what he said.

00:33:40.860 The Lancet strives for maximum inclusivity of all people in its vision for advancing health.

00:33:46.160 In this instance, we have conveyed the impression that we have dehumanized and marginalized women. 0.99

00:33:50.900 But those who read The Lancet regularly will understand that this would never have been our intention.

00:33:54.860 I apologize to our readers who were offended by the cover quote and the use of those same words in the review.

00:33:58.860 At the same time, I want to emphasize that transgender health is an important dimension of modern health care, but one that remains neglected.

00:34:04.620 Trans people regularly face stigma, discrimination, exclusion, and poor health, often experiencing difficulty accessing proper health care.

00:34:11.380 And then he went on. 0.95

00:34:12.220 So he allegedly apologized, but then went on, of course, to defend the phrasing of bodies with vaginas. 0.95

00:34:20.500 He says that people have accused us of dehumanizing women. 0.96

00:34:25.560 That's exactly what you've done.

00:34:27.740 More so than that, it's kind of a deep, it's a depersoning. 0.98

00:34:32.440 You know, you're treating women as if they are not whole, complete persons, but rather, as you say, just bodies with vaginas. 0.88

00:34:41.860 This, for decades, right, this supposedly has been the mission of feminism and the mission of the left, supposedly. 1.00

00:34:52.420 Was to, was to militate against this kind of dehumanizing objectification of women. 1.00

00:35:01.100 I mean, can you imagine in a different context, even just a few years ago, or even today, if it was in a different context. 0.98

00:35:07.480 And someone said, ah, you know, women, they're just bodies with vaginas. 1.00

00:35:10.260 If it was some, let's say, some womanizing man who was accused of being a sexist, so what does it matter? 1.00

00:35:16.900 They're just bodies with vaginas. 1.00

00:35:18.040 That's how I'm treating them. 0.99

00:35:20.300 That would be seen as totally, utterly dehumanizing.

00:35:23.520 And, of course, that's exactly what it is.

00:35:25.420 All right, let's move now to reading the YouTube comments.

00:35:28.240 Dana says, I finally got the courage to come out to my wife.

00:35:45.960 She just couldn't understand it and has been really hard on us in our marriage.

00:35:49.500 I hope telling my parents about being in the Sweet Baby Gang goes better.

00:35:52.480 Well, I understand this may have caused marital strife, Dana, but it was, in the end, it was worth it.

00:35:58.780 Captain Kangaroo says, Matt, choosing the second cheapest wine perfectly justifies why his wife occasionally roasts him on Twitter.

00:36:05.740 Look, I find that to be a strategy that has not failed me.

00:36:12.160 Because when I go in for the wine, I already know the cheapest wine is going to be pretty bad.

00:36:16.460 I don't want to spend on the more expensive stuff.

00:36:18.380 So I just, it's not just wine, by the way.

00:36:20.480 That's my approach to almost everything in life.

00:36:23.140 Everything, certainly everything that I buy.

00:36:25.800 Obviously, my clothes.

00:36:26.840 It's, I just go, okay, there's the cheapest level.

00:36:29.320 I'm going one up.

00:36:30.120 So you can't accuse me of being the cheapest.

00:36:32.340 I'm going, I'm classing it up just one smidge.

00:36:35.240 And you know what?

00:36:35.860 I think it also makes you a more content and happier person.

00:36:38.600 Although people would rarely accuse me of being a content and happy person.

00:36:41.020 But still, when you, because the problem is, when you have sort of developed your tastes in wine, in like steak, in whiskey, in anything, then your life just becomes much more expensive.

00:36:55.020 So what I do is I stay away from those top shelf things as much as I can.

00:36:59.100 And then I don't know what I'm missing.

00:37:00.000 That's my strategy.

00:37:00.540 All right, Colin Sims says,

00:37:03.200 Regarding the opening segment, Matt didn't mention the masculine versus feminine aspect.

00:37:08.340 Masculine bullying is pushing the other kid into a locker.

00:37:11.360 Feminine bullying relies on character assassination. 1.00

00:37:15.280 Basically, liberal society, especially those of the upper echelons, has skewed dramatically toward the feminine, which is why you see so much of these tactics in cancel culture. 1.00

00:37:22.920 So in this case, the black guy making the cell phone video was simply auditioning for a spot in the Mean Girls click and hoping to accrue the benefits such as higher book sales. 0.86

00:37:32.360 A couple of people in the comments made that point about how, you know, I was saying that bullying has changed now because the bully takes on sort of effects, powerlessness, pretends to be powerless, pretends to be the offended one, where it used to be bullies were just straightforward and they were trying to cause offense.

00:37:48.540 And that's how they, that's how they, that's how they beat you.

00:37:53.400 And a few people in the comments pointed out that, that in another way, you know, even we, I can remember back in, back in my day in high school that this form of bullying, this more sort of this reverse psychology method, this passive aggressive method.

00:38:08.180 Yeah, that's, that's how, that's how girls bullied each other. 1.00

00:38:10.820 And so it has become, maybe that's a better, maybe, maybe that is true.

00:38:14.400 Instead of, you know, instead of bullying completely changing, it's become more feminine in a certain way.

00:38:21.300 All right, Juliet says, Matt, by leaving my shopping carts all over the supermarket parking lot, I'm creating jobs for the cart boys.

00:38:28.080 If we all took care of the carts ourselves, they'd all be fired.

00:38:31.780 I'm a job creator.

00:38:33.520 Juliet, I've heard that excuse a million times.

00:38:36.340 And that doesn't even work anymore because a lot of these places quite clearly don't hire people specifically to, to return their carts.

00:38:45.620 That was a job that I, that I had a long time ago.

00:38:48.200 It was my first job, in fact, as a, as a working man, or I was a boy at the time.

00:38:54.320 And I think I was 13 years old.

00:38:55.800 And that's what I did.

00:38:57.160 I was in the parking lot and I, and I collected the carts and I made sure that parking lot was pristine.

00:39:03.140 A lot of these places don't have those kinds of jobs anymore.

00:39:04.840 Even if they do, that does not relieve you of your own social responsibility.

00:39:09.040 So I don't want to hear that.

00:39:09.880 And you are banned from the show.

00:39:11.580 Finally, Ryan says, Matt, how do you balance out the fact that you make fun of adults who watch superhero movies and call them childish?

00:39:18.040 And yet you watch football, a child's game, or men in tights jump on top of each other.

00:39:23.760 Some might call that pretty childish too.

00:39:25.660 At least you can't deny that that's the same kind of thing.

00:39:28.220 No, they're the same kind of thing if they're not in moderation.

00:39:32.720 So you could find an analog between someone who's obsessed with, an adult who's obsessed with comic book films and spends all their time obsessing over cartoons and comic books, and an adult who's obsessed with sports and spends all of their time watching sports, thinking about sports, talking about sports.

00:39:50.600 Those are analogous situations because those are adults who, for them, the only thing they care about or the primary thing they care about in life is entertainment.

00:40:03.100 And so they have found their identity in being entertained.

00:40:08.480 And there are many problems with that.

00:40:10.140 One of them is that it's passive.

00:40:11.500 You've found a passive identity where you sit back and wait for someone or something to entertain you.

00:40:20.380 And that's your whole identity.

00:40:21.160 So if you're doing that, it doesn't matter what the thing is, whether it's sports or superheroes or anything.

00:40:29.700 If your primary purpose in life, if you derive meaning primarily from being entertained, from forms of entertainment, then that's a problem.

00:40:41.720 And that's a recipe for an unfulfilling life and for an adult who is not a real adult and is not well-adjusted and is not mature and is not going to experience the deeper joys in life.

00:40:51.160 So that's the comparison.

00:40:53.420 But as far as superhero films versus sports in general, I think there are a lot of crucial differences.

00:40:59.680 I mean, for one thing, sports are a more naturally communal form of entertainment.

00:41:07.420 You know, I sit with my family and we'll watch the game.

00:41:11.280 You could go to a stadium and you're with your city, you know, and you're watching the game together.

00:41:16.580 Now, you can watch superhero movies together, but it's not exactly the same kind of thing.

00:41:21.640 I mean, sports teams are tied to a city and usually you are a fan of that team because you live in that city or that city at one point.

00:41:29.640 You know, maybe you grew up in that city and so it ties you to your community.

00:41:33.080 Not in a very significant way, but it's still there is that communal tie that doesn't exist with superheroes.

00:41:37.400 Also, when you're watching professional athletes, you know, there are plenty of them that are whiny and annoying and are just in it for the money.

00:41:48.180 That's true.

00:41:48.620 But you're still watching people who have dedicated their lives to being excellent at something and they're very, very good at what they're doing.

00:41:58.060 And this is the this is the pinnacle of all of that hard work.

00:42:02.460 And so you're watching that and you're kind of admiring the excellence.

00:42:05.420 But with superhero movies, like none of these actors who are in superhero movies, this is a they're doing it for the paycheck and nothing else.

00:42:13.400 This is not a you know, they didn't get into acting hoping one day to put on a costume and run around pretending to punch bad guys.

00:42:22.200 This for them is just this is a this is a sellout thing they're doing for the money.

00:42:25.680 I can't blame them.

00:42:26.460 But this is not this might be these might be excellent graphics.

00:42:31.480 These might be excellent special effects, but it's not artistic excellence.

00:42:37.000 As opposed to the athletic excellence of sports.

00:42:40.060 That's my rationalization off the top of my head.

00:42:42.280 I think it's pretty good.

00:42:42.940 I'm almost convinced by it.

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00:43:48.980 Now let's get to our daily cancellations.

00:43:50.560 So today is the day finally for our rally at the Loudoun County School Board in Virginia.

00:43:59.400 We're going to be speaking out against the radical gender ideology of the school system and the abuse and indoctrination of children. 0.77

00:44:04.500 As you know, if you've been listening over the last several days, the school board has pulled out all the stops to prevent this from happening.

00:44:10.440 They can't do anything to stop the rally, but they can change the rules to at least make it more difficult for some of us to speak during the meeting itself.

00:44:17.580 That's why late last week, after already shortening the speaking time for each person to 60 seconds, they announced that only residents of Loudoun County would be allowed to address the school board.

00:44:25.900 It was around the same time, quite incidentally, that I decided to rent a place in Loudoun County and fulfill my lifelong dream of becoming a Virginia resident.

00:44:34.160 Fortunately, just by happenstance, that also means that I can still speak at the meeting.

00:44:37.520 It's funny how, you know, things just work out that way.

00:44:40.200 In fact, we flew out to Virginia, where I am a legal resident, last night, and it just feels great to be home.

00:44:47.220 I've mostly sort of been hanging out in Virginia today, doing Virginia-type stuff, chilling with my fellow Virginians, getting into all kinds of Virginia shenanigans and hijinks, the kinds of things you'd have to be a Virginian to understand.

00:44:58.080 We're a pretty wacky bunch, us Virginians.

00:44:59.960 Now, in any case, getting off the plane was a strange experience, because we happened to emerge into the terminal to see my own face on the TV, as Fox 5 in D.C. happened to be airing a report about all this right at that moment.

00:45:13.480 And I think it's worth playing the report here, so check it out.

00:45:18.040 Hey, Rob, so we just heard from this person on WMAL this morning talking about how he spoke out at his own Board of Education meeting in Tennessee.

00:45:25.520 Well, now the same person wants to speak here so badly tomorrow that he apparently took out a lease in the neighborhood to be eligible to do so.

00:45:35.540 This person, this is Matt Walsh.

00:45:37.400 He tweeted, how do you do, fellow Virginians, after telling his over 672,000 Twitter followers about his new lease in the area.

00:45:45.780 Walsh is a conservative blogger and podcaster who has been more vocal about the Loudoun County Schools transgender policy.

00:45:52.600 He's also arguing that those with no children in the district should be able to decide what happens in LCPS because LCPS receives federal funding and he is an American taxpayer.

00:46:03.400 The Loudoun County School Board, the school board speaker change was announced late last week.

00:46:08.620 And at a previous June Loudoun County Schools meeting, we know tensions erupted.

00:46:12.700 That meeting ended up making national headlines.

00:46:14.560 The speakers are now being asked to show some sort of proof that they are either a county public school student, a guardian of one, a county resident or a business owner.

00:46:24.640 A press release sent by the school board said that this was to prevent, quote, out of town agitators who would make board meetings a platform for national politics or to enhance their media profiles, end quote.

00:46:37.840 First of all, I hate to nitpick here, but I can't help but point out that this local news report criticizing me for not being a local, even though I'm a Virginia resident, in good standing, did misspell the name of Loudoun County in their chyron as they introduced this segment.

00:46:56.200 Now, as a resident of Loudoun County, I take exception to that.

00:47:00.120 I'm tired of it personally.

00:47:01.080 Literally every day that I've been a resident of Loudoun County, there's been a news report misspelling the name.

00:47:06.540 I'm sick of it.

00:47:08.160 These are the kinds of things we deal with here in Loudoun County, my home.

00:47:11.580 But things get worse from there because the next chyron misgenders me twice, calling me a Tennessee man.

00:47:18.440 Nobody at Fox 5 in D.C. contacted me to ask about my gender.

00:47:21.160 If they had, I would have informed them that my gender is Virginia resident.

00:47:25.180 In fact, they even misgendered me a third time, calling me a blogger.

00:47:29.500 I haven't identified as a blogger in many years, so please stop deadnaming me.

00:47:33.340 This is violence.

00:47:35.260 The truth is that I have been a Virginian trapped in a Tennessean's body for too long.

00:47:40.040 And it feels good to finally live my truth openly, though I have never, though I have been appalled by the bigotry I've encountered ever since coming out as a trans Virginian.

00:47:48.980 And despite all of the progress we've made, there are still people who are not prepared to accept those of us who are state fluid, those of us on the state spectrum.

00:47:57.640 This is why we have to continue to fight for inclusion and acceptance, and I will do just that.

00:48:02.220 Now let's keep watching some of this news report.

00:48:04.560 Here it is.

00:48:04.840 We did ask around about this today, and I can tell you we did get some mixed reactions.

00:48:09.540 I feel that they're taking away voices, that they don't want people to be heard, and they're trying to silence someone who doesn't agree with them.

00:48:23.200 I don't want anybody to attend.

00:48:25.140 Well, maybe whatever apportion is federally funded, maybe they should be allowed to speak to that extent, I guess.

00:48:33.240 Just by leasing a place so they can testify is just not right.

00:48:39.240 If you don't have a child in the county, why would you want to testify?

00:48:46.020 Now, I was not actually able to get in touch with Walsh today and put my own eyes on that lease.

00:48:52.100 I was told by a school's official that the rule change was not in response to him wanting to participate.

00:48:57.700 And they also told me that the school system is about 1% federally funded, by the way.

00:49:02.340 Oh, the rule change was not in response to me.

00:49:05.140 I believe that.

00:49:05.740 I do.

00:49:06.060 Just as my change of residence wasn't in response to the rule change.

00:49:09.080 These things are all just happening on their own, disconnected, unrelated.

00:49:12.980 And yet somehow our fates remained entwined in this magical dance that we call life.

00:49:19.600 Sorry if I'm getting a little bit sappy on you there.

00:49:21.400 You know how we Virginians can tend to be.

00:49:23.560 I also appreciated how the woman complaining about me earlier in the clip was wearing a mask in her car, and she had her kid wearing a mask, too. 0.87

00:49:30.180 And any chance that I might have cared about her opinion went out the window when she put the mask on to drive in her own vehicle.

00:49:36.460 That's one of the only advantages to masking at this point, in fact, is it's a handy cheat code letting us know ahead of time which people we should completely ignore.

00:49:45.940 Anyway, in the end, we're all still going to be there this afternoon.

00:49:48.820 And if the school board feels that we are intruders and agitators and that we're making their lives more difficult, that's good.

00:49:56.720 That's the point.

00:49:57.900 The fact that school boards have become battlegrounds, the fact that we're even talking about school boards at all, is a very positive development.

00:50:04.420 For a long time, school boards across the country basically did whatever they want and enacted whatever policies they preferred.

00:50:09.120 And at worst, there'd be like 12 people at the meeting, and maybe four of them would express mild disapproval over it.

00:50:15.140 Schools and school districts were left alone to decide what they would teach kids, decide what sort of indoctrination they'd be subjected to.

00:50:22.400 We would be out arguing about national politics while America's future was shaped in the schools right under our noses.

00:50:27.840 It's a very encouraging sign that we're finally redirecting our focus to where it actually matters.

00:50:31.700 And this is ultimately the reason why I am going to Loudoun County School Board to say my piece.

00:50:37.300 It's why I'll go to any school board in the country and give my two cents.

00:50:41.080 Part of the reason is that, yes, I'm already giving my two cents in the form of federal tax funding.

00:50:45.300 I don't care if it's 1%. 0.99

00:50:46.300 I don't care if it's one penny.

00:50:48.980 But much more important, it's because the school system, more than perhaps any other institution, is in the business of deciding what sort of country we will live in,

00:50:57.060 what sort of culture we will have, what sort of civilization we will have.

00:51:02.280 And I have to live here in this country.

00:51:05.660 And so do my kids, even if they won't be in the school system themselves.

00:51:08.900 That's why I get to contribute to the conversation.

00:51:11.740 And why anyone else who wants to can and should.

00:51:15.260 And that's why I'll be there in Loudoun County tonight, my home.

00:51:18.880 So who am I canceling at the end of all this?

00:51:20.880 I guess the Loudoun County School Board.

00:51:22.380 Well, that'll come later tonight.

00:51:23.620 And Fox 5 DC.

00:51:25.640 And my Tennessee residents.

00:51:27.640 Since I'm a Virginia man now.

00:51:29.780 That is until I find the next school board meeting that I want to attend.

00:51:33.800 And we'll leave it there for today.

00:51:35.600 Thanks for watching.

00:51:36.680 Thanks for listening.

00:51:38.060 My sweet fellow Virginians.

00:51:40.640 Godspeed.

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