The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 810 - The Truth About The Facebook ‘Whistleblower’

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media is promoting the story of the Facebook whistleblower.

00:00:04.340 She was on 60 Minutes last night, revealing alleged secrets about the big tech giant.

00:00:08.740 But this story is not exactly what it appears to be. We'll talk about that today.

00:00:11.680 Also, Fauci says that maybe, just maybe, we might be able to get back to normal by Christmas, but maybe not.

00:00:17.460 And a Democratic senator is chased into a bathroom and recorded inside the bathroom by crazed left-wing activists.

00:00:24.200 And in our Daily Cancellation, we'll discuss a recent article arguing that God needs new preferred pronouns.

00:00:29.200 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:40.420 We're going to talk today, to start with, about one of the many companies, Facebook,

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00:01:50.240 So last night, 60 Minutes had a lengthy interview with Frances Haugen,

00:01:54.960 formerly known as the Facebook whistleblower.

00:01:59.460 Haugen had worked for the social media company,

00:02:02.180 and during her time with them, she began leaking documents

00:02:04.340 which were supposed to expose the dark and dirty details 0.66

00:02:07.200 about Facebook's internal workings.

00:02:09.880 Now, there's no doubt that Facebook's internal workings are indeed dark and dirty.

00:02:14.460 There's no question that it needs exposing as well.

00:02:17.020 Well, and I'm certainly not here to defend Facebook, far from it,

00:02:19.680 but this whistleblower story that the media is telling us

00:02:24.140 is not as simple as they want us to believe.

00:02:26.940 And we know that from the start because they're the ones telling it.

00:02:30.360 Now, keep in mind that the corporate media and Facebook

00:02:32.260 are part of the same machine, the same system.

00:02:35.080 A whistleblower that was really interested in exposing that system

00:02:38.640 wouldn't be so warmly welcomed by it.

00:02:41.460 60 Minutes gave a platform to Haugen,

00:02:43.380 and, you know, the rest of the corporate media has reported breathlessly

00:02:46.800 on the things that she revealed during that interview.

00:02:49.460 And that's not how things would have worked

00:02:51.020 if Haugen was really an avenger for truth and justice

00:02:53.800 as she's being portrayed with no political agenda.

00:02:57.580 You know, it seems like it shouldn't be necessary to say this anymore,

00:03:00.200 but somehow it is.

00:03:01.760 You cannot trust a single thing the corporate media tells you.

00:03:05.580 Not a single thing.

00:03:07.020 The corporate media are storytellers.

00:03:09.300 Not especially good or engaging ones,

00:03:11.100 but that's what they are.

00:03:12.880 They tell a story,

00:03:14.420 a story about the world, about society,

00:03:16.280 about us, about you,

00:03:17.460 and all of the news that they report

00:03:19.980 has to fit into that story somewhere.

00:03:22.540 If it doesn't, they're not going to report it.

00:03:24.260 And if they do report it,

00:03:25.220 they'll report it in a way that gels with the story.

00:03:27.720 We have to realize that the relativists

00:03:29.660 have long since taken over our culture,

00:03:32.220 and what that means is that our society

00:03:34.020 is being run by people

00:03:35.220 who literally do not believe in the truth.

00:03:38.720 They don't believe in it as a concept.

00:03:41.100 They don't think that the truth exists.

00:03:43.220 The truth is whatever they tell us

00:03:45.320 and whatever they can get us to believe.

00:03:47.860 And that's something to keep in mind

00:03:49.100 as we look at the story of the Facebook whistleblower.

00:03:51.980 Haugen's basic charge is that Facebook promoted

00:03:53.820 misinformation and divisive and unsafe content,

00:03:58.160 and that it does all this for profit.

00:04:00.360 They put profit over safety, she says.

00:04:02.720 Listen to this.

00:04:03.260 Haugen told us the root of Facebook's problem

00:04:08.440 is in a change that it made in 2018 to its algorithms,

00:04:13.940 the programming that decides what you see

00:04:16.320 on your Facebook news feed.

00:04:18.560 So, you know, you have your phone.

00:04:20.980 You might see only 100 pieces of content

00:04:23.520 if you sit and scroll up for, you know, five minutes.

00:04:26.500 But Facebook has thousands of options it could show you.

00:04:29.640 The algorithm picks from those options

00:04:32.580 based on the kind of content

00:04:34.640 you've engaged with the most in the past.

00:04:38.160 And one of the consequences

00:04:39.280 of how Facebook is picking out that content today

00:04:41.860 is that it is optimizing for content

00:04:44.320 that gets engagement or reaction.

00:04:47.060 But its own research is showing

00:04:48.780 that content that is hateful,

00:04:51.100 that is divisive, that is polarizing,

00:04:53.440 it's easier to inspire people to anger

00:04:56.380 than it is to other emotions.

00:04:57.780 Misinformation, angry content is enticing to people

00:05:02.760 and keeps them on the platform.

00:05:06.020 Yes.

00:05:06.780 Facebook has realized that

00:05:08.460 if they change the algorithm to be safer,

00:05:12.020 people will spend less time on the site,

00:05:13.920 they'll click on less ads,

00:05:15.260 they'll make less money.

00:05:16.480 Now, here's the problem.

00:05:17.800 Most of that is certainly true.

00:05:20.060 Facebook does promote divisive content

00:05:22.380 and misinformation.

00:05:24.020 But remember that Haugen

00:05:24.820 and the 60 Minutes reporter, Scott Pelley,

00:05:26.400 are on the same team.

00:05:27.680 They're part of the same system.

00:05:29.320 And that means they're speaking in code

00:05:30.700 to each other and to the audience.

00:05:32.480 What they mean when they say divisive content

00:05:34.440 and misinformation is right-wing content.

00:05:36.580 These words are all interchangeable in their minds,

00:05:38.580 according to the story that they're telling, right?

00:05:40.600 It is, after all, angry, divisive, and false content

00:05:43.780 that's propelled hundreds of BLM riots.

00:05:46.340 Millions of people today now believe

00:05:47.920 that guys like Michael Brown are martyrs

00:05:50.240 and cops are Nazi assassins 1.00

00:05:51.900 out hunting and murdering black men 1.00

00:05:53.320 and that America is a systemically racist dystopia 1.00

00:05:55.860 where it's essentially legal for white people 1.00

00:05:58.120 to kill non-white people. 1.00

00:05:59.300 I mean, people believe this. 1.00

00:06:00.960 And it is thanks to the work done

00:06:02.560 by both social media and the corporate media

00:06:04.340 hand-in-hand.

00:06:05.580 But when Haugen talks about dangerous

00:06:07.040 and unsafe content,

00:06:08.260 she's not referring to any of that.

00:06:09.560 If she was, she wouldn't be on 60 Minutes.

00:06:12.220 For her, it's all about the right-wing perspective.

00:06:14.460 That's all it is.

00:06:15.920 And she finally makes that clear

00:06:17.060 by tying everything back

00:06:18.120 to the quote-unquote insurrection.

00:06:20.320 Complaining that Facebook had shut down

00:06:21.820 the so-called civic integrity units

00:06:23.580 before January 6th,

00:06:25.160 Haugen said, quote,

00:06:26.200 they told us we're dissolving civic integrity.

00:06:28.320 Like, they basically said,

00:06:29.240 oh, good, we made it through the election.

00:06:30.800 There wasn't any riots.

00:06:31.780 We can get rid of civic integrity now.

00:06:33.880 Fast forward a couple months,

00:06:35.040 we got the insurrection.

00:06:37.640 And so there it is.

00:06:38.960 If she had linked Facebook to the Capitol riot

00:06:41.320 and also the BLM riots,

00:06:42.880 then we might be able to trust her motives a bit more.

00:06:45.700 But then again, if she had done that,

00:06:47.100 we never would have seen this interview.

00:06:48.840 We see it because she's on the same ideological team 0.53

00:06:51.500 as the people who are amplifying her.

00:06:53.400 She's on the same team as Facebook, too,

00:06:55.080 which is why I don't even buy

00:06:56.300 that she is any kind of whistleblower at all.

00:06:59.640 Facebook already tries

00:07:01.040 to suppress conservative content.

00:07:03.800 That's what it wants to do.

00:07:05.700 Yes, right-wing content is successful

00:07:07.620 on the platform, relatively speaking.

00:07:09.320 And this is, you know,

00:07:09.780 the left uses this absurdly to claim

00:07:12.240 that Facebook is biased in favor of conservatives

00:07:14.660 because they point to how successful

00:07:16.780 the Daily Wire is, for example, on Facebook.

00:07:20.300 That's only because it's the content people want to see.

00:07:22.780 That's why we're successful.

00:07:24.600 The company can only go so far

00:07:25.960 in suppressing the very content

00:07:27.140 that people using its platform want to access.

00:07:30.500 It would like to go further in that regard, no doubt.

00:07:33.520 And the pressure from this whistleblower

00:07:35.420 gives them the onus to do so.

00:07:37.240 Best case scenario for them would be

00:07:39.820 legislation forcing them to suppress it.

00:07:43.160 The social media companies would like very much

00:07:44.940 to control the information that you can access,

00:07:46.800 the ideas that you can encounter,

00:07:48.720 the opinions that you hear.

00:07:50.020 They already do, in large part.

00:07:52.120 And yet, iconoclastic voices still sneak through.

00:07:54.980 That's in spite of big tech's efforts,

00:07:57.340 not because of them.

00:07:59.280 The media feels the same way.

00:08:01.040 The reason that they hate social media,

00:08:02.600 at least as it's currently constructed,

00:08:04.080 is because it gives people an avenue to ideas

00:08:07.840 that the corporate media has not sanctioned.

00:08:10.640 The corporate media believes that it's entitled

00:08:12.580 to be the gatekeepers,

00:08:13.680 determining what you believe,

00:08:15.320 what you're told,

00:08:16.120 who is, and especially who is doing the telling.

00:08:19.220 When they talk about the dangers of social media,

00:08:21.500 that's what they mean.

00:08:22.380 It's the danger of them losing control.

00:08:25.920 And that brings us to the other big revelation

00:08:28.420 from the whistleblower.

00:08:29.440 That social media, especially sites like Instagram,

00:08:32.680 are harmful to kids.

00:08:33.980 Here's Haugen on that.

00:08:35.400 Listen.

00:08:36.320 One of the Facebook internal studies that you found

00:08:39.180 talks about how Instagram harms teenage girls.

00:08:42.820 Oh, yeah.

00:08:43.920 One study says 13.5% of teen girls

00:08:47.940 say Instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse.

00:08:52.100 17% of teen girls say Instagram

00:08:55.440 makes eating disorders worse.

00:08:57.440 And what's super tragic

00:08:59.700 is Facebook's own research says

00:09:01.960 as these young women

00:09:03.680 begin to consume

00:09:05.540 this eating disorder content,

00:09:07.220 they get more and more depressed,

00:09:08.880 and it actually makes them use the app more.

00:09:11.980 And so they end up in this feedback cycle

00:09:14.060 where they hate their bodies more and more.

00:09:16.900 Facebook's own research says

00:09:18.440 it is not just that Instagram

00:09:20.860 is dangerous for teenagers,

00:09:22.800 that it harms teenagers,

00:09:24.720 it's that it is distinctly worse

00:09:26.800 than other forms of social media.

00:09:29.040 Facebook said just last week

00:09:31.020 it would postpone plans

00:09:33.160 to create an Instagram

00:09:34.440 for younger children.

00:09:37.020 Again, I mean,

00:09:38.540 this is certainly true.

00:09:39.520 Social media is bad for kids.

00:09:41.960 But is the media

00:09:43.020 really worried about your kids?

00:09:45.220 If they were,

00:09:45.900 they'd be more concerned

00:09:46.600 about the fact that millions of nine-year-olds

00:09:48.240 are accessing hardcore porn

00:09:49.640 through Pornhub and similar sites.

00:09:51.740 Besides,

00:09:52.380 when it comes to your kids

00:09:53.120 using social media,

00:09:53.760 there's a pretty simple solution.

00:09:56.420 As I've argued in the past,

00:09:58.540 don't give them smartphones.

00:09:59.900 On average,

00:10:00.520 kids are now given their first smartphone

00:10:01.860 at the age of 10.

00:10:02.740 That means millions are getting them

00:10:04.000 at 9, 8, 7, even younger.

00:10:05.980 There's no valid reason for it.

00:10:07.800 Oh, you want to be able

00:10:08.340 to get a hold of your kid

00:10:09.240 at any moment?

00:10:09.820 Well, you know,

00:10:10.360 I think that's a bit excessive,

00:10:11.360 but fine.

00:10:12.040 Get him a flip phone

00:10:12.860 with no internet access.

00:10:14.740 They still sell those.

00:10:16.540 Why does he need a phone

00:10:17.320 with internet and apps

00:10:18.320 and games at the age of 8

00:10:19.380 or 10 or 11 or 12 or 13?

00:10:21.560 Why does he ever need one?

00:10:23.240 Why would you ever buy him one

00:10:24.520 before he has a job

00:10:25.400 and is able to buy it for himself?

00:10:26.640 Answer,

00:10:26.940 there is no good answer.

00:10:28.760 He doesn't need a smartphone.

00:10:29.980 No child in history

00:10:30.800 has needed a smartphone,

00:10:31.680 which is how so many children

00:10:33.220 manage to survive without them.

00:10:35.520 And I've had this discussion

00:10:36.280 with parents many times,

00:10:37.200 and the only justification

00:10:37.840 I've ever heard

00:10:38.660 is that,

00:10:40.200 well,

00:10:40.280 the world is different now,

00:10:41.440 and this is what kids do.

00:10:43.260 You know,

00:10:43.440 they all have phones.

00:10:45.140 Yeah,

00:10:45.300 it is what they do.

00:10:46.620 They do it

00:10:47.160 because we allow them to do it.

00:10:48.780 We don't just allow it,

00:10:49.700 we facilitate it,

00:10:50.520 fund it.

00:10:50.800 We make actual financial sacrifices

00:10:52.280 to ensure

00:10:53.160 that they can have this device

00:10:54.620 that will destroy their ability

00:10:55.780 to relate with other human beings

00:10:58.080 and have a normal childhood.

00:11:00.180 Why do we sit here as parents

00:11:01.600 acting utterly powerless

00:11:03.000 to exercise any influence

00:11:04.620 over the children we're raising?

00:11:06.540 Who runs your household? 1.00

00:11:08.220 Who owns everything

00:11:09.160 and makes all the money?

00:11:10.740 If you don't want your 10-year-old

00:11:11.740 to spend his entire childhood

00:11:12.760 staring lifelessly into the void

00:11:14.320 like some kind of lobotomy patient,

00:11:16.020 patient,

00:11:16.980 you have absolute power

00:11:18.280 to impose that desire on him.

00:11:20.900 Just don't buy him a phone.

00:11:21.980 It's very simple.

00:11:23.440 What's he going to do?

00:11:24.100 Beat you up? 0.85

00:11:25.300 Rob a bank

00:11:25.820 so he can buy one himself?

00:11:28.380 Well,

00:11:28.760 that would at least be

00:11:29.280 some form of physical activity.

00:11:31.360 So what are you afraid of?

00:11:32.860 Why are people so petrified

00:11:34.120 of not obeying

00:11:34.980 their child's every demand?

00:11:37.460 The only defense

00:11:38.600 of the phone itself

00:11:39.480 is that

00:11:40.000 maybe it won't be that bad.

00:11:41.920 Well,

00:11:42.140 if I oversee their phone habits,

00:11:43.660 maybe they won't be

00:11:44.440 completely addicted to it.

00:11:46.500 But they will become

00:11:47.580 completely addicted to it.

00:11:48.580 And anyway,

00:11:49.060 in that defense,

00:11:49.680 you have admitted

00:11:50.120 that nothing really good

00:11:51.420 or constructive

00:11:51.900 will come from the phone.

00:11:53.100 You've conceded

00:11:53.700 that it's a bad thing

00:11:54.600 by and large.

00:11:55.360 Your only hope

00:11:55.880 is that it won't be so bad.

00:11:57.980 So that's the answer,

00:11:59.020 a part of the answer,

00:11:59.800 a big part,

00:12:00.860 when it comes to social media's

00:12:02.140 effects on kids.

00:12:04.000 But the 60 Minutes report

00:12:05.340 never even mentions parents.

00:12:08.120 It never acknowledges

00:12:09.000 the possibility

00:12:09.780 that we might be

00:12:10.600 able to address

00:12:11.920 some of these problems

00:12:12.780 on our own,

00:12:13.380 in our own homes.

00:12:14.160 That's because

00:12:15.580 it's not interested

00:12:16.460 in solving problems.

00:12:18.100 Not the actual problems,

00:12:19.580 anyway.

00:12:20.660 It's interested only

00:12:21.880 in telling its story

00:12:22.860 and convincing us

00:12:24.420 to believe it.

00:12:25.820 And we need to all

00:12:26.700 be smarter than that.

00:12:28.180 now let's get to our

00:12:29.740 five headlines.

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00:13:41.020 A couple things

00:13:41.700 before we jump

00:13:42.160 into the headlines.

00:13:42.820 I saw this

00:13:44.580 just a second ago

00:13:46.340 that there was

00:13:47.940 a terrible tragedy,

00:13:49.600 a really unfortunate

00:13:50.460 situation,

00:13:51.000 where another

00:13:52.740 George Floyd statue

00:13:54.060 was vandalized.

00:13:56.580 There was,

00:13:57.200 it's not funny,

00:13:58.020 I would never

00:13:58.580 laugh about it.

00:14:00.840 It's more of a

00:14:01.600 nervous laughter,

00:14:02.640 you know,

00:14:03.000 because this is

00:14:05.740 not the first time

00:14:06.700 this has happened.

00:14:07.380 It's like every time

00:14:08.000 a George Floyd statue

00:14:08.800 goes up,

00:14:09.340 it's vandalized

00:14:10.000 very quickly.

00:14:12.960 And there's video,

00:14:14.240 there's a guy

00:14:14.600 skateboarding.

00:14:15.320 This was in

00:14:15.900 Union Square

00:14:16.920 in New York,

00:14:18.540 and it was

00:14:19.080 this big monument

00:14:20.520 to George Floyd,

00:14:22.520 you know,

00:14:22.800 the guy who

00:14:23.640 barged into

00:14:25.060 a woman's home

00:14:25.600 at gunpoint

00:14:26.480 and robbed her,

00:14:28.140 which is the only

00:14:28.980 significant thing

00:14:29.800 he ever did

00:14:30.320 in his life.

00:14:31.560 The only thing

00:14:32.300 that made any

00:14:32.680 real impact

00:14:33.240 was that.

00:14:33.780 He didn't do

00:14:34.060 anything else.

00:14:36.160 Just a,

00:14:36.800 you know, 0.82

00:14:37.000 a violent felon 1.00

00:14:37.720 and drug addict 0.99

00:14:38.220 and then he died.

00:14:39.640 And that's why

00:14:40.260 we have a monument

00:14:40.840 to him.

00:14:42.520 But,

00:14:42.860 so apparently

00:14:43.360 this skateboarder

00:14:44.400 guy was,

00:14:45.200 you know,

00:14:45.340 felt like

00:14:46.060 he wasn't

00:14:47.820 very happy

00:14:48.340 about the fact

00:14:48.900 that we have

00:14:49.160 this big monument

00:14:49.960 to this 0.95

00:14:51.620 violent felon

00:14:52.460 who contributed

00:14:53.000 nothing positive

00:14:53.840 to society

00:14:54.380 at all.

00:14:55.860 And so he

00:14:56.360 vandalized it

00:14:57.220 and it's all

00:14:57.560 on tape.

00:14:58.320 And,

00:14:58.380 man,

00:15:02.140 there are still

00:15:02.960 other monuments

00:15:03.560 out there of

00:15:04.040 George Floyd

00:15:04.420 that have not

00:15:04.780 been vandalized

00:15:05.360 yet.

00:15:08.380 And I would

00:15:09.060 never say

00:15:09.680 that if you

00:15:12.200 come across

00:15:12.640 any monument

00:15:13.340 or mural

00:15:13.900 of George Floyd,

00:15:15.020 you should do

00:15:15.340 exactly the same

00:15:16.000 thing.

00:15:16.260 I would

00:15:16.480 never say

00:15:16.920 that.

00:15:18.680 I would

00:15:19.260 never say

00:15:19.740 that.

00:15:20.780 I would

00:15:21.180 never say

00:15:21.660 it.

00:15:22.840 Okay?

00:15:23.920 And,

00:15:24.560 okay,

00:15:25.660 also,

00:15:26.120 one other

00:15:26.520 note,

00:15:26.800 I was in

00:15:27.120 D.C.

00:15:27.440 yesterday,

00:15:28.800 or this

00:15:29.140 past weekend,

00:15:30.860 and the

00:15:32.280 mask cultists

00:15:33.680 in D.C.

00:15:34.660 are just,

00:15:35.900 it's probably

00:15:36.640 the worst city

00:15:37.360 as far as

00:15:37.760 the mask cult

00:15:38.500 goes.

00:15:39.860 It's absolutely

00:15:40.640 out of control

00:15:41.340 there.

00:15:44.160 That's one

00:15:44.880 of those

00:15:45.100 places

00:15:45.420 where I

00:15:45.640 was actually

00:15:45.940 yelled at

00:15:46.360 by at least

00:15:47.000 one person

00:15:47.620 who said,

00:15:48.500 put your

00:15:48.700 mask on,

00:15:49.780 very simply

00:15:50.580 like that,

00:15:51.040 and then I

00:15:51.260 just said no

00:15:51.820 and kept

00:15:52.140 walking.

00:15:53.160 And I have

00:15:53.780 found the

00:15:54.200 simplicity.

00:15:55.160 I've worked

00:15:56.100 on different

00:15:56.520 responses in

00:15:57.260 these situations

00:15:57.880 where someone

00:15:58.320 said,

00:15:58.500 put your

00:15:59.380 mask on.

00:16:00.340 And there

00:16:00.720 are different

00:16:01.240 comebacks you

00:16:01.720 can come up

00:16:02.020 with,

00:16:02.220 but I think

00:16:02.500 the simplicity

00:16:03.160 of just saying

00:16:03.880 no,

00:16:04.720 and just keep

00:16:05.740 walking,

00:16:06.580 I find that

00:16:07.660 to be the

00:16:07.920 most powerful.

00:16:08.380 And it's

00:16:11.000 especially bad

00:16:12.020 now in

00:16:13.000 this,

00:16:14.600 this COVID

00:16:16.600 panic has

00:16:17.620 made elevators,

00:16:19.040 has turned

00:16:19.440 elevators into,

00:16:20.780 elevators were

00:16:21.360 already awkward.

00:16:23.380 And now that's

00:16:24.700 awkward on

00:16:25.520 steroids because

00:16:26.300 of COVID.

00:16:27.960 I don't know

00:16:28.280 how often you've

00:16:28.800 been on elevators

00:16:29.580 while this is

00:16:30.020 happening,

00:16:30.300 it kind of

00:16:30.560 depends where

00:16:30.960 you are

00:16:31.200 regionally.

00:16:33.280 But people

00:16:34.040 feel like they

00:16:34.540 have to ask

00:16:34.960 permission to

00:16:35.740 come on the

00:16:36.080 elevator with

00:16:36.660 you now.

00:16:37.900 If you get

00:16:38.460 on the

00:16:38.680 elevator without

00:16:39.480 asking,

00:16:42.080 that scene

00:16:42.780 now is a

00:16:43.160 social faux pas.

00:16:45.400 And so it's

00:16:45.660 sort of flipped

00:16:46.040 the other way

00:16:46.340 and I'm

00:16:46.500 starting to

00:16:46.880 enjoy it.

00:16:48.620 Because now I

00:16:49.220 get on an

00:16:49.540 elevator without

00:16:49.940 asking,

00:16:50.300 especially without

00:16:50.600 my mask on,

00:16:51.740 and the other

00:16:52.180 people on the

00:16:52.500 elevator will

00:16:52.880 crowd to the

00:16:53.640 other side,

00:16:54.540 like huddling

00:16:55.000 in a corner,

00:16:55.960 especially in a

00:16:56.480 place like D.C.

00:16:58.200 And I have

00:16:58.780 come to enjoy

00:16:59.280 that.

00:16:59.460 You have to,

00:16:59.920 I guess you

00:17:00.340 have to find

00:17:01.060 ways to enjoy

00:17:02.840 these sorts of

00:17:03.320 things.

00:17:04.120 Now,

00:17:04.440 I think on a

00:17:05.240 similar note,

00:17:05.880 Dr. Fauci,

00:17:06.660 was doing

00:17:08.560 an interview

00:17:08.880 as he so

00:17:10.660 often likes to

00:17:11.220 do, and he

00:17:11.480 was asked if

00:17:12.940 we might be

00:17:13.440 able to get

00:17:13.820 back to

00:17:14.300 normal, maybe

00:17:15.540 we'll be past

00:17:16.160 all this stuff

00:17:16.760 with the masks

00:17:17.380 and the

00:17:17.780 elevators and

00:17:18.220 everything, by

00:17:19.120 Christmas.

00:17:19.600 Can we get

00:17:20.060 back to

00:17:20.400 normal by

00:17:20.880 Christmas of

00:17:22.240 2021?

00:17:23.500 And if this

00:17:23.940 feels like

00:17:24.320 deja vu, we

00:17:25.040 were having

00:17:25.260 the exact same

00:17:25.840 conversation before

00:17:27.060 Christmas of

00:17:27.520 2020.

00:17:28.440 And back then

00:17:29.020 he said,

00:17:29.380 maybe we'll

00:17:30.220 see.

00:17:31.780 And fast

00:17:32.400 forward a year

00:17:32.960 and he's saying

00:17:33.460 the same thing.

00:17:34.000 Let's listen.

00:17:34.340 But we can

00:17:35.560 gather for

00:17:36.040 Christmas or

00:17:36.560 it's just too

00:17:37.020 soon to

00:17:37.360 tell?

00:17:39.500 You know,

00:17:40.180 Margaret, it's

00:17:40.980 just too soon

00:17:41.680 to tell.

00:17:42.200 We've just

00:17:42.520 got to

00:17:42.780 concentrate on

00:17:43.740 continuing to

00:17:45.040 get those

00:17:45.640 numbers down

00:17:46.520 and not try to

00:17:47.740 jump ahead by

00:17:48.620 weeks or months

00:17:49.500 and say what

00:17:50.420 we're going to

00:17:50.820 do at a

00:17:51.180 particular time.

00:17:52.360 So maybe we

00:17:53.460 could get back

00:17:53.960 to normal by

00:17:54.520 Christmas, which

00:17:56.540 is always funny

00:17:57.420 to those of us

00:17:58.060 who have been

00:17:58.420 normal since

00:17:58.920 last Christmas

00:17:59.540 and since

00:18:00.620 before that.

00:18:01.800 Those of us

00:18:02.240 who never

00:18:02.660 stopped living

00:18:03.100 a normal

00:18:03.320 life.

00:18:03.780 But what I

00:18:04.080 will say

00:18:04.540 is, now

00:18:06.920 I don't have

00:18:07.360 this experience

00:18:07.860 in my family

00:18:08.460 so I can't

00:18:08.880 relate to it.

00:18:11.200 Thankfully, all

00:18:12.880 the people in

00:18:13.280 my immediate

00:18:13.740 family anyway

00:18:14.500 are sane

00:18:15.820 people.

00:18:16.640 So I have

00:18:17.300 all sane

00:18:17.920 people in

00:18:18.320 my family

00:18:18.680 which is

00:18:18.940 very nice.

00:18:20.120 So no

00:18:20.800 one in my

00:18:21.240 family has

00:18:22.060 been waiting

00:18:22.740 around for

00:18:23.300 Fauci to

00:18:23.780 give them

00:18:24.060 permission to

00:18:25.500 gather together

00:18:26.180 for a family

00:18:26.800 reunion or to

00:18:27.700 get together

00:18:27.960 for the holidays.

00:18:28.460 No one's 0.64

00:18:28.740 been doing

00:18:29.000 that in my

00:18:30.080 family.

00:18:30.380 But if

00:18:32.260 someone in

00:18:32.620 your family

00:18:32.940 is still

00:18:33.540 doing that,

00:18:34.060 I don't

00:18:34.240 care who

00:18:34.560 it is.

00:18:36.260 If there's

00:18:36.820 someone in

00:18:37.160 your family

00:18:37.500 who's still

00:18:38.040 sitting there

00:18:38.500 waiting,

00:18:39.780 say, hey

00:18:40.040 guys, we

00:18:40.360 can't make

00:18:40.640 Christmas plans

00:18:41.260 yet because

00:18:41.680 Fauci hasn't

00:18:42.220 given us the

00:18:42.620 go-ahead,

00:18:44.460 then you're

00:18:44.920 better off

00:18:45.380 without them

00:18:45.980 at the family

00:18:46.560 gatherings anyway.

00:18:47.820 You've got to

00:18:48.380 be at a point

00:18:49.580 now where you

00:18:49.940 see this as a

00:18:50.480 blessing.

00:18:52.760 Because you've

00:18:53.920 just weeded out

00:18:54.720 the people who

00:18:55.400 are so mentally

00:18:56.640 and emotionally

00:18:57.240 unbalanced that

00:18:58.860 it's better not

00:18:59.720 to have them

00:19:00.280 there.

00:19:01.420 So I

00:19:01.960 wouldn't be

00:19:02.220 worried about

00:19:02.620 this at all.

00:19:04.400 Go do what

00:19:05.100 you want to

00:19:05.400 do.

00:19:05.520 If there's

00:19:05.800 anyone in

00:19:06.300 your family,

00:19:06.900 anyone who

00:19:08.020 still even

00:19:09.020 now is

00:19:10.640 hesitant about

00:19:13.380 getting together

00:19:13.960 with you because

00:19:14.660 Fauci hasn't

00:19:15.340 said so,

00:19:15.820 then it's

00:19:16.160 better off.

00:19:17.080 Just move

00:19:18.820 forward without

00:19:19.380 them.

00:19:20.260 You have no

00:19:20.760 choice now.

00:19:22.940 Also,

00:19:23.560 Fauci over the

00:19:24.240 weekend had

00:19:24.840 some thoughts

00:19:25.460 on your

00:19:28.300 responsibility

00:19:29.200 to society.

00:19:31.140 He had a

00:19:31.300 little bit of

00:19:31.560 lecture about,

00:19:32.540 and he's

00:19:32.740 been doing

00:19:33.000 this more

00:19:33.460 now,

00:19:34.100 how do we

00:19:34.460 balance

00:19:35.060 freedom versus

00:19:36.900 our responsibility

00:19:37.740 to society?

00:19:38.860 And he had

00:19:39.400 some more

00:19:39.700 thoughts about

00:19:40.140 that.

00:19:40.440 Listen.

00:19:41.700 But you

00:19:42.320 are a member

00:19:43.060 of society.

00:19:44.580 And as a

00:19:45.340 member of

00:19:45.820 society,

00:19:47.320 reaping all

00:19:48.120 the benefits

00:19:48.900 of being a

00:19:49.680 member of

00:19:50.080 society,

00:19:51.080 you have a

00:19:51.600 responsibility

00:19:52.300 to society.

00:19:54.160 and I

00:19:55.240 think each

00:19:55.800 of us,

00:19:56.540 particularly

00:19:57.040 in the

00:19:57.580 context of

00:19:59.160 a pandemic

00:19:59.820 that's

00:20:00.300 killing

00:20:00.920 millions of

00:20:02.520 people,

00:20:03.660 you have

00:20:04.260 got to look

00:20:04.900 at it and

00:20:05.380 say there

00:20:05.780 comes a

00:20:06.320 time when

00:20:07.800 you do

00:20:08.240 have to

00:20:08.780 give up

00:20:09.420 what you

00:20:10.500 consider your

00:20:11.300 individual

00:20:11.900 right of

00:20:12.860 making your

00:20:13.480 own decision

00:20:14.300 for the

00:20:15.480 greater good

00:20:16.020 of society.

00:20:17.620 Well,

00:20:18.460 no,

00:20:19.080 you don't.

00:20:20.280 That's the

00:20:21.000 exact opposite

00:20:21.720 of the

00:20:22.520 ideas that

00:20:23.180 lay at the

00:20:23.480 foundation of

00:20:23.980 this country.

00:20:25.040 It's the

00:20:25.420 exact opposite.

00:20:28.280 And he's

00:20:29.260 outright saying

00:20:30.160 that,

00:20:30.340 well,

00:20:30.580 give up your

00:20:31.360 freedoms and

00:20:32.300 your rights

00:20:32.660 for society.

00:20:36.460 And the

00:20:37.120 other problem

00:20:37.560 is,

00:20:37.780 you notice how

00:20:38.300 he's not

00:20:38.600 saying,

00:20:39.880 because on

00:20:40.300 the left,

00:20:40.720 they don't

00:20:40.920 have language

00:20:41.500 for patriotism.

00:20:43.400 So he's not

00:20:44.120 saying,

00:20:44.680 well,

00:20:45.100 give up your

00:20:45.560 rights for

00:20:46.020 the good of

00:20:46.400 the country.

00:20:48.360 I wouldn't

00:20:48.880 agree with

00:20:49.220 that either,

00:20:50.320 because especially

00:20:51.140 if you're

00:20:51.360 living in a

00:20:51.700 country that's

00:20:52.280 founded on

00:20:52.980 the notion

00:20:53.320 of human

00:20:53.640 rights,

00:20:54.700 you can't

00:20:55.100 give up your

00:20:55.540 human rights

00:20:56.040 for the good

00:20:56.600 of that

00:20:56.860 country,

00:20:57.880 because you're

00:20:58.320 undermining the

00:20:58.980 very thing it

00:20:59.520 was founded

00:20:59.900 upon.

00:21:01.220 So you're

00:21:01.780 destroying the

00:21:02.460 country for

00:21:02.980 its own good,

00:21:03.580 which doesn't

00:21:03.920 make any sense

00:21:04.400 at all.

00:21:05.640 But he's

00:21:07.060 not,

00:21:07.380 you notice how

00:21:07.900 they don't

00:21:08.320 say that.

00:21:08.800 He's not

00:21:09.040 saying it's

00:21:11.600 for the good

00:21:12.100 of the country

00:21:13.220 or even

00:21:15.560 like Western

00:21:16.220 civilization or

00:21:17.140 anything like

00:21:17.620 that.

00:21:17.900 It's just

00:21:18.300 this broad

00:21:19.080 kind of

00:21:19.480 amorphous

00:21:20.320 concept of

00:21:21.680 society.

00:21:23.960 What do you

00:21:24.700 even mean by

00:21:25.400 that?

00:21:25.500 What are you

00:21:25.740 referring to?

00:21:26.840 So we're

00:21:27.160 left with this

00:21:27.700 kind of

00:21:28.120 generalized

00:21:28.860 amorphous

00:21:29.640 idea of

00:21:30.460 society,

00:21:31.540 not the

00:21:31.800 country,

00:21:32.120 but society,

00:21:33.160 which of course

00:21:33.780 raises the

00:21:34.140 question of

00:21:34.520 what exactly

00:21:35.020 are you talking

00:21:35.460 about?

00:21:36.340 Our duty to

00:21:37.420 society in

00:21:38.600 general?

00:21:39.060 What precisely

00:21:40.200 are you referring

00:21:40.740 to?

00:21:41.820 And it doesn't

00:21:42.400 matter what he's

00:21:42.840 referring to,

00:21:43.480 because again,

00:21:44.300 in this country,

00:21:45.480 you don't sacrifice

00:21:46.760 your basic human

00:21:47.840 rights.

00:21:49.060 There's nothing

00:21:50.340 that's more

00:21:50.700 important than

00:21:51.100 that.

00:21:53.340 But even so,

00:21:54.760 you notice again

00:21:55.600 what the left

00:21:56.480 always does,

00:21:57.300 and it's

00:21:58.100 effective,

00:22:00.620 is they're

00:22:01.320 always framing

00:22:02.400 things around

00:22:03.400 the notion of

00:22:04.800 duty and

00:22:05.680 responsibility,

00:22:07.480 moral obligation,

00:22:09.700 calling you to

00:22:10.440 make sacrifices.

00:22:12.980 Now, they're

00:22:13.840 always calling you

00:22:14.620 to make the

00:22:14.980 wrong kinds

00:22:15.520 of sacrifices.

00:22:18.060 They're asking

00:22:18.780 you to sacrifice

00:22:19.380 the wrong

00:22:19.980 things for

00:22:20.980 the sake of

00:22:21.560 the wrong

00:22:21.900 things.

00:22:23.700 And their

00:22:24.360 ideas about

00:22:25.220 our moral

00:22:25.980 obligations are

00:22:26.760 completely twisted

00:22:27.580 and perverse.

00:22:29.520 And same for

00:22:30.420 our responsibilities

00:22:31.140 and our duties,

00:22:32.060 but that's

00:22:33.260 always the way

00:22:34.000 they frame

00:22:34.420 their messaging.

00:22:37.220 And it's

00:22:38.600 compelling to

00:22:39.380 people.

00:22:41.360 And this is

00:22:42.140 why I'm always

00:22:42.880 saying to the

00:22:43.420 right that we

00:22:44.080 need to pick

00:22:45.180 up on that

00:22:45.780 and realize,

00:22:46.360 because for

00:22:46.780 too long on

00:22:48.520 the right,

00:22:49.480 we've had this

00:22:50.280 idea that,

00:22:50.720 well, you

00:22:50.860 can't talk,

00:22:51.440 you know,

00:22:51.660 we don't want

00:22:52.120 to talk about

00:22:52.500 obligations,

00:22:53.100 responsibilities,

00:22:53.800 sacrifice,

00:22:54.200 because that's

00:22:54.480 scary to

00:22:55.060 people.

00:22:56.540 You know,

00:22:56.800 people don't

00:22:57.140 want to make

00:22:57.500 sacrifices,

00:22:58.380 so let's

00:22:58.940 just always,

00:22:59.580 let's talk

00:23:00.160 about nothing

00:23:00.620 but their

00:23:01.200 rights and

00:23:02.020 all of that.

00:23:05.300 But rights

00:23:06.020 and responsibilities

00:23:06.620 are two sides

00:23:07.960 of the same

00:23:08.360 coin.

00:23:08.900 You can't

00:23:09.260 have one

00:23:09.500 without the

00:23:09.860 other.

00:23:11.940 And this is

00:23:12.660 something that's

00:23:13.180 compelling to

00:23:13.620 people.

00:23:15.020 You call

00:23:15.720 people to

00:23:16.100 make sacrifices.

00:23:18.000 You talk

00:23:18.700 about what

00:23:18.980 their

00:23:19.080 responsibilities

00:23:19.560 are.

00:23:22.440 Especially

00:23:22.880 in our

00:23:23.240 society today,

00:23:24.360 where people

00:23:24.820 are lost

00:23:25.940 with no

00:23:26.580 sense of

00:23:27.020 purpose.

00:23:28.480 This is the

00:23:29.160 kind of

00:23:29.420 message they're

00:23:29.900 looking for.

00:23:31.560 And they

00:23:32.120 only get it

00:23:33.260 from the

00:23:33.560 left.

00:23:33.800 That's the

00:23:34.100 only place

00:23:34.580 they get

00:23:34.880 it.

00:23:36.940 Listen to

00:23:37.500 Alexandria

00:23:37.980 Ocasio-Cortez

00:23:38.800 speak,

00:23:40.060 or Bernie

00:23:40.780 Sanders,

00:23:41.840 or anyone

00:23:42.360 in the

00:23:42.680 squad,

00:23:43.180 when they

00:23:45.860 are arguing

00:23:47.520 in favor

00:23:48.000 of their

00:23:48.400 policies and

00:23:49.140 their

00:23:49.280 positions,

00:23:50.220 it's always,

00:23:51.620 well, we

00:23:52.000 need to do

00:23:52.300 this because

00:23:52.560 it's the

00:23:52.860 right thing.

00:23:54.340 Yeah, it

00:23:54.660 may require

00:23:55.120 sacrifices, but

00:23:55.940 we need to

00:23:56.280 do it because

00:23:56.580 it's right,

00:23:57.480 it's moral.

00:24:00.160 And still,

00:24:01.480 conservatives are

00:24:02.100 afraid to speak

00:24:02.700 in the same

00:24:03.080 language.

00:24:04.620 Which is a

00:24:05.340 shame because

00:24:06.000 we actually

00:24:07.140 are the ones

00:24:08.780 who have a

00:24:09.560 notion about

00:24:10.060 what our

00:24:11.020 real

00:24:11.620 responsibilities

00:24:12.220 as human

00:24:12.840 beings and

00:24:13.440 Americans

00:24:13.760 actually are.

00:24:16.600 And we

00:24:17.440 have, or

00:24:18.080 we should

00:24:18.500 have, an

00:24:20.160 understanding

00:24:20.760 of objective

00:24:21.840 moral truth.

00:24:22.640 and so we

00:24:25.400 could be the

00:24:25.780 ones representing

00:24:26.560 that.

00:24:27.460 What are our

00:24:28.680 actual moral

00:24:29.400 obligations?

00:24:31.460 I say this all

00:24:32.400 the time when it

00:24:32.760 comes to the

00:24:33.080 pro-life

00:24:33.380 conversation.

00:24:34.900 It amazes me

00:24:36.660 that when we're

00:24:38.820 talking about

00:24:39.240 abortion, why 0.93

00:24:39.760 abortion is 0.64

00:24:40.260 wrong, you

00:24:41.980 hardly ever

00:24:42.940 hear pro-lifers

00:24:44.680 say anything

00:24:45.580 about parental

00:24:46.480 obligation.

00:24:47.040 you almost

00:24:49.840 never hear

00:24:50.400 this.

00:24:50.660 You never

00:24:51.040 hear them

00:24:51.400 say, well,

00:24:52.660 you have a

00:24:53.620 responsibility to

00:24:54.200 your kids.

00:24:57.440 Yeah, I

00:24:58.120 understand you

00:24:58.760 don't want to

00:24:59.240 be responsible

00:24:59.660 for them, but

00:25:00.140 you are.

00:25:00.680 You have a

00:25:00.900 responsibility to

00:25:01.580 them.

00:25:03.640 It's a very

00:25:04.620 basic and

00:25:05.100 fundamental

00:25:05.340 message that

00:25:06.920 we're afraid

00:25:07.420 to say.

00:25:09.580 And so we

00:25:10.640 surrender all

00:25:11.640 that ground

00:25:12.140 and all that

00:25:13.200 language to

00:25:13.720 the left.

00:25:15.540 And they use

00:25:16.340 it effectively.

00:25:17.040 When you're

00:25:19.900 talking about

00:25:20.260 responsibilities and

00:25:20.900 obligations, it's

00:25:21.540 always going to

00:25:22.200 appear that you

00:25:22.980 have the stronger

00:25:23.820 position, you

00:25:24.920 have the more

00:25:25.320 serious position.

00:25:29.920 This has been

00:25:30.660 the trick for

00:25:31.580 communists for

00:25:35.080 decades and

00:25:35.640 decades.

00:25:38.580 You know,

00:25:38.800 communists are

00:25:39.380 always talking

00:25:40.140 about our

00:25:40.780 what's making

00:25:42.460 sacrifices for the

00:25:43.500 greater good,

00:25:44.460 our obligations to

00:25:45.880 society and to

00:25:46.920 our brothers and

00:25:47.920 sisters, our

00:25:48.600 comrades.

00:25:51.560 And that

00:25:52.320 stuff is very

00:25:54.280 compelling to a

00:25:56.320 lot of people,

00:25:56.700 especially young

00:25:57.140 people.

00:25:59.300 The Christian

00:26:01.040 churches that have

00:26:01.820 figured this out,

00:26:03.120 they reap the

00:26:04.600 rewards because you

00:26:05.980 go into these

00:26:06.660 really conservative,

00:26:08.740 serious Christian

00:26:09.620 churches, like

00:26:10.260 especially the

00:26:11.360 Latin Mass, if

00:26:12.740 you're Catholic, and

00:26:14.520 that's where you'll

00:26:15.020 actually hear

00:26:15.580 messages about

00:26:16.900 moral obligation.

00:26:17.960 And when you

00:26:18.280 look out in the

00:26:18.760 pews, what do you

00:26:19.240 see?

00:26:20.500 You see tons of

00:26:21.900 young families

00:26:22.840 there hungry for

00:26:23.880 that message.

00:26:26.300 All right, so

00:26:27.340 Kristen Sinema is a

00:26:28.580 Democrat senator from

00:26:29.440 Arizona.

00:26:30.060 She has upset

00:26:31.160 leftists because she's 1.00

00:26:32.020 not supporting Biden's

00:26:32.940 agenda all the way.

00:26:34.720 I'm sure you followed

00:26:35.420 some of that.

00:26:36.460 Don't need to review

00:26:37.660 all of it.

00:26:38.080 She's not showing

00:26:38.740 proper deference to

00:26:39.860 the leftist

00:26:41.020 agenda, and

00:26:41.400 they're mad at

00:26:41.800 her, so they 0.99

00:26:42.960 tracked her down at

00:26:43.920 Arizona State.

00:26:44.680 In fact, the day

00:26:45.580 before this, they

00:26:46.380 were at her house

00:26:47.060 with megaphones

00:26:48.560 harassing her, and

00:26:50.260 they felt like that

00:26:51.720 didn't get the

00:26:51.980 message through, so

00:26:52.840 they tracked her

00:26:54.140 down at Arizona

00:26:54.620 State, and they

00:26:56.720 caught her in the

00:26:57.300 hallway on the way

00:26:59.040 to the bathroom, and

00:27:00.420 they followed her

00:27:01.080 into the bathroom

00:27:01.800 to heckle her, and 1.00

00:27:04.900 let's listen to

00:27:05.420 some of that.

00:27:06.360 Okay, I'll be

00:27:07.720 back.

00:27:08.040 Actually, I am

00:27:11.900 heading out.

00:27:13.520 But right now is a

00:27:14.960 real moment that our

00:27:16.360 people need in order

00:27:17.160 for us to be able to

00:27:17.960 talk about what's

00:27:18.560 really happening.

00:27:19.740 We need a Build

00:27:20.520 Back Better plan

00:27:21.220 right now.

00:27:23.700 We knocked on doors.

00:27:25.200 We need solutions.

00:27:27.480 The Build Back Better

00:27:28.320 plan has the

00:27:29.960 solutions that we

00:27:30.760 need.

00:27:31.220 We knocked on

00:27:31.920 doors for you to

00:27:32.860 get you elected, and

00:27:33.980 just how we got you

00:27:34.780 elected, we can get

00:27:35.700 you out of office if

00:27:36.620 you don't support

00:27:37.360 what you promised

00:27:38.340 us.

00:27:39.100 We need 7 million

00:27:40.220 citizenship for 7

00:27:41.240 million.

00:27:42.060 We need the Build

00:27:43.720 Back Better plan

00:27:44.420 right now.

00:27:47.460 My name is Blanca.

00:27:49.140 I was brought here

00:27:49.880 to the United States

00:27:50.560 when I was three

00:27:51.180 years old, and in

00:27:53.020 2010, my grandparents

00:27:54.380 both got deported

00:27:55.440 because of SB 1070.

00:27:57.360 And I'm here because I

00:27:59.100 definitely believe that

00:28:00.200 we need a pathway to

00:28:01.220 citizenship.

00:28:02.140 My grandfather passed

00:28:03.180 away two weeks ago,

00:28:04.500 and I was not able

00:28:05.540 to go to Mexico and

00:28:07.100 visit him because there

00:28:08.140 is no pathway to

00:28:09.020 citizenship.

00:28:10.060 And if we have the

00:28:10.740 opportunity to pass it

00:28:11.740 right now, then we

00:28:12.900 need to do it because

00:28:13.700 there's millions of

00:28:14.660 undocumented people just 0.92

00:28:16.160 like me who share the

00:28:17.220 same story or even

00:28:18.540 worse things that

00:28:19.480 happened to them because

00:28:20.520 of SB 1070.

00:28:23.000 So these are, at least

00:28:24.340 one of them, is an

00:28:25.420 illegal alien tracking a

00:28:28.440 sitting U.S.

00:28:29.360 senator into the

00:28:30.040 bathroom.

00:28:31.780 Now, you can only

00:28:34.280 imagine the reaction if

00:28:35.640 this was a member of

00:28:36.640 the squad, let's say.

00:28:38.180 This is Alexandria

00:28:38.980 Ocasio-Cortez.

00:28:41.280 I mean, think about

00:28:41.800 some right-wing

00:28:43.120 protesters who are

00:28:44.380 upset at Alexandria

00:28:45.320 Ocasio-Cortez.

00:28:48.360 And they find her in

00:28:50.000 the hallway.

00:28:50.560 They don't even have

00:28:50.920 to follow her into the

00:28:51.600 bathroom.

00:28:52.580 If they just followed

00:28:53.480 her down the hallway 0.98

00:28:54.340 for 10 feet and said,

00:28:57.040 Congresswoman, can we 0.87

00:28:57.660 talk to you?

00:28:58.080 That would be enough

00:28:58.640 right there.

00:28:59.040 That would be another

00:29:00.240 insurrection.

00:29:02.260 And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

00:29:03.680 would be doing

00:29:04.120 Instagram live videos

00:29:05.280 about it and crying and

00:29:06.460 saying how she almost

00:29:07.040 died and telling wild

00:29:09.160 stories about how they

00:29:10.000 came after her with,

00:29:10.860 you know, nunchucks and

00:29:12.400 spears.

00:29:14.460 And that's if they just,

00:29:15.840 think about them

00:29:16.540 following her into the

00:29:17.800 bathroom and she's in 1.00

00:29:20.120 the stall and they're

00:29:20.940 yelling at her and

00:29:22.540 there's a guy in there

00:29:23.260 too.

00:29:24.720 A guy came into the

00:29:25.920 bathroom.

00:29:26.220 Now, you can only

00:29:30.880 imagine the response

00:29:32.340 from the media, but in

00:29:34.800 this case, it's Sinema,

00:29:36.600 who is also a Democrat,

00:29:38.140 but she's being harassed 0.84

00:29:39.580 by people who are

00:29:41.160 further to the left

00:29:42.520 than she is.

00:29:44.800 And the basic rule,

00:29:45.980 of course, is that

00:29:46.600 whoever's further to the

00:29:47.520 left is always right.

00:29:48.420 And so these people are

00:29:50.660 being, are being

00:29:51.700 defended for the most

00:29:53.640 part by lots of people

00:29:55.960 on the left and in the

00:29:57.540 media.

00:29:59.140 Meanwhile, one of these

00:29:59.960 people confesses to being

00:30:01.220 an illegal immigrant.

00:30:04.500 Now, in what other

00:30:05.440 country could you get

00:30:06.180 away with that?

00:30:07.920 In what other country

00:30:08.740 could you be there

00:30:11.000 illegally and then track

00:30:14.000 down a government

00:30:14.920 an official on video

00:30:16.860 and confess on video

00:30:19.440 to being there

00:30:19.860 illegally and then

00:30:20.720 harass them in a

00:30:21.620 bathroom and the 0.98

00:30:24.800 next day you're still

00:30:25.460 in the country?

00:30:28.620 What other nation,

00:30:29.600 maybe I should ask,

00:30:30.340 what other non,

00:30:31.120 what non-Western

00:30:32.380 nation, let's see,

00:30:34.080 I could see that in

00:30:34.940 plenty of European

00:30:35.600 countries, but in what

00:30:36.420 non-Western country

00:30:38.400 could you do that?

00:30:40.540 Can you think of a

00:30:41.000 non-Western country

00:30:41.860 where I could go there

00:30:42.600 illegally, find one of

00:30:44.500 their government

00:30:44.820 officials and start

00:30:46.840 harassing them and 0.51

00:30:48.620 demanding that they

00:30:49.240 make me legal,

00:30:50.480 follow them into a

00:30:51.120 bathroom?

00:30:52.680 Deportation would be

00:30:53.280 the least of my

00:30:54.160 worries if I did that.

00:30:57.520 But here, you know,

00:30:58.860 she's, the next day

00:30:59.900 she's painted as a

00:31:00.600 victim.

00:31:01.820 If we were a serious

00:31:02.900 country, that night

00:31:06.160 she would have

00:31:06.940 immigration officials

00:31:08.300 at her door 0.99

00:31:09.320 carting her butt 1.00

00:31:10.820 back to Mexico. 1.00

00:31:12.080 That's what they

00:31:12.500 would be doing in a

00:31:13.100 serious country.

00:31:13.620 you're here

00:31:14.640 illegally, you're 0.95

00:31:16.060 harassing a government

00:31:16.860 official in the

00:31:17.380 bathroom, and you're

00:31:18.860 also recording them in

00:31:19.620 a bathroom, which last

00:31:20.500 time I checked, recording

00:31:21.740 someone in a bathroom

00:31:22.820 against their consent is

00:31:24.520 a crime.

00:31:26.680 That's what a serious

00:31:27.520 country would do, but

00:31:28.320 we're not a serious

00:31:28.880 country.

00:31:30.820 And so she's allowed to

00:31:31.820 get away with this.

00:31:32.440 And she's also allowed to

00:31:33.220 get away with it,

00:31:33.780 she's allowed to get away

00:31:37.580 with it fundamentally

00:31:38.520 because the belief on

00:31:40.680 the left is that if

00:31:41.960 you're not fully on

00:31:44.840 board with the agenda,

00:31:46.800 then you, you're not

00:31:49.880 worthy of any basic

00:31:51.400 respect or dignity or

00:31:52.620 anything.

00:31:54.660 There's no treatment of

00:31:56.140 you that could be

00:31:56.920 considered too harsh or

00:31:58.360 out of bounds.

00:31:59.140 You deserve all of

00:32:00.380 it.

00:32:01.920 By the way,

00:32:03.840 let's see,

00:32:06.860 someone else, this is

00:32:07.920 Sofia Marjinovich, who

00:32:10.500 is, I guess, one of the

00:32:12.040 people who was involved

00:32:13.760 in this altercation, and

00:32:15.300 she posted on Facebook

00:32:16.340 talking about this, and

00:32:18.020 she said,

00:32:18.360 I will speak about the

00:32:19.520 controversy regarding

00:32:20.400 following Senator Sinema

00:32:21.960 into the bathroom when I

00:32:22.800 have the time.

00:32:23.900 None of you have a right

00:32:24.580 to tone police my

00:32:25.760 desperate demands for

00:32:27.120 labor protections after

00:32:28.240 what I have endured as a

00:32:29.260 human trafficking survivor

00:32:30.180 due to the effed up gig

00:32:31.940 economy.

00:32:32.920 For now, connect with the

00:32:34.000 fact that you are on

00:32:34.920 stolen indigenous land,

00:32:36.600 and indigenous women and 1.00

00:32:37.540 children go missing and

00:32:38.860 murdered because we don't

00:32:39.900 have access to stable

00:32:40.800 jobs, stable housing,

00:32:41.720 clean water, clean food,

00:32:42.720 or stable decent health

00:32:43.760 care, despite the fact

00:32:44.420 that indigenous people have 0.60

00:32:45.220 upheld our end of the

00:32:46.160 treaty in assimilating and

00:32:47.060 getting educated.

00:32:47.580 Arizona is among the

00:32:48.880 top three states in the

00:32:49.640 U.S. where indigenous

00:32:51.160 women and children go 0.52

00:32:52.000 missing and murdered.

00:32:53.360 Give my indigenous

00:32:54.040 relatives to the south of

00:32:55.240 the U.S.-Mexican border

00:32:56.160 citizenship now.

00:32:59.580 Now, I'm not sure what

00:33:02.040 she means by a human

00:33:03.140 trafficking survivor

00:33:04.920 because of the gig

00:33:05.980 economy.

00:33:07.540 Is she saying that she

00:33:08.380 was in the gig economy

00:33:09.360 and that's tantamount to

00:33:10.620 human trafficking, I

00:33:11.400 suppose?

00:33:14.080 But here we go back to

00:33:15.160 this stolen land

00:33:17.340 idea, which doesn't

00:33:22.720 make any sense.

00:33:23.760 You're saying that this

00:33:24.420 entire country is

00:33:26.160 illegitimate, it's 0.99

00:33:27.940 stolen, and therefore

00:33:30.840 you demand that people

00:33:32.220 be made official citizens

00:33:34.040 of this illegitimate

00:33:35.380 government on this

00:33:36.100 illegitimate land that we

00:33:36.980 don't belong on in the

00:33:37.580 first place?

00:33:38.020 So you want more people

00:33:42.300 to come in and take

00:33:43.380 advantage of this, all

00:33:44.580 this stolen land and the

00:33:46.300 stolen, you know,

00:33:48.760 rewards that we're

00:33:49.560 reaping?

00:33:49.920 That doesn't make sense to

00:33:51.100 me, but of course it's not

00:33:51.760 supposed to make sense.

00:33:54.100 This is an emotional

00:33:55.340 temper tantrum. 0.97

00:33:57.920 And they feel entitled.

00:33:58.840 I mean, this again, also

00:34:00.200 the speed with which

00:34:04.540 people develop this sense

00:34:06.000 of entitlement after

00:34:08.140 getting to this country is

00:34:09.260 really amazing.

00:34:12.140 People come here and

00:34:13.540 immediately feel entitled

00:34:15.220 to everything.

00:34:18.600 You know, there was, I

00:34:19.300 don't think we ever talked

00:34:19.920 about this, but there was

00:34:21.760 one of the Afghan, a few

00:34:23.780 weeks ago, one of the

00:34:24.600 Afghan refugees on a 1.00

00:34:27.140 military base who had

00:34:27.920 been saved from his

00:34:29.060 country, brought over

00:34:29.740 here, you know, arms

00:34:32.460 extended open, even if

00:34:35.420 not everybody feels that

00:34:36.260 way, but the government

00:34:36.800 anyway extended it, and

00:34:37.960 he was brought over here

00:34:38.740 and he had some posts that

00:34:40.540 went viral on Twitter

00:34:41.260 because he was

00:34:41.740 complaining about the

00:34:43.320 meals that he had been

00:34:44.020 given.

00:34:45.900 You know, he's brought,

00:34:46.720 he's brought out of his

00:34:47.440 country, brought to this

00:34:48.340 country, offered a home,

00:34:51.980 and as soon as he gets

00:34:54.000 here, he's complaining

00:34:54.860 because the meals at the

00:34:56.720 refugee, you know, the

00:34:58.740 military base that they're

00:34:59.500 giving the refugees, not 1.00

00:35:00.500 good enough.

00:35:01.640 It's not enough.

00:35:02.800 Oh, and also he complained

00:35:03.600 that the Wi-Fi speed was

00:35:04.680 too slow.

00:35:06.900 It's farcical, really.

00:35:10.200 And this has become, you

00:35:11.640 know, I talk all the time

00:35:12.380 about as Americans, what

00:35:13.960 unifies us, what brings us

00:35:15.960 all together.

00:35:18.360 We talk about if we are one

00:35:20.120 country, what is it that

00:35:23.660 ties all of us together?

00:35:26.280 Aside from the fact that we

00:35:27.180 all live in the same

00:35:27.780 geographical sort of basic

00:35:29.960 region of the globe.

00:35:32.140 Especially when we can't,

00:35:33.000 we can't rely on that

00:35:33.700 distinction anymore because

00:35:34.480 the borders don't exist.

00:35:37.420 And what is it?

00:35:38.580 And we hold no real value,

00:35:41.080 we have no values in common.

00:35:42.400 If there's anything that

00:35:45.000 ties everyone together or

00:35:46.000 most people in this country

00:35:46.640 together, it's the sense of

00:35:47.500 entitlement.

00:35:49.900 All right, finally, this is

00:35:51.060 from Yahoo.

00:35:52.160 I just love the way that

00:35:52.940 this is written.

00:35:53.740 It says, criminal charges

00:35:54.820 were filed against

00:35:56.320 Teresha Lucas, a 30-year-old

00:35:58.560 black woman, in an unexpected 0.63

00:36:00.080 turn of events.

00:36:01.600 This week, authorities in

00:36:02.560 Georgia revealed they

00:36:03.420 believe a black woman is 1.00

00:36:04.600 behind the racially charged

00:36:05.880 notes that have been

00:36:06.940 terrorizing her neighborhood.

00:36:08.600 Since last December, a

00:36:09.700 Douglasville, Georgia

00:36:10.620 neighborhood has been

00:36:11.740 gripped in fear due to

00:36:13.320 racially charged messages

00:36:14.340 that have anonymously

00:36:15.400 been left in mailboxes of

00:36:17.580 residents of color.

00:36:18.980 But now officials say

00:36:19.800 police said that they

00:36:21.060 have made an arrest and

00:36:21.820 the alleged culprit is

00:36:22.840 not who anyone would

00:36:24.360 have expected.

00:36:25.940 Wednesday, the

00:36:26.560 Douglasville Police

00:36:27.340 Department confirmed that

00:36:28.360 they had filed criminal

00:36:29.340 charges against Teresha

00:36:30.360 Lucas.

00:36:30.780 Lucas is a 30-year-old

00:36:31.540 black woman who they 0.67

00:36:32.680 believe threatened people 0.96

00:36:33.520 in her community while

00:36:34.260 posing as a Ku Klux Klan

00:36:36.020 member.

00:36:37.400 In an unexpected turn of

00:36:38.440 events, okay, I already

00:36:39.860 read that part.

00:36:40.860 Let's see, there was

00:36:41.600 another funny part here.

00:36:43.580 In the notes, threats

00:36:44.960 were made to burn down 0.97

00:36:47.520 homes and kill their 1.00

00:36:48.380 occupants. 0.99

00:36:48.860 The author of these

00:36:50.000 disturbing messages also

00:36:50.960 made it a point to

00:36:51.680 describe themselves as a

00:36:53.560 six-feet-tall white male

00:36:55.140 with a long red beard who

00:36:57.080 did not live in the

00:36:57.800 neighborhood.

00:37:00.540 Shouldn't that have been

00:37:01.760 your first clue that

00:37:03.640 something is slightly

00:37:04.860 amiss here for all these

00:37:06.420 residents who are

00:37:07.240 allegedly terrified?

00:37:09.920 Well, the first clue is

00:37:11.040 that you're getting the

00:37:11.660 racist notes from a KKK

00:37:13.280 member in the first place

00:37:14.440 when there are, you know,

00:37:16.100 like seven KKK members in 0.86

00:37:17.800 the entire country and

00:37:19.080 they're all in some

00:37:19.600 basement somewhere.

00:37:20.280 They're not leaving any

00:37:20.960 nasty notes on anybody's

00:37:22.120 doorstep.

00:37:24.160 So that's your first clue.

00:37:26.160 And your second clue is

00:37:27.200 that like every single

00:37:28.580 racist note that's been

00:37:30.100 written in the last 25

00:37:31.420 years has been a hoax.

00:37:34.880 I'm still waiting for an

00:37:36.060 example of one real one.

00:37:37.160 But then, if that's not

00:37:41.260 enough to get through to

00:37:41.960 you, the fact that this 0.93

00:37:44.060 racist Ku Klux Klan member

00:37:46.820 would describe themselves in

00:37:48.280 the note, says a bunch of

00:37:51.200 racist stuff and then signs 0.80

00:37:52.380 it, a six-foot-tall racist 0.98

00:37:54.680 white man with a long red 1.00

00:37:57.040 beard.

00:37:58.080 P.S. I don't live in this

00:37:59.140 neighborhood.

00:38:00.700 P.P.S. I am not the black 0.96

00:38:02.400 woman three doors down. 1.00

00:38:04.420 That is not me.

00:38:07.520 And yet this neighborhood

00:38:08.500 was gripped in fear.

00:38:09.920 And then Yahoo News says

00:38:11.020 that the outcome that

00:38:15.680 anyone who's been paying

00:38:16.560 attention would expect is

00:38:19.000 unexpected.

00:38:20.080 Who could have ever seen

00:38:21.080 this coming?

00:38:21.540 Besides literally everyone

00:38:22.960 with a brain.

00:38:24.000 All right, let's read now

00:38:25.100 from the YouTube comments.

00:38:27.600 Who's rocking polka dot and

00:38:29.560 flannel shirts without shame?

00:38:32.060 Do you know their name?

00:38:36.680 They're the sweet baby gang.

00:38:40.940 Okay, so the good Texan says

00:38:43.000 Matt Walsh does not own a

00:38:44.360 stove, oven, or microwave

00:38:45.660 because canceling is a dish

00:38:47.240 best served cold.

00:38:49.500 That's actually true.

00:38:51.080 I don't, we, well, we have a

00:38:52.600 stove and an oven, but we

00:38:53.360 actually do not own a

00:38:55.200 microwave at all.

00:38:56.540 And this has been a point of

00:38:58.880 contention in my house.

00:39:02.200 We went through a period

00:39:03.140 without a microwave because

00:39:03.980 ours broke or something and

00:39:04.840 we were just too lazy to get

00:39:05.600 a new one.

00:39:06.840 And my wife, I guess, got,

00:39:10.720 just liked the idea of this.

00:39:12.360 This was one of our, this

00:39:13.420 is like a small protest against

00:39:14.640 modern society, I guess.

00:39:17.100 And everyone has to have at

00:39:18.400 least that one modern

00:39:19.220 convenience that they don't

00:39:20.180 use so they can brag about it.

00:39:22.080 And so, and so microwaves

00:39:24.560 became our thing.

00:39:25.500 I didn't want them to be our

00:39:26.400 thing.

00:39:27.060 I really like microwaves.

00:39:29.580 And, but, but so it's, it's,

00:39:31.420 it's a constant argument in

00:39:32.380 our house.

00:39:32.840 My wife just refuses to put a 0.99

00:39:34.540 microwave in the house.

00:39:35.360 So we, so for that reason,

00:39:36.300 you're actually right about

00:39:36.940 that.

00:39:40.180 All right.

00:39:41.740 This is from, this guy's the

00:39:43.740 limit.

00:39:44.760 Says Matt, thought you

00:39:45.760 deserve to know Planet Fitness

00:39:46.920 is a gym for snowflakes.

00:39:48.920 They don't allow customers to

00:39:50.180 bring water over a certain

00:39:51.240 volume.

00:39:52.240 A gallon is gym-timidating,

00:39:54.020 they say.

00:39:55.020 They have lunk alarms, which

00:39:56.200 go off of a lifter grunts or

00:39:57.720 makes too loud a noise.

00:39:59.580 They have donut and pizza

00:40:00.640 days to celebrate the

00:40:01.640 milestones you've made.

00:40:03.260 If you want to cancel, you

00:40:04.280 have to send in a handwritten

00:40:05.220 letter to top it off.

00:40:06.380 I once asked another customer

00:40:07.520 after about two weeks of

00:40:08.520 attending, if he knows where

00:40:09.780 there's a scale.

00:40:10.400 And he said, do you not know

00:40:11.780 they don't have scales at

00:40:12.700 Planet Fitness because it may

00:40:13.580 offend people?

00:40:15.780 Well, I'm not going to take

00:40:18.020 this kind of slander of one

00:40:20.780 of our great sponsors.

00:40:22.080 which is Planet Fitness.

00:40:24.200 And listen, I've been to

00:40:24.980 Planet Fitness.

00:40:25.740 I know they have the lunk

00:40:26.800 alarm.

00:40:27.240 I've never seen it go off.

00:40:29.240 And if they do use it, they

00:40:30.480 have good reason to use it.

00:40:33.140 Don't be a lunk at the gym,

00:40:35.240 whatever exactly that is.

00:40:37.580 Let's see.

00:40:38.680 Another comment says, Matt, you

00:40:39.900 said that you haven't seen a

00:40:40.620 great film in several years.

00:40:41.900 What about The Green Book or

00:40:43.160 1917?

00:40:44.160 I haven't seen The Green

00:40:44.620 Book, but I have seen 1917.

00:40:46.220 And that was a few years ago.

00:40:48.040 I think it's just been a few,

00:40:48.820 I said it's been a few years

00:40:50.400 since I've seen a great movie.

00:40:51.760 And that might be the most

00:40:52.960 recent great one that I've

00:40:53.960 seen.

00:40:56.020 I thought 1917 is a very good

00:40:58.480 film and war film.

00:41:00.700 And what I like about it as a

00:41:01.960 war movie is the simplicity of

00:41:05.620 it.

00:41:07.540 Because these days, you know,

00:41:09.260 two of my favorite genres, my

00:41:10.540 two favorite genres, war films and

00:41:12.340 westerns.

00:41:12.920 And the problem with Hollywood

00:41:14.180 now is they think that if they

00:41:16.100 make either of those kinds of

00:41:17.260 movies, they have to kind of

00:41:18.620 like, especially with westerns,

00:41:19.940 this is a problem, but you see

00:41:20.840 with war movies too, they feel

00:41:22.080 like they have to deconstruct the

00:41:23.540 genre and they have to do all

00:41:24.740 these groundbreaking things

00:41:26.560 rather than just make the movie

00:41:28.320 and tell the story within the

00:41:29.960 constructs of that genre.

00:41:32.640 But 1917, they don't do that.

00:41:35.340 It's a war film.

00:41:36.200 It's a very simple story, but

00:41:37.320 also a compelling one.

00:41:39.340 And yeah, that's a great one if

00:41:40.320 you haven't seen it.

00:41:42.220 Let's see.

00:41:42.720 Michael says, I like ties and

00:41:44.320 all, but who the hell was the

00:41:45.400 first person to decide to hang

00:41:47.160 fabric around their neck and

00:41:48.680 also said it looked good?

00:41:50.880 Yeah, I don't like ties at all.

00:41:52.140 This is why women need to stop 1.00

00:41:53.480 complaining about, say, well,

00:41:55.100 women are, you know, we have 1.00

00:41:56.100 childbirth and everything.

00:41:57.100 Okay.

00:41:58.520 You have childbirth, allegedly.

00:42:01.100 I mean, I'm told these days men

00:42:02.100 can give birth too, so I'm not 0.67

00:42:02.960 even sure if that's true.

00:42:03.780 But even for the sake of

00:42:06.860 argument, let's say only women can 1.00

00:42:08.060 give birth.

00:42:09.060 So you've got that.

00:42:09.700 Okay.

00:42:09.880 That is a burden you have to

00:42:11.840 carry.

00:42:12.880 I don't envy that.

00:42:15.540 In fact, I quite enjoy the fact

00:42:18.120 that I'm not the one who has to

00:42:19.200 carry children and give birth to

00:42:20.520 them.

00:42:21.160 But think about it, formal

00:42:23.120 occasions.

00:42:25.520 You know, you can wear outfits that

00:42:28.620 are appropriate for the season.

00:42:31.740 You know, you can take a look

00:42:32.640 outside, look at the weather, look

00:42:33.800 at the temperature and say, oh,

00:42:34.860 this is what I'll wear.

00:42:36.040 You know, it's hot out.

00:42:36.680 I'll wear something a little bit

00:42:38.160 lighter.

00:42:39.160 But for us, we only have, for

00:42:40.900 formal occasions, we just have the

00:42:41.860 one thing.

00:42:42.420 We only have one option, and it's a

00:42:43.960 suit.

00:42:44.980 So at a minimum, we're wearing two

00:42:46.540 layers.

00:42:47.660 If it's 112 degrees outside,

00:42:49.260 doesn't matter.

00:42:50.400 And you've got to wear the tie around

00:42:53.040 your neck, choking yourself half to

00:42:54.200 death. 1.00

00:42:55.820 That's a cross we bear, ladies.

00:42:57.120 You don't know anything about that.

00:42:59.900 Let's see.

00:43:00.460 This is from Todd.

00:43:05.340 What did you think of the Ravens

00:43:06.540 padding their stats at the end of

00:43:07.880 the Broncos game yesterday?

00:43:09.380 Classless move.

00:43:10.380 Oh, I thought it was great.

00:43:11.220 Yeah, the Ravens played the Broncos

00:43:12.500 yesterday, and they had the game

00:43:14.720 fully in the bag.

00:43:16.660 They had won the game.

00:43:17.380 There was about three seconds left

00:43:18.260 of the game, and they were up by

00:43:19.520 like two scores, and they had the

00:43:20.480 ball.

00:43:20.920 You know, in football, the tradition

00:43:22.340 is if in a situation like that, you

00:43:24.780 just take a knee, let the clock run

00:43:26.000 out.

00:43:26.320 You don't keep running plays because

00:43:27.560 you've already won the game.

00:43:28.340 Well, the Ravens had a record on the

00:43:31.260 line where they were one away from

00:43:34.980 tying the Steelers with the most

00:43:37.400 100-yard rushing games in a row.

00:43:39.280 They had like 42. 1.00

00:43:40.160 The Steelers in 1970-something had

00:43:42.120 43, and so they were one away.

00:43:44.580 And at this point in the game, they

00:43:46.020 had 97 yards rushing.

00:43:47.840 And so the head coach, John

00:43:48.860 Harbaugh, ran a play to try to get

00:43:51.420 those extra yards to get the record,

00:43:55.000 and they did it.

00:43:55.700 They got five yards and got the

00:43:56.680 record.

00:43:56.900 And there's been complaints about

00:43:58.200 that.

00:43:58.460 Oh, it's classless.

00:43:59.580 Yeah, I don't want to hear about

00:44:00.380 that, especially from other players

00:44:02.660 and coaches complaining about it.

00:44:04.960 You play a game for a living, number

00:44:07.520 one.

00:44:08.460 Number two, if you don't like it,

00:44:09.720 stop them.

00:44:11.040 So I don't believe in that, taking a

00:44:12.520 knee.

00:44:12.960 You play to the whistle.

00:44:15.980 That's it.

00:44:18.160 And let's see.

00:44:20.480 Oh, Maximilian says, Matt, your sweet

00:44:22.160 babies are worried you haven't given

00:44:23.820 us an update on Pooh for months.

00:44:27.260 Yeah, well, Maximilian, I haven't

00:44:28.320 talked about it because it's too

00:44:29.160 painful.

00:44:30.900 All right.

00:44:31.520 My guy, Pooh Shiesty, is in jail.

00:44:34.580 He's facing federal charges.

00:44:38.560 Do you want to bring this up now,

00:44:40.420 this traumatic thing for me, in the

00:44:42.420 middle of the show?

00:44:44.140 And they're trying to pin everything

00:44:45.300 on him.

00:44:47.100 I mean, Pooh would never hurt a fly.

00:44:48.600 Certainly he would never steal drugs

00:44:51.100 from a fly, and that's what they're

00:44:52.320 claiming he did. 0.98

00:44:52.840 It's ridiculous. 0.62

00:44:55.040 I mean, where would a fly even keep 0.93

00:44:56.180 drugs to begin with?

00:44:57.000 So the whole thing's a mess.

00:44:58.180 It's a setup.

00:45:00.260 And they're trying to take Pooh

00:45:01.520 Shiesty down.

00:45:03.600 Do you want to see me cry?

00:45:05.000 Is that what this is about, Maximilian?

00:45:06.980 I'm not going to give you that

00:45:07.760 satisfaction.

00:45:09.600 You're banned from the show.

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00:46:13.240 Let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:46:20.200 So for our Daily Cancellation today, 0.99

00:46:21.500 we have an onion of stupid with 1.00

00:46:23.800 layers that we must peel our way 1.00

00:46:25.400 through one by one.

00:46:26.280 We start with a priest by the name of

00:46:27.780 Thomas Reese, who a few days ago

00:46:30.180 shared an article from Religion News

00:46:31.840 titled, Why Our Preferred Pronouns for

00:46:34.640 God Should Be They.

00:46:36.940 Now, if you know anything about these

00:46:37.920 matters, you've already guessed that

00:46:39.080 Reese is a Jesuit.

00:46:39.920 He's also an author with a large

00:46:41.980 social media following.

00:46:42.900 The article in question was written

00:46:44.060 by a guy named Mark Silk, who is,

00:46:45.940 according to his bio, the professor

00:46:47.720 and director of Greenberg Center for

00:46:49.280 the Study of Religion in Public Life

00:46:50.860 at Trinity College, as well as an

00:46:52.740 editor for Religion News.

00:46:54.240 Now, he begins his screed writing,

00:46:56.880 he says, quote,

00:46:57.980 Writing last week in the New York

00:46:59.080 Times, linguistic professor John

00:47:00.540 McWhorter waxed enthusiastic about

00:47:02.920 the advent of they as our all-purpose 1.00

00:47:04.980 third-person singular pronoun.

00:47:07.580 Now, we'll get back to the blasphemy in 0.99

00:47:08.860 the first article in just a moment,

00:47:09.900 but I want to take a step to the side

00:47:11.680 here to read a few lines from that

00:47:12.900 New York Times article first, as it

00:47:14.780 apparently inspired the other one.

00:47:16.480 That piece is titled, Gender Pronouns

00:47:18.300 Are Changing, It's Exhilarating.

00:47:20.900 And this alleged linguistic professor

00:47:22.560 writes,

00:47:23.540 The other day I had occasion to use

00:47:24.820 the pronoun they in the new way,

00:47:26.420 referring to a specific person, not

00:47:27.900 your grandfather's singular they with

00:47:30.140 its generic meaning.

00:47:31.860 A student can hand their paper in early

00:47:33.680 if they want to, but they as in

00:47:36.020 Roberto wants a haircut, and they also

00:47:37.940 want some highlights.

00:47:39.660 I wangled it.

00:47:41.580 Wangled.

00:47:42.600 I don't know what that means, but it

00:47:43.780 required a bit of conscious effort.

00:47:45.660 Pronouns sit deeply in our cognition,

00:47:47.800 used constantly and bound by habit.

00:47:50.120 It's their turn to use the kite, don't

00:47:51.840 you think?

00:47:53.180 I said, thinking consciously about my

00:47:54.880 sentence in a way that I don't have to

00:47:56.580 usually.

00:47:57.540 I know some find it wearying.

00:47:59.520 Why does language have to change all

00:48:00.940 the time, with all we have to think

00:48:02.120 about?

00:48:02.740 But we're not unique.

00:48:04.120 There are times when the language

00:48:05.300 firmament shifts under people's feet,

00:48:06.820 and they get through it.

00:48:08.260 And then he goes through a number of

00:48:09.300 examples of times when language has

00:48:10.760 changed in the past, insisting that this

00:48:12.660 is no different.

00:48:13.680 And he wraps it up this way, he says,

00:48:15.280 They tell you mountains become sand,

00:48:17.200 but you never get to see it.

00:48:18.640 Language change happens faster, and you

00:48:20.480 actually get to witness it.

00:48:22.540 It's something to treasure.

00:48:24.540 Yes, you see, it is in fact a great

00:48:25.920 privilege to have a bunch of people with

00:48:27.940 blue hair and nose piercings make up

00:48:29.780 new rules of grammar on the spot and

00:48:31.880 demand that you follow them.

00:48:32.760 It is exhilarating and majestic, like

00:48:35.200 watching mountains become sand.

00:48:37.620 Granted, some of the people in this

00:48:38.780 group may have the girth of mountains,

00:48:41.080 but the comparison still seems like a

00:48:42.820 stretch.

00:48:43.460 And anyway, I'll have more to say about

00:48:44.620 the, you know, in response to that.

00:48:45.940 But first, let's get back to Mark Silk

00:48:47.580 over at Religion News, who, in his

00:48:49.800 article, inspired by this New York Times

00:48:51.920 piece, writes, quote,

00:48:53.420 In contrast to being humans, it has long

00:48:55.980 been accepted that God is not gendered,

00:48:58.200 at least within the main Abrahamic

00:49:00.440 theological tradition. A phrase such as

00:49:02.720 God the Father should be treated as a

00:49:04.260 metaphor. And for those concerned about

00:49:06.080 the embedded misogyny of the tradition,

00:49:07.860 to say nothing of post-binary folks, a

00:49:09.860 deeply problematic one. As a result, we

00:49:12.100 have been faced liturgically as well as

00:49:13.600 theologically with the imperative of

00:49:15.420 gender-neutral language, which means

00:49:17.340 being obliged to repeat the word God,

00:49:19.400 where a gendered pronoun would normally

00:49:20.760 be used, and to have recourse to the

00:49:22.640 unattractive neologism God-self, lest,

00:49:25.620 God forbid, we find ourselves saying

00:49:27.280 himself. They, theirs, them, and

00:49:29.720 themself, or maybe themselves, solves

00:49:31.680 the problem. As in, praise God for whom

00:49:34.240 all blessings flow. Praise them, all

00:49:36.340 creatures here below, etc.

00:49:38.420 Alright, now that we have the whole

00:49:39.740 picture here, confused as it is, a few

00:49:42.240 responses. First, on the issue of

00:49:45.000 language evolution in general, we must

00:49:47.400 continue to note that this pronoun stuff

00:49:49.140 is not a natural evolution. It's true

00:49:52.260 that language changes over time. Language

00:49:54.740 is fluid in that way. Language is a

00:49:57.240 symbol. It's a sound meant to represent

00:49:59.020 something. You could argue that language

00:50:01.520 is fundamentally arbitrary in that way.

00:50:03.920 We say elephant to talk about elephants

00:50:05.420 and camels to talk about camels, but

00:50:07.120 things could have worked out so that we

00:50:08.520 say camels to talk about animals we now

00:50:10.500 call elephants and elephants for camels.

00:50:12.880 There's no reason why we had to use the

00:50:14.580 particular sounds we used to represent

00:50:16.220 those animals. That's just how it worked

00:50:17.940 out. That's why language can shift and

00:50:20.280 change over time. That's true. Now, in the

00:50:22.660 Times article, many examples are given of

00:50:24.840 past shifts in language. It's argued that

00:50:28.360 what we're experiencing today is just

00:50:30.120 more of the same. But it's not. It's very

00:50:32.800 different. Because most changes in

00:50:35.180 language happen relatively organically.

00:50:38.120 Due to a wide combination of influences,

00:50:40.300 people begin to slightly adjust the

00:50:41.920 verbal symbols they use for certain

00:50:43.780 things, and eventually the official

00:50:44.920 grammatical rules, as written in grammar

00:50:47.060 textbooks and so forth, will change also.

00:50:49.220 But they change descriptively, not

00:50:51.160 proscriptively. They are describing and

00:50:53.520 codifying a change that is already

00:50:55.120 underway. What's happening with

00:50:57.580 pronouns is not like this. Rather, it's a

00:50:59.440 top-down change. The grammar rules are

00:51:02.240 being changed proscriptively. Our culture

00:51:05.660 elites have decided for ideological

00:51:07.180 reasons that we ought to be using

00:51:08.580 different words, and they plan to

00:51:10.240 berate and scold and punish us until we 0.95

00:51:11.920 comply. This is not a natural evolution

00:51:14.480 of language. This is an intentional

00:51:15.800 manipulation of language, which is a

00:51:17.780 very different thing. So just look what

00:51:19.540 they're doing with the made-up,

00:51:20.720 nonsensical word latinx, or Latinx.

00:51:24.580 Nobody in that community uses the word

00:51:26.080 or likes it, and yet the cultural

00:51:27.740 elites keep using it and pushing it and

00:51:29.380 pushing it, hoping that eventually

00:51:30.740 people will submit and start adopting

00:51:32.720 it in daily use. If and when that day

00:51:35.020 happens, they'll then turn around and

00:51:36.380 say, look at that, language evolved.

00:51:38.760 But calling that natural evolution is

00:51:40.420 like injecting drugs into a lab rat and

00:51:42.260 calling it natural evolution when it

00:51:43.620 grows a third ear. Now, there have been

00:51:46.240 other examples of this kind of unnatural

00:51:47.740 imposed evolution of language. The

00:51:49.580 Times piece mentions a few, like when

00:51:50.940 African-American became the preferred 1.00

00:51:52.400 term in the 90s to supplant black, and

00:51:55.200 then we went back to black again, which 0.93

00:51:56.620 was then replaced by people of color,

00:51:58.400 which is considered politically correct,

00:51:59.660 while colored people is horrifically 1.00

00:52:00.840 racist. All of that is arbitrary and 0.98

00:52:02.940 ludicrous, and it's mostly the result of 0.58

00:52:04.580 cultural elites, again, telling us what 0.79

00:52:06.340 words we should be using. And yet even

00:52:08.660 this isn't as bad as the pronoun changes,

00:52:10.620 because in this case, the verbal symbols

00:52:12.640 to describe a certain reality are being

00:52:15.540 changed. But with the pronouns, they wish

00:52:17.680 to change the symbols and the thing

00:52:20.240 that's being symbolized. The point of

00:52:23.460 making pronouns fluid and genderless is

00:52:25.680 to give the impression that people are

00:52:27.900 fluid and genderless. They're not just

00:52:30.200 trying to change the way we describe

00:52:31.760 things, they're also trying to change that

00:52:34.240 which is being described. Overall, you

00:52:36.480 know, language is supposed to convey

00:52:37.940 meaning. Language, if it changes, is

00:52:40.100 supposed to change in order to make

00:52:41.480 meaning more clear. But in this case,

00:52:43.060 language is changing in order to make

00:52:44.540 our meaning more obscure. That's the

00:52:46.140 difference. And it's a pretty big

00:52:47.640 difference. And that brings us to the

00:52:49.480 issue of God's pronouns. Notice how the

00:52:51.820 article refers to our preferred

00:52:53.560 pronouns for God. That's instructive

00:52:55.580 because the author doesn't seem concerned

00:52:56.880 with God's preferred pronouns for

00:52:58.500 himself. On that end, if you're an

00:53:00.500 adherent to any of the Abrahamic

00:53:01.680 religions, there's no question about

00:53:02.960 it. God prefers to be referred to as

00:53:04.800 he. That's how his book refers to

00:53:07.200 him. That's what his prophets call

00:53:09.440 him. And if you're a Christian, you

00:53:11.160 know that the Son of God, emphasis on

00:53:12.540 Son here, not only called God

00:53:14.920 Father, but also was himself a him. It's

00:53:18.440 true that God has no biological sex

00:53:20.300 because God created biological sex. He

00:53:22.120 created biology. He transcends male or

00:53:24.460 female. He does. We don't. And yet God 0.94

00:53:28.120 wants us to understand his relationship

00:53:29.800 to us as that of a father to his

00:53:31.760 children. Do I fully understand what

00:53:33.200 that means? Can I fully comprehend that

00:53:35.640 cosmic analogy? No. Neither can you. But

00:53:38.220 that's what God has told us and that's

00:53:40.040 what he's given us. I find it quite

00:53:42.400 telling that according to some people

00:53:43.680 like the writer of this article and the

00:53:45.000 priest who shared it, we should respect

00:53:47.120 everybody's preferred pronouns except

00:53:48.880 for God. For him, we can impose our own

00:53:52.220 onto him. We have our preferred pronouns

00:53:55.760 for him rather than respecting the ones

00:53:57.700 that he prefers for himself. Because

00:54:00.400 that's what all of this is really about

00:54:01.580 in the end, isn't it? It's about putting

00:54:03.740 us at the center and what we want at

00:54:06.100 the center rather than subjecting

00:54:08.320 ourselves to any greater truth like

00:54:11.180 God or even like grammar. And that's

00:54:14.540 why everyone associated with that

00:54:16.740 article, they're all canceled. And we'll

00:54:20.280 leave it there for today. Thanks for

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