Ep. 817 - Gay Superman Defeats Climate Change And Racism
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In our culture s never-ending quest to turn literally everything gay, it was only a matter of time before it set its eyes on Superman. Today on the Matt WIlliams Show, we re confirming our longstanding suspicion: Superman has come out as gay.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, confirming our longstanding suspicion, Superman has come out
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as gay. Yet another iconic character has been inducted into the LGBT community. We're told
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that this is all about creating greater representation for supposedly marginalized
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groups, but I think there's something else going on and I'll explain. Also, parents at Loudoun County
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call for the superintendent to resign after the school district covered up the rape of a girl in
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a school bathroom. We'll talk more about that very important story today. And the Chicago Police
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Department is having trouble recruiting new cops. Big crisis in the city. I wonder why that's
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happening. Plus, Lego commits itself to combating gender stereotypes, which is a very important
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thing. We'll talk about that and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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In our culture's never-ending quest to turn literally everything gay, it was only a matter
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of time before it set its eyes on Superman. As the many celebratory news articles inform us,
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DC comic writer Tom Taylor has just written and will soon release a new Superman comic,
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wherein the iconic superhero will find himself in a gay relationship with a male pink-haired journalist.
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And this is actually, if you look at it one way, a pretty conservative move by DC. I figured that by
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now we, you know, would have a Superman who's non-binary rename him Super Them. But instead
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of Super They, we'll have to settle for Super Gay, I suppose. CNN has more on this breaking story. It
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says, quote, in an upcoming issue of a new Superman series, the Man of Steel enters into a queer
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relationship. The fifth issue of the DC comic series Superman Son of Kal-El will confirm that the
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new Superman, John Kent, child of Clark Kent and Lane, is bisexual after falling for Jay Nakamura,
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a male reporter. The Superman Son of Kal-El series follows Kent as he becomes Earth's new Superman
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and grapples with the immense weight of his new gig. Nakamura, a bespectacled writer with a bubblegum
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pink mop, first appeared in the series' third issue as a shoulder for Kent to lean on when the business
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of being Superman got too rough. But in the forthcoming fifth issue, Kent falls for the journalist
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after he, quote, mentally and physically burns out from trying to save everyone that he can,
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according to DC. The particulars of this issue's plot are to be revealed in November, but images
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from the comic show, Kent and Nakamura sharing a kiss and sitting together atop a building,
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their legs dangling off the edge. So Superman also has anxiety issues on top of it. And this move comes
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just months after Robin over in Gotham City came out as gay as well. Not a huge shock there, admittedly.
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The DC universe also features a lesbian batwoman and various other members of the LGBT community who
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have been shoehorned into various comic storylines. Pretty soon, you know, the Justice League will be
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the Alphabet League, I guess. And of course, the superheroes of this new generation, they don't
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just show off their woke credentials through their homosexual encounters. They also are focused on
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fighting a different kind of villain. So here's Tom Taylor, the guy who came up with gay Superman,
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on CNN, talking about the sorts of issues that Superman will be involved in now. Listen.
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And it struck me as it would be a real opportunity lost if we had another, we had Clark Kent replaced by
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another straight white savior. So here was an opportunity to create a Superman who could represent
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a whole new group of people. And I think that was one that we had to leave them.
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And we'll be addressing modern day issues like?
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Like the climate crisis, like refugees. John, in the last issue, has just been arrested,
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attending a protest, trying to stop the refoundment of asylum seekers. He does 45 minutes of hard time,
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is how he puts it. But as a stand, it's a very powerful thing. And yes, so this is one of the
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things for him. He is trying to work out who he is, who he is as Superman, who he is as John Kent.
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And so us as the writer and everybody at DC Comics is watching him go through this process of finding
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Okay, so this is a gay environmentalist Superman. I think the creators of Captain Planet should
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really sue for plagiarism, if you ask me. I do wonder how Superman will fight climate change
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exactly. Will he like beat up the sun, maybe engage in hand-to-hand combat with the weather,
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dropkick a cloud? I mean, how does that work exactly? And the thing is, that would be exciting
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to watch, if a little bit confusing, I suppose. But it sounds like Tom Taylor has
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more earthbound ideas in mind, like having Superman attend political demonstrations.
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You know, kids can now flip excitedly through the pages of their favorite comic book,
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watching Superman hold signs and shout slogans, and then go home and start a hashtag campaign to
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raise awareness. His kryptonite is a frowny face emoji. In the final climactic battle,
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he defeats Lex Luthor by reporting him to Twitter for hate speech. I guess that's the way it's going to go.
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So, now, you know, it's easy to make fun of this kind of thing, and we should make fun of it.
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But we shouldn't let the fantastic absurdity distract us from the underlying agenda, which
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is more sinister than anything gay Superman will be fighting against in the new comics.
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We can all look around and clearly see that gay and trans characters and storylines are being
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injected into everything, from comics to movies to TV shows. Even the most iconic and enduring
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characters are forced to undergo this kind of conversion therapy. And we know that the
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conversion is only ever allowed to go one way, right? White, straight characters can be made
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non-white or non-straight. But if non-white, non-straight characters are made white or straight,
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it's a hate crime. And everybody responsible must be fired and then dragged into the town square
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and stoned to death. That's the way it works now. But we're told this is all a matter of representation,
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right? The left says that all these identities must be rammed into every story because audience
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members who share that identity deserve to be represented. Tom Taylor made this claim in that
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same CNN interview. Let's listen to that. I promise he will punch a robot. That's just a
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guaranteed. He will come up against Lex Luthor in our upcoming annual. All those things are part and
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parcel of Superman. And this is just something extra that that very important symbol can now
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represent. And I have to say, having seen the reaction today, having seen online what it's
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meant to people, I've seen so many messages from all over the world in so many different languages,
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people saying that they saw this news and burst into tears. People saying that they never thought
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that they would be able to see themselves in Superman. That they wish other people who, older people,
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older people, have said they wish they had this growing up. And they're so happy that younger
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people or people who haven't come out yet have this today. By the way, keep this in mind, this kind
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of thing in mind. Because the other thing that we hear from the left, and I'll probably get this
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too, because I'm doing this segment right now, when some of this inevitably ends up on Media Matters.
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But there goes, oh, the conservative media making a big deal about bisexual Superman. Isn't that so
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ridiculous? Why do you care so much? They do that whole thing. Meanwhile, CNN is doing a news segment
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on it, bringing the creator of Gay Superman to come on and talk about how people are reduced to tears of
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joy over the fact that there's a bisexual Superman. So they can make a big deal. They make a big deal
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about it on the left and tell us that it's a big deal. I mean, it's breaking news. We're talking about
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it on CNN. People are crying tears of joy. They're overcome with feelings of ecstatic emotions
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because of it. That's how big of a deal it is. But if you say, all right, fine, it's a big deal.
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I agree. It's socially, culturally relevant. But I have an issue with it. I have a criticism. And
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here it is. The moment you do that, then they say, well, what are you making a big deal of it for?
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Well, you're the one who told us it's a big deal. We're taking you at your word on that.
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Now, if this was all true, that this is really about representation, it would only be more evidence
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of the increasing narcissism of our age. I mean, the whole idea that we must be represented in a
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story in order to connect with it or understand it is fundamentally self-centered. Part of the beauty
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of storytelling, what we love about a good story or should love about it, is that we can become
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absorbed in it and forget about ourselves to some extent. That's what people mean when they talk
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about escapist entertainment and all entertainment is or should be escapist to some degree. We all live
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every day absorbed in our own stories. That's what we spend most of our time thinking about is our own
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stories. But when you're reading a book or watching a film, et cetera, the beauty is that you're
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becoming invested in somebody else's story, not your own. The demand that you must see yourself
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reflected in it, that everything must be a mirror showing you back to yourself, ultimately defeats
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the purpose and only fuels more of the narcissism that causes this problem to begin with. It's true
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that we should be able to relate to the characters and stories, but we should be able to relate to
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them because of what the characters say about the universal human condition. I mean, when I read
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Dostoevsky, for example, I don't feel represented by the characters in the way that people mean
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representation these days because the characters are all a bunch of 19th century Russians.
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But I do feel represented only in the sense that they're dealing with moral dilemmas and searching
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for deeper truths just as I do and we all do. I mean, I can relate to that because I'm a human being.
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That's the kind of representation that matters, but it's not the sort of representation that we
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always hear about. And anyway, this is all irrelevant because it's not what's going on here.
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They aren't turning all the characters gay in an effort to represent gay people. The percentage of
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gay and trans characters on TV and in comics now far exceeds the percentage in the general population.
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If this was truly a matter of representation, they'd have stopped by now. I mean, we'd say,
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okay, well, we've got proper representation here. It's a small minority. The general population
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should be a real small minority on the screen if it's just about representation, but it's not
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because the point behind adding the gay characters and especially making a character like Superman gay
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is not to merely represent an identity, but to present an ideal. Okay. They're saying to the audience,
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especially to children in the audience. And the comic book audience is still mostly kids.
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Although there are far too many adults that are in the audience as well. But what they're saying to
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the audience is this is the ideal way to be. They want to erase straight white male characters
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because the people doing the erasing despise straight white male people. That's the point. I mean,
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you heard it there from the guy who created the character. Oh, we don't want another straight
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white male saying it with disgust. So they wish to create a society. You know, they don't want all
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the straight white male people in society. They want to create a society filled with different sorts of
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people. And the so-called representation is one way of pushing that agenda.
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And we know that also because it always comes with, it's not as though, okay, you've made Superman gay
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and, but then he continues along just being Superman, doing Superman things and the gayness and his,
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his, uh, his sexual attraction is just, you know, it's a, it's a minor detail. But other than that,
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I mean, he's fighting Lex Luthor and he's doing all this. That's not what they do. It comes in a package
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where, okay, now he's focused on refugees and he's focused on fighting climate change. And of all the
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villains turn into straight white male conservatives, you know, whereas that used to be the hero. Now it's
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the villain. So it all comes in one package. And that's the point in all of these stories, whether
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they're doing it in comic books or they're doing it in Hollywood, on TV and media, it's about presenting
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an ideal to the audience. This is how you should be. Even if you can't fly around like Superman,
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this is the ideal way to be. And that's the point. Even if, of course, they'll never, ever be honest
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backstage live at the Ryman, which was pretty surreal in a lot of ways. Huge crowd there. I think we were
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at capacity. I think it was 2,800 people or something like that. And Sweet Baby Gang, I got to
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tell you, Sweet Baby Gang was there in force. People showing up in the t-shirts. They were also
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selling the t-shirts for $57 as well. And people were buying them. It wasn't quite that much, but it
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was still a lot of money. People were buying the t-shirts and Sweet Baby Gang was there. And I feel a
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certain, honestly, I'm wracked with guilt today because I feel as though I did fail the Sweet Baby
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Gang because I never gave a shout out explicitly to the Sweet Baby Gang from the stage at the Ryman.
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And I wanted to. I was waiting for my opening and I never found the segue. And I realized as we were
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kind of wrapping up and Jeremy was wrapping things up that the segue wasn't going to come. And I thought
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now's my opportunity. I got to jump in right here at the end. I got to ruin the ending. And I, but I,
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but I didn't. At the last minute, I decided not to. So I, you know, I take responsibility for that.
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I do. But still, I know the Sweet Baby Gang was there. I could feel, I could feel the force and the
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energy. And so, you know, it was a lot of fun. And then we had, you know, before, before the,
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the event, we had our VIP meet and greet, which was kind of a receiving line. And I think there was
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350 people in line. And, you know, we all took pictures with, with each person, 350 people in a
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row. And I, you know, I have to say, I know I talk about how, you know, I'm an, I'm an introvert.
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So I don't necessarily enjoy those kinds of, I, I, I, I don't mind being, I prefer to be on stage.
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I don't necessarily enjoy those kinds of interactions as much. I mean, I've, I've admitted
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that, but I thought I was being pretty jovial by my standards. You know, I was making, I had the
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small talk down with each person. It's like 350 people in a row. And so I had the brief little
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small talk exchanges down. We were talking about the weather. No, it's hot out there for October.
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What is this? July? Am I right? You know, that kind of thing. And, but people kept coming up to
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me even still and saying like each person that came up would console me saying, oh, this is,
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this will be over soon. Don't worry about it. They were consoling me because I was being forced to
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meet them. That's what I thought. Am I really giving off those vibes? I thought, I thought I'm doing
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pretty well here. But that's just, that's, I guess I can't, I can't overcome that. Those are,
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that's just me. That's just my, that's my aura. Um, and then we had, uh, and then it was also
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really good starting off the event. We had the booming let's go Brandon chant from the entire
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audience. Um, which I gotta say the, we haven't talked about the let's go Brandon thing very much
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on this show. Um, I think it's a great innovation. I think it's hilarious. It's one of the most clever
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things I think that conservatives have come up with. It's a, it's a small thing, but it's very
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clever because of what, because of what it allows you to do. Cause of course we all know what we're
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really saying with let's go Brandon. And I want to say one other, one other thing about that,
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about the let's go Brandon thing, because you hear criticisms of this, uh, even from some
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conservatives who say, well, you know, I'm not a big fan of let's go Brandon or of the more vulgar
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version of the same thing. Uh, we, we, we, we shouldn't be doing that. Even if we are,
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even if we're critics of Joe Biden, we shouldn't be doing that because we should have more respect
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for the office. And so at backstage last night, when the entire audience is, is chanting, let's go
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Brandon, we are showing a lack of respect for the office of the presidency. That's the criticism
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anyway. And, uh, I don't find that criticism compelling at all. I gotta tell you.
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And I'll tell you why, because I don't think it's our job as citizens to show respect for the office
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of the presidency. I'm not even sure exactly what that would mean. I mean, what do you mean with
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show respect for the office? It's the, he's the president. This is not royalty. These are supposed
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to be public servants. They're politicians. So what exact reverence do you want for the office itself?
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I think when it, when it comes to showing respect for the office of the presidency,
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that responsibility falls to the person holding that office. They're the ones who are supposed to
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show respect for it. And if, and if the president, the person holding the office shows respect for the
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office themselves, then I will show respect for them. Okay. You have to earn, if you're a politician,
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you have to earn the respect of the population. You have to earn the respect of the citizens.
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We're not going to grant it to you just by nature of the fact that you hold the office.
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Joe Biden has shown no respect for his own office. So why should we respect it?
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When he abuses the powers of his office, when he stands up there and admits and says, I don't have
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the authority to do this thing that I'm about to do. And then he does it. Well, that is showing a
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total lack of respect for the office, what the office is supposed to be, for the actual responsibilities
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of that office, for the limits of the power that that office grants you. So he has desecrated it.
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If it is a thing that can be desecrated to begin with, he shows no respect for it.
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I think in, in, in America, you know, our real response, when it comes to corrupt politicians,
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we should treat them with no respect at all. I think if anything, there's, there's still too
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much respect for corrupt and incompetent politicians. We should have zero respect for them.
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Every single day we should get up and say to these so-called public servants who are supposed
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to be serving us. I mean, that's in theory, that's what it's supposed to be, right? We're
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supposed to be the bosses. So we should get up every day and say to them, okay, you, you earn
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All right. So speaking of people who have not earned any respect in the office that they hold,
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here's this from Fox News. It says more than 60 concerned parents, students, and residents spoke
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at the Loudoun County school board meeting Tuesday evening with many demanding the resignation of
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Loudoun County superintendent, Scott Ziegler, in the wake of allegations that the school district
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covered up two alleged sexual assaults. Parents attended the school board meeting with signs urging
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Ziegler to resign. Parents pointed to two alleged sexual assaults, the first of which the victim's
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father claims took place on May 28th. This is from the Daily Wire report, which we, which
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we talked about yesterday. We talked about it on the backstage show as well. The father says
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his ninth grade daughter was assaulted in the bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt. Elizabeth Lancaster,
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the attorney for the father of the alleged victim, said the boy was charged with two counts
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of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio.
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The sheriff's office says, told Fox News, we can confirm a May 28th, 2021 case that involved a
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thorough two-month-long investigation that was conducted to determine the facts of the case
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prior to the arrest. This case is still pending court proceedings. The Loudoun County Sheriff's
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Office is not able to provide any documents that pertain to a pending case. At a June 22nd board
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meeting, Ziegler declared, quote, that the predator transgender student or person simply does not
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exist. And that to his knowledge, quote, we don't have any record of assaults occurring in our
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restrooms. So that's what he said on June 22nd. He said, there's no record of any assaults occurring
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in restrooms. Meanwhile, on May 28th, there was this alleged assault that was already making its way
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through the legal system that police had been made aware of. Are we supposed to believe that
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Ziegler, the superintendent? I mean, a girl was allegedly violently, brutally raped
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in a bathroom during school hours, and we're supposed to believe that Ziegler didn't know about it?
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Well, that's impossible to believe. I mean, it's just, it's impossible to believe.
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So we can look at this. I don't think we have to say it's an alleged cover-up by the school board.
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It's a cover-up. This horrible thing happened, allegedly, and you denied that it happened at
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all. That's what a cover-up is. And we could say that even without all the other details that we get
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from the father about how, when he went to the school after this happened, when they called him to
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come in, and they told him they want to keep it in-house. Even without that, you've got clear
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indication, proof of a cover-up, and the superintendent denies that it happened, when he had to know about
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it. So school board meeting was yesterday, and let's play, this is from Fox, as some of the clips
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here of the parents trying to hold the school board accountable for this cover-up. Let's listen.
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The 80-40 policy was rushed through to a vote without consideration for the safety of all
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students, simply to satisfy a political agenda. Your moral compasses are busted. You, Dr.
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Ziegler, and our school board, every one of you are complicit in these crimes against our
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children because you did nothing about it. What is worse than a child being raped at school,
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the cover-up by those who are entrusted with the safety and well-being of children?
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I warned you about policies that you were putting into place that would be a danger to our students,
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and we've seen that happen. When is enough is enough? When are you going to change the
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This is not China. This is the United States of America, and we will not be silenced. You are liable
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for these injustices. Remove the superintendent immediately, and then resign for your negligence
00:25:17.840
I am 14 years old. The fact that I have to be here to fight for my rights to not have a
00:25:22.340
more radical agenda shoved down my throat in school is not only concerning, it's upsetting.
00:25:27.920
The last one there, it's hard to hear exactly what's being said, and that's all by design. I mean,
00:25:39.000
that's why they have to wear the masks. The masks function, in this case, as literal muzzles. That's why
00:25:46.780
they require them to put them on. I mean, there's no other audience in the room.
00:25:53.740
They're standing. They're given 60 seconds to address the school board with nobody within 15
00:26:00.900
feet of them. They can't take the mask off. They can't take it off for 60 seconds so that
00:26:06.060
they can speak and be understood. No, they can't take it off because they want the words to be
00:26:13.060
muffled. These despicable, gutless, scumbag cowards will do everything they possibly can.
00:26:23.740
To avoid any kind of accountability whatsoever.
00:26:28.720
But these Loudoun County parents, they continue to put on a clinic
00:26:34.440
that other parents across the country should really follow. There's a model here that's being
00:26:41.240
presented. And I obviously saw it for myself when I became a resident of Loudoun County and when I was
00:26:48.560
there. But they've got it organized. They know exactly what they're doing. And now, because
00:26:53.940
they're only given 60 seconds to speak out about the cover-up of a violent rape of a girl in a
00:27:01.540
bathroom during school hours, they're only given 60 seconds to talk about it. What it means is that
00:27:06.440
then you just need, you need 30, 40 parents in a row hitting on this same topic because they only
00:27:13.740
get 60 seconds. And if you all stay on the same topic and you stay on message, then
00:27:20.040
cumulatively, you've spoken about it for 40 minutes, 50 minutes.
00:27:24.500
And that's exactly what they're doing. And I hope they continue to do it.
00:27:47.200
All right, let's move next to Janet Yellen, Treasury Secretary.
00:27:55.880
We have discussed the proposal by the Treasury Department, by the Biden administration
00:28:03.040
to monitor all bank accounts with transactions that are $600 or more. So if you, you know,
00:28:13.140
$600 enters your, your checking account or leaves your checking account at any point over the course
00:28:19.480
of a year, then the IRS wants to know about it. And they want to have direct access to your account
00:28:24.100
so they can monitor all of that, um, all of that information and all of that data.
00:28:30.420
Now, Janet Yellen on CBS being asked about this again, and she says, no, no, no, no, no,
00:28:36.480
this is, this is not an invasion of privacy. And if you're just a normal middle-class person,
00:28:42.680
this, this isn't even about you. Uh, this is really about high-income people and billionaires.
00:28:52.080
You want banks to report transactions of $600 or more. That's what the IRS wants.
00:28:59.060
Does this mean that the government is trying to peek into our pocketbooks? If you want to look at
00:29:06.060
Absolutely not. I think this proposal has been seriously mischaracterized. Um,
00:29:11.680
the proposal involves no reporting of individual transactions of any individual. Look, the big
00:29:21.380
picture is that we have a tax gap that over the next decade is estimated at $7 trillion,
00:29:28.920
namely a shortfall in the amount that IRS is collecting due to a failure of individuals to
00:29:38.540
report the income that they've earned. But that's among billionaires. Is that among people who are
00:29:43.320
transferring $600? No, it tends to be among high-income individuals whose income is opaque and the IRS
00:29:52.860
doesn't receive information about it. If you earn a paycheck, you get a W-2, the IRS knows about it. But
00:30:01.100
high-income individuals with opaque sources of income that are not reported to the IRS. There's a lot of tax
00:30:10.060
fraud and cheating that's going on. And all that's involved in this proposal is a few aggregate numbers
00:30:18.880
about bank accounts, the amount that was received in the course of a year, the amount that went out in the
00:30:25.340
course of the year. So am I showing, um, am I failing to show respect for the office of the Treasury
00:30:33.160
Secretary if I say that, you know, Janet Yellen is a lying, obfuscating clown? I don't, I don't know if
00:30:40.260
that's another office that I'm supposed to respect the Treasury Secretary. She certainly doesn't have any
00:30:46.200
respect for us. And I don't, I don't, I don't just mean that she has no respect for our rights or our
00:30:52.640
privacy. Obviously she doesn't. Um, she has no respect for our intelligence. She, she thinks that
00:30:59.760
we're all a bunch of, you know, sub 75 IQ morons that we would buy what she just said there. So the
00:31:09.480
target allegedly is high income earners and even billionaires. And so their, their way of, uh, of,
00:31:17.720
of smoking out those, you know, those high income earners with obscure opaque sources of income
00:31:24.880
is to monitor all transactions over 600 bucks. You want to find the billionaires who are cheating on
00:31:33.800
their taxes. And so you're looking at checking accounts with $600 in them. Wouldn't it be
00:31:41.700
transactions over, I don't know, rather than $600, uh, $60,000 or at least $6,000 or something
00:31:51.340
exponentially greater than 600. So you're looking for a very specific small sliver of, um, of people
00:32:03.780
here. You're, you're, you're fishing for a very particular, allegedly a very particular kind of
00:32:09.600
fish. And your way of doing that is to cast this massive net that'll catch dozens of species of fish
00:32:21.880
that you aren't even looking for. That's, it's almost believable in a certain way because it's so
00:32:29.280
boneheaded and inefficient and wasteful that, yeah, it's exactly what you expect from the
00:32:35.560
government. They, they, they're, they're looking for billionaires. And so they start with people
00:32:40.880
who spend $600 in a month. Uh, it's such a, it's such a dumb claim that you, you, you could almost
00:32:50.020
believe that they would be this stupid, but, um, no, I don't think it's, it's, it's their own
00:32:54.120
stupidity. I think it's their assumption about our stupidity that we would believe that.
00:33:00.740
No, this, as I said, is about what this is really about is putting everybody under a permanent
00:33:06.980
financial, you know, uh, under a permanent IRS audit.
00:33:13.760
They are auditing almost all Americans. I don't know what percentage, and if I were,
00:33:19.320
that'd be an interesting thing, I wish they could tell us that. What percentage of Americans
00:33:23.100
have transactions in a given month totaling at least over $600?
00:33:29.880
I, you know, I got to think it's a pretty sizable majority.
00:33:34.520
So a sizable majority of Americans are having their economic freedom and privacy erased.
00:33:39.700
And we're all being put under a permanent audit so that they don't have to go through the trouble
00:33:48.320
of having individual specific audits of the actual people that they are trying to find.
00:34:01.340
All right, next, this is from the daily wire. It says the Chicago police department
00:34:04.820
is engaged in a nationwide campaign to recruit police officers, but the city is still suffering
00:34:11.380
from an officer shortage. With officers retiring and transferring to smaller departments,
00:34:15.980
Chicago appears to be down nearly 1,600 officers. The city's CBS affiliate reported on Tuesday that
00:34:22.320
Chicago police officers aren't only retiring in record numbers. Many are leaving the big city
00:34:25.980
departments for smaller ones. It's contributing to an officer shortage that many city leaders believe
00:34:30.620
will only get worse before it gets better. Officers who spoke to CBS Chicago noted that the
00:34:36.280
problems go beyond simple burnout, though that's a contributing factor to many officers' decision
00:34:40.280
to leave the department. Officers cited long working hours, mandatory overtime, and low pay as reasons
00:34:45.180
they departed Chicago for other cities or decided to simply leave the force entirely.
00:34:51.680
Honestly, if you value your life and the lives of your children and your family,
00:34:57.400
I don't know how you remain living in a place like Chicago.
00:35:02.020
And I understand that it's a lot easier said than done. As someone who doesn't live in Chicago
00:35:05.720
myself, and I don't depend, I don't have a job that requires me to be there. I understand that.
00:35:17.560
Since I've been married, we've moved like six times. But the point is, it can be done.
00:35:22.840
Listen, I just don't understand how anyone who has any other options stays there in Chicago or in
00:35:32.440
cities like it. They're running out of cops. And meanwhile, they've decriminalized gang shootings
00:35:42.660
in that city. It was just last week that they decided not to file any charges against gang members
00:35:49.440
who shot and killed each other in the middle of the street. It's not going to get better.
00:35:57.300
You've seen this precipitous decline. And you'll notice there has not been an uptick.
00:36:04.160
It hasn't been, we haven't seen any evidence that the trends are going to start heading in a positive
00:36:09.380
direction. And they won't. Because all of this stuff has a snowball effect.
00:36:15.040
Um, and here's, here's the problem. And you know, you find this in Chicago and it's not just in
00:36:22.120
Chicago where they're having trouble attracting police officers, recruiting and hiring police
00:36:27.240
officers. They're, they're having trouble keeping cops, um, on the job, even the ones that have
00:36:33.760
already been hired. It's, it's, that's obviously no mystery.
00:36:38.780
I mean, it's, it has been turned into an almost impossible job to be a police officer
00:36:47.540
and cops now know, and this case, this again is the case, not just in Chicago, but across the entire
00:36:55.680
country. Now you go out and you do your job on a daily basis. It's bad enough knowing that the media
00:37:04.980
is completely against you, much of the community that you're risking your life to protect, they
00:37:13.160
also hate your guts. And you know that the moment you're trying to arrest someone for committing a
00:37:21.620
crime, the moment they start resisting, um, the moment they turn violent, the moment they grab a gun
00:37:30.700
and start shooting at you. It's a lose, lose situation. And the more violent they are towards
00:37:38.020
you, the more of a lose, lose situation it is because you could not respond with a equal force
00:37:45.520
and end up getting killed, or you can respond with equal force and neutralize the dangerous threat.
00:37:54.980
And then, you know, that the media and, uh, the community that you were just protecting and
00:37:59.880
serving there will immediately set to work to destroy your life because of it.
00:38:05.360
So that's what you know as a cop, the moment, the bad guy pulls out a knife or a gun in that
00:38:10.020
moment, you know, okay, um, good chance here. I'm either dead at the end of this or in prison,
00:38:14.700
no matter how it goes. What, what a mystery that's people aren't very eager to sign up for something
00:38:24.100
like that. And here's what, here's what ends up happening. I mean, you've obviously got lots of
00:38:30.720
cops that leave. What about the cops that stay on the job? Um, or the ones who actually still sign
00:38:41.200
up for this job? Despite this, this kind of environment, this kind of atmosphere,
00:38:46.980
what kind of people are you going to attract now? Well, the only people that right now that I could
00:38:55.560
see that would sign up to be a cop, I think there's probably like two types of people.
00:38:59.740
One would be, um, people who have a deep sense of duty and are extremely courageous and they feel
00:39:09.320
called to this and they're going to do it anyway. Knowing what a lose lose it might be for them,
00:39:14.460
knowing they're putting their life on the line in more ways than one because their physical lives
00:39:22.260
could be taken from them or everything, but their physical lives could be taken from them. If they
00:39:27.660
have to use force against the violent suspect and then their lives are destroyed, you know,
00:39:31.960
knowing all of that, they still sign up for it. I think there are going to be people who do it
00:39:35.320
because, because they just, they, they feel duty bound and these are courageous, self-sacrificing
00:39:40.760
people. But that's not going to be everybody. Um, you're also going to have people who sign up for
00:39:48.280
it because they're just desperate for a job. I suppose you're gonna have some people like that.
00:39:56.180
Um, but a lot of the people who are in between, who maybe are not heroes, but aren't villains either,
00:40:05.620
just kind of like normal people who in previous years may have become police officers.
00:40:13.380
They're going to have no interest. We've scared all of them away.
00:40:19.060
And as I said, it's not going to get any better from here. Uh, finally, this is from the daily
00:40:23.460
wire. It says Lego group is committed to, uh, removing gender bias and harmful stereotypes from
00:40:29.520
its toys. The company announced in a statement on Monday, Lego cited a study by the Gina Davis
00:40:34.320
Institute on gender in media, a nonprofit pushing for gender balance and entertainment and media
00:40:39.620
showing that the majority of children believe that some activities are just meant for girls
00:40:44.220
while others are meant for boys. Lego is calling on parents and children to champion inclusive play
00:40:49.920
to change the perception of children, according to the toy company. Uh, and this is happening at the
00:40:55.780
same time that the California governor, Gavin Newsom, uh, signed a law mandating in, in the entire
00:41:02.820
state of California, that large retail stores have to offer toys in gender neutral sections. So if
00:41:09.080
they, if they employ 500 or more employees across California, um, it is now a matter of law that they
00:41:15.900
have to have a gender neutral section for toys, which of course that doesn't achieve anything, but just
00:41:22.240
make it harder for parents who are shopping, you know, trying to find toys for their, for their kids
00:41:29.080
because all parents realize this, like the vast majority of kids. It's not because we tell boys,
00:41:37.340
Oh, here are the, here are the toys for boys. You have to play with those. Oh, you're a girl where
00:41:42.680
you're, you're, you're only allowed to have pink things and you have to play with dolls.
00:41:46.520
We don't tell our kids that it's just that that's most of the time what they naturally gravitate to
00:41:52.780
from a very young age. And it's, it's always been an interesting thing for me to have,
00:42:00.580
you know, I've kind of had this, uh, been able to see this, this, this play out in my own life,
00:42:07.940
having a boy, you know, having fraternal twins, boy and a girl and raising them, you know, they were,
00:42:15.400
they were the first kids that we had and, uh, we raised them the same way. And we had, you know,
00:42:20.080
we have a, even from a, from a young age, we had a playroom and with all the toys laid out and we,
00:42:25.900
we never said to our daughter, well, here's the girl section of toys. Here's the boy section.
00:42:30.840
And you got to stay over here. We never said that. We just, here's the toys, go play,
00:42:35.400
get out of mom and dad's hair for a second and go play with the toys. And what would they do?
00:42:41.020
Almost every time daughter's going for the dolls, a son's going for the action figures
00:42:45.820
because it turns out that there is something innate within, you know, there's something about
00:42:52.180
girls from a young age where they have this kind of maternal instinct. And that's why they like to
00:42:57.020
play with the dolls and they'll sit there and brush the doll's hair and they'll, they have fun
00:43:00.260
changing the doll's diapers. Boys for the, for the most part, don't do that. There's something
00:43:05.120
innate and ingrained. Most parents recognize this. Some parents recognize it to their heart because
00:43:10.900
they wish they don't, they don't want their kid to subscribe to these genities, awful gender
00:43:15.360
stereotypes. And yet they do. And so you get rid of the gender segregation of the, of the toy
00:43:22.760
department. All you're doing is just making it hard for the parents because they, because they're,
00:43:26.840
they're still looking for the same kinds of toys. I think it was Target did this a while ago where
00:43:32.820
they made a big deal about, oh, we're not going to, we're not going to separate toys by boy versus
00:43:37.120
girl anymore. But if you go to Target still and you go to the toy section, they've still
00:43:42.380
done that. I mean, they've got all of the girl type toys here in this aisle and all the boy type
00:43:46.880
toys here. They just don't have the word boy and girl on it. And almost every parent who has a
00:43:52.940
daughter, they're going to the girl section because this stuff is much of it is innate.
00:43:59.160
It is not determined by society, despite what we're told. All right, let's get now to reading
00:44:09.920
Tiffany says, Matt quoting the princess bride earned himself the spot of best
00:44:28.920
YouTuber in my book. Well, it sounds like you got pretty low standards, but I'll take it.
00:44:33.400
And yeah, I'm an unapologetic fan of the princess bride. I think it's, it's, you can't call it one
00:44:40.540
of the greatest films ever made certainly, but it's one of the most rewatchable movies I think
00:44:47.180
ever made. It's one of those movies that anytime it's on TV, you can just sit down and watch it
00:44:51.860
and enjoy it. And all right, what else we got here? Mr. Walsh, of all the different names of Christ,
00:45:02.340
do you have a personal favorite? Also, what's the most important thing you've learned since you started
00:45:06.860
your show and have seen it grow like it has? Personal favorite name of Christ? Well, I think Christ
00:45:13.060
is, that's a good one. I'm happy with that. Our Lord, I suppose, is also, I hadn't really thought
00:45:18.920
about what my favorite name is. As far as what I've learned since starting the show, I'm not sure
00:45:22.740
if this is something I've learned, but I've just seen it, I've seen it demonstrated over and over
00:45:27.880
again. And that is that people are desperate for basic common sense. And that's a bad sign for society
00:45:42.460
that common sense is so rare, but it has made it possible. I mean, it's, it's good. It's given me
00:45:48.580
a career because there's, there's so much insanity out there. All you have to do is speak basic truths.
00:45:57.000
You don't have to have any deeper, brilliant insights. And that's good because I don't have
00:46:01.600
any. All I could just do, I mean, I can sit here and say, uh, you know, women have uteruses
00:46:08.160
and even a truth like that, people are hungry and desperate for it. So I guess that's, I suppose,
00:46:15.860
what I learned. Scott says, Ben used your office today, but the alien playing the banjo and a little
00:46:21.280
astronaut on your desk weren't visible on the camera. Um, I'm afraid he stole them. You know,
00:46:28.000
they do that sometimes they come in here, they kick me out of my own studio. I mean, Ben comes in here
00:46:32.560
like he owns the place or something, tells me to leave. And every time that happens, no matter who's
00:46:37.240
using the studio, they, they always take the alien and the banjo away. It's like, fine,
00:46:43.200
you can use my studio if you want, but you, this is, this is my studio.
00:46:52.040
Don't, don't, and there's nothing to be ashamed of with the, the alien and the banjo.
00:46:57.320
I do take offense to that. Uh, Tom says, Hey Matt, you silly person. People sleep, uh,
00:47:04.000
people sleep. You're counting that as free time. I wake two hours before work. One hour is just to
00:47:10.020
get there. When you add that in, my workday is 11 hours. So I only have five hours of free time.
00:47:16.800
Okay. So you have five hours of free time and you get eight hours of sleep a night
00:47:20.940
and then you have your weekends off. That's, that's amazing. That's a great life.
00:47:28.500
I mean, that's, that's, that's a more, that's the point I was making yesterday. That, that is
00:47:33.700
already a more luxurious and comfortable life. You're leading already a more luxurious and
00:47:38.680
comfortable life than the vast majority of people have ever lived on earth. So, so have some
00:47:43.200
gratitude for that. Now a word from Helix sleep. A lot of people these days seem to struggle, um,
00:47:48.300
with sleeplessness. It seems to be an increasing problem. I know, you know, it is for me, especially
00:47:52.120
last night, I think I got about three hours of sleep, but that was not the fault of my Helix matrix.
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slash Walsh for up to $200 off your mattress order. And if you didn't catch backstage last
00:48:55.800
night, then, uh, you missed a lot of things, especially the melodic, uh, sounds of Smokey
00:49:02.120
Mike and the God King. Uh, and so that was already, that was already your biggest mistake
00:49:07.080
was to miss out on that, but even worse, it means you didn't hear the extremely exciting
00:49:10.320
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00:49:19.060
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00:49:39.060
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seriously can't wait to share the final products with you. So keep your ears and eyes peeled for
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updates on their release dates. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:49:59.900
You know, we followed the John Gruden story pretty closely on the show because I believe it's not
00:50:03.860
only one of the most egregious examples of cancel culture that we've ever witnessed, but also because
00:50:07.580
it represents in many ways a dangerous escalation. We've seen people get canceled for opinions they've
00:50:14.940
expressed in public. We've seen them get canceled after statements they made or things they posted
00:50:18.800
years ago were dredged up and brought to the surface. We've seen conversations taken out of
00:50:23.560
context. We've seen jokes blown out of proportion. We've seen innocuous comments turned into outrages
00:50:29.020
and edgy comments turned into hate crimes. In the case of John Gruden, all of these things are
00:50:33.700
happening at once with the added indignity that nothing he said was public. He communicated his thoughts in
00:50:38.140
private emails from a private email account, but that didn't save him from the mob. And the mob wants
00:50:44.000
us to know that it's not going to save us either because every cancellation is performative. It's
00:50:50.180
never about the present victim, but about setting the stage for the next one. And that's why this story
00:50:55.960
matters and why I want to focus on it one more time here. Of course, you know, as we've seen the
00:50:59.520
media, especially the sports media has been enjoying itself immensely with this issue as they always do
00:51:04.640
when they've got someone to cancel. They enjoy it very much. All the various hosts and personalities
00:51:09.960
in sports media have taken the opportunity to give their own little speeches, have their own
00:51:14.220
theatrically emotional moments. None of them can top Randy Moss's Oscar-worthy performance,
00:51:20.040
but, you know, they're all giving it a shot. There's no point in playing many of the examples,
00:51:23.840
but a few of them are instructive because of what they reveal about the nature of cancel culture and what
00:51:29.040
fuels it. So we'll play clips from two commentators. First, here's Keyshawn Johnson. He's the
00:51:34.360
former NFL wide receiver and a current ESPN analyst. He has known Gruden for a long time, decades,
00:51:40.680
and played for him back in the early 2000s. Now that Gruden is on the floor, Johnson is happy to
00:51:46.240
come on over and stomp on his head because why not? Let's listen. I didn't know that John would
00:51:53.400
say things like that and put him in an email. He just always been a fraud to me. He just always
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been a fraud to me. Never from day one, he's been a used car salesman. And people bought it because
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he inherited a championship team built by Tony Dungy and Rich McKay. And he came in there with a
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and it kind of kicked us over the top to get our world championship, which I am grateful for.
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But at the same time, I also saw through who he was through that journey of getting a championship.
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The year that we think about it, we won the championship and we're standing on the podium
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in the Superbowl and the general manager is trying to raise the trophy. And the head coach takes the
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trophy from him, basically says, give me this, this belongs to me. And like all of that, when you're
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paying attention, and then the next year, the general manager leaves in the middle of the season
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because he doesn't want to deal with all the shenanigans that was going on. He leaves,
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think about this though, Jay and Max, he leaves in the middle. Rich McKay left in the middle of the
00:53:14.000
season to go take another job with another team because he didn't want to be around this guy.
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So it just shows how one of the things that keeps cancel culture alive and thriving in our culture
00:53:25.840
is the corresponding death of loyalty. I mean, the canceled person cannot rely on the people who
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know him to speak up for him. Instead, they'll remain silent or else they'll come out as Johnson does
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here and say, oh yeah, that guy, total jerk. Never mentioned it before right now, but now that
00:53:39.340
you mention it, yeah, you know, I've always hated him. A lot of these situations could be solved. I
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mean, canceled culture could be stopped in its tracks if the friends, employers, associates
00:53:47.340
of the canceled person were willing to venture even an inch out onto the limb to speak up for the
00:53:52.780
victim. But loyalty is a virtue and we live in a virtuous culture. Think of Chris Harrison,
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former bachelor host, you know, who of course was canceled. His own girlfriend came out
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and called him a racist when he was getting all the backlash. Now, next and finally, we have
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Emmanuel Acho, a former player to our media personality turned unapologetic scumbag race
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baiter. Here he is giving his thoughts on the matter and pay attention to what he says because
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these people just are not hiding the real goal anymore. Listen to this.
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Couple quick thoughts on John Gruden and boy, I got a lot of them. First things first, get him the
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heck up out of there, man. No place in our society for language like that, for speech like
00:54:31.640
that, for thoughts like that, particularly for people in positions of power, not in sports
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or in life. Now, for those saying it was in 2011, it was such a long time ago. Keep in
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mind, he was 48 years old in 2011. But more importantly, the dude said he didn't have a
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blade of racism in him while being racist, which means he didn't even realize what he was
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doing was wrong. So he hasn't worked to fix it. So those thoughts John Gruden had in 2011,
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if he ain't worked to fix him, he still has him now. But y'all, this is why it's imperative
00:55:02.180
to have minorities as voices and faces in positions of power in society. So you don't
00:55:09.340
have rampant ignorance running around like this. The dude was homophobic. The dude was
00:55:14.100
racially insensitive. The dude was sending topless photos of Washington cheerleaders to the president
00:55:19.680
of the Washington football team. Make it make sense. And lastly, the dude ain't even a good
00:55:26.100
coach right now. He's 67 and 82 since he won the Super Bowl. That's a 45 percent winning
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No place in our society for language like that, says the man who I'm sure has never uttered
00:55:39.820
a crass word in his entire life. But more notably, he says there's no place in our society
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for thoughts like that. So they're no longer even pretending that their goal is to stop people from
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engaging in harmful behavior. They're not pretending that this is about holding people
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accountable for the damage they inflict on other people. This is about telling people what kind of
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thoughts they're allowed to think. As Acho said to Don Lemon later in the day, it doesn't even matter
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how you actually treat people. All that matters is what you're thinking while you do it. Listen.
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Just because someone treats you right does not mean that they treat everybody right.
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John Gruden, of course, he treated his star quarterback earning $125 million. Of course,
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he treated him with the utmost respect, particularly publicly. But just because someone is kind and
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respectful to you does not mean that they are a kind and respectful person.
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Actually, if someone treats you well and you've never been presented any evidence that he treats
00:56:37.640
anyone else differently, that is, you know, if all you've ever seen from someone is kind and
00:56:44.120
respectful behavior, if that's all you've ever seen, and no one's ever told you about different
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experiences, then you have no right to any assumption other than the assumption that the
00:56:53.520
person is kind and respectful. See, in a sane society, you judge a man based on his actions.
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And in fact, if someone has negative feelings or thoughts towards you or in general, and yet still
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treats you well, that doesn't make him a fraud. Far from it. It makes him all the more respectable
00:57:13.760
because he's not allowing his emotions to dictate his behavior. But these days, as we've seen, actions
00:57:21.740
don't matter. And again, it's not about actions here because these are private emails.
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No one was harmed by them. No one else knew about them.
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they're made public. It wasn't John Gruden who decided to do that.
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So the point here is about the thoughts, about the feelings. And what we know from the mob is that
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all that really matters is what they assume your feelings or thoughts really are.
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And they can assume what your real intentions are. And that's what they're trying to control are the
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thoughts. This is about drawing a line and saying, okay, here, here are thoughts you're allowed to think
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and here are thoughts you're not allowed to think.
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But, of course, I say all this and now my third day of talking about this issue
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But the problem is that this all sounds like a defense
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of John Gruden, which it isn't because you know my policy.
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if you apologize, then I'm not going to defend you.
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any emails that he sent. I don't care about that.
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You've only, you've only, this, this is what sustains them.
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And I'm not surprised that it's not John Gruden,
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They'll find a new target and they'll find them quick.
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They're not waiting around to have a conversation about it.
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And, you know, how can we work on this redemption arc?
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and they're going to go looking for the next person to run over.
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And I didn't even really hurt your feelings in the first place.
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