Ep. 861 - COVID Jumps The Shark In Season Three
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The media is in full panic mode over Omnicorn. We re told that this is a winter of death and misery is upon us. But how worried should we really be? Also, Joe Manchin blocks Biden s agenda, Pope Francis continues his war against conservative Catholics, and students in Fairfax County protest a hate crime that happened at one of the schools. And finally, in our daily cancellation, Mark Zuckerberg has launched his virtual reality metaverse, as he calls it. And the metaverse has already had its first me too moment. We ll discuss all that and more today on the Matwell Show.
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Today on the Matwell Show, the media is in full panic pushing mode over Omicron.
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We're told that this is a winter of death and misery is upon us, but how worried should we
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really be? We'll talk about that. Also, Joe Manchin blocks Biden's agenda. Pope Francis
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continues his war against conservative Catholics and students in Fairfax County protest a hate
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crime that happened at one of the schools. But wait until you hear the totally unexpected twist
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in that hate crime story. And finally, in our daily cancellation, Mark Zuckerberg has launched
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his virtual reality metaverse, as he calls it. And the metaverse has already had its first
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Me Too moment. We'll discuss all of that and more today on the Matwell Show.
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antagonist Omnicorn taking center stage, the panic porn peddlers have ramped up their fear-mongering
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to levels not seen really since season one. A few days ago, President Joe Biden delivered his
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holiday greeting to America by promising us a winter of illness and death, which sounds like a line from
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a Christmas carol that a goth emo band might perform. Businesses across the country are already
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preemptively closing as we're warned that more lockdowns might be coming. In some localities,
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schools have already shifted back to virtual learning, though of course virtual learning is
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a euphemism for not learning anything at all. Millions of kids have already fallen behind academically
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while suffering severe mental and emotional damage, which has led to unprecedented levels of
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childhood suicide and self-harm. But the powers that be have decided that not enough trauma has been
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inflicted on the young. They need even more. So NBC reports this, it says Prince George's County
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in Maryland on Friday became the first major school district to announce that all students
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will transition to remote learning as cases surge. The shift to online learning will begin Monday,
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four days before the start of winter break, and continue for two weeks after school resumes on
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January 3rd. And then of course, after those two weeks are over, they're going to say,
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yeah, you know, we might as well just stick with this until the end of the year. In New York City,
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the Department of Education has closed 859 classrooms, quadrupled the number of a month ago,
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and another nearly 2,500 were partially closed as newly reported COVID-19 infections rose sharply in
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the city. In upstate New York, officials announced that Oswego City School District was transitioning to
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remote learning from Friday until December 23rd because of rising COVID cases, with 60 cases since last
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Sunday and staffing shortages. In Missouri, on Monday, the South Notaway School Board voted to
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cancel the rest of the fall semester and resume on January 3rd after the winter break because of
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district-wide shortages caused by COVID cases. And the St. Roche Catholic School in St. Louis said it
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would move to virtual classes this week and return after the winter break because too many students
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and teachers are out sick. Now, again, you know, a caveat on all that, once again, is that
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these are temporary measures, and we already know what happens with temporary COVID measures.
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Pretty soon, temporary becomes a month, two months, and then I think for a lot of these schools,
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we're going to go to, it's going to be summer break. We're going back to summer break.
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And then, well, you know, maybe in the fall, we'll see about opening schools again.
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Meanwhile, the director of the NIH, Francis Collins, has said that we could be facing
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a million cases a day thanks to Omnicorn in the near future. Now, then again, Collins has apparently
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lost his mind as he broke into song shortly after saying this.
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Somewhere past the pandemic, when we're free, there's a life I remember full of activity.
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Sorry, but I'm sure you understand that I can't mention the name Francis Collins on the show
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now without playing part of that clip. Now, luckily for you, he's retiring, so there shouldn't
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be a reason in the future to mention him unless I come up with one, which I'll try. Dr. Leanna
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Wen, former Planned Parenthood head, current cable news talking head, was singing her own
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sad song on CNN this morning as she delivered instructions on what you must do if you want
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to see your family over the holiday. Here's Dr. Leanna Wen. Your two out of three rule for safe
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interactions, Dr. Wen. Explain to people what that is. For people who are gathering indoors over the
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holidays, I would recommend at this point, when there's so much virus around us, that you have
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two out of the three things, vaccination, testing, or masking. So if you are fully vaccinated and
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ideally boosted and you want to see other people indoors without a mask, meaning maybe you want
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to have dinner with them. Ideally, everybody also gets tested that same day with a rapid test. Now,
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I know that tests are hard to come by in some parts of the country, but that's the ideal is that you get
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tested. If you're going to be, if nobody is vaccinated or if there's some people there who are
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unvaccinated, if you're getting together, you should be masked and you should be tested. Basically,
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you should have two out of three things, vaccination, testing, or masking at this point with that much
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virus around us. Really quickly, in terms of testing, as you said, it needs to be done that
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same day. So if you took a test, let's say Christmas Eve, and you're meeting up with people
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on Christmas, you were negative on Christmas Eve, doesn't mean you still are Christmas Day.
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That's exactly right. The closer your test is to when you're gathering with people,
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the better. And I think this is something that the Biden administration really needs to work on.
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They've done so well when it comes to vaccinations. That's great. But they now need to put the same
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amount of effort to increasing access to testing. Why not mail test every American? Why not have to
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use the UK or Germany or so many other approaches from around the world where everybody is able to
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get tests? Testing should not be the limiting factor. Yeah. Why not? Why not test everyone?
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Well, there's a bunch of reasons why not. We'll get to that in a second. Fauci had a similar message
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on ABC cautioning Americans that they're permitted to celebrate Christmas in his magnanomy. He will allow
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it under certain circumstances, but they must not attend any gatherings unless they've obtained the
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personal medical records of everybody in attendance beforehand. You said earlier this week that if
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you're vaccinated, you should feel comfortable traveling and celebrating the holidays with your
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family. Do you still believe that? No, I do. If you are vaccinated and boosted and are prudent
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when you travel, when you're in an airport, to be wearing a mask all the time, you have to be wearing
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a mask on a plane. Do not do things like go to gatherings where there are people who you do not know
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what their vaccination status is. Do not. He's not recommending. This isn't a suggestion. Do not.
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Fauci is, of course, still pretending that the unvaccinated are the primary drivers of COVID
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transmission. But right now, there's a COVID breakout in the Senate to include Senators Booker
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and Warren. There's a breakout in the NFL taking dozens of players out of their games this week.
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And they had to rearrange a bunch of games, cancel some games. There are breakouts everywhere and
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often in places where almost everyone is vaccinated. So the dirty little secret, which is not a secret at
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all, is that the vaccine does not prevent transmission. This is an undeniable fact. But guys like
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Fauci are not eager to acknowledge it, because if they did, then they would lose the moral high
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ground over the dreaded unvaccinated. You know, if the unvaccinated are simply taking a risk with
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their own health, there's no reason to condemn them. There's no reason to be angry at them.
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Just making their own decision. They make for unconvincing villains in this story if their
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vaccination decision is a mere personal matter. But Fauci and company need their villains,
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and that's why they gloss over the fact that vaccinated people are also spreading COVID.
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They're not going to change their approach or messaging no matter what.
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We are going, again, into our third year of COVID with, they say, record numbers of cases.
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And yet, they say all the measures we've taken to fight COVID have totally worked,
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and we should keep doing the same thing indefinitely. COVID is worse than it's ever been,
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they say. But their recommendations for stopping COVID have absolutely worked,
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and you must not question those recommendations. Cognitive dissonance is the real disease here,
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I would say. Here's the other fact that they seem not so eager to highlight. Omnicorn,
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according to the available data, is extremely, extremely mild, according to the data. Ben Shapiro
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posted these graphs this morning on his Twitter, which sum everything up quite nicely. I think
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COVID data out of UK. This is out of the UK. And in one graph, you can see cases spiking to a level
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that we haven't seen all year. That's a big, scary spike in cases that you can see on the graph.
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But in the other, you can see deaths hardly spiking at all. So the cases graph looks like a mountain.
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The deaths graph looks like a molehill. Other data seems to show that hospitalizations in South
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Africa, where all this started with Omnicorn, dropped by 90%. While the death rate for people
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who were hospitalized dropped by 75%. Again, that's a 75% drop in deaths for hospitalized people
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specifically. COVID was already a mostly non-fatal illness, mostly. And even less fatal than the numbers
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suggest. Listen to this report on studyfinds.org. This is from this morning. It says four in 10 COVID-19
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patients are asymptomatic carriers of the virus responsible for over 800,000 deaths in the United
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States. Researchers from China say a global study of almost 30 million people found silent cases of
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the virus are twice as prevalent than previous estimates feared. The results show 40.5% of the
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confirmed cases of the illness are among people who show no symptoms of the infection at all.
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Rates rose among certain groups, including pregnant women, air and cruise travelers,
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and care home residents or staff. Now this is presented as a bad thing, but it underscores how
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mild COVID has been for millions of people. Not for everybody, but for millions. But it also means
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more importantly that many millions more certainly had COVID, but they never counted as a case because
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they never knew there was any reason to get tested. This would mean that the actual mortality rate
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for COVID is significantly lower than it appears. An Omnicorn is 30 or 40 times less lethal than that.
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This is all good news, even if it's presented to us like a tragedy.
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Well, I should say good news, relatively speaking, right? The very low lethality of COVID generally,
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an Omnicorn specifically, is good news given that COVID was unleashed on us by China and we now live in a
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world where it exists. Like given that fact, this is good news in relation to that. Now the best possible
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news, if we could live in a world, any world we wanted, would be for COVID to go away. And while we're in
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that fantasy land, we might as well snap our fingers and make cancer disappear too. And it could take diabetes
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and arthritis and Alzheimer's along with it. That would be the best scenario, right? I would very much
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prefer that. But unfortunately, that's not on the menu. A world without COVID is not an option
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and will never be an option probably. Thanks to China, we exist in a reality where COVID also exists
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and will always exist. It's not ever going away. So just put that out of your mind. Don't fantasize
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about a future point where we no longer have to hear about COVID or worry about it. That's not going
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to happen. You know, don't hold on to that hope. Let go of the hope. Throw it over a cliff. Let it
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shatter on the rocks below. We will always live in a world with COVID, which means that your personal
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COVID prevention strategy must be one that you can live with for the rest of your life.
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If your personal COVID prevention strategy isn't something you can live with for the rest of your
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life, you need a new strategy because COVID will be here forever. Find a way to live with it
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or let it ruin your life. Those are your choices. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Well, we're still having Christmas in my house. I don't know about Fauci or anybody else.
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Anyways, and hopefully you've got your Christmas shopping done. All of my Christmas shopping is
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done because as I rave about every year, and I have to say it once again, is around the holidays
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especially. It's why I cannot recommend marriage highly enough. There are a lot of reasons why I
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recommend marriage, but especially as a man. The holidays used to be pretty stressful for me because
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I had to go out and I had to shop for all these people. And now that I have a wife, she just does
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all of that. I don't have to do any Christmas shopping. It's tremendous. It's like a totally
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stress-free environment for me. And she enjoys it. She likes shopping for doing Christmas shopping.
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So it's really, it's a, I am blessing her by, you know, giving her that chore to do, you know,
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in a way really. Um, I just, I'm assigned like she does, she buys gifts for everybody. And so she buys
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50,000 gifts and then I'm assigned, of course I buy a gift for her. So I do, I do that. Um, I don't
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usually put her in charge of buying her own gift, but then she'll assign me like a couple of people.
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She'll say, Oh, can you just get that? And that, and so this year I was assigned to get a couple of
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things for, um, for, uh, my, my oldest son. And so I've decided to get him. I went to Bass Pro Shops
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this, uh, this weekend and I got him a pocket knife and a BB gun. So I'm getting them both.
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I can't tell you that's the best decision in the world, but I know he'll enjoy it. It'll be his
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best Christmas ever. You know, and I, and I, I, cause I've been thinking about this. Do I want to get
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him something like that for, for Christmas? I think he's old enough. Like he's responsible
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enough. You know, when you, when you, when you're, I think it's good for a boy to have a,
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you know, Swiss army knife and a BB gun. Um, and I'm, and I'm trying to convince, convince myself
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that was the right decision. He's responsible enough, but then he does things that make me
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second guess it. So I, you know, I went, I got him this stuff. And then yesterday we were outside
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and he was climbing a tree and he shouts to me. He says, daddy, could I jump from here? And I look up
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and I'm like, you're 40 feet up. No, you that's, you're just, that's suicide.
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Right. I'm thinking maybe the pocket knife wasn't the best decision. He's going to take
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that pocket knife. Daddy, can I stab myself in the eye? We'll see. Uh, but that's what happens
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when you put me in charge of, uh, of buying the gifts. I buy dangerous objects and weapons.
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That's what I do. Okay. A couple other COVID related items here. Um, first of all, we have de
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Blasio very impressed with himself talking about why mandates are great policies and they,
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they really work really well. He says, uh, let's listen to him.
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People want to lead their lives. I mean, the hard thing, you know, I feel it here in New York city,
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by the way, I'm from Philadelphia. So it's not like I, I, I, I live in a rural area. Um, but I feel it
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in every block that I walk in New York city. But if I were in the middle part of the country with you,
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I don't think we'd see masks. I don't think we'd be showing our vax cards anywhere. So I come back
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to that point where unless everybody's on the same page in the country, we're kind of screwed.
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You know how you get on the same page. People have to lead. So look, I believe with enough
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leadership, enough mandates, we're going to get a hell of a lot more people vaccinated.
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The more people vaccinated, the more we actually make the transition to a time when COVID is in
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the background, not the foreground. And we know these mandates work and we know people respond.
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Look, human beings are pretty predictable. If you say your paycheck depends on it or your ability
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to enjoy life and go do the things you want to do, people will make the practical, practical
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decision overwhelmingly and they'll go get vaccinated, but we aren't pushing hard enough.
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We got to go farther. Yeah. So de Blasio has discovered, uh, the, the secret here. Apparently
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if you threaten people and you say, I'll take your livelihood away and I'll, I'll take away
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your ability to feed your family and I'll make your kids starve. If you don't do as I say,
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they'll do as you say. Amazing. This is a, what a, what a, this guy's like a, he's a, he's an expert
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in, in human psychology. I guess we could say the same of, uh, of, you know, a lot of the armed
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robbers who many of them you could find in New York city. What they, they've, they've made similar
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discoveries, which is that, um, uh, you know, amazingly if they pull out a gun and they put
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it to someone's head and they say, give me your money, most people will give the money because
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they don't want to die. Of course, but then there's the, that leaves the, the whole moral
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and ethical question of, is it okay to manipulate people in that way to coerce behavior in that
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way? Is it okay to threaten to take people's livelihood away because they're not doing as
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you say to treat them like criminals when they're not criminals to, um, coerce people into making
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medical decisions? Is that morally? Okay. But of course for him, morality has nothing to do with
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it. And also keep up notice something else that he said there. He said, well, we want to go from a
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point where COVID is in the background rather than the foreground. So they're not even pretending
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anymore for the most part. I mean, yeah, you have Francis Collins singing about how, uh, one day
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when we're past the pandemic, like being over the rainbow, but of course that's, that's like a
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mythical place. So you still have a little bit of that, but most of these people are like de Blasio
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there. If you listen to what they're saying, they're telling you this it's, it's, it's never going
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away. It's just background or foreground, but background or foreground is relative. Okay. It's,
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that all depends on where you position yourself. What happens to be in the background or in the
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foreground that depends on where you are standing, where you have decided to position yourself.
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Now, a lot of us have been living just as they, they said in the, in the beginning of that clip,
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a lot of people are living in places like in Nashville here, where I live, COVID is very much
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in the background far in the background because that's how people have chosen to live. It's in
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the foreground in New York because people have chosen to live their lives, you know, staring at
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COVID every single day and talking about it. And they've, they've even decided to incorporate it
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into their lives to that extent, but that's a choice that has nothing to do with, with, um,
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with COVID itself per se. It's your choice, how you decide you want to react to it.
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And what I can tell you to reiterate the point in the opening, if you ever want to live with COVID
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merely in the background, then that's a decision you have to make in your own life to live that way.
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And at this point, part of that decision might be, you've got to move away from places like New York
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because in New York, they're not going to give you that option. It's always going to be in the
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foreground. So that, that, in a way that's the right way of putting it. But of course he wants
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you to learn the wrong lessons from that. It's background to foreground and, uh, and, but it is
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in the background, you know, it, it, it, it will still be there and it's going to be in the background
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with a lot of other terrible things. And there, but there will come a time when, when the background
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becomes more of the foreground for you. If you get sick with COVID, now it's less of a background
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thing. And when that happens, you deal with it, cross that bridge when you come to it.
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Um, related in a, President Trump was interviewed on Fox a couple of days ago, and he was asked, uh, a
00:23:12.040
question that I'm, I'm glad someone finally decided to ask him, which is why didn't you fire Fauci when
00:23:17.860
you had the chance? You, you could have done that and you didn't. And, uh, here's his reason for that.
00:23:24.480
Fauci, um, Fauci, Anthony Fauci misled the Senate when he said that the NIH did not fund the gain of
00:23:32.680
function research. Um, should you have fired Fauci?
00:23:36.860
So a lot of people ask me that question and I did it right because if you do fire him, you're going
00:23:42.420
to have a firestone on the left again, as usual. Um, and I didn't listen to him. If you think about
00:23:48.340
it, he wanted to keep our country open to China and I closed it. He wanted to keep our country open
00:23:53.960
to Europe and I closed it. He talked about masks being no good. Well, I'm not a huge mask believer,
00:23:59.720
but I think they have some purpose and now he's a radical masker. I mean, everything he's done,
00:24:04.720
he's a great promoter. He's a bad pitcher. He was telling me what a great athlete he was. I said,
00:24:09.020
you can't throw a baseball 15 feet. I never saw that was other than president Obama. It may be
00:24:13.700
the worst throw I've ever seen to home plate. Uh, no, I think I did the right thing because
00:24:18.580
we would have had a firestorm, less of a firestorm. Now he was fired because he's been wrong so often,
00:24:24.040
but if you think of it, he wanted to keep our country open to China, Europe, and all these places
00:24:30.220
and I didn't do it. Okay. So you didn't do the right thing because the left would have been mad
00:24:41.440
at you. That's what he said. I mean, that's not a straw man. I'm not making a caricature of what he
00:24:47.840
said. I mean, that's, you heard him. That's what he said. It was obviously the right thing. He says
00:24:53.200
all along, he was, he was trying not to listen to Fauci. He's incompetent. So you know, he's
00:24:58.540
incompetent. You're not going to listen to him, but you let him stay in that position. And the
00:25:03.440
reason is that he, that the left would have been mad. There would have been a firestorm.
00:25:09.320
There's a firestorm every day. They're mad about everything. They hate your guts.
00:25:16.900
Oh, if I died, we would have done it a third time if I had fired him. Maybe they would have. So what?
00:25:24.660
There's always a firestorm on the left. They're going to hate everything you do,
00:25:27.420
especially if you're Donald Trump. But if you're on the right at all, they're going to hate everything
00:25:30.260
you do. What kind of reasoning is this? If any other Republican had said that in any other
00:25:40.600
context, they were asked, well, why didn't you do X, Y, Z thing? If that reason was, oh,
00:25:48.860
there'd be a firestorm on the left. We would, they'd get killed over that on the right by people
00:25:55.840
like me. Every conservative talk show, every conservative would be, would be killing them
00:26:00.900
for that. And Trump deserves the same treatment. Okay. He's not special. That is cowardly,
00:26:09.800
stupid reasoning. I'm not surprised that there couldn't have been a good reason.
00:26:18.120
You have the ability to fire him and you don't. And then you wait until you're out of office
00:26:22.100
to complain about him. How about doing the right thing when you have the power to do it?
00:26:31.500
Of course, there are many examples of this with Trump where he had the power to do things,
00:26:34.760
didn't do it, gets out of office and then talks about how he wishes those things were done.
00:26:40.440
And then he starts talking about Fauci as bad at throwing a baseball. How is, yes, he is, but how
00:26:52.360
is this is your chance to talk about Fauci and you spend 60 seconds talking about why he's bad and 15
00:26:59.640
of those seconds are spent on him throwing a baseball? That's not exactly the point, is it?
00:27:04.600
If I were to list the top 100 things I dislike about Anthony Fauci, the baseball is not making
00:27:11.280
the top 100. But for Trump, that's like in the top five, apparently.
00:27:20.960
Yep. The audience doesn't like it when I talk about this, but it's the case. 2024 is going to be
00:27:27.100
here before we know it. Do we want a 78-year-old Trump who doesn't do the right thing because he's
00:27:36.740
afraid of firestorms on the left, who, you know, his last act as president was to pardon a bunch of
00:27:45.380
rappers. And the former, I'm blanking on his name, the former mayor of, I think it was Detroit,
00:27:55.360
Kilpatrick, one of the most absurdly corrupt politicians in modern American history,
00:28:03.600
corrupt to the point of farce almost. And he's a Democrat and Trump pardons him or commutes his
00:28:10.820
sentence on his way out the door. So that's the question. When we get to 2024, do we want that
00:28:19.700
at 78 years old or do we want Ron DeSantis? Somebody who knows how to govern and will govern
00:28:30.360
and will make hard decisions and doesn't give a damn about firestorms on the left. If anything,
00:28:36.180
enjoys it. I mean, with DeSantis, he's going to sign a bill. He's going to sign legislation going
00:28:46.960
after the Biden administration, undercutting the Biden administration. And not only is he going to
00:28:51.980
do it, but he's going to go to Brandon, Florida to sign it. So that's the question. And that's what's
00:29:00.500
really going to come down to. That's why I believe, look, if it is, there's no rational argument that
00:29:10.100
you can make that Trump at 78 years old would be a more effective leader of the country and more
00:29:18.700
effective governor of the country than Ron DeSantis. And I also don't think there's any real argument you
00:29:27.560
can make that Trump would have a better chance in the general election than Ron DeSantis.
00:29:34.520
I think they'd both, it would be a challenge for both of them for all the reasons why it's always
00:29:40.040
a challenge for Republicans. But I, you know, I don't think that there's that argument, but you can
00:29:45.080
certainly make an argument that Trump would walk away with the nomination in the primary and he would
00:29:50.560
probably. That's all the more reason that I think, you know, Trump, if he, if he loves the country,
00:29:55.920
then he will step aside and, and, and, and pass the baton to Ron DeSantis, endorse him,
00:30:06.660
and step aside and let, and let Ron DeSantis, a much younger man
00:30:12.480
who has proven that he's able to govern, let him take the reins.
00:30:17.060
If he jumps in there to keep Ron DeSantis out, then that, to me, that's pure ego.
00:30:22.600
That's putting ego over country. And it wouldn't, it's just not acceptable.
00:30:27.260
I don't, I tell you, I don't take this reason. I don't take this from anybody.
00:30:31.420
None of us should. I don't do the right thing because, because the enemy would be mad.
00:30:35.980
Not acceptable. I would go after anybody for saying that.
00:30:40.120
All right. Um, here's someone who actually does the right thing in spite of a firestorm. This is a
00:30:48.680
good example here. Joe Manchin, uh, declared over the weekend that he's going to vote no
00:30:54.340
on Biden's, uh, build back better spending bill. And, uh, here he is announcing that on Fox news.
00:31:00.600
Uh, I've always said this, Brett, if I can't go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia,
00:31:07.640
I can't vote for it. And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can't.
00:31:14.200
I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there.
00:31:19.720
This is a no on this legislation. I have tried everything I know to do and the president has
00:31:29.020
worked diligently. He's been wonderful to work with. He knows I've had concerns and, and, and the
00:31:34.160
problems I've had. I think it was a good, a good juxtaposition there. Um, because on one hand you
00:31:40.280
have, I don't want to do the right thing. Cause it's going to make the left mad here. Joe Manchin
00:31:43.960
is he's actually is a Democrat for him. It really matters, uh, what, what the left and what the
00:31:50.320
Democrats think about you because you're on their team, you're on their side, you live in their world
00:31:54.560
and it would benefit you greatly for them to like you as a Republican president. You're not going to
00:32:02.360
get the left to like you. And even if you did get some leftist to like, it's not, it's not really
00:32:05.640
going to do anything for you. It's not going to benefit you much, but Joe Manchin doing the right
00:32:10.500
thing in spite of that. So I think that this is, this is, that's what real political bravery
00:32:21.260
looks like. So you got to give him credit for that. Um, next, this is from the AP. It says Pope
00:32:27.780
Francis doubled down Saturday on his effort to quash the old Latin mass, forbidding the celebration
00:32:32.840
of some sacraments, according to the ancient right and his latest salvo against conservatives
00:32:36.900
and traditionalists. The Vatican's liturgy office issued a document that clarified some questions
00:32:41.580
that arose after Francis in July reimposed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin mass
00:32:46.020
that Pope Benedict the 16th had relaxed in 2007. Um, Francis said then that he was reversing his
00:32:52.540
predecessor because Benedict's reform had become a source of division in the church and been exploited
00:32:57.420
by Catholics opposed to the second Vatican council. Uh, the Vatican repeated the rationale on Saturday
00:33:03.420
saying the clarifications and new restrictions were necessary to preserve the unity of the church
00:33:08.100
and its sacraments. Archbishop Arthur Roche in an introductory note said as pastors, we must not
00:33:14.820
lend ourselves to sterile polemic, uh, polemics, uh, capable only of creating division in which the ritual
00:33:21.620
itself is often exploited by ideological viewpoints. And then they went through this clarification is
00:33:27.700
really basically it amounts to new rules. They're putting down to clamp down in the Latin mass and
00:33:33.580
all of that amounts to trying to get rid of it. Um, and you know, they, of course the rationales
00:33:41.780
provided are dishonest at best because we're told that this is all about unity in the church. And that's
00:33:49.900
why we don't want divisions in the church. Well, part of the rules here, for example, uh, one rule is
00:33:58.420
that you can't have the Latin mass and, um, you know, the new, the Nova Sordo, the new mass that cannot
00:34:05.240
be celebrated at the same church, or at least you cannot have a priest who does both like on the same
00:34:12.120
day. Um, rules like that, you know, so while they say that this is about unity and not division,
00:34:20.600
they're actually creating more division in an effort to send the Latin mass more to the sidelines,
00:34:26.600
marginalize it, marginalize it, uh, make it harder and harder to keep it going. Uh, so the, so that
00:34:32.200
there, there's really no place for it to go. And if you want to celebrate the Latin mass, you're not
00:34:36.080
gonna be able to find anywhere to do it and then to get rid of it. But this is, this is devise,
00:34:40.080
this is like a divide and conquer kind of strategy in the name of unity.
00:34:46.940
And I know if you're not, you know, this is the kind of thing, it's very inside baseball. So if
00:34:50.500
you're not Catholic, you think, well, what's, what's the significance of that? Why does it
00:34:53.340
matter to me? And it's not going to affect you in your daily life. If you're not, if you're not a
00:34:56.400
Catholic, even if you are a Catholic, most Catholics don't go to Latin mass. So it probably won't affect
00:34:59.840
your daily routine very much. There, there are many Catholics though, who the Latin mass is,
00:35:05.120
is crucial to them. It's very important to them and their spiritual life.
00:35:13.280
and in, in doing so, treating them like an enemy will have a profound impact.
00:35:26.320
you know, or I guess the larger point is that the Latin mass
00:35:32.620
appeals greatly to young Catholics, especially. This is something those of us who've been to Latin
00:35:41.100
mass, we've, we've, you can't help, but notice this when you go into a Latin mass, you go into
00:35:46.660
a church that celebrates the Latin mass, what do you find? You find young families, young, large
00:35:53.540
families everywhere inside these, these churches. And why is that? Well, because
00:36:00.480
I think for a lot of reasons, number one, young people tend to be, have a more kind of revolutionary
00:36:06.700
spirit. And they could take a more critical eye to some of these things.
00:36:12.260
I think maybe older people grew up with this, with what really is the new mass and they don't
00:36:18.820
really think much about it. They haven't been critical of it. Uh, young people have a more
00:36:21.860
kind of adventurous spirit or more, or more revolutionary in spirit.
00:36:27.800
But then I also think that younger people growing up in this decaying, empty, secular society
00:36:35.100
are just hunger for something real and true and, uh, mystical, you know, they, they, and
00:36:45.220
transcendent, like we talked about last week, transcendence. Uh, they're, they, they hunger
00:36:49.980
for that because they've been deprived of it and they find that in the Latin mass and it's
00:36:57.400
bringing people in and they're finding spiritual nourishment and Pope Francis and his, uh, comrades
00:37:04.200
they see that as a, as a problem. In fact, they would rather get rid of all those young,
00:37:10.440
younger people. If getting rid of the Latin mass means alienating those younger families
00:37:15.620
and scaring them away, that's fine with him because this is a war on tradition when it
00:37:23.240
comes down to it. Really pretty horrifying. Um, next we got, uh, let's say there were, there
00:37:30.760
were protests at a school in Fairfax last week over an alleged racist attack against a Muslim
00:37:37.900
student that happened. Here's the, uh, CBS affiliate talking about it.
00:37:43.040
An estimated 350 students protested at Fairfax high after they say a student was attacked here
00:37:52.720
She couldn't breathe. She was laid on the floor. She couldn't move out of her position.
00:37:56.040
Students accused the school system of trying to sweep the incident under the rug.
00:38:00.760
The school's trying to cover it up and said I had a panic attack, which that did not happen.
00:38:05.460
Ekran Mohammed says some students made racist drawings in a marketing class,
00:38:10.580
became increasingly aggressive, and then one of them assaulted her.
00:38:14.000
My backpack bumped into him and then he got mad and he pushed me and then he grabbed my hijab.
00:38:20.100
Mohammed says he pulled her hijab off and when she fought back, he shoved her hard into a desk.
00:38:25.700
Everybody was outside waiting for the buses and we saw the ambulance come into the school.
00:38:29.300
Physically, my whole left side of my body is bruised. Um, mentally, I'm okay because I have
00:38:37.580
Mohammed says she and the student were given the same punishment, a one-day in-school suspension,
00:38:43.880
which they served Wednesday in the same room where she says the student kept looking at her.
00:38:48.520
That's entirely unacceptable and that's something I want to go back to see with staff,
00:38:53.860
County school board member Abrar Omash, the only elected official in Virginia who wears a hijab,
00:38:59.620
says she's concerned by the response. The school system told us it is investigating and quote,
00:39:05.060
no further details can be shared at this stage as administrators work to establish the facts.
00:39:09.980
Fairfax County Public Schools and City of Fairfax Schools support the rights of students to peacefully protest.
00:39:14.860
So there they are protesting over this, uh, this hate crime. And we heard it's a, it's a hate crime.
00:39:20.400
There were racial slurs that were used. Um, this, uh, anti-Muslim hate crime and all that.
00:39:26.380
So now we get to the twist ending that I'm sure you saw coming from a million miles away.
00:39:31.340
This is from a WTOP. It says a city of Fairfax police department investigation has determined that
00:39:35.740
a physical altercation at Fairfax high school on Tuesday was not a hate crime. According to a press
00:39:40.660
release, the investigation revealed there were no racial comments made by either student. According
00:39:45.380
to police, police said that the female student confirmed her hijab became partially undone during
00:39:50.920
the altercation, exposing her hair. The female student told police that the information posted on
00:39:55.300
several social media sites stating that racial comments were used during the altercation were
00:39:59.460
false. Uh, it not just on social media sites, but as you, as you heard, the media itself has been
00:40:05.200
reporting this. Um, nonetheless, hundreds of students from Fairfax high school in Virginia walked out in
00:40:10.240
protest on Thursday, showing their support for a student they say was attacked in an Islamophobic
00:40:15.220
incident. The student herself is saying that's not what happened. Well, she's saying that now. I think
00:40:21.840
initially that that that's where they got this story, but very quickly she backed away and she
00:40:26.480
said there were no racial slurs used this. What, what, here's what it was. It was a, a fight that she
00:40:31.420
got into a mutual fight as happens in high schools, uh, with another student. The other student, by the
00:40:37.260
way, not white. So these were two non-white students who got into a fight and during the fight, her, you
00:40:44.280
know, her, uh, headdress was, was partially dislodged and it showed a little bit of her hair.
00:40:51.840
And then this story arises. Now I don't, I don't know what motivated her to come up with this
00:40:59.780
version of the story. It's not hard to come up with some theories. Maybe one of them is she didn't
00:41:08.100
want to get in trouble for being in a fight. So she, so she came up with the hate crime story instead.
00:41:14.460
It seemed like a pretty logical assumption here. I don't know if that's true or not. Oh, who knows?
00:41:18.340
Who knows? Who knows what motivates these people to invent these kinds of stories?
00:41:23.980
But we know, we know generally speaking, what motivates it is that, uh, is that she's growing,
00:41:29.000
growing up in a world and she looks around and she sees that, you know, victimhood pays.
00:41:36.260
Uh, victimhood gives you some points. You can cash them in. You can cash in those, those tokens
00:41:40.540
in a lot of different ways and benefit from it. Get yourself out of a tight spot. It's kind of like
00:41:48.420
a get out of jail free card. Maybe a get out of suspension free card here.
00:41:54.280
But if you're a rational person, even I, I saw this story a couple, a few days ago when they were
00:41:58.520
first walking out over this anti, this alleged Islamophobic hate crime. As soon as I saw it,
00:42:05.900
my first reaction was, yeah, that probably didn't happen. Because yet again, this is, this is a,
00:42:13.920
it's actually, it's good news. It should be good news that this sort of thing just isn't happening.
00:42:21.280
It's, it's simply not happening in the country. You're not going into a modern high school in
00:42:28.160
modern America and there are white students tearing the hijabs off of, uh, off of Muslim girls and,
00:42:34.200
and shouting Islamophobic slurs at them. That's not happening.
00:42:39.940
We could celebrate that because that's, that's, that's a great thing that those,
00:42:43.080
these sorts of events aren't happening. Uh, unless, you know, unless victimhood is what you crave,
00:42:51.960
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wire membership or purchase product, but the free content is great. My only gripe are the ads. Can
00:45:33.740
you stop running them? Thanks and Merry Christmas. I think you might be joking here a bit. I want to,
00:45:38.140
I want to believe that you are, but this is the attitude a lot of people have, which is that,
00:45:43.720
you know, they love the content, but they begrudge any attempt that the content creators make to make
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00:45:52.960
but, but don't, don't make a living off of it at all. Don't make, please any attempt to make a living
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off of it offends me. So I want this, I want this free content. I want you to provide it for free.
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And, um, and I want to contribute nothing at all to it, which is, which is, I mean, I understand
00:46:10.200
that attitude. That's the attitude I have about most of the stuff that I consume online, but, um,
00:46:15.740
we might say it's a little bit of entitlement that goes into that. Zach says, Matt, I'm glad to hear
00:46:21.940
you open, you open up about your closeted bass headedness. It only makes me agree with your
00:46:26.340
viewpoints even more now. By the way, my favorite three bait baits are deer crank baits, swim jigs,
00:46:31.000
and last but not least frog slash toads. I don't think I've been closeted about. I think I've been
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pretty open, loud and proud, um, about my, my self-identification as an angler. And I love the
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frog baits too, but it's, you know, those are a little bit harder to set the hook on. So you've
00:46:46.120
got to, you got to make sure you have the right gear for that. Uh, my ex-wife says, Matt, I have to
00:46:51.320
record myself giving a speech for my finals and I want it to be like one of your old videos.
00:46:56.140
Like what, in your car? I don't know if I'd recommend that for your finals. So if you can give me some
00:47:00.580
tips on how I can do that and how to be more confident on camera, the topic of the speech is
00:47:04.940
if guys gossip more than girls, maybe you can share your thoughts on that. If guys gossip more
00:47:12.160
than girls. Well, I don't think that guys do gossip more than girls. In fact, I'm positive that they
00:47:15.980
don't. Gossiping is, it's not exclusively a girl thing, but it mostly is. But here's, I don't want to
00:47:24.580
tell you what to give your speech about, but, but here's an interesting angle to explore. We could
00:47:28.840
ask what, like, why is it that girls gossip so much? And I think it's actually rooted in a gossip
00:47:35.500
itself is bad most of the time, but it's, it's, it's rooted in something positive and a positive
00:47:41.560
female trait, a positive feminine trait, which is, which is empathy. You know, women are far more
00:47:46.680
empathetic than men and being empathetic means that you relate to other people. You know, you really care
00:47:53.000
about other people. And, um, what that means is that, you know, the, the negative side of that
00:48:00.700
is that, uh, you're going to be talking about other people, what's going on in their lives and
00:48:04.900
everything. And, uh, and, and sometimes you'll be talking about the positive things happening in
00:48:09.160
other people's lives. And sometimes it's going to be the negative things. That's where it's,
00:48:11.400
that's where it's gossip. But I think it's rooted in that empathy. The reason why men don't gossip
00:48:15.660
mostly, it's not because we're, we're morally superior. It's just that we don't care that much
00:48:21.680
about what's happening in other people's lives. We just, we just don't care that much.
00:48:26.340
So I would never sit down with another guy and spend 30 minutes. Oh, guess what? Do you know
00:48:30.740
what's happening with so-and-so and what, and then this, we just, we just don't care. It doesn't
00:48:35.340
interest us. Uh, cause we're all a bunch of sociopaths, I guess. AT says, I love how Matt
00:48:42.200
Walsh complains about people saying happy holidays while also using the phrase, the holidays and happy
00:48:46.740
holidays in the sponsorships that he does. Way to stick with your principles. I don't complain about
00:48:50.780
people saying happy holidays. In fact, I think I've, uh, I think I've said several times in the
00:48:54.180
past that I think the war on Christmas is real. I think there are real examples of a, what you might
00:49:02.600
call a war on Christmas, but somebody wishing you happy holidays, that's not war on Christmas.
00:49:09.200
I have in fact defended people do. I don't get upset when I'm at the store or something and the
00:49:14.620
cashier says happy holidays. That doesn't offend me. It's fine. You know, there are multiple holidays
00:49:21.540
happening in this, in a season. So it's just kind of a general greeting. Someone's attempting to be
00:49:26.220
nice. Doesn't, doesn't bother me. Um, let's see. The Duke family says, Matt, great show as always.
00:49:34.680
What the commenter meant about Catholicism and its doctrines is that most of the doctrines in the
00:49:38.680
Catholic church are unbiblical. Mary papal infallibility are two of the more notable ones.
00:49:43.360
As you yourself frequently say about Joe Biden, you can't be Catholic unless you believe its
00:49:47.440
doctrines. You're left in a tough place there because you have an obvious leftist Pope, but
00:49:51.340
you're forced as a Catholic to believe he's the vicar of Christ on earth. Having listened to you
00:49:54.820
for some time, I can say with much certainty that you do not believe that. So you're not Catholic
00:49:59.040
according to your own standards. I will also say, I appreciate any time you mentioned the Bible on your
00:50:02.260
show, but as a Catholic, you are not free to interpret what any passage of the Bible actually means.
00:50:06.100
That's up to your magisterium to interpret for you. Those are both Catholic teachings and
00:50:10.880
doctrines that you will need to deal with going forward. My prayer is that you will leave the
00:50:13.540
Catholic church and join a church that believes in the true gospel, not a false gospel that Rome
00:50:17.540
teaches. Well, your assumptions about what I believe are not accurate, but I'd like to just focus on,
00:50:21.880
on a basic conceptual problem here for a second. Um, you say that the Bible is, uh, is the sole
00:50:28.440
authority. There shouldn't be any doctrines outside of it. And also you lament that as Catholics,
00:50:32.620
that as a Catholic, I am not free to interpret it as I please. And you're right about that last
00:50:38.440
part, but, but, but, but here's your problem. First of all, you do not interpret the Bible as you
00:50:43.880
please, which is actually a good thing because that's not how the Bible is meant to be read.
00:50:50.300
Okay. It's not, it's not, it's not supposed to be a Rorschach test where it's, it's something
00:50:54.040
different to everybody. Um, and if you, without any kind of framework of understanding or anything
00:51:02.500
without any training, without any background knowledge, without any instruction from anybody,
00:51:06.900
if you picked up the Bible and tried to read it cover to cover, you're probably going to come to
00:51:13.060
all kinds of conclusions that are incorrect. If you had no previous instruction, if nobody
00:51:20.180
was telling you, you know, how to interpret various parts of the Bible.
00:51:25.580
So, but nobody really does that now. And you didn't do that. Your interpretations fall into a
00:51:30.820
system that was designed by human beings and passed down to you. Nothing wrong with that. I'm
00:51:36.160
just pointing it out. The idea that doctrines outside of the Bible are not valid is itself a
00:51:41.800
doctrine that itself is not in the Bible. The Bible never says anywhere that you shouldn't accept
00:51:46.560
doctrines outside of it. Also, here's the big issue. The Bible itself was written and compiled
00:51:53.520
by humans, right? And given to you. So I'm not sure how I see how you could accept the Bible without
00:51:59.800
accepting the authority of the person who gave it to you. You know, if someone hands you a book and
00:52:05.180
says, this is the word of God, it doesn't really make a lot of sense to say, oh, I don't trust you.
00:52:09.420
You're full of it. But, uh, give me that book. Yeah, sure. I believe that. Based on what?
00:52:14.760
If someone hands you something and you accept it as an authority, then you are accepting the
00:52:21.620
authority of the person who handed it to you. I'm not sure how you get around that exactly.
00:52:26.400
If you didn't accept their authority, then on what basis would you come to believe
00:52:29.480
that this collection of writings is true or meaningful or whatever?
00:52:36.040
Now, none of this means that the Bible is not true or the Bible is not, is not the word of God.
00:52:40.620
All I'm, all I'm pointing out is that God worked through people to compile. It was not like the
00:52:46.860
Bible was written in the heavens and then literally descended from the clouds, right? It was, it worked
00:52:50.960
through people. And so you're trying to remove people from the equation or the authority of people.
00:52:58.140
And I'm not sure how you do that. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
00:53:01.080
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Infamous automaton Mark Zuckerberg has been working over time to bring his metaverse dream to fruition.
00:54:58.620
And he's noticed that our lives have already been almost entirely consumed by the internet to the
00:55:02.960
point where most of us are now essentially cyborgs, half robot, half human, except without any of the
00:55:08.220
cool superpowers that cyborgs and science fiction usually possess. In the movies, a cyborg has all of
00:55:13.160
the best qualities of humans and machines. In reality, we have the worst ingredients of both.
00:55:18.400
So we're fat and lazy like people, but we're also amoral and emotionally vacuous like computers.
00:55:23.460
So we're kind of like mermaids, but if the mermaid had a fish's head and a human's body,
00:55:28.880
it's like the worst possible combination. A combination more monstrous than mythical,
00:55:33.180
I guess. And this is what our near total reliance on and addiction to the internet has done for us.
00:55:38.780
But Mark Zuckerberg has seen all of this and determined that we still have not invested
00:55:42.180
enough of ourselves into cyberspace. And that's where the metaverse comes in. With the metaverse,
00:55:47.340
we can actually enter into the internet, submerge ourselves in it, lose ourselves inside it like a
00:55:52.920
dream, a bad dream. If you've ever visited Reddit or you've read the comments under a viral tweet or
00:55:58.900
you scrolled through TikTok and thought to yourself, wow, I wish I could be trapped inside a three-dimensional
00:56:03.520
virtual prison cell with these people, then the metaverse will be right up your alley. But if you're
00:56:08.080
a sane person, you probably feel differently. And yet it doesn't matter how you feel. This is where
00:56:13.200
we're headed. The metaverse is, it's happening, whether you like it or not. And 15 years from now,
00:56:18.500
you'll be sitting around your virtual dinner table with your virtual family, eating your virtual food
00:56:23.700
while your physical body is encased in a pod and connected to wires and tubes. And you'll be telling
00:56:28.360
your virtual child who prefers to use a Peppa the pig avatar all about the old days when the internet
00:56:32.760
was contained almost exclusively inside your phone. And Peppa will laugh and say, that's silly,
00:56:37.700
daddy. And you'll pretend to laugh too. And nobody will be able to see you cry because they don't
00:56:42.860
have tears in the metaverse because meta president Mark Zuckerberg has declared that everyone must
00:56:47.380
always be happy inside his domain. Anyway, so the point is that I'm not a big fan of this whole idea,
00:56:53.300
but it's happening anyway. And though the metaverse is still in its infancy, it has already had its
00:56:59.280
first Me Too moment. The New York Post reports, it says a beta tester has claimed that she was
00:57:06.000
virtually groped in the metaverse VR platform Horizon Worlds for Meta, the company formerly known as
00:57:11.620
Facebook. Meta revealed the incident on December 1st, saying it occurred on November 26th.
00:57:16.440
The woman had reported the assault, the assault in virtual reality on the Horizon Worlds beta testing
00:57:24.240
Facebook group. Sexual harassment is no joke on the regular internet, but being in VR adds another
00:57:29.820
layer that makes the event more intense, she wrote, according to The Verge. Not only was I groped last
00:57:35.240
night, but there were other people there who supported this behavior, which made me feel isolated in the
00:57:39.280
plaza, the virtual environment's central gathering space. Severe encounters of online harassment,
00:57:45.020
including physical threats, stalking, and repeated harassment, are on the rise, according to a 2020 Pew
00:57:49.280
research poll, with the percentage of users reporting such incidents jumping from 15% in 2014
00:57:53.840
to 25% today. While much of it takes place on social media, VR is still nascent and already an
00:58:00.060
apparent venue for harassment. Horizon Worlds operated by VR company Oculus, which is also owned by Meta.
00:58:05.460
Meta is billed as a pleasant, productive digital escape, a place to create in extraordinary ways
00:58:11.460
and find experiences that matter with your avatar friends. Groped virtually on the internet is what
00:58:18.320
we're dealing with. And that's a pretty serious crime, we have to admit. In fact, it brings back the
00:58:24.540
trauma that I suffered as a child when I was virtually assaulted by a South Asian man with very long arms
00:58:29.800
while playing Street Fighter. At another point, playing a different game, I was virtually cannibalized by a huge
00:58:34.740
yellow head. I have been virtually beaten, shot, stabbed, tortured in all manner of ways. Though I
00:58:41.460
suppose I'm no saint myself, in the same game Street Fighter, I committed virtual battery against an obese
00:58:46.120
sumo wrestler, which was arguably a hate crime as well, given that the victim was a video game
00:58:51.900
character of color. But then again, my character was green, so I'm not sure how this all works.
00:58:56.560
I don't know how we work out the intersectionality part of that. But anyway, a little bit more from the
00:59:00.300
article. It says, in its statement about the incident, Meta pointed to its safe zone feature,
00:59:05.960
which allows users to place a block against interaction with other users. However, the company
00:59:10.600
admitted that it needs to work on making the feature trivially easy and findable, says Vivek Sharma,
00:59:16.620
the vice president of Horizon, in a statement to The Verge. Meta spokesperson Christina Milian also told
00:59:22.020
MIT Technology Review that users are required to complete training that covers safeguarding tools
00:59:26.400
before joining Horizon World, while reminders are also prompted during users' experiences.
00:59:33.140
Sexual harassment in virtual reality is sexual harassment in real life, full stop, experts have
00:59:38.120
said. Quote, at the end of the day, the nature of virtual reality spaces is such that it is designed
00:59:43.300
to trick the user into thinking they are physically in a certain space, that their every bodily action
00:59:49.020
is occurring in a 3D environment. Catherine Cross, a PhD student researcher on online harassment at the
00:59:54.740
University of Washington, told Technology Review. Quote, it's part of the reason why emotional reactions
00:59:59.880
can be stronger in that space, and why VR triggers the same internal nervous system and psychological
01:00:05.600
responses. Those who have suffered sexual harassment in VR elsewhere say that Meta's safe zone feature
01:00:11.860
isn't enough. Okay, so sexual harassment in virtual reality is sexual harassment in real life,
01:00:18.380
according to experts. It's the same. I wonder if they've asked any actual real life victims of
01:00:24.720
sexual assault. You know, people who've had their physical bodies violated, not the bodies of
01:00:29.780
cartoon characters on the internet. How do they feel about this? Do they agree that their experience
01:00:35.880
was exactly the same as the experience of somebody whose fake metaverse avatar was fake groped by another
01:00:42.420
fake character in a fake world? I'm guessing they'd say no. Another big difference between real life
01:00:49.060
assault and virtual assault, these real victims might point out, is that the virtual victim can
01:00:55.160
simply turn off their headset and the problem goes away. No such escape valve exists for the real life
01:01:02.580
victim, they might remind us. But then again, you know, they aren't the experts. The experts are the
01:01:07.840
experts. And we know who the experts are because they belong to a group called the experts, and the media
01:01:12.480
tells us how they feel about stuff like this. And we're supposed to nod our heads in agreement and say
01:01:16.480
nothing else. Now, this is all quite ludicrous, of course. By definition, you cannot be groped in
01:01:21.720
virtual reality because groping is a physical act. Nothing physical is occurring in that realm.
01:01:28.020
There's a reason we don't prosecute people for vehicular homicide based on incidents that occur in
01:01:33.340
Mario Kart. And yet, at the same time, Catherine Cross, the PhD researcher, she's correct when she says
01:01:40.520
that VR technology tricks the user into thinking they are physically in a certain space.
01:01:45.760
But the key word is tricks. It's not real. They're not actually in that space. Nothing that happens
01:01:52.040
to them in that space is actually happening to them. It's happening to a computer code on a screen.
01:01:57.200
So one computer code is interacting with another computer code. It feels real, but it's not.
01:02:03.340
But the fact that people can be fooled in this way, you know, that doesn't mean that we need more
01:02:09.860
rules or policies or regulations, or that we have to have legal protections put in place for cartoon
01:02:15.600
avatars. You know, we don't need laws that will wind up putting 12-year-olds behind bars for
01:02:20.080
first-degree homicides committed in call of duty. That's not the conclusion that we should draw from
01:02:24.640
this. Here is the conclusion. That the internet is often not very good for your brain,
01:02:30.420
and virtual reality will be even worse. The fact that virtual reality tricks you and makes it hard
01:02:37.320
to distinguish between reality and virtual reality is not an argument for treating virtual reality like
01:02:42.380
it's reality. But it may be an argument for not using virtual reality at all. The last thing we need
01:02:49.260
is yet another tool to tear us away from our physical existence and immerse us in a world that is fake
01:02:54.680
but feels real. That's the last thing we need. And that's the lesson here. We don't need more
01:03:01.580
virtual reality. We need more reality reality. That's the world we should be living in most of
01:03:07.560
the time. So that's why, in the end, I think the metaverse is what we have to cancel today.
01:03:14.060
And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
01:03:44.060
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