Ep. 864 - My Heroic Battle With Omicron
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Alexandra Ocasio-cortez says that all of her critics really just want to date her, and the left uncovers a shocking truth about Ron DeSantis. Plus, the top female Jeopardy! contestant of all time is a man, and in our Daily Cancellation, we ll deal with the Atlantic writer who blew up her marriage because she was bored, and believes that she has discovered some deep truths about life from her experience.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, lots of COVID quote-unquote misinformation has suddenly become
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information because Fauci and the media are now saying it. We'll talk about that miraculous
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transformation today, and I'll tell you all about my own harrowing encounter with the dreaded
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Omnicorn variant. But Twitter has ramped up its censorship campaign against COVID heretics,
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even as many of their claims have been proven true, so we've got to talk about that also.
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Also, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that all of her critics really just want to date her,
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and the left uncovers a shocking truth about Ron DeSantis. You're not going to believe this.
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Plus, the top female Jeopardy! contestant of all time is a man, and in our Daily Cancellation,
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we'll deal with the Atlantic writer who blew up her marriage because she was bored and believes
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that she has discovered some deep truths about life from her experience. All of that and more
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25% off. You know, the new year is a time for deep reflection, for resolution, for learning lessons
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and making goals for the future. At least that's what most people seem to think. It's never been
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very clear to me why you should wait until the arbitrary point when the calendar flips over to a
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new year to do all of those things. In fact, if you're waiting, that's a pretty good indication
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that you aren't serious. The only serious resolutions, and most resolutions are not serious at all,
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no matter when they're made, but the only potentially serious ones are those that are acted upon
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the moment that they're made. And the most serious of all are the resolutions that are not made out
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loud, but are just done with no festivities or fireworks, and that's the end of it. So you want to
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start working out? Okay, well, do some push-ups. You want to stop eating junk? Okay, put down the french
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fries. Start what you want to start now. Stop what you want to stop now. All things have to be done
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in the present anyway. If you're not willing to do them in the present moment and instead are waiting
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for the new year or for Monday or for next week or whatever, then there's no reason to think that
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when that future time becomes the present time, that you'll actually follow through. But if I were
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to humbly suggest a couple of resolutions that you might, we all might adopt this year, resolutions
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that can be implemented immediately and might help restore perhaps a small amount of sanity to our
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society in 2022, they would be, number one, to relearn how to use and how to trust your common
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sense. Now we've witnessed in our age an unprecedented assault on common sense. People have forgotten how
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to make sound judgments in practical matters, which is what we mean by common sense, or else they've been
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so battered into mental submission, so bewildered and confused that they're too afraid to listen to
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their own intuition. We see this at work in, you know, the sorts of areas we talk about all the time
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on this show, like when it comes to gender. But it's been even more pronounced with respect to the
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COVID panic, where early on we were forbidden from saying common sense things about the situation.
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But now one by one, each of those once forbidden common sense observations or intuitions have been
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vindicated and slowly permitted into the discourse once it's been approved by a ranking member of the
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thought police. For example, many of us have been saying for years that you're probably not achieving
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much by putting a thin layer of cloth over your face when you go out in public. If the goal is to
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look silly, then mission accomplished. But if the goal is to prevent an airborne virus from infecting you,
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then you might be in for a rude awakening. Now, such ideas were verboten, harmful, dangerous,
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conspiracy mongering until just a few days ago when the Wall Street Journal published a piece titled
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Why Cloth Masks Might Not Be Enough As Omicron Spreads.
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Hmm, who would have thought? Well, a lot of us thought, but we couldn't say it.
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Another example, many of us have been saying, not saying, like shouting, screaming at the top of our
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lungs in increasingly desperate fashion that we are harming our children by depriving them of a normal
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life for fear of a virus that poses very little risk to them. This seemed like a common sense judgment
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judgment and also a morally sensible judgment, but was condemned as psychotic, suicidal, reckless
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until the thought police on CNN started saying it themselves. So right before Christmas, Brian
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Stelter had exactly this epiphany. And of course, he communicates it as though he's the first person
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to ever say it. Listen. In some media circles, this was the week where getting COVID became an
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inevitability, that there's this acceptance that everybody's going to get COVID eventually. Tens of
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millions of Americans already have, and everybody else is going to at some point. Is that the proper
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approach, just to accept that at some point you'll be infected, which doesn't mean you'll get sick,
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doesn't mean you'll suffer, but at some point everyone will be infected? Is that the proper
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approach now? And if so, why is it still so hard to find at-home tests, especially in blue America?
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By the way, pro tip, if you want to find at-home tests, get somebody in red America in a red state
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to mail them to you, since all the stores, at least here in New York that I've seen, are sold out.
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And here's another question, since we're hearing about schools closing again. We collectively took
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action to protect the elderly in 2020. Now, shouldn't we be doing more to protect children?
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By letting them live normal lives? Are we really going to let the kids suffer even more?
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Wow. How'd you think of that, Brian? Lots of people on the right applauded Stelter for that
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when he said it a couple of weeks ago. I do not applaud him. If you're wrong for two years about
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something as serious as this, and then suddenly you switch over to the right team without even giving
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any credit to the people who arrived at that conclusion two years ahead of you and provided you
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all the cover to say it now, you're not going to get a pat on the back from me. Shouldn't get it from
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anybody. This goes doubly for Anthony Fauci, who went on MSNBC on New Year's Eve and finally admitted,
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and this is pretty amazing in some ways, finally admitted that the COVID hospitalization numbers
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are perhaps, perhaps not what they first appear. Listen.
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Many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID. And what we mean by that,
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if a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID and they get counted as a COVID
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hospitalized individual. When in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something
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like that. So it's over counting the number of children who are quote hospitalized with COVID as
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opposed to because of COVID. Well, this is, this is, this is dangerous. I mean, he just said that there
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are kids in the hospital potentially with broken legs who are counted as hospitalized as, as COVID
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hospitalizations. But what he's saying is not everybody hospitalized with COVID is actually
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hospitalized because of COVID. Hmm. See, this again, it's an argument that we've been making for two
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years. Only we had to be very careful in making that argument because everything Tony just said there
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would have gotten you banned from most social media platforms. Maybe it still will. Maybe me
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repeating what he just said, we'll get the show taken down from YouTube. I don't know.
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See, sometimes if a, if a ranking member of the thought police says something, it sometimes means
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that everyone else is allowed to say it too. But often the exception doesn't extend beyond that one
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individual. So there, there's a lot that a guy like Tony Fauci is allowed to say, which the rest of us
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are not. I mean, he is the science after all, the science can say and do what it wants. Those are
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the rules anyway, but we shouldn't make mistake. The rules for the truth. Common sense has been
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vindicated time and time again. Remember that the other resolution is I think even more important
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and that is to stop living in fear. I mean, it's been a bad idea to, to let fear rule your life in
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general, but fear over COVID is at this point, especially delusional. Now I can speak with some
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experience now, like almost everybody else in America, it seems I had my turn with Omnicorn
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over the break, uh, which was good because frankly, I was starting to feel a little bit left out.
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And, um, the illness began for me as a sort of vague feeling that, uh, I was coming down with
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something. And then for two days I had a mild fever and I felt pretty miserable. And then the fever
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went away and I felt almost completely fine, save for a scratchy throat and an occasional sniffle.
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And, and, and that was it. Now it's not true. It's, it's not true. Not true that Omnicorn is like
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the flu. In my experience anyway, it wasn't nearly as bad as that. I've had the flu. I actually did go
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to the hospital for the flu a couple of years ago. And, um, my experience may be anecdotal, but it's far
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from unusual. Omnicorn has been incredibly mild for the vast majority of people. So, so what have I
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learned after surviving this, um, tremendous ordeal? Well, after trudging through the fires of a 100.5
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degree fever and a runny nose and a headache, um, I have learned absolutely nothing that I didn't
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already know. I was sick. Then I got better. You know, that's how it works. Usually sickness exists
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in the world. Viruses not only exist, but there are more viruses on earth than there are stars in
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the sky. Many of those viruses belong to the 200 some species that could potentially infect humans.
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And some of them are far worse than COVID. Some not as bad. They're also like 100 different kinds
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of cancer. And over half a million Americans die every year from one type or another. There are
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countless bacteria floating around out there. Some of them resistant to antibiotics. Many of them
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haven't even been discovered yet. And diseases are just one sort of danger. Every time you drive a
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car, you're trusting and hoping that you're not going to cross paths with any of the lethally drunk
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or distracted drivers that happen to be out on the road at the same time as you. Maybe your gamble
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will work out. Maybe not. Even in your house, you're under a roof that could collapse. I mean, I am right
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now. Or walking on a floor that could give in. There are murderers out there and serial killers and
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terrorists and armed robbers. And we've only considered the hazards that currently occupy
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the earth alongside you. An asteroid or solar flare could make all of that irrelevant in an instant.
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That is unless a super volcano erupts and does the job first.
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So my point is, Happy New Year. If you're looking for something to be afraid of this year,
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if you really need something, there are many more worthy options than COVID and especially Omnicorn.
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But the better option is to focus on something other than fear. Live your life while you can.
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That's the best resolution, I think, for all of us. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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their How Did You Hear About Us box so they know that we sent you. So a couple of other important
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notes from the break. First, that I was, for the first time in my life, I was given the very
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important and sacred duty of making the cookies for Santa. And I wanted to show you these because
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here's a, I've never baked anything in my life. And for some reason, you know, Santa's coming,
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so you got to make the cookies. And, uh, and I, and so my wife said to me, can you make the,
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you know, the cookies for Santa? And I did. And you can see there how those turned out.
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You might say that I put the duty in sacred duty with this effort. I mean, not literally. I didn't,
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I mean, I didn't, I wouldn't do that to Santa. Um, and, uh, and I was mocked relentlessly
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for these cookies by everybody in the house. We had family over.
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My wife kept asking how the cookies ended up this way. These are supposed to be gingerbread men,
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by the way. Um, so, and I, and I, and, and, but it's, it's not supposed to look like someone
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Texas chainsaw massacred a bunch of obese snowmen, but that's how it turned out. And so my wife kept
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saying, how did this happen? And like, I don't know. I, I had the dough and I used the cookie cutter
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thing. And then this is what happened. But Santa did end up somehow he still left presents for the
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kids. So, and then the new year came and, uh, some people were still sick in the house. So we
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stayed in though. Of course we would have stayed in anyway, because we're boring. And, um, we let
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the kids stay up till midnight. So this was their first time staying up till midnight on new year's.
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And, uh, that was a decision that I regretted by about five in the afternoon because it was at four
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o'clock when the kids said to me, daddy, can we stay up till midnight on new year's this time?
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And for some reason I said, yeah, sure. And an hour later I regretted it. So we just,
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we stayed up all, uh, you know, until midnight and, um, kids get so excited about that. But of
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course, as an adult, when it gets to midnight, all you're doing is you're running the calculations
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of how much sleep you're going to get. Everything's a math problem and you're negotiating with your
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future selves. Like, well, I can do 30 more minutes here. I'll take 30 minutes off the back end.
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But, uh, the kids were, were, um, really excited. And then, uh, and we sat, we watched the ball drop
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and then we, um, my wife's idea was that they're gonna let, she was gonna let the kids go outside
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and, uh, scream happy new year in the neighborhood. And so that's what we did at midnight. So my
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apologies to the, to my neighbors for that one. All right. Um, we'll, we'll start with this. Last
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week, Dr. Robert Malone was permanently suspended from Twitter for alleged COVID misinformation. Now
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he's been called an anti-vaxxer and a conspiracy theorist. Uh, even though he's a doctor, he's an
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immunologist, he's a virologist. He's been heavily involved in researching and developing vaccines.
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So he's a, he's a leading expert in the world on the subject, but they banned him because he raises
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questions and concerns that fall outside of the accepted narrative. And a couple of days later,
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he appeared on Joe Rogan show and the whole episode, I very rarely promote other people's
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podcasts unless they're paying me to, um, Joe Rogan of course is not, but this is a, an episode worth
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watching. The whole thing is where it's like three hours long. Listen to the whole thing,
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but I want to play just a couple of clips for you and, um, just a few choice, uh, bits here that
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I think are important. So first here is, uh, Dr. Robert Malone talking about the pharmaceutical
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industry, especially Pfizer and the conflicts of interest that you deal with when it comes to the
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pharmaceutical industry. Listen to this. Well, that's one of the more disturbing things. The opposite
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of that is one of the more disturbing things about this pandemic is how people have just decided
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because they're scared and because they want a solution that the pharmaceutical companies
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have their best interests at heart and that they're not these machines that are designed to make money
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and they, they sell drugs and the drugs are often beneficial, but their main goal is to make money.
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And if they can fudge the data, if they can move the numbers around, if they can delete negative
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consequences, Pfizer is one of the most criminal pharmaceutical organizations in the world based
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on their past legal history and fines. What do those fines include? Bribing physicians. Okay. It is a
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cost benefit analysis in the pharmaceutical industry about misbehavior. They are not grounded in the ethical
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principles that you and I as average people believe in. They don't live in that world. As you appropriately
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point out, they are about profit return on investment. And furthermore, the overlords that own them,
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BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, et cetera, these large, massive funds that are completely decoupled from
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nation states have no moral core. They have no moral purpose. Their only purpose is return on investment.
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So nothing that you just heard there is, uh, although of course it's condemned as conspiracy theories and
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there's, there's nothing conspiratorial about it. There's nothing especially shocking about it,
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actually. Um, we know it's a, it's a simple fact of life. We know that money corrupts
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and, uh, these pharmaceutical industries are multi-billion dollar corporations. There's a lot
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of money at stake and that's going to create conflicts of interest. And it seems interesting at first that
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you know, on the left, I mean, if you, if you didn't know any better and you're maybe a little
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bit more naive, you might expect that criticisms of the pharmaceutical industry would be, there'd be
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kind of a bipartisan deal or people on both sides of the aisle can agree because we know that people
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on the right tend to be skeptical of the pharmaceutical industry to a certain extent.
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And then, and then, but people on the left, uh, it's, it's, this is a major corporation with
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billions of dollars and you're supposed to be skeptical of all of them. And for good reason,
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by the way. And yet it seems that, um, the left, this is one multi-billion dollar industry that
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they'll circle the wagons around and say, oh no, not them. And that might seem interesting at first
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or confusing, but then you realize that, uh, you know, from the leftist point of view,
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big pharma, you know, these are basically the priests. These are the, the, uh, the witch doctors
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of the human condition because the human condition from the left's point of view is a, is entirely a
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medical problem. And every problem that you have can be solved through, through medicine. You need big
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pharma for that. So any, and that's, that goes beyond viruses, any uncomfortable emotion or thought
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or, or, uh, personality traits that you don't want. Well, you just go to big pharma and they'll solve it
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for you. No, everything from despair to anxiety, everything can be solved through, through a big
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pharma. If you don't like the biological identity that you were born with, you can go to big pharma
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and they'll solve that problem for you. So you have to understand how the left views the pharmaceutical
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industry. They do, they do view it in a, in a, in a kind of religious light. And that is primarily why
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they cannot brook any criticism of, uh, of the pharmaceutical industry. All right. So a couple others
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here that I wanted to play for you that I think are interesting. So here's Robert Malone's clip
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three, talking about the ways that hospitals are incentivized, um, when it comes to COVID. And this,
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this, this, these are his claims. This is what he's saying as someone who has a lot of background
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knowledge. And, uh, I think it's important for us all to hear it. Here's what he says.
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The observation that I can make if we follow the money is that hospitals are incentivized to,
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to treat COVID patients. The thing that ties all this little part of this story together,
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including the suppression through the government, um, of early treatment. Hospitals are incentivized
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financially to treat COVID patients. If COVID patients are being treated outside of the hospital
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and prevented from going to the hospital, such as the case in the Imperial Valley, um, where Brian Tyson
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and George Farid have saved thousands and thousands of lives of indigenous Latinos that are coming
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across the border and working the fields. I mean, they're, they're breaking their backs to save the
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poor. Amazing story there with early treatments. Um, and I guess they're left alone because they're in
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the Imperial Valley. Nobody cares. They're all poor, but in these urban environments, there is all these
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incentives for hospitals to treat COVID patients. And if people are giving treatments that are keeping
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those people out of the hospitals, then they're not getting that revenue. So your speculation,
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if I just could unpack this, that doctor in Maui who was giving early treatment, you re you think
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that the reason why he was targeted because he was directly costing the hospital money because people
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weren't going in. I'm not saying I, I'm saying that the observation is that early treatment keeps
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people out of the hospital and that hospitals have financial incentives, including death incentives,
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financial incentives, to discourage early treatment. That's outrageous. I wish I hadn't played that.
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I'm sorry. Um, he said Latinos, which is very offensive. Latinx is what he means. But here again,
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we hear about the, the potential conflicts of interest that could arise. Um, and he also talks about how,
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according to him, he alleges that, you know, there's this, there's this intense focus on
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the so-called preventative, what's supposed to be preventative measures like, like vaccines.
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But, um, what about treatment after the fact? I mean, what about, what about actual therapeutics?
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We don't hear as much about that. He alleges that there's been an effort to suppress that information
00:23:13.760
and there might be financial reasons for that. There could also be political reasons.
00:23:19.520
I think personally, I would guess if that's going on, a big part of it is political
00:23:24.640
because Trump early on was talking about, you know, Ivermectin and those sorts of things.
00:23:30.720
And as soon as Trump says it, then, well, that can't be the answer because Trump said it.
00:23:36.960
So one other clip, this is kind of a longer one, but I think, but this, this to me of,
00:23:41.920
of everything that was said in the whole three hour conversation, this to me, to me, this was the
00:23:47.600
headline. Uh, this is clip four. Uh, he he's talking about a province in India where they've
00:23:54.320
basically shut down. Remember Joe Biden said he's going to shut down COVID. And you might notice that
00:23:59.440
it has not been shut down because cases are higher than they've ever been. Well, in one province in
00:24:03.840
India, they have basically shut it down. They've crushed it, but we're not being told what exactly
00:24:09.040
they did, which is, which is sort of interesting. Listen, Pradesh, as you know, has crushed COVID.
00:24:16.080
Yeah. To explain what they did to do that, because it's kind of fascinating.
00:24:18.720
It's, it's not clear. Um, what are the drugs? So what they did do, what we do know,
00:24:23.840
and there, there's some backstory to this that we could go into if you want to,
00:24:27.600
but the observation is there was a decision made. The virus was just ripping through Uttar Pradesh.
00:24:32.160
It has almost the same population as the United States. It's huge. Okay. Um, dense, urban, poor,
00:24:38.080
all the characteristics of the stereotypes of the Indian countryside. Um, and, uh, the virus was just
00:24:42.880
ripping through there and causing all kinds of death and disease. And the decision was made out of
00:24:47.120
desperation in that province to deploy early treatments as packages widely throughout the
00:24:54.080
province. And it included a number of agents. The composition has not been formally disclosed.
00:25:00.080
It was done in coordination with the United, with, um, WHO and whatever was in those packages,
00:25:07.200
um, was rumored to include ivermectin. Um, but there was a specific visit of Biden to Modi and, um,
00:25:17.520
a decision was made in the Indian government not to disclose the contents of those packages that were
00:25:23.280
being deployed in Uttar Pradesh, which they're still there. And Uttar Pradesh is flatlined right now. The rest of
00:25:29.040
the world is yelling about Omicron and, and, and hospitalizations. Well, South Africa isn't,
00:25:34.240
but, uh, Uttar Pradesh is still flatlined in terms of deaths.
00:25:36.800
So they were visited by someone in the Biden administration?
00:25:38.880
No, there's a meeting between Joe Biden and, and, um, Modi.
00:25:42.160
And you believe that out of that meeting they decided?
00:25:45.120
I don't know what they said. I didn't, wasn't invited. All I know is that immediately afterwards,
00:25:48.960
there was a decision not to disclose the contents of what was being deployed in Uttar Pradesh.
00:25:52.960
It's so crazy to imagine that in the middle of a pandemic, there's one place, uh, one area of
00:25:58.080
India that's extremely successful in combating the virus, and they're not going to say how they did
00:26:01.920
it. I mean, that's, that's nuts. That's, I, you know, so that's, that's where I kind of,
00:26:08.240
my stance in all of this is to say, here are the facts, here are the verifiable data, draw your own conclusion.
00:26:15.040
So there you go. Um, so what do you, what do you do with, with information like this? I mean, does it
00:26:21.120
mean that, um, you can't trust anything anyone ever says about this? Does it mean that you, we just,
00:26:28.560
you, you abandon pharmaceuticals and everything? I'm not, I, I, I am never very quick to grab a bottle
00:26:36.560
of pills, but on, you know, I take Tylenol if I have a headache every once in a while. So are you
00:26:41.440
going to say, well, I'm never going to, uh, everything that big pharma does is bad. Well,
00:26:45.860
that would be absurd too. No, I think what we do with this information or the right response
00:26:51.720
is, should be to let everything out in the open and to have these conversations openly.
00:27:00.040
Let people with different perspectives, let guys like Robert Malone say his piece.
00:27:06.960
And then once all the information is presented and you've got all the different sides,
00:27:12.160
might be, it might seem kind of bewildering, but you've got, you know, and now there's
00:27:16.060
potentially at least a chance of arriving at some kind of a conclusion as an adult based on all the
00:27:22.920
information. And you could decide what your own risk calculus is going to be. That would be the
00:27:31.420
right thing to do. But the problem is that that's, that isn't being allowed. You know, big tech shuts it
00:27:38.200
down. They say, well, this is not allowed. You're not allowed to hear. It's not because it's not
00:27:41.580
necessarily because what you're hearing there is false. It's just that from their perspective,
00:27:46.560
it might lead you to the conclusions that they don't want you to, uh, to arrive at.
00:27:50.700
And so that's why he got kicked off of Twitter. Um, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was,
00:28:01.980
was also kicked off of Twitter. That's the most, the most recent thing. She was kicked off of
00:28:06.540
Twitter yesterday after supposedly committing whatever it is, four or five strikes. It always
00:28:11.760
changes. And what are her, her violations? Well, just because she has an opinion about all of this
00:28:19.080
that, um, that might sway people in a direction that our big tech overlords don't want them to be
00:28:25.960
swayed. You know, another thing we have to consider here is, is we look at, like we talked to start the
00:28:33.740
show about all of these sort of common sense judgments, common sense observations that many of us
00:28:41.140
have been making for years. And, um, we were shouted down and condemned and now they're circling back
00:28:49.180
around Brian Stelter, Fauci, the CDC. They say, Oh, you know, maybe there might be something to some
00:28:53.520
of that. Only they're not phrasing it like that because they don't want to give us credit.
00:28:59.120
And what we find is that the, especially early on, many of the so-called public health experts,
00:29:05.380
many of the doctors failed us. And why is that? Well, one of the reasons is aside, if we, if we're
00:29:14.120
to put aside political partisanship and everything else, and that's of course a big part of the,
00:29:17.900
the equation. But, um, one of the reasons is that we were turning to doctors to answer questions
00:29:28.040
that are outside of their purview. So in an ideal scenario, in an ideal scenario, if you're talking
00:29:35.860
to a doctor who you can trust, um, and he doesn't have any conflicts of interests and he's not a
00:29:41.300
political hack, what, what he, what he might be able to tell you is that, okay, if you engage in,
00:29:48.280
in this activity, um, here is the, the physical risk that might come with that. So if you go and
00:29:54.460
gather with your family on Christmas, the degree of risk from COVID is going to be X, Y, Z.
00:30:02.520
So doctors can do that. And, and, and, and again, if you could trust them, if they're trustworthy
00:30:06.780
doctors, we could call them an expert in that area of assessing that sort of physical risk as it relates
00:30:13.600
to this or that, um, activity. Okay, fine. But what doctors can't tell you once they've given you the
00:30:24.340
risk, which is just an estimate anyway, right? It's a guess, but they've given you the risk.
00:30:30.240
What they can't do is tell you whether the risk is worth it because that's not a medical judgment.
00:30:38.060
That's a philosophical judgment. So pulling a number out of thin air,
00:30:44.960
gathering with your family on Christmas, if there was a, I don't know, 3% chance that you would get
00:30:50.960
COVID doing that. Uh, maybe you could look at the statistics and you could figure out what the exact
00:30:56.060
percentage chance is. Fine. Well, is that 3% risk worth it? Is that a worthwhile risk?
00:31:07.680
Is the potential cost worth what you would gain?
00:31:14.240
Who's an expert on that? That's something that can only be, that can only be an individual judgment
00:31:18.900
because it's your own life, your own family. And these are the things you're weighing.
00:31:25.860
And it is again, at the end of the day, uh, a, uh, a philosophical judgment.
00:31:31.900
Now I would say 100% definitely worth, worth the risk. Uh, we got together with our families,
00:31:37.720
you know, in my family, we got together with family on Christmas and, uh, we all got COVID. Okay.
00:31:44.200
Was it worth it? Definitely. If I could go back in time and just cancel Christmas ahead of time
00:31:57.180
What did we gain out of it? Well, we got to be with our families on Christmas.
00:32:03.400
You know, our, our, our children got to celebrate Christmas.
00:32:05.940
You only get so many Christmases as a kid. It was a very, it's a very precious time.
00:32:13.300
So was that worth the physical pain that was relatively mild that came after it? Yeah.
00:32:18.860
For me, for our family, but that's a judgment you have to make on your own.
00:32:24.080
And so this is the, this is the conflation that's been going on for years now.
00:32:27.740
Where the, where we're supposed to turn to doctors, not just to, to tell us the, you know,
00:32:36.000
the data and the numbers and all of that and the percentages, but also to, to, to, to give us
00:32:42.380
these philosophical judgments of whether or not this or that risk is worth it.
00:32:48.160
You know, and that's really a question of what, what sorts of things should you value the most
00:32:53.160
in your life? Should you value physical safety above everything else?
00:33:00.180
I would say the answer to that is definitely no.
00:33:06.460
And I'm not sure why doctors would have any special insight into that.
00:33:11.380
All right, let's move to this. From the Daily Wire, it says,
00:33:15.240
Representative Alexandria Queza-Cortez lashed out at critics on Friday after she was caught
00:33:19.780
hanging out in Miami, Florida, as her city deals with a record-breaking number of daily
00:33:24.200
coronavirus cases. National Review reported that according to photographs obtained by the
00:33:28.100
publication, Queza-Cortez was seated outside in Miami Beach and she was drinking a cocktail.
00:33:34.360
She didn't have a mask on. And she responded to one of her critics calling her out saying,
00:33:39.040
if Republicans are mad, they can't date me. They can just say that instead of projecting their
00:33:43.180
sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend's feet, I guess, because someone made a comment about the
00:33:47.440
fact that her boyfriend has ugly feet, which it seems like he does. Then she said, you creepy
00:33:52.400
weirdos. And she continued, it's starting to get old, ignoring the very obvious, strange, and deranged
00:33:58.720
sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, women, and LGBT plus people in
00:34:05.380
general. These people clearly need therapy. They won't do it. And they use politics as their outlet
00:34:10.840
instead. It's really weird. And this actually prompted, this is a whole day-long meltdown on AOC's
00:34:19.580
part where she was insisting that everyone who criticizes her is actually sexually attracted to
00:34:24.700
her. And this stems from two things. Number one, she is a very, very stupid person. And I certainly
00:34:35.720
don't say that about everybody on the left. I think there are plenty of smart people on the left,
00:34:39.860
evil, but intelligent. And the Democrat party as well, unfortunately. But that's not the case for
00:34:49.400
her. She's very, very stupid. And she's not able to engage intellectually with any point that anybody
00:34:56.120
makes. And so she retreats to the common thing, which is to just label. If you can't engage with an
00:35:04.720
argument, then you simply, you label it. And usually we're going to, oh, it's homophobic,
00:35:10.240
it's transphobic, it's sexist. And in this case also, it's an expression of your deep-seated sexual
00:35:18.400
frustrations. And there's a lot of projection that goes into that as well. Now, people on the left,
00:35:24.280
they see sexual frustration everywhere they go that is supposedly driving the behavior of everyone
00:35:32.040
around them. But all we can assume based on that is that that's their own experience. That's how
00:35:40.940
they operate. And so they assume that everyone else operates the same way.
00:35:45.700
So there's that, there's projection, there's stupidity, and there's also simply narcissism.
00:35:53.560
You know, she assumes again that everyone is sexually attracted to her. And so
00:35:57.800
anytime anyone talks to her or says anything about her, it must be fueled by that.
00:36:05.520
Narcissistic, shallow, and that's what you get from AOC. All right. So this is big news. I think
00:36:11.420
this is even bigger news. I need to show you this. A right-wing watchdog group, that is a watchdog
00:36:16.060
group that watches the right wing. They've uncovered something quite sinister related to Ron DeSantis.
00:36:21.880
So this is, put up 10A. Okay. So this is the Twitter account Patriot Takes. And they tweeted out,
00:36:29.780
Ron DeSantis' family is wearing the exact same clothes in both their Christmas and New Year
00:36:35.900
Instagram posts. This is, this is stunning. This is a stunning, I think there's going to be a
00:36:44.320
Pulitzer Prize for this. This is maybe the great, perhaps the greatest political scandal,
00:36:51.960
certainly of the 21st century. That Ron DeSantis' family, they're wearing the same clothing
00:36:57.060
in, in what's going on here exactly. And you, you click on that tweet and you read all the comments
00:37:02.040
underneath it. And it's a bunch of people asking that, what's going on? What's, what's, what is,
00:37:06.460
what's happening? What does this all mean? Wearing the same clothing in two different,
00:37:13.000
well, I just have a one theory here. If I, if I could, it could be that there's something really
00:37:20.180
sinister happening. I don't know. Or it could be that Ron DeSantis got his family together for a
00:37:26.940
photo shoot. And I can guarantee you it wasn't his idea. It was his wife's idea. It's never the man's
00:37:32.220
idea. So I should say, Ron DeSantis' wife got the family together for a photo shoot,
00:37:38.040
forced them all there. And then what, what they did was they took multiple photos.
00:37:43.600
And now his social media team is putting those photos up at various different times.
00:37:48.620
Because what I can tell you from experience again, is that, um, this is one of the reasons why
00:37:55.060
as a man, it'll, it'll never be your decision to take any kind of photo shoot. Cause it's, it's not,
00:37:59.360
want to talk about cost benefit analysis, never worth the cost because first you got to get all
00:38:04.540
those kids in the nice clothing. And that's a whole ordeal. And you've got to, the clothing has
00:38:10.220
to stay nice. At least the part that's visible for the camera has to stay nice long enough for
00:38:14.480
the pictures to be taken. And that's usually feasible with, so he's got two girls there that
00:38:19.000
that's okay. You can put them in nice clothing and let them walk around the house a little bit and
00:38:23.480
they'll be fine. But with a boy, you put them in nice clothing and within five minutes,
00:38:28.900
it's, it looks like he was rolling around in a barn. So you do all that, you keep them clean.
00:38:35.420
You, you, you get them into an environment. You got the photographer there and to actually get them
00:38:41.000
to look at a camera and smile. If you can, if you can get them in that, the mood where they're
00:38:47.580
actually going to do that, where you're going to take full advantage and take as many pictures as
00:38:51.740
you can, especially if your wife is forcing you. So I think that probably explains
00:38:57.540
how this happened. If anyone is wondering. All right. Uh, this is from, I guess, two weeks ago is,
00:39:07.380
is, uh, right after our last show here before Christmas Eve, but I did want to mention it
00:39:11.680
because we followed this case of, uh, Kim Potter, who is the officer in the Dante, Dante Wright shooting.
00:39:17.720
She was, uh, on trial for manslaughter, uh, for accidentally shooting Dante Wright while trying
00:39:24.540
to arrest him after traffic stop, because he was wanted on, uh, on a warrant for, uh, for, uh,
00:39:31.060
on an illegal weapons warrant, which stems from an armed robbery case. And, uh, anyway, the,
00:39:36.060
the verdict came down and she was found guilty of manslaughter. Now she's awaiting sentencing.
00:39:40.560
And here's Minnesota, Minnesota attorney general, Keith Ellison, after the verdict was read talking
00:39:47.300
about Dante Wright. And, uh, he's happy about the verdict of course, but he's, he's still very sad
00:39:53.180
because of, of the kind of man that Dante Wright could have turned out to be. And, and we are now
00:39:58.580
going to be deprived of Dante Wright because of Kim Potter. Here's Keith Ellison.
00:40:02.300
At this moment, I ask us all to reflect upon the life of Dante Wright and who he could have been
00:40:10.920
had he had a chance to grow up. At 20, Dante could have done anything. Maybe he could have gone into
00:40:18.720
the building trades. Maybe he could have started a business. What we know is that he was a young,
00:40:25.440
new dad, and he was so proud of his son, Dante jr. We know that he loved his mom and he loved his dad
00:40:35.780
and he loved his siblings and his big, beautiful family. He had his whole life in front of him
00:40:42.380
and he could have become anyone. All of us miss out on who Dante could have been.
00:40:51.320
Oh, we're, we're missing out. That's, that's pretty terrible. We're, we're missing out on who
00:40:58.040
Dante could have been. Well, I don't think we need to speculate very much because even though he was
00:41:02.900
only, what was it? I think he said 20 years old. So a grown man, but a young man. And in that short
00:41:09.520
amount of time, he had robbed a woman at gunpoint while choking her and sexually assaulting her.
00:41:14.360
He had shot a kid in the face at a gas station, crippling him for life. And he was implicated in
00:41:22.340
at least one, in a carjacking, I believe. And those are just the ones we know about.
00:41:29.100
And, and that's, that's what he did in his very young life. And that was all in the span of like
00:41:32.300
a year or two, a couple of years. So we don't need to speculate. Uh, what, what sort of man would
00:41:38.820
have been, who could he turn it? Well, that that's, that's it. And the thing is generally
00:41:44.040
speaking, when there are no consequences for your actions, or at least no consequences that
00:41:50.700
are proportional to what you're doing. Most of the time, you're not going to magically convert
00:41:56.820
into a better person. I mean, it can happen. The Lord works in mysterious ways, but usually
00:42:03.820
that requires a con some sort of confrontation. You have to hold people accountable.
00:42:08.820
And we have a justice system that does not hold people like Dante Wright accountable.
00:42:14.800
That's how he was still walking around after, out there after shooting somebody in the face.
00:42:23.460
And Keith Ellison says, we're, we're deprived now communities. No, the, the sad reality is
00:42:29.520
that Dante Wright's community is it's safer now because Dante Wright is not in it.
00:42:35.680
His community is better off now that he's not in it.
00:42:41.620
That's not my own judgment. That's just a fact. He was a dangerous man who preyed upon the vulnerable,
00:42:49.960
So that's, that's it. That's what's going on with the community. Now that Dante Wright isn't there.
00:42:57.780
We got a couple other quick things. We got to move on. A lot of news that we missed.
00:43:02.280
Betty White died at the age of 99. Earlier in the week, John Madden died at 85. So that was,
00:43:06.640
that was last week. And I bring this up because we got to think about Betty White died at 99.
00:43:11.560
John Madden died at 85. Uh, the same year that was all before new year's and the same year Alex
00:43:18.680
Trebek died, Norm MacDonald died. And those were four of the only universally beloved figures left
00:43:28.480
in America. And I know that not all of them were American, but we adopted them. Alex Trebek, we
00:43:32.560
adopted. Um, so who's left then? I think that leaves us maybe Dolly Parton and like Denzel Washington
00:43:43.360
and that's it. And I would have put Keanu Reeves on that list, but I think he's off it now because
00:43:47.780
of matrix four. So that's it. That's all we've got. And there, there does something seem to be
00:43:55.240
something significant about this that we don't produce in our culture anymore. Universally beloved
00:44:01.280
cultural icons that everybody admires. There are a few that were left because they were
00:44:07.520
grandfathered in. I mean, Betty White, 99 years old, but I don't think there are any new ones.
00:44:14.580
So once Dolly Parton and Denzel Washington depart their mortal coil, that's, I think that, I think
00:44:20.520
that's it. And finally, from the Daily Wire, it says a Planned Parenthood in Knoxville, Tennessee,
00:44:25.840
uh, burned down early Friday morning. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel,
00:44:29.320
fire crews were called about 640 AM as heavy smoke was coming out of the back of the structure.
00:44:34.860
There were no injuries reported. Um, the building was being renovated and, uh, the clinic, it was not
00:44:40.360
being used at the time, but now it's burned down. We don't know exactly how it happened or what
00:44:46.280
started the fire. And, uh, you know, it's, it's a, it's a real shame, but look on the bright side.
00:44:52.460
The building was really just a clump of bricks when you think about it. So this was the termination of
00:44:59.100
an unwanted clump of bricks. Was it even a building? How do you define building? I mean,
00:45:04.900
what is a building exactly? And anyway, as our BLM friends would say, it was insured. So, you know,
00:45:12.280
no harm, no foul, right? That's the bright side of this. Let's get now to the comment section.
00:45:17.580
Okay. So it's been a while since we've done a show. So I figured, um, instead of going to the
00:45:31.900
YouTube comments, I would go to my DMs and read some of those and stuff, because those are more
00:45:37.980
recent. And so that's what we're going to do. This is from internal Saintoku says, Hey Matt,
00:45:44.140
just wanted to wish you good luck with coming up with more stupid in 2022. You've done such a good
00:45:49.520
job this year, and I'm sure you're only getting started. You'll make so many people that much
00:45:53.400
dumber with your nearly unintelligible rambling. Best luck, bud. Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
00:45:58.540
I do. Sequence says, I come from a pretty broken home and just wanted to know, is it normal for every
00:46:03.720
couple to have an argument every once in a while? Since you have a good marriage, I would love to know
00:46:07.920
from yourself. Uh, yeah, it is. It's, it's, in fact, we'll, we'll have more on this in the daily
00:46:13.680
cancellation come up here in a second, but, uh, it's not only normal, but it's healthy. I mean,
00:46:18.600
I, I hear from couples sometimes that say, Oh, we never argue. I never argue with my,
00:46:21.880
my spouse. Um, that just tells me that one or both of you, probably one of you and probably the
00:46:28.020
husband that you're, you're keeping your mouth shut and you're not expressing your anger when you,
00:46:32.100
when you feel it, or when you're uncomfortable with something, you're not saying it. So if there's
00:46:36.180
any kind of actual communication in your marriage, there's going to be arguments. Uh, if you're
00:46:40.600
having, uh, arguments every single day, then that's different, but this is this in moderation,
00:46:45.700
all things in moderation, especially arguments. Um, dancing Beck says, can you, can you explain
00:46:51.340
what should I exist means in your Panda sweatshirt? My husband bought it for my son for Christmas,
00:46:57.560
but neither one of us know what it means. Well, I appreciate that you had no idea what it meant.
00:47:01.940
You bought it anyway. Um, am I going to explain it? No, you should know that by now. If you listen to
00:47:09.400
the show, we don't explain anything. Lots of very, as the last DM said, lots of unintelligible
00:47:15.240
things come out of the show. We don't explain it. We just move on. All right. Going back to the DM
00:47:19.960
says, Ryan, uh, Ryan says, Hey Matt was really sorry to hear that you got COVID and didn't die.
00:47:26.000
Wishing better luck on the next virus. And then another comment says, damn you ugly.
00:47:31.520
I'm, I'm starting to regret the whole idea of going to the DMs. I think, um,
00:47:39.920
this was not the best decision to start the new year, but thank you so much for those comments.
00:47:43.840
We're going to go back to the YouTube comments after this. You know, the phrase do not comply
00:47:47.520
has taken on an entirely new meaning for the daily wire this week. This Friday, the Supreme court will
00:47:51.620
convene to hear arguments on the legal legality, legality and constitutionality of the mandate.
00:47:56.500
And that means this week is going to be pivotal in our fight against the Biden administration's
00:48:00.880
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our daily cancellation. So for our cancellation today, we move from new year's resolutions to
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something even worse, the dreaded new year's reflection. And worst of all, the kinds of
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reflections inflicted upon us by middle-aged divorced writers, which are not really reflections,
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but more rationalizations of their horrendous lifestyle choices. So last week there were two
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pieces published in this genre, one in the Atlantic by a woman ironically named Honor Jones titled
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How I Demolished My Life, but another in the New York Times by Heather Haverleski titled Marriage
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Requires Amnesia. So we'll start briefly with Heather, who's at least still married, though perhaps
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not for long. And here she is reflecting on her marriage. And in her reflections, she's decided that
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the healthiest and wisest course of action is to vomit out all of her most bitter and unseemly thoughts
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about her husband and publish them for all the world to read. So here are a few choice morsels
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of the vomit. Disgusting. She says, when encountering my husband, Bill, in our shared
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habitat, I sometimes experience him as a tangled hill of dirty laundry. Who left this here? I ask
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myself. And then the laundry gets up to fetch itself a cup of coffee. This is not an illusion,
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it's clarity. Until Bill has enough coffee, he lies in a jumble on the couch, listening to the
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coffee maker, waiting for it to usher him from the land of the undead. He's exactly the same as a heap
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of laundry, smelly, inert, almost sentient, but not quite. This is why surviving a marriage requires
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turning down the volume on your spouse so you can barely hear what they're saying. You must do this
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not only so you don't overdose on the same stultifying words and phrases within the first
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year, but also so your spouse's various grunts and sneezes and snorts and throat clearings don't
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serve as a magic flute that causes you to wander out the front door and into the wilderness, never to
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return. And then after complaining for a while about the sound that her husband makes when he
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sneezes, because this is the kind of stuff that gets published in the New York Times, by the way,
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I mean, she literally spends paragraphs talking about what he sounds like when he sneezes.
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Do I hate my husband? Oh, for sure. Yes, definitely. I don't know anyone who's been married for more than
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seven years who flinches at this concept. A spouse is a blessing and a curse wrapped into one.
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How could it be otherwise? How is hatred not the natural outcome of sleeping so close to another
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human for years? Unless you plug a propofol drip into your arm every single night, how do you
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encounter those unwelcome grunts and gravelly snores as anything but oppressive? Unless you spend most of
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your waking hours daydreaming, how do you tolerate this meddling presence? Rearranging stuff but never
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actually putting it away? Opening bills but never actually paying them? Shedding his tissues and his
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dirty socks all over your otherwise pristine habitat. Well, Heather, hello, my name is Matt.
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Now we've met and you can say that you've met at least one married person who doesn't hate his spouse
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and you could probably walk outside of your house and quite easily find many more like me.
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Maybe you haven't left your house in a long time. Maybe that's part of your problem. I don't know.
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But what I can say is that hating your spouse is not normal or okay. Anger is one thing like we just
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talked about. Of course, you're going to get ticked off at your spouse sometimes. That's just an
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emotion. But to love is to will the good of the other. That means to hate is to will the bad of
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the other. It's to want bad things to happen to somebody and to actively work to make those bad
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things happen. This sort of thing has no place in a marriage. I mean, that belongs on a battlefield
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or, you know, on Twitter, not in your home, not between you and the person you've vowed your life
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to, especially when you consider why you hate your spouse. You know, your hatred is wrapped up in a
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product of your self-involvement, your narcissism, your ego, your fantasies, your self-deceptions.
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So let's take just one line, which I thought was pretty revealing. When you said, you know,
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you hate him because he sheds his tissues and his dirty socks all over your otherwise pristine habitat.
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Now, even if this were true, the fact that you hate somebody for inconveniencing you only shows
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that the problem again is you. But also, what about the messes you make? Who's to say that your habitat
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would be pristine if not for him? And who says that it's your habitat to begin with? See, the way you
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see it, you own everything. It's all yours. This is your life, your home, your marriage, not his.
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And you're perfect. And so anything not perfect that happens is a direct assault and affront to you.
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The problem again is you. And probably him too, to some extent. But the only person you can directly
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fix is yourself. And you haven't even begun to consider that option yet. Which is why your
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marriage eventually will fail. Unless you figure out how to confront your own weaknesses. But this
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is all downright wholesome and healthy compared to the other piece, the one in the Atlantic titled
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How I Demolished My Life. The writer Honor Jones describes how she rather dishonorably divorced her
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husband for no reason other than that she was bored. She says that she was bored in her house
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and bored of her husband. And that's what led to this revelation. She says, I didn't have a secret
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life, but I had a secret dream, which might have been worse. I loved my husband. It's not that I
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didn't, but I felt that he was standing between me and the world, between me and myself. Everything I
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experienced, relationships, reality, my understanding of my own identity and desires,
00:53:38.820
were filtered through him before I could access them. The worst part was that it wasn't remotely
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his fault. This is probably exactly what I asked him to do when we were 21 and first in love,
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even if I never said it out loud. To shelter me from the elements, to be caring and broad-shouldered.
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But now it was like I was always on my tiptoes, trying to see around him. I couldn't see,
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but I could imagine. I started imagining other lives, other homes. I wanted to be thinking about art
00:54:04.520
and sex and politics and the patriarchy. How much of my life, I mean the architecture of my life,
00:54:09.240
but also its essence, my soul, my mind, had I built around my husband? What could I be if I wasn't his
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wife? Maybe I would micro-dose. Maybe I would have sex with women. Maybe I would write a book.
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God, I hope not. Now, these are great ambitions. You see, these are her great ambitions. The great
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summit she wants to climb now that she's free. To have sex with women and micro-dose. Then she
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describes how she told her husband that she was leaving him for no reason. And she also throws in
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that she has kids too, by the way. They're an afterthought, of course. Their well-being is of
00:54:43.800
no concern to her whatsoever. Then she says this,
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There were days when the magnitude of what I've done bore down on me. I kept wondering if I'd feel
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regret or remorse. It's hard to admit this. It makes me cold. As cold a woman as my ex-husband
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sometimes suspects I am, but I didn't. I felt raw and I liked it. There was nothing between me and
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the world. It was as if I'd been wearing sunglasses and then taken them off and suddenly everything
00:55:08.420
looked different. Not better or worse, just clearer, harsher. Cold wind on my face. I'd caused so much
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upheaval, so much suffering, and for what? He asked me that at first, again and again. For what?
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So I could put my face in the wind. So I could see the sun's glare. But I didn't say that out loud.
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Well, it's good you didn't say that out loud. I can't imagine being the husband in that scenario.
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And my wife has just told me that she's ruining my life and our kids' lives and destroying everything
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we've built. And I ask why. And she says, Oh, to put my face in the wind and see the sun's glare.
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Uh, what? That doesn't mean anything. It literally doesn't mean anything.
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And I could read more of this piece to you, but it's all like that. None of it means anything.
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Because it's all just a supremely shallow, self-absorbed, narcissistic woman trying to find
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poetic language to obscure the fact that she tore her family apart because she was bored.
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She's like a sadistic child pulling the legs off of a spider for fun. Except in this case,
00:56:07.020
she's pulling her family apart, ripping it limb from limb and feeling quite entertained by the
00:56:13.460
spectacle, apparently, or at least numb to it, as she confesses. Worst of all, she thinks this
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makes her interesting, but it doesn't. You see, shallow, selfish people who can't keep their
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promises are a dime a dozen. There's nothing fascinating or provocative about the concept.
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Tolstoy famously begins Anna Karenina, which is his novel about the 19th century Russian version of,
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you know, this woman, Honor Jones, with this line. He says, all happy families are alike.
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Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. But I think that's exactly backwards because most
00:56:46.640
unhappy failing marriages and the unhappy divorced people they produce are the same. They're usually
00:56:53.700
just a bunch of childish, you know, selfish people at the center of it. The same story repeated a
00:57:00.240
billion times. But intact, successful marriages and families are much more dynamic and unique and
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interesting. Maybe somebody should write a New York Times or Atlantic article about one of those
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sometimes. But for now, to start the new year, both of those publications who printed those pieces
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and the women who were responsible who wrote them are, of course, canceled. And we'll leave it there
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for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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