Ep. 865 - An Early Candidate For Biggest Coward Of 2022
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In one of the most pathetic and cowardly displays we ve seen in a long time, a comedian issues a lengthy written apology for taking a picture with Dave Chappelle. What can we learn from this sad spectacle, if anything? And is it time to stop our obsession with taking COID tests? The Florida Surgeon General thinks so. Plus, a school district in Virginia stops grading homework assignments in the name of racial equity, and an NFL player storms off the field in the middle of a game because, but, what we re told by the media, is he really a victim in the midst of a mental health crisis? Is anybody responsible for their actions anymore? Or is every bad thing just the result of poor mental health? We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, in one of the most pathetic and cowardly displays we've seen
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in a long time, a comedian issues a lengthy written apology for taking a picture with Dave
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Chappelle. What can we learn from this sad spectacle, if anything? And is it time to stop
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our obsession with taking COVID tests? The Florida Surgeon General thinks so. Plus,
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a school district in Virginia stops grading homework assignments in the name of racial equity
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and an NFL player storms off the field in the middle of a game because, but what we're told
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by the media is he's really a victim in the middle of a mental health crisis. Is anybody
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responsible for their actions anymore? Or is every bad thing just the result of poor mental health?
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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role models in life, but in a country where those are often hard to come by, it seems like sometimes you
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have to settle for negative role models. And the useful thing about a negative role model is that he can
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show you exactly how not to respond in a given situation, which will also tell you exactly how
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you should respond. Now, he's providing a roadmap in his own way, and that's the great service that
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cowards provide for all of us. And that's why we should be grateful in some ways to leftist comedian
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Patton Oswalt today, who over the course of the past two days has unwittingly offered himself as a prime
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example of everything you shouldn't be and shouldn't do as a man or simply as a as a human
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being. So it all began. Well, really, it began. It began shortly after Oswalt was born. I guess it
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takes a lifetime to make cowards of this quality, but we don't have time to go back that far. So
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we'll start this week just a few days ago when Oswalt was performing at a comedy club, apparently in
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Seattle. And his, as he says, dear friend of 34 years, Dave Chappelle, texted him and invited him
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to come next door to the arena where Chappelle was performing, doing his own performance. And he
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said that Oswalt could do a guest set there at his performance. So Chappelle was at an arena because
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he's a big popular comedian, and Patton Oswalt was at a small club because nobody cares about him.
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But Chappelle said, why don't you come over and you can perform in front of my bigger audience?
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You know, it's a nice thing to offer. Now, why did Chappelle offer that? I guess Chappelle was
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angry with his audience that night and wanted to punish them by subjecting them to Patton Oswalt.
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I don't know. We can't be sure exactly. But Oswalt took him up on the invitation. And later that
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night, he took a picture with Dave Chappelle and posted it to his Instagram. But the rage mob didn't
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like that. The trans bullies and their lackeys decided that Patton Oswalt shouldn't be friends
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with Dave Chappelle. Why? Well, of course, because Dave Chappelle has opinions about gender that are
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pretty, well, pretty, pretty liberal, actually, all things considered, but still slightly out of
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lockstep with the orthodoxy of the day. So he's a heretic. He's he's now we should remember he's he's
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just barely a heretic. His opinions about gender are still by the standards of like 10 years ago
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are pretty radical far left. But by the standards of today, they're, you know,
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maybe moderate at best. And that means that nobody can associate with him. The rage mob,
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the trans mob, the raging trans mob yelled at Patton Oswalt for daring to continue a friendship
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with a man that he's known for three decades. I mean, and how dare he really? Oswalt didn't even ask
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the strangers on the Internet for permission before choosing to continue his association with this
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person. And they were stunned by the insult. And they let him know it. And so, of course,
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what does Patton Oswalt do? Well, he apologizes profusely and at length, complete with a photo of
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him sitting ruefully at his desk like a child in timeout, hoping that daddy isn't mad at him anymore.
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Here was his follow up post on Monday after desperately explaining how he ended up in the proximity of Dave
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Chappelle and trying to justify his decision to be photographed in the heretics company
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rather than simply stoning him to death on the spot and setting his corpse on fire as a true ally
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would have done. Oswalt says this, we, Oswalt and Chappelle, 100% disagree about transgender rights
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and representation. I support trans people's rights, anyone's rights to live safely in the world as
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their fullest selves. For all the things he's helped me evolve on, I'll always disagree with where he stands
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now on transgender issues. But I also don't believe a seeker like him is done evolving, learning. You
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know, someone that long see the struggles and changes, it's impossible to cut them off. Impossible
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not to be hopeful and open and cheer them on. Also, I've been carrying a lot of guilt about friends I've
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cut off who had views with which I couldn't agree or changed in ways I couldn't live with. Sometimes I
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wonder, did I and others cutting them off make them dig their heels in deeper, fuel their ignorance with a
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nitro boost of resentment and spite? I'm an LGBTQ ally. I'm a loyal friend. There's friction in those
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traits that I need to reconcile myself and not let cause feelings of betrayal in anyone else. And I'm
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sorry, truly sorry, that I didn't consider the hurt this would cause or the depth of that hurt. I've been
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messaging a lot on IG today and the back and forth has really helped guide me in the writing of this. I deleted
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a lot of posts in the comment thread, critical ones from LGBTQ writers and posts by TERF slash
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anti-trans orcs looking for clicks and giggles. I wanted a nice comment thread about the pic with
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my friend, UGG. So easy to think someone else needs growth and miss the need in yourself. But I'm going
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to keep trying. So there you go. He's sorry, truly sorry. But he wants you to know that he's only
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remaining friends with the guy that he's known for almost four decades in an effort to cure him of
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his ignorance and help him evolve. So this is like a, this is an evangelical mission. You see,
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he's hoping to convert Chappelle to, to induct him into the gender ideology cult. And that's the only
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reason he's staying friends with him. Now, naturally he never explains what Chappelle is wrong about when
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it comes to gender. He also never explains how exactly anyone could be hurt, much less hurt with such
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great depth, just because a comedian they like is friends with a comedian they don't like.
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But those questions are irrelevant. He is just a mouse, much like the one he voices in the one
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single Pixar movie that my kids refuse to watch because they say it's boring, scurrying about,
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fearful and confused. I just hope that in all his scurrying, he doesn't accidentally bump into
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this other comedian who has said way more problematic things about trans people. So
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Patton Oswalt, uh, watch out for this guy. His name is also Patton Oswalt. Watch.
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You said this is for like families and kids? Cause this sounds really grim and creepy. Well,
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you didn't let me finish because we're also going to have men in bright clothing and makeup.
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Oh, time out. You mean like, like transvestites, right? Well, technically yes, but they're going
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to keep going so that they're clowns. You realize a clown is just a transvestite that doesn't stop.
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Like if you, like if you, if you saw a guy in lipstick and eye shadow, you'd be like,
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Timmy, leave him alone. That's his own thing. The guy's like, Oh no, hang on.
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Like, Oh Timmy, get it. He's a wonderful clown. Get over there. I didn't know you'd use a whole
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tube of lipstick on one cheek. Please entertain my child. Run at him out of the darkness. He'll love
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it. Well, I don't know how long ago that was, but it didn't look like it was all that long ago.
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And there is of course a direct link here out of all the adults bowing to cancel culture now,
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and especially to trans cancel culture, to LGBT cancel culture, precisely none of them have
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obeyed these rules their whole lives because these rules as they stand right now didn't exist their
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whole lives. Most of them being empty, gutless cowards have lived their whole lives trying to
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avoid the sin of wrong think. So they've been trying to engage in group think and avoid wrong think their
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whole lives. But the problem is that the thoughts which qualify as wrong and right tend to change.
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And what this means is that by obeying the thought police of today, you will inevitably end up
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disobeying the thought police of tomorrow because the rules are arbitrary and they change and it's
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designed that way. And because we live in, in eternal now where nothing is ever allowed to simply stay
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in the past and we're all called propentially to answer for everything we've ever said or done,
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no matter when we said or did it, the people who've been trying to stay up on the rules will always be
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in violation of them. It's a losing game, but it's the only one they know how to play.
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It's too late now for a guy like Oswald to suddenly grow a spine, a mind of his own,
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an intellectual identity of his own. He's doomed to finish his life as he's lived it until now,
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lying prostrate before the mob, begging to be loved and accepted, or at least pitied if he
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can't have love and acceptance. You know, a few years ago when Oswald was jumping on the dog
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pile to slander the Covington Catholic kids as racists, he tweeted this about them. He said that
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they are, quote, bland, frightened, forgettable kids who will grow up to be bland, frightened,
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forgotten adult wastes. That was a grown man talking about 15-year-old kids at the time,
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by the way. But he should have been talking to a mirror because he described himself and his ilk
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silencer ownership simplified. You know, I'm such a pushover, I have to tell you. My daughter has been
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begging me for months now. She's eight years old. She's been begging me for months now to get her ears
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pierced. And for some reason, she really wants to have needles stuck in her ears and then hang
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ornaments from them and hang ornaments from the wound. You know, I don't really understand that
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desire, but especially coming from someone like my daughter has zero pain tolerance, like zero.
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She stubbed her toe yesterday, and I ran into the room because it honestly sounded like she was being
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stabbed. And yet somehow she wants to have this done to her. I don't know why. And she's been begging
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me. And I keep saying no, because, you know, you're too young and you don't need to do that and
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just stop it. We're not doing that. And my wife has been conspiring with her to convince me because
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she thinks my daughter's old enough. But I've stood firm. You know, I've said, you know, maybe when
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you're 16 or something, you get the ears pierced. And then two nights ago, I noticed a crumpled up
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piece of loose leaf paper in the kitchen. And then I opened it up and it was a note for my daughter
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that she had written. And it said, please, daddy, can I have my ears pierced? I love you.
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And I asked my wife when she wrote the note, and she told me that my daughter apparently had written
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it, you know, this very heartfelt, lengthy note. She had written it a couple of weeks ago,
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but then didn't give it to me, I guess because I've been so gruff about the ears pierced thing
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that she figured I would say no. So she ended up not giving it to me and she like threw it away.
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And that was all it took for some reason. It was that pathetic little note scribbled on loose
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leaf, left pitifully in the kitchen that broke my defenses. And the guilt trip landed successfully.
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And I told her that, you know, she can have the ears pierced if she wants. I'm continually
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discover that I'm very easy to manipulate. And I realized that. And I also realized that my daughter's
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smart enough that this might've all been a plan on her part. Because what my kids have started to
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realize is that if you want to get what you, if you want to get something from me, whining is never
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the way to do it. But to just sort of suffer in silence in that kind of pathetic, pitiful way that
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kids do, that's, that's what will get me. And then you end up getting everything you want.
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Um, all right, well, we'll start with this. I think this is important. Florida Surgeon General
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Joseph Ladapo is talking about moving away from testing. And this has, we'll play another clip in
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a minute here, but this has the media, of course, very upset because everywhere else in the country,
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they're testing everybody every 30 minutes. You know, every time you go into another building,
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you got to take a test. Um, every time when you wake up in the morning, you got to take a test.
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You go to work, you got to take a test. If you have a, if you, if you have a runny nose, take a
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test. If you don't have a runny nose, take a test. And that's, that's the general strategy.
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And that's why they're running out of tests everywhere. And it's hard to find the tests.
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People are hoarding them and everything. Um, there are all these really pathetic people in
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media that over Christmas were tweeting pictures of like boxes of tests that they got as Christmas
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presents and they were so excited about it. But in Florida, um, as they have been doing
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from the beginning of, of all of this, they're taking a different approach. So here's the
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surgery general saying that we need to get away from what he calls this testing psychology.
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We're going to be working to unwind the sort of testing psychology that our federal leadership
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has managed to unfortunately get much, most of the country in over the last two years,
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we need to unwind this testing sort of, uh, um, sort of, uh, planning and living one's life around
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testing without it. We're going to be sort of stuck in the same cycle. So, you know, it's really time
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for people to be living to, uh, you know, to make the decisions they want regarding vaccination,
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um, to enjoy the fact that many people have natural immunity time for people to start living,
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what seems like reasonable advice. Now that we're going into a, we're going into year three of this
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and maybe three years later, it might be time. You know, maybe, maybe now three years into this,
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you can finally start living your life. That's the way that I would look at it. Uh, a few thoughts
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on this, but first here is CNN's TV doctor. This is, um, I don't know this guy's name. Doesn't matter.
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Uh, their TV doctor explaining why this is completely wrong and horrible and lots of people are going to
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die. If we get away from the testing psychology, listen, does he have a point? And, and if not,
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why? No. And in fact, it's hard to believe those comments came from the surgeon general of one of
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the largest States in this country. And his words echo what the former president of the United States,
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Donald Trump said in June of 2020, when he told a huge crowd in, uh, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that the only,
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that the, the downside to testing is that you find so many cases. And then he told his,
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his people to slow the testing down, please. The problem isn't that testing is finding people who
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are fine. The problem is that we don't have enough tests. And then if, if we're looking to do what,
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and I completely agree with Dr. Offit to keep our schools open. One of the major things you would do
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is test even more to find people, find kids, find teachers who are positive, isolate, isolate them
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for a few days and keep the rest of the school open. The problem is that when you have so much
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virus in the community and you're trying to keep businesses open without testing, you're allowing
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the virus to continue to spread on abated. So if anything, we need to do much more testing, not
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bury our heads in the, in the sands of Florida and hope for the best.
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Oh, less testing. Well, we need more testing. I mean, we, if everyone's getting tested three
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times a day, make sure we test them five times a day. Here's, here's my recommendation. This is my
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non-medical, uh, recommendation as a non-medical expert. Um, if you have tests, just, just, you know,
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throw them away, live your life. Here's, here's the, here's the strategy. It's actually really simple.
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And this is basically how people operated, um, for most of human history up until three years ago.
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If you're sick, then stay home. And if you're not sick, then go about your business.
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You know, you don't, you don't need a test to confirm. I, I, over, over the Christmas break,
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I'm seeing some of these news reports about people standing in line. If they, if they can't
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get the rapid test, they're standing in line for hours in the cold. I mean, you're standing in line
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for hours in the cold to find out if you're sick. You might not have been sick, but by the time you
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get to the front of the line, now you are. The thing about being sick is that usually it's pretty
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clear when you're sick. You have, you have symptoms. You don't, you don't want to leave the
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house. You have a fever. I mean, these are the things you're looking for. And let's say you have
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a cough and a fever and you're feeling miserable and all the rest of it, but you're, but it could be
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COVID. It could not be COVID. Who cares if, whether it's COVID or not, just stay home, drink lots of
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fluids, try to eat well, get a lot of rest. This is how people have been responding to sicknesses of
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this type for thousands of years. And if you're feeling okay, then, then, then go about your
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business. I mean, this is obviously not sustainable. We have been sustaining it for three years and paid
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an enormous price for it. And this is not sustainable in the longterm. It's already been
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a long, this is not as sustainable on a permanent basis where, uh, you know, anytime someone has a
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case of the sniffles, we got to test them. And if it turns out that they have this virus, which is
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especially, especially now with, with, uh, Omnicorn is extremely mild for almost everybody.
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Now they got to stay home for, you know, five. Well now, now the CDC says five days before it was 10
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days. And over the last couple of weeks, they said, Oh, you know, we know we said 10 days,
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but actually more it's, it's five days. What, where did that change come from? Was there some
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sort of scientific breakthrough? Did they make some kind of discovering a lab somewhere that
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let them know that actually you only have to isolate for five days? No, this was a political
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decision. It was also, it was also a practical decision. It's just not practical to tell people
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to stay in their homes for 10 days because they have the sniffles.
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Especially if, as it turns out, people can get this, the virus more than once.
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And most of the time it's going to be very mild, but so what multiple times a year,
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potentially you got to stay home for two weeks when you're hardly sick at all.
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So they made that change just for practical reasons. And that's why I, you know, I feel
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like we're fully justified in for practical reasons. This is about, it's about, it's about
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being able to live a life for practical reasons. We just say, stop testing.
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If you're sick, stay home. It's not that difficult.
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All right. Here's another thing that's not difficult. And it was obvious to most of us.
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We talked yesterday about how many of these common sense observations that, that many of us have been
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making for years have very slowly now been endorsed by the media. People in the media who would have
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shouted us down and did shout us down for years for saying it. Now they're saying the exact same
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thing. So here's the headline from CNN. Um, and it's a question, not, they're not quite ready to
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make a statement yet, but it's a question. And they're saying, can weight loss help protect against
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COVID-19? Can it? Hmm. I don't know. It says in the holiday season, when the average American can
00:23:02.260
easily pack on a few pounds, experts say there's another reason to pay attention to your weight,
00:23:07.540
COVID-19. People who are overweight or obese are at a much higher risk of much more severe disease
00:23:12.700
and even death from COVID-19. And one new study suggests that losing weight can reduce that risk.
00:23:18.300
One study suggests that now let me clarify for you. It's not one study that suggests that every
00:23:23.600
single study that's looked at this has found that. And that's also true by the way of like almost every
00:23:29.860
disease. You know, if you're, if you're obese, then you're going to be at a greater risk when it
00:23:36.960
comes to almost any illness because you're, you're unhealthy. You're starting from a baseline
00:23:41.120
of being unhealthy. You're going to have a better shot against literally any sickness if you're in
00:23:49.440
good physical shape. Um, now that's, that's the case generally, but there does appear to be
00:24:00.480
something unique about COVID where you are especially susceptible to, for whatever reason,
00:24:06.360
you're especially susceptible to it if you're obese, especially severely obese. Um, so it says
00:24:14.020
the obesity epidemic has been a threat to Americans help health for years. It's the second leading cause
00:24:18.680
of preventable death after smoking. Um, one study found that 30% of COVID-19 hospitalizations were in
00:24:25.600
people with obesity. And, uh, and then it goes on for, I mean, but, but there's no reason to keep
00:24:31.700
reading it really because this is, this is something we've already known, but you're not
00:24:37.520
allowed to talk about it for a number of reasons. One, of course, we know it's the body positivity
00:24:42.680
movement and, uh, you're not supposed to make anyone feel bad about their body.
00:24:49.560
And also there can't be any element of personal accountability.
00:24:53.400
Now, if we're talking about, you know, the personal accountability in, in the sense that
00:25:00.920
we're yelling at people to go get vaccinated, that's okay. We're allowed to do that.
00:25:06.640
But what we're not allowed to do is, um, advocate for lifestyle changes. That's the big no-no
00:25:15.660
thing. Because in our culture, your lifestyle is sacred. However, whatever style, the style with
00:25:22.980
which you've chosen to live your life is a sacred thing. And if your lifestyle involves putting on
00:25:28.960
200 extra pounds of lard on, on your frame and walking around with it till it kills you, well,
00:25:34.280
then that's, you are, you are blessed for making that choice.
00:25:38.020
That's the, the default reaction, which is why the left of the media has been so slow to point out
00:25:47.320
that, um, if you really want to protect yourself from COVID, lose some weight. I mean, if you're
00:25:54.820
morbidly obese and you've been triple vaccinated, you know, that's, you're not helping yourself much.
00:26:03.680
You're not helping yourself as much as you could be. If you would just maybe hop on the treadmill,
00:26:09.300
lay off the French fries, something like that. A little bit more, um, on the COVID end of things.
00:26:14.460
This is from a tweet from Carol Markowitz is a columnist for the New York posts. She says,
00:26:21.500
New York state department of health warns that they don't have enough, uh, Paxlovid or monoclonal
00:26:26.260
antibody treatment. And therefore white people need not apply. And then she links to the, uh,
00:26:33.820
information sheet from the New York state department of health talking about the antibody treatments,
00:26:39.520
which, which, uh, have been therapeutics that have been very successful in, um, treating people
00:26:45.520
who are infected with COVID, but they're running out of supplies. And so they got to start making
00:26:52.120
decisions about who gets them. And now they're deciding on racial grounds. So from the, from the
00:26:57.120
little fact sheet here, it gives you the eligibility requirements. And here's what it says is a little
00:27:03.480
bit of euphemistic language here, little bit, but not much. It says eligibility oral antiviral
00:27:09.680
treatment is authorized for patients who meet all of the following criteria age, 12 years and older
00:27:16.120
weighing at least 88 pounds. Okay. Um, test, test positive for COVID-19. That makes sense.
00:27:25.280
Have mild to moderate COVID symptoms. All of this makes sense so far. Um, able to start treatment
00:27:31.680
within five days of symptom onset, because if you start it too late, then it's not going to do you
00:27:36.480
much good. And then have a medical condition or other factors that increase their risk for severe
00:27:43.260
illness. What kind of medical conditions are we're talking about? Non-white race or Hispanic Latino
00:27:50.680
ethnicity should be considered a risk factor as longstanding systemic health and social inequities
00:27:57.620
have contributed to an increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19. So I said that
00:28:04.420
there's some euphemism here, but, but actually not really. This is from the New York state department of
00:28:10.920
self explicitly saying that if you want to get this treatment, you have to have a non white race
00:28:18.660
singling out one race in a negative way and saying everyone, but them,
00:28:26.140
and this is already absurdly grotesquely illegal. It's not even close to legal.
00:28:33.760
And, um, there's, there's no justification for this that can make it legal, but what they're,
00:28:43.120
what they're arguing is that, well, if, if you're, if you're a non white race, then you've been
00:28:47.740
subject to systemic inequalities. You haven't had a chance to have access to the same kinds of,
00:28:52.560
um, the same kinds of treatments. And therefore we've got to balance things out.
00:28:56.160
You know, maybe kill off a few of the whiteys. We could balance things out that way.
00:29:03.900
If you were really worried about giving out these treatments and, um, especially focusing on people
00:29:12.980
who have been the victims of systemic inequality or whatever, then it would be one thing if they
00:29:20.040
said, well, we're going to prioritize, uh, people of a certain income level, you know, we're going
00:29:26.600
to prioritize the poor. I still would not be in favor of that when it comes to potentially
00:29:35.080
life-saving treatment. I mean, you should be excluding anyone based on race or, or, or income
00:29:41.060
or anything else. But if you're actually concerned about inequalities and making sure that people who
00:29:48.740
haven't had the opportunities get the opportunities, then that's what you would do. And notice again,
00:29:53.640
I think, I think it's worth, uh, worth reiterating how they're, they're not singling, you know,
00:29:58.580
they're, they're, they're, they're singling white people out in a negative sense.
00:30:04.880
You know, and I think that's, that's really significant. They're saying members of the non
00:30:08.180
white race are the ones that were, that we're going to, that we're going to help completely
00:30:11.320
illegal and absurd. All right, let's move on to the, to this here. Um, as we lead into the
00:30:16.860
holy anniversary of the most sacred day of remembrance, which is January 6th, the media
00:30:21.620
wants to make it clear that one person you may not remember or mourn on that day.
00:30:27.760
And hopefully by now you've thought about what you're going to be doing on January 6th
00:30:31.700
and, uh, you're going to have a moment of silence and hopefully you have, I know in my family,
00:30:35.720
we've got all kinds of activities planned for that day. Um, because this is now our most,
00:30:41.200
our most sacred day. But while you're doing that, uh, the one person you're not allowed to
00:30:46.720
think about or mourn or remember is of course, Ashley Babbitt, even though Ashley Babbitt was
00:30:52.740
the one person killed directly by violence on January 6th. It's just that it was violence
00:30:58.560
from the Capitol police towards her. Uh, now you could mourn AOC instead, for example, who
00:31:05.680
wasn't killed, but almost died of fright when she found out that some people were trespassing
00:31:11.120
in a building next door. Uh, but Ashley Babbitt doesn't deserve our sympathy and the media
00:31:15.500
makes that clear. And now they've begun publishing hit pieces about this woman who's been dead for a
00:31:21.360
year. And there have been multiple articles like this, but here's one from the, uh, the AP. It says,
00:31:26.180
if I pull this up, um, it says Ashley Babbitt, a martyr, her past tells a more complex story.
00:31:35.540
And that goes on to, it's a long story here, uh, mostly dealing with kind of like a love triangle
00:31:42.920
that Ashley Babbitt was involved in. It says the first time Celeste Norris laid eyes on Ashley
00:31:48.160
Babbitt, the future insurrectionist had just rammed her vehicle three times with an SUV and was pounding
00:31:53.760
on the window, challenging her to a fight. Norris says the bad blood between them began in 2015
00:31:59.200
when Babbitt engaged in a months long extramarital affair with Norris's longtime live-in boyfriend.
00:32:04.360
When she learned of the relationship, Norris called Babbitt's husband and told him she was
00:32:08.600
cheating. Um, and then she showed up and they got into a fight and, um, and that's basically it.
00:32:15.860
That's, that's the dirt they dug up on Ashley Babbitt. After a year, the dirt is that she, uh,
00:32:21.880
had an extramarital affair and then got into a fight with, uh, with her lover's girlfriend or
00:32:28.120
whatever. Now think about the fact that the AP thought it was worthwhile printing this
00:32:35.700
because Ashley Babbitt is supposedly being presented as some sort of martyr,
00:32:41.460
which, which by the way, she's not, I haven't heard anyone really do that.
00:32:47.700
I haven't heard anyone say that Ashley Babbitt is a martyr. I haven't seen anyone. There aren't any
00:32:54.920
monuments or as far as I know statues being built to her. I haven't heard anyone suggest that there
00:33:01.500
ought to be. Um, I haven't seen any, any, uh, murals anywhere or anyone argue that there ought to be
00:33:09.380
murals of her. Okay. We're not renaming streets, Ashley Babbitt lane. We're not talking about renaming
00:33:16.620
buildings and schools. Um, there aren't, there's not even any legislation, the Ashley Babbitt act.
00:33:26.900
That's what happens when you make a martyr out of someone. And that's of course what they exactly
00:33:32.020
what they did with George Floyd. And yet with Ashley Babbitt, we get, uh, as I said, multiple
00:33:39.540
articles talking about, I guess, this one incident from her life. Um, while George Floyd, who, who
00:33:48.740
literally is being presented as a martyr and a saint, basically a canonized saint in the secular
00:33:55.200
church of leftism, where are the articles about him forcing his way into a woman's home at gunpoint
00:34:01.860
and robbing her? The fact that he was a serial felon, a drug addled, violent man. Is that now
00:34:10.020
relevant? Are we allowed to talk about that finally? Or Dante Wright, as you've heard many times on this
00:34:16.240
show. Uh, I mean, really a, a violent psychopath, sociopath.
00:34:22.880
I don't think you could think of or name a single BLM martyr who, um, was not guilty of far worse
00:34:35.620
things than Ashley Babbitt. And yet, of course, with every single one of those people, uh, if you're
00:34:41.960
to talk about any of that, you'll be told that, well, what do you do? That's had nothing to do with
00:34:45.700
anything that doesn't justify, right? Isn't that the, the line you always hear? I know I've heard it a
00:34:53.720
even though he did all of these terrible things. He shot a kid in the, in the head, paralyzed him for
00:34:58.140
life, robs a woman at gunpoint, carjacks somebody. What I am continually told is that none of that is
00:35:08.000
relevant because it doesn't, that does not justify him getting shot in the moment during that traffic
00:35:14.280
stop. You know, Kim Potter didn't know about most of that and, and none of that is relevant.
00:35:22.880
So if Ashley Babbitt rammed her car into someone and got into a fight over a guy,
00:35:29.140
even if she was kind of a nutcase, but whatever, but how, how does that justify her being shot by a
00:35:38.600
Capitol police officer when she was unarmed and she was crawling into a window? And it seems to me
00:35:46.360
that they, that this is a small woman and a large man, nobody else fired their gun.
00:35:54.540
None of the other Capitol police officers, some of them now, after the fact have gone on CNN and
00:35:58.520
they talked about it was a war zone and they've been traumatized by it. But in the moment, none but
00:36:04.940
that one thought that the situation had gotten to the point where it was justified to use lethal
00:36:12.100
force. How does any of this vindicate that is the question. Of course it doesn't at all.
00:36:19.340
All right. This is from the daily wire. It says, um, Arlington County, Virginia recently introduced a
00:36:23.620
proposal for a new grading system based on the idea of equity that would allow an unlimited number of
00:36:29.180
retakes on assignments, ban extra credit and would block grading on homework assignments. According
00:36:35.260
to Fox news in response, numerous teachers from Arlington slammed the proposal saying that it would
00:36:39.800
essentially give children a free pass and dramatically reduce the quality of education in the
00:36:44.020
County proponents of the new system claim that having certain standards, like having late penalties
00:36:48.840
in education often harms poor children who may not have access to resources necessary to complete
00:36:54.100
assignments on time. Um, this is always tough for me, especially when it comes to, uh, these changes
00:37:03.960
to the way we approach homework, because I actually agree that forget about grading homework assignments.
00:37:14.680
I don't think that there should be homework assignments at all. And we're seeing more and more school
00:37:19.440
districts. They're moving away from homework or they're giving out homework where they're not grading it.
00:37:23.380
And if you're not grading it, then effectively, you know, you might as well not be giving it out at
00:37:26.460
all. Um, and I agree with that. I think that's the right move. It's just that they're doing it for
00:37:31.660
all the wrong reasons. And that's the problem. It's got nothing to do with racial equity whatsoever.
00:37:38.240
Okay. It's not like, um, non-white children are more impacted or victimized by homework.
00:37:45.580
That that's, that's something that children of all races have been suffering for, for decades.
00:37:49.720
But, uh, I don't like it as a policy because I happen to think, you know, I think that you're the
00:37:58.660
time that kids spend at home with their families, that that time is important. And if they're going
00:38:04.220
to public school, they already spend way too much time there in that government building
00:38:07.860
doing what government employees tell them to do, allegedly doing what they're told to do anyway.
00:38:17.940
Uh, and once you go home, that's time with your family. So I don't like the idea of the school
00:38:23.280
system intruding on that time at home. You've already got the whole, it's the whole item. Most,
00:38:28.880
I can say from experience as most of us can 95% of the homework assignments you're given anyway,
00:38:34.320
or just busy work. They, the teachers give it to you because that's what you do. You give homework
00:38:39.620
assignments. Um, and they figure, well, you're, you're leaving. You're going to have a few hours
00:38:46.020
at home. We might as well give you more stuff to do, but the kids are there for six to seven,
00:38:52.200
eight hours a day. If not longer, you need to be able to provide them a complete education within
00:38:58.400
that time. If they're there for seven hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year for 12 or 13
00:39:02.340
years, that that's a, that should be enough time while they're in the building to provide them with
00:39:08.440
a quality education and to get all of your lessons in. And if you can, then you got to start looking at
00:39:14.360
what you're, how you're spending that time. My favorite thing, um, when I was a kid is you'd have
00:39:22.060
these classes where you do almost nothing in the actual class. Like you'd watch movies.
00:39:28.440
I, I, I still remember I took, I took a, as I've mentioned before, I took three years of Spanish.
00:39:32.960
I still don't know a word of Spanish. I know how to say bench in Spanish. That's the only thing I
00:39:37.160
know how to say, uh, or bank. I still haven't figured out which one it is. Banco. But one of my
00:39:43.300
Spanish classes, we spent, I think it was, uh, maybe two weeks watching the movie Selena with Jennifer
00:39:51.540
Lopez. And that was, that was our, that was our lesson plan was just to sit there and watch the
00:39:56.180
movie Selena. But then she would still send us home with homework to do once we got home.
00:40:00.820
And I can remember even as a kid thinking, well, we're in the class right now. Why not turn the
00:40:04.920
movie off and we'll do this here. And then I can go home and just be home. So I'm in favor of that.
00:40:12.000
Get rid of, get rid of a homework. Shouldn't be graded. Shouldn't be giving it out at all.
00:40:15.620
Now, but even when they do the right thing, they do it for the wrong reasons. That's what we find
00:40:22.520
so often. Um, and, uh, finally, before we get to the comment section, I wanted to mention this
00:40:29.160
headline as well. Deadline reports, Spider-Man No Way Home is now the 10th highest grossing movie at
00:40:35.600
the box office with $610 million. Probably more than that. This was a few days old. I just wanted to
00:40:40.840
say, I mean, very rarely do I actually see these big blockbuster movies when they're in theaters.
00:40:45.180
And I did see this one. I took my kids to see it over the, uh, over the Christmas break
00:40:49.320
and, uh, a couple spoilers here. Um, and I hate to be so predictable, but I have to tell you that I,
00:40:57.460
I didn't like the movie. I know it seems like everyone loves it. It's got like 105% on Rotten
00:41:02.880
Tomatoes. Everyone loves the movie. Um, for me, the, the Spider-Man movie exemplifies everything
00:41:09.520
that's wrong with superhero movies. And first of all, just to run through some of the problems,
00:41:15.420
there are no stakes. Okay. I don't mean S-T-E-A-K-S. Um, there, there's nothing at stake.
00:41:24.520
Okay. There's, there's no, there's no, there's not a whiff of suspense or narrative tension with
00:41:28.580
these movies because every problem is solved with either miraculous technology or superpowers. And
00:41:35.380
okay. That part I get, it's a superhero movie or, or literal magic now. It's been a while since I've
00:41:40.880
seen one of these. And now apparently now in the, in the Marvel superhero universe, they have actual
00:41:45.280
wizards who can just, who can just fly in and snap their fingers and make everything. Okay.
00:41:51.640
So there's no limits. There's no rules within the universe itself. And then, and then,
00:41:57.420
so it's like watching someone play a video game with all the cheat codes.
00:42:00.840
There's no suspense to it. There's, there's no point in watching it. I'm, I'm fine, obviously,
00:42:08.440
with, uh, the idea of a superhero movie or a science fiction movie where things can happen in
00:42:16.300
that world that can't happen in reality. That makes sense. It's fiction, but what you have to do,
00:42:21.280
and this is just good writing. You set the rules for this universe in the beginning and the rules can
00:42:28.840
be completely different from the rules in our universe. That's fine. But then you have to
00:42:32.600
obey those rules within the story. Um, instead of this movie, you know, you can have a super,
00:42:40.300
super villain from a previous film. And, uh, you know, he, he, he took up multiple films. He was a
00:42:46.700
big bad guy in previous films. And in this one, he was like turned good with a contraption
00:42:52.440
that a kid whips together in a lab at a scrap metal in three minutes.
00:42:57.520
I never explained how he did it, but okay, well you could do that now. And if that doesn't work,
00:43:01.460
a wizard can fly in and brainwash the world. And there are multiverses and time warps. You can go
00:43:07.840
back in time and forward in time. All of that can be utilized if the narrative requires, if the
00:43:12.580
writers write themselves into a, you know, write their backs against the wall and they need to get
00:43:17.340
out of a, of, of a tough pinch. Well, you know, just go to a different universe, bring a wizard
00:43:22.820
in whatever, whatever you have to do. And then you have like a superhero can stop a train or something
00:43:28.780
with one hand in one scene, but then in the next, he can be knocked unconscious with a simple punch
00:43:35.960
to the head. It doesn't make any sense. You see, the rules are rewritten depending on what the
00:43:41.660
writers need for each scene. And it's lazy and boring. It's fun for the kids, but it's bad
00:43:46.880
filmmaking. That's my issue with Spider-Man, but the kids did enjoy it. Now let's get to the comment
00:43:54.800
section. This is from Elizabeth says, I've been missing the show so much. I've been going back
00:44:07.920
and rewatching old episodes. Well, that's a mistake, Elizabeth. The old episodes suck.
00:44:12.100
Andrew says, how come no DW host is talking about Joe Biden's repeating and agreeing with let's go,
00:44:17.940
Brandon? Yeah, that's a shame that we missed that, but it feels like so long ago now. There's not much
00:44:22.800
to say about it. That hasn't been said a million times. That's one of the problems with living in
00:44:28.600
the internet age is that the moment something happens, it's 24 hours later, everything that you
00:44:34.140
could possibly say about that event has already been said. And in this case, it's been, it's been like a
00:44:39.940
week and a half, but it was funny. There we go. There's my, there's my analysis of that whole
00:44:47.100
situation. Um, and, and also it is very troubling once again, that we have a president who clearly
00:44:53.980
has dementia and has no idea what's going on and, uh, and, uh, and all of that. Vin JK diesel says,
00:45:01.500
Matt, I would like to call the new variant. I would like you to call the new variant, the candy corn
00:45:06.020
variant. That would really make my day. Oh, Omnicorn candy corn. I will take that joke suggestion
00:45:13.260
under advisement. I'll think about it. Thank you for that. Um, SD Falco says, Matt, you're forgetting
00:45:18.820
about Willie Nelson as, uh, I guess one of the most beloved Americans or a universally beloved
00:45:24.580
American. Great show. I missed, I missed you when you were away. Happy new year. Um, yeah,
00:45:28.940
a few people suggesting him. We're talking about who are the universally beloved Americans that are left.
00:45:34.500
Uh, even if we're, you know, Alex, I'm counting Alex Trebek, even though he wasn't an American.
00:45:38.300
Uh, now that we lost, uh, now that we lost Betty White, we lost John Madden in the same week.
00:45:43.740
Um, we lost Norm Macdonald in the same year, Alex Trebek. And I think I, I, as far as I can tell,
00:45:54.560
yeah, Dolly Parton and Denzel Washington are the two we have left that everyone seems to like both
00:46:00.860
of those people. A couple other suggestions of the comments, Willie Nelson. And then, um,
00:46:06.400
and also Bill Murray was probably Bill Murray, but there Willie Nelson, I don't know. I think the
00:46:10.540
weed thing might preclude him from being universally loved. He's probably too associated
00:46:16.940
with that. And so I'm not sure that he, that he makes the cut. I don't know. Uh, another comment
00:46:23.700
says, I think you're missing the point of the marriage requires amnesia article, Matt. The
00:46:29.240
article was not about her hating her husband, but rather about how she loves her husband in spite of
00:46:33.380
his annoying habits. The article ends with her saying that she loves her husband and that she'll stay
00:46:37.940
with him forever. In an age where, where people get divorced the first time they hit a bump in the
00:46:42.400
road, like Honor Jones did the message that life with a spouse and kids while aggravating on a daily
00:46:47.440
basis is worthwhile in the end is very important. Yeah. If that was the message, it would have been a
00:46:52.720
great article, but that wasn't the message. She literally said that she hates her husband.
00:47:00.920
You know, and especially when you're a writer and you're writing for a major publication,
00:47:05.200
your, the words you use matter and that word hate really matters. So I said that yesterday,
00:47:13.420
if, if all we're talking about is, is anger and how, look, sometimes there's anger in a marriage.
00:47:19.840
And so it's an article about how do you work through that anger and love your, your spouse in
00:47:24.440
spite of that. That's fantastic. Many, many articles, many books have been written on that subject,
00:47:28.920
but there's obviously no place for hatred in a marriage, which is what the article was about.
00:47:35.200
And Tercio says, Matt, you probably use too much butter for the cookies. That's why they melted
00:47:42.000
when you bake them. Cookies are like humans in that way. If you add too much fat, they lose their
00:47:46.520
shape. You're supposed to use butter for cookies. That was probably my problem. I think I just took
00:47:55.420
some, I just took some flour and water and I, and I, and I threw it in the oven. I think that
00:47:59.980
probably thinking back on it, maybe that was the issue. As you know, the daily wire has led the
00:48:05.600
charge to sue the Biden administration for his vaccine mandates. And now we're taking it all
00:48:09.700
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to our daily cancellation. On Sunday for the first time in well over 30 years, something interesting
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happened during a jets game. The fascinating spectacle didn't take place on the field of
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play, but on the sidelines where Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver, Antonio Brown decided
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to quit in the middle of the third quarter. He took off his shoulder pads, ripped off his shirt,
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pranced off the field while his team was still playing. And, um, and at that point they actually
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were losing to the jets and you could almost excuse this behavior. If the sheer shame of losing to the
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jets is what drove him off the field, it would at least be understandable, but that doesn't appear
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to be the motivating factor. Now there are conflicting reports about what led to his leaving, uh, the field.
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Brown's camp claims that the coach told him to go into the game, but Brown refused because he had an
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ankle injury and couldn't play. And then the coach cut him on the spot. That's what they're saying.
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The coach disputes that version of events. It's important to note here that Brown is a lie.
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He's a horrible teammate on literally every team he's ever played on. And he has a history of
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quitting on his, on his teams, all of his teams. He's quit on all of them. So there's no reason to
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believe his version. Also, here's how it looked as he left the field. Watch.
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Very odd situation. Antonio Brown boiled over, very upset on the sideline, took off his shoulder
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pads. Mike Evans, OJ Howard, trying to convince him to keep them on. Obviously they were unable to do so.
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He tossed his shoulder pads, stripped off his shirt and gloves, threw those into the crowd,
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then ran across the field while the teams were still on the field, giving the crowd a peace out
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sign. I'll let you know when we hear something official on his status. You know, you don't
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normally expect a guy with a crippling leg injury to dance and do jumping jacks as he's leaving the
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field. So, so no, I think he simply quit on his team in the middle of the game. That much is obvious.
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The Bucs did go on to win by four points, although morally speaking, beating the Jets by four points is
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equivalent to losing by 10 to a real NFL team. But in any case, the head coach of the Bucs announced
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in the post-game press conference that Brown was no longer on the team. Meanwhile, Brown took a
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private jet back to his house in the middle of the game. And when he got back to his house, he released
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a rap song. Now, I know you may be worried that I'll play the song for you, but you should know that
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I would never waste your time like that. Just kidding. Of course, I will. Here it is.
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Well, there's no question that the man is a poet. Maybe there's a little question, mostly because
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nobody knows what he was saying there. It sounds like he was rapping with 10 Jolly Ranchers in his
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mouth. But artistry aside, as an athlete, Brown's career is finished, as it should be. He's an
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egomaniac. He's a crybaby. He's a quitter. He abandoned his team in the middle of a game. And
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that's the cardinal sin in sports, to quit, or it used to be. But that was before the era of Simone
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Biles, when quitting athletes are now viewed as heroes, or at least as victims who deserve our
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unending sympathy. And so that quickly became the narrative in this case also. The AP published a
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piece with this headline about Antonio Brown says, Antonio Brown's mental health is no joke.
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Internet commenters were chastised for daring to make jokes about the whole situation.
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Quote, from the writer Rob Maddy, he scolds us, quote, Brown's mental health is no joke to be
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trivialized by a meme. Yeah, I mean, you heard his rap song. This is a tortured artist we're dealing
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with. Let us not trivialize him. It's not as though he's trivialized himself, right?
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Maddy argued that even if Brown is out of the league forever now, he should still, quote,
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get the benefit of various mental health services the NFL offers players and team personnel.
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The other sports writers chimed in. Ross Tucker said on Twitter,
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I expressed significant concern about Antonio Brown's mental health over two years ago.
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The man needs help. And then writer Bakari Sellers tweeted, Antonio Brown is unstable and needs
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mental health treatment. The league doesn't care as long as he runs routes and catches passes.
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Without immediate help and no football, bad things could happen. Someone needs to wrap their arms
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around him. Now, this again is a grown man we're talking about. Someone needs to wrap their arms
00:53:08.540
around him? The author Malcolm Gladwell echoed these concerns. He said, I'm stunned by the lack of
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sympathy for Antonio Brown. He's clearly struggling. Is this how we treat people who are going through
00:53:20.420
difficult times? Struggling. The poor deer. The poor multimillionaire athlete. How dare we be so
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callous to a person suffering through such a difficult time? You know, I just finished reading a book about
00:53:34.980
the Donner Party, which of course is the group of 19th century pioneers who got stuck in the mountains
00:53:39.960
on the way to California and half of them starved or froze to death. And then their corpses were eaten
00:53:44.440
by the other half. And needless to say, their whole experience was kind of a bummer, but it pales in
00:53:50.600
comparison to the plight of a Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver. I mean, no soul has ever suffered so
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much as him. On Monday afternoon, the media asked Brown's former head coach about the incident and the
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questioning mostly revolved around this issue of poor Antonio's mental health. Listen.
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You've been someone that's expressed genuine care and concern for Antonio. How tough was it for you
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to see what happened yesterday and to make that call? Yeah, it was very hard. And I wish him well. I
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hope if he needs help, get some. But yeah, it's very hard because I do care about him.
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And was there any type of conversation with him before you made that decision post-game? And was there
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any sort of mental health evaluation performed on him before he left the stadium?
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I have no idea. Mental health evaluation performed on him before he left the stadium?
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It's an NFL team. It's not Arkham Asylum. How would that work exactly?
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Meanwhile, back on social media, thousands of random people who also apparently happen to be
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expert neurologists all decided that Antonio Brown must have CTE, which is the brain condition
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brought on by repeated blows to the head. It's been declared over and over again that Brown
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isn't at fault for any of his actions. He got hit in the head one too many times. And somehow,
00:55:10.140
though nobody can really explain how, that caused him to act like an enormous jerk.
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Now, the problem with this diagnosis, of course, is that the people making it are utterly and
00:55:18.700
completely full of crap. CTE is still quite mysterious. We don't know for sure how it relates to football
00:55:24.280
injuries, or if it does. And even if it does, we don't know how it would cause people to act in
00:55:29.340
certain ways, or if it does. In other words, CTE is an excuse for Antonio Brown, a rationalization
00:55:35.600
with no evidentiary basis, and which ignores the fact that Brown has been a selfish jerk for his
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entire career. It's not the compounded result of 10 years worth of concussive episodes. He's always
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been like this. So that is, again, an excuse. And the same can be said about the whole mental health
00:55:52.780
angle in general. You see, all of this is part of the general effort by so many in our culture to
00:55:58.300
remove agency from the individual, to turn everybody into victims, into patients, into sufferers.
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None of us choose to act in one way or another way. Rather, the actions occur, the choices are made,
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and we are the victims of the results if they don't go our way. It's like we're all constantly
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pleading insanity for ourselves and one another in the court of public opinion.
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Don't blame anybody for anything. All bad choices are the fruits of mental health problems.
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And blaming someone for a mental health problem is like blaming them for arthritis.
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That's the attitude anyway, and it's totally ridiculous.
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There are crazy people in this world who cannot control themselves,
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who shouldn't be held morally responsible for their actions,
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but those people aren't playing in the NFL. They're sitting on park benches, arguing with
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squirrels. You know those kinds of people when you meet them. They aren't mentally with it. They
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aren't competent. They can't care at all for themselves. That's not the case for Antonio Brown.
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It's not the case for most of the garden variety jerks and a-holes who get by on the mental health
00:57:05.100
excuse these days. For them, the problem is not mental deficiencies, but deficiencies of character.
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See, we used to talk about and acknowledge things like character and virtue
00:57:16.280
before we decided that all of the jackasses and schmucks in the world are actually mental patients.
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And in Antonio Brown's case, it's not difficult to pinpoint where his trouble really began.
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It begins with this. He's a pampered, coddled superstar athlete.
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And so at the age of 33, he's been a pampered, coddled superstar athlete for most of his life,
00:57:38.600
going back to high school. And that means that he almost always gets his way.
00:57:43.920
It means people bend over backwards to accommodate him and satiate him. It means they make excuses for
00:57:49.860
him, just like they're doing right now. They give him more chances than he deserves, just like they're
00:57:53.600
doing right now. You know, my dad used to tell me that it's good to get rejected sometimes. It's good
00:57:58.680
to fail because it builds character. And you have to learn how to deal with not getting what you want.
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But there are some people who have never had to learn that lesson.
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And they end up morally stunted as a result. It's called being entitled. It's not that complicated.
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Most people in our culture today suffer from this entitlement disease to one degree or another.
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Except it's not really a disease because it's developed as a result of his own choices, his own moral habits.
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Again, it's not complicated. He's not a victim. And the more he's treated like one, the worse the
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problem gets. And that's why Antonio Brown, and also, of course, his army of enablers, are all today
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canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.
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