The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 865 - An Early Candidate For Biggest Coward Of 2022

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, in one of the most pathetic and cowardly displays we've seen 0.63

00:00:03.920 in a long time, a comedian issues a lengthy written apology for taking a picture with Dave 0.84

00:00:08.320 Chappelle. What can we learn from this sad spectacle, if anything? And is it time to stop

00:00:12.840 our obsession with taking COVID tests? The Florida Surgeon General thinks so. Plus,

00:00:16.760 a school district in Virginia stops grading homework assignments in the name of racial equity

00:00:20.840 and an NFL player storms off the field in the middle of a game because, but what we're told

00:00:25.640 by the media is he's really a victim in the middle of a mental health crisis. Is anybody

00:00:30.000 responsible for their actions anymore? Or is every bad thing just the result of poor mental health?

00:00:34.820 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:01.500 off on your box delivered straight to your door today. You know, it's always good to have positive

00:02:06.740 role models in life, but in a country where those are often hard to come by, it seems like sometimes you

00:02:10.880 have to settle for negative role models. And the useful thing about a negative role model is that he can

00:02:15.560 show you exactly how not to respond in a given situation, which will also tell you exactly how

00:02:21.020 you should respond. Now, he's providing a roadmap in his own way, and that's the great service that

00:02:26.600 cowards provide for all of us. And that's why we should be grateful in some ways to leftist comedian

00:02:31.460 Patton Oswalt today, who over the course of the past two days has unwittingly offered himself as a prime

00:02:37.980 example of everything you shouldn't be and shouldn't do as a man or simply as a as a human

00:02:43.700 being. So it all began. Well, really, it began. It began shortly after Oswalt was born. I guess it

00:02:49.660 takes a lifetime to make cowards of this quality, but we don't have time to go back that far. So

00:02:54.040 we'll start this week just a few days ago when Oswalt was performing at a comedy club, apparently in

00:02:59.620 Seattle. And his, as he says, dear friend of 34 years, Dave Chappelle, texted him and invited him

00:03:06.400 to come next door to the arena where Chappelle was performing, doing his own performance. And he

00:03:12.420 said that Oswalt could do a guest set there at his performance. So Chappelle was at an arena because

00:03:17.760 he's a big popular comedian, and Patton Oswalt was at a small club because nobody cares about him.

00:03:22.840 But Chappelle said, why don't you come over and you can perform in front of my bigger audience?

00:03:26.180 You know, it's a nice thing to offer. Now, why did Chappelle offer that? I guess Chappelle was

00:03:32.040 angry with his audience that night and wanted to punish them by subjecting them to Patton Oswalt.

00:03:35.980 I don't know. We can't be sure exactly. But Oswalt took him up on the invitation. And later that

00:03:41.780 night, he took a picture with Dave Chappelle and posted it to his Instagram. But the rage mob didn't

00:03:47.560 like that. The trans bullies and their lackeys decided that Patton Oswalt shouldn't be friends 0.97

00:03:53.240 with Dave Chappelle. Why? Well, of course, because Dave Chappelle has opinions about gender that are 0.96

00:03:58.720 pretty, well, pretty, pretty liberal, actually, all things considered, but still slightly out of

00:04:03.440 lockstep with the orthodoxy of the day. So he's a heretic. He's he's now we should remember he's he's 0.88

00:04:09.640 just barely a heretic. His opinions about gender are still by the standards of like 10 years ago

00:04:17.280 are pretty radical far left. But by the standards of today, they're, you know,

00:04:22.840 maybe moderate at best. And that means that nobody can associate with him. The rage mob,

00:04:30.840 the trans mob, the raging trans mob yelled at Patton Oswalt for daring to continue a friendship

00:04:35.340 with a man that he's known for three decades. I mean, and how dare he really? Oswalt didn't even ask

00:04:40.460 the strangers on the Internet for permission before choosing to continue his association with this

00:04:45.900 person. And they were stunned by the insult. And they let him know it. And so, of course,

00:04:51.140 what does Patton Oswalt do? Well, he apologizes profusely and at length, complete with a photo of

00:04:57.760 him sitting ruefully at his desk like a child in timeout, hoping that daddy isn't mad at him anymore.

00:05:02.740 Here was his follow up post on Monday after desperately explaining how he ended up in the proximity of Dave

00:05:09.440 Chappelle and trying to justify his decision to be photographed in the heretics company

00:05:13.980 rather than simply stoning him to death on the spot and setting his corpse on fire as a true ally

00:05:19.580 would have done. Oswalt says this, we, Oswalt and Chappelle, 100% disagree about transgender rights 0.92

00:05:26.960 and representation. I support trans people's rights, anyone's rights to live safely in the world as

00:05:32.660 their fullest selves. For all the things he's helped me evolve on, I'll always disagree with where he stands

00:05:38.260 now on transgender issues. But I also don't believe a seeker like him is done evolving, learning. You 0.99

00:05:44.880 know, someone that long see the struggles and changes, it's impossible to cut them off. Impossible

00:05:49.940 not to be hopeful and open and cheer them on. Also, I've been carrying a lot of guilt about friends I've

00:05:55.220 cut off who had views with which I couldn't agree or changed in ways I couldn't live with. Sometimes I

00:06:00.220 wonder, did I and others cutting them off make them dig their heels in deeper, fuel their ignorance with a 0.74

00:06:07.140 nitro boost of resentment and spite? I'm an LGBTQ ally. I'm a loyal friend. There's friction in those

00:06:14.120 traits that I need to reconcile myself and not let cause feelings of betrayal in anyone else. And I'm

00:06:20.500 sorry, truly sorry, that I didn't consider the hurt this would cause or the depth of that hurt. I've been

00:06:27.260 messaging a lot on IG today and the back and forth has really helped guide me in the writing of this. I deleted

00:06:33.380 a lot of posts in the comment thread, critical ones from LGBTQ writers and posts by TERF slash

00:06:40.120 anti-trans orcs looking for clicks and giggles. I wanted a nice comment thread about the pic with

00:06:46.120 my friend, UGG. So easy to think someone else needs growth and miss the need in yourself. But I'm going

00:06:52.860 to keep trying. So there you go. He's sorry, truly sorry. But he wants you to know that he's only

00:06:59.340 remaining friends with the guy that he's known for almost four decades in an effort to cure him of

00:07:03.540 his ignorance and help him evolve. So this is like a, this is an evangelical mission. You see,

00:07:09.820 he's hoping to convert Chappelle to, to induct him into the gender ideology cult. And that's the only

00:07:16.000 reason he's staying friends with him. Now, naturally he never explains what Chappelle is wrong about when

00:07:22.200 it comes to gender. He also never explains how exactly anyone could be hurt, much less hurt with such 0.91

00:07:28.820 great depth, just because a comedian they like is friends with a comedian they don't like.

00:07:35.400 But those questions are irrelevant. He is just a mouse, much like the one he voices in the one

00:07:41.180 single Pixar movie that my kids refuse to watch because they say it's boring, scurrying about,

00:07:46.300 fearful and confused. I just hope that in all his scurrying, he doesn't accidentally bump into

00:07:52.740 this other comedian who has said way more problematic things about trans people. So

00:07:57.740 Patton Oswalt, uh, watch out for this guy. His name is also Patton Oswalt. Watch.

00:08:02.200 You said this is for like families and kids? Cause this sounds really grim and creepy. Well,

00:08:08.180 you didn't let me finish because we're also going to have men in bright clothing and makeup.

00:08:13.380 Oh, time out. You mean like, like transvestites, right? Well, technically yes, but they're going 1.00

00:08:21.880 to keep going so that they're clowns. You realize a clown is just a transvestite that doesn't stop. 1.00

00:08:30.460 Like if you, like if you, if you saw a guy in lipstick and eye shadow, you'd be like, 0.98

00:08:34.840 Timmy, leave him alone. That's his own thing. The guy's like, Oh no, hang on.

00:08:38.220 Like, Oh Timmy, get it. He's a wonderful clown. Get over there. I didn't know you'd use a whole 0.99

00:08:46.000 tube of lipstick on one cheek. Please entertain my child. Run at him out of the darkness. He'll love

00:08:53.180 it. Well, I don't know how long ago that was, but it didn't look like it was all that long ago.

00:08:59.100 And there is of course a direct link here out of all the adults bowing to cancel culture now,

00:09:05.540 and especially to trans cancel culture, to LGBT cancel culture, precisely none of them have 0.91

00:09:12.520 obeyed these rules their whole lives because these rules as they stand right now didn't exist their

00:09:18.100 whole lives. Most of them being empty, gutless cowards have lived their whole lives trying to 0.92

00:09:24.440 avoid the sin of wrong think. So they've been trying to engage in group think and avoid wrong think their 0.95

00:09:31.800 whole lives. But the problem is that the thoughts which qualify as wrong and right tend to change.

00:09:38.460 And what this means is that by obeying the thought police of today, you will inevitably end up

00:09:43.800 disobeying the thought police of tomorrow because the rules are arbitrary and they change and it's

00:09:49.440 designed that way. And because we live in, in eternal now where nothing is ever allowed to simply stay

00:09:57.240 in the past and we're all called propentially to answer for everything we've ever said or done,

00:10:02.060 no matter when we said or did it, the people who've been trying to stay up on the rules will always be

00:10:06.800 in violation of them. It's a losing game, but it's the only one they know how to play.

00:10:15.100 It's too late now for a guy like Oswald to suddenly grow a spine, a mind of his own,

00:10:20.080 an intellectual identity of his own. He's doomed to finish his life as he's lived it until now,

00:10:25.580 lying prostrate before the mob, begging to be loved and accepted, or at least pitied if he

00:10:31.260 can't have love and acceptance. You know, a few years ago when Oswald was jumping on the dog

00:10:36.820 pile to slander the Covington Catholic kids as racists, he tweeted this about them. He said that

00:10:43.420 they are, quote, bland, frightened, forgettable kids who will grow up to be bland, frightened, 0.97

00:10:48.900 forgotten adult wastes. That was a grown man talking about 15-year-old kids at the time, 0.67

00:10:54.660 by the way. But he should have been talking to a mirror because he described himself and his ilk

00:11:00.900 perfectly. Bland, frightened, forgettable. Couldn't have said it better myself. Now let's get to our

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00:12:45.380 silencer ownership simplified. You know, I'm such a pushover, I have to tell you. My daughter has been

00:12:52.600 begging me for months now. She's eight years old. She's been begging me for months now to get her ears 1.00

00:12:57.800 pierced. And for some reason, she really wants to have needles stuck in her ears and then hang 1.00

00:13:03.020 ornaments from them and hang ornaments from the wound. You know, I don't really understand that

00:13:08.380 desire, but especially coming from someone like my daughter has zero pain tolerance, like zero.

00:13:15.420 She stubbed her toe yesterday, and I ran into the room because it honestly sounded like she was being

00:13:20.420 stabbed. And yet somehow she wants to have this done to her. I don't know why. And she's been begging

00:13:26.440 me. And I keep saying no, because, you know, you're too young and you don't need to do that and

00:13:32.060 just stop it. We're not doing that. And my wife has been conspiring with her to convince me because 1.00

00:13:37.700 she thinks my daughter's old enough. But I've stood firm. You know, I've said, you know, maybe when

00:13:42.640 you're 16 or something, you get the ears pierced. And then two nights ago, I noticed a crumpled up

00:13:48.200 piece of loose leaf paper in the kitchen. And then I opened it up and it was a note for my daughter

00:13:53.880 that she had written. And it said, please, daddy, can I have my ears pierced? I love you.

00:13:59.800 And I asked my wife when she wrote the note, and she told me that my daughter apparently had written

00:14:04.580 it, you know, this very heartfelt, lengthy note. She had written it a couple of weeks ago,

00:14:09.300 but then didn't give it to me, I guess because I've been so gruff about the ears pierced thing

00:14:14.480 that she figured I would say no. So she ended up not giving it to me and she like threw it away.

00:14:18.200 And that was all it took for some reason. It was that pathetic little note scribbled on loose 0.96

00:14:25.280 leaf, left pitifully in the kitchen that broke my defenses. And the guilt trip landed successfully. 0.98

00:14:31.960 And I told her that, you know, she can have the ears pierced if she wants. I'm continually

00:14:39.060 discover that I'm very easy to manipulate. And I realized that. And I also realized that my daughter's

00:14:44.820 smart enough that this might've all been a plan on her part. Because what my kids have started to

00:14:51.180 realize is that if you want to get what you, if you want to get something from me, whining is never

00:14:56.700 the way to do it. But to just sort of suffer in silence in that kind of pathetic, pitiful way that 0.98

00:15:05.400 kids do, that's, that's what will get me. And then you end up getting everything you want. 0.98

00:15:09.260 Um, all right, well, we'll start with this. I think this is important. Florida Surgeon General

00:15:15.460 Joseph Ladapo is talking about moving away from testing. And this has, we'll play another clip in

00:15:22.260 a minute here, but this has the media, of course, very upset because everywhere else in the country,

00:15:26.820 they're testing everybody every 30 minutes. You know, every time you go into another building,

00:15:31.680 you got to take a test. Um, every time when you wake up in the morning, you got to take a test.

00:15:35.540 You go to work, you got to take a test. If you have a, if you, if you have a runny nose, take a

00:15:39.840 test. If you don't have a runny nose, take a test. And that's, that's the general strategy.

00:15:45.020 And that's why they're running out of tests everywhere. And it's hard to find the tests.

00:15:48.020 People are hoarding them and everything. Um, there are all these really pathetic people in 0.98

00:15:52.300 media that over Christmas were tweeting pictures of like boxes of tests that they got as Christmas 0.98

00:15:58.060 presents and they were so excited about it. But in Florida, um, as they have been doing

00:16:03.140 from the beginning of, of all of this, they're taking a different approach. So here's the

00:16:08.060 surgery general saying that we need to get away from what he calls this testing psychology.

00:16:13.040 We're going to be working to unwind the sort of testing psychology that our federal leadership

00:16:20.720 has managed to unfortunately get much, most of the country in over the last two years,

00:16:26.840 we need to unwind this testing sort of, uh, um, sort of, uh, planning and living one's life around

00:16:34.560 testing without it. We're going to be sort of stuck in the same cycle. So, you know, it's really time

00:16:40.900 for people to be living to, uh, you know, to make the decisions they want regarding vaccination,

00:16:46.760 um, to enjoy the fact that many people have natural immunity time for people to start living,

00:16:52.700 what seems like reasonable advice. Now that we're going into a, we're going into year three of this

00:16:58.340 and maybe three years later, it might be time. You know, maybe, maybe now three years into this,

00:17:04.720 you can finally start living your life. That's the way that I would look at it. Uh, a few thoughts

00:17:08.660 on this, but first here is CNN's TV doctor. This is, um, I don't know this guy's name. Doesn't matter.

00:17:15.300 Uh, their TV doctor explaining why this is completely wrong and horrible and lots of people are going to

00:17:22.360 die. If we get away from the testing psychology, listen, does he have a point? And, and if not,

00:17:28.100 why? No. And in fact, it's hard to believe those comments came from the surgeon general of one of

00:17:35.300 the largest States in this country. And his words echo what the former president of the United States,

00:17:41.280 Donald Trump said in June of 2020, when he told a huge crowd in, uh, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that the only,

00:17:48.860 that the, the downside to testing is that you find so many cases. And then he told his,

00:17:53.520 his people to slow the testing down, please. The problem isn't that testing is finding people who

00:18:00.520 are fine. The problem is that we don't have enough tests. And then if, if we're looking to do what,

00:18:06.260 and I completely agree with Dr. Offit to keep our schools open. One of the major things you would do

00:18:12.260 is test even more to find people, find kids, find teachers who are positive, isolate, isolate them

00:18:19.280 for a few days and keep the rest of the school open. The problem is that when you have so much

00:18:23.580 virus in the community and you're trying to keep businesses open without testing, you're allowing

00:18:28.580 the virus to continue to spread on abated. So if anything, we need to do much more testing, not

00:18:34.080 bury our heads in the, in the sands of Florida and hope for the best.

00:18:38.100 Oh, less testing. Well, we need more testing. I mean, we, if everyone's getting tested three

00:18:43.740 times a day, make sure we test them five times a day. Here's, here's my recommendation. This is my

00:18:48.900 non-medical, uh, recommendation as a non-medical expert. Um, if you have tests, just, just, you know,

00:18:58.180 throw them away, live your life. Here's, here's the, here's the strategy. It's actually really simple.

00:19:05.480 And this is basically how people operated, um, for most of human history up until three years ago.

00:19:14.460 If you're sick, then stay home. And if you're not sick, then go about your business.

00:19:23.360 It's really as simple as that.

00:19:24.760 You know, you don't, you don't need a test to confirm. I, I, over, over the Christmas break,

00:19:31.860 I'm seeing some of these news reports about people standing in line. If they, if they can't

00:19:36.140 get the rapid test, they're standing in line for hours in the cold. I mean, you're standing in line

00:19:42.400 for hours in the cold to find out if you're sick. You might not have been sick, but by the time you

00:19:48.980 get to the front of the line, now you are. The thing about being sick is that usually it's pretty

00:19:54.980 clear when you're sick. You have, you have symptoms. You don't, you don't want to leave the

00:20:00.520 house. You have a fever. I mean, these are the things you're looking for. And let's say you have

00:20:06.600 a cough and a fever and you're feeling miserable and all the rest of it, but you're, but it could be

00:20:12.900 COVID. It could not be COVID. Who cares if, whether it's COVID or not, just stay home, drink lots of

00:20:20.940 fluids, try to eat well, get a lot of rest. This is how people have been responding to sicknesses of

00:20:28.880 this type for thousands of years. And if you're feeling okay, then, then, then go about your

00:20:34.120 business. I mean, this is obviously not sustainable. We have been sustaining it for three years and paid

00:20:42.280 an enormous price for it. And this is not sustainable in the longterm. It's already been

00:20:46.020 a long, this is not as sustainable on a permanent basis where, uh, you know, anytime someone has a

00:20:55.560 case of the sniffles, we got to test them. And if it turns out that they have this virus, which is

00:20:59.420 especially, especially now with, with, uh, Omnicorn is extremely mild for almost everybody.

00:21:05.920 Now they got to stay home for, you know, five. Well now, now the CDC says five days before it was 10

00:21:10.560 days. And over the last couple of weeks, they said, Oh, you know, we know we said 10 days,

00:21:15.020 but actually more it's, it's five days. What, where did that change come from? Was there some

00:21:20.360 sort of scientific breakthrough? Did they make some kind of discovering a lab somewhere that

00:21:26.800 let them know that actually you only have to isolate for five days? No, this was a political

00:21:33.380 decision. It was also, it was also a practical decision. It's just not practical to tell people

00:21:37.900 to stay in their homes for 10 days because they have the sniffles.

00:21:45.320 Especially if, as it turns out, people can get this, the virus more than once.

00:21:52.140 And most of the time it's going to be very mild, but so what multiple times a year,

00:21:56.320 potentially you got to stay home for two weeks when you're hardly sick at all.

00:22:00.760 So they made that change just for practical reasons. And that's why I, you know, I feel

00:22:07.820 like we're fully justified in for practical reasons. This is about, it's about, it's about

00:22:12.260 being able to live a life for practical reasons. We just say, stop testing.

00:22:18.480 If you're sick, stay home. It's not that difficult.

00:22:20.540 All right. Here's another thing that's not difficult. And it was obvious to most of us.

00:22:28.080 We talked yesterday about how many of these common sense observations that, that many of us have been

00:22:33.720 making for years have very slowly now been endorsed by the media. People in the media who would have

00:22:40.880 shouted us down and did shout us down for years for saying it. Now they're saying the exact same

00:22:45.060 thing. So here's the headline from CNN. Um, and it's a question, not, they're not quite ready to

00:22:50.500 make a statement yet, but it's a question. And they're saying, can weight loss help protect against

00:22:55.420 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 1.00

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. 1.00

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 0.98

00:30:08.180 white race are the ones that were, that we're going to, that we're going to help completely 0.85

00:30:11.320 illegal and absurd. All right, let's move on to the, to this here. Um, as we lead into the 0.88

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 1.00

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. 0.91

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, 1.00

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. 0.99

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 1.00

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, 0.77

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. 0.95

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, 0.95

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 0.95

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. 1.00

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

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00:48:45.820 to our daily cancellation. On Sunday for the first time in well over 30 years, something interesting

00:48:54.420 happened during a jets game. The fascinating spectacle didn't take place on the field of

00:48:58.780 play, but on the sidelines where Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver, Antonio Brown decided

00:49:02.620 to quit in the middle of the third quarter. He took off his shoulder pads, ripped off his shirt,

00:49:07.460 pranced off the field while his team was still playing. And, um, and at that point they actually

00:49:11.520 were losing to the jets and you could almost excuse this behavior. If the sheer shame of losing to the

00:49:17.720 jets is what drove him off the field, it would at least be understandable, but that doesn't appear

00:49:22.400 to be the motivating factor. Now there are conflicting reports about what led to his leaving, uh, the field.

00:49:28.720 Brown's camp claims that the coach told him to go into the game, but Brown refused because he had an

00:49:33.000 ankle injury and couldn't play. And then the coach cut him on the spot. That's what they're saying.

00:49:37.800 The coach disputes that version of events. It's important to note here that Brown is a lie.

00:49:41.520 He's a horrible teammate on literally every team he's ever played on. And he has a history of 0.95

00:49:45.240 quitting on his, on his teams, all of his teams. He's quit on all of them. So there's no reason to

00:49:49.280 believe his version. Also, here's how it looked as he left the field. Watch.

00:49:53.760 Very odd situation. Antonio Brown boiled over, very upset on the sideline, took off his shoulder

00:50:00.180 pads. Mike Evans, OJ Howard, trying to convince him to keep them on. Obviously they were unable to do so.

00:50:05.780 He tossed his shoulder pads, stripped off his shirt and gloves, threw those into the crowd,

00:50:10.060 then ran across the field while the teams were still on the field, giving the crowd a peace out

00:50:14.980 sign. I'll let you know when we hear something official on his status. You know, you don't

00:50:19.580 normally expect a guy with a crippling leg injury to dance and do jumping jacks as he's leaving the

00:50:23.980 field. So, so no, I think he simply quit on his team in the middle of the game. That much is obvious.

00:50:30.420 The Bucs did go on to win by four points, although morally speaking, beating the Jets by four points is

00:50:36.060 equivalent to losing by 10 to a real NFL team. But in any case, the head coach of the Bucs announced

00:50:41.020 in the post-game press conference that Brown was no longer on the team. Meanwhile, Brown took a

00:50:46.440 private jet back to his house in the middle of the game. And when he got back to his house, he released

00:50:51.280 a rap song. Now, I know you may be worried that I'll play the song for you, but you should know that

00:50:56.520 I would never waste your time like that. Just kidding. Of course, I will. Here it is.

00:50:59.320 Well, there's no question that the man is a poet. Maybe there's a little question, mostly because

00:51:25.120 nobody knows what he was saying there. It sounds like he was rapping with 10 Jolly Ranchers in his

00:51:28.980 mouth. But artistry aside, as an athlete, Brown's career is finished, as it should be. He's an

00:51:34.920 egomaniac. He's a crybaby. He's a quitter. He abandoned his team in the middle of a game. And 1.00

00:51:39.940 that's the cardinal sin in sports, to quit, or it used to be. But that was before the era of Simone

00:51:47.180 Biles, when quitting athletes are now viewed as heroes, or at least as victims who deserve our

00:51:52.080 unending sympathy. And so that quickly became the narrative in this case also. The AP published a

00:51:58.560 piece with this headline about Antonio Brown says, Antonio Brown's mental health is no joke.

00:52:05.060 Internet commenters were chastised for daring to make jokes about the whole situation.

00:52:09.280 Quote, from the writer Rob Maddy, he scolds us, quote, Brown's mental health is no joke to be

00:52:14.800 trivialized by a meme. Yeah, I mean, you heard his rap song. This is a tortured artist we're dealing

00:52:20.500 with. Let us not trivialize him. It's not as though he's trivialized himself, right?

00:52:25.540 Maddy argued that even if Brown is out of the league forever now, he should still, quote,

00:52:30.420 get the benefit of various mental health services the NFL offers players and team personnel.

00:52:36.000 The other sports writers chimed in. Ross Tucker said on Twitter,

00:52:40.300 I expressed significant concern about Antonio Brown's mental health over two years ago.

00:52:44.460 The man needs help. And then writer Bakari Sellers tweeted, Antonio Brown is unstable and needs

00:52:50.980 mental health treatment. The league doesn't care as long as he runs routes and catches passes.

00:52:55.940 Without immediate help and no football, bad things could happen. Someone needs to wrap their arms

00:53:01.080 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

00:53:15.100 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

00:53:29.700 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

00:53:56.280 much as him. On Monday afternoon, the media asked Brown's former head coach about the incident and the

00:54:03.020 questioning mostly revolved around this issue of poor Antonio's mental health. Listen.

00:54:08.260 You've been someone that's expressed genuine care and concern for Antonio. How tough was it for you

00:54:13.200 to see what happened yesterday and to make that call? Yeah, it was very hard. And I wish him well. I

00:54:19.460 hope if he needs help, get some. But yeah, it's very hard because I do care about him.

00:54:29.080 And was there any type of conversation with him before you made that decision post-game? And was there

00:54:34.180 any sort of mental health evaluation performed on him before he left the stadium?

00:54:39.200 I have no idea. Mental health evaluation performed on him before he left the stadium?

00:54:45.000 It's an NFL team. It's not Arkham Asylum. How would that work exactly?

00:54:50.860 Meanwhile, back on social media, thousands of random people who also apparently happen to be

00:54:54.780 expert neurologists all decided that Antonio Brown must have CTE, which is the brain condition

00:54:59.800 brought on by repeated blows to the head. It's been declared over and over again that Brown

00:55:04.740 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. 0.99

00:55:15.120 Now, the problem with this diagnosis, of course, is that the people making it are utterly and 1.00

00:55:18.700 completely full of crap. CTE is still quite mysterious. We don't know for sure how it relates to football 0.99

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 1.00

00:55:41.380 entire career. It's not the compounded result of 10 years worth of concussive episodes. He's always 0.99

00:55:46.860 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.

00:56:05.820 None of us choose to act in one way or another way. Rather, the actions occur, the choices are made,

00:56:13.740 and we are the victims of the results if they don't go our way. It's like we're all constantly

00:56:19.180 pleading insanity for ourselves and one another in the court of public opinion.

00:56:23.780 Don't blame anybody for anything. All bad choices are the fruits of mental health problems.

00:56:29.480 And blaming someone for a mental health problem is like blaming them for arthritis. 0.99

00:56:33.620 That's the attitude anyway, and it's totally ridiculous. 1.00

00:56:37.160 There are crazy people in this world who cannot control themselves, 0.98

00:56:41.060 who shouldn't be held morally responsible for their actions,

00:56:44.280 but those people aren't playing in the NFL. They're sitting on park benches, arguing with

00:56:49.900 squirrels. You know those kinds of people when you meet them. They aren't mentally with it. They

00:56:54.960 aren't competent. They can't care at all for themselves. That's not the case for Antonio Brown.

00:57:00.880 It's not the case for most of the garden variety jerks and a-holes who get by on the mental health 1.00

00:57:05.100 excuse these days. For them, the problem is not mental deficiencies, but deficiencies of character. 0.99

00:57:11.540 See, we used to talk about and acknowledge things like character and virtue 1.00

00:57:16.280 before we decided that all of the jackasses and schmucks in the world are actually mental patients. 0.99

00:57:22.720 And in Antonio Brown's case, it's not difficult to pinpoint where his trouble really began. 1.00

00:57:28.580 It begins with this. He's a pampered, coddled superstar athlete.

00:57:33.180 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.

00:58:04.940 But there are some people who have never had to learn that lesson.

00:58:09.580 And they end up morally stunted as a result. It's called being entitled. It's not that complicated.

00:58:15.960 Most people in our culture today suffer from this entitlement disease to one degree or another.

00:58:20.960 A guy like Antonio Brown has it terminally.

00:58:24.680 Except it's not really a disease because it's developed as a result of his own choices, his own moral habits.

00:58:29.880 Again, it's not complicated. He's not a victim. And the more he's treated like one, the worse the

00:58:37.680 problem gets. And that's why Antonio Brown, and also, of course, his army of enablers, are all today

00:58:44.180 canceled. And we'll leave it there for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.

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