Ep. 889 - The Super Bowl Was A Festival Of Hypocrisy
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The Super Bowl last night was one long parade of leftist hypocrisy. We ll count the waves today, also we ll review some of the weird and woke commercials that companies spent millions of dollars to air during the broadcast. Plus, Nancy Pelosi officially slams the door shut on the defund the police movement, and Joe Biden speaks out against racism in the NFL.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Super Bowl last night was one long parade of leftist hypocrisy.
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We'll count the waves today. Also, we'll review some of the weird and woke commercials that
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companies spent millions of dollars to air during the broadcast. Plus, Nancy Pelosi officially
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slams the door shut on the defund the police movement. And Joe Biden speaks out against
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racism in the NFL. At least I think that's what he was doing. It's hard to tell anymore.
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In our daily cancellation, we'll deal with the latest leftist innovation. It's called
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platonic conscious co-parenting. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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So last night was the Super Bowl, as you may have heard. It was a game between the Cincinnati Bengals,
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a team with no fans at all outside of Cincinnati, and the Los Angeles Rams, a team with no fans at all
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anywhere outside Los Angeles or inside. Ultimately, the Rams prevailed, marking the first NFL championship
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for a third world country, which I thought was really nice. Truly, it was inspiring to see that even if LA
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can't stop gangs of hoodlums from ransacking stores and committing violent crimes or, you know,
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prevent its sidewalks from becoming homeless refugee camps or clean up the trash that covers literally
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every square inch of that putrid and hideous city, it can at least score enough points to beat the
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Bengals. As it happens, the Super Bowl was actually played in Los Angeles this year, requiring an
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impressive effort by the city to clean up enough of the garbage and use needles so that fans had space
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to park their cars at least. However, some people think that it isn't fair that, you know, one of the
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teams competing in the game got to host the game as well. And I agree that it isn't fair. There
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shouldn't be any more home Super Bowls, which is why I think every Super Bowl should be hosted in DC
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or Dallas from here on out, because that way this will never happen again. But in any case, it was a
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good game, I must admit. It was also, along with being a good game, a festival of rank hypocrisy by the
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left. Now, remember, of course, that hypocrisy does not simply mean doing one thing while saying
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another. That might not be hypocrisy at all. That might be simple cowardice or inconsistency.
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Hypocrisy is pretending to believe things that you don't actually believe. And hypocrisy is endemic
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in our culture, which is a problem because it's impossible to have meaningful debates or come to
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any sort of understanding between sides if so many of the people involved in the conversation don't
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actually believe anything that they're saying. Now, if you've noticed that our debates are almost
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always fruitless and nobody is listening to anybody and nothing comes of any of it, this is why. Lots of
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people don't believe what they're saying. They don't believe much of anything at all, I think. Which brings
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us back to the Super Bowl, the biggest entertainment event of the year, an occasion for all of the
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country's biggest corporations to spend millions of dollars to make themselves visible because they
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weren't visible enough already, while also parading their wokeness around for the acceptance and approval
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of the sorts of people who pretend to be rebels against the system that caters to their every
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emotional whim. Now, it began with an unexpectedly respectful and well-executed national anthem
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performance, something the NFL can get away with because, you know, they have to get away with doing a
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respectful national anthem these days. But they can get away with it because they also make sure to
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include the so-called black national anthem in the broadcast. We are a country, if you hadn't heard
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by now, with two national anthems. The original written by Francis Scott Key and then this other
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thing called Lift Every Voice and Sing. The NFL must lay these sacrifices upon the altar of wokeness so
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that the left won't accuse it of racism. Because, of course, an organization in which 60% of its
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athletes and the majority of its most visible stars are black has to constantly prove that it's not
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racist. And the efforts are all in vain, as always. No matter what the NFL does, it will always be labeled
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racist because that's how the game is played. The left derives much of its political power from the
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phantom of racism. They will not let that phantom go no matter how desperate and absurd the racism
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claims have to be. Speaking of which, just as a side note, Brian Flores, a story that we've been
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tracking on this show, he's the former NFL head coach who's now suing the league for systemic racism.
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Just yesterday, before the Super Bowl, he added the Houston Texans to his lawsuit. Now, he alleges
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that the Texans failed to hire him because of their racism. The inconvenient detail here is that the
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Texans didn't hire him because they wanted someone else who is also black. They hired a black head coach,
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but it was the wrong black head coach, and so they're still racist. Once again, this is how the
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game is played. But to the black national anthem, well, yeah, not the national anthem, but the fake
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one, the black national anthem. If you thought the idea of a racially tribalized national anthem
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couldn't get any more grotesque, wait until you see what it looked like when they performed it. Watch.
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Does any other country in existence have this, by the way? Before, now, lots of countries, almost every
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country before some big event, they're going to sing a national anthem. Does any other country have
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two? You know, if they've got the normal one and then another one for a specific racial group.
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But the singers there, they were performing with the accompaniment of the LA Youth Orchestra.
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Now, as you can see, if you're watching on the video podcast, the lead adult performers didn't have
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masks on. The kids in the background did. There is something distinctly creepy and dystopian about
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the sight of two adults standing in front of a group of masked, faceless children. And it's a
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sight we've gotten used to, of course. It's also a sight that isn't going away anytime soon. In fact,
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Los Angeles, along with other big liberal cities across the country, they've begun to relax their
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mask mandates for everyone except schoolchildren. The people who least need the masks and who suffer
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the most psychologically and developmentally from wearing them are the people who'll be forced
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to continue wearing them while everyone else gets to take them off. At the game last night,
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there was not even an attempt by any of the leftist luminaries in attendance to pretend
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that they take masking seriously. Just watch the announcers go through the litany of celebrities in
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attendance and notice what accessory is missing from all of these people. Watch.
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We're in Hollywood. Who do we got here? We've got Jay-Z. Matt Damon.
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Yeah, now we're talking. I mean, where else would they be?
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Not a mask in sight. All of them maskless. LeBron James is wearing an entire diamond mine around
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his neck, but he left the mask at home. Priorities, I suppose. And yet, even as LeBron and Jennifer
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Lopez and Ben Affleck and all the rest of them and Matt Damon and the mayor of Los Angeles all
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partied at the Super Bowl in a crowd of 75,000 revelers, all without masks, children in the city
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are currently sitting in classrooms fully masked. A festival of hypocrisy, like I said.
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And we haven't even made it to the halftime show. Halftime, sponsored by the AARP, featured
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Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and 50 Cent, and also Mary J. Blige because they knew they had to
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throw a woman in there for appearances sake. But all of these men are in their 40s and 50s. All
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were wheeled out of their retirement homes to perform their hit songs from back when they were
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relevant and to embarrass millennials with children like myself by forcing us to admit to our kids that
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we used to listen to this kind of stuff. The timing of this performance was interesting, though.
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Because here are Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem on the biggest entertainment platform in the world
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performing to universal acclaim and adulation. This is happening after three weeks of the left
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insisting that Joe Rogan shouldn't have a platform anymore because he said bad words a long time ago.
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Some might point out that Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem also said bad words a long time ago
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and still say bad words today, in fact. Not long before Joe Rogan began making edgy jokes on his
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podcast, Eminem was rapping about killing gay people. He did that for like 10 years. He dedicated
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like three albums to it. Yet he's allowed to have his platform, even the biggest platform.
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And he's allowed to stay on Spotify without objection. By the way, all these guys are on
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Spotify. When's the last time any other artist said I'm pulling my music from Spotify until Eminem
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has taken off. But they're allowed to do this because in recent years, especially Eminem,
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he's begun making his own payments on the woke altar. Like this, at the conclusion of the
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performance, Eminem dramatically took a knee. Another payment was made. The media afterwards
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hailed the move congratulating the rapper for kneeling to honor Colin Kaepernick. Now,
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you notice how they're not even pretending that the knee thing has anything to do with police
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brutality anymore. Not even pretending. All the headlines are saying he was kneeling to honor
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Colin Kaepernick. Now that's why they do it. To honor a multi-millionaire Nike brand ambassador
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and media personality. It's a totally empty gesture and always was, of course, like everything else from
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the left. Thus, in its own way, I suppose, a fitting tribute. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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Well, we're in for a big battle over that Supreme Court vacancy. And as you know, Justice Breyer
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recently renounced his retirement, handing Joe Biden the opportunity to get the most liberal person
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that he can find to fill a seat. What you may not know, however, is that there was a lot of money,
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money from unnamed sources put into getting Justice Breyer to retire in the first place.
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Our friends over at the Judicial Crisis Network are raising the alarm about the role those dark money
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groups are playing in the effort to get a radical appointed to the Supreme Court. At the very top
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is a group called Arabella Advisors. They fund a lot of far left groups, including Demand Justice.
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The New York Post reported that Demand Justice ran a bullying campaign against Justice Breyer,
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using their considerable resources to force him into retirement. They even went so far as to drive
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a mobile billboard around the Supreme Court that said, Breyer, retire. It's time for a black woman
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Supreme Court justice. There's no time to waste. And it worked. Now they're pouring a ton of money
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into getting a radical liberal Supreme Court nominee who will serve as a rubber stamp for their unpopular
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far left agenda. The Judicial Crisis Network is calling them out with a big ad campaign designed to
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shine a light on liberal dark money groups and their plans to transform America. You can find out
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more on Twitter at at judicialnetwork or at judicialnetwork.com. All right. I would be remiss for
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mentioning it is Valentine's Day as well. Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate, which is
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everybody begrudgingly. Here's the thing about Valentine's Day. I'm speaking as a married man of 10
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years and also as a love guru of sorts. It is the ultimate catch-22 for men because on the one hand,
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you know, you can't do nothing for Valentine's Day. I would hope that most men know this,
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that you don't want to fall into the trap. You can't literally ignore the day. Even if you have
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a wife like I do who says that, well, I don't care about Valentine's Day. I would hope, and maybe
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there's some younger guys out there who just got married and you're not as familiar. You don't know
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how this works. And you might make the mistake. Your wife might say, I don't really care about
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Valentine's Day. And then so February 14th comes along and you don't do anything because she said
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she doesn't care about it. But here's the thing. You make that mistake only once in your life.
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So even if you have, you know, wives who basically don't care that much,
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you can only take that indifference so far. You can only depend on it so much. But on the other
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hand, you can't actually try to be sincerely romantic on Valentine's Day because there's no
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way to do that without seeming corny and forced. It's like, I don't know, it's like wearing the band's
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t-shirt to their own concert. It's too sort of on the nose. Also, if you aren't romantic any other
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time of the year, you can't try it on Valentine's Day without it being totally transparent.
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And if you are romantic other times, then there's no reason to go heavy on the Valentine's Day stuff.
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So this is what you're left with. Kind of, you can't do nothing, but you can't do too much.
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And that's why Valentine's Day is the ultimate women's holiday, really. You know a woman came
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up with it because they love putting men in these kinds of situations. It's entrapment,
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basically. That's what the whole day is. And I'm just going to hope my wife doesn't listen to the
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show today and hear this part. But here's the thing. Everything I'm saying right now,
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I got a bunch of snitches in the audience. And every time I talk about any story involving my
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wife, people will go on Twitter. Did you hear what Matt said today? Go listen to the show and
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they'll give her the timestamps and everything. There are moles in the Sweet Baby Gang. I'm going
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to find you people out and ban you from the show. All right. So, what's that? Oh, yeah. I was told
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to, that I was given, okay. You know, the control room, they know how much I love surprises,
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especially holiday themed surprises, which is what I'm thinking this is. So I was given this
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card, I guess, and told to open it. Oh, there's a box with it, too. Okay. All right. Oh, here we go.
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North Pole Pals. Oh, it's a chocolate walrus. Now, see, that actually is a nice surprise. I don't even
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know they made those. It's not Valentine's Day themed. It's more of a Christmas thing, but that's
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nice. That's good. Like Johnny the Walrus. It harkens back to Johnny the Walrus, which is my
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children's book. If you've never heard me mention that before, go to johnnythewalrus.com.
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You're from your loyal producer, McKenna. I'll always circle back for you. This is from,
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and there we got Jen Psaki there, and it's signed by everyone. That's very nice.
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Thanks, everybody. Thanks for that. I'm crying. My gratitude, as you know, is all internal. I feel
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a lot of gratitude for this gift, but I feel it inside. I can't express it outwardly. But I do
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like the chocolate, though. Go to johnnythewalrus.com. All right. So a couple of Super Bowl ads that I want
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to play, well, we'll play just parts of them because, you know, not worth playing the entire
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thing. This to me was the, well, we'll start with this. This is clip eight. So this is Google
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put out, I think they probably won the trophy. Los Angeles, they won the trophy for winning the
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Super Bowl. But the trophy for wokest ad, I think, has to go to Google because they put out an ad
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advertising their new phone, I guess, which has great camera technology, which is fine because
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everybody wants. I guess the camera, the cameras on the phones are never good enough. I think
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that's like what we have now is probably enough. It kind of, it captures the scene well enough.
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We got to keep improving the cameras. So they put out an ad that advertises that. But in the
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context of the ad, they basically accused cameras, other cameras, cameras before this one of being
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racist. So let's, I'll probably have to narrate some of this because it's mostly visual, but let's,
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let's play this. So that's historically camera technology hasn't accurately represented dark
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Every single yearbook photo of mine has been terribly shot since I was a kid. I always show
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up as too dark or shiny. Cause if you love me, you love all of me. Introducing real tone
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on Google Pixel 6. And there we go. I think that's, is that Lizzo in the background singing
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there? I think it is. You know, it's a problem. You know, we talk about Lizzo too much on the
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show and I can actually identify one of her songs. I can identify her voice. That's a problem.
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All right. So there's the, basically the ad and a lot of, and then we see pictures, a lot of non-white
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people and they're nice. Oh, there's Lizzo there. There she is. Everyone deserves to be seen as they
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truly are. Um, so the point is that, uh, that previous to this cameras were systemically racist
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and you were not able to take a picture of a non-white person. All the picture look, pictures look bad
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and Google is fixing that now. Now here's the thing. Um, if there's a, uh, if, if in the past
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cameras, you know, the lighting with, with the camera technology wasn't good or that you could
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just advertise that you could, you could make that point in your ad and it would be fine, but
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everything has to be framed in a racial context if it can be. And it turns out that everything can
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be, they'll find a way to do it. And so even this ad for a camera,
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is, uh, is, is framed in a racial context, which by the way, um, if there's some idea
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that there's like white privilege when it comes to cameras and pictures, I look horrible. I look
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like a ghost in every picture that's ever been taken of me. I look, I look dead. I look like I've
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been dead and in the ground for five days and every single picture taken of me, which you might point
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out. I look like that in real life, but, but I look, I look even, even worse in the pictures.
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Um, so if you're white, then you end up looking kind of more pale in pictures. Oftentimes I guess
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if you're black, oftentimes you end up looking darker in pictures. So I think that just has
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to do with lighting and you could probably solve a lot of those problems just by positioning your
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camera differently and making sure the lighting is better. Just a thought, but the creepiest ad I
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think was, uh, the company formerly known as Facebook, which is now meta. And, uh, they put
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out this ad for their virtual reality, their new virtual reality feature, which isn't even a feature
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that's going to become, this is their vision. They want, uh, they want the internet to become,
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they want the virtual reality, the metaverse to replace the internet. And here's their ad for it.
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Let's put this up here. It's kind of hard to understand what's happening in this ad,
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but this looks to be like a, like, you know, a Chuck E. Cheese knockoff and you've got those
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animatronic animals and the Chuck E. Cheese shuts down because all the Chuck E. Cheeses are shutting
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down. It's kind of sad. The animatronic animals are, they send them to a pawn shop and kind of
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repurpose them in a mini golf course. That's not, now he's just thrown, now they're going to throw
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them away because they don't need the animatronic animals anymore. And then he's rescued and someone
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sees the animatronic animal and puts the VR headset on him. And now he has, now he is reborn. He has a
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new life now in the metaverse where nobody has any legs. You are a disembodied half husk of a,
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of a person in the metaverse. Old friends, new fun. Meta quest two. Okay. I don't know exactly what
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the point is in that ad is, but I think what they're trying to say, if I were to interpret it,
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it seems like they're saying that we as human beings are like these useless, old, outdated,
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animatronic toys. And now we need the metaverse to be reborn and to be given a new purpose in life.
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That's not creepy at all, is it? No. All right. Let's move to this. Before the Superbowl,
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Joe Biden wandered into an interview with NBC and a couple of questions were thrown his way. Not very
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many. You know, he doesn't sit down for very long interviews these days and they keep the questions
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very simple and very easy. And he still finds a way to sound incoherent in answering them. So first
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he's asked about masking and here's his answer to that. You were interviewed a year ago about the
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Superbowl and you expressed hope that come this year, that they'd be able to fill the stands again
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with people. And that apparently is going to be the case. However, many of those people won't be
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wearing masks despite the local law in Los Angeles. What is your message to people who want desperately
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for this to be over and to be able to resume the lives that they remember? Well, look,
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I love how people talk about personal freedom. If you're exercising personal freedom, put someone
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else in jeopardy, their health in jeopardy. I don't consider that being very dammit freedom.
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It's about moving in a direction you know is likely to diminish the prospects that this virus
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continues to spread. And so I think people should get the shots. We know the shots work. We know they
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work for the variants that are available or that we are dealing with now. We know we have so many
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more tools at our disposal to prevent death and prevent serious illness. And I just think they
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should be careful. And if they're not careful for themselves, at least think of their children.
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Think of their families. Kind of hard to understand what he's even trying to say there
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as he continues to fall apart more and more each day. But think of the children, he says.
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Think of the children. Yeah, well, the children now, as we covered, children are the only ones that have
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to wear masks anymore, at least in the worst places in America. Now, if you're not in one of the worst
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places in America, hopefully even your kids don't have to wear them anymore. But in all of the worst
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cities in America, children are the only ones that have to wear it. So think about them. Yeah, we
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should think about them. Think about their mental and psychological well-being. Think about their
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developmental well-being as well. Maybe that's something we should take into consideration.
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The conversation continued. And now Lester Holt asks Joe Biden about the claims of racism in the NFL.
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And if you thought his answer on masking was kind of incoherent and rambling and hard to understand,
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well, get a load of this. Once again, Super Bowl, another controversy over the NFL, this about
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alleged racial hiring practices. Do you think the NFL, because of its broad influence,
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should be held to a higher standard when it comes to issues like this?
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Well, I think it should be held to a reasonable standard. And, you know, the commissioner pointed
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out they haven't lived up to what they committed to. They haven't lived up to being open about hiring
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more minorities to run teams. And whether or not, you know, Goodell says they're going to take a look
00:24:45.060
at what, whether they can meet the standard. And the standard was set by, you know, someone who said
00:24:52.920
this is something we should do. Think about it. It's, I think it's the whole idea that a league
00:25:00.120
that is made up of so many athletes of color, as well as so diverse, that there's not enough
00:25:10.640
African-American qualified coaches to quote, to manage these NFL teams. It just seems to me that
00:25:18.500
it's a standard that, that they'd want to live up to. I don't know if it's not a requirement of law,
00:25:23.000
but it's a requirement, I think of some just generic decency. Some what? Some, did he say
00:25:29.680
generic decency? Genetic decency? What did he say? My favorite part of that answer was when he said
00:25:36.000
another inspiring moment from Joe Biden. He said, the standard was set by someone who said this is
00:25:41.680
something we should do. Oh, well, okay. Well, never. Okay. Well, if it was set by someone who said
00:25:47.860
this is something we should do, then how, how can anyone object? I mean, it's someone said
00:25:54.140
that we should do it. So we should do it. You know, I don't know if I really agree with this
00:26:01.020
standard. It doesn't make a lot of sense. Hey, listen, man, this standard was set by someone
00:26:06.100
who said this is something we should do. Oh, well, okay. Cause no, I, I thought the standard was set
00:26:13.360
by someone who said we shouldn't do it. In which case we shouldn't do it. Cause then even the person
00:26:16.820
who set the standard thinks we should, but if the person who set the standard thinks we should do
00:26:19.800
it, then who are we to not obey the standard? I love you. Joe Biden. It's always fun watching it
00:26:27.000
because you can tell in the middle of a sentence when he'll give up on a sentence in the middle of
00:26:32.220
it. And he'll kind of, you can tell in the, in that sentence, you could almost, you could see kind
00:26:37.820
of the, the, the thought bubble and read it. Cause he starts saying, he starts speaking and he goes,
00:26:42.280
the standard was set by someone who, and then right at that moment in his head, he's freaking
00:26:47.520
out. Cause he doesn't know where he's going with this sentence. And he realizes that he doesn't
00:26:51.160
know who set the standard or what standard they're even talking about. So he just throws some words
00:26:55.180
in to, to get out of that sentence and bail out. And then he resets and he always resets with a
00:26:59.620
rejoinder. Like, think about it or listen, or come on. Anytime one of those phrases are used
00:27:05.780
when Joe Biden is speaking, think about it, listen, or come on. It means that what came right
00:27:10.440
before that made no sense at all. And it was just his way of resetting and trying to start over
00:27:15.280
again. So it's always a lot of fun, but we know that, um, yeah, there's a lot of racism in the NFL.
00:27:21.560
I mean, they, they, uh, uh, because NFL teams, as we've covered 60% of the league is, is, uh, made
00:27:30.720
up of black athletes, even though black people only count for 13% of the population. And if you were
00:27:36.440
to, to narrow that down to black men, it's probably, you know, I don't know, five or 6% or something.
00:27:40.440
Um, and yet they account for, for, for 60% of, of the NFL, of the players in the NFL. And they
00:27:47.800
comprise the majority of most positions, right? And, and even positions where they were underrepresented
00:27:54.720
historically, uh, now even that is changing, like in quarterback. I mean, many of the, the,
00:28:00.500
the most exciting young talented, um, quarterbacks coming into the league now are black. So you look
00:28:11.440
at that and you think, well, well, it seems like the NFL, basically their strategy of the strategy
00:28:18.620
of most teams is to put the best person for the job into each position. Now, a lot of teams are very
00:28:26.380
bad at making that analysis. Okay. If you're a fan in Cleveland or Detroit or Jacksonville,
00:28:33.840
uh, or Washington DC or Philly or New York or Dallas, you know, that, that oftentimes teams
00:28:39.540
are not very good at actually finding out who the best player is, but that is what they're trying
00:28:43.360
to do. All evidence points to that. And that's how you end up with 60% of the league is black.
00:28:49.380
And yet we're told that in the one specific area of head coach, there are teams saying that,
00:28:58.500
no, no, no, I don't, even if this person, it would be, would be the best coach and he would lead us to
00:29:03.480
five Superbowls in a row. I don't want him cause he's black. That's the theory. That's the theory of
00:29:09.780
the case is that that's what's happening. That there are teams who are choosing to forfeit victories
00:29:17.520
and Superbowls and therefore money because they don't want to put qualified black head coaches
00:29:25.220
in that position, but don't put qualified black people in every other position on the team.
00:29:29.940
It's just total nonsense. Absolute nonsense. All right. Um, on ABC on Sunday, Nancy Pelosi
00:29:37.100
put the nail basically in the coffin of the, uh, defund the police movement. Let's listen to that.
00:29:43.820
The other thing that's weighing on people right now is rising crime. Uh, and there appear to be
00:29:49.180
some divisions among Democrats about how to handle it. Your colleague, Karen Bass running for mayor
00:29:53.320
of Los Angeles is trying to increase the police force in LA. Corey Bush, Congresswoman from Missouri
00:29:58.540
is saying it's time to defund the police. He's sticking by that. You're the speaker. How do you
00:30:02.960
think Democrats should address rising crime? Well, with all the respect in the world for Corey
00:30:06.640
Bush, that is not the position of the democratic party, community safety to protect and defend
00:30:13.740
in every way is our oath of office. And I have sympathy. I couldn't, we're all concerned about
00:30:20.920
mistreatment of people. And that's why Karen Bass had the justice in policing act. And we would
00:30:26.740
hope to get some of that done, whether it's no knock or Joe cold or some of those issues,
00:30:32.640
even if we can't get it all done, but the, but make no mistake, community safety is our responsibility.
00:30:40.640
And, uh, I, I quote one of my colleagues from New York, which Richard Torres, a brand new member
00:30:47.640
of Congress way on the left, uh, saying that if on the police is dead, that causes a concern
00:30:55.640
concern with a few in our caucus, but public safety is our responsibility. And I support
00:31:02.940
what Karen Bass is doing and mayor Adams of, of New York. Um, it's pretty good walrus by
00:31:09.880
the way, far as walruses go. Yeah. Don't listen to anything she said. I know, I know I certainly
00:31:15.640
wasn't, uh, what we can't let the Democrats do just like with, with masking, with lockdowns
00:31:22.980
and everything else chain after all the damage has been done, change courses, you know, make a,
00:31:31.600
make a sharp right turn in this case. And not that far, right, but just, you know, away from,
00:31:38.860
away from the ledge slightly. And then, um, and then what expect us to say bygones be bygones.
00:31:46.200
All is forgiven. Yeah, they're, they're abandoning the defund the police movement. Um, even though
00:31:55.200
it's still, you still have people like Cori Bush hanging onto it, who Nancy Pelosi professes to
00:31:59.580
have utmost respect for. No, she doesn't. No one has respect for Cori Bush. Why would you? There's
00:32:04.840
nothing, there's absolutely nothing respectable about her. She's a horrible scumbag. Um, but
00:32:10.820
now they're going to, they're, they're getting away from it after, after years of paying lip service
00:32:18.940
to the defund the police movement, encouraging it and actually defunding the police in some of these,
00:32:23.240
um, in some of these cities. Um, and where the police were not actively defunded, they've still
00:32:30.280
been, their effect has been mitigated. They've been undermined. So the defund the police movement
00:32:37.040
may have not led to, uh, it may not have successfully led to what, what these people
00:32:42.400
wanted, which was to actually defund the police all across the country. There were some of that,
00:32:46.780
but where, where they couldn't defund the police instead, they just undermined the police as much
00:32:52.300
as they possibly could both through rhetoric and also by putting these Soros funded DAs in there
00:32:58.820
who, um, every time the police capture a bad guy and send them over to the court system,
00:33:03.780
the court system says, Oh, thanks for doing that. And then just tosses them back out the
00:33:07.120
door onto the street again. And now after all it's been done for years, um, many lives lost
00:33:14.400
because of it, chaos and anarchy in our streets because of it, even more chaos and anarchy.
00:33:20.880
Now they want to say, Oh, nevermind. We're not going to do that. Change our minds.
00:33:26.180
Just like forcing people to wear masks for years, shutting down business. Nevermind. We,
00:33:30.480
the facts on the ground have changed. So we, we're going to, we're going to change with them.
00:33:34.960
No, nothing changed. This was always a horrible idea. It was never anything but horrible. It was
00:33:42.280
always going to cause profound damage. It was meant to, and it did. And it's too late now to say,
00:33:48.140
nevermind. Cause that damage has been done. All right. I want to play this for you also. Now this
00:33:54.020
is another one. I feel like this, uh, in this, in this episode, the people watching it on video are
00:33:59.480
experiencing some privilege because there's been a few, a few different things that don't
00:34:03.560
translate as well to audio, but I've got to play this because it's just, it's too good. Um,
00:34:08.420
Michelle Wu, who's the mayor of Boston decided to do a little Instagram live session a couple of days
00:34:15.000
ago. And, uh, that's always risky, you know, because you're live on the air and you're,
00:34:22.820
you're opening yourself up to questions and you don't know what questions are going to be asked.
00:34:27.820
Um, we do this. So we have all access live here. If you become a daily wire member, you get,
00:34:32.400
you get access to all access live and where we sit down and we're live and we're just answering any
00:34:37.000
questions that come up. Right? So this is what she did. Only a little bit of a riskier proposition
00:34:42.580
because she's on, on Instagram and she's sitting there. Um, I guess expecting that there'd be a whole
00:34:48.680
bunch of softball questions. That's not how it turned out. So just let's play some of this and
00:34:55.160
we'll, so here she is. Go ahead and play this. Um, she's unable to join.
00:35:03.840
Okay. Now she's sitting there looking extremely awkward and you can see in her eyes, the panic
00:35:09.920
setting in and she's trying her best. But every single question is you're ruining the city.
00:35:14.060
In the meantime, I will try to just feel sorry by answering any questions anyone has.
00:35:22.600
She's going to answer any questions anyone has, but she's not answering any of the questions.
00:35:25.060
I see a lot of friends who, uh, have different, oh, happy new year. Yes. Year of the Tiger.
00:35:34.760
All the other questions are you're ruining the city. You're horrible. End the mask mandates.
00:35:38.560
When will you lift the mandates? That's actually a fair question. She could answer that.
00:35:41.040
When will you lift the, we're checking with the Congresswoman's team and if, if it comes
00:35:46.520
down to it, I will log out and log my kid. Unmask our kids. Doesn't want to answer that.
00:35:52.760
You almost feel sorry for her. Almost, almost watching this. End the mandates. Recall her.
00:36:00.520
Just every single comment. Why don't you care about your people? Fair question. Fair question.
00:36:05.660
See, now she's just sitting there. She's giving up. She's looking for her way out.
00:36:11.740
What's my favorite thing about Boston Winter? Um, I, I, I love snow. I know.
00:36:20.940
Here's what, this is why I wanted to play that entire thing. Because she sits down for Instagram
00:36:27.940
live, assuming that the internet will be nice to her. And that's mistake number one. Never assume
00:36:32.680
the internet will be nice to you, especially when you are a, uh, an incompetent, tyrannical mayor
00:36:37.660
who's ruined your city. You definitely don't want to assume it then. Um, but she thinks you get a
00:36:43.660
bunch of softball questions. She doesn't. And so all the questions are, why are you ruining the city?
00:36:48.220
What are you doing is horrible. When will you lift the mandates? All the comments and questions
00:36:52.400
are fair, but of course she doesn't want to engage with any of those. And then at the very end,
00:36:55.660
she finally gets a softball question, the kind that she was hoping to get, which is what's your
00:37:02.580
favorite thing about winter? Because by the way, you know, that when this started and it was going
00:37:07.940
the wrong way, they, they were scrambling on the other side. They were getting staffers on Instagram
00:37:12.660
live to throw out the softballs. And so one of the staffers, they're in the next room and they type
00:37:17.380
out the softball question. What's your favorite thing about winter mayor? And she can't even answer
00:37:23.020
that. Even that she can't answer it. You're the mayor of Boston. And someone says, what's your
00:37:28.520
favorite thing about winter? Um, uh, dude, I like the snow. Even that was too hard for her.
00:37:38.320
I swear that the most unimpressive people in the country become politicians, the most unimpressive.
00:37:43.900
All right. One last thing. Let's just throw this up on the screen. This is a tweet from
00:37:49.040
Noam Scheiber, who is a labor reporter at the New York times. And you know, this is my favorite
00:37:57.040
genre of tweet. I love these. Um, this is the made up, uh, kids story. That's supposed to have
00:38:03.500
some kind of political message. So he says, needs eight year old. What, who do you want to win? The
00:38:08.980
bangles or the Rams? Eight year old. What difference does it make? It's not like the
00:38:14.280
winter is going to solve climate change. Superbowl weekend in the Scheiber Sullivan household got
00:38:20.300
heavy real quick. Noam says. I, you just knew of course he hyphenates it. You knew that was
00:38:27.800
going to happen. Didn't you? Of course it's the Scheiber Sullivan house. Um, now totally made
00:38:34.140
up story. Obviously. Okay. No, no eight year old's going to respond that way. Hey, you want
00:38:39.580
to watch the game, son? Who do you think is going to win? What, what's the point? There's
00:38:43.220
climate change, systemic racism, dad. I just, I just can't, I just don't care. You know,
00:38:51.740
it's made up, but what's the point of the made up story? If this, if this actually happened
00:38:57.680
in real life, then that would mean that Noam Scheiber is a horrible father who is psychologically
00:39:05.640
tormenting his children to the point that his eight year old is already a joyless, empty
00:39:12.160
husk of a person who, who, who's, who just sits around fretting about climate change instead
00:39:17.180
of wanting to watch a football game. So you're making up a story where if the story is true,
00:39:23.940
that's the moral of the story. You're trying to convince people that you psychologically torment
00:39:29.820
and abuse your kids, which by the way, Noam, I believe that you do. So trust me, I believe you.
00:39:36.580
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leave a video comment. Let's see what we have here. Let's go to clip 11.
00:41:03.280
Hey, Matt Walsh. So I just saw your video of the teacher showing the reaction of her students when
00:41:12.200
she told them they don't have to wear masks anymore. I thought it was very interesting because I'm also
00:41:16.600
a teacher in Nevada. Yesterday when I told my students they don't have to wear their mask
00:41:22.100
anymore, I got a very mixed reaction. Half of my class was like the teacher in the video where they
00:41:27.980
were very excited and ready to take the mask off. I had kids wanting to burn their mask basically.
00:41:34.580
But then I had some students who were had a very different reaction. A lot of them were afraid to
00:41:41.120
take off the mask because they kept asking if Corona was going to get them now because their parents
00:41:46.580
instilled this fear in them. And then I had several girls especially afraid to take the mask off
00:41:53.620
because they didn't want to show their face. They were too afraid to show their face because
00:41:59.220
they didn't want people to make fun of the way that they looked. This was absolutely heartbreaking
00:42:03.960
to me. And it wasn't just one or two girls. It was multiple girls in my class who had this concern.
00:42:11.900
And it just really showed me the psychological trauma that these masks have had on children.
00:42:17.780
Oh, and of course, sweet baby gang for life. Yeah, I thought about that. Thanks for that story. I mean, it's
00:42:25.520
it is horrifying and really sad. But I thought about that when we played the clip on Friday that she's referencing
00:42:32.500
of the kids in elementary school that they're told mask mandate is going to be lifted and they and they are
00:42:38.360
celebrating joyously. And I said, even that video, it's it's great to see that the kids are happy and that they
00:42:46.820
don't have to wear the stupid masks anymore. So it's a good video in that sense. But it's also a terrible
00:42:51.820
video because it shows what these kids have been subjected to for two years that now they're so
00:42:57.100
excited to be able to take the masks off. But then I also thought to myself, you know, an even worse
00:43:01.940
version of that video is one where the kids are told, hey, you can take the masks off and they don't
00:43:07.860
care or even they're they don't want to. They're afraid to take it off, which based on that comment,
00:43:14.880
and I'm sure there are many more, you know, many, many other teachers and parents who could
00:43:19.120
who have similar stories. A lot of kids are in that boat. There are you know, it's bad enough to
00:43:26.180
have kids who have been forced to wear the mask for two years and they've and they've been resisting
00:43:31.260
it this entire time and they've hated it this entire time and they're desperate to take the damn
00:43:35.840
thing off. That's that's bad. The even worse scenario would be the kids who have been wearing
00:43:42.720
it this entire time and don't hate it anymore and actually are desperate to keep it on because they've
00:43:48.780
been convinced by the conditioning, the brainwashing that if they take the mask off and walk outside their
00:43:55.540
house, they're going to die. And for those kids, I have to believe that the damage can be undone,
00:44:04.580
that that it could be repaired some way. But it's not going to be an easy fix.
00:44:10.540
You know, when you condition young children to be afraid of fresh air, to see everyone around them
00:44:17.760
as physical threats to them, as as biological weapons, you know, walking biological weapons.
00:44:23.880
When you condition kids to see the world that way and see each other that way.
00:44:27.960
Um, it that's not, it's not, it's not an easy thing to reverse put that way. All right. One more
00:44:35.800
comment. Uh, so let's play clip 12. Hey Matt, huge fan of the show. Long time listener. Um, however,
00:44:44.320
I do remember the day I was listening and you made that joke about us being sweet babies and you being
00:44:50.060
sweet daddy. And I remember thinking to myself, wow, I hope this joke doesn't stick. And maybe this
00:44:56.780
get me banned from the show, but you know what? I don't care because every day we have to listen
00:45:01.080
to videos of people calling you daddy and that's your fault. You have made this bed, sir. And now
00:45:07.120
we all have to lie in it. So yes, the sweet baby gang does truly seem to be for life.
00:45:13.440
First of all, how dare you say sweet baby gang for life after that propaganda and victim blaming,
00:45:24.740
victim blaming me. I, I might've said the sweet daddy walls thing. Okay. I might've said it,
00:45:31.300
but everybody should know you don't, you don't follow every order given to you, even in a cult.
00:45:36.400
So that's not just fault. Listen, just following orders is never an acceptable moral excuse.
00:45:43.440
There are times when you should know better. And, and this was one of those times. So I,
00:45:49.100
I take zero responsibility for it or for anything else in my life.
00:45:54.380
Well, thanks for the comment. Uh, you're banned from the show. All right. A couple of written comments
00:45:57.940
here. Um, KL says, Matt, I like you, but your subway slander has gotten out of hand. Please ban me
00:46:05.460
from the show. Okay. There's a lot of, it's a, a lot of people getting banned. You're getting banned
00:46:08.660
also. Uh, yeah, we, this is a conversation we had on Twitter yesterday about the, uh, the best
00:46:12.960
sandwich chains in America and the official ranking, by the way, and this is important for you to know
00:46:17.800
this, this is of, of sandwich chains. So I don't want anyone, I don't need any, any hipster to tell
00:46:23.360
me, Oh, but my local deli is better. I'm not talking about your local deli. I'm talking about
00:46:27.040
sandwich chains and the ranking goes like this. Number one is Jersey Mike's. Number two is
00:46:32.740
firehouse subs. Number three is pot bellies. Number four. Um, and this, and number four,
00:46:39.540
this is usually where we would put Quiznos, but Quiznos basically doesn't exist anymore. Our
00:46:43.240
RIP. And so instead we're putting Jimmy John's there. Number five is Arby's. Number six is
00:46:49.420
like a, an old, uh, lukewarm egg salad sandwich from the gas station. And then number seven is
00:46:57.420
Subway way at the bottom because Subway, the only advantage that Subway has, and the only reason
00:47:02.580
that it exists and that it's as powerful as it is, is that the stuff is really cheap, but it's not even
00:47:08.480
as cheap as it used to be. I mean, I can remember going back, back in the day, you go into Subway
00:47:12.180
and remember $5 a foot long. It wasn't all that long ago. Now that now they're trying to get like
00:47:16.860
eight or $9 out of you for a foot long sub with stale bread, disgusting, spoiled meat,
00:47:26.080
wilted lettuce and, and, and, you know, pickles and olives that have been sitting there for days.
00:47:35.080
Literally any sandwich chain is better than Subway. And on top of that, they all smell bad.
00:47:40.420
Every, that's the worst thing about it is you, um, you, you walk into Subway and it has this weird,
00:47:47.420
like, it's hard to even put your, your finger on it exactly what it is. And if you did find out what
00:47:52.680
it is, I'm not sure you'd want to put your finger on it, but it's this weird kind of almost like
00:47:57.220
disturbing, unsettling smell. And you can never quite figure out what it is exactly. And I've heard
00:48:02.880
people tell me, Oh, it's the bread baking. No, I know what bread baking smells like. There's,
00:48:07.520
there's nothing better. There's no better smell in the world than fresh baked bread. That is not
00:48:12.320
the Subway smell. I don't know what it is, but all, they all smell bad. They taste bad. They're
00:48:17.420
terrible. The customer service is always bad everywhere, every single Subway, but I'll still
00:48:25.380
eat it. Um, what else do we got? Uh, let's see. There's one other here. I want to, this is from
00:48:30.760
Frederick. It says, it's funny when the gender fluids say I use they, them pronouns, but actually they
00:48:35.080
don't use them at all. No, they use I, me pronouns like everybody else, but everybody, everyone else
00:48:40.060
has to use they, them for them. So to be accurate, it should be, I want everybody to use they, them
00:48:44.700
pronouns for me. And that does have a different ring to it. It sounds a lot more demanding. If you
00:48:49.020
ask me, that's a very good point. And it speaks to what I talk about all the time with the pronouns,
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which is someone is assigning words to you that you have to use. They are telling you how you have to
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perceive them and how you have to speak about them when they're not even present. Because most
00:49:05.200
of the time, most of the time when you're using a pronoun about somebody, it's because they're not
00:49:08.760
there. You know, you're not, you're not going to point to a guy and say him. Usually if he's
00:49:12.960
sitting right there, you're just going to refer to him by his name. Um, so that is, is already a big
00:49:18.100
problem and that's just not how language works. It doesn't work that way, but actually it's worse
00:49:22.340
than even you have made it out to be. Because actually if they, them is their pronoun, allegedly,
00:49:29.700
then the pronouns they should be using in reference to themselves when they're speaking
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should be we, us. If we're supposed to talk about them as if they're multiple people,
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then they should be doing the same. But of course, nobody does that because you'd sound like a lunatic.
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You'd sound like a schizophrenic lunatic. If you did that, if you walked around and referred to
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yourself as we and us, um, nobody would take you seriously. They would assume that you're insane.
00:49:57.960
Exactly. So when they talk about themselves, they use a, um, a singular, they talk about themselves
00:50:07.420
as if they're a single person, I and me. But when we refer to them, we have to pretend that they're
00:50:12.780
multiple people. Again, insane, and no one should have to do it. And no one should ever play along
00:50:19.100
with any of this. The opening weekend of our first original production shut-in was a major
00:50:23.640
success. Not only did the, did, uh, our premiere reach over half a million views, but the reviews
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are in and shut-in has a critic score of a hundred percent. There's a shocker and an audience score
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of 98% of Rotten Tomatoes. Only a shocker because you figure the critics would not be able to help
00:50:36.500
themselves, but give it a negative review. Uh, but, uh, you know, everyone seems to agree.
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It's a good movie. IMDb is eight out of 10. That's huge also because making a film,
00:50:45.040
let alone a good one is never easy, but we did it. We produced a film and it's really
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first original production, but it will not be our last. We also released the new trailer
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00:51:10.420
pronounce it. It's the, the princess bride guy. How do you pronounce his last name?
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You, you, Louis, you was ill west, ill way. Anyway, comes out in a few weeks and tear
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daily cancellation. There was a time when CNN host Van Jones could have been considered one of the
00:52:30.540
nuttiest and most radical leftists in America. But these days, when the cable news landscape features
00:52:35.820
luminaries like Joy Reid, Jones often gets lost in the progressive shuffle. Unfortunately, he still has
00:52:41.000
his moments, no doubt, like when he wept for tears of joy after CNN declared Joe Biden the winner of
00:52:45.300
the 2020 election, declaring that somehow it's easier to be a parent and easier to be a dad now
00:52:51.060
with Trump out of office. But moments like that have been fewer and farther between for Van. Even
00:52:55.780
more troubling, there have actually been occasions in recent years where he's said things that seem
00:53:01.060
damn near lucid, like teetering dangerously close to the edge of sanity. This is a real problem for his
00:53:07.720
brand, which may explain the latest news. Speaking of being a parent, Van Jones has announced that he
00:53:13.220
welcomed a new baby into the world this month. His third child after his first two that he had
00:53:18.940
with his ex-wife, who he divorced back in 2018. But he's trying something a little bit different for
00:53:23.740
the third installment. In a statement to People Magazine, Van said, after the COVID lockdown, I got
00:53:28.740
clear that I wanted another kid. I discovered that my friend Noemi also wanted a baby. So we decided to
00:53:34.780
join forces and become conscious co-parents. It's a concept that I hope more people will explore and
00:53:40.540
consider. This month, we welcome to Earth a baby girl whom we will raise as co-parenting partners.
00:53:46.180
This is a special time for our families. I feel grateful, joyful, and blessed as we create a safe
00:53:50.580
and loving environment for this blessed young soul. I respectfully ask for privacy. Thank you for all
00:53:56.200
the love and support. Yes, he asks for privacy. Because when you want privacy, you send a statement to
00:54:02.200
People Magazine. Everyone knows that. I personally send People Magazine my personal itinerary every
00:54:08.100
single day with a point-by-point explanation of everything I'll do and everywhere I'll be,
00:54:12.480
along with a note that I just want privacy. And then they email me back every day saying,
00:54:17.020
who are you exactly? More to the point, Van Jones said that he was bored during the COVID lockdowns
00:54:22.820
and he decided he wanted another kid. Unfortunately, he isn't married to a woman at the moment, but no matter,
00:54:27.260
he decides to team up with a platonic friend and have a child as conscious co-parents. And more
00:54:34.140
people should explore and consider this option, he says. Now, respecting his request, I did explore
00:54:39.820
the option myself and I was able to conclude my exploration after about 12 seconds because that's
00:54:45.400
how long it takes to analyze and consider shallow, vapid like this. You notice how increasingly
00:54:52.260
the word conscious is being used as a stand-in for self-centered. First, Gwyneth Paltrow introduced us
00:54:59.880
to conscious uncoupling, otherwise known as divorce. She and her husband explained that they wanted to end
00:55:05.040
their relationship so they could focus on themselves more. The decision was conscious, yes, as all decisions
00:55:11.000
are, but their conscious minds were focused on themselves and their own perceived needs and desires
00:55:17.560
rather than on their children or even on each other. It was a selfish uncoupling. And now we have
00:55:24.020
conscious co-parenting or selfish co-parenting. Now, how does this differ from the co-parenting done by
00:55:32.260
a married mother and father? I'm married to my wife and we are very conscious of our children and of the
00:55:38.980
fact that we are parents. We went into parenthood consciously. We've been conscious this whole time.
00:55:45.480
I mean, almost literally. In fact, we've been conscious much more than we'd like to be. Such
00:55:50.980
as today when our boys woke us up at 4.30 in the morning because they decided that it was an hour and
00:55:55.400
a half, that an hour and a half before dawn was a good time to get out of bed and play with their
00:55:59.800
Spider-Man toys. I was very conscious in that moment or half conscious anyway. So what does the
00:56:06.860
conscious qualifier mean here? Well, again, substitute self-centered and it makes more sense.
00:56:12.220
Van Jones has embarked on a journey of self-centered parenting. He is conscious, but mostly conscious
00:56:19.000
of himself. He wanted another kid, but he didn't want to get married. He didn't want to change his
00:56:24.840
lifestyle that much. And he wasn't really worried about what environment would be best for the child.
00:56:29.420
So he decided to enter into this round of parenting as if it was a business arrangement.
00:56:34.040
That's what he wanted to do. That's what was best for him. Self-centered parenting. I mean,
00:56:40.800
he's hardly the first self-centered parent. He's no trailblazer in that regard, but he is the guy
00:56:46.160
who came up with a name for it. And that's the other important point about this. Conscious
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co-parenting is supposed to be the evolved progressive version of traditional parenting. As always,
00:56:57.880
though, the evolved progressive version of an old institution is exactly the same as the old
00:57:03.160
institution, but minus everything that made it special, beautiful, and good. We live in a culture
00:57:08.960
where everything is being sanitized, hollowed out, emptied out, stripped of all of its defining and
00:57:14.440
unique features. Going from regular parenting to conscious co-parenting, it's like melting down
00:57:20.400
Michelangelo's Pieta sculpture and replacing it with some kind of like plastic reconstruction.
00:57:25.500
Now, from a distance, it might look similar to what existed before, but a closer inspection
00:57:30.980
reveals that all of the best things about it have been destroyed. And yet somehow it's supposed
00:57:37.000
to be an improvement. Platonic co-parenting is from a distance on a day-to-day basis, similar to the
00:57:44.100
traditional mode of parenting in that two adults are taking care of a child. The difference, and it's a
00:57:50.120
very big difference, is that the love and devotion between the parents has been removed from the
00:57:56.200
equation. This is quite a problem because that love and devotion and that commitment is the very thing
00:58:02.660
that holds the whole unit together. It's the foundation upon which the family is built. It's the shelter that
00:58:09.320
the children can take refuge under. It's their wall of protection. It's the most important lesson they'll ever
00:58:15.680
learn as kids. Kids need to see what a loving relationship between a man and woman looks like.
00:58:22.920
They need to live with that example every day. And on top of all this, marriages are all kind of,
00:58:29.080
you know, weird in their own way. Sometimes challenging, hopefully often joyful, funny, fun,
00:58:34.780
difficult, intense, complicated, but also simple. There are many things all at once. And that's what gives
00:58:40.380
each family unit its own distinct sort of strangeness. Marriage is not only the essential ingredient of
00:58:46.740
the family, it's also the spice. Now, as I said, it's everything that makes the whole family experience
00:58:52.880
special and good and distinct. The leftist vision is to strip that away, sanitize it, and replace it
00:59:00.480
with something bland and flimsy and boring and useless. Platonic co-parenting. You can hardly utter the
00:59:08.000
phrase without falling asleep. That's how dull and sad it is. And that's why Van Jones is, today,
00:59:15.420
we must say, canceled. That'll do it for today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a
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