Ep. 995 - The Eco Friendly City Of The Future Is A Dystopian Hellscape
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Summary
The powers that be want us all crammed together, eating bugs and hopped up on drugs. Also, Joe Biden prepares to declare monkeypox a public health emergency. Plus, a shocking poll from 1997 reveals just how far we ve fallen with race relations in recent times. And in our daily cancellation, a reality show is under fire for not featuring enough ugly people.
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Today on the mat, we'll show a vision for an eco-friendly city of the future that resembles
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a human termite colony. The powers that be want us all crammed together, eating bugs and hopped
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up on drugs. We'll talk about that today. Also, Joe Biden prepares to declare monkeypox a public
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health emergency, but is it or is it an emergency only for people who engage in certain specific
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types of behavior? Plus, a shocking poll from 1997 reveals just how far we've fallen with race
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relations in recent times. And in our daily cancellation, a reality show is under fire for
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not featuring enough ugly people. Are ugly people the new marginalized minority and favored victim
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group? I certainly hope so. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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You've heard me talk a lot on this show about how important it is to get your kids away from the
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garbage that they're teaching in our public school systems, Marxism, socialism, critical race theory,
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and the trans agenda. Now, there are a lot of ways you can protect your kids from these not-so-secret
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leftist attacks. You can homeschool. You can get them involved in a religious community. You can give
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them the right books to read, like my best-selling children's book, Johnny the Walrus. These things are
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all great, and you should do them, but what if you couldn't? No one likes to talk about it, but we all
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will eventually die. It's just how life works, and the end result is always the same. Some of us,
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however, may die sooner than others, and we need to be prepared for that possibility because if we're not
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prepared, if we haven't taken the necessary steps to shield our kids from aggressive attacks and
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indoctrination attempts coming from the left, then we've left them completely unarmed and unprotected.
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Walsh. Again, go to epicwill.com and use my code Walsh today. The architects of the new world order are
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always searching for ever more efficient ways of containing and controlling and dehumanizing us,
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stripping our lives of beauty, destroying our freedom, and treating us like cattle to be herded and
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used. As we know, the goal is to have us all living in pods, stacked up on top of each other,
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eating bugs, owning nothing, and having no privacy. They seek even to lay claim to our inner lives,
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our consciences. The complete human existence, they believe, is one spent sitting in your rented
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prison bunk, eating your ration of grasshoppers for the day, numbed by psychotropic drugs, while wearing
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your virtual reality headset to attend an endless string of corporate diversity seminars. And millions
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of people are already living a life that comes very close to this utopian ideal, but our overlords
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know that there are still advances yet to be made. New and innovative ways of eating our souls and
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making our lives even drearier and uglier. Enter the crown prince of Saudi Arabia with a concept
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that has been ominously dubbed the land scraper. The Guardian reports,
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the promotional material is striking. Two mirror-encased skyscrapers stretching more than 100 miles across a
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swath of desert and mountain terrain, providing a future home for 9 million people. Is it the ultimate
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in high-density living or a grandiose science fiction fantasy? In short, economists, architects,
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and analysts are not quite sure. So, so extravagant to Saudi Arabia's plan to create an urban utopia
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that even those working on the project known as The Line do not yet know if its scale and scope can
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ever be realized. Skeptics and supporters alike were this week given more insight into the extraordinary
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ambition of the development, the centerpiece of the futuristic Neom site near the Gulf of Acaba,
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when the kingdom's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, outlined central aspects of what he intends to be
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one of the most ambitious urban developments built in modern times. Now, the concept will cost about
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a trillion dollars to build, and the hope is that this idea can be exported to many other countries,
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including our own, to make cities more efficient and eco-friendly, you know, to save the planet,
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and to finally bring into being a real-life sci-fi dystopia. There have been a lot of different
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visions for how this can be done. Many different people in different countries have had ideas of,
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like, what the cities of the future will look like in order to save the planet, and this is what this
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one's all about. Here's a promotional video explaining it a little bit more. Watch.
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For too long, humanity has existed within dysfunctional and polluted cities that ignore
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nature. Now, a revolution in civilization is taking place. Imagine a traditional city and
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consolidating its footprint, designing to protect and enhance nature. The line will be home to nine
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million residents and will be built with a footprint of just 34 square kilometers, and we are designing
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it to provide a healthier, more sustainable quality of life. The line's communities are organized in
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three dimensions. Residents have access to all their daily needs within five-minute walk neighborhoods,
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and the line's infrastructure makes it possible to travel end-to-end in 20 minutes with no need
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for cars, resulting in zero carbon emissions. By leveraging AI technology, services are autonomous,
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saving you time and effort. Designed by world-leading architects, the line is 500 meters tall,
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200 meters wide, 170 kilometers long, and housed within an elegant mirror glass facade. Intelligent solutions
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create efficiency and year-round temperate microclimate with natural ventilation. Energy and water supplies are
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100 percent renewable. The line is designed as a series of unique communities offering a wealth of
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amenities, providing equitable views and immediate access to the surrounding nature.
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Oh, well, I mean, as long as you'll have equitable views, because that's the kind of view we all want,
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isn't it? You hike up to the top of a mountain, look out at God's creation, and say, wow, the view up here
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is so equitable. That's a very normal and human reaction, right? Anyway, the plan, as you see,
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is to build a narrow, 100-mile-long mirrored prison in which you can live and work and never leave and
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then die. As others have pointed out, it looks very much like a sleek and modern border wall of sorts,
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actually. So how quickly we went from, no, don't build the wall, to build the wall and live inside it.
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And speaking of living inside walls, this plan appears to have been inspired partly from
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sci-fi dystopian films that the architects have mistakenly taken as how-to guides, but then also
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partly from the living quarters of household pests. What they've come up with is an exciting
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opportunity for anyone who's ever dreamed of living in a termite colony. It may seem like, you know,
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you'd have a rather dismal existence inside this thing, surrounded on all sides all the time by glass
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and steel, totally cut off from nature, but at least you'll have the entertainment of watching birds
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constantly smash into the enormous mirrored exterior walls. Same for any other species
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of animals whose migration pattern happens to intersect with the human filing cabinet that
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they're building. Now, it may seem pointless to complain about this. It's in Saudi Arabia. It's
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not here. Actually, it's not even in Saudi Arabia. It's nowhere. This is a concept, a plan. We don't know
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if they'll actually be able to build it. And if they do build the thing, it seems highly likely that
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the experiment will fail in spectacular fashion, mitigating the risk that something similar would
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be attempted in this country. There are many ways that it could fail, you know, starting with the
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enormous damage that a few well-placed suicide bombers could do in a place like that. This is the
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Middle East after all. Not to mention the fact that you'd be living in a literal transmission tube
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for disease. In fact, the whole thing seems like it was designed by a virus,
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but both the biological and computer variety, because the entire structure is supposed to run
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on computers and artificial intelligence, leaving its inhabitants totally vulnerable to cyber attack.
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By the way, what happens when someone takes out the generators in the giant glass rectangular prison
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in the middle of the desert? What then? Of course, the worst thing that could happen, though,
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is that the monstrosity is built, and it works, and no disasters befall it, and all of its inhabitants
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are kept satiated and numbed enough that there are no uprisings where the peasant class violently
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overthrows the elites of the rectangle, eventually setting fire to the whole thing and dancing around
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it as it burns. If nothing like that were to happen, tragically, then perhaps eventually we would
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end up with something similar here. Either way, whether they try to force us into this particular
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hellscape, or they construct a slightly different sort of futuristic livestock stable for us,
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the fact is that this is the direction that the powers that be wish to take us, and are taking us.
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So it's worth pointing out the problems with this plan, and any plan similar to it.
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And by plan similar to it, I'm including modern-day cities as they currently exist,
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which in their construction are only slightly less horrifying than the total recall-esque
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concepts that people like the crown prince of Saudi Arabia are coming up with.
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And all of the problems, including the ones I've already outlined, can be summarized this way.
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This actually is just a problem with leftism in general.
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It does not take into account human nature. This is one of the defining features of the elites in
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society, the globalists, the utopianists. They do not account for or understand human nature,
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both the good and the bad of human nature. So let's start with the bad. Human beings in our fallen
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state are naturally disposed to antagonism, tribalism, hostility, violence. That doesn't
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mean that every human being is a violent savage. It just means that humans have that natural capacity,
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and the more that you cram humans together into tight living quarters, the more that you're going to
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bring this side out. And since everybody is living in such a densely populated environment,
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when the violence does emerge, as it so inevitably will, the harm it inflicts will be exponentially
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magnified. One violent psychopath by himself out in the woods makes a good villain in a horror film,
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but the violent psychopath living in the city, right on top of hundreds of other people,
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is by far the greater danger. Especially because he can now form tribes, gangs, with other violent
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psychopaths, and pretty soon your beautiful, harmonious, sardine can existence has turned into a dirty,
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grimy, bloody, awful nightmare. For an example of this phenomenon, see any city, anywhere. Now that's not
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to say that the violence and crime in the city, and the violence and crime that would turn the giant
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rectangle into a glass prison of despair is all due to people living too close to each other. That's
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part of it. The bigger part is, of course, the breakdown of the family, the destabilization of
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necessary social structures, the deliberate institutional effort to undermine law and order,
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etc. But these are all the work of the very same people who are planning the utopian cities of the
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future, so those problems are all sure to follow. But human nature is not all bad, thankfully.
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One of our nobler characteristics is that we hunger for adventure, creativity, independence.
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Now there may be people who, for whatever reason, for whatever perverse reason, enjoy cities, but
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everybody feels at peace in nature. Everybody can appreciate a beautiful lake or a stream or a
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mountain. People go to cities for convenience, for job opportunities, for bars and restaurants and
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nightlife and so on. They don't go there for beauty. They certainly don't go there for peace.
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They don't go there to fulfill any of the deeper longings of the soul. The ideal, most whole and
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complete way to live is on land you own, in a house that is yours, where you can breathe fresh air
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and enjoy at least a little bit of quiet and solitude and have, along with your family,
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at least a semblance of independence and self-reliance. But the issue is that we're harder to control and
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manipulate when we live like that, which is why the powers that be wish to usher us back closer
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together on property we don't own, living lives we don't control, packed into our stalls like so many
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horses in a massive modernized barn that smells only slightly better, if we're lucky. That's just no way
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to live. Yet it's how they want us to live, which is why we should live anyway, but that way. Now let's
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get to our five headlines. You know, the left has ruthlessly infiltrated virtually every major
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Okay, I wanted to tell you about one thing. This is not a paid promotion. It's not an ad that Daily
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Wire is making me read, but I do want to tell you about some friends of mine, a group called
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Sidewalk Advocates. They've been doing great work for many years, and my wife and I have been
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supporting them for a long time. They reach out to women outside of abortion clinics,
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letting them know about their options and the resources that are available. Because as we know,
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what drives the women into the abortion clinics is even, you know, in spite of all this talk about
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pro-choice and choices and all that, what drives the women in is the feeling that they have no choice,
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that there's no choice at all. Their lives are hopeless unless they go and get an abortion. So
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the Sidewalk Advocates reach out and let them know that there are other choices, there are other
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options. And they've saved many lives in the process. And now after Roe, you know, the work
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is, if anything, more important, not less. More important than ever. But they need the resources
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to do what they do, which means money. And right now they're running a fundraising drive,
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and all donations will be tripled up to $250,000. That's for like the next week or so. My wife and
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I will be sending them a check. I'd ask you to consider it too, if you have it in the budget.
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Like I said, this is not a paid ad. I just, I believe in what these guys do. We've supported
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them personally for a while. And if you want to do the same, go to sidewalkadvocates.org,
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check it out, donate. And I think we all need to be pitching in to the extent that we can
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for the battles ahead. All right. So following in the footsteps of the World Health Organization,
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it's expected that Joe Biden will officially declare monkeypox a public health emergency.
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This is from Politico. It says, the Biden administration is expected to declare monkeypox
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a public health emergency in the coming days, according to two people with knowledge of the
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matter. The declaration, which is made by the Department of Health and Human Services,
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would follow a similar decision made last week by the World Health Organization by designating the
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outbreak, an emergency. HHS could then take a slew of actions, including accessing new money and
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appointing new personnel, according to the law that dictates how and when the federal government can
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declare such an emergency. The HHS secretary is scheduled to hold a press briefing on monkeypox
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on Thursday morning, and they're going to tell us more about it. Now, I can tell you that,
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I guess, as we've learned, a public health crisis is in the eye of the beholder.
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Monkeypox is not a public health crisis for me. I'm not worried about it at all because I'm a
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married straight man, which means it's almost certain that I'm not going to get monkeypox.
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And in fact, someone made this point on Fox yesterday as they were talking about monkeypox.
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And it was very upsetting for some other people, especially including other people on the panel.
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So there was this debate about monkeypox, and one of the guests, Ned Ryan, dared to point out
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that this is a disease that almost exclusively affects gay men. It's almost exclusively gay men
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contracting and spreading it. Another guest, Brad Palumbo, was offended by this. And so they got into
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back and forth. And Brad thought he did so well in this exchange that he actually posted the video
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himself to Twitter to show everybody. Look at this. Look at this debate that I won.
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Well, you watch for yourself and tell me what you think. Here it is.
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As for monkeypox, I think there's a pretty good rule in life. Don't attend gay orgies. When you look
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at the New England Journal's report of the 520 orgies they reviewed.
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Go look at the New England Journal's report that NBC News reported on on Friday, in which of the
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528 cases they reviewed, 95 percent were between sex between men. I think we actually have to have
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a serious conversation about where this is coming from. When I'm done, Brad, you can talk. Instead of
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going crazy and declaring a national pandemic when 3,000 people have it right now, it's insane.
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I don't know, man. You don't have to be gay to get monkeypox. And you don't have to be bigoted
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when you talk about treating something that is that easily spread, Marie.
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This is science, Kennedy. 95 percent of the cases from the New England Journal have been reported.
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You know what? I'm going to let Brad respond. Okay, I'm going to let Brad respond. Because,
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Brad, we have 372 doses. The United States, in Denmark, where the smallpox,
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monkeypox vaccine is manufactured. They're ready to go. But because this has been an issue for more
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men in the gay community, it seems like it has been lower on the priority list. Brad?
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Yeah, look, Ned is right. He says that monkeypox right now is mostly affecting gay men. The problem
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is that public health-wise, not going to orgies in general is a good policy to not get sexually
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transmitted diseases. 100 percent. And so we have to be really careful. We saw with the AIDS crisis,
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with the HIV crisis, about how certain communities or certain gay people will be stigmatized over
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something that lots of people do. And we've got to be careful about that. And that kind of, I will use
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the term, bigoted language, that makes it seem like the only people that get this are from one group of
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Americans. Hey, guess what? Gay men also have friends and family members and colleagues. And this is
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not just transmitted through sexual activity. It's transmitted through close contact. So you don't
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fight diseases. I'm glad Brad brought up HIV AIDS. You don't fight diseases by caricaturing the people
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who get them or who get them at one point in time. Fox News, ladies and gentlemen. So you have one
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guest, Ned, who makes the absolutely correct point that this is a disease circulating almost exclusively
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among gay men. Yes. Well, it's not just gay men. Yeah, it's like only 97 percent or something. Okay.
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That's almost exclusively. And then everyone else in the panel, okay, come on, man. That's bigoted.
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They had the chance to explain why it's bigoted and they couldn't explain it. And I just love it when
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these people bring AIDS up as if it helps support their point, right? So they bring up HIV as a way of
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supporting this idea that we shouldn't, like, highlight the fact that this is circulating mostly
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among gay men. Well, no. The AIDS crisis and the way that it was treated, especially early on,
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and is still treated, in fact, is a perfect example of why the messaging should be very specific about
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who this primarily impacts. Because with AIDS, I mean, I can remember being in elementary school.
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I remember this vividly, actually, learning about AIDS in elementary school and being terrified,
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like, traumatized by it. Because what we were told is that anyone can get AIDS. It can affect anyone.
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It doesn't matter. This is not a gay thing. It affects anybody. And that's what they claimed.
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They made it seem like you'd just be walking on the street and, oh, I got AIDS. But that was never
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the case. Yes, it's theoretically possible to contract HIV other ways. There may be a small,
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small portion of people that have contracted heterosexual non-drug users who've contracted AIDS.
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Very, very small. Vast majority of HIV transmission was at the time, has always been, and still is,
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among gay men in particular, and then second place would be intravenous drug users.
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And what the messaging on HIV should have always been is that if you're not participating in gay
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sex and if you're not an intravenous drug user, you really don't need to worry about this. I mean,
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the list of things you should worry, there's going to be about 5,000 other things that make the list
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before you get to AIDS. Because that's just the truth. And the people who are participating in the
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high-risk activity ought to know that it's a high-risk activity. And if you're going around
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having random gay sex with a bunch of different men, the fact that this activity puts you uniquely,
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makes you uniquely vulnerable to things like HIV and now monkeypox, that's a fact you should know.
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And then maybe it'll make you stop and think like, oh, wait a second. This is,
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maybe this is risky. Maybe this is dangerous. Maybe I shouldn't be doing this.
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Chad Felix Green, writer for The Federalist, has screenshots that he posted to Twitter a couple
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days ago of just, this is one guy talking about how he contracted monkeypox. And the user goes by the
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username, BabeThePigBoy. So we kind of know what we're about to get into here. He's a pig. I mean,
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by his own, by his own labeling. And the story is disgusting and graphic, but I think it's worth
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reading. So he says, hi, so I have monkeypox. Not fishing for any sort of sympathy, but since I'm
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already known for being pretty unabashed on the internet, I figured I'd give it an honest account
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of how I got it and how my symptoms manifested to hopefully educate anyone curious. So strap in.
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I finally got back into the swing of things and attended a friend's birthday orgy.
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That's just, let's go. Hopping right into it. So I attended a friend's birthday orgy.
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The fact that he says that with no explanation, like that's a normal thing that we would all,
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oh, well, birthday orgy, of course. But you know, like people do on their birthdays, they have orgies.
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Then when you get back into the swing of that, you know, I'm getting warmed up a little bit,
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attend a couple of orgies here and there. So I finally got back into the swing of things and
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attended a friend's birthday orgy, Saturday the 9th. I'd been watching the news on monkeypox,
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but the general feelings on it really were and still are developing by the day. So I nor anyone else
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was especially worried, especially since there have only been two confirmed cases in the entire
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county. And the host of that group was a good friend and a nurse. So I trusted their judgment
00:24:38.760
in still having the event happen. Oh, that's good. That's good news, right? This is a medical
00:24:44.480
professional who's having a birthday orgy. It was a great time. I think I came into sexual contact
00:24:51.480
with somewhere in the ballpark of 15 to 20 different men. So I attend the orgy, have a great time.
00:24:58.520
Um, I don't even know if I can read this next part, but let's just say that he
00:25:02.440
is saying that he consumed a large amount of human waste product. Um, and then he continues and he
00:25:11.640
went home drunk and, uh, et cetera, et cetera. And then the next day he had sex with some more guys.
00:25:18.520
Um, and then he got monkeypox. Wow. Who could have guessed who could have guessed after all that,
00:25:25.020
that you'd come down with a disease. I mean, this is at least he, at least he gave us permission not
00:25:28.900
to have sympathy for him because, uh, don't worry, babe, the pig boy, I have zero sympathy for you
00:25:34.180
whatsoever, but we're on the same page there. So that's good. And then he ends up by saying my two
00:25:40.620
cents. It's reductive to tell gay people to not have sex. It didn't work in the early days of AIDS.
00:25:45.400
And clearly it's not working now, but do your best to make educated choices. Check your county's
00:25:50.140
case numbers frequently. And if you can avoid groups and anonymous encounters, check the case
00:25:54.700
numbers before heading out to that orgy or you drink human waste product. Um, yeah, just, you know,
00:25:59.820
before you go out and drink the urine of, uh, 15 different men, just check the case numbers,
00:26:04.700
be, be responsible about it. He says this whole idea that it doesn't work. It doesn't work to tell
00:26:11.760
people. What do you mean it doesn't work? No, no, no, no, uh, uh, whatever you got, whatever your
00:26:18.700
name is, babe, the pig boy. In fact, it does work like to refrain from that activity. It does work.
00:26:26.980
Actually, if you refrain from all the activities that you just described, um, it is, it will very
00:26:32.440
effectively shield you from any number of diseases, including monkeypox and a bunch of other diseases
00:26:38.120
that I'm sure you probably have. So it definitely works. What you're saying is that it doesn't work
00:26:45.620
when someone tells you to control yourself, but no, no, that's, that's not something not working.
00:26:52.520
It's not like the plan. There's no problem with the plan. It's a good plan. Um, the plan is like,
00:26:59.300
don't behave like an animal. Okay. And going out and having sex with 20 random people and then more
00:27:04.240
people the next day, you're behaving like an animal. That's not, it's not even human behavior.
00:27:09.580
So that's the plan. And if you are, if you have an issue with the plan, that that's,
00:27:15.380
that's a problem with you. That's a character problem and a really severe one actually.
00:27:22.360
So there are a lot of stories like this. And we know actually that, um, the, this monkeypox,
00:27:28.700
this current outbreak can be traced back to gay bath houses and orgies in Europe.
00:27:35.580
And the fact that this all took hold, especially during pride month is not a coincidence either.
00:27:43.420
Um, now it's true that anyone who attends orgies or has sex with a bunch of random strangers is
00:27:52.920
vulnerable. But the other fact that even fewer people want to say is that this kind of behavior
00:28:01.120
is more common in the gay community than it is among straight people. It just is. Okay.
00:28:08.120
Straight people aren't going to orgies. They're, they're not like, I've never known. I've never,
00:28:15.760
I've never encountered a heterosexual person who's been to an orgy.
00:28:19.720
And you know why it's, it's almost by definition. If you're straight, then you don't want to be
00:28:26.380
sexually involved with a group of people that will inevitably include other men. So just like
00:28:32.160
by definition, if you're a straight person, you're not going to orgies. And that's same for straight
00:28:37.160
women. But here's the thing. If you, if you want to pretend that gay and straight people are equally
00:28:45.860
as likely to attend orgies and equally as likely to have random sex with multiple strangers in the
00:28:51.640
same day. Okay. If you want to pretend and you are pretending, but let's pretend for a moment.
00:28:57.360
Um, fine, actually. Then can we just agree to condemn all such behavior by all people? I'm fine
00:29:04.920
with that compromise. Babe, the pig boy here is a, is a gay man who was at a gay orgy. But if,
00:29:11.680
if he had been a straight man or straight woman at an orgy doing all the things he said there,
00:29:18.420
then I would condemn it just as much. Absolutely. And I would also say this is animalistic, like
00:29:23.820
barbaric, savage behavior. You're, it's, it's, you're not acting, acting like a, like a decent
00:29:32.380
civilized human being. So gay or straight, I would absolutely say this. If, if that's the compromise
00:29:37.040
we can arrive at which we can arrive, then I am, uh, then I'm fine with that. Is that what we're
00:29:43.240
doing now? Can we just condemn across the board, all reckless sexual activity, any form of having
00:29:51.700
sex with strangers, especially in groups, but, but even individually one at a time, like whether
00:29:56.760
you're having your orgy all at once or in succession with, with a bunch of different random strangers,
00:30:02.560
you know, at different points in the same weekend or same month or whatever, however, you're doing it,
00:30:06.140
you shouldn't be. I'm fine with that message. And I'm fine with going even farther than that,
00:30:13.240
which I think we should in shaming this kind of behavior, this reckless sexual behavior,
00:30:19.060
shaming it, um, and putting the same kind of shame on it that we put on like murderers, honestly,
00:30:27.200
because it is, it's, it is nearly murderous behavior. You know, you're doing this and you
00:30:34.440
could be spreading diseases. You could be killing people. And it's like, you just don't care because
00:30:38.780
you want to get your, you know, you want to have your fun. It is hyper, uh, selfish, narcissistic,
00:30:51.500
nihilistic, destructive behavior. And if we can heap shame and scorn on it, on anyone who engages in
00:31:00.400
this kind of stuff, good, good with me. Absolutely. All right. Um, the, uh, University of Kentucky
00:31:09.100
swimmer, Riley Gaines has been speaking out about, this is according to Daily Wire, by the way,
00:31:16.300
speaking out about University of Pennsylvania swimmer, Leah Thomas, a biological male,
00:31:19.920
and stated that, uh, when the college women competed against Thomas at the NCAA, uh, championships,
00:31:26.420
they were not forewarned that Thomas will be sharing the locker room with them and undressing
00:31:31.400
in front of them. So Gaines spoke with Tucker Carlson, um, and was talking about at first,
00:31:36.920
just the atmosphere at the championships, which happened at Georgia tech a couple of months ago.
00:31:42.560
She said, um, she said people just weren't talking about it. And so we get to the NCAAs and it was at
00:31:48.940
Georgia tech. And so we get there and the environment is nothing like I've ever seen before. It was so
00:31:52.680
almost edgy. Like people didn't really know what to say, who to say, what to, or how to feel.
00:31:58.380
And from here, we'll go to the clip where she tells the rest of the story and what happened
00:32:01.800
at the event and especially in the locker rooms. Let's listen to that.
00:32:05.600
And then that night we watched Leah Thomas win a national title and blow all the other females
00:32:10.440
completely out of the water. And that next day we came back and the mood had shifted to where
00:32:15.920
people were mad. Um, the girls, you know, there were tears, um, these poor ninth and 17th place
00:32:22.440
finishers who missed out on being named an all American. Um, there's extreme discomfort in the
00:32:27.260
locker room. There's, you know, kind of these grumbles. Is he wandering around the women's locker
00:32:32.420
room? Yeah. When, and that's not something, you know, we were forewarned about, which I don't think
00:32:38.340
is right in any means. Um, changing in a locker room with someone who has different parts.
00:32:44.180
Um, they just set a dude loose in your locker room and didn't tell you exactly. And so I feel
00:32:49.780
like to have that kind of forced upon us. So not only were we, you know, forced to race against a
00:32:56.360
male, we were forced to, to change in the locker room with one. And so it's just this feeling of
00:33:03.060
like, what is happening? Like, honestly, like, is this really happening? Like, this is crazy.
00:33:09.680
Uh, so there's a story that she tells there. And again, that's a Riley Gaines who should be
00:33:18.340
commended first of all, for her courage and speaking out about this and the story she tells
00:33:22.620
about the locker room, that to me is by far the, the bigger scandal. Um, the, the, the more
00:33:29.300
important aspect of this whole story of, of, of Leah Thomas and men in general invading women's
00:33:34.860
sports, um, the fact that they're forced into the pool with, with a man and, and the man is stealing
00:33:41.060
medals and opportunities and all that, that of course is terrible and insane. But even worse is
00:33:47.720
that they're made to share the locker room with the guy, just having their privacy and their dignity
00:33:54.540
really taken from them. And yet that very often is treated like, um, you know, like not,
00:34:03.780
not as much of a concern as what's happening in the pool, what's happening with, with sports.
00:34:08.840
And that was one thing that stuck with me. I thought was interesting when in, uh, my film,
00:34:13.900
what is a woman, when we talked to one of Leah Thomas's teammates and, uh, I asked her about
00:34:20.120
the locker room situation. It was the same kind of thing. Yeah. Thomas is in the locker room. He's
00:34:25.820
getting changed. And same thing. She said, there's like no conversation about it. No discussion
00:34:30.240
about that. Even when they brought in, when, uh, when University of Pennsylvania brought in the LGBT
00:34:36.580
activists and counselors to lecture the women and tell them that, Hey, if you've got a problem with
00:34:42.080
this, you need to go seek counseling. No, the guy who's claiming to be a woman and, you know, wearing
00:34:49.260
the one piece bathing suit, he doesn't need to see a counselor. You do, if you have an issue with it.
00:34:53.420
But even then the, the locker room part of it wasn't even talked about. She said, in fact, that,
00:35:01.540
um, you know, the other women on the team, most of them didn't want to say anything at all because
00:35:06.560
they were afraid of the backlash. But even the women who did speak out, uh, they, they were focused
00:35:13.340
on the sport part of it and not the locker rooms, which I just thought was, was interesting.
00:35:19.380
There's another point I want to make too, which is when you hear a story like this,
00:35:24.800
these men going to women's locker rooms, we talk about it so much,
00:35:28.840
but you very often hear from people on the right that, Hey, you know, the women who are,
00:35:37.000
who are subjected to this, it's up to them to speak out. And if they're not going to speak out,
00:35:42.060
then I'm washing my hands of it. There's nothing I can do. You know, sort of putting the onus on the
00:35:46.720
women, on the girls who are in these situations to say something about it. And I agree that we do
00:35:53.140
need to call on everyone to have courage. And the closer you are to a situation like this,
00:35:58.400
um, the more of a responsibility you have to speak out. But it just seems really cowardly to me on the
00:36:04.400
part of some conservatives to say, I'm not going to say anything about it. The women aren't pro that
00:36:07.260
this is on them, especially as a man, right? If you're a man, you should be, you should have a
00:36:14.380
drive to protect women, like to, to put it on a bunch of college girls to stand up against the
00:36:20.640
guys that are going into the locker rooms. What kind of man are you? Is that, would that be your
00:36:26.920
attitude? If you were actually in a place and, uh, you saw a man about to walk into a, there was a man
00:36:33.460
about to walk into a woman's locker room. Would you say, well, that's up to the women in there to
00:36:37.260
figure it out. Not me. But if your daughter or your wife is in there, would you say, well, they're
00:36:41.560
going to have to, they got to stand up for themselves. I certainly hope not. I hope you
00:36:46.360
would realize that it's your responsibility as a man to step up. Yes, men should protect women. I
00:36:53.680
understand that that is, um, considered an outmoded way of thinking, but I don't care.
00:37:05.020
So no, I'm not just going to, I'm not just going to leave it to girls in college and in high school
00:37:14.900
Well, they don't do it. Then, uh, nothing I can do. That to me is a lame excuse.
00:37:21.780
All right. Here's a fascinating poll, um, highlighted by Michael Moynihan of Vice News.
00:37:32.640
And so this is when I was in like fifth or sixth grade. Um, and this is what the polling data on
00:37:38.140
race relations said back in 1997. The article says nearly nine out of 10 black teenagers said racism
00:37:45.960
has little impact on their day-to-day lives. According to a time CNN poll released on Sunday,
00:37:51.420
the survey also found more than half of all teenagers, 62% of blacks, 58 whites believe
00:37:56.400
racism is a big problem. Asked about racism in their own lives, 89% of black teenagers said racism
00:38:02.460
was a small problem or not a problem at all. Now you see that. And at first it's kind of shocking
00:38:10.680
because it's unthinkable that a poll like that would have similar results today. You just, you can't
00:38:18.240
imagine a poll of black teenagers, 2022, and it comes back that 90% are saying that racism is not a
00:38:26.240
problem. We're only a small problem in their day-to-day life. Yet for those of us who lived through the
00:38:31.560
nineties, it's actually not surprising at all because race was not an issue in the nineties
00:38:36.760
like it is now. I'm not saying it was perfect. Okay. And I made this point on Twitter and there
00:38:42.480
are a lot of people that responded and said, Whoa, what are you talking about? What about the Rodney
00:38:45.140
King riots? And what about OJ and all this? Yes, all that happened. We're not saying that it was
00:38:50.880
perfect, that there was perfect harmony, that we were living in a, in a post-racial utopia. No one is
00:38:55.440
saying that that's never going to happen. It's impossible. Um, what I'm saying is that in the
00:39:01.220
nineties, that's when we got the closest to racial harmony that we've ever been. And we've been going
00:39:10.400
backwards ever since, which isn't to say that it was perfect, but we got as close as we're going to
00:39:15.260
get. Nine out of 10 black teenagers in the nineties saying that racism does not affect their daily
00:39:20.120
lives. That proves the point. And again, doesn't surprise me because I was a kid in the nineties and
00:39:26.920
I can remember that it just was just was not, it's not that race never came up, but it wasn't this
00:39:31.940
overriding concern. It wasn't suffocating everyone. And you could tell jokes and there were, you know,
00:39:40.100
and you could just kind of live your life and you didn't have racial issues constantly shoved down
00:39:47.560
your throat. And there was not this focus even in the school systems on convincing kids. You know,
00:39:59.480
if you're a black kid, well, convincing them that you're oppressed, you're a victim. There was a little
00:40:04.340
bit of that, not nearly like there is today. There wasn't nearly as much white guilt foisted on the white
00:40:11.320
kids. If you're a white person, then you're a automatically a racist. You have to beg forgiveness
00:40:17.440
for what your ancestors allegedly did. So compare that to today. I couldn't find this exact question
00:40:24.620
asked in the last year or two, but you could piece it together from other questions. There was a Gallup
00:40:28.680
poll in 2021 showing how many black versus white Americans say that race relations are good,
00:40:35.500
either somewhat or very, you know, only 33% of black said that we have good race relations in
00:40:42.060
America in 2021, 43% of whites. In 2001, that number was 70% for blacks, 62% for white.
00:40:52.180
So 20 years ago, black people in this country, according to the polling, had a better view of
00:40:57.680
race relations than even white people did. But a majority of everyone agreed that race relations are
00:41:02.340
pretty good. And there was another question, is racism widespread? This is now 2021.
00:41:10.420
84% of black adults said, yes, it is. 59% of white. So 90% of black teens in the 90s said racism had
00:41:19.120
little or to no impact on their daily lives, which means we can assume that they didn't think that it
00:41:25.180
was widespread. If it doesn't have any impact on your day-to-day life, then it's not as widespread.
00:41:28.960
But now nearly as many black Americans say that it's a widespread problem. What this means is that
00:41:34.440
those, you know, we're talking about black teenagers versus black adults.
00:41:38.620
So those teenagers growing up in the 90s said, well, you know, it's not that big of a deal.
00:41:41.940
It doesn't affect my everyday life. Since then, they've been convinced otherwise.
00:41:48.660
And that's because there has been a concerted effort on the left to destroy all of the progress that had
00:41:59.780
been made and to take us backwards. They realize that racial strife and disharmony is better for them,
00:42:10.400
easier to exploit. All right. What else we got here? Here's one quick thing before we
00:42:18.640
get to the comment section from the Daily Wire. It says, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones issued an
00:42:23.300
apology on Tuesday after using what has been dubbed the M word. That's M. M as in Mary or as in midget,
00:42:31.980
but you can't, that's what you can't say anymore, to refer to little people during a tribute to a
00:42:35.400
team executive who recently died. The remark drew the criticism of many, including a call for a public
00:42:40.160
apology from the little people of America. Jones did apologize. He said, earlier today, I made a
00:42:45.620
reference, which I understand may have been viewed as offensive. I apologize. Jones made the
00:42:49.560
controversial references while sharing memories about former Cowboys scouting director Larry
00:42:53.900
Lacewell, who served during the team's three Super Bowl wins in the 90s. And Jones said, quote,
00:43:00.620
I'm going to get me somebody, a midget, to stand up there with me and dress him up like Lace and think
00:43:05.720
Lace is still out there helping at practice with us. Okay. So I don't know. So was Lace a midget then?
00:43:12.100
I don't know. I don't quite understand. But he, but he said, he said midget and that's, and he has to
00:43:15.980
apologize for that. What is, what term are you supposed to use? That's the other thing I'm wondering
00:43:20.100
as I look at this. I guess little people, little people, is that, I'm being told in my ear? I, see, I
00:43:28.000
don't, first of all, I don't understand. How is that less, little person? How is that less offensive than
00:43:35.180
midget? Doesn't little person sounds kind of like, doesn't little person sound patronizing?
00:43:42.640
You're saying to the midget, oh, look at that little person. To me, that seems more offensive.
00:43:49.800
That makes me uncomfortable saying that. And so I'm going to say midget.
00:43:54.860
And you know, because it's me speaking, I get to decide what I say. I get, see, when I speak,
00:44:00.220
I speak based in, and I use the words that make sense to me and that I'm comfortable using.
00:44:06.980
And I know the response is, well, but these other people aren't comfortable with it. Okay,
00:44:09.600
but they're not the ones talking. I am. You can use whatever words you want. I'm not going to use
00:44:15.720
that word because it just seems weird to me. And no one has explained like what exactly is wrong
00:44:20.620
with midget. What is, what, what, what is, what's the inherent quality of the word midget that makes
00:44:26.020
it offensive? Can you explain, anyone explain it to me? It's just been decided randomly because
00:44:31.980
this is what, this is what they do. This is part of, this is what the PC police do. This is one of
00:44:35.120
their, this is one of their, um, this is their MO. It's just to go along and kind of like just randomly
00:44:40.320
change the labels for things. Oh, that label doesn't work anymore. That's expired. It's past
00:44:45.240
its expiration date. We got a new label now that we use, but why? What makes it expire? Well, it just
00:44:49.700
is, that's it. Sorry, not going to do it. Can't do it. Uh, let's get to the comment section.
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you. Tie My Shoes says, Matt claims to defend the family while in the past criticizing Olive Garden.
00:46:28.220
Does he not know that when you're here, you're family? Well, you're family in the same way that
00:46:33.600
Cinderella, I guess, was family to her stepmom because that's how they treat you at Olive Garden.
00:46:38.560
They treat you terribly. The service is bad. Everyone's surly in a bad mood. They send you
00:46:45.780
off to some table that's not even clean. Last time I went to Olive Garden, I sat down at the
00:46:50.500
table. It was filthy. I said, could someone clean the table? Why don't you clean it? They tossed me a
00:46:55.540
mop and a bucket. Somebody said, while you're at it, go back in the kitchen. We need some help back
00:47:00.120
there too. Let's see. Yoda says, Matt, what do you think of men cross-dressing for Halloween?
00:47:10.900
Looking forward to seeing you with blush cheeks and nine-inch heels this October 31st.
00:47:15.920
Cheers and sweet baby gang for life. Well, obviously you're banned from the show for that,
00:47:19.900
even asking the question. I take issue with the premise of the question. Men shouldn't be doing
00:47:25.380
anything on Halloween at all. Men should not be dressing up. You shouldn't be going to Halloween
00:47:29.840
parties. You stay home. Kids knock on the door and ask for candy. Then you open the door and you
00:47:37.080
give out candy. That's all you do. That's what grown men should be doing on Halloween.
00:47:42.240
Another comment says, Matt, after your response to Carlson's marriage and life advice yesterday,
00:47:46.240
the comment section seemed overwhelmed with comments from young men who feel marriage is not worth it due
00:47:50.980
to a combination of terrible family court laws. The majority of divorce is being initiated by the
00:47:55.780
woman and the quality of women generally. This seems to be a common sentiment among young men on
00:48:00.160
the right, and I've rarely heard it addressed. I'm concerned that we will not get very far without
00:48:03.880
strong families. Could you please give us your thoughts on their concerns? Thank you.
00:48:08.700
Well, I'd say a couple of things. First, the concern is not baseless, right? It's not unreasonable.
00:48:13.240
It's true that the family courts are stacked against men. It's true that there are a lot of low-quality
00:48:16.700
women out there. There are also a lot of low-quality men. I would say that it's about equal,
00:48:20.720
as far as that goes. And that brings me to the point, which is, what's your other option if not
00:48:28.300
marriage? So I may agree with you that these concerns are valid, but then what? You stay away
00:48:40.740
from marriage because you don't want to get hurt, and then what do you do? Are you going to run off to
00:48:45.320
the woods and become a hermit fishing and hunting and writing the next great American novel?
00:48:49.520
If so, more power to you. That sounds like a great plan. I wouldn't just try to dissuade you at all.
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Go do that. Are you going to live a life of celibacy, become a monk or something, enter the
00:49:00.740
religious life? Again, more power to you. But that is not what most men are doing. Most of the men who
00:49:07.380
lodge this complaint are not going off to the woods to be hermits. They're not entering religious life
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and becoming celibate. So what do they do? They are not availing themselves of either option.
00:49:21.400
And they're still normal men who desire the companionship of a woman. That's a normal
00:49:25.760
male desire. It's a good thing. And so if they're not going to get work towards marriage, they end up
00:49:33.500
watching a lot of porn, maybe having random hookups where they can get them. But mainly it's the porn.
00:49:42.300
You see the problem? Now you've become exactly the kind of low-quality person that you're worried
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about. You're exactly the kind of low-quality person that you're accusing the women of being
00:49:53.820
and saying, this is the whole reason I can't. So you're part of the problem. And though you've
00:49:59.380
avoided the potential heartache of divorce, instead you've guaranteed a life of loneliness,
00:50:05.520
rejection, isolation, and all the rest of it. So yeah, if you go out and you get married,
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or you even, first you have to, it's not like you just walk outside and say, okay, I'm married.
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You got to find someone. You got to go through the whole process. And there are many ways it could go
00:50:20.660
wrong. And there are many ways you can get your heart broken. And if things go really, really badly,
00:50:25.860
it could destroy your whole life. That's true. That's the possibility. That's the potential.
00:50:32.660
That's the risk. There is risk involved. And because you're worried about that risk,
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you're worried about that possibility, you embrace what is guaranteed to be a miserable,
00:50:50.660
And why are you embracing it? You're embracing it out of fear, out of anxiety,
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you know, because of the possibility that things could go wrong. That's no way to live.
00:51:00.880
You can't live that way. You can't make your decisions that way.
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Especially such fundamental decisions, such fundamental life decisions cannot be made
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based on fear, which is what you're talking about, right?
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It's not like there are no good women out there.
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I can tell you they exist. I'm married to one. And she's not the only one. I didn't take the only
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one. And now they're all off the market. There are plenty of good women out there,
00:51:31.120
just like there are plenty of good men. The fact that there are a lot of low quality people in
00:51:36.420
general, that's a cultural problem. What you have to ask yourself is, are you going to contribute to
00:51:41.340
that problem or be part of the solution? And are you going to take the risk and shoot for a
00:51:49.640
happy, fulfilled life? Or are you going to give up on it before you've even tried?
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We end today with something rather exciting. It's not often that I'm out ahead of the progressive
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curve. I rarely get somewhere before the woke bandwagon arrives. But that seems to be the case
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this time. There is this week controversy and outrage over the Netflix reality show Love is Blind.
00:53:17.480
Now for those with IQs above 75 that have prevented you from watching a show like this,
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the basic premise as I understand it is that contestants are locked in isolation pods where
00:53:26.560
they meet other contestants by talking to them through a wall. And they then, I guess, select
00:53:31.080
which disembodied voice they like the most. They talk some more to that person. Then they get engaged
00:53:36.140
before the big reveal where they actually meet in person. At which point they're instructed to fight
00:53:41.000
to the death with their bare hands. Now that would actually be a much better show. In this one,
00:53:45.860
they instead get married. And then as soon as the cameras turn off, they get divorced. A true
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fairy tale romance. Now there have actually been multiple controversies around this show recently.
00:53:56.560
The first is a lawsuit from a contestant on an earlier season because they've done multiple
00:54:01.140
seasons of this show because that's the sort of interest there is in this content because we're
00:54:05.100
surrounded by morons. And the contestant alleges that producers starved him, deprived him of sleep,
00:54:10.900
and forced him to get drunk. All of which makes the show sound way more entertaining than it actually
00:54:15.660
is. But that's not the controversy that matters here. The bigger outrage is over the fact that the
00:54:19.960
show only features physically attractive people. I'm proud to say that I spearheaded this woke
00:54:24.840
backlash in a YouTube video we put out at the beginning of the month where I reacted to reality
00:54:28.840
show trailers, including one for Love is Blind. That was the first I'd ever heard of Love is Blind.
00:54:32.840
And upon seeing the commercial, I immediately pointed out this glaring flaw in the plot. Everyone on the
00:54:38.060
show appears to be like a solid seven or eight. And this means there is nothing at stake,
00:54:42.760
nothing on the line. All the contestants end up with attractive people. To give the show some
00:54:47.060
suspense, some comedy, some tragedy, you need to throw a few Michael Moores into the mix.
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There should be a scene where a highly attractive woman falls in love with a man behind the wall,
00:54:58.040
gets engaged, and the big reveal happens, and she recoils in horror when a character from the
00:55:04.020
Star Wars bar scene walks out. Now that would be great television, matching supermodels with
00:55:10.320
Ripley's believe it or not displays. I would sit down and watch a show like that. I would take the
00:55:15.560
hit to my IQ to watch that show. Admittedly, the woke criticism of Love is Blind is not quite the
00:55:21.440
same. Both me and the left are upset that there are not ugly people on the show, but they're upset for
00:55:26.020
a slightly different reason. For them, the problem is the lack of body diversity and inclusion on the
00:55:31.860
show. The backlash became severe enough that one of the show's hosts, Vanessa Lachey, who I assume is
00:55:38.080
married to the guy from whatever, Backstreet Boys, addressed it in an interview with Insider, claiming
00:55:42.760
that there are no fat or ugly people on the show because they're simply too insecure to appear.
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It was like self-selection, she said. But the mob isn't buying that excuse. BuzzFeed took her to task
00:55:55.060
saying, and this is what they wrote in their article, if you've watched Love is Blind, you've probably
00:55:59.040
definitely noticed that the group of contestants who make it to air don't reflect body diversity
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like at all. In a recent interview with Insider, Vanessa tried to explain why the show doesn't
00:56:08.540
embrace body diversity in any real way. Her answer was, not great. In response to being asked about
00:56:14.800
the show's lack of body diversity, Vanessa says she sometimes thinks certain contestants don't make
00:56:20.220
it past the pods portion of the show because they can't fit inside of it. That's actually not what
00:56:26.160
she said. Because they're insecure. So if I'm reading this right, Vanessa's reason why the show
00:56:33.040
doesn't include diverse bodies in its cast is because some contestants are simply too insecure
00:56:37.740
about their bodies to appear on the show. Something tells me we might be getting a clarification for
00:56:42.100
Vanessa in the future regarding her comments. Or maybe not. Either way, we'll see if Love is Blind
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goes in more diverse directions casting-wise when it returns for its third season. Time will tell.
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Well, if nothing else, we can agree that BuzzFeed continues to feature great writing and important
00:56:57.040
journalism. Huffington Post isn't buying Vanessa's excuse either. They write,
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Love is Blind has yet to prominently feature a contestant who is plus size, visibly disabled,
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or older than 40, which seems odd since the concept of the show is to fall in love with someone's
00:57:10.820
personality rather than their physical appearance. Now, of course, the real reason that the show only has
00:57:18.420
attractive people, the reason that most shows only feature attractive people, this current show that
00:57:23.780
you're watching is an exception, the reason is that viewers prefer to watch attractive people. Hence
00:57:30.040
the term attractive. This is doubly the case if the show revolves around love and romance. People may
00:57:36.160
watch a show like My 600-lb Life, but they probably wouldn't watch My 600-lb Wedding. Well, they might watch
00:57:43.420
that, but for very different reasons than they watch the typical reality dating show. And that's about all that
00:57:47.900
needs to be said about this. But I'll say more anyway, because there's one more point I think
00:57:52.380
that needs to be made. Huffington Post says that the point of the show is for people to fall in love
00:57:58.000
with personality rather than physical appearance. But the idea that you can love somebody for their
00:58:03.260
personality totally apart from their appearance is a myth, okay? It's a popular myth. It's one that my
00:58:08.620
generation in particular was fed early and often, but it's a myth. Of course, you shouldn't and really
00:58:14.920
can't love somebody entirely for their looks, but their looks are an important part of the package.
00:58:20.080
It's part of who they are. It's what draws you to someone, especially early in the relationship.
00:58:24.760
But even as you grow together and you get to know each other on a deeper level, still their appearance,
00:58:29.860
their body, their physical look and presence will remain extremely important. Your body is not just
00:58:35.480
some sort of meaningless shell which contains your personality and your truer essence. Your body is who you
00:58:42.400
are. You're more than your physical body, okay? You're not merely your physical body, but you are
00:58:47.920
also your body. It really is not possible, therefore, to love someone and not love their body because their
00:58:56.400
body is them. This distinction between looks and personality doesn't even make sense. Your personality
00:59:02.160
is what makes you as a person different from other people. That includes your body, your face,
00:59:10.060
your physical appearance and mannerisms. All of that is part of your personality because it's part
00:59:14.420
of your person. It's what makes you, you and not somebody else. This is actually an important point
00:59:21.300
for two reasons, neither of which have anything to do with reality shows. The first is that people who
00:59:25.060
really buy into this appearance doesn't matter idea are more likely to get married and then completely
00:59:30.300
let themselves go, transforming very quickly into a physical specimen quite different from the one that
00:59:36.060
their spouse married. Now, obviously, we all change over time gradually as we get older, but we still
00:59:41.440
have a responsibility in a marriage to take care of ourselves. We should want to be physically
00:59:46.860
attractive to our spouses. It's quite selfish to throw that all to the wind and gorge ourselves with
00:59:52.900
abandon. The second and deeper point is that our culture is constantly trying to separate the body
00:59:59.640
from the person as if these are two distinct things. In its most extreme iteration, of course,
01:00:06.620
we're told that a person with a man's body can still be a woman, and we're told straight men can
01:00:12.460
and should date these trans women because though they have the physical appearance of men, they're
01:00:17.620
really women deep inside. But this is incoherent. As straight men, we're attracted to women, not just for
01:00:24.920
their bodies, but their bodies are certainly a significant appeal. It wouldn't make any sense at all.
01:00:28.960
It would be totally unintelligible to say that you're attracted to women, but you're neutral about
01:00:33.480
their bodies. Their bodies are what make them women. For all of us, our bodies are what make us
01:00:40.660
who we are. I think this conversation has certainly gotten more esoteric than was necessary for discussion
01:00:47.460
about a Netflix dating show, but I just go wherever the path takes me. And now it takes me to a place
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where I must say that Love is Blind is not canceled. It's the critics of Love is Blind that are
01:00:58.940
canceled. And that'll do it for us today. I'll talk to you actually on Monday. There will be no
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show tomorrow, but this time it's not my fault. The whole company is closing down tomorrow, so
01:01:08.960
everybody's off tomorrow. It's not just me, just so you know. And I'll talk to you on Monday. Have a
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