Ep. 996 - White Slaves, And Other Inconvenient Historical Facts
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Summary
The outrage mob is coming after me because I mentioned the forbidden historical fact that white people were slaves too. But why is this fact forbidden, and why does it matter? We ll discuss. Also, the Biden administration gears up to forgive student loans. Plus, a Democrat congresswoman flips off her Republican colleagues and then cries sexism to excuse herself. And our daily cancellation at Artis goes viral with dozens of comics bitterly complaining about her husband. We ll talk about all that and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the outrage mob is coming after me because I mentioned the forbidden historical fact that white people were slaves too.
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But why is this fact forbidden and why does it matter? We'll discuss.
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Also, the Biden administration gears up to forgive student loans, and by forgive we mean transfer the loans to people who didn't take them out.
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Plus, a Democrat congresswoman flips off her Republican colleagues and then cries sexism to excuse herself.
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And our daily cancellation at Artis goes viral with dozens of comics bitterly complaining about her husband.
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We'll talk about all that and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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You know, over the weekend, I finished the book Skeletons on the Zahara.
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It tells the story of James Riley, captain of the merchant ship Commerce, which shipwrecked off the coast of North Africa in 1815.
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Riley, along with his entire crew, found themselves stranded in the vast Saharan desert,
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where they began to die from thirst and exposure almost immediately.
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That was only the beginning of their troubles, of course.
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The men were soon seized and enslaved by a band of desert nomads.
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And from that point, the crew was split off in different directions as each man was sold and traded from one nomad to the next.
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They were abused, starved, beaten, found themselves on a hierarchy where white slaves,
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Christian dogs, as they were called in Arabic, occupied a rung on the social ladder somewhere well beneath camels and probably donkeys.
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And at one point, Captain James Riley was traded for an old blanket, just to give you an idea of how much they were valued.
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Several of the slaves were lost into the interior of the continent and never were heard from or seen again.
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Doomed to live out their lives in bondage, though their lives would have been mercifully short.
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You could only live so long when you're being used as a pack animal in the desert and forced to subsist on snails and camel urine,
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which is what they were consuming most of the time.
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But Riley and a few of his men managed to escape with the assistance of a comparatively merciful Arab
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who ransomed them for several hundred dollars and a couple of muskets.
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Yet, the survivors never escaped the physical or mental trauma of their experiences, and most of them died relatively young.
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But two of them, including Riley, did publish books about their experiences,
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and both books were sensations at the time that they were published.
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Captain James Riley would become a household name.
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Even Abraham Lincoln named his book Sufferings in Africa as one of his greatest inspirations.
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The funny thing, though, is that this incredible and true tale,
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which was once widely known and renowned across the country,
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In fact, the author of Skeletons on the Zahara, Dean King,
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only found out about the story and decided to write a book about it
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after stumbling across an old, dusty, leather-bound copy of Riley's memoir
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while researching another book at the New York Yacht Club Library in 1995.
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So, why don't more people know about this story?
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Why haven't there been movies made based on it?
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The book was actually adapted as a screenplay before it was even published
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And then five years, or rather ten years later, in 2010,
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This story has fallen into the cracks of history
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that our educational establishment, the media, and Hollywood
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would all prefer that we not acknowledge or explore.
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And that would be the subject of white slaves in Africa.
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Riley and his men were not the only ones, not by a long shot.
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well over a million white people were enslaved in northern Africa.
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Some of them detained and enslaved after being shipwrecked,
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but the vast majority were abducted right off of ships still at sea
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or from coastal European communities by Muslim raiders
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who carried them back to Africa to be sold, traded, or ransomed.
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In some cases, entire communities, coastal European communities, were ransacked.
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You know, the United States fought a whole war, a series of them, the Barbary Wars,
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There's a reason, though, that school curricula tends to skip over that conflict,
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going from, you know, the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812 to the Civil War,
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hop, skipping, and jumping over some of these more uncomfortable and troublesome episodes.
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There's a concerted effort in our society to erase, ignore, and cover up
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but almost the entire global history of slavery in general.
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The impression that we're supposed to have is that the transatlantic slave trade,
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which was actually only a small piece of the transatlantic slave trade,
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but that's the only form of slavery that ever existed.
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Black Africans were the victims, white Americans and Europeans were the villains.
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because that is what our culture wants them to believe.
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This point was driven home when I posted a thread
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about the true history of slavery to Twitter on Saturday.
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Thinking about all these issues, you know, after having just finished the book,
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Well over one million whites were enslaved in Northern Africa
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between the 16th and 19th centuries, most of them abducted and sold by Muslim pirates.
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Africans were raiding Europe for slaves for hundreds of years.
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The school system has totally erased this fact from history.
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Of course, white people were enslaved in other parts of Africa too
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and across the world for centuries, including in North America,
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where white servants, quote unquote, were shipped to the colonies by the thousands.
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White children were being kidnapped and sold into servitude in the colonies before that.
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And of course, slavery existed in the Americas for hundreds of years prior to Europeans ever
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Slavery persisted in non-Western countries long after it had been abolished in the West.
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Slavery was an accepted institution in Africa and Asia for millennia,
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and it seems to have never occurred to any of these societies
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that there might have been something wrong with the practice.
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And of course, the African slave trade was mostly furnished by Africans capturing other Africans
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The African slave trade was abolished by the West, not by Africa.
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Slavery remained legal in parts of Africa well into the 20th century.
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Actually, I should have said that slavery was abolished against the,
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not just, you know, without the help of the non-Western world,
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but against the objections of the non-Western world was the slave trade abolished.
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Everything I wrote there is as true as it is unknown to the average American.
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But predictably, the outrage mob has been screaming at me for the past two days because of this,
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calling me a Nazi, accusing me of excusing or justifying or minimizing the enslavement
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of black people, accusing me of upholding white supremacy, quote unquote.
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My messages and emails have been, as you can imagine, even more colorful than that.
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But the attacks have come from the right as well.
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Maybe you've seen him on Fox News, maybe you've seen him on YouTube.
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He launched into a tirade that included many tweets and several videos about me.
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Dumb, reductive, and horrible attempt at justifying the transatlantic slave trade take here.
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Conservatives love going full retard and damaging any inroads into black communities with these kind of takes.
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I just big up, dude, for the what is a woman film and then this.
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Yes, how dare I say something he disagrees with after he just said he likes my movie.
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I should have known that his endorsement of my film puts me in debt to him for life.
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Others on the right agreed with him, including Aja Smith, who's a GOP congressional candidate,
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Folks are silent when they see and hear a wrong.
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That's why we're in this disinformation that we're in.
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Now, despite my urging, I could not get Smith to explain what part of my statement was disinformation.
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Most of the people angry at me for talking about this issue could not even begin to explain,
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Well-known Twitch streamer, to the extent that any Twitch streamer can be called well-known,
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Hassan Piker, tried to debunk at least one of the things that I said about slavery.
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Well, over one million whites were enslaved in North Africa between the 16th and 19th centuries.
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Most of them abducted and sold by Muslim pirates.
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Africans were raiding Europe for slaves for hundreds of years.
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The school system has totally erased this fact from history.
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First of all, you know, the glories of Muslim pirates doing that was erased,
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probably because the Western world was embarrassed by the L that they held,
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Most frequently to the Ottoman Empire, the sick man of Europe.
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Of course, white people were enslaved in other parts of Africa too and across the world for centuries,
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including in North America, where white servants were shipped to the colonies by the thousands.
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Matt Walsh is doing the classic like chattel slavery is the same as indentured servitude,
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Indentured servitude in and of itself is, of course, still completely unacceptable, obviously.
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But the main differences in that situation is that you can actually purchase your way,
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Not that it's like super likely or whatever, but you can do that
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where there was no purchasing of your freedom as a black slave, okay?
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Your child was immediately also seen as property, whereas indentured servitude doesn't work that way as well.
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And that's precisely why there is a difference between the way that like Irishmen
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or the way that Italians or the way that like whoever the fuck we're talking about in this situation
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were able to assimilate or be welcomed into white society in comparison to black people,
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which Matt Walsh, of course, still doesn't want to welcome into white society.
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Now, we're going to be generous and ignore the part where he refers to the glories,
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And instead, we're going to focus on his claims about indentured servitude.
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This is totally different from chattel slavery, he says.
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You hear a lot of this, this attempt to distinguish chattel slavery from other kinds of slavery.
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Well, in the West, there was chattel slavery, which is so much worse than all the other kinds of slavery.
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So chattel slavery is when the slave is property.
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That's the definition of slavery is when someone is made property.
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So there is no coherent distinction to be made between slavery and chattel slavery.
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This is just what people do when they, in fact, are looking to minimize or justify one type of slavery
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In the indentured servitude thing, he says, well, this is very different.
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In a book called White Cargo, The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America,
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authors Don Jordan and Michael Walsh explain, no relation, by the way, as far as I know,
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that in most cases, an indentured servant, so-called, was simply a slave by another name.
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The servants were bought, sold, and traded like any other slave, like any other property.
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And though their period of bondage was supposed to be temporary,
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oftentimes they were kept in servitude for life after their sentence was complete
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because there was no one around to enforce the terms of the deal.
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Many others were worked to death long before they could be freed.
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Many of these, quote-unquote, indentured servants, when they were shipped to the Americas,
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died within a year because they were worked to death.
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They were worked harder than you worked your livestock.
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Also, as the authors explain, many of the servants did not choose that arrangement at all.
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Kids were kidnapped off the street and sold into servitude.
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Others were coaxed there on false pretenses and then enslaved.
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As a New York Times review of White Cargo says in its concluding sentence,
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this again is the New York Times, which wrote this, but this was 15 years ago,
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there are probably tens of millions of Americans who are descended from white slaves without even knowing it.
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You don't often hear that brought up in the reparations conversation, do you?
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Now, the fact that white people were slaves should not come as a surprise anyway,
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because Slavic people historically were so often enslaved.
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Was the enslavement of black people in America completely different in its barbarity
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from all other forms of slavery across the world and throughout history?
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We've already discussed the conditions of white slaves in Africa
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and of white children abducted and shipped to America and then literally worked to death.
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What we see very quickly from any honest study of the history of slavery
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is that it was unspeakably brutal in all of its forms.
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Galley slaves on Arab ships were kept in chains for years at a time,
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And then if a British patrol approached and they thought that the slaves were going to be liberated,
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they would just cut their throats and throw them overboard.
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Slaves in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans,
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that is, slaves owned by Native American tribes because they all owned slaves,
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were frequently tortured and brutalized, especially in Mesoamerica,
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where they often would be gutted, dismembered, and sometimes cannibalized during religious rituals.
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It was not good to be a slave anywhere, let's just say.
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America was not unique in its relationship with slavery.
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It wasn't even unique in its exploitation of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Most slaves from Africa were shipped not to the U.S., but to the Middle East and South America.
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What makes the U.S.A. different for most countries is not that it had slaves.
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In that fact, it's on the same footing as literally every other country that had existed on Earth until that point,
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but that it had slaves for such a comparatively short amount of time.
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I mean, should we be talking about any of this?
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and it's a truth that a lot of people aren't aware of,
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and it matters because we cannot study history,
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if we're determined to only look at little pieces of the bigger stories.
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Slavery was not America's sin or the Western world's sin.
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One that the Western world ultimately did far more to stamp out and rectify than anyone else.
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It's not just that slavery existed for thousands of years.
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It's that for thousands of years across the world,
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even some of the greatest philosophical and religious thinkers for thousands of years across the world,
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hardly even occurred to anyone that there might be something wrong with the practice in and of itself.
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There are people who spoke out against the conditions of slaves, against the abuse of slaves,
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but very, it's very, very rarely did you hear anyone even get close to criticizing slavery as an institution.
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This was a massive moral blind spot that virtually everyone who existed on Earth for thousands of years shared.
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That there could be a blind spot like that, that everyone shares.
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Something we should probably talk about and think about and learn from.
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So, this, you know, this is just, this is how it goes.
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You tell me to stop talking about it, then I do a 15-minute monologue about it to start the week.
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And, in fact, that ended up, that ended up superseding what I was going to start the show with today originally,
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Because there's a couple of things going on on that issue that are important.
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It says, a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds the U.S. Department of Education
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miscalculated the cost of the federal student loan program.
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Miscalculated is a generous understatement, let's say.
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From 1997 to 2021, the Education Department estimated that payments from federal direct student loans
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would generate $114 billion for the government.
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But the Government Accountability Office found that, as of 2021,
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the program had actually cost the government an estimated $197 billion.
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stems from the unprecedented federal student loan payment pause that began under the CARES Act of 2020.
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The pause has been extended several times under former President Trump and President Biden.
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The most recent extension runs through August 31st.
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A bigger reason for the $311 billion difference, report says,
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is that initial predictions did not account for the high percentage of borrowers
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who ended up enrolling in income-driven repayment plans.
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About half of all direct loans are now paid through these plans,
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which are designed to help people who can't afford to make large monthly payments
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and which promise loan cancellation after 20 to 25 years.
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First of all, the Department of Education is incompetent, useless, should not exist,
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and it's really bad at estimating the costs of things.
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To the extent of estimating a $114 billion windfall,
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that in reality becomes a nearly $200 billion loss, a money pit.
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And that should make you really nervous about this.
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The Education Department is ready to cancel student debt once President Joe Biden gives the word,
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On Thursday, Politico released a report detailing internal memos within the Education Department
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on plans to carry out broad student loan forgiveness.
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Biden has considered moving to cancel $10,000 in student debt for borrowers making under $150,000.
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And the report says the department is prepared to provide that relief within months of any announcement
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for borrowers whose income information is available.
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For example, borrowers without income information readily available to the department would apply
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through a form on studentave.gov to self-certify their income and qualifications for relief per the report.
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So, the Department of Education is ready to do this.
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The most recent student loan pause, as it said, is up at the end of this month that just began.
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So, either Biden is going to kick the can down the road some more and pause it again,
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which I wouldn't be surprised if he does because he's just going to keep pausing until we get to the midterms,
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which at this point it would take, I think, one more pause and you're past the midterms.
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Or he's going to institute some sort of student loan forgiveness.
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Now, on this issue of student debt and so-called forgiveness,
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which is a euphemism that I'm using myself because I'm reading it in these articles,
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but it is, we should keep in mind, it is a euphemism.
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This is not something that anyone has a magic wand where they can wave it and say,
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No, as I always point out, this is not student loan forgiveness.
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I thought this poll from Nina Turner, who's a, I don't know, she's a leftist mouthpiece.
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She has a blue check on Twitter, so she must be important.
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She was, she sent out this poll about student debt,
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and she obviously wanted it to go a certain way.
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And then the options are, no, people should suffer.
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Now, she's phrased it that way because obviously she's hoping that everyone will hit on,
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I mean, obviously, when you phrase it, no, people should suffer,
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So what she ended up with is almost 69% of the respondents of her poll answered,
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And I actually, even though this was not intentional,
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and the way she phrased it was meant to skew the results in favor of debt forgiveness,
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I actually love the way she phrased it because inadvertently she brings up a good point.
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And when you answer no, you know, when you say no,
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you're saying no, people should suffer, but not just people in general.
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Well, it's that the people who took out the loans should suffer because of those loans.
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well, how could you think that people should suffer
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from the consequences of the choices they made?
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Well, because, and look, I would love it if nobody ever had to suffer ever again.
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if there was a poll where we could click a certain option or press a button
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and no one ever has to suffer again, then I would take that option.
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So really, it's a question of not whether people should suffer,
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There is some suffering that's going to happen.
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Either the mostly upper class college graduates who took out these loans
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Or the people who didn't take out the loans can suffer
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because of the loans that the upper class college grads took out.
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People who took out the loans suffer or the people who didn't suffer.
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And another way you could break this down is that, you know,
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upper class college grads can suffer or middle class working class people can suffer.
00:26:02.680
And of those two options, yeah, the people who took out the loans should do the suffering
00:26:12.080
The person who should suffer from the mistake is the person who made it.
00:26:19.700
That's, there's not much to even think about there.
00:26:23.540
And let's make no mistake about this, that if we have student debt, quote unquote, forgiveness,
00:26:29.780
yeah, it might be, it might be a temporary relief for the people who, you know, just look and,
00:26:38.660
But there's going to be a lot of suffering because of it.
00:26:40.760
I mean, that money is going to come from somewhere.
00:26:45.760
And as much as the Democrats might claim, oh, it's going to come from billionaires.
00:26:49.420
No, it's going to come from the working class because it always does.
00:26:53.140
They're always the ones who end up holding the bag.
00:26:55.100
And then there are other consequences, too, like inflation.
00:27:02.960
Okay, inflation that is already causing much suffering.
00:27:08.720
And now you're talking about canceling all student debt, now inflation.
00:27:16.180
Is that going to help us in battling inflation or is that going to hurt us is the question.
00:27:21.180
So this would mean suffering for a lot of people and it would mean suffering for the people
00:27:30.440
This is just, it's, it's, it's not a fun reality.
00:27:37.460
I'm sympathetic to the people who took out these loans because they were duped into it
00:27:43.800
and they were convinced, you know, by the education system, by their high school guidance counselors,
00:27:52.220
by their own parents, by the media, by everybody, by the college, you know, by the university
00:27:57.540
system, especially that they have to take out these loans and purchase this really expensive
00:28:02.440
piece of paper, purchase the degree, because if they don't, then they're going to be failures
00:28:06.840
and they're never going to have any chances at success in life.
00:28:10.480
It's a scam, but, uh, there were a lot of people that were duped into it and I feel bad for those
00:28:16.200
I'm very sympathetic to them, but my sympathy dries up the moment you take your hand and
00:28:28.840
The moment you try to offload your suffering onto someone else, that's when my sympathy goes
00:28:40.240
Now, if you are carrying this burden with, uh, some stoicism, you know, if you're, if
00:28:46.840
you're carrying it with some courage and strength and saying that like, this is really, really
00:28:50.760
hard and it's not fair and I was lied to and I paid six figures for this stupid piece
00:28:59.320
of paper, which has done nothing for me, but you carry it because there's no other choice
00:29:05.900
and the last thing you're going to do is expect anyone else to carry it for you.
00:29:09.640
You know, if you do that, then, then all the sympathy in the world.
00:29:16.220
There's just no, there is no magic wand way around this.
00:29:18.800
What we can start thinking about and talking about is what do we do going forward?
00:29:26.840
Because we're left with this really difficult situation.
00:29:30.120
Um, and it's a very unfair situation for a lot of people.
00:29:34.640
It's just that, you know, it, yes, I think it's, it is, it is unfair.
00:29:37.620
I mean, the idea like 18 years old, you can make a choice like this.
00:29:40.620
These 18 year old kids don't know what they're doing.
00:29:46.900
So if it's, if it's already unfair in many ways to expect people who took out these loans
00:29:51.440
when they're 18 to pay them back, how much more unfair is it to expect people who never
00:29:59.080
But if we want to rectify the unfair situation in the future, what we have to do is start telling
00:30:07.560
people the truth, start telling kids the truth.
00:30:15.320
It is that it is a, it is in many cases malignant.
00:30:20.600
And the college, the university system's overall effect on the culture has been generally malignant
00:30:31.660
You can just sidestep that completely and go off and have a lot of success in life.
00:30:37.780
And the really great thing is that if you do, if you do just leap right over this thing
00:30:44.880
that they told, this step that they told you you had to take and you go off and you live
00:30:49.180
your life down the line, when you're, when you're older and you actually have some financial
00:30:55.660
means, if you decide that you actually do want to go to college, you still can.
00:31:08.060
It says, um, well, first of all, Thursday night was the, um, the congressional baseball
00:31:20.420
Of course, it was only five years ago that Republicans were attacked, um, during a baseball,
00:31:26.480
during a baseball game by a crazed Bernie bro who went there with a hit list intent on
00:31:34.340
And, um, so you might think that given that history, that this would be, you know, a congressional
00:31:40.460
baseball game is a, is a time for displays of unity and brotherly love.
00:31:45.080
You might think that if you're brain damaged, but if not, you're, you're not surprised to
00:31:49.320
see this representative Linda Sanchez, a Democrat from California after I believe striking out,
00:31:55.720
we can only assume she's, uh, walking by the GOP dugout and then she does this.
00:32:01.280
She, she flips them off as she walks by lead off the inning.
00:32:06.980
We'll get an eye on who the pinch runner is going to be.
00:32:08.820
It looks like it's going to be Jeffries and she will come off to a nice ovation.
00:32:15.080
Well, not much reaction from the flip off there.
00:32:23.500
I guess I take from the context there that she, she did, she did get a hit, but then she
00:32:31.340
No big surprise there, but she, she goes by the dugout and she just flips off the Republicans.
00:32:38.020
I mean, this is like, this is a lawmaker, right?
00:32:40.460
This is someone who's supposed to, there was a time when you expected, there's never been
00:32:45.900
a time when, when politics was anything but a rough and tumble sport, but there was a time
00:32:50.220
when you would expect some measure of decorum and dignity and statesmanship from your elected
00:32:59.340
Even when they were pummeling each other over the head, when, you know, when arguments in
00:33:06.000
Congress became physically violent, still there was some dignity and decorum to it.
00:33:13.260
So it's not a surprise to see that, but here's her excuse from the daily wire.
00:33:16.840
She said, says a Democrat representative, Linda Sanchez claimed in a statement Friday afternoon
00:33:20.680
that she flipped off the Republican dugout during Thursday night's congressional baseball
00:33:24.420
game because she heard a sexist remark being made as she ran back to the Democrats' dugout.
00:33:31.580
The statement read, the congressional baseball game is one of my favorite events of the year.
00:33:34.940
It's a great cause and brings both sides of the aisle together for a night off from partisan
00:33:39.640
That's why it really struck a nerve when I heard an offensive and misogynistic comment from
00:33:43.320
the Republican side on my way back to the dugout.
00:33:47.540
So there was a, it was an offensive and misogynistic comment that was made to her.
00:33:50.800
She doesn't say what the comment was and I guess being very charitable, she never meant,
00:34:00.740
Well, this excuse didn't really land and that's why a day later she clarified the story yet
00:34:07.740
It says, now Sanchez is clarifying her story again.
00:34:11.280
She's now saying it wasn't the Republican team that made the comment.
00:34:17.060
It was an obnoxious fan who shouts misogynistic S at me every single year.
00:34:24.580
She says, actually they, you know, she's the victim here.
00:34:27.340
She says, if the Republican women would have stood up and said, that's not acceptable instead
00:34:32.280
of, you know, trashing me for my response, then we might have a place where there's no
00:34:39.760
And yet, amid all these excuses that she's offering, she still has not, she's not told
00:34:50.380
And she even says, well, it wasn't now, you know, it wasn't the, it wasn't the Republican,
00:34:56.160
It was someone on their side up in the, in the stands who, who made the comment, but she
00:35:00.540
knows who the guy is because she says he's there every year.
00:35:03.620
But very nice of her to not mention his name because Democrats are known for that, right?
00:35:12.720
They're very reticent to throw anybody under the bus, to name names, to send the outrage
00:35:24.320
It says, there's a chance the identity of the winner of the $1.3 billion mega millions
00:35:29.560
jackpot will never be known, thanks to an Illinois law allowing people who score more
00:35:36.940
The winning ticket to the mind-boggling fortune was sold at the Speedy Cafe Speedway gas station,
00:35:45.740
And, uh, but no one yet has come forward to claim the prize.
00:35:49.700
There's a, there was, the jackpot was up to $1.3 billion.
00:35:55.300
So this apparently is not the highest jackpot that the lottery's ever had.
00:36:02.680
What don't have a billion dollars in the lottery that somebody won back in 2018 and we still
00:36:09.620
Probably a smart move to not tell people who you are if you win a billion dollars in the
00:36:13.940
I only mention this because, and I know this is one of those things that for whatever reason
00:36:18.900
nobody cares about, but just, just FYI, you know, lotteries are one of the most indefensible
00:36:27.160
and dystopian things that we all take for granted.
00:36:31.500
We all just kind of accept that the lottery exists and lots of people like it and they
00:36:36.760
Um, but this is an actual gambling ring run by the government.
00:36:42.340
And in the case of the mega millions, it's a, I guess, a consortium of, uh, consortium
00:36:49.600
But however they divvy it up, this is the government, state governments, um, governmental powers that
00:36:59.380
And, and this happens even as many other forms of private gambling are banned.
00:37:04.340
In some states, in fact, I think there's at least, I don't know, there's, there's several,
00:37:09.100
I don't know how many, five, six maybe, uh, states where the only form of gambling that's
00:37:14.400
allowed is that which the government runs and profits off of.
00:37:29.000
And that's, by the way, the one form of gambling where you're the least likely to win.
00:37:39.700
It's just as addictive as, if not more so, any other form of gambling.
00:37:43.620
But the difference is that unlike sport, like with sports betting, you could actually get
00:37:46.700
good at it and, uh, and win money consistently.
00:37:49.500
I know people who do, uh, but with, uh, with the lottery, there's no way to master it and
00:37:56.340
And yet that's the one kind that's allowed in a lot of states.
00:38:00.980
Um, and the reason that they give, just add insult to injury, the reason given for banning
00:38:06.220
these other forms of gambling in other states is, uh, they always give moral reasons.
00:38:16.520
And yet the very agents of the government making this argument are running their own
00:38:30.240
It's a tax on addicts, people who, you know, dump.
00:38:35.440
I mean, we've all, we've all been at the gas station standing behind some pathetic sight
00:38:43.620
And you could tell it's, this is like, this is their gas money and, and grocery bill for
00:39:01.600
And if you do win, it's worse than not winning because it's almost certain to destroy your
00:39:09.380
Like, it's one thing to hit it big on sports betting, but to just take someone, some average
00:39:16.940
person and hand them like $900 million is, uh, that's almost a death sentence.
00:39:23.060
Guaranteeing it's going to ruin, rip their lives apart.
00:39:27.820
Uh, they're going to die of an overdose, all the rest of it.
00:39:32.580
Yeah, it's just one of the, I guess it's because there, there are so many corrupt and inexcusable
00:39:36.860
and indefensible things that the government does that you have to, you have to pick your
00:39:40.440
And so I guess we kind of, kind of gloss over this one, which maybe is somewhat understandable.
00:39:47.840
This is from ESPN, um, news hot off the presses here.
00:39:50.680
It says Cleveland Browns quarterback, Deshaun Watson will serve a six game suspension for
00:39:54.720
violating the league's personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct.
00:40:00.180
So if you haven't followed this story at all, um, Deshaun Watson is a superstar quarterback
00:40:09.600
now for the Cleveland Browns after being traded from the Houston Texans.
00:40:13.960
And now he's going to get a six game suspension.
00:40:16.040
And this is after being accused of, um, um, of sexual assault by, I think we're up to 26
00:40:29.940
So it's the same story they all tell where they were either assaulted or, you know, harassed
00:40:36.540
in very graphic ways while giving Deshaun Watson a massage.
00:40:40.440
And what we know about him is that he has, is that while he was in Houston, he cycled through
00:40:46.560
like 40 different masseuses over the course of like a year or two.
00:40:54.660
26 women come out and say, this is what happened to them.
00:41:01.860
No, no monetary fine either being added on top of that.
00:41:05.340
And this is where, you know, it's important to distinguish between a lot of the Me Too
00:41:15.200
Because during the height of the Me Too hysteria, there were plenty of men who suffered far worse
00:41:21.280
consequences while being accused of things not nearly as bad as this.
00:41:29.040
But this is what Me Too does is one thing it does is that it, you know, kind of just discredits
00:41:37.600
And in this case, yeah, it's, there isn't any physical evidence because of the nature
00:41:41.780
of the accusation that if, if he did physically sexually assault or harass someone during a
00:41:48.040
massage, there would, what kind of physical evidence could there possibly be of that?
00:41:54.160
And so all you're left with is the accusations, but 26?
00:42:01.080
Just because one woman comes out and accuses a famous man of doing something doesn't mean
00:42:05.520
If another woman comes out and corroborates and said, same thing happened to me, doesn't
00:42:11.640
Another woman comes out also doesn't mean it's true.
00:42:13.720
But at a certain point, when you get into the 20s, you do have to stop and think like,
00:42:24.460
Lots of guys go get massages and none of them have ever been accused of 25 women of sexual
00:42:36.540
And yet, interestingly enough, even though there are plenty of men at the height of the
00:42:41.280
Me Too hysteria who are accused of far less, had far less evidence against them, because
00:42:48.760
25 accusations, I mean, that is a form of evidence, right?
00:42:51.400
That's testimony against you, and yet suffered far worse repercussions.
00:43:02.440
All right, one other thing I want to mention before we get to the comment section.
00:43:10.620
It said, explorers have discovered a series of mysterious, perfectly aligned holes punched
00:43:14.680
into the seafloor, roughly 1.6 miles beneath the ocean surface, and they have no idea who
00:43:21.640
The strange holes were spotted by the crew of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
00:43:26.720
Explorer Vessel as they investigated the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a mostly unexplored region of the seafloor
00:43:31.940
that is part of the world's largest mountain range.
00:43:34.760
The holes form a straight line and appear at irregularly repeating distances, and they
00:43:41.960
And no one knows exactly where these holes came from.
00:43:44.460
What's so fascinating about this, as I once again try to convince you to care about a science
00:43:50.240
story, what's fascinating is how little we actually know about our oceans and what's
00:43:58.800
That's because the oceans are so vast, obviously, but also they're so inhospitable to, if not
00:44:05.040
Because deep down in the ocean, it's extremely dark and cold.
00:44:08.360
The water pressure, if you go all the way down to the deepest part of the Marianas Trench,
00:44:11.900
six or seven miles down, you're talking about 15,000 pounds of pressure per square inch,
00:44:16.100
which is the equivalent of having like a bunch of tanks or cement trucks stacked on top of
00:44:21.120
And yet there are all kinds of life forms living deep in the ocean anyway.
00:44:24.360
Who are, who are able to survive in those conditions.
00:44:31.120
And who knows what else is going on down there?
00:44:43.900
Who aren't, who knows who or what made those holes?
00:44:48.600
We may never know, but it was probably aliens is the point I was getting to.
00:44:57.220
Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.
00:45:08.120
Sprint Kick says, this human filing cabinet would be something seen on Mars where the atmosphere
00:45:15.720
The fact that the elites think this would be a good idea here really illustrates their contempt
00:45:20.560
The guy who's referring to the city of the future that we talked about on, uh, on Thursday's
00:45:25.880
And this is something that they're supposedly going to build in Saudi Arabia.
00:45:29.020
And then they, and then they hope to export it to other countries, including our own,
00:45:32.440
which just a long, they call it the line, but really it's just a long, vast rectangle where
00:45:41.660
And you would live there between these mirrored walls your whole life and never leave.
00:45:47.440
Um, and yeah, it does, it does kind of remind you of what you would put on a planet if it
00:45:51.480
was a total wasteland that couldn't sustain human life.
00:45:54.600
And the other point there is that Mars and Venus are, are, you know, you mentioned Mars, Venus
00:46:03.420
Good case studies, I think, in the sort of inevitable course of all planets, because, because both
00:46:10.660
of them were once like earth, you know, they had oceans and atmospheres and everything probably
00:46:15.040
had life on them, but now they're barren wastelands.
00:46:18.200
And it's not because anybody was driving SUVs on those planets three billion years ago, as
00:46:25.820
far as we know, but just because this is the course of nature.
00:46:29.880
This is the course of the universe and it's inevitable and there's nothing you can really
00:46:38.700
Um, Zachary Todd says, I'm glad someone else is finally calling out the BS midget just randomly
00:46:44.620
went from being normal to being a slur without any explanation.
00:46:48.200
Well, it's like I said, there's this absurd idea that the comfort level of the speaker,
00:46:55.720
The comfort level of you as the speaker doesn't matter.
00:46:58.700
It's only the comfort level of the person hearing whatever you're saying that matters,
00:47:06.900
So some people, for whatever reason, feel more comfortable hearing little people than midget,
00:47:12.340
which, which is fine if that's what they prefer.
00:47:14.160
And if that's what they want to say, but I don't feel more comfortable saying that.
00:47:19.040
It feels weird to me to say little people instead of midget.
00:47:22.280
And since I'm the one speaking, shouldn't it be up to me what words I use based on my
00:47:27.260
own comfort level, based on what feels right to me?
00:47:29.640
Annie says, Matt, to this day, I regret objecting when my husband tried to confront some pervert
00:47:39.920
My marriage would be better today if I just sat quietly and let him deck the guy.
00:47:44.340
We've come to a point in our culture where women don't know how to be protected any more
00:47:50.160
So I think that's a really important insight there.
00:47:54.260
It's not just men losing the instincts and the ability, the desire, the will to protect women.
00:48:03.760
But on the other side of it, you know, women should allow themselves to be protected by men.
00:48:11.640
So both of these things are happening all at once.
00:48:13.700
Mike says, I'm roughly the same age as Matt, and I remember in elementary school believing
00:48:21.040
that if AIDS didn't get me, it would be the acid rain.
00:48:24.460
Those were the childhood propaganda of our time.
00:48:28.360
Yeah, and we've talked about, you know, we've been over this, especially in the 90s.
00:48:35.520
If you made the mistake of going to elementary school in the 90s, which at least is better
00:48:39.820
than going to elementary school now, but there are a lot of things you didn't have to deal
00:48:43.120
with in the 90s in elementary school that kids today do have to deal with.
00:48:47.080
But one of the big things in the 90s in elementary school is that you were told about AIDS, and
00:48:52.080
you were told that anyone can get it, and you're like basically just walking past someone in a
00:48:58.000
And I do always wonder if all of this AIDS propaganda and paranoia being, you know,
00:49:07.140
shoved into the minds of kids in the 90s, if that has helped to turn us into
00:49:15.860
And then when you get to the COVID panic and the way that especially my generation has
00:49:20.420
reacted to it, many of them still walking around with masks on, you know, is it because
00:49:24.540
of like the mental conditioning that started way back 30 years ago?
00:49:32.480
And finally, another comment says, I think it's really hard to fall in deep and genuine
00:49:36.460
love with anyone if you don't like them even a little bit on the outside.
00:49:41.120
Men, and yes, women too, do take looks into consideration, even if they don't want to
00:49:45.700
We need to stop going by the exceptions to the rule.
00:49:48.280
Those who don't take even a small amount of looks into consideration.
00:49:51.200
Well, it's not just a matter of taking looks into consideration, right?
00:50:05.180
We aren't hermit crabs living in shells, right?
00:50:08.580
Now, the difference for women is that their perception of your physical attractiveness is
00:50:14.280
more determined by aspects of you that are not physical.
00:50:19.060
So, like, if a woman finds you smart and thinks that you're kind and generous and funny, especially
00:50:26.620
funny, then she'll begin to perceive you as more physically attractive, even if in reality
00:50:37.220
Because without this advantage, we would, most of us, probably die alone.
00:50:41.820
All right, so this is the moment in the show where in years past I would have read you an
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I would have said something like, hey, you millions of listeners, I love Harry's, go
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But I'm not going to do that because I don't love Harry's.
00:50:55.580
If you don't know the story by now, Harry's used to advertise on our shows until someone
00:50:59.220
here said that boys are boys and girls are girls, if you can imagine the horror of a
00:51:04.540
This was too much for our sponsor who pulled their ads due to values misalignment.
00:51:08.940
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00:51:12.760
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00:51:14.700
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Today we cancel Mary Catherine Starr, who is the artist, podcaster, consultant, professional
00:52:01.240
yoga instructor with pronouns in her bio, though that last detail I'm sure would already have
00:52:05.840
been assumed, who's amassed a large online following through her viral comics depicting
00:52:13.460
Now if you spend any time on social media, you may have already encountered one or two
00:52:16.340
or 20 of these mom life comics where Starr shares her relatable insights into marriage.
00:52:21.840
Relatable to her anyway, and I suppose to the band of bitter, sullen women who follow her
00:52:27.680
It becomes clear rather quickly after glancing at her work that Starr really does not enjoy
00:52:31.680
motherhood very much, doesn't like her husband very much, and is now attempting to
00:52:38.520
Much of it centers around, as a glowing profile in the Huffington Post explains, the unfair
00:52:46.140
Except that these viral comics often seem less relevant to society and more based on whatever
00:52:51.340
petty gripe she has about her husband on any particular day.
00:52:54.820
For example, one of her recent offerings, which has circulated widely on social media, is captioned,
00:53:00.480
one of the many differences between me and my husband.
00:53:03.820
In one panel, we see her staring at a peach on the table, and the thought bubble says,
00:53:12.860
And the next panel shows her husband, and his thought bubble says, oh look, the last ripe
00:53:17.760
I'll use it as a special treat in my daily smoothie.
00:53:21.880
Now surely her husband deserves this public shaming for having the audacity to eat the food
00:53:29.000
In another comic, this one with nearly 20,000 likes on Instagram, she tells us the saga of
00:53:45.480
What I want to say in response is, they're in the same place they've been for the past five
00:53:49.340
years, in the same place I put them every time I washed them and put them away.
00:53:52.600
Presumably the same place you've gotten them from a thousand times before.
00:53:55.520
Unless, of course, you've never gotten either one of our kids a bib in the past five years.
00:54:00.860
But what I actually say, in the corner cabinet, the same place they've always been.
00:54:08.280
Nothing like bitching about your spouse publicly while also congratulating yourself for being
00:54:14.120
Oftentimes, she seems to make no attempt to be humorous at all.
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I'm being generous in assuming that some of this is at least supposed to be somewhat funny,
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So, and in these other cases, she just simply lectures her husband directly, like this one.
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It says, me trying to explain our household dynamics in terms my husband understands.
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Then we see her saying, on most sports teams, you have a superstar or a playmaker who makes
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Then you often have that one person who just stands around waiting for other people to
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We need you to step up so we can win as a team.
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Now, here we see the danger of making a sports analogy when you've never watched a single
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But we're going to return to that in just a moment.
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There are many other examples we don't need to cycle through.
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She has comments complaining that her husband doesn't carry as many grocery bags from the
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Another where she complains that her husband gets to work out alone while she has to work
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However, she complains that once he wore a winter hat that was hers without her permission.
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She complains that he takes up too much room on the couch when he naps.
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She complains that he gets to nap in the first place and she doesn't.
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She complains that he takes too long to run errands.
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She has many comments complaining that her husband spends too much time going to the bathroom.
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This is a theme she returns to over and over again.
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Her husband's defecation habits have been thoroughly chronicled by this woman.
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She even has a Father's Day card that she's created, which centers around this theme.
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It says, this Father's Day, take as much time as you need in the bathroom.
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So this Father's Day, take as much time as you need in the bathroom and I promise not
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While this is passive aggressive, it's at least a little bit nicer than the Mother's Day card
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that I wish her husband would give to her sometime.
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It could say something like, happy Mother's Day.
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Being with you is at least better than being fed feet first into a wood chipper.
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Though the wood chipper is looking better every day.
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Her husband, we can assume, lacks the gumption to say anything like that to her.
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But others on the internet have spoken up on his behalf, suggesting that maybe she should
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stop incessantly whining publicly about her marriage.
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Maybe this is something she could do in counseling or something.
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In response to the critics this weekend, she martyred herself some more, posting a defiant
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response on Instagram and extensively quoting Taylor Swift lyrics at the same time.
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And she, of course, chalked the criticism up to sexism and said that anyone who disagrees
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with her approach will be blocked, which certainly is the least intimidating threat ever issued
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But at the risk of maybe suffering the same fate, I want to offer some thoughts to this
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I mean, given that she's talking publicly about it, I guess it's fair game.
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First of all, I don't know how many of these complaints accurately describe her husband's
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There's no reason to think that any of them are 100% fair.
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I do know that many of them certainly don't accurately describe husbands in general as
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I've never met a man who doesn't take immense pride in his ability to transport an entire
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trunk full of grocery bags into the kitchen in one trip.
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As for having kids draped all over you while exercising, I actually encourage my kids to
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do that to me because it adds extra resistance and makes for a more effective workout.
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It might be true that men take longer to complete one specific bathroom activity, but this is
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balanced out by the amount of time that women take to do everything else in the bathroom.
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And do we as men have a habit of forgetting where things are in the house, often staring
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helplessly at our own kitchen cabinets and pantries as if this is the first time we've
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I mean, that stereotype is, I admit, richly deserved.
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All husbands are deeply and irretrievably flawed.
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As a wife, you will not be able to turn your husband into a perfect specimen of faultless
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You especially won't be able to accomplish that by scolding, nagging, or whining.
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That approach always, and I mean always, has the opposite effect.
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The only thing you can do is decide whether you will obsessively focus on your husband's
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You have to decide if you want to be a martyr or simply a wife.
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Do you want to stew in the juices of your own resentment, constantly adding to the broth
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Or do you want to actually be happy and content, or at least have a chance of happiness and contentment?
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Are you going to be so resentful over the chores you do around the house that simply being around you
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Because despite what you apparently believe, your husband certainly has a whole litany of
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He may not say them out loud very often or post about them on the internet because he respects
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you more than you respect him, but he has them.
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No husband is perfect, yes, but neither is any wife.
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I wonder, have you ever taken a break during one of your self-pity sessions to reflect on the things
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You've devoted hours and days and months and years to thinking about, talking about, crying about,
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screaming about all the many ways that you're put upon, oppressed, unappreciated.
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But have you ever at any point allowed for even one second of honest self-reflection?
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If you feel that your husband is so oblivious to his failings that you need to point them out 75 times
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a day, have you considered the possibility that you might suffer from the same blind spot?
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Or worse, are you aware of your failings and yet you justify them to yourself by comparing them
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And if this is the case, and I'm certain that it is, have you considered that he might be doing
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Perhaps your marriage is stuck in a cycle of self-rationalization and self-martyrdom,
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and it will continue in that circle all the way around the drain.
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Your sports analogy was instructive, but not for the reason that you hoped.
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You say that there's always the one guy on the team who stands around doing nothing.
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Now that might be true on amateur teams like in Little League or Pop Warner or on the Detroit Lions,
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but in the big leagues, everyone on the field or on the court is involved.
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They're all doing something on every play, even if they appear to be doing not much at
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So someone who doesn't understand football might watch the action, you know, from whistle
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to whistle and conclude that the left tackle is mostly just a spectator.
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But those who know the game understand that he has an indispensable role to play, even if
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it's less glamorous, less highlight worthy, less praised.
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And even if he tends to only get his name called when he screws up.
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In spite of that, he's in the trenches on every play, filling a role that no one else
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So I wonder if you might misinterpret your marriage in the same way that you misinterpret
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Just because you don't appreciate or understand all the ways that your husband contributes,
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I mean, this could be less a problem with his effort and more a problem with your self-centered
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refusal to even attempt to see things from his perspective.
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You're the superstar, the playmaker in your own mind.
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And just like any other player who elevates himself while denigrating his team, you're
01:02:08.360
You're destroying your team, in fact, while telling yourself that you're the only one helping
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So I would recommend that you try watching a game before saying anything else about sports
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and also try looking in the mirror before saying anything else about your marriage.
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