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Summary
LSU sports reporter Lindsay Goh claims she was groped during a live shot at the Georgia-Clemson game on Saturday night. Was it intentional or was she simply overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of 90,000 drunk and delirious football fans?
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Today, I'm very excited, actually, to cancel a woman by the name of Lindsay Goh.
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This, I believe, is one of the most highly deserved cancellations we've done in several
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weeks, though, of course, they're all highly deserved.
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Our friend Lindsay is a sports reporter and also the sports director over at WTOC in Georgia.
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Now, to be a sports reporter in Georgia, you have to know and love college football.
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Because your audience knows and loves college football.
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And part of loving college football is loving the atmosphere, the experience.
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The game of football is fast and violent and intense and sometimes brutal.
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The experience of watching the game live in the stadium, especially at college stadium,
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is loud and rowdy and soaked in beer with people screaming out of anger and out of joy,
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often switching between the two from second to second.
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And as a football fan myself, this all sounds like a tremendous amount of fun to me.
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So on Saturday night, Georgia defeated Clemson at home in a hard-fought 10-3 victory.
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Lindsay was reporting at the stadium and decided to set up for a live shot right at the exits
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as 90,000 drunk and deliriously excited football fans were filing out.
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But she chose to set up her cameras in the midst of this swarm and then was less than pleased
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Later that night, she tweeted, got all kinds of violated during my first live hit by fans.
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She also claimed that she'd been groped, quote unquote.
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And she said after that the experience was that she was stressed by the experience and startled
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But courageously, she assured the public that she was OK.
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Then the next day, as the nation waited with bated breath for an update from Lindsay, who
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was stressed and frazzled at the football game, she finally released the footage.
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Now, it's up to the eye of the beholder, or the beer holder, as the case may be, to decide
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whether Lindsay was, in fact, groped and violated, or whether she was simply greeted with the kind
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of boozy enthusiasm that literally anyone standing in front of a camera in that situation would
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We're hitting defensive slugfest, and the dogs ran away with it.
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OK, you know, my only problem watching that is all the people who, you know, they got
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They got their time on camera, and then they kind of froze, and they had nothing to say.
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I mean, if you're going to intrude into the shot, I respect it, because, again, you're
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A couple people, they kind of stuck their head into the shot, and they couldn't think
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Now, as far as I could tell, only one person made physical contact with her by touching
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And as I always tell my kids all the time, you've got to keep your hands to yourself.
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It is impolite to touch somebody on the shoulder like that when they don't want to be touched.
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Has a person been violated because another person made non-consensual contact with their
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shoulder for 10 seconds or two seconds, really?
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We have all been groped and violated thousands of times in our lives.
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And meanwhile, the stories of women who have actually been groped and violated are buried
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somewhere under this avalanche of brief, benign, non-sexual, incidental physical contact
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As for the rest of it, Lindsay was encountering what, again, anybody who has set up any kind
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of camera outside of any college or professional sporting event has encountered.
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The crazy thing is you can see in her face from the beginning that she has no patience
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She doesn't appear to want to be there to begin with.
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And as soon as people start walking past, she's fuming mad.
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But she's the one who set up the camera exactly where thousands of people will be walking.
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This is like a guy from the Weather Channel reporting live from the beach during a hurricane
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and whining the whole time because his hair is getting wet.
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It's like if I tried to make a phone call while sitting in the stands at a NASCAR race.
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Hey, fellas, can you pump the brakes for a minute?
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Of course, that's not to say that reporters can't or shouldn't report live from stadiums.
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It's just to say that they should be ready to match the volume, intensity, and exuberance
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And I certainly don't want to claim that this is one of the reasons why men make better sports
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Instead, I'll just show you an example of how it's supposed to be done.
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Well, it's been 644 days since the last time Williams Price did not have restrictions as
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And while that ends, a new chapter begins as Shane Beamer begins his new era as the head
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football coach at the University of South Carolina.
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the front lots here at the University of South Carolina.
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I'm Mike Yuba, and it is game day, something Gamecock fans have been waiting for for quite
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And look, there's a lot of storylines we can talk about.
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We can talk about how Shane Beamer is making his debut.
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We can talk about how Eric Kimry, the former Gamecock quarterback, the coach that he had
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these last couple of years is making his debut as an assistant coach.
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But perhaps, perhaps the biggest storyline is the fact that you have a former grad assistant
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coach, Seth Nolan, way in under center tonight as the starting quarterback.
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Early in the week, we had a chance to be able to catch up with both Seth and Coach Beamer.
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Now, that was Fox reporter Mike Yuba, who, in fairness to Lindsey, Mike is putting on an
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absolute clinic in that broadcast that few sports reporters could fully match.
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And before you say that this was different because nobody physically touched him, here
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he is broadcasting from a bar during March Madness a few years ago.
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From the first time since 1973, USC is running to the Sweet Sixties.
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It is unbelievable here at the Village Idiot and the Blind Boys.
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As you can hear, the beers are just absolutely loving it.
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But covered in beer, people grabbing onto his back and his shoulders.
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Lindsey would be in counseling for a year after that experience.
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That's what I want to see Lindsey in that environment.
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She'd be telling stories about the trauma to her grandchildren 40 years from now.
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And who knows how the story would evolve by then.
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Now, I was trying to do a live shot from the bar and all these basketball fans with machetes
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Now, it wouldn't be fair to say that all female sports reporters are like Lindsey.
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But even so, I must say, this situation only demonstrates why I personally prefer for sports
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broadcasts, especially football broadcasts, to be handled mostly by men.
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Lindsey, though worse than the average, even as far as female sports reporters go, is definitely
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not the only female to enter into this mostly male space and seek to feminize it.
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She wants the football stadium to be quiet and gentle, considerate, respectful of personal
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She wants it to be a more feminine environment.
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She's not trying to assimilate herself into the culture of football fans.
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She is rather hoping that they assimilate themselves to her.
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Sports just happen to be an area where the problem is especially pronounced and obvious.
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Females enter into areas that have typically catered and mostly belong to men.
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And then, often quite successfully, they try to change them, to emasculate them, and thereby
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destroy the primary reason for their existence in the first place.
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This phenomenon is so far-reaching in football especially that they're even changing the rules
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now to make the game itself more gentle and feminine.
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Football is still violent, but it's less violent than it used to be.
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This year, they're even focusing on penalizing players who say mean or rude things to each other
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They've been doing this during the preseason in the NFL.
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All of this, along with the token female sideline reporters and the female analysts at halftime,
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it's an effort to make the game less appealing to the people the game was invented for to begin with.
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women are experiencing the same problem in the reverse.
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Female spaces are being invaded by men, often the most private spaces, like locker rooms, for example.
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Not better. It's actually worse, but it's different.
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Because the men invading female spaces do try to assimilate themselves, but they assimilate themselves too much.
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They assimilate themselves to the point of pretending to actually be women.
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And the effect, ultimately, is that women don't just lose their spaces, as men have lost ours,
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And it all starts from the incorrect assumption that there is something wrong with men and women having their own spaces,
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Sports reporter Lindsay didn't create this problem, but she is just one more example of it.
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And for that reason, she is today, I must say, canceled.
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Today we have the exciting opportunity to cancel a pet food company.
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The Better Choice Company makes super-premium natural pet food for millennial and Gen Z pet parents.
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Now, we've already have enough fodder here just in the opening sentence to cancel everybody in sight,
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As Yahoo Finance reports, the very unaptly named Better Choice Company
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has launched a new ad campaign for its Halo dog food brand.
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And here's the marketing pitch according to Yahoo.
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That's why Better Choice Company, a pet health and wellness company,
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unveils its new marketing campaign to celebrate pet parenthood.
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The new Halo pet campaign sets out to validate and empower the new generation of pet moms.
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The campaign launches in support of the company's new brand, Halo Elevate,
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a super-premium natural pet food backed by science.
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They are, however, enthusiastically embracing pet parenthood,
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The new campaign from Halo is speaking to these pet moms and saying,
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I might think that this ad campaign was made specifically to annoy me personally,
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And those suspicions are not much allayed by the actual ad itself,
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Halo makes the world's best food for the world's best kids.
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Natural, science-based nutrition for their optimal health.
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Halo, the world's best food for the world's best kids.
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I don't deny that having kids is actually more difficult than having a dog,
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I find it a bit concerning that nobody at this dog food company
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In fact, dogs tend to be way more destructive than children.
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They also can be significantly noisier and more annoying.
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My kids don't wake me up in the middle of the night barking.
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I don't have to take my kids outside of the dead of winter
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and stand there waiting for them to take a dump in the grass.
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None of my kids have ever vomited on the kitchen tile
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and someone in the house had torn into my bookshelf
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what kind of kids these people have encountered.
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and often I have to deploy various methods of encouragement,
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and walks it over to the other side of the room
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like they can pour their own bowls of cereal in the morning.
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In fact, they can do literally thousands of things
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that the dog cannot do and will never be able to do.
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I've cared for them every moment of their lives.