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Okay.
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But before we get into the real subject matter for today, which is very, very important.
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So you'll stick around for that.
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I want to give you a quick update on some of the news that we've been discussing over the
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last several weeks.
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So on episode 243, 245 and 247 of this podcast, we've talked about a lot of the craziness
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that's been going on in school systems, whether it's content that's in the classrooms, whether
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it's what's going on at the school board meetings, whether it's what the government
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is doing at the school board meetings, but that's specifically what I talked about on
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episode 245.
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It's called when the government treats parents like domestic terrorists.
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And this has been a crazy set of circumstances.
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You'll just have to go back to that episode to really listen to it where I dig in.
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But on Friday of last week, I mean, of course, they're trying to bury this in the news cycle.
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But on Friday of last week, the National School Boards Association actually issued an apology
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for the letter that they sent to the White House a few weeks back where they asked for
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federal law enforcement to help them control what they called threats of violence and acts
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of intimidation at their school board meetings.
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Okay.
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They asked the White House specifically to use the Patriot Act, okay, to help with this.
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And they actually said this.
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This is a quote directly from the letter that they sent to the White House, quote, acts
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of malice, violence and threats against public school officials could be the equivalent to
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a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.
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Unquote.
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I mean, just an astonishing word from from them are an astonishing phrase from them that
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they could possibly think that they'd say that and then actually put that into the public
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sphere.
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And guys, again, I go into a ton of detail on episode 245 of this podcast.
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So if you're like, God, I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Go listen to episode 245.
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It'll all make sense.
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So you can go back, listen to it, make sure you're all squared away.
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But as soon as that letter became public and as soon as the attorney general, the United
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States, you know, the lead for, you know, law enforcement officer, there was a tremendous
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amount of backlash because Merigarland came out and he immediately agreed with this.
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Right.
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There's there's some idea that there was corroboration between the national school boards association
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and the White House before it went to attorney general Merigarland.
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But parents have been furious.
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Attorneys general from individual states from all over the country have been pushing back
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saying, if you do this, we're, we're going to sue you.
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We're going to absolutely crush you.
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But then I think the most damning thing that happened in this entire story was when Merigarland
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was brought before Congress last week to testify and talk about a lot of different things,
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but specifically this letter.
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Now I can't off the top of my head, I can't remember the representative that was questioning
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him at this time, but he asked Merigarland, what data have you seen that has proven to
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you that there is such a crazy situation going on right now in school boards all across the
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country that we need to send out federal law enforcement to help and to treat parents as
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if they are domestic terrorists.
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And Merigarland referred to the letter he got from the national school boards association.
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And that was it.
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His evidence, his data, his backing for his play to say, yeah, we'll absolutely investigate
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these things and, you know, send out federal law enforcement to help with these school board
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meetings was the letter asking for that, which is to say he had no data at all.
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He had no evidence at all.
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This guy is a sham.
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Aren't you so glad that he's not on the Supreme Court?
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Like my goodness.
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But again, we're not going to spend a lot of time on this one today because I just want
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to give you an update, but we need to be clear about why the National School Boards Association
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is apologizing.
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Why they're apologizing.
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Okay.
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They're not doing it because they feel bad.
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They're, I mean, they're, they don't feel bad about this.
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They're not doing it because they realize the error of their ways.
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You know, they're not doing it because they're truly regretful of how they acted.
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They are doing this strategically to try and save Terry McAuliffe's chances of winning
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the gubernatorial race a week from today in Virginia.
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So Terry McAuliffe is the Democrat guy running for governor.
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He's the former governor.
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But again, in that state, you can't be a governor for consecutive terms.
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So he was governor four years ago.
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I was trying to be governor again, but this race should be a run away for him in Virginia,
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because again, Virginia skipped purple and went from red to blue and is solidly blue
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right now, but he is drowning, right?
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This is a neck and neck thing.
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It's within the margin of error, right?
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And so if you want to get into conspiracy theories about what Democrats might try to do to make
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sure that Terry McAuliffe wins, go for it, but they are terrified.
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You already had on the campaign trial as if this would help.
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You have co-presidents, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, but also former president, one of
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the most popular presidents ever, Barack Obama going out on the campaign trail, just trying
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to make sure that Terry McAuliffe wins this, this race in Virginia.
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So the National School Boards Association, they're doing all they can to take the heat
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off.
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So they're going to apologize.
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They're going to take this bullet.
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They're going to try to take the heat off a little bit.
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There's a lot of evidence to show that they're trying to get some days off around the beginning
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of next week so that these teachers, again, they're teachers, they're heroes, right?
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So that they can go knock doors for Terry McAuliffe.
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Again, there's a lot of nonsense going on.
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I'm sure we're going to be talking about it again next week, but there is your update.
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But let's go ahead and transition into what today's episode is actually about, even though
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we're about six minutes in already, but here's the deal.
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We're talking about an incredibly important topic that is very relevant for our modern
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context.
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Okay.
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And that's the so-called cancel culture.
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Okay.
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So for those of you that are just listening, using major air quotes there for cancel culture.
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And the reason that we're talking about this, you know, I wanted to talk about this for
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a while now, and I've had different things that I wanted to do, but then we got some
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great interviews and we had some other things come up and it's like, okay, I can talk about
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this at any time.
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This is evergreen.
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But the reason that we're talking about today is because we're now entering.
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This is so stupid that I have to say this out loud.
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We are now entering week three, week three of the Dave Chappelle versus Netflix drama.
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You can find news stories today about the drama about Dave Chappelle.
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Okay.
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Afghanistan was in the news for about two weeks, right?
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You know, the illegal immigrant crisis at our southern border, the, whatever you want
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to call it, but it's, it's very negative down there right now.
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That'll get mentioned about once a week or so.
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But here we are going into week three of Dave Chappelle's latest Netflix Netflix special
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being mentioned in print online and TV news outlets across the globe.
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I mean, I guess it looks like we have our priority straight, y'all.
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Let's not talk about real issues.
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Let's talk about a comedian and the words he said, ooh, the words he said, but let me
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go and bring you up to speed on this nonsense.
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If you have no idea what I'm talking about.
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So on October the 5th, earlier this month, Dave Chappelle released a new special on Netflix
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called the closer.
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Okay.
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So this is the last special on his current Netflix deal, which has made him surely tens
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of millions of dollars.
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Good for him.
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But I have not seen this entire special because I don't have Netflix and, you know, more on
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that here in just a second, but I have seen the clips online.
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I've, I've heard some of the jokes that people are having an issue with, but the immediate
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reaction from most people, because I have a lot of friends that love comedy.
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I love comedy and the immediate reaction is, man, Dave Chappelle, he's the goat.
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He's so good and he can weave all these different stories.
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And now they were talking about this joke, talking about that joke.
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It was a fairly normal reaction.
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So if you think Dave Chappelle is the consensus, greatest comedian of all time, that's about
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what you would expect the reaction to be, right?
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But I saw something interesting happening on rotten tomatoes because I use rotten tomatoes
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a lot.
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So that for those of you that don't know, that's a website where basically you give it a thumbs
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up or a thumbs down, it's not actually a thumbs up or a thumbs down, but you give it a yes
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or a no.
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And so you have an audience score and this could be on a movie or a TV show or a Netflix special
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or something like that.
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And then you have a critics score.
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And so I always ignore the critics score because I never align with them because movies
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that like the critics love, but the audience hates.
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I'm usually with the audience, but this special, as of the recording of this podcast had 96%
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positive from the audience and only 38% positive from the critics.
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And it was way lower than that.
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But I guess a few more critics have come on and said, yeah, that they liked it.
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So why the imbalance between the audience, the normal everyday people and the people that
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get paid to be critical of things like this?
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It's because Dave Chappelle apparently is a transphobe.
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Okay.
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So at several points in this special and then some past specials, he's talked about the
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LGBTQ community and talked about these different people.
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And he's making a lot of jokes, but he's not personally anti LGBTQ.
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And he had the temerity, I guess, to say that women are women and that only women are women,
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but he also told this joke about a transgender person that was a friend of his.
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And this was a man that thought he was a woman and this, you know, he called her, he called
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him her and all this other different stuff there.
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I'm even getting tongue tied on the pronouns, but this is someone that ended up killing
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themselves.
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And this is how he closed the show.
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And it was kind of this, you know, tender moment, but he was making jokes along the way
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because he's a comedian, right?
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That's kind of what he does.
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But the reaction from the left has been, as you would imagine, this is the worst thing
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that could have ever happened, right?
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Dave Chappelle telling jokes about people is the worst thing that could possibly happen
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because they look at the LGBTQ community.
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Again, they're looking at this from an intersectional mindset, you know, this, this postmodern
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Marxist mindset to where these people are above reproach.
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These people are above being made fun of because they need to be protected in a lot of ways.
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Then you had the Netflix employees that they were, you know, which, again, if you believe
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the statistics, there's a very, very, very small percentage of the population that thinks
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they're transgender.
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But apparently there's a bunch of transgender Netflix employees that they threatened to
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walk out.
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There were Netflix employees that were like leaking stuff to the media and they were actually
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let go for this.
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The reaction from Netflix initially was like, Hey, Dave Chappelle is our guy.
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We signed into this contract.
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We're going to put this out there.
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Not all of our content is going to be a good thing for every person or audience, but the
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CEO, I guess they have co CEOs.
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It's like, what is this?
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Like, they didn't even work well for Dunder Mifflin, but at the same time the CEO came
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out and then he was pretty standard with his response, like, Hey, you know, if you don't
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like it, you don't have to work here sort of a thing.
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But then he kind of walked it back and he's like, Oh, him and in Han and I should have
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been more thoughtful about people's reactions and blah, blah, blah, but these Netflix employees
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are staging these walkouts and these protests because they want Dave Chappelle specials
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to be removed from their platform because it is hate speech.
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It is dangerous.
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And it is violence.
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Again, words that are on a screen that a guy spoke months ago can be violence according
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to these people.
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But the thing about it is that's the Dave Chappelle stuff.
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But if you miss the Dave Chappelle stuff, maybe a few weeks prior to that, you're likely
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familiar with the drama surrounding the firing of the Las Vegas Raiders NFL head coach John
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Gruden.
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Okay.
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So this is one of the most famous head coaches of all time.
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He signed, I think it was like a hundred million dollar contract, like a 10 year, a 10
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million dollar a year contract of some crazy contract, but a situation came out where there
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was supposedly some emails that were being investigated with the Washington Redskins
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and now known as the Washington Football Club or whatever they're called, but they found
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some of John Gruden's emails.
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And then all of a sudden, John Gruden's emails, which was not part of this initial investigation
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was leaked to the press.
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And in those emails, he was kind of doing some locker room talk.
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He was, you know, making fun of people.
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He's calling people names, you know, people said he was anti LGBTQ in those comments.
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They said he made a racist comment and all those things are within the eye of the beholder.
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But essentially what happened is the Las Vegas Raiders said, this is terrible.
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This is horrible.
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We got to get this guy out of here.
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Cause he said all these horrible things and emails 10 years ago again, the NFL was doing
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an investigation going through all this guy's emails.
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They found emails from things that he said 10 years ago and boom, he's out of here fired.
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So the claims are from a lot of people that are paying attention to these things culturally
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that they are attempting right now to cancel Dave Chappelle and that they were actually
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successful in canceling John Gruden.
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Is that true?
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Are these things true right now?
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So that's what we're going to dig into.
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But the best place for us to start here on this conversation about cancel culture is what
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most people get wrong about cancel culture.
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Okay.
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So this is very, very key and very, very important.
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So, you know, you're going to hear a lot of things that I think are hopefully helpful
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to you today.
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But this is very, very important here.
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This is kind of the key hinge point.
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That's why I'm calling it what I'm calling it this episode.
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People equate canceling with cancel culture again, canceling with cancel culture.
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So I'll tell you a story to kind of tell you how I got to this point.
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So this was several months back where we're doing some sort of a thing on my back porch.
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So I've got a bunch of guys over.
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We're having some scotch.
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We're smoking some cigars or watching some fights, all those types of things and a guy
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from my foxhole, Adam, the host who I love dearly love that guy.
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He, I think someone brought up something about Netflix and they're like, hey, Kyle, have
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you seen that?
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I'm like, no, I don't have Netflix.
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I canceled it after the cuties movie that they released.
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And basically what he said is, Kyle, that's shocking to hear that from you.
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Why would you participate in cancel culture?
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And you know, he kind of said it with a glint in his eye.
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You know, I think he was kind of being a little bit tongue in cheek there.
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But then he's brought that up several other times over the last several months that, you
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know, when you cancel your subscription to Netflix, that is participating in cancel culture,
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right?
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And I understood his point when he asked me the question initially, I was kind of taken
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back from it because I didn't quite understand it initially because I was like, wait, these
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things are not even the same thing.
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They're not even in the same category, but that has kind of caused again, I've been thinking
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through this topic for months, what would be the best way to bring this content to you.
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But I think a great place for us to start and really any place that you should start
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when you're doing a debate with somebody is you have to make sure that your definitions
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are straight.
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So what are the definitions inside of cancel culture?
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So I'm going to give you my definitions here because there's not like the Miriam Webster
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definition of these things because they're kind of cultural topics.
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But my definition for kind of the noun usage of cancel culture is a societal agreement
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to ostracize someone from their social professional or business circles because you disagree with
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their opinions and worldview.
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Okay, I'll go ahead and repeat that cancel culture, my definition, a societal agreement
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to ostracize someone from their social professional or business circles because you disagree with
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their opinions and worldview, okay?
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So the verb I guess way of saying that canceling in the context of cancel culture is the active
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attempt to ostracize someone from their social professional or business circles because you
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disagree with their opinions or worldview, okay?
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So as a quick note there, the ostracization that I'm talking about here can come from
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inside or outside your life, right, or inside or outside of your business, inside or outside
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of the government you work for, whatever, it could be your coworkers that are trying
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to pressure you out of your job or your business or something like that.
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It could be random dorks on Twitter putting pressure on your advertisers.
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If you have kind of a public profile, it could just be people in your personal life, personal
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Facebook friends are people that you actually see in person, not just Facebook friends.
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But now we need to talk about aside from the context of cancel culture, what is canceling?
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It is canceling.
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And this is where I think Miriam Webster is useful here.
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Cancel means to stop doing or planning to do something.
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That's what canceling is.
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It's stopping doing or planning to do something, a specific action, okay?
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So if we go back to the conversation that I've been having with my boy Adam for so long,
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is his canceling my subscription to Netflix part of cancel culture?
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And the answer is absolutely not, absolutely not.
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I'm not canceling Netflix's ability to be a company.
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I'm simply removing my money from them and I'm removing my attention from them way more
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on that here in a little bit.
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So make sure that you stick around for that.
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But then you go through the rest of the scenarios I brought up so far.
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Is this the Las Vegas Raiders firing of John Gruden because of comments that he made in
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his private emails 10 years ago, part of cancel culture?
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Maybe, maybe, I think the conventional wisdom here would be, I think he had been, because
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I don't really fall in the NFL, but I think he had been a coach for the Raiders for three
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or four years, you know, when they were in Oakland and then when they moved to Las Vegas.
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And I don't think they've had a winning season yet.
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And so is it possible?
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Is it maybe even likely that the Raiders were looking for a way to get them out of this
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contract without all the hullabaloo and all like, Oh, hey, why are you doing this?
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And why are you admitting failure?
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And one of the easiest way to do that is just brand a guy as a racist or a homophobe or
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something like that.
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So it could be cancel culture, maybe not.
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But then we look at are the attempts to remove Dave Chappelle's specials from Netflix and
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keep him from being able to perform live, which is what people are calling for.
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Thus, you know, making it, making it, him unable to make a living is that part of cancel
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culture.
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And the answer to that is yes.
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That is definitively what cancel culture is.
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If you go back to the definition, I just brought you.
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There are people that want Dave Chappelle to no longer be able to make money as a comedian,
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because he says things that they don't like because he says things that don't agree with
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their worldview.
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Okay.
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So that is definitely an example of cancel culture.
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But I wanted to go and bring up some other ones because a lot of people, you know, we
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kind of get this mindset where we can only see what's right in front of us or maybe what's
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happened in the last week or so.
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There's been a lot of examples of this.
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I think you've forgotten.
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So Brendan Ike is one of the first ones that I can really remember wrapping my head around.
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So if that name doesn't sound familiar, he used to be the CEO of Mozilla Firefox.
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So a lot of you guys use Firefox out there.
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But Ike donated $1,000 in 2008 in support of California's proposition eight.
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Okay.
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So that was, you know, a band gay marriage in the state until it was eventually struck
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down by the Supreme Court whenever they just, you know, a Bergfeld decision just basically
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made it.
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It's legal because whatever.
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And so he was fired for this again.
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This is a guy who holds a personal belief that marriage is between one man and one woman.
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I know super, super bigoted, super bigoted, but he was fired from his position.
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Right?
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And that was the first time to where it's like, this is a guy that's a really, really
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good CEO.
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He is a talented CEO and his personal beliefs on something like gay marriage don't affect
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his ability to be a good or a bad CEO, but it was beyond the pale for the people that
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were, you know, really in control of the reins of the company, the board and all those different
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things.
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So they got rid of them.
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Then you got a guy like Alex Jones.
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So if you all remember back in August of 2018, Alex Jones was in really a coordinated attack
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at his YouTube, Facebook and Apple profiles all shut down at the exact same time.
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Now, I cannot count myself as a fan of Alex Jones.
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He's a guy that I watch.
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He's a guy that, again, like I've mentioned a lot of times before will say things that
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seem outlandish.
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And then 18, 24 months later, it turns out to be true.
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But then he's had some big missteps.
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Like he says, 9/11 was an inside job, like a complete inside job.
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He said that Sandy Hook was a false flag operation.
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Those kids didn't actually die.
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And like he's had some horrible things that he said out loud, but this is a guy that is
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still using his ability to have free speech and yet YouTube, big tech, you know, YouTube,
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Facebook, Apple, big tech decide to shut him down.
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They canceled him to where his profile is not nearly as big as it could be right now.
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Then you've got JK Rowling.
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So she's the author of the Harry Potter series.
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She was absolutely eviscerated and is still being eviscerated for these comments.
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I want to actually read these comments to you so that you can see, because when people
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are like, oh, she's anti LGBTQ.
20:33
She's anti trans.
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This is what she said, quote, if sex isn't real, there's no same sex attraction.
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If sex isn't real, the lived reality of women globally is erased.
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I know in love, trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many
20:50
to meaningfully discuss their lives.
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It isn't hate speech to speak truth.
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She went on to say this a little bit later, quote, the idea that women are that women like
20:58
me who have been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they're
21:02
vulnerable in the same way as a woman, i.e. to male violence hate trans people because
21:08
they think sex is real and has a lived consequence is a nonsense, unquote.
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And so there have been people that have been calling that for her books to be removed from
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the shelves, for her movies to be taken down from streaming streaming things.
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And this is like a feminist hero, JK Rowling.
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I mean, she wrote these books about this, you know, a feminine, you know, little witch boy,
21:29
and she became a billionaire.
21:30
Right.
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I mean, it's a great story of what a powerful and smart woman can do that's that's talented
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and can put all these things together.
21:38
But they want to tear her down because she doesn't go along with the trans agenda.
21:42
Again, the trans agenda and the feminist agenda cannot mix.
21:46
They absolutely cannot mix because if gender has to be binary in order for you to have
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feminism, that absolutely has to happen.
21:54
So they're attempting to cancel JK Rowling.
21:56
That's kind of an ongoing thing.
21:58
Then we have Chris Harrison.
21:59
So if you don't know, this is probably because you don't watch the bachelor because he was
22:01
a longtime host of the bachelor on ABC.
22:04
So there were some stuff that came out about this person, this contestant that named Rachel
22:09
Kirk Connell.
22:10
There was a picture that surfaced of her from college where she went to an old South antebellum
22:16
themed party.
22:17
Okay.
22:18
And the, or the, the host Chris Harrison came out and said that they should have a little
22:22
bit of grace for this girl for Rachel Kirk Connell.
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Let's just have some grace for this was a while ago.
22:28
We don't really know the context.
22:30
She doesn't seem to have any racist animus in her heart.
22:32
She's actually, I think, married to a black guy or was getting married to a black guy
22:36
or something like that.
22:37
She was a white woman.
22:38
And the thing was is for saying that we should show grace.
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He was fired from the show.
22:42
Now, again, that's not a show that I watched, but I think he was the host of that show for
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over a decade.
22:48
Maybe I'm not sure exactly how long 10, 15 years, maybe a little bit longer, but he's
22:51
fired from the show for just saying that they should have grace for this girl and we'll
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keep going here.
22:56
We have Senator Josh Hawley.
22:58
So he is the US Senator representing the state of Missouri.
23:00
So he actually came out and sided with President Trump by publicly saying that the state of
23:04
Pennsylvania violated its own state constitution during the 2020 election, which they obviously
23:09
did, but just for coming out and saying that for even hinting that he would support President
23:14
Trump in his fight to kind of make things right in the state of Pennsylvania, he was dropped
23:18
from his publisher.
23:19
He was dropped from his publisher.
23:20
We're about to release a book and he was also pressured to resign from office, right?
23:24
Which that's kind of a common thing now where it's like, Oh, a politician said something
23:27
I don't like.
23:28
You should leave office.
23:29
Why?
23:30
Because I'm angry.
23:31
Then you got Mike Lindell.
23:32
So most you guys know who that is.
23:33
He's the CEO and founder of my pillow.
23:35
So he publicly and very loudly questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election.
23:40
He's still doing that.
23:41
And because of that, around two dozen of his retailers have dropped his products from
23:45
their stores, right?
23:47
Just because of what he's saying there, there's nothing defunct with these products.
23:50
There's nothing that's gone wrong with these products.
23:52
There's not another company that has come up and kind of usurped them in their role in
23:55
the pillow space or the sheet space or any of those things, just because he basically
23:59
came out and supported President Trump.
24:01
Then he had a guy that you maybe not have heard of, but Adam Rubenstein, he's a former
24:04
New York Times opinion editor and writer.
24:06
He published a column, right, and edited a column by the United States Senator Tom Cotton
24:10
from Arizona saying that federal government, the federal government should actually send
24:14
in troops to quell the violence in cities all over the United States during the George
24:18
Floyd riots of 2020.
24:20
So he's like, hey, we can't have this.
24:22
We can't have these people destroying our cities.
24:24
They're not doing this for justice or doing this because they're jerks and because they
24:26
just want to destroy stuff.
24:28
So this editor, when they put this out there, they had to, you know, do a retraction and
24:32
all these different things.
24:33
It was kind of a big mess for the New York Times.
24:35
He was actually pressured out.
24:36
Adam Rubenstein was pressured out by his own colleagues.
24:39
He said it was so horrible working there during that time because he put out a column by United
24:44
States Senator, a sitting U.S. Senator.
24:46
So about six months after this all went down, he left the New York Times.
24:49
He was forced out essentially.
24:51
Then you have Alison Williams.
24:52
This is a new one.
24:53
So she's a sideline reporter for college football and basketball for ESPN or was because she
24:57
refused to get the COVID vaccine.
24:59
She was very public about this is a tough decision.
25:02
I'm trying to become pregnant.
25:05
And you know, there's not any data really right now and what this vaccine could do to
25:09
my ability to conceive or to keep a child or any issues that would become with that child.
25:13
So she ended up refusing to get the COVID vaccine.
25:15
So she was fired.
25:16
She was forced to resign.
25:17
We'll say they kind of gave her the very nice and soft, you know, kick in the tushy
25:21
on her way out the door.
25:22
But then that same day, that's literally the same day she was hired by the Daily Wire.
25:26
And so the Daily Wire hired her to do some sports reporting, which will, you know, they'll
25:29
be telling us more about as time goes on.
25:32
I don't really exactly know.
25:33
And then you have Gina Carano.
25:34
So Gina Carano, she is a retired MMA fighter.
25:36
She's really a pioneer for women's MMA and then she turned into being an actress.
25:39
She's been an actress and a lot of different things.
25:41
But she posted on social media and in this post on social media, she compared being a
25:46
conservative in 2021 to being Jewish during the third Reich.
25:50
Okay.
25:51
This may have actually been in 2020.
25:52
I'm kind of getting the dates a little bit mixed up, but it wasn't a great comparison.
25:56
Okay.
25:57
But her point was, which no one really allowed her to get out there was essentially what
26:01
they would do in the, you know, the Nazi regime of that time is they wanted your neighbors
26:06
to basically tattle, tattle on you.
26:09
That's what they wanted.
26:10
And the point she was making is if you're a conservative in 2021, they're kind of, this
26:14
culture is kind of encouraging people to like turn you in or basically become part of this
26:19
cancel culture type of a deal.
26:21
And so because of that, they dropped her, right?
26:23
They dropped her from the show that she was on the Mandalorian.
26:25
That's like a Star Wars thing and they dropped her, you know, or Hollywood agency dropped
26:28
her and all those different things.
26:30
And so she was, they attempted to cancel her right then at that exact moment.
26:33
And then just like the last person, they were hired by the Daily Wire.
26:36
So Gina Carano came in and the Daily Wire is like, no, you're going to do a movie with
26:39
us and do some different things with us.
26:41
So, you know, they kind of took care of some business there.
26:43
And really if you look at any famous Fox news hosts, I mean, they're always in the cross
26:47
here.
26:48
So if you look at Bill O'Reilly or Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity or any of those people, they're
26:52
always constantly getting their, their advertisers heckled by these people, basically media matters
26:57
and these other organizations will come out and they will wait for them to say something
27:01
that's even vaguely controversial and then they'll call, they'll get, you know, two or
27:04
three dozen people to call their advertisers say, you need to drop Tucker Carlson because
27:07
he said this and he said that, you got to get them out of here.
27:09
That's just kind of their MO.
27:10
And guys, there are so many more examples, but again, I wanted to spend some time going
27:14
through that just to let you know that these are things that you likely heard and then
27:17
you've forgotten about.
27:18
And so when people are bringing up cancel culture and they're saying it like, oh, cancel culture
27:22
is not real.
27:23
That's not a real thing.
27:24
It's all in your imagination.
27:25
These are high profile examples, but this is happening all over the place, right?
27:29
Not just with these people whose names that you recognize.
27:32
But now it's an important thing to talk about now that we've kind of done some definitional
27:36
work on cancel culture when we should talk about cancel culture versus accountability
27:41
culture.
27:42
Okay.
27:43
So that's what you're hearing a lot of people say right now.
27:44
It's like, no, no, no, no, what we're doing to Dave Chappelle is not cancel culture.
27:48
It's accountability culture.
27:50
Some people are calling it call out culture.
27:52
Okay.
27:53
But here's the deal is people that kind of have this leftist mindset, this authoritarian
27:57
tendency to them.
27:58
They think what they're doing is good and I guess not just good, but righteous.
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It's righteous what they're doing.
28:06
Okay.
28:07
So they think they're doing society a favor by going through all of your old tweets and
28:10
Facebook photos from 10 years ago.
28:12
You know, if you get a high profile thing, right, you're your high profile person now
28:16
it's like, okay, let's look back through your entire history and see if there's anything
28:19
that we can cancel you for.
28:21
Okay.
28:22
They think that they're holding you accountable because they know that when someone says cancel
28:25
culture as a negative connotation for a very overwhelming majority of the planet.
28:30
So they're trying to rebrand it as this accountability thing.
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I don't know.
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We're just trying to keep them accountable.
28:35
We're trying to call them out for these horribly terrible things that they've been doing, but
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that all begs a very, very big question.
28:42
Accountability to what morality accountability to what worldview exactly?
28:50
Because again, this is a religion for these people, like those people that were outside
28:54
of Netflix that were, you know, with their signs and yelling and all that stuff.
28:58
Was there a Christian in that entire crowd?
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Is there somebody that thinks that they have the amago day that they're made in the image
29:05
of God?
29:08
My guess would be no.
29:10
These people don't have that type of worldview.
29:12
They don't have an idea of cosmic justice.
29:15
That's why they have to fight so hard for justice here on this planet because at a core
29:19
level, these people think that they will become worm food the moment that they did that they
29:23
die.
29:24
Like that's going to be it.
29:25
Lights are out.
29:26
Nothing more.
29:27
Right.
29:28
These people, they have to keep someone accountable, but again, to what?
29:33
To what morality and if, and then if they start using the language of morality, like
29:37
this is right and this is wrong, where do you get that idea that this is right and this
29:41
is wrong?
29:42
Because they're certainly not basing it on the constitution in the United States of America.
29:46
Where are they basing it on?
29:47
That's an important thing to chew on, but also this gets into a discussion about modern
29:53
canceled culture, versus purity culture, okay?
29:57
So purity culture, you might recognize that because back in like the 80s and 90s, there
30:02
were a lot of people that were like trying to get rap music canceled and you know, violence
30:05
out of movies and you know, sex off a television, all those different things, it was a purity
30:09
culture move.
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And so you could look at my definition from earlier of what cancel culture is and you're
30:14
like, hey, that's that.
30:16
We're trying to get these, you know, rappers do not have a career anymore because of things
30:20
that they're saying and all those different things.
30:21
And I understand that argument, the biggest difference in modern cancel culture versus
30:26
purity culture of yesteryear is where it comes from.
30:31
What we see now with modern cancel culture, that's coming from the authoritarian left.
30:35
You're saying these things that, you know, again, this is their postmodern, Marxist, you
30:39
know, intersectional worldview.
30:41
You're saying these things about these protected groups of people and it makes me uncomfortable.
30:45
You're a bigot.
30:46
You're hateful.
30:47
We got to get rid of that versus people on the religious right.
30:50
Those were the people that were back in the day saying, you shouldn't say say these things
30:53
out loud because it's dangerous for kids.
30:56
You're encouraging kids to do dangerous activities like getting fights, shoot people, have sex
31:00
with random hoes, do drugs and all these different things.
31:03
You know, I keep focusing in on the rap example because that's the easiest one to remember.
31:07
And so I think that's the big difference there.
31:09
And you can maybe debate which one you think is positive, but it goes back to the thing
31:12
that I just talked about, which is where's the morality coming from?
31:16
Because even though I probably wouldn't agree with all the tactics that the purity culture
31:20
warriors were going through in the eighties and nineties, they were doing this because
31:23
they have a semblance of what right and wrong actually is because there's the immutable truth
31:27
of God as revealed in his scriptures, right?
31:32
And so at that point, there's not really too much of a comparison because the people that
31:36
are coming from the authoritarian left side of things, they're creating this idea of morality
31:40
out of their heads and or they're smuggling in the Christian worldview, but not giving
31:45
it its name.
31:47
They're smuggling in the the morality that they've been, you know, marinated in since
31:51
they've been alive.
31:52
This Judeo-Christian morality, but they're just rebranding it with, you know, purple
31:56
hair and a rainbow flag.
31:58
And then that also gets into this last portion, which it talks, we're going to talk about
32:01
the relationship between cancel culture and censorship, okay, because those aren't exactly
32:07
synonymous.
32:08
However, and we're not going to do a big long thing about censorship.
32:10
Maybe we can do that later on.
32:12
But with big tech right now, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, you know, all these different big tech
32:18
platforms, YouTube, Google, they have to be complicit in cancel culture in order to censor
32:26
because people have heard about shadow banning.
32:28
I've experienced a little shadow banning myself, but yeah, people whose, you know, their posts
32:33
won't get out there as much or they'll say something that's a little bit off color and
32:36
then their, their YouTube channel will get taken down.
32:39
Especially if you go outside of the worldview that big tech espouses and supports, they're
32:45
going to get rid of you.
32:47
And so that's the scariest thing about cancel culture moving forward is someone could literally
32:51
delete you from the public square because this incredible thing, you, the internet, guys,
32:57
you are listening to me via the internet right now, whether you're listening to the show on
33:00
Spotify or Apple podcasts on your iPhone right now, or if you're, you're watching me on YouTube
33:04
when you're Samsung television, because of technology and because of free markets and
33:08
because of, you know, the, the internet, you're able to hear these things that I'm saying
33:12
right now.
33:13
Whereas before I would have to write a book and try probably go on tour and maybe I can
33:17
make, you know, the, the news on ABC or I can make the nightly news in this local area.
33:22
But now anybody anywhere in the world can listen to what anybody has to say if they want to.
33:27
But big tech, look what they did to Alex Jones.
33:29
Again, I'm not comparing me to Alex Jones or anybody else, but they can just add a moments
33:33
notice just boom, you're done. I mean, just think about this guys. What if the company
33:39
that handles my RSS feed got rid of my RSS feed? You don't have the ability to exist anymore.
33:45
What if the provider that that's behind my website, what did they say? No, no, no, no,
33:49
you talk about crazy things. You say women are women and men or men. That's incredibly
33:52
bigoted. We're going to get rid of you. Like in a day, they could get rid of our ability
33:58
to put the word out to the masses. No Instagram account anymore, no TikTok account, no podcast,
34:04
no website, right? So that is something that we all need to be concerned about as we move
34:09
forward as we fight these cultural battles, which I think is incredibly, incredibly important.
34:14
So right now I want to transition into talking about the wrong ways to go about fighting
34:19
cancel culture and the right ways to go about fighting cancel culture. Okay, because there's
34:23
a clear dichotomy between these two sides. So let's go with the wrong ways right now about
34:27
how to fight cancel culture. The first thing, and I say this a lot in a lot of different
34:32
contexts is don't ever apologize to the mob ever. If you find yourself in a cancel culture
34:40
situation where you are someone's attempting to cancel you or your business or something
34:43
like that, never ever apologize to the mob. Now the difference is, is if you have wronged
34:50
an individual person, right, or an individual group of people, right? And I mean like a
34:56
family or another business or something like that, not like black people or gay people
35:00
or white people or Indian people, not these, you know, macro groups that, you know, people
35:04
pretend or homogenous groups of human beings. But if you wrong somebody individually, you
35:08
apologize to that person. This, this era of we're going to apologize to the general public
35:14
in case anyone was ever offended. You just can't keep up with that. That's why like,
35:19
I have a personal thing. I refuse to apologize to somebody because they mistook my words
35:23
for something that I didn't say. So if I say something and you took it to mean something
35:28
that it wasn't like that, that I didn't even mean that at all. I can't apologize to everyone
35:33
who could possibly misconstrue something that I would say. I can only apologize for things
35:37
that I've said that directly hurt somebody in a direct way because I meant it that way.
35:42
So when you apologize to the mob, remember, you can never bow low enough because the mob
35:47
will eat you up anyway. We've heard about a lot of different examples of, of actresses
35:52
and actors and, and different people that they were, they posted their black squares
35:55
on Twitter during the George Floyd riots and they, they did all these things and all black
35:58
lives matter. I love everything. And then someone finds an old picture that's a little
36:02
bit off color or something that they don't like and also that person's been canceled.
36:06
You can't apologize enough. You can't bow low enough to these people. All they want is
36:10
complete revolution. So another wrong way to fight against cancel culture is to complain
36:15
about it and then do nothing else. So again, I talk about this all the time. You're going
36:19
to get tired of it, but I'm going to keep saying it. But again, a lot of people will
36:22
complain, they'll complain and they'll say, look at that. This is terrible. This isn't
36:26
injustice to me and my family. You know, this is part of cancel culture and then they won't
36:29
do anything else. Again, conservatives, Christians, these people will never pick up their sword,
36:36
never pick up their shield, never put on their helmet and they will realize that one day the
36:40
war has passed them by and they've lost. They never found a hill worth dying on. Okay. Again,
36:45
I say that all the time, but people don't ever want to push back because they don't want
36:48
to come off his route, but they'll complain about it. Gosh, darn it, they'll complain
36:52
to their mom and dad and they'll complain to their people at work and they'll complain
36:55
to a handful of people at the dog park, but then they don't do anything about it. Okay.
36:59
Another wrong way to go about fighting against cancel culture is to assume that these people
37:04
will just ignore you. Okay, because here's the thing, because this makes the most amount
37:10
of sense. The people that are picketing right now against Dave Chappelle and Netflix and
37:15
all those different things, those people could very easily just not watch the new Dave Chappelle
37:20
special, right? But their worldview won't allow for that. It's kind of one of those things.
37:25
It's like, if you don't like this type of music, don't listen to this type of music. You shouldn't
37:29
try to cancel the type of music. You're like, Oh, I don't really like classical music. That
37:33
doesn't mean we cancel classical music. That just means you turn your attention somewhere
37:36
else. But again, for these people, they're not going to ignore you. This is their religion
37:41
might makes right to them. And the culture is shifting in a way to where these these opinions
37:45
that are not shared by the majority of the populace are the loudest opinions, thus they're
37:49
gaining the most ground. So don't just assume that they're going to ignore you. But the
37:54
last thing here, and this might not, you know, sit well with everybody in terms of the wrong
37:57
ways to go about fighting cancel culture is to create or support opinion silos. And so
38:02
the one that I that I thought of initially was parlor. So I got a parlor account because
38:07
when it was first coming on board, I was like, Hey, this might become a thing. So I'll
38:10
go ahead and get an account. Parlor is only conservatives. And so I just wonder for people
38:16
that are on parlor all the time, what good are you getting from this? Like there's no,
38:23
there's no alternative points of view. It's just a bunch of conservative, you know, minded
38:27
people agreeing with each other the entire time. And so when you go into the silos, that
38:33
doesn't help you to get ready for the battle against cancel culture, because you don't
38:37
know what's going on. You don't know how their people are thinking. You don't know how they're
38:41
processing information. You're just doing your own thing with a bunch of other people
38:45
that believe the same way that you do. And so I'm not hating on people that are on parlor
38:49
and doing those different things, but just realize that's an opinion silo. And that's
38:53
the same thing that you would be critical of a people on the left. Oh, it's all the same
38:56
people that think the same thing and look at what they're doing. Again, it's a little
38:59
bit of an issue here. So I don't know that that's the right way of going about attacking
39:02
cancel culture. So I want to transition into here are some of the right ways to go about
39:08
fighting cancel culture. The first thing is going to be not attainable for the majority
39:11
of the population, but it's to become undeniable. In a way, Dave Chappelle and Joe Rogan and
39:19
JK Rowling and these people, they're undeniable. They're uncancelable. Dave Chappelle, there's
39:26
probably more people that think Dave Chappelle is the God of comedy than don't think that.
39:31
Joe Rogan has the biggest show on the planet right now. His audience is, you know, a multiple
39:37
of what CNN or MSNBC or even Fox News is, right? He's undeniable. And same thing with
39:43
JK Rowling. I mean, she became a billionaire because she wrote books and then they turned
39:47
into movies and she created this whole big thing. And, you know, it's these people are
39:51
undeniable. They can't be canceled. So that's one way to go about it. But again, that's
39:55
not attainable for most people. So let's talk about some things that are maybe a little
39:58
bit more on everyone else's level. The next thing is just learn how to weather the storm
40:03
and then move on. Okay. So I've had some things that I've said on this podcast that
40:07
have really gotten under people's skin and they didn't really enjoy it. And there was
40:09
a little bit of a storm and I said, eh, I just batten down the hatchets and then moved
40:13
on. I think Jordan Peterson has talked about that before with him. He's embroiled in a
40:17
new controversy every few weeks. And his thing is like, Hey, just, you know, close your ears
40:22
and focus on the people that you love and that love you for two weeks and then it'll
40:25
blow over. If it doesn't blow over, maybe you have to deal with it. But for the most
40:29
part, a lot of these things just blow over because the outrage mob will find something
40:32
else to be really, really mad at for whatever reason. They've stuck with Dave Chappelle for
40:35
a long time because maybe this is that big feather in their cap that if they can get Dave
40:39
Chappelle, then they can cancel anybody, right? But this goes for individuals, but also for
40:43
companies and businesses. There's a lot of companies or businesses that will, you know,
40:47
put something out there or, you know, they'll do something that is deemed offensive by people
40:51
that's not actually offensive. And then, you know, half a dozen people on Twitter will
40:54
say a mean thing and then they will change their corporate policies because a few nerds
41:00
on Twitter are mad. And we don't even know if these people are actual people from America.
41:04
These could be Russian bots or Iranian bots or Chinese bots. For all we know, they're
41:08
just trying to, you know, sow seeds of discord. But again, my encouragement to everybody is
41:12
like, if you find yourself in one of these situations, whether the storm and then move
41:15
on, you'll be just fine. Okay. And the next thing, and this is probably one of the most
41:19
important things that I would tell most of you to do. And that's to vote with your dollars
41:23
in attention. Because you hear people, you know, hey, you know, vote with your feet.
41:28
So if you don't like the way things are going in California, you know, move to Texas, you
41:31
know, vote with your feet type of thing, but just leave all your voting patterns with you.
41:35
But I'm talking about your dollars and attention. So I want to go through some of the things
41:38
that I've stopped supporting with my dollars and my intention. So the first one is Netflix.
41:43
So if you want a deeper dive into why I canceled Netflix, and I think all of you should cancel
41:48
Netflix, go listen to episode 153 of the podcast. I'll put the, I'll put it in the show notes
41:52
there. But again, if you're listening to this, we're listening to this just scroll, scroll,
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scroll until you get to episode 153. I highly, highly recommend that you listen to that episode
42:00
because I was a supporter of Netflix. You know, I had it off and on. You know, I'd watch this
42:03
comedy special, I'd watch this show or something like that. But the moment that they released
42:08
a cutie's movie on their platform, I made a decision that I cannot and will not support
42:13
this company because that movie is child pornography. It's not debatable. And if you go into the
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show notes for episode 153, I have clips from that movie that show you that this is an artistic
42:26
expression. This isn't some sort of like second or third level, deep philosophical, you know,
42:32
debate about what is sexy for a kid and what's not, it's child pornography. You might look
42:37
at a softcore hardcore. I don't really care how you categorize it. It's child pornography.
42:42
And so for me, the whatever 15 bucks a month that I would spend on Netflix, a portion of
42:49
that is going to support content like that. Because Netflix doesn't technically create
42:54
anything. They pay other people to create things for them or someone's already created
42:58
something and then they give them money so that they can put it on their platform. Okay,
43:02
that's what they do. So when I give them money, I'll be at a very small percentage because
43:08
the amount of stuff that they have on their platform, a small percentage of what I'm doing
43:11
goes to child pornography. And I know it. Okay. So for me, as long as that cuties, cuties
43:17
movie is on their platform, I will never consider getting Netflix. And hey, have I missed out
43:22
on some funny comedy specials? I am absolutely sure of it. Have I missed out on some good
43:26
movies and some television shows that would be good and culturally relevant to talk about
43:30
100%? But my life has not gotten worse one. I Oda since canceling Netflix. I'm so busy
43:40
with, you know, with my family, with sweet baby James, with another baby on the way,
43:44
with jujitsu, with this podcast, with reading with everything, that adding a Netflix show
43:50
that I would just binge for a couple of weeks. That's not really helping my life. It's just
43:54
entertaining me. Right. It's mental masturbation. Another entity that I don't support with my
43:59
intention anymore that I never really supported with my dollars is the NFL. So I've talked
44:03
about this before, but the NFL, and I guess you can throw the NBA in there as well, they
44:06
completely lost me with all the stuff that they were doing around Black Lives Matter
44:11
and all the stuff around George Floyd and some of the things that they're trying to signal
44:14
with LGBTQ community and all those different things in the NFL, specifically playing whatever
44:19
this thing's called in Black national anthem before their games and people are like, Oh,
44:23
it's not on television. Why would you even care? This is an organization that is bowing
44:27
the knee. They're big, powerful, multi-billion dollar knee to the woke mob. That's something
44:32
that they're doing. That's something that they absolutely are trying to do for a lot
44:36
of people. And for me, I'm not into it. I'm just not into it. I would love to sit down
44:41
on a Saturday afternoon and just turn on an NFL game and kind of go just kind of watch
44:44
it and do all those different things. But I don't want to support them with my attention
44:47
because they don't deserve my attention. Okay. This is an organization that has put their
44:52
flag in the ground. And this is a decision that they've made. This is how they're going
44:55
to act moving forward. Now, if you're an NFL guy and you want to watch the NFL and it
44:58
doesn't really bother you, that's what you think. But for me, they're going to get something
45:02
out of me if I give them my attention. And you might be like, well, you know, the Nielsen
45:06
ratings don't even really include, you know, your television specifically, and you want
45:09
to get into all these different integers, I'm not into it. I don't support this organization
45:14
that basically hates me. That says because I'm a cisgendered white male that somehow
45:18
I'm evil, right? That I'm racist that the NFL is doing the work of anti-racism. I'm
45:23
sorry. I'm out on the NFL. I'm out on the NBA. Forget you guys. And the last one I'll
45:27
kind of describe here, Starbucks. People are like, well, what are you having in Starbucks?
45:31
You're not even a coffee guy. Correct. I don't drink coffee, but you know, I used to go to
45:34
Starbucks. My girlfriend at the time now my wife, when she was in college, she worked
45:37
at Starbucks. It was a good little job for just off the campus. That was all squared
45:41
away and good to go. But did you know that Starbucks is a tremendous supporter of Planned
45:47
Parenthood? If you go to Planned Parenthood's website, they have this, you know, proud
45:51
list of all these companies that they do matching gifts for. So when you go and drink that,
45:56
you know, 900 calorie mocha frappo, half this half that with a couple of pumps of this that
46:02
abortion that is going to kill babies directly going to kill babies. Don't give me this nonsense
46:07
about, Oh, giving money to Planned Parenthood doesn't just go to abortion. That is their
46:11
business. They're not doing mammograms. They're not doing pap smears. They're killing babies
46:16
for $500, $600 a pop. They'll take out your baby in pieces, right? That's their business.
46:21
So I'm not supporting Starbucks, right? Our family doesn't do that. And it's kind of weird.
46:25
When people get a Starbucks gift cards, it's like, okay, someone's already spent that money.
46:29
Well, either give it away to somebody else or something like that. We're not going to
46:31
support a company like that. But this kind of begs this next question, because this is
46:35
an important thing. This is something that Adam has brought up with me before. It's like
46:38
Kyle, if you're going to cancel Netflix and not watch the NBA or the NFL and not go to
46:43
Starbucks and all these things, what about all the companies that are also doing crazy
46:47
evil things, right? You know, I'm sure this company is doing some evil stuff and sure that
46:51
company's doing some evil stuff. And here's the point. Here's kind of my line of delineation.
46:56
It's the evil that I know versus the evil that I don't know. So for me, I know the evil
47:03
that's being perpetrated by Netflix and the NBA and the NFL and Starbucks and those organizations.
47:08
So is it possible? Is it probable or even 100% true that I am supporting organizations
47:12
that have people that are flowing money into entities that I would not agree with that
47:16
are maybe even antithetical to the Judeo Christian worldview? I would say that it's probably 100%
47:21
true, but I don't know about those things. Okay, so I'll just use an example off top my
47:25
head. Let's just say Lowe's, you know, let's say Lowe's is giving a ton of money to plan
47:29
a parenthood. And I just didn't know about it. The moment that it's revealed to me that
47:33
they do, which I don't think that they do for the record, but the moment that it's revealed
47:36
to me that they do that, it is incumbent upon me to find a different place to buy screwdrivers.
47:41
Okay, different place to buy a drywall. But it's the evil that I know versus the evil
47:46
that I don't. Again, I can't insulate myself completely because for all I know, the microphone
47:51
that I'm speaking into is created by people that have children locked up in their basement
47:55
for sexual pleasure for all I know, right? But it's the evil I know versus the evil that
47:59
I don't. But I think it's very, very important for all of us to vote with our dollars and
48:03
our attention. Okay, another that's a right way that I would say against fighting cancel
48:07
culture is to use your business and your job as a weapon for good. Okay, so I've already
48:14
come up with a couple of examples with Gina Carano and Ali Williams with the Daily Wire.
48:19
You know, they're basically hiring these people that have been canceled. They're basically
48:22
with, you know, the flip of a switch, they're uncanceling these people. Right now Governor
48:25
Sant DeSantis in the state of Florida, he's telling cops that have been fired from their
48:30
departments all over the country because they wouldn't get the COVID vaccination. They're
48:34
like, come to Florida. We need more cops here in Florida. We love our police departments.
48:38
We love our police. We'll even give you a $5,000 bonus if you move down here and come
48:42
to Florida, right? Using your job, using your business, using your influence as a weapon
48:46
for good. If you have the means to do that, if that describes your situation, I would
48:50
say you absolutely should do that. But then the last thing here is that we need to create
48:55
a courageously speak out against evil without regard for the consequences. Again, going back
49:01
to my example about what Christians and conservatives typically do. They typically don't want anything
49:04
to do with any type of a, you know, negative emotions or negative words or something like
49:08
that. But we have to courageously speak out in these, in these moments when people are
49:12
being trying to be canceled for, for wrong reasons, we should speak up and support those
49:17
people. If there's businesses, I remember I was the CEO of Goya, you know, the food company.
49:21
He came out and supported President Trump and people tried to cancel Goya. And then all
49:25
of a sudden Goya had its like biggest quarter ever because everyone just went out and bought
49:28
out all the Goya products at their local Walmart, right? And so it's like that, that's a great
49:32
way to speak out. Like you can speak with your dollars and attention, but also my require
49:36
you speaking out in public speaking out on social media, those types of things are absolutely
49:40
things that we should focus on doing. But you might be thinking to yourself throughout
49:44
this entire discussion, well, we've been talking about this for almost 45 minutes to an hour
49:48
at this point. But why, why should Christians be concerned about cancel culture? Don't we
49:52
win in the end? Like, why are we worried about all these little culture wars? Okay. The reason
49:58
why Christians should be concerned about cancel culture is that the moral revolution and and
50:03
its revolutionaries, they will come for us because of all of our core foundational beliefs.
50:11
Because our core foundational beliefs are bigoted in their eyes. I mean, let's just go through
50:16
our beliefs. We believe in salvation in that it comes through Jesus alone, right? So John
50:21
14 six, Jesus said to him, I am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the
50:25
father except through me. That's pretty bigoted. That's pretty exclusionary, right? We also
50:29
believe that morality is fixed. We don't believe in this postmodern idea that morality is what
50:33
it is like everybody can just kind of figure it out for themselves. We believe that absolute
50:37
truth exists. Again, we're not postmodern in any way. We believe that truth is attainable
50:42
and does exist. We believe in the immorality of homosexuality. Again, go back to Leviticus
50:46
1822. You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. It is an abomination. We don't really
50:51
use the word abomination, but abomination is basically, you know, something regarded
50:55
with disgust or hatred, like this extreme hatred or disgust was something, right? That's
50:59
what we believe. We also believe that gender is binary and can't be changed. Genesis five
51:04
one and two, when God created man, he made him in the likeness of God, male and female.
51:10
He created them and he blessed them and named them man when they were created, right? So
51:14
bigoted to think that we also believe that marriage is between one man and one woman
51:19
and is for life, except in the case of death or adultery. We believe that we shouldn't judge
51:24
people based on their immutable characteristics, such as their race, right? Essentially, Christians,
51:30
we are walking talking hate speech dispensers according to these people, okay? So we need
51:35
to be advised and we need to be ready because they will come for your job. They will come
51:41
for your business. They will come for your family. They'll come for your congregation.
51:45
And if things keep trending in the direction that they are going now, these people will
51:49
get their way. It's an inevitability. Again, I got talked about this earlier. Why are they
51:55
pushing so hard on Dave Chappelle? Because according to people like me, just a second
52:00
ago, he's uncancelable. So what if they can get him canceled? Who could they not cancel
52:06
after that? If they can cancel the president of the United States, if they can cancel Alex
52:12
Jones, if they could eventually cancel Joe Rogan or any of these people, can they not
52:15
cancel you? Can they not cancel me? It's inevitable. Now, I don't want us to look at
52:23
this in a ton of dismay by any stretch of the imagination because we do win in the end.
52:28
But your ability to do church in the way that you're doing church right now will likely
52:32
change in the future. And perhaps for the good though, because again, I agree with people
52:37
like Matt Chandler that have written entire books like this. This was in his book, Take
52:40
Heart. The church has always thrived when it was under a lot of oppression, right? Think
52:46
about the places where the church is growing the most right now in China and North Korea
52:53
in different crazy parts of sub Saharan Africa in Iran, right? In America, in the West, it's
53:00
been really, really easy for us. But we need to be ready because for a lot of people, if
53:05
this is your personality, if you get knocked down or if you face adversity, your first
53:10
reaction is to kind of whimper and just take it. And I would encourage you not to. And
53:17
the reason why is because we have things like what I said from the top of this podcast,
53:20
first Chronicles 28 20. Okay, I'll read it again. Then David said to Solomon, his son,
53:26
be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed for the
53:30
Lord God, even my God is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you until all the
53:35
work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished. Okay.
53:40
The public commentary points us out that this is the last exhortation to Solomon from David.
53:47
So this is his Hey guys, lean in. It's the last play. We're down. We've got to get this.
53:52
We got to get this ball in the end zone. Everybody listen and everybody just pay attention.
53:56
That's his moment, right? This is his last moment with his son Solomon. And the thing
54:01
that's important because he says be strong and courageous and do it the and do part.
54:06
This is pointed out by Ellicott's commentary and do is added because the time for action
54:11
is imminent. Okay. So for all of us, the time for action in this area is imminent. If it
54:20
hasn't already arrived for you, it's coming. And you have to be prepared. Again, with undaunted
54:24
life, we're here to equip you to be able to push back darkness. But what if you weren't
54:28
aware of cancel culture? What if you thought cancel culture was something that happens
54:32
over there to those people, not something that could hit your home, your business, your congregation.
54:38
You won't be ready. You've got to be ready to push back. All right, guys, before we let
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