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Ep. 1356 - We've Crossed The Rubicon. Race Hoaxers Are Now Using AI.

Ep. 1356 - We've Crossed The Rubicon. Race Hoaxers Are Now Using AI.

Friday, 26th April 2024
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in January, a television news crew with CBS

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Baltimore showed up at the home of a

2:47

high school principal named Eric Eiswert looking for

2:50

an interview. And once the

2:52

crew arrived, they didn't record any newsworthy

2:54

footage whatsoever. Eric Eiswert wasn't even home.

2:57

Nevertheless, CBS went ahead and aired very clear

2:59

images of the man's house on their evening

3:02

broadcast. And they did that for one reason,

3:04

which is that a mob demanded it. At

3:06

the time, Eiswert was accused of

3:08

making racist, anti-black comments on tape

3:11

in front of several administrators at the school. Through

3:14

a representative, Eiswert had already denied making the

3:16

comments, but the media didn't care. It's

3:19

the kind of story the media loves to

3:21

report. You have a white principal at a

3:23

struggling, mostly black school who had supposedly validated

3:25

all of their paranoia about white supremacy. It's

3:27

a great story. So without

3:29

verifying the recording in any way, the

3:31

media immediately went to his home to

3:34

harass him. Watch. Now

3:37

to other news you're following tonight.

3:39

A disturbing audio recording is circulating

3:41

in the Baltimore County community tonight.

3:43

The recording is allegedly the principal

3:45

of Pikesville High School making racist

3:47

and anti-Semitic comments about students, community

3:49

members, and staff. My name is-

3:51

Pikesville High School's principal, Eric Eiswert,

3:53

is in hot water over an

3:55

audio recording, making rounds on social

3:57

media containing racist and anti-Semitic comments.

4:00

He needs to be removed from the

4:02

school ASAP. Davina McCain son is a student

4:04

at Pikesville High, but to hear him say

4:06

that about kids. That's horrible. I

4:09

mean, absolutely horrible. WJZ is choosing

4:11

not to air the recording at this

4:13

time because we are unable to verify

4:15

the authenticity of it, but in it,

4:18

a person purported to be the principal

4:20

can be heard making disparaging comments about

4:22

the test scores of African American students.

4:24

The person on the recording then makes

4:26

an offensive comment about an African American

4:28

staff member at the school and members

4:31

of the Pikesville Jewish community. WJZ

4:33

stopped by Icewort's home to see if he

4:35

had a comment about the recording. Hi, I'm

4:38

looking for Principal Icewort. He's

4:40

at home right now. A person spoke to

4:42

us through the front door. I

4:48

mean, I'm here to hear his story. Now,

4:55

whatever possible justification those reporters thought they had

4:57

for going to the principal's home, it was

4:59

over when they got there and he didn't

5:01

answer the door. That's the moment the

5:03

CBS news crew should have packed

5:05

their cameras up and gone back

5:07

to the station. But they didn't.

5:10

Instead, they spoke to some unnamed person behind

5:12

the door and they aired that footage instead

5:14

so that millions of people could see exactly

5:17

what the front of this principal's house looks

5:19

like. And they did that

5:21

after heavily implying that he said horrible racist things

5:23

on a recording, even though they admit that they

5:25

haven't authenticated the recording and they

5:28

say they can't even play it on air because of how

5:30

unreliable the recording may be. So

5:32

all in all, this is what journalistic malpractice looks

5:35

like. And we've seen many examples

5:37

of this kind of thing. But

5:39

CBS wasn't alone. The local NBC news

5:41

affiliate had similar coverage. They didn't play

5:43

the recording of these alleged racist comments

5:46

either, but they did

5:48

speak to several students who said

5:50

confidently that this principal needed to

5:52

resign immediately. Watch. Kyrie

5:55

Stewart joins us live outside of the school. And Kyrie, you

5:57

spoke with students and parents, so what do they have to

5:59

say about all this? Yes,

6:01

well this has pretty much the whole community talking. You

6:03

know, since we've been out here, we've had parents and

6:05

students just come up to us and tell us just

6:07

how shocking and disturbed they are by all of this.

6:10

In fact, I want you all to take a look

6:12

at this video out of an abundance of caution.

6:14

Police officers were actually at the school today, you know,

6:17

just for safety reasons. Now, we're not

6:19

going to air the recording, but in it,

6:21

the person has heard making offensive and inappropriate

6:23

comments about black students, the Pikesville Jewish community,

6:25

and members of the high school staff. Now

6:27

again, we spoke with parents and students who

6:30

told us that they're shocked to hear the recording. Take

6:32

a listen to what they have to say. It's

6:36

on social media now, so it's just like, and

6:38

I go to Pikesville and it's like all over

6:40

the place, so it's just like weird. I honestly

6:42

think he should be fired. I don't think that

6:44

there should be, I don't think he should be

6:46

working with children if he's

6:48

going to be speaking that way towards people. He shouldn't work

6:50

with people at all. Okay,

6:53

so the police are called in because they're

6:56

worried about violence at the school. Meanwhile, the

6:58

reporters are visiting this man's home and broadcasting

7:00

footage of where he lives, and

7:03

the news stations are insinuating that this principal said

7:05

something so horrible that they can't even air it

7:07

on television. Now, to be

7:09

fair, they didn't have to air it

7:11

because other media outlets were spreading it all over the

7:13

Internet. Philip Lewis, the deputy

7:15

editor of Huffington Post, posted the

7:17

audio along with a message

7:20

implying the principal's guilt. Here's what he wrote at the

7:22

time, back in January. He said, quote, Baltimore

7:25

County Public Schools is investigating the principal

7:27

at Pikesville High for alleged derogatory remarks

7:29

about students and staff. A

7:31

voice believed to be the principal can be heard

7:33

ranting about black students and Jewish families. Well,

7:37

who exactly believed the voice to be the

7:39

principal and whoever those people are,

7:41

are they reliable? Huffington

7:44

Post editor doesn't say that's that's not

7:46

clarified. He certainly didn't investigate

7:48

the recording himself. But in reply to Phillips

7:50

Post, a lot of people called for the

7:52

principal's termination anyway. One person

7:54

said, what's there to investigate? And

7:57

that was a common sentiment like, well, here it is. the

8:00

social media mob, we have him

8:02

on tape, dead to rights, he's obviously racist.

8:06

So here is the audio of

8:08

the principal's alleged racist meltdown

8:11

which the Huffington Post guy posted

8:13

and which went viral at

8:15

the time. Here it is. You're

8:17

me and only me. You know, I seriously

8:20

don't understand why I have to constantly put

8:23

up with these dumbasses here every day. Between

8:28

these ungrateful black kids who can't test their way

8:30

out of a paper bag or these

8:32

teachers who don't get it, how hard is it to

8:34

get these students to meet their grade level expectations? Lawrence

8:38

and Ravenel should have never been hired. And

8:42

don't let me get started on DJ. I'm going to drag his black

8:45

ass out of here one way or another. I'm going

8:48

to get something to stick. I'm

8:50

just so sick of the inadequacies of these people.

8:55

And if I have to get one more complaint from

8:57

one more Jew in this community, I'm going to join

8:59

the other side. Kathy, I'm done. Now

9:05

maybe you heard this back when it was first circulating.

9:07

I remember hearing it at the time. And

9:10

it seemed authentic

9:13

to me on a technical level

9:15

at least. It didn't sound digitally

9:18

altered necessarily. It sounds like a person,

9:20

some person anyway, saying those things.

9:24

But it also sounds strangely

9:26

off in a few

9:28

different ways. It was obviously suspicious for a

9:30

principal in Baltimore of all places to

9:33

say these kinds of things in front of other

9:35

people. People with these kinds of views aren't getting

9:37

hired to teach in Baltimore, much less run the

9:39

schools. And everything

9:42

he says is so over the top, even in

9:44

the context of a supposedly racist rant. He's attacking

9:46

black kids and Jewish people in the span of

9:48

45 seconds for some reason. It's

9:50

like listening to a leftist comic book

9:53

idea of what a bigoted school administrator

9:55

would sound like. I'm going to

9:57

drag his black ass out of here. white

10:00

principle in saying that. It's

10:02

just not going to happen. And

10:04

then the line at the end, I'm going to join

10:06

the other side is, is it doesn't make any sense,

10:09

but it's so on the nose as to be almost

10:11

comical. But local

10:13

news media in Baltimore didn't share any

10:15

of this skepticism. One popular talk show suggested

10:17

that the table is almost certainly legitimate because

10:20

the voice in the recording mentioned specific people

10:22

at the school by name. That

10:25

was the reasoning. It can't possibly be

10:27

fake because someone put the bare minimum amount

10:29

of effort into it to make it seem

10:31

legitimate, which must mean that it is legitimate.

10:36

Investigating this to determine whether or not it's real or

10:38

not. And if it were, if it were me and

10:40

I was still in office, I would wait. I

10:42

would wait until authenticating this type

10:44

of thing. And less, unless these

10:48

folks know something about this principle that

10:50

we don't know, well,

10:54

then whoever did this is really good

10:57

at that. And I just find it

10:59

hard to believe that there's someone associated

11:01

with Pikesville high school that has so

11:03

much of an axe to grind that

11:06

they're willing to get this incredibly good

11:10

artificial intelligence recording and make it sound

11:12

so real and personal to the story

11:14

that is at Pikesville high school. Right?

11:16

Because he talks about specific people. Yes,

11:18

he did this as well. Right. And

11:21

he's got specific, he mentioned a

11:23

couple of names. He's got specific grievances

11:26

as well. So I mean,

11:28

what are the chances of this being AI for

11:30

me? Very, very, very, very,

11:32

very, very small. What

11:35

are the chances? I mean, how could that possibly

11:37

happen? That could never happen. And how

11:39

could anyone at the school possibly have an axe

11:42

to grind? How could any faculty member conceivably want

11:44

to concoct some race hoax in order to bring

11:46

down the principle? When did people ever lie about

11:48

being victims of racism? Somehow

11:51

that kind of thinking still exists in this country

11:53

in 2024, after about 10 million other race hoaxes

11:56

have been exposed. But even

11:58

so to the great surprise. virtually every media

12:01

outlet in Baltimore. The ruse came

12:03

crashing down yesterday when we learned that

12:05

this recording is indeed yet

12:07

another race hoax.

12:09

That's exactly what it was. The principal

12:11

never said any of the things on

12:13

that recording. There was no recording. It

12:16

was all created by AI. Watch.

12:20

On January 17, 2024, the

12:23

Baltimore County Police

12:25

Department became aware of a voice

12:27

recording being circulated on social media.

12:30

It was alleged the voice captured

12:33

on the audio file belonged to

12:35

Mr. Eric Eiswerk, the principal at

12:37

the Pikesville High School. We

12:40

now have conclusively, we

12:43

have now conclusive evidence that the

12:45

recording was not authentic. The

12:48

Baltimore County Police Department reached

12:50

that determination after conducting an

12:52

extensive investigation which included bringing

12:55

in a forensic analyst contracted

12:57

with the FBI to review

12:59

the recording. The

13:02

results of the analysis indicated

13:04

the recording contained traces of

13:06

AI generated content.

13:10

Detectives obtained a second expert

13:12

opinion from a forensic analyst

13:14

with the University of California,

13:16

Berkeley, who also determined the

13:19

recording was not authentic. Based

13:22

off of those findings and

13:24

further investigation, it's been determined

13:27

the recording was generated through

13:29

the use of artificial intelligence

13:31

technology. Through their

13:33

investigation, detectives alleged Mr. Darien, who

13:35

was the athletic director at the

13:38

high school, made the

13:40

recording to retaliate against the principal

13:42

who had launched an investigation into

13:44

the potential mishandling of school funds.

14:00

Does Baltimore even exist? I don't know. That's

14:02

the era we're living in now. But in any

14:05

event, in this case, the audio was generated by

14:07

an AI program that's extremely simple to use. All

14:09

you have to do is upload a short audio

14:11

file containing a voice. It can be just a

14:13

single sentence. And then you can have the AI

14:15

say whatever you want in that person's voice. Now,

14:18

police have, as you just heard, arrested the

14:21

school's athletic director, a 31-year-old man named Dazon

14:23

Darien, and charged him with creating

14:25

this AI voice file. Specifically, he's been hit

14:27

with a variety of offenses, including stalking, theft,

14:31

disruption of school operations. What

14:33

would Darien's motivation be for making up a fake

14:35

recording like this? Well, it turns out that he

14:38

was under investigation by the principal for allegedly paying

14:40

teachers under the table using school

14:42

funds. And there

14:44

was also other alleged misconduct as well. So Darien's

14:46

contract wasn't being renewed. And in response,

14:48

he decided to generate fake evidence that he

14:50

was being fired because he's black.

14:53

And in the recording, the principal supposedly says that

14:55

he needs to get rid of black employees by

14:57

any means necessary, including DJ, which is

15:00

Darien's nickname. DJ is the guy whose black ass

15:02

is going to be dragged out of here according

15:04

to the recording. That's him.

15:06

And then Darien allegedly shared the audio

15:08

file with another teacher, who's a black

15:10

woman who has since resigned. And

15:13

then she in turn shared it with a student who put it

15:15

on social media. As of now,

15:17

nobody else has been charged with any wrongdoing

15:20

except this athletic director. Now, the

15:22

quick aside, you notice what

15:24

Darien chose to include in the fake audio. There's

15:27

an angry complaint in there about black students

15:29

performing poorly on test scores. It's

15:32

interesting that this is something the athletic director

15:34

thought to include in his fake racist screed.

15:37

That's how broken Baltimore schools are now. The

15:40

only impassioned comments you'll hear about

15:42

black students failing their tests is

15:44

in an AI generated deep fake

15:46

designed to destroy the life of

15:48

the school's white principal. And

15:51

that's one thing I thought when I heard that recording, I said,

15:53

like, some of the language here is not great,

15:55

but like, at least he cares about it. I didn't know. I

15:57

didn't know the administrators of these schools actually even cared

15:59

that much about the fact that these kids are failing

16:01

their tests. At least there's some passion

16:04

here. I don't know. Look on the bright

16:06

side. No, it turns out, no, no, that was all

16:08

fake. But this

16:10

case was apparently solved by analysts who

16:13

determined conclusively that the recording was AI. And

16:15

for some reason, the media apparently didn't speak

16:17

to any of these analysts in January when

16:19

they were visiting the principal at his home.

16:22

But the Baltimore banner interviewed several of these experts

16:24

last month and they determined with 99% certainty that

16:26

they were dealing with

16:28

AI based on some telltale signs.

16:30

One of the experts said, quote, there's

16:32

some signs of editing like putting different

16:35

pieces together. This has the sound features

16:37

of AI generation. The tone is a

16:39

little flat. Additionally, there was a lack

16:41

of consistent breathing, breathing sounds or

16:43

pauses in the recording, as well as

16:45

unusually clean background sounds. The

16:48

analysts also noted, quote, sudden and

16:50

incredibly short stops between bits of dialogue

16:52

that indicate the absence of sound, which

16:54

itself indicates some level of file manipulation.

16:57

So this is pretty open and shut at

17:00

a technical level. If you know what you're

17:02

listening for, which most people don't, they don't.

17:06

It was not a sophisticated deep fake at all.

17:10

Which is very troubling, because even then, even though

17:12

it was not sophisticated, it took months until the

17:14

truth came out. And this principle could clear his

17:17

name. That's how long it took the FBI, Berkeley

17:19

and several other AI experts to

17:21

vindicate this man. What this means

17:23

is that we have officially entered into a new

17:25

era of race hoaxes. And

17:27

we all knew that this would

17:29

happen eventually. This was going to

17:31

happen. And now, well, we have crossed the

17:33

Rubicon. And sad

17:36

to say, it's only going to get worse from here. We

17:39

already know there's a deep desire and willingness

17:41

among many people to frame innocent people as

17:43

racist and bigots. And

17:46

AI will be used relentlessly to that end. And that's another

17:48

reason why the objections

17:50

from that radio host are so absurd. But why

17:53

would anyone ever do this? What do you mean people do this all

17:55

the time? People get, we have

17:57

fake claims of racism constantly. It's

18:01

just that until now, nobody has used AI. But

18:04

of course, if they have that ability, of course they're going to do

18:06

it. And before

18:08

long, the technology will advance to the point that

18:11

even experts won't be able to identify AI quite

18:13

as easily. The tone

18:15

of the audio will be less flat. There won't

18:17

be any awkward spots in the recording. They'll

18:20

be able to... All of these problems

18:23

that signal to experts that it's AI,

18:25

well, the people that are developing this technology, they know

18:28

about those rough spots and they're going to iron

18:30

those out. What

18:32

happens then? Keep in mind again that this

18:34

fake recording, which does at least sound like a

18:36

real human being, at least it does to me,

18:39

was made by some dumb race hoaxer

18:41

working at a public school. I

18:44

mean, what could someone with a bit more expertise

18:46

and access to better technology do even now with

18:49

our current technology? And

18:51

what happens when the video deepfakes become as

18:53

convincing as the audio ones? Then

18:55

we're going to have real problems. Fake

18:58

hate crimes will be the least of our worries.

19:00

We're talking about the total destabilization of society. That's

19:03

what we're facing. Imagine

19:05

AI generated videos of police officers

19:07

killing unarmed black suspects. Is

19:10

there any doubt that that kind of video would cause

19:12

nationwide riots? A few weeks ago,

19:14

an armed black criminal out on pretrial release

19:17

actually shot at police officers on camera and

19:19

the media still nominated the shooter as their

19:22

new George Floyd. And

19:24

that's just the beginning. Picture

19:26

AI generated politicians committing

19:29

gaffes or caught in scandalous positions

19:33

or declaring war. What happens when AI Joe

19:35

Biden announces, say, a ground invasion of Russia

19:37

at 7 p.m., just as the

19:39

real Joe Biden falls asleep? You

19:42

can imagine the hysteria, especially when an AI

19:44

generated Karen Jean-Pere heads

19:47

to the fake podium to confirm it. It's

19:50

obvious to me that we need some kind of legislation

19:52

in place to stave off the catastrophe that we can

19:55

all see coming. And

19:57

Unfortunately, judging by the fact that it took several months

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We talked about the wrong way to

21:47

handle these pro Palestinian Campus protest Sprague

21:50

Abbott. you know, signaling the people be

21:52

arrested for anti semitism and hate speech,

21:54

Framing this explicitly as a war against

21:56

free speech and political expression or that

21:58

was the wrong way. as

22:00

I explained in great detail. So let's look now

22:02

at the right way. And for that we turn

22:04

as always to Florida. Reading from

22:07

the Tallahassee Democrat, as pro-Palestinian student protests

22:09

intensify on college campuses across the nation,

22:11

about 40 Florida State University students set

22:13

up an encampment on Landis Green early

22:16

Thursday morning, but the Occupy Landis

22:18

movement was short-lived. Campus police made the students

22:20

take down a handful of tents that were

22:22

set up for a mere five minutes on

22:24

the grassy space pre-dawn due

22:26

to FSU regulation 2.007,

22:30

which prohibits camping on university lands according to

22:32

a university spokesperson. So

22:36

five minutes. So Florida State got their encampment

22:38

down in five minutes. Not five days, five

22:41

minutes. Meanwhile over

22:43

at the University of Florida, they also

22:45

dispersed the campsite pretty quickly.

22:47

And all they had to do was

22:49

circulate a flyer. And I want to show you, here's what the flyer

22:53

says. And here's the caption from

22:55

somebody named Stu on Twitter, identifies

22:58

himself as a citizen journalist. His

23:00

caption is breaking University of Florida students

23:02

chose to break down their encampment after

23:04

being handed this allowable

23:08

activities and prohibitive items and

23:10

activities flyer. University

23:14

of Florida's chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of

23:16

America said, UFPD handed out

23:19

flyers with draconian new regulations on them,

23:21

clearly designed to stop our liberation zone.

23:23

They will not win. Okay. Well, here's

23:25

what the flyer says. Allowable

23:27

activities, speech, expressing

23:29

viewpoints, holding signs in hands,

23:33

prohibitive items and activities, no

23:36

amplified sound, no demonstrations inside

23:38

buildings, no littering, no camping,

23:40

no sleeping, no unmanned signs,

23:42

no blocking, egress, no building

23:44

structures, chairs, stakes, benches, tables,

23:48

no camping, including tents, sleeping bags, pillows,

23:50

etc. No disruption, no threats, no violence,

23:52

no weapons. And then at the

23:54

end, it says consequences for non-compliance, individuals

23:57

found responsible for engaging in prohibited

23:59

activities. shall be trespassed from the

24:01

campus. Students will receive a three-year trespass and

24:03

suspension. Employees will be trespassed

24:05

and separated from employment. Perfect,

24:08

well done. You know,

24:10

it's that simple. It is that easy. As

24:12

I've been saying all along, it is so easy to

24:14

deal with this problem. It's so easy

24:16

that it's not even really a problem, or at least

24:18

it shouldn't be. It is so easy to solve. And

24:22

especially when you're dealing with people

24:24

who don't, they don't want to

24:26

experience real consequence. These are not,

24:28

these left-wing protests especially on college

24:30

campuses, especially on Ivy League campuses,

24:33

most of all, not the University of Florida's an

24:35

Ivy League campus, but these are not,

24:37

like, these are not people who are so

24:40

desperate that they've got nothing to lose and

24:43

they're willing to suffer any consequence for their

24:45

beliefs. They're not. They're

24:47

actually not willing to suffer really any consequence,

24:51

but it works out for them because most of the time

24:53

there aren't any consequences. So

24:55

all you have to do is put

24:58

some real consequences in place and all

25:00

of this goes away that quickly. So

25:03

you notice how they handle it, right? Notice first

25:06

what they didn't say, University of Florida. They

25:08

didn't say that certain kinds of speech

25:10

aren't allowed, except for threats

25:12

of violence, but they didn't say

25:15

that certain points of view aren't allowed, right?

25:17

They didn't say that. They did not

25:19

condemn hate speech. They

25:22

didn't say anything about antisemitism because

25:25

that's irrelevant. It's got nothing to do with it. That's

25:28

not the issue. They

25:30

didn't frame this as some kind of crackdown

25:32

on speech as Greg Abbott did. Instead,

25:34

they said speech and political expression are

25:37

allowed, but if you're gonna do it,

25:40

you need to follow the rules and they're the

25:42

same rules as everybody else. Now,

25:44

while these protestors are saying, oh, they're inventing

25:46

new draconian restrictions. No, they're not.

25:48

These are the restrictions that are in place for

25:50

everybody. And you know something? If I wanted

25:53

to organize a protest at University of Florida or

25:55

any of these college campuses, I

25:58

would certainly be expected to follow. The

26:00

same role. In fact, Now I wouldn't be allowed to

26:02

do the protests in the first place, But. I'm.

26:06

What's. Your say, any conservative? Yeah let's

26:08

say on any college campus wanted to

26:10

have a political demonstrations. They

26:12

would be absolutely expected.

26:15

To follow all of these rules?

26:17

Okay, no conservative group would ever

26:19

be allowed. On any college

26:22

campus Ever. To. Set up

26:24

tents and stay overnight. We.

26:27

All know that would never happen on know college campus

26:29

would they ever allows? And. If they

26:31

would not allow it's for anyone else then

26:33

why should they allowed to these people, you're

26:35

not special, You're not special. You follow the

26:38

same rules everybody else follows. That.

26:40

The same rules are not being

26:42

persecuted. Nothing specially targeted is just.

26:45

These are the rules and you will follow them the

26:47

same rules with zinc standard we all everybody to. Arm.

26:51

And. That's it. You know that. But that

26:53

also means like, don't don't go invent a

26:55

new policy. Don't go invent some new don't

26:57

don't have that. Don't do that You'll need

26:59

to. Write. Just

27:01

just hear the rules and follow those

27:04

rules. Are you know something?

27:06

If they do follow the rules? If these protesters follow those

27:08

rules, Are I just. They go into

27:10

the I'm They. They go there, they're outside

27:12

and and they're not. you know, trying to

27:14

set up a refugee camp outside. and they

27:17

have signs and they're expressing their viewpoint. Them.

27:20

Absolutely. I think there should be allowed to do that. For.

27:22

As long as they want and keep up for as long as they want.

27:27

But occupying, you know, setting

27:29

up a liberated zone? know?

27:32

Suggest you don't get that. I know on the

27:34

west you think the you're entitled to do that

27:36

because you you because you been allowed to do

27:38

it in so many contacts. but you're not. Nobody.

27:41

Else is allowed. Do that I wouldn't be allowed to do at

27:43

nobody on the right. There's ever a lot to do that you

27:45

should be allowed to do it. I'd. And.

27:50

It really is that simple. Worship.

27:54

nbc news has the support the can police

27:56

department ohio as release body camera footage from

27:58

the night a sixty three year old man

28:00

died after repeatedly told officers, I can't breathe,

28:03

as he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and he was

28:05

pinned to the ground. In video of the

28:07

encounter on April 18th, the man, Frank Tyson, can

28:10

be seen lying motionless on the floor of a bar

28:12

for more than five minutes before police check him for

28:15

a pulse about eight minutes before CPR started.

28:17

In the nearly 36 minute video, police respond

28:19

to the scene of a single car crash

28:21

to find a downed power line, an unoccupied

28:23

vehicle, with a driver's side door open and

28:25

an airbag deployed. A man in

28:27

a white van whose face is blurred drives by,

28:29

tells police that the man responsible is at an

28:31

AMVETS lodge down the street. Officers enter the lodge.

28:34

A woman asks them to remove Tyson. When the

28:36

officers approach him, he knocks over a bar stool

28:38

and tells them to get the sheriff.

28:42

They then attempt to handcuff him. Police identified

28:45

Beau Schonegg and Camden Burch as

28:47

the two primary officers respond to the call. Tyson

28:50

screams, they're trying to kill me. They're trying to kill me. And

28:56

then says, I can't breathe. Shortly

29:00

after the officers remove, they supposedly

29:02

knee on his neck for 30 seconds. Shortly

29:06

after the officers remove his knee, Tyson again says he

29:08

can't breathe, to which someone responds, you're fine, shut the

29:11

f up. After Tyson appears to

29:13

stop moving, an officer is seen looking through Tyson's

29:15

wallet and talking to bystanders. Tyson appears to be

29:17

motionless on the floor for about five minutes while

29:19

at least one officer talks with bar patrons. At

29:21

one point the officer jokes, I've always wanted to be in a bar

29:23

fight. I don't know if this counts. One of

29:26

the officers returns in the frame, he asks whether Tyson has

29:28

calmed down or whether he's breathing. And that's

29:30

when they check and the discovery is not breathing. And

29:32

he was pronounced dead at 9 18 p.m. Okay,

29:36

so we don't know, we still don't have all the

29:38

information about this guy Tyson yet. From what I read

29:40

as reported by Colin Rugg on Twitter, he

29:42

had just been released from prison after a 24 year

29:45

sentence for kidnapping and theft. What

29:49

drugs was he on during this incident? You

29:51

know, I don't think we know that yet. I'm sure that eventually

29:53

we'll find out or maybe we won't because they'll never tell us

29:55

but it's possible he wasn't on any

29:57

drugs or alcohol at all. It's possible. I

30:01

mean, I can't say it's impossible, but I put a lot

30:03

of money a lot of money if there's

30:05

drugs involved I don't know but that's that would be my guess

30:07

and So

30:10

that's the description of the video and that's what we know

30:12

about this guy let's watch a little bit of this video

30:14

now Here it is I

31:00

You So

31:12

you basically get the you get the point there

31:17

That they go in to try to arrest

31:19

this guy and he fights back against them

31:21

and he resists and and then eventually they

31:23

have to Restrain

31:26

him and then he dies

31:28

in the process Again,

31:30

what did he actually die of what what

31:32

drugs were in a system? We don't know

31:34

that yet But

31:39

it's enough there that I

31:41

don't know I mean if you and of

31:43

course There's

31:45

already an attempt to make you know, we've had

31:47

we've had in the last few months We've had

31:49

several nominees for the next George Floyd. They're

31:51

still looking desperately for one. Maybe this will be

31:54

it It

31:56

bears similarities to the to the original George Floyd

31:58

just because you have the can't breathe and the

32:00

supposed knee on the neck. So

32:05

we'll see if they're able to make this into the next George

32:08

Floyd. Now I think that it

32:11

is certainly, as I've said many times, it's

32:13

right at that time now, or it's approaching

32:15

May, we're almost in May of

32:18

the year of a presidential election. So, you know,

32:20

we're right on schedule, like check the watch. And

32:22

it's like, yeah, now it's time for the race

32:24

riots. The only

32:27

wrinkle is that right now,

32:29

the people that would participate in those race

32:31

riots are busy with

32:33

the Palestine stuff. And

32:36

so the only question is whether

32:38

they can be redirected over

32:41

to this to do a race riot, or

32:43

if they can kind of do both. And if they'll just

32:46

sort of fold it in and make it into a bigger

32:48

thing, we'll see, we don't know.

32:50

Of course, we know the left obviously very much would

32:52

like that to happen. I think they'd like

32:54

to have both. That's their ideal. Like let's

32:56

do both. Let's do Palestine. Let's

32:58

do George Floyd 2.0. Let's

33:00

put it all together. And as

33:03

I've said, I mean, these are the same activists. It's

33:05

all the same. It's all related to each other. So

33:09

it wouldn't be that much of a leap. We'll

33:12

see if it gets that kind of response as

33:14

for the incident itself. Listen,

33:17

if you still watch these kinds of videos and

33:19

your first reaction is to blame

33:21

the cops, then I can't help you. I

33:24

just can't help you. Like you're hopeless. You are

33:26

a hopeless case. You are

33:28

absolutely hopeless. Because

33:32

really all along, but certainly at this point,

33:34

when you see these videos, like

33:37

you, first of all, you should just be totally exhausted with

33:39

this. And your first thought

33:41

should be, dude, just, just comply

33:43

with it. They have ever right

33:45

to arrest you. You broke a law.

33:48

Okay, they suspect you at least of like

33:51

running your car into a light

33:53

pole and you go into a place you're not

33:55

wanted. The people in the place are

33:57

asking the cops who take you out. So

34:00

they have to detain you. They have every right to

34:02

do it. It's their job. What

34:05

are they supposed to do when they try to detain the guy?

34:07

And the guy says, I don't want to. You're going to kill

34:09

me. Are they supposed to say, okay, never mind. If you don't

34:11

want me to forget it. We'll wait

34:13

till you're ready, sir. You tell us when you,

34:15

is that what you want them to do? No,

34:17

he's fighting. So now, okay, well now it's getting

34:19

physical. Now we have, now we have to use

34:21

whatever force is necessary to get you to the

34:24

ground and restrain you. We have no

34:26

choice. There is literally

34:28

no other choice. You tell me what the other choice is.

34:32

And then everything that happens as a result of that, I'm

34:34

sorry, it's your fault. You as

34:36

the belligerent a-hole who

34:39

took this, created the situation to begin

34:41

with. The whole situation is happening

34:43

because of you. The cops didn't create

34:45

this. This guy wasn't sitting peacefully

34:47

at the bar and they just happened to walk in and

34:49

say, there's a black guy. Let's, let's tackle him to the

34:51

ground for no reason. That didn't happen.

34:53

They were called in because

34:56

of you. And so you've created a situation

34:58

and then you're doing everything you can throughout

35:00

the situation to make it as bad as

35:03

possible for yourself. And so while

35:05

he is screaming, they're going to kill me, they're going

35:07

to kill me, he's doing everything he can to make

35:09

sure that's exactly what happens. And

35:12

I'm not saying that they actually did kill him, by the

35:14

way, because that is certainly not at all, you know,

35:18

apparent or that has not been proven, but

35:21

he's doing everything he can to make sure that he

35:24

does not survive the interaction. And

35:26

so, you know what, that's it. Like just, just,

35:29

just stop it. I mean, if you don't want, you

35:32

broke a law, people around

35:34

you are uncomfortable. You're making people

35:36

feel unsafe because of your own behavior. The

35:39

cops had to show up. So

35:43

yes, comply. And

35:46

I know when we say that the idiots will respond, oh,

35:48

are you some kind of bootlicker telling people to comply? Yes.

35:51

If you, if you're a criminal and you broke the law

35:53

and the cops are trying to restrain you. I

35:56

want you to comply. I'm

35:58

not telling him to give up his rights. Like what is what

36:00

right what right was being infringed on? Is it the right

36:03

to drive your car into a pole? Is

36:06

it your right to trespass is your right to

36:08

be belligerent and make people and and harass people?

36:10

Is that the right? No, there's no right being

36:12

infringed on So you

36:14

create a situation where the cops have to come. Yes

36:16

comply if you don't it's on you I just thought

36:18

honestly, I just don't I don't care you

36:21

you you You

36:24

create the situation for yourself consequences aren't you

36:26

it is your fault And

36:29

the idea that we're supposed to mourn again some guy just

36:31

got out of prison for 20 like someone who's contributing nothing to

36:33

society Done everything he can his

36:35

whole life to make

36:37

everything bad for everybody around him and and

36:40

then he dies by his own actions and

36:42

we're supposed to Bitterly

36:44

weep and mourn and I'm just

36:46

sick of it and tired of it. I'm exhausted

36:48

by it and You

36:53

know if you want to be a criminal and you want to live the

36:55

kind of life where the cops have to show up that's

36:58

your choice, but when they do

37:00

comply and Because it's

37:02

over like they're already there. You're not you're not getting out of

37:04

it. You're getting arrested no matter what you

37:06

do so stop being an

37:09

idiot and And

37:12

That's it. It's game over like you're going

37:14

to you're going to jail, right? So there's

37:16

nothing you can do right now to stop that from happening

37:19

All you can do is make it worse for yourself And so

37:21

we have these people that they they choose the latter

37:24

option They go to they go through a door, you

37:26

know door number two and they say well, okay Well,

37:28

I'll just make it as bad for myself as I

37:30

possibly can And

37:32

then we're supposed to blame the cops. Give me a

37:34

give me a freaking break. Honestly All

37:39

right, here's something I want to Play

37:43

for you. This is a something positive for change.

37:45

Let's do that. Yeah, that'll be nice

37:49

This is a video that's gone viral of a young

37:51

kid Looks like he's maybe seven

37:53

or eight around there at

37:55

some kind of farm equipment convention, I'm not

37:57

sure exactly and People

38:01

seem to find the video quite amusing in

38:03

a good way. Let's watch it

38:05

and I'll tell you what I what I

38:07

take away from it. Let's watch a little bit of this.

38:11

I have a big old farm display that I play

38:13

with them on. So, every

38:15

day you go and move things around on

38:17

it? Yep. Yep. What

38:20

season are you in right now then?

38:22

Spring planting or in... It's kind of

38:24

like when we go away now, we

38:26

can go up the plant season and

38:28

now we're in the semi-truck

38:32

season right? Yep. Yep.

38:36

Planting already for spring planting. Yep.

38:39

Bring fertilizer in. Yep. Bring a seed

38:41

in. Yep. Yep.

38:44

What do you think? I don't know. Oh yeah.

38:47

Oh yeah. Make nice combine they

38:50

got here. I appreciate that. Yep. Came

38:52

out with a new ASX-11 huh? Yeah, ASX-11. How

38:56

many bushels that drain tank on it? Good

38:58

question. 567 bushels. You know

39:00

how fast we can unload that? How fast?

39:03

6 bushels per second. That's moving it. That's more than

39:05

I can ever hit. That's more than I never need. That's quick right?

39:08

So, that's a great tank and 100 seconds. So, it's got the 100. You

39:10

can have that on both. Yes, that's pretty quick. That's pretty quick right?

39:12

Get the semi-truck back to work. How many row of corn heads is

39:14

that 16? So, 16 row 30 and 40 feet wide. Yep. Yep.

39:18

Yep. Yep. Yep.

39:21

Yep. Yep. Yep.

39:24

Yep. Yep. And a

39:26

big head. Yeah. This

39:28

is what... This needs a mother man to go right over there.

39:30

Right over there. Oh. It deserves a mother

39:32

man to go. So, the kid is great, needless to say. It's a

39:34

great kid. And one thing you notice about him just

39:36

from that 90-second clip is that he seems both more

39:45

sort of innocent and more

39:47

mature than the average child his age. Kind

39:50

of at the same time. Because on one hand he's

39:52

talking about his farm toys, his farm display I think is

39:54

what he said at the beginning. You

39:58

know, he's a young boy who likes tractors. which

40:00

is awesome, very innocent, much

40:03

better than staring at a phone, staring

40:05

at a screen. But

40:07

also he's far more mature than the average kid, both

40:09

because of his knowledge of the subject, but also because

40:12

of his ability to carry on a conversation with an

40:14

adult. You notice how

40:16

he engages, he asks questions, he responds, he

40:18

looks up at the person he's talking to.

40:21

Many kids twice his age cannot have

40:24

a conversation. In fact, I'd say most kids in high

40:27

school these days lack

40:30

this kid's conversation skills. But

40:33

of course, the main thing that comes across again is

40:35

his knowledge of farming and his passion for it. And

40:39

that's why, although

40:41

the video is fantastic, it's also sad

40:43

in a certain way that people find

40:45

it so shocking and unique. Because

40:49

this is how most boys that age

40:52

should be. This

40:55

should not be so

40:58

unique that it's like startling. And

41:01

I'm not saying that most boys should be

41:04

deeply interested in farming necessarily, although it's a

41:06

great thing for boys to be interested in.

41:08

But that's not what I'm talking about. What

41:11

I mean is this, that every boy should

41:13

have a subject that he

41:15

loves and he knows backwards and

41:17

forwards. And

41:20

it can be farming, it can be dinosaurs, it can

41:22

be cars, it can be baseball.

41:25

It can be outer space. It can be anything

41:27

really. But every boy

41:29

should have a passion like this. And

41:34

if you have a son and he doesn't have

41:36

a passion, if you honestly, you got

41:38

a kid around this age, a little bit

41:40

older maybe, and you look at that and say, well, I

41:42

don't know, what's my kid's version of

41:44

the farm farming? Like what's his version of

41:47

that? If that's

41:49

the case, then you should help him find it, help him

41:51

find his thing. And

41:53

his thing might change. Like my

41:55

oldest son, 10 years old, he has

41:58

cycled through several different obsessions. over

42:00

the years, but in the last year, he has

42:02

settled really firmly on wilderness survival.

42:05

Wilderness survival is his sort of very

42:07

intense interest. And once

42:11

he found that, it's like it's the only thing he cares about.

42:13

He wants all the tools, he wants all the survival gear, he

42:16

wants all the supplies, he wants to go out in the woods and

42:19

spend all his time out there and build shelters. And he

42:22

wants to go out in the

42:24

woods and start like campfires, which

42:27

is something we have. That could go

42:29

wrong, so we have to work with him on that one. You

42:31

can't just go start a fire wherever you want, but that's what

42:35

he wants to do. He wants to

42:38

read books about it. He wants to watch videos

42:40

about bushcraft, watch

42:42

movies about survival. He wants to

42:44

talk about it a lot, like frankly more than any of

42:46

us want to talk about it, but that's what he wants

42:48

to talk about. And we embrace

42:51

it, we encourage it, because this is his outlet. This

42:55

is also a starting point. If

42:57

your son has something like this, it's

43:00

a starting point, and he learns so many other things

43:02

related to that subject that he's interested

43:04

in. So like with

43:06

my son, we can get him to learn

43:08

and engage with pretty much any subject if

43:11

we relate it back to wilderness survival

43:13

and camping and that kind of thing.

43:16

If we relate it back to the woods somehow, then he'll

43:19

matter what the subject is. Even for the subject he thinks he doesn't

43:21

like, we can get him to engage with it. And

43:24

this is what boys do. They

43:27

fixate. And

43:29

there's a certain intensity that comes with being

43:32

a boy and being

43:34

a man. It's a masculine, it's a

43:36

male trait to intensely

43:38

fixate on certain things. And

43:41

that's a great thing for parents to

43:45

harness and

43:47

to point in healthy directions. Because

43:50

what happens if you

43:52

don't harness it? If

43:54

you don't do anything to foster

43:56

this quality in your son, what happens then?

43:58

Well, two things happen. First, inevitably

44:01

in this society, he

44:03

will still fixate on something, but

44:06

his fixation will become focused entirely

44:08

on entertainment. That's what his fixation will be. Screens,

44:11

you know, different forms of media. That's gonna

44:13

be his thing. And

44:15

as he fixates on the screens, his

44:17

intensity will die down because

44:20

the screens have a numbing neutralizing

44:23

effect, which

44:25

is why, as anyone knows, if you go into

44:27

a room where you've, you know, maybe you've let

44:29

your kids sit and watch TV for a little

44:31

bit too long, and you walk in

44:33

and they're just like zombies just staring at the screen. You could talk

44:35

to them and they don't even hear you, right? You

44:37

could wave your hand in front of their face. It's

44:39

like they don't even blink. It

44:42

has this hypnotic kind of neutralizing effect.

44:46

Whereas other things don't do that. Now, if your kid

44:48

has a real interest like farming, you

44:50

know, you can talk to the kid there. He's

44:53

invigorated, he's excited, he's passionate, he's engaging. It's

44:56

not like that when a kid is just

44:58

sitting, staring at the screen, just like this,

45:00

slack-jawed, right? And look,

45:03

before you start yelling at me, I know

45:06

you're gonna yell at me anyway, no matter what I say, it doesn't matter, but I'm

45:08

not saying, okay, that boys shouldn't have access

45:11

to entertainment. I'm not saying that obviously a

45:13

kid is gonna watch TV, he's gonna watch

45:15

movies, he's gonna maybe

45:17

play video games or whatever. And

45:20

that's fine in moderation, but if

45:23

you allow that, the

45:26

entertainment, the screens, the media, to

45:29

be your son's thing, to

45:31

be his prime focus, his

45:33

great interest, then

45:37

in most cases, now, there may

45:39

be some cases where from

45:41

there, a kid, like maybe

45:44

he goes on to

45:46

become a film director, you know, maybe he goes on to

45:48

become a video game designer or something like that. Maybe he's

45:50

in the media world and

45:52

he'll trace that back to his, so that

45:55

will happen sometimes. But

45:57

most of these kids that are sitting around

46:00

all day, just consuming media.

46:03

They're not gonna go into any business that has anything to do with any of

46:05

that. And

46:08

it's not gonna become a real passion. For a

46:10

few of the kids, it'll become a real like

46:12

passion. But for most of them, it's not a passion.

46:15

It's just a, it's a distraction. It's an

46:17

amusement. It's a, you

46:19

know, just a recreation. It's a way of passing time. And

46:24

the problem is that in that case, for

46:27

most kids, if they're a great interest,

46:29

right? And if a boy is just staring at screens

46:32

in different forms, he's

46:35

not gonna reap the benefits that he

46:37

would if he was focused on farming

46:39

or outer space or wilderness survival or

46:41

even baseball. Because these things

46:43

out in the real world, out

46:45

in the physical world, when a boy focuses

46:48

on those things, he learns about the world. He

46:51

develops useful and edifying skills

46:53

in the world. He

46:56

usually ends up socializing around

46:58

that interest. Like

47:00

the screens are isolating. The screens are

47:02

singular because most of the time, kids

47:05

do that just by themselves.

47:09

In fact, you know, even when I was a

47:11

kid, there was at least

47:13

more of a social element to the screens.

47:16

Like you would get together with your friends and like maybe you'd

47:18

play video games. You'd all be in the same, you'd all be

47:20

in the same basement playing video games.

47:25

But now even that is lost for the

47:27

most part. And so it's all singular, it's

47:29

all alone. And

47:31

then the kids

47:33

never develop social skills. And

47:39

they never develop any interests outside of

47:41

the screens. So this is what

47:43

I would encourage you. As a father

47:46

of four boys myself, find your son's

47:48

passion. Find

47:50

the thing that he

47:52

can focus on. Find the thing

47:54

that will harness his intensity. And

47:57

if you're saying to yourself and you're being honest and you're

47:59

thinking about your own. own son, let's say, he

48:01

doesn't have a lot of intensity. But

48:04

he does. He does. Every boy has it

48:06

in them. But you just haven't found

48:08

it. You've allowed it to be extinguished,

48:10

or not entirely extinguished, but greatly

48:13

suppressed. Probably because

48:15

he spends all of his time just

48:18

staring at screens. So it's

48:20

in there. It's in there. But you have to find it. You have

48:22

to harness it. Like the thing

48:24

that just like lights his soul on fire, whatever

48:26

that is. And

48:29

once you find it, once you help him find it,

48:31

you'll know because it just clicks. And

48:33

for this kid, it's farming like farm equipment. That's

48:35

his thing. He loves it. And

48:37

it's great. And, and,

48:40

you know, this is what every

48:43

every father of a boy

48:46

looking at the video should be able to say, to some

48:49

extent, Oh, yeah, my son, that's like, I see my

48:51

son in this kid. And

48:53

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48:56

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For a daily cancellation day we turn to

49:42

a woman named ash Putnam. She has gone

49:44

viral with a video complaining about the trials

49:47

and tribulation she's faced while trying to find

49:49

a job. And most recently she

49:51

says she was turned down by TJ Maxx which certainly

49:53

you know has to be a tough pill to swallow.

49:55

Based on my limited experience with TJ Maxx it

49:58

would seem that they hire pretty much anybody. with

50:00

a pulse. Now granted, that means that TJ Max

50:02

employees are held to a higher standard than we

50:04

hold, let's say the president United States. But

50:06

still, it should be a relatively

50:08

easy hill for any prospective applicant to climb.

50:10

But sadly, Ash Putnam found that her

50:13

TJ Max dreams were crushed due

50:15

to one factor that becomes very obvious the second

50:17

you look at her. Watch. So

50:20

I wanted to come on here and

50:22

talk about something that is really starting

50:24

to annoy me. So I

50:27

applied for a job at TJ

50:29

Max a few weeks ago, and

50:32

they denied my application. They couldn't even

50:34

call me. They just sent me

50:36

some automated email. So I went

50:39

in today and I was like, so

50:41

what was the reason I didn't get

50:43

hired? And she was like, Oh, like,

50:45

you just like don't have enough experience.

50:47

There was candidates that had like more

50:49

experience than you. And

50:51

you know, I asked her if it was about

50:53

my tattoos, obviously, because I know a lot

50:56

of places don't like tattoos. She

50:58

said that wasn't the reason. I don't

51:01

feel like that's true, but whatever, I'll leave

51:03

it at that. So I'm

51:06

just wondering how like

51:08

teenagers and young adults

51:11

who haven't had a job before,

51:13

um, how

51:15

are they supposed to get employed? And

51:17

you know, I hate that my tattoos

51:19

are such a defining factor for

51:21

me getting a job or not.

51:24

Like just because I have tattoos doesn't

51:27

mean I'm not going to be a

51:29

good worker. Like I just I do

51:31

not understand that at all. Because

51:34

quite literally some of the most

51:36

smart, intelligent people I've ever met

51:38

are people with tattoos and piercings.

51:42

Well then, ma'am, I think you need to meet

51:44

more people, though I understand it may be difficult

51:46

to meet people when you have not just one,

51:48

but two giant images of demons emblazoned permanently on

51:50

your body for everyone to see, which means presumably

51:52

that she got the first giant demon and then

51:54

walked around with it for a bit and then

51:57

said to herself, you know what would really improve

51:59

my life? A second demon. Those

52:02

along with the face tattoos and face piercings and nose

52:04

ring and everything else, she

52:06

looks very much like a pin cushion

52:08

that a disturbed child has scribbled all

52:10

over. So let me offer

52:12

just two very brief thoughts about this.

52:14

First of all, it's become increasingly

52:17

clear that thanks largely to

52:19

the younger generations, the internet has become

52:21

a place primarily for people to

52:23

whine about their lives. Well,

52:25

it's primarily a place for porn as it's turned

52:27

out, but second is the whining, which is a

52:29

kind of misery porn. And it's

52:31

true that there has always been whining on

52:33

the internet, just as there's always been porn,

52:36

unfortunately. But if you go not very

52:38

back, not very far back in time, even

52:40

just five years ago or so, you'll find

52:42

that it used to be much more common for

52:44

people to err on the opposite extreme. Like

52:46

one of the major criticisms of social media

52:48

was that people used it to project an

52:51

unrealistically positive, sort of put

52:53

together confident version of themselves. They

52:55

made their lives seem much better than their lives

52:58

actually were in real life. And

53:00

of course you still hear this criticism sometimes of social

53:02

media, but it's not as common as it used to

53:04

be. And that's because increasingly social media

53:06

has become a tool for amplifying your

53:08

complaints and your grievances and your general

53:10

objections to the realities of life. People

53:13

are trying to present themselves

53:15

as put upon and weak and their

53:18

lives as pitiable and full of suffering.

53:21

Well, I think we were better off before. It

53:24

is healthier to project an unrealistically happy

53:27

image of your life than

53:29

an overly dour and negative one. It's

53:32

healthier for the person posting the content and

53:34

for everyone else consuming it. At

53:38

least that's aspirational. At least like if everyone is

53:41

putting stuff out that makes their life seems great,

53:43

it could have an aspirational effect at least. The

53:46

instinct to complain to the world about

53:48

your life is far more toxic than

53:51

the desire to make the world envious

53:53

of your life. Neither option is

53:55

particularly healthy, but the former is significantly worse I

53:57

would say. And now the internet is full

53:59

of videos. this where a woman for some

54:01

reason has decided to inform millions of people

54:03

that she can't get a job at TJ

54:06

Maxx. That's an embarrassing

54:08

piece of information that we don't need to know

54:10

and shouldn't know and wouldn't know if you

54:13

didn't decide to shout it into the digital

54:15

bullhorn. Second

54:17

about the tattoos. I, you

54:21

know, I would like to think that I don't need

54:23

to explain why it's a very bad idea to get

54:25

tattoos on your face and neck, but that self destructive

54:27

practice is becoming more and more common. So apparently I

54:29

do need to explain it. So I'll just say this,

54:31

if you if you're considering going down this road, you

54:33

should know something. When the rest

54:36

of us see somebody with tattoos anywhere

54:38

above the collarbone, we

54:40

automatically assume that the person who went

54:43

with those tattoos in those places has

54:45

three things to go along with all

54:48

the ink. One, daddy

54:50

issues to a meth habit, and

54:52

three, at least one STD. In

54:55

fact, not only do we assume

54:57

that, but those are the only things we see when we

54:59

look at you, the tattoo becomes a

55:01

barrier between you and the rest of

55:03

society. We can't engage with

55:05

you or have a conversation without seeing the

55:07

tattoos, the tattoos scream at us. And

55:10

we feel burdened by trying to pretend

55:12

we don't notice them. If

55:15

you have face tattoos, and you're talking to somebody without

55:17

face tattoos, the only thing that

55:19

person without face tattoos wants to do

55:21

is say to you, Okay, hang

55:23

on a second. Why do you have that all over your face? And

55:26

usually the other person will not say that, because

55:29

they want to be polite. But it

55:31

takes great effort to prevent themselves from

55:33

blurting it out. And even

55:35

when they're looking at you like they want, they don't

55:37

know, like usually when looking so someone's more make eye

55:40

contact when you're talking to somebody, you got all this

55:42

stuff all over your face. So we're just like, we're looking up at

55:44

all the stuff like what is that? Why did you get that? Why

55:46

did you get that on your forehead? Why

55:48

was it about that? What does she have on her forehead? Like a

55:51

sun or something? You

55:53

really want is that design

55:55

so amazing that you

55:57

want to have it on your forehead forever you want

56:00

to be the first thing anyone sees when

56:02

they look at you forever,

56:04

really? Is it that great of a design?

56:06

I've never seen a design that

56:08

was that amazing. And

56:11

so, but this is the thought process that we're having while

56:13

we're talking to you. And it's quite

56:15

exhausting. And that's why

56:17

by having those scribbles all over your face and

56:20

neck, you have made yourself unemployable in most industries.

56:22

You are even unemployable at TJ Maxx,

56:25

where they expect you to at least keep your meth habit

56:27

to yourself. And really,

56:29

I'll say this, I'll go even further.

56:31

I'll say that tattoos in general are

56:33

a dumb idea. And I say that elephant

56:35

in the room as somebody with two tattoos

56:37

myself. Unfortunately, my tattoos are on my arms

56:39

and can easily be covered. I also don't

56:42

need to cover them because there is no

56:44

dress code for podcasters. And

56:46

my tattoos are Christian symbols, not just random designs.

56:48

So I don't find them embarrassing. I'm actually quite

56:50

fortunate, because way back when I got mine

56:52

done, back in those

56:54

bad old days, the big trend for white

56:57

guys in the early 20s was

56:59

the tribal armband advertising

57:02

not so much that you smoke meth or

57:04

grew up fatherless, but rather that you listen

57:06

to Nickelback, which some would say

57:08

is even more shameful. And

57:10

I was smart enough to avoid falling into that trap,

57:13

at least that much. But even so, you know,

57:15

here's what I'll say. If

57:17

I never got any tattoos, I wouldn't go

57:19

get them now. Like I wouldn't look at myself now and

57:22

say, you know what, I really need a tattoo. I need

57:24

something permanent. I need some design permanently on my body forever.

57:27

I wouldn't do that because nobody regrets not

57:29

getting a tattoo like that is nobody's life

57:32

regret. Lots of people

57:34

regret getting them. The best

57:36

you can hope for as you grow older. If

57:39

you get tattoos, I'm just telling young people this now, as

57:42

someone old and grizzled at the age of 37

57:44

is that the best you know for is

57:46

that you'll sort of be indifferent to your tattoos

57:48

as you grow older, perhaps not actively humiliated by

57:50

them, but also not terribly excited about them. You're

57:52

not going to wake up every day, look down at your

57:54

tattoo and then say, man, thank God I have this on

57:57

my body. You might say that

57:59

for like the first few weeks or even months. But think

58:02

about how you'll feel a decade later, or

58:04

20 years later, like the charm wears off.

58:07

And the point is that nobody's life has

58:09

ever been improved by having an image permanently

58:12

drawn on it. Lots of

58:14

people's lives have been hampered by it, on the other

58:16

hand. And if

58:18

that does happen, you only have

58:20

yourself to blame just as our friend Ash Putnam

58:22

sadly can only blame herself for her

58:25

predicament. And that is why she is today,

58:27

I must say, cancelled. That'll

58:30

do it for the show today and this week. Thanks

58:32

for watching, thanks for listening. Have a great weekend. Talk

58:34

to you on Monday.

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