The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 627 - They Don't Care About You

Episode Date: December 22, 2020

Today on the Matt Walsh Show, congress passes a stimulus bill. It is what we expect from congress, in all the worst ways. Also Five Headlines including another brave celebrity coming out as the opposite sex, and the Left attacks Marco Rubio for getting a vaccine before groups who need it more, while ignoring the Democrat lawmakers doing the same. Plus our Daily Cancellation and much more. If you like The Matt Walsh Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: WALSH and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/walsh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the Matt Wall Show, Congress passes a stimulus spill. It's what we expect from Congress in all the worst ways. Also, five headlines, including another brave celebrity coming out as the opposite sex. And the left attacks Marco Rubio for getting a vaccine before other groups who need it, more get it, while ignoring Democrat lawmakers who, of course, are doing exactly the same thing. Plus, our daily cancellation and much more today on the Matt Wall Show. Well, here's a New Year's resolution that we could all think about. How about supporting companies that have morals? Supporting companies that support us in the culture.

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No, hatred would require a passion that they don't possess. It would mean that they care if in the wrong way. What we get from Washington instead is much more banal, much. emptier, worse, even. What we get is disregard, indifference, neglect. And this is, put it mildly, not the attitude you want from your lawmakers at any time, and especially not at a time like this. It was easy to predict this, you know, in hindsight or even in foresight. If you have a group of people in charge, you don't really care what happens to you or your family, and also don't really care about the law, and then a pandemic hits, what are they likely to do? They're not

just going to leave you to your own devices, which would have certainly been preferable. But they aren't, you know, they're going to do that because they want to appear like they're doing something. Also, they realize that they're being presented with a profound opportunity to seize more power and influence. So instead, they shut everything down, tell you to stay home, tell your children to skip school for a year, tell you not to visit your elderly parents or let your children see their friends, and then pat themselves on the back when the numbers go down. When the numbers go up, as they have, they have, they're not. They're not. They're will just blame you for not listening to their instructions. No concern for your overall health and

well-being. No concern for your quality of life. No concern for your life at all. No concern for your child's education. None of that. You're just a number of statistic. What do they care how a statistic feels? Why should they care about a number's suffering? This dynamic was thrown into sharp relief this week with the stimulus bill that Congress came up with in a compromise. Now, you always know you're in trouble whenever there's a bipartisan compromise. People always love bipartisan compromises. I don't. It's bad enough when one party has a bad idea, but when they both agree on a bad idea, it has to be especially horrendous. And it is. The bill, 5,000 pages long, totaling almost a trillion in spending, would, among other things, many, many other things, which we'll get to in a minute,

provide $600 checks to some Americans. Now, some lawmakers, have objected to this portion, including Rand Paul, who should be commended at least for objecting at all, but his objection might miss the point a little bit. Listen. Why stop at $600 a person? Why not $1,000? Why not $2,000? Maybe these new free money Republicans should join the Everybody gets a guaranteed income caucus. Why not $20,000 a year for everybody. Why not 30,000? If we can print up money with impunity, why not do it? The Treasury can just keep printing the money. That is, until someone points out that the emperor has no clothes and that the dollar no longer has value. To so-called conservatives who are quick to identify

the socialism of Democrats, if you vote for this spending monotrosity, you are no better. When you vote to pass out free money, you lose your soul, and you abandon forever any semblance of moral or fiscal integrity. Now, I agree that the government spends too much and is spending too much in this bill, as always, it's a trillion dollars absurd. But when it comes to the direct payments to individuals, there are two ways of looking at it. One is that the federal government shouldn't be giving anything to anybody in this case. The states are the ones that have imposed these lockdowns. Why should a taxpayer in, say, North Dakota have to bail out a small business owner in New York? Shouldn't New York do that?

It's New York's fault. This line of thinking would lead to Congress spending $0 on direct payments. The other line of thinking is that the federal government is also responsible for pushing the lockdowns, especially through mouthpieces like Fauci and Birx. And besides, as this line of thinking would go, whoever is to blame, the fact is that millions of Americans are in dire straits through no fault of their own. It was public policy on whatever level that brought us here. We pay Congress to help solve problems like this, now they need to do their jobs.

But that's going to require a lot more than $600 for the people who need it. Now, place to blame wherever you want. The fact is that the government has shut down entire industries, prevented millions of people from going to work, bankrupted businesses, thrown families into financial ruin and destitution. The government did this. If the government tells you that you aren't allowed to go to work, or that as a business owner, you aren't allowed to serve customers, or you could only serve, you know, 30 percent of, of your customers.

The government is taking from you, and it owes you restitution, compensation. This isn't welfare. This isn't the normal sugar daddy routine from the government. This is about Americans getting what they're actually owed, actually entitled to, an entitlement in the true sense of the word. The whole problem with what we normally call entitlements is precisely that the people getting them are not entitled to them. In this case, they are.

But the problem is that $600 is an insult. It's a slap in the face. It's worse than nothing. It's the equivalent of, on a smaller scale, you know, when I was delivering pizzas as a teenager, and one time the customer was mad that his order was late, not my fault, by the way. So he paid his bill and then pulled out a nickel to hand it to me as a tip. He meant it as an insult. And if it was like 50 cents, at least, maybe I would have taken it, but even I won't lower myself for a nickel.

This is like that. You know, they're tossing a nickel at the people that they have bankrupted. $600 may as well be a nickel if you just lost your business. are about to lose your house, can't afford food, and so on. If you have, say, $4,000 of necessary monthly spending, including mortgage and food and utilities and all that, car payment, whatever, $600 isn't better than nothing. It is nothing.

It gets you nowhere. It does nothing for you. And it gets worse. The bill also includes all sorts of goodies put in there by various politicians for the sake of their special interests. Tom Elliott, with Graby and Media, has a good thread on this. Let me read some of what he found in this bill. And this doesn't even begin to cover it as the thing is, again, 5,000 pages long.

There is no good reason for a piece of legislation to be 5,000 pages long, or even 100 pages, or even 50 pages. All of those extra pages give you stuff like this, as Elliott documents, quoting from his thread, says the COVID relief bill lays groundwork for a climate security advisory council. The COVID relief bill also includes $10 million for gender programs in Pakistan. not exactly sure what that even is. The COVID relief bill sets aside funds to investigate the 1908 Springfield race riot. The bill includes a lengthy subsection title the Horse Racing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020. The bill creates a committee regulating performance-enhancing drugs in horse racing. The bill outlays funds to address gender inequality among statues.

I'm not sure. I think we need to read closer into that one. But this is just what he's come up. the COVID relief bill includes funds for a museum that will offer programming education exhibitions on the life, art, history, and culture of women. The COVID relief bill includes $1.5 million for the Appropriations Committee's Office of Diversity and Inclusion, as well as lots of money for receptions. And we could go on listing things, again, 5,000 pages.

That's three copies of war and peace stacked on top of each other and somehow even more boring to read, I'm sure. This is what we get. Our elected leaders playing games, tending to their special interests, while millions of Americans plunge into destitution. This should make us all. There's a lot of cheap outrage out there every day over dumb things. This is real, this is something that is really outrageous,

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That's thinker.org. Let's get to our five headlines. Okay, so just saw this. Anthony Fauci was on CNN this morning. and a reading article in the Hill, it says Anthony Fauci said Monday that he would not recommend suspending flights from the UK over a more infectious coronavirus strain detected in southern England. The U.S. should, Fauci said, without a doubt, keep an eye on it, but we don't want to overreact.

Follow it carefully, but don't overreact to it. Now, this is a, they're saying, a new strain of COVID. which is at least they think quite a bit more contagious than the other, than the other strain. And Fauci's saying, well, we don't want to shut down travel. Let's not overreact. Now here's the thing. I agree with not overreacting. And that's advice that I wish Fauci had been taking. I wish he would take his own advice and had been taking over the last seven months. Yeah, we shouldn't overreact. But it seems to me we should be, here's, here's Fauci's approach and the approach of, of, of, of, of many of our health experts and people in charge,

they're very reluctant to shut down foreign travel, but not reluctant to shut down American businesses. Call me crazy. I think it should be the exact opposite. We should be extremely reluctant to shut down American businesses to the point of we don't do it at all. But as far as shutting down foreign travel, I don't think we should be reluctant to do that at all,

even if there isn't a pandemic. If there's any concern, if there's something going on overseas that you want to contain, shut down foreign travel. Sure. I don't think there should be very much reluctance at all in that realm, especially now. So if you're telling us that there's a vastly more contagious strain of coronavirus and it's in the UK right now and as far as we know it hasn't made it here yet, shut down travel. Why wouldn't you do that? Shut it down so that we don't end up shutting down businesses again or more businesses.

we know how that this is exactly how it played out back in march we have seen this movie before guys like fouchy saying oh we don't want to shut down travel and when when president trump started shutting down travel you had democrats complaining about it accusing him of xenophobia and then a few weeks later it's here and everyone's saying why do you do anything to stop it i just i get a very bad feeling with stories like this because i feel like we've we've seen this movie i feel like it's just repeating again. I am not at all someone who's propagating panic over COVID, but if they're telling us that the strain is there in the UK, why not just shut down the travel? I don't see why we don't just shut it down. Next, Nancy Pelosi on the floor of the house yesterday claimed once again

that her opponents are the ones who deny science. Let's listen to this. We didn't do it. We didn't do it. couldn't pass legislation until now because the administration simply did not believe in testing, tracing, treatment, wearing masks, sanitation, separation, and the rest, scientific approach. It had come clear to us now that they believed in herd immunity, quackery, springing right from the Oval Office, and not denied sufficiently by some of the CDC and the rest. So now we have a vaccine, and that gives us hope. A vaccine that springs from science. People say around here sometimes,

I'm faith-oriented so I don't believe in science. And I said, well, you can do both. Science is an answer to our prayers. and our prayers have been answered with a vaccine. And in this legislation, we had provision for it to be developed, purchased, and distributed in a way, again, that is fair and equitable and free. People say around here sometimes, I'm faith-oriented, so I don't believe in science. Just a quick fact check on that.

Nobody has ever said that. That's, I guarantee you, nobody has ever said that to Nancy Pelosi. I'm faith-oriented, so I don't believe in science. First of all, I don't think anyone who is faith-oriented would call themselves faith-oriented. More faith-oriented. I don't believe in that science. Get that science out of here, that black magic. This is what people like Nancy Pelosi, this is what they think of their opponents.

This is the cartoon that they have in their heads. when they think about the people on the other side of the ideological divide. But no, that is not something that anyone has actually said to her. And of course, as I have documented many times, if we really want to get into who is denying science, then I personally think we have to look at the people

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nursing homes and go in front of people who've been risking their lives for 10 months to keep others safe, like medical workers, they get to go in front of people who are on dialysis and who are on chemo, give me a damn break. Yeah, it sounds like what she's talking about here is a political, basically a political test to decide who gets the vaccine. Because she's not, she's, now, it's one thing if you're saying, well, the lawmakers shouldn't be putting themselves in front of the line to get the vaccine. I agree with that, except that the first person who you should be blaming for that or yelling

at is Alexandria Kezer-Cortez, because she's, She's the youngest. She went and got the vaccine yesterday and had it on Instagram. But that's not exactly what Anna Navarro is talking about here on CNN. What she's saying is she starts by saying, oh, you know, the senators and he's a lawmaker and he shouldn't. But then she gets into, he's servile to Donald Trump. You know, he's going to rallies. So the fact that he's quote unquote servile to Donald Trump, that's the reason he shouldn't be allowed to get the vaccine.

because he hasn't passed the political litmus test. That's what she's proposing here, a political litmus test. People who have the right political views, they should be allowed to get vaccinated. Pretty horrifying, but it's what we come to expect from CNN. All right, reading from The Daily Wire, actor Eddie Isard, appearing on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year, which is a competition series where artists are challenged to create a portrait of three famous subjects, It came out as a girl, but it was kind of interesting how he did.

I think we have the audio. The audio is a little bit hard to understand. Not the best audio quality, but let's listen to this. Eddie, you told us a little bit about why you've done this. Can you elaborate? Well, I try to do things that I think are interesting. And this is the first program I've asked if I could read, she and her. This little transition period.

How does that feel? Well, it feels great because people assume that well, they just know me from before. But I'm gender fluid. I just want to be based in girl mode from now. What if it feels right? It's something very positive. End up saying life is stuff.

So just keep trying everything. One life live it well. Exactly. Okay, so Eddie Izard, he says, he tries to do things that are interesting. and so he's He's still gender fluid Whatever the hell that means

He's still gender fluid But he wants to be based in girl mode now Because that's interesting The first thing here is that none of that means anything Based in girl mode I'm in girl mode What does that mean? But he wants to do it because it's interesting

It's just sort of a It's an interesting thing to do and this plays into this uh i i think highlights two points that i often make about this the first thing is okay eddie isard is wearing girl clothes and he puts on lipstick and then says i'm in girl mode now i'm on you know i i wear lipstick and now i'm in girl mode and when you do that and when the left celebrates it they are only perpetuating and promoting the very gender, you know, paradigm that they're supposedly trying to dismantle. Because what is wearing lipstick and wearing girl clothes? What does it have to do with being a girl?

They would say it has absolutely nothing to do with it. So now you wear lipstick and you're in girl. Wearing lipstick puts you in girl mode. That's supposed to be the, that's supposed to be exactly the paradigm, the dynamic that they're, wanting to get rid of. And a lot of this transgenderism stuff only promotes it, solidifies it. As I talk about all the time, you know, it's, it's, it's, uh, for, we were, we were always told that, well, there's nothing in particular feminine about wearing a dress. Just because you wear a dress doesn't mean you're feminine. These are all artificial constructs. There's, there's, there's, there's no reality to them. And now they tell us about, boy puts on a dress and he is a girl. If a boy wants to wear a dress, that's a sign that

he actually, not just that he, that he's girlie, but that he is a girl. Okay, so you're, you are reinforcing that, um, that dynamic that you were supposedly trying to destroy. So that's the first thing. But then also, you see, this is just narcissism. That's all this is. It's not, it's not that hard to decipher. This is narcissism. This is someone who's extremely full of himself and he wants to be interesting. He wants to be more interesting than just the normal pleads who are happy to stick with normal pronouns and to just be a man or a woman. No, I'm more interesting than that. I'm a much more complex individual. So I think it'd be interesting for me to identify as gender fluid. That's what we're being told there. I want to

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important step forward for our Commonwealth and our country. The Confederacy is a symbol of Virginia's racist and divisive history, and it is past time we tell our story with images of perseverance, diversity, and inclusion. Let me just say that, first of all, any civilization that puts forward diversity and inclusion as its highest virtues will die. You cannot base a civilization on that because those are not virtues at all. Diversity and inclusion are not virtues. Dignity, courage, selflessness, these are virtues. And these are the things that we should be hailing.

These are the things we should be celebrating. And men and women who exemplify those virtues, those are the ones who deserve to have statues. I would say, Robert E. Lee. one thing I can tell you for sure about Robert E. League, a lot more impressive and a lot more of a consequential of a man than Ralph Northam. And I would also say a better, if I was a Virginian, I would rather, I would say Robert Lee is a better representative of Virginia than Ralph Northam. Ralph Northam, who, remember, the man who smeared shoe polish on his face to dance around like Michael Jackson, the man who much, much worse even than that, came out and talked to him.

about legalizing the abortion of babies after birth. Now, he's worried now that Robert Lee is a problematic figure for Virginia, so we've got to get rid of him. Listen, when this was announced yesterday, of course, as always, you know, the left celebrates it and says it's a great step forward and everything, and we expect that. But as always, you know, you see conservatives who come out and defend it as well and say, I'm not, I don't like tearing down statutes in general and, you know, I don't think that we should be taking Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools as has happened and Thomas Jefferson.

I'm not into that, but, uh, but this I'm okay with. I think this is reasonable. This is fine. 111-year-old statutes been there. Ralph Northam decides he doesn't like it. And so he's going to take it out. I'm fine with that. Just realize if you're a conservative and you're supporting this, you, you are, you are supporting the exact same logic that, you're, you're going to, you are leads to and is right now, right now as we're watching, this is happening hand in hand with Abraham Lincoln's name comes off the school. You're supporting that same logic. The same thing is applied to Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was a racist, slave owner? He was. No way around that. So if that's the reason for taking

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I knew this story really well when we started, but as I started to drill down deeper into it, there was just every, you know, every hour of researchers stuff. I just, I didn't know that. The one that stays in my mind just off the top of my head was that on Apollo 13 and 14, Alan Shepard was supposed to be commanding Apollo 13, and Jim Lovell was supposed to be commanding Apollo 14, but Shepard was getting a little late into his training,

so Lovell and Shepard agreed to switch, which meant that Jim Lovell went on Apollo 13, which was, of course, the one that had the explosion on the way to the moon. So if they hadn't done that switch, Lovell would have walked on the moon. He was there twice. And those are the little things I didn't know. But to be honest with you, Matt, the real payoff for me has been the just,

the number of people that I've heard from who've said, I used to believe in the moon landing conspiracy, and now I just, I just don't. It just doesn't hold any water anymore. One thing that concerns me, maybe depresses me, is that it seems your generation was the last to have this great defining moment, a moment of triumph. And I think about my generation,

we have defining moments, but they're all terrible. 9-11 would be one. We're living through another one right now. What do you think about that? Do you think that's true that maybe that was the last sort of great triumphant moment where the whole world could come together and celebrate in that way? Well, I don't know the answer to that. Certainly, like you looking around at what we see going on now, sometimes I think that July 20th, 1969, is going to be recorded as that that was the pinnacle of human history. That was as good as it got.

But then I saw the SpaceX booster's landing, and I saw, and I continue to see what Elon Musk is doing. and Elon Musk, I think, is going to be able to pull this off only because, only because Elon Musk owns that company, does whatever he wants with it. All the initial, the early pioneers of aviation, the guys like Lockheed and Boeing and, and Cessna, Lear, all of these guys were individuals that ran their companies the way they wanted them to. And since the Apollo landings, companies like Boeing and Lockheed have become these enormous bureaucracies, and they can't do anything right, man. They can't, their vehicles don't work. They've already decided that one of the vehicles that they've been working on for 12 years now or something, they couldn't get the primary system to work, so they're going to fly with Band-Aids and backups. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is out there with a barge called, of course, I still love you.

And when he let go of that Tesla Roadster, and they started playing David Bowie, and don't panic from Hitchhaker's Guide to the Galaxy was on the navigation screen, I said, this guy's going to pull it off because he understands the fundamental thing about it is that it needs to be new, it needs to be shocking, it needs to be cool, and it needs to be fun, something to be proud of. And if this upcoming so-called administration, I don't even want to call it that, but in any event, if they leave him alone, he's going to get us to Mars for sure. So this series is just one piece of all the new content that we have coming down the pipeline,

including a new show with Candace Owens, the entire Prager U library, a new entertainment channel, a new investigative journalism team, tons of stuff coming up, and you don't want to miss any of it going into the new year. Become a DailyWire insider or above member for 20% off with code watch over at dailywire.com slash subscribe and make sure to download our Apple TV Oroku app to get all of our content on your big screen, including our podcasts and special live streams. That's DailyWire.com slash subscribe to get 20% off your membership with code watch and access to all of our new and existing content.

Let's get now to our daily cancellation. Today for our daily cancellation on this final show of the year, 2020, for me anyway, I'm going to potentially maybe cancel myself. It would be a fittingly tragic way to end the year. There may even be some poetic justice in it for me to fall in the end on my own cancellation sword. But I'm not sure yet if I'm canceled.

I figure what I would do today is go back and do sort of a year in review of my own show based on Media Matters hit pieces. So I went to Google, looked up the articles that have appeared on Media Matters website about things that I've said on this show over the past year. These are, we can assume, the most offensive and outrageous and objectionable things I've said, the things that earned me a patented Media Matters rebuke. So now I'm going to go over them, review these offensive comments, and decide if I should be

canceled for my sins. So I hope, first of all, that you appreciate the great bravery. that's required for me to expose myself to you in this way. Not in a Jeffrey Toobin sort of way, but in a spiritual sense. This is accountability and transparency, and perhaps in the end, repentance. So let's take a look. These won't be exactly in chronological order, and we can't go through all the articles, as there are quite a few on media matters about the Daily Wire, about all the hosts, including myself. But let's review the top three, okay? And we'll see if I need to apologize and be canceled at the end of the year here. First, we have a Media Matters article from March 3rd, 2020,

headline, DailyWire Host calls for extreme measures, including violence against drag queens. And then I'm quoted in the subheading, quote, real men should be grabbing that drag queen by the collar and kicking him out on his ass. The article says, the Daily Wires, Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles, called for drastic measures to prevent drag queens for being around children, with Walsh explicitly calling for violence against them by saying real men should kick a drag queen out on his and call the police. Walsh also said that the adults in a room in which a drag queen danced in front of a child should be going to prison, and Knowles called on the arm of the state to stop this. The DailyWire's official YouTube account uploaded video of Matt Walsh's extreme comments made

during the Matt Walsh Show podcast, which has received more than 31,000 views. The video cuts off before Walsh's explicit calls for violence, but includes his claim that the adult should be arrested for letting a drag queen perform in front of a child. Okay. Am I canceled for this? Verdict. No. I'm not. In fact, I was quite profoundly correct in everything I just said and everything I said that was

documented there. Drag Queen's Story Hour should be illegal and men should not be allowed to perform in drag for children. This is basic common sense. The kind of thing that people would have stared at you in confusion if you had said it out loud at any point in history up until like last Tuesday, they wouldn't have understood why you felt the need to actually say out loud that drag queens shouldn't be performing for children at the library. So I can't be canceled for this. Though I can't speak for

knolls, nor can I defend his shameful bigotry. Second, article from February 25th, headline, DailyWire's Matt Walsh melts down about pedophilia because Pete Buttigieg helped the kid come out. You wouldn't want to melt down about pedophilia, apparently. And then I'm quoted, quote, creepy Pete and other forces of evil will eventually be arguing in favor of legalizing pedophilia. The article says, after openly gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg helped the child come out as gay, the daily wires Matt Walsh freaked out that progressives will legalize pedophilia, claiming, quote, I can predict that nearly every leftist who today is arguing that three-year-olds can choose their gender will eventually be arguing in favor of legalizing pedophilia. On February 22nd, a nine-year-old asked Buttigieg to help me tell the world I'm gay.

At a campaign rally, Walsh responded by calling him creepy Pete going on a rant about child sex and pedophilia and claiming Buttigieg was exploiting a child's emotional confusion. Walsh's claim that LGBTQ allies will eventually be advocating for pedophilia as patently false and part of a right-wing smear that often targets drag queens and trans youth. All right, verdict, not canceled. Unfortunately, it turns out that I'm once again completely correct. It is not Pete Buttigieg's job to help a kid come out of the closet. And the sexualization of children happening on the left does put us on a slippery slope to the normalization of pedophilia. Absolutely.

Third, finally, from October 7th, headline Daily Wirehost says it's treasonous for stupid people to vote. Here they present just the video clip, which I guess is supposed to be so horrifying that it speaks for itself. We don't need to play the video clip. The quote is accurate. There doesn't need to be any more context than that. I did argue that stupid people should be legally prevented from voting,

and I did say that a stupid person who chooses to vote is doing such harm to the country that you could almost consider treason. Verdict on this. I got to say not canceled. If anything, I should get a medal for being so right about everything you just heard there. And that's the main thing that I think when I look back on these moments that Media Matters has highlighted. I'm frankly stunned and inspired by my own rightness. I'm in all of the fact that I've managed to be so correct so often. I really did intend to acknowledge and make amends for the wrongs I'd committed and to take my cancellation like a man. But it turns out I'm not eligible to be canceled this year.

I have canceled my wife multiple times, my kids, dogs, cats, birthdays, Christmas trees, Biden, Trump, phone calls, hallways, Canada, Australia, hundred other things, but I cannot join them in their cancellation. Not this year anyway. Maybe next. And so to all of you who also survived the year without being canceled, all five or six of you, congratulations. We are the few, the chosen, the survivors. And to you and myself, I say congratulations. And Merry Christmas. And Happy New Year. To the rest of you, I say, how dare you?

Do better. Do better next year. And we'll leave it there. For the day and the year, I'll talk to you in 2021. Godspeed. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe. And if you want to help spread the word, please give us a five-star review. Also, tell your friends to subscribe as well. We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts, we're there.

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