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Riley Gaines
I'm not really interested in getting choked, so I guess we're going.
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Matt Walsh
Yeah, I might choke you in public. Big black. I chose small white woman.
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Riley Gaines
It's not a good look, Shannon.
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Matt Walsh
Not a good look that you did what you did to me. Okay? Now, Gabby is obviously recording the call. We don't know what was said earlier on the call or before the call was made. She was clearly recording it for a reason. But even so, telling a woman that you're going to choke her is very bad. There's no, like, context that makes that okay. It does not, however, prove that he's guilty of rape. Now, there is apparently some kind of video, a sex tape, that Shannon's legal team has alluded to a few times. They claim that Gabby is using this video to blackmail Shannon and that it's been taken out of context, possibly edited, to make the sexual encounter look non consensual when it is in fact, they say consensual. And attempting to get ahead of this, his team also released a collection of extremely graphic text messages sent by Gabby to Shannon over the course of several months. And now I can't read any of them to you. Even if I could read them, I still wouldn't. They're very sexual. They are very graphic in nature. Gabby repeatedly says that she wants to be abused, wants to be choked, and she wants to have other things, unspeakable things, done to her. Some of these texts were sent after the alleged rape occurred. I think she alleged two incidents, and this was after one of them. Now, Shannon claims that if he did in fact rape this woman, then she wouldn't be sending him graphic texts weeks and months after the fact, saying, among other things, that she wants Shannon to put a, quote, big black baby in her. So what's the truth here? Did Shannon Sharpe rape this woman? I have absolutely no idea. If I had to guess, if I was just guessing, I'd say probably not. I mean, assuming that the texts are legitimate, it's hard to believe that a woman who was actually the victim of a violent rape would be texting her rapist and begging for him to come back and violate her again. Although it wouldn't shock me all that much if he was evil enough to do that awful thing and if she was twisted enough to start sexting with her rapist. So I have no idea. Now you know I cannot personally reach a verdict on this allegation and that's not my job to. So that's the good news. All I know is that whatever happened, it was weird and bad and gross and I wish I didn't know about it, but I do. And now so do you. Now this whole thing of course, was very avoidable. You know, false accusations can happen and they're always terrible. Assuming that these accusations are false, which they may or may not be. But the fact is that, you know, a great many, not all, but a great many false accusations and questionable accusations could have been very easily avoided. And here's how you avoid them. Get married to one woman, stay married to that woman. Have zero sexual encounters outside of your marriage. In fact, don't even spend time alone in the same room as any woman who is not your wife or a family member. When it comes to women of low character, such as one that you would find on OnlyFans, for example, don't have any interaction with them at all. Don't speak to them, don't befriend them, don't text them, don't call them, don't have them in your life in any capacity, period at all. And you know, it's not hard to put these boundaries up. These are the boundaries that I live within, that many married men live within. It has not intruded on my life or even caused the slightest inconvenience ever. It's very easy for a grown man to not get mixed up with the Gabby's of the world. It's very easy to put yourself in a situation where Gabby could simply never credibly accuse you of anything. Of course anyone can accuse you of anything. But you'll have a much easier time clearing your name if you can point out that you've never interacted with this person in any capacity at any point in your entire life. Now Shannon Sharpe's story, though gross and embarrassing, is in a way helpful because it demonstrates two things. And first of all, it reveals that there is a risk of staying single. You know, we often hear about the risks of marriage. The risks like you can end up divorced, you can lose half your stuff, you can lose custody of your children if you're the man anyway. And all of that can happen, of course. I mean, there are lots of things you can do to greatly reduce your risk of winding up in that position. But it does happen, we all know that. And the fear of that result is what leads some men to avoid marriage entirely. But as Shannon Sharpe and Many other men have demonstrated the other option is not without very significant dangers. I mean, unless you plan to be single and also celibate for your whole life, then you'll be getting involved with a succession of women you don't know and who don't love you or necessarily even care about you in the slightest. And that will make you very vulnerable and susceptible. And same goes for the woman. Of course, on the other side, there's vulnerability and susceptibility and dangers of a different kind that perhaps if the allegations are true, you know, this woman fell victim to. But either way, you know, it's, this is the point that there are, we talk about the dangers of getting married, dangers for men, dangers of women, for women, Many, many dangers, you know, involved in not getting married. Second, Shannon has shown us how pitiful and sad this kind of lifestyle is. Even if he isn't a rapist, even if he isn't, he's still a pathetic, ridiculous man. I mean, Shannon Sharpe is 56 years old. This woman would have been, I guess about 20 when this relationship, if you can call it that, started. So this is a 56 year old man, you know, hooking up at best with a 20 year old OnlyFans prostitute. This is a man who at his age, you know, should be sitting at his house with his wife watching his grandchildren play, maybe having a beer with his adult son. But instead he's wrapped up in an embarrassing, disgraceful public feud with a 20 year old girl. He should be reading his grandchildren a bedtime story. Instead he's reading us his sex messages with a chick from OnlyFans. And now he's been disgraced and his career is destroyed. And when he dies, he'll be remembered mostly for this, not for anything he did before it. And whether he's guilty or not, he brought all of that on himself. And that is why he is today canceled. 1776 was not the beginning. It was the breaking point. The American Revolution was born from 150 years of colonial experience, tensions and transformation. 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The last time we heard from her, she was celebrating the first all black podium at the Paris Olympics last year, after black gymnasts took home the gold, silver and bronze, Simone bragged about the fact that it was a podium without any white people. So that was enough to tell us that if we didn't already know that she's a leftist clown. And three years before that, she infamously quit on her team in the middle of the Tokyo Olympics, citing her need to work on her mental health. And that was enough to tell us that she's a coward. Finally, this week, she put it all together, mixing her cowardice with her leftism and sprinkling a little bit of a mean girl nastiness on top. Simone posted the following on x Riley Gaines, you're truly sick. All of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive or creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sport, maybe a transgender category in all sports, but instead you bully them. One thing's for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around. Now, to be clear, this was not a response to anything Riley Gaines had said to her. This was a totally random, unprovoked attack. And she followed up three minutes later with this bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male. Now, the great thing about this little jab is that it actually acknowledges the physical advantages that men have over women. It's also intensely hypocritical as this bit of body shaming is coming from a woman who spent the last 10 years promoting body positivity. Here she is taking part in the Beauty is no Competition campaign. You can see the inspirational poster right there. And here she is talking about her own experiences being body shamed.
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Simone Biles
Listen, question I wish people would stop asking me is, how tall are you? Are you gonna grow? I'm not going anywhere. I'm 48. I'm stuck. I'm Simone Biles, and I love my body. Because it helps with gymnastics and it teaches younger girls to love their body as well. I think I've learned to love my muscles a lot more than when I was younger. I got made fun of for my arms a lot. Some people would say, like, mean things. They used to call me like a soldier. At the time, it didn't make me feel the best, so I wore sweaters or jackets all year long. Now I show off my arms all the time. To me, healthy body image is when you feel confident with yourself, in and out.
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Matt Walsh
So not only was Simone Biles body shame, but she was shamed specifically for having a masculine physique. And now she's lobbing that exact same insult at a woman who never said a critical thing about her. But I think we know why she's treating Riley this way. In fact, Simone Biles has a theory about what motivates people like Simone Biles to body shamers.
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Simone Biles
I feel like if you love your body, then that's all you can do. So it doesn't matter what anybody else says. So I think they have to learn to fall in love with themselves. And I think it's out of jealousy sometimes.
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Matt Walsh
Jealousy? Yeah, that could be it. Or perhaps she doesn't have access to a mirror, so she's not aware that she looks like this. That could be a factor. And for her part, you know, Riley did not respond in kind. She did not come back and say something like, hey, Simone, don't go making fun of anyone's physique when you're built like Mugsy Bogues. Riley did not say that. And thank God, because that would be mean. And I wouldn't condone it if she had said that. I wouldn't say anything like that. Instead, Riley left the insults to the side and addressed the issue at hand.
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Riley Gaines
Watch today, Simone Biles, the Olympic gymnast, the best of the best, bar none. There is no one else even remotely in her league in women's gymnastics. I guess, in an attempt to be inclusive and virtuous, decided to sell out all women and girls who have dreams to achieve and to succeed and to specifically personally attack and body shame me. She tweeted this out of the blue, like this came out of nowhere. And she said, riley, me, you're truly sick. All of this campaigning because you lost a race. First of all, if she's insinuating I lost to a man, I. I've lost several races in my career.
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Matt Walsh
Duh.
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Riley Gaines
That's part of being an athlete. But if she's saying I lost to a man, that's factually incorrect. We tied besides the point. Straight up. Sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive or creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Let me get something straight. It's my job. It's the women's job. This is what Simone Biles is saying. It's the women's job to find a way for the men's feelings to be validated, for their identity to be affirmed. That's not my job, actually, at all. So to say I should be doing this is insane. If she wants to use her platform to uplift men and women's sports, then by all means. But it's certainly not my job, and I don't believe it's the job of any woman to do this now.
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Matt Walsh
She's exactly right. Of course, Simone doesn't even have the courage to advocate for her own position. I mean, if she believes that there should be a separate category for trans people in all sports, or there should be some other kind of inclusive arrangement worked out, she is free to champion that cause. Instead, Simone Biles remains silent on the whole issue until this very moment. And when she finally speaks out, it's to condemn someone else for not promoting her own point of view. Simone says that Riley should uplift the trans community, but why is that Riley's job? Exactly? I mean, if Simone thinks that the community should be uplifted, she could do that herself. Simone is clearly on the pro trans team, but too afraid to enter the arena, which isn't a surprise. Obviously, this woman is not a very reliable teammate, as we've seen. So it's difficult, therefore, to respond to Simone's argument when she hasn't really made any argument. Instead, she assigned arguments to Riley that she thinks Riley should make. But if we're. If we were to overlook that complication and offer a rebuttal anyway, we might note a few problems with Simone's position, or what appears to be what we assume is her position. First of all, a separate trans category in Every sport, as Simone suggests, could only work if there were enough trans athletes in every sport to fill out their own league. But the pro trans side will be the first to insist that there aren't that many trans athletes. In fact, they claim that there are hardly any at all. They're lying. I mean, there are a significant number of trans identified athletes in certain sports, but definitely not enough to make a trans league for every sport. And there's even less interest in watching or supporting a league like that. Now, sure, maybe a certain amount of morbid curiosity would attract respectable ratings for opening day of the TLB Trans League Baseball. Or maybe we could just call it T ball, which would work in more ways than one. But in any case, there wouldn't be that many repeat customers after everyone gets their fill of the train wreck on day one. Yet all of that is irrelevant. You know, we don't need to create a separate category for trans identified people, and we shouldn't. That would be an attempt to solve a problem that does not exist. There is no problem with the system of sex segregation in sports. It works perfectly fine. It worked for many decades without anybody complaining about it. It serves a clear purpose. By separating groups of people who are biologically distinct, Simone is suggesting a separate category for people who are not biologically distinct from males because they are males, but who feel like they're biologically distinct. That makes as much sense as having a pee wee soccer league for five and six year olds and then a separate league for people who feel like they're five or six. You cannot build a sports league around self perception, and there's no reason to try. We don't need to devise some novel system to include trans identified athletes. They're already included. They're free to compete in their biological category, same as anybody else. The problem is that despite Simone's insistence, they don't actually want inclusion. They want privilege and they can't have it. Tough luck. This conversation always comes back to the same fact, which is that men are men and women are women. Men who feel like women are still men, men who claim to be women are still men. What a man feels like or perceives himself to be is not our problem. He can go on feeling however he wants to feel, but our policies and laws should reflect reality, not perception. This is the point that Simone Biles can't contend with or refuses to, just like she refused to contend in the Tokyo Olympics. And she made that choice to quit for the sake of her mental health, which she wanted to preserve. But her tweets over the weekend show that her mental health preservation methods apparently didn't work. Or perhaps her issue was less a matter of mental health and more an issue of intellectual deficiency. Whatever the reason, she's completely and embarrassingly wrong. And she is also today canceled. I have something difficult that need to talk about today. This is going to be upsetting to hear, just like it's upsetting for me to discuss, but here goes. According to reports this week, the NFL is going to remove the words end racism from the end zone during the super bowl this Sunday. And I know that sounds so shocking that you think it can't be real, but it is. Here's the Daily Wire Quote the NFL has reportedly sent the word to remove the messaging end racism from the end zone for the super bowl in New Orleans on Sunday. It'll be the first time since February 2021 that the message end racism has not appeared in a Super bowl end zone. According to multiple sources, when the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles take the field at Caesar's Superdome, the messaging in the end zones will read it takes all of us and choose love. Quote we felt it was an appropriate statement for what the country has collectively endured given recent tragedies, and can serve as an inspiration, according to NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy. Now, I don't even know where to begin. All I can say is that obviously I'm very opposed to this move. Not just opposed, but I'm anxious, I'm worried, terrified. Because how are we supposed to know what to do about racism now? You know, there are some people that are celebrating this announcement because they're saying, well, this means that racism is over. Racism is done. The NFL ended racism by putting end racism in the end zone. And so now we can all move on. And look, sure, there's no doubt that the end racism message did end racism. I'm not disputing that. I know just from my own life, prior to that message being spray painted in the end zone, I myself was racist. But then I saw end racism on the field during a football game and I said, oh wait, we're supposed to be not racist. My God, I had no idea. And from that day forward, I was transformed. I was born anew. I stopped going to Klan meetings and I started volunteering at after school programs for disabled minorities. And I'm sure that this is the same thing that happened for so many millions of people out there. But here's the problem. We ended racism. We created a post racism utopian society. Or I should say the NFL did that message end Racism was the glue holding our new paradise together. And now they're taking that slogan off the field. What then? What if everybody starts doing racism again? How are we supposed to know if we should keep racism ended or if we should start it up once more? Is that what the NFL's saying? We should start racism again? Like, people are gonna watch the super bowl and they're gonna say, wait a minute. It doesn't say end racism. I guess we need to start doing the racisms again. And who's to tell them that they shouldn't? Now, sure, there will be a new message. The NFL says it's gonna put the words, it takes all of us, and they're gonna put that on the field. That's not good enough. I mean, what takes all of us? Racism. Super bowl viewers are gonna think that it's a rallying cry to join together and be racist again. You know, the other message, choose love, doesn't help much. Who are we supposed to love? Who shouldn't we love? What if somebody loves Hitler? What then? Like, think about it. We need to be more specific. It should at least say, choose love. But just to be clear, that doesn't mean Hitler. And there's more than enough. It's a football field. You could write that whole message on there, no problem. So they could give us a lot more information. They could give us a lot more guidance, but they aren't, and that's inexcusable. And now I'm lost. And think about the message that this sends to kids or doesn't send. More specifically, just last night, this is true. You know, my son heard about this news, and he came up to me and he said, father, does this mean that we should do racism again? And I didn't know how to respond. The truth is that I'm just as confused as he is. And I said to him, I don't know, my son. I just don't know. And he paused for a moment, and his eyes got misty, and he looked at me and said, I'm scared. And I said, I am, too. And then my son started crying, and so did I. And we wept. We wept for hours. This is what the NFL has done. Now, the point is that we are lost without moral instruction delivered to us via slogans painted on football fields. Now, in general, of course, I have always looked to professional sports leagues, athletes, sports commentators for guidance and direction. Like any American, I never form any opinion on anything without first consulting NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, all the SportsCenter anchors, and LeBron James Twitter feed. Professional Sports leagues have over the past 10 years, especially positioned themselves as our teachers, our surrogate father figures, really. And I've always been very happy with this arrangement. It makes a ton of sense to me because after all, if a guy knows how to throw a ball into a hoop or run down, run with a ball down a field really fast, it stands to reason that he also has deep insight into the most important questions of life. You know, I think, I think two follows from one there pretty logically. Every time I see a basketball player hit a three pointer, I think to myself, wow, he must be a great philosopher. And every time I see a football player make an open field tackle, I think, geez, that guy must have great moral intuition. And I realize I'm not saying anything that you don't already know. This is what we all think when we watch sports. But the NFL is now abandoning its post. It's hanging us all out to dry. Racism is about to make a major comeback in this country. Millions of people are going to tune into the super bowl, see that the words end racism have been removed, and then immediately run out and commit hate crimes. And I will, too. I'm going to go commit hate crimes. I don't know what else to do. We're all now like lost sheep wandering alone through the pastures without our great shepherd, the NFL, there to show us the way. I feel so alone now and so scared and also so, so racist. All because of the NFL. And that is why the NFL is today canceled.