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and then goes on to Vancouver, Canada,

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and then goes on to Spokane,

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Washington. The next week, it all

1:02

happens in Ketchum, Idaho.

1:04

I don't believe I ... I have not been there. It's

1:06

the home of Sun Valley, and I'm quite excited about

1:08

going there. I'm quite excited about also that week

1:11

returning finally to Salt

1:13

Lake City. It's been too long. Go

1:15

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1:18

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1:20

going to Biloxi, back to Biloxi,

1:22

Mississippi. I could go on and

1:24

on and on, but check out the website, lewisblack.com.

1:28

Please come out and join me. If

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1:35

Tell them to go to lewisblack.com if they're fans,

1:37

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1:42

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1:44

they'll tell someone, and by the time it gets to the last

1:46

person, they'll show up in another

1:48

city that I won't even be performing at, and

1:51

I hope that they enjoy whatever show they see at

1:53

that theater.

1:54

I really look forward to getting out of this cable

1:57

access studio and coming

1:59

out and doing and seeing people again. I

2:02

am losing my mind here. I'll be

2:04

back in a moment with the Rancast. This

2:09

could all go horribly wrong at any minute.

2:14

Hello there, and welcome to the 143rd edition of

2:17

Lewis Black's Rancast, entitled, inmate

2:19

P01135809. That

2:22

is, get a pencil, P01135809,

2:24

splendid

2:28

numbers to be used

2:30

in any Lotto or Mega Million

2:32

situation. Those are the

2:34

numbers you're gonna wanna pick from because I think they're gonna

2:36

be very lucky for you and will

2:39

work out splendidly. I

2:41

wanted to entitle the last week's 142. This

2:45

would have been the title of it, inmate

2:47

P011. I love saying it, 35809. I

2:50

just love saying it because it goes

2:53

beyond any meaning when you put the

2:55

numbers out there. It just takes us into a whole

2:57

other realm. And if you don't know what I'm talking about,

2:59

go online and it

3:01

will tell you

3:03

who that refers to and

3:07

why I'm a little excited by it because it's

3:09

P01135809. He

3:12

who shall not be named has numbers

3:14

instead, which makes my life a lot easier.

3:17

I may be referring to him as that until

3:20

he is either pronounced

3:22

innocent or guilty. I'm actually

3:25

not in the United States as I'm speaking to

3:27

you, as this edition

3:30

is coming out because I

3:32

am fled really

3:34

from P01135809 to

3:38

spend time in Ireland. And

3:41

I am going up the Shannon River

3:44

with friends. And as

3:46

I'm also going to be celebrating my birthday

3:49

there, this one really exhausts

3:51

me to say,

3:52

my 75th birthday. And

3:56

I know that's supposed to be some sort of a landmark

3:58

birthday. It just makes me

4:00

go, I am old. And

4:03

I'm happy. Well, there's

4:05

a,

4:07

I guess, Ted Lassow I saw

4:10

the other night has that

4:12

Cat Stevens song. And

4:17

I'm old, but I'm happy. And I can't

4:19

remember the rest of it. Why? Because I'm old,

4:22

but I'm happy. But 75 just

4:24

kind of hit you between the eyes. And I

4:27

thought, I was

4:29

on my way over there early, just

4:32

so I would get time

4:34

in part in a pub there

4:37

and have a pint of Guinness. And I thought that might

4:39

be a good way to bring in

4:41

the 75th year. I really don't know what

4:43

would be the good way. And birthdays

4:45

at the end of August have always been a little slippery

4:47

for me. And in

4:49

a year in which my

4:52

mother has passed, and now I am

4:54

for all intents and purposes an orphan, what better

4:56

place to spend it

4:58

than with the good people of Dublin

5:00

sipping the pint

5:03

of that marvelous brew concoction. It

5:06

is where you should have Guinness. If you never

5:09

like stout, try it. It is well worth

5:11

it. It is a dessert. It

5:14

is a meal. It is a joy. And

5:17

I don't drink a lot of beer anymore. And I love

5:19

the Guinness. So I look forward to that. And

5:24

I look forward to heading up the Shannon and spending

5:26

time in Ireland. It's

5:28

really quite lovely. And I'm really there in

5:30

part to escape. I'm also there in part to appeal

5:33

to the Irish people as

5:35

I do whenever I'm in another country and performing,

5:38

which I will be there to practically know what an

5:40

interesting twist of fate with that.

5:42

Maybe it'll change. Maybe they've

5:45

forgotten how to count there. But

5:49

I do know that I am really

5:51

need

5:51

to, as I always do, to appeal to the

5:53

audience to please, please invade

5:56

us. It's so obvious. They watch us. They know

5:58

that we don't know what we're doing.

5:59

Come help us. And we won't

6:02

even notice that you've invaded. Invade

6:04

it. Not invite it. Invade it.

6:06

Because we are that fucked

6:08

up, I think. Five years later, we'd be going, gee, things

6:11

are really working out. What happened? Well, five

6:13

years ago, the Irish invaded us. Really? No

6:15

shit. The Irish? Wow. Dublin

6:19

and then on to eventually,

6:21

I'll leave out a Shannon, but

6:23

I'll be going also to Galway.

6:26

And if not, maybe I can get them, if

6:29

they don't want to invade us because they are

6:31

a peaceful people, that

6:33

maybe they would send over

6:37

some of their mental health workers, as

6:39

many as we can get our hands on. And

6:41

maybe they can help us since they have

6:44

a reality that they share. They

6:46

have a shared reality. I'm saying this to

6:48

you and to myself. They have a shared

6:50

reality. It's shared. They share

6:52

it.

6:53

Unlike us, who have lost any

6:56

sense of that, we wish

6:58

to live in two separate, entirely

7:00

separate

7:01

realities, one which doesn't even

7:04

seem to have a basis in science anymore.

7:07

And maybe they can come over and help us again. Get

7:10

back to that one reality,

7:12

which would kind of help us move forward as a people,

7:14

but what are the

7:16

chances of that? Sadly,

7:18

I won't be here for the

7:20

kickoff of the football season. I

7:23

might be able to catch it over there

7:25

late in the day or something or late

7:28

evening,

7:29

even night. I

7:31

probably won't get to see the

7:33

Washington commodes

7:35

play, but hopefully, we'll

7:39

get on track. We got a new quarterback. Who knows? I

7:42

don't think it's going to be the greatest

7:44

of years because already my

7:47

Orioles have gone way beyond. The Baltimore

7:49

Orioles, way beyond any expectation I

7:51

had. And hopefully

7:53

without me here, because I've watched them a lot. And

7:56

rarely have I watched my

7:58

teams play in the past.

7:59

10 years and watch

8:02

them win. And so I'm

8:04

hoping that they don't need my

8:06

presence. I don't think they do. I think it's

8:08

a terrific team. They're fun to watch and

8:11

it's a really exciting time. And it's especially

8:13

exciting to be in New York City

8:16

when they're weeping over their Yankees

8:18

who are just in the shitter. And that

8:20

gives me joy because they were laughing.

8:23

They've laughed and pointed at me. So I don't wanna hear it from anybody.

8:26

I don't. You've got a ranch

8:28

you wanna say about the Orioles

8:31

or about how I've gone after

8:33

your Yankees. I'm not gonna read it. I'm not.

8:35

Because year after year

8:37

after year, boy, you gotta, boy, look at your team.

8:41

We're so good. Well,

8:43

not this year.

8:44

Things have changed, all right? And so

8:46

good luck

8:48

is all I gotta say. And I don't know if we can

8:50

go the whole way because Atlanta is like

8:52

a power. I mean, just stupefying.

8:55

And there's a few other teams I don't think we

8:57

can get through, but who knows?

9:00

I'm just glad that we're in it. I'm glad

9:02

we're competitive. That's all I wanted. And

9:05

I'm hoping, and I think that the commanders

9:07

will be competitive, but I don't see a lot of wins,

9:09

but we'll see.

9:10

We got that new offensive

9:13

coach from Kansas City and he's already

9:15

worked the guy so hard. They're weeping about it. So

9:18

that can only help. And

9:21

that's really it. I don't have a lot to say.

9:24

I hope all is going well back there. I hope

9:26

you're all doing fine, that everything

9:28

is rolling along. And if

9:31

I can, I will be back with you next week. If

9:33

not, I'll take that next week off

9:35

and we'll see you the week after for

9:38

episode 144,

9:41

addition 144 as I like

9:43

to say. I have a little

9:45

something to read to you before I head out.

9:48

It's unbelievable that we

9:50

continue to do this. This is how we destroy ourselves

9:53

as a country. New York University is fired.

9:56

Listen to this, a revered,

9:58

a revered, a revered. chemistry

10:00

professor after students complained his course

10:02

was too hard He

10:05

takes your breath away It's

10:08

almost like this that create asthma. Are

10:10

you kidding seriously? The teacher was too

10:12

hard. Listen to what the teacher was

10:15

teaching Maitland Jones

10:17

jr. Wrote 84 wrote the

10:19

seminal 1300 page

10:21

textbook organic chemistry

10:24

He wrote the organic chemistry

10:26

textbook. The reason I did

10:28

not even go near

10:31

The idea of medicine on any

10:33

level

10:33

was because you'd have to take organic chemistry

10:36

and it was literally like Going

10:39

you would be like going to a real haunted

10:41

house. This is it's impossible.

10:45

It is what separates the

10:50

The folks who are really going to go on and do the great

10:52

work is that they can memorize this

10:55

ton of shit and I certainly

10:57

couldn't but you they think it's too hard. That's

10:59

what organic chemistry is. It's fucking

11:01

hard

11:03

It's fucking impossible The 1300

11:06

page book he wrote an 84 years

11:08

old and it's 82 students Signed

11:12

a petition complaining that their low grades did

11:14

not accurate accurately reflect the time

11:16

and effort put into this class Are

11:18

you kidding me? Are you fucking

11:21

kidding me?

11:22

He's 84 So you might have

11:24

thought of retiring him early You might go

11:26

in and see if that's the case

11:28

and the NYU ended his contract

11:30

saying his work did not rise to the standards

11:33

We require and what are those standards

11:35

NYU, huh?

11:36

What the fuck are those standards?

11:39

Explain it to me

11:41

How how do they how do they work

11:43

the standard is is that the course should be easy?

11:46

It's organic chemistry You can't let

11:48

people get through this shit and

11:50

then move on to the next step of moving

11:53

toward becoming doctors Nope,

11:55

nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope

11:57

Doesn't work that way and so I'm sorry for

11:59

mr. and

12:03

I'm sorry for the university, and I'm sorry for those

12:06

kids. But

12:08

we can't be doing this. We can't

12:10

be making it easy. It isn't easy.

12:13

It's like

12:15

the same thing with, you have

12:17

to teach kids about slavery. You have to

12:19

do it. You have to show them the good with the bad.

12:22

And you have to give them the easy courses.

12:24

There are plenty of easy courses you can take.

12:27

The fact that you took organic chem with other hard

12:29

courses, you're a fucking idiot. And

12:31

that's all I gotta say, and I'm gonna move on because

12:34

I've got to go back right

12:36

now and to here and now that I'm in PAC

12:39

for that trip. And I

12:41

wanna thank you for joining me. And

12:43

I look forward to telling you tales when I return.

12:46

I'm wishing you a splendid

12:49

week and a lovely September.

12:53

And I hope that all is going well

12:55

wherever you dwell. That's really,

12:58

I feel that way because I'm kind of in an

13:00

upbeat mood because I'm getting

13:02

the fuck out of here. And it's

13:04

not so much the work I'm thinking

13:07

about leaving behind. It's the insanity to

13:09

get away from it. It's like breathing those little

13:11

champagne bubbles. You just get giddy and

13:14

I am. And that's a word I rarely use for

13:16

myself. I

13:19

do hope that you enjoy these

13:22

rants that I read as much as I enjoyed reading

13:25

them.

13:25

And they just get better and

13:27

they get better and

13:30

I'm sure that there's one you wanna respond to

13:33

do it. Pick it up directly, go after

13:35

it. And if you've got

13:37

something you wanna get off your chest, get it off your chest. I'm

13:39

here to read it for you.

13:41

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13:43

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You This

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is from Ed Eddie if

15:58

that be his name And

16:00

it's a quickie, but

16:02

spot on. The notion

16:05

that a sitting president convicted of a crime

16:08

can pardon himself is insane,

16:11

but supposedly has our

16:14

greatest thinkers scratching their heads.

16:17

Please straighten them out, and I will. OK?

16:21

It's insane, if you say. It's

16:23

that simple. There's

16:25

nothing I can straighten them out. It's absolutely

16:27

nuts that the president can

16:29

pardon himself. OK? Can't be done. Shouldn't

16:32

be done. OK? I will allow the

16:34

president or any president. I

16:37

will allow any president to

16:40

pardon themselves if they can

16:42

actually give themselves a blowjob. OK?

16:46

If they can give themselves a blowjob,

16:48

then I go, OK, you can pardon

16:50

yourself. But we got to see it. It's

16:52

got to be live, and it's got to be on TV. Not

16:56

on a phone, on television, on

16:59

a big screen. Where we look,

17:01

OK? All right. Thanks,

17:05

Ed, Eddie. It's

17:07

like Eddie, Eddieist. Tom

17:10

Robert, I'm going to cut to the chase

17:12

on your rant here. I am

17:14

fucking sick and tired of

17:16

people saying with every response, no

17:19

problem. Everywhere I go,

17:21

every and every time I

17:24

ask a question, all I get

17:26

is, no problem. I

17:28

ask a waiter for a glass of water, and what do

17:30

I get?

17:31

Sure. No problem. I

17:33

don't expect there to be a fucking problem. What

17:35

problem could there possibly be for

17:37

getting a damn glass of water?

17:40

Then, when you thank the prick for bringing

17:42

you the water, what do I get for a response?

17:45

No problem. It's everywhere

17:47

you go today. And anything you ask,

17:49

you get no problem. I

17:52

go and drop off a package to be delivered.

17:54

They take it. And as a courtesy,

17:56

I thank them for doing their

17:58

fucking job. And what do I get? No

18:02

problem. It's

18:04

fucking everywhere. Is everything a fucking

18:06

problem? Should I consider myself really

18:09

lucky for not getting a fucking problem?

18:12

Is the whole

18:12

world a fucking problem? Dumb

18:15

question. Dumb, dumb question.

18:17

But for this rant, I'll stick to the no

18:19

problem theme here before I create

18:22

a fucking problem that will knock the earth

18:24

off its axis. You really have that

18:26

many fucking problems in this messed up world

18:29

that I should feel lucky that I have no

18:31

problem? Fuck!

18:34

We are all screwed. What

18:36

if I want a problem? Do they ever

18:38

think of that? If I hear

18:41

no problem one more fucking time,

18:43

they may have a problem. What the fuck

18:45

ever happened to please? And thank

18:47

you.

18:48

For matters of thing of the past? Fuck!

18:51

Give me a break. I'm going to end here because

18:53

I think the fucking message got

18:55

out.

18:56

No problem.

18:58

Huh? Now get back here to providence,

19:00

please.

19:02

Problem? Tom,

19:05

you really nailed something. I find

19:07

myself saying it. I'm

19:09

an idiot. I

19:12

do that in texts. So

19:14

that way if somebody's there like

19:16

you who's really fed up with saying it, they

19:18

don't punch me out. And don't punch somebody

19:21

out for saying it, Tom. Just

19:23

allow yourself to see this too

19:25

shall pass. And thank

19:27

you for getting

19:30

out something that I think

19:32

has been bothering a lot of people.

19:35

And thanks for

19:37

sharing it.

19:40

It's surprising that more people haven't yelled

19:42

about that because it's constant. It

19:48

is constant. And

19:50

it's no problem. An

19:53

extended rant from Ricardo

19:56

B. I'm your typical

19:58

Mexican, Italian, British, man,

20:00

you know the type. And I'm here to

20:03

finally lay it all out in the open. I

20:05

hate social media. I'm old

20:08

enough to remember the days when Facebook

20:10

was a nice way to spend the time stalking

20:12

your old girlfriends, finding out which of your

20:15

friends got bald, and

20:16

who got divorced. But now things

20:18

are different. Since the arrival

20:21

of TikTok, now every single site

20:23

must include shorter and shorter videos

20:25

designed for a generation of people with

20:28

the attention span of a goldfish.

20:31

Don't get me wrong, there's some amazing content

20:33

developers out there, but that's how

20:36

they get you.

20:37

One short video hooks you in, and the next

20:39

thing I know, I've wasted hours going

20:41

down a never-ending spiral

20:44

of tailor-made recommendations.

20:46

Because the algorithm decided that

20:49

if you spent more than five

20:51

seconds watching a video of idiot drivers

20:53

crashing their cars on a highway, then

20:55

you must be a fucking lunatic that

20:57

loves to watch this stuff.

21:00

It's idiots crashing their cars, of course

21:02

I'm going to watch them.

21:04

However, the one I hate the most is Twitter,

21:06

or X, or whatever Elon Musk decides

21:09

to call that shit show this week. I

21:12

adopted Twitter, and yes, I'm calling

21:14

it Twitter very late in life. And it seemed

21:16

like a good idea at the time, but

21:19

recently I've noticed how it evolved into a blood

21:22

pressure raising anxiety generator

21:24

that it is now. I

21:26

reside in Great Britain, where I get

21:28

to live in first person the

21:30

level of shameless corruption and lack

21:32

of the tiniest common decency from

21:35

our current snob, silver spoon,

21:38

fed fuckwads running the country.

21:40

I don't need a constant reminder every time

21:42

I scroll down my Twitter feed of

21:44

how Brexit is ruling the country, how

21:47

our beaches are literally full of

21:49

shit, or how the rich in power have an

21:51

agenda to continue getting themselves

21:54

and their millionaire friends richer.

21:56

So I turned to my Mexican feed looking

21:58

for some nostalgia. from my

22:00

youth.

22:01

And what do I find? Tweets and tweets

22:03

of people showcasing the decline

22:06

of what used to be a progressive country

22:08

and is now going full speed ahead

22:10

to authoritarianism in the hands

22:12

of a so-called president whose legacy

22:15

will be a country of poor, ignorant

22:17

people completely dependent

22:20

on the crumbs they receive from

22:22

their rulers, but

22:25

only if they vote for them again. Did

22:28

I mention I'm also Italian? I

22:30

only have Italian citizenship.

22:33

Well, dearie, that doesn't stop me from the

22:35

depression I get from seeing my adoptive

22:38

country in the hands of neo-fascists

22:41

that would make my wife's grandfather

22:43

turn in his grave. Fuck!

22:48

Maybe I have too many passports.

22:50

Maybe I should be more careful who I

22:52

follow on Twitter. Maybe Twitter is not

22:54

a bad thing. It is open my eyes

22:56

to the fact that we live in dystopian

22:59

times, and we need to start doing something

23:02

about it before the whole fucking

23:04

world burns. In

23:06

any case, I still hate the way Twitter

23:09

makes my blood boil,

23:10

forcing me to take respite in my

23:12

Facebook and YouTube short videos

23:15

and swipe until my fingers bleed

23:18

looking for any sign of decency

23:20

left in this world, which in this

23:22

day and age means comedians

23:24

talking to themselves

23:27

in cat videos. You

23:30

gotta love cat videos. And

23:32

I gotta love your rant there, Ricardo.

23:35

Thank you for sharing. But with

23:38

all of

23:40

your nationalities,

23:45

the thing is you gotta stop.

23:47

There's that thing. It's like, oh,

23:50

there's a hook to it all.

23:52

That's for sure.

23:54

And they certainly have tapped into it.

23:56

And we're like those pigeons who were punching

23:59

to get it. get a pallet out of, get

24:02

some food, whatever it's called, that

24:05

reinforcement that occurs

24:07

only occasionally. And that's

24:09

what happens here.

24:11

That's what I think is the hook. That's what

24:14

we find addictive and certainly pigeons

24:16

do. And a lot of the times I

24:18

feel that our brain is no bigger

24:20

than a pigeon's. But

24:22

thank you, Ricardo.

24:24

Just try to stay

24:26

away from it, you know, in order for your

24:28

sanity to kind of restore itself. And

24:32

it's tough. I get it.

24:34

I mean, I read these

24:37

responses I get on Twitter or

24:40

something else, but it's mostly Twitter

24:42

that I read it on. And I

24:44

read what people have

24:46

to say about my special. And

24:49

I make myself insane.

24:51

They say things that are just mean,

24:55

mean, mean things. Or

24:58

I read them like I'm reading a review

25:00

in the New York Times, like

25:03

they're reviewing a major play of mine.

25:06

And I'm looking at it going, oh my god,

25:09

really? I suck that badly?

25:14

And it takes me a little

25:16

time to get over it. And then I have to get over

25:19

not wanting to respond because

25:21

they didn't really pay attention. I've got to stop.

25:24

It was good

25:26

that you shared, Ricardo. I'm just trying to share

25:28

with you that it is a road to madness.

25:31

I've been there.

25:32

Try to take

25:34

the path less taken, the one

25:37

that just allows you to take a nap. All

25:39

righty.

25:40

Take care. Thanks. A rant

25:42

has come our way from someone who refers

25:44

to themselves as an objective thinker.

25:47

I think some of you are going to respond

25:49

to this. And

25:51

certainly a different point of view. And

25:53

I've always asked anyone with

25:56

another point of view to send it in.

25:58

And I will. I will do my best

26:01

to read it and I will be reading it

26:03

now. Sometimes

26:05

I have to go, nope, this has gone too far, but,

26:09

and I'm sure some people will be upset that I've read

26:11

this, but

26:13

it's important to get these thoughts out there

26:16

and so that we can, that folks can

26:18

respond.

26:20

This rant is about trans people. Now

26:22

I, by and large, don't have an issue with them, but

26:25

every time I turn around, they're always

26:27

posting some sob story. Or they're

26:29

up in arms about something.

26:31

What they need to understand is that most

26:34

of us don't give two fucks. We're

26:36

just trying to live our lives as best we can,

26:39

and what we don't need is another group of people trying

26:41

to tell us how we should feel, or what

26:43

we should care about, when we don't. Now trans

26:45

people,

26:47

since you are forcing me to

26:49

have an opinion, you need to understand some things. Firstly,

26:52

you're not normal people.

26:55

Okay,

26:57

stop with the bullshit saying you are.

26:59

You're fucking not. Alright? No

27:01

normal man wants to be a

27:03

woman,

27:05

and most women, okay,

27:07

like the idea of being a man, but they'd rather stay a woman.

27:12

The minute you come to terms with that, the better

27:14

we will all be.

27:16

Secondly, stop trying to insult our

27:18

intelligence. You were Tom

27:20

today and Tammy tomorrow, and you want us

27:22

to take you seriously? You're

27:25

joking. Look, I'm a black

27:27

man, and at no point, no matter how much

27:29

I would like to, can I tell you

27:31

that I identify as a white

27:33

man.

27:35

The real world doesn't work that way. It doesn't

27:37

revolve around you, so stop trying

27:39

to act like it does. Lastly,

27:42

you guys need a thicker skin. A

27:44

lot of people feel the same way that I do.

27:47

It's going to be an uphill battle for a very long time.

27:53

I should know the black community is

27:55

still fighting that battle.

27:57

You live your life how you want to,

27:59

and if you are Identify as a man or

28:02

woman of the opposite sex. I can

28:04

respect that but Understand

28:07

this unless you've gotten

28:09

the surgery I don't care

28:11

if you identify as a woman if

28:13

you with your whole dick

28:16

Try and go into the bathroom with my wife

28:18

and daughter Then

28:20

we're gonna have a whole problem Capisce

28:23

other than that live

28:26

your life Okay objective

28:28

thinker. I think there may be a

28:30

whirlwind coming back at you and I would

28:33

certainly

28:34

Take a little bit of an exception And

28:37

it also ends with thanks and object. But

28:40

thanks an objective thinker.

28:42

I'm sorry. I Didn't put

28:44

that in there. Yeah, but thank you for

28:47

sharing What is really?

28:50

I don't like I don't believe that most

28:53

women like the idea of being a man I

28:56

I don't think that's true What they'd like to be

28:59

is I think and more importantly

29:01

is to have all of the rights and privileges

29:03

that men do and not have to fight for it and listen

29:06

all sorts of bullshit as they

29:08

Continue their struggle and as you as as

29:11

you said a book as a black man, you've continued

29:13

your struggle It's kind

29:16

of interesting that

29:18

That There's not more empathy

29:21

with their struggle the bathroom thing

29:23

is all other issue too So thanks for

29:25

throwing that all into the mix and

29:28

I await the responses and if they're

29:30

none so be it

29:32

Thank you very much My

29:35

objective thinker I've

29:38

received this From

29:40

and I think I'm pronouncing this correctly

29:42

Peter and I apologize if I'm not Peter view

29:44

back and Think

29:49

you're gonna enjoy this And

29:52

if not right back, okay

29:55

Don't sit there and go. I can't believe you're

29:57

reading this stuff. Can you try to get you? know

30:00

just write in your own opinion

30:02

and I will sit here and read it. I do when they

30:04

come in. So don't sit

30:06

there and whine. Sit down

30:09

and write. I hate how a homophobic

30:12

and transphobic assholes complain

30:14

about the term phobia because

30:17

they say they aren't afraid. Well

30:19

bullshit!

30:20

These ignorant cowards are terrified

30:23

that they don't get to define the word

30:25

normal and they need to exclude

30:27

as many people that they don't understand

30:30

whilst oddly obsessing

30:33

over their genitals. Plus the

30:35

narrative that trans people

30:37

are just confused is painfully

30:40

stupid

30:41

and in fact the opposite. They

30:44

know who they are and they might want to

30:46

make some changes to feel better

30:48

about the person that they are.

30:51

These transphobic losers are

30:54

confused by it and it makes them

30:56

angry for no rational reason and

30:58

then the grossest looking dudes want

31:01

to inspect genitals and decide

31:03

what level of feminine beauty gets

31:05

to use public restrooms?

31:07

Fuck that stupid ignorant

31:10

hate

31:11

and pathetic fear.

31:13

Okay Peter you got it out

31:15

there. I think hopefully

31:18

I did it justice and

31:21

because I know you wanted to get that anger out there

31:23

and I certainly didn't. If you are

31:26

pissed at Peter for expressing this opinion

31:29

not not a pissed at Peter but pissed

31:31

at the opinion.

31:33

Stop being pissed at the person.

31:36

You know you can be pissed at the opinion.

31:39

Can't be pissed at the person. Stop it. Alright?

31:42

If we don't get along

31:44

soon the ballgame's over fuck

31:46

nuts. Jesus. So

31:48

stupid. But thanks Peter.

32:03

You can think of it as therapy or

32:05

whatever you want to think of it

32:07

as. Just let it rip. And I

32:09

want to thank the true stars of our

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