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a very stupid reason. Let's

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get into the headlines.

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This past Sunday was Easter at the White

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House, which is an important holiday for President

1:09

Joe Biden, who is also counting on

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a resurrection for his campaign. But

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unfortunately, this year, the timing of Easter

1:17

caused a bit of a headache for Joe.

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The Biden administration is firing

1:22

back at conservative criticism over the White

1:24

House acknowledgment of the Transgender

1:27

Day of Visibility, which coincidentally

1:30

falls on Easter Sunday this year.

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The two days only coincided by

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chance.

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The Day of Visibility is held every year on

1:37

March thirty first, while the date for Easter

1:40

changes year to year. Yes

1:42

by total coincidence, Transvisibility

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day happened to fall on Easter this year,

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which seemed like, I don't know, a good fit to me.

1:50

I mean, Jesus did identify

1:52

as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

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Live your truth, queen. Now,

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you wouldn't think.

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That Easter falling on a holiday that's been on March

2:05

thirty first for fifteen years would be

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that big of a deal. But conservatives

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process this like a child meeting

2:11

the Easter Bunny by losing

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their minds.

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I think everyone should be insulted by

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this. The intentional nature of

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this.

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To me is I mean, I'm just going to say

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it. I think it's a demonic.

2:24

They clearly want us to bow at the altar of the trans

2:27

community instead of bow to God.

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We can't have one day for Easter.

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What the hell was Biden thinking when

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he declared Easter Sunday to

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be Transvisibility

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Day. Such

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total disrespect to Christians.

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And November fifth is going

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to be called something else. You know, it's going to be

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called Christian Visibility

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Day when Christians turn out at numbers

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that nobody has ever seen.

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Before

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America, Buddy, every day is Christian

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visibility there.

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Yeah, Conservatives threw.

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A hissy fit over this, including

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Donald Trump, who, by the way, is not exactly

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an authority on Christianity.

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I'm wondering what one or two of your most

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favorite Bible verses

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are.

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Why I wouldn't want.

3:23

To get into it, because to me, that's very personal.

3:25

You don't want to talk about the Bible.

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It's very personal, So I don't.

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Want to get into I don't want to get into.

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Means a lot to you that you think about her site.

3:33

The Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into

3:35

specifics. The Old Testament guy or New Testament

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probably equal.

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Trump talks about Christianity the way I sounded

3:45

every book club.

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Oh my favorite part of the book.

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I'd have to.

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Say the title and

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the symbolism, all

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the symbols. Definitely not

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hiding for my husband and children.

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I also love that he.

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Says I can't talk about it, it's too

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personal. Like he also has an

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nda with the Bible.

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Don't believe that horse based Bible.

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But that's my Trump impression.

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Thank you.

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I'll work chop it, Oh, workp it.

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Trump beside, I have a question for the actual

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religious conservatives, why are you so

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upset about this transvisibility

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day had no effect on your Easter. Nobody

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was at church like, well, we were going

4:34

to celebrate the resurrection, but instead

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everyone line up for your gender reassignment

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surgery. Please

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leave your penis in the collection basket.

4:54

The anger just seems so contrived,

4:57

especially when the people who were the most

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outraged knew so little about

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the actual holiday they were protecting, and.

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The transgender community purposely

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chooses the day of Jesus's

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death. There is resurrection whatever

5:12

Easter weekend, Yeah,

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you know Easter.

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It was Jesus' king Sanira, or

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the day he was forced to leave the Big Brother House.

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Whatever, But I'll.

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Ask him about it the next time I go to the you

5:29

know what's the place with all the lowercase teas

5:32

hanging on the wall that the half

5:34

maked.

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A church, church that fit church.

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And you know what, the Fox audience deserves

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a higher level of con artistry

5:42

than this Jesse Waters. If

5:44

you can remember the Green Eminem's entire

5:47

sexual history, you

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can Wikipedia what Easter is. Look,

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I'm not here to pick a fight with Easter. Easter's

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great, probably our best holiday, featuring

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a bunny who crawled out of a nightmare, but

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the level of outrage over. This

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is totally out of proportion to what ultimately

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was an innocuous scheduling conflict.

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I just I wish I knew the real

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reason they were upset. Luckily

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they left us some Easter eggs.

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It's absurd and Joe Biden

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should be ashamed of himself and all these people say,

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yeah, but this is the day we've always recognized

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Transgender Visibility Day.

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Well recognize it another day, not on Easter

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Sunday. It's an affront to the Bible, and quite

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frankly, it's an affront to biology.

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There are two genders. People can't

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just go in and out of one like a revolving

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door.

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It's not normal.

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Ah, there it is. Thank

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you least interesting man in the world

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for saying the quiet

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part out loud. They

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don't think Transgender Visibility Day should

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be moved. They think trans people shouldn't

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be visible at all. Trans

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Day of Visibility could have been on National

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Pastaday and they'd be like, this isn't.

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A front to feticini.

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And for what it's worth, there's a false premise

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at the heart of this entire controversy, which is

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that there's even a conflict between trans people

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and Christianity to begin with, there isn't.

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In fact, the Bible doesn't say anything about

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trans people.

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It does, however, say to.

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Love thy neighbor and to not judge

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other people, and perhaps the

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most famous of Bible versus.

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Please do not sell me for fifty

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nine to ninety.

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Nine to come off your label,

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I know.

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For more on the.

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Controversy, we go Live to the White House

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with Michael Costa.

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Michael, you were at

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the White House Easter egg hunt on Monday.

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What did you find?

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Well, I'll tell you what I found, Desie a

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ton of Easter eggs. Okay, it

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turns out you didn't even have to hunt for him. You

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just wait for the kids to find them and you take them

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out of their baskets. It's

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like taking candy from a baby.

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Congratulations.

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I mean more about Easter being

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pitted against Transvisibility Day. It

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seems like all this controversy ruined

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the day for the trans community.

8:18

Are you kidding?

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This was the most successful transvisibility

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day in history. Fox News

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raised trans awareness for five hundred

8:26

straight hours. Yeah.

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And the best part is we'll get another

8:34

round in a few weeks when Greek Orthodox

8:36

Easter goes up against Greek Orthodox

8:38

Transvisibility Day.

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Okay, but then I don't think trans

8:44

the transgender community wanted this

8:47

kind of attention.

8:48

Well, look, I can't speak on behalf

8:50

of the trans community. They've specifically

8:52

asked me to stop doing that. But it

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seems to me that anyway a holiday can

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break through the noise, the better. There's

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just two many important days to remember

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Easter, Memorial Day, ourbor Day,

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my.

9:04

Kid's birthday, which is like every year.

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Supposedly, it's too much, and

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there's way, there's no way to keep track of

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all these important days.

9:12

You know, what, DOESNY They need to invent like.

9:14

A spreadsheet, but for days

9:18

like a calendar one of those

9:20

things you drained pasta with. That'll never work.

9:24

Okay, But what about conservatives who

9:27

say this was an attack on Easter?

9:29

Doesy?

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This was good for both holidays?

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What was the last time you saw people this fired up

9:34

about Easter aka shitty Christmas?

9:36

But now, thanks

9:38

to this controversy, everyone and I

9:40

mean everyone except for Jesse Waters knows

9:43

what Easter is really about.

9:45

Okay, So you're saying that the clash of

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the two holidays forced everyone to appreciate

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the true meaning of each holiday.

9:52

Exactly.

9:53

The lesson we learned this week is that Americans

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appreciate holidays more when they're

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outraged, which is why I

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believe we need to pit more holidays

10:02

against each other. Let's

10:04

put Valentine's Day on the fourth of July. Let's

10:08

let's move nine to eleven to Halloween.

10:10

Let's let's move Mother's

10:12

Day up against Juneteenth. Do you love

10:15

your mom or do you hate slavery?

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You gotta choose desert.

10:19

Michael, that is.

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Your tough story.

10:27

That is incredibly offensive.

10:29

You see, it's already working.

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Thank you, Michael, Michael Costa, Everyone, welcome

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back. Charlene mcgog will be joining us,

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so figure out.

11:06

You know, all this week I've been sharing my

11:09

opinions on the news, but I'm not the only

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one with opinions around here. So here

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with another installment of in my opinion,

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is our good friend Charlemagne the God.

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Hey, y'all remember twenty

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twenty right, Yeah, COVID

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social distancing murder hornets.

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Yeah you'all forgot about murder hornets? Huh?

11:36

Or maybe you remember our nationwide reckoning

11:38

with racism. After the murder George

11:40

Floyd, white people across America looked around and

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said, wait a second, are we racist?

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So America took a good hard look at itself

11:47

and when big corporations sow themselves in the mirror,

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they said, oh shit, we're white

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as inequality

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In corporate America, there are only

11:56

five black CEOs running Fortune

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five hundred companies.

12:00

Can see six percent of top

12:02

executives as black. In terms of the population

12:04

of the United States, that should be thirteen percent.

12:06

In the video, Nike said, don't pretend

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there's not a problem in America.

12:11

Critics point out that all of Nike's

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executives are white.

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That's right.

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The board and Knike was so white they were all wearing

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new balance. And

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to address this problem, businesses turned

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to a solution called diversity.

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Equity and Inclusion are DEI.

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It means morefare, hiring policies, new

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anti discrimination rules for the workplace,

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and sensitivity training seminars,

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and the first thing it led to was a shitload

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of ads.

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Real progress on diversity and inclusion

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doesn't happen without real work.

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Since Celebrate Diversity into the X

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one voice remote to discover curated

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content.

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Today every day, General Mills

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serves the world by making food, people,

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love, and inclusion

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it's one of our secret ingredients.

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At craft times.

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All purpose is to make life delicious,

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and we believe we can't achieve that. That

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one essential ingredient diversity.

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It's diversity that makes life

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delicious.

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You're on a four hundred dear long journey and

13:16

scars don't fade, but

13:18

neither does hope.

13:21

Ask your doctor. Black people are right for you.

13:24

It's nobody's

13:26

buying baciline because of diversity. Come

13:28

to think of it, I don't think I've ever

13:30

actually bought bacoline.

13:31

It's just there, like it

13:34

comes with the house. Right.

13:36

So that's how things stood in twenty twenty. But that

13:38

was like fifteen years ago. Today,

13:40

when people talk about DEI, it's more likely

13:42

to sound.

13:43

Like this DEI is just a

13:45

rebranded version of hating

13:49

white people.

13:49

DEI in this case stands

13:51

for divisive, erroneous,

13:54

and insidious.

13:56

DEI, which stands for didn't.

13:57

Earn it, discrimination, exclusion

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and indoctrination.

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D EI.

14:03

DI stands for doctor dre easy

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and ICEQ.

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Yeah yeah, yeah.

14:13

Y'all cheering out there, But do you want with attitude

14:15

coming to your office?

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These right wingers are crazy, right Jesus.

14:21

But here's the part where you all stop applauding

14:23

everything I say.

14:24

The truth about DEI is that, although

14:26

it's well intentioned, it's mostly garbage.

14:29

Okay, it's kind of like the Black Little Mermaid.

14:32

Just because racist hate it doesn't

14:34

mean it's good. And

14:36

you know I'm right because every one of

14:38

you has sat through one of those diversity training

14:40

sessions and thought this is bullshit.

14:44

And it's not just you.

14:45

Over nine hundred studies have shown that

14:47

DEI programs don't make the workplace

14:50

better for minorities. In fact, it

14:52

can actually make things worse because

14:54

of the backlash effect.

14:56

Remember Dare from school, y'all remember

14:58

Dare?

14:59

Yeah, she said whoo, DEI

15:03

training is like dam for racism,

15:05

and you.

15:07

All know how effective that was.

15:09

I was sitting there going, oh shit, there's

15:11

a ton of fun drugs I should try. I

15:14

didn't even know about Miley, Thanks Officer John.

15:17

But the biggest failure of DEI

15:20

is that the number of black people in power

15:22

at big companies is basically the same

15:24

as it was five years ago. In

15:27

fact, maybe the only thing that DEI

15:29

has accomplished is giving racist white

15:31

people cover to be openly RACISTDI.

15:35

Breeds complacency, dana and complacency

15:38

kills.

15:38

We're gonna have doctors who don't know how to perform

15:40

heart surgery, and we're gonna have planes

15:43

that are falling out of the sky.

15:44

Boeing recently bragg not about being.

15:46

The best in the business, but about surpassing

15:48

its diversity quotas.

15:50

Oh goodie, but then not so

15:52

good.

15:53

A door flying off one of Boeing seven thirty

15:55

seven supermaxes.

15:56

I'm sorry, if I see a black pilot,

15:59

I'm gonna be like, boy, hope he's qualified.

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I mean, honestly, when I see a black pilot, I'm

16:05

not worried that we're going to crash.

16:07

I'm worried that we're gonna get pulled over.

16:14

That's right, and

16:17

no officer, I will not step out

16:19

of this vehicle, all right. But

16:22

yeah, they're blaming the EI for everything,

16:24

even that bridge in Baltimore.

16:26

They called Baltimore's.

16:27

Mayor the DEI mayor, like

16:29

he was given the job for being black.

16:32

Then they said the shipping company was too focused

16:35

on DEI instead of safety.

16:37

But almost the entire leadership

16:39

with the company is white, no

16:42

black people.

16:43

Right.

16:44

If anything, to Baltimore mayor, he

16:47

should have been the one to make it racist. Just come out

16:49

like these crackers knocked down my bridge.

16:52

Okay, all right, and

16:54

one of y'all crackers better pay for it. Okay.

16:59

And honestly, I'm not surprised these programs

17:01

didn't work. And here's why.

17:03

It's just corporate pr

17:05

They want good vibes and also

17:07

they want to cover their ass.

17:09

Okay.

17:10

Did you know that if a company gets sued for civil

17:12

rights violations, just having a DEI

17:15

program will be counted as evidence in

17:17

their favor, even if the program doesn't

17:19

do shit. Okay, it's I have a

17:21

black friend of the legal system.

17:23

All right.

17:24

We don't need corporate DEI.

17:27

Yes, we want diversity and equity

17:30

and inclusion, but we don't want it from

17:32

Vasiline. Although

17:34

I'm not going to front Vaciline has been there for the black

17:36

community respect, Okay, so.

17:39

Right, that's right. I'm

17:41

moisturized. Okay.

17:45

Look, man, real DEI is

17:47

only going to come from black leadership.

17:50

I don't know how to do it because I'm not a black leader, but

17:52

I do know how to tell if it's working. Just

17:55

keep an eye on right wing media. The

17:57

more they're freaking out, the more progress

17:59

we're making.

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Thank you for me all

18:08

all my

18:21

guess the night.

18:22

It's an actor who started in the new Peacock

18:25

series Apples Never Fall. Please

18:27

welcome Alison grace Yea

18:49

hello man, thanks

18:51

for being hoes for having me. I

18:53

am such a big fan of yours.

18:56

Thank you true story you have

18:58

been in.

18:59

Yes, I'll tell you more. I will elaborate.

19:02

You've been on two of maybe the biggest television

19:05

shows known to man community.

19:10

To have the biggest, biggest known

19:13

to a small.

19:14

Group of very avid fans. We

19:16

appreciate it.

19:17

We appreciate it so fierce fan base

19:20

and also mad men. But

19:24

I have to be on if my personal favorite is

19:26

Glow. I was such a Glow super fan.

19:29

I love my life.

19:30

I know, I loved that of my life. I loved

19:32

working on Glows so much. I've never felt

19:35

like more of a badass. Hell yeah, but

19:37

when I worked on it, we're doing our own stunts.

19:39

I'm training on flipping women. Let's

19:41

be honest, I'm getting flipped by women more.

19:44

And that still felt cool.

19:46

So it was so it

19:48

was so inspiring. I love that show, and

19:50

it was a real bummer to all the fans that it didn't

19:53

come back. But I heard that it

19:55

opened up an opportunity for you to explore

19:58

more writing and produce it.

20:00

Yeah.

20:00

Absolutely, you know, I think there was something just about

20:03

working with so many women, and that was the

20:05

first time. I mean the show was created

20:07

by Liz Flahive and Carly Mench and there

20:09

were female directors, there were women behind

20:11

the camera, there were women first ads. Just like in every department,

20:14

female writers' rooms.

20:15

I mean, like it.

20:16

Sounds like it shouldn't be a

20:18

thing that you have to say, wow, there were so many women

20:21

on a set, but there were and even within the cast,

20:24

you know, we were all learning how to wrestle, and each woman

20:26

on the show was talented, you know, behind the scenes

20:28

in their real life. They were dancers, there were singers,

20:30

there were real wrestlers, and that

20:33

was really inspiring to me. In the time that I was working

20:35

on that show. I directed an episode, I wrote

20:37

a few films that have been made, and like,

20:39

it was very inspiring to me for sure. So

20:45

tiring. I'm blushing, being so

20:47

earnest, earnest, feel

20:49

so vulnerable, a vulnerable telling.

20:52

You my real feelings. You wear it well, they wear

20:54

it well. And now you're part of this incredible

20:56

Ensemble Apples Never Fall. I am obsessed

20:59

with the show. I'd been in about three days,

21:01

yes, which tells you how good the mystery

21:04

is.

21:04

It's a bingeable show.

21:06

I feel like the episodes keep you wanting more.

21:08

The book was great.

21:09

It's based on a book by Leanne Moriarty. She

21:11

wrote Big Little Lies. Nine Perfect Strangers

21:14

also been made into buzzy shows, and

21:18

yeah, it's I think the reason people

21:20

really connect to it too is that it's

21:22

about a family and a

21:24

family that is not perfect, and every family

21:27

has those idiosyncrasies and you kind of watch

21:29

this family fall apart

21:31

and come back together and sort of everybody

21:34

has to like come to their own truth

21:37

throughout the course of the.

21:38

Show, and that they get stronger. I don't

21:40

know.

21:40

Yeah, I think it explores all of these interesting

21:43

themes about you know, it

21:45

explores the invisible woman. It

21:48

explores playing these roles in

21:50

your family and then your family members

21:53

seeing you in a different role.

21:54

Definitely, the dynamics that we play in

21:57

our family, and then sort of like all the things you sort of keep

21:59

from your family members, and also they know

22:01

some of your deepest secrets. Also, you can be honest

22:04

with your family members in a way you can't

22:06

with anybody else, and the things you say

22:08

to your family members cut deeper.

22:10

Yeah, you know anyone else.

22:12

The show will definitely make you want to call your mom.

22:14

I think I can confirm that that's

22:17

a thousand percent true. That's exactly

22:19

how I felt. And your character Amy

22:22

is described by her sister as

22:24

I want to get this right, an emotional chaos

22:27

sinkhole.

22:28

Yeah so lovingly.

22:30

Isn't that those are the words of a siblings

22:33

Yeah, definitely. But you play her

22:35

so beautifully and she's kind of this like

22:37

hot mess on the surface, but you you

22:40

play her like she's truly like one of

22:42

the most emotionally evolved

22:44

characters in the show.

22:45

She's definitely the best communicator in

22:47

this family. She's the only person who knows

22:50

the word feeling, I think, and

22:52

she uses it often. But

22:55

yeah, I love that she wears her emotions on her

22:57

sleeve. It was a fun part of the

23:00

character to play. And I

23:02

also think because she's a bit of a catastrophist,

23:05

she sort of like gets all of her mess

23:08

out early on. Other characters continue

23:10

to be surprised and she's like, I've been there,

23:12

I'm evolving now.

23:14

You know, so that's ways Yeah, and

23:16

the ensemble is incredible. The cast's

23:19

Anette Benning, an all time icon.

23:22

This was like a bucket list thing for me, working

23:24

with a Net Truly, I like, I like get a little

23:26

emotional talking about working with an at best.

23:28

Do you see that she was attached to this thing?

23:30

And were you just like, I don't need to read it.

23:32

I don't need to know the character play her kitchen

23:35

table if she don't.

23:36

It was a Net Benning and.

23:37

Sam Neil and I just was like, stop,

23:40

Yes, they are the best icons

23:43

and cool cats, Like

23:45

just Sam Neil's rolling up like let's

23:48

go to the cabaret and we did.

23:51

Love that.

23:51

That's your definition of a cool cat.

23:54

I mean, how often

23:56

does someone say I've bought us all tickets to the cabaret

23:59

and you're like excited to go.

24:01

Oh, that's amazing. Great it's

24:04

and you.

24:04

Were right there with them. You beautiful scenes

24:06

with them. The show is so much fun.

24:09

I also want to talk about you have an upcoming project

24:11

coming up. It's a horror film, yes, with your

24:14

husband Dave Franco.

24:15

Yes.

24:15

Now, when I think about the purpose of going

24:18

to work, it's to get away from my husband,

24:20

you feel differently about this.

24:22

Is very much the opposite. Yes,

24:24

especially this one. It's a

24:26

horror film. I don't want to say too much about

24:29

it. The film is called Together, and

24:32

it's about the horrors of codependency.

24:34

We play a couple that's been together over ten years

24:37

and is a bit codependent. And you know, we spent

24:39

two months on this choot together twenty

24:42

four hours a day every day, producing this movie,

24:44

acting in it all day every day, and

24:47

I loved it.

24:49

Can we push in on a close up to get the

24:52

single cheer and I

24:55

love the inside blink

24:58

twice.

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I did love it.

25:01

I just love it.

25:02

I love my husband.

25:03

I want him to be able to watch this later.

25:06

Yes, it was really fun.

25:07

It was really fun.

25:08

Yeah, I'm very excited to see it. Congratulations

25:11

on everything. I love the show so much. I cannot

25:13

wait to see the movie. The entire season

25:15

of Apple's Never Fall is now available

25:18

on Peacock.

25:19

Alison Green, I'll

25:41

make a comment putting it well

25:43

back in two thousand and nine, putting the dates on

25:45

March thirty first, whoever created the

25:47

trans day on that date new eventually

25:49

it would fall on Easter.

25:51

I guarantee I guarantee.

25:53

They knew that, and now it happened.

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