Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier in the program that the one one
Speaker 1: of the things I think is driving this campaign, and
Speaker 1: it's invisible. I think there's a whole lot of people
Speaker 1: fed up with the chickification of our culture. And it's
Speaker 1: not anything to do with anti woman or anti feminism
Speaker 1: or anti female. It has to do with the fact
Speaker 1: that there is an assault on manhood. There's an assault
Speaker 1: on masculinity. Masculinity and automatically is toxic. Masculinity is automatically barbaric.
Speaker 1: Men in their natural state are just a bunch of
Speaker 1: bullies and brutes who even mistreat their own children. And
Speaker 1: this is something that has been creeping into our society
Speaker 1: for years, for decades, ever since the modern era of
Speaker 1: feminism in the late sixties early seventies got going and
Speaker 1: rapped up to full speed. And the chickification of our
Speaker 1: culture you find it everywhere. You find it in the
Speaker 1: news business, especially uh not on camera but off and
Speaker 1: not the writers, but the editors and the assignment editors,
Speaker 1: the producers and so forth. And men men do whatever
Speaker 1: is necessary to attract women to do the men. It's
Speaker 1: not hard for women to wrap around a finger. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of men are getting fed up with it.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are fed up with it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And again it's not an anti woman thing. It is
Speaker 1: a it's a fear over over the fact that manhood
Speaker 1: is being lost. Uh. Manhood, masculinity, the strong male influence
Speaker 1: of a father on a family has has been denuded,
Speaker 1: it has been criticized, it has uh. And so there's
Speaker 1: less of it, and there are there's there's a story
Speaker 1: about that, which is why I'm reviving this. There's a
Speaker 1: story about this very thing today. I have been once
Speaker 1: again one of the few consistently over these past two decades,
Speaker 1: twenty years and more, talking about the dangers of the
Speaker 1: chick ification of our culture, and not in again, not
Speaker 1: with any animus toward women. It is there there. But
Speaker 1: there has been an assault on men being men, men
Speaker 1: being who they naturally are, and it's not good. We've
Speaker 1: got evidence of it out there. Now, before I get
Speaker 1: into that, here's a story that appears to have nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it, but it has everything to do
Speaker 1: with it. You may have heard at the Big Ten
Speaker 1: Conference announced some time ago they weren't gonna play college
Speaker 1: football this year. You know why. Well, I don't want
Speaker 1: to make anybody mad, but um. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of fear, a lot of fear virus. How are we
Speaker 1: going to control it? H And there was so much pressure.
Speaker 1: There was pressure from the Coronavirus task for a pressure
Speaker 1: from Dr Fauci, pressure from Dr Burke's, pressure from everywhere,
Speaker 1: don't do it, don't do it. But not everybody decided
Speaker 1: not to do it. The National Football League decided to play.
Speaker 1: I mean they never decided not to. I mean the
Speaker 1: National Football League never wavered during this entire year. They
Speaker 1: were going to start their season. There was some adjustments
Speaker 1: when it was scheduled to start. There was no preseason
Speaker 1: this year, and there was no There are a lot
Speaker 1: of adjustments made. There was no preseason travel, there were
Speaker 1: no joint practices. But the season started on time this
Speaker 1: past weekend. So now here comes the Big Tents. Some
Speaker 1: other colleges are playing l s U is gonna play,
Speaker 1: Yes EC. So the Big Ten reversed itself. Big ten said,
Speaker 1: you know what, we're gonna play. They're gonna start their
Speaker 1: season in mid October, mid to late October, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna play, and they're gonna play a full season. I
Speaker 1: get to buy for the National Championship. Big Ten all that,
Speaker 1: and look at this the USA today. Christine Brennan, female
Speaker 1: sports writer, Big Ten's decision to play football signals darkest
Speaker 1: day in conferences sports history. I have to tell you
Speaker 1: the and and one of the reasons why the Big
Speaker 1: ten reversed its because they saw that the NFL has
Speaker 1: figured out how to do it. They saw that it
Speaker 1: can be done. So there's a little me too. It
Speaker 1: is um here, Hey, we want to get in on
Speaker 1: this too. If we could play, we want to play.
Speaker 1: They realized they jumped the gun. Their decision making was
Speaker 1: a little flawed. So here comes Christine Brennan and a
Speaker 1: whole lot of the sports media, which has also been
Speaker 1: very chick ified. See, the left was happy. The left
Speaker 1: was happy that they had scared people enough to cancel
Speaker 1: college football. They wanted to get rid of the pageantry.
Speaker 1: They wanted to get rid of the American flags on parade.
Speaker 1: They wanted to get rid of the national anthem. They
Speaker 1: wanted to get rid of all of the celebrations of
Speaker 1: American traditionalism and institutionalism that was part of college football.
Speaker 1: They wanted to get rid of it. And they were
Speaker 1: ecstatic when the Big Ten said they weren't playing if
Speaker 1: you look. If you look at the state where the
Speaker 1: where the college conferences have decided to not play and play,
Speaker 1: they're blue and red Democrats states where the conference headquarters
Speaker 1: are decided not to play. Red states were playing. And
Speaker 1: they were so happy. The left was so happy they
Speaker 1: had scared people enough to cancel college football. Now now
Speaker 1: the sports writers, including a bunch of women, are melting
Speaker 1: down over the Big Ten's reversal. They give me a
Speaker 1: pool quote here. While much of the blame for the
Speaker 1: awful about face goes to the university presidents who chose
Speaker 1: money and football over insanity and caution, the new Big
Speaker 1: Ten commissioner Kevin Warren also contributed greatly to this pr nightmare.
Speaker 1: This is a man nearly in way over his head. See.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what a brute, this guy. All he cares
Speaker 1: about his money and football. And what the hell else
Speaker 1: is the Big Ten about. It's always about money in football.
Speaker 1: Everything is about money, the biggest secret in the world, apparently,
Speaker 1: this poor guy, writes Christine Brennan's poor guy was out
Speaker 1: maneuvered by a few loud mouth coaches. For Heaven's sake,
Speaker 1: No matter how he explains that it's clear that he
Speaker 1: in the league flip flopped so that Ohio State can
Speaker 1: try to win a national title and a Big ten
Speaker 1: can still make lots of money off the backs of
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty two year olds in the middle of
Speaker 1: a pandemic. So you see, college football is nothing but
Speaker 1: exploit That's right, nothing but a bunch of young kids
Speaker 1: being exploit No, do you realize these kids that we're
Speaker 1: not going to play college football this year? Do you
Speaker 1: realize what the impairment on their futures was gonna be
Speaker 1: for many of these people. You can say sadly or not,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. For many of these people.
Speaker 1: Football is a way out. Football is away up. Football
Speaker 1: is like any other number of sports. Football is a
Speaker 1: ticket to success and prosperity. And they were just going
Speaker 1: to take this year away from them, have it taken
Speaker 1: away from him. It was going to have severe limitations
Speaker 1: on their potential and their future. But now we find
Speaker 1: out that all of this is just not about any
Speaker 1: of that. It's about exploiting young eighteen to twenty two
Speaker 1: year olds. So, as she writes here, as we move
Speaker 1: into October and November, into what the experts say will
Speaker 1: be our worst days, as COVID combines with the flu.
Speaker 1: The stops and starts of the conferences that are trying
Speaker 1: to play now tell us there are likely to be
Speaker 1: postponements and perhaps cancelations of Big Ten games. So you yeah,
Speaker 1: It's always amazed me that so many people in sports
Speaker 1: writing don't like sports. It's always men and women. I
Speaker 1: know that's not a a gender thing. It just amazes
Speaker 1: me how many of the people actually cover sports don't
Speaker 1: like it, find things wrong with it. Now to the story.
Speaker 1: It is my Alex Perez. He's a Cuban American writer
Speaker 1: for Miami. The story appears in the Daily Caller and
Speaker 1: the headline of the story the multicultural male coalition that
Speaker 1: could give Trump for more years. Wait a minute, what
Speaker 1: the multicultural male coalition that could give Trump four more years?
Speaker 1: Let me share with you how his peace opens here
Speaker 1: and and what this is about the disappearing masculinity in
Speaker 1: American culture that Donald Trump reminds everybody of positively that
Speaker 1: we miss it, that it has a place. Mr Perez writes,
Speaker 1: a year after the election, I overheard my first conversation
Speaker 1: in which two young men of color discussed the political
Speaker 1: issues of the day. I don't remember what they were
Speaker 1: going on about, But the fact that they were going
Speaker 1: on about politics with such fervor was what struck me immediately.
Speaker 1: As young men discussing politics, why that was a rarity
Speaker 1: in my working class Miami neighborhood, where typically it was
Speaker 1: older guys who engaged in these sometimes heated discussions. Sitting
Speaker 1: across from these two guys at Starbucks, I noted their
Speaker 1: interaction as an entertaining anomaly, and I chalked it up
Speaker 1: to the current hyper politicized cultural moment in which anyone
Speaker 1: at any time might surprise you with their clearly newfound
Speaker 1: interest in politics. Which is to say that I expected
Speaker 1: to encounter no more than a handful of these political
Speaker 1: squabbles between young men of color in the ensuing years
Speaker 1: of the Trump era, as the possibility of a broad
Speaker 1: political realignment driven by this traditionally disinterested demographic went against
Speaker 1: all conventional wisdom. Meeting young men of color talking about
Speaker 1: politics never gonna happen. Not enough, I'm gonna engage in
Speaker 1: it to make a difference. Far fetched? Boy was I wrong,
Speaker 1: he writes. In the months and years to follow, all
Speaker 1: were Miami, in bars, coffee shops, at the gym, I
Speaker 1: would overhear and was sometimes pulled into these rudimentary political
Speaker 1: conversations between young men of color. And what was immediately
Speaker 1: obvious was that a majority, if not all, of these
Speaker 1: young men were brought into their nascent political awareness by
Speaker 1: issues relating to their masculinity and manhood. An arc type emerged.
Speaker 1: These were young men who never thought about politics until
Speaker 1: politics knocked on their door and made them aware of
Speaker 1: its existence, as in Hello Donald Trump. Like so many,
Speaker 1: personal grievance is what drove them into the political arena
Speaker 1: and what was driving their politics the gist of their beef.
Speaker 1: When the hell did it stop being okay to be
Speaker 1: a regular dude? When did it stop being okay to
Speaker 1: be a guy? When did be being a guy all
Speaker 1: of a sudden think I'm a negative? When it? When?
Speaker 1: When did it made it a target? Now let me
Speaker 1: give you some pull quotes. It's a long story. I
Speaker 1: have to touch a long story. We'll link to it
Speaker 1: at rush lamba dot com. But what what Mr Alex
Speaker 1: Perez is saying here There are a lot of young
Speaker 1: Hispanic and Black men who are sick of not being
Speaker 1: allowed to be masculine, and they are going to vote
Speaker 1: for Trump, and nobody knows they are out there. And
Speaker 1: this is folks. This is one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: I love that Donald Trump celebrates our heroes. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: celebrates American greatness. Donald Trump promises and ongoing American greatness,
Speaker 1: a revival of it, and a continuation of it. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is fearless in talking about his love and respect
Speaker 1: for everything to do with this country. He will not
Speaker 1: concede a single point to the people that hate it,
Speaker 1: not a single point. He stands up for it, He
Speaker 1: defends it, He loves America, is proud of it, and
Speaker 1: we are blessed to have him in the position he
Speaker 1: is in because without him, can you name somebody else
Speaker 1: who would be defending the country you love and you
Speaker 1: believe is great and you believe deserves to be dependent.
Speaker 1: Can you think of anybody who would step into his
Speaker 1: into his role? I mean you might be able to,
Speaker 1: but you'd have to think about it for a while.
Speaker 1: I love when Trump defended that Army ranger he gave
Speaker 1: a Medal of Freedom to This week, UH freed seventy
Speaker 1: five hostages in a rock the helicopter heroes who saved
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty six people to ring a fire.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump celebrates the heroes. He tells everybody who the
Speaker 1: heroes are. He credits this country for creating them, for
Speaker 1: celebrating them. Try this pull quote from Alex Perez's story.
Speaker 1: All this is to say that the Democrat Party is
Speaker 1: now the party of women and those who identify with
Speaker 1: the overly feminine sensibility. Not that there's anything wrong with it,
Speaker 1: it's just the way it is. The Democrat Party is
Speaker 1: now the party of women. And you hear them tell
Speaker 1: of the females of white, white suburban women, this white
Speaker 1: suburban women, that we've got to make sure we don't
Speaker 1: make a man. We're gonna go out and find a
Speaker 1: way to relate to them. We're gonna and whatever they're
Speaker 1: never wrong, but never whatever they believe. We got to
Speaker 1: find a way to convince these women that were on
Speaker 1: their side. We don't dare tell them they're ever wrong
Speaker 1: about anything. I'm talking about politics here. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with this being your cup of tea, of course, but
Speaker 1: Democrats shouldn't be surprised when young men of all stripes
Speaker 1: are turned off by a party that is completely devoid
Speaker 1: of any masculine energy. And let me tell you Mr.
Speaker 1: Perez is so on the money here. You take a
Speaker 1: look at the big names in the Democrat Party. You
Speaker 1: don't love. The sentence finishes itself another Pool quote here.
Speaker 1: I suspect this trend has been obvious for some time
Speaker 1: now to anybody who lives in an urban center. But
Speaker 1: recently Charles Blow the New York Times was caught off
Speaker 1: guard by the new reality and tweeted today my friends
Speaker 1: in Atlanta who are black saw a Facebook message from
Speaker 1: their old barber who is black, imploring them to vote
Speaker 1: for Trump. Don't think that Trump's message doesn't resonate with
Speaker 1: a certain sector of black men. Also, barbers have a
Speaker 1: lot of sway in the black community. How blows alarm
Speaker 1: comes to the realization that young multicultural males treasure and
Speaker 1: value masculinity, and that's how they see Trump. This is
Speaker 1: the final um little observation here from the column by
Speaker 1: Alex Perez and a Daily caller about the possibility of
Speaker 1: a new masculinity benefiting Trump says, it's an open question
Speaker 1: as to whether young men of color will actually turn
Speaker 1: out for Trump. But if the Republican Convention was any
Speaker 1: indication the Republican Party is making a play for them.
Speaker 1: Much has been said of the conventions America is great message,
Speaker 1: but what was played up almost as much, whether intentionally
Speaker 1: or not, was the power, were and virtue of traditional masculinity.
Speaker 1: There were Senator ten Scott's speech, in which he traced
Speaker 1: his family's rise from slavery to the highest reaches of
Speaker 1: American power, delivered in the oratory style of a man
Speaker 1: who had never given up, whose familial legacy of overcoming
Speaker 1: nearly insurmountable odds would make the thought of accepting his
Speaker 1: plight inconceivable. The speech spoke to all Americans, of course,
Speaker 1: but it can't go unnoticed that it was delivered by
Speaker 1: a man of color who had risen to the top
Speaker 1: in large part due to classic masculine virtues stoicism and
Speaker 1: stick tuitiveness. Those are very powerful virtues. Then there was
Speaker 1: the Cuban American old timer, Maximal Alvarez, self made businessman
Speaker 1: and liked him Scott, the epitome of the American dream.
Speaker 1: He spoke with the masculine ferocity and power of Vince Lombardy.
Speaker 1: The greatest example of masculine strength at the Republican Convention
Speaker 1: occurred when Madison Cawthorne, a disabled young man running for
Speaker 1: North Carolina's eleventh congressional district, stood up from his wheelchair
Speaker 1: after delivering a barn burner of a speech. It was
Speaker 1: an incredibly moving moment, made all the more so by
Speaker 1: the fact that he was flanked by a couple of
Speaker 1: friends who assisted him as he stood. But then they vamosed.
Speaker 1: They got out of the way. Once he made it up,
Speaker 1: once he succeeded in his objective, he engaged in a
Speaker 1: prime example of masculine strength as well as brotherly kinship.
Speaker 1: He accepted help. Masculinity doesn't mean that you're all in
Speaker 1: it all by yourself and to hell with anybody else.
Speaker 1: So these three speeches, too, delivered by men of color,
Speaker 1: made a case for the nobility of traditional masculinity. Says
Speaker 1: I have no doubt that these three speeches spoke to
Speaker 1: young men of color in a way they could understand.
Speaker 1: You are an American man, stand up to what needs
Speaker 1: to be done, don't cower. Mr Alvarez says, I I
Speaker 1: can't imagine a better message not only for meta color,
Speaker 1: but all men, a message that might drive them to
Speaker 1: vote in record numbers in November. He's guessing he's not
Speaker 1: guaranteeing anything,