1 00:00:04,700 --> 00:00:11,700 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:22,066 --> 00:00:27,133 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:27,133 --> 00:00:30,366 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 4 00:00:30,366 --> 00:00:31,433 John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 5 00:00:31,433 --> 00:00:33,266 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 6 00:00:33,266 --> 00:00:33,933 I'M JOHN OLIVER. 7 00:00:33,933 --> 00:00:34,766 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING 8 00:00:34,766 --> 00:00:35,633 US. 9 00:00:35,633 --> 00:00:37,233 IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK, FROM 10 00:00:37,233 --> 00:00:38,533 CHINA LAUNCHING A PROBE TO THE 11 00:00:38,533 --> 00:00:39,733 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, TO BORIS 12 00:00:39,733 --> 00:00:42,266 JOHNSON GETTING TURNED AWAY FROM 13 00:00:42,266 --> 00:00:43,133 VOTING IN THE U.K., UNDER HIS 14 00:00:43,133 --> 00:00:46,233 OWN VOTER I.D. RULES. 15 00:00:46,233 --> 00:00:48,300 BUT WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON THE 16 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:49,133 U.S., WITH THE HARD CRACKDOWN ON 17 00:00:49,233 --> 00:00:49,733 STUDENTS PROTESTING ISRAEL'S 18 00:00:49,733 --> 00:00:51,000 ONGOING MILITARY ASSAULT ON 19 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:52,166 GAZA. 20 00:00:52,166 --> 00:00:54,066 AT UCLA, COPS FIRED SO-CALLED 21 00:00:54,066 --> 00:00:56,200 "LESS LETHAL" BULLETS INTO THE 22 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:57,766 CROWD, AND AT CITY COLLEGE AND 23 00:00:57,766 --> 00:00:58,833 COLUMBIA IN NEW YORK, POLICE 24 00:00:58,833 --> 00:01:00,166 SWARMED CAMPUSES IN NUMBERS SO 25 00:01:00,166 --> 00:01:02,000 EXTREME, THIS STUDENT SUMMED IT 26 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,400 UP PRETTY WELL. 27 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:04,666 WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE 28 00:01:04,666 --> 00:01:05,900 NYPD MOVING IN? 29 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:07,033 IT'S INSANE. 30 00:01:07,033 --> 00:01:10,366 WE HAVE A RIGHT TO PROTEST. 31 00:01:10,366 --> 00:01:11,433 WE HAVE A RIGHT. 32 00:01:11,433 --> 00:01:12,400 LOOK AT THAT. 33 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:13,566 THAT'S FUCKING CRAZY. 34 00:01:13,566 --> 00:01:14,166 WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WHEN 35 00:01:14,166 --> 00:01:15,300 THEY MAKE THE ARRESTS? 36 00:01:15,300 --> 00:01:15,933 WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO IF YOU GET 37 00:01:15,933 --> 00:01:16,433 ARRESTED? 38 00:01:16,433 --> 00:01:17,533 WHAT AM I GONNA DO? 39 00:01:17,533 --> 00:01:19,366 I CAN'T REALLY DO MUCH. 40 00:01:19,366 --> 00:01:21,400 ARE YOU GONNA GO WITH THE 41 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:22,000 POLICE IF THEY MAKE ARRESTS? 42 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:22,566 IF THEY START ARRESTING? 43 00:01:22,566 --> 00:01:26,500 I GUESS SO. 44 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:27,100 John: OKAY, FIRST, DID THAT 45 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:27,733 REPORTER JUST ASK "ARE YOU GONNA 46 00:01:27,733 --> 00:01:29,000 GO WITH THE POLICE IF THEY 47 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:30,000 ARREST YOU?" 48 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,300 KUDOS TO THAT STUDENT FOR GIVING 49 00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:33,633 THE CALMEST POSSIBLE ANSWER TO 50 00:01:33,633 --> 00:01:35,066 WHAT MIGHT BE THE DUMBEST 51 00:01:35,066 --> 00:01:36,233 QUESTION EVER ASKED ON TV. 52 00:01:36,233 --> 00:01:37,466 "IF THE GUYS WITH GUNS PUT YOU 53 00:01:37,466 --> 00:01:40,933 IN HANDCUFFS AND DRAG YOU TO 54 00:01:40,933 --> 00:01:42,366 JAIL, WILL YOU GO WITH THEM?" 55 00:01:42,366 --> 00:01:43,866 "YEAH, I GUESS SO." 56 00:01:43,866 --> 00:01:44,766 ALSO, THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS TO 57 00:01:44,766 --> 00:01:46,133 THE LOVED ONES OF THE ONE BOOMER 58 00:01:46,133 --> 00:01:48,100 WHO WAS KILLED BY HEARING THAT 59 00:01:48,100 --> 00:01:50,700 STUDENT SAY "FUCK" ON FOX NEWS. 60 00:01:50,700 --> 00:01:51,900 SOMEWHERE, A FAMILY'S WRITING 61 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:52,933 PEE-PAW'S OBITUARY: PAUL JOHN 62 00:01:52,933 --> 00:01:54,533 ROBERTS PASSED AWAY IN HIS HOME 63 00:01:54,633 --> 00:01:55,866 WHEN HIS EYEBALLS, HEART, AND 64 00:01:55,966 --> 00:01:57,100 BUTTHOLE EXPLODED AT THE SAME 65 00:01:57,100 --> 00:01:57,466 TIME. 66 00:01:57,466 --> 00:01:59,033 HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND 67 00:01:59,033 --> 00:02:00,866 THREE ADULT CHILDREN WHO NO 68 00:02:00,866 --> 00:02:02,733 LONGER SPEAK TO HIM." 69 00:02:02,733 --> 00:02:03,200 POLICE HAVE BROKEN UP 70 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:04,333 DEMONSTRATIONS AT OVER 80 71 00:02:04,333 --> 00:02:06,033 CAMPUSES NATIONWIDE, OFTEN UNDER 72 00:02:06,033 --> 00:02:07,500 THE PRETEXT THAT IT WAS 73 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:08,300 NECESSARY TO KEEP STUDENTS SAFE, 74 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:09,666 AND COMBAT ANTISEMITISM. 75 00:02:09,666 --> 00:02:11,233 AND LOOK, SOME JEWISH STUDENTS 76 00:02:11,233 --> 00:02:12,400 HAVE REPORTED FEELING UNSAFE. 77 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:14,500 AND THERE HAVE BEEN SCATTERED 78 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:16,600 EXAMPLES OF ANTISEMITIC RHETORIC 79 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:17,133 AMONG PROTESTORS IN-- AND 80 00:02:17,133 --> 00:02:18,933 AROUND-- CAMPUSES. 81 00:02:18,933 --> 00:02:22,200 AND THAT'S CLEARLY UNACCEPTABLE. 82 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:23,066 BUT FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, SOME 83 00:02:23,066 --> 00:02:23,600 JEWISH STUDENT GROUPS HAVE 84 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:24,566 EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR THE 85 00:02:24,566 --> 00:02:27,033 PROTESTS, OR EVEN BEEN INVOLVED 86 00:02:27,133 --> 00:02:28,166 IN ORGANIZING THEM, TO THE POINT 87 00:02:28,266 --> 00:02:29,500 THAT THERE WAS A SHABBAT SERVICE 88 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:31,200 AT THE UNIVERSITY GATES AT 89 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:31,966 COLUMBIA. 90 00:02:31,966 --> 00:02:33,766 ALSO, THESE PROTESTS HAVE BEEN 91 00:02:33,766 --> 00:02:35,400 OVERWHELMINGLY PEACEFUL. 92 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,600 WHEN THERE'S BEEN VIOLENCE, IT'S 93 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:37,933 MOSTLY BEEN DIRECTED AT THE 94 00:02:37,933 --> 00:02:39,366 PROTESTORS THEMSELVES. 95 00:02:39,366 --> 00:02:40,533 YOU MIGHT'VE SEEN PROTESTORS AT 96 00:02:40,533 --> 00:02:42,833 UCLA GETTING ATTACKED AS THE 97 00:02:42,833 --> 00:02:44,800 POLICE STOOD BY, OR THE MULTIPLE 98 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:45,633 CASES OF POLICE INFLICTING 99 00:02:45,633 --> 00:02:46,800 VIOLENCE THEMSELVES, LIKE IN 100 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,100 THIS FOOTAGE OF THEM THROWING A 101 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:49,966 65-YEAR-OLD PROFESSOR AT 102 00:02:49,966 --> 00:02:51,566 DARTMOUTH TO THE GROUND. 103 00:02:51,566 --> 00:02:52,933 AND HOW EXACTLY WAS SHE A 104 00:02:52,933 --> 00:02:54,233 THREAT? 105 00:02:54,233 --> 00:02:55,233 THE ONLY CRIME I CAN SEE THAT 106 00:02:55,233 --> 00:02:57,066 65-YEAR-OLD TENURED PROFESSOR 107 00:02:57,066 --> 00:02:58,633 COMMITTING IS MAYBE SNEAKING A 108 00:02:58,633 --> 00:03:00,700 BRAZIL NUT FROM THE CO-OP'S BULK 109 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:06,300 SECTION. 110 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:08,333 ALSO, THAT WOMAN'S NOT ONLY 111 00:03:08,333 --> 00:03:10,000 JEWISH, SHE'S A PROFESSOR OF 112 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:11,733 JEWISH STUDIES, YET SHE'S BEING 113 00:03:11,733 --> 00:03:13,800 BRUTALIZED BY POLICE, SUPPOSEDLY 114 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:14,366 THERE TO KEEP JEWISH PEOPLE 115 00:03:14,366 --> 00:03:14,566 SAFE. 116 00:03:14,566 --> 00:03:15,266 AND TO JUSTIFY THEIR 117 00:03:15,266 --> 00:03:16,400 DISPROPORTIONATE RESPONSE, THOSE 118 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:17,100 IN AUTHORITY HAVE GONE OUT OF 119 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:17,966 THEIR WAY TO PAINT THESE 120 00:03:17,966 --> 00:03:19,100 PROTESTS AS SOMETHING SINISTER. 121 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:20,666 ERIC ADAMS, NEW YORK MAYOR AND 122 00:03:20,666 --> 00:03:22,566 FUTURE CLUB SHAY SHAY GUEST, 123 00:03:22,566 --> 00:03:24,366 SUGGESTED STUDENTS WERE PUPPETS 124 00:03:24,366 --> 00:03:26,433 OF "OUTSIDE AGITATORS" AND 125 00:03:26,433 --> 00:03:27,900 IMPLIED THERE MIGHT BE A LARGER, 126 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:30,533 NEFARIOUS SCHEME AFOOT. 127 00:03:30,533 --> 00:03:32,633 WHY IS EVERYBODY'S TENT THE 128 00:03:32,633 --> 00:03:33,233 SAME? 129 00:03:33,233 --> 00:03:34,000 WAS THERE A FIRE-SALE ON THOSE 130 00:03:34,100 --> 00:03:35,266 TENTS? 131 00:03:35,366 --> 00:03:37,000 THERE'S SOME ORGANIZING GOING 132 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,466 ON. 133 00:03:38,466 --> 00:03:41,066 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A WELL 134 00:03:41,066 --> 00:03:42,033 CONCERTED ORGANIZING EFFORT, AND 135 00:03:42,033 --> 00:03:43,033 WHAT'S THE GOAL OF THAT 136 00:03:43,033 --> 00:03:45,333 ORGANIZING? 137 00:03:45,333 --> 00:03:47,800 John: OKAY, FIRST, OF COURSE 138 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:48,933 THESE PROTESTS ARE ORGANIZED. 139 00:03:48,933 --> 00:03:49,733 MOST PROTESTS ARE ORGANIZED. 140 00:03:49,733 --> 00:03:52,700 YOU SOUND LIKE AN IDIOT. 141 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:54,633 WHEN NEW JERSEY SENDS US MAYORS, 142 00:03:54,633 --> 00:03:55,966 THEY'RE CLEARLY NOT SENDING 143 00:03:55,966 --> 00:04:01,466 THEIR BEST. 144 00:04:01,466 --> 00:04:02,066 SECOND, THE UBIQUITY OF THOSE 145 00:04:02,066 --> 00:04:03,166 TENTS ON CAMPUS CAN PERHAPS BE 146 00:04:03,166 --> 00:04:04,900 EXPLAINED BY THE FACT THEY'RE 147 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:05,300 INCREDIBLY CHEAP. 148 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:05,966 AS A REPORTER FOUND THIS WEEK-- 149 00:04:05,966 --> 00:04:06,833 STUDENTS SEARCHING AMAZON FOR 150 00:04:06,933 --> 00:04:09,366 TENT WOULD BE PROMPTED TO BUY 151 00:04:09,466 --> 00:04:10,766 THE GREEN CAMEL CROWN TENT FOR 152 00:04:10,766 --> 00:04:12,033 $35 AND OFFERED ONE-DAY 153 00:04:12,033 --> 00:04:12,733 SHIPPING. 154 00:04:12,733 --> 00:04:13,366 IN FACT-- AND THIS IS TRUE-- 155 00:04:13,366 --> 00:04:14,766 IF YOU SEARCH "CHEAP SHITTY 156 00:04:14,766 --> 00:04:20,166 TENT" ON AMAZON, THE FIRST 157 00:04:20,166 --> 00:04:20,700 RESULT IS THAT VERY TENT. 158 00:04:20,700 --> 00:04:21,600 SO, WHICH EXPLANATION IS MORE 159 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:22,833 LIKELY? 160 00:04:22,833 --> 00:04:23,566 A SHADOWY FORCE IS ENGAGING IN A 161 00:04:23,566 --> 00:04:25,433 MASSIVE CAMPING SUPPLY RELATED 162 00:04:25,433 --> 00:04:27,233 CONSPIRACY WHICH WAS ONLY FOILED 163 00:04:27,233 --> 00:04:28,600 BY EXPERT TENT SLEUTH ERIC 164 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,100 ADAMS? 165 00:04:30,100 --> 00:04:31,666 OR, COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE BROKE 166 00:04:31,666 --> 00:04:33,533 AND NEVER SCROLL PAST THE FIRST 167 00:04:33,533 --> 00:04:35,400 RESULT ON AMAZON? 168 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:36,466 IT'S IMPORTANT WE CONSIDER BOTH 169 00:04:36,466 --> 00:04:37,966 SIDES EQUALLY. 170 00:04:37,966 --> 00:04:40,333 AND THE CONSPIRATORIAL RHETORIC 171 00:04:40,433 --> 00:04:40,933 CONTINUED WHEN AN NYPD DEPUTY 172 00:04:41,033 --> 00:04:41,866 COMMISSIONER WENT ON TV TO 173 00:04:41,966 --> 00:04:43,766 FEARMONGER ABOUT THE BIG SCARY 174 00:04:43,766 --> 00:04:45,166 CHAINS THEY ENCOUNTERED ON DOORS 175 00:04:45,166 --> 00:04:47,166 AT COLUMBIA. 176 00:04:47,166 --> 00:04:48,900 THIS IS NOT WHAT STUDENTS 177 00:04:48,900 --> 00:04:49,833 BRING TO SCHOOL, OKAY? 178 00:04:49,833 --> 00:04:50,733 THIS IS WHAT PROFESSIONALS BRING 179 00:04:50,733 --> 00:04:52,966 TO CAMPUSES AND UNIVERSITIES. 180 00:04:52,966 --> 00:04:54,566 THESE ARE HEAVY INDUSTRIAL 181 00:04:54,566 --> 00:04:57,066 CHAINS THAT WERE LOCKED WITH 182 00:04:57,066 --> 00:04:59,466 BIKE LOCKS, AND THIS IS WHAT WE 183 00:04:59,466 --> 00:05:00,500 ENCOUNTERED ON EVERY DOOR AT 184 00:05:00,500 --> 00:05:01,433 HAMILTON HALL. 185 00:05:01,433 --> 00:05:02,033 John: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING 186 00:05:02,033 --> 00:05:03,533 ABOUT? 187 00:05:03,533 --> 00:05:05,633 THAT'S A BIKE CHAIN AND LOCK. 188 00:05:05,633 --> 00:05:07,000 SOMETHING STUDENTS ABSOLUTELY 189 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,500 BRING TO SCHOOL. 190 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:09,133 IN FACT THAT PARTICULAR MODEL IS 191 00:05:09,133 --> 00:05:11,500 PROMOTED ON COLUMBIA'S OWN 192 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:12,366 FUCKING WEBSITE, WHICH EVEN 193 00:05:12,366 --> 00:05:14,533 SELLS THEM AT A DISCOUNT. 194 00:05:14,633 --> 00:05:16,266 IT'S ALSO CALLED, AND THIS IS 195 00:05:16,266 --> 00:05:16,866 TRUE, THE "NEW YORK 196 00:05:16,866 --> 00:05:21,133 FAHGETTABOUDIT CHAIN." 197 00:05:21,133 --> 00:05:22,100 WHICH IS PERFECT. 198 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:22,733 BECAUSE THAT CHAIN PROMISES: YOU 199 00:05:22,733 --> 00:05:24,066 CAN LOCK UP YOUR BIKE IN NEW 200 00:05:24,066 --> 00:05:25,533 YORK, AND THEN WITH TOTAL PEACE 201 00:05:25,533 --> 00:05:27,133 OF MIND, YOU CAN 202 00:05:27,133 --> 00:05:28,166 "FAHGETTABOUDIT!" 203 00:05:28,166 --> 00:05:28,866 BUT THE NONSENSE DIDN'T STOP 204 00:05:28,866 --> 00:05:30,366 THERE. 205 00:05:30,366 --> 00:05:33,900 THE NYPD ALSO POSTED SOME OF THE 206 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:34,500 DAMNING EVIDENCE THEY'D FOUND, 207 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:35,733 INCLUDING A BOOK ON TERRORISM, 208 00:05:35,733 --> 00:05:37,833 ALL CAPS, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE 209 00:05:37,833 --> 00:05:39,466 THIS BOOK, AN ACADEMIC STUDY BY 210 00:05:39,466 --> 00:05:41,233 A BRITISH PROFESSOR, AND VERY 211 00:05:41,233 --> 00:05:42,333 MUCH NOT A HOW-TO MANUAL, GIVEN 212 00:05:42,333 --> 00:05:44,066 THAT IT ASKS QUESTIONS LIKE 213 00:05:44,066 --> 00:05:46,833 "WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP IT?" 214 00:05:46,933 --> 00:05:47,933 AS FOR SAFETY, IT EMERGED AN 215 00:05:48,033 --> 00:05:49,700 OFFICER ACCIDENTALLY FIRED A GUN 216 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:51,600 INSIDE THAT BUILDING AT 217 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:52,900 COLUMBIA, WITH THE POLICE LATER 218 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:54,033 EXPLAINING IT WAS ONLY BECAUSE 219 00:05:54,033 --> 00:05:56,400 HE WAS USING IT AS A FLASHLIGHT. 220 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:57,366 AND WHY ARE YOU USING YOUR GUN 221 00:05:57,366 --> 00:05:58,100 FOR THAT? 222 00:05:58,100 --> 00:05:59,300 THERE'S A FLASHLIGHT ON YOUR 223 00:05:59,300 --> 00:06:02,266 FUCKING PHONE, AND YOU CAN'T 224 00:06:02,266 --> 00:06:04,266 TELL ME A COP IN NEW YORK CITY 225 00:06:04,266 --> 00:06:04,866 DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO USE ONE OF 226 00:06:04,866 --> 00:06:11,433 THOSE. 227 00:06:11,433 --> 00:06:14,233 YOU'RE ON THEM ALL FUCKING THE 228 00:06:14,233 --> 00:06:14,433 TIME! 229 00:06:14,433 --> 00:06:15,066 AND, AGAIN, I'M NOT SAYING THERE 230 00:06:15,066 --> 00:06:15,633 WEREN'T SOME INDIVIDUALS IN 231 00:06:15,633 --> 00:06:16,166 THESE LARGE CROWDS, SAYING 232 00:06:16,166 --> 00:06:16,600 INDEFENSIBLE THINGS. 233 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:17,833 BUT EVERY PROTEST HAS THAT. 234 00:06:17,833 --> 00:06:20,133 EVERYONE WHO'S EVER BEEN TO A 235 00:06:20,233 --> 00:06:22,033 PROTEST HAS AT SOME POINT SEEN A 236 00:06:22,133 --> 00:06:23,600 SIGN AND THOUGHT TO THEMSELVES, 237 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:24,800 "SHIT, NOT SURE ABOUT THAT ONE. 238 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,833 I'M HERE FOR ABORTION RIGHTS, DO 239 00:06:26,833 --> 00:06:28,400 WE REALLY NEED TO BRING 9/11 240 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,566 INTO THIS?" 241 00:06:30,566 --> 00:06:33,833 BUT, FOR THE MOST PART, THEY 242 00:06:33,833 --> 00:06:34,466 WERE VERY MUCH IN THE TRADITION 243 00:06:34,466 --> 00:06:35,333 OF CAMPUS PROTESTS WE'VE SEEN 244 00:06:35,333 --> 00:06:36,133 FOR DECADES. 245 00:06:36,133 --> 00:06:38,166 EVEN THE TAKEOVER OF A BUILDING 246 00:06:38,166 --> 00:06:39,700 AT COLUMBIA-- THE EVENT USED TO 247 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:40,566 JUSTIFY THE POLICE RAID THIS 248 00:06:40,566 --> 00:06:42,166 WEEK-- IS SOMETHING THAT'S 249 00:06:42,166 --> 00:06:43,900 HAPPENED MULTIPLE TIMES BEFORE. 250 00:06:43,900 --> 00:06:45,500 IN 1968, THAT SAME BUILDING WAS 251 00:06:45,500 --> 00:06:46,300 OCCUPIED TO PROTEST THE VIETNAM 252 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:48,066 WAR. 253 00:06:48,066 --> 00:06:49,933 IN 1985, IT WAS BARRICADED FOR 254 00:06:49,933 --> 00:06:50,966 THREE WEEKS TO DEMAND DIVESTMENT 255 00:06:50,966 --> 00:06:52,933 FROM APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, AND 256 00:06:52,933 --> 00:06:53,733 IN 1992, THERE WAS A BLOCKADE 257 00:06:53,833 --> 00:06:54,466 OVER COLUMBIA'S PLANS TO DESTROY 258 00:06:54,566 --> 00:06:56,433 THE SITE WHERE MALCOLM X WAS 259 00:06:56,433 --> 00:06:58,266 ASSASSINATED. 260 00:06:58,266 --> 00:06:58,866 THE UNIVERSITY ACTUALLY 261 00:06:58,866 --> 00:07:00,700 SUSPENDED FOUR OF THE STUDENTS 262 00:07:00,700 --> 00:07:01,333 INVOLVED IN THAT ONE-- ONLY TO 263 00:07:01,333 --> 00:07:04,000 LATER INVITE ONE OF THEM, BEN 264 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:04,800 JEALOUS, BACK TO SPEAK AT THEIR 265 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:06,566 COMMENCEMENT, ONCE HE HAD BECOME 266 00:07:06,566 --> 00:07:10,933 THE HEAD OF THE NAACP. 267 00:07:10,933 --> 00:07:12,366 AND IN THE OPENING LINE OF HIS 268 00:07:12,366 --> 00:07:13,900 SPEECH, HE REMINDED COLUMBIA 269 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:14,533 WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIM THERE. 270 00:07:14,533 --> 00:07:15,133 WHENEVER I CAN WALK OUT OF 271 00:07:15,133 --> 00:07:16,700 LOW LIBRARY AND NOT BE LED OUT 272 00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:17,800 IN HANDCUFFS IT'S A GOOD DAY. 273 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:19,933 [LAUGHTER] 274 00:07:19,933 --> 00:07:21,533 John: THAT'S A PRETTY SOLID 275 00:07:21,533 --> 00:07:23,933 OPENING LINE THERE. 276 00:07:23,933 --> 00:07:24,733 AND I'D HATE TO BE THE 277 00:07:24,733 --> 00:07:25,366 ADMINISTRATOR THAT HAD TO INVITE 278 00:07:25,366 --> 00:07:27,333 HIM TO GIVE THAT SPEECH. 279 00:07:27,433 --> 00:07:28,200 "HI, BEN. 280 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:29,066 SO YOU CAN TALK ABOUT ANYTHING 281 00:07:29,166 --> 00:07:30,466 YOU WANT, LIKE LEADERSHIP, OR 282 00:07:30,466 --> 00:07:32,533 GRATITUDE, OR EVEN FORGIVING US 283 00:07:32,533 --> 00:07:33,533 FOR THE WHOLE HANDCUFF THING. 284 00:07:33,533 --> 00:07:38,066 IT'S REALLY UP TO YOU! 285 00:07:38,066 --> 00:07:39,133 BUT MAYBE THAT LAST ONE. 286 00:07:39,133 --> 00:07:39,466 BYE!" 287 00:07:39,466 --> 00:07:41,700 THE POINT IS, STUDENT PROTESTS 288 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:42,433 AGAINST INJUSTICE GENERALLY AGE 289 00:07:42,433 --> 00:07:43,766 PRETTY WELL, AND THE EFFORTS TO 290 00:07:43,766 --> 00:07:44,900 CRITICIZE OR CRACK DOWN ON THEM, 291 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:46,633 TEND NOT TO. 292 00:07:46,633 --> 00:07:48,233 AND IT'S ALARMING HOW MUCH 293 00:07:48,233 --> 00:07:49,366 ATTENTION HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON 294 00:07:49,366 --> 00:07:50,266 THE PROTESTS THIS WEEK, RATHER 295 00:07:50,266 --> 00:07:51,966 THAN WHAT THEY'VE BEEN 296 00:07:51,966 --> 00:07:53,266 PROTESTING ABOUT, WHICH IS 297 00:07:53,266 --> 00:07:54,500 WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN GAZA, 298 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:55,500 WHERE IT SEEMS THE ISRAELI 299 00:07:55,500 --> 00:07:57,000 MILITARY IS STILL PLANNING TO 300 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:58,333 INVADE RAFAH, "WITH OR WITHOUT A 301 00:07:58,333 --> 00:07:59,466 DEAL" IN ONGOING CEASEFIRE 302 00:07:59,466 --> 00:08:01,033 NEGOTIATIONS-- DESPITE THE FACT 303 00:08:01,133 --> 00:08:03,100 THAT'D PUT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS 304 00:08:03,100 --> 00:08:03,666 OF PALESTINIANS "AT IMMINENT 305 00:08:03,666 --> 00:08:05,033 RISK OF DEATH." 306 00:08:05,033 --> 00:08:07,866 AND FOR ALL THE CONCERN OVER 307 00:08:07,866 --> 00:08:09,566 SCHOOLS HERE IN THE US, IT'S 308 00:08:09,566 --> 00:08:10,933 WORTH NOTING THAT, IN ADDITION 309 00:08:10,933 --> 00:08:12,300 TO THE MASSIVE LOSS OF LIFE IN 310 00:08:12,300 --> 00:08:13,800 GAZA, MORE THAN 80% OF SCHOOLS 311 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:14,600 THERE ARE NOW DAMAGED OR 312 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,633 DESTROYED. 313 00:08:16,633 --> 00:08:18,100 WHAT'S HAPPENING IS A 314 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:18,966 CATASTROPHE THAT IS ABSOLUTELY 315 00:08:18,966 --> 00:08:21,433 WORTH VIGOROUS PROTEST. 316 00:08:21,433 --> 00:08:23,133 AND AT A MOMENT WHEN "STUDENT 317 00:08:23,133 --> 00:08:23,900 SAFETY" IS THE BUZZWORD 318 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:26,000 JUSTIFYING SO MUCH VIOLENCE IN 319 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,900 THE U.S., IT'S WORTH HEARING 320 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:29,800 WHAT THE SAFETY SITUATION IS 321 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:31,833 LIKE FOR A UNIVERSITY STUDENT IN 322 00:08:31,833 --> 00:08:32,033 GAZA. 323 00:08:32,033 --> 00:08:32,600 PERSONALLY, I FEEL LIKE I 324 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,833 LOST EVERYTHING. 325 00:08:36,833 --> 00:08:37,866 I LOST MY DREAMS, MY FUTURE, ALL 326 00:08:37,866 --> 00:08:41,033 OF MY DREAMS THAT I IMAGINED. 327 00:08:41,033 --> 00:08:41,666 BEFORE SEVEN MONTHS OF NOW, WE 328 00:08:41,666 --> 00:08:46,100 JUST HAVE A BUILDING AND MY 329 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:46,933 UNIVERSITY TO GO AND TO STUDY IN 330 00:08:46,933 --> 00:08:47,100 IT. 331 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:48,800 NOW WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING 332 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:54,500 BECAUSE ISRAELI OCCUPATION WAS 333 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:58,200 DESTROYING-- DESTROYED 334 00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:58,500 EVERYTHING. 335 00:08:58,500 --> 00:08:59,600 FINALLY, THANKS-- THANKS FOR 336 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:00,166 ALL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY THAT 337 00:09:00,166 --> 00:09:01,500 STAND BY US AND MAKE EFFORT TO 338 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:02,400 PREVENT THE WAR. 339 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,433 THANK YOU. 340 00:09:06,433 --> 00:09:07,500 WE-- WE ARE LOST EVERYTHING, 341 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:09,333 BUT WE CAN'T LOSE THE HOPE 342 00:09:09,433 --> 00:09:10,600 BECAUSE OF YOU, BECAUSE YOU 343 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:12,200 STAND BY US. 344 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:12,466 THANK YOU. 345 00:09:12,466 --> 00:09:15,533 John: YEAH. 346 00:09:15,533 --> 00:09:16,433 THAT IS DEEPLY MOVING. 347 00:09:16,433 --> 00:09:17,066 AND TO ANSWER THE QUESTION ERIC 348 00:09:17,066 --> 00:09:18,000 ADAMS ASKED EARLIER, "WHAT'S THE 349 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:18,500 GOAL OF ALL THE STUDENT 350 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:19,433 ORGANIZING?" 351 00:09:19,433 --> 00:09:22,833 THAT'S KIND OF THE GOAL RIGHT 352 00:09:22,833 --> 00:09:23,266 THERE. 353 00:09:23,266 --> 00:09:24,466 TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THAT 354 00:09:24,466 --> 00:09:25,733 STUDENT, AND THE HUNDREDS OF 355 00:09:25,733 --> 00:09:26,800 THOUSANDS LIKE HER IN GAZA, IN 356 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,100 THE FACE OF THIS ONSLAUGHT. 357 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:30,166 AND I KNOW PEOPLE WILL TRY AND 358 00:09:30,166 --> 00:09:31,333 DISTRACT YOU FROM THAT GOAL, 359 00:09:31,333 --> 00:09:33,266 WITH BULLSHIT FEARMONGERING 360 00:09:33,266 --> 00:09:34,133 ABOUT CAMPING EQUIPMENT AND 361 00:09:34,133 --> 00:09:37,166 TERRORISM BOOKS. 362 00:09:37,166 --> 00:09:38,933 BUT IF YOU'RE AT ALL TEMPTED TO 363 00:09:38,933 --> 00:09:39,500 FALL FOR ANY OF THAT, MAY I 364 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:40,766 RECOMMEND YOU TAKE A LESSON FROM 365 00:09:40,866 --> 00:09:41,400 ONE OF NEW YORK'S MOST COMMONLY 366 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:43,066 AVAILABLE BIKE CHAINS AND JUST 367 00:09:43,066 --> 00:09:44,266 "FAHGETTABOUDIT!" 368 00:09:44,266 --> 00:09:49,433 AND NOW, THIS. 369 00:09:49,433 --> 00:09:53,300 Announcer: AND NOW, 370 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:53,866 BRIAN KILMEADE UNPACKED HIS 371 00:09:53,866 --> 00:09:56,466 CHILDHOOD TRAUMAS. 372 00:09:56,466 --> 00:09:58,433 YOU KNOW, THOUGH TURTLENECK, 373 00:09:58,433 --> 00:10:00,066 I LIKE THAT, THAT'S THE STYLE. 374 00:10:00,066 --> 00:10:01,833 IT'S MY FAVORITE TIME OF 375 00:10:01,833 --> 00:10:02,033 YEAR. 376 00:10:02,033 --> 00:10:03,800 THE FASHION. 377 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,900 I USED TO BEG MY MOM NOT TO 378 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:07,400 WEAR THEM. 379 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,033 I MADE A BIG MISTAKE AS A KID. 380 00:10:10,033 --> 00:10:13,100 I BROUGHT THE BOX, THE BOZO BOX 381 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:15,133 IS A COSTUME. 382 00:10:15,233 --> 00:10:17,833 IT DON'T LOSE THE BOZO LABEL 383 00:10:17,833 --> 00:10:19,233 WHEN MEANS OVER. 384 00:10:19,233 --> 00:10:19,966 PEOPLE ENJOYED CALLING ME THAT 385 00:10:19,966 --> 00:10:24,100 FOR A LONG TIME. 386 00:10:24,100 --> 00:10:25,733 IT SCARRED ME AS A CHILD. 387 00:10:25,733 --> 00:10:29,233 I WAS TRAUMATIZED. 388 00:10:29,233 --> 00:10:31,200 THE GLOVES IN THE NOSE. 389 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,300 WHEN FROSTY GETS INTO THE HOT 390 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:35,800 HOUSE, EXTREMELY STRESSFUL. 391 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:36,800 WHEN I WAS GROWING UP THEY 392 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:37,566 COULDN'T FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MIX 393 00:10:37,566 --> 00:10:37,733 IT. 394 00:10:37,733 --> 00:10:39,733 WE HAD TO DO IT OUR OWN AND WE'D 395 00:10:39,733 --> 00:10:41,433 BE AT THE BOTTOM. 396 00:10:41,433 --> 00:10:43,866 I DIDN'T KNOW AS A KID THAT YOU 397 00:10:43,866 --> 00:10:44,966 CAN MAKE YOUR OWN WAFFLES. 398 00:10:44,966 --> 00:10:47,200 I THOUGHT EVERYBODY WAS WAS 399 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:47,866 FROZEN. 400 00:10:47,966 --> 00:10:48,466 I WAS FORCED TO LISTEN TO 401 00:10:48,466 --> 00:10:50,933 BAGPIPES AS A CHILD. 402 00:10:50,933 --> 00:10:52,833 OF COURSE I REMEMBER THE PET 403 00:10:52,833 --> 00:10:53,033 ROCK. 404 00:10:53,033 --> 00:10:56,100 I MEAN, I DID IT YET ONE, WE 405 00:10:56,100 --> 00:10:58,066 DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY. 406 00:10:58,066 --> 00:10:59,200 THEY HAD A TELESCOPE, THEY TOLD 407 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,366 ME IT'S MORE EXPENSIVE. 408 00:11:01,366 --> 00:11:07,566 I NEVER FOUND THE MOOD, MODE, I 409 00:11:07,566 --> 00:11:08,400 WOULD JUST SIT THERE LOOKING AT 410 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:09,400 THE EYEPIECE. 411 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,900 I THINK I WAS LIED TO. 412 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:13,033 'S 413 00:11:13,033 --> 00:11:13,833 John: MOVING ON. 414 00:11:13,833 --> 00:11:14,900 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 415 00:11:14,900 --> 00:11:15,100 BOOKS. 416 00:11:15,100 --> 00:11:15,700 YOU KNOW-- BELOVED WORKS LIKE 417 00:11:15,700 --> 00:11:16,733 "THE GREAT GATSBY," "CHARLOTTE'S 418 00:11:16,733 --> 00:11:17,366 WEB," AND THE BERENSTAIN BEARS. 419 00:11:17,366 --> 00:11:18,033 AND YOU MIGHT THINK "BERENSTAIN" 420 00:11:18,033 --> 00:11:18,600 IS MISSPELLED THERE. 421 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:19,933 YOU MIGHT REMEMBER IT AS 422 00:11:19,933 --> 00:11:20,866 S-T-"E"-I-N, BUT THAT'S WRONG. 423 00:11:20,966 --> 00:11:21,466 IT'S A WEIRD MANDELA EFFECT 424 00:11:21,466 --> 00:11:22,400 THING A LOT OF PEOPLE 425 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:23,133 MISREMEMBER, BUT IT'S ALWAYS 426 00:11:23,133 --> 00:11:26,233 BEEN THE BEREN-"STAIN" BEAVERS. 427 00:11:26,233 --> 00:11:27,066 IT WAS ALWAYS SPELLED WITH AN 428 00:11:27,066 --> 00:11:28,633 "A." 429 00:11:28,633 --> 00:11:30,066 SPECIFICALLY, WE'RE GOING TO BE 430 00:11:30,066 --> 00:11:31,700 TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 431 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:32,933 WHICH OF COURSE, LEND BOOKS, BUT 432 00:11:32,933 --> 00:11:33,933 INCREASINGLY, HAVE BECOME SO 433 00:11:33,933 --> 00:11:35,000 MUCH MORE THAN THAT. 434 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,833 SURE, YOU CAN CHECK OUT BOOKS 435 00:11:37,833 --> 00:11:39,066 AND DVDS AT PLACENTIA LIBRARY, 436 00:11:39,066 --> 00:11:40,733 BUT NOW YOU CAN ALSO CHECK OUT 437 00:11:40,733 --> 00:11:42,966 ONE OF THESE. 438 00:11:42,966 --> 00:11:45,066 YOU CAN ALSO CHECK OUT A 439 00:11:45,066 --> 00:11:45,633 FISHING POLE AND KEEP IT FOR 440 00:11:45,633 --> 00:11:45,933 THREE WEEKS. 441 00:11:45,933 --> 00:11:48,466 YOU CAN CHECK OUT A REALLY NEAT 442 00:11:48,466 --> 00:11:49,366 TELESCOPE AND HAVE A STAR PARTY 443 00:11:49,366 --> 00:11:50,466 WITH YOUR FAMILY. 444 00:11:50,466 --> 00:11:52,266 ALONGSIDE BOOKS AND MOVIES 445 00:11:52,266 --> 00:11:52,866 ARE THINGS LIKE AIR FRYERS AND 446 00:11:52,866 --> 00:11:54,500 BUNDT CAKE PANS. 447 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:56,400 IF YOU WANT TO PLANT A 448 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:57,100 GARDEN, WE HAVE SEEDS THAT YOU 449 00:11:57,100 --> 00:11:58,166 CAN CHECK OUT. 450 00:11:58,166 --> 00:11:59,833 I DON'T KNOW OF ANYWHERE ELSE 451 00:11:59,833 --> 00:12:02,266 THAT THEY CAN BORROW A MOUNTED 452 00:12:02,266 --> 00:12:03,800 SANDHILL CRANE AND JUST STUDY IT 453 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,300 UP CLOSE. 454 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:08,033 YOU CAN CHECK OUT A REALLY NEAT 455 00:12:10,233 --> 00:12:10,766 John: YEAH, I'LL BET THERE 456 00:12:10,766 --> 00:12:11,466 ISN'T ANYWHERE ELSE YOU CAN 457 00:12:11,466 --> 00:12:12,300 BORROW A MOUNTED SANDHILL CRANE 458 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:13,966 BECAUSE ACCORDING TO TAXIDERMY 459 00:12:13,966 --> 00:12:14,600 DOT NET MESSAGE BOARDS, THEY'RE 460 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,966 VERY DIFFICULT TO MOUNT! 461 00:12:16,966 --> 00:12:17,600 WHEN A USER NAMED ERIC ASKED FOR 462 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:18,866 "SANDHILL CRANE MOUNTING 463 00:12:18,866 --> 00:12:19,433 INFORMATION BEFORE I TACKLE 464 00:12:19,433 --> 00:12:21,800 THESE TALL GUYS!" 465 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:22,633 ONE PERSON SAID, "SO YOU KNOW IN 466 00:12:22,633 --> 00:12:23,200 ADVANCE... 467 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,633 YOU WILL USE EVERY CURSE WORD 468 00:12:25,633 --> 00:12:26,266 WHEN YOU ARE WIRING THE LEGS," 469 00:12:26,266 --> 00:12:28,500 WHILE SOMEONE CALLED GREG 470 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:29,500 SUGGESTED CONTACTING A MAGAZINE 471 00:12:29,500 --> 00:12:30,400 THAT HAD COVERED THE TOPIC 472 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:31,800 RECENTLY SAYING QUOTE "I AM NOT 473 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:32,466 A BIRD GUY BUT I REMEMBER 474 00:12:32,466 --> 00:12:33,966 READING THAT ARTICLE AND 475 00:12:33,966 --> 00:12:35,633 THINKING IT WAS FAIRLY EASY" 476 00:12:35,633 --> 00:12:36,200 WHICH... 477 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:37,366 SHUT UP, GREG. 478 00:12:37,366 --> 00:12:38,700 SIT THIS ONE OUT. 479 00:12:38,700 --> 00:12:42,066 ERIC'S CLEARLY STRESSING AND 480 00:12:42,066 --> 00:12:44,700 YOU'RE TELLING HIM TO "CALL A 481 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:44,966 MAGAZINE"? 482 00:12:44,966 --> 00:12:45,466 HE'S REACHING OUT TO HIS 483 00:12:45,466 --> 00:12:46,133 COMMUNITY FOR SUPPORT AND YOU'RE 484 00:12:46,133 --> 00:12:46,733 NOT THAT COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW. 485 00:12:46,733 --> 00:12:47,233 YOU'RE NOT A BIRD GUY? 486 00:12:47,233 --> 00:12:47,833 WELL THIS IS A BIRD GUYS ONLY 487 00:12:47,833 --> 00:12:49,266 CONVO, OKAY, GREG? 488 00:12:49,266 --> 00:12:52,033 FUCK YOU. 489 00:12:52,033 --> 00:12:54,000 THE POINT IS, AT SOME LIBRARIES, 490 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,600 YOU CAN NOW BORROW PRETTY MUCH 491 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,100 ANYTHING, FROM A FISHING POLE, 492 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:58,700 TO A LEAF BLOWER, TO SEEDS, TO A 493 00:12:58,700 --> 00:13:00,700 COPY OF A "BARENSTAIN BADGERS" 494 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,133 BOOK. 495 00:13:02,233 --> 00:13:03,900 AGAIN, YOUR MEMORY IS WRONG. 496 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:05,433 "BARENSTEIN BADGERS" WAS ALWAYS 497 00:13:05,433 --> 00:13:06,500 SPELLED B-"A"-R-- THERE WAS 498 00:13:06,500 --> 00:13:08,800 NEVER AN "E" THERE. 499 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,033 NOT JUST THAT-- LIBRARIES OFFER 500 00:13:10,033 --> 00:13:11,633 INTERNET ACCESS, TRANSLATION 501 00:13:11,633 --> 00:13:13,733 HELP, NOTARY SERVICES, PRINTING 502 00:13:13,733 --> 00:13:14,166 AND A BUNCH OF OTHER 503 00:13:14,166 --> 00:13:15,066 NECESSITIES. 504 00:13:15,066 --> 00:13:16,100 THEY'RE ALSO A REFUGE FOR 505 00:13:16,100 --> 00:13:17,433 UNHOUSED PEOPLE, OR THOSE 506 00:13:17,433 --> 00:13:18,000 WITHOUT AIR-CONDITIONING OR 507 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,066 HEATING. 508 00:13:19,066 --> 00:13:19,966 ALL OF WHICH EXPLAINS WHY 509 00:13:19,966 --> 00:13:25,966 LIBRARIES ARE INCREDIBLY 510 00:13:25,966 --> 00:13:27,966 POPULAR, GARNERING AN ESTIMATED 511 00:13:27,966 --> 00:13:28,566 FOUR MILLION VISITS EVERY DAY 512 00:13:28,566 --> 00:13:29,666 MOSTLY BY YOUNG ADULTS, WOMEN, 513 00:13:29,666 --> 00:13:32,366 AND LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS. 514 00:13:32,366 --> 00:13:32,966 BUT AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW FROM 515 00:13:32,966 --> 00:13:33,600 THE FACT THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT 516 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:34,500 LIBRARIES RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE IN 517 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,466 TROUBLE, BECAUSE THEY'VE BECOME 518 00:13:36,466 --> 00:13:37,433 ANOTHER FRONT IN THE ONGOING 519 00:13:37,433 --> 00:13:37,733 CULTURE WAR. 520 00:13:37,733 --> 00:13:38,333 WE'VE TALKED BEFORE ABOUT HOW 521 00:13:38,333 --> 00:13:40,166 CONSERVATIVES HAVE TARGETED 522 00:13:40,166 --> 00:13:42,133 SCHOOL LIBRARIES, BUT THOSE 523 00:13:42,133 --> 00:13:43,200 DEBATES HAVE NOW EMPHATICALLY 524 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,400 MIGRATED OVER TO PUBLIC 525 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:45,900 LIBRARIES AS WELL, WITH 526 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:46,933 RESIDENTS SPOUTING TALKING 527 00:13:46,933 --> 00:13:48,533 POINTS LIKE THESE. 528 00:13:48,533 --> 00:13:50,000 I DO NOT WANT OUR CHILDREN, 529 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:50,533 GRANDCHILDREN SEEING THESE 530 00:13:50,533 --> 00:13:52,500 BOOKS. 531 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:53,833 I FEEL THEY'RE DAMAGING 532 00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:55,333 PSYCHOLOGICALLY. 533 00:13:55,333 --> 00:13:58,233 IT ISN'T LEFT VERSUS RIGHT, 534 00:13:58,233 --> 00:13:58,800 BUT IT'S RIGHT VERSUS WRONG. 535 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:00,366 THESE BOOKS ARE WRONG AND 536 00:14:00,366 --> 00:14:01,233 THEY'RE DESTROYING OUR 537 00:14:01,233 --> 00:14:02,400 COMMUNITY. 538 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,366 BOOKS IN OUR TAXPAYER FUNDED 539 00:14:04,366 --> 00:14:06,433 LIBRARIES MAKE THE JOBS OF HUMAN 540 00:14:06,433 --> 00:14:08,466 AND CHILD TRAFFICKERS EASIER. 541 00:14:08,566 --> 00:14:09,333 John: OKAY, THAT LAST ONE 542 00:14:09,333 --> 00:14:11,166 SOUNDS HARD TO BELIEVE, UNLESS 543 00:14:11,166 --> 00:14:12,966 ONE OF THE BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY 544 00:14:12,966 --> 00:14:13,833 HAPPENS TO BE "CHILD TRAFFICKING 545 00:14:13,833 --> 00:14:15,500 FOR DUMMIES." 546 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:16,033 BUT THOSE AREN'T ISOLATED 547 00:14:16,033 --> 00:14:17,200 INSTANCES. 548 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,600 THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 549 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:19,500 DOCUMENTED EFFORTS TO CENSOR 550 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:22,533 OVER 4,200 UNIQUE BOOK TITLES 551 00:14:22,533 --> 00:14:23,833 LAST YEAR IN SCHOOLS AND 552 00:14:23,833 --> 00:14:25,200 LIBRARIES, THE HIGHEST LEVEL 553 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,100 THEY'VE EVER RECORDED, WITH THE 554 00:14:28,100 --> 00:14:29,500 NUMBER OF TITLES TARGETED FOR 555 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:31,166 CENSORSHIP AT PUBLIC LIBRARIES, 556 00:14:31,166 --> 00:14:32,100 IN PARTICULAR, RISING BY 92% 557 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:33,366 FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR. 558 00:14:33,366 --> 00:14:34,866 AND THAT'S NOT ALL-- BOMB 559 00:14:34,866 --> 00:14:36,866 THREATS HAVE BEEN CALLED IN TO 560 00:14:36,866 --> 00:14:38,100 LIBRARIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, 561 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:39,200 AND LIBRARIANS THEMSELVES HAVE 562 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:39,766 BEEN THE RECIPIENTS OF SOME 563 00:14:39,866 --> 00:14:41,900 PRETTY NASTY ABUSE. 564 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,033 I HAD HEARD PEOPLE SAYING 565 00:14:44,033 --> 00:14:44,900 THAT I WAS A PEDOPHILE, I WAS 566 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:45,966 GROOMING KIDS. 567 00:14:45,966 --> 00:14:48,033 PEOPLE IN MY PROFESSION ARE 568 00:14:48,033 --> 00:14:50,066 CALLED PEDOPHILES AND LIKE THESE 569 00:14:50,066 --> 00:14:53,400 HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE THINGS. 570 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:54,266 I CAN SAY UNEQUIVOCALLY WE'RE 571 00:14:54,266 --> 00:14:55,266 NOT PEDOPHILES OR GROOMERS, AND 572 00:14:55,266 --> 00:14:58,266 I CAN SAY THAT ON BEHALF OF OUR 573 00:14:58,266 --> 00:15:00,866 STAFF. 574 00:15:00,866 --> 00:15:01,966 THAT-- THAT IS NOT WHY WE GO 575 00:15:01,966 --> 00:15:04,366 INTO PUBLIC SERVICE OR 576 00:15:04,366 --> 00:15:06,166 LIBRARIANSHIP. 577 00:15:06,166 --> 00:15:07,066 John: YEAH, OF COURSE NOT. 578 00:15:07,066 --> 00:15:07,600 THAT'S WHY YOU GO INTO THE 579 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,166 CLERGY. 580 00:15:09,166 --> 00:15:12,600 EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT. 581 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:13,366 WE ALL KNOW! 582 00:15:13,466 --> 00:15:13,933 SO GIVEN ALL THIS, TONIGHT, 583 00:15:14,033 --> 00:15:15,066 LET'S TALK ABOUT PUBLIC 584 00:15:15,166 --> 00:15:16,333 LIBRARIES: WHY THEY'RE UNDER 585 00:15:16,433 --> 00:15:17,700 ATTACK, WHERE THESE CHALLENGES 586 00:15:17,700 --> 00:15:18,466 ARE COMING FROM, AND WHAT THE 587 00:15:18,466 --> 00:15:19,366 CONSEQUENCES MIGHT BE. 588 00:15:19,366 --> 00:15:21,700 AND LET'S START WITH HOW PUBLIC 589 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:25,033 LIBRARIES OPERATE. 590 00:15:25,033 --> 00:15:26,366 GENERALLY, THEY RECEIVE THE VAST 591 00:15:26,366 --> 00:15:26,966 MAJORITY OF THEIR FUNDING FROM 592 00:15:26,966 --> 00:15:27,866 LOCAL GOVERNMENT SOURCES. 593 00:15:27,866 --> 00:15:29,300 AND THEY'RE TYPICALLY OVERSEEN 594 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:30,900 BY A LOCAL LIBRARY BOARD, WHICH 595 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:33,833 CAN BE EITHER ELECTED, OR 596 00:15:33,833 --> 00:15:34,666 APPOINTED BY MEMBERS OF THE 597 00:15:34,666 --> 00:15:35,533 LOCAL GOVERNMENT. 598 00:15:35,533 --> 00:15:36,733 AND LIBRARIANS ACTUALLY GET RID 599 00:15:36,733 --> 00:15:38,000 OF BOOKS ALL THE TIME, THROUGH A 600 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,166 PROCESS KNOWN AS "WEEDING." 601 00:15:40,166 --> 00:15:40,966 IT'S DONE FOR ALL SORTS OF GOOD 602 00:15:40,966 --> 00:15:42,166 REASONS LIKE A BOOK BEING OUT OF 603 00:15:42,166 --> 00:15:44,333 DATE, SEVERELY DAMAGED, OR 604 00:15:44,333 --> 00:15:44,966 SIMPLY SO WEIRD NO ONE WANTS TO 605 00:15:44,966 --> 00:15:47,500 CHECK IT OUT ANYMORE. 606 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:48,900 BOOKS LIKE "BODY WATCHIN' IS 607 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,300 FUN!," "LATAWNYA, THE NAUGHTY 608 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:52,700 HORSE, LEARNS TO SAY NO TO 609 00:15:52,700 --> 00:15:55,800 DRUGS," AND THE CHRISTIAN 610 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,800 CHILD-DISCIPLINE CLASSIC, "GOD, 611 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,733 THE ROD, AND YOUR CHILD'S BOD." 612 00:15:59,733 --> 00:16:01,933 FUN FACT: A NEW COPY OF THAT IS 613 00:16:01,933 --> 00:16:02,566 CURRENTLY SELLING ON AMAZON FOR 614 00:16:02,566 --> 00:16:04,933 $214. 615 00:16:04,933 --> 00:16:05,500 SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PAY 616 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:07,600 THAT, YOU BETTER HOPE YOUR LOCAL 617 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:07,966 LIBRARY HAS IT. 618 00:16:07,966 --> 00:16:09,933 OR YOU KNOW WHAT? 619 00:16:09,933 --> 00:16:13,200 YOU CAN JUST BORROW MY COPY 620 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,733 HERE INSTEAD. 621 00:16:16,733 --> 00:16:17,233 IT'S FINE. 622 00:16:17,233 --> 00:16:17,800 BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 623 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:18,300 TONIGHT ISN'T "WEEDING." 624 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:18,900 IT'S BOOKS BEING REMOVED-- OR 625 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:20,300 RELOCATED FROM ONE SECTION TO 626 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:21,033 ANOTHER-- PURELY FOR THEIR 627 00:16:21,133 --> 00:16:21,600 CONTENT. 628 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:22,933 AND MOST LIBRARIES ALREADY HAVE 629 00:16:23,033 --> 00:16:23,866 A "BOOK CHALLENGE" PROTOCOL, 630 00:16:23,866 --> 00:16:25,566 ALLOWING ANYONE WHO FEELS THAT A 631 00:16:25,566 --> 00:16:26,400 BOOK VIOLATES ITS SELECTION 632 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,166 POLICIES TO SUBMIT A FORMAL 633 00:16:28,166 --> 00:16:30,000 "REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION," 634 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:30,800 AFTER WHICH, STAFF WILL REVIEW 635 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,133 THE COMPLAINT AND DECIDE WHETHER 636 00:16:33,133 --> 00:16:35,566 TO LEAVE IT, RESHELVE IT, OR 637 00:16:35,566 --> 00:16:36,433 REMOVE IT ENTIRELY. 638 00:16:36,433 --> 00:16:37,833 AND YOU SHOULD KNOW: THERE ARE 639 00:16:37,833 --> 00:16:38,766 SOME LEGAL LIMITS HERE. 640 00:16:38,766 --> 00:16:41,566 YOU CAN'T JUST DEMAND A BOOK BE 641 00:16:41,566 --> 00:16:42,133 BANNED-- EVEN IF IT IS "TO 642 00:16:42,133 --> 00:16:43,666 PROTECT THE CHILDREN." 643 00:16:43,666 --> 00:16:50,733 THAT'S BECAUSE, BUT THERE'S AN 644 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:57,666 THINGS UNSUITABLE FOR. 645 00:16:57,666 --> 00:17:01,200 BUT THERE'S AN EXCEPTION WHEN IT 646 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:01,766 COMES TO OBSCENITY WHICH FOR 647 00:17:01,766 --> 00:17:02,533 MINORS IS 648 00:17:02,533 --> 00:17:03,433 DEFINED AS MATERIAL THAT APPEALS 649 00:17:03,433 --> 00:17:04,033 TO THEIR PRURIENT INTEREST, IS 650 00:17:04,033 --> 00:17:04,533 OFFENSIVE TO PREVAILING 651 00:17:04,533 --> 00:17:05,166 STANDARDS ABOUT WHAT IS SUITABLE 652 00:17:05,166 --> 00:17:05,766 FOR MINORS, AND LACKS SERIOUS 653 00:17:05,766 --> 00:17:09,466 LITERARY, ARTISTIC, POLITICAL OR 654 00:17:09,466 --> 00:17:10,300 SCIENTIFIC VALUE. 655 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:10,933 THE PROBLEM IS, SOME HAVE TRIED 656 00:17:10,933 --> 00:17:12,033 TO APPLY THAT STANDARD 657 00:17:12,033 --> 00:17:14,800 INCREDIBLY BROADLY. 658 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:15,700 TAKE WHAT HAPPENED IN HUNTINGTON 659 00:17:15,700 --> 00:17:17,000 BEACH, CALIFORNIA, WHERE THE 660 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,266 CITY COUNCIL MANDATED THAT 661 00:17:18,266 --> 00:17:21,233 LIBRARY BOOKS CONTAINING "ANY 662 00:17:21,233 --> 00:17:21,833 CONTENT OF SEXUAL NATURE" BE 663 00:17:21,833 --> 00:17:23,633 MOVED AWAY FROM ANYONE UNDER 18. 664 00:17:23,633 --> 00:17:24,766 AT THE DIRECTION OF THE 665 00:17:24,766 --> 00:17:26,266 HUNTINGTON BEACH CITY COUNCIL, 666 00:17:26,266 --> 00:17:28,100 LIBRARIANS AT THE CENTRAL 667 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:29,266 LIBRARY ARE STARTING TO SORT 668 00:17:29,366 --> 00:17:30,933 THROUGH THOUSANDS OF BOOKS IN 669 00:17:30,933 --> 00:17:32,200 THE CHILDREN'S SECTION. 670 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:33,600 THEIR TASK, ACCORDING TO 671 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,033 OFFICIALS, IS TO RELOCATE BOOKS 672 00:17:36,033 --> 00:17:37,533 THAT CONTAIN, QUOTE, "SEXUAL 673 00:17:37,533 --> 00:17:38,800 CONTENT." 674 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,500 LIBRARY STAFF BEGAN IN THE 675 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:43,433 HEALTH SECTION AND PULLED BOOKS 676 00:17:43,433 --> 00:17:44,066 PERTAINING TO THE HUMAN BODY AND 677 00:17:44,066 --> 00:17:45,233 PUBERTY. 678 00:17:45,233 --> 00:17:46,633 WE ALSO SAW BOOKS ABOUT BOATS 679 00:17:46,633 --> 00:17:47,600 THAT WERE BEING MOVED. 680 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,566 A PEEK AT THE PAGES SHOW A CHILD 681 00:17:50,566 --> 00:17:52,900 IN A BATHTUB PLAYING WITH TOY 682 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:53,466 BOATS, AND A SKETCH OF EARLY 683 00:17:53,466 --> 00:17:54,500 EXPLORERS. 684 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:56,666 John: YEAH, IT'S RIDICULOUS. 685 00:17:56,666 --> 00:17:58,000 AND IT WASN'T JUST SHIRTLESS 686 00:17:58,000 --> 00:17:58,966 ROWERS AND KIDS IN TUBS THAT GOT 687 00:17:58,966 --> 00:17:59,466 FLAGGED. 688 00:17:59,466 --> 00:18:01,433 THAT RESOLUTION ULTIMATELY 689 00:18:01,533 --> 00:18:02,833 RELOCATED BOOKS LIKE OWN YOUR 690 00:18:02,833 --> 00:18:03,600 PERIOD. 691 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,733 PUBERTY IS GROSS BUT ALSO REALLY 692 00:18:05,733 --> 00:18:09,266 AWESOME, AND EVERYONE POOPS TO 693 00:18:09,266 --> 00:18:09,766 THE ADULT SECTION OF THE 694 00:18:09,766 --> 00:18:11,433 LIBRARY. 695 00:18:11,433 --> 00:18:12,333 AND IT'S RIDICULOUS TO DO THAT, 696 00:18:12,333 --> 00:18:13,933 ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE KEEPING 697 00:18:13,933 --> 00:18:15,733 SHEL SILVERSTEIN BOOKS IN THE 698 00:18:15,733 --> 00:18:16,900 KIDS' AREA-- BOOKS WHICH 699 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:18,333 CONTAIN ACTUAL AUTHOR PHOTOS 700 00:18:18,333 --> 00:18:21,533 LIKE THIS ONE. 701 00:18:21,533 --> 00:18:22,600 IF A KID BORROWS "RUNNY BABBIT," 702 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,000 READS IT TO THE END AND SEES 703 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,833 THAT PHOTO, DON'T BE SURPRISED 704 00:18:25,833 --> 00:18:26,600 IF THEIR FIRST QUESTION IS 705 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,433 "MOMMY, WHAT'S BIG DICK ENERGY?" 706 00:18:29,433 --> 00:18:31,733 AND THAT'S NOT AN ISOLATED CASE. 707 00:18:31,733 --> 00:18:36,333 IN ONE TOWN IN TEXAS, OFFICIALS 708 00:18:36,433 --> 00:18:38,766 REMOVED THREE BOOKS FROM THE "I 709 00:18:38,766 --> 00:18:39,566 NEED A NEW BUTT!" SERIES WHICH 710 00:18:39,566 --> 00:18:40,200 IS A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT A BOY 711 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:40,866 WHO NEEDS A NEW BUTT BECAUSE HIS 712 00:18:40,866 --> 00:18:41,533 HAS A CRACK. 713 00:18:41,533 --> 00:18:43,666 AND I HAVEN'T READ IT YET, SO 714 00:18:43,666 --> 00:18:45,233 DON'T SPOIL THE END BY TELLING 715 00:18:45,233 --> 00:18:46,300 ME IF HE GETS ONE OR NOT. 716 00:18:46,300 --> 00:18:48,733 THEY ALSO PULLED FOUR BOOKS 717 00:18:48,733 --> 00:18:50,233 ABOUT FARTS STARRING A GOOSE, A 718 00:18:50,233 --> 00:18:51,066 SNOWMAN, A HEART, AND A 719 00:18:51,066 --> 00:18:52,966 LEPRECHAUN. 720 00:18:52,966 --> 00:18:54,000 AND FIRST, YOU GOTTA BE PRETTY 721 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,033 STUPID TO BELIEVE THEY'RE 722 00:18:55,033 --> 00:18:56,166 HARMFUL TO CHILDREN. 723 00:18:56,166 --> 00:18:57,633 AND SECOND, IT SEEMS YOU CAN 724 00:18:57,633 --> 00:18:58,866 MAKE A KILLING WRITING BOOKS 725 00:18:58,866 --> 00:18:59,666 ABOUT FARTING. 726 00:18:59,666 --> 00:19:01,266 BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY OF 727 00:19:01,266 --> 00:19:02,833 THEM, INCLUDING-- AND THESE ARE 728 00:19:02,833 --> 00:19:03,866 ALL REAL-- ONES ABOUT FARTING 729 00:19:03,866 --> 00:19:05,833 FLAMINGOS, FARTING UNICORNS, 730 00:19:05,833 --> 00:19:07,566 FARTING TURKEYS, FARTING 731 00:19:07,666 --> 00:19:09,166 PRINCESSES, FARTING DRAGONS, AND 732 00:19:09,266 --> 00:19:09,766 OF COURSE, GARY THE FARTING 733 00:19:09,766 --> 00:19:13,966 GINGERBREAD MAN. 734 00:19:13,966 --> 00:19:14,933 AND WHILE THOSE INSTANCES WERE 735 00:19:14,933 --> 00:19:16,500 ONE-OFFS, INCREASINGLY, THE 736 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:19,033 LISTS OF BOOKS CHALLENGED AT 737 00:19:19,033 --> 00:19:20,700 LIBRARIES CAN BE SUSPICIOUSLY 738 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:21,466 SIMILAR. 739 00:19:21,466 --> 00:19:23,466 THAT'S BECAUSE CHALLENGES ARE 740 00:19:23,466 --> 00:19:24,300 OFTEN COMING THROUGH HIGHLY 741 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:25,466 ORGANIZED GROUPS-- OFTEN 742 00:19:25,466 --> 00:19:27,000 CONSERVATIVE, AND EXTREMELY 743 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:27,633 RELIGIOUS, WHO ARE COMPILING AND 744 00:19:27,633 --> 00:19:28,166 SHARING LISTS OF BOOKS TO 745 00:19:28,166 --> 00:19:30,033 OPPOSE. 746 00:19:30,033 --> 00:19:34,966 UP UNTIL 2021 THE VAST MAJORITY 747 00:19:34,966 --> 00:19:35,533 OF CHALLENGES ONLY SOUGHT TO 748 00:19:35,533 --> 00:19:36,533 REMOVE OR RESTRICT A SINGLE 749 00:19:36,533 --> 00:19:36,733 BOOK. 750 00:19:36,733 --> 00:19:38,766 BUT NOW, 93% OF THEM INVOLVE 751 00:19:38,766 --> 00:19:40,900 ATTEMPTS TO CENSOR MULTIPLE 752 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,733 TITLES, WITH MORE THAN HALF 753 00:19:42,733 --> 00:19:45,766 INVOLVING 100 OR MORE. 754 00:19:45,766 --> 00:19:46,400 AND THAT STARTS TO MAKE SENSE, 755 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:47,000 WHEN YOU SEE HOW THESE GROUPS 756 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,766 OPERATE. 757 00:19:48,766 --> 00:19:49,666 TAKE CLEAN UP SAMUELS-- WHICH 758 00:19:49,666 --> 00:19:50,800 IS SADLY NOT A GROUP ORGANIZED 759 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,166 AROUND THE COLLECTIVE GOAL OF 760 00:19:52,166 --> 00:19:53,433 WASHING AS MANY GUYS NAMED 761 00:19:53,433 --> 00:19:55,933 SAMUEL AS POSSIBLE. 762 00:19:55,933 --> 00:19:56,533 INSTEAD, IT REFERS TO SAMUELS 763 00:19:56,533 --> 00:19:58,000 PUBLIC LIBRARY IN FRONT ROYAL, 764 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,133 VIRGINIA. 765 00:20:00,133 --> 00:20:01,333 THE GROUP'S HELD EVENTS AT WHICH 766 00:20:01,333 --> 00:20:02,400 PEOPLE FILLED OUT OVER 500 FORMS 767 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,300 CHALLENGING NEARLY 150 BOOKS, 768 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:07,400 WITH ONE EVENT PROMISING "BEER 769 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:07,966 AND BABYSITTING." 770 00:20:07,966 --> 00:20:13,533 WHICH MIGHT BE THE MOST 771 00:20:13,633 --> 00:20:14,466 "DIVORCED DAD" ACTIVITY I CAN 772 00:20:14,566 --> 00:20:14,766 THINK OF. 773 00:20:14,766 --> 00:20:15,333 "OKAY KIDS, GET IN THE CAR, I 774 00:20:15,433 --> 00:20:15,866 NEED TO GO PROTECT YOUR 775 00:20:15,866 --> 00:20:17,266 INNOCENCE BY DRINKING BEER AND 776 00:20:17,266 --> 00:20:19,666 LOOKING AT BABYSITTERS." 777 00:20:19,666 --> 00:20:21,866 THOSE BOOK CHALLENGES HEAVILY 778 00:20:21,866 --> 00:20:22,933 TARGETED BOOKS WITH LGBTQ+ 779 00:20:22,933 --> 00:20:24,566 CHARACTERS OR THEMES-WITH PEOPLE 780 00:20:24,566 --> 00:20:25,666 FREQUENTLY ADMITTING, WHEN ASKED 781 00:20:25,666 --> 00:20:27,500 IF THEY'D READ THE BOOKS IN 782 00:20:27,500 --> 00:20:28,533 FULL, THEY HADN'T, WITH ANSWERS 783 00:20:28,533 --> 00:20:32,400 RANGING FROM "NO," TO "WHO THAT 784 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:33,233 IS NORMAL COULD GET THROUGH IT," 785 00:20:33,233 --> 00:20:35,000 TO "I LOOKED AT THE SUMMARY ... 786 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:35,666 IT TOLD ME ALL I NEEDED TO 787 00:20:35,666 --> 00:20:39,000 KNOW." 788 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:39,566 AND THAT'S POSSIBLE BECAUSE 789 00:20:39,566 --> 00:20:40,533 THESE GROUPS OFTEN FIND 790 00:20:40,533 --> 00:20:41,300 "PROBLEMATIC" BOOKS BY SCANNING 791 00:20:41,300 --> 00:20:44,166 WEBSITES AND FACEBOOK PAGES THAT 792 00:20:44,166 --> 00:20:46,766 LIST THEM, LIKE MARY IN THE 793 00:20:46,866 --> 00:20:47,333 LIBRARY, RATED BOOKS, AND, 794 00:20:47,333 --> 00:20:47,900 PERHAPS THE MOST PREVALENT, 795 00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:48,266 BOOKLOOKS. 796 00:20:48,266 --> 00:20:50,000 AND FOR A SITE SET UP AS A MORAL 797 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,966 CRUSADER, IT'S A BIT WEIRD THAT 798 00:20:52,966 --> 00:20:55,366 IN THEIR LOGO, THE B AND THE L 799 00:20:55,366 --> 00:20:58,533 ARE FUCKING. 800 00:20:58,533 --> 00:20:59,333 LIKE, DEFINITELY FUCKING, 801 00:20:59,333 --> 00:20:59,533 RIGHT? 802 00:20:59,533 --> 00:21:00,600 I KNOW SOMETIMES, I PROJECT 803 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:01,533 HORNINESS WHEN IT ISN'T THERE-- 804 00:21:01,533 --> 00:21:02,933 EXCEPT FOR THAT SHEL SILVERSTEIN 805 00:21:02,933 --> 00:21:04,100 PHOTO, BECAUSE I'M DYING ON THAT 806 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:08,266 HILL-- BUT I'M HAVING A HARD 807 00:21:08,266 --> 00:21:09,100 TIME SEEING ANYTHING IN THAT 808 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:09,733 LOGO THAT ISN'T A STRONG B 809 00:21:09,733 --> 00:21:13,333 TAKING A WILLING L AND 810 00:21:13,333 --> 00:21:15,233 ABSOLUTELY BREAKING ITS BACK. 811 00:21:15,233 --> 00:21:16,700 BOOKLOOKS RATES BOOKS ON A 0 TO 812 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:18,766 5 SCALE FROM LEAST TO MOST 813 00:21:18,766 --> 00:21:20,000 OBJECTIONABLE, SOMETIMES 814 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,800 INCLUDING A HANDY CHART, NOTING 815 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:22,400 THE AMOUNT OF TIMES CERTAIN 816 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:23,133 WORDS ARE USED. 817 00:21:23,133 --> 00:21:25,733 FOR INSTANCE, THIS IS THE CHART 818 00:21:25,733 --> 00:21:26,366 FOR THE BOOK "WICKED," AND I'LL 819 00:21:26,366 --> 00:21:28,633 JUST SAY: IF THERE WAS A PARTY 820 00:21:28,633 --> 00:21:29,800 GAME WHERE YOU HAD TO GUESS A 821 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,500 BOOK OR MOVIE BASED SOLELY ON 822 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:35,033 ONE OF THOSE CHARTS, YOU COULD 823 00:21:35,033 --> 00:21:38,633 SELL-- NO EXAGGERATION-- TEN 824 00:21:38,633 --> 00:21:39,133 MILLION OF THOSE GAMES. 825 00:21:39,133 --> 00:21:40,333 OKAY, IT'S A NOVEL FROM 2001. 826 00:21:40,333 --> 00:21:40,933 24 FUCKS, SO IT'S NOT LIFE OF 827 00:21:40,933 --> 00:21:41,633 PI. 828 00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:43,733 NOT THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL. 829 00:21:43,733 --> 00:21:45,666 HANG ON, "NINE" DICKS? 830 00:21:45,666 --> 00:21:46,200 WAIT: IS IT CHOKE BY CHUCK 831 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,100 PALAHNIUK? 832 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:49,666 YES! 833 00:21:49,666 --> 00:21:52,833 24 FUCKS YES, I LOVE THIS GAME! 834 00:21:52,833 --> 00:21:55,300 EVEN OUR BOOK, "A DAY IN THE 835 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:56,500 LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO," WHICH HAS 836 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:57,066 BEEN CHALLENGED A BUNCH IN 837 00:21:57,066 --> 00:21:58,733 LIBRARIES, IS CRITICIZED FOR 838 00:21:58,733 --> 00:22:00,000 FEATURING "ALTERNATE 839 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,633 SEXUALITIES; AND CONTROVERSIAL 840 00:22:01,633 --> 00:22:02,066 POLITICAL AND SOCIAL 841 00:22:02,066 --> 00:22:03,933 COMMENTARY." 842 00:22:03,933 --> 00:22:05,100 CITING: THE ILLUSTRATION ON THIS 843 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:06,733 PAGE DEPICTS TWO MALE RABBITS 844 00:22:06,733 --> 00:22:08,533 HOLDING PAWS AS A HUMAN WOULD 845 00:22:08,533 --> 00:22:09,466 HOLD ANOTHER PERSON'S HAND. 846 00:22:09,466 --> 00:22:10,966 THE RABBITS ARE DISCUSSING HOW 847 00:22:10,966 --> 00:22:13,066 MUCH THEY LOVE EACH OTHER AND 848 00:22:13,066 --> 00:22:14,233 WANT TO MARRY ONE ANOTHER." 849 00:22:14,233 --> 00:22:15,933 YOU KNOW, FILTH. 850 00:22:15,933 --> 00:22:19,466 BUT THAT'S CLEARLY NONSENSE. 851 00:22:19,466 --> 00:22:21,466 IF THERE'S ANYTHING 852 00:22:21,466 --> 00:22:22,066 CONTROVERSIAL IN OUR BOOK IT'S 853 00:22:22,066 --> 00:22:22,933 THAT THE ANIMALS DRESS UP FOR 854 00:22:22,933 --> 00:22:23,766 WEDDINGS BUT AT OTHER TIMES 855 00:22:23,766 --> 00:22:25,500 THEY'RE MOSTLY NAKED EXCEPT FOR 856 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:27,700 THIS BADGER WHOSE ARMS TURN INTO 857 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:28,500 SLEEVES. 858 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,000 AND EVEN THEN, THE PROBLEM ISN'T 859 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 THE IMPLIED NAKEDNESS, IT'S JUST 860 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,466 THE LACK OF CONSISTENCY. 861 00:22:34,466 --> 00:22:35,833 NOW TO BE FAIR, SOME TITLES ON 862 00:22:35,833 --> 00:22:37,800 THESE LISTS DO CONTAIN EXPLICIT 863 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,666 CONTENT. 864 00:22:39,666 --> 00:22:40,366 IN SOME CASES, THEY'RE BOOKS 865 00:22:40,366 --> 00:22:41,366 ABOUT PUBERTY. 866 00:22:41,366 --> 00:22:42,366 IN OTHERS, THEY MAY BE MEANT FOR 867 00:22:42,366 --> 00:22:43,933 TEENAGERS, AND CONTAIN 868 00:22:43,933 --> 00:22:44,333 REFERENCES TO SEX. 869 00:22:44,333 --> 00:22:45,866 WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY THEY'RE NOT 870 00:22:45,866 --> 00:22:47,933 SHELVED WITH CHILDREN'S BOOKS TO 871 00:22:47,933 --> 00:22:49,600 BEGIN WITH. 872 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:50,833 LIBRARIES GENERALLY HAVE AN 873 00:22:50,833 --> 00:22:52,833 ADULT SECTION, A YOUNG ADULT 874 00:22:52,833 --> 00:22:54,066 SECTION, AND A KIDS' SECTION. 875 00:22:54,066 --> 00:22:55,166 IT'S NOT LIKE TEEN BOOKS WITH 876 00:22:55,166 --> 00:22:56,400 EXPLICIT CONTENT ARE SHELVED 877 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,600 RIGHT NEXT TO "THE BERENSTEEN 878 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,700 BEES" BOOKS. 879 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,200 YEAH-- IT'S ALWAYS BEEN SPELLED 880 00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:03,400 E-"E"-N. 881 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,633 YOUR MEMORY IS BAD. 882 00:23:06,633 --> 00:23:07,333 BUT THE CONTENT OFTEN GETS 883 00:23:07,333 --> 00:23:08,633 FRAMED IN EXTREMELY MISLEADING 884 00:23:08,633 --> 00:23:09,133 WAYS. 885 00:23:09,133 --> 00:23:10,133 FOR INSTANCE, THE BOOK "LET'S 886 00:23:10,133 --> 00:23:12,166 TALK ABOUT IT" HAS BEEN 887 00:23:12,166 --> 00:23:13,100 REPEATEDLY CHALLENGED. 888 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:15,466 IT'S BILLED AS "THE TEEN'S GUIDE 889 00:23:15,466 --> 00:23:17,133 TO SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, AND BEING 890 00:23:17,133 --> 00:23:18,500 A HUMAN," AND HERE'S HOW ONE MOM 891 00:23:18,500 --> 00:23:19,233 IN IOWA ARGUED FOR IT TO BE 892 00:23:19,233 --> 00:23:21,833 RESTRICTED AT HER LOCAL LIBRARY. 893 00:23:21,833 --> 00:23:24,133 WHEN I INITIALLY READ THIS 894 00:23:24,133 --> 00:23:25,833 BOOK, I WAS FILLED WITH ANGER. 895 00:23:25,833 --> 00:23:28,000 QUOTE, "SENDING OR GETTING AN 896 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,200 UNWANTED SAUCY SOMETHING FROM A 897 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,666 PARTNER OR INDIVIDUAL CAN BE THE 898 00:23:32,666 --> 00:23:34,733 HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR DAY, PERIOD. 899 00:23:34,833 --> 00:23:36,300 IT IS THRILLING, SEXY, AND FUN." 900 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:37,933 THE ONLINE WORLD IS ALSO A 901 00:23:37,933 --> 00:23:39,466 CHOCK-BLOCK FULL OF PORNOGRAPHY 902 00:23:39,466 --> 00:23:40,666 PROFESSIONALS AND AMATEURS 903 00:23:40,666 --> 00:23:42,800 ALIKE, SHARING THEIR SEXY 904 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,633 ADVENTURES ONLINE. 905 00:23:44,633 --> 00:23:45,733 THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH 906 00:23:45,733 --> 00:23:47,633 ENJOYING SOME PORN. 907 00:23:47,633 --> 00:23:49,900 IT IS A FUN, SUGARY TREAT. 908 00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:51,733 I HAVE TO PAUSE BECAUSE NO 909 00:23:51,733 --> 00:23:56,800 MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I SAY 910 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,333 THESE WORDS, IT SCARES ME. 911 00:23:59,333 --> 00:24:00,733 John: OKAY, FIRST, "PORN IS A 912 00:24:00,733 --> 00:24:03,500 SUGARY TREAT," SOUNDS LIKE THE 913 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:04,733 TAGLINE FOR AN UPCOMING X-RATED 914 00:24:04,733 --> 00:24:06,600 SPIN ON GUMMY BEARS, AN ADULT 915 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:07,800 FILM THAT EITHER EXISTS ALREADY 916 00:24:07,900 --> 00:24:13,533 OR WILL SHORTLY AFTER THIS 917 00:24:13,533 --> 00:24:13,866 EPISODE AIRS. 918 00:24:13,866 --> 00:24:14,500 BUT LOOK, THOSE WORDS ARE IN THE 919 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:14,700 BOOK. 920 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:15,300 AND IF YOU GO ON "BOOKLOOKS," 921 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:16,900 YOU'LL SEE THEY'RE QUOTED ON 922 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:17,800 THEIR REVIEW PAGE. 923 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,166 BUT IF YOU ACTUALLY READ THE 924 00:24:19,166 --> 00:24:20,266 BOOK ITSELF, YOU'LL SEE THAT 925 00:24:20,266 --> 00:24:20,866 THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY A LOT OF 926 00:24:20,866 --> 00:24:22,100 CAREFUL ADVICE. 927 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:23,266 FOR INSTANCE, THAT ONE LINE 928 00:24:23,266 --> 00:24:26,533 ABOUT SEXTING HAS A TON OF 929 00:24:26,533 --> 00:24:28,400 CONTEXT AROUND IT, WITH ADVICE 930 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,000 LIKE GET PRIOR CONSENT, DON'T 931 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,100 SHARE OR SPREAD THE PHOTOS YOU 932 00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:32,833 RECEIVE, AND "WAIT TILL YOU'RE A 933 00:24:32,833 --> 00:24:34,100 LEGAL ADULT" TO DO IT. 934 00:24:34,100 --> 00:24:35,800 AS FOR THAT SUGARY TREAT LINE, 935 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,466 IT'S PART OF A LONG, THOUGHTFUL 936 00:24:37,466 --> 00:24:38,700 DISCUSSION THAT INCLUDES-- 937 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:40,033 AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS-- THAT 938 00:24:40,033 --> 00:24:41,866 PORN CAN CREATE "UNREALISTIC 939 00:24:41,966 --> 00:24:43,400 EXPECTATIONS," "THE PEOPLE YOU 940 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,400 SEE ON CAMERA ARE REAL HUMAN 941 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:45,666 BEINGS WHO DESERVE YOUR 942 00:24:45,666 --> 00:24:46,833 RESPECT," AND "IF THE AMOUNT OF 943 00:24:46,833 --> 00:24:48,033 PORN YOU WATCH FEELS LIKE IT'S 944 00:24:48,033 --> 00:24:49,166 IMPACTING YOUR LIFE, THEN IT'S 945 00:24:49,166 --> 00:24:50,100 PROBABLY TIME TO PULL BACK AND 946 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:51,900 GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT." 947 00:24:51,900 --> 00:24:54,233 WHICH IS GOOD ADVICE! 948 00:24:54,233 --> 00:24:56,266 AND IN A COUNTRY WHERE 17 STATES 949 00:24:56,266 --> 00:24:57,733 PROVIDE ABSTINENCE-ONLY SEX 950 00:24:57,733 --> 00:24:59,466 EDUCATION, IT MIGHT BE THE MOST 951 00:24:59,466 --> 00:25:00,300 HONEST DISCUSSION ABOUT PORN 952 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:03,866 SOME TEENS GET, ESPECIALLY IF 953 00:25:03,866 --> 00:25:04,966 THEY HAVE THE KIND OF MOM WHO 954 00:25:04,966 --> 00:25:05,566 HAS A FUCKING PANIC ATTACK AT 955 00:25:05,566 --> 00:25:06,266 THE VERY IDEA OF IT. 956 00:25:06,266 --> 00:25:07,766 AND WHILE SHE'LL SAY SHE JUST 957 00:25:07,766 --> 00:25:10,566 WANTED THE LIBRARY TO REQUIRE 958 00:25:10,566 --> 00:25:11,666 PARENTAL PERMISSION TO ACCESS 959 00:25:11,666 --> 00:25:14,933 THE BOOK-- WHICH IS STILL A BIG 960 00:25:15,033 --> 00:25:15,566 BARRIER TO A TEENAGER WHO MIGHT 961 00:25:15,666 --> 00:25:17,100 NEED TO READ IT-- THERE'VE BEEN 962 00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:18,600 OTHER ATTEMPTS TO TRY AND GET IT 963 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:19,666 OUT OF LIBRARIES ALTOGETHER. 964 00:25:19,666 --> 00:25:21,066 AND YOU DO GET THE SENSE THAT 965 00:25:21,066 --> 00:25:23,500 PEOPLE WHO WANT TO CENSOR THESE 966 00:25:23,500 --> 00:25:24,766 BOOKS CAN HAVE NO REAL IDEA OF 967 00:25:24,766 --> 00:25:25,733 WHAT'S INSIDE THEM-- OR, 968 00:25:25,733 --> 00:25:28,300 INDEED, IF THEY'RE EVEN AT THE 969 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:29,400 LIBRARIES THEY'RE PROTESTING AT 970 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,466 ALL, AS HAPPENED IN IDAHO. 971 00:25:31,466 --> 00:25:32,566 FIVE YEARS AGO THIS WAS 972 00:25:32,566 --> 00:25:34,733 ANOINTED THE BEST SMALL LIBRARY 973 00:25:34,733 --> 00:25:35,700 IN AMERICA. 974 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,066 TODAY THE TRUSTIES A FACING A 975 00:25:38,066 --> 00:25:38,300 RECALL. 976 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:39,866 THE DIRECTOR JUST RESIGNED. 977 00:25:39,866 --> 00:25:41,300 DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU'VE GIVEN 978 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:42,233 IN? 979 00:25:42,233 --> 00:25:43,433 THAT YOU'VE BEEN DEFEATED HERE? 980 00:25:43,433 --> 00:25:44,433 THAT-- 981 00:25:44,433 --> 00:25:47,233 PART OF ME DOES, YES. 982 00:25:47,333 --> 00:25:48,866 BUT THEY START SHOWING UP AT 983 00:25:48,966 --> 00:25:50,066 YOUR HOUSE, GUNS ON THEIR HIPS 984 00:25:50,066 --> 00:25:52,366 AND BIBLE TRACKS IN THEIR HANDS. 985 00:25:52,366 --> 00:25:54,666 ACTIVISTS DEMANDING THE 986 00:25:54,666 --> 00:25:56,566 LIBRARY BAN MORE THAN 400 BOOKS. 987 00:25:56,566 --> 00:25:57,833 LIKE GENDER QUEER. 988 00:25:57,833 --> 00:26:00,266 EVEN IF WE DO NOTHING TO YOU, 989 00:26:00,266 --> 00:26:02,266 EVENTUALLY, IF YOU DON'T REPENT 990 00:26:02,266 --> 00:26:04,866 OF WANTING TO HARM OUR CHILDREN 991 00:26:04,866 --> 00:26:05,466 WITH PORNOGRAPHY, THAT'S UP TO 992 00:26:05,466 --> 00:26:08,466 GOD. 993 00:26:08,466 --> 00:26:09,400 THINGS NEED TO CHANGE. 994 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:10,033 OTHERWISE, YOU BRING CURSES UPON 995 00:26:10,033 --> 00:26:11,433 YOURSELVES, PERIOD, FROM THE 996 00:26:11,433 --> 00:26:14,200 MOST HIGH. 997 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:14,833 ARE ANY OF THOSE BOOKS IN THE 998 00:26:14,833 --> 00:26:15,066 LIBRARY? 999 00:26:15,066 --> 00:26:17,766 NOT A SINGLE ONE. 1000 00:26:17,766 --> 00:26:19,666 John: IT'S TRUE. 1001 00:26:19,666 --> 00:26:21,166 ACTIVISTS DEMANDED THAT BOOKS 1002 00:26:21,266 --> 00:26:22,900 THEY HADN'T READ BE REMOVED FROM 1003 00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:24,033 A LIBRARY THAT DIDN'T HAVE THEM, 1004 00:26:24,033 --> 00:26:26,000 WHICH AS FAR AS PROTESTS GO IS 1005 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:26,633 ABOUT AS MEANINGFUL AS MARCHING 1006 00:26:26,633 --> 00:26:28,533 TO THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN TO DEMAND 1007 00:26:28,533 --> 00:26:29,866 FRANKIE MUNIZ RETURN HIS OSCAR 1008 00:26:29,866 --> 00:26:31,600 FOR SCHINDLER'S LIST. 1009 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,000 HE'S NOT THERE, HE WASN'T "IN" 1010 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:33,600 THAT, AND THE VERY FACT YOU'RE 1011 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:34,466 PROTESTING THIS TELLS ME YOU'RE 1012 00:26:34,466 --> 00:26:35,066 PROBABLY NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE 1013 00:26:35,066 --> 00:26:39,100 MATERIAL. 1014 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:39,700 AND EVEN AFTER THAT GROUP WAS 1015 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:40,733 TOLD THE LIBRARY DIDN'T HAVE ANY 1016 00:26:40,733 --> 00:26:44,000 OF THE 400 BOOKS THEY WANTED 1017 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,500 BANNED, THEY DEMANDED ITS BOARD 1018 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:47,366 PASS A POLICY PROMISING NOT TO 1019 00:26:47,366 --> 00:26:48,400 ORDER CONTROVERSIAL BOOKS, OR, 1020 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:49,066 IF THEY DID, TO PLACE THEM IN AN 1021 00:26:49,066 --> 00:26:51,133 ADULTS-ONLY ROOM. 1022 00:26:51,133 --> 00:26:54,466 THEY ALSO ASKED THE LIBRARY TO 1023 00:26:54,566 --> 00:26:55,000 JUDGE BOOKS "UNDER GOD'S 1024 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:55,766 STANDARDS AND NOT OF THE WORLD'S 1025 00:26:55,866 --> 00:26:56,100 STANDARDS." 1026 00:26:56,100 --> 00:26:56,500 YOU KNOW. 1027 00:26:56,500 --> 00:26:57,566 GOD. 1028 00:26:57,566 --> 00:26:58,700 THE FREAK KNOWN FOR BUILDING A 1029 00:26:58,700 --> 00:26:59,666 NUDE GARDEN HE COULD WATCH ALL 1030 00:26:59,666 --> 00:27:00,966 DAY. 1031 00:27:00,966 --> 00:27:02,733 THE GUY WHO COMMISSIONED THE 1032 00:27:02,733 --> 00:27:03,333 CONSTRUCTION OF AN ALL-ANIMAL 1033 00:27:03,333 --> 00:27:06,066 FUCK BOAT, AND WHO SAT BACK AND 1034 00:27:06,066 --> 00:27:08,733 WATCHED WHILE HIS SON GOT 1035 00:27:08,733 --> 00:27:09,166 NAILED? 1036 00:27:09,166 --> 00:27:09,600 OH, I'M SORRY, AM I 1037 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:10,200 MISUNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE BY 1038 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:11,700 TAKING THINGS OUT OF CONTEXT? 1039 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:14,133 FORGIVE ME, I HAVEN'T READ IT. 1040 00:27:14,133 --> 00:27:16,533 I LOOKED AT THE SUMMARY. 1041 00:27:16,533 --> 00:27:19,700 IT TOLD ME ALL I NEEDED TO KNOW. 1042 00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:20,966 AND IT'S WORTH TAKING A MOMENT 1043 00:27:20,966 --> 00:27:22,100 ON THE BOOK THEY MENTIONED 1044 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:23,933 THERE, "GENDER QUEER," BECAUSE 1045 00:27:23,933 --> 00:27:24,433 IT'S THE MOST FREQUENTLY 1046 00:27:24,433 --> 00:27:25,933 CHALLENGED BOOK IN AMERICA FOR 1047 00:27:25,933 --> 00:27:27,600 THE LAST THREE YEARS RUNNING. 1048 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:28,933 IT'S A GRAPHIC NOVEL THAT'S A 1049 00:27:29,033 --> 00:27:31,200 MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR'S STRUGGLES 1050 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,333 WITH GENDER IDENTITY, BUT IT'S 1051 00:27:32,333 --> 00:27:34,366 OFTEN REDUCED, OUT OF CONTEXT, 1052 00:27:34,366 --> 00:27:38,200 TO SOME OF ITS MOST EXPLICIT 1053 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:38,833 PASSAGES, ONE OF WHICH, YOU MAY 1054 00:27:38,833 --> 00:27:40,200 REMEMBER, WAS READ ALOUD IN THE 1055 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:40,700 SENATE LAST YEAR BY JOHN 1056 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:42,100 KENNEDY. 1057 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:45,100 I GOT A NEW STRAP-ON-- STRAP 1058 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:47,966 ON HARNESS TODAY. 1059 00:27:47,966 --> 00:27:50,633 I CAN'T WAIT TO PUT IT ON YOU. 1060 00:27:50,633 --> 00:27:51,233 IT WILL FIT MY FAVORITE DILDO 1061 00:27:51,233 --> 00:27:53,133 PERFECTLY. 1062 00:27:53,133 --> 00:27:55,033 YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK SO HOT. 1063 00:27:55,033 --> 00:27:57,500 I CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE YOUR COCK 1064 00:27:57,500 --> 00:27:59,366 IN MY MOUTH. 1065 00:27:59,366 --> 00:28:00,933 I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THE BLOW 1066 00:28:01,033 --> 00:28:03,766 JOB OF YOUR LIFE. 1067 00:28:03,766 --> 00:28:06,866 THEN I WANT YOU INSIDE OF ME. 1068 00:28:06,866 --> 00:28:10,266 John: THAT CLIP IS JUST A 1069 00:28:10,266 --> 00:28:10,700 PERFECT MIX OF BEING 1070 00:28:10,700 --> 00:28:12,466 HORRENDOUSLY DISORIENTING AND 1071 00:28:12,466 --> 00:28:14,266 KIND OF DELIGHTFUL. 1072 00:28:14,266 --> 00:28:15,966 IT'S LIKE WATCHING A DOG WALK ON 1073 00:28:15,966 --> 00:28:17,466 ITS HIND LEGS AND THEN WATCHING 1074 00:28:17,466 --> 00:28:20,366 THE SAME DOG SAY "I CAN'T WAIT 1075 00:28:20,366 --> 00:28:22,666 TO HAVE YOUR COCK IN MY MOUTH." 1076 00:28:22,666 --> 00:28:24,900 NOW, IT IS NOT UNREASONABLE TO 1077 00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:25,733 SAY, "THAT SHOULDN'T BE SHELVED 1078 00:28:25,733 --> 00:28:27,400 DIRECTLY ALONGSIDE THE PICTURE 1079 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:28,033 BOOKS IN THE CHILDREN'S SECTION 1080 00:28:28,033 --> 00:28:29,233 OF THE LIBRARY." 1081 00:28:29,233 --> 00:28:30,366 AND YOU KNOW WHO AGREES WITH 1082 00:28:30,366 --> 00:28:33,066 THAT? 1083 00:28:33,066 --> 00:28:34,566 THE AUTHOR OF THE FUCKING BOOK. 1084 00:28:34,666 --> 00:28:35,200 I DON'T THINK THE BOOK IS FOR 1085 00:28:35,300 --> 00:28:36,133 CHILDREN. 1086 00:28:36,133 --> 00:28:38,333 BUT I DO THINK THAT IT IS 1087 00:28:38,333 --> 00:28:40,066 APPROPRIATE FOR TEEN READERS, 1088 00:28:40,066 --> 00:28:42,966 AND ALSO THAT LIBRARIES HAVE 1089 00:28:42,966 --> 00:28:45,133 BOOKS FOR ALL AGES, AND YOU 1090 00:28:45,133 --> 00:28:48,333 SHELVE THEM WITH SIGNAGE, AND 1091 00:28:48,333 --> 00:28:50,233 PEOPLE BROWSE AND FIND THE BOOKS 1092 00:28:50,233 --> 00:28:52,633 THAT THEY NEED IN A LIBRARY AND 1093 00:28:52,633 --> 00:28:53,800 NOT EVERY BOOK IN THE LIBRARY IS 1094 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,433 FOR EVERY READER, BUT THEY STILL 1095 00:28:56,433 --> 00:28:57,700 NEED TO BE AVAILABLE. 1096 00:28:57,700 --> 00:28:58,066 John: RIGHT. 1097 00:28:58,066 --> 00:28:59,233 IT'S NOT A CHILDREN'S BOOK. 1098 00:28:59,233 --> 00:28:59,833 WHICH IS WHY IT'S NOT SHELVED 1099 00:28:59,833 --> 00:29:01,400 WITH THEM. 1100 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:02,366 AND THAT AUTHOR RAISES AN 1101 00:29:02,366 --> 00:29:03,100 IMPORTANT DISTINCTION THERE: 1102 00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:04,766 SOME BOOKS AREN'T APPROPRIATE 1103 00:29:04,766 --> 00:29:06,333 FOR 5-YEAR-OLDS, BUT MIGHT BE IF 1104 00:29:06,333 --> 00:29:06,800 YOU'RE 16. 1105 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,766 BECAUSE THOSE ARE VERY DIFFERENT 1106 00:29:08,866 --> 00:29:09,366 PHASES OF LIFE, THAT WE DON'T 1107 00:29:09,466 --> 00:29:12,200 TREAT THE SAME WAY. 1108 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:12,833 IT'S WHY A 16-YEAR-OLD DRIVING A 1109 00:29:12,833 --> 00:29:13,533 CAR IS PERFECTLY LEGAL, AND A 1110 00:29:13,533 --> 00:29:14,133 5-YEAR-OLD DRIVING A CAR IS A 1111 00:29:14,133 --> 00:29:19,366 NEWS STORY. 1112 00:29:19,366 --> 00:29:21,433 AND YET, FOR SOME, KEEPING BOOKS 1113 00:29:21,433 --> 00:29:23,800 LIKE GENDER QUEER OUT OF THE 1114 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,066 KID'S SECTION-- WHERE, AGAIN, 1115 00:29:26,066 --> 00:29:28,066 IT ISN'T-- STILL ISN'T ENOUGH. 1116 00:29:28,066 --> 00:29:29,000 CHILDREN ARE VERY LITERAL. 1117 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,800 THEY'RE VERY IMPRESSIONABLE. 1118 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,233 THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THOSE 1119 00:29:32,233 --> 00:29:33,833 PICTURES AND THEY VERY MUCH LOOK 1120 00:29:33,833 --> 00:29:34,433 LIKE CHILDREN IN THE PICTURES. 1121 00:29:34,433 --> 00:29:35,933 SEX ISN'T FOR KIDS. 1122 00:29:35,933 --> 00:29:38,133 IT HAS SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES. 1123 00:29:38,133 --> 00:29:40,133 WE SHOULD NOT BE ENCOURAGING 1124 00:29:40,233 --> 00:29:42,133 THEM TO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL ACTS. 1125 00:29:42,233 --> 00:29:43,633 IN LAPEER, THE BOOK IS 1126 00:29:43,633 --> 00:29:45,200 SHELVED IN THE ADULT SECTION, 1127 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:45,866 BUT PARKES SAYS IT'S STILL 1128 00:29:45,866 --> 00:29:48,200 ATTRACTIVE TO CHILDREN. 1129 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,033 I MEAN IT'S BEAUTIFUL, IT 1130 00:29:50,033 --> 00:29:51,933 REALLY IS. 1131 00:29:51,933 --> 00:29:52,633 IT'S NATURE. 1132 00:29:52,633 --> 00:29:55,400 SO, I THINK THIS WOULD ATTRACT 1133 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:56,733 ANY CHILD BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE 1134 00:29:56,733 --> 00:29:57,600 A CAR-- YOU KNOW, IT'S 1135 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,400 CARTOONISH. 1136 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:00,300 John: BUT IT'S IN THE ADULT'S 1137 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:01,800 SECTION! 1138 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:02,900 IF A CHILD FINDS IT, IT'S 1139 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:04,500 BECAUSE THEY'RE SOMEWHERE 1140 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:05,066 THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE. 1141 00:30:05,066 --> 00:30:06,233 SO IF ANYTHING, THE KID SHOULD 1142 00:30:06,233 --> 00:30:07,700 GET INTO TROUBLE, NOT THE BOOK. 1143 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:09,400 AND HONESTLY, THAT'S WHERE THE 1144 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:15,866 ROD COMES IN. 1145 00:30:15,866 --> 00:30:16,500 LOOK, HE'S EATING COOKIES ON THE 1146 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:16,866 COVER. 1147 00:30:16,866 --> 00:30:17,800 HE NEEDS TO BE STOPPED. 1148 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:18,433 THE ARGUMENT IS BASICALLY, "THIS 1149 00:30:18,433 --> 00:30:19,233 CAN'T BE ON LIBRARY SHELVES, 1150 00:30:19,233 --> 00:30:19,866 BECAUSE A KID COULD SOMEHOW FIND 1151 00:30:19,866 --> 00:30:21,833 IT." 1152 00:30:21,833 --> 00:30:22,600 BUT THAT'S SOMETHING TO WHICH 1153 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,400 THIS UNDERSTANDABLY EXASPERATED 1154 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,066 LIBRARIAN IN LOUISIANA HAS A 1155 00:30:26,066 --> 00:30:28,033 PRETTY GOOD RESPONSE. 1156 00:30:28,033 --> 00:30:29,466 I HAVE PARENTS WHO WANT THESE 1157 00:30:29,466 --> 00:30:31,400 BOOKS OUT OF THE LIBRARY BECAUSE 1158 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,000 THEY DON'T WANT ADULTS TO HAVE 1159 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,300 ACCESS, BECAUSE WHAT IF MY CHILD 1160 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:35,366 GOES IN THE ADULT SECTION? 1161 00:30:35,366 --> 00:30:38,833 IF YOUR CHILD IS IN THE LIBRARY 1162 00:30:38,833 --> 00:30:40,966 BY ITSELF, OR THEIR SELF, SORRY, 1163 00:30:40,966 --> 00:30:42,400 THEY PROBABLY HAVE A PHONE, IN 1164 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,233 WHICH CASE, MY LIBRARY IS THE 1165 00:30:44,233 --> 00:30:46,533 LEAST OF YOUR PROBLEMS. 1166 00:30:46,533 --> 00:30:47,466 John: RIGHT. 1167 00:30:47,566 --> 00:30:49,133 THIS ENTIRE DEBATE BASICALLY 1168 00:30:49,133 --> 00:30:50,000 ENDS THE SECOND YOU REMEMBER THE 1169 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,500 EXISTENCE OF THE INTERNET. 1170 00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:52,800 IF YOUR CHILD HAS A PHONE, THEY 1171 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,066 ALREADY HAVE ACCESS TO THE MOST 1172 00:30:54,066 --> 00:30:55,400 SEXUALIZED IMAGES YOU COULD 1173 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,833 IMAGINE, BY WHICH I OF COURSE 1174 00:30:57,833 --> 00:30:59,500 MEAN, THIS UPPERCASE B TAKING L 1175 00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:02,033 ON A ONE-WAY TRIP TO POUND TOWN 1176 00:31:02,033 --> 00:31:04,500 LIKE THEY'RE THE LAST TWO 1177 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:05,100 LETTERS TRYING TO START A NEW 1178 00:31:05,100 --> 00:31:08,133 ALPHABET. 1179 00:31:08,133 --> 00:31:08,733 AND LOOK, THANKFULLY, NOT ALL 1180 00:31:08,733 --> 00:31:09,366 THESE CHALLENGES ARE SUCCESSFUL. 1181 00:31:09,366 --> 00:31:10,700 THAT MOM'S EFFORTS TO GET "LET'S 1182 00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:12,333 TALK ABOUT IT" RESTRICTED AT HER 1183 00:31:12,333 --> 00:31:14,400 LOCAL LIBRARY FAILED. 1184 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,200 BUT IN MANY PLACES, EVEN IF THAT 1185 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:17,300 HAPPENS, THE FIGHT ISN'T OVER. 1186 00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:18,600 BECAUSE THESE GROUPS WILL THEN 1187 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,300 CAMPAIGN TO REPLACE MEMBERS OF 1188 00:31:20,300 --> 00:31:21,500 LIBRARY BOARDS-- SOMETIMES 1189 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,433 DOING SO WITH WILDLY MISLEADING 1190 00:31:23,433 --> 00:31:24,566 CLAIMS, LIKE IN THIS AD, 1191 00:31:24,566 --> 00:31:25,833 ENDORSING TWO CONSERVATIVE BOARD 1192 00:31:25,833 --> 00:31:27,200 CANDIDATES. 1193 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,766 HI, MOM! 1194 00:31:28,766 --> 00:31:29,833 I'M HOME! 1195 00:31:29,833 --> 00:31:31,266 HI, HONEY! 1196 00:31:31,266 --> 00:31:34,033 I'M IN THE KITCHEN! 1197 00:31:34,033 --> 00:31:36,066 HOW ARE YOU TODAY? 1198 00:31:36,066 --> 00:31:36,433 HOW WAS SCHOOL? 1199 00:31:36,433 --> 00:31:38,466 WE WENT TO THE LIBRARY TODAY 1200 00:31:38,466 --> 00:31:39,966 AND THERE'S A SPECIAL ROOM FOR 1201 00:31:39,966 --> 00:31:42,466 KIDS AND THIS FUNNY LADY, SHE 1202 00:31:42,466 --> 00:31:45,333 READ US A BOOK AND SHE SHOWED US 1203 00:31:45,333 --> 00:31:47,300 ALL THE PICTURES IN THE BOOK. 1204 00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:50,900 MOMMY? 1205 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:53,766 YES, HONEY? 1206 00:31:53,866 --> 00:32:00,866 WHAT'S ANAL SEX? 1207 00:32:02,333 --> 00:32:02,700 John: OKAY. 1208 00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:04,433 LOTS WRONG WITH THAT, INCLUDING 1209 00:32:04,433 --> 00:32:05,000 THAT NO KID HEARS THE WORDS 1210 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:05,933 "ANAL SEX" AND THEN IS LIKE "I'M 1211 00:32:05,933 --> 00:32:08,400 GONNA ASK MY MOM ABOUT THAT 1212 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:09,033 LATER." 1213 00:32:09,033 --> 00:32:10,766 NO WAY, YOU GO TO YOUR FRIEND 1214 00:32:10,766 --> 00:32:12,500 WITH THE OLDEST OLDER SISTER AND 1215 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:13,266 SIT WITH HER THE WHOLE. 1216 00:32:13,266 --> 00:32:13,800 BUS RIDE. 1217 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,366 HOME. 1218 00:32:15,366 --> 00:32:16,366 ALSO, IT'S NOT IMPORTANT, BUT: 1219 00:32:16,366 --> 00:32:16,933 WHERE THE FUCK WAS SHE GOING 1220 00:32:16,933 --> 00:32:18,600 WITH THAT DISH? 1221 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:19,566 I'M NOT TRYING TO 1222 00:32:19,566 --> 00:32:20,333 MONDAY-MORNING-QUARTERBACK HER 1223 00:32:20,333 --> 00:32:21,433 PROCESS, EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT 1224 00:32:21,433 --> 00:32:22,333 HER DISHWASHING IS TOTALLY 1225 00:32:22,333 --> 00:32:24,400 NORMAL, YOU GET DRESSED IN YOUR 1226 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:25,566 REGULAR CHORES OUTFIT-- NO 1227 00:32:25,566 --> 00:32:27,066 GLOVES AND A SPOTLESS SUNDRESS, 1228 00:32:27,066 --> 00:32:28,233 CHECK AND CHECK, THEN WASH 1229 00:32:28,333 --> 00:32:29,266 DISHES WITHOUT ANY SOAP. 1230 00:32:29,266 --> 00:32:31,533 THAT ALL MAKES SENSE. 1231 00:32:31,533 --> 00:32:33,166 BUT WHY WOULD SHE HOLD A SOAKING 1232 00:32:33,166 --> 00:32:35,300 WET, UNSOAPED DISH INSTEAD OF 1233 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:36,100 PUTTING IT BACK IN THE SINK? 1234 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:36,566 YOU GONNA PUT IT AWAY? 1235 00:32:36,566 --> 00:32:38,533 IT'S TOO WET FOR THAT. 1236 00:32:38,533 --> 00:32:40,300 IS IT HEADED FOR A DRYING RACK? 1237 00:32:40,300 --> 00:32:41,966 IF SO, WHY WOULD IT BE SO FAR 1238 00:32:41,966 --> 00:32:43,233 AWAY FROM THE SINK? 1239 00:32:43,233 --> 00:32:44,766 MOVE YOUR GLASS WITH ONE FLOWER 1240 00:32:44,766 --> 00:32:46,333 OUT OF THERE AND PUT A DRYING 1241 00:32:46,333 --> 00:32:47,033 RACK IN ITS PLACE, YOU DOPEY 1242 00:32:47,033 --> 00:32:50,433 FREAK. 1243 00:32:50,433 --> 00:32:50,966 BUT THE THING IS, THE TWO 1244 00:32:50,966 --> 00:32:51,900 CANDIDATES THAT AD WAS 1245 00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:53,300 SUPPORTING WON. 1246 00:32:53,300 --> 00:32:54,233 AND WHO'S ON THE LIBRARY BOARD 1247 00:32:54,233 --> 00:32:55,400 MATTERS. 1248 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:56,466 IN CAMPBELL COUNTY, WYOMING, THE 1249 00:32:56,466 --> 00:32:58,400 LIBRARY SYSTEM'S EXECUTIVE 1250 00:32:58,400 --> 00:32:59,233 DIRECTOR REFUSED TO REMOVE 1251 00:32:59,233 --> 00:33:00,866 SEVENTEEN BOOKS CENTERED AROUND 1252 00:33:00,966 --> 00:33:02,200 THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBTQ+ 1253 00:33:02,300 --> 00:33:03,833 PEOPLE. 1254 00:33:03,833 --> 00:33:07,066 AND I'LL NOTE: NOT ONE OF THE 1255 00:33:07,066 --> 00:33:08,533 REQUESTS TO REMOVE THE BOOKS HAD 1256 00:33:08,533 --> 00:33:09,133 COME FROM A PARENT WHOSE CHILD 1257 00:33:09,133 --> 00:33:10,600 LOOKED AT, OR CHECKED OUT, A 1258 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:11,600 BOOK THEIR PARENT THOUGHT WAS 1259 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,200 INAPPROPRIATE. 1260 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:15,666 NOT ONE. 1261 00:33:15,666 --> 00:33:16,333 AND WHILE THE LIBRARY BOARD 1262 00:33:16,333 --> 00:33:16,966 INITIALLY BACKED HER, THE COUNTY 1263 00:33:16,966 --> 00:33:18,333 COMMISSION THEN QUICKLY 1264 00:33:18,333 --> 00:33:19,800 APPOINTED FOUR NEW MEMBERS TO 1265 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:20,600 THE BOARD, WHO THEN MOVED TO 1266 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,033 FIRE HER. 1267 00:33:22,033 --> 00:33:23,133 ALTHOUGH BEFORE THE VOTE, THEY 1268 00:33:23,133 --> 00:33:24,566 DID GET THIS IMPASSIONED SPEECH 1269 00:33:24,566 --> 00:33:25,866 FROM A LOCAL RESIDENT. 1270 00:33:25,866 --> 00:33:27,366 WHEN YOU START OUTLAWING 1271 00:33:27,366 --> 00:33:31,533 BOOKS BECAUSE OF YOUR PERSONAL 1272 00:33:31,533 --> 00:33:33,733 RELIGIOUS AND MORAL BELIEFS, IN 1273 00:33:33,833 --> 00:33:36,933 THIS COUNTRY, YOU'RE GOING 1274 00:33:36,933 --> 00:33:38,500 AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION, 1275 00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:40,700 YOU'RE-- YOU'RE GOING AGAINST 1276 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:41,233 WHAT WE WERE FOUNDED FOR. 1277 00:33:41,233 --> 00:33:43,833 AND YOU'RE PERSONALLY AN AFFRONT 1278 00:33:43,833 --> 00:33:46,233 TO MYSELF AND MOST OF THE PEOPLE 1279 00:33:46,233 --> 00:33:49,466 I KNOW. 1280 00:33:49,466 --> 00:33:50,333 THIS IS A SHITSHOW. 1281 00:33:50,333 --> 00:33:50,900 AND I'M EMBARRASSED FOR THIS 1282 00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:52,100 BOARD. 1283 00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:54,900 THANK YOU. 1284 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:56,866 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1285 00:33:56,866 --> 00:33:59,433 John: WOW. 1286 00:33:59,433 --> 00:34:00,500 I HAVE TO SAY, USUALLY WHEN YOU 1287 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:02,033 SEE A WHITE GUY WITH A BUSHY 1288 00:34:02,033 --> 00:34:03,833 MUSTACHE HOLDING A MICROPHONE AT 1289 00:34:03,833 --> 00:34:06,433 A TOWN MEETING, YOU'RE WORRIED. 1290 00:34:06,433 --> 00:34:07,200 BUT HE PROVED MY EXPECTATIONS 1291 00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:07,933 WRONG. 1292 00:34:08,033 --> 00:34:09,066 KUDOS TO YOU, 1293 00:34:09,066 --> 00:34:10,533 GUY-I'D-OTHERWISE-ASSUME-STORMED 1294 00:34:10,533 --> 00:34:13,100 THE-CAPITOL. 1295 00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:14,400 BUT FOR ALL THE SUPPORT THE 1296 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,366 ARGUMENT TO DEFEND THE LIBRARY 1297 00:34:16,366 --> 00:34:17,966 DIRECTOR GOT IN THE ROOM, JUST A 1298 00:34:17,966 --> 00:34:18,533 LITTLE LATER, THE BOARD DID 1299 00:34:18,533 --> 00:34:23,033 THIS. 1300 00:34:23,033 --> 00:34:23,633 I MAKE A MOTION TO VOTE FOR 1301 00:34:23,633 --> 00:34:24,433 TERRI LESLEY'S POSITION TO BE 1302 00:34:24,433 --> 00:34:25,100 TERMINATED AS THE CAMPBELL 1303 00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:26,566 COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY DIRECTOR. 1304 00:34:26,566 --> 00:34:29,600 ALL IN FAVOR. 1305 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:30,866 WOW. 1306 00:34:30,866 --> 00:34:34,333 THERE YOU HAVE IT. 1307 00:34:34,333 --> 00:34:36,133 John: YEAH, THEY FIRED HER. 1308 00:34:36,133 --> 00:34:36,700 AND FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, YOU 1309 00:34:36,700 --> 00:34:37,866 SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO FIRE 1310 00:34:37,866 --> 00:34:40,733 SOMEONE WHILE WEARING THIS DUMB 1311 00:34:40,833 --> 00:34:41,300 OF A HAT. 1312 00:34:41,300 --> 00:34:44,566 THAT WAS BOUGHT ON A BEACH DAY 1313 00:34:44,566 --> 00:34:47,200 IN CABO, YOU SCREAMED "HOW MUCH 1314 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:53,966 POR FAVOR?" 1315 00:34:53,966 --> 00:34:54,733 AND "HOW MUCH DINERO?" 1316 00:34:54,733 --> 00:34:55,200 AND THE GUY CLAIMED HE 1317 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:55,766 WAS GIVING YOU A DEAL WHILE 1318 00:34:55,766 --> 00:34:56,200 CHARGING YOU DOUBLE. 1319 00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:56,833 AND YOU WERE LIKE, "GRACIAS, I'M 1320 00:34:56,833 --> 00:34:57,433 GONNA WEAR THIS TO THE MEETING 1321 00:34:57,433 --> 00:34:58,233 WHERE I FIRE A LIBRARIAN DESPITE 1322 00:34:58,233 --> 00:35:01,366 PUBLIC OPPOSITION... 1323 00:35:01,366 --> 00:35:03,600 THE CABO HAT I GOT FOR "MUY 1324 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:03,966 CARO, PENDEJA". 1325 00:35:03,966 --> 00:35:04,400 THAT MEANS ON SALE!" 1326 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:05,033 THE POINT IS, THESE GROUPS HAVE 1327 00:35:05,033 --> 00:35:05,600 ALL SORTS OF LEVERS THEY CAN 1328 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:06,100 PULL. 1329 00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:07,066 AND IF ALL ELSE FAILS, THEY CAN 1330 00:35:07,066 --> 00:35:07,666 EVEN TRY AND CUT THE LIBRARY'S 1331 00:35:07,666 --> 00:35:09,000 FUNDING ALTOGETHER. 1332 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,033 IN JAMESTOWN MICHIGAN, COMMUNITY 1333 00:35:10,033 --> 00:35:12,100 MEMBERS VOTED TO DEFUND A 1334 00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:14,033 LIBRARY AFTER AN INTENSE 1335 00:35:14,133 --> 00:35:15,133 CAMPAIGN BY RESIDENTS WHO 1336 00:35:15,233 --> 00:35:16,966 ACCUSED IT OF "GROOMING" 1337 00:35:16,966 --> 00:35:18,866 CHILDREN AND "PROMOTING AN LGBTQ 1338 00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:20,866 IDEOLOGY" DESPITE THE FACT THAT 1339 00:35:20,866 --> 00:35:22,466 OF ROUGHLY 67,000 ITEMS IN THE 1340 00:35:22,466 --> 00:35:23,833 LIBRARY'S COLLECTION, ONLY 1341 00:35:23,833 --> 00:35:26,166 AROUND 90 OF THEM HAD LGBTQ 1342 00:35:26,166 --> 00:35:27,400 THEMES. 1343 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,366 YET THAT VOTE ELIMINATED 84% OF 1344 00:35:29,366 --> 00:35:30,933 THEIR ANNUAL BUDGET. 1345 00:35:30,933 --> 00:35:31,933 SO, NATURALLY, THE LIBRARY WAS 1346 00:35:31,933 --> 00:35:32,500 IMMEDIATELY UNDER THREAT OF 1347 00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:35,466 CLOSING. 1348 00:35:35,466 --> 00:35:36,433 AND AT A BOARD MEETING 1349 00:35:36,433 --> 00:35:38,000 AFTERWARD, ONE LIBRARIAN POINTED 1350 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,966 OUT THIS WAS A NATURAL 1351 00:35:39,966 --> 00:35:41,200 CONSEQUENCE OF VOTERS' ACTIONS. 1352 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:42,866 I AM SHOCKED THAT THE PEOPLE 1353 00:35:42,866 --> 00:35:43,833 ARE SURPRISED THAT THE LIBRARY 1354 00:35:43,833 --> 00:35:45,700 WILL CLOSE. 1355 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:47,133 YOU CAN'T VOTE TO ELIMINATE 1356 00:35:47,233 --> 00:35:48,433 FUNDING FOR THE LIBRARY AND SAY 1357 00:35:48,533 --> 00:35:50,433 YOU DON'T WANT IT TO CLOSE. 1358 00:35:50,433 --> 00:35:53,066 YOU CAN'T SAY YOU'RE DOING IT 1359 00:35:53,066 --> 00:35:54,633 JUST TO SEND A MESSAGE AND NOT 1360 00:35:54,633 --> 00:35:56,300 EXPECT THERE TO BE CONSEQUENCES 1361 00:35:56,300 --> 00:35:57,233 TO YOUR ACTIONS. 1362 00:35:57,233 --> 00:35:59,133 IT'S NOT A SYMBOLIC MOVE. 1363 00:35:59,133 --> 00:36:01,366 IT'S A DEATH SENTENCE. 1364 00:36:01,366 --> 00:36:03,700 AND I HOPE THE COMMUNITY IS 1365 00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:08,266 PREPARED TO LIVE WITH THAT. 1366 00:36:08,266 --> 00:36:09,400 John: EXACTLY, WHY WOULDN'T 1367 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:10,033 THE LIBRARY CLOSE IF MOST OF ITS 1368 00:36:10,033 --> 00:36:10,666 FUNDING IS CUT? 1369 00:36:10,666 --> 00:36:11,566 ANY ESTABLISHMENT-- WHETHER 1370 00:36:11,566 --> 00:36:12,200 IT'S A BUSINESS OR A GOVERNMENT 1371 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:12,733 SERVICE-- NEEDS MONEY TO 1372 00:36:12,733 --> 00:36:13,433 OPERATE. 1373 00:36:13,433 --> 00:36:14,733 IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, JUST 1374 00:36:14,733 --> 00:36:16,666 VISIT YOUR LOCAL CIRCUIT CITY 1375 00:36:16,666 --> 00:36:17,266 AND ASK THEM TO EXPLAIN IT TO 1376 00:36:17,266 --> 00:36:18,633 YOU. 1377 00:36:18,633 --> 00:36:20,300 NOW, THANKFULLY, LAST NOVEMBER 1378 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:22,000 THERE WAS A VOTE TO RESTORE THAT 1379 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:22,633 LIBRARY'S FUNDING THROUGH NEXT 1380 00:36:22,633 --> 00:36:29,400 YEAR, AND IT PASSED COMFORTABLY. 1381 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:30,000 AND THAT'S THE THING HERE-- 1382 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:30,666 PROTECTING LIBRARIES IS A FIGHT, 1383 00:36:30,666 --> 00:36:31,166 BUT IT'S ALSO WINNABLE. 1384 00:36:31,166 --> 00:36:31,900 IT JUST MEANS STANDING UP TO 1385 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:32,666 THESE BULLSHIT ATTACKS WHEREVER 1386 00:36:32,666 --> 00:36:33,633 THEY OCCUR. 1387 00:36:33,633 --> 00:36:36,066 AND THEY'RE OCCURRING A LOT. 1388 00:36:36,066 --> 00:36:36,933 THIS YEAR ALONE, MORE THAN 100 1389 00:36:36,933 --> 00:36:39,300 BILLS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED IN 1390 00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:41,700 STATE LEGISLATURES INTENDED TO 1391 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:42,266 BAN OR RESTRICT MATERIAL IN 1392 00:36:42,266 --> 00:36:43,133 SCHOOL AND PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 1393 00:36:43,133 --> 00:36:45,933 SOME OF WHICH ARE BONKERS. 1394 00:36:45,933 --> 00:36:46,833 JUST LAST WEEK, THE ALABAMA 1395 00:36:46,833 --> 00:36:47,866 HOUSE ADVANCED A BILL ALLOWING 1396 00:36:47,866 --> 00:36:49,800 LIBRARIANS TO BE ARRESTED FOR 1397 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:50,966 THE CONTENT THEY ALLOW ON 1398 00:36:50,966 --> 00:36:51,733 SHELVES. 1399 00:36:51,733 --> 00:36:54,966 AND ARKANSAS AND OKLAHOMA HAVE 1400 00:36:55,066 --> 00:36:55,566 ALREADY PASSED LAWS MAKING IT 1401 00:36:55,666 --> 00:36:59,333 POSSIBLE TO PROSECUTE LIBRARIANS 1402 00:36:59,333 --> 00:37:00,300 FOR DISTRIBUTING OBSCENE 1403 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:00,533 CONTENT. 1404 00:37:00,533 --> 00:37:01,600 THIS IS ALL MADNESS, AND IT 1405 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,066 SPEAKS TO THE NEED FOR LIBRARIES 1406 00:37:03,066 --> 00:37:05,200 TO BE DEFENDED. 1407 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:06,633 AND I KNOW IT'S NOT SHOCKING 1408 00:37:06,633 --> 00:37:08,266 THAT AN EPISODE OF THIS SHOW 1409 00:37:08,266 --> 00:37:08,900 WOULD ADVOCATE TO "SUPPORT YOUR 1410 00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:10,833 LOCAL LIBRARIES." 1411 00:37:10,833 --> 00:37:13,266 IT'S PRETTY MUCH IMPLICIT IN OUR 1412 00:37:13,266 --> 00:37:13,900 WHOLE VIBE. 1413 00:37:13,900 --> 00:37:20,100 MY SUIT, GLASSES AND DESK ALL 1414 00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:20,666 PRACTICALLY SCREAM "SUPPORT 1415 00:37:20,666 --> 00:37:21,566 YOUR LOCAL LIBRARIES," TO WHICH 1416 00:37:21,566 --> 00:37:22,700 THE REST OF MY BODY WOULD SAY, 1417 00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:24,266 OUT OF RESPECT, "A'SHUSH." 1418 00:37:24,266 --> 00:37:26,166 BUT DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU LIVE, 1419 00:37:26,166 --> 00:37:26,800 YOU MIGHT NEED TO PAY ATTENTION 1420 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:27,766 IF PEOPLE START SHOWING UP AT 1421 00:37:27,866 --> 00:37:29,733 YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY BOARD MEETING 1422 00:37:29,833 --> 00:37:31,833 AND READING EAR-CATCHING PARTS 1423 00:37:31,833 --> 00:37:32,300 OF YOUNG ADULT BOOKS. 1424 00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:39,366 BECAUSE WHILE IT'S ABSOLUTELY A 1425 00:37:41,133 --> 00:37:41,633 UNDERSTANDABLE FOR PARENT'S 1426 00:37:41,633 --> 00:37:42,133 RIGHT TO HAVE A SAY IN 1427 00:37:42,133 --> 00:37:42,733 WHAT THEIR KIDS CAN CHECK OUT 1428 00:37:42,733 --> 00:37:43,366 FROM THE LIBRARY, IT'S NOT THEIR 1429 00:37:43,366 --> 00:37:44,000 RIGHT TO HAVE A SAY IN WHAT CAN 1430 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:44,466 BE CHECKED OUT AT ALL. 1431 00:37:44,466 --> 00:37:45,100 AND IT FRANKLY DOESN'T FEEL LIKE 1432 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:45,700 A COINCIDENCE SO MUCH OF THIS 1433 00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:46,266 CONVERSATION CONCERNS LGBTQ 1434 00:37:46,266 --> 00:37:46,866 THEMES-- AS IT SEEMS THIS IS 1435 00:37:46,866 --> 00:37:53,933 THE LATEST WAY TO TRY AND PUSH 1436 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:01,633 THAT COMMUNITY OUT OF PUBLIC 1437 00:38:01,733 --> 00:38:02,266 SPACES, TO SEND A MESSAGE THAT 1438 00:38:02,266 --> 00:38:02,866 THEIR LIVES AND STORIES AREN'T 1439 00:38:02,866 --> 00:38:03,466 WELCOME, AND BY EXTENSION, TO 1440 00:38:03,466 --> 00:38:04,366 TELL ANYONE GROWING UP 1441 00:38:04,366 --> 00:38:05,100 QUESTIONING THAT THE ANSWERS ARE 1442 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:06,300 OFF-LIMITS TO THEM. 1443 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:06,933 ALL OF WHICH IS BASICALLY JUST A 1444 00:38:06,933 --> 00:38:07,533 LONG WAY OF SAYING: LIBRARIES 1445 00:38:07,533 --> 00:38:08,233 NEED OUR SUPPORT RIGHT NOW, SO 1446 00:38:08,233 --> 00:38:09,600 THEY CAN CONTINUE TO SERVE THE 1447 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:10,066 DIVERSE NEEDS OF THEIR 1448 00:38:10,066 --> 00:38:11,000 COMMUNITIES, WHILE ALSO, OF 1449 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,800 COURSE, LENDING OUT AIR FRYERS, 1450 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:13,466 SEEDS, AND COPIES OF "THE 1451 00:38:13,466 --> 00:38:14,800 BERENSTEAM CHEETAHS." 1452 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,400 WE ALL LOVED THOSE BOOKS AS 1453 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:22,833 KIDS. 1454 00:38:22,833 --> 00:38:28,366 OH, BEFORE WE GO TONIGHT, AND 1455 00:38:28,366 --> 00:38:29,200 IN CASE THERE ARE ANY BOOKLOOK 1456 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:29,966 TYPE ORGANIZATIONS DOING A 1457 00:38:29,966 --> 00:38:31,266 REPORT ON THIS SHOW, I'LL SAVE 1458 00:38:31,266 --> 00:38:32,133 YOU THE TROUBLE AND DO THE CHART 1459 00:38:32,133 --> 00:38:32,366 MYSELF. 1460 00:38:32,366 --> 00:38:33,000 TWELVE FUCKS, FOUR SHITS, THREE 1461 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:33,533 "DICKS," AND THREE COCKS. 1462 00:38:33,633 --> 00:38:34,033 FUCK OFF, BOOK LOOKS. 1463 00:38:34,033 --> 00:38:34,266 OH LOOK! 1464 00:38:34,266 --> 00:38:34,766 I JUST MADE IT THIRTEEN. 1465 00:38:34,766 --> 00:38:35,366 THAT'S OUR SHOW, THANKS SO MUCH 1466 00:38:35,466 --> 00:38:36,466 FOR WATCHING, NOW, IF YOU'LL 1467 00:38:36,466 --> 00:38:37,533 EXCUSE ME, I HAVE SOMETHING I 1468 00:38:37,533 --> 00:38:38,366 BADLY NEED TO RETURN BEFORE 1469 00:38:38,366 --> 00:38:39,166 MIDNIGHT. 1470 00:38:39,166 --> 00:38:42,766 GOOD NIGHT! 1471 00:38:42,766 --> 00:38:43,233 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1472 00:38:43,233 --> 00:38:44,133 ♪ ♪