Welcome to the show everybody broadcasting now from a beautiful hotel, well not that beautiful, but from a hotel in Atlanta in any case and I was speaking at a church yesterday.

And that was a lot of fun great turnout talking about my book Church of Cowards which comes out on February 25th but you can preorder right now go do that right now.

I demand on amazon.com.

That's church of cowards again February 25th is when it comes up so did you guys catch the the Oscars last night I can tell you that I.

I was at my my event for good part of the night but I came home I did turn it on for maybe 90 seconds in the hotel and it was just in time to hear.

In adult person so going to weaver stand on stage stage and this was this was right I've turned it on right at this moment perfect moment for me to turn it on right at the moment when she said the said the sentence.

All women are superheroes.

And then everybody applauded.

Now if you want to understand how utterly vacuous and meaningless a statement like that is just just imagine how it would sound if you said about men okay if you said all men are superheroes everybody would say what.

What do you mean all men are super what does that even mean what are you talking about.

Obviously some men are great other men are atrocious human beings a lot of them are sort of mediocre case in point there's nothing about being a man that automatically bestows virtue much less heroism and the same of course is true of women.

This is to say nothing of the fact and you know I'm going to what I'm going to say next you know where it's going but I can't resist is to say nothing of the fact that nobody in Hollywood can even define the word woman so any statement they make about women is inherently without substance.

By the way if all women are superheroes. Andrea Yates superhero evil Braun Eileen Warnos the serial killer bloody Mary superheroes all of them superheroes.

But of course the thing is we know that you can mark it down remember all of this girl power stuff the moment that Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett.

For the Supreme Court which probably now will happen in a second term with when that happens remember all this girl power stuff because it's going out the window it's getting shocked out the window from the from the 50th floor.

And it's it's tumbling all the way down to the to the sidewalk and it's going to shatter into a million pieces it's it's just it's gone.

Speaking of female empowerment at the Oscars Natalie Portman.

And you know I'm serious about this Natalie Portman.

I know I've been critical up until until now but Portman made one of the boldest and bravest statements I've ever seen anyone make at the Oscars or anywhere else period in life.

I'm I'm stunned by it.

They will build statues and and monuments to this moment history books will tell of this moment folks songs will be sung.

I was up all night thinking about it I'm going to tell my kids about it my grandchildren.

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