Matt Walsh
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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. And I think that's true, what he said about— I'm sure that when there's a black president, we know there are real races out there. There are anti-black races, there are anti-white races, but they're out there. Social media was also really coming online around that time, so people had a forum to express this kind of stuff. And anonymously. Anonymously.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
And so, yeah, those people come out of the woodwork. I'm sure that did happen. I don't deny that. The difference, though, is that that kind of racism is personal and individual. It's not systemic. It's not in the system. Right. And also... It's absolutely rejected by society. It's absolutely rejected by polite society.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
So there's a reason why they had to go to 4chan or whatever to express those views, because you can't come out in public and say it with. And if you do, it'll be like the end of your whatever your career is. It's probably the end of it. And that's kind of that's the most you're going to when it comes. As you said, there's never going to be a time when there's no racists in the world.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So the most you can do is, okay, we're not going to have this stuff systemically. The system's going to treat everybody equally. Great. We've crossed that off the list. We've already done that. Actually, we've gone too far because we've got affirmative action where now you're discriminating against white and Asian people. So anti-black racism is out of the system. Fantastic. That's good.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's not accepted by mainstream society. Great. And then... So that's kind of it. I mean, what else can we do with this? You can't get inside people's hearts and make them not feel things. Those people are going to be out there. They know that it's not accepted in mainstream society. And I kind of think you could sort of move on from it culturally to other issues. It's not a major issue anymore.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
but they won't allow it. And you're right that then it's got this pendulum thing where, okay, well, if you go after white people and you demonize them relentlessly, and you do it practically from birth now through the school system, some of those white people are going to end up being stricken by guilt, and they're going to walk around feeling like they're guilty for something.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That's the white guilt liberal thing. But then you're going to have others who... kind of become exactly what you accuse them of being because they're like, oh, you know what? If you're going to call me racist anyway, then, you know what? Fine. And there's going to resentment that builds up and then you actually create more of it, which I think they're happy about.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
That was kind of... When we had the idea for the film to talk about race, we knew we needed to get Robin D'Angelo. I didn't think we'd get her because I figured she'd be a lot more cautious. Yeah, savvy and cautious. But apparently she has no idea what's happening outside of her bubble at all. So she didn't know who I was. I mean, I gave her my name and she had no clue. Wow.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
If actual racism is increasing in society, I don't know if it is or not, but I think the people that call themselves anti-racist are quite happy about that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think it is like a – yeah, I think you're exactly right about that. That's why for me the more – So the grifters that are getting paid, that's not that complicated to figure out why they're doing it. They're getting paid. A lot of them. A lot of them are. And even when they're not, there's still power and influence. And they're being consulted as kind of these moral gurus, which strokes the ego.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That's rewarding. The more interesting thing is what about the people who go to those people? and consult them as moral gurus. I mean, in the movie we have this race to dinner where you got these white women who sit around a table and they invite these other two women, Cyber Rao and Regina Jackson, to come to dinner. They pay them to come to dinner and call them racist for two hours.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And it's like, why would you subject yourself to that? It seems like the most miserable experience to volunteer to be broken down and insulted and degraded, which is what happened to these women. I mean, I saw it. It's like two hours of them just getting... You're racist. You're racist. You're racist. They go around the table, confess their racist sins.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And then they all each go and they say what their racist sin, like, what's a racist thing you've done recently? They all confess. And I'm listening to it. It's like none of you have actually done anything racist. I listen to all your stories. None of that is racist. There's a woman who said that she's married to a black guy and she. Yeah. He's loud and she tells him to quiet down sometimes.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Right. I think my wife is racist. She could be. She could be. She's racist against me.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But we kind of went into that knowing what the end was supposed to be, if we could get her. We came up with that idea. We went to a bar the night before the interview and we came up with this idea. Could we get her to actually pay reparations to Ben, our black producer? And we had to kind of talk him into it. And, you know, it was really just like,
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
They bend the knee. And with kids, it's so insidious because... Yeah. Kids don't care about race. They notice it, though, which is fine. But then you give them like this complex from such a young age, which is so unnecessary. And that's why I mean, I remember when my oldest daughter was five, we were at the mall or something and a black family walked by and she pointed at them and said, what?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Why are people black? Why is their skin like that? She wanted to know, why does skin color exist? How do some people have different skin color than other people? And of course, I told her, to be polite, we don't point at people in public, so I told her that. But then we talked about it. It's okay to wonder that. It's okay to notice that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think with these anti-racist people, if I was listening to them, I should have... This would have been an opportunity for me to give her a whole lecture about racism and make her feel really bad for noticing that and asking about it. Yeah. And then you create this complex. And yeah, fast forward 20 years and she's one of these women at a race to dinner. Exactly. Yeah. It's awful.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But it's a very potent thing. I mean, white guilt, the fear of being called racist. It's hard for me to understand because... I get called racist all the time, 50,000 times a day. And it just rolls off my back. I don't care because it's just... It doesn't mean anything anymore. It doesn't mean anything. But for you and I, it doesn't mean anything.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But for a lot of normal people, especially... It's a death sentence. Right. To be called that is the worst thing in the world.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They're terrified of it. They'd literally rather be called anything than racist. Yeah. And then... So for them, once you... Those kinds of people... When that's the threat, when being called racist is a threat, you can get them to do anything.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Spoilers or whatever, but the last thing in the movie when I do my own anti-racist workshop with these people, and they're all real people, and we get them to join in on some things that are really morally repugnant. Because they're terrified of being called racist publicly. They can't stand that thought.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
In real time, I was there for about two hours, and it was an hour and a half of the most mind-numbing conversation where I'm just – none of that's in the movie because it's just me, like, fluff questions. And I'm repeating back to her own ideas so she knows that I'm a safe person. Right.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
really mean shitty people to have a virtuous way of expressing that yeah i think that's that's right and also the internet i mean the whole idea that the internet isn't real we hear it all the time that's why i hate when people say uh well twitter isn't real life but and i understand what's meant by that when people say that but it actually is real life because
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
These are human beings who are communicating with each other. Now, there are bots, too. But if you're a human being on Twitter saying something, that's real life. It's not fake. This isn't happening in some kind of dream world. Right. But then people think that, well, okay, if I just say this on Twitter, I put it in a YouTube comment section, and it's this heinous, awful thing. It doesn't count.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It doesn't mean I'm a bad person because it's not real life. Which is like, that's like... Writing on a loose-leaf paper, calling someone a piece of shit and handing it to them, and then they get mad at you, and you say, hey, man, it's the paper. It's not real life. It just happened on the paper. It's a method for communicating. And so I think people have been...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Condition that in this world it's like a moral exception so you can do and say whatever you want and you don't have to feel bad about it. Right. And it turns people into sociopaths after a while I think.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's a safe space, and then you've got to build to it and build to it and build to it, and then finally you get to a point where you can do something a little weird, and she'll probably go along with it. Yeah. And she did. I mean, you saw, we go through a whole, we have a whole series of exercises we want to do with her. And she went, she did it. She was game.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I'm one of them. You seem fine. But, I mean, I am guilty of some of this. I do. I'm on it way too much, first of all. But then I have my excuse, which is it's part of my job. It's part of your job. I do often think if I didn't do this for a living at all, I don't think I'd be on any of this stuff. I think I'd be off everything.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Because I don't know if you have a problem. If I go on vacation or something and I'm taking time, I have no issue putting it down. I have no compulsion to look at it. In fact, I have to, when I come off vacation, it's effort to get back. It's like, okay, I got to get back into this again. It takes me a couple days. Then after a couple days, now it's a compulsion again.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But I have to reignite this weird compulsion to constantly look at my phone.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But if you didn't do any of this for a living, if you just worked at Lowe's or something, do you think you'd still be – The problem is I'd still be me, and I still have this –
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
So that was, and that was one of the first things we filmed. So after we got that, we knew that, okay, we have a movie here.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I think I think I would be the same, but I don't think I'd feel the need to. I would like to absorb all that interesting information, but I wouldn't feel the need to say, hey, world, here's what I think about this.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And not only that, but their engagement with you is cheap.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
they don't care that much so even if someone gives you positive feedback and they say oh that was a great tweet they've forgotten about it two seconds later right you're just they're just scrolling you're just the latest thing they saw and they're scrolling and they've already forgotten about it they don't care if they cuss you out because they're mad at you same deal they forgot about it two seconds later so yeah i guess it could be kind of intoxicating intoxicating to get the engagement but then it doesn't matter and that's one of the
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That's one of the things that makes it so toxic is how sort of like nihilistic it all is. That's why... This never was an issue before, but now I feel like when I go on social media, I'm constantly seeing these horrific videos of people dying, like snuff films are all over social media now. It feels like a relatively recent development. And... That's really horrible what it does.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I don't even think we quite understand what it's doing to our minds. I actually think we are all traumatized from it. I don't use the word trauma loosely. But what's traumatizing is not only are you seeing somebody die, but it's a context. It's like you see this horrible video. Someone just got shot. And then you keep scrolling. And a second later, you're.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
reading something about whatever, you know, a celebrity news or you're watching a cat video.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So it's like this, it's this horrific human thing that happened. But for you, it's just content. You absorb it that way. Um, And I don't know, after a while of just absorbing human suffering in this way, it's got to mess with your mind. Of course it does.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
50 grand you barely got anything out of her yeah that was well part of the point of the movie is that's why we put the price tags on the screen we want people to see how absurd it is so in a certain way it was like The higher they quoted the price, we said, great, we'll pay that because we want this in the movie. Right.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. But it's a thing. It kind of should haunt you for the rest of your life.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Do you pay attention to what people say about you online? No. You never search for Joe Rogan? Nope. Never? Nope. Shouldn't do it. Yeah. It's not good for you. I'll admit that I've done it on occasion. It's just... It's nothing but... If you want to just destroy your self-image, you can do it pretty quickly.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Because if all these people had said, oh, yeah, I'll do it for free or I'll do it for 200 bucks, just pay my travel, doesn't really make the point.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I don't care I'm used to it. It's the lies like when I see something about myself That's just a straight up lie. Totally made up. And then it picks up traction and people are, sometimes it could be, you know, even someone photoshopping a tweet that I never said or whatever, anything. That stuff still, still like bothers me. And it, and then I try to tell myself, well, it shouldn't bother me.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But at the same time it should, it's like, it's normal for a person to be bothered by when you're being lied about and other people are believing a lie, I think it's a normal human reaction that I'm like, I don't want, that's not fair. It's not true. You know, you can attack me for things that I really have said and done, but that's, you can't do that. That's not true.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But then at a certain point, you just have to sort of give into it and realize this is the way the internet works, I guess.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And then she basically said almost nothing. Right. But it was okay.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Well, it almost certainly was. It almost certainly was because if it was a white guy. They would have thrown him under the bus. Yeah, they would have. So the fact that they didn't. It's probably some like Hispanic kid or something.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
The thing that gets me about the Flat Earth thing is – because I didn't realize that it was a real thing until, I don't know, a few years ago. I did – I wrote – I posted something about it. And all these comments from real people that – what gets me is – well, you have the people that say, yeah, I think the Earth's flat. And that's – you're just really stupid.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But I was more fascinated by the, like, 80 percent of people who – 80 percent of the flat Earth crowd. 80 percent of them, their take was, well, I'm not saying the Earth is flat. but I'm open to it. So I'm open to the possibility. I get it if you're just completely stupid and you got sucked into this cult thing, but what I don't get is how can you be on the fence about the shape of the earth?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. And the moon landing, you're not a – you believe in the moon landing, right?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Because it's exactly what you just said about – well, there's a lot of reasons, but – The main thing is what you just said about the earth, the the the vastness of the conspiracy that would be required to fake that. It's so vast that it's just it's it's a lot more incredible to believe that we faked it than to believe that we just went and go into the moon. Don't get it's a massive achievement.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I haven't, but I can tell that there's little eye slits. You can't even see what's below you. Exactly.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But I think the greatest human achievement of all time. But even so, to fake it would be even more massive because not only would you need all of these space agencies and all the different whatever people in American institutions to be colluding, but you'd also need foreign governments, including adversarial foreign governments, who at this point certainly would know we faked it.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
and for some reason haven't blown the lid on it. So they're letting us take this achievement that they know. Why haven't the Russians come out and said... All those things you're saying are true.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Well, I think that's because we lost the spirit and hunger for discovery.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You could develop the technology again. You can do all that. Sure you could.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But I think what you're describing to me, all that does is highlight how incredible the achievement was. If they did it. Right. If they did it. Well, here's the main point. There's no evidence. Because saying that it was a hoax... is an assertion of... You're not just denying an event. You're asserting a whole other event that you say happened instead.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And there is evidence that we went to the moon. Now, someone who's a skeptic might say it's not enough evidence or it's not good evidence. There's, like, evidence. There's eyewitness... There's people that went and came back and told us. There's footage. There's a lot. There is evidence. But there's no evidence of the hoax. Like, no one has come and said, here's my affirmative evidence
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
evidence that this hoax happened, it's never happened, as far as I'm aware. No one's ever provided that evidence.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So the idea that he missed those kids is like- The furries are doing a lot more than running around in those things too. They are. They are.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. I don't even want to know. Like a hatch. But it's actually a perfect example of what these people do, these race hustlers that-
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
All the images or a few of them? A few of them. But then other ones were found to be authentic.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
something happened it was a little bit unpleasant yes not a big deal there's a million ways to interpret that it's just a normal human thing that happens in the world like things happen that are a little bit unpleasant you're disappointed your kid didn't get a high five okay it happens uh but for them they have one lens for seeing the world and the lens is through this left-wing racial ideology so everything that happens is colored by that right uh and everything is understood through that lens so anything i mean you think about uh
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Well, but I think that's just that's the temperament it requires to do something like that. Could be. It's basically it's almost suicidal to go to the right. And so you have to be like not barely even a human being. psychologically to do it. So that to me is just like, and they just went through this whole experience, but who knows what that does to the human psyche.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
To even just be in the vastness of space, even on the space station, I feel like that would change me as a person.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So then what would you say, or someone who is a full-on believer.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Someone who is a full-on believer in the moon hoax. What would they say to my other point that there is evidence we went to the moon. You can try to nitpick the evidence. There is zero evidence of a hoax because that's a whole other event that would have had to have happened. There is no evidence at all, not one sliver of evidence ever of that hoax having ever happened.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But I mean, the JFK is an interesting example. Because yes, there are things that I'm skeptical of that are claimed. I don't really have evidence that the thing didn't happen or that it didn't happen the way they say, but I'm still skeptical. So I get that. But it feels different to me because the JFK assassination did happen. The question is, how did it happen?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But if we're going to assert that a major historical event, probably the greatest, the most significant historical event in history over one of them did not happen at all. No one did it.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Michelle Obama, when she was first lady, she had multiple stories that she would tell about as first lady being discriminated against because of her race, allegedly. And one of them was she was in line for ice cream or something and someone cut in front of her. And she told this story in some interview, this very dramatic story about, well, they didn't see her because she's black.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Then, like I said, that's so what you're actually claiming is that some other thing this this they went somewhere and they pulled off this hoax and they planned it and they did like an event happened where they were faking it. Right. And so what I would want to see. Has anybody come out, any whistleblower ever, to say, hey, I was involved in the shoot or I'm in Hollywood.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Okay, so can I ask this, though? Do we have examples? We're saying, well, we don't know if a human can go through the... I would say, well, we do know because they did.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And meanwhile, it's like we've all been cut. Lady, people have cut in front of all of us. It's just that if it happens to me at Walmart, I don't think of it racially. I just think, oh, this person is an asshole. Exactly. But for her, it's all racial.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So my question is, have we tried to send humans through the radiation belt and not been able to? Has that happened?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I don't think the people... In the 1960s, the American people cared deeply about going to the moon.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But it probably takes a lot of time to get to a point where you can do that consistently.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I mean, weird makes it sound necessarily nefarious. I think it's... No, just weird.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I would say two things. Number one, I think that it does take... Yeah, we're kind of spoiled by the fact that there was this burst of incredible technological advancement. In everything. In everything.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It doesn't necessarily... Not every facet of technology is going to continue at that pace forever into an infinity. So I think it does take... especially if you take a historical perspective, a longer-term historical perspective. It just takes a while to get from one thing to the next. It hasn't even been that long. I mean, 1969 was not that long ago from the historical perspective.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Right, exactly. It's an unpleasant thing that happens to all people. And if you're not in the kind of race hustler bubble, you don't see it that way. But it's interesting that nobody wants to call that out.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And especially if you want to do the next thing. I mean, what's the next thing? The next thing is to go to Mars. Most people agree. That's so much far exponentially farther away and harder to do. Sure. And so if that takes if it takes decades more to figure out how to do that, that doesn't seem that crazy to me.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And the second thing I'll say is that I do think I get your point about resources on the moon. There's a reason to go back. I agree. You know. practically speaking.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But it's just true that it requires a society that deeply values exploration for its own sake and is willing to make the sacrifices, is willing to send people off to do things just for the sake of exploration, knowing that they might die. I think we have almost no appetite for that now. Maybe the Challenger explosion was... You could point to that as the time when we sort of just...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
We have no appetite for people. We don't want people to die for this anymore. I see what you're saying.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It wasn't. But unfortunately, but politicians are the ones who decide it. People vote for those politicians. And unfortunately, there are a lot of Americans who are basically OK with sending money to Ukraine, which they shouldn't be. It's insane. I agree with you.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. And how do you know? So how do you know what's in that other person's mind? How can you ascribe motives to them? It drives me nuts that this is what we do now, where if someone does something or says something, someone else is offended by it. That person who's offended gets to decide.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But for the moon landing, you would need way more people involved. I don't know if you would. More institutions.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Does he have any evidence of that event occurring? Would he say, well, I know they only went so far and came back because of this?
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what the intent was behind the other person's action to the extent that if the other person says, no, no, no, this was my intention, I'll tell you what it was, they don't get to have a say in the intentions behind their own actions. They are suddenly not authorities in their own behavior.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. It's not as dumb as Flat Earth, but it does remind – to me it reminds me of – to me it's in the vein of like Sandy Hook was a hoax.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
There's a lot of weirdness to it. Isn't it similar? Okay, because a lot of this comes from it's such an incredible feat that's so difficult to do that it's hard to believe anyone actually did it. Sure. Which I can understand that mentality. But the thing is, you can go back in history.
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And you could look at, for the sake of discovery and exploration, you can look at what other men have done hundreds of years ago that arguably is more impressive than going to the moon. Like what? I mean, you name it. Take any famous explorer from the 1500s to the 1800s, and whether it's Magellan or James Cook or Christopher Columbus or any of them,
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What they were able to do, navigating this vast ocean, going to play, having no modern technology at all, being able to go from where their starting point, hit some little tiny island somewhere and then go around and navigating a world that they don't even know what it looks like. They have no maps. They have no GPS. They have nothing at all. I cannot conceive of...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
This other person who was the offended party gets to inform you what you meant by that thing, which is really what the, I mean, the move is called Am I Racist? But in reality, There's only one person who can answer whether you're a racist person and that's you. And if you don't think that you're racist, then you aren't because racism is a thought process.
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how they could have ever done that. I don't know how in the world, not knowing what the world looks like, having no map, having no GPS, having no modern navigation whatsoever, how in the world could you possibly get on a ship launching out of France or Portugal or wherever and make it anywhere across the ocean? I don't know how you could do it.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But it also took centuries to get to the point where it could be easily recreated.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I would say 100 years from now. Perhaps. Maybe. Christopher Columbus was 300 years before James Cook, I think. The technology they were using was not that different. It was pretty similar. It didn't progress that fast.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I mean, it's interesting. Yeah. I'm at a slight disadvantage because I'm going to assume that people have addressed some of those issues before. and have given responses to it, I'm going to assume. Like if I went to YouTube right now and looked up that video debunked, people have probably done that.
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So I don't know what their response would be. So it's interesting. I just don't see it. So to me, I listen to that and I think, well, that's interesting. I look into that to figure out. The first thing I want to know is, okay, here's your claim, the claim they're making. I need to know what is the official narrative, let's say. How do they respond to that? Because I know they do. Right.
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And if it's not in your head, then you're not racist. You might have stereotypical views about people of other races. Everybody does to some extent. You might think things that are even insulting about people of other races, but it's not racist because racist means you hate people of other races or you think they're inferior to you.
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But you could be not a racist person and think that whatever Asians are bad drivers. You know, you could think that that stereotype is true. Whether it's true or not, you just happen to think that that's a true thing about this group. Doesn't mean you hate them. Doesn't mean that you think that they're inferior.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You could. I would just need some kind of solid evidence of that to believe that's true. Yeah, me too. This, to me... There are some things that we call conspiracy theories that I think are, you know, clearly true. There are some things that we call conspiracy theories that I think are maybe true.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But there are conspiracy theories that to me are just that they're just they're just they're not even theories, really. They're just kind of like fanciful, whatever projections. And the ones that I don't find convincing are where they usually start with. There's a so-called official narrative of a thing that happened. There's a couple of things about what actually happened that are kind of weird.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And we look at that and go, that's a little bit weird. And then the conspiracy theorists, in that case, they come in and they find these little tiny cracks, if you want to call it. And then inside the cracks, they shove this whole Hollywood cinematic narrative that they have created to explain what's actually a pretty tiny crack. You don't need this whole thing to explain that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So with the moon thing, I mean, one of the first... Weird aspects of the moon landing that I think started kind of the conspiracy theories about it was the flag, the fact that the flag's moving in the picture. And so, yeah, it's like when you look at that, you don't really understand. You look at what that is where, because there's no wind on the moon.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But then you understand that, okay, for example, when you put the flag down, it creates reverberations. It makes the flag move. It's going to move for longer because there's no gravity. So there's an explanation for that. But if you're the conspiracy theorist, then you take the flag moving, and you're like, nope, the whole thing is bunk.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And most of the time, these stereotypes, they didn't just fall out of the sky. They're grounded in something.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Right. And nobody would be offended. That's the thing. Nobody would be offended by a stereotype that really was not true at all. Right. You're only offended because it rings true at least a little bit. Because otherwise it would just be – it would be absurd.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It doesn't look like he hit it. It looks like a breeze. Yeah, but then the other part of this is that they... So what? The people that went through all this trouble to fake the moon landing... How would they miss these things?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I'll tell you what would convince me to, not that it's a fake, but at least would make me open to it. One thing that would shake my faith considerably in the moon landing, if Elon Musk were to come out and say, yeah, I don't know about this moon landing thing. Then, okay, fine.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And I'm not saying this is my whole reason for believing it happened, but Elon Musk, first of all, if the moon landing was fake, he knows it was. He knows it was fake. Sure. He's the richest man in the world. He's shown zero concern for propping up official narratives at all. Right. So he's a guy that would know if it's faked. There'd be no reason for him to continue that narrative if it was fake.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
In fact, he could even say, you know, they faked it. I'm going to do it for real. I'll be the first one to go to the moon because they faked it. And he hasn't said that. So I also find that to be pretty compelling. The fact that he, as someone who wouldn't know, let's say the problem is that you and I, most people that talk about this, we have no like direct access to knowledge about space.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Which is why when you get – I mean in the movie we go – there's a section where we go kind of outside this bubble and we go down and we talk to bikers at a biker bar in the south. We talk to the poor black community in New Orleans. And the only reason we did that was just – Well, let's find people who are not – they probably didn't go to college, so they didn't get brainwashed there.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
This is all being given to us by other people. So you got to go to people that have actually were working with this stuff. And so the fact that he has no time for this theory at all, I also find to be,
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I will say, the moon landing hoax idea, it's barely even a kook take anymore. I think it is, but you're probably in the majority with your take on it. The last time I talked about this publicly, I got absolutely ripped to shreds. Of course. It felt like 99% against. And it's going to happen again in response to this conversation.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Maybe, but it seems like it's shifting drastically. And a lot of that is people just have lost all faith in our institutions, which I understand.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So people are – I mean, that was kind of the point of your bit, that people are – once you see that this is a lie, this is a lie, this is a lie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. That is happening. And I'm totally sympathetic to that part of it. But I just think that the moon landing, there's a lot of good evidence for it. And also, this is an emotional argument.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's one of our greatest achievements as Americans. Sure. You've got to pry that from my cold, dead hands. You've got to really show me something to make me willing to give that up.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That's also wearing off, though. You think so? I don't think so. They were able to make her into a sensation, a political sensation, for about a month. I don't think she has that anymore. I don't think people are... Because you can hype somebody up and you can turn them into the next political savior through really good branding. They did that with Obama. But you got to have something.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They're not getting the corporate DEI seminars. They're not reading Robin DiAngelo or any of these people. What do they think about this stuff? Are they worried about systemic racism? Do they see everything as racist all the time? And what we found is no. They're just not even – they don't even speak that language. When you say the term systemic racism to them –
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
There has to be something. They at least have to have charisma. I mean, Obama had charisma. So you at least have to have that. If you have a politician who has charisma, then the media can come in and they can do the rest and they can turn you into.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, that's another. Or that it was shrapnel, which to me would make even less sense. Because, yeah, it's a very minor injury because she just got nicked. But if it's shrapnel, you would expect, you know, marks all over his face.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
The thing is, ears heal pretty quick. Yeah, and two centimeters. I mean, you can't see it from a distance.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Also, even if he didn't get hit with a bullet, which he did, But if he didn't, it doesn't make a difference. He still got shot at. It doesn't change what happened.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
The more bizarre thing about the shooting is that it's only been two months since it happened, right? Two months. Or not even two months. It's been like a month and a half. Mm-hmm. And we've moved on like it never happened. Like it never happened in two weeks.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's had no political impact whatsoever. Nuts. He got no polling boost from it. Reagan got like 12 points, briefly. Which just shows you the polls are full of shit. Probably. Yeah, full of shit. I mean, they are full of shit. But also, it would not shock me if, because we're so easily distracted, if people really did just forget and don't care a week later, two weeks later.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Why didn't he have a scope? This is one where I'm totally open to conspiracy theories, only because there's not even an official narrative. They basically told us nothing. So we're left to fill in the blanks.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I mean, and I just I can't. I think about when I do like a college speech, we'll have a little we'll have a few security guys there. Yeah. And there's no way, if someone showed up with a range finder, they would not get in the building. Anyone that looks vaguely suspicious with any kind of bag is getting flagged. I've got three or four guys, and I'm just a guy giving a speech at a college.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That never would have happened. It could not have happened. They would have flagged, especially three hours ahead of time. So how does that happen with a President of the United States or a former president? It's impossible to wrap your mind around. It's not like they've come up with...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's not like they've come up with some explanation where you could go, okay, well, now I can see how that might have happened. Everything we've heard since then just makes you even more confused.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think you're right that it was around 2012. BLM came into formation in 2013, I think. That was the Trayvon Martin thing. And so it's not a coincidence that it seemed like race relations in this country were improving decade after decade. They weren't perfect, but it seemed like they were pretty good. Much better than the 60s. Yeah, the 90s. I grew up in the 90s. It was not perfect, but...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That guy's a threat to democracy. Yeah. But I also think part of it, the fact that America seems to have moved on is nuts. Part of it, it's a political mistake. A lot of it's the media. Of course, they have no interest in talking about it. Some of it goes to the Republican Party. I mean, you had the Republican Convention, which was like two days later. So the timing is nuts. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Even at the Republican convention, I just felt like the fact that this guy was almost killed two days ago should be like the centerpiece of this thing. I mean, you've got all the cameras on you for four days. And so everything you were planning for the convention should change now because of this. And it should take on an extra seriousness and just the whole tone should change. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They've got Instagram influencers and they've got MAGA rappers from YouTube. It's just like you're not – you are not showing us how serious this thing is. And so I think that was a mistake.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They both are. I think they're equally as wild because Colbert apologizes to him apparently in that for being mean to him. In the clip we watched, he tells him, I'm so grateful that you're running for president.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And this was September of 2016 or 15. So this was, of course, after he'd already announced... A year plus before the elections. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I think it was that they were happy that he ran, and they wanted him to win the nomination because they thought that he easily beat him. So he was really... This really is a Frankenstein kind of story from their perspective. Yes. Because they look at him as a monster, this monstrous figure, and they... The media deliberately created this. They gave him all the attention.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They sucked all the oxygen out of the room for every other candidate because this is the guy they wanted. And they thought we were going to annihilate him. There's no way he's going to win a general election. And, of course, he won.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And I think that's one of the reasons why ever since then they haven't been able – the media, they just can't – they hate him with an extra passion that they have not had even for other Republican presidents. And I think a lot of it is – It's like they're projecting because they realize that they did this and they just can't get over it, I think.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I grew up in a diverse area. I went to public school. A lot of people of different ethnicities and races. We weren't talking about racism all the time. It was basically fine. And then something happened in the middle part of the first decade of the 2000s where it seemed like things started backsliding. And that's right at the time when Barack Obama was elected. And that's not a coincidence.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You also think that you are or you've told yourself that you are the vanguard candidate. protecting democracy in our way of life. Which is crazy. Which is insane. Of course, the idea that you have to prevent people from voting for a certain guy in order to protect democracy is nuts. It's so nuts. But that's what they actually believe.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And when you tell yourself that, you convince yourself that, well, this is for their own good. These people are silly. They don't know. They're dumb. They're bigoted. They don't understand what they're doing. And so for their own good, we have to prevent them. We have to do whatever we can to prevent this.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Like a lot of people have noticed that it's odd that we had a black president and then all of a sudden now we're having race riots again. And I think the reason is that when you elect a black president, I didn't like Obama. I didn't vote for him. I think his policies are terrible.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And not only can you get them to—obviously, they hate Trump, but to also demonize half of the country's population. I mean, there was just—I think it was MSNBC yesterday. One of these pundits was talking about Trump and said, well, he's despicable, he's terrible. But his supporters are, too. He said.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And they they went on about how terrible his supporters are, which is you're talking about tens of millions of Americans. A basket of deplorables. Right. But, you know, we take it for granted now. But 15 years ago, that would kind of be unthinkable. You just you wouldn't do that. You would you say whatever you want about a politician. You hate them. They're terrible.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But it was just generally understood that you don't you don't use that language to talk about all the people voting for these are American citizens.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And I don't mind – because you can go back farther in American history and you can find – like back to the beginning and they're in Congress like beating each other over the head with –
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
fireplace pokers and that sort of thing and i don't you know there's an argument to be made for that kind of it certainly makes c-span a lot more interesting uh but that shows a certain passion for the issues i suppose but that's it's what we have now is different from that it's it's it's much more i mean there have been multiple cases recently of congressional hearings
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Marjorie Taylor Greene, AOC. And who's the other one? Jasmine Crockett, I think. And it's like a Waffle House. It's like, you know. No respect for each other, but also no dignity at all. No class. No respect for the position.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But you would think that at least one positive you could draw from that is that, well, at least that means that systemic racism is not a problem in this country anymore. I mean, if a black guy could rise to the top of the system and run it, then clearly the system is not racist against black people. And in fact, was overwhelmingly voted into that position by Americans.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
One of the things that's always interesting to me is that they are so desperate to stop Trump and that they act like it's, you know, the future of the planet hangs in the balance. Meanwhile... they still own everything when they own all the institutions, Google, you know, the federal government. So the truth is that Trump could get into office.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
This happened last time he was in office for four years. They act like it was into the world. Then he's out of office and they basically reverse everything he did in like two seconds, a couple of executive orders, whatever. And, and most of it never took hold anyway, because the bureaucracy is entirely aligned against Trump. So, uh,
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So that's the problem, is that even when Trump gets in there, he's handicapped in his ability to do anything because the entire federal government, he might be at the top of it, but everybody underneath him despises him, and they're all leftist. And they can just reverse it the second that he leaves. And yet they still act like if he's in there that it's the end of the world. They still can't.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You'd think they'd almost have an attitude. They're like, yeah, whatever, fine. Let him have it for four years. It still won't matter because we're still going to be in charge of everything.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
which is true, so that is evidence that America isn't systemically racist against black people, but the race hustlers don't want us to draw that conclusion. They're worried that we'll look at Obama as president and say, okay, well, racism isn't a big issue anymore. And that's a problem for them because there's a lot of power, money and influence to be found in the racist racism narrative.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Of course, the funny thing is that he definitely will not do that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, yeah, he ran on Lockerbocker, but he didn't. I mean, that's the thing. They always... Their criticisms of Trump, one of the reasons they don't really land is that they they're not hitting him in the places where like they don't even understand what his weaknesses actually are. They try to make him out to be some kind of dictator. That's that's the opposite. If anything, he has the opposite.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
If anything, he has the opposite flaw that he's actually hesitant to wield power, even in times when he should. So, you know, if anything, that should be the criticism that you should use your power more. But he's probably the least dictatorial, you know, presidential candidate we've ever had.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Right. But they don't know what he did. The people saying that they don't know what he did. They don't care.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And the funny thing is these are also people who otherwise would say that the court system is entirely corrupt, that just because you're a convicted felon, it really doesn't mean anything at all necessarily. Right. But in this case, they put a lot of stock in it.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So they had to kind of like double up on their efforts to convince us that America is actually racist, which is why during Obama's term, that's when we started getting all these race hoaxes and the race riots and BLM. That's when things like people start talking about microaggressions and all this kind of nonsense because.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I kind of go back. That's the conventional wisdom, at least the people I talk to, that they say, well, if Trump doesn't win, he's going to jail. And so he's got a lot on the line here. I kind of think, are they really... Maybe it's naive of me to think, but would they do that?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Or would they rather just, he loses, Kamala wins, and then they'd want Trump to just fade into obscurity and never talk about him again? I don't know. I would tend to think that that would be, that they'd prefer that. But probably not. I mean, they...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
There's certainly a real thirst for vengeance. They want revenge on him. I think that's what it comes down to. Whether it helps them politically or not. Because I think that's the problem. If Kamala wins and then they really go after Trump and try to put him in jail, and if they actually do put him in jail, I don't see how it helps them politically.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think that's just going to radicalize people on the right even more than they already are.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And for good reason, by the way. I'm radicalized by it. So it doesn't help them politically, but I think he has to pay the price for defying them for so many years.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
They needed to tell us that, yeah, you might think that this issue is kind of solved now, but it's not. Racism is actually worse than you ever imagined. It's lurking everywhere.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I'd be interested to hear his answer to that. It wouldn't surprise me if, in a weird way, when you become president, you... You feel very powerless once you're sitting there because you realize that you're overseeing this just gigantic mammoth thing that's just so unwieldy. There's no way to really control it. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And especially in his case, you've got so many people within his own administration plotting against him. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
is there a lot of people within his own administration now you think plotting against him or only then do you think it's just like backstabby politics that just what they do period i mean at the time there certainly was and i think but i think he also made some he made some bad choices in personnel he made a lot of really bad i mean bringing guys like john bolton in uh there's no chance that you're not going to be undermined by somebody like that um
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And now we're at a point, and then not long after that, they started tearing down Confederate Civil War monuments and stuff, stuff that's been there for like 100 years, which was always weird because 100 years ago, people could, whatever, walk by a Robert E. Lee monument and not care. It wasn't a big deal to them, black or white.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And especially, you know, in Trump's first campaign in 2016, drain the swamp was was one of the was build the wall and drain the swamp and lock her up. You know, the two three big things. And you don't we don't hear drain the swamp nearly as much anymore. In fact, I don't think I've heard it. It's never said anymore. Right.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Which is unfortunate because that is actually that is that is the first thing that needs to happen if he gets in there. And what I would love to see is that. Okay, he's in there now. He got back in. They tried to stop him. They tried to kill him. They tried to put him in jail. He still got in there. He's not getting reelected. This is it for him. Four more years.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
He's out of politics forever after that. And I'd love to see him just... I got nothing to lose now. They're going to put me in jail when I'm out of office. So I got nothing to lose. I don't care what these people say. And just ruthlessly push your agenda through no matter how much they complain about it. I'd love to see him do that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think that they're assuming he will, which is why they're so desperate to stop him. But I don't know. It didn't happen the first time. I hope it does.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Well, even if because even if it is most of the stuff they call misinformation isn't. But in the case when there's something that is misinformation, it's just not true. That's being plenty of that goes around the Internet. That's still free speech, too. You have the right to say things that are not as long as you're not slandering somebody.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You have the right to make claims about the world that don't happen to be true. So the idea that that doesn't qualify as free speech is, of course, absurd. But then that also requires some central authority to be the arbiter of what is true and what is not.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Now, all of a sudden, it's a bigger deal to us than it was to people whose parents fought. They had grandparents who fought in the Civil War or died in the Civil War. They were okay with it. And yet for us, what, the wounds of the Civil War are fresher or more raw for us than they were for people a century ago? It makes no sense. How are we less able to...
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That's why I think the free speech thing is people act like it's a complicated thing. It's a complicated subject. Where do you draw the line? What is free speech? What qualifies and what doesn't? I don't think it is that complicated, really. I think it's just you should have the right to express whatever your opinion happens to be. Everyone should be able to say their opinion, their point of view.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Wrong or right, reprehensible or not, they should be able to say it. Yeah, you can't defame someone. You can't threaten to kill somebody. But those aren't really opinions. That's different. If it's just your opinion about what's happening in the world, it should be allowed. And it should be allowed legally. It should be allowed on every social media platform.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I think it's kind of simple, actually, to differentiate between that and the – because, yeah, there's certain kinds of speech that should not be allowed. We all understand that.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And hate speech, too, is the other label they use. Tim Walls said this recently about free speech. He said, well, of course you can't. Hate speech and misinformation doesn't count. But what is hate speech? Hate speech is just you're expressing that you hate something. People hate things. It's legitimate. There are some things we should hate.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
So the idea that it's automatically illegitimate to express a view if it's communicating hatred is, of course, ridiculous.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Right. And it implies that all hatred is automatically bad, or at least it puts the people in power and position where they can decide what kind of things you're allowed to hate and what you're not.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
be objective and non-emotional about the Civil War than people who had family members. Ex-slaves were still living back then.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Different world, right? Yeah. I think Elon Musk is actually preserving free speech. One of the main people preserving free speech in America right now. And going into space. So it's always funny to me when people... When the left tries to nitpick and needle at him, it's like, this is one of the most significant human beings on the planet right now.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And he'll, you know, SpaceX will launch a rocket and it'll blow up or something. Stephen King was making fun of him. Right. Yeah. You'll have someone like Stephen King, like rocket blew up. It's like, dude, your rockets don't blow up because you don't build them.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And a lot of times when they say that the rocket malfunctioned or something, it's actually doing exactly what it was supposed to do. This is a test run or whatever. Yeah, they have to test tolerances and parameters.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. And you need and we just need people in the world. This is very much the it's like the Teddy Roosevelt man in the arena, you know, speech. You need people in the arena who are actually trying to do stuff, do important things. You need people like that. Yeah. And of course, social media gives a platform for people who are like not doing anything at all.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
To just sit and snicker at the few people in the world who are trying to achieve something?
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. I mean, that's the catch-22 of social media because it could be – If you use it exactly the right way, it does give you access to all these human beings and the way that they're thinking about things, which can be quite enlightening. But most people don't use it the right way.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And this is also why, in my opinion, none of my kids have smartphones or social media. They're going to get bullied.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, I think once you... I mean, we haven't quite decided when we're going to introduce this stuff to the kids. But once you get into high... At a certain point, yeah, I don't want them to be 18 and it's their first time ever holding a cell phone. Right. Because then you're just... Then they have no idea. We haven't given them the tools to understand how to use this stuff. Right.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Like the emotional and intellectual tools. So you got to introduce it at some point. But... Most kids today, I don't know what the latest figure is, but millions of kids today have smartphones by the time they're like eight or nine years old.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
A lot of my kids, you know, with friends when they come over and they're eight, nine, ten years old and they've got phones, I just think it's like, it can only harm them. You understand, as a parent, you're giving them something. At this age, they cannot use it appropriately or correctly. They don't have the tools for it. They're not old enough. It cannot help them in their life.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. I mean, the average age of first exposure to pornography now is like... I think it's around 10 years old. I mean, it depends on, I guess, what study you look at, but it's young. And it's not just... Because, yeah, people sometimes will dismiss the harms of it because they'll say... They'll say, oh, yeah, I found a Playboy under my dad's mattress or whatever. Not the same.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's not at all the same. I mean, the kind of thing you're being exposed to, how often you're being exposed to it, how ubiquitous it is now, how readily available it is, it's not at all the same.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Well, that kind of goes to show there's something primal about... Even just the... Well, obviously with pornography, but the phone, the... Even like my two-year-old twins. They don't have phones, obviously, but... Just something about the phone itself. Even if it's off, they just like to have... It's a cool object. Yeah.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And our kids, we will... They don't have tablets and all that stuff, but if we go on a long car trip, it's the one time we make an exception. If we're going on a 20-hour car trip, just for our own sanity, we'll let them have tablets in the car, just with games and books and stuff. But... Then we get wherever we're going, we take the tablets away, you don't get them anymore.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
But there's like a detox period of like two or three days where they're jonesing for it. They're constantly, they can't, they're constantly asking for it. And once you get past that, they're fine again. But there's a real, it's like there's something, it creates this compulsion and kids take to it really quickly.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
And it just becomes, it's like a, it becomes another limb for them, part of their, part of them somehow really quickly. Yeah.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. And it's yeah, we've gotten that with the movie. People ask, is it is all is that all real or did we stay? It's all totally real. We didn't script any of it. And that in particular is a yeah, it's like a support group for white people who are struggling with their white grief because they they have privilege and they're grieving their whiteness and their privilege.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And there's this woman, Bershia Wade, I think his name is. a black woman she'll do these sessions with white people where she'll kind of like talk them through their whiteness and people yeah people pay money to go and sit around and uh and talk to her and that was another one that was like an hour and a half two hours in the room in real time when did they start figuring out who you were uh
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
At some point, midway through, they started looking at me strange because I was intentionally making it really awkward just because it was funny. But then, as you can see in the movie, I get emotional because I'm on my own journey of self-discovery. And I had to leave because there's one rule that all these people have. We ran into this multiple times.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
If you're white, you're not allowed to cry in front of black people because that's white tears. And you can't shed white tears around black people because white tears are manipulative. So in this place, she had a cry room. She said, if you get emotional, you have to cry. We have a room. Get away from us and go cry over there. So at one point, I left to the cry room because I was getting emotional.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's a very emotional experience to confront my whiteness. And... I guess while I was gone, they started talking to each other. Like, who is this guy? They looked it up, and they were Googling. And then I came back. The whole thing had changed. The tone had changed. They kicked me out.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
That guy, too, I can say. One of the people in that group was a professional cuddler, actually. It's not in the movie, but we just know that about them. They get paid to cuddle with people? Yeah, one of the people in the group. Jeez. A cuddlist is what they call it. Jeez. They're fringe people. We thought about somehow we could put up a lower third on the screen. But it seems fake.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's like people don't really professional cuddler. Come on. But this is too crazy. These people exist out there. This is a world that they live in. Yeah. They go to events like this and they're, they're very, they feel they have a lot of guilt for the fact that they're white. You know, uh, there were people crying in the circle. I mean, they were getting really emotional talking about it. Oh,
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah. And that was always – it was always going to go that way because – George Washington, founding fathers owned slaves. Not only that, but they were rebels, you know, rebelling against a governmental authority. And if they had lost, then they all would have been hanged as traitors. And that's how they'd be remembered. Thankfully, they didn't.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
There's the part where she says, think about being white. What emotions come up when you think about being white? And then everyone goes around and they're like, oh, I have revulsion. I just feel, I cringe. I feel cringe. Really? This is you. You're talking about yourself. It's just, it's sick. It's a sickness.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
I didn't think, I mean, we had that planned as our last exercise when we bring the whips out. And we debated like, is anyone really going to take a whip? I didn't think anybody would. I thought that this would be, because we needed an end for the scene. And so I thought I'd bring the whips out and everybody would leave. Yeah. And so then that would be the end.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And then that would be, that's our, cause you know, it's a narrative we're trying to tell story. So that would be the thing that shows me I've gone too far, but then they started taking the whips. And I'm like, I don't think I can actually have you beat yourself right now for like liability. I don't know if I can do that. Um, so I was not expecting that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Yeah, there was really the, uh, right before that. I mean, you know, it's spoilers, I guess, but, uh,
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
when i'm berating my uh my racist uncle um and uh well i don't know you gotta watch it but you gotta watch it yeah that that was for me the the most shock making the movie the most shocking thing to me that happened that really took me back was in that moment and the way they responded to it uh which i was not expecting and it's kind of dark yeah they got aggressive with them yeah yeah
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
You don't enjoy it in the moment because it's really unpleasant in the moment. You're in this environment with these... Insane people. Yeah. It's exhausting listening to this. How did you develop that skill to do that, though? Because that's a skill. I don't know if I... I can't say I did anything to develop it.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
It's more just... I just know what... We're making a movie, so I'm aware of that the whole time. Obviously, if the cameras weren't rolling, I wouldn't be reacting the same way. So I'm just kind of keeping that in the back of my mind. This is what we need for this scene. But the main thing is we want, with both movies, the whole point is to create an environment...
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But so there's a it's actually there's a there's a it's not that far of a leap to go from from one to the other. And, of course, the issue is that. Everybody who lived on earth prior to about, certainly prior to 100 years ago is racist by our standards today, every single one. There was no one who lived on earth 100 years ago who we would not consider racist anywhere of any race.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
where the other person feels comfortable saying what they actually think and what they really believe and doing what they would really do. And that means not react because if you laugh at them, they clam up. If you argue with them, if you show any real skepticism, They clam up. They're not going to tell you what they really believe.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
And then it's a boring movie because all you're getting are the talking points. And that's especially the case we found in this... That was the case with What Is Woman? We're talking to the trans activists. But in this, when you're talking to the race hustlers, they've been doing it for a lot longer. The race hustle has been around a lot longer than the trans hustle.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
And they're pretty good at what they do. And they're usually pretty sensitive to...
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
detecting when someone's being skeptical and if they get that then they they're they kind of go into a different mode and they go into this kind of hr dei mode where everything's very sanitized very surface level they're not gonna they're not gonna tell you the stuff about how you know all white people are inherently racist and they're not gonna do they're not gonna get into the really brutal terrible racist stuff um so we just thought making this movie how can we
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Just create an environment where they'll really be themselves.
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#2204 - Matt Walsh
Which with What Is Woman, all that required was just kind of being a blank slate and asking questions. With this one, it required more of an affirmatively agreeing with them approach. and demonstrating that I'm fully on board with this.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
She did. But the thing is, she did kind of. And I think you can see it on camera. In the room, I could tell she was kind of like... What did you just do? She was trying to figure out in her head. I think she was trying to sort through it. Like, is he...
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
but I think she just couldn't, uh, she couldn't, the possibility that she was in the room with someone who doesn't already agree with her about everything. It's like unthinkable to her. She couldn't, she couldn't fathom it. She probably, that was probably the first time in like 20 years that she'd been in a room with someone who doesn't agree with her on everything.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Has she responded to the movie at all? Uh, No, she took down her Twitter page. So most of the people in the movie have taken down their Twitter pages, deleted them. So they're kind of going into a bubble somewhere. I mean, the truth is there's not a lot they can say because, listen, if we deceptively edited it, if we pulled any trick like that, they'd happily come out and say that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
But they know that we didn't. Everything that's in there is what they said. We didn't change anything. Yeah. It's all real, and they know that, so what can they say? And especially in Robin DiAngelo's case, you know, it goes in a direction. She's willing to do some things that are quite embarrassing for her, and... But, you know, we didn't put a gun to her. We didn't force her.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Oh, it's in theaters. It's in theaters right now. Oh, nice. Nice. You can get tickets at mracist.com.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
Nice. We're trying to get it out to make it available to whoever wants to see it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
If you go back 200 years or earlier than that, almost everybody either owned slaves or was okay with slavery as an institution. You go back 500 years, And there was nobody on the planet who considered slavery to be wrong fundamentally.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
They might have had issues with how slaves are treated in some context, but it took like thousands of years for it to ever even occur to a single human on earth that slavery is actually fundamentally wrong, which is a crazy thing. And that's actually an interesting thing you could talk about and think about. Like, why is that?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2204 - Matt Walsh
How could it be that it's so obvious to us, but some of the greatest minds of history, they never thought of it. But we can't talk about that because we have to talk about slavery and racism as if they're exclusively white Western phenomena.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the Academy Awards put out their short list for documentaries. Somehow the number one documentary of the decade didn't make the list. Imagine that. Also, Joe Biden says that the mysterious so-called drones in the sky are probably not nefarious, but he's not exactly sure. San Francisco, having solved all of its other problems, appoints a fat acceptance czar.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
This is very much an ongoing fight because, you know, one thing I've learned and maybe the main thing I've learned after getting into filmmaking is that the left truly believes that it owns the art of filmmaking. Not just that it owns Hollywood, which it does, but that it owns filmmaking itself as an art form.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
So any conservative who makes a film in any genre is an intruder, is a usurper, showing up in a place where he doesn't belong. That's the way they see it. So the truth is that the success of our films, and by the way, both of our films, both documentaries, are easily the most watched and influential documentaries of the decade. We have the top two. in this decade. There's really no dispute.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
I don't think anything else is even close to in the running. But that actually makes it less likely that they'll be recognized by critics or awards. Our success is an affront to them. They hate us for it. They feel personally insulted by it. Now, if this snub tells us anything, it's that we're angering all the right people.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Shockingly, I haven't talked about this issue at all, I don't think, on the show, even though you'd think it'd be right up my alley. This is like... This is... This is... a story tailor-made for me. And so why haven't I talked about it? Maybe it's the contrarian in me. I talk about UFOs when nobody is talking about them or cares about them.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And then I don't talk about them when everyone's talking about them and cares about them. I didn't plan it that way. It's just how it worked out. But in any case, mysterious drone sightings all over the country. You're familiar by now with the basics of this story, starting in New Jersey and kind of branching out from there. at least along the East Coast.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
There have been these drone sightings, hundreds of sightings. The Pentagon on Monday came out and said, everything's fine. Nothing to see here. These are all just commercial aircraft or hobbyist drones or stars or... you know, weather balloons or light refracting from Venus, you know, or any number of explanations. Basically, any explanation as long as it's boring and not scary.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
That was their statement. We don't know exactly what this is, but we're sure that whatever it is, it's fine. You know, that's... Which is the kind of answer that you wouldn't accept in any other facet of your life. You know, if you...
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
If you went to the doctor because you had some strange thing going on in your body, you had some strange growth or something, and you go to the doctor, the doctor says, well, I don't know what that is, but I'm sure it's fine. You wouldn't accept that. He's like, well, if you don't know what it is, then how can you know that it's fine?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
It's like the fact that there's something anomalous going on here is in and of itself is a pretty good indication that it might not be fine. And yet we get this kind of answer from the government a lot, and that's what they've been saying here. They don't know what it is, but it's probably fine.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Yesterday, Biden finally addressed the drone craze, I think for the first time, though very briefly, and talking to reporters, and here's what he said.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Okay, so he says nothing nefarious, apparently. Apparently he's doing a lot of work there. Not exactly instilling confidence, once again. Nothing nefarious, apparently. And the problem is that the official explanations don't really comport with some of what we're seeing. For example, the Express yesterday had footage taken by a passenger on a plane over what they think is Detroit.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
It was on its way into Newark, but over Detroit. And this passenger saw these kind of glowing orbs in the sky. This was 10 or 12,000 feet in the air above the clouds. And let's take a look at that. So there are the orbs. You can see the glowing orb-like vehicles. This is an altitude well above where a commercially available drone could fly. And all right, that's good. That's enough of that.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And there have been a lot of sightings like this, hundreds, as I said, across the country for several days now. And, you know, Pentagon and White House say it's nothing. They don't know what it is, but it's nothing. They're sure of that. Many other theories have been floated. Some have said that these are drones or aircraft from some kind of foreign adversarial power.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Chinese spy drones, I just read an article floating that as a possibility. I find that hard to believe because the whole point, and what do I know, but the whole point of a spy drone, I would think, is that it's not supposed to be detected. But these things are lit up like glowing like the 4th of July, you know? So, I mean, I don't think your enemies are trying to put on a light show for you.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
So, enemy spy drones that thousands of people can see and that attract hundreds of headlines, there seems to be a concept problem. It's just not how that's supposed to go. So I find that hard to believe. The other possibility is that these crafts are part of some U.S. government operation. I find that explanation kind of unsatisfying. What would be the point?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
I mean, a common variation of this theory that you've probably heard is that maybe the government's looking for something, and there's stories about a lost nuke, lost radioactive materials, and because there's no evidence of that. And once the sightings spread out across the East Coast, it becomes even less satisfying. What are they looking for 15,000 feet above Detroit?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And of course, you always get the people who say, well, this is a diversion tactic. They're trying to distract us. That's what this is all about. But as I always say to that, There will be no reason for the government to do anything so elaborate to distract us. They don't need to conduct some convoluted operation with thousands of drones across the East Coast to distract us.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
We are already distracted all the time, constantly. You're distracted right now listening to me, okay? Everybody is always. So that's why I always get a kick out of this. They had to do all this to distract us. They could just point to a squirrel over there. We actually had a two-day news cycle about a squirrel. So anything will distract it.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
They could, I don't know, make Taylor Swift break up with Travis Kelsey. That would distract the American public way, way more than 10,000 drones ever could. So I find a lot of the standard explanations unsatisfactory, which leaves us with the only remaining plausible answer, which is that, yes, these are aliens. Sorry, I know you expected me to say that. I know that I'm not surprising you.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
I know as soon as you saw this, if you're a fan of the show, as soon as you saw the drone thing, you're like, oh, Matt's going to say it's aliens. Well, yeah, it's because that's what they are. I don't know what to tell you. So I can't surprise you. Because in order to surprise you, you have to be wrong. And that would be the most surprising thing, for me to be wrong.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
But I need to stick with my boring habit of being right, which means I have to say, these are aliens. You know, one important fact here is that many of the initial New Jersey drone sightings were over the ocean or of what appeared to be craft coming off of the ocean. This is a common theme with UFO sightings. They're often seen coming out of or back into, seemingly, the ocean.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
What's the significance of that? Well, I don't know, but I do know that the deep ocean is the last place on Earth that is mostly uncharted and mostly unexplored. The deepest parts of the ocean are less accessible to us than the moon. And meanwhile, people often ask, well, if aliens are coming here, where are they going?
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Are they just coming and flying around a little bit and then leaving a minute later? That's a long way to go to just fly around and leave. Doesn't make a lot of sense. And you're right, it doesn't. So what if they're coming here and actually staying? What if they are establishing alien bases under the water? I mean, that would be one way to explain this. That's one explanation.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Is it the best way to explain it? Depends on what you mean by best. If by best answer you mean most exciting, most interesting, most fun, then yes, it's the best answer. The best answer is it's aliens coming out of their alien bases in the ocean. That's the best answer. Now, if by best answer you mean most plausible, well then, stop being a bummer. You have your drone theory, I have mine.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Nobody knows. So when it comes to this, you just got to go with the most fun possible answer. That's my version of Occam's razor, okay? That's my little twist on it. Only when it comes to mysterious things in the sky, only then will I say that I will choose the most fun possible explanation. And I'm doing the same here. I got to stick by my guns on this. I want to mention this story too.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson goes from being a really bad jurist to an even worse Broadway star. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. Are you feeling the stress about giving your family a memorable holiday? You're not alone. Prices remain higher than ever and a lot of us are maxing out our credit cards.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
This is from a few days ago at this point, and I missed it while I was away. Which, by the way, a lot of you in the audience were upset that I disappeared without explanation. And I also disappeared right when this drone stuff was going on. So you might have thought I'm on some kind of mission related to the drones. But that was not the case.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
Actually, I left because of my surprise party for my dad's 70th birthday. And the problem is my dad listens to the show. So I couldn't tell you guys that I was taken off a few days because then he'd be suspicious. So for the sake of preserving the surprise, I had to spring this on you without notice. These are the moral quandaries that one faces while attempting to pull off a surprise party.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
But anyway... Which we did pull off, by the way. He was surprised. So this happened late last week. And I have to say a few things about it. You've probably already seen the clip. We'll play it anyway. This is Crystal Mangum, who's the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case, admitting in a podcast last week that she made up that rape claim almost 20 years ago. Now, I think it was in 2006.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
I have to confess that I don't spend any amount of time using the app known as Blue Sky, which is the left's alternative to X. And there are a lot of reasons for that. One of them is that if I started posting on Blue Sky, my account would be nuked within about five seconds. It's an app that doesn't tolerate any kind of dissent from left-wing orthodoxy, an echo chamber in the purest form.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
So almost 20 years ago, it was all made up. And she finally admitted it. Let's watch the clip.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
So she made it all up. We already knew that she made it up. Any honest and intelligent person knew it at the time. It was always obviously a lie, and now she's admitting to it 20 years later, apologizing, hopes that they can forgive her. All she did was completely ruin the lives of three young men. All she did was have these young men or try to have them thrown in prison for decades.
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Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
All she did was tear the country apart over a lie that she made up. And now she wants to be forgiven. Forgiven with zero accountability, zero consequences, zero punishment. It's just obscene. Imagine the reverse of this. Imagine a man... raped a woman and got away with it. And then 20 years later said, yes, I raped her. I'm sorry. That was wrong. I hope she can forgive me.
The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1505 - The Real Reason “Am I Racist?” Was Snubbed By The Oscars
And then imagine that was the end of it. No legal repercussions, no prison time, just an oops, sorry about that. I screwed up. And that's it. And it The apology almost makes it worse at that point because there's no accountability. It almost makes it worse because it just makes the lack of consequence all the more glaring and ghastly.
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And this comparison works because, as I've said many times, falsely accusing someone of rape is just as evil as rape itself. These are two sides of the same coin, essentially. The false rape accusation is... basically the female version of rape. An evil pervert man who gets off on imposing himself on women becomes a rapist.
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An evil pervert woman who gets off on imposing herself on men often becomes a false rape accuser. And the trauma suffered by the rape victim and the false rape accusation victim is is very similar, equally severe, equally devastating. And, you know, of course, when you say things like that, people will accuse you of downplaying the severity of rape.
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But if you interpret it that way, it's just because it's not, this is not downplaying the severity of rape. You are downplaying the severity of falsely accusing someone. The point here is not to diminish the severity of rape, but to take this other thing and make a point about how significant that is. We're not bringing this down a level. It's this other thing.
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If you're not there to commiserate with self-loathing trans activists or to come up with clever new ways that a special counsel could remove Donald Trump from office, then there's just not much to do. In other words, It's what every social media platform on the internet used to be before Elon Musk got involved. Now, that being said, you can make the case that Blue Sky still serves a purpose.
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We're bringing it up, making sure that it's on the correct level, bringing it up a level in terms of explaining the severity of it. When we say ruin the life of someone, that is what you are doing. You are ruining their life. And those guys who were accused, I don't know where they are today. Hopefully they've been able to pick up the broken pieces and build some kind of life.
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Your life isn't literally over. You continue living, hopefully. But you have just sent their life careening off on a new course that it shouldn't be on. And you've done this all with your false accusation. And in the meantime, and we can't understate the point that you are trying to put them in prison. You're trying to have them locked up in prison on false pretenses.
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So it's also kind of a form of kidnapping. I mean, that's what falsely imprisoning someone is, and that's what you're trying to do. You're trying to use the legal system to do it because you can't do it yourself, but that is what you're trying to do. Now, Crystal Mangum, I believe, is already in prison for second-degree murder.
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I think she stabbed and killed her boyfriend, I believe, because this is just a wonderful person all around. But she's set to be released soon, and she should now be looking at another 20 years in prison, at least. Okay, you want... I mean, forgiveness... The guys that she victimized, I don't know if they... I think if I was in their shoes, I'd have a very hard time forgiving her.
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I think, obviously, it'd be a very hard time. Whether I could actually forgive her or not, I don't know. And I don't know if they... If they can't forgive her, I... would totally understand that. It's not my place to forgive. This is one of the things people don't understand about forgiveness.
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When you have someone who does something and then they go in public and say, oh, I'm asking for forgiveness. The forgiveness from the public, even if we could grant it, is meaningless. We were not the ones who were harmed by this. We're not the victims. So our forgiveness means nothing. We actually can't forgive you. We aren't involved in this.
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The men that she victimized, they could choose to forgive her or not. But what I do know is that forgiveness is in effect a sort of one-way street in that way, that a person chooses to forgive or they choose not to. But reconciliation, having any kind of real reconciliation, that is not a one-way street. That, on the part of the wronged person, it involves forgiveness on their end.
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It offers the same value proposition that MSNBC provided on election night, which is this. When left-wingers assemble and shut out everyone who disagrees with them, then at the very least, the meltdowns can be pretty entertaining. They can also reveal a lot about the left's thinking and what's going on in the institutions they control.
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On the part of the person who did the wrong thing, there must be accountability. You have to be willing to suffer the consequences and accept the consequences of the terrible thing that you did. And by the way, if you're not, then you're not actually sorry. So your apology is not real. And in this case, there's no consequence. No legal consequence, which is just crazy.
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And all that does is encourage more of this kind of stuff in the future. When someone could come out years after the fact and say, yeah, you know what, I made it up. And there's no consequence at all. I find that, as I said, obscene is the best word I can think of for it. Daily Mail has this story.
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The San Francisco Department of Public Health has hired a consultant on weight stigma and weight neutrality despite the city in the midst of a battle against rampant homelessness, open-air drug use, and violent crime. Virgie Tovar, a self-described anti-waste-based discrimination expert, describes herself as a prominent advocate for fat positivity and body acceptance.
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Announcing her appointment on her Instagram, she called it an absolute dream come true. I'm unbelievably proud to serve the city. I've called home for almost 20 years in this way, Tovar wrote. This consultancy is an absolute dream come true, and it's my biggest hope and belief that weight neutrality will be the future of public health. Okay, so San Francisco has a million serious problems.
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The city's falling apart. Anyone who's been there recently, as I have been multiple times, unfortunately, knows that this is no exaggeration. I mean, it's a filthy, disgusting place. I can't imagine ever living there. If I was offered a job that pays 10 times more my current salary, but I had to live in San Francisco, I wouldn't take it. I wouldn't even be tempted to take it.
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That's how revolting San Francisco is. San Francisco is so bad. That the fact that there are gay men walking around fully naked in the city is actually not even the worst thing about it, about the city. It's top five, for sure. I mean, it's probably three or four on the list. But it has so many problems that somehow there are things even worse than exhibitionist weirdos walking around. And...
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In spite of all that, the city is taking the time to focus on weight stigma with their weight stigma czar, Virgie Tovar. And by the way, here she is. This is a video making the rounds on X, but here she is introducing herself. Let's watch this.
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So case in point, if for some reason you found yourself on Blue Sky lately, then you know that, to the great surprise of left-wing activists, they're starting to lose control over one of the most powerful weapons in the culture war and in Hollywood, which is Disney.
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What I think of, what you think of when you think of eating disorders, I think of being a kid. That's a sentence that she just said there. A couple of things here. Number one, Yeah, you should make yourself smaller by any means necessary. That is correct. There's nothing sinister about that. By any means necessary, you should make yourself smaller.
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If that's the message you get from doctors, that's the correct message. That doesn't mean that you should be bulimic or anorexic because those methods aren't necessary to lose weight. They're also not recommended from a health perspective, obviously, but the point is they aren't necessary.
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So if you're hearing the message that you should lose weight by any means necessary, that is not an advocacy for eating disorders. The necessary means for losing weight is eating less and moving more. That is what is necessary. Those are the necessary means. And yes, that is what you should do. And second... She says she's the author of a book called You Have the Right to Remain Fat.
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Which, by the way, I know I said recently that gag gifts are lame, but there are exceptions to every rule. And it would be very funny to give that book to somebody as a gag gift. Wrap the book, hand it to them, tell them, you know, you saw this book on the shelf and thought of them immediately. And you thought that they'd find it inspiring. Now, important disclaimer here.
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This is a gag gift only for men. You as a man, give it to a male friend or a male family member who has a good sense of humor. I would not give this as a gag gift to a female. Okay, don't give it to your wife as a gag gift. That would be a very good way to ruin Christmas. A funny thing for me to think about, you doing that. But anyway, I looked at the book on Amazon.
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Here's the description in case you're curious. It says, growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Just a side note, and you always hear this from morbidly obese people, that, well, I've tried dieting for two decades.
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The big story over on Blue Sky recently has been that Disney just pulled an episode of the Marvel animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. According to leaked online footage, the episode is about a boy who identifies as transgender and wants to join a girls volleyball team.
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No, you haven't. Okay, two decades of dieting and you look like that? literally impossible, literally impossible to diet for two decades and end up looking like that at the end. It breaks the laws of physics. It cannot be done. Now, I mean, well, I guess it depends what you mean by dieting. You could just have a really, really bad diet.
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I mean, your idea of dieting could be insane, but like actual dieting, where you're cutting down the calories, and again, you're moving more. The calorie deficit, two decades, and you're morbidly obese. Impossible to do. Cannot be done. So every time you hear this, I've tried dieting. I've tried everything. No, you haven't. I've tried everything to lose weight. No, you haven't.
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Not only have you not tried everything, you haven't even tried the one single most obvious thing and the only thing that, aside from drugs, will make you lose weight, which is to cut the calories and to move more. So you haven't tried. You haven't tried everything. You haven't tried anything. Actually, you've tried nothing, basically. But there was also this line I liked.
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She says, Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free for moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. Jiggle through life with respect. Those words that were written, and not to be funny. And of course, the whole premise here misses the point intentionally.
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You know, these fat acceptance people always go on about how all bodies should be valued equally, which, yes, true. If you mean that all people, regardless of their size, should have equal rights and moral dignity as human beings, that's true. But that's also exactly why you shouldn't be fat.
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If you value yourself and your body, you should not be doing something that destroys yourself and your body. Fat acceptance is no different than the idea of cancer acceptance. Imagine a movement that tells you to embrace and enjoy having cancer. Imagine a movement that says we shouldn't negatively judge people who do things that cause cancer. We should encourage them to keep doing it.
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Write a book called You Have the Right to Die of Cancer. Now, of course, this analogy doesn't actually work because there can be a point with cancer when you do have to basically accept it. If you're terminal stage four, cancer is untreatable, inoperable, then at that point, basically, you should be in the acceptance stage.
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The coach of the team is completely fine with this, either because he's a really enlightened activist or because he just wants to win really badly. Not exactly clear, but The coach of an opposing team, who looks extremely menacing and whose name is Greer, takes issue with this whole arrangement.
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Although even then, it'd be perverse to insist that somebody love and embrace the cancer itself. It's a tragedy. at this point, unavoidable. So hopefully you can find happiness and peace in spite of the cancer, but you don't find it in the cancer or through the cancer or because of the cancer. On the other hand, there is never a point with fatness where you should just accept it.
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It's never terminal. I mean, you can always become less fat as long as you're alive, right? which you won't be for very long if you insist on being morbidly obese. And that's really the point here. Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and devastating. From Maui fires to Hurricane Helene, we're seeing entire towns wiped out in 24 hours with barely any warning. And what happens?
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People are left without basic resources, scrambling to survive. Now, I know you're thinking it won't happen here. Well, that's exactly what everyone thinks until they're in the middle of a catastrophe. Being prepared isn't just smart, it's essential. And that's where the Wellness Company's Emergency Kit comes in. These aren't your run-of-the-mill first aid kits.
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We're talking about a personalized mini-pharmacy right in your own home. No more relying on overworked doctors or understocked pharmacies with disaster strikes. Bacterial infections, staph, bite wounds, UTIs, strep throat, respiratory illnesses. These kits have you covered. It's like having a doctor in your pocket minus the liberal indoctrination from med school.
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Look, you keep a fire extinguisher handy, don't you? Well, consider this your medical fire extinguisher. It's not paranoia, it's preparedness. Here's how it works. Just fill out a form online, a pharmacist reviews it, and boom, your kit arrives in two weeks. It even comes with a medical board-approved guidebook. It's that simple.
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And right now, when you go to UrgentCareKit.com slash Walsh and use promo code Walsh, you'll save $60 plus, get free shipping. That's UrgentCareKit.com slash Walsh to save 60 bucks. This is preparedness simplified. Invest in your family's self-managed insurance plan today. UrgentCareKit.com slash Walsh. USA residents only.
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A major part of that fight is now in the hands of the Supreme Court. Then we took on the box office with Am I Racist? And Americans showed up in record numbers, making it the number one documentary of the decade, despite Hollywood pretending it doesn't exist. At The Daily Wire, we fight the left and build the future, and we need you to stand with us.
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Every dollar you invest goes directly back into these battles. Join Daily Wire Plus today or give the gift of Daily Wire Plus this Christmas for 40% off. Head to dailywire.com right now. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. You may have heard the phrase theater kid occupied government. It's an expression that in normal circumstances is not meant to be taken literally.
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And as the episode progresses, the boy says lines like, I'm trans, my very existence breaks Greer's rules. He also wears pride-themed knee pads and has a trans is beautiful sticker on his water bottle. Other players, including one who identifies as non-binary, quote unquote, call Greer narrow-minded.
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It's been used in cases where, say, the Biden administration invites TikTok influencers to the White House or when Eric Swalwell starts crying in Congress because of a meme that depicts Donald Trump rescuing cats from Haitian migrants. These are situations in which Democrat politicians act like theater kids or when they promote influencers who seem like theater kids. But
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In general, no one is actually suggesting that theater kids are literally occupying the government and conducting its day-to-day operations. It's an expression. It's meant to parody Democrats in exaggerated terms to highlight how absurd things become when they're in power.
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But by this point, we're all very familiar with the Democrats' uncanny ability to turn absurd and exaggerated situations into reality. They're becoming impossible to parody. And as if to prove that point, a Democrat on the Supreme Court has just decided to embrace her inner theater kid in the most literal sense.
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As you may have seen, Kentonji Brown Jackson had her debut on Broadway on Saturday night, appearing in the musical And Juliet, which apparently is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. She plays a character called Queen Mab, who, according to a poster from the production, has she-her pronouns.
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And she appears in two scenes that were written specifically for her for a one-night-only performance. Here's some of the promo video that they released after her appearance. Watch.
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Now, just from the short clips that appear in the promo, you can already tell that she can't act. She actually managed to bungle one of the few lines she had when she gets interrupted by the crowds and just stops mid-sentence. And other clips from her performance demonstrate that she can't really sing either.
The Matt Walsh Show
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But before I subject you to that footage, I need to make the point that even if Quintanja Brown Jackson could act and sing, She still shouldn't have made the decision to appear in this play for several reasons. For one thing, it's completely unwatchable political propaganda.
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In particular, it's a full-on embrace of every ridiculous tenet of gender ideology, including the idea that people can be non-binary. That's notable because gender ideology is currently before the Supreme Court in the case pertaining to Tennessee's ban on child castration.
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During oral arguments in that case, Ketanji Brown Jackson compared Tennessee's ban to a prohibition against interracial marriage. made it very clear that she's a partisan on this issue, and now she appears to be openly celebrating that fact in a play centered around these kinds of ideas, which should be disqualifying all on its own.
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Now, to give you some idea of what this new version of Romeo and Juliet is like, there's a character called May, who apparently is Juliet's best friend and who identifies as non-binary and uses he, she, they pronouns. Watch.
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Ultimately, the evil coach uses some kind of magical curse to confine the boy and his teammates to the locker room. and basically kidnaps them and puts their lives in danger in the process. At one point, a character trapped in the locker room says, we could literally die. So not exactly a subtle piece of trans activism.
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So just to restate, this is the play that a sitting justice on the US Supreme Court decided to participate in. The justice who couldn't define the word woman during her confirmation hearing, saying that she's not a biologist, is now endorsing propaganda about gender that's written by activists on Broadway.
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But again, even if this play wasn't a piece of lazy activism, even if it were the best play on Broadway, there's still no justification for a Supreme Court justice to appear in it. I mean, at the same time, it's obvious why Kataja Brown-Jackson decided to go through with this, as if you couldn't tell from all the praise and applause she received in that clip.
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She gave an interview with CBS where she explained her reasoning
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So there's a lot to think about here, but maybe the best part is when she says that she's appearing in this Broadway play with a scene that was written just for her because she wants to remind everyone that she's a public servant. going out of her way to appear in a play so she can attract as much attention as possible and fulfill her childhood fantasy. But it's really for your benefit, peasant.
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So just shut up and clap as she breaks the glass ceiling or whatever. Then she goes on to say that it's shocking that she was able to achieve this lofty goal given her background and how all these obstacles were stacked against her. But... Here's the thing. No obstacles were stacked against her. Solely on account of her race and gender, she was admitted to a prestigious law school.
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It's a transparent attempt to indoctrinate children into believing that there's nothing strange at all about a boy playing girls' volleyball or the idea that girls can transform into boys. And of course, the episode also intends to demonize any adult who says otherwise.
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Then she became a Supreme Court justice after just one year of serving on an appellate court because Joe Biden needed to nominate a black woman. And now she's a Broadway actress because, once again, she's getting preferential treatment instead of being assessed on merit. So the total lack of self-awareness here and the all-encompassing narcissism
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is almost as bad as her decision to appear in this play in the first place. This is not a woman who should be deciding cases at traffic court, much less the highest court in the country, but she says it's totally fine because other justices have kind of done similar things in the past.
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She was apparently thinking of this moment from Ruth Bader Ginsburg's career when she did a poor job of reciting some feminist propaganda at the opera one time. Watch.
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Now, the whole clip is even longer, but no one should have to be subjected to it. It goes without saying that this is not the kind of thing we want Supreme Court justices to emulate. It's just painful to watch. In the case of Ketanji Brown Jackson, some people have tried to defend this as a harmless, if deeply cringey, hobby.
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Maybe we should overlook this, they say, because after all, Scalia liked going to the opera or whatever. But even aside from the fact that attending the opera is nothing like what Jackson did, Scalia was also a skilled and competent jurist. Ketaja Brown Jackson is not. Her opinions are riddled with factual errors, for one thing.
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At one point, for example, she stated in an opinion that white doctors are significantly more likely to kill black babies than black doctors are, but she overlooked the fact that white doctors are typically better trained, so they tend to see babies of all races who are in critical condition, the worst cases. On top of that, Ketanji Brown Jackson also got the numbers completely wrong.
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And by the way, in case you're curious, I watched some of the footage online that the episode ends with the boy player becoming really frustrated that he's trapped in the locker room by the evil coach who hates him because he identifies as trans. So he punches his fists really hard into the floor and breaks through the ground, revealing that it's actually an LCD screen.
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She said that according to a study, the survival rate for black infants who have black doctors was more than double their survival rate when they have white doctors. In reality, the study showed a difference of survival rates of less than 0.2%, which is essentially nothing, especially when you factor in the different levels of experience the doctors have. This wasn't some trivial error.
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This was contained in Jackson's dissent to the Supreme Court's landmark ruling that overturned affirmative action. Her reasoning for trying to uphold affirmative action was based on obvious lies. But she never apologized for that. She never demonstrated a hint of self-reflection in this context or any other context. Instead, she's now feeding her ego on Broadway.
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By the time she spent practicing for her Broadway performance, would it have been better to utilize reading and learning how to do the job she's been assigned? Of course, if she did that, then she wouldn't get to do a media tour to promote herself and her new book, which just came out a few months ago.
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Somehow, Ketanji Brown Jackson secured a million-dollar advance for that memoir, even though nobody read it, and it fell off the New York Times bestseller list in like a month. Sales figures haven't been released, but as we all know, books written by famous leftists are a bit like Hunter Biden's paintings. They have no value, but strangely, someone is always willing to pay a lot of money for them.
The Matt Walsh Show
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Now, I'm not suggesting that Ketanji Brown Jackson is getting money from some nefarious source. I have no idea. What I am suggesting is that Ketanji Brown Jackson has been given an awful lot of attention for someone as thoroughly unintelligent and mediocre and narcissistic as she is. And her latest turn as an actress on Broadway, a bad one, is just the most recent example of that.
The Matt Walsh Show
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This is the Hamilton phenomenon all over again. It's yet another occasion for rich New York elites to feel virtuous by applauding mediocrity in the name of social justice. And above all else, the reason this whole farce is so galling is that we used to expect just a certain amount of decorum and dignity and seriousness from people who hold important positions in government.
The Matt Walsh Show
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And we should still expect that, or else we'll just never get it. And that is why Katanja Brown Jackson and the queer-themed Romeo and Juliet remake that she just appeared in are both today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.
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So I guess that even in the fictional cartoon works of trans activism, so-called trans girls are prone to uncontrollable testosterone-fueled outbursts. But in any case, no part of this production is surprising in any way, coming from Disney. What is surprising is that At least for now, Disney has pulled the episode. For once, they've decided that the indoctrination is just too on the nose.
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And over on Blue Sky, someone who worked in the show's art department named Derek Malik Johnson, pronouns he, him, posted this message to explain why. It's not the most grammatical post in the world, but I'll try my best to read it. So it says, so I guess I finally got hit with one of the projects episodes I worked on is getting shelved because of which party that won the recent election.
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It breaks my heart knowing this impactful and amazing episode is now about to be considered a lost media episode. Now, with writing skills like that, I'm sure this guy will be hired by Disney to script the next Marvel film, but officially Disney has denied that they've pulled this episode because of the election or because people are tired of trans activism posing as children's entertainment.
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They're also suggesting that they're not influenced in any way by the fact that female volleyball players have been severely injured by trans-identifying male players. But more recently, in the context of yet another programming change, Disney has been more forthright about their motivations. So they've just eliminated a so-called trans storyline in a different show.
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This is an upcoming episode of their animated series Win or Lose, which is out early next year on Disney+. As The Hollywood Reporter put it yesterday, quote, Pixar's original animated series Win or Lose will no longer include a transgender storyline in a later episode. The series follows a co-ed middle school softball team named The Pickles.
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In the week leading up to their championship game, each of the eight episodes center on the off the field life of a character and their point of view, whether it be a player, a parent, a coach, or an umpire. Now, here's the statement that Disney provided The Hollywood Reporter to explain the change. And again, they're much more honest in this case about why they made the change.
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Shockingly honest, you might even say, quote, when it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline. You think? Now, just a few months ago, a statement like that would have been unthinkable coming from Disney.
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They were promoting their bold decision to include non-binary characters with they-them pronouns in films like Elemental as recently as just last year. They had the same-sex kiss and light year and so on. And now they're coming right out and saying that, in effect, it's inappropriate to use cartoons to indoctrinate children into trans ideology.
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Now, of course, that statement doesn't go nearly far enough, and this should not be a revelation for them, but it's a start. It's another sign among many that we've seen in recent weeks that we're seeing a very rapid and profound change in American culture particularly as it relates to trans activism but All of that is not to say that we've won the battle for our culture, especially in Hollywood.
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We're a long way from that victory, in particular in Hollywood and the film industry. And the other day we got a very clear reminder of that fact when my film, Am I Racist, the top documentary film of this year by a mile, the top documentary film of the decade, was snubbed from Oscar contention in the nonfiction category.
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We didn't even make the shortlist of the top 15 films, which they eventually whittled down to the final five nominees. And so this is, they didn't announce the nominees yet. They announced that their shortlist, they're essentially their top 15. These are the 15 films in the category that they're going to choose from to pick their nominee.
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And we didn't make the top 15 with the number one film in the genre by a wide margin. So as far as snubs go, objectively speaking, it's a pretty big one. Not a surprising one by any means. I'm not shocked by it, but it's still a big snub.
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As Deadline reports, quote, Am I Racist, the controversial documentary that satirizes diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, failed to make the Oscar shortlist of nonfiction features today despite earning more money at the box office than any other documentary this year by far.
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It scooped up more than $12 million in the domestic box office, but that wasn't enough to sway the minds of Academy documentary branch members who determined the shortlist, as well as the eventual five Oscar nominees. Yes, the minds of the Academy documentary branch members have apparently decided that documentary audiences don't know anything about documentaries.
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Because we might have an audience score on Rotten Tomatoes above 95%. We might have exceeded box office totals for documentaries going back six or seven years, but... In the end, none of that matters. What does matter is what the Academy documentary branch members think.
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And these Academy documentary branch members, according to the Academy, have, quote, demonstrated exceptional achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures, mostly by producing their own documentaries. And they've decided that Am I Racist is not, in fact, an achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures.
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Some of these branch members have even produced films that have grossed more than $50,000 internationally. So you know they're qualified to make these kinds of determinations. They have their finger on the pulse of audiences everywhere. So what films did meet the branch members' high standards this year? Well, it turns out that
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To no one's surprise whatsoever, they rewarded a handful of films that address political issues from a left-wing perspective. This is from Deadline's report, once again, quote, Films that focus on political questions beyond U.S.
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borders did get love from the DAC branch members, among them The BB Files, Alexis Bloom's documentary that serves as a brutal takedown of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. No Other Land, a frontrunner for the Oscars, condemns Israeli government policy in the Occupied West Bank.
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Union, the documentary directed by Brett Story and Stephen Meng, follows the first successful campaign to unionize an Amazon warehouse operation, a facility located on New York's Staten Island. Ah yes, who could forget Union, the highly compelling documentary that followed the successful campaign to unionize an Amazon warehouse operation. and make your Amazon delivery slightly more expensive.
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It was a film that audiences just couldn't get enough of. After all, it's a documentary that grossed a whopping $47,000 at the domestic box office, which is more or less what we got with Am I Racist minus around $12 million. It's also a movie that no one has said a word about, and almost no one has seen. But who cares? In terms of cultural impact and relevance in the year 2024, union is it.
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And then far down the list, you've got, am I racist? By the way, Another film, again, to no one's surprise, that made the shortlist is that Will Ferrell trans documentary, where he goes across the country with his trans friend. And that one also made, again, a documentary that probably no one has seen, but hasn't had no cultural impact of any kind at all, but also made the list.
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Now, to be clear, of course, this is an entirely expected outcome. No one here has been out of shape in shock and horror because the Academy isn't celebrating us. We didn't make the movie in order to seek validation from left-wing activists in Hollywood. And it's no surprise that we didn't get it.
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I mean, if we wanted to make a movie that would be accepted by Hollywood, we would not have made that movie of all movies. But two things can be true at the same time. This snub can be completely predictable and unsurprising. while also being still objectively outrageous and totally discrediting for the Academy Awards.
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If a conservative can make a documentary that crushes every other film in its genre that year and beats every film in its genre in the past six or seven years, and yet still not even crack the top 15 by the Academy standards, that means that conservatives are simply excluded from having their work recognized by Hollywood. There's no other way to interpret it.
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Again, not a surprise, but very discrediting. Now granted, box office totals and audience reception don't necessarily mean that a film is awards worthy. It'd be easy to point out that superhero films always, or at least until recently, always make billions of dollars and achieve high audience scores. Does that mean that Spider-Man should win the award for best picture? No, not in my opinion.
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However, if there was a short list for best picture, if they whittled it down to the top 15, then yes, you would expect the highest grossing film of the year to at least be in the running for consideration. But more to the point, documentaries are a different animal entirely. It's very easy for a big budget superhero film from a major studio to earn a lot of money. It's basically guaranteed.
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On the other hand, it is extremely difficult to create a documentary that makes even a million dollars in the box office, let alone 12 million. And that's proven by the fact that our film is in the top 35 all time. I mean, among all documentaries that have ever been made, top 35 for domestic box office totals.
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What that means is that in the nonfiction category, it is very, very challenging to tell a story and explore an issue in a way that a large audience finds compelling and interesting. But that is, after all, the whole point of a documentary. If your documentary doesn't connect with people, then by definition, it cannot be good and should not be in the running to win any award.
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If it does not connect with the audience, it has failed to do the one thing that it must do in order to qualify as artistically successful. So the performance of our film, both in theaters and on our platform, proves that we succeeded not just financially, but artistically.
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We explored an issue and told a story in a compelling and interesting way, which means, yes, at a bare minimum, we should be in the running for a nomination. By all rights, we should get the nomination and win. But none of those things happened purely because of politics. And whether you want to admit it or not, I mean, that does have larger ramifications for our culture.
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It affects the kinds of films and shows that Hollywood produces. More importantly, it affects what our children see as well. Disney is relenting, as I mentioned earlier, but only to a point.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Derek Chauvin's legal team is pushing for a new trial. I'll explain why. If he gets one, he'll likely be acquitted. Pornhub prepares to pull out of Florida after their age verification law goes into effect. The porn industry would rather boycott a whole state than simply verify the ages of its users. What does that tell you?
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So again, he's showing the chart with false information, presenting the numbers as post-mortem. And then at the end of that clip, the prosecutor claims that Floyd has built up a tolerance to fentanyl, implying that because he had overdosed before, his body could handle a high concentration of the drug. But that was never proven at trial either.
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We know that George Floyd had used fentanyl several times before, even overdosed just months before his death, resulting in his hospitalization. But that's very different from saying that Floyd was somehow... immune to the fatal effects of a fentanyl overdose, which was never demonstrated at trial because it's impossible, it's absurd.
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The other major problem here is that the prosecution's witness testified that Floyd died on the street, which seems incompatible with the idea that pre-death blood samples were later collected in the hospital. Watch.
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Minutes later, still pinned to the ground by Chauvin.
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So this whole trial was full of incidents like this. There was the fact that Floyd's suspected drug dealer wasn't prosecuted, which allowed him to take the fifth and avoid testifying about the drugs in Floyd's possession. There was the prosecuting attorney who was allegedly threatened with professional consequences for refusing to add charges against Chauvin.
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There was testimony from Andrew Baker who admitted under cross-examination that Chauvin's knee did not cut off Floyd's airway. There was the statement from the judge in the case saying every case is about racial justice, you may remember.
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There was the fact that the prosecution tried to hide the tape of George Floyd saying, I can't breathe when he was still in the squad car and Chauvin's knee was nowhere near his neck. In 2024, there would be a chance that a jury would see through all of this corruption and vote to acquit Derek Chauvin. But in 2021, Chauvin was never going to receive a fair trial.
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The threat of violence by BLM was too real. Propaganda from corporate media was still believable to millions of Americans, in part because all social media was censored. And Democrats had far too much political power. So none of that is true anymore. That's why Daniel Penny was just acquitted.
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And if you reverse it, and if Daniel Penny had his trial back in 2020 or 2021, the result probably would have been very different. It's also why if Derek Chauvin is granted the new trial that he clearly deserves, I think he will be acquitted too. Now let's get to our five headlines. You're busy enough this season without having to get up on a ladder to clean out your gutters.
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As that trial demonstrated, they can't even sell a BLM narrative to a jury full of liberal women and a guy wearing a COVID mask, by the way. People are more skeptical of racist area now across party lines. They understand when they're being manipulated. They care more about facts instead of whatever the corporate press is saying.
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It's always fun doing a talk show when you can't talk. We'll start with this. Gizmodo has this story. At the dawn of the new year, Pornhub will leave Florida thanks to a harsh new age verification law that takes effect on January 1st. The porn giant will no longer do business in the Sunshine State.
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And that's all very bad news for Democrat prosecutors who are looking to collect a scalp. But This development is obviously small comfort to the many victims of these prosecutors who are still languishing away in prison after being convicted in show trials to appease the mob. And of course, maybe the single most prominent of those victims is Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was a
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The law mirrors similar laws passed in other Republican-led states where Pornhub has stopped doing business. Users in Florida visiting Pornhub have been treated to a fun pop-up in recent days, saying, you will lose access to Pornhub in 14 days. It reads the window that dominates the screen on the site when it's accessed from an IP address in Florida.
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Did you know that your government wants you to give your driver's license before you can access Pornhub? As crazy as it sounds, it's true. You'll be required to prove you're 18 years or older, such as by uploading your government ID for every adult content website you'd like to access. That's what the little warning thing says on the PornEd site.
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As it repeatedly promised, the GOP is fighting pornography. In many states, it's winning. In Oklahoma, Kentucky, Texas, Montana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Utah, Mississippi, Virginia, Louisiana, a citizen who wants to access an adult website has to prove they're 18 years old by showing a government ID. Florida's law is HB3. The law is broad.
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It requires a website that provides material that is harmful to minors to provide a means of anonymous age verification to its minors. The Free Speech Coalition, a trade group that represents pornography websites, has been fighting these laws in court. Quote, these laws create a substantial burden on adults who want to access legal sites without fear of surveillance.
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Despite the claims of the proponents, HB3 is not the same as showing an ID at a liquor store. It is invasive and carries significant risk to privacy. The parent company of Pornhub has said that, quoting now, the best solution to make the internet safer, preserve user privacy, and prevent children from accessing adult content is performing age verification at the source on the device.
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So, and they also, ILO is the name of the parent company, I guess, A-Y-L-O. And they say that there's, you know, safety concerns and privacy concerns with requiring users to give an ID, to show an ID. So a few things. First of all, congratulations to Florida. This just makes Florida an even better place to live, I imagine.
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And second, I love this claim that a law requiring users to provide identification is somehow a substantial burden. That's what they're saying. That's what the Free Speech Coalition so-called is saying. It's a substantial burden to have to provide an ID.
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Well, let me just say, if you live such a life that having to provide your driver's license to a porn site is a substantial burden, if you are substantially burdened by that, then it tells me something about you. That's a reflection of you, not the law. And this is... One of the two scenarios where the left tells us that having to show an ID is some great, terrible, unreasonable burden.
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It's like porn, and then of course the other one is voting. Those are the two. You have to show ID to do everything else in life, in adult life anyway, right? You have to basically carry your ID around with you everywhere. You have to be ready and able to show it every single time you sit in the driver's seat of a car. Everything requires ID.
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As you know, a police officer in Minneapolis who went to work in May of 2020 with the goal of protecting his community from violent felons, people like George Floyd. He's been sentenced to more than two decades in prison because Floyd, who had a recent history of overdoses, died in his custody while high on fatal levels of fentanyl. Now, the issue of causation was the single most important issue
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But if you have to show it to vote or to watch porn, suddenly it's oppressive. It's not oppressive in any of those other scenarios, right? But in those two specifically, it is. It's an enormous burden all of a sudden. Well, I just don't take those crocodile tears very seriously. Because if you would rather expose children to pornography...
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than be slightly inconvenienced while accessing pornography, then I just really don't care about your opinion that much. You're not a serious person, or a good person, or even a vaguely decent person. Because when it comes to any law, there are always going to be trade-offs. There will always be competing interests when it comes to any law, right?
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And in this case, you have, on one hand, the need to protect children from extremely harmful content that will damage them emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, emotionally. On the other hand, you have the desire of porn users to access porn quickly without any inconveniences. So those are the two competing interests in this case. Those are the two forces that are pulling against each other.
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And it's really not much of a competition, I have to say. It's a trade-off that I'm perfectly willing to make. Any decent person would be. And you notice the other thing about this that's pretty wild, which is that Pornhub says that it puts users at risk, it puts their privacy at risk if they have to give their ID to access the site. So this is the argument that Pornhub is making.
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They're saying it's not just a matter of inconvenience, it's also a risk because you're giving your ID. Well, wait a minute, Pornhub. Why would that put anyone at risk? They're giving their IDs to you, aren't they? Isn't that what's happening? They're giving their IDs to you as the website? Are you saying that you're not capable of protecting the privacy of your own users?
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You're a multi-billion dollar company, and yet you can't figure out how to keep that information private. It's only a risk. It's only an invasion of privacy if you know, if you somehow cannot keep your users' information private.
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So if you're admitting that, if you would rather shut down access entirely in a state instead of simply ensuring that you protect the privacy of your users and handle their private information with care and discretion, well then again, that also tells me something about this company. So don't get me wrong. I'm perfectly happy for Pornhub to shut down entirely in a state or in every state.
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But this is a pretty revealing statement. It's really it's like a confession because their argument is that you can't trust them with your ID. You know, that's the argument. Again, imagine that anyone else, any other, let's say, adult-oriented business used an argument like this.
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of the trial. That is the question of whether Chauvin actually killed Floyd. If Chauvin's actions weren't a substantial factor, quote unquote, in Floyd's death, then under Minnesota law, he's innocent. And that pretty much sums up the entire case. That's the whole thing. But after the trial was over, the jury came out and publicly admitted that they didn't really care about this issue at all.
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Imagine that the alcohol industry and liquor stores started arguing that, well, you shouldn't have to show an ID to... Imagine a liquor store saying that. No, you shouldn't have to show me your ID because then you're putting your privacy at risk. I was like, well, that's the liquor store saying that that's them confessing to something. Why should that put privacy at risk?
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Unless you are saying that you are going to be careless with that information or use it in some nefarious way. And the thing is, I agree, actually. I certainly wouldn't trust Pornhub with my ID. I wouldn't trust them. So they're basically saying you can't trust them. And this is one area where I agree with them. I would not want Pornhub to have my ID.
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But that's an argument for just not patronizing Pornhub at all. It's not an argument for not having systems in place to protect kids. And by the way, one other thing. is I actually agree with them on another point, sort of, partially, in that they say that there should be age verification on the device. There should be age verification on the phones, on the computers, and so on.
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Now, they're only saying that. They don't actually want age verification on anything, let's be clear. They don't want age verification on the phones. They don't want it on anything because they want kids to access this stuff. They want everyone to access it because it's more money for them. More clicks, more money. And so they don't care. They don't care if it's adults, kids. They don't care.
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But they're just deflecting. They're punting the ball. And they're saying, no, don't make us do it. Make the cell phone companies and all that do it. But yeah, there should be age verification on the device too. There should be protections put on devices, on computers. Let's do all of that. Okay, that's the answer.
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That every porn site should be required to verify ages and every cell phone company should be required to put protections in place on the device. to protect children from this stuff. I mean, this should be, it's not an either or proposition. It's all of that should be happening. We should, as a society, be treating this as a, this is a crisis level event. That's how we should be treating it.
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When you've got millions of children who are accessing the kind of content that even Even up to 20 years ago, the vast majority of humans, including adults, would never see or have access to. Of course, the people that want to be dismissive of the harmful effects of pornography will always say, oh, well, there was a Playboy magazine existed for decades before internet porn.
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Causation just didn't really matter to them. They gave an interview with CNN where they explained that, in their view, Chauvin's actions didn't matter at all. Instead, they determined that Chauvin was guilty because of what he didn't do. They didn't convict him for murdering Floyd. They didn't convict him because his actions caused Floyd's death.
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There have been strip clubs and all the rest of it. First of all, I think it should be needless to say something like Playboy magazine is is tame in comparison to stuff that's all over the internet. That's the first thing. But the second thing is the accessibility of this stuff. I mean, now it's everywhere. It's on every device. Anyone can access it. And it wasn't like that in the past.
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I mean, they may have had strip clubs in the past, but the vast majority of people weren't going to a strip club. And kids were not going to strip clubs. And the vast majority of people didn't have Playboy magazine. And kids, the vast majority of them, did not have access to Playboy magazine. Now everyone has access to it. And so that's the crisis.
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Having a whole generation, multiple generations of kids now who... are growing up, going through their formative years while on a steady diet of the most perverse filth imaginable and not imaginable, we can't even begin to understand the long-term effects of that. But we do know it's going to be really bad. It already is really bad.
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And so we need to be pulling every lever to stop this and to protect these kids. And that should be the number one priority. Yesterday, we told you about San Francisco's new fat acceptance czar. I think that was her official title.
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This is a woman that has been hired by the city to consult with them on how to better promote obesity and heart disease, promote those things, not fight them or combat them or treat them, but promote them. They want to promote it. They want to celebrate it. And so over the last day or two, more videos of this woman, Virgie Tover is her name, have surfaced.
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Videos of this now tax-funded fat consultant. And I just want to play a couple of these for you. And we'll start with this. This is our friend Virgie. tax-funded fat consultant in San Francisco now, before she got the gig, I believe, declaring that, quote, nobody has to be healthy, which is an interesting statement. Let's listen.
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Instead, they convicted him for failing to care for George Floyd in some kind of unspecified way. Watch.
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So she says that nobody has to be healthy. There's no governing body forcing you to be healthy. Well, first of all, RFK Jr. might have something to say about that very soon. But that aside, yes, you are correct that you don't have to be healthy. You have the right to be unhealthy, I suppose, if you want to put it that way.
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You have the right legally to become fat and diseased and die before you turn 40. You don't have the moral right, right? Because a moral right, you know, because you in fact have a moral obligation to... be healthy and to take care of your body, take care of your health. That's a moral obligation that you have.
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So you actually don't have the moral right to abuse yourself to the extent that you become morbidly obese. But you do have the legal right. And our legal rights and our moral, you know, you have legal rights and moral obligations and sometimes those things line up and sometimes they don't. But Sure, legally, like no one can legally require you to not be fat. And I think that even with RFK Jr.
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coming in, it would be very hard to come up with a law. Even I, even in a scenario where I ascend to my throne and become a dictator of the I'm not even sure that I would outlaw obesity. I would outlaw a lot of things, don't get me wrong, but I don't know that I would outlaw obesity just because the enforcement mechanism just seems like a pain and it's not worth my time.
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So yeah, you have the legal right to be fat and to die. But here we see the very common confusion, common in modern culture, this common confusion between what we have the right to do and what is right to do. And for a lot of people, especially people on the left, especially somebody like this, they just very much struggle. They conflate those things.
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They don't understand that it's like when, and this is why they'll often respond, when you make a moral statement And you say, you should be healthy. You should take care of your health. You should take care of your body. And when you say that, they'll respond by saying, well, I don't have to. I don't have to do that. You can't tell me what to do.
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It's like, well, you don't have to, but you should. We're talking about what you should do, what is right to do, not what you have the right to do. And there's the conflation between those things. The number of people who struggle to understand that basic distinction is pretty mind boggling.
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Here's another video from this woman and here she is explaining, we're not gonna play the whole thing because it goes on at length, but it is all about cake and why it's oppressive to make people feel bad about the amount of cake that they eat. Listen.
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Cake-related fatphobic incident is what she just said, and not as a joke. That was not meant to be a joke. I'm not sure I've ever seen a video that better illustrates one, well, really multiple important points about these woke activists. And Maybe first and foremost, this is why wokeness is dying. This right here.
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I mean, not this specific video about cake, but this kind of thing, this utterly inane bull. It's so ridiculous. It's so just vapid and preposterous that it's not sustainable. I mean, it collapses out of exhaustion. A lot of the people in that video probably collapsed out of exhaustion after walking up the steps. And wokeness is kind of like that. It is also collapsing out of exhaustion.
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And I was talking about this recently with, I think it was with Adam Carolla on his show, that wokeness reached a point, it crossed a threshold, and beyond that threshold Once it crossed it, you could debate exactly when that moment was, but once it was crossed, its end, its demise became inevitable because the suspension of disbelief was just too much.
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And what I mean is that wokeness has always relied not on convincing people of its claims, because almost nobody was convinced about any of this stuff. Whether it's the racial stuff, the fat phobia, gender ideology, of course, big one. Very few people were ever convinced of the claims of left-wing activists.
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So people weren't convinced, they weren't persuaded, but rather the left was cajoling people into pretending that they were convinced. Wokeness thrived even though 99% of the country never believed it. Most of them pretended to.
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But eventually the burden of pretending became too great because the things that they were being forced to pretend, the beliefs that they were being told they have to falsely adopt, were just too outlandish. It was too out there. It was too far-fetched. It was too embarrassing and too outrageous and too insane.
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You know, it was one thing when the left, we used to call it just political correctness before it became wokeness. It was just, you know, and political correctness. We lived in a politically correct culture for decades. And that was the kind of thing that most people would just go along with, even if they thought it was a little bit silly. But they kept pushing and they kept pushing.
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And then it became something that it's just too... Even someone who desires to be sort of polite and not to rock the boat and someone who's more kind of wired to be non-confrontational, which is most people. Those are the people who were cajoled into going along with wokeness. But it only works up to a point.
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And you can get to a point where the average person, what you're trying to force them to pretend they believe or to nod along with and smile and nod and sort of accept, it's just too much. It's too outrageous. And this is a good example of that. This kind of thing where it's fatphobic. First of all, the idea of fatphobia, just the term itself is too much for most people. It's ridiculous.
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And everything else there too. And the other thing you see in that video is that for most woke activists, Their whole worldview is really structured around their own personal pet peeves and hangups and anxieties. So in this case, you've got a bunch of women who feel embarrassed when another woman eats less cake than they do. And so that's what this is really all about.
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That when they're at a work function and someone brings cake to the break room or they're at a party, And when they see a woman who's in good shape, say, oh, I'll take a smaller piece. These other women who are fat feel, that makes them feel embarrassed. And because they know they're about to chow down on the whole dance.
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In fact, they wanted, they were going to ask for a bigger piece than what they were being served. And now they've constructed a whole philosophy, really, around condemning that skinny woman who wanted less cake. It's like their whole worldview, their whole personal philosophy is really just structured around that woman and condemning her and all of that. That's basically what wokeness is.
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A few years ago, a pastor in Colorado named Will Duffy came up with a project called the Final Experiment, which is a pretty bald name for an experiment, especially since the Final Experiment wasn't trying to break any new ground in science or anything like that. Instead, the idea of the Final Experiment was to debunk once and for all the idea that the Earth is flat.
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Now, you think that if there was a final experiment that proved that fact, it already happened like 500 years ago, but some people in the modern world are somehow still not convinced, which brought us to this experiment.
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Will Duffy planned to talk to a bunch of flat earthers, earn their trust, and ultimately fly them out 9,000 miles to Antarctica on a $40,000 trip that would cure them of their delusions. This might seem like a complete waste of time, sort of like trying to convince the local vagrant that the voices in his head aren't real.
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But as it turns out, there's still an active community of flat earthers on the internet. And many of them are surprisingly not crazy. I mean, the flat earth stuff is crazy. But aside from that, aside from believing the earth is flat, they can often be relatively reasonable people.
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Now, sure, they'll look at satellite photos of the Earth and constellations and boats that circumnavigate the globe, and they'll come up with bizarre, incoherent explanations for all of it. But otherwise, aside from that, they often seem like relatively high-functioning people. So...
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For several reasons, Duffy has been having conversations with flat earthers to, for several years rather, having these conversations to figure out why they don't believe the official consensus. He's been posting a lot of these conversations online. This is a clip from one of those recent conversations. Watch.
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Now, if you watch enough of these interviews, you'll realize that this is the common thread that unites a lot of flat earthers. They become skeptical of everything they're told by experts and the government, which at face value, that part of it is an understandable perspective.
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But in their case, that skepticism metastasizes until they're questioning some of the most basic and obvious and observable facts of reality. Their imagination kind of runs wild and They come up with new arguments that supposedly disprove the idea that the earth is a sphere. Almost as if they're not really convinced of what they're saying, but they want to hear someone prove them wrong.
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And in this particular conversation, the flat earther, his name is Steve, goes on for about an hour with various arguments that in his mind prove the earth is flat. Now, of course, because flat eartherism is incoherent, the arguments he presents are also incoherent. At one point, he displayed ring doorbell footage that's supposedly from the same location at the same time of day.
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And in the photos, there's significantly different lighting. And apparently this ring doorbell footage is proof that we're not revolving around the sun in any kind of predictable orbit. Then he pulls up random stock images from a photography website to make a similar point, but appears to confuse the sun with the moon, which is kind of an important distinction. So it's all very hard to follow.
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And you also notice how this is the one thing about flat earthers and anyone who ascribes to... subscribes to the delusional conspiracy theories. And not everything that's called a conspiracy theory is delusional. Flat eartherism is delusional. And there is that category of conspiracy theorists who are actually delusional.
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And you notice this about this category, that they tend to be a bit selective in their skepticism. So in this case, they'll dismiss any video or photograph taken from a satellite or a spacecraft or the space station. Because you can look at any of those images and you can see, well, clearly it's a globe. But they'll dismiss that and they'll say, well, you can't trust that.
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It's an incredible piece of footage. First of all, there's no reason for a jury to be looking for a lightbulb moment which allows them to rationalize a guilty verdict unless they were looking for some pretext to convict Chauvin, which they obviously were. The jury shouldn't be trying to find a way to get a conviction.
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But then they'll build a whole case around footage from a ring doorbell camera. So trust no one except... Ring doorbell cameras. Photos from the space station are not reliable. Images from a ring doorbell camera are. How do you make sense of that? Well, that's just the way they look at it.
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But eventually, Steve finds his footing, and he delivers probably his best argument in favor of the idea that the Earth is flat. And while this argument still makes no sense whatsoever, and in fact is an affront to common sense and the concept of science and human reason itself, it's at least somewhat entertaining. So we'll play part of it. Watch.
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Now, one thing that Steve doesn't clarify in his explanation is that time zones don't change when you go from north to south. They change when you go west to east or vice versa. And that's a key point because it helps demonstrate that the time zones or rather the different lighting conditions in different time zones actually provide evidence that the Earth is spherical.
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I mean, if you needed evidence, additional evidence, there you go. It doesn't suggest it's flat. It actually suggests the opposite. It's sunny in Manhattan when it's dark in Japan because the sun is on one side of the sphere and not the other. Will Duffy understood that the best way to convince flat earthers that they're wrong is not really to engage them in any kind of rational discourse.
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Instead, you have to use a physical demonstration that these people can see with their own eyes. You have to demonstrate to them in person that they're very confused about time zones and the positioning of the sun and so on. You have to prove to them that their understanding of all these concepts is fatally flawed. So to that end,
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They should be looking at whether the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. And if they find themselves doubting the prosecution proved its case, They don't get to rewrite the law to help the prosecution out. But in this case, it's exactly what the jury did. They ultimately decided to hold Chauvin accountable for things he didn't do.
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Duffy offered some prominent Flat Earthers the opportunity to go to Antarctica to witness the 24-hour sun or the midnight sun. As Upworthy reported yesterday, quote, in a Flat Earth model, Antarctica is usually depicted as an ice wall that encircles the rest of the planet. Sometimes it's shown as its own distinct continent.
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However, by visiting Antarctica in the summer, the team would be able to see Antarctica's famous 24-hour sun or midnight sun up close and personal. Flat earthers crucially do not typically believe that a 24-hour sun is possible, In their models, the sun would rise and set in Antarctica the same way it does everywhere else.
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The existence of midnight sun would, if not outright prove, at least heavily suggest, the Earth is a tilted sphere. The other benefit of going to Antarctica is that it would hopefully demonstrate that the Earth is not, in fact, entirely surrounded by an ice wall which separates the Earth from the rest of the universe. This was the proposal that Duffy came up with.
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He covered the expenses of these flat earthers to go and see the 24-hour sun in Antarctica. And to their credit, the flat earthers took Will Duffy up on his offer. The whole trip was streamed online via Starlink. And in the end, as expected, the sun was up for 24 hours, providing fairly convincing evidence that the earth is not flat.
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Now, I don't see why it would necessarily be any more convincing than the 9 million other pieces of incontrovertible evidence, but maybe exhibit 9 million in one would somehow break through for people who ignored the first 9 million. What wasn't expected, at least not by everyone, is how the Flat Earthers would respond. And in many cases, they didn't storm off in anger or disbelief.
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Instead, for the most part, they processed what they'd seen. relatively reasonable about it. Here's one of those flat earthers, a man named Jaron Campanella on the trip to Antarctica. This is a video that's gone viral the last couple of days. And this guy is apparently pretty big in the flat earth community, I guess. But here he is after having his whole worldview crumbled. Here he is.
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He didn't respond compassionately enough to George Floyd's overdose or live up to the police department's motto, I guess, even though none of those things, even if they were true, would make Chauvin a murderer.
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So at the end, he leaves open the possibility that maybe the flat earth theory can somehow be validated. But for the most part, he's polite and rational as he processes the whole thing. He's been confronted with evidence that everything he's been saying is wrong. He built his whole worldview, I mean, his literal worldview around a falsehood and handles it about as well as you could hope.
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At the same time, not everyone on the trip had the same reaction. For example, one flat earther named Austin Witsit was a little hesitant to draw any conclusion from the trip. According to The Sun, the publication of The Sun, he said, quote, I don't think it falsifies flat earth. I don't think it proves a globe. I think it's a singular data point.
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He added, quote, I've seen a physical demonstration that could show this working, but I do think that some of the data we're going to have from this trip will help to clarify if that is what's actually happening. It's a bit like jumping off of a building and then saying you still need more data to prove that gravity exists. Obviously, this person is never going to be convinced of anything.
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The new rule, according to this jury, is that police officers have an obligation to perform CPR on violent suspects the moment they say they can't breathe, even though Floyd was claiming that he couldn't breathe just a few minutes earlier when he was resisting arrest and struggling with the officers in the back of a patrol car.
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And somehow to this day, there are a decent number of people like him out there. And on one level, You know, that's pretty surprising. It's kind of mind boggling that flat earthers exist in a world with satellites and air travel. I mean, it's impressive that people could be so wrong about something that's so readily observable to everybody on the planet.
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This is one of the ironies, right, of the information age, that there are almost certainly more flat earthers in the world today than there were 100 years ago, even though we have immediate access to more information than a person 100 years ago would have encountered in a lifetime, in 100 lifetimes.
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At the same time, as Flat Earther Steve said earlier, there's a possible explanation for this phenomenon, which is that Americans and people all over the world have no trust in our institutions anymore, which is not an excuse for Flat Eartherism, which is a, you know, Flat Eartherism is objectively very extremely stupid, but it does kind of put it into context.
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You know, when you lie to people about pretty much everything, then you get people who start to question. They start questioning everything. And that can extend down to the basic fundamental facts of the universe. Now, the good news is that as the final experiment demonstrates, even some people who are this confused and deluded are capable at some level of recognizing the error of their ways.
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They're capable of going out and looking at the world around them and challenging their prior assumptions in a respectful and dignified manner. The bad news is that you know, if the Earth isn't flat, which I guess the jury's still out for some people.
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And we still have no explanation for why all the water doesn't fly off the planet and go into space, you know, just like water flies off clothes when they're spinning in the dryer. That's a mystery that simply can't be solved or explained by modern science, at least perhaps until some brave and enterprising pastor runs another final experiment someday. We'll have to wait and see.
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But until that day comes, We have no choice but to stay grounded in reality instead of indulging in fantasy and pseudoscience. And that is why the few remaining flat earthers and everyone else who insists on denying basic observable reality are all today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. If I can talk. Godspeed.
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And if police officers don't administer CPR and someone dies, they will just assume that the officer killed them. We'll just make that leap of logic because, you know, why not? But just because the jury didn't consider the issue of causation to be relevant, that doesn't mean that it's not relevant. From a legal perspective on appeal, it's still very important.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
And that's why a federal judge in Minnesota named Paul Magnuson, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, has just issued in the last week a ruling that could ultimately lead to a new trial in this case. This is a decision that's Worth looking at and dissecting at length because it highlights what a farce the trial of Derek Chauvin really was.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
No matter how corrupt you think this trial was, it was actually a lot worse than you probably think. Now... The decision came in response to a motion filed by Chauvin's new lawyer in federal court. Chauvin's legal team is seeking to have his conviction overturned in part because his previous lawyer was ineffective to the point that he denied Chauvin his constitutional right to a fair trial.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
There are other objections, too, including that many of the jurors said they felt threatened by the mob. So Chauvin obviously didn't get a fair trial because they thought that their lives were in danger if they didn't convict, which they probably were. Not that that excuses them. But there are two central claims in the motion arguing that Chauvin received ineffective assistance of counsel.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
And the first is that Chauvin's lawyer during the trial failed to tell Chauvin that a doctor had determined that George Floyd died due to acute heart failure resulting in pulmonary edema and death.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
There were indications that Floyd had a heart tumor that could have caused sudden cardiac death, and Chauvin was never told about that, nor was it brought up at trial, even though it seems like an extremely relevant fact. The second claim is that Chauvin's lawyer should have listened to the doctor and ordered tests on samples that were preserved from George Floyd's body. Those tests
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
could have determined whether Floyd died of a type of myocarditis or some other heart ailment. And now, several years later, the federal judge has finally allowed Chauvin's new legal team to conduct those tests. Depending on what they show, they could completely undermine the prosecution's argument that Chauvin caused the death of George Floyd.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
And that, in turn, could lead to the conviction being thrown out and potentially a new trial if prosecutors decide to pursue it. Now, one of the reasons this is such an important ruling is that in Chauvin's trial, there was clear evidence that the prosecution lied about the concentration of fentanyl in George Floyd's system when he died.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
And if this case is tried again, this is going to be a major issue. You might remember that in the initial autopsy report, The medical examiner determined that Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his system. He said that there were no physical signs of strangulation and that it looked like a textbook overdose. But shortly afterwards, his assessment changed. Watch.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
Now, the threats and political pressure we're supposed to conclude didn't influence the medical examiner. We're supposed to pretend that he somehow wasn't bothered by the mob that was threatening to destroy the entire city of Minneapolis when he changed his determination about the cause of George Floyd's death.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
We're also supposed to think that Democrats in Minneapolis didn't exert any political pressure at all, but As the reporter Liz Carlin found, there were even there was even more pressure on the medical examiner than many people realize. Here's one internal memo from a prosecuting attorney in Minneapolis at the time.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
And as you could see, according to the memo on May 26, 2020, a team of six FBI agents met with medical examiners, medical examiner Andrew Baker, to discuss his preliminary findings. And then after this meeting, he changed his conclusions. He decides that Floyd's death was a homicide caused by neck compression and that fentanyl wasn't the cause.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
A new trial, if that's where this goes, would offer Chauvin's new defense team an opportunity to pick this claim apart. And this is an opportunity that Chauvin's first legal team missed completely for some reason during the first trial.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
Outside of a few accounts on social media, people like Data Hazard, for example, no one's really talked about this, but it's an incredible oversight by the defense team and a remarkable act of corruption by the prosecution. And if anything completely blows apart the case against Derek Chauvin, it's this. So here's the moment in the trial that I'm talking about.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
This is maybe the single most important testimony in the whole case. The prosecution is questioning a forensic toxicologist about the levels of fentanyl in Floyd's blood. And watch how that unfolds. Here it is.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
So it's a lots of process with the graphs and the numbers flying around. But the basic idea is that the expert is telling the jury that they collected postmortem blood samples from George Floyd, meaning the samples were taken after Floyd died. And they compared these samples to other overdose victims and DUI suspects after their deaths.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
And Floyd's level of fentanyl were well below both of those groups at the post-mortem stage. And so the conclusion was that Floyd didn't overdose on fentanyl. The fundamental problem here is that Floyd's samples, according to the medical examiner's records, were not actually conducted post-mortem or after death. they're comparing Floyd's pre-death samples with other people's post-death samples.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
So to restate, there were samples of blood collected from George Floyd before he died in the hospital, according to the government's own documents. He wasn't actually pronounced dead until an hour after this incident with Derek Chauvin when he was in the hospital, which a lot of people don't know that either. And while he was in the hospital... his blood was drawn.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
And as the judge put it in his ruling this week, quote, the autopsy report shows that anti-mortem blood was collected. And the prosecutor's own statement from 2020 confirms that. Here's what they said at the time. This is from another internal memo, quote, Dr. Andrew Baker said that he had the final toxicology results from Mr. George Floyd's samples.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
Those samples are from Mr. Floyd's hospital admission and were not acquired at autopsy. Baker said that these samples are better for determining actual blood toxicity than samples taken at autopsy. Samples taken at autopsy may have undergone post-mortem distribution. So here we have anti-mortem samples or pre-death samples of Floyd's blood.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
And that means that they were taken before the effects of Floyd's death could impact the samples. And here's the autopsy report, which also confirms that Floyd's samples are anti-mortem. It reads, testing performed on anti-mortem blood specimens collected 52520 at 9 p.m., fentanyl 11 nanograms per millimeter. So this couldn't be any more clear.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
These are pre-mortem samples, according to the prosecution's own records. Now, you might be asking, what's the big deal? I mean, who cares if Floyd's blood was collected before his death or after it? Aside from the fact that the fact that he was not dead until he got to the hospital also seems pretty significant. He didn't die there on the street, as pretty much everyone thinks happened. But...
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
Even aside from that, this is a pretty significant distinction because after death, fentanyl concentrations in the bodies of overdose victims are dramatically higher than they are before death. It's a difference of up to 900% within eight hours of death. And that's because when you die, blood stops pumping. So blood concentrations change and it drastically affects the way that these samples read.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
So what the prosecution did in effect was compare Floyd's fentanyl levels before this massive spike with the fentanyl levels of overdose victims after this massive spike. Of course, Floyd's levels were lower in this case because it was before the spike. And based on this apples to oranges comparison, the prosecutor convinced the jury that Floyd's death could not have anything to do with fentanyl.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
So in other words, when he arrived at the hospital, Floyd had a level of fentanyl in his blood that was consistent with an overdose victim when his pre-mortem blood was tested. In fact, Floyd's levels of fentanyl were more than two times the average lethal level that you see in fentanyl overdoses. But prosecution hid this fact from the jury by presenting these blood samples as post-mortem.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
They compared Floyd's number with other people who had been dead for several hours. That's the game they played and largely how they got a conviction. Now, it's impossible to overstate the significance of this deception. This was the crux of the prosecution's entire argument. I mean, they hit it again and again, including during closing arguments. Watch.
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Ep. 1506 - Why Derek Chauvin Deserves a New Trial (And Will Win It)
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Now today for our daily cancellation, now that Christmas season has officially, or rather unofficially, we got officially the Christmas season actually starts on Christmas. I don't know if you knew that. I'm going to take a bold, bold step that will only shock and offend you until you realize that I come not as your oppressor, but as your liberator.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
It's like if we're all stressed out about how to capture a squirrel from the forest and train it to do jumping jacks. The most stress-free way of doing that is to not do it because it's bizarre and pointless. And there are a million better ways to spend your time. But as far as trees go, you have two options, right? You can go out and buy a real tree or you can purchase an imposter.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
A fake tree, an avatar of a tree. The problem with the fake tree is that it's a fake tree. It's expensive and clunky. It doesn't actually look anything like a real tree, much less does it smell like one. So it's always awkward when you go to someone's house and they have a fake tree and they go, doesn't it look real? No, it doesn't. Have you ever seen a real tree? They're outside.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
You should go check them out. Because this... Doesn't look anything like it. You know what's annoying about the Christmas season? Those super targeted ads that seem to follow you everywhere. You look at one gift idea for your cousin and suddenly every website is bombarding you with similar products. Well, here's the thing.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Your internet provider is actually tracking and storing everything you do online. Companies like AT&T and Verizon can legally collect and sell your browsing data That's why I use ExpressVPN. ExpressVPN reroutes your internet connection through their secure servers so your internet provider can't see or log what you do online.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
And you might be thinking, if I'm routing my data through a VPN, doesn't that just mean the VPN can see and log my activity instead? It's a smart question. While many VPNs claim to have a no-logs policy, ExpressVPN stands out because they use trusted server technology.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
They were the first major VPN provider to engineer all of their servers to run in RAM, making it technically impossible for their servers to store any customer data. And they've got the credentials to back this up. They even had PWC, one of the biggest assurance firms, audit their technology. Stop letting people keep logs of what you do online.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Visit expressvpn.com slash WalshYT right now and find out how you can get three months free. See, whatever joy there is to be gained from a Christmas tree, you aren't going to get it from a fake one. A family with a fake tree has given up. They are just checking the tree box, trying to slide by on a technicality.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
You might as well put a deflated basketball on your porch at Halloween instead of a pumpkin. The stand-in is significantly more depressing than just not having it at all. So that doesn't work. But the real tree is worse. First of all, it's going to run you upwards of $75 these days. $75 for a hunk of lumber that will be decaying in a heap on your front lawn in less than a month.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
I seek to free you and free all of us once and for all from the tyranny of Christmas trees. Christmas trees are canceled. This madness has gone on for long enough. I'm drawing the line in the sand right now. No more Christmas trees. We are done with Christmas trees.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
You could buy a bottle of Blanton single barrel bourbon, Elijah Craig barrel proof even, for that price. And it will make you far jollier than any Christmas tree ever will, I assure you.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
So after you've been basically stripped naked and robbed by the Christmas tree salesman, you schlep the thing back to your house, you drag it inside, pine needles falling and dispersing themselves into areas of the house that you won't notice until sometime after Memorial Day.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Then begins the process of somehow getting this whole entire actual tree to stand up straight in your house with nothing but a plastic tree stand and a couple of screws keeping it in place. If you do get it to stay in place, it'll inevitably be knocked over multiple times by the dog, the cat, your kids, people and pets getting practically crushed to death left and right.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Meanwhile, the thing requires about 19 gallons of water a day just to keep it alive, and barely so. Now you have a half-dead, dried-out chunk of wood in your house with electrical wires draped around it. Maybe next we can develop an Easter tradition where everybody jumps into a pool and plays catch with a toaster plugged into an extension cord. And then what happens as soon as Christmas is over?
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
It's like waking up with a hangover. You look at that thing and all of the joy and spirit is sucked out of it. Now you see it for the giant pile of sticks that it always was, and you just want it out of your house. Literally the day after Christmas, you're looking at your tree with disgust. Everybody does.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Or if you have a fake tree, you just put off the hassle of taking it down for months until you finally get around to it only because you don't want people judging you when they come over for your 4th of July barbecue. So the whole thing is madness and it must end. We must free ourselves. We must stand up with one voice and refuse to be enslaved to this lunacy. It's gone on for too long.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
It ends today. And that's going to do it for me. My wife wants to go get a Christmas tree today, so we're going to go do that.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Now, it may come as a surprise, but the early Christians never thought to cut down a tree and put it in their house for three weeks as part of their Christmas celebration. One could only imagine how the conversation would have went had anyone suggested something like that. Hey, it's almost Christmas.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
What do you say we go and chop down that perfectly healthy tree out there, drag it inside, and watch it slowly die? It'll be so festive.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
The idea probably would not have been warmly received. And that's why nobody had a Christmas tree until some depraved lunatic in Germany, as always, decided that there weren't enough distracting hassles associated with the holiday and came up with this idea. And it was the worst thing anyone had done related to Christmas since St.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Nick's started the whole gift-giving thing, which is another problem in and of itself.
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I'm Canceling Christmas Trees
Now, admittedly, this history of Christmas and its traditions may not be entirely technically accurate, but that's not the point. The point is that we are all burdening ourselves with this demented custom for no reason. So there are, of course, two ways to approach the problem of obtaining, transporting, and erecting a tree inside your living room. This again is a problem of our own making.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Where do you think India is, Jacob?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That's right, you mean? Yeah. Rules of the game. You're saying that's right? Yes. Turns out that is indeed right. Let's go. Racist! Once convicted, black people on average receive sentences 40% longer than white offenders of the same crimes. Is that right? Or is that racist? That is racist? Why do you say that?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
I think your explanation was racist. But you're also right. That is racist.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Yes, that is true. Sorry, Siaka. Oh, racist. On average, the sentences for convicted blacks are only 10% longer than convicted whites. Racist! Next question. Over half of all serial killers in the United States from 1900 to 2010 were white.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Well, yes, that's how you would define it.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Wait, no, I'm saying the statement was right. You're wrong.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
White people, over half of serial killers, we love to do the serial killing. Question number five, I think. Kim Jong-il sentenced his uncle to death by feeding him to a pack of 120 dogs.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
You finally got one wrong. That is racist.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That's racist. That is racist.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Kim Jong-il. Il? This was the distinguished father of the current dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-un. This was his father. It's a fact.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
I think it's... He did it.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
I understood your answer. It's just wrong, unfortunately. What? That is racist. Dang. Well, as reported by the newspaper, the Korean government says it's false, and we know we can trust the North Korean government. Turns out he wasn't fed to dogs. He was just simply shot in the head. Not so bad. Racist! Next question. All right. Over 50% of Uber drivers are either Black or Hispanic.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That is correct. That is, in fact, racist.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Only 18% are Black and 14% are Hispanic. Thankfully, not a lot of Asian who were driving. Isn't that the truth? They're bad at driving. Racist! Next question. As reported by the Huffington Post in 2014, roughly 60% of adult Black females... wear wigs, extensions, or weaves.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Oh, and you think that's representative of the whole population?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Per 2014 statistics, Colombia produces the most cocaine in the world.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
The videos of black women fighting each other and tearing their weaves, that's representative of the whole population. That's what you're saying.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Roughly 60% of adult black females wear wigs, weaves. Facts.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Racist! Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of Mexico's Independence Day. Is that right or is that racist? Oh, that's right, Matt. That is right. I know that one. You do not know that one. That is racist.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Well, we'll have to go to judges for that, because you're correct. That's racist. But then your explanation was totally wrong. Cinco de Mayo is not the Day of the Dead. So judges, are we counting that? As there are no judges out there, it's nobody. It's actually just me. I'm going to say that that's you. So you get that one wrong, unfortunately. Is that how were they dressed up at the school?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Well, here's a lesson. There's a lesson in this, because you had it right, but then you kept talking. So just stop with the talking and you would have been fine. It's the celebration of their army's victory over the French in the Battle of Puebla in 1862.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Well, I guess I'm... Your whole life people have been staring... Why do you think people have been staring at you like you're a moron your whole life? Because of this. Next question. According to the 1994 to 1996 study of factors affecting watermelon consumption... In the United... Don't look at me that way. I didn't make these questions. Okay, I can at least give you a pass on that then.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Factors affecting watermelon consumption in the United States. African Americans consume the most watermelon across all demographics. on a per capita basis.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Those are very big facts indeed. That is right.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
They consume the most. The number is most.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
The most. The most. Just the most watermelons.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Of course you want to say right. And that is wrong. That is racist. That is racist. It's actually Asians who eat the most watermelons.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That's literally the point of the game.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Oh, wow. Is that what you think? You think the black people are eating all the watermelon? Because you saw that in your racist cartoons with your racist... Come on.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Did you see that in Twitter videos too, did you?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
You can talk all you want, because that's still racist. Per the study, it's actually Asians who eat the most watermelon. However, 78% of malt liquor is consumed by black people. Made that one up too, but it's probably right. In Taiwan, 10 last names are shared by over 50% of the population. Is that right or is that racist? That feels right. 10 last names are shared by over 50%. Facts.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Once again, you talked yourself out of a right answer because that was right. No, I'm going to go with that's right, Matt. Pretty offensive assumption, and it turns out to be correct.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Let's go. The 10 names are Chen, Lin, Huang, Cheng, Li, Wang, Wu, Lu, Sai, and Yang. Hashtag pots and pans. That's on the card. You can't blame me. That's on the card. That was on the card. Asians are catching a lot of strays. Yeah. Hopefully not to eat them, though.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That is correct. That is right.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Next question. On a percentage basis, black kids aged between 20 and 25 years old are more likely to deal drugs than white kids of the same age. I'm going to go ahead and give that one a big old W, facts. Can you just say that's right? Righteous. That's right. Just say that's right. That's right or racist. Bofa. You're on Jeopardy.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Welcome to the show, Am I Racist? The only game that uses science to prove who is and who is not racist. Our contestants will be asked a series of questions. Whomever answers the most questions correctly wins the game. Let's meet them now. Siaka. Bryson, everybody. Justine, everybody. And loser of Mortal Kombat, Jacob, everybody. Question number one.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
You have to answer in the form of a question or they kick you out.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Both you and Obama are racist. That is a racist. Survey says 6.6% of whites age 12 to 25 sold drugs, 5% of blacks the same age. So we're dealing the drugs and we're doing the serial killing. We got it all covered. We got all the bases covered, don't we? Next question. The average alcohol consumer in Ireland has 39 drinks per week, the highest among any nation.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That's right. You got that one right. Colombia. Off to a good start. Turns out Colombia not only first, but produces more than second place Peru and third place Bolivia combined. Question number two. 70% of Indian Americans over the age of 25 have a college degree, making them the most educated group of Asian immigrants in America.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
I want you to know, before you answer this, I am of Irish descent. My family is from Ireland. I cherish my family deeply. So is that right, or is that racist?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That is racist. That is very racist. In fact, drinkers from Mali, an African Muslim nation, consume 39 drinks per week. The Irish only consume 21. Though, as an Irish person myself, I'm trying hard to make the difference. Am I racist? Well, I think we're getting there, yeah. Racist! Question.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Among all religious groups, Muslims account for the highest percentage of the total prison population in the United States.
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
That is correct. It is racist. Racist. Well, ladies and gentlemen, the judges have tabulated the results, and now it's time to announce the winner of Am I Racist? And that winner is Justine, ladies and gentlemen. Justine is the winner of Am I Racist?
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Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" THE GAME! (Uncut Edition)
Okay, Justine, you have won your own box of Am I Racist? There you go. Thank you so much. I am also surprised that it was a woman who won. Not surprised that she's white, though. I'm just kidding. Not really. Okay. Thank you so much to all the contestants. Thank you to everybody at home. And remember, get your own copy of Am I Racist at dailywire.com. See you next time, folks. Thank you.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
This is the final episode of the Matt Wall Show for 2024. It was a big year, a strange year, and ultimately a great year for the entire country. One that saw the fall of the Biden regime, the end of the Obama dynasty, and Trump like a phoenix rising from the ashes to reclaim the White House. It was also a big year and a great year for me and the rest of the team here at The Daily Wire.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
With all the money and technology we have in 2024, somehow Disney is struggling very hard to match the quality of a film from the 1930s. At first, there were the leaked images of the actors playing the seven dwarves, which weren't dwarves at all because that would be culturally insensitive. So instead, Disney replaced the dwarves with a diverse array of magical hobos.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Then when everyone pointed out that the dwarves are kind of important to the story, Disney delayed the production, fired all the actors playing the magical hobos, replaced them with CGI dwarves, which didn't look particularly convincing, but at least they were better than the actors. So some progress was made, I suppose. Goodwill was restored to a degree.
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Then the star of the film, Rachel Zegler, proceeded to light all that goodwill on fire. She made it clear that she thinks the story of Snow White is actually very creepy and misogynistic. She said Disney was basically going to throw out the old story, get rid of the prince, make a film that supposedly empowers women, and that means downplaying the whole romance thing.
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which was the whole point of the story. Hiring the Barbie screenwriter and going full-on girl boss was the plan. Then a short clip of the film surfaced online and we saw exactly what a girl boss Snow White looks like. The clip showed Snow White directing the dwarves to clean their own cottage for her as she instructs them to whistle while they work.
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Yes, the dwarves come home from a long day at the mines and they're met by a bossy, unpleasant woman telling them to clean up doesn't even help them in this version, which is a pretty big change from the original. She also doesn't seem remotely grateful that they're giving her a place to stay when she desperately needs it.
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Instead, she just sings along and watches the dwarves do all the work, almost sadistically, really. And once again, as you'd expect, this footage caused a backlash and Disney quickly had it scrubbed from the internet. Then a couple of months ago, Disney uploaded this teaser for the film. This was their big moment to win back the fans. Here's just a quick part of it.
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So the whole thing has this kind of uncanny, uncanny valley vibe to it. And pretty much all the comments are negative. It's going through some of them. These are the top comments in order, by the way, I'm not cherry picking. This is just the top comments. Here's what they say. Quote, this is actually hilarious. The first Snow White saved Disney. The second ruined it.
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Another says, what's the point of doing a live action remake of an animated movie if you're just going to animate half the characters anyway? Then there's this one quote. It's OK, Disney, you could just cancel the film. We won't be mad if you admit defeat. There are a few people who point out that the trailer has more than a million dislikes on YouTube and fewer than 100,000 likes.
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It's information that YouTube hides, but it's still accessible apparently. Comments go downhill from there. One reads, wow, Disney, you truly are incredible. It took you three years, multiple rewrites, unnecessary CGI, $209 million just for me to enjoy a comment section of a movie I will never watch. Bless you. And someone writes, I'm rooting for the poison apple. So you get the idea.
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Everything about this film is an unmitigated disaster. Even their teaser trailers are bombing. After all this, if there are any adults left at Disney, you'd think they'd be in damage control mode at this point. Maybe they can't control how bad this film is going to be. Maybe they can't improve the CGI on the dwarves anymore. Way too late for script rewrites.
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Well, Madonna recently embarked on her new global tour called Celebration. And indeed, the tour is an opportunity to celebrate her musical career, which effectively died 25 years ago and yet has lingered on in zombified form, horrifying and confusing spectators all the while. As far as I can tell, she has not had a number one single since the tail end of the Clinton administration.
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Costs a lot of money, and they're probably well over budget at this point. But at a minimum, you'd think that they could at least say, tell Rachel Zegler to stop talking like a deranged left-wing activist just for a little bit, just until the movie comes out.
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That might mitigate some of the potential future damage for this film, which is somehow already getting even worse press than Joker 2 and not even out yet. But apparently telling Rachel Zegler to behave normally just isn't an option either. So the other day, in response to the presidential election, Zegler had a very public meltdown on her Instagram stories. She wrote, quote, F you, Donald Trump.
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And she proceeded to insult the 75 million Americans who voted for him, quote, I find myself speechless in the midst of this. Another four years of hatred leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in. Yeah, you always got to love starting with F-U and then ending with, you know, complaining about all the hatred in the world.
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Of course, if Zegler doesn't want to live in America anymore, she's free to leave. She certainly has the resources to do that. But she seems to suggest that Donald Trump will make the entire world uninhabitable, which is kind of a new one. Actually, it's not entirely new. It reminds me of 2016 when Cher declared that she would have to leave the planet if Donald Trump won.
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And she never left, strangely enough, although she kind of looks like she did. And ironically, if she wants to leave the planet now, Elon Musk is probably her best bet, which raises its own complications, I guess. So these celebrities are really running out of options. But Zegler wasn't done there.
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Her post added that Trump is, quote, leaning us towards a world that will be hard to raise my daughter in, leaning us towards a world that will force her to have a baby she doesn't want, leaning us towards a world that is fearful. She stated that, quote, the left continues to fail us in forging a new path forwards.
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This loss should not have been, and it certainly should not have been by so many votes. May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace. Now, what's amusing about this, of course, is that it's pretty clear that Zegler is the one who doesn't know peace.
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She's obviously an emotionally unstable basket case who has no idea how to process the fact that none of her paranoia is based in reality. And the vast majority of Americans don't agree with her political views. So instead of coming to terms with her own faults and misconceptions, she says that she wants Trump supporters to suffer emotionally just as she does every single day.
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Misery loves company, as they say. In further examples of projection, Zegler went on to state that Trump voters are part of a, quote, deep, deep sickness in this country. She added, quote, there's no help, no counsel in any of them, whatever that means exactly. Then she told all of her fans to delete their ex-accounts, charging that Elon Musk helped get that man elected.
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This is a bit of an aside, but this is a common trend now on the left. They're suddenly abandoning X now that Trump has won. The Guardian just announced that it's going to stop posting its articles on X. For one example, ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon, along with a random NYU professor named Jay Rosen, did the same thing. I just saw this morning, Joy Reid has also deleted her X account. What a tragedy.
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This is a platform that until election day, these people claimed was a cesspool of fringe ideas and radical beliefs. But they remained on it anyway. Now that the election has proven that X is actually representative of mainstream thought in America, suddenly they can't tolerate it anymore. They have to abandon the platform. Doesn't really make any sense.
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You can only conclude that the left is simply incapable of realizing that they're the ones who are far outside the mainstream. When they're confronted with that evidence, they can't process it. So they have to scamper away. They're just totally humiliated. In any event, Rachel Zegler is not capable of experiencing humiliation, so she has no problem telling her supporters to abandon X entirely.
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She hasn't been even vaguely relevant on the music scene at any point this century. The last time she made headlines was when she kissed Britney Spears at the VMAs in 2003. Way back then, she had already entered into her desperate attention whore phase, grasping for relevance in whatever way she could. And 20 years later, Britney Spears is now dancing half naked on Instagram with butcher knives.
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She also has no problem going on an unhinged rant against more than half the country, including a lot of people that presumably Disney would like to sell tickets to. Many of those Republican voters are in the target audience for the Snow White remake. They're the people who like these kinds of traditional stories. They're the people who are having kids.
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These are the kinds of people Disney needs to show up if the movie is going to be remotely profitable. And now the star of the film is telling them all to go to hell. Now, one of the many ironies here is that about a year ago, Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company would stop getting involved in these political fights. He said that they wouldn't push any kind of agenda.
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He said they'd quiet the noise and proceed with decency and respect for their audience. Well, I guess so much for that. Now according to the star of Disney's upcoming marquee film, 75 million Americans are horrible people who should suffer for all eternity.
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The other remarkable aspect to this is that Disney, as you may recall, fired Gina Carano for her allegedly controversial social media post just a couple of years ago. And Gina Carano never did anything remotely like what Rachel Zegler has done. Gina mocked the idea of wearing masks and preferred pronouns, which makes sense because wearing masks and preferred pronouns are both really dumb ideas.
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And she pointed out that totalitarian governments make citizens hate one another, which is true. History proves that's true. And for all this, Disney fired her. And her talent agency dropped her on top of it. Gina Carano did not personally attack tens of millions of people. She didn't berate her own fan base. She didn't say that half of the people who watch Star Wars are bad people.
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She didn't say that. Instead, she articulated views that the vast majority of Americans agree with. So why is she still involved in litigation with Disney to get her job back while Rachel Zegler is the face of the company's upcoming blockbuster film? Now, we all know the answer to that question. Disney, despite what its CEO says, is an explicitly political operation.
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But more than that, they're vengeful. Even though it's clearly not helping them financially, they can't hide their disdain for tens of millions of Americans. That's very bad news for Disney shareholders and everyone else hoping that this company might one day return to what it once did, which is to create entertaining family films that normal people want to watch.
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It's virtually guaranteed the Snow White remake is going to continue crashing and burning over the next few months like a slow-moving train wreck. And especially now, after this was the nail in the coffin, now that you've insulted Disney, More than half of the people you would need to come watch this movie.
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And that is why, once again, Disney, their new Snow White film, and Rachel Zegler herself are all today. Cancelled. If you're a homeowner like me, when's the last time you checked on the title to your home? That's a legal document that shows that you own it. If the answer is never, you need to know that a fast-growing crime, according to the FBI, is called house stealing.
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I was recently shown how easy this scam is to pull off, and let me tell you, it's pretty shocking. This one-page document is called a quit-claim deed. Criminals are forging these documents by filling them out with your information, signing it with a fake signature, and stamping it with a notary seal that you can get online for 20 bucks, and then filing them with county officials, and that's it.
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And Madonna looks like a geriatric Marilyn Manson still trying to be a sex symbol, even though she's been AARP eligible for a half, you know, a decade and a half. And anyway, now she's on tour. Now there's nothing wrong with a 65-year-old singer going on tour. Aretha Franklin was still performing at the age of 75 before she died. But a 65-year-old woman should perform like a 65-year-old woman.
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It's all it takes for your home to be transferred out of your name without your knowledge. But here's the thing. The scammers don't want your house. They're after your equity. They take out loans using your home as collateral, and then they disappear, leaving you with a financial and legal nightmare.
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But you can protect yourself from this despicable crime right now with triple lock protection from Home Title Lock. Just like how my producer, Sean Hampton, protects his home. First step is to check on your home's title. Make sure you're not already a victim.
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You can get a free title history report and a 30-day free trial of triple lock protection today by going to hometitlelock.com using promo code Walsh or click on the link in the description. That's hometitlelock.com, promo code Walsh. Don't wait until it's too late. Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and devastating.
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From Maui fires to Hurricane Helene, we're seeing entire towns wiped out in 24 hours with barely any warning. And what happens? People are left without basic resources, scrambling to survive. Now, I know you're thinking it won't happen here. Well, that's exactly what everyone thinks until they're in the middle of a catastrophe. Being prepared isn't just smart, it's essential.
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And that's where the Wellness Company's Emergency Kit comes in. These aren't your run-of-the-mill first aid kits. We're talking about a personalized mini-pharmacy right in your own home. No more relying on overworked doctors or understocked pharmacies with disaster strikes, bacterial infections, staph, bite wounds, UTIs, strep throat, respiratory illnesses. These kits have you covered.
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It even comes with a medical board approved guidebook. It's that simple. And right now, when you go to UrgentCareKit.com slash Walsh and use promo code Walsh, you'll save $60 plus, get free shipping. That's UrgentCareKit.com slash Walsh to save 60 bucks. This is preparedness simplified. Invest in your family's self-managed insurance plan today. UrgentCareKit.com slash Walsh. USA residents only.
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Our number two cancellation throws a bit of a curveball. The Washington Post reviewed my film, Am I Racist? And their take on my film was actually truly shocking. Watch. Well, we know that the mainstream media is corrupt, dishonest, and both intellectually and morally bankrupt.
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That is the fundamental reason why, as we've been tracking on the show for the past few weeks, mainstream film critics have refused to review my new film, Am I Racist? But credit where credit is due, a few journalists, even if they aren't film critics, from a few major publications, have had the gumption to acknowledge the movie's existence. And yesterday, most unexpectedly,
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The Washington Post was added to that list. The film critic at the Post, whoever it is, still has not reviewed the film and probably never will. But the journalist Megan McArdle did bravely venture to theaters to watch the movie and wrote about it. Wrote about it mostly positively, it turns out, after the fact. And here's the headline. You might not enjoy Am I Racist? You should watch it anyway.
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Which I could not agree more. Whether you like it or don't, still watch it. That's my message. Now, even before reading her piece, I'm impressed simply that she's willing to do the thing that people who are paid to watch and write about movies have been too afraid to do. But the readers of the Washington Post are not so impressed.
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In fact, their reaction demonstrates why most mainstream outlets have been too afraid to venture down this road. And we'll take a look at their reaction in just a moment. But first, let's read a little bit of McArdle's take on the film. She begins, as I drove to the AMC Theater in Danvers, Massachusetts, my phone kept peppering me with the same plaintive question. Am I racist?
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It was startling the first time it happened. And for a second, I wanted to reassure my phone that no, consumer electronic device can't be racist. The phone wasn't really asking. Rather, it was reminding me that I had tickets for the latest movie by Matt Walsh, a conservative podcaster and provocateur who was probably most famous for his film, What is a Woman?
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That movie apparently did well enough to justify releasing the new one onto about 1,500 screens this month. It was number four at the box office, albeit a distant fourth in a very slow week, which is why I was going to see it. While you might not like this suggestion, you should do the same. Just, you know... FYI, actually, it wasn't a very slow week.
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Classy, refined, mature, dignified, dazzling with a beautiful vocal performance rather than relying on sex appeal.
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Our film came out only a week after Beetlejuice said box office records for the month. And we weren't a distant fourth. We were like 700K behind the third place film, which isn't really distant. And that was Deadpool and Wolverine. But who's counting? I mean, I'm counting obsessively every day, but let's not get hung up on those details. Continuing. I'm not promising you'll enjoy the movie.
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If you're on the liberal to progressive side, you'll think it's simplistic and unfair, which, yes, obviously. But it's also effective, and people on that end of the spectrum should watch it to understand why it works and why the left keeps providing Walsh such a rich trove of targets.
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If you don't like the people he's lampooning, it's easy to convince yourself that he's revealing something deep and important, just as I've heard progressives argue that Borat movies were laying bare the hateful underbelly of America. But what Walsh is actually revealing is two not very surprising realities of human nature.
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First, that every group has an awful fringe, and it's easy to make that group look bad if only the fringe's worst moments survive the cutting room floor. Second, that the human instinct for avoiding confrontation is exploitable if you're sufficiently willing to violate the social contract.
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Both points have already been amply demonstrated by a long history of cults and dictatorships, not to mention middle school. Yet to give Walsh his due, it's still jaw-dropping when participants in the ersatz diversity workshop sit silently or even participate as he berates a sick-looking elderly man in a wheelchair for being a racist.
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Walsh eventually stops the workshop when it seems as though they're actually considering flagellating themselves with the whips that he's passed out. So this is not exactly a rave review. She credits the film for being effective, but also calls it simplistic and unfair. She also attempts to absolve the left of any blame for what we document in the movie.
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The problem, though, is that Madonna can't sing, and she can't write good music, and she wouldn't know classiness and refinement if it fell out of the sky and landed on her head, which means that the people who buy tickets for the celebration tour, and for the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would, are in for an incredibly cringey display.
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And she does that by writing off, you know, Robin DiAngelo and company as the fringe. Now. As one of the guys who made the film, I, of course, disagree with these assessments. The core message of the film may be in many ways simple, but that's not the same as being simplistic. And the Robin DiAngelos of the world are certainly not in any way the fringe of the left.
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Robin DiAngelo conveys and promotes left-wing racial ideology, not a fringe version of it, but a mainstream version of it. I mean, this is a woman who, as she confesses in the film, is hired by Fortune 500 companies and major government agencies to do workshops for their employees. And calling that fringe, I think, is rather absurd.
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By analogy, and it's hard to come up with an analogy for the right because nobody on the right has access to those kinds of institutions. But imagine if Sean Hannity ever found himself in an embarrassing situation, and I tried to claim that he's just a, well, he's just a fringe right winger. I mean, say what you want about Sean Hannity, he's definitely not a fringe character on the right.
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And Robin DiAngelo is considerably less fringe than that on the left. After all, the most mainstream thing a conservative can do is host a show on Fox News. On the left, mainstream means that you're doing work for Coca-Cola and Google and Netflix and so on, which is what Robin DiAngelo says that she's done in the film. And that's the kind of mainstream that Robin DiAngelo and her cronies are.
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And it's as mainstream as you can get. Okay, I cannot think of anything more mainstream. Google is like the definition of mainstream. And so if you're getting hired by Google, then you are mainstream. You're the mainstream of the mainstream. On the left anyway. So I think McArdle is incorrect in some of her analysis.
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But still, I give her credit for offering any analysis at all, even a wrong analysis. And it's not entirely wrong. So here's how she wraps everything up. A number of the people attending his workshop walk out as the strangeness escalates. And earlier in the film, he gets kicked out of a workshop that someone else runs.
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But that happens only after he leaves the room, giving participants time to figure out who he is and reach consensus on expelling him. Most people sit through his provocations because, well, it would be rude to leave or point out how bizarre his suggestions are.
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That itself is telling, however, because some of his targets are also exploiting those same conciliatory social instincts, which is what makes the movie's jokes land. When progressive activist Saira Rao monologues about the awfulness of white women to a group of white women at one of her race dinner events, which reportedly cost up to $5,000 to stage,
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The faces of the guests foreshadow those of Walsh's workshop participants, the frozen anxiety of someone witnessing a social offense and unwilling to return it in kind. That's also what you see on the face of celebrity diversity consultant Robin DiAngelo when a bewigged Walsh gives all his cash to a black producer as reparations and invites DiAngelo to do the same.
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And however cringey you think it might be, I assure you that it's even worse than that. So case in point, here's a 12 second viral clip from Madonna's latest stop on her tour, and here's what it looks like. Now if you're wondering what a wreck time at the nursing home will look like in the year 2070, There it is.
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I dropped my head into my hands as DiAngelo went scurrying for her wallet. Though I confess, I also laughed. Because you can't help think of how many times D'Angelo has been paid for advice on how white people ought to interact with people of color. And some of that advice is only slightly less bizarre and patronizing than suggesting we haul out our wallets and tip them $20.
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D'Angelo and Rao and a number of others gained money and fame during the Great Awakening because decent people genuinely concerned about America's racial divides were too polite to point out that they sounded like lunatics.
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Those well-intentioned Americans had their social instincts hacked, the machinery diverted into a continuous loop of unproductive navel-gazing instead of the racial justice they were trying to achieve. That's what left them vulnerable when Matt Walsh showed up to exploit the same bug. Now, that's her main takeaway, and she's right.
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What we attempted to do in the film, successfully I think, is tap into the same exploitation and manipulation methods that these DEI race hustlers use and turn it against them. And if McArdle noticed that, then she understood the basic point of the film, even if I could quibble with some of her analysis, but the basic thrust of it, she understood and is articulating, I think, very well.
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Her readers, though, are doing quite a bit more than quibbling with her analysis. In fact, they are offended that she's offering any kind of analysis at all. So I perused the comment section on the Washington Post website, and I'll give you a brief sampling, enough to kind of get the basic gist.
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And as I read these, I'm going to ask our editors to put some sad piano music in the background in order to really capture the vibe of these distraught commenters who have been betrayed by this, effectively, this movie review from a journalist. Here's what they have to say, just reading a few. Yeah, I'm going to give my money to someone who fights everything I support.
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If he was being sincere in doing the work, that would be one thing. But to pay to see a mockumentary about racism from an alt-right Trumper? To put money in that guy's pocket? To go to see this to, as they say, own the libs as a liberal? Well, that's an easy pass. Another says, my God, the depth of your stupidity and that of Walsh is deeply, truly staggering. Or is it just pure bigotry?
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Or is it just running a con on suckers for money? We know why moronic movies like this work. It's because they have a huge propaganda apparatus constantly lying to these people. And that includes grifters like you. It's because they were raised by people unconcerned with truth or facts or history or empathy with others. And many were told this was just God's will.
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We should give a person money who has openly supported theocracy and fascism so we can understand? Should I donate money to Nazis so I can understand? The next one says, Trying to justify and normalize racism has been the goal of the right for years. Now they have a WAPO opinion writer going to lengths to explain racism is okay because the fringe left has some crazy people? Nice try.
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Another says, so he's not sincere, therefore is a racist and thinks this is all something to laugh about. Why would you support and promote this project, Ms. McArdle? Unless you yourself are happily and openly racist too. Y'all are effing weird. Another says, I didn't know anything about Matt Walsh, the person that created the movie recommended here by Megan McArdle.
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I would have more respect for McArdle in the Post if I had never read this column, if I had never known anything about Matt Walsh. And another says, Walsh's last movie was utterly repugnant. If you paid to watch another movie by him for anything other than science or journalism, you just might have a problem. And one more, this grifter movie has nothing to do with racism.
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It's about owning the libs and getting famous and rich off the MAGA goobers who will confirm their biases. So pretty much like all the rest of the current Republican cult from the orange leader down. Now I have to say, I really take exception to that last comment. He says the movie isn't about racism, it's actually about getting rich and famous.
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But why can't it be about racism and getting rich and famous? I mean, two things can be true at once, right? We could kill multiple birds with one stone here. And as for the rest of these comments, the most important thing to keep in mind is that these are people who have not seen the movie. They object to anyone seeing it at all. They didn't even pay attention to McArdle's analysis.
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It didn't matter what her analysis was. In their minds, she betrayed them simply by watching it. I mean, this is the cult mentality that you find on the left. And although the right has plenty of issues of its own, you don't find anything quite like this on our side. Conservatives would not get angry at a right-wing commenter for watching a Michael Moore movie and offering a perspective on it.
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In fact, You know, if there's a new Michael Moore movie out, which hasn't been in a long time, and people are talking about it and the left is celebrating it, I think if you're a right-wing commentator, you're actually kind of expected to watch it so that you can give your take on it. Because your audience wants to know. They want to know, like, what do you think about this thing?
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
And indeed, pretty much every movie Hollywood churns out, documentaries and narrative features, are made by raging leftists. As a conservative commentator myself, I don't have to worry that my audience will dogpile me if I watch a movie and give my thoughts on it. You find this attitude on the left for two basic reasons. The first is that their worldview is a brittle, fragile thing.
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It cannot withstand any serious or even not so serious challenge, which means they have to steadfastly avoid anything that might challenge it. C.S. Lewis once wrote that a young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. And the same could be said about a young man or a woman or an old man or woman who wishes to remain a sound leftist.
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And for those who are blessed to only be listening to the audio podcast and were therefore spared the visuals, I will just tell you that Madonna appears to be wrapped in aluminum foil while she clings onto a support rail and gyrates clumsily to techno music. And, you know, it's kind of like if you brought your elderly aunt to a rave and she got way more into it than you expected.
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But the other thing that comes out in these comments, and also in the backlash that YouTube reviewer Jeremy Johns experienced when he dared to notice that my movie exists, is that many on the left have come to believe that they own the art form of film itself.
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If you're on the right, you've long since grown accustomed to the fact that, as we just established, virtually every movie you've ever seen was made by people who disagree with you and probably hate you. Leftists have had the exact opposite experience, and this has given them a sense of kind of artistic entitlement. They believe that art belongs to them.
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Conservatives who make art are treated as intruders, as burglars, kind of sneaking through the window in the middle of the night. The only appropriate response is to kind of shoo them away. They don't belong here. Art is not for them. That's the attitude. And it's a delusion that I'm quite happy to break, I have to say.
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I will say, though, that I did find one comment on the Washington Post website from somebody who says they actually watched the film. And here's what the comment says. Quote, I went out of my way to see it last week. What a horrible excuse for a movie. Like watching MLK on steroids. Now, I promise you, I did not make that comment up.
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This is someone insulting me by, I guess, calling me MLK on steroids. I don't know if he means that... I'm like MLK, but extremely muscular. Or if he means that in a more kind of philosophical sense, that I'm like a civil rights pioneer turned up to the nth degree. Maybe he means it in both ways. I'm a muscular, turbocharged civil rights icon. I can only assume that's what he's trying to say.
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And all I can say to that is guilty as charged. Perhaps if we do a sequel in the next film, I'll pass around a petition to change the Martin Luther King Jr. monument to the Matt Walsh monument. It's an idea worth considering at least. So that comment was obviously correct and deeply, deeply rational, I think. But the other ones, not as much.
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And that is why the Washington Post readers who are having a heart attack because somebody watched my movie are all today canceled. There have been a lot of meltdowns over the movie. Many of the meltdowns have come from corporate media, and the rest have come from the audience of some corporate media outlets who melted down because those outlets didn't melt down. So it's all very confusing.
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But of course, when it comes to left-wing meltdowns, nothing can possibly hold a candle to the reaction early last month to Donald Trump's glorious and overwhelming victory. So our number one cancellation of 2024 takes us on a tour of just some of them. What I'd like to do is close out the show by sifting through some of the more hysterical reactions from the left.
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After many months of work, we finally released our follow-up to What Is A Woman, which went on to become the top film in its genre this decade and had a bigger debut on The Daily Wire platform than even What Is A Woman had. So there's been a lot to celebrate. Most importantly, it was a year for canceling.
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We played a bit of MSNBC at the top of the show, but the meltdowns get even more glorious. And I think it's important to highlight some of these. Because they're hilarious. And I mean, that's really the whole reason. That's the only reason to do it. And I just feel like it's, but it feels like my duty on a day such as today.
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But before we begin, I do want to make it very clear that I am not a cruel person. I am very empathetic. Now, yes, I'm going to be delighting in the pain and suffering of my political opponents. Yes, I do take great pleasure in their misery, but I also care about them. And that's why I made sure that we continued to play the trailer for my film, Am I Racist, on MSNBC's Airwaves this morning.
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It was a very difficult time for MSNBC's viewers, and I realized that, and so I figured that I'd cheer them up by showing them my trailer. Watch.
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Growing up in the 90s, I never thought much about race.
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I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover. They all say I'm crazy. I mainly just wanted you to see the trailer with the MSNBC banner around it, which is just fantastic. Now, listen, I don't expect anyone to thank me or praise me for my abundant mercy and compassion, but they should.
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It's an embarrassing sight to behold, but also oddly fascinating in the same grotesque way that you might gawk at roadkill while you drive by trying to figure out, like, is that a raccoon or a fox? What is that? And by the way, this is a good time to tell you that. And I did check for myself. Madonna's next stop is in Boston in three days. And you might think, well, it's in three days.
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We are running that ad on MSNBC, even though we know that not a single one of their viewers will actually subscribe to watch the film. Not a single one. And I am willing to take a financial loss, or at least I'm willing for The Daily Wire to take a financial loss. I'm not paying a dime.
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But I am willing for this company to lose money just to get that trailer in front of their faces this morning when they're already devastated and hurting. And I'll lose as much of this company's money as is necessary to annoy as many of MSNBC's viewers as we can. That's my solemn promise to you. And it's an act of charity, really.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Anyway, now that I've proven that I'm a compassionate and kind person, let's get on with delighting in the misfortune of others. We'll begin with this brief compilation of women on TikTok crying. Now, Donald Trump, we know, is now 2-0 against female presidential candidates, which is just, oh man. He has prevented a woman from becoming president twice.
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And that fact is just too much for the women of TikTok. They cannot cope with it. And they're very upset. And don't laugh at any of this. This is not about laughing. This is just... Anyway, here it is.
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It's not funny. Don't laugh about that. These people are hurting. They're hurting. Don't you dare laugh. I do want to especially highlight. So those are good. But I want to especially highlight this particular TikTok meltdown. Here it is.
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There's no way I can go. All the seats are going to be, all the tickets are sold out. No, there are plenty of seats still available. In fact, you can buy a ticket for 60 bucks. You can buy a ticket for $60 to Madonna's tour in three days. You know, people were like literally killing each other over Taylor Swift tickets or buying them for $95,000. But Madonna, you can go see for 60 bucks.
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She says she's going to bed with the last of the dignity she has left. And, um, I just want to say this. You didn't have any dignity left anyway. So that's the good news. You can't lose any of your dignity if you don't have it. So cheer up. Look on the bright side. Speaking of having no dignity, there's also this one.
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Well, we can only hope, we can only hope that he tears up. That's literally what we elected him to do. It's in the exit polling data. That's when the pollsters stopped people coming out of the poll. What was most important to you? And I think the last exit poll I saw was 87% of voters said, most important thing is we get someone who's going to tear shit up. So that's the whole point.
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But if that reaction wasn't unhinged enough, then there's also this one.
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So she's worried she's going to wake up a slave tomorrow. Makes sense. As everyone knows, Trump ran on reinstating slavery. It was one of his core campaign promises. At least if you have the mental computing software of a leftist, that's apparently what you hear when Trump says that he's going to lower taxes and create more manufacturing jobs in America.
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Meanwhile, the actress Christina Applegate is having a tough time. Her entire Twitter page right now is full of unhinged ramblings and worth reading, worth reading. But there's also this one I like. She says, why? Give me your reasons why. My child is sobbing because her rights as a woman may be taken away. Why? And if you disagree, please unfollow me.
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Now, my favorite thing about this tweet is that she begins by asking Trump voters to explain why they voted for him. But she ends by telling them to shut up and go away. Explain why you did this. Shut up, leave. Which is it? You can't really do both. And in between, she tells us that her child is traumatized because her rights are going to be taken away. And her child may well be traumatized.
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Shockingly, people are not tripping over themselves to go watch Grandma in Zumba class for two hours. But needless to say, if you find this spectacle ridiculous, then... The problem isn't with the aging pop star throwing her hip out while she tries to twerk on stage. The problem is with you. You are ageist, according to the media.
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I mean, but and I'm sorry if she is. But Christina Applegate is the one who traumatized her. I'd be traumatized too as a child if my mom was hysterically screaming that the world's coming to an end and all of our rights will disappear. Now, so far we've only reveled in the manic rage and despair of female Kamala supporters, but plenty of men are melting down too. We'll get to those in a minute.
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First, here's one more from a woman.
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America failed women, he says. Failed them. Of course, a whole lot of women also voted for Trump, but they failed themselves. You know what? You failed yourselves, women. Americans failed women by showing that they also recognize the humanity of babies. And in this person's world, it's one or the other.
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You know, America had to choose, babies or women, and Harry is deeply disappointed that we chose babies. Even though, to people who are not morally insane, that choice doesn't exist, because we can care about both women and babies at the same time. And we did. That's why we voted for Trump. Mike Wise is a sports commentator, apparently, and he agrees with Harry. He tweeted, quote,
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It's not just that Trump won. It's that Joe Rogan, Dana White, Brett Favre won. Jailed insurrectionists won. The Alitos and the Thomases won. Vladimir Putin won. Racism won. Misogyny won. Sexism won. Global warming won. Xenophobia won. Most of all, fear won. That's what hurts. Now, there are about a million other tweets that we could read all with this same tone and message.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
Who are the real villains in this story? Who is to blame for the loss? The American people. The people are the villains. They chose racism and misogyny and global warming. How quickly the left went from being valiant defenders of the democratic system to scapegoating it when things don't go their way, which is the most predictable twist ending in the history of twist endings.
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I think we've probably seen enough, but I do have to play just one more. Just one more, one more. I know that many of you You know, you look back to 2016 and you remember fondly that iconic moment of the Hillary voter falling to her knees and screaming into the sky. And you may be worried that we haven't seen anything that quite matches that yet. But don't worry, because I think this comes close.
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The Independent reports today, quote, Madonna is being defended from ageist trolls after a video showing the singer performing while holding a beam for support surfaced online. Earlier this week, a clip from the Like a Prayer Singer Celebration Tour was shared on TikTok showing the star, 65, dancing energetically while holding a pole positioned behind her. Now, let's pause there for a moment.
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Just wonderful. Look, listen. Yes, it lacks the spontaneity and authenticity of the 2016 version. This woman had to set up her camera and scream hysterically, stop recording. So she had to decide, okay, I'm going to scream hysterically now. Take out her phone, set it up, scream, stop recording, edit it down. Post it. She had to do all that.
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She probably watched that video back 10 or 15 times before she posted it. She probably did multiple takes. If you were to check her camera roll right now, I guarantee there are like 30 of those videos where she's going for just the right, you know, she had to repeat that 30 times. And you might say that that makes the mental breakdown less enjoyable for the rest of us. But I tend to disagree.
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You know, I for one appreciate the effort that she's putting into it. It's the thought that counts. Now, let me just say one more thing before we close out. And we've had our fun with these videos. We've sipped from the chalice of leftist suffering. We've satiated our thirst with the sweet nectar of liberal tears.
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But I do want to get serious for just one moment and offer a word of encouragement to these people. It may seem funny to us, but they are truly worried that Donald Trump will be an evil dictator. And I think it'd be irresponsible and frankly, pretty cruel of me if I didn't take a second to reassure them on that point.
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So, you know, in all seriousness, all jokes aside, no, Donald Trump is not going to be an evil dictator. He's going to be a good dictator. So don't worry. Yes, Trump is going to be dictator for life. When he dies, his throne will be passed down to Barron Trump and the Trump dynasty shall reign for a thousand years. But it's all for your own good. Is Trump going to take away all of your rights?
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Absolutely not. Not all of them. You'll still have the right to agree with Trump and praise him always. Is Trump going to take away voting rights from women? Again, no. Women will have the right to vote for whoever their husbands tell them to vote for, which will always be Trump.
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Will Trump intentionally spray more CO2 into the air to cause more global warming, melt the ice caps intentionally, raise global temperatures to tropical levels? Yes, obviously. It's only the coastal states that voted against him in this election. And so now they must be drowned to pay for their sins. The rest of us get to enjoy warm summer weather all year round. So it's basically a win-win.
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So in that way, all of your fears are valid. And this was all laid out in Project 2025, like you said. It was all there. It's like on page one. But it won't be as bad as you think. Trust me, in a few months, you won't be complaining anymore. Because you won't be allowed to. And I hope that makes you feel better. So there it is. Those are the top four cancellations of 2024.
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The good news is that 2025 is a whole new year, an opportunity to cancel many more people and places and things. I'll come out swinging after the new year, ready to cancel with abandon, as I always do. That is my solemn pledge to you. Until then, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you in 2025.
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And I can tell you it's never a good sign when the best thing someone can say about your dance moves is that they were energetic. Like if you perform a dance routine and you go up to someone and you say, hey, what'd you think? And they respond, yeah, wow, it was energetic. I mean, that means you sucked, okay?
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Anyway, The Independent continues, many trolls then proceeded to incorrectly conflate Madonna's decision to hold the rail for support with her age and sent her messages of vitriol online. However, it has since been revealed that during this particular segment of the show, Madonna is dancing while standing on a moving platform, meaning she is holding the pole for her safety.
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Oh, well, that changes everything. The 65-year-old woman needed to hold the pole while she danced for her safety. Well, that solves that, I guess. People Magazine reports that other aging musicians are coming to Madonna's defense. Quote, Chuck D is coming to Madonna's defense. On Thursday, the public enemy frontman 63 posted to X to defend the frozen singer 65.
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By the way, frozen singer is like, I guess that's a song. That's what they mean. They don't mean that she's like literally frozen, like cryogenically frozen. Although she does sort of look like she has been frozen. Anyway, defend against trolls making ageist comments about her performance during her career-spanning celebration tour.
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We canceled hundreds of people and things and even animals, I think, on this show during the calendar year of 2024. And so today for the final show of the year, we're going to take a look back at the top four cancellations of the year 2024. And just as a note, my team initially wanted to do a top three, but I said, no, it should be four cancellations. Because four in 2024 sounds better.
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He said, quote, at 63, I know I can bike better than I ever did, and Pilates ain't easy, but I give it to Madonna for pushing the bars, Dee said of the legendary pop star. Flav is taking Pilates too, and he's 64, so ageism sometimes gets like racism both ways if you let it. Wait, go up again. Ageism sometimes gets like racism both ways if you let it.
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I think Chuck D had a stroke when he wrote that last sentence. I don't know what that means. But you see, the point is, it is ageism to notice how ridiculous an older woman looks when she tries to pretend that she's still 22. And Madonna herself has made this point many times.
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A few months ago, she appeared at the Grammys, and her face, if you remember, was so weird and puffy from plastic surgery that she looked like she'd been attacked by a swarm of bees shortly before appearing on stage. And again, people noticed how weird she looked, and she responded by calling them ageist.
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The Guardian reported at the time, quote, the 64-year-old singer denounced the entertainment industry for its biases against women who have continued to work long into their careers. Quote, once again, I am caught in the glare of ageism and misogyny that permeates the world we live in.
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A world that refuses to celebrate women past the age of 45 and feels the need to punish her if she continues to be strong-willed, hardworking, and adventurous. She said that she has, quote, never apologized for any of the creative choices I have made, nor the way that I look or dress, and I'm not going to start.
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I've been degraded by the media since the beginning of my career, but I understand that this is all a test, and I am happy to do the trailblazing so that all the women behind me can have an easier time in the years to come. Yes, thank you for trailblazing Madonna.
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You have blazed a trail that other women can follow so that they too can become addicted to Botox and end up looking like the creepy puppet from Saw. How brave of you. Now as for the ageism claims, Let me just say one thing. We are not an ageist society. We are the opposite. We are an age-denying society.
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And that's how you end up with 65-year-old pop stars and 80-year-old presidents and a Congress filled with people who took office sometime around the War of 1812. It's also why plastic surgery is a booming industry, especially among Gen Z. In Gen Z, they are actually young, but in their desperation to stay young, they get lip filler and Botox and lifts and implants.
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Ironically, they end up looking a lot older. They end up looking like middle-aged Stepford wives. Ageism is not even close to our problem. Our problem is our refusal to age and to accept the reality of aging. Madonna is just, she is too old to be gyrating on stage in a skin-tight aluminum leotard. And we can argue about whether anyone of any age should be behaving that way.
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But there's no question that for her at her age, she looks pathetic and clumsy and ridiculous. And it's not that a 65-year-old woman can't be beautiful. No, a 65-year-old woman can be beautiful, but a beautiful 65-year-old woman is a 65-year-old woman who knows that she is 65 and embraces the fact. Beauty and truth go hand in hand.
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But when you are not honest with yourself and the world about who you are, you end up looking not beautiful, but weird and grotesque. Just like there are plenty of 25 year old women who would be beautiful and were beautiful, but then they defiled themselves with unnecessary plastic surgery and now they too look weird and grotesque. You know, aging is a reality of human existence.
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And we find this reality scary, almost unspeakable really, because it reminds us of death. I mean, we treat it as literally unspeakable. Like it's embarrassing to ask someone their age We say you shouldn't ask someone. Someone's age is an embarrassing fact, and we take that for granted.
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Well, in traditional societies, you go back through history, if you went up to someone and asked them how old they were, they wouldn't be, oh, I'm 25. I've been celebrating my 25th birthday for 30 years now. They wouldn't do that. They'd be proud of their age. If somebody was 75, they would say, I'm 75. They'd be proud of it because it means they've been alive for 75 years.
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This is the kind of artistic insight that keeps the audience coming back for more. So let's get to the list. For number four, we go back to the very beginning of the year, actually January 8th, 2024, with the cancellation of Madonna, who attracted my ire and prompted a 13-minute rant because she danced funny at a concert. Here it is.
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But here we treat it as actually embarrassing to have lived a long life. It's ridiculous. And the reason is that we are in a constant state of denial about death. You know, we say things like age is just a number, but that's only true in the same sense that height is just a number or the temperature outside is just a number.
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No, we come up with numbers to symbolize these realities, but they are still realities. We could stop keeping track of age altogether. We could assign it no number at all. And that wouldn't change the fact that we all get older one second at a time. And eventually our bodies start to break down and our minds start to break down and then we die. That is the lot that we have been given.
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Happiness and harmony and beauty can be found in accepting it and acting accordingly. So the most beautiful thing that Madonna could do right now is retire and go home and put on some slippers and sit on her porch and read books to her grandchildren. Let the wrinkles form on her face. Let the hair go gray. Let herself be who she is. And she is not a 22-year-old pop star. She was that once.
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She will never be that again. Time to accept it. And until she does, she is, again, canceled. Are you feeling the stress about giving your family a memorable holiday? You're not alone. Prices remain higher than ever, and a lot of us are maxing out our credit cards. Now's the perfect time to take control of your finances and pay off that debt.
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Now, you might be thinking, Matt, aren't all mattresses basically the same? Wrong. That's liberal thinking right there. Helix understands that we're all different.
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Now, I always like to take any opportunity that I can to remind the audience that they're all going to die, as I do at the end there. And I think approximately 35% of my cancellations end on that note or something similar, which I think is very important. Moving on to number three, we go from an old bitter harpy to a young bitter harpy.
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Ep. 1507 - The Final Matt Walsh Show Episode Of 2024
This is my cancellation, one of, I think, several this year of the new Snow White, Rachel Zegler. Every time we check in on Disney's upcoming Snow White remake, somehow things get even worse than they were before. This is a production that went off the rails a long time ago, which is quite an achievement if you think about it.
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There is the child, a precious, vulnerable new life plucked by God out of eternity and sent here to begin its earthly existence. Then there's the woman who goes from being a woman to being a mother. She herself is created in this moment. It is a moment of becoming. She becomes something. She is born alongside her child. And the same is true of the man.
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He goes from being just a man to being a father. As a father myself, I can attest to the transformative nature of this moment of parenthood. I look back at myself before I had kids. I don't even recognize that person. I don't know who that person was. It was a different person. It was me, but it was me before I became what I was meant to be. It was me before I knew why I was here.
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That was all prologue. That wasn't even the story. You've probably seen these big wireless carrier commercials everywhere, right? Or the ones promising a free iPhone. But let's take a closer look at what free really means in the fine print. To qualify for that free phone, you'll need to trade in your current device, and not just any device, but one worth about $1,000.
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Then you've got to sign up for their premium unlimited plan at $100 monthly. And don't forget that sneaky $35 activation fee they talk on. Some free deal, huh? Well, it's starting to look pretty expensive for something that's supposed to cost nothing. That's where Pure Talk, my cell phone company, comes in with a genuinely better option. Here's the deal.
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But the reality is that while three lives are created at conception, only one is killed through abortion. The child is gone from the earth forever, never to be seen again in this world. The mother and father are still who they became. Despite what they're told, they don't go back to being just a woman and a man. You can't reverse the clock. You can't go back on it. She's still a mother.
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He is still a father. They are still parents, but now they are the parents of a dead child. Now, there is no way to get around the fundamental fact that the pro-abortion movement wishes to deny, which is the humanity of the unborn, the personhood of the unborn.
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And so I was talking to a guy at the meet and greet, and he said, big fan, love the movie, can't wait for the speech, I know it's gonna be hilarious. And I'm looking down at my speech now, I'm like, that guy's gonna be so disappointed. Protecting children, not exactly a laugh a minute, but catch my stand-up set tomorrow at the Chuckles down the street or whatever it is.
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The pro-abortion advocate will try to say that the child's not a person because he's still developing and he's entirely dependent on his mother for survival. And this means he'll say that the baby lacks some kind of moral standing.
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And it's always funny hearing that kind of argument from a lot of people who themselves are still relying on their parents living in their parents' basement, but very late stage fetuses, as they would put it. But you know, this view that personhood is acquired by degree and that it's forfeit if you're dependent on someone else for survival clearly implicates more than just the unborn.
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It would seem that the sick, the infirm, the disabled, the elderly all get caught up in this depersoning net. By this line of reasoning, all of these people have, at a minimum, slightly less personhood. If personhood is on a spectrum, if it's contingent, then by this logic, we have depersoned many categories of persons, which is a feature, not a bug, of pro-abortion logic.
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You know, they intend to whittle away at both ends of life, the young and the old, unpersoning one subset after another until the right to life has been extinguished for all but the privileged few.
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The only other option aside from personhood being attained by degree contingent upon other factors like self-sufficiency is that personhood and its attending moral rights and dignities is inherent to all living humans. And if something is inherent, that means it belongs to the essential nature of a thing.
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The idea that our human dignity, our personhood, belongs to our essential nature and cannot be lost or diminished is an idea that lies at the very foundation of this country, at the foundation of any notion of human rights. You cannot have human rights if you don't first have it built upon the idea that human beings have inherent dignity. Now,
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And this is an idea, by the way, that everybody in America pretends to believe most of the time. There's not a single person in America you could ever talk to who would, or very few anyway, who would reject the notion of human rights. They all accept it. Well, guess what? Human rights, that's a doctrine. That's not science. That's not something we found in a science book. That's a doctrine.
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That's a religious doctrine, human rights. And part of that doctrine all stems from this idea about the value of a human. And if you're taking value away from human beings, from one set of human beings, you're taking it away from everybody. If an unborn baby does not have inherent value, then human value is not permanent, is not essential.
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And thus, if he does not have inherent value, then neither do you. You cannot gain inherent value. You either have it from the first moment of existence or you never do ever. Those are the only options that make any sense. Now, the personhood argument for abortion is actually even worse than it sounds at first.
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It's so bad that even if it were true, it would do almost nothing to prove the pro-abortion case. Because the personhood argument for abortion is a syllogism with a missing premise. It seems to go like this. Premise one, an unborn baby is not a person. It's merely a potential person. Conclusion, therefore we can kill him. Now wait a second, two does not follow logically from one.
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So the first big threat, of course, is trans ideology. And that brings us back to yesterday at the Supreme Court. It was an interesting and quite revealing dynamic because outside in the cold, those of us on Team Sanity were rallying together. But of course, Team Insanity also showed up. And they showed up in much greater numbers, if I'm being totally honest.
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You're missing something, you skipped a step. Just because someone isn't a person doesn't necessarily mean that it's okay to kill them. Since what is that the rule? Anything that isn't a person can be killed? That's a whole separate case you need to make. That's a whole other premise you have to establish.
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So even if I conceded the point, even if I let you make the first logical leap to say the unborn child is not a person but a potential person, you still have an even bigger leap you have to make. And I'm not going to spot you that one, so now you're out on an island. You need to now prove that it's okay to kill the potential person.
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And I don't see how you make that case, because if I agree it's a potential person for the sake of argument, it would seem to me to be the most valuable non-person thing on the planet. It would seem to be then at worst, the second most valuable thing next to a person. And I don't see why it would be okay to kill the second best thing.
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It would still be more valuable than say a sea turtle egg and sea turtle eggs are federally protected. Now, to be clear, again, I don't even for a moment buy the idea that an unborn person is just a potential person. I reject it outright on scientific, moral, scriptural, and logical grounds. I'm just trying to establish that the argument doesn't even work on its own premise.
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This is the truth that cannot be escaped. Abortion is the intentional destruction of innocent human life, and intentionally destroying innocent human life is always wrong, period. That is our case as pro-lifers. It's as simple as that. Now, tragically, recently, a contingent of people who are supposed to be on our side have abandoned this simple truth.
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Indeed, it's one of the most shameful and twisted ironies I've ever seen. Pro-lifers won the greatest human rights victory of all time with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But rather than some conservatives being emboldened by our historic achievement, rather than celebrating, rather than acting confident and triumphant, rather than saying, let's pile on now like the left does.
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We got this huge win, let's go get another one. Oh, you guys are crying now, we'll give you something to really cry about next. That's what the left does. Instead, some conservatives have, over the past many months and last couple of years, become very shy about this issue, very shy. even blaming pro-lifers for some of the electoral defeats in recent elections.
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They claimed this last election was going to be the greatest defeat of all time, largely because of pro-lifers. They were scapegoating pro-lifers ahead of time. Well, how did that turn out? In fact, it turns out Trump gained ground with women who were supposed to be the demographic that was going to rally against him to get revenge for Roe. Didn't happen.
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But even if it had turned out that way, it wouldn't change my view on the topic. It wouldn't change how I talk about it. I would not compromise on abortion even if it really did mean losing every election from now till kingdom come. And the reason is simple. It is that to accept child murder is to forfeit your soul.
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If we are really a country where child murder is so fundamentally popular that it's impossible to win by opposing it, then we're not a country worth saving anymore. We deserve, at that point, whatever destruction comes our way, God will strike us down for our sins. And I couldn't stand in the way of that if I wanted to, and I don't want to. I'll never accept abortion. I'll never compromise on it.
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You know, the pro-trans side, there were more of them, and they were louder. They set up their rally stage right next to ours and hoping to drown us out. They came with bullhorns and megaphones and blaring loud music and screaming in our faces while we were trying to speak.
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I won't give up any ground, not one inch, nothing. All abortion is wrong, always. It's never OK to kill an innocent human being, ever, under any circumstance, ever. It is always our obligation to protect the innocent, especially our children. There are no exceptions, none, period, ever. But finally, the good news. The good news is that the whole premise is flawed.
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We don't have to give up every election until kingdom come, as we just discovered. The pro-life message can win in this country. It is winning, but only if we have the courage to fight for it and the intelligence to fight well. The pro-life message has already won in so many ways on so many battlefields, just like the anti-trans ideology message has won and is winning.
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We are winning on both fronts after so many years and so many sacrifices and so much put on the line by so many people. People in this fight way longer than me, before I was even born, there have been people for decades and decades giving everything to this. And they're winning. We are winning. Winning is our destiny because the truth always prevails in the end. Always.
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If you're a Christian, you have an advantage because you have the book and you can skip to the spoilers at the end of the book and you can see how it ends. And so we know that we win. We stand in the truth when no one else will for that reason. We speak for those who cannot speak. We say what must be said and we do what must be done.
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And if we continue to do that without fear or compromise, eventually the day will come when every child is free to be born and to live and to be safe and to be innocent as they should be. Now, I see that day in the future. It's approaching, but we're not there yet. And so for now, we fight. Thank you. The executive producer of The Matt Walsh Show is Sean Hampton.
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Now, unfortunately for the trans activists, as a father of six, I'm quite accustomed to speaking while deranged people scream at me. So you gotta work harder than that to throw me off. But admittedly, they did succeed in making things kind of difficult for us, and they did accomplish their goal of being really obnoxious and annoying. The left is very good at that. They're very good at it.
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That's their specialty. In the field of being loud and obnoxious, we are amateurs. This is their professionals. And that was very obvious yesterday. However, inside the court, it was a very different story. You know, the problem for the trans activists is that you can't bring your megaphone into the courthouse.
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When Justice Thomas is saying something you don't like, you can't blare a Cardi B song to drown him out. Each side gets a chance to speak. Each side is asked questions. Each side is interrogated. You have to live or die on the strength of your arguments.
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Anyone who's listened to some of the audio from inside the court yesterday knows that the trans activists very much died, metaphorically speaking. Their whole case fell apart in dramatic fashion. It was ripped open and exposed for the utterly vacuous garbage bag of nonsense that it is. And this is how it goes for the left.
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They can scream and shout and sabotage and frustrate, but when our ideas are put up against their ideas in a forum where both sides have a chance to be heard and get a fair hearing, they lose. They lose every single time. And that's why they're so desperate to make sure that they can control all the forums so that their ideas and arguments never have to speak for themselves.
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It's why they're still in a state of panic over Elon Musk owning Twitter, because we're given a chance to speak and be heard, and when that happens, we win, and they know it. Now, of course, the trans activists have many different ways of trying to shut down ideas they can't intellectually contend with.
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Along with screaming at us through bullhorns and censoring us on social media platforms, they also make use of threats and blackmail and intimidation. Like many other people who've been in this fight against gender ideology for years, I have firsthand experience with this. I've been speaking out against the madness of gender ideology for close to a decade.
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But I hadn't really experienced the full ire of the trans activists until the year 2022. And that was the year that we released our film, What is a Woman? Which exposed gender ideology. Thank you. exposed it and its proponents by asking very simple questions, including the titular question, which is the simplest of all.
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A few months after the release of the film, I published my investigation into the Vanderbilt Gender Clinic in Tennessee, which revealed that they had been chemically castrating minors and that they were doing it by their own admission because it was a, quote, big money maker. Now, I've never said this publicly, but I will admit tonight that, because I don't think this is being livestreamed, is it?
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Let's hope it's not. Before we released our Vanderbilt investigation, the night before, I started to get cold feet. And I almost didn't post it. I almost didn't publish it. Because I knew that it was really explosive. And I knew that our investigation would probably lead to the clinic getting shut down, which is good. But Vanderbilt's a very powerful organization. They have a lot of money.
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And I knew that trans activists are vicious and deranged and will do anything to punish and destroy those who they deem to be a threat. So I started to become very worried about the potential ramifications to my family. I thought that maybe this isn't smart. Maybe it's a reckless thing for me to put myself into the middle of something like that. Maybe now's not the right time.
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Maybe we should hold off and think about this a little bit. Just give it some time. We don't have to do it right now. Let's just think about it. And I talked to my wife that night, and I told her about the hesitations that I'm having and that I'm expecting some really serious blowback. And I said I wouldn't take the risk unless she's on board with it.
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And I don't remember her exact words back to me, but paraphrasing, she said something like, don't be a wimp, just publish it. Sack up, you wuss. Not her exact words, but that's what I heard. That was the message. So... We published it, and sure enough, the gender clinic was shut down almost immediately.
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Just yesterday, I was at the rally outside the Supreme Court as the court heard arguments in a case that stems from the law we passed in Tennessee banning quote-unquote gender transitions for minors. And this fits well with the subject that I was asked to speak about tonight, which is the fight to protect children in our culture. How do we protect children in this culture?
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The investigation then served as a catalyst for a law banning all medical gender transitions for minors. And that's the law that's now made its way to the Supreme Court. Let's talk about something that affects all of us, taxes. The October 15th deadline has passed, and if you're not prepared, you could be in for a world of hurt. Do you owe back taxes? Are your returns still unfiled?
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So it had the positive effect that we hoped for, but it also had the negative effect that we anticipated but did not hope for. Over the year that followed, I was, along with my family, doxxed, harassed, threatened. I had to pick up my family and move to a new home because they were showing up to our house in the middle of the night.
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People showing up, taking pictures of my children when they're playing outside in the front yard. I was hacked, all of my personal information was exposed, demonetized on YouTube, we lost millions of dollars in advertising dollars, smeared in the media, defamed relentlessly, wah, wah, wah, the whole story. All the bad things did in fact happen, and in many ways worse than I thought it would be.
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And I would do it all again in a heartbeat. It was all worth it. Every bit of it. The thing that I was worried about a couple of years ago and that I've worried about many times before and since is the safety of my wife and kids. I care about other people's kids. I care the most about my own kids, and I'm responsible for them as their dad.
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But what's propelled me into this fight and kept me in it and kept me going and compelled me to take certain risks is precisely this, that I'm a dad and I want to protect my kids. Trans ideology is an unprecedented threat to children, not just children in general, but like my children. your children.
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If this hideous evil is not defeated, if it's allowed to grow and gain more power and influence in the culture, no child is safe. No child is immune. We've all heard the horror stories from parents whose kids fell prey to the trans cult. Seeing your child's mind and soul claimed by the delusion is like watching him die a thousand deaths
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It's an unspeakable horror, and the only way to make absolutely sure that this never happens to my kids is to burn the whole ideology to the ground, to destroy it. To rip it up by the roots and throw it into the fire. It's the only way to be sure. As a father, I know this is the surest way to protect my kids. And that's why I joined this cause, and I won't be done until the job is done.
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I believe that trans ideology is a unique evil, and the danger it poses to our children is likewise unique. Now, why is that? Why is trans ideology so uniquely dangerous? The answer seems obvious. This is a movement that wants to perform sick, Frankenstein medical experiments on our children. It wants to turn our kids into lab rats.
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It wants to castrate, sterilize, mutilate them, and it's done exactly that to untold numbers of innocent children. That's what makes it so especially dangerous and wicked. But that doesn't tell the full story. You know, the medical abuse is a symptom of the underlying sickness. It is an outcrop. It is the visible thing that we can see on the surface.
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As far as I see it, to protect our kids, we first have to identify the threats. What are the threats we're dealing with? And I'd like to speak about tonight the two great threats, or two of the greatest, that children face. These are also the two issues that I have personally focused on the most and devoted much of my life to. Just as a side note, I recently released a film called Am I Racist?
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Underneath all of that, what makes trans ideology so insidious is that it is a complete and total rejection of truth. Now, not just the rejection of one particular thing that is true, but a rejection of truth itself, truth as a category. A society that embraces trans ideology is a society that declares itself God over itself. It claims the right and power to define reality on its own terms.
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And there are consequences to this. There are serious consequences. Many terrible things follow from a collective flight from reality. And the consequences are more and more dire the more deeply the untruth burrows into the mind and into the culture. And the truth at the core, the untruth, rather, at the core of gender ideology
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reaches down to the deepest conceivable level because it wages its assault against our knowledge of ourselves. A person fully enthralled to this lunacy has lost grip not just on reality in general, but on the reality of himself. Transgenderism doesn't simply replace one notion of the self with some other newer notion. Rather, it replaces one notion of the self with no notion at all.
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This is the whole reason why the gender ideologues can't answer the what is a woman question. It's because there is no answer for them. It doesn't mean anything to be a woman. It doesn't mean anything to be a man. It doesn't mean anything to be anybody. Your very identity has no meaning, and therefore has no value, has no purpose.
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And that's because the gender ideologue seeks to replace what is definable and knowable with a hazy, indecipherable mess of contradictions and falsehoods. He replaces light with darkness and soon gets lost in it himself and will probably eventually succumb to despair. And that's because a person cannot live in such a state. A person can't live in a state of self-rejection.
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They certainly cannot thrive or be happy in that sort of state. So this is the great danger of transgenderism. But there is an even greater danger, one that has destroyed the lives of many more children and destroyed them in a much more direct and final kind of way.
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And that brings us to the other great threat, one that's never been very popular to talk about, probably less popular now than it's been before, and that is abortion. Now, abortion is still the defining issue of our time. And it is still the wall that separates one side of the political divide from the other. It's a wall that is built with the bodies of 60 million dead babies.
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Over 60 million babies have been killed through abortion. And so anytime I hear anybody, especially anybody on the right, tell me that, well, this issue is not that important. Really? What's more important than 60 million? Can you point to something that has a bigger, greater death toll than that? You can't.
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Not one single genocide in the whole history of the world, not one single plague, not anything. The death toll is staggering, greater than anything the world's ever seen. These victims, these children, have been killed legally by human hands in a little building in your local shopping mall that you drive by on your way to work or to run errands.
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Thank you. Thank you. Don't do that. Don't give me a standing ovation before I say anything. You set the bar way too high. I can only disappoint you now. Thank you all for being here. Thank you to the American Principles Project for inviting me to be a part of this very special night. The timing of this event is, of course, quite fortuitous.
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And they've been killed at the behest of their own parents with the help of so-called doctors. facilitated by the government. Every kind of person that children are supposed to rely on to protect them, all of those people have turned against them to destroy them. The most innocent of all people are children, and they're the precise ones that have been targeted for extermination.
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They've harmed no one. They're filled with joy and potential and love. If we can't see the value and worth of a child, then who can we see it in? I remain confounded by the sorts of people who would look at an unborn child and see only a clump of cells. Clump of cells? I mean, we're all clumps of cells.
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Thank you. It wasn't just me fishing for applause. A little bit it was. I haven't gotten used to the fact that the movie was a comedy, and a lot of people discover me for the first time from that movie, and so they know me for comedy, and they expect everything I do now to be riotously funny.
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If you go to Walmart sometime, you'll see many people who are far clumpier than your average infant. I like Walmart. I'm also kind of clumpy these days. But can you really not see the miracle in this life? Can you really not see the beauty of this life that you call a clump of cells? Can you really not see the tragedy in destroying it?
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And it's a tragedy that is compounded threefold, because with abortion, we not only reject our children, but we reject ourselves. You know, we have to remember the miraculous thing about conception, that moment when a new life comes into being. What is so mystical and beautiful about it is that when you think about it, it's not just one life being created, but three.