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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 1516 - The Lie Young Men Are Being Sold

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, is the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality obsolete? Is it insulting and out of touch to tell young people to go work in fast food and work their way up? That is the growing consensus among some commentators on the Right. We’ll talk about it. Also, Joe Biden speaks to the country for the final time, thank God. Pro-lifers who’ve been imprisoned by the Biden Administration call on Trump for a pardon. And former comedian Bill Burr slams the people who’ve dared to criticize California's response to the wildfires. Finally, what the hell happened to Bill Burr? When did he become such a pathetic little dork? Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/4bEQDy6 Ep.1516 - - - DailyWire+: Join the celebration! Use code 47 at https://dailywire.com/subscribe for 47% off your membership today! "Identity Crisis" tells the stories the mainstream media won’t. Stream the full film now, only on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3C61qVU Get your Matt Walsh flannel here: https://bit.ly/3EbNwyj - - - Today's Sponsors: Balance of Nature - Go to https://balanceofnature.com and use promo code WALSH for 35% off your first order PLUS get a free bottle of Fiber and Spice. Tax Network USA - For a complimentary consultation, call today at 1 (800) 958-1000 or visit their website at https://TNUSA.com/WALSH - - - Socials:  Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3Rv1VeF Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3KZC3oA Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3eBKjiA Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RQp4rs

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17.369 - 35.266 Matt Walsh

Today on The Matt Walsh Show is the pull yourself up by your bootstraps mentality obsolete. Is it insulting and out of touch to tell young people to go work fast food and work the way up in the world? That's the growing consensus among some commentators on the rights, and we'll talk about it. Also, Joe Biden speaks to the country for the final time, thank God.

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35.326 - 78.142 Matt Walsh

Pro-lifers who've been imprisoned by the Biden administration call on Trump for a pardon, and former comedian Bill Burr slams the people who've dared to criticize California's response to the wildfires. What the hell happened to this guy? When did he become such a pathetic little dork? We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show. That's right. We're going to D.C.

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78.202 - 97.485 Matt Walsh

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132.867 - 150.537 Matt Walsh

If you aren't on X or Twitter, if you insist on deadnaming it, you bigot, you will often be surprised to learn about the kinds of things people are arguing about on that platform. In many cases, the debates don't resemble anything that anyone outside of the site is talking about. These debates are often insular, parochial.

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151.097 - 170.447 Matt Walsh

Groups of people will get into heated disputes that last sometimes for weeks or months or longer. which have no relevance beyond the confines of the platform itself. So I'll give you just one example of millions. Among right wingers on X, there has been a long running and quite tedious quarrel over the term woke right.

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171.287 - 192.198 Matt Walsh

Various groups of conservatives are accusing each other of being woke right as they debate what the term means and whether it describes anything real. Now, I don't know where this woke right idea comes from, but I do know that I've never heard a single soul in the three-dimensional physical world ever use the phrase or express any opinion about it one way or another.

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193.899 - 209.868 Matt Walsh

Yet there are relatively prominent conservatives on X who have spent months locked in combat over a concept that has no real political or cultural relevance at all. Nobody cares about it but them. Needless to say, there are a great many examples of this sort of thing.

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209.908 - 230.922 Matt Walsh

And even less do I need to say that I have myself been guilty of arguing about things on X that nobody outside of the app cares about. I might even sometimes be the one starting the arguments, admittedly. However, not every debate on X is so trivial. Sometimes the conversation is relevant beyond social media. Sometimes it reflects what's actually happening in the world.

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And sometimes, more often now in the Elon era, a debate on the platform is actually important. And this week, there's been one of those kinds of arguments. Another round of it, anyway, as this has been a long-running dispute. It's important enough to talk about here, and it'll lead me to a very crucial point that I want to make, especially for the younger people who are listening.

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253.961 - 277.57 Matt Walsh

The debate revolves around the economic situation that young people in particular are facing. One side of the argument says that Although it is a challenging landscape for young people who are just starting out in the world, the best thing they can do is get an entry-level job somewhere and work their way up in the world from that starting point.

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278.251 - 296.858 Matt Walsh

The other side says that this kind of bootstraps mentality is obsolete. Young people have been totally screwed. They can't get a job and work their way up. And they say telling a young person to go work some low paying customer service job is insulting and out of touch. The game is rigged. American jobs are being stolen en masse by foreigners.

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297.358 - 315.621 Matt Walsh

The American dream says this side of the debate is effectively dead. And therefore, the old school kind of go out there and work your way up the ladder approach is simply too antiquated to be useful, they would say. Now, as you already guessed, out of the two camps, I tend to fall more into the former.

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316.142 - 334.952 Matt Walsh

Although the latter camp isn't wrong about many of the fundamental points they're making about the system as it's currently constructed. I'll get to that in a moment. But first, let's take a look at how this exchange is playing out. And I think that the debate may be best encapsulated by this. Chris Ruffo, in a series of tweets a couple of days ago,

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336.073 - 347.821 Matt Walsh

wrote something that has really provoked people and caused a lot of consternation and anger on the other side of this argument. Here's what he wrote. Every generation has challenges.

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348.121 - 361.386 Matt Walsh

We currently have huge problems with the cost of housing and splintering culture, but the economy is strong, incomes have never been higher, trades are hiring apprentices straight out of high school, and tech has enabled a wave of entrepreneurship and high-income email jobs from anywhere on earth.

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361.887 - 379.596 Matt Walsh

We should remember that the boomers, whatever their faults, had to make their way in a much poorer America and had to navigate war, stagflation, recession, and high interest rates. It's never a cakewalk. We should work to provide opportunity for our kids, but should also remind them to be grateful for the opportunities they have. I didn't make $50,000 a year or own a car until I was 30.

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380.576 - 402.025 Matt Walsh

Then after years of struggle in a creative field, things paid off. I could live in Seattle or New York or D.C., but I choose to live in a small town. It's all a tradeoff, and one can make a good life in almost any metro area in the U.S. Now, in a follow-up, this is a thing that really sets some people off. He posted a job listing from Panda Express. And he wrote this.

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403.005 - 417.243 Matt Walsh

This is basically full employment. The Panda Express near my house is offering $70,000 a year plus benefits for the assistant manager. You can make $100,000 a year at Chipotle for a few years and working up to store manager. Now, as I said, this set a lot of people off.

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417.263 - 441.456 Matt Walsh

They're very upset by especially the Panda Express, the suggestion by Chris Ruffo that Panda Express may be a viable option for young adults starting out in the world. This is very offensive to a lot of people on X. A prominent account that goes by the handle Bronze Age Pervert responded in a way that I think kind of captures the general attitude of the other side of this argument. He wrote,

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442.336 - 459.436 Matt Walsh

This is an absurd thing to post. This environment is the worst in decades and maybe ever in America to build wealth through any normal career. It's the worst work environment and worst prospects for wealth accumulation ever. For a young person, it's next to impossible, in fact, even with the best degrees and an elite job.

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460.037 - 480.827 Matt Walsh

It's absurd and a joke to see conservative pundits who work as writers and commentators in media and aren't frankly exemplars of Protestant capitalist enterprise recommend working at Chipotle and UPS for a few smart young right-wing men who are deploring decades-long trends. Maybe you'll care to also give them advice on manning up and marrying a local sweet girl slash high school sweetheart.

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482.645 - 499.715 Matt Walsh

Now, the debate spiraled from there. A writer named Aaron McIntyre agrees with Bronze Age Pervert. He posted, if you're worried about Andrew Tate's influence on young men, telling them to climb the fast food ladder probably isn't the move. Another commentator named Scott Greer chimes in with a similar sentiment.

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500.476 - 516.346 Matt Walsh

Conservatives wonder why young men turn to Andrew Tate when they tell the same demographic to be content with fast food work and marrying much older single moms. Someone else gave his perspective. He said that it is possible for a young person to get started and succeed, even in this tough environment.

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516.846 - 538.878 Matt Walsh

He offered the example of his own 22-year-old son, who he said has a job at UPS making $70,000 a year at 22 years old. He said he's about to marry his girlfriend, who he said is 10 years older. And to that, someone else in a post that has 27,000 likes said, poor kid is grinding, about to marry a 32-year-old living in his dad's basement, stuck in a dead-end job, for $70,000 a year.

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539.56 - 561.729 Matt Walsh

He'll likely never have kids or own a home. Imagine how out of touch you have to be to post this proudly. This is losing. But Boomer Dad imagines everything is okay. A 22-year-old getting a $70,000 a year is losing and is doomed to never own a home. That's the idea. Now, Mike Cernovich is on the other side, what we might call the bootstraps camp.

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561.909 - 581.577 Matt Walsh

And he thinks, and so do I, that work is not supposed to be fun all the time. It's not even necessarily going to be fulfilling. You'd like for it to be, but it won't necessarily be. But you have to do it because that's life and always has been. He wrote, quote, You're supposed to hate your job. That's why it's a job. Someone pays you because they don't want to do it. Most of us had jobs.

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581.617 - 598.331 Matt Walsh

It's nothing special. You're not a snowflake. Fight club and office space covered this decades ago. Work sucks. This isn't new. But it's this reply to that post that I think best captures kind of the essence and what I think is the fatal flaw in the, I guess, anti-bootstraps position.

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599.437 - 625.067 Matt Walsh

Somebody responded and said, the reason why jobs were worth it is that you could afford a home and a nice high-trust society and support a family. Why do it now? I will not be reduced to an effing serf. Jobs are not worth it, he says. Jobs make you a serf. And this is why I think there's value in talking about this, what may seem like very online controversy, but it's not just online.

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625.087 - 645.707 Matt Walsh

It seems clear to me that a lot of demoralized young people feel exactly this way. They think jobs aren't worth it. I hear this kind of thing a lot. So there's no point in even trying, they think. They have it harder than anyone has ever had it. It's hopeless. Everything's unfair. And so on and so on.

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646.753 - 669.785 Matt Walsh

And these young people are being encouraged down this hopeless road by people who are considered intellectuals on the right, like Bronze Age pervert, who we recall said that today's work environment is the worst ever, the worst ever in history, and that it's next to impossible to become successful and accumulate wealth. This is what they're being told.

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669.805 - 687.331 Matt Walsh

They're being told by these supposed thought leaders that they should ignore anyone who even suggests that they start off in a low paying job working customer service or something similar. And again, a lot of young people, especially young men, have heeded this advice, I think to their own detriment.

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688.991 - 717.748 Matt Walsh

So here's what I want to say after this very long preamble where I unfortunately had to give you a bit of a blow by blow account of a Twitter war. I acknowledge that young people face serious challenges starting out in the workforce. I can clearly see and do not deny that it is harder than it should be for a young man to get into a stable career, buy a house, start a family, and all of that.

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718.468 - 753.548 Matt Walsh

I agree that we are importing foreigners to take American jobs. That is hideously evil and unfair. I'm in favor of any policy that puts an end to that scam. So I agree with the anti-bootstrappers on that point. They're going to hear no argument from me. Okay. Once we've agreed on that, What then? What is a young adult supposed to actually do tomorrow? This is the question that matters.

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753.849 - 777.622 Matt Walsh

It's the question that in these kinds of conversations, most people just skip It reminds me of my frequent debates with the Red Pillars and Manosphere, where they declare that the dating scene is a disaster and young men have no hope of meeting a quality woman and building a stable family. Marriages are broken. It's all broken. It doesn't work. Well, my question to them is always the same.

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779.103 - 804.871 Matt Walsh

What do you want these young men to do then? What do you want them to actually do with their lives? Give up and die alone? Is that it? What do you want them to do? And I ask that here as well. What should they do tomorrow? I'm not asking what the president should do or what Congress should do or what government agencies should do.

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805.492 - 834.949 Matt Walsh

I'm asking what the actual individual human being we're talking about here, the newly minted young adult, should do. He will wake up in the morning and brush his teeth and eat breakfast and And then what? That young man who is 22 years old and has no job, if you believe it is deeply insulting to suggest that he should go apply at Panda Express or UPS, what do you want him to do instead?

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836.23 - 865.218 Matt Walsh

What do you recommend? What is your plan? Complaining about it incessantly on Twitter is not a plan. Talking about how it should be and used to be is not a plan. Calling for policy solutions is fine, and I agree that we should work on those. Yeah. But what about tomorrow? What is the demoralized young person supposed to actually do in his life tomorrow?

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867.196 - 893.781 Matt Walsh

Because it seems to me that anyone who makes any kind of practical suggestion of what he could actually do in his own life individually tomorrow is shouted down by this other side. So what I'm asking, what's he supposed to do? Don't deflect. Don't tell me about the H1B program. I think we should abolish it. I don't wanna import any foreign labor at all, okay?

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894.201 - 921.064 Matt Walsh

But a young man who wakes up in the morning tomorrow cannot abolish the H-1B program. That's not something that he can accomplish tomorrow. So what should he do? Should he post about abolishing it? Okay, fine. That takes about 60 seconds. Let's give him 30 minutes for a series of tweets about H-1B visas. Great. What's next? How is he spending the rest of his day?

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921.664 - 956.293 Matt Walsh

And if you have no answer to that question, then your contribution to this discussion is worthless. You have nothing of value to offer this young man. Now, here's what I say. I say that he must get up onto his feet in spite of it all and begin to pursue his goals one small step at a time. He must get the best job he possibly can, which will almost certainly not be very good or very fun.

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957.575 - 985.1 Matt Walsh

But he's not in a position right now at 21, 22 years old where he can afford to worry about what is fun. He has to work as hard as he can to achieve what he can right now. He has to gain experience and establish himself. And if he's just starting out in the world, the best job is probably whatever job he can get because you have to start somewhere. And a job is better than no job.

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986.981 - 1013.848 Matt Walsh

He has a difficult road. Every young man in his position through the entire history of the earth has had a difficult road. Life itself is a difficult road. Is his road more difficult than the road that, say, young men of my generation had to walk? Perhaps, I mean, I entered adult life right around the time of a great recession and a housing market collapse. It wasn't exactly an easy path.

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1014.468 - 1038.129 Matt Walsh

I worked many, many awful customer service jobs that I hated with every fiber of my being. And my hatred of them fueled me even more. I was more determined to become successful so that I would never again have to work the kind of job where you wear a name tag and get paid by the hour. But I had to work those jobs in order to get to a point where I didn't have to work those jobs.

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1039.77 - 1062.657 Matt Walsh

Because you have to start somewhere. And that's how it goes. So I'm not recommending that anyone do anything that I have not already done. Is it harder now? Maybe. Is it harder than it was for the boomers when they were just starting out? Probably, although I think the comparison is overstated. Is it the hardest ever?

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1064.013 - 1093.823 Matt Walsh

Is a young person in America today facing next to impossible odds and unprecedented historic hardship? Of course not. That is an absurd suggestion. If you are a 22-year-old man today, you may have it a bit harder than some in your parents' and grandparents' generation. But that is as far as it could even theoretically go. World history did not begin in 1955.

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1095.824 - 1119.259 Matt Walsh

No matter what, no matter what, you and I and our parents all had it and have it easier than the vast majority of humans who have ever existed on the planet. We are all, all of us, every person listening to me right now, myself included, we are all in the top 1% of easiest lives ever lived by human beings.

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1120.404 - 1136.408 Matt Walsh

Which is why, even with all of our problems, you would not want to live anywhere else on the planet today. And I know that because you're not. You're here. And if you had a time machine, the farthest you might want to go back is the middle of the 20th century and no farther.

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1138.608 - 1165.366 Matt Walsh

And if you did go back even that far, you would almost certainly discover that it was not the cakewalk you imagined it would be. None of this diminishes the difficulties that you as a young person are currently experiencing. Okay? I only mean to put it in context. And the context is important. Here's why it's important. Because if you think that nobody has ever had it harder than you,

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1166.778 - 1198.755 Matt Walsh

You may then be justified in wondering whether success is simply impossible in your case. After all, no one has ever succeeded against odds so great as what you're facing. But that's why it's important to realize that many millions of people, millions, hundreds of millions have succeeded against odds many times greater than anything you have ever faced. That should inspire you, not offend you.

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1199.715 - 1233.897 Matt Walsh

The point is not to be dismissive. That's an inspirational point. And either way, my message to the young man that we're talking about here is that he still has to get up and walk, even if he did have the hardest life anyone has ever lived on this or any planet. Still, I would say, well then, get up and move forward. What else are you going to do? Lie down and die?

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1235.834 - 1259.054 Matt Walsh

Now, my attitude is condemned by some right-wingers whose doomerism has now descended to a point where they will call you a traitor for suggesting that a young man has any agency at all in his life. Because they want to hear and dispense nothing but misery porn and hopelessness. Anything else makes you a boomer cuck. And that's because these people...

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1261.891 - 1284.806 Matt Walsh

who also, by the way, many people were talking about, they're all also like commentators and pundits while they speak with such contempt of the con-inc pundits. Like all of them are also that, by the way, you know. But they don't actually give the slightest damn about the young people that they pretend to be speaking for.

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1286.403 - 1320.192 Matt Walsh

And I know that because all they offer, all they offer is just relentless, relentless hopelessness. So instead, we end up with the solution, which I've seen repeated in different forms countless times, offered by the commenter I mentioned earlier, that jobs aren't worth it, he says, because he's not going to be a serf. So instead, he will presumably live off of the government or his parents.

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1321.573 - 1350.416 Matt Walsh

But here's the problem. That's not how you escape being a serf. That's how you become one. You are volunteering for a life of failure and servitude. Working at Panda Express is beneath you, but to eat it for lunch using your dad's credit card because you refuse to support yourself is not beneath you. Who do you think is in the higher position there?

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1351.556 - 1381.123 Matt Walsh

You think you're in a position where you can look down on the Panda Express manager? When you're the one there eating lunch that your daddy is paying for? It makes no sense. So again, I ask, what is your plan? What are you going to do tomorrow? Some people like to mock the bootstraps mentality, but they have given young people precisely zero alternatives.

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1382.044 - 1407.252 Matt Walsh

They have not given them any idea of what they should actually do tomorrow. And to me, that is the most important and most useful question here. What should you do tomorrow? My answer is simple. Tomorrow, you get up and you put on your shoes and you get started. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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1489.195 - 1510.041 Matt Walsh

Joe Biden delivered his address to the nation last night. Not much noteworthy there. Honestly, I could barely muster to even talk about the guy at this point. I'm ready for him to be gone, and mercifully, he will be very shortly. I do want to play this one clip from the 20 or so minute speech. Listen to this.

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1511.221 - 1528.173 Joe Biden

I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. This is a dangerous concert. And that's a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people. The dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked.

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1529.594 - 1549.853 Joe Biden

Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. We see the consequences all across America, and we've seen it before.

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1550.773 - 1572.072 Joe Biden

More than a century ago, when the American people stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trusts, they didn't punish the wealthy. They just made the wealthy pay by the rules everybody else had to. Workers want rights to earn their fair share. You know, they were dealt into the deal

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1573.388 - 1595.22 Joe Biden

and help put us on a path to building the largest middle class and the most prosperous century any nation in the world has ever seen. We've got to do that again. In the last four years, that is exactly what we've done. People should be able to make as much as they can, but pay, play by the same rules, pay their fair share in taxes.

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1596.055 - 1625.28 Matt Walsh

You know, it's really sad. I mean, everything about this guy is sad. But he has now given two addresses since dropping out of the race. And the first was announcing that he was dropping out. And then there's this one, his farewell address. So that's two addresses where you have the opportunity to deliver something historic and to deliver an address that would be remembered by history.

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1627.372 - 1654.238 Matt Walsh

Because these are two historic moments. This does not happen very often. One where you have a president announcing that he's not going to run his first second term, and then finally stepping away. So these are opportunities to give a historic speech. In the kind of spot where, in history, we know that presidents in the past have given historic speeches and said things that are remembered.

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1655.191 - 1683.048 Matt Walsh

And yet in both cases, we get this just boring, it's not even like, it doesn't make you angry because it's so dishonest and so partisan, although it is both of those things. It's mostly just boring. It's boring, bland, not really saying anything, certainly not saying anything of any importance and not saying it well, obviously. And you can't, I mean, even in this moment,

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1684.431 - 1706.828 Matt Walsh

When you got nothing to lose, it's not like you have to calculate your rhetoric because you're going to be in political office or you're running for office. You're stepping away. You're done. So this is a time when you can just throw caution to the wind and be real and just speak the truth and say something insightful, and we can't get that from him.

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1707.448 - 1731.397 Matt Walsh

So he says you got to watch out for the ultra wealthy oligarchy. The oligarchy is bad, says Joe Biden. Keep in mind that Joe Biden is the guy who Just last week, awarded a Medal of Freedom to George Soros. And a few weeks before that, gave his own son a free pass for any and all federal crimes committed over the course of a decade. And now he wants you to know that oligarchies are bad.

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1732.218 - 1761.219 Matt Walsh

And that's because, as we know, he forgot to mention the point that his opposition to oligarchies does not apply to the good kind of oligarchy, which is the kind run by people that Joe Biden agrees with. People such as Joe Biden himself, which is why the demonizing of the wealthy, this kind of class warfare rhetoric, it is... It falls so flat at this point.

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1761.359 - 1786.94 Matt Walsh

It falls so flat because it's coming from people. I mean, again, you just gave a medal of freedom to George Soros. You cannot be a friend and admirer of George Soros and also be worried about and opposed to oligarchies. That's just, it's not possible. Daily Wire has this.

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1787 - 1803.23 Matt Walsh

Pro-life Americans unjustly imprisoned by President Joe Biden's Justice Department are formally appealing to Donald Trump for pardons. The Daily Wire is reporting the petitions for pardons of the 21 pro-life advocates sent Wednesday to Trump by the Thomas More Society, a pro-life firm that represents the defendants.

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1804.81 - 1825.312 Matt Walsh

Thomas More Society wrote, these peaceful pro-life Americans mistreated by Biden include grandparents, pastors, a Holocaust survivor, a Catholic priest. All are selfless, sincere patriots. Their respective plights and personal information are provided in attachments to the letter. And so they're calling on the pardon. And this should be a day one priority for Trump. In fact...

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1826.288 - 1841.611 Matt Walsh

You know, the inauguration is four days before the March for Life. So I'll be in town for both. I'll be in D.C. for both. We're going to be in for the inauguration and we're going to stay through to attend the march. And this would be a great way to commemorate the March for Life.

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1842.271 - 1862.829 Matt Walsh

Imagine if Trump announced on the day of the march that he was giving pardons to all of the pro-lifers unjustly persecuted. You know, that would be spectacular. And, you know, whether that's the timing or not, this is the kind of thing. And I think he'll do it. I hope he'll do it, but this should just be immediate. There's no reason to wait.

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1863.509 - 1887.646 Matt Walsh

And you've got, especially when you have these pro-lifers who are currently in federal prison, all thanks to some of the most blatant political targeting and political persecution we've ever seen. And when we think about Joe Biden Targeting his political opponents and engaging in political persecution.

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1887.666 - 1914.404 Matt Walsh

I mean, the first example that comes to mind, of course, is Trump is trying to throw his own political opponent in jail. And then you think about the January Sixers. And those are certainly two examples of political persecution. But. I think that what's happened, there's no point in like ranking it, but. I think what's happened to these pro-lifers is the worst of all.

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1914.685 - 1940.699 Matt Walsh

I mean, all these cases are bad. I think that this is the worst. I think that this is the most egregious, the worst, the most evil of all is what he's done to these pro-lifers. Because these are, we are literally talking about, in many cases, elderly women praying. That's what we're talking about. That's why they're going to prison.

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1944.693 - 1966.381 Matt Walsh

And which is also why after the pardons are given out, the next step is to repeal the FACE Act, which is the federal law. The FACE Act is the federal law, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act that was used as a pretense for going after and prosecuting these pro-lifers. And so that needs to be the next step.

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1967.537 - 1994.263 Matt Walsh

And that's something that Congress, of course, needs to take on, is that that needs to be repealed. That can't exist anymore. It's a law that, as we've mentioned before, allegedly, it's supposed to also, even though it says access to clinics, it's also supposed to protect pregnancy resource centers, pro-life centers. They are also supposed to be protected in the exact same way.

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1995.265 - 2021.637 Matt Walsh

But that has not happened. It has not been used that way. Never has been, certainly wasn't by the Biden administration. So this is blatantly unconstitutional. You know, equality under the law, equal treatment under the law is one of the most basic constitutional principles. And it has been violated by the Biden administration egregiously. Daily Mail has this.

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2021.657 - 2043.587 Matt Walsh

A Republican congresswoman is set to reintroduce a set of bills that will impose the death penalty on those convicted of sex crimes against children. Staunch Donald Trump ally Representative Anna Polina Luna first introduced two of the bills during last year's Congress, but neither of them succeeded in gaining traction. And now... She's introducing them again.

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2043.887 - 2060.319 Matt Walsh

She's told Fox News Digital, if you're raping someone, if you're molesting someone, you're essentially murdering their soul. Those people never actually recover. I've sent a committee with a very prominent female House Democrat who actually talked about the fact that she was molested as a child. And so you can see that it impacts and really hurts people.

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2060.599 - 2079.186 Matt Walsh

The Holding Child Predators Accountable Act mandates the death penalty or life imprisonment for anyone found guilty of producing, distributing, or possessing child pornography. And then there's also the No Repeat Child Sex Offenders Act was a more broad bill that likewise would have forced judges to impose death or life in prison for people convicted of child sex trafficking.

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2079.627 - 2102.671 Matt Walsh

So I obviously support this. It's a no-brainer. Death penalty for child molesters and child pornographers, both the distributors and the consumers of it, is obvious. And, you know, the idea that Only those who commit physical murder should be eligible for the death penalty is at best arbitrary. There are things worse than or at least as bad as murder and abusing a child in this way is one of them.

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2103.332 - 2128.122 Matt Walsh

And if anything, you know, in fact, you could make an argument that these people... Like, if anything, the argument would be that we only give the death penalty to child predators. I mean, that's not my argument, because I think that there's a lot more people who are deserving of it. But I would sooner accept the argument, that argument, than the reverse.

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2128.162 - 2148.978 Matt Walsh

The idea that these scumbags should be specially exempt. I mean, after all, the crime that they've committed is particularly heinous. And... they are particularly unlikely to ever be reformed. We can certainly never trust them in society again. We can't trust that they've been reformed. These people cannot be trusted in society.

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2149.519 - 2185.064 Matt Walsh

And keeping them in prison for life, and this to me is one of the, maybe the most crucial argument that I don't see mentioned as often, but keeping them in prison for life, or for any amount of time, requires extra effort, requires extra expense, because they have to be protected from the other prisoners. And I think that that is also unjust, to force the taxpayers to pay to protect these people.

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2186.725 - 2205.673 Matt Walsh

That's another reason to execute them, because the only other option, if you're going to put them in prison, is you can't just put them in prison. They have to get special treatment, special protection. I mean, you could throw them out in general population, but that's the same thing as a death sentence.

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2205.833 - 2231.133 Matt Walsh

So at that point, you may as well just give them a death sentence and carry it out legally rather than pawning it off to the other prisoners to take care of. So I think that's a point to it. And one other point is that these crimes are... especially easy to prove now beyond a shadow of a doubt because these child predators, most of the time leave a very unmistakable digital trail.

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2233.795 - 2258.716 Matt Walsh

You, you know, you arrest the child predator and find 900 hours of material on the computer or whatever. And it's, it's pretty cut and dry. So the only kind of reasonable argument against the death penalty is whether it's for child predators or anybody else, is just the fear that you'll execute someone who is not actually guilty of the crime that they were convicted of. Execute an innocent person.

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2258.776 - 2286.564 Matt Walsh

But I think in particular these days, really with any crime, that is much less of a concern than it was 50 years ago. Because DNA evidence, there's cameras everywhere, cell phone data. I mean, there's so much. that you can use to prove and especially when you got someone who's one of these scumbags it's almost always there's an unmistakable um a trail that they leave behind um

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2290.35 - 2310.708 Matt Walsh

Let's see, there's an article in Breitbart about Netflix that, according to the article, Netflix is not joining the band, the sort of anti-woke bandwagon. Netflix's response to President-elect Donald Trump's reelection victory is the scheduled premiere of a documentary on Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, a symbol of Hollywood wokeism.

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2311.389 - 2320.235 Matt Walsh

Netflix, a streaming service giant that openly works with the Obamas, does not appear to be willing to shift its left-leaning corporate scope. following Trump's reelection, as did Meta and Amazon.

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2321.695 - 2338.679 Matt Walsh

With Netflix's earning call set for the end of January, its investor relations team refused to respond when Breitbart News requested comment about whether it plans to defund DEI programs, publish content more friendly to President Trump, or distance itself from the Obamas. So while there is this shift that we're seeing,

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2341.051 - 2371.874 Matt Walsh

Facebook, Jeff Bezos, these alleged, these apparent shifts away from ultra-wokeism. It appears that Netflix is not joining that. Now, which maybe they're not, but I will say, and this was really just my segue into mentioning this show. I will say that Netflix has a new Western miniseries out called American Primeval that I hadn't seen any advertisements for it. I mean, maybe they're out there.

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2372.194 - 2398.315 Matt Walsh

They didn't cross my path. I hadn't seen anything about this show. And then I think I just saw it pop up on Netflix. Yeah. And yeah, it's a Western miniseries. And so far, watching with my wife, we're two or three episodes in. I will say it's shockingly unwoke so far. I don't want to count the chickens before they hatch. This isn't quite a recommendation because I haven't seen the whole thing yet.

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2398.935 - 2425.784 Matt Walsh

It's possible that this thing goes off the rails. It's possible this is all leading to some kind of Uber PC conclusion. I mean, there was that show, one of the more recent Western miniseries, 1883, came out a few years ago. And started really strong, a very strong start. I liked the first one or two episodes. And then by the end, it's just PC trope after PC. It becomes a PC soap opera by the end.

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2425.864 - 2444.156 Matt Walsh

It's terrible. It goes from... I don't think I've ever seen a show that plunges so quickly from pretty good to just unwatchable tripe, as that show does. So maybe that happens here. I don't know. But so far, I can tell you that this show, this Western, the Indians...

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2445.709 - 2473.34 Matt Walsh

are portrayed as generally warlike and ruthless, which is accurate, but just not how Indians are ever portrayed in Westerns these days. So this is not a simple white man bad, Indian good type of thing. The lead character in the film, the protagonist, is a woman, but she's not this kind of like kick-ass Mary Sue type, you know, who can...

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2474.719 - 2491.544 Matt Walsh

knock down a guy and knock him flat with one punch to the face can shoot a guy square between the eyes from 50 yards. Like not, not that she's, she's actually pretty incompetent has to be bailed out by the lead male character constantly. Um, which actually gets a little bit annoying as a kind of narrative.

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2492.224 - 2514.43 Matt Walsh

It becomes a narrative device of this woman just doing dumb crap constantly and then having to get bailed out. So that does get a little annoying. But, you know, they've avoided the PC tropes so far almost entirely, which is very impressive. So I will say that. I don't know. I mean, like I said, I think there's six episodes. So we'll see where it leads. It's also a good story.

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2514.49 - 2532.467 Matt Walsh

It's about a mother and her son attempting to make their way west to meet her husband, and they end up linking up with this kind of mysterious drifter guy. Classic Western archetype. You got to have that guy, and you got to have the mysterious drifter. And he becomes their kind of protector on the journey.

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2532.527 - 2565.821 Matt Walsh

And along the way, they wind up kind of in the crossfire of a three-way battle between the U.S. Army Indians and Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory. Very interesting. I will say that It's not kind to Mormons so far. Mormons are the villains. Brigham Young is the villain of the story so far. So if you're Mormon, you probably will find that pretty annoying.

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2566.181 - 2586.135 Matt Walsh

It's a bit heavy-handed with the brutality and violence. It's rather relentless. But if you've ever read... If you've read the book Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy... It'll kind of remind you of that. It's not based on that book. The story is not the same. But I would say it's in the spirit of that book.

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2586.175 - 2617.871 Matt Walsh

It reminds me, if you tried to make Blood Meridian as a movie, which I think it's probably unfilmable, although I think it's a great book, but it would look something like this. And I happen to love Cormac McCarthy, so to me that's a selling point. So there's your semi-recommendation for the day. Let's get to the comment section. Matt, you said you have a lot of events on inauguration weekend.

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2617.911 - 2640.5 Matt Walsh

You do realize it's the divisional round, don't you? What kind of football fan are you? Oh, I know. Oh, I know. Believe me. Yes, the Ravens are playing Sunday night. Ravens-Bills. Might be the greatest playoff game in history. In history, okay? This might be the greatest playoff game ever. Highly anticipated. Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, the two MVP candidates.

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2640.52 - 2673.58 Matt Walsh

You know, it's going to be nine degrees in Buffalo. And I'm going to be otherwise occupied. I got stuff. I got stuff going on, events to attend, which again, I'm very honored to be invited. I don't mean to be ungrateful about it. There's a ball. There's like a pre-inauguration ball that night right in the middle of the game. But it's also Ravenspills. I can't.

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2674.781 - 2701.193 Matt Walsh

so we have to figure this out we're gonna have to figure this out i told my wife that um this is this is a situation that we're in now because they didn't announce we didn't know you know we started filling up the schedule for inauguration weekend they didn't announce the nfl schedule until just uh this sunday night this past sunday night and um so we're gonna it's uh we're gonna have to we're gonna have to to figure that out i you know i told

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2702.884 - 2733.744 Matt Walsh

I've already been checking what are the bars around where the ball is happening. My wife said, are we really going to leave a ball in our black tie formal attire and go to a sports bar? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, put on your ball gown, honey. We're going to Buffalo Wild Wings. That's where we're going. I can't miss the game. Priorities in life. This inauguration is historic. It's historic.

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2733.944 - 2757.39 Matt Walsh

But also, it's Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen. That is also historic. So we'll figure this thing out. We'll get through it. I know we will. Somehow. Somehow, someway. All right. As a veteran, I can confirm there is nothing but the cleanest and most non-offensive language in the military. That's what I thought.

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2757.41 - 2782.625 Matt Walsh

That's why whenever I'm around someone who's in the military or former military, the spiciest language I've ever heard is maybe something like, geez louise or dag nabbit. And even that, I thought, was a little too PG-13 for my taste. So I can see why those Democrat senators at the hearing with Pete Exeth were so offended by his reported bad language. Um, good grief, Matt, 60 pushups.

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2782.805 - 2800.094 Matt Walsh

I went through Paris Island during Vietnam war. I could never do more than 50. And to pass the physical fitness test, you only had to do 25. Uh, I'm sure you could do more than 50 pushups. I mean, come on. Okay. Maybe, yeah, we were talking yesterday about what the physical fitness standard should be.

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2800.114 - 2825.327 Matt Walsh

And if we can all agree that physical fitness standards in the military should not be lowered for women, then the question is where should they be for everyone? Um, I said 60 push-ups. I threw that out as a number. A lot of people seem to think that's a bit much. Is it, though? I mean, I guess it depends on how much time you have to do them. I'll put it this way. My 11-year-old son can do 20.

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2826.167 - 2852.234 Matt Walsh

Pretty decent form. I mean, his form starts to break down around 15, and he gets through to 20, but it's pretty good. So I really think that if you're going to join the military, you should have to beat my 11-year-old by more than five push-ups. I think that that's, I don't know, that seems the bar should be set a little bit higher than that. Why are people always coming after people's jobs?

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2852.274 - 2872.739 Matt Walsh

This may be an unpopular opinion, but bad people should be allowed to have jobs. Like, do we all want to now pay the unemployment and government benefits of the now jobless person? I basically agree. This is part of the cancel culture, cancel campaign, which shows you, by the way, cancel culture, the term is not used as often these days as it used to be.

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2873.499 - 2894.234 Matt Walsh

But cancel culture, whatever you want to call it, is not over. We still are very much living in it. And it just happened. I mean, what happened to that guy? At the football game, that Eagles fan, that's what getting canceled is all about. And you could argue, well, he deserved it and all this. But yeah, that's cancel culture.

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2894.954 - 2919.376 Matt Walsh

It's when you've got gangs of people along with powerful institutions, particularly in the media, all like targeting one person and saying, We want to take this guy's job away and ruin his life. And again, maybe you'll say, well, he deserved it. But that's what canceling is. That's what cancel culture is and happened here. And I generally agree.

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2919.516 - 2942.257 Matt Walsh

I have a very high tolerance for campaigning to take someone's job away when they're in a government position and have proven themselves incompetent or unfit. Not just a high tolerance. It's in that case, of course, you're trying to take their job away. That's one thing. For the private sector, I think the bar should be really high for trying to get somebody fired. Doesn't mean you never do it.

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2943.438 - 2968.394 Matt Walsh

But there should be a high bar. Like, taking someone's job away is serious. I think sometimes we tend to have a frivolous attitude about that. But this is their job. This is how they support themselves and their family. And that doesn't mean that you never... Doesn't mean that there's never a case where someone deserves to... lose their job, of course there is, but I think it should be a high bar.

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2969.035 - 2996.338 Matt Walsh

And in particular, if the offense they committed has nothing to do with their job. Now, I just saw there was a story about a woman who was a flight attendant at, I think it was a Southwest, I believe, could be wrong. But I think it was a Southwest flight attendant, some major airline, who was a new hire. She had just started recently. And she made a video of herself twerking in a plane.

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2996.778 - 3013.389 Matt Walsh

It was an empty plane before it boarded. And she posted this dancing twerking video. And people responded negatively to it. And then she got fired. Now, that to me is different. Like, I have no moral conflict about that. Yeah, you should be fired for that. Because the offense you committed is directly related to your job.

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3015.148 - 3038.63 Matt Walsh

You know, I don't want to board a plane when the people working the plane have been using it as a place to twerk. I want your sole focus to be on making sure that everyone has a comfortable and safe flight, not making TikTok videos where you're twerking. It's really extremely unprofessional, reflects very poorly on your employer, makes the customers uncomfortable.

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3039.09 - 3066.243 Matt Walsh

And so you should be fired for that. That's an easy call. But when someone does something that is not related to their job directly, then I think the bar is higher for trying to get them fired. But did this guy clear that bar? Probably. But I think we tend to be pretty cavalier about that, I think, in a way that I don't really like. Let's see, one more.

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3068.784 - 3087.608 Matt Walsh

There's a couple of comments, actually several. This says, Matt made me cheer with his take on Women in the Military. Then says, Apocalypto is a perfect film, which shows Matt is running at 50-50 for stupid to great comments. Apocalypto, Matt has to be kidding. If that's a great film, how do you rate The Godfather, Casablanca, and Wizard of Oz?

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3087.668 - 3113.397 Matt Walsh

Actually, the Apocalypto hate comments were upsetting. I wasn't expecting any. I thought we could all agree. especially if you're the audience of a conservative podcast. I thought we were all on the same page here. Apocalypto is a great film. I'm blown away that some of you disagree, that some of you are so wrong about this. Yes, Apocalypto is a great film. The Godfather, I'd rate 10 out of 10.

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3113.717 - 3131.944 Matt Walsh

Greatest film ever made. That's easy. Casablanca, I haven't seen. Wizard of Oz, not a personal favorite, but it's obviously a legendary piece of cinema, an all-time classic. Apocalypto is better. It's a weird comparison to compare the two. They're very different films. But... It's certainly one of the great films of this century, I think.

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3132.745 - 3151.085 Matt Walsh

And if you disagree, you're just wrong and you're banned from the show. You're not allowed to listen anymore. Goodbye. Here's a reminder, The Daily Wire will be live from D.C. for the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as he's sworn in. as the 47th president of the United States. And we're not just going to watch history. We're going to bring it to you live and uncensored.

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3151.446 - 3171.805 Matt Walsh

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3172.105 - 3197.406 Matt Walsh

Use code 47 at dailywire.com slash subscribe for 47% off your membership today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation. If you've been following Bill Burr's descent from edgy and countercultural comedian to full-on regime propagandist, you've probably been wondering when exactly his Howard Stern moment would come.

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3197.766 - 3213.236 Matt Walsh

That's the moment where, as a comedian, Bill Burr completely drops the pretense of being an entertainer and embraces his role as a shill for the political establishment. We all knew that Burr was on this trajectory. It's been inevitable for some time. And now, beyond any doubt, that moment has arrived.

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3213.617 - 3231.761 Matt Walsh

Now, appropriately enough, Burr's Howard Stern moment came as he was speaking to another comedian turned propagandist, Jimmy Kimmel, on his show the other day. Kimmel begins by asking Burr about the L.A. fires which forced Burr to evacuate his home. Watch. It's pretty good to see you. I heard you had to evacuate your home.

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3232.421 - 3253.229 Bill Burr

Yes, yes. Like most people, I had to. I got lucky. You know, the winds moved, but, you know, the fire was coming and all that stuff. So I feel lucky. And I think everybody did a great job. Yeah. Unlike the internet, you know? Yeah, right. I know. It's right. Oh, my God. All of these fire experts. Why didn't you just fly a helicopter into the ocean?

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3253.389 - 3265.233 Bill Burr

And then just, I don't know, because it was 100 knot winds. You want to do that? You want to do that at night, you lunatic? How are you? This was definitely mismanaged.

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3266.234 - 3267.495 Matt Walsh

That's a big word we're hearing now.

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3267.615 - 3281.164 Bill Burr

Mismanaged, like some idiot on the internet knows how to manage the worst fire in LA, sitting there in his underwear. You know what? Looking at the footage on the internet, I have determined that this here was mismanaged.

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3283.015 - 3302.862 Matt Walsh

So there's no real punchline there. There's no setup. There's no humor of any kind. It's just mocking the idea that normal people could possibly be qualified to judge or even notice outrageous incompetence in the leadership class. Even when that incompetence is burning down their city, Bill Burr thinks it's absurd for anyone on the internet to point that out.

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3303.697 - 3327.367 Matt Walsh

And this is a lecture that Burr is delivering after anonymous people on the Internet have been proven again and again to be more reliable than the so-called experts on everything from COVID to Russian disinformation to January 6th to, you know, gender and so on. It's about as tone deaf and out of date as you can get, but to Bill Burr, I mean, this is the cutting edge of comedy.

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3327.908 - 3339.511 Matt Walsh

What's especially embarrassing about this is that if Burr actually cared about comedy and satire, there's a lot of material that he could be working with. It wouldn't make the political elites of Los Angeles very happy to hear it, but that's the whole point.

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3340.339 - 3360.586 Matt Walsh

For example, here's new reporting from Michael Schellenberger, quote, as fires raged and LA Mayor Karen Bass attended a cocktail party in Ghana, her deputy mayor for public safety was also unavailable because of an FBI raid at his house in connection to an investigation regarding a bomb threat that he allegedly made against City Hall. Now, I'll say that again.

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3361.247 - 3379.349 Matt Walsh

While the city was catching on fire, the mayor of Los Angeles was attending a cocktail party in Africa a country she promised she'd stop visiting once she was elected mayor. And at the same time, the deputy mayor for public safety in Los Angeles was on leave following an FBI raid on his house related to a bomb threat that he allegedly made against City Hall.

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3379.409 - 3399.783 Matt Walsh

So nobody was paying attention to the fires because the leadership in LA was either being investigated by the feds or in Africa. So it sounds like it's too absurd to be real, but it is. It's the kind of thing that actual comics could have a field day with. And of course, there were many more stories like this. There was Gavin Newsom

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3401.007 - 3413.152 Matt Walsh

telling the desperate woman that he was on the phone with Joe Biden, only to admit that he didn't actually have any cell service when she asked to see the phone. There's also the overweight lesbian fire chief who proudly stated that it's your fault if you get trapped in a fire and so on and so on.

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3413.672 - 3423.756 Matt Walsh

But none of these comedic scenarios would play well on Reddit, so Bill Burr didn't bring any of them up. Instead, he attacked safer targets like Fox News and the insurance companies. Watch.

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3424.966 - 3442.6 Bill Burr

I love how all the chatter out there is about bands of illegal immigrants and homeless people lighting fires. They light fires every day. They're living outside. It's cold. And this theory that some homeless guy without a car went from Altadena all the way to the Pacific Palisades. And then we have a hang glider.

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3445.256 - 3468.153 Bill Burr

You know, and they're talking about looting, but CNN and Fox News are not going to bring up the insurance companies that are just going to keep everybody's premiums and still give themselves a bonus. Yes. Free Luigi. I love how they acted surprised. Why did that happen? I have no idea. He wrote on the bullets why it happened.

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3469.025 - 3481.411 Matt Walsh

So this is an attempt at humor that doesn't even make sense. He begins by acknowledging that homeless people and illegal immigrants set fires all over the place all the time because they want to stay warm.

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3481.451 - 3497.879 Matt Walsh

But then he says that it's totally absurd to conclude that these fires could have been set by homeless people or illegal immigrants because there was more than one fire in Los Angeles and they were far apart. Apparently, you're supposed to dismiss the possibility that there might be more than one homeless person or illegal alien setting fires in Los Angeles.

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3498.993 - 3516.307 Matt Walsh

And then you're supposed to laugh, I guess. Then everything somehow goes downhill from there. He starts talking about how the insurance companies are stealing premiums. Then he says that the psychotic trust fund kid who murdered a health insurance CEO should be freed because a lot of other psychopaths on the Internet were saying that a month ago. This is comedy, you see.

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3516.487 - 3529.091 Matt Walsh

You're supposed to find this amusing. Now, again, the point of the humor here is to defend California's political elite. It was California's politicians who prevented insurance companies from setting higher rates for disaster coverage.

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3529.671 - 3545.543 Matt Walsh

So the insurance companies did the rational thing, which was to cancel a lot of policies for homes in Pacific Palisades because they predicted a devastating fire was likely to occur. And instead of doing anything with this information, city officials didn't make sure the reservoir was full. They didn't fully staff the fire department.

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3546.443 - 3565.695 Matt Walsh

Instead, they flew to Africa and called in bomb threats to City Hall. And yet Bill Burr won't make any kind of jokes about those city officials. He lets them off the hook entirely because those officials are Democrats. And Bill Burr is now a partisan hack. That's what he's devolved into. As I said, there have been signs that this would happen for several years.

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3566.515 - 3582.437 Matt Walsh

Back in 2019 for his paper tiger special, Burr went out of his way to defend the BLM narrative surrounding Colin Kaepernick, who, again, was maybe the single easiest target for mockery that you could imagine. But here's what Bill Burr did with it.

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3583.669 - 3600.816 Bill Burr

No, everything has just become f***ing absolutes in the states. It's f***ing nuts. Like that Colin Kaepernick guy, right? You knew when he was protesting during the national anthem, no one was going to listen to what the f*** he had to say, no matter how much he explained it. He goes, I'm taking a knee during the national anthem.

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3601.016 - 3619.965 Bill Burr

This is a protest about police brutality, the way people of color are treated. We'd like to open a dialogue. He got about halfway through that. People are like, my brother's fighting in Iraq, you f***ing piece of s***. It's just like, buddy, buddy, nobody is saying your brother isn't in Iraq fighting. You're not listening. This is about police brutality. My brother's a firefighter.

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3620.105 - 3637.001 Bill Burr

He watched 9-11 on television. No, no, no, buddy. Nobody's saying that your brother's not a firefighter. I got a bone spur in my heel. I can still stand up during the dog. Buddy, nobody is saying you can't see a podiatrist, all right? You're not listening.

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3638.168 - 3662.393 Matt Walsh

So this is a comedian who's basically promoting the leftist concept of centering. I mean, he did everything but actually use that phrase. Those racist, ignorant white people are always trying to center themselves, not listening to the plight of the multimillionaire quarterback. They don't care about the made up fact that police officers are killing black people all the time. That's the joke.

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3663.793 - 3681.098 Matt Walsh

Hilarious. This is a routine that feels like it was intended for the faculty lounge at, say, Vassar. But Bill Burr apparently thought that he had a winner with this one. He said something similar on his podcast at the time. Quote, for me personally, I'm a white male heterosexual. I can basically, within reason, do whatever the F I want to do.

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3681.599 - 3704.953 Matt Walsh

Here's a guy who's making zillions of effing dollars and still feels this way. This is, I should probably shut the F up and listen to what he has to say. That's your edgy, unwoke comedian there. In other words, it can't possibly be that the guy is rich and wrong about this, trying to stay relevant. That's not possible.

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3705.854 - 3724.441 Matt Walsh

No rich person would ever push a false racial narrative in exchange for fame and even more wealth. This is the kind of insight that Burr is now capable of. But the truth is that that's kind of underselling the decline of Bill Burr as a comedian. Even when he's not trying to make some grand political statement on behalf of the Democrat Party, he's still falling flat.

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3725.362 - 3733.446 Matt Walsh

A few months ago, he appeared on SNL and had several moments where the audience had no response like at all to what he was saying. Kind of brutal, watch.

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3734.85 - 3755.235 Bill Burr

I sat next to a shoeless cowboy on an airplane. Guy had no socks or shoes on the whole flight. The whole flight, I'm sitting there looking at his dirty Jesus feet. And all I'm thinking is the next pandemic is growing in the bottom of his feet. And all I'm going to be is the next, you know, patient number two, whatever the next disease is, you know?

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3755.796 - 3782.848 Bill Burr

So I'll tell you what kills me is I looked at the guy and all I'm thinking is, you know what? God made that guy. You know, and he keeps making that guy like one mouth breathing moron after another. Yet we still go to church on Sunday. What do we do? We praise him. When is the constructive criticism coming? Like, dude, when's the last time you made a Gandhi? Somebody empathetic, you know.

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3786.045 - 3809.31 Matt Walsh

I mean, not particularly PC or woke or whatever. It's just lame. Just hard to watch. Hard to watch. I mean, if you go back and pull up clips of old Bill Burr routines from more than 10 years ago, it's like watching a completely different person. He was actually a comedian, for one thing. He was funny. And he was even insightful in his own way at certain points.

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3809.851 - 3831.328 Matt Walsh

In 2010, for example, Burr did a special called Let It Go. It's worth watching if you find the time. One of the main themes of the special is that he's over 40 and still doesn't have kids. It's not some hour-long morality play about the importance of having kids or anything like that. Not that it would be wrong to talk about the importance of having kids, but it's a comedy.

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3831.348 - 3850.141 Matt Walsh

And it does wring out a lot of humor out of the situation in a kind of self-deprecating way. Certainly not lecturing anyone about how important it is to be loyal Democrat Party operatives. And he also threw in some material about the arbitrary nature of race politics and racial guilt, which was ahead of its time. So here's that part, just to give you an idea of what it's like.

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3851.501 - 3865.206 Bill Burr

I find a lot of that racial stuff, like, fascinating. You know, like, the different rules of, like, who gets in trouble, who doesn't. Like, I've noticed black people have the genius to put the curse word after they say the race of the person, where white dudes, we always put it in front.

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3865.606 - 3875.669 Bill Burr

And if we would just make that little adjustment, we could save so many careers, so many jobs could be saved in the white community if we would just put it after.

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3876.857 - 3887.942

You never notice that in conversation here, a black guy being like, man, I was standing there and this Asian came in. He starts talking about, you don't even hear it. You're just sitting there, oh, what did this Asian do?

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3889.323 - 3915.407 Bill Burr

I would love to hear the rest of this story, right? Dude, I would tell the exact same story, right? I'm standing there, right? This Asian comes in, right? Everybody's like, whoa, whoa, hey, easy, easy, easy, dude. What year is it, you know? It's like, dude, I just said what he said. I just preempted the, that's all I did. He suggested he's hooking up with people's mothers. I'm not even doing that.

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3915.427 - 3918.93 Bill Burr

It's just a quick, I got it out of the way. I got it out of the way.

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3920.632 - 3946.277 Matt Walsh

So now that's actually funny. And it points out the kind of arbitrary rules that we have for language and the way that we treat different races and all that. It's funny. It's a funny observation. And watching that clip, it's not hard to see that Bill Burr's downfall is even more tragic than Howard Stern. I mean, Howard Stern was always a freak, as we've discussed before.

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3946.297 - 3964.481 Matt Walsh

The guy was always just a disgusting creep. But Burr, at one point, had genuine talent. He wasn't going for the lowest common denominator, and he certainly wasn't running interference for some of the most incompetent politicians in the country, people who destroyed their own city while getting a lot of people killed in the process solely because of his political affiliation.

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3965.486 - 3967.101 Matt Walsh

Well, that's what he's been reduced to.

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3968.197 - 3988.991 Matt Walsh

And whatever you blame for his downfall, whether it's his age, the influence of his leftist wife, which a lot of people have pointed to as kind of the beginning of the end of him actually being funny, or you point to his politics or whatever, or the fact that he started starring in movies and he was in Breaking Bad and these Hollywood things and started hanging out with people in Hollywood and going to the cocktail parties.

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3989.011 - 4008.821 Matt Walsh

I mean, all that stuff probably is part of it. But the inevitable conclusion is that Bill Burr is no longer a comedian. He's like... Howard Stern, Jimmy Kimmel, so many other former comedians like them, now just a washed-up political hack who's all too willing to read from a script that absolves his masters in the Democrat Party at every opportunity.

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4010.042 - 4023.167 Matt Walsh

And that is why Bill Burr, whose career began with a lot of promise and ended with a pitiful thud, is today, regrettably, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.

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