The Matt Walsh Show - Daily Wire Backstage： Turning Of The Tide

00:00:00.040 Hey everyone, it's Matt Walsh. You're about to listen to the latest episode of Daily Wire backstage featuring Jeremy Boring, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and of course yours truly.

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00:00:47.000 Joining me tonight, we have Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and, well, me. I'm joining me.

00:00:54.260 We want you to head over to dailywire.com slash do not comply. Listen, we don't do this very often, but I'm going to be serious on the show for a minute.

00:01:02.360 We need your help. We need your help because we're in the fight of our lives against the Biden administration on behalf of medical freedom for all Americans.

00:01:09.680 As you know, the president in September gave a big speech in which he said he had lost patience with the American people as though we care.

00:01:16.680 And then he said that he was going to sick the bureaucracy on anyone who didn't get a vaccine by way of threatening your livelihood.

00:01:23.280 His new mandate came down last week, and it made good on his promise. He basically said that any company with more than 100 employees, and that includes the Daily Wire, is going to be required beginning on January 4th to say to our employees, are you vaccinated?

00:01:36.800 Give us that fundamental private information about your private medical decisions. If the answer is yes, then you are welcome into our company. You're a fully realized citizen.

00:01:46.020 If the answer is no, oh, that's fine. We just have to test you every week and require you to wear a mask to work.

00:01:52.320 It's not, of course, that surprising that the Democrats are passing basically segregation legislation.

00:01:57.820 Discrimination has always been part of their playbook, but it's never been part of ours.

00:02:01.340 We said no, and we immediately filed charges, filed a lawsuit, excuse me, in the Sixth Circuit to try to put an end to this.

00:02:08.280 You've probably been following the news. You know that the Fifth Circuit issued a stay against President Biden's unconstitutional order a day or two after we filed our suit in the Sixth Circuit.

00:02:17.720 But that doesn't mean that the fight is over. In fact, President Biden somewhat audaciously, I think, said to businesses,

00:02:25.640 hey, ignore the stay and continue prepping for my order to go into effect on January 4th.

00:02:31.040 Why does this matter? Does it matter because I hate vaccines? You know I don't. I'm vaccinated. I'm pro-vaccine.

00:02:36.380 If I were a dictator, I'd make sure that you were vaccinated, too. See, that's the point.

00:02:40.420 I'm not dictator and neither is Joe Biden. I'm pro-vaccine and that's my choice. That's my opinion.

00:02:46.620 You don't have to share all of my opinions and you don't have to choose everything that I choose.

00:02:51.340 That's not only a fundamental American principle, but it's a fundamental right that you have as a human being not to have to do what I want.

00:02:57.860 So we're fighting on your behalf and, of course, we're fighting on behalf of our employees.

00:03:01.840 Nobody really talks about this aspect, but we're also fighting for our business.

00:03:05.660 If Congress had claimed the authority, which I don't even believe Congress has,

00:03:09.980 but if they had claimed the authority to make a rule like this,

00:03:13.120 then they could have at least mitigated against the downside risk for employers,

00:03:17.440 as is since Biden is doing this through the unelected bureaucrats at the Department of Labor.

00:03:22.140 They aren't able to actually mitigate against all those risks.

00:03:25.560 Here's just an example. Let's say that an employee of mine doesn't want to be vaccinated.

00:03:29.560 Let's say that they tell me they don't want to be vaccinated.

00:03:31.800 Let's say that I now start subjecting them to costly tests and requiring them to wear a mask to work

00:03:37.460 when I don't require that of other employees.

00:03:39.340 And now let's say that for whatever reason, I have to part company with that employee in the future.

00:03:44.220 Have I not discriminated against them?

00:03:46.100 Have I not retaliated against them for not doing what I want or putting the company?

00:03:50.000 Of course, that's not why I'm letting them go.

00:03:51.940 But how do I prove that in court? I've just opened myself up to so many liabilities

00:03:55.640 by doing the wrong thing and discriminating against my employees.

00:03:59.380 So we have to say no. We have to say we do not comply, Mr. President.

00:04:03.300 And we have to have your voice added alongside our own.

00:04:06.280 This fight that we're in has already cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars.

00:04:09.000 It's going to cost many hundreds of thousands more.

00:04:11.780 Of course, we couldn't do that without our DailyWire.com subscribers,

00:04:15.220 and we're very grateful to them.

00:04:16.340 But we know not everyone can become a DailyWire.com subscriber.

00:04:19.640 So we're asking you instead to join us by adding your voice to our petition.

00:04:23.540 We think it's important for the president to hear from millions of Americans.

00:04:27.340 No, no, we will not comply.

00:04:29.240 You can add your voice to ours at DailyWire.com slash do not comply.

00:04:33.680 We've set an ambitious goal for tonight of 500,000 signatures on our petition.

00:04:39.200 We're 315,000 signatures along that path already.

00:04:43.560 So we're only looking for that extra 185 tonight.

00:04:47.000 Of course, that's just the start.

00:04:48.020 The president's order affects over 85 million American workers.

00:04:51.360 We think he needs to hear from millions of Americans.

00:04:53.300 But our ambitious goal for tonight, 500,000 signatures.

00:04:57.140 Send a message to the administration that you won't comply.

00:04:59.960 DailyWire.com slash do not comply.

00:05:04.240 We're suing the government.

00:05:05.400 We're suing the government.

00:05:06.480 And by the way, I think a part of this that people are missing is we were right about this

00:05:11.860 from the beginning.

00:05:12.480 You know, I hate to say I told you so.

00:05:13.580 But from the beginning, when Biden reversed his opinion on mandates and said we are going

00:05:17.780 to push this mandate, I said, many of us said, this is a bluff.

00:05:22.280 He doesn't really have the right to do this.

00:05:24.220 This is not constitutional.

00:05:25.700 I asked our pal Ted Cruz.

00:05:27.200 I said, you're a constitutional lawyer.

00:05:28.700 He said, it's bogus.

00:05:29.980 It's going to be struck down in court.

00:05:31.420 But it doesn't matter because by that time, by the time it's struck down in court, the

00:05:36.900 government will already pressure the businesses to pressure the workers to take the Fauci ouchie.

00:05:41.180 And so people really need to stand up right now.

00:05:43.420 It's so corrupt.

00:05:44.980 It's so it's such a sneaky way to do it.

00:05:48.140 But as you said, this fight doesn't come cheap.

00:05:52.040 You know, it costs a lot of money to do it.

00:05:54.080 But someone's got to do it or we're all just going to roll over.

00:05:56.460 And then when when it is struck down in court, Biden will say, whoopsie daisy, we got exactly

00:06:01.000 what you also have to draw the line somewhere.

00:06:03.240 And I think that what people are neglecting and is that this is the first step.

00:06:07.620 It's not the last step because things seem to be getting better in terms of how many

00:06:11.400 people are vaccinated and how many people have already had covid.

00:06:13.560 And because the numbers are going down a lot in the south, for example, a lot of people

00:06:16.620 seem to think that the government is now going to leave them alone.

00:06:18.960 I even hear this from some conservatives.

00:06:20.480 Well, you know, if we just get past this, then everything will go back to normal.

00:06:23.540 Well, I see no evidence whatsoever that blue state authoritarians have any interest in

00:06:28.380 ever allowing this to go back to normal.

00:06:29.880 They've already started changing their their rhetoric about masking up forever.

00:06:33.020 They've already talked about openly forcing five year olds to get this vaccine.

00:06:36.880 They're already doing it in San Francisco.

00:06:38.100 Whatever starts in San Francisco goes to L.A., then it goes to New York, then to Chicago

00:06:40.980 and then national.

00:06:42.240 They've already talked in that OSHA regulation, which is four hundred and ninety pages long.

00:06:46.040 Great, great piece of law.

00:06:47.380 Yeah, in that in that regulation, they have pages dedicated to if we want to make this rule

00:06:52.000 permanent, what should we do?

00:06:53.560 And some of the things that they are promising are proposing are things like no exception.

00:06:58.520 If you are if you have natural immunity, no exception.

00:07:00.900 If you're going to get tested, you must get vaccinated.

00:07:03.060 No testing out of it.

00:07:04.460 They propose the possibility that face masks have to be KN95s or N95s, not cloth face masks

00:07:10.060 anymore.

00:07:10.640 They talk about fully vaccine, fully masking everybody who's already vaccinated.

00:07:14.300 But that is what they're talking about for their permanent rule.

00:07:16.740 They want this to be forever.

00:07:18.400 However, there's a whole thread from Andy Slavitt, who used to be a he's a very covid hawkish

00:07:22.980 guy, to say the very least.

00:07:24.140 And he was an advisory to Obama about this long thread yesterday talking about how so

00:07:29.500 many people think the pandemic is over.

00:07:30.880 But just because you think the pandemic is over for you doesn't mean it's over for everybody.

00:07:34.440 What he means by that is until I say it's over for everybody, it's not over for you.

00:07:38.540 And they are not going to allow this thing to end.

00:07:40.340 Not with vaccines, not with kids getting vaccinated, not with masking, not with mandates, not with

00:07:44.740 anything.

00:07:45.060 They have to maintain the control.

00:07:47.140 Also, people aren't talking about this.

00:07:48.880 The OSHA rule, for the first time ever, essentially says that a worker at a company, OSHA was created

00:07:54.740 to protect workers from externalities.

00:07:57.220 Now they're saying the worker is the externality.

00:07:59.480 The worker is the threat.

00:08:00.780 The worker is the safety violation.

00:08:03.300 Right.

00:08:03.500 That's a complete redefinition of the role between OSHA and workers around the country

00:08:09.500 and a redefinition of what a human being is in the eyes of the government.

00:08:12.520 And don't be fooled, by the way, they're declaring climate change a public health emergency now.

00:08:17.260 So if you say that on the basis of a public health emergency, they can seize these extraordinary

00:08:21.400 powers.

00:08:22.300 Well, now everything is going to become a public health emergency.

00:08:24.780 I think it's important to point out that when we ask people to join us, we actually ask

00:08:28.400 people to join us in the fight.

00:08:30.100 You know, so many people on the Internet are fundraising, asking for money.

00:08:33.340 I'm doing this.

00:08:33.980 Give me some money.

00:08:34.780 I get I've gotten a lot of emails already.

00:08:37.260 How can how can I donate?

00:08:38.900 And I give my personal address, of course.

00:08:40.600 But your initials, C-A-S-H.

00:08:44.300 Yeah.

00:08:44.740 But we but we actually ask people to join us and become part of what we do and to and

00:08:49.540 to get all the benefits of membership.

00:08:51.020 We actually are fighting back through capitalism, which I think is a double fight because there's

00:08:55.880 just so many guys, even on the right.

00:08:57.980 And I hate to pick on our own people, but there's so many people who are not running capitalist

00:09:01.460 organizations like we are.

00:09:03.460 And I think that this is this is what the fight is about.

00:09:05.760 It's not about give us give us some dough and we'll go out and do this fight for you.

00:09:09.140 It's join what we do here and become part of it.

00:09:11.720 Receive value.

00:09:12.840 Yep.

00:09:13.240 And also empower the creation of new value.

00:09:15.460 And it really doesn't it doesn't mean anything because they're going to find a lot of there's

00:09:18.400 there are a lot of conservatives now who will complain about it, but they're still

00:09:22.240 going to go along with it.

00:09:23.060 So if you're if you're complaining about it, that's that's the thing with compliance.

00:09:25.600 You can comply begrudgingly, but the government doesn't care about that as long as you're

00:09:30.100 doing what they want you to do.

00:09:32.260 And so, you know, here we're actually doing something about it.

00:09:34.460 And I think to Ben's point, if it was Rochelle Walensky, CDC this week said that talking about

00:09:40.680 masking and said, hey, you know, by the way, masks also are great for the common cold and

00:09:45.560 the flu.

00:09:46.200 And I'm old enough to remember the last, I don't know, 18 months to two years where if

00:09:51.840 we suggested that, hey, they're going to make this connection between COVID and the

00:09:55.260 cold and the flu soon.

00:09:56.500 If we said that we were a conspiracy theorist.

00:09:58.180 And of course, we see the trajectory here now that we're because it makes sense if you

00:10:02.920 can require masking for this communicable disease, then why not any other?

00:10:06.540 This is the fundamental problem that the squishes fell into.

00:10:10.960 This is the thing they missed.

00:10:12.340 They thought if I just give them this, they were so desperate to get back to normal.

00:10:16.900 OK, I'll give them the mandate.

00:10:19.880 OK, I'll give them this.

00:10:21.180 OK, I'll give them that.

00:10:22.280 But then it's OK.

00:10:23.320 Finally, we'll get back to normal.

00:10:24.540 Well, it's day 600, folks.

00:10:26.880 It was 15 days to slow the spread.

00:10:28.640 And it's going to go on.

00:10:29.400 And they're getting something they're getting something really important about this.

00:10:32.240 They're getting fear and fear.

00:10:34.360 They now sell as a virtue.

00:10:35.780 If you're not afraid of the climate, you're a bad person.

00:10:37.820 If you're not afraid of racism, which they've also declared a health issue, a health emergency

00:10:41.760 in some states.

00:10:42.500 If you're not afraid of racism, if you're not afraid of COVID, you're a bad person.

00:10:46.360 When Trump tore off his mask, remember that?

00:10:48.900 Afterwards, he stood up on the balcony, tore off his mask.

00:10:51.060 There was a round table on every single network, every single news network saying, no, be afraid,

00:10:57.040 be afraid.

00:10:57.860 And, you know.

00:10:58.140 Meanwhile, if we don't like something, they call us phobic.

00:11:00.620 That's right.

00:11:01.080 That's right.

00:11:01.540 We're phobic.

00:11:02.340 Yeah.

00:11:02.740 And, you know, this is something C.S. Lewis talked about.

00:11:04.920 He said that courage is such a beautiful virtue that you can't trick people out of it.

00:11:09.000 So you have to keep them afraid.

00:11:10.240 And he has a description in the screw tape letters, I think, of exactly what they're doing,

00:11:15.260 of precautions getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

00:11:17.280 You mean the how-to novel.

00:11:19.260 The how-to novel for the devil.

00:11:20.480 For the devil.

00:11:21.060 Yeah.

00:11:21.340 Exactly.

00:11:22.480 I think that the biggest thing that we're fighting back against, obviously, is not just

00:11:26.080 a vax mandate.

00:11:26.800 I think there's an entire mentality that is set in in the American public over the course

00:11:30.540 of the last hundred years.

00:11:31.440 And a huge percentage of the population has bought into it, but not the people who tend to

00:11:34.800 watch shows like this one.

00:11:36.560 And that is that the government has a giant magic button that they can hit at any time and end

00:11:39.960 all your problems.

00:11:40.760 And that giant button exists somewhere in the executive branch.

00:11:43.500 It's hidden somewhere deep in a regulatory agency.

00:11:45.740 And they can smash it at any time.

00:11:47.260 And they can fix all your problems.

00:11:48.300 And so with COVID, the problem that Biden has is that he made that promise.

00:11:51.120 I will be elected and I will end COVID, right?

00:11:52.880 I won't shut down the economy.

00:11:53.880 I won't shut down your life.

00:11:55.540 I will shut down the virus.

00:11:56.960 He can't do that because nobody can do that because no one is capable of doing that.

00:12:00.280 But this is part and parcel of the entire left-wing pitch, which is government is God

00:12:04.120 and government is capable, if you give it enough power, of fixing all your problems.

00:12:07.240 Economic, racial, disease, death, all of these things can simply be ended if you give them

00:12:12.100 enough power.

00:12:12.620 And then when people see through it, which is what we've seen, right?

00:12:15.320 Because a huge percentage of the population in this country on the other side is we've

00:12:18.860 been living like normal for months, right?

00:12:20.520 I mean, some of us for a year, right?

00:12:22.120 We've been going out.

00:12:23.180 We've been doing what we want to do.

00:12:24.480 Some people who have already had natural immunity, they're all doing it.

00:12:26.980 As soon as I got the shot, I was like, done, okay?

00:12:29.200 And that's a huge number of people in this country.

00:12:31.580 Those people are seen as heretics and they must be seen as heretics by people like Joe

00:12:36.940 Biden because once people see through the myth, once they realize there is no magic button

00:12:40.880 that fixes everything, now the people in power have two choices.

00:12:43.220 One is admit they were lying to you the entire time.

00:12:45.580 And the second is if it were only for those people, if they would shut up, I would show

00:12:50.260 you the magic button.

00:12:51.060 If those people would just do what I said, then the magic button would present itself.

00:12:54.920 It's these people who are standing in the way of me achieving utopia.

00:12:57.940 It's your neighbor who's the problem, not me lying to you.

00:13:00.160 Yeah, it's like all faith healers, right?

00:13:02.040 Anytime a faith healer comes around, they say, don't talk to anyone who doesn't have

00:13:05.980 faith because that will somehow undermine your faith.

00:13:10.020 God wants to give you this great gift, but if someone else tells you he doesn't, then

00:13:14.840 he definitely won't.

00:13:16.380 But God is dependent on that guy?

00:13:19.080 I don't understand.

00:13:19.760 I don't know the math.

00:13:20.840 I'm not a Democrat.

00:13:22.120 They're also literally redefining all the terms now.

00:13:24.680 So I don't know if you saw Dr. Fauci arguing with Rand Paul.

00:13:27.520 Rand Paul is destroying him again.

00:13:28.760 And what they're doing is retreating into nominalism, to use a technical phrase.

00:13:33.640 What they're trying to do now is just define all of these things.

00:13:36.880 He says, Senator Paul, we do not do gain of function.

00:13:40.440 We do, you know, increase of utility.

00:13:45.400 Yeah, that's it.

00:13:46.160 It's not gain of function.

00:13:47.300 And they literally took the web page down off of NIH.

00:13:50.520 Are you the people's front of Judea?

00:13:51.940 Ah, the people's front of Judea.

00:13:53.260 We're the people's Judean front.

00:13:54.500 They're doing this with everything, right?

00:13:57.020 Did you see that whole argument online over the last 24 hours about whether people should

00:14:00.360 continue to use the word woke?

00:14:01.440 I know.

00:14:01.840 I saw it.

00:14:02.300 And a bunch of people on the left saying, Republicans, conservatives, they're racist

00:14:07.020 for using the term woke.

00:14:07.920 We didn't make up that term.

00:14:09.520 It's your word.

00:14:10.100 You guys made up the term.

00:14:11.320 They keep doing this over and over.

00:14:12.540 They coin a term.

00:14:13.580 We notice that their term is terrible and that it represents a terrible set of thoughts.

00:14:17.040 And then they go, how dare you use that term anymore?

00:14:19.220 Critical race theory.

00:14:20.100 Critical race theory.

00:14:20.860 There's no such thing.

00:14:21.520 Liberalism.

00:14:21.700 Political.

00:14:22.300 Liberalism became progressivism.

00:14:23.740 Which, it was progressivism.

00:14:25.520 We said progressivism is bad.

00:14:26.520 They're like, no, no, no.

00:14:26.960 It's liberalism.

00:14:27.640 Yeah, and then it was left.

00:14:28.280 Like, liberalism is bad.

00:14:28.820 They're like, no, it's progressivism.

00:14:30.740 And then it was leftism.

00:14:31.740 And the funny thing is, it never occurs to them.

00:14:34.400 It's the actual ideas.

00:14:35.540 Right.

00:14:35.740 You know, you can call him Fred, and it's still going to be a bad idea.

00:14:37.740 Well, this is, you know, Steven Pinker, who is now, by the way, according to me, he is

00:14:41.560 the most right-wing, he's the liberal professor at Harvard.

00:14:43.780 Well, you know, it's funny, because he is a free thinker.

00:14:45.580 You know, I don't agree with a lot of what he says, but he is a free thinker.

00:14:48.200 That makes him a conservative.

00:14:48.980 So, Pinker has this idea of the euphemism treadmill, that you can, the left, he doesn't

00:14:54.140 only apply this to the left, but that you just change the words, you change the euphemisms,

00:14:58.400 and the thought is that it will change the, you know, the reality is so ugly that you just

00:15:03.100 have to change all the words.

00:15:04.540 But eventually, the reality catches up with the words.

00:15:06.980 The crazy thing is, the crazy thing is, they've taken this to an extent now, they say black

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00:15:12.440 Yeah, but black lives, you don't believe black lives matter, but you're killing black people.

00:15:15.600 Yeah, but black lives, it's like, I want to start a movement called Cats Are Nice, you

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00:17:24.840 Join us in this fight for bodily autonomy against the Biden administration.

00:17:29.280 Of course, this isn't the only fight that the Daily Wire has picked recently.

00:17:33.120 We also basically elected a governor in Virginia.

00:17:35.660 I wasn't going to say it.

00:17:36.360 Thank you so much.

00:17:37.320 Andrew Klavan now lives in a red state.

00:17:38.940 I do.

00:17:39.500 So does Matt Lallis.

00:17:41.660 We have two Virginia red spots.

00:17:42.960 The Virginian, as we call him.

00:17:44.360 No, I voted before anybody else because I was leaving town on election day and I just said,

00:17:48.500 follow me, folks.

00:17:49.300 It was just this incredible wave of that.

00:17:51.980 It was actually, I mean, we contributed in a lot of ways.

00:17:54.640 Obviously, we weren't the only ones.

00:17:55.600 Chris Ruffo played an important role.

00:17:57.720 The Virginian himself, Matt Walsh, making an appearance down in Loudoun County to fight

00:18:02.200 on these issues.

00:18:03.460 But then I really think you cannot give enough credit to Daily Wire investigative reporter

00:18:07.940 Luke Rosiak.

00:18:08.900 I said the last time we were together, it was on stage at the Ryman Auditorium.

00:18:12.060 And I pointed out in front of 3,000 people in the live audience that no one would ever

00:18:18.020 say Luke Rosiak's name again, that being an investigative reporter will never earn you

00:18:22.160 applause.

00:18:22.800 I'm going to prove that I am a liar because this son of a gun broke the most important

00:18:27.420 story of 2021.

00:18:28.740 And it had an immediate impact in helping to elect Youngkin as governor of Virginia.

00:18:33.880 By the way, I have to say being an actual Virginian, I'm not mentioning anything.

00:18:37.820 What are you implying?

00:18:40.520 Trans Virginians are Virginians, Chris.

00:18:44.080 You know, the thing about where I am, which was a pretty blue area, compared to L.A., it's

00:18:50.920 a different blue.

00:18:51.640 It's a different color of blue.

00:18:52.620 A lot of Marines, a lot of service people, they are patriots.

00:18:55.400 They hear this woke stuff, and I hate to use the name, but they hear this woke stuff,

00:19:00.160 and they don't like it.

00:19:01.160 And some of them are afraid to say so, but when they start messing with their kids, they're

00:19:04.580 not afraid.

00:19:04.900 That's what struck me at the rally, talking to people there.

00:19:09.140 And it was not, I mean, certainly if you were to do a political poll, probably the majority

00:19:13.840 are lean conservative.

00:19:16.100 But I talked to, there were teachers there, and of course, just a lot of normal parents.

00:19:22.220 And a great number of them were not, didn't identify themselves as Republicans or right

00:19:26.560 wingers, but they're concerned about their parents, about their kids, rather.

00:19:30.200 And the other thing is also, we've talked a lot about how critical race theory has had

00:19:37.340 this great effect on the Virginia election, and it did.

00:19:41.080 But there's another theory in the school system, which is more pernicious, much more harmful,

00:19:46.040 more insidious, and more widespread.

00:19:47.380 And I think it's going to be the next big theory that we're all talking about, which is

00:19:50.640 gender theory.

00:19:51.280 And that's, you know, that plays into the rape case there.

00:19:53.940 Um, that's what I would say a majority, not to speak for them, but a majority of the people

00:19:59.740 at the rally, anyway, that I was, that I attended, uh, were, were most concerned about

00:20:03.400 because there with, with gender theory, you know, with critical race theory is a terrible

00:20:07.420 thing because you're foisting white guilt on white children and you're dividing people

00:20:13.100 by race.

00:20:13.600 And it's a horrible thing.

00:20:14.820 Even worse than foisting white guilt on white children, by the way, it's foisting victimization.

00:20:19.900 Victimization.

00:20:20.300 On all the other, on all the other children, right.

00:20:22.260 And, and self-loathing and on everybody.

00:20:24.360 And it's just a terrible thing with gender theory, though, you are fundamentally altering

00:20:28.820 the way a child's identity.

00:20:31.220 I mean, you are corrupting children.

00:20:32.700 You are corrupting children.

00:20:33.460 You are reshaping who they are.

00:20:34.540 There was just a poll that was released, a survey that was released a couple of weeks

00:20:38.960 ago that found that, uh, in Gen Z, 40%, 40% identify now as LGBT.

00:20:45.540 And we could look at that and say, oh, it's a fad, or maybe that's an exaggeration.

00:20:48.260 Maybe something's in the water.

00:20:49.040 I don't know.

00:20:49.620 You know, there have been, they are turning the frogs, but this is, this is, this is not

00:20:56.560 just a fad.

00:20:57.080 This is a very real.

00:20:58.720 Well, it may very well be a fad, but it's a fad with consequences.

00:21:01.940 Well, it's a fad.

00:21:02.560 I know people's people, I've heard people say, well, this is, you know, when we were, when

00:21:06.220 I, when I was a kid, it was a emo or goth or whatever, but yeah, that was a fad.

00:21:09.820 But the thing is, if you identified as a goth kid, adults were not going to sit you down.

00:21:15.180 Adults would say to you, this is a fad.

00:21:16.880 You're going to get over it.

00:21:17.540 You look ridiculous.

00:21:18.960 But now with this fad, adults are going to say, well, this is who you are.

00:21:23.040 Here's a flag.

00:21:23.640 Go march in the street.

00:21:24.700 This, this is your truth.

00:21:25.960 This is the most important thing about you.

00:21:27.700 Yeah.

00:21:27.940 And so it sets in and it's, I think that this is the, I think this is the biggest problem

00:21:32.520 facing the Democrats right now.

00:21:34.140 What Virginia brought up, and it's true in New Jersey also, which was not about critical

00:21:38.000 race theory, but it's true nearly everywhere.

00:21:39.740 The minute people start thinking generationally, Democrats are toast.

00:21:43.480 The minute people start thinking beyond their generation, they start thinking about what

00:21:46.720 happens with the kids.

00:21:47.820 Democrats have a real problem on their hands.

00:21:49.580 There's a really telling headline from the Huffington Post right after Virginia, and the

00:21:53.160 headline said something to the effect of, Republicans want to make parents angry.

00:21:57.860 Democrats want to give them money.

00:21:59.440 Oh, it's a great headline.

00:22:00.180 And I thought, this is, this is it.

00:22:01.940 This is the whole thing, right?

00:22:02.980 Because what Democrats really think is that all parents want is to be given money.

00:22:07.540 They don't care about the future of their children.

00:22:09.160 They do not care about the lessons their kids are being taught in school.

00:22:12.720 They want to just hand off their kids to the government-sponsored daycare and then to the

00:22:16.720 government teachers, and they just want to take the money from the feds, and then they're

00:22:19.900 going to be happy.

00:22:20.520 And the reality is that people who have kids do not think like that.

00:22:23.720 If you have children, you don't think like that.

00:22:25.820 You are thinking honestly, like all the time, about how do I want to bring up my kids?

00:22:29.700 What kind of world do I want to bring up my kids?

00:22:31.520 What kind of bubble do I want to create for my kids to protect them from the predations

00:22:34.880 of a set of values that are likely to not only confuse, but corrupt them and make them

00:22:38.560 into deeply, in some cases, kids who are not only confused about identity, but participate

00:22:45.280 in behaviors that harm them, that actively harm them.

00:22:47.820 And parents have every right to think that way.

00:22:50.200 And Democrats, if they call those parents intolerant, which is what they're going to

00:22:52.760 do, that'll be the next step, just like they called everybody who pointed out critical

00:22:55.220 race theory racist.

00:22:56.280 The next step is going to be, if you say to your child that there are things like

00:22:59.580 two genders and that your girl is a girl and not a non-binary eight-year-old, that if

00:23:04.220 you say that you're an intolerant bigot, good luck with that argument.

00:23:06.640 That one's going to go way worse than critical race theory.

00:23:08.320 This is the thing.

00:23:08.900 Your children are always your softest point.

00:23:11.260 And all of these ideas are luxury ideas.

00:23:13.280 For all of human history, in every society, everywhere, men and women have been considered

00:23:18.300 different, have been assigned different roles.

00:23:20.220 Some of those roles have become elaborately performed, but they've always had different roles.

00:23:24.660 There is no new science.

00:23:25.800 The first thing that a doctor used to say to you when your child was born, it's a boy,

00:23:30.040 it's a girl.

00:23:31.080 This is universal.

00:23:32.180 And there's no new science that has changed this.

00:23:34.240 There is not a single discovery that anyone has made that suddenly says, oh no, all of

00:23:38.820 this was wrong.

00:23:39.460 It was there to observe.

00:23:41.280 It was, as Matt was saying, it's the first thing children come to terms with, is that

00:23:45.020 they are a boy or a girl.

00:23:46.280 And we have this luxury where we think we can do anything because we're so safe.

00:23:50.800 Our armory is so powerful.

00:23:52.340 Our oceans are so broad.

00:23:53.740 We're so rich.

00:23:54.200 We're so rich.

00:23:55.180 It's so hard to do anything.

00:23:56.500 But your kids are always vulnerable because you love them and you want them to.

00:23:59.680 This point, I think it's very important to take this fight to the Dems.

00:24:04.560 We've got to make sure that the establishment Republicans, the leadership of the Republican

00:24:08.220 Party, gets this because right the day after the Virginia election, when our Virginian friend

00:24:14.120 over here and our investigative reporter helped elect a governor, the big tweets from the official

00:24:19.260 Republican accounts were, Virginia proves Americans don't want socialism.

00:24:24.280 I don't think Americans want socialism.

00:24:26.400 I hate socialism.

00:24:27.140 I think socialism is evil.

00:24:29.280 Socialism had nothing to do with Virginia.

00:24:31.780 Terry McAuliffe is a regular old corporate Democrat crook, Clintonite.

00:24:36.340 He's not a socialist.

00:24:37.460 And Glenn Youngkin didn't really run against socialism.

00:24:40.980 People went out to vote not to stop the workers from seizing the means of production.

00:24:44.580 It was to protect their kids.

00:24:46.460 And if these freaking Republicans don't get the message and don't run on that winning

00:24:50.640 issue, they deserve to lose.

00:24:51.820 But this is, you know, to speak the unspeakable word, this is the purpose of Donald Trump.

00:24:56.400 His purpose, I think, is now served.

00:24:58.200 But if the Republicans do not pick up that this was his power, this was his superpower, this

00:25:02.440 is what made people follow him, right and wrong, if they don't get that, Youngkin got it.

00:25:07.460 Youngkin got it.

00:25:08.140 He would not have had the temerity to fight the culture fight that he did because he's

00:25:14.300 a typical old Republican.

00:25:15.520 It took him some time.

00:25:16.300 Youngkin got it eventually.

00:25:17.400 He started his campaign as a kind of standard cookie cutter corporate Republican type.

00:25:21.980 And then there was a definite shift, a definite change.

00:25:24.740 I like to think that the Daily Wire had something to do with convincing him to make that change.

00:25:30.320 But yeah, as soon as he, this has been the lie that conservatives have been fed from the

00:25:35.540 Republicans for so long that, you know, we don't need to, we don't need to engage in

00:25:38.740 the culture war.

00:25:39.640 So the so-called social issues, all people care about is their, is their wallet.

00:25:44.420 That, no, that your wallet is not what drives you at the deepest level of your being.

00:25:48.080 Um, you're, you're, you're, well, some of us, it gets very close to deepest level, but there

00:25:55.760 are, you know, for a lot of us, there, your values and also, and also your kids.

00:25:59.020 And that's, and that's something that the Democrats are going to learn.

00:26:01.160 Maybe are learning is that with, with your children, that's here's, here's one thing.

00:26:04.920 There are Americans who are willing to give up their own freedoms.

00:26:08.060 They shouldn't be, but they're willing to do that.

00:26:09.860 Um, they're willing to comply.

00:26:11.220 They shouldn't be, but they are.

00:26:12.140 But even many of those Americans, when you come for their, for their kids, because that's,

00:26:16.600 that's, that's something that almost all parents, I mean, you'll die for your kid.

00:26:19.580 You might not even die for your own freedom, but you'll die for your children.

00:26:22.520 And, uh, and if we won't, I mean, if we, if we reach a point as a, as a population where

00:26:26.020 we don't, then civilization's dead and there's no point.

00:26:29.180 Yeah.

00:26:29.300 And I mean, that, that, that's exactly right.

00:26:30.720 And I think that it's, it's important to note here that you can chart this even via, with

00:26:34.760 regard to Joe Biden and his presidency.

00:26:37.000 So the moment that broke Joe Biden's presidency was not all this inflation.

00:26:40.220 What broke his presidency was Afghanistan.

00:26:42.140 Look at the polling data.

00:26:43.320 He was around 50%.

00:26:44.520 Afghanistan happened.

00:26:45.680 Americans saw that as a core attack on our values.

00:26:48.600 They saw, they saw his surrender and his abject cowardice as a, as a core attack on how we

00:26:53.640 think of ourselves.

00:26:54.500 And he's not been able to recover from that since the economic downturn harms him for sure.

00:26:59.860 But the, the culture war issues are the places where the progressive left is the most separated

00:27:04.420 from the rest of the American population.

00:27:05.800 And that's where the, that's where, honestly, just from a political analyst point of view,

00:27:09.760 I have to say, I, I think that Joe Biden might be insane.

00:27:13.180 I don't mean like senile.

00:27:14.220 I mean, crazy because he ran as a moderate who is going to bring people together.

00:27:18.180 And now he, he is, he is running this government like he's a member of the squad and he's out

00:27:22.720 of his left.

00:27:23.100 The furthest left president in my life.

00:27:24.800 By far, by far.

00:27:25.900 It's not close.

00:27:26.460 He makes Obama look like a moderate.

00:27:27.660 It's insane.

00:27:28.260 And he's also, he's also, can I just say, he's also farting all over Europe.

00:27:32.980 No one wanted to bring that, according to reports.

00:27:35.100 But this goes to that separation between the elites.

00:27:37.740 I mean, this really is an elite democratic party that is run for the wild progressive

00:27:40.940 left.

00:27:41.560 There's a Pew study that came out today.

00:27:42.780 It says 6% of the American population about is what they call the progressive left.

00:27:46.900 Okay.

00:27:47.040 And actually, I'm sorry.

00:27:48.660 6% of the Democrats are what they call progressive left.

00:27:51.540 Like 3%.

00:27:52.020 Okay, it's like a very small percentage of the population is progressive left.

00:27:55.780 And that's the wing that they have chosen to placate with their equity talk.

00:27:59.620 They've got, they're sending out Pete Buttigieg to talk about how the roads are racist.

00:28:02.660 They're sending Nancy Pelosi over to Europe in the middle of a, in the middle of a gas spike

00:28:07.300 price, price spike to talk about how oil and gas are the worst thing that's, that's ever

00:28:12.260 happened.

00:28:12.780 One thing I love about American progressives, and this has always been true, right?

00:28:16.160 All throughout the Cold War, this was true.

00:28:17.540 American progressives lag Europe so far in terms of the ascendancy of their values that

00:28:25.260 Europe has already learned the lesson and moved on before the American people.

00:28:28.800 They're still saying, we should be like Norway.

00:28:30.680 And Norway's going, no!

00:28:32.100 No matter what!

00:28:32.660 Here's a question from a DailyWire.com member.

00:28:36.740 Given what happened in Virginia, do you think there's any hope in California of voting out

00:28:40.820 Newsom during the next election?

00:28:42.520 People thought the recall would never get as far as it did, so I still have some hope

00:28:45.760 we can moderate things here.

00:28:47.180 Well, this is very interesting.

00:28:48.520 My friend Owen Brennan, we all know Owen, he does a great...

00:28:51.560 Generous of you, I call him a friend.

00:28:52.980 He has a great organization called Madison McQueen, where they make videos for candidates.

00:28:59.280 He told me, and he follows this stuff very carefully, and he believes in winning back

00:29:02.880 California.

00:29:03.340 He believes it is possible to win back California.

00:29:05.580 Gavin Newsom, his numbers, which were negative, never changed during the course of the recall.

00:29:10.940 They never got better.

00:29:12.160 What happened was our friend, another friend, Larry Elder, came in and was just too far for

00:29:17.620 a blue state like California to go.

00:29:19.260 If a moderate Republican had come in, who was prepared for questions like, should transgender

00:29:24.200 whatever bathroom and all that stuff, I think he could have been toppled, and I think he

00:29:29.540 can be toppled now.

00:29:30.440 There is always, and you've pointed this out, there is always in California a little bit

00:29:34.480 of the American dream alive.

00:29:35.820 People don't come to Hollywood because they're cowards.

00:29:38.480 They don't come to Hollywood because they want to be socialists.

00:29:40.480 They come to Hollywood because they want to make a fortune off their creativity.

00:29:44.160 And so there's still a strain of libertarian conservatism in California that can be tapped

00:29:50.140 into, but it's not going to be tapped into on the culture side because it is a culturally

00:29:54.460 left state.

00:29:55.440 Well, I generally agree with that, but I do think there is a little nuance here that you

00:29:59.980 can learn from Virginia.

00:30:01.360 And it's to Matt's point.

00:30:02.400 Matt says, you know, the culture wins and just running on taxes is going to lose, and

00:30:06.840 I agree with that too.

00:30:07.800 But not all culture war issues are the same.

00:30:10.760 So if Glenn Youngkin in Virginia had run on a strong pro-life, you know, let's outlaw

00:30:17.360 abortion campaign, I would have loved it.

00:30:19.540 He probably would have won.

00:30:20.740 If he had run on overturning Obergefell and returning the traditional definition of marriage,

00:30:26.080 I would have loved it.

00:30:27.240 He definitely wouldn't have won.

00:30:28.740 But he picked a culture war issue that had broad appeal that really, really mattered.

00:30:33.520 You know, it wasn't just opportunistic or cynical.

00:30:36.120 It really, really mattered, and he tailored the campaign to that.

00:30:38.800 So I do think there's a sliver of hope.

00:30:40.880 There's another political nuance, though, that's important, which is, you know, we talk

00:30:43.920 about the squishes.

00:30:44.960 I'm very upset with the infrastructure bill passing, very upset that Republican congressmen

00:30:50.560 bailed out the squad.

00:30:51.940 Basically, the squad was going to kill this thing, which would have been a terrific moment

00:30:55.440 for the country, and Republicans bailed them out.

00:30:58.120 But it's also naive of us to say that all conservatives across the country have to be the same.

00:31:03.440 Right.

00:31:03.540 It is simply not possible for California to elect Ted Cruz.

00:31:10.900 That cannot happen in California because that's not the demographic makeup, the political

00:31:15.640 demographic, I'm not talking about racial, but the political demographic makeup of California.

00:31:19.080 That's not what people think in California.

00:31:21.140 Even conservatives in California don't think the way that Ted Cruz thinks.

00:31:24.420 They don't think the way I think.

00:31:25.720 You know, California is, you say, the American dream is alive there, and that's true.

00:31:30.060 California is a giant state.

00:31:33.220 San Francisco is as far left as it's possible to be.

00:31:36.840 L.A. isn't.

00:31:38.020 But L.A. is culturally left.

00:31:39.600 L.A. is a place that's almost like the inverse of what we say about America.

00:31:43.180 L.A. is a place where people are very left on social issues and pretty right on economics

00:31:51.060 and liberty.

00:31:52.920 On economics and liberty.

00:31:54.000 And so you have to just realize that, you know, politics does sometimes make strange

00:31:58.500 bedfellows.

00:31:59.600 And we do live in a two-party system, necessarily.

00:32:03.260 Someone who is to the right of Gavin Newsom in California is going to be a Republican because

00:32:08.040 them's the options.

00:32:09.620 But while they are, they should be our allies and we should be excited, I'd be very happy

00:32:13.460 to see a moderate Republican win in California, even though I might be very unhappy to see that

00:32:18.960 same moderate Republican win in Tennessee.

00:32:21.280 I'm just going to say, no, get out.

00:32:23.340 Leave.

00:32:24.180 Seriously.

00:32:24.760 Like, we've all made this decision.

00:32:26.660 We've all left.

00:32:27.560 And it's a little hypocritical for us to be here like, yeah, California is going to go

00:32:30.560 great.

00:32:30.780 No, it's not.

00:32:31.260 It's going to suck you.

00:32:32.240 I agree.

00:32:33.040 California is toast.

00:32:34.420 It's been toast for a while.

00:32:35.720 It is not like Virginia.

00:32:36.880 Virginia had a Republican House, Burgesses, not all that long ago.

00:32:41.520 It wasn't that far in the past.

00:32:43.700 Virginia was a much more purple state than California.

00:32:46.820 Virginia went by 10 to Biden.

00:32:48.160 California went by, what, 20-something to Biden, probably.

00:32:51.180 I mean, it was just a massive blowout state.

00:32:53.100 But California had a fake Republican governor not that long ago.

00:32:56.080 Yes.

00:32:57.060 A lifetime ago.

00:32:58.060 I would say on this infrastructure bill, you know, first of all, I don't believe that

00:33:01.560 the squad would have sat it out if the Republicans gave them cover to sit it out.

00:33:06.400 But if three of them had gone along and three of them had sat it out, they could have still

00:33:10.120 made it.

00:33:10.300 Either way, either way, either way, it would have broken the squad.

00:33:12.640 If they had voted in favor of the Infrastructure Act, it would have broken them.

00:33:15.420 And if they had voted against it, it had gone down.

00:33:16.860 No, I think that's better political thinking than our Republicans are capable of doing.

00:33:20.220 I agree with that.

00:33:21.000 I'm just saying that the bill still would have passed.

00:33:23.420 I think that we have a serious problem.

00:33:25.480 Nancy Pelosi has created, Pelosi and the Democrats have created the structure where they elect moderate

00:33:30.140 Democrats in blue, in red districts or purple districts, and then Pelosi bullies them into

00:33:36.660 voting with her and then they lose.

00:33:38.260 But it doesn't matter because the left wing ratchet only goes one way.

00:33:41.820 We have a problem that a lot of these Republicans who went along were in purple states, might have

00:33:46.420 lost their position if they had voted against the infrastructure bill, which was very popular.

00:33:52.320 And now they'll get primaried by some right wing crazy who can't win in their district.

00:33:58.740 So we have a structural problem because freedom is always under threat, but leftism sticks because

00:34:04.740 you give people free stuff, you buy them all.

00:34:06.220 On California, there's also a question of who cares.

00:34:11.140 Let's say we could elect a Republican governor in California.

00:34:13.680 What difference does it make?

00:34:14.700 I kind of like the idea at this point.

00:34:16.720 I mean, I'm with Ben on the cynical view of this, no surprise.

00:34:20.280 I think there's no saving it.

00:34:22.320 Also, why should we try to?

00:34:24.260 I kind of like the idea at this point of being able to point to California and say, look,

00:34:28.180 this is what it is when the left runs something and having a Republican on top of that, how

00:34:33.620 does that help us?

00:34:34.340 I agree.

00:34:34.580 I'm the joker about California.

00:34:36.140 I'm like, we're out.

00:34:37.080 You know, whatever happens to you guys next, that's your business.

00:34:39.940 You decided that you want to govern yourselves this way.

00:34:42.020 Enjoy, right?

00:34:43.060 As Hillman says, people are going to get what they deserve good and hard, right?

00:34:47.260 And by the way, my preferred strategy is if you are a Republican in California, which is

00:34:53.140 still the most popular state for Republicans because it's such an enormous state, move to

00:34:56.600 Arizona, move to Georgia, move to New Hampshire, move to Florida, move to Tennessee, move to

00:35:02.160 Nevada, any place that is purple or close to purple, move there and help shift the state.

00:35:07.600 Do that.

00:35:07.980 Can I ask a question about the strategy, the Leninist strategy of destroy California?

00:35:11.420 A serious question.

00:35:12.460 Let it destroy itself.

00:35:13.280 I'm not going to go in and narrate the place.

00:35:16.440 But isn't the purpose of Lenin to destroy itself that eventually people wake up and shift

00:35:21.320 over, or is that not the purpose?

00:35:22.540 No, it's also to serve as an example of failure for the rest of the nation.

00:35:26.720 Some, you know, like, really, like, I think it's, by the way, I think that's what this

00:35:30.940 election mostly was.

00:35:31.820 I agree with you, Drew.

00:35:32.900 Yes.

00:35:33.540 Right now, California is a good cautionary tale.

00:35:36.280 I want the caution to be well told.

00:35:37.900 Yeah.

00:35:38.520 Eventually, in the cycle of history, I want people to go, oh, that didn't work.

00:35:41.680 Oh, yeah.

00:35:41.960 But the way this is actually going to work is, this has been my hundred-year theory of

00:35:46.300 California for many years now.

00:35:47.680 My hundred-year theory of California is that every good state starts with a bunch of conservatives

00:35:51.780 moving to a place, building a thing.

00:35:53.820 A bunch of leftists follow them there, make the thing significantly worse, drive the conservatives

00:35:57.240 out.

00:35:57.780 The conservatives leave and go to an uglier area of the country.

00:36:00.520 And then the left has to follow them there because they have to go where all the money

00:36:03.960 is.

00:36:04.380 And so they follow the conservatives there.

00:36:05.840 And so eventually, California will be completely cleaned out, and the Republicans will move back

00:36:08.580 in and take over Robert Strauss's house on the beach, and we'll take it back.

00:36:10.780 This is why I support gays, because the Republicans should have the gays, because they make the

00:36:14.080 best restaurants.

00:36:15.000 And why should the left have all the good restaurants?

00:36:18.200 You always have.

00:36:19.080 You're so humble, Drew.

00:36:21.060 There's another aspect of this that we haven't really talked about.

00:36:23.340 I don't hear anyone talking about it, and it's reconciliation in Congress.

00:36:27.120 That basically, if you'll remember all the way back to the heady days of 2009, and we had

00:36:36.580 just given the Massachusetts Senate seat held by a Ted Kennedy to a Republican, Scott Brown,

00:36:42.520 so that we could overturn Obama's attempts to get Obamacare through Congress.

00:36:47.620 And Nancy Pelosi came up with this novel strategy, and her novel strategy was, we will deem the

00:36:51.920 bill to have been passed.

00:36:53.660 We won't actually do what has historically happened, which is a bill starts in the House,

00:36:58.240 then the bill goes to the Senate, then they have to come together and figure out how to

00:37:02.040 make that into one bill.

00:37:03.680 Nancy Pelosi said, we'll do the opposite.

00:37:05.760 This thing started in the Senate before the seats turned over.

00:37:08.400 They passed something in the Senate, totally different.

00:37:11.460 Now, we'll vote on something in the House.

00:37:12.680 By the way, the infrastructure thing ended in the House.

00:37:17.000 It didn't end in the Senate.

00:37:18.380 You say, well, what about that part where they have to come back together and vote again

00:37:22.000 to make it one bill?

00:37:23.460 They just don't do that anymore.

00:37:25.100 They've just decided that the Senate and the House can vote on completely separate pieces

00:37:29.500 of legislation.

00:37:31.120 And then, by sleight of hand, they'll just deem that it was one bill.

00:37:35.960 That's one of the tricks that they're doing.

00:37:37.520 The other is using reconciliation to pass sweeping, which is where you do come together and make

00:37:42.400 the math work, to pass sweeping changes into how the government actually functions.

00:37:48.420 The idea that we even have a legislature at this point is basically untrue.

00:37:53.780 It's very scary end of Roman Republic stuff.

00:37:56.740 It's essentially this vestigial...

00:37:58.600 This is why I really feel that laws should be legally short enough for us to read, and

00:38:03.920 they should have to pass 50 of them if they want to get 2,000 pages of them so that we

00:38:08.080 can see the bills.

00:38:08.720 Which, even though we've always passed bloated bills in this country, but this idea of these

00:38:14.760 sort of monstrous...

00:38:17.000 Even the Supreme Court doesn't read them.

00:38:18.560 That's why the infrastructure bill, honestly, because we passed bloated bills, I'm...

00:38:21.620 Listen, I think the infrastructure bill sucks.

00:38:23.100 I think that we are dumping money into a spiral of inflation that's already occurring.

00:38:27.100 I think the vast majority of it's waste.

00:38:28.680 I think that even the stuff that we think is not waste is waste.

00:38:30.820 Whenever we say things like, oh, we need to spend on roads and bridges, what people should

00:38:33.800 understand is that every single year in the United States, the local, state, and federal

00:38:37.060 government spend upwards of $300 billion upgrading roads and bridges in the United States, because

00:38:41.000 the vast majority of roads and bridges in the United States are not run by the federal

00:38:44.100 government.

00:38:44.440 The federal government runs the dams.

00:38:45.960 The roads and bridges are run by states and localities.

00:38:47.900 So even the stuff they're spending now is just crap.

00:38:49.840 But with that said, a big bloated spending bill that basically just throws money at things,

00:38:54.240 that's what Congress does for a living.

00:38:55.880 I'm much more concerned...

00:38:57.100 Build back better.

00:38:57.340 Build back better.

00:38:57.900 Yeah.

00:38:58.060 You know, the roads and bridges, though, make a big problem for us.

00:39:00.640 And it gets to this problem of, well, just let California die and be a bad example.

00:39:04.800 Or to your point of there are different conservatives, you know, different kinds of states, to Drew's

00:39:10.020 point to, that was certainly true in the past.

00:39:13.080 I mean, the states were very, very different.

00:39:16.020 All politics was local.

00:39:17.360 That's what Tip O'Neill used to say.

00:39:18.660 But increasingly, since we built the interstate highway system, since we had TV, since we had

00:39:22.620 radio, since we have the internet, since we have this gigantic federal government that

00:39:25.520 homogenizes everything, all the politics seems to be national.

00:39:29.380 And so to your point, you said it too, Ben.

00:39:31.140 It starts in San Francisco, it goes to LA, it goes to Chicago, it goes to New York, then

00:39:34.160 it's for the whole country.

00:39:35.160 And so there is this fear, as goes California, so goes the nation.

00:39:39.240 Yeah, but I think that that's a little different.

00:39:41.220 And the reason I say that is, I will say, my mind has changed radically in terms of optimism,

00:39:46.400 which is a rare thing for me, having moved from California to Florida.

00:39:49.380 Because when you're in California, you grow up and you think of yourself as Californian

00:39:52.680 kind of culturally.

00:39:53.480 Like, I was born there.

00:39:54.180 So you think of yourself as like, you're culturally California, in the same way you're culturally New

00:39:57.300 York, right?

00:39:58.000 But you don't think of yourself as like a citizen of a state that is sometimes in opposition

00:40:02.280 to the federal government.

00:40:03.360 When you're in California, what you mostly think of yourself as is an adjunct of the

00:40:07.040 federal government who likes beaches in Hollywood, right?

00:40:09.640 That really is how you think of yourself.

00:40:10.940 It's not like you're a separate citizen of California.

00:40:13.620 The federal government is never something that is radically opposed to you.

00:40:17.640 It's something that's doing most of the things that you would be doing in your own

00:40:20.160 state anyway.

00:40:20.800 But now you're a Florida man.

00:40:21.800 Now I'm a Florida man.

00:40:22.520 And let me just tell you, Florida is damned incredible.

00:40:25.320 And it's one of the reasons that Florida is so great is because Florida does oppose a

00:40:29.200 lot of what the federal government is doing.

00:40:31.020 And so you start to think of yourself as, of course, I'm an American, of course, but I'm

00:40:35.180 also a Floridian.

00:40:36.160 And my state does not agree with the federal government.

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00:42:24.260 We have a question here from a DailyWire.com subscriber.

00:42:27.980 And I think it's an important one.

00:42:29.400 It kind of goes to what we've been talking about here.

00:42:31.180 They say, I believe the Republican Party is dead.

00:42:33.940 I don't consider myself a Republican anymore.

00:42:36.080 I'm a starch conservative.

00:42:37.920 I'm very right-wing and I'm very Christian.

00:42:40.640 My question is, should we give up on the Republican Party

00:42:43.940 but still vote Republican because it's all we have right now

00:42:46.560 and because the Democratic establishment is evil?

00:42:49.340 And should we start a new conservative movement

00:42:51.060 like the traditionalist conservative or something like that?

00:42:53.100 I think they mean a party.

00:42:54.120 Should we start a new party?

00:42:55.780 I'm going to take a crack at this one and say,

00:42:57.420 you're just a Republican.

00:42:58.840 I know you hate the Republican Party,

00:43:00.580 but we do live in a two-party system.

00:43:03.200 And our two-party system gets a bad rap.

00:43:05.080 But it's good that we have a two-party system.

00:43:07.540 Generally, the two-party system has served us well

00:43:09.980 in this country for a long time.

00:43:11.840 It actually has a mitigating effect

00:43:14.340 against the worst kinds of extremism.

00:43:16.520 If you go to Europe,

00:43:18.220 even in the most conservative countries in Europe,

00:43:22.540 there are communist parties

00:43:24.120 with elected representatives in their parliaments.

00:43:27.140 And those parties can, over time,

00:43:29.900 wield real political power.

00:43:31.980 In, obviously, many parts of Europe,

00:43:35.320 there are very far right-wing parties.

00:43:37.360 This is how you get real radical right-wing movements

00:43:39.520 like the National Socialist in the late 20s in Europe,

00:43:43.800 which rose up and became the Nazi Party.

00:43:45.340 All of this happens because

00:43:47.100 of a multi-party parliamentary system.

00:43:50.820 And one of the reasons I think that we all think

00:43:52.960 that a parliamentary system would be better

00:43:54.240 is because we don't know much about it.

00:43:55.780 And because it's easy not to like what you've got

00:43:57.900 because there are constraints, right?

00:43:59.100 The Republican Party lets us down all the time.

00:44:02.340 But the other reason that we like parliamentary systems

00:44:05.680 is because the left loves them,

00:44:07.700 and they're constantly in this sort of

00:44:09.080 low-grade propaganda campaign

00:44:10.960 to erode our trust in the two-party system

00:44:14.140 because they know that they would be

00:44:15.360 the ultimate beneficiaries

00:44:16.240 if we move to a parliamentary model.

00:44:18.240 That's my conspiracy theory for the day.

00:44:19.420 And to your point, though,

00:44:20.580 historically, the left has to go further and further

00:44:24.080 to the left.

00:44:25.200 Everything they touch turns to crap.

00:44:27.040 Yes.

00:44:27.240 Ultimately, even the left starts to come back

00:44:29.900 to the center.

00:44:30.520 So you get a Reagan who turns everything around.

00:44:32.940 And when Clinton comes in,

00:44:34.500 he's actually a very conservative,

00:44:36.440 middle-of-the-road president.

00:44:37.680 Bloomberg in New York, the same thing.

00:44:39.300 When Giuliani turns the city around,

00:44:40.760 Bloomberg kept it alive

00:44:42.220 until this communist crazy came in.

00:44:44.540 And now even the Democrats.

00:44:46.240 You likely would not have had

00:44:47.620 Ronald Reagan as president.

00:44:49.000 You likely would not have had

00:44:49.840 Donald Trump as president.

00:44:50.940 You wouldn't have had Youngkin win in Virginia

00:44:53.220 if we had a more parliamentary system

00:44:55.260 because they could just fracture off

00:44:57.900 the moderates into these coalitions.

00:45:00.060 In multi-party systems,

00:45:01.760 you build coalitions.

00:45:03.080 And so you could go and say,

00:45:04.640 well, yes, we agree with you

00:45:06.160 a little bit about that

00:45:06.860 and we'll compromise here,

00:45:07.720 but we'll pull everything over

00:45:09.080 with us toward the left.

00:45:10.280 There's also,

00:45:10.980 there's just a numbers problem here.

00:45:13.180 You know,

00:45:13.600 the listener is writing in and saying,

00:45:15.220 I'm a traditional conservative,

00:45:16.760 and so I assume that means

00:45:18.220 he's not a neoconservative,

00:45:20.260 libertarian, populist.

00:45:21.760 I mean, I could probably name

00:45:23.120 half a dozen other factions of the right.

00:45:25.340 And I agree.

00:45:25.900 I'm with you, buddy.

00:45:26.600 I'm a traditional conservative, too.

00:45:28.600 I don't think 50% of the country plus one

00:45:30.900 would call themselves

00:45:31.740 traditional conservatives in that way.

00:45:33.700 And so, yes,

00:45:34.220 I would like for the traditional conservatives.

00:45:35.620 I'm not sure 50% of the people

00:45:36.860 on backstage tonight would.

00:45:38.040 Well, right.

00:45:38.540 This is sort of my point.

00:45:39.740 You know,

00:45:40.120 fusionism gets a really bad rap

00:45:42.240 and it kind of failed

00:45:43.380 and fell apart after the Cold War.

00:45:44.840 But it did a pretty good job

00:45:45.940 during the Cold War.

00:45:46.620 And what was fusionism?

00:45:47.700 It was this plan to bring together

00:45:49.520 traditional conservatives

00:45:50.640 and libertarians

00:45:51.400 and some Warhawk Democrats

00:45:52.400 and bring them all

00:45:53.060 to fight communism.

00:45:54.380 And whether you support fusionism or not,

00:45:56.840 it is just a fact of politics.

00:45:58.600 You need to include enough people

00:46:00.700 that you can win elections

00:46:02.100 so that you can do things.

00:46:03.660 We also know that conservatives

00:46:05.840 and the grassroots

00:46:06.940 and conservative voters

00:46:08.400 can force the Republican Party

00:46:10.780 to do things

00:46:11.480 it wouldn't otherwise want to do.

00:46:13.200 Of course.

00:46:13.240 It's just a vehicle.

00:46:13.640 Donald Trump is one example

00:46:16.060 and Virginia is sort of

00:46:18.080 another example as well.

00:46:19.600 So, and you know,

00:46:20.880 there's the Tea Party.

00:46:21.840 I mean, the problem a lot of times,

00:46:23.880 I do put some of this back on us

00:46:26.220 as the voters

00:46:26.880 where we sort of lose track

00:46:28.980 of the ball

00:46:29.640 and let things kind of dwindle away.

00:46:32.260 And so it's not all,

00:46:33.620 you know,

00:46:33.700 I put a lot of the blame

00:46:34.620 on the establishment

00:46:35.200 of the Republican Party,

00:46:36.020 but we have to continue

00:46:37.660 holding them accountable.

00:46:38.440 And I think very often

00:46:39.060 we end up getting distracted

00:46:39.980 by other things.

00:46:41.280 This is a great point.

00:46:41.840 I mean, I think that the tendency

00:46:43.320 for Republicans tends to be

00:46:44.600 we think that an election

00:46:45.820 means we can go back

00:46:46.740 to our regularly scheduled

00:46:47.880 programming, right?

00:46:49.020 An election happens in Virginia

00:46:50.020 and say, okay,

00:46:50.440 I'll go back to my regular life

00:46:51.440 and I won't pay attention

00:46:52.140 to what's happening anymore.

00:46:53.300 Whereas for the left,

00:46:54.600 this is the business.

00:46:55.660 The business is

00:46:57.160 there's an election

00:46:57.700 and then you wake up

00:46:58.320 the next morning

00:46:58.800 and the next business is

00:46:59.660 there's an election.

00:47:00.520 And for the right,

00:47:01.880 because politics generally

00:47:03.180 is seen as a distraction

00:47:03.960 from more important things

00:47:04.760 like family and business

00:47:05.720 and community.

00:47:06.560 It's like, okay,

00:47:07.060 we did a great thing in Virginia.

00:47:08.340 Let's go back to sleep

00:47:09.000 for three years

00:47:09.480 and find out how things are

00:47:10.460 in three years

00:47:11.160 we'll tune back in.

00:47:12.140 And it doesn't work that way.

00:47:13.460 If you go to sleep,

00:47:14.220 then you're going to lose

00:47:14.860 control of the party.

00:47:15.620 The people who are

00:47:16.200 the professional politicians

00:47:17.220 and the professionals

00:47:17.900 do not sleep at this.

00:47:18.860 You know, a friend of mine

00:47:19.620 pointed out.

00:47:20.100 I also think it's a positive thing

00:47:21.680 that like to have a party

00:47:23.280 that includes sensible people

00:47:25.180 like me and Ben and Jeremy

00:47:26.480 and theocratic fascists.

00:47:28.920 No, that actually is

00:47:30.400 a positive thing

00:47:31.320 that we take ideas

00:47:32.580 from one another

00:47:33.100 and we see where our ideas

00:47:34.440 are weak and it's a good thing.

00:47:35.960 A friend of mine pointed out

00:47:37.320 that for the right,

00:47:39.060 obscure political monikers

00:47:40.800 are the right-wing version

00:47:41.900 of gender pronouns.

00:47:43.080 You know, we've got like

00:47:43.640 10 million of them

00:47:44.800 and we get really focused on them.

00:47:46.360 But look at the Democrats.

00:47:48.480 Terry McAuliffe and AOC

00:47:50.040 are not the same thing.

00:47:51.680 But they do somehow

00:47:52.980 all kind of play

00:47:54.140 basically well together

00:47:55.300 and they're politically

00:47:56.220 much more effective

00:47:57.240 generally than Republicans are.

00:47:58.820 Then you look in Virginia,

00:47:59.820 you get this one breakthrough issue.

00:48:01.960 Education brings in people

00:48:03.280 who are not traditionally Republicans.

00:48:05.320 Good.

00:48:05.780 Let's do more of that.

00:48:06.780 And also Republicanism,

00:48:08.820 conservatism works.

00:48:10.120 So God willing,

00:48:11.820 Youngkin will do a better job.

00:48:13.060 So there's a question

00:48:13.900 from a DailyWire.com subscriber.

00:48:16.660 And the question is,

00:48:17.880 do we believe that private employers

00:48:20.960 have the right

00:48:22.340 to have vaccine mandates

00:48:24.420 for their employees?

00:48:25.780 That's a separate concept

00:48:27.200 from should they give in

00:48:28.440 to the government's demands

00:48:29.540 that they have,

00:48:30.760 that they follow

00:48:32.160 with the government's

00:48:33.380 vaccine mandate.

00:48:34.520 I think this is

00:48:34.920 an interesting question.

00:48:35.640 I want to quickly get

00:48:36.400 everybody's answers

00:48:37.640 and then I think

00:48:38.280 it's a nice segue

00:48:39.380 into another thing

00:48:40.100 I want to talk about.

00:48:40.840 Michael?

00:48:41.180 I think it depends on the state.

00:48:42.800 So I'll go back to federalism

00:48:44.260 and subsidiarity here.

00:48:45.700 I think that the people

00:48:46.640 of a state have the right,

00:48:48.120 have a broad political right

00:48:49.460 to craft laws

00:48:50.600 about exactly what the limits

00:48:51.840 are on corporations

00:48:52.640 and exactly where

00:48:53.560 the rights of the corporations

00:48:54.820 and the rights

00:48:55.320 of the individual begin,

00:48:56.260 the rights of the state government

00:48:57.300 begin as well.

00:48:58.460 And so I think right now

00:49:00.560 if you were to ask that question

00:49:01.400 state by state,

00:49:02.260 you'd get different answers.

00:49:03.100 In Florida,

00:49:03.600 the answer is no.

00:49:04.460 In other states,

00:49:05.020 the answer might be yes.

00:49:07.360 True?

00:49:07.860 I basically agree

00:49:09.200 with what Noel's just said

00:49:10.520 except I just want to add

00:49:11.940 that personally,

00:49:12.720 I don't think employers

00:49:13.680 should have the right.

00:49:14.660 You know,

00:49:14.980 if I'm in the state I'm in

00:49:17.120 where I cast a vote,

00:49:18.300 I would say no.

00:49:19.900 Individuals, Trump,

00:49:20.980 they're...

00:49:21.220 I would actually say

00:49:21.840 it slightly differently

00:49:22.680 and say,

00:49:23.200 I mean,

00:49:23.560 I kind of agree with you

00:49:24.220 about the states,

00:49:25.100 but I also think

00:49:25.580 it depends on the employer.

00:49:27.480 And so an example of this

00:49:28.680 is if you work in healthcare,

00:49:30.340 you probably,

00:49:31.220 or if you work

00:49:31.860 in nursing homes,

00:49:32.820 you probably have

00:49:33.620 different sorts of criteria

00:49:35.200 that you can ask

00:49:36.060 your employees

00:49:36.660 to meet in order

00:49:38.160 to work in those environments.

00:49:39.300 And this is true.

00:49:40.100 I'm sure if we were to get...

00:49:41.280 Now,

00:49:41.440 I haven't given this

00:49:42.000 a lot of thought today,

00:49:42.700 but if we were to give this

00:49:43.400 a little more expansive thought,

00:49:44.700 that there are other kinds

00:49:45.740 of rules like that

00:49:46.520 that might apply

00:49:47.340 in very particular circumstances.

00:49:49.280 But obviously,

00:49:50.420 as a general rule,

00:49:51.500 not only do I think

00:49:52.460 that it's sort of morally

00:49:53.680 and philosophically wrong

00:49:54.860 for your average employer

00:49:56.760 to enforce...

00:49:58.060 to insert themselves

00:49:58.860 into the private health decisions

00:50:00.240 of their employees,

00:50:01.200 I actually think

00:50:01.720 that it's illegal,

00:50:02.640 that it's against federal law,

00:50:03.860 that it is basically discriminatory,

00:50:06.420 that it is basically retaliatory.

00:50:08.880 I think that it increases

00:50:10.800 your liability in some ways,

00:50:12.180 violates things like the ADA.

00:50:13.820 I mean,

00:50:13.960 there are questions

00:50:14.420 about private health

00:50:15.320 that you simply...

00:50:16.040 HIPAA,

00:50:16.560 you aren't allowed

00:50:17.360 to ask these questions

00:50:18.180 until suddenly now

00:50:19.380 we're all pretending

00:50:20.680 those rules don't exist.

00:50:21.800 We're in violation

00:50:22.620 of many of those regulations,

00:50:24.360 rules, and laws,

00:50:25.420 and we're just all

00:50:26.120 going along with it

00:50:26.740 because the left wants it.

00:50:28.060 But it is a good chance

00:50:29.100 for me to talk

00:50:29.800 a little bit about

00:50:30.440 what we're doing here

00:50:31.720 at The Daily Wire.

00:50:32.480 By the way,

00:50:32.980 340,000 signatures

00:50:34.340 on our

00:50:35.060 We Will Not Comply petition.

00:50:37.660 You can go over

00:50:37.940 to dailywire.com

00:50:39.000 slash do not comply.

00:50:40.460 Add your voice to our own.

00:50:41.640 We're trying to get

00:50:42.020 500,000 people

00:50:43.780 to sign our petition tonight,

00:50:45.000 and then we hope

00:50:45.500 to get millions more

00:50:46.360 over the next few weeks

00:50:47.440 as we continue

00:50:48.000 to sue the Biden administration

00:50:49.180 to block this mandate.

00:50:51.280 And we should be clear,

00:50:52.200 the Biden vaccine mandate

00:50:53.260 isn't a vaccine mandate.

00:50:54.980 The Biden administration

00:50:55.740 isn't mandating

00:50:56.660 that American citizens

00:50:57.760 get vaccinated.

00:50:58.400 They're mandating

00:50:59.640 that employers

00:51:00.660 force their employees

00:51:02.780 to get vaccinated.

00:51:04.080 Not only are we suing

00:51:04.900 the Biden administration

00:51:05.760 to stop that,

00:51:06.900 but you know we announced

00:51:08.320 last year that we're going

00:51:09.260 to launch into entertainment.

00:51:10.320 And we dropped our first film

00:51:12.920 in January,

00:51:13.560 Run, Hide, Fight.

00:51:14.540 We wrapped production

00:51:15.460 on our second film,

00:51:16.940 Shut In, in the spring,

00:51:18.500 and that'll be coming out

00:51:19.400 next spring.

00:51:20.500 And just this weekend,

00:51:21.660 we wrapped our second feature film,

00:51:23.700 which is the film

00:51:24.320 that we produced

00:51:24.880 with Gina Carano

00:51:26.060 after her horrible cancellation

00:51:27.500 by Disney.

00:51:29.280 We've made a deal

00:51:30.060 with Gina,

00:51:30.640 very thrilled to be able

00:51:32.080 to announce

00:51:32.620 that we've wrapped production

00:51:33.600 on the film,

00:51:34.240 Terror on the Prairie.

00:51:35.160 And the thing you may not

00:51:35.960 know about this

00:51:36.860 is that after Gina came on board,

00:51:38.820 she came to us and said,

00:51:40.000 you know,

00:51:40.740 when we make movies,

00:51:42.120 there are all these

00:51:42.880 union-enforced rules

00:51:44.180 that say we have to test

00:51:46.440 people for COVID,

00:51:47.580 people have to wear masks,

00:51:48.780 there are all these

00:51:49.140 different zones,

00:51:49.900 these concentric circles

00:51:50.760 where, you know,

00:51:51.680 if you're in the special zone,

00:51:52.640 you can take your mask off.

00:51:53.820 If you're in the not special zone,

00:51:54.880 you have to have your mask on.

00:51:56.340 You know,

00:51:56.660 SAG was talking a lot

00:51:58.760 in the weeks leading up

00:51:59.540 to us making the film

00:52:00.420 about implementing

00:52:01.220 their own direct vaccine mandate.

00:52:03.320 And Gina said,

00:52:04.740 said, listen,

00:52:05.480 I've taken all this flack,

00:52:07.120 right?

00:52:07.340 I was,

00:52:07.880 I was beat down by Hollywood.

00:52:09.920 I was essentially kicked out,

00:52:11.020 kicked to the curb

00:52:11.680 for being moderate,

00:52:14.260 not even right.

00:52:14.880 Like,

00:52:15.100 it's true.

00:52:15.700 Being moderate.

00:52:16.260 They kicked me all the way out.

00:52:17.760 She said,

00:52:18.640 why would I,

00:52:19.700 having gone through that,

00:52:21.000 now turn around

00:52:21.760 and force the people

00:52:22.820 who want to work

00:52:23.380 on a movie with me

00:52:24.340 to be vaccinated?

00:52:26.300 Force the people

00:52:26.800 who want to work

00:52:27.640 on a movie with me

00:52:28.460 to wear masks?

00:52:29.560 Force the people

00:52:30.120 who want to be on a movie

00:52:31.280 with me to be tested

00:52:32.240 in all these horrible ways?

00:52:33.800 Why would I participate in that?

00:52:35.400 She said,

00:52:35.560 I'm just not going to do it.

00:52:36.400 She put her money

00:52:37.260 where her mouth was.

00:52:38.240 She left SAG

00:52:39.160 and became what they call

00:52:40.060 FICOR

00:52:40.820 and insisted that we make

00:52:41.960 the movie Terror on the Prairie

00:52:44.020 in a way that allowed

00:52:44.860 our,

00:52:45.800 not our direct employees,

00:52:47.060 but the people employed

00:52:47.840 by the film

00:52:48.420 that we're producing

00:52:49.040 to have dignity

00:52:50.460 and bodily autonomy.

00:52:52.140 And that's exactly

00:52:52.720 what we did.

00:52:53.820 And to talk about that,

00:52:55.020 I've invited on

00:52:55.940 the villain for the film,

00:52:57.480 a friend of ours,

00:52:58.820 I'm loathe to say it,

00:53:00.180 a friend of ours

00:53:00.660 named Nick Sears.

00:53:01.340 A villain in real life.

00:53:02.280 A villain in real life.

00:53:02.900 In fact,

00:53:03.180 what happened,

00:53:03.720 our producer Dallas Sonnier

00:53:05.280 called me and he said,

00:53:06.060 you know,

00:53:06.640 who do we cast as

00:53:07.560 the villain in the film?

00:53:08.820 I mean,

00:53:09.000 we need like,

00:53:09.420 who's the low down,

00:53:10.820 dirtiest son of a,

00:53:11.620 Nick Searcy.

00:53:13.180 You haven't even read

00:53:14.060 the script.

00:53:14.420 Nick Searcy,

00:53:15.020 I say.

00:53:15.720 And sure enough,

00:53:16.940 here he is joining us

00:53:18.140 by Skype.

00:53:19.300 Nick Searcy.

00:53:22.220 Yeah,

00:53:22.820 and I'm the good guy

00:53:24.720 in this movie,

00:53:25.520 by the way.

00:53:25.940 I just want to set

00:53:26.520 the record straight.

00:53:28.100 You know,

00:53:28.740 I'm trying to avenge

00:53:30.080 my daughter

00:53:30.680 who was murdered.

00:53:31.420 So,

00:53:31.920 you know,

00:53:32.060 it's just,

00:53:32.540 I'm not the villain.

00:53:34.040 So tell people a little bit

00:53:35.260 about the film

00:53:35.800 because we actually

00:53:36.400 haven't shared very much

00:53:37.380 with the audience.

00:53:39.300 It's kind of a throwback

00:53:40.580 western in that sense

00:53:41.840 of like it's about revenge

00:53:43.180 and it shows life

00:53:44.940 on the prairie

00:53:45.700 and how isolated

00:53:48.040 and how hard life

00:53:49.840 was back then.

00:53:51.540 And it's action-packed.

00:53:55.540 And it also,

00:53:56.180 to me,

00:53:57.280 hopefully,

00:53:58.560 the outlaws

00:53:59.960 are understandable.

00:54:03.160 You can kind of,

00:54:04.700 if not sympathize with them,

00:54:06.420 you can at least

00:54:06.960 understand their motives.

00:54:08.360 And I think that makes it

00:54:09.560 for a much richer story.

00:54:11.980 And it makes it

00:54:14.020 a little bit more unexpected.

00:54:15.780 You know,

00:54:16.080 it's not so predictable

00:54:17.360 what's going to happen

00:54:18.260 in this movie.

00:54:20.220 Honestly,

00:54:20.780 I think it's the best role

00:54:21.800 I've ever had

00:54:22.520 in a film.

00:54:23.120 I've done some things

00:54:24.700 on stage

00:54:25.400 that maybe were

00:54:26.200 of a similar

00:54:28.280 kind of scope

00:54:29.540 and size,

00:54:30.400 but there's something

00:54:31.140 Shakespearean

00:54:32.380 about the character

00:54:33.220 and it really,

00:54:34.300 it was just an honor

00:54:35.640 to get a chance

00:54:36.880 to play that role.

00:54:38.500 And the whole production

00:54:39.220 really is kind of

00:54:40.000 an F you

00:54:40.480 to the Hollywood establishment

00:54:41.620 and the left

00:54:42.660 more generally,

00:54:43.360 which is just demanding

00:54:44.060 that everyone comply

00:54:45.020 with all of these

00:54:45.820 totally unscientific

00:54:47.600 rules

00:54:48.720 and comply

00:54:49.720 with the president's

00:54:50.940 absurd mandate.

00:54:51.760 Yeah.

00:54:54.520 It's all about power.

00:54:55.800 It's never been

00:54:56.300 about health.

00:54:57.000 I mean,

00:54:57.180 I don't know

00:54:57.620 where we got

00:54:58.180 where everybody's

00:54:59.280 just convinced

00:54:59.900 that the government

00:55:00.560 cares about

00:55:01.780 your day-to-day health.

00:55:03.460 I mean,

00:55:03.840 you know,

00:55:04.960 when I grew up

00:55:05.940 it was distrust

00:55:06.700 the government

00:55:07.180 and I don't know

00:55:08.440 how it came to be

00:55:10.140 that suddenly

00:55:10.660 it's now

00:55:11.100 do everything

00:55:12.020 the government says

00:55:13.120 or you need

00:55:15.060 to be segregated

00:55:15.860 from the rest

00:55:16.640 of society.

00:55:17.880 It was quite difficult

00:55:18.900 to do a film

00:55:20.260 that didn't have

00:55:21.400 to comply

00:55:21.900 with all of

00:55:22.520 the absurd

00:55:23.000 vaccine mandates

00:55:23.880 and that in order

00:55:24.400 to do that

00:55:25.020 actors had to

00:55:25.860 take some risk

00:55:26.660 step outside

00:55:27.580 of the union.

00:55:28.840 This is very

00:55:29.480 important to Gina

00:55:30.180 that we not require

00:55:31.720 the people

00:55:32.140 who she was working

00:55:32.880 with to vaccinate

00:55:33.840 or mask or test

00:55:34.800 and in order to do

00:55:35.840 that she was willing

00:55:36.420 to leave the Screen

00:55:37.200 Actors Guild

00:55:37.860 and become what

00:55:39.200 they call FICOR

00:55:40.060 and we had to find

00:55:41.580 other actors

00:55:42.120 who were willing

00:55:42.800 to take that sort

00:55:44.040 of risk.

00:55:44.680 Of course,

00:55:45.300 you were one of them.

00:55:46.100 What was it like

00:55:47.080 working in this environment?

00:55:48.220 Do you feel

00:55:48.720 that the risk

00:55:49.940 was worth it?

00:55:51.500 You know,

00:55:51.920 I did a movie

00:55:52.460 last year.

00:55:53.960 I won't say

00:55:54.460 the name of it

00:55:55.120 because I don't

00:55:55.500 want to get

00:55:55.780 anybody in trouble

00:55:56.500 but I did a movie

00:55:57.440 last year

00:55:57.940 that was a SAG

00:55:58.560 film in Oklahoma,

00:56:01.360 all the SAG rules

00:56:02.620 and it was just absurd.

00:56:04.240 I mean,

00:56:04.460 you could barely

00:56:05.160 get anything done.

00:56:06.600 Somebody tested positive

00:56:08.000 and had to shut down

00:56:09.260 production for two weeks

00:56:10.380 and quarantine the star

00:56:11.700 and then it turned out

00:56:14.180 that it was

00:56:14.580 a false positive

00:56:15.380 and you're going in

00:56:17.800 and you're doing scenes.

00:56:18.960 I did a scene

00:56:19.620 where there were

00:56:20.060 supposed to be

00:56:20.520 about 75 extras

00:56:21.800 and the scene

00:56:23.360 was supposed to be

00:56:23.940 in 1975

00:56:24.720 and I go in

00:56:26.080 and everybody's

00:56:26.760 in costume

00:56:27.280 and they've all

00:56:27.820 got their masks on

00:56:28.720 and they're standing

00:56:29.260 shoulder to shoulder

00:56:30.260 and the first AD

00:56:33.320 says,

00:56:33.780 okay,

00:56:34.000 everybody,

00:56:34.660 when we say rolling,

00:56:36.280 take your mask off

00:56:37.220 and put it in your pocket

00:56:38.020 and make sure

00:56:38.460 that none of the loops

00:56:39.280 hang out

00:56:39.920 and as soon as

00:56:41.460 the scene's over,

00:56:42.740 we'll cut

00:56:43.120 and you can put

00:56:43.520 your mask back on

00:56:44.800 and I'm like,

00:56:45.260 yeah,

00:56:45.480 because we're acting

00:56:47.300 like it's 1975.

00:56:48.760 The virus didn't exist then

00:56:50.160 so as long as

00:56:51.320 your acting is good,

00:56:52.580 you're going to be safe.

00:56:53.620 So when the camera's rolling,

00:56:55.040 you cannot catch COVID

00:56:56.300 but as soon as

00:56:57.320 the camera cuts quickly,

00:56:58.520 you have to mask up,

00:56:59.660 you're contagious again.

00:57:02.580 Right.

00:57:03.500 And just sort of having

00:57:04.980 to not deal

00:57:05.680 with that madness,

00:57:06.620 I mean,

00:57:06.800 it was really

00:57:07.420 such a pleasant set.

00:57:08.480 It's the most

00:57:10.580 pleasant production

00:57:12.360 I've worked on

00:57:13.360 crew-wise,

00:57:14.200 everything actor-wise

00:57:16.300 in so many years.

00:57:18.100 It was just a relief

00:57:19.040 not to have to

00:57:19.940 put up with the nonsense.

00:57:22.360 Well, Nick,

00:57:23.000 thank you for joining us

00:57:23.980 and thank you for

00:57:24.840 making a stand out there

00:57:25.820 and doing our film with us.

00:57:27.560 Jeremy,

00:57:28.060 thank you for the opportunity

00:57:29.140 to do that film.

00:57:30.300 It was really

00:57:30.800 a great experience

00:57:31.680 and I'll stand

00:57:32.680 with you guys anytime.

00:57:34.260 That's the only way

00:57:35.080 we're going to win this.

00:57:36.160 We've all got to stand up

00:57:37.580 for our freedom.

00:57:38.960 That's absolutely right.

00:57:39.820 Got to stand up

00:57:40.380 for our freedom

00:57:40.960 and we're thankful

00:57:42.180 to Gina and to Nick

00:57:43.340 not only for being

00:57:44.720 in our film,

00:57:45.340 being great talent

00:57:46.060 and choosing to work

00:57:46.720 with us,

00:57:47.060 but also being with us

00:57:47.960 in this fight

00:57:48.480 against these horribly

00:57:50.720 unwell thought through

00:57:52.740 to say the very least

00:57:53.600 unscientific

00:57:54.340 tyrannical vaccine mandates.

00:57:56.060 Again,

00:57:56.480 I think it's worth

00:57:57.140 pointing out

00:57:57.580 every now and then

00:57:58.180 that I don't hate

00:57:59.120 the vaccines.

00:57:59.900 I hate tyranny

00:58:00.540 and because I hate tyranny

00:58:03.460 I'm willing to fight

00:58:04.500 against it

00:58:04.940 and I think that's

00:58:05.540 how we all feel

00:58:06.640 to some degree.

00:58:07.300 Some people in our company

00:58:08.660 hate the vaccine itself

00:58:09.700 but I thought there was

00:58:10.840 this wonderful text

00:58:11.620 by our friend

00:58:12.180 and colleague Candace Owens.

00:58:14.360 Ben, I believe it was

00:58:14.920 in response to one

00:58:15.760 of your tweets

00:58:16.220 and she said,

00:58:17.140 I'm proudly unvaxxed

00:58:18.880 and Ben Shapiro

00:58:19.780 is proudly vaxxed.

00:58:20.640 The thing we agree on

00:58:21.700 is freedom

00:58:22.720 and I'm proud to work

00:58:23.660 for a company

00:58:24.080 that will stand for freedom.

00:58:25.600 So that's what

00:58:26.000 we're trying to do.

00:58:26.840 Join us over at

00:58:27.500 dailywired.com

00:58:28.780 slash do not comply.

00:58:30.360 We're at 345,000 signatures.

00:58:32.580 Very grateful to you guys.

00:58:33.640 Sign our petition.

00:58:34.660 Help us send a message

00:58:35.420 as we sue

00:58:36.020 the Biden administration.

00:58:37.300 To stop their

00:58:38.240 unconstitutional

00:58:39.100 and horribly conceived mandate.

00:58:42.840 I want to talk a little bit

00:58:43.960 about Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:58:45.480 I think it's the

00:58:46.080 it's taken us 50 minutes

00:58:47.700 to get here.

00:58:48.260 The story that obviously

00:58:49.140 everybody in America

00:58:49.920 is talking about today

00:58:51.520 and rightly so.

00:58:53.240 Ben, fill us in a little bit

00:58:54.120 on what's happened

00:58:54.680 over the last two weeks.

00:58:55.800 So essentially

00:58:57.020 the prosecution

00:58:57.940 made the defense's case.

00:59:00.180 I mean that is basically

00:59:01.700 what happened in this trial.

00:59:02.720 So as soon as the testimony

00:59:03.700 started being given

00:59:04.500 it became perfectly obvious

00:59:05.720 that the prosecution witnesses

00:59:06.720 were actually witnesses

00:59:07.420 for the defense.

00:59:08.200 So there was testimony

00:59:09.040 by the guy who was shot

00:59:11.620 and didn't die

00:59:12.880 that he had been

00:59:14.500 approaching the defendant

00:59:16.000 with a gun.

00:59:17.340 That he had actually

00:59:17.940 been raising the gun

00:59:18.900 at the defendant

00:59:19.340 and that's when he shot it.

00:59:20.040 We may have a clip of that.

00:59:21.020 Here's the clip actually.

00:59:21.760 It wasn't until you pointed

00:59:24.500 your gun at him

00:59:25.440 advanced on him

00:59:27.240 with your gun

00:59:28.380 now your hands down

00:59:29.500 pointed at him

00:59:30.340 that he fired.

00:59:31.880 Right?

00:59:33.240 Correct.

00:59:34.460 Well that is

00:59:35.720 director of verdict territory.

00:59:36.980 I mean that is

00:59:37.340 that is the

00:59:38.280 and you can see the prosecutor.

00:59:39.980 The prosecutor's like

00:59:40.520 oh my god

00:59:40.960 look what just happened here.

00:59:42.880 He's doing

00:59:43.200 he's the full face bomb.

00:59:45.140 And it was like that

00:59:46.420 throughout the entire trial.

00:59:47.880 There are witnesses

00:59:48.540 who are there

00:59:49.120 who are testifying.

00:59:49.880 The prosecution kept trying to say

00:59:51.120 there were three people

00:59:52.480 who were shot.

00:59:52.940 The first person who was shot

00:59:53.860 was chasing Rittenhouse

00:59:56.040 through a parking lot.

00:59:57.360 He threw a bag at him

00:59:58.380 but there was another guy

00:59:59.100 who was chasing

00:59:59.580 who fired a shot in the air.

01:00:00.740 Rittenhouse turned around

01:00:01.640 because of the shot

01:00:02.320 and the guy who threw

01:00:03.420 the bag in the air

01:00:04.000 started lunging forward

01:00:04.880 to try and grab his gun.

01:00:05.880 All of this is on video

01:00:06.640 and there's witness testimony to this.

01:00:08.320 As he's leaning forward

01:00:09.140 to grab the gun

01:00:09.820 Rittenhouse shoots him.

01:00:11.060 They tried to make it seem

01:00:11.900 as though Rittenhouse

01:00:12.600 had shot him

01:00:13.780 he was shot in the back

01:00:15.300 because he was reaching forward

01:00:16.120 to get the gun

01:00:16.580 and Rittenhouse shot him

01:00:17.280 over his shoulder in the back.

01:00:19.080 They tried to make it seem

01:00:19.860 as though Rittenhouse

01:00:20.340 had shot him

01:00:20.740 while he was running away

01:00:21.340 or something.

01:00:21.740 It's just obviously untrue.

01:00:23.160 Then the second guy

01:00:24.040 who was shot and killed

01:00:24.840 there's tape of this.

01:00:26.160 It's all on tape.

01:00:26.980 That's the thing

01:00:27.260 that's unbelievable about this.

01:00:28.620 It's all on tape.

01:00:29.540 The second guy who was shot

01:00:30.500 tried to attack Rittenhouse

01:00:31.540 and hit him in the face

01:00:32.200 with a skateboard

01:00:32.720 which could kill you

01:00:34.080 and Rittenhouse shoots him

01:00:35.240 for his trouble

01:00:35.900 and then the third guy

01:00:36.580 who gets shot

01:00:37.000 is the guy you just saw

01:00:37.740 in the testimony

01:00:38.540 right there.

01:00:39.300 Who's literally carrying a gun

01:00:41.620 and he lied to the cops.

01:00:42.680 The cop said what happened?

01:00:43.620 He said oh the gun

01:00:44.240 came out of my pocket

01:00:44.960 because I dropped it.

01:00:45.840 I dropped the gun

01:00:46.420 and then he was asked

01:00:47.800 no he didn't drop the gun at all

01:00:48.980 because it's all on tape.

01:00:50.200 Okay so the question is

01:00:51.760 why this was even brought

01:00:52.920 in the first place.

01:00:53.560 That really is the big question

01:00:54.560 because the prosecution

01:00:55.320 had no case.

01:00:56.060 The judge has been pissed about it

01:00:57.100 literally since the first day

01:00:58.400 because it was obvious

01:00:59.260 to the judge

01:00:59.700 they had no case.

01:01:01.100 The judge just reamed

01:01:01.980 the prosecutor today

01:01:02.800 and then finally today

01:01:04.060 Rittenhouse took the stand

01:01:05.200 which frankly as a lawyer

01:01:06.500 I'm scared to death of.

01:01:08.040 If you're a lawyer

01:01:08.820 first rule is

01:01:09.840 you don't put your client

01:01:11.040 on the stand

01:01:11.600 if there's no reason

01:01:12.320 to put your client on the stand

01:01:13.260 and because the prosecution

01:01:14.100 had not made the case

01:01:15.260 there's a very solid defense case

01:01:16.920 that Rittenhouse doesn't have

01:01:17.740 to take the stand at all

01:01:19.140 and so I'm really interested

01:01:20.040 I'm sure we'll hear later

01:01:21.240 what the logic was

01:01:22.320 in terms of putting

01:01:22.920 Rittenhouse on the stand

01:01:23.860 but Rittenhouse gets up there

01:01:25.580 on the stand

01:01:26.420 and he essentially

01:01:28.060 has a panic attack

01:01:29.080 on the stand

01:01:29.580 which you can understand

01:01:30.280 he's still a very young man

01:01:32.760 he's 17 years old still

01:01:33.920 and he's on trial

01:01:35.620 essentially for his life

01:01:36.840 in a very clear cut case

01:01:38.100 of self-defense

01:01:39.060 and the entire media world

01:01:40.600 goes insane.

01:01:41.280 How could he cry?

01:01:42.040 How could he?

01:01:42.260 It's all fake.

01:01:43.160 There are a bunch of blue check marks

01:01:44.300 essentially suggesting that

01:01:45.460 and the prosecutor

01:01:46.900 again has nothing on him

01:01:48.840 the prosecutor starts

01:01:49.700 asking him questions

01:01:50.320 about whether he plays

01:01:50.920 Call of Duty

01:01:51.540 that's literally

01:01:52.640 one of the exchanges

01:01:53.320 he starts saying

01:01:53.920 in Call of Duty

01:01:55.060 don't people carry around

01:01:55.840 AR-15s and shoot everybody

01:01:56.940 and Kyle Rittenhouse says

01:01:58.200 you mean in a video game?

01:01:59.520 They carry all kinds of guns

01:02:00.880 in the video game.

01:02:01.440 Right and he says

01:02:01.860 he's talking about

01:02:02.540 a video game here

01:02:03.520 the prosecution has nothing

01:02:05.000 and so what this really raises

01:02:06.280 and I think everybody

01:02:06.960 who's watched this knows this

01:02:07.780 what this really raises is

01:02:08.860 how can you say

01:02:09.800 that we live

01:02:10.440 in a system of justice

01:02:12.160 when prosecutors

01:02:12.900 who have the discretion

01:02:13.680 whether or not

01:02:14.160 to bring cases

01:02:14.640 are so clearly

01:02:16.200 in many cases

01:02:16.840 driven by public media

01:02:18.280 pressure to bring the case

01:02:19.180 in the first place.

01:02:19.820 Can we take like

01:02:20.320 look at the whole picture here

01:02:22.100 because this happened

01:02:24.320 it was on video

01:02:25.040 we saw from the very beginning

01:02:26.920 some of the video

01:02:27.920 but not all of it

01:02:28.720 and all the video evidence

01:02:31.140 that we saw

01:02:31.700 was very clearly self-defense

01:02:33.040 and then the big

01:02:35.320 all the big tech companies

01:02:36.420 Twitter and Facebook

01:02:37.420 they say

01:02:38.420 you're not allowed

01:02:39.500 to say that you think

01:02:41.680 Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent

01:02:42.600 you're not allowed

01:02:43.580 to raise any money

01:02:44.240 for his defense

01:02:44.880 so he's got all the

01:02:45.940 big tech companies

01:02:46.540 against him

01:02:47.100 and then the DA

01:02:49.760 brings these charges

01:02:50.600 in like 48 hours

01:02:51.500 with no evidence whatsoever

01:02:52.580 and then during the trial

01:02:54.160 they start coming out

01:02:55.360 with other video

01:02:55.860 oh the FBI had a drone out

01:02:57.700 that showed

01:02:58.560 and they didn't share

01:02:59.400 the video with the

01:03:00.360 and no one saw

01:03:01.060 there's actually two videos

01:03:02.220 of the first shooting

01:03:03.440 because the first shooting

01:03:04.240 we had the second shooting

01:03:05.560 on video from the very beginning

01:03:06.560 the first shooting

01:03:07.940 it was a very good

01:03:08.420 circumstantial reason

01:03:09.360 to believe there was

01:03:09.840 self-defense

01:03:10.180 but we didn't actually

01:03:10.640 see the shooting itself

01:03:11.440 the FBI had that

01:03:12.780 they never showed us that

01:03:13.680 and then we find out

01:03:14.720 at least according

01:03:15.280 to a witness

01:03:15.780 who testified in the trial

01:03:16.860 I think it was today

01:03:17.340 or yesterday

01:03:17.680 that according to him

01:03:20.000 the prosecutor

01:03:21.940 tried to suborn perjury

01:03:23.120 tried to convince him

01:03:24.180 to testify

01:03:25.100 that he knew the name

01:03:25.760 of somebody

01:03:26.020 he didn't really know

01:03:26.460 the name of

01:03:26.840 and then you've got

01:03:27.900 the prosecutor

01:03:29.220 up on the stand today

01:03:30.240 you know insinuating

01:03:31.740 that well Kyle Rittenhouse

01:03:33.000 he didn't want to talk

01:03:34.540 to the police

01:03:35.180 and if you didn't want

01:03:36.120 to talk to the police

01:03:36.680 what were you hiding

01:03:37.240 insinuating

01:03:37.920 that if he was

01:03:39.880 silent

01:03:40.540 that he might have

01:03:40.940 been guilty

01:03:41.280 he should give up

01:03:41.680 your rights

01:03:42.200 right

01:03:42.400 and he got reamed

01:03:43.420 out by the judge

01:03:44.520 for that

01:03:45.240 what I'm saying

01:03:45.840 then he did it again

01:03:46.640 he got reamed out

01:03:47.560 by the judge

01:03:48.200 the judge said

01:03:49.400 don't do that

01:03:49.980 he said yes your honor

01:03:50.800 then he did it again

01:03:52.040 the judge actually

01:03:52.660 sent the jury

01:03:53.040 what I'm saying

01:03:54.340 is because

01:03:54.960 he what

01:03:55.300 and then he tried

01:03:56.900 to readmit evidence

01:03:57.980 the judge had already

01:03:58.560 ruled out of evidence

01:03:59.500 right

01:03:59.900 and so

01:04:00.580 you hear from

01:04:02.160 some people

01:04:02.640 that well

01:04:03.080 prosecutors

01:04:03.620 they do this kind

01:04:04.220 of stuff all the time

01:04:05.000 maybe some of it

01:04:05.940 they do

01:04:06.260 but this is so

01:04:07.760 out in the open

01:04:08.840 that there is a real

01:04:09.780 conspiracy by

01:04:10.960 the most powerful

01:04:12.000 forces in our society

01:04:13.480 to send this

01:04:15.080 this boy to jail

01:04:16.500 as a blood sacrifice

01:04:17.720 who is not only

01:04:19.040 innocent

01:04:19.420 but I believe

01:04:20.300 acted heroically

01:04:21.600 that night

01:04:21.980 he went to his

01:04:22.620 community where he

01:04:23.240 worked

01:04:23.500 he crossed state lines

01:04:24.640 who gives a damn

01:04:25.380 that he crossed state lines

01:04:25.940 he went 20 minutes

01:04:26.960 to where he worked

01:04:28.000 and he was there

01:04:29.580 to help his community

01:04:30.960 he was cleaning up

01:04:32.120 graffiti

01:04:32.460 he had a gun

01:04:34.120 which I think

01:04:34.940 was smart

01:04:35.420 to have a gun

01:04:35.960 given where he was

01:04:36.760 he tried everything

01:04:38.160 he could

01:04:38.660 to preserve the lives

01:04:39.900 of these people

01:04:40.380 who were chasing him

01:04:40.980 he only fired the shot

01:04:42.020 at the very last moment

01:04:43.620 and they

01:04:44.720 they have nothing on him

01:04:45.920 and they are trying to

01:04:46.720 in front of everybody

01:04:47.960 send him to jail

01:04:49.340 this is corruption

01:04:50.400 this is like the death

01:04:51.520 of the justice system

01:04:52.540 this is the most

01:04:53.100 this is the scariest

01:04:54.160 part about it

01:04:54.860 when you watch the footage

01:04:56.160 and forget the media coverage

01:04:57.540 which was just

01:04:58.100 a complete lie

01:04:59.020 but when you listen

01:05:00.020 to him speak

01:05:00.540 when you look at

01:05:00.980 the prosecution

01:05:01.440 fall apart

01:05:02.020 you realize

01:05:03.180 this kid

01:05:04.360 did not take

01:05:05.860 a bad shot

01:05:06.580 this kid

01:05:07.460 this kid is 13 years

01:05:08.720 younger than I am

01:05:09.540 I have some amount

01:05:10.700 of firearms training

01:05:11.560 I don't think that I

01:05:12.660 necessarily would have

01:05:13.660 been as controlled

01:05:14.380 as he was

01:05:14.840 he doesn't take

01:05:15.640 a bad shot

01:05:16.240 he takes the stand

01:05:17.300 today

01:05:17.500 can you imagine that

01:05:18.500 and his answers

01:05:19.520 were absolutely

01:05:20.400 on the money

01:05:21.000 he had a panic attack

01:05:21.840 and his answers

01:05:22.440 were still on the money

01:05:23.240 the prosecutor said

01:05:24.460 you had the intent

01:05:25.420 to kill this person

01:05:26.400 and he said

01:05:27.160 I intended

01:05:27.940 to stop the direct

01:05:29.520 threat to me

01:05:30.080 and he said

01:05:30.340 by killing him

01:05:31.200 he said no

01:05:31.560 it's like the law

01:05:32.580 of double effect

01:05:33.120 I was just stopping

01:05:34.020 the threat

01:05:34.380 at the very last minute

01:05:35.280 everything this kid

01:05:36.920 was so tightly controlled

01:05:38.920 including his testimony

01:05:40.040 and it's still up

01:05:41.740 in the air

01:05:42.120 as to whether

01:05:42.580 they could get him

01:05:43.180 it is so scary

01:05:44.580 I have to say

01:05:45.080 because in my youth

01:05:46.600 I was a courtroom reporter

01:05:47.840 I was a reporter

01:05:48.780 you know

01:05:49.060 a reporter who covered courts

01:05:50.340 I've always really slow

01:05:52.320 to second guess juries

01:05:54.260 and to say

01:05:55.380 they say the people

01:05:56.280 oh I saw the video

01:05:57.320 so I know what happened

01:05:58.220 no I agree with this

01:05:58.920 this is an exception

01:05:59.700 this is an exception

01:06:00.560 Walsh is right

01:06:01.280 this is a complete

01:06:02.280 miscarriage of justice

01:06:03.200 this is a

01:06:03.860 it's a lynching

01:06:04.820 it's a lynching

01:06:05.420 and it reminds me

01:06:06.760 of trials

01:06:07.660 that happened in my youth

01:06:08.960 where they put

01:06:09.520 some poor black kid

01:06:10.460 on the stand

01:06:11.180 with his all white jury

01:06:12.120 that hated him

01:06:12.800 and he never stood a chance

01:06:14.540 why is this guy on trial

01:06:16.620 I do not understand

01:06:17.560 well because he

01:06:18.080 because the left

01:06:19.380 believes things about him

01:06:20.360 that are simply not true

01:06:21.480 that were fabricated

01:06:22.780 by the media

01:06:23.260 so this whole

01:06:24.380 he crossed state lines

01:06:25.440 he did

01:06:26.820 they say he carried

01:06:27.840 a weapon across state lines

01:06:29.120 he didn't

01:06:30.100 he did not carry a weapon

01:06:31.140 across state lines

01:06:31.700 they say that he's a racist

01:06:33.160 that's the thing

01:06:33.820 he only

01:06:34.200 he didn't shoot any black people

01:06:35.880 not a single person

01:06:36.780 who was shot

01:06:37.220 they called him

01:06:37.860 a white supremacist

01:06:38.500 they called him

01:06:38.940 a white supremacist

01:06:39.560 but this is the other thing

01:06:40.260 they also said

01:06:41.060 that these riots

01:06:42.140 which were happening

01:06:42.860 all over the place

01:06:43.700 over every little thing

01:06:44.560 were mostly peaceful

01:06:45.980 anti-racist protests

01:06:46.980 they were riots

01:06:47.300 and so the whole narrative

01:06:48.560 he swept up into this narrative

01:06:50.500 he's in this mostly peaceful riot

01:06:52.700 and somehow he's not

01:06:53.940 I swear it's as though

01:06:54.820 there's a conspiracy

01:06:55.500 to destroy the institutions

01:06:56.680 of our country

01:06:57.320 it really is

01:06:58.620 because what you said earlier

01:06:59.860 is right

01:07:00.180 so I've said about

01:07:01.620 nearly every criminal trial

01:07:02.580 that I've ever covered

01:07:03.260 on my show

01:07:03.880 that I will wait

01:07:05.060 until I see all the evidence

01:07:05.980 and then I will make a judgment

01:07:06.920 as to whether this prosecution

01:07:07.940 was properly brought

01:07:08.780 and so I waited

01:07:10.400 on all the evidence

01:07:11.340 to come out

01:07:11.760 in the Chauvin trial

01:07:12.460 and then I still think

01:07:13.760 that Derek Chauvin

01:07:15.980 should not have been convicted

01:07:16.900 on the murder charge

01:07:17.660 at the very least

01:07:18.720 but I waited

01:07:20.040 until all the evidence

01:07:20.680 was brought out

01:07:21.120 because my faith

01:07:22.260 in the justice system

01:07:23.040 is such that

01:07:23.580 when all the evidence

01:07:24.120 is presented

01:07:24.560 I assume that people

01:07:25.320 aren't making

01:07:25.740 completely insane decisions

01:07:26.720 in this case

01:07:27.700 I waited for the prosecutor

01:07:29.140 to come forward

01:07:29.720 maybe he knew something

01:07:30.560 that I didn't

01:07:31.220 and when it turns out

01:07:32.400 that not only does he not know

01:07:33.780 anything that I don't

01:07:34.920 he's just lying about the stuff

01:07:36.220 that we do know

01:07:36.800 it's the most disquieting thing

01:07:39.220 and we've seen this

01:07:40.060 over and over

01:07:40.720 I mean it feels similar

01:07:42.020 in effect

01:07:43.220 to what we just learned

01:07:44.720 for example

01:07:45.160 about the Steele dossier

01:07:46.060 right

01:07:46.520 you have some faith

01:07:47.300 that the people

01:07:47.960 at the FBI

01:07:48.440 and the DOJ

01:07:49.060 aren't complete political hacks

01:07:50.440 who are just doing

01:07:51.040 what they are told

01:07:51.860 in order to achieve

01:07:52.720 a particular political purpose

01:07:53.820 and then you find out

01:07:54.600 it's exactly what

01:07:55.600 conspiracy theorists

01:07:56.520 thought it was

01:07:57.000 in the first place

01:07:57.600 it's enough to make you

01:07:58.260 a conspiracy theorist

01:07:59.020 but this is exactly

01:07:59.780 what's happening

01:08:00.320 with the mandate

01:08:01.480 from the Biden administration

01:08:02.640 Joe Biden knows

01:08:03.840 that this mandate

01:08:04.380 is unconstitutional

01:08:05.160 they could have

01:08:06.720 even if you believe

01:08:07.500 that it's unconstitutional

01:08:08.380 as I do

01:08:08.880 they could have gone

01:08:09.240 through the process

01:08:09.700 if you believe

01:08:10.120 it's constitutional

01:08:10.660 they still could have

01:08:11.300 gone through the process

01:08:11.980 right

01:08:12.580 they skipped all

01:08:13.740 the administrative procedures

01:08:14.640 because he actually

01:08:15.480 wants the court

01:08:16.340 to strike it down

01:08:17.500 he knows that

01:08:18.640 the policy is wrong

01:08:19.660 he wants credit

01:08:20.780 with his base

01:08:21.500 for having done it anyway

01:08:22.860 and then he wants

01:08:24.020 to be able to turn

01:08:24.720 the American people

01:08:25.480 against the institutions

01:08:26.700 that stand between them

01:08:28.140 and leftism

01:08:28.640 so when the court

01:08:29.920 strikes it down

01:08:30.660 he'll be able to run

01:08:31.980 against the court

01:08:32.540 he'll be able to say

01:08:33.240 that the court

01:08:33.640 is the problem

01:08:34.200 they do want to undermine

01:08:35.800 our trust in the American system

01:08:37.140 because they want to

01:08:38.200 replace the American system

01:08:39.460 and you can't replace

01:08:40.380 a system that people

01:08:41.100 believe in

01:08:41.640 I really think

01:08:43.000 that that is correct

01:08:44.200 and it's

01:08:44.780 and what it does lead to

01:08:46.860 is if you're a person

01:08:47.740 who wishes for the system

01:08:49.020 to be upheld

01:08:49.600 it puts you on

01:08:50.180 really shaky ground

01:08:51.080 because we live

01:08:52.460 in a society

01:08:52.900 where the first person

01:08:54.200 to shout conspiracy

01:08:54.960 if it turns out

01:08:55.580 that the conspiracy

01:08:56.140 was right

01:08:56.720 ends up getting

01:08:57.660 a lot of credit

01:08:58.120 because they were

01:08:58.540 the first off the line

01:09:00.700 and I tend to be

01:09:01.960 the last person

01:09:02.560 to shout conspiracy

01:09:03.140 because frankly

01:09:03.740 I think that

01:09:04.320 conspiracies tend to be rare

01:09:05.960 people tend to be stupid

01:09:06.840 I usually attribute

01:09:07.680 to stupidity

01:09:08.800 rather than malice

01:09:09.480 but when you see

01:09:10.480 that you keep attributing

01:09:11.500 to stupidity

01:09:12.040 rather than malice

01:09:12.580 and then it keeps

01:09:13.020 being malice

01:09:13.560 at a certain point

01:09:14.160 you have to start

01:09:14.880 rethinking

01:09:15.420 how these institutions

01:09:16.600 are working

01:09:17.080 we have to realize

01:09:17.720 too that for the left

01:09:18.920 there's this very

01:09:19.660 Machiavellian

01:09:20.800 and justify the means

01:09:21.780 thing

01:09:21.960 and so they believe

01:09:22.960 they are willing

01:09:24.440 to cut down

01:09:25.260 all the laws

01:09:25.800 and destroy

01:09:26.140 all the institutions

01:09:26.760 for the sake

01:09:27.640 of what they consider

01:09:28.300 to be the greater good

01:09:29.000 and they know

01:09:30.140 and by the way

01:09:31.000 when we say they

01:09:31.800 they were saying

01:09:32.580 this and that

01:09:32.960 about Kyle Rittenhouse

01:09:33.480 that includes

01:09:34.160 the current president

01:09:35.060 of the United States

01:09:35.640 all the high ranking

01:09:37.080 Democrats

01:09:37.420 all of them

01:09:38.020 came out right away

01:09:38.560 and called him

01:09:38.900 a white supremacist

01:09:39.520 they know that it's not true

01:09:40.680 but he represents

01:09:41.420 something that

01:09:43.060 they have fashioned him

01:09:44.720 as a sacrifice

01:09:45.840 even if it's not true

01:09:46.580 it gets to a greater

01:09:47.940 right it does

01:09:48.620 and that's how

01:09:49.360 you see a piece

01:09:50.560 in 538 today

01:09:51.680 about how

01:09:52.260 in Virginia

01:09:52.940 when they elected

01:09:53.640 why white supremacists

01:09:55.500 are electing black people

01:09:56.800 because they're stupid

01:09:57.820 I guess

01:09:58.200 no no no

01:09:59.160 it's because

01:09:59.560 they like black people

01:10:01.800 who agree with

01:10:02.520 their political ideas

01:10:03.580 no no no

01:10:04.380 it's because

01:10:04.920 they're black white people

01:10:06.360 yeah they're black

01:10:06.860 no that's what it is

01:10:08.420 it's because

01:10:08.820 the white supremacists

01:10:09.760 like black people

01:10:10.480 who are actually white people

01:10:11.420 this is a question

01:10:13.360 from a dailywire.com

01:10:14.360 subscriber

01:10:15.080 that I think

01:10:15.440 is best for you

01:10:16.160 watching this case

01:10:17.680 could there be

01:10:18.500 legal repercussions

01:10:19.380 for the prosecution

01:10:20.280 if Kyle is acquitted

01:10:21.880 I mean

01:10:22.420 if he's acquitted

01:10:23.700 it wouldn't be

01:10:25.040 about the acquittal

01:10:25.920 the legal repercussions

01:10:27.240 would come for

01:10:27.820 violation of

01:10:29.040 particular standards

01:10:30.860 of activity

01:10:32.860 in the courtroom

01:10:33.420 he could be disbarred

01:10:35.880 the judge could

01:10:36.720 theoretically hold him

01:10:37.300 in contempt

01:10:37.680 there's certain things

01:10:38.620 that could certainly be done

01:10:39.680 and his behavior

01:10:40.280 I think would warrant

01:10:41.080 a lot of it

01:10:42.820 at this point

01:10:43.260 so here's something

01:10:44.100 that we've never done before

01:10:45.240 but I want to talk

01:10:45.960 about a news story

01:10:46.700 and in order to do that

01:10:48.180 I have to bring

01:10:49.480 a pizza

01:10:50.460 onto the set

01:10:51.420 this is

01:10:52.520 oh boy

01:10:52.900 thank you

01:10:53.380 thank you

01:10:53.820 very good

01:10:54.860 we should do this

01:10:55.460 we should talk about

01:10:56.180 this story all the time

01:10:56.940 so this is

01:10:58.620 a one bite

01:11:01.120 everybody knows the rules

01:11:03.840 cheese pizza

01:11:04.780 this is from

01:11:05.780 Dave Portnoy

01:11:06.360 the founder of

01:11:06.940 Barstool Sports

01:11:07.600 you can buy it at Walmart

01:11:08.480 and you should

01:11:09.720 go buy some of these

01:11:10.820 frozen pizzas at Walmart

01:11:11.760 I'm going to review the pizza

01:11:13.020 because apparently

01:11:13.860 that's what CEOs do

01:11:15.080 is they review pizzas

01:11:16.360 let me see here

01:11:17.980 the undercarriage

01:11:19.620 is on the bottom

01:11:20.220 there's melty cheese

01:11:21.440 on the top

01:11:22.540 looks like a pizza

01:11:24.200 right

01:11:24.480 yep

01:11:25.620 that is a pizza

01:11:27.740 if I had to give that

01:11:29.180 a rating

01:11:29.580 I'd say that it's

01:11:31.940 very pizza

01:11:32.520 I don't

01:11:33.580 I don't know anything

01:11:34.180 about pizza

01:11:34.620 I'd like to say

01:11:35.520 that it's because

01:11:36.120 you know

01:11:37.560 I'm a god king

01:11:38.280 and rich

01:11:39.640 and snobby

01:11:40.760 but it's actually

01:11:41.500 because I only eat

01:11:42.120 Pizza Hut

01:11:42.560 because in the small

01:11:43.420 town I grew up in

01:11:44.240 we only had one

01:11:45.120 restaurant

01:11:45.440 and that restaurant

01:11:45.880 was pizza

01:11:46.160 it's snobby

01:11:46.440 here's the thing

01:11:47.420 that's a good

01:11:48.520 frozen pizza

01:11:49.080 and you should

01:11:49.500 buy it

01:11:49.900 and you should

01:11:50.320 buy it

01:11:50.720 because this guy

01:11:51.900 Dave Portnoy

01:11:52.580 is being railroaded

01:11:53.980 by the media

01:11:55.240 and when somebody

01:11:56.600 stands up against

01:11:57.420 a good media

01:11:58.600 railroading

01:11:59.180 they deserve our

01:11:59.740 support

01:12:00.040 I'm going to

01:12:00.520 tell you the story

01:12:01.160 I'm going to

01:12:02.160 monologue about it

01:12:02.880 for just a second

01:12:03.540 because I want to

01:12:04.600 get one piece of it

01:12:05.300 out of the way

01:12:05.660 so we can talk about

01:12:06.500 what I think is the

01:12:07.260 pertinent piece

01:12:09.440 of the story

01:12:09.820 for our purposes

01:12:10.480 Dave Portnoy

01:12:12.300 who I sometimes

01:12:14.040 say he's my

01:12:14.500 spirit animal

01:12:15.140 I like him

01:12:16.700 as a CEO

01:12:17.240 I like him

01:12:18.400 as a media figure

01:12:19.120 I like the character

01:12:19.700 that he's cultivated

01:12:20.440 online

01:12:21.520 he has this sort of

01:12:23.200 devil may care

01:12:23.880 attitude

01:12:24.640 I get a big kick

01:12:26.160 out of him

01:12:26.500 he is nevertheless

01:12:27.580 I think it is fair

01:12:28.560 to say

01:12:29.020 a scoundrel

01:12:30.400 a lovable scoundrel

01:12:31.400 a lovable scoundrel

01:12:32.260 and by scoundrel

01:12:33.200 I mean that Dave

01:12:34.160 Portnoy has three

01:12:35.200 sex tapes

01:12:35.900 that are out

01:12:37.260 in the wild

01:12:37.780 Dave Portnoy

01:12:38.800 prolific

01:12:39.800 you don't

01:12:41.580 accidentally

01:12:42.300 have three

01:12:43.140 sex tapes

01:12:43.620 out

01:12:43.820 one sex tape

01:12:45.040 maybe

01:12:45.660 chalk it up

01:12:46.480 to luck

01:12:46.800 that's right

01:12:47.280 Dave Portnoy

01:12:48.420 is a scoundrel

01:12:49.000 he's a rogue

01:12:49.560 he talks openly

01:12:50.680 about the fact

01:12:51.900 that he likes

01:12:53.340 to have sex

01:12:53.720 with lots of

01:12:54.320 women

01:12:54.520 and a few

01:12:56.680 what happened

01:12:57.220 here is that

01:12:57.700 Business Insider

01:12:58.740 did a story

01:12:59.740 apparently eight

01:13:00.360 months in the

01:13:00.800 making

01:13:01.020 where they just

01:13:01.820 started tracking

01:13:02.400 down people

01:13:03.120 who had had

01:13:03.780 sex with Dave

01:13:04.380 Portnoy

01:13:04.740 and talked about

01:13:05.580 it in social media

01:13:06.340 well they started

01:13:06.820 by saying that

01:13:07.300 the story was

01:13:07.780 about his finances

01:13:08.560 right

01:13:08.880 that's right

01:13:09.280 it was about his

01:13:09.640 business and it was

01:13:10.260 about not this

01:13:10.960 they were just

01:13:11.720 investigating his

01:13:12.340 business growth

01:13:12.860 and then randomly

01:13:13.420 it turned into a

01:13:14.000 story about all the

01:13:14.600 women he had sex

01:13:15.160 with

01:13:15.360 that's right

01:13:15.780 since the dawn

01:13:16.920 of time

01:13:17.440 rich powerful

01:13:18.940 and famous men

01:13:19.780 have had sex

01:13:21.600 with lots and

01:13:22.380 lots and lots

01:13:22.840 of women

01:13:23.140 it is because

01:13:24.000 except for me

01:13:24.840 literally except for me

01:13:27.080 I'm the only exception

01:13:27.960 in all human history

01:13:29.060 this is because

01:13:30.740 there is a certain

01:13:31.640 subset of women

01:13:32.440 who want to have

01:13:34.120 sex with rich

01:13:35.340 powerful and famous

01:13:36.100 men

01:13:36.380 a subset

01:13:37.000 a subset

01:13:37.560 this goes back

01:13:38.800 all the way to like

01:13:39.780 the first rich

01:13:40.620 powerful and famous

01:13:42.300 man Andrew

01:13:42.900 Clavin

01:13:43.280 in the long time

01:13:44.580 ago he did

01:13:45.200 the way long time

01:13:46.360 ago he did

01:13:46.800 but my point is

01:13:48.180 you may morally

01:13:48.920 disagree with Dave

01:13:50.540 Portnoy's behavior

01:13:51.140 I think everybody

01:13:51.680 on this panel

01:13:52.160 probably does think

01:13:52.880 the morality piece

01:13:54.960 of this story

01:13:55.880 doesn't err in favor

01:13:57.100 of Dave Portnoy

01:13:58.960 nevertheless

01:14:00.440 you can't act

01:14:02.440 sort of traumatized

01:14:04.260 or scandalized

01:14:05.040 by the fact

01:14:05.480 that a rich

01:14:05.880 powerful famous

01:14:06.580 man is having sex

01:14:07.340 Solomon had

01:14:08.400 1,000 wives

01:14:09.540 between his wives

01:14:10.160 and his concubines

01:14:10.980 King Solomon

01:14:11.820 had 1,000 women

01:14:14.040 whom he could

01:14:14.620 officially have sex with

01:14:15.760 I want to put that

01:14:17.000 in context

01:14:17.440 because those numbers

01:14:18.000 don't mean anything

01:14:18.640 when you hear numbers

01:14:19.200 like that

01:14:19.500 if King Solomon

01:14:21.020 only had sex

01:14:21.860 with one of his

01:14:22.860 wives or concubines

01:14:24.180 a day

01:14:24.720 he would not repeat

01:14:26.080 for almost four years

01:14:27.100 in a different context

01:14:29.140 he's one tenth

01:14:30.020 of a Wilt Chamberlain

01:14:30.800 King Solomon

01:14:34.240 got to build

01:14:34.760 the first temple

01:14:35.400 and write three books

01:14:36.140 of the Bible

01:14:36.580 like the world

01:14:37.540 is a messy

01:14:38.080 complicated place

01:14:39.140 and while morality

01:14:40.440 is a very interesting

01:14:41.120 topic and important

01:14:41.840 for us on this show

01:14:42.580 to talk about

01:14:43.080 it's not what I want

01:14:44.160 to talk about today

01:14:45.200 what I want to talk

01:14:45.860 about today

01:14:46.340 is Business Insider

01:14:48.140 writing a story

01:14:49.340 about two women

01:14:50.960 in particular

01:14:51.460 both of whom

01:14:52.500 reached out to

01:14:53.720 Dave Portnoy

01:14:54.220 on social media

01:14:55.040 DM'd him

01:14:55.720 knowing that he's

01:14:56.300 a scoundrel

01:14:56.760 knowing that he

01:14:57.280 has sex tapes

01:14:57.880 knowing that he's

01:14:58.400 a rogue

01:14:58.760 and began flirting

01:15:00.520 with him

01:15:00.920 said that they

01:15:02.260 would like to

01:15:02.660 have sex with him

01:15:03.340 sent him

01:15:04.380 provocative

01:15:05.260 direct messages

01:15:06.740 in one case

01:15:08.060 one of the women

01:15:08.480 actually said

01:15:08.960 that she wanted

01:15:09.340 to play out

01:15:10.020 her rape fantasy

01:15:11.100 with him

01:15:11.520 then

01:15:12.420 flew themselves

01:15:13.760 to his home

01:15:14.580 went into his house

01:15:16.260 hooked up with him

01:15:17.420 and then felt bad

01:15:18.980 about it

01:15:19.400 I don't want to

01:15:20.680 talk about the morality

01:15:21.300 of Dave Portnoy

01:15:22.000 because that's an

01:15:22.480 obvious question

01:15:23.040 what I want to

01:15:23.520 talk about is

01:15:24.140 two things

01:15:24.580 one we live

01:15:25.140 in a society

01:15:25.720 we live in a society

01:15:28.140 where young women

01:15:29.280 have not been taught

01:15:31.440 that if you DM

01:15:32.900 a rogue

01:15:33.840 a well-known rogue

01:15:34.620 and scoundrel

01:15:35.060 lovable though he is

01:15:35.920 great CEO though he is

01:15:36.920 who has three sex tapes

01:15:38.620 if you send him

01:15:40.000 topless pictures

01:15:40.620 of yourself

01:15:41.140 if you tell him

01:15:42.240 that you would like

01:15:42.660 to have sex with him

01:15:43.280 and live out your

01:15:43.780 rape fantasy

01:15:44.320 if you get on an

01:15:45.300 airplane and fly to

01:15:46.020 his house

01:15:46.420 if you have sex

01:15:47.460 with him

01:15:47.800 it may be the case

01:15:49.400 that after this

01:15:50.660 you don't feel

01:15:51.560 great about it

01:15:52.200 it may be that

01:15:53.260 while you have

01:15:54.540 always looked up

01:15:55.200 to Dave Portnoy

01:15:55.940 Dave Portnoy

01:15:56.960 has never thought

01:15:57.800 about you

01:15:58.260 one single time

01:15:59.220 and never will again

01:16:00.420 and that that may

01:16:01.340 cause you to feel

01:16:02.480 some regret

01:16:03.100 and unfortunately

01:16:03.960 in the moment

01:16:04.500 in which we live

01:16:05.160 right now

01:16:05.600 the left has

01:16:06.380 concluded

01:16:06.780 you can do

01:16:08.260 any sexually

01:16:08.940 deviant thing

01:16:09.580 that you want

01:16:10.080 you can say

01:16:11.180 anything you want

01:16:11.800 you can do

01:16:12.140 anything you want

01:16:12.740 you can be

01:16:13.100 anything you want

01:16:13.780 but regret is rape

01:16:15.460 if someone

01:16:16.740 if a woman

01:16:17.300 regrets a sexual

01:16:18.180 encounter

01:16:18.560 that is almost

01:16:19.680 definitionally rape

01:16:20.500 in the eyes

01:16:20.920 of the left

01:16:21.520 that's a horrible

01:16:22.820 thing

01:16:23.080 I feel bad

01:16:23.660 that these women

01:16:24.300 were not taught

01:16:25.520 better

01:16:25.780 I feel bad

01:16:26.700 that they made

01:16:28.020 bad choices

01:16:28.500 all around

01:16:29.080 why is this a story

01:16:31.060 for Business Insider

01:16:31.980 to cover

01:16:32.620 because they hate

01:16:33.520 Dave Portnoy

01:16:33.900 Dave Portnoy

01:16:35.760 is not the only

01:16:36.320 rogue, rake

01:16:36.960 or scoundrel

01:16:38.180 among the rich

01:16:39.000 powerful and elite

01:16:39.660 I would probably

01:16:41.200 guess

01:16:41.600 that there are

01:16:42.620 rogues and scoundrels

01:16:44.200 who work for

01:16:45.040 Business Insider

01:16:45.740 if they have

01:16:46.420 fame, money and power

01:16:47.200 I would also say

01:16:48.520 that Dave Portnoy

01:16:50.380 has suggested

01:16:51.100 that since

01:16:51.800 this story broke

01:16:52.660 the same reporters

01:16:54.760 have started calling

01:16:55.440 his advertisers

01:16:56.340 because they would

01:16:57.420 like the follow-up

01:16:58.200 story of finding

01:16:59.460 out that the

01:16:59.940 advertisers reacted

01:17:01.220 to their first

01:17:01.900 story and dropped

01:17:03.120 Dave Portnoy

01:17:04.020 so it's not just

01:17:04.960 it's activism

01:17:05.600 it's activism

01:17:06.300 it's activism

01:17:07.820 masquerading

01:17:08.560 as journalism

01:17:09.640 people feigning

01:17:10.800 outrage

01:17:11.520 at behaviors

01:17:12.240 that they actually

01:17:12.980 encourage in other

01:17:13.760 contexts

01:17:14.200 that they actually

01:17:14.880 and I think

01:17:15.820 it's important

01:17:16.200 for you to

01:17:17.580 remind people

01:17:18.420 no rape charges

01:17:19.460 have been filed

01:17:19.880 no rape charges

01:17:20.680 have been filed

01:17:21.880 and we were

01:17:23.160 talking off air

01:17:23.740 about this

01:17:24.040 a little bit earlier

01:17:24.580 and you make

01:17:25.540 a good evidentiary

01:17:26.660 point

01:17:27.020 even if a woman

01:17:28.800 claims that

01:17:29.440 something happened

01:17:30.020 that she was not

01:17:30.640 into

01:17:30.860 and that is

01:17:31.340 certainly possible

01:17:32.040 that you do

01:17:32.660 all of these

01:17:33.140 things and you

01:17:33.600 go up to the

01:17:34.040 bedroom

01:17:34.240 and something

01:17:35.460 bad happens

01:17:36.100 there is

01:17:37.200 literally no way

01:17:38.280 for anyone

01:17:38.900 outside of that

01:17:39.740 circumstance

01:17:40.160 to tell

01:17:41.240 what happened

01:17:42.120 in that room

01:17:42.740 and it's

01:17:43.320 particularly difficult

01:17:43.940 to tell when

01:17:44.420 you have a trail

01:17:44.980 of evidence

01:17:45.440 that suggests

01:17:45.980 consensuality

01:17:46.720 all the way

01:17:47.740 up to the

01:17:48.280 time the door

01:17:48.700 closed

01:17:48.940 and in some

01:17:49.320 cases

01:17:49.600 he shared

01:17:50.200 some DMs

01:17:51.540 on Twitter

01:17:52.060 and by the way

01:17:54.480 not only have

01:17:55.320 no rape charges

01:17:55.920 been filed

01:17:56.660 there's no claim

01:17:57.940 of rape

01:17:58.280 in that article

01:18:00.340 which we see

01:18:01.160 the title right there

01:18:02.040 now the headline

01:18:03.000 of course

01:18:03.340 they put it

01:18:04.540 behind the paywall

01:18:05.120 so most people

01:18:05.700 weren't reading

01:18:06.720 the article

01:18:07.200 they were just

01:18:08.040 sharing the headline

01:18:08.540 and the headline

01:18:09.280 says I was

01:18:09.860 literally screaming

01:18:10.460 in pain

01:18:11.020 Dave Portnoy

01:18:12.780 has violent

01:18:13.760 and humiliating

01:18:14.420 sex

01:18:14.700 now that right

01:18:15.820 there should be

01:18:16.300 a red flag

01:18:16.840 because violent

01:18:17.960 and humiliating

01:18:18.660 screaming in pain

01:18:19.380 sounds really bad

01:18:20.640 but if this was

01:18:22.300 a rape claim

01:18:22.900 that would be

01:18:23.360 in the headline

01:18:23.960 yeah the word

01:18:24.560 rape would appear

01:18:25.100 and that's not it

01:18:26.680 I mean

01:18:27.000 and when you talk

01:18:28.020 about young women

01:18:30.700 and men

01:18:31.220 don't realize

01:18:33.200 that regret

01:18:34.640 is not rape

01:18:35.320 one of the reasons

01:18:36.140 for that

01:18:36.480 we've talked

01:18:36.780 about this before

01:18:37.380 is that

01:18:37.860 when it comes

01:18:38.760 to sexual morality

01:18:39.480 the only

01:18:40.740 we've boiled it

01:18:41.660 all down

01:18:42.040 to consent

01:18:42.740 and there's

01:18:43.040 nothing more

01:18:43.800 than consent

01:18:44.420 to sexual morality

01:18:45.200 these days

01:18:46.080 so we have

01:18:46.660 no language

01:18:47.140 to describe

01:18:47.980 a feeling

01:18:49.120 of you know

01:18:49.600 I just

01:18:49.940 I did this

01:18:51.660 I feel like

01:18:52.520 my dignity

01:18:53.020 like I've

01:18:53.600 sacrificed

01:18:53.940 my dignity

01:18:54.560 I feel like

01:18:56.980 I've been

01:18:57.280 dehumanized

01:18:57.780 we don't really

01:18:58.300 have that

01:18:58.580 language anymore

01:18:59.220 because that's

01:18:59.680 not supposed

01:19:00.040 to happen

01:19:00.500 with consensual

01:19:01.240 and in part

01:19:01.680 we don't have

01:19:02.040 that language

01:19:02.460 because

01:19:02.980 we did a

01:19:04.020 search

01:19:04.260 before the

01:19:04.880 show

01:19:05.100 because of

01:19:05.680 places

01:19:05.920 like Business

01:19:06.460 Insider

01:19:06.900 which ran

01:19:07.360 headline

01:19:07.820 after headline

01:19:08.640 praising

01:19:09.420 50 shades

01:19:10.280 of grey

01:19:10.820 like

01:19:11.500 so exactly

01:19:13.120 what is the

01:19:13.580 charge here

01:19:14.200 against Dave

01:19:14.940 Portnoy

01:19:15.240 from this

01:19:15.520 publication

01:19:15.800 but what

01:19:16.620 matters to

01:19:17.240 me

01:19:17.520 the thing

01:19:18.540 that makes

01:19:18.800 the story

01:19:19.120 none of that

01:19:19.600 makes the story

01:19:20.140 novel

01:19:20.440 that's just

01:19:21.160 how they treat

01:19:21.660 anyone who

01:19:22.300 goes against

01:19:22.660 their narrative

01:19:23.080 Dave Portnoy's

01:19:24.120 great crime

01:19:24.840 is being

01:19:25.560 successful

01:19:26.160 having a bad

01:19:27.220 attitude

01:19:27.580 which I think

01:19:28.200 is a very

01:19:28.540 hilarious

01:19:28.880 attitude

01:19:29.340 and going

01:19:30.320 on Fox

01:19:30.760 News

01:19:30.980 coming on

01:19:31.480 the Ben Shapiro

01:19:31.980 show

01:19:32.260 they hate

01:19:32.960 him because

01:19:33.520 talking about

01:19:33.980 Trump

01:19:34.220 talking about

01:19:35.100 Trump

01:19:35.240 they hate

01:19:35.580 him because

01:19:35.900 he's not

01:19:37.520 walking the

01:19:38.880 party line

01:19:39.420 therefore he

01:19:40.080 must be

01:19:40.300 destroyed

01:19:40.520 but what

01:19:40.840 makes this

01:19:41.220 a novel

01:19:41.700 story is

01:19:42.220 not that

01:19:42.620 they'll do

01:19:43.100 that to

01:19:43.360 anybody

01:19:43.700 what makes

01:19:44.540 this a novel

01:19:45.120 story is

01:19:45.620 that Dave

01:19:45.920 Portnoy is

01:19:46.340 telling him

01:19:46.660 to pound

01:19:47.100 sand

01:19:47.540 what makes

01:19:48.960 this story

01:19:49.340 interesting

01:19:49.760 is that

01:19:50.280 you can

01:19:50.540 go to

01:19:50.800 Walmart

01:19:51.080 and buy

01:19:51.560 a one

01:19:51.960 bite

01:19:52.180 everybody

01:19:52.540 knows

01:19:52.880 the rules

01:19:53.360 frozen

01:19:54.080 pizza

01:19:54.420 and put

01:19:55.240 money

01:19:55.440 directly

01:19:55.820 in Dave

01:19:56.160 Portnoy's

01:19:56.600 pocket

01:19:56.880 and they

01:19:57.280 can't

01:19:57.520 take this

01:19:57.900 advertiser

01:19:58.440 away from

01:19:58.940 him

01:19:59.100 because

01:19:59.480 this

01:19:59.640 advertiser

01:20:00.120 is

01:20:00.320 him

01:20:00.540 and this

01:20:01.400 actually

01:20:01.700 shows us

01:20:02.180 sort of

01:20:02.480 like the

01:20:02.780 Gina Carano

01:20:03.360 coming over

01:20:04.100 here and

01:20:04.340 doing a

01:20:04.640 movie with

01:20:04.960 us

01:20:05.080 they can't

01:20:05.780 cancel you

01:20:06.400 if you

01:20:06.960 don't

01:20:07.280 quit

01:20:07.600 Dave

01:20:08.280 Portnoy

01:20:08.640 they have

01:20:09.320 no actual

01:20:10.200 power

01:20:10.740 over Dave

01:20:11.560 Portnoy

01:20:11.860 and in

01:20:12.160 that way

01:20:12.600 this rogue

01:20:13.200 this rake

01:20:13.660 this scoundrel

01:20:14.280 this hero

01:20:15.340 of mine

01:20:15.700 in many

01:20:15.960 ways

01:20:16.160 is actually

01:20:18.200 fighting a

01:20:19.140 fight

01:20:19.440 on all

01:20:20.320 of our

01:20:20.600 behalf

01:20:20.960 and showing

01:20:21.800 us how

01:20:22.120 you're

01:20:22.300 supposed

01:20:22.520 to fight

01:20:23.060 it

01:20:23.200 well

01:20:23.380 there's

01:20:24.180 the story

01:20:24.820 and then

01:20:25.260 there's

01:20:25.520 the story

01:20:27.040 about the

01:20:27.560 story

01:20:27.780 and that's

01:20:28.140 what's

01:20:28.760 most interesting

01:20:29.340 to me

01:20:29.720 because

01:20:30.240 just as

01:20:30.940 you say

01:20:31.260 Jeremy

01:20:31.560 the left

01:20:32.320 encourages

01:20:33.080 this exact

01:20:34.500 behavior

01:20:34.980 among

01:20:35.620 everybody

01:20:36.500 at all

01:20:37.100 ages

01:20:37.500 across

01:20:38.680 every

01:20:39.360 state

01:20:39.680 all 97

01:20:40.040 genders

01:20:40.400 and they

01:20:42.420 do it

01:20:43.060 until you

01:20:44.800 cross them

01:20:45.620 on anything

01:20:46.420 and it's

01:20:47.220 like they're

01:20:48.000 just trying

01:20:48.340 to get

01:20:48.540 compromise

01:20:48.980 on everybody

01:20:49.560 that's right

01:20:50.260 it's like

01:20:50.860 the left

01:20:51.960 is a religion

01:20:52.560 and all

01:20:53.940 religious cults

01:20:54.860 practice this

01:20:55.480 same kind

01:20:55.840 of thing

01:20:56.120 where they

01:20:56.840 build confidence

01:20:58.280 and cause you

01:20:59.400 to behave

01:20:59.840 in certain

01:21:00.300 ways

01:21:00.740 but they

01:21:01.500 know about

01:21:01.960 the ways

01:21:02.280 that you

01:21:02.520 behave

01:21:02.840 and now

01:21:03.700 if you

01:21:03.980 want to

01:21:04.280 leave them

01:21:04.800 they can

01:21:05.480 bring up

01:21:05.820 the ways

01:21:06.180 that you

01:21:06.420 behaved

01:21:06.760 around

01:21:07.040 them

01:21:07.220 this is

01:21:09.140 why we

01:21:09.820 on the

01:21:10.120 right

01:21:10.280 get into

01:21:10.600 trouble

01:21:10.900 when we

01:21:11.340 talk about

01:21:11.700 morality

01:21:12.080 which we

01:21:12.440 all believe

01:21:12.900 in

01:21:13.120 we all

01:21:13.580 actually

01:21:13.820 believe

01:21:14.340 that women

01:21:14.760 should be

01:21:15.100 treated

01:21:15.280 I believe

01:21:16.020 in gentlemen

01:21:16.400 and ladies

01:21:16.860 that's what I

01:21:17.280 believe in

01:21:17.660 and I think

01:21:18.840 that's a good

01:21:19.560 thing

01:21:19.920 however

01:21:20.760 Brett Kavanaugh

01:21:22.360 was accused

01:21:23.120 of attacking

01:21:24.280 someone in his

01:21:25.000 teens by a woman

01:21:25.900 who could not

01:21:26.440 even prove

01:21:26.900 that she had

01:21:27.280 ever met him

01:21:27.960 Molly Hemingway

01:21:29.200 traced this out

01:21:29.840 in her book

01:21:30.340 she couldn't

01:21:31.220 prove that she

01:21:31.580 ever met him

01:21:32.000 and this was

01:21:32.360 weeks and weeks

01:21:33.180 of stories

01:21:33.620 people cornered

01:21:34.940 Senator Flake

01:21:35.740 in the elevator

01:21:36.280 and wept

01:21:36.940 saying you're

01:21:37.640 approving of

01:21:38.240 my rape

01:21:38.820 because you're

01:21:39.240 approving of

01:21:39.680 this rape

01:21:39.980 Joe Biden

01:21:40.860 was plausibly

01:21:41.820 accused of

01:21:42.380 hurling a woman

01:21:43.020 up against

01:21:43.640 the wall

01:21:44.040 and penetrating

01:21:44.700 her with

01:21:45.000 his fingers

01:21:45.480 and the New

01:21:46.120 York Times

01:21:46.500 didn't cover

01:21:46.960 this for 20

01:21:47.580 days and then

01:21:48.180 buried it in

01:21:48.720 the Easter

01:21:49.100 Sunday edition

01:21:49.840 and when

01:21:50.500 they asked

01:21:51.260 Dean Becke

01:21:52.700 about this

01:21:53.620 he said

01:21:54.260 well

01:21:54.660 you know

01:21:55.280 Kavanaugh

01:21:55.840 was up

01:21:56.140 for an

01:21:56.420 important

01:21:56.720 position

01:21:57.520 that's what

01:21:59.020 he said

01:21:59.300 that was

01:21:59.680 his action

01:22:00.020 I mean

01:22:00.360 it had

01:22:00.800 the corruption

01:22:01.260 it had

01:22:01.800 the arrogant

01:22:02.380 corruption

01:22:02.940 of a boss

01:22:03.940 tweet

01:22:04.400 that interview

01:22:05.240 that he gave

01:22:05.820 it's never

01:22:06.700 about the

01:22:07.260 morality

01:22:07.580 and we

01:22:08.240 because we're

01:22:08.700 interested in

01:22:09.160 morality

01:22:09.460 because we

01:22:09.980 care about it

01:22:10.440 we end up

01:22:11.100 discussing that

01:22:11.760 but that's

01:22:12.240 not the question

01:22:12.880 when it comes

01:22:14.080 to behavior

01:22:14.460 we also tend

01:22:15.160 to look for

01:22:15.520 standards

01:22:15.980 and then when

01:22:16.880 somebody violates

01:22:17.480 the standard

01:22:17.860 we say okay

01:22:18.340 that was a

01:22:18.720 violation of the

01:22:19.500 standard

01:22:19.820 and our

01:22:20.060 standards

01:22:20.280 happen to

01:22:20.580 be higher

01:22:20.960 than the

01:22:21.320 standards

01:22:21.600 of the

01:22:21.820 left

01:22:21.980 so we

01:22:22.200 can look

01:22:22.460 at behavior

01:22:22.820 that we

01:22:23.060 don't like

01:22:23.480 and we

01:22:23.720 can say

01:22:24.080 we don't

01:22:24.700 like that

01:22:25.020 behavior

01:22:25.320 the left

01:22:26.080 has completely

01:22:27.140 arbitrary

01:22:27.480 standards

01:22:27.980 and so the

01:22:28.460 person who

01:22:28.800 comes to mind

01:22:29.180 here is not

01:22:29.500 somebody who

01:22:29.860 crossed the

01:22:30.300 left

01:22:30.500 but got this

01:22:31.900 treatment anyway

01:22:32.300 and that's

01:22:32.560 Aziz Ansari

01:22:33.080 remember the

01:22:33.500 story about

01:22:33.780 Aziz Ansari

01:22:34.300 same very

01:22:35.760 very similar

01:22:36.620 story right

01:22:37.200 he goes on a

01:22:38.140 date with a

01:22:38.460 woman

01:22:38.580 woman comes

01:22:38.980 back to his

01:22:39.380 apartment

01:22:39.680 they have

01:22:40.060 sex I think

01:22:40.500 twice

01:22:40.820 and then later

01:22:41.760 she claims

01:22:42.320 that he

01:22:42.900 treated her

01:22:43.300 poorly

01:22:43.680 and then he

01:22:44.320 wasn't very

01:22:44.680 nice to her

01:22:45.120 even though

01:22:45.520 the story

01:22:46.160 literally said

01:22:46.980 it's like a

01:22:47.300 10,000 word

01:22:47.920 story said

01:22:48.420 that when she

01:22:48.780 asked him to

01:22:49.180 stop doing

01:22:49.620 anything he

01:22:49.980 stopped doing

01:22:50.540 the thing

01:22:50.960 yeah right

01:22:51.680 and this was

01:22:52.480 somehow a

01:22:52.940 major story

01:22:53.400 and Aziz Ansari

01:22:53.980 came out and

01:22:54.440 he did this

01:22:54.700 kind of mewling

01:22:55.460 pathetic sort

01:22:56.220 of apology

01:22:56.720 routine on

01:22:57.700 his show I

01:22:58.040 should have

01:22:58.300 I should have

01:22:58.900 dealt with

01:22:59.300 her sensitivities

01:22:59.920 well I mean I

01:23:00.820 actually agree that

01:23:01.560 you should deal

01:23:02.000 with people's

01:23:02.680 sensitivities

01:23:03.140 regardless of

01:23:03.800 like as Matt

01:23:04.840 says their

01:23:05.280 consent is not

01:23:05.980 the only question

01:23:06.700 is to your

01:23:07.240 activity right

01:23:08.140 if somebody

01:23:08.400 consents to

01:23:08.860 activity that

01:23:09.340 is degrading to

01:23:10.020 them that does

01:23:10.780 not mean that

01:23:11.500 you must now

01:23:12.020 go forward with

01:23:12.520 the activity but

01:23:13.440 that's our

01:23:14.100 standard that is

01:23:14.700 not their

01:23:15.060 standard that

01:23:15.780 does not exist

01:23:16.800 appropriate legal

01:23:17.780 standard right

01:23:18.700 of course of

01:23:19.460 course well

01:23:19.740 there's they're

01:23:20.420 not even making

01:23:20.940 a legal claim

01:23:21.640 though I think

01:23:23.740 what to Jeremy's

01:23:24.860 point what's

01:23:25.640 really important

01:23:26.100 about this story

01:23:26.800 we talk about

01:23:27.540 consent what

01:23:29.000 Dave Portnoy is

01:23:29.680 proving is that

01:23:30.400 at least if

01:23:30.880 you're a powerful

01:23:31.740 person in a

01:23:32.880 position like he's

01:23:33.540 in being you

01:23:34.680 have to consent

01:23:35.220 to being canceled

01:23:35.840 you have to go

01:23:36.700 along with it and

01:23:37.640 so what he's

01:23:38.020 saying is I'm not I

01:23:38.880 don't give my

01:23:39.420 consent to this

01:23:39.940 I'm just not

01:23:40.740 going to be

01:23:41.140 canceled and it's

01:23:41.600 so important for

01:23:42.000 him to do that

01:23:42.400 because not

01:23:43.240 everybody's in

01:23:43.780 that position I

01:23:44.340 mean we can

01:23:44.760 think of so

01:23:45.120 many you know

01:23:46.140 there I mean

01:23:46.560 there's a million

01:23:47.060 crazy think about

01:23:48.120 that truck driver

01:23:48.800 I think in

01:23:49.040 California last

01:23:50.340 year who lost

01:23:51.160 his job lost

01:23:51.820 everything because

01:23:52.700 he was he was

01:23:53.400 making the you

01:23:54.000 know this motion

01:23:54.560 outside of the

01:23:55.060 window I was

01:23:55.520 driving a truck

01:23:56.040 and and you

01:23:57.320 know he his

01:23:57.880 life was just

01:23:58.380 destroyed had no

01:23:59.040 ability to defend

01:23:59.560 himself and that's

01:24:00.540 it for him so he

01:24:01.380 didn't consent to

01:24:01.960 that and there's

01:24:02.360 nothing he can do

01:24:02.960 about it which is

01:24:04.560 why people like

01:24:05.440 Dave Portnoy who

01:24:06.280 are in a position

01:24:07.020 to say no have

01:24:08.360 to say it

01:24:09.080 because they

01:24:10.020 have to start

01:24:10.800 drawing that line

01:24:11.700 there if you're

01:24:12.000 not gonna draw it

01:24:12.360 there then it's

01:24:12.740 not gonna and

01:24:13.160 that's why I say

01:24:13.920 the morality piece

01:24:14.900 of this is

01:24:15.260 uninteresting to me

01:24:16.000 it's not that I'm

01:24:16.720 not interested in

01:24:17.300 the morality of

01:24:18.760 the situation of

01:24:19.600 course I am it's

01:24:20.380 that we actually do

01:24:21.120 a good job of

01:24:21.640 talking about these

01:24:22.320 issues on

01:24:23.180 backstage all the

01:24:24.000 time it's not it

01:24:25.220 is not the unique

01:24:26.660 aspect of this story

01:24:27.960 that a rich powerful

01:24:29.140 famous man is kind

01:24:31.420 of allows with

01:24:31.960 ladies that isn't

01:24:33.200 novel that's if you

01:24:34.400 if you like an

01:24:35.340 actor they behave

01:24:36.540 whoever it is

01:24:37.360 unless it's Kurt

01:24:38.180 Cameron they behave

01:24:39.180 worse than Dave

01:24:39.920 Portnoy if you

01:24:40.600 like a politician

01:24:41.360 you know eight

01:24:43.580 out of ten of

01:24:44.260 them probably

01:24:44.880 behave the same

01:24:45.320 by the way the

01:24:45.640 ones who aren't

01:24:46.280 get ripped up and

01:24:46.820 down by the media

01:24:47.280 right if Mike Pence

01:24:47.980 has a stand

01:24:48.400 or by the way

01:24:50.300 Henry you remember

01:24:51.100 there's this whole

01:24:51.980 story about Henry

01:24:52.500 Cavill having the

01:24:53.220 same issue right he

01:24:53.860 said I won't go

01:24:54.460 it's hard for me to

01:24:55.260 get a date because if

01:24:56.140 I have a date with a

01:24:56.900 woman and I take her

01:24:57.640 home I don't know

01:24:58.660 what she's going to

01:24:59.600 say the next day and

01:25:00.180 the media went nuts

01:25:00.760 how could you not

01:25:01.460 trust women enough to

01:25:02.240 just bring random

01:25:02.940 women back to your

01:25:03.580 apartment like it's

01:25:04.700 like they're no

01:25:05.680 so that's not

01:25:07.360 is an interesting

01:25:08.040 topic but it's not

01:25:08.740 what's interesting

01:25:09.200 about this story

01:25:09.800 what's interesting

01:25:10.500 about this story is

01:25:11.380 that we live in an

01:25:12.040 age when they can

01:25:13.180 cancel anyone anytime

01:25:14.260 and most people

01:25:15.800 immediately upon being

01:25:17.660 canceled come out and

01:25:19.020 grovel before the

01:25:20.480 left in the vain hope

01:25:22.220 that they will be

01:25:22.800 re-established to their

01:25:24.000 former glory they

01:25:25.000 never are because the

01:25:25.860 left is graceless the

01:25:26.960 only thing that keeps

01:25:27.540 them from just having

01:25:28.160 t-shirts made that

01:25:29.000 say don't bother we

01:25:30.140 are graceless is that

01:25:31.140 they want you to

01:25:31.720 grovel so they dangle

01:25:32.860 the idea of grace out

01:25:34.000 in front of you so

01:25:34.800 that you will humiliate

01:25:35.680 yourself and they can

01:25:36.280 fully put their boot

01:25:37.280 on your neck and

01:25:38.160 Dave Portnoy because

01:25:39.620 he's the stool

01:25:40.700 presidente says uh

01:25:42.520 uh no and that's

01:25:45.560 what we're doing with

01:25:46.160 these vax mandates

01:25:46.940 uh uh no we don't

01:25:48.760 care if we run afoul

01:25:49.760 of your uh of your

01:25:51.780 virtue we don't

01:25:53.220 accept your virtue we

01:25:54.160 don't acquiesce to

01:25:54.900 your virtue and we're

01:25:56.320 not going to accept a

01:25:57.480 rebuke from people who

01:25:58.400 are worse than us

01:25:58.960 because the left's

01:25:59.520 virtue is vice actually

01:26:00.560 yeah they're virtue

01:26:01.260 but it's you know the

01:26:02.240 story here is not even

01:26:03.780 the bad date or the

01:26:04.980 many bad dates or

01:26:05.740 whatever no that's

01:26:06.360 not right i would be

01:26:07.620 more interested in

01:26:08.640 that discussion as

01:26:10.000 you say we all have

01:26:10.900 these discussions if

01:26:12.240 the story were that

01:26:13.880 there was this bad

01:26:14.640 date and the woman

01:26:15.320 came out and said

01:26:16.260 this was so terrible

01:26:16.900 that's not what

01:26:17.540 happened what happened

01:26:18.600 was business insider

01:26:19.760 hates Dave Portnoy

01:26:21.040 spent four months

01:26:22.120 looking for anything

01:26:23.620 by the way the new

01:26:24.400 york times has had a

01:26:25.240 reporter for the last

01:26:26.520 four months calling

01:26:28.000 every single person

01:26:29.300 who used to work for

01:26:30.860 the daily wire and

01:26:31.900 and according to their

01:26:32.740 own linkedin now says

01:26:33.660 they don't for four or

01:26:34.980 five months now i've

01:26:36.220 gotten call after call

01:26:37.160 at least a dozen

01:26:37.920 former employees hey

01:26:39.360 you should know this

01:26:40.200 new york times reporter

01:26:41.040 called me because they

01:26:42.240 saw on linkedin that i'd

01:26:43.180 stopped working there

01:26:43.920 and they want to know

01:26:44.840 are you going through

01:26:45.460 financial hardships you

01:26:46.740 know what's the

01:26:47.160 culture like just a

01:26:48.200 fishing expedition just

01:26:49.540 for all i know listen

01:26:51.200 if ladies had any care

01:26:53.400 for me whatsoever one

01:26:55.500 could only hope that he

01:26:56.860 could be accused of

01:26:57.560 being a rake roger

01:26:58.340 scoundrel but they will

01:26:59.540 find something if you

01:27:00.440 dig on somebody long

01:27:01.260 they'll find something

01:27:02.000 this is why i believe

01:27:03.060 in making jokes this

01:27:04.100 is seriously i i make

01:27:05.900 jokes about black people

01:27:06.780 i make jokes about gay

01:27:07.520 people transgender people

01:27:08.560 white people every all

01:27:09.940 people not because i hate

01:27:11.060 any of them because i

01:27:11.800 actually don't but

01:27:12.620 because you had me right

01:27:13.560 up until that white

01:27:14.200 people i'm trying to

01:27:14.820 give shapiro shapiro a

01:27:15.940 heart attack that's the

01:27:16.620 first thing that's the

01:27:18.820 most that's the most

01:27:19.420 that's kind of the

01:27:19.980 purpose of my life but

01:27:21.080 also because i think

01:27:21.920 like where did where

01:27:23.280 did they get the right

01:27:24.000 to take away my right

01:27:25.480 to make jokes i i like

01:27:26.800 jokes i think jokes

01:27:27.620 right expose the

01:27:28.780 absurdity of life and

01:27:30.060 make us happier and in

01:27:31.300 living in this absurd

01:27:32.360 life they also

01:27:33.000 demonstrate love and

01:27:34.420 companionship you

01:27:35.560 actually make jokes

01:27:36.940 about people you like

01:27:37.660 you're just you're

01:27:38.300 just making the

01:27:38.900 chapelle point now and

01:27:39.740 i think that we are

01:27:40.280 starting to see major

01:27:41.300 cultural figures

01:27:41.960 that's right

01:27:42.320 starting to say my

01:27:43.020 point yeah that's

01:27:44.320 fair you are old and

01:27:45.300 but the but the the

01:27:48.200 site now of major

01:27:49.740 cultural figures starting

01:27:50.700 to say we're not going

01:27:51.980 to go along with this

01:27:52.720 sort of stuff yeah is

01:27:53.860 really a fantastic thing

01:27:54.980 yeah and i think that's

01:27:56.000 why you're also starting

01:27:56.600 to see so much of the the

01:27:57.700 top-down communications

01:27:59.300 infrastructure trying to

01:28:00.300 crack down on alternative

01:28:01.180 sources of yes media i i

01:28:03.260 really believe that this

01:28:04.480 is all connected when they

01:28:05.560 lose the monopoly in the

01:28:06.520 conversation the next

01:28:07.920 step is where are these

01:28:09.480 people available and how

01:28:10.240 do we get them shut down

01:28:10.920 you see it with joe rogan

01:28:11.960 too right i mean when when

01:28:13.200 the the attempt to go

01:28:14.120 after rogan because he

01:28:15.360 didn't take the vaccine

01:28:16.020 and then he got covid

01:28:16.820 and then he took ivermectin

01:28:18.140 and the entire media

01:28:19.140 decided that not only was

01:28:20.900 he worthy of getting

01:28:21.420 covid he should probably

01:28:22.120 die from it because he

01:28:23.040 was taking quote-unquote

01:28:23.720 horse dormer and rogan was

01:28:25.200 just like screw you

01:28:26.360 yeah it's not horse

01:28:27.300 dormer as he said i can

01:28:29.100 afford people medicine

01:28:30.040 like his refusal to just

01:28:33.600 go along with the

01:28:34.360 narrative is scary to

01:28:35.940 these folks and and so

01:28:37.320 the next step is going to

01:28:38.380 be elevating it to the

01:28:39.740 next level of censorship

01:28:40.780 which is if they refuse to

01:28:42.440 acquiesce to the social

01:28:43.300 pressure then we get into

01:28:44.400 how do we go after the

01:28:45.860 advertisers how do we go

01:28:47.040 after the places that

01:28:48.020 platform these people how

01:28:49.300 do we shut them down and

01:28:50.100 prevent them from being

01:28:50.700 able to talk people ask me

01:28:51.920 all the time what can we

01:28:53.060 do to fight back against

01:28:54.000 cancel culture i mean i get

01:28:55.620 tweets i get dms i get

01:28:57.340 emails what can we do to

01:28:58.540 fight back against cancel

01:28:59.300 culture and the answer is

01:29:00.980 you actually have to

01:29:02.220 support the people who

01:29:02.980 fight against cancel

01:29:03.660 culture and that sometimes

01:29:05.020 means people who you

01:29:06.280 don't necessarily like

01:29:08.280 everything about that's

01:29:09.060 right that's right and

01:29:09.760 you have to actually focus

01:29:10.880 on the parts of

01:29:11.460 conversations that matter

01:29:12.420 so for example i think

01:29:14.420 what kyle rittenhouse did

01:29:15.640 was dumb i don't think

01:29:17.560 kyle rittenhouse should

01:29:18.360 have been out there

01:29:18.780 defending those buildings

01:29:19.600 not because there isn't

01:29:20.680 virtue in defending those

01:29:21.840 buildings there is but

01:29:23.180 because i think that a

01:29:24.600 17 year old young man

01:29:26.060 arming himself with with

01:29:28.480 a rifle and going and

01:29:30.360 standing in front of that

01:29:31.100 business was was not

01:29:33.160 wise i think it showed a

01:29:34.880 lack of judgment the kind

01:29:36.140 of lack of judgment i

01:29:36.880 expect from a 17 year old

01:29:38.080 doesn't mean that i think

01:29:38.700 he's of low character

01:29:39.480 doesn't certainly doesn't

01:29:40.540 mean that i don't think

01:29:41.120 he's might be too high a

01:29:42.280 character maybe too high a

01:29:43.280 character i don't think he

01:29:44.300 should have been there

01:29:44.800 that would be a fun debate

01:29:46.260 for you and i to have on a

01:29:47.380 on a backstage would

01:29:48.560 probably engage in that

01:29:49.720 debate if they weren't

01:29:51.240 trying to destroy kyle

01:29:52.380 rittenhouse because

01:29:53.300 they're trying to destroy

01:29:54.300 kyle rittenhouse i'm not

01:29:55.640 going to get hung up on

01:29:56.540 should kyle rittenhouse have

01:29:57.840 been there that's not the

01:29:58.980 interesting part of the

01:29:59.740 story kyle rittenhouse

01:30:01.400 deserves he merits our

01:30:03.360 defense because of what

01:30:05.060 the left is trying to do to

01:30:06.120 him and similarly

01:30:07.360 dave portnoy with his

01:30:10.260 delicious one bite

01:30:11.180 everybody knows the rules

01:30:12.260 frozen pizza available at

01:30:13.520 walmart deserves our

01:30:14.700 support in this fight not in

01:30:16.020 every fight in this fight

01:30:17.360 kind of funny that it's

01:30:18.120 called everybody knows

01:30:18.840 everybody knows the

01:30:19.760 point here right you

01:30:20.520 should go to walmart you

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01:30:22.860 think that dave chapelle i

01:30:24.280 realize that this is like

01:30:25.820 blasphemy i don't think

01:30:27.500 dave chapelle is funny he's

01:30:28.900 not even close to used to

01:30:29.860 sometimes be funny and then

01:30:31.480 i think he essentially got

01:30:32.500 into the whatever the

01:30:33.640 opposite of claps not

01:30:34.760 laughs is like he is

01:30:36.060 essentially a preacher who

01:30:38.460 preaches through something

01:30:40.840 that is loosely a joke i think

01:30:42.460 it was a lot funnier before

01:30:43.260 he did that and i think 50

01:30:45.540 percent of what he's

01:30:46.100 preaching about i disagree

01:30:46.980 with but by god he deserves

01:30:48.680 our support you should go

01:30:49.460 watch that netflix special

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The Matt Walsh Show - November 11, 2021

Daily Wire Backstage： Turning Of The Tide

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