The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1022 - The Most Insane (And Hilarious) Backlash I've Ever Received

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the left and the media are enraged today because of my allegedly racist mermaid opinions.

00:00:07.320 Now, this is a very, very important issue to them.

00:00:10.160 Will I finally fall to my knees and apologize?

00:00:12.820 You'll have to stay tuned to find out.

00:00:14.280 Also, two videos went viral this week of brutal assaults in public schools.

00:00:18.220 Why does this seem to be an increasing trend?

00:00:20.520 And Chris Ruffo has more information about that alleged bomb threat at Boston Children's Hospital.

00:00:25.180 Something isn't quite adding up there.

00:00:26.620 And Jill Biden says that children should have access to all books, all books, in their school libraries.

00:00:32.660 In our daily cancellation, we must finally cancel Starbucks baristas.

00:00:36.020 It's been a long time coming.

00:00:37.560 It's now time.

00:00:38.480 All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:55.680 You know, there are times when I provoke the ire of the left and wind up trending on social media and generating negative headlines

00:02:04.580 because I've said something that they find offensive about an important cultural topic.

00:02:09.240 And then there are times when I provoke the ire of the left and wind up trending on social media and generating negative headlines

00:02:14.620 because I advocated for a scientifically accurate mermaid with translucent skin.

00:02:19.760 Now, this latest outrage falls into that second and admittedly very specific category.

00:02:25.160 So those who listened to the show yesterday may recall the very brief moment during the comment section segment of the show

00:02:30.580 when I responded to someone who was giving their opinion on the Black Little Mermaid issue.

00:02:35.720 In my response, I asserted that scientifically it makes no sense for Ariel to have dark skin. 0.91

00:02:41.080 In fact, I suggested that she ought to be translucent and skeletal and horrifying like a real deep sea fish. 1.00

00:02:47.660 Our loyal fans over at Media Matters heard those remarks as they hear literally everything else I say

00:02:54.180 because they're obsessed with me and want to date me.

00:02:56.880 And they immediately posted it to Twitter and published an article on their site with the headline,

00:03:01.060 Daily Wire host says it is unscientific to cast a black person as a mermaid.

00:03:05.900 Other left-wing blogs picked it up like the site Alternet, which reports,

00:03:09.260 and I'll read a little bit of their report because I think it fairly captures what actually happened.

00:03:12.340 Quote, right-wing Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh threw a fit on Wednesday over the new live-action remake

00:03:19.380 of the classic Disney film The Little Mermaid because the main character Ariel is portrayed by actress Hallie Bailey, who is black.

00:03:26.880 Matt said that while he is sympathetic to more racial inclusion in fictional works,

00:03:31.380 he opposes Bailey's casting because of marine biology.

00:03:35.100 Quoting me now, quote,

00:03:36.380 Also, by the way, with The Little Mermaid, can we also just mention that from a scientific perspective,

00:03:39.980 it doesn't make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean, Walsh complained.

00:03:45.120 I mean, if anything, not only should The Little Mermaid be pale, she should actually be translucent, he continued.

00:03:50.000 If you look at deep sea creatures, they're like translucent.

00:03:52.700 They have no pigmentation whatsoever, and they're just these horrifying,

00:03:55.900 they look like skeletons floating around in the ocean.

00:03:57.800 That's what The Little Mermaid should look like. 1.00

00:03:59.720 She should be totally pale and skeletal, where you can see her skull through her face, Walsh noted. 1.00

00:04:04.440 Adding that, this would be a version of The Little Mermaid that I would watch.

00:04:09.460 Now, that is indeed an accurate and full quote, which I do appreciate.

00:04:13.440 Media Matters on Twitter provided the full video, but they were more selective in their captions.

00:04:17.580 So Jason Campbell tweeted the video, but the caption was just,

00:04:21.840 Daily Wire host says it's unscientific to cast a black person as a mermaid.

00:04:26.080 Now, which again is what I said, but then didn't go further with the rest of it.

00:04:32.120 From there, it was sort of off to the races.

00:04:34.440 My statements calling for a translucent mermaid were picked up by other media outlets,

00:04:39.600 like Newsweek.

00:04:40.500 They had a headline about it.

00:04:41.740 It even went all the way across the world.

00:04:43.780 The Sydney Morning Herald in Australia was reporting on it.

00:04:47.180 Reporters started emailing me asking for comment on the issue,

00:04:51.080 which I was more than happy to provide, by the way.

00:04:53.580 Leftists across the nation expressed their outrage.

00:04:55.480 I was one of the top trending topics on Twitter all night and still today because of this.

00:04:59.400 My allegedly racist, translucent, supremacist views ignited a national firestorm.

00:05:06.120 Now, just reading through a few of these angry tweets, just for fun.

00:05:09.700 One says, wait, wait, wait. 0.99

00:05:11.700 First, these fools want to say that science doesn't matter when it comes to vaccines and the like, 0.98

00:05:16.420 but then want to be science guardians about fictional creatures? 0.99

00:05:19.600 Josh Marshall at the Talking Points Memo tweeted,

00:05:22.600 I shouldn't laugh because the racism isn't funny,

00:05:25.480 but they struggle to present their racism as scientific.

00:05:28.100 Have you ever even met a fish?

00:05:31.480 He actually wrote that.

00:05:33.120 Have you met any fish?

00:05:34.400 They don't look like people. 0.98

00:05:35.740 With a few exceptions, they're not white. 1.00

00:05:37.520 What an effing clown. 1.00

00:05:38.640 Another tweet says, quite possibly the strangest thing about self-described theocratic fascist 0.99

00:05:43.860 Matt Walsh's argument for why scientifically a mermaid couldn't be black is the fact that it's just wrong.

00:05:49.840 He's confusing, panning, changing someone's skin tone to the amount of melanin in someone's skin.

00:05:55.000 Another one says, attention, Matt Walsh.

00:05:57.320 F your scientific perspective.

00:05:59.380 Mermaids aren't real. 0.99

00:06:00.780 Just say you're a racist and take up significantly less airtime. 0.98

00:06:03.940 Bye. 0.97

00:06:04.900 And then there's this. 1.00

00:06:05.560 There are a lot of extraordinarily dumb and pathetic racists in the world, 1.00

00:06:08.980 but Matt Walsh puts them all to shame with pearl-clutching cakes like this. 1.00

00:06:12.620 Another from a woman named Victoria Brownworth,

00:06:14.720 who bills herself as an award-winning journalist, says,

00:06:18.680 quote, wait, Matt Walsh says there's science behind his racist take on the Little Mermaid casting?

00:06:24.460 Is someone going to break it to him that mermaids are mythical creatures

00:06:27.500 and Disney makes animated features for kids?

00:06:31.320 Now, there are many thousands more where those came from.

00:06:33.600 Ted Lieu got in on the dog pile.

00:06:35.180 So did CNN correspondent John Harwood, many others. 0.88

00:06:38.100 Conservative masochist and gimp David French joined in. 0.89

00:06:42.460 The outrage reached into unexpected corners. 0.67

00:06:45.060 The media liaison for the Portland Police Department, for some reason, 0.77

00:06:50.420 sent me hate mail about this, calling me garbage for my comments about a translucent mermaid.

00:06:55.900 This guy's name, by the way, is David Singer, and we'll put his message up on the screen.

00:06:59.540 And incidentally, in the message that I'm putting up on the screen, you can see his email address there,

00:07:04.300 which is a shame.

00:07:05.080 I wish we could block that out or something, but I forgot to, and now it's out there.

00:07:09.240 You can all see it.

00:07:10.200 Please don't email him, though.

00:07:11.320 I'm not asking you to do that.

00:07:12.420 Anyway, he was hired by the Portland, Maine Police Department during the defund the police hysteria

00:07:17.480 as one of the three civilian liaisons.

00:07:20.540 And his job, which he has paid a salary by the taxpayers for, is to facilitate community and media relations.

00:07:27.540 And this is his media outreach strategy, evidently.

00:07:30.340 A very interesting approach, to say the least.

00:07:32.240 He actually sent me that bit of hate mail, called me garbage, and then blocked me so that I couldn't respond.

00:07:36.220 This is media outreach, okay? 0.83

00:07:38.420 This is what the Portland Police Department in Maine needs.

00:07:41.900 All told, the left was very upset about my push for greater translucent representation in mermaid casting.

00:07:49.280 And let me just say, to begin with, that I am glad the left has chosen to take my comments seriously.

00:07:55.460 I was, of course, being totally serious when I made them.

00:07:58.540 I am not one to joke.

00:08:00.520 I would never engage in something as juvenile as sarcasm.

00:08:03.520 When I say something, as my audience knows, it means that I am 100% sincere all the time.

00:08:09.680 And I especially would never joke about an issue as serious as translucent representation in Hollywood.

00:08:16.560 So the three points I want to make here.

00:08:19.220 First of all, I have long been an advocate for the translucent population.

00:08:24.040 A fighter for trans rights, you might say.

00:08:26.580 Translucent individuals have been marginalized for far too long.

00:08:29.420 And now even film roles that rightfully belong to them have been appropriated.

00:08:34.280 I ask you, when was the last time you saw a skeletal, translucent, goblin-like monstrosity cast in any movie?

00:08:41.360 Now, granted, we have one as a Speaker of the House right now, but that is hardly enough.

00:08:46.140 If they will not earn roles in films about deep-sea creatures who sing, then what hope do they have?

00:08:53.100 Translucent people exist, and they deserve to be affirmed.

00:08:56.000 Translucent rights are human rights.

00:08:57.720 Translucent lives matter. 1.00

00:08:59.860 Second, many on the left have sent me messages or left comments insisting that my mermaid racial theories are factually incorrect.

00:09:07.380 They have presented many arguments seeking to debunk my thesis.

00:09:11.120 A journalist named—there are a lot of journalists, by the way, who are chiming in on this.

00:09:14.720 And there's a journalist named Catherine Marshall.

00:09:17.020 She sent a whole string of tweets fact-checking my alleged misinformation

00:09:20.680 and insisting that mermaids are more like seals who breathe air at the surface.

00:09:25.560 That's what she said.

00:09:26.280 And as she reminded me indignantly, seals are black.

00:09:31.440 But this argument fails because mermaids live on the ocean floor.

00:09:35.160 And as you may recall in the original film, Ariel's trips to the surface are a source of great controversy in the mermaid community.

00:09:41.960 They don't want her to go there at all.

00:09:43.440 This means that mermaids do not need to surface in order to breathe air, as seals do. 0.94

00:09:48.320 No, living on the ocean floor with flounders and evil octopuses clearly qualifies her as a deep-sea creature. 0.71

00:09:55.200 She certainly lives deep enough where there wouldn't be nearly enough light penetration to necessitate high concentrations of melanin in the skin. 1.00

00:10:01.280 Indeed, the lack of light penetration would create, as I argued, a translucent appearance.

00:10:06.400 This would be both evolutionary and evolutionary adaptation, allowing for greater camouflage from predators, and a logical result of the lack of sunlight.

00:10:13.980 So, do your mermaid research before you try to engage with me on this subject.

00:10:18.580 You need to bring mermaid facts and mermaid logic to this conversation. 0.94

00:10:21.560 By the way, I demand this level of accuracy out of every Disney film.

00:10:27.760 It's one of the reasons I've always objected to Beauty and the Beast.

00:10:30.100 For one thing, the story promotes bestiality, as Beauty begins to fall in love with what is essentially a large talking buffalo.

00:10:38.440 For another, the servants, who turned into household objects and pieces of furniture, would in reality be so psychologically devastated by this transformation,

00:10:47.480 they'd be in no mood to perform song and dance numbers for the Beast's female prisoners. 0.77

00:10:51.560 Not to mention, they wouldn't have vocal cords or a musculoskeletal system that could facilitate that sort of physical movement.

00:10:58.580 Third and final point.

00:11:00.980 I am the beloved and revered LGBT author of Johnny the Walrus.

00:11:07.460 I literally wrote a book about marine animals.

00:11:11.560 Johnny the Walrus is not just a masterpiece of children's literature, but also the seminal scientific treatise on the subject of aquatic mammals.

00:11:19.340 So, those who are questioning my statements are therefore not only engaging in homophobia and gay erasure,

00:11:27.140 but also are refusing to listen to and trust the experts.

00:11:32.520 This is dangerous and toxic behavior, not to mention an example of stochastic terrorism. 0.98

00:11:38.480 As an expert in the field, and as an advocate for the translucent community,

00:11:46.060 I will not allow myself to be silenced or marginalized.

00:11:54.420 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:11:55.920 Okay, by the way, I should also mention that the outlet HitC News, HITC News, which seems to be a British entertainment news site,

00:12:11.780 they have a report on the mermaid issue, and they do include the whole statement I provided to them when they reached out for a statement.

00:12:18.720 So, what they report is, Matt Walsh told HitC News,

00:12:23.180 I have long been an advocate for the rights of translucent people.

00:12:25.580 I believe it's time we start giving these casting opportunities to this marginalized community,

00:12:29.560 translucent rights or human rights.

00:12:31.180 So, they did include my whole statement in their report, which I really appreciate.

00:12:35.760 I don't know if the other media outlets will do that.

00:12:37.920 Newsweek reported on it, didn't even ask for a statement for me to begin with.

00:12:42.540 Although, even in their case, I'm glad that they are focusing on this extremely important issue.

00:12:49.000 Now, we move on.

00:12:51.020 A couple of videos have gone viral this week, both showing brutal beatings that happened in public schools.

00:13:00.300 And, in both cases, the assailants were black, the victims were white.

00:13:04.680 Now, I'm not even sure how much of these videos we can actually show.

00:13:08.760 But, we'll show one and then the other, and I don't know if YouTube takes this down because it's so violent.

00:13:15.940 But, you have to actually see, because you hear about a beating in a public school, something like that,

00:13:20.900 and you think, like, maybe the kind of fistfights that you witnessed or maybe were a part of when you were in school.

00:13:27.460 But, this goes beyond that.

00:13:28.940 So, first, we'll watch this one.

00:13:31.060 And, you can see it's a group of kids, and then the victim gets slammed against the wall.

00:13:35.320 His head is against the wall.

00:13:36.300 Now, and I've looked for an update on the story, and I haven't seen it.

00:13:39.920 Because, you can see, he's grabbing his throat, which is a very concerning thing.

00:13:48.380 And then, while he's on the ground, he gets kicked in the face, which, by the way, could kill somebody.

00:13:54.660 Then, we have the other incident, also in a bathroom.

00:13:58.300 And, in this case, it's the same deal.

00:13:59.780 There are people standing around, watching and filming.

00:14:03.480 And, it's the same situation where the victim is on the ground and still getting pummeled, kicked, and all the rest of it.

00:14:11.260 That's brutal.

00:14:12.280 Not quite as brutal as the first video, but still really bad.

00:14:14.640 Now, one thing you always see in these kinds of videos, you always see that, right?

00:14:21.680 The kick in the head when the victim is down.

00:14:24.000 Every time, it's just guaranteed.

00:14:27.560 Victim is on the ground, defenseless, has given up the fight, and, in many cases, was never fighting in the first place.

00:14:34.220 Didn't want to be a part of any fight.

00:14:35.780 And, they're on the ground, and then they just get kicked in the head.

00:14:38.040 Every single time, it's barbaric, animalistic, savage behavior.

00:14:41.780 There's no honor, it's just no honor at all, right?

00:14:44.900 No recognition of the other person's humanity.

00:14:51.300 Which, again, separates it from maybe some of the fights that you saw when you were in school or took part in,

00:14:57.460 where you get into a fight with someone, and you're trying to win.

00:15:01.460 You're not actually trying to kill them, though.

00:15:03.280 It's like you're not trying to paralyze them or put them in a hospital for a month.

00:15:09.260 And, most of the time, the kind of fights that you think about, it's just sort of, it's a lot of bravado and that sort of thing.

00:15:16.720 This kind of masculine energy that boys have.

00:15:20.520 And, a lot of times, they, you know, you get two kids that start getting into each other's face, and they don't even want to fight.

00:15:26.180 That's why they get into each other's face in school, because they know it's going to get broken up.

00:15:29.560 But, and so there's that, there's kind of that category of fight, which is one thing.

00:15:35.260 And, it's bad, you shouldn't do it in school, and kids who do it should be punished.

00:15:39.260 But, again, that's not this.

00:15:40.600 This is someone who's outnumbered and just being totally brutalized, often for no real reason.

00:15:48.900 Now, 12 News in Beaumont, Texas, has more on one of these incidents.

00:15:56.380 I think it's the second video we saw.

00:15:59.280 A Beaumont City Councilman is calling for state and national level change after what he describes as a horrific incident at Westbrook High School.

00:16:08.540 Beaumont City Councilman Mike Getz said in a Facebook post,

00:16:11.720 a student was brutally beaten in one of the boys' restrooms while other students washed.

00:16:15.840 Councilman Mike Getz said he was asked to be a Beaumont ISD ambassador.

00:16:20.140 The morning after the first night of the ambassador training, Getz saw a video that has since surfaced on social media.

00:16:26.600 He said, my cell phone was blowing up with people sending me links to a horrific incident at Westbrook.

00:16:30.860 The video, which 12 News has seen, appears to have been taken in the boys' bathroom.

00:16:34.780 A teenage boy can be seen punching another boy who's on the floor in the face and had it at least 14 times before kicking him in the face.

00:16:41.560 The boy on the floor tries to cover his face as he's hit multiple times.

00:16:45.720 Other teens can be seen in the bathroom when the incident is taking place.

00:16:50.960 Now, here's some important details about this.

00:16:53.820 The boy who was seen punching and kicking the other boy was arrested and could possibly face robbery and assault charges.

00:17:01.840 The councilman hopes he'll be prosecuted as an adult.

00:17:03.840 But Getz said, quote, this is not his first rodeo.

00:17:07.100 He has been arrested before, but current state and federal law allow these offenders back on campus after a relatively short stay at a juvenile detention facility.

00:17:18.020 So that's what's happening in the school system right now.

00:17:20.560 If you're wondering why you see these kinds of videos with increasing regularity, it's because the kids who do this end up back in the school system.

00:17:26.680 A lot of times they're not charged at all.

00:17:27.860 I mean, the fact that we're even talking about this hypothetically, oh, he could be charged with assault.

00:17:32.080 Could be?

00:17:33.020 What do you mean could be?

00:17:35.460 If that's not criminal felony assault, I don't know what is.

00:17:38.340 If that doesn't qualify, then what do you have to do?

00:17:40.720 If punching and wailing on someone and kicking them in the head when they're on the ground doesn't count as felony assault, criminal assault that sends you to jail, then what does?

00:17:47.760 And yet this kid has done this before and ends up back in school doing it again.

00:17:58.880 Now, a few things here. 0.63

00:18:01.000 First of all, we all know, obviously, that if you flip things around and it's a group of white kids beating a black kid, it makes national news.

00:18:08.680 We know that. 0.51

00:18:09.300 It's not just national news.

00:18:10.600 It's a national crisis.

00:18:12.140 It's a national crisis.

00:18:13.660 It is press conferences at the White House about it.

00:18:16.060 And there's marches, there's rallies, there's riots.

00:18:18.460 There's just it's the only thing you hear about for a month at least if you flip it around.

00:18:28.520 But the problem with focusing on the hypocrisy.

00:18:31.640 Now, I think that the hypocrisy should be mentioned.

00:18:33.360 The double standard should be mentioned.

00:18:35.400 We talked about it a few days ago on the show.

00:18:38.640 There's an attitude among some conservatives that I don't even want to talk.

00:18:41.080 The racial double standard, let's not even talk about that.

00:18:43.100 It's lame to talk about it.

00:18:44.080 Well, so we're just going to accept it?

00:18:46.060 I'm not saying that talking about it will solve the problem in and of itself, but I don't accept it.

00:18:52.060 So I'm going to point it out every single time.

00:18:55.520 The problem, though, with focusing just on the hypocrisy is that it lets us off the hook from actually dealing with the reality, with the uncomfortable reality, which is that in these videos, you know, we say that, well, if the races were reversed, it'd be national news.

00:19:11.520 Okay, what's the unspoken part of that?

00:19:15.600 Because most of the time you stop there, you don't keep talking.

00:19:18.340 But the next sentence is, we never see videos in the reverse.

00:19:24.140 They almost don't exist.

00:19:26.120 Maybe there are a few examples, but we can assume that there probably aren't, at least not recently, because we wouldn't know about them.

00:19:31.520 So that is the uncomfortable kind of unspoken reality is that in these kinds of videos, it's almost always a group of black kids mercilessly brutalizing a white kid.

00:19:44.960 That's just a fact. 0.88

00:19:45.720 Almost never the reverse.

00:19:49.020 Almost never.

00:19:50.560 It almost always goes this way, the way you see in the video.

00:19:55.080 Again, it's a fact.

00:19:55.840 It might be uncomfortable, but it's true.

00:19:58.180 So what do we do with that?

00:20:00.220 How do we make sense of it?

00:20:03.540 We can make sense of it in a few different ways.

00:20:05.800 I mean, one thing we could point to is the breakdown of the family unit, which has something to do with it.

00:20:10.760 And the breakdown of the family unit is happening across the country in every community and in every racial demographic.

00:20:17.920 But it is, as I think everyone knows, worse in the black community than it is anywhere else. 1.00

00:20:23.700 There you're dealing with 70%, sometimes 80%, depending on the community, sometimes even more than 80% fatherless home rate.

00:20:30.200 And, yeah, when you see this kind of behavior from a kid, again, not just fighting, but like this kind of brutal, savage behavior.

00:20:42.240 And in one case, you're going after someone smaller than you, there's no interest in a fight, trying to kill them.

00:20:49.960 This is not just assault.

00:20:50.980 This is attempted murder. 0.99

00:20:51.960 You kick someone in the head when they're on the ground, you are trying to kill them. 0.99

00:20:54.520 That's attempted murder. 0.82

00:20:55.160 You see someone behaving that way, you can guarantee, and you're going to be right 99.9% of the time, that there's no father in the home.

00:21:06.260 This is someone who does not have a strong masculine role model in the home.

00:21:12.040 And we know that because they've never had masculinity demonstrated to them.

00:21:15.940 So they're acting out in this way because no one has ever shown them how a man is supposed to act and how a man is supposed to harness his kind of masculine energy and aggression.

00:21:27.500 Which is one of the crucial services that a father provides to his family, is to show the boys in that family what they're supposed to do with all of this energy that they have as a male.

00:21:38.140 So we know that, and there's also just been no firm hand in the home.

00:21:45.960 Someone who can draw a line and say to the kid, you're not going to behave this way.

00:21:53.240 Everyone knows, it's a stereotype, but it's not a stereotype.

00:21:55.900 It's also true that in most families where there is a mother and a father present, the kids tend to be better behaved around their dad.

00:22:03.980 And, you know, if dad's at work and they're not behaving well, mom can use as a threat, we're going to tell your father about this when he gets home.

00:22:13.860 And that's a threat that resonates with kids.

00:22:16.080 In the reverse, you rarely hear about the reverse.

00:22:19.280 Okay, like my wife will use that threat with my kids. 1.00

00:22:22.980 We're going to tell daddy about this when he gets home.

00:22:25.040 That resonates with them.

00:22:26.300 They don't want that.

00:22:28.360 But when I'm watching the kids by myself, I'm not going to do that.

00:22:32.740 I'm not going to say, we're going to tell mom about this when she gets home.

00:22:37.000 And it's not because they don't respect their mother or anything like that.

00:22:39.340 It's just because their mother is their mother.

00:22:40.720 It's different for the father.

00:22:44.560 So you can tell that these are kids who don't have that influence in the home.

00:22:49.800 That's part of it.

00:22:50.540 Part of what explains the racial dynamics here.

00:22:52.860 Here's the other part.

00:22:53.600 Perhaps when you demonize a group of people, as our society has done with white people, and especially with white men, white boys, white males.

00:23:08.760 When you demonize them, when you paint them as the villains, and you drill this into people's head, you're giving license to others to treat them this way.

00:23:23.640 So I don't know.

00:23:25.580 Maybe there's a correlation here.

00:23:28.960 Maybe there's correlation that also indicates causation in this case.

00:23:31.860 Maybe when you take a group of people and you demonize them, you demonize them, you demonize them, and then you see this uptick in that very same group of people being treated in horrible and brutal and horrific ways.

00:23:43.340 Yeah, maybe we can start drawing some lines here, connecting these dots.

00:23:49.780 Just a thought.

00:23:51.800 By the way, talking about this on Twitter a couple days ago, and I got a few messages from teachers talking about exactly this problem, the violence in schools.

00:24:01.460 So this is a message from a teacher.

00:24:02.660 It says, Mr. Walsh, I quit teaching high school because a small section of the student population was terrorizing the whole campus.

00:24:08.780 That video of the smaller kid getting beaten down in the bathroom is a common occurrence. 0.91

00:24:12.060 As a black man, I pleaded with my principal to kick those delinquents out of school.

00:24:16.740 Instead, people who complain get harassed. 0.53

00:24:18.920 I'm from a different state than where this occurred.

00:24:20.460 This is a national problem.

00:24:21.940 Often in the media, teachers get the focus, but no one is asking this.

00:24:24.840 Did the principal who knew they had violent students on their campus get fired?

00:24:28.120 Most of those administrators know about the violent students.

00:24:31.880 This is, we're driving the good teachers out of the business entirely.

00:24:37.880 Driving them out because what are they supposed to do about this?

00:24:42.060 And when you have kids on the campus who are empowered to just do whatever they want, have no respect for authority whatsoever, what are you supposed to do with that?

00:24:49.940 All right, this is from the New York Times.

00:24:51.160 It says, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday that it would let stand for now a ruling that Yeshiva University must recognize an LGBT student group.

00:25:00.640 The vote was five to four, with the majority saying that the university, a modern Orthodox Jewish institution in Manhattan, must first pursue challenges to the ruling in state court.

00:25:08.820 Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the four dissenters, said that further challenges were pointless and that the majority had inflicted grave harm on the university's right to religious freedom.

00:25:17.500 He wrote, a state's imposition of its own mandatory interpretation of scripture is a shocking development that calls out for review.

00:25:26.120 The majority's order was brief, unsigned, and provisional, which is typical when the justices rule on applications seeking emergency relief.

00:25:32.280 It criticized the university's litigation strategy, saying its lawyers had not asked a state appeals court to speed its appeal and had not properly sought to block the trial judge's ruling in the meantime.

00:25:41.500 The order said, quote, if applicants seek and receive neither expedited review nor interim relief from the New York courts, they may return to this court.

00:25:51.120 And so they were basically kind of punting it down the line a bit.

00:25:54.600 But this is really an easy case.

00:25:59.880 This is an easy case to adjudicate.

00:26:01.580 It's an easy case to analyze from a constitutional perspective and a religious freedom perspective.

00:26:06.560 This is a private institution.

00:26:08.460 This is a private religious institution.

00:26:11.500 You know, Yeshiva University.

00:26:14.840 Just by its very name, you can't make any mistakes about what it's about.

00:26:20.280 And I'm sure that if you go to enroll in a school like this, all of these things are made very clear.

00:26:27.640 This is an Orthodox Jewish institution.

00:26:31.320 It's not like it's the only educational institution in America or even in New York.

00:26:35.360 There are many other options.

00:26:36.460 But if you come here, we are a religious Jewish institution.

00:26:39.880 We abide by the Jewish religion.

00:26:43.340 And that's it.

00:26:44.740 So if we're being told by the left, and provisionally anyway, by the Supreme Court, that private Jewish institutions don't have the right to abide by their religious faith in their own institutions, then in what sense do we even have religious rights anymore?

00:27:06.420 I always talk about the leftist sleight of hand trick.

00:27:12.160 Here was another one.

00:27:13.040 And it's always the same thing.

00:27:14.220 Because for so many years, they said, as they were driving religious people out of the public square completely, and driving them out and saying, you know, your religion is not welcome here.

00:27:26.520 It's not allowed here.

00:27:27.660 Get it away.

00:27:28.300 Get it out of sight.

00:27:29.940 But then what do they always say?

00:27:30.780 They said, well, you know, do that in your own churches and your own schools, okay?

00:27:35.000 If you want to be in your home, in your own private religious schools, your own churches, or synagogues, as the case may be, you know, you can have your religious freedom there.

00:27:42.840 Just don't make us look at it. 0.67

00:27:44.920 Gross.

00:27:45.400 We don't want to see it. 0.87

00:27:48.160 And many on the right, as always, went along with that.

00:27:52.700 I guess found that convincing.

00:27:56.420 But it was always a lie.

00:27:58.280 It always was.

00:27:59.280 Because you let them drive you out of the public square, relegate you to these, you know, to their own little assigned.

00:28:08.360 They draw a circle, you know, on the sidewalk and say, like they literally do on some college campuses.

00:28:14.820 They say, here's your free speech zone.

00:28:16.440 Here's your religious freedom zone.

00:28:17.760 It's right here.

00:28:18.200 You can have religious freedom in there.

00:28:21.120 And then people go, and they go stand in a little circle, and they say, okay, fine, I'll stand here.

00:28:25.140 And then what do they find?

00:28:26.100 That circle gets smaller and smaller and smaller until it disappears.

00:28:29.280 This is a straightforward case.

00:28:35.200 You know, if you don't agree with Orthodox Jewish people on the issue of homosexuality and gay marriage and gay rights and all the rest of it,

00:28:47.820 if you don't agree, then don't go to an Orthodox Jewish school.

00:28:51.680 Go anywhere else.

00:28:52.780 This is why I also told you this is what's going to happen with the federalization, the codification of gay rights on the federal level, 0.92

00:29:05.200 which many Republicans are now supporting.

00:29:06.780 That they're going to use that to go after the churches too, just like we talked about yesterday.

00:29:12.100 Because once they establish, once they have codified into law this notion that gay marriage or, quote, gay rights are, you know, it's a human right issue.

00:29:24.920 And they've also defined gay rights as just like if you're a gay person, you have the right to organize and you have the right to, you know, behave in any way you want, anywhere in any context.

00:29:39.880 Because that's what they mean when they talk about gay rights.

00:29:44.240 So once they've codified that, then it's a pretty simple maneuver for them to go to the churches and say, well, no, you can't do this.

00:29:50.720 You could still have your religious freedom, but you can't infringe on human rights, for goodness sake.

00:29:54.140 All right, next, Jill Biden has some thoughts on what books should be allowed or what books should be available in libraries.

00:30:04.120 Let's listen to that.

00:30:05.620 Meanwhile, there are schools all across the country facing these shortages.

00:30:09.760 It's such a challenge.

00:30:11.460 What concerns you the most when we talk about staffing for schools?

00:30:15.080 This has been happening for a couple of years now.

00:30:18.320 We've seen it coming.

00:30:19.460 The teacher workforce was skewed a little bit older, you know, for several years now.

00:30:24.400 But what we need to do is encourage younger people to come into the profession and also teachers of color.

00:30:32.660 Parents and politicians are now weighing in on what books should be in our school libraries and what their kids are being taught.

00:30:39.880 Where is the line, in your opinion, with how much of a say parents should have when it comes to what their kids are learning in school?

00:30:46.060 Well, I think with the pandemic, parents saw how hard teachers work and how difficult this job really is.

00:30:53.040 And I think if they work together in their school districts and decide what they want with their curriculum.

00:30:58.520 Is there a balance between, you know, this book should be in the library?

00:31:01.780 This book should be in the library.

00:31:04.680 All books.

00:31:05.480 This is America.

00:31:06.900 We don't ban books.

00:31:08.260 Okay, so at the very end that we get to the part that I wanted, the rest of it, who cares about?

00:31:13.120 Because it shows the absurdity of the leftist claim that, you know, books are being banned by conservatives.

00:31:21.440 There's some sort of crisis, this book burning that goes on.

00:31:25.140 And, of course, as we know, the actual book burning and, you know, the banning of books and the banning of ideas, deplatforming, almost all of that is a leftist thing.

00:31:36.040 And they also are the only ones with the power to do it because they control the institutions, which can then pass these rules down.

00:31:45.040 But you see the absurdity of it.

00:31:45.860 She says that all books should be available in libraries.

00:31:49.320 And here we are specifically talking.

00:31:50.780 We're not talking about the public library down the street.

00:31:53.300 We are specifically talking about libraries at schools.

00:31:56.420 And so she is saying all books should be available to kids in a school library?

00:32:03.420 They're sitting in a school library there.

00:32:05.020 It looks like an elementary school library they're sitting in.

00:32:08.380 Every single book should be available to kids in an elementary school library.

00:32:14.180 I mean, forgetting about the logistic challenge of putting every single book in existence in a school library.

00:32:18.620 Also, you're suggesting that there are no books that are inappropriate for kids?

00:32:24.640 They're not even debating whether this or that particular book is inappropriate.

00:32:29.300 They're saying, well, every book is appropriate, of course.

00:32:31.700 There's no such thing as inappropriate material for a child.

00:32:36.700 But don't call them groomers, of course.

00:32:38.400 Never do that.

00:32:40.020 All right.

00:32:40.200 Nancy Pelosi has some rather glib thoughts on the issue of when life begins.

00:32:45.600 Let's listen.

00:32:45.980 There is a conflict within the Republican Party.

00:32:50.480 There are those in the party that think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

00:32:56.060 And these people are in defiance of that, right?

00:33:00.500 They're in defiance of that because they're saying whatever they're saying about it.

00:33:05.280 So that's what you're seeing there.

00:33:08.000 But we are united in our support for women's right to choose.

00:33:11.620 Okay, so Nancy Pelosi, again, like every other Democrat, we went through a bunch of clips yesterday.

00:33:17.500 She is taking the gift that was given to her by Lindsey Graham, who I am convinced is intentionally trying to sabotage Republican chances in the midterms.

00:33:26.120 You know, who put forward this abortion ban, this federal abortion ban right before the midterms.

00:33:31.640 And we already went over why that is only a political move.

00:33:35.740 It's not anything else because the bill obviously has no chance of being signed into law or passing or even getting a vote.

00:33:41.460 So it's a political play. 0.99

00:33:42.820 And we talked about why that's a disastrously stupid political play. 0.98

00:33:46.380 Although we should also note that the bill itself, even though politically it makes no sense right now, the bill itself is quite moderate. 0.98

00:33:56.780 It's not extreme at all.

00:33:59.160 I mean, they're going around with their, acting like their hair's on fire, screaming, it's extreme, it's extreme.

00:34:03.780 What Lindsey Graham's bill does is it bans abortion after 15 weeks. 1.00

00:34:07.160 Which, as many on the right have pointed out, as Lindsey Graham pointed out, accurately so. 1.00

00:34:12.080 This just puts the United States right in line with most European countries, most civilized countries across the world.

00:34:20.540 15 weeks.

00:34:22.320 You know, my wife is a little bit more than 15 weeks, but she's right around there. 0.98

00:34:27.180 I mean, 15 weeks is late.

00:34:29.380 It is late into a pregnancy.

00:34:30.920 And at 15 weeks, now, you don't have unborn babies who are viable in the sense of, when we say viable, meaning you can take them out of the womb and they can survive completely on their own.

00:34:42.800 But they are developed, like, recognizable human beings.

00:34:46.840 You look at the ultrasound at 15 weeks and you will see little babies there.

00:34:53.420 So it's a moderate bill, but Democrats are taking the gift that they've been given.

00:34:59.620 And painting it like this extreme attack on, quote-unquote, women's rights. 0.95

00:35:05.360 But you notice her little quip there.

00:35:07.940 Well, you know, Republicans, they think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

00:35:13.140 Now, obviously, that's not even close to true.

00:35:15.720 She's trying to make it sound like conservatives are confused.

00:35:20.980 Like, she's trying to confuse the issue about what when conservatives say, when pro-lifers say life begins.

00:35:28.160 We're very clear about it.

00:35:29.240 Life begins at the moment that this living being comes into existence.

00:35:34.440 That's it.

00:35:35.800 Life begins.

00:35:36.720 So another way we could put it, we always say life begins at conception.

00:35:40.600 Maybe a simpler, more direct, clarifying way of putting it is that life begins at existence.

00:35:47.700 That's what we should be saying from now on.

00:35:51.740 Not life begins at conception, even though that is accurate. 0.50

00:35:56.040 Better way of putting it is life begins at existence.

00:35:59.140 And when you put it that way, you are now putting the pro-lifers people in the position of trying to argue that life begins sometime after existence.

00:36:09.480 That somehow, you know, human life and human existence are these two separable things.

00:36:16.720 And first, a human being comes into existence, and then at some other point in the future, they have life.

00:36:23.120 And then those two things come together.

00:36:24.960 That makes no sense.

00:36:26.060 But because they're confused and are constantly obfuscating on this issue and trying to make it obscure and impossible to understand,

00:36:37.000 you know, their strategy is to make it seem like we're in the same boat.

00:36:40.440 Like we're all just confused, fumbling around in the dark.

00:36:42.960 Who knows?

00:36:43.500 No, we have a firm, solid, understandable answer to this.

00:36:48.300 You do not.

00:36:52.020 Which means, by the way, like if you don't know when life begins, you can't tell us that we're wrong.

00:37:00.620 Because by your own admission, you don't really know.

00:37:04.580 So as far as you're concerned, we could be right.

00:37:07.780 We can say that you're wrong because we have a firm position.

00:37:10.600 We're saying life begins here.

00:37:11.600 And so that puts us in a position where we could say, no, according to our view, you're wrong.

00:37:16.480 But if you don't know, you can't say that anyone else is wrong because you don't know.

00:37:21.740 All right, Chris Ruffeau has an update that I wanted to read to you.

00:37:27.080 He posted this on Twitter.

00:37:28.040 He says, update.

00:37:29.340 I spoke with Boston Police Department about the bomb threat at Boston Children's Hospital.

00:37:34.100 The spokesman told me, quote, the threat itself did not get reported to police.

00:37:38.260 It came secondhand.

00:37:39.860 But he refused to say who alerted Boston Police Department, telling me it was part of the investigation file.

00:37:46.740 Then Ruffeau continues, I've submitted a public records request asking for a transcript of the communication alerting Boston Police Department about the bomb threat.

00:37:55.160 The Washington Post jumped to conclusions without substantiating the facts.

00:37:57.640 The public has a right to know what happened.

00:37:58.800 It's entirely possible the official narrative is correct, but we need answers to a few questions.

00:38:03.200 Who alerted BPD about the bomb threat?

00:38:05.360 How did they communicate this info?

00:38:07.160 And where is the evidence to substantiate claims of threats and harassment against Boston Children's?

00:38:11.280 The burden of proof is on the media.

00:38:12.860 We know that other outlets such as Axios have made claims of harassment against a children's hospital without reviewing or providing any evidence.

00:38:20.840 Journalists need to have a higher standard than this.

00:38:23.440 And then he wraps it up and says, again, it's entirely possible that the Washington Post narrative is true, but there are claims that need to be substantiated and questions that need to be answered.

00:38:33.000 Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Police Department should provide the evidence to the public.

00:38:36.480 So just the way that they are, and it hasn't just been Chris Ruffo, I've been in communication with other people on the right in media that have been doing this too, have been trying to track down answers about this bomb threat.

00:38:50.380 It was the biggest story everyone was talking about for about five minutes a couple weeks ago.

00:38:54.380 And people like myself and Chris Ruffo himself and lives at TikTok and others had been, you know, accused of maybe calling in the bomb threat ourselves or at least of encouraging others to do it, even though none of us ever encouraged anything like that.

00:39:10.140 And then the story goes away.

00:39:12.700 And we, the ones who are being accused here are the only ones still interested in talking about it.

00:39:18.160 I mean, I'm the one saying to the left-wing media, why'd you stop talking?

00:39:23.260 Let's still talk about the bomb threat at the Boston Children's Hospital.

00:39:26.820 I actually want to know what happened.

00:39:29.500 Who did it?

00:39:30.280 I want to know that.

00:39:32.380 Apparently you don't want to know, which really tells us something.

00:39:38.860 But this is what we've seen, and I've seen this from multiple sources,

00:39:40.900 that any attempt to reach out to Boston Police Department and just find out what happened is,

00:39:46.480 they are very strangely vague about it.

00:39:49.760 Even the wording here.

00:39:50.740 So he's giving, this is what the spokesman told him verbatim.

00:39:53.820 The threat itself did not get reported to police.

00:39:55.820 It came secondhand.

00:39:56.660 What does that mean?

00:39:58.140 The threat didn't get reported?

00:40:00.260 I mean, are they saying that the threat was not, it's like whoever made the threat didn't call 911,

00:40:06.400 but made the threat to Boston Children's, and then they heard about it through that?

00:40:09.340 Is that what they're saying?

00:40:11.280 Because, I mean, that's one thing.

00:40:13.940 But what they're saying is that the threat itself did not get reported to police.

00:40:18.140 So they just heard about it secondhand.

00:40:21.760 How do you make sense of that?

00:40:22.720 I don't even, I don't know what that means.

00:40:26.600 And again, Ruffo and others have tried to clarify, what does this mean exactly?

00:40:30.220 What are you saying?

00:40:30.860 Like, where did this threat come from?

00:40:32.120 Are you still investigating it?

00:40:33.560 How did this come in?

00:40:34.960 How was the threat made?

00:40:37.580 What was the threat exactly?

00:40:39.060 What was said on this call or whatever, however the threat came in, what was contained in the threat exactly?

00:40:46.640 They won't answer any of those questions.

00:40:51.280 And we can't know exactly why we can only speculate.

00:40:54.620 But here's the thing.

00:40:57.020 When information is being kept from us, and we're being given intentionally vague answers, then it's not our fault that we have to speculate.

00:41:08.440 That's not on us.

00:41:10.240 So I feel perfectly free offering speculations.

00:41:13.000 I'd like to have something better than speculation, but they won't tell us.

00:41:17.220 And so my speculation, my theory of the case, is that this was not a conservative or a critic of gender ideology who called it a threat to Boston Children's.

00:41:31.440 That wouldn't even make any sense.

00:41:34.760 I mean, someone who is actually a critic of what Boston Children's is doing, a critic of gender ideology, you gain nothing.

00:41:43.380 There is no motivation.

00:41:45.200 There is no incentive to call it a bomb threat.

00:41:47.780 No incentive.

00:41:48.360 Even aside from the fact that it's obviously a morally wrong, atrocious thing to do, but if you're the kind of person that you don't care about that, so the morality of it doesn't mean anything to you, or from a basic strategic perspective also, it makes no sense.

00:42:07.220 Who does it benefit?

00:42:08.460 Anytime you hear about something happening, and it's very vague and speculative, we don't know exactly what happened, the first question you should ask yourself is, who benefits from this?

00:42:19.060 Does the right benefit from a bomb threat to Boston Children?

00:42:22.220 Do I benefit?

00:42:22.980 Does Libs and TikTok benefit?

00:42:25.040 Obviously not.

00:42:27.040 The left reaps all the benefits here, because they can use this to de-platform or try to de-platform people like myself, which is exactly what they did and have been doing.

00:42:38.540 So, I don't know.

00:42:39.860 I mean, we have some dots there.

00:42:42.760 Can we connect them?

00:42:44.520 Doesn't benefit anybody on the right.

00:42:46.100 Benefits on the left.

00:42:46.960 But we know that on the left, they have a habit of using hoaxes to get what they want.

00:42:55.260 This is a well-established thing.

00:42:57.120 They do it all the time.

00:42:58.580 It just happened out at BYU.

00:43:00.380 It's very, very frequent.

00:43:01.620 So, we have people with a habit of using hoaxes for ideological and political reasons, self-serving reasons, and it also just happens that these are the only people who benefit from this thing.

00:43:13.260 And we're not being given any information about it.

00:43:16.440 I don't know.

00:43:20.200 Seems like, although they're trying to make the picture very unclear, it seems to be getting clearer and clearer by the day.

00:43:27.180 Let's get to the comment section.

00:43:28.280 If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard, hey, we're the sweet baby gang.

00:43:35.480 Jack Walsh says, no relation, I think, anyway.

00:43:41.560 I remember being in public school in the early, mid-2000s, and sex ed was taught by our PE coaches.

00:43:47.800 We had one teacher who tried to actually teach abstinence during the course, and I distinctly remember the vast majority of my classmates thinking he was weird and creepy because it was so different than literally everything else taught by all the other teachers.

00:43:59.460 I can recall this, too.

00:44:00.640 I don't know if this is still the case, but they had the gym teachers teaching sex ed, which is already strange, but it's strange for anyone to do it.

00:44:08.300 But here's the thing, Jack.

00:44:09.520 I agree with the classmates who think that it's weird and creepy to have some teacher up there, whether it's the gym teacher or the health teacher or anybody else, teaching them about abstinence.

00:44:22.020 I think that's weird and creepy, too.

00:44:23.360 Now, it's a lot weirder and creepier to be teaching the kind of sex ed that we talked about yesterday on the show, to be teaching the kind of sex ed that the left wants.

00:44:33.220 That's a hell of a lot creepier and weirder.

00:44:37.160 But it is also weird and creepy to be talking about abstinence at public school because this is just a subject that should not be discussed at all.

00:44:45.180 Now, I don't want public school teachers teaching kids about how to use pornography, teaching about masturbation and all these things that you hear about in these sex ed classes.

00:44:55.720 I don't want that. 0.91

00:44:56.280 That's disgusting and horrible and it should be criminal and people that do that should go to prison. 0.60

00:45:01.260 But I also don't want them to be tasked with teaching kids how to refrain from sex.

00:45:07.640 But it's also not a conversation that I want to enlist the government education system in.

00:45:18.420 It should not be talked about.

00:45:22.300 How to have sex, how to not have sex, shouldn't be talked about.

00:45:25.800 Strange adults should not be talking to kids about that, period.

00:45:29.820 Stick with the ABCs and 123s. 1.00

00:45:32.660 Philip says, I asked my five-year-old daughter what is a woman immediately and without hesitation.

00:45:39.720 She responded, a grown-up girl like mommy.

00:45:41.700 Looked at me confused and walked away.

00:45:43.820 She gets it.

00:45:45.120 Well, that's good.

00:45:46.360 She obviously understands reality better than most adult people on the left.

00:45:50.000 And now your job is just to make sure that she retains that recognition of reality as she grows older.

00:46:02.660 Delta says, porn is a natural human experience.

00:46:07.960 No, it may be a common or nearly universal contemporary experience, but that doesn't mean it's natural or good.

00:46:14.820 Yeah, we heard that from the advocates of porn literacy yesterday.

00:46:18.680 People that are promoting the porn literacy classes in Idaho public schools.

00:46:23.140 And one of the reasons that they think they need to teach porn literacy is that porn is natural.

00:46:27.960 And I noted that also.

00:46:29.480 I didn't focus on that.

00:46:30.560 I mean, there are so many things to tear apart when you hear this.

00:46:33.000 So I didn't focus in on that part of it.

00:46:34.520 But you're absolutely right that that statement makes no sense.

00:46:36.480 Porn is natural.

00:46:37.460 I mean, what does that even mean, natural?

00:46:39.560 What do you mean in this context?

00:46:42.100 It's natural in the sense that natural beings, like physical beings, are doing it.

00:46:46.900 So I mean, if that's what you mean.

00:46:50.740 But beyond that, no, I'm not sure how we could call Pornhub a natural phenomenon.

00:46:55.780 It didn't, like, arise.

00:46:58.940 It didn't grow out of the ground like a tree.

00:47:02.640 It is, in many ways, one of the least natural things you can possibly imagine.

00:47:06.700 Ken says, I'm totally on board with the bicycling thing.

00:47:12.100 I have to drive on a road exactly like you described on my way home from work.

00:47:15.120 And there's always tons of people biking on these extremely dangerous roads right at the time that people are trying to get home from work.

00:47:20.060 It's inconsiderate and rude, not to mention dangerous.

00:47:23.000 There are plenty of bike paths and other designated biking areas that they could be using.

00:47:28.620 Yeah, they do seem to especially choose the worst roads to bike on and the worst times.

00:47:40.100 So, you know, if you're in the cyclist community, you could at least make it a little bit easier on everybody.

00:47:44.480 By choosing times like middle of the day when it's not during a commute and at least choose roads that people can pass you without having to drive in oncoming traffic and get into a head-on collision.

00:47:57.600 Can you at least do that?

00:47:59.860 But no, that's too much to ask because these people are selfish sociopaths and should also be in prison. 0.88

00:48:07.880 That's my solution to everything. 0.97

00:48:09.020 Just put everyone in prison.

00:48:10.140 You know, this week, Obama economist Lawrence Summers said that we have a serious problem with inflation, which is a direct quote.

00:48:17.860 But Joe Biden has refused to see it that way, calling the economy fast and strong.

00:48:22.360 If only we had his eyes and his brain.

00:48:25.080 Well, I don't want his brain, but his eyes anyway.

00:48:26.760 Well, we thought we'd give the old man the benefit of the doubt and applied his fiscal policies to our Daily Wire merch sale to see if it gave you a better deal.

00:48:33.960 After crunching the numbers, we quickly realized no one wants to pay 8.3% more for anything.

00:48:40.800 So instead, we're going with our gut and we're going to do what makes sense to us.

00:48:44.020 We're cutting prices by 40%.

00:48:45.860 That's right.

00:48:46.400 You can now get a copy of my best-selling children's book, Johnny the Walrus, for only $12.

00:48:51.560 You can get a Sweet Baby Gang t-shirt for $21.

00:48:54.240 You can get an old glory baseball bat signed by Ben Shapiro for just $150.

00:48:57.860 This is the time.

00:49:00.720 You know, if you haven't gotten your Sweet Baby Gang t-shirt because you're being cheap and saying,

00:49:04.480 I don't want to spend all that, well, we are inviting you into the fold now.

00:49:07.620 Even the cheap people can be in the Sweet Baby Gang. 0.99

00:49:10.000 Get your t-shirt now.

00:49:11.400 You get 40% off Daily Wire merchandise during our inflation reduction event.

00:49:15.360 While supplies last, just go to dailywire.com slash shop.

00:49:19.800 Sale ends on Sunday.

00:49:21.020 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:22.260 By the way, I am looking forward to the Media Matters headline, Daily Wire host calls for

00:49:32.420 imprisoning all cyclists, which yet again, I mean, go ahead and make a headline out of that

00:49:36.700 because I'm 100% serious.

00:49:38.580 I really want to do that and I would if I was in charge.

00:49:41.060 Now, for our daily cancellation, I cannot say that it's a major shock by any means, but in recent

00:49:46.680 weeks, I have learned that the Starbucks baristas community includes some of the whiniest, most

00:49:52.240 self-pitying humans who have ever existed on the face of the planet.

00:49:56.540 Now, this doesn't apply to all of them.

00:49:57.960 There are exceptions, of course, but the whiners are a large enough contingent so that every week,

00:50:03.240 it would seem, there's another viral post on Twitter from a barista complaining about

00:50:07.440 customers, about working conditions, about the lack of pay, the lack of tips, etc.

00:50:11.820 But the one thing that this group hates the most, it seems, is when they're asked to do

00:50:17.200 the job they signed up for.

00:50:19.320 So earlier this week on Twitter, it was posted a thread with instructions, someone posted

00:50:24.860 a thread with instructions on how to order various fancy Frappuccino drinks and lattes.

00:50:31.160 These are not on the drive-thru menu, but they're drinks that Starbucks can make if you ask,

00:50:36.040 and they're kind of complicated.

00:50:37.680 Now, I'm personally not one to order fancy drinks, and I can't say that I particularly

00:50:41.980 enjoy being stuck in line behind a fancy drink enthusiast, but this is why the baristas are 1.00

00:50:47.640 there.

00:50:47.960 It's why they have jobs.

00:50:49.260 If everybody was like me and simply wanted a humble medium roast coffee, about 80% of

00:50:54.320 Starbucks staff would just become immediately useless.

00:50:57.540 We wouldn't need them.

00:50:59.120 And yet many members of the Starbucks team responded to the tweet complaining bitterly about the

00:51:04.540 very customers who save them from redundancy.

00:51:07.680 So I'll read a few of these responses, which are representative of many others.

00:51:11.020 Quote, hey, just so you know, baristas despise these hyper-customized drinks. 1.00

00:51:15.740 It throws us off our rhythm.

00:51:17.400 Starbucks understaffs us and expects us to make a drink every 48 seconds.

00:51:21.240 Drinks that aren't routine take longer and put us behind in a stressful environment.

00:51:25.260 Try ordering a latte.

00:51:26.740 The other one says, imagine pumping out 120-plus drinks an hour and having to clear the drive-thru

00:51:31.400 in less than 46 seconds.

00:51:33.380 This isn't cute.

00:51:34.620 It's labor abuse. 1.00

00:51:35.780 Yes, that's right.

00:51:37.600 It is abusive for a customer to ask a customer service worker to provide them with service.

00:51:43.900 Another comment says, each of these drinks is going to cost at least $9 because of all

00:51:48.320 the additions.

00:51:48.980 Also, your baristas will hate you. 1.00

00:51:51.820 And indeed, many other baristas confirm this, some threatening physical violence against any 0.99

00:51:55.660 customer who dares to make them get off their asses and do the job they're paid to do. 0.99

00:52:00.300 But Twitter's not the only forum for these bitching baristas. 1.00

00:52:02.820 TikTok has become, so far as I can tell, also a forum, really a forum primarily for dancing

00:52:09.800 and also for barista complaints, and sometimes for barista complaints in the form of dancing.

00:52:15.840 So the Daily Dot reports on one recent example, quote, a barista is going viral on TikTok after

00:52:20.920 uploading a routine customer experience he has while making drinks that have cold foam

00:52:25.280 in them.

00:52:25.640 Marquise Maynell said in a caption from the popular clip, which garnered 100,000 likes on

00:52:31.160 the social media platform, that it happens daily.

00:52:33.620 Several other baristas in the comment section said that they've experienced the same type

00:52:36.600 of anxious requests from patrons that they've served as well.

00:52:38.960 The video begins with Marquise setting down a cup of cold brew. 0.72

00:52:42.820 It's an iced coffee with a text overlay that reads, okay, and here's the cold brew.

00:52:47.620 Let me add your cold foam.

00:52:48.720 The barista then starts adding the foam to the cup before another text overlay meant to represent

00:52:53.020 an interjecting customer comes up on the screen, don't forget my cold foam.

00:52:56.800 It reads, Marquise adds the foam to the drink, which he was in the middle of doing in the

00:53:00.020 video before the customer reminded him not to pour it in their cup.

00:53:02.920 He then gives the customer a glare before walking off camera.

00:53:05.580 Now, by the way, he was actually at Starbucks, apparently, on the clock when he made this video

00:53:11.320 complaining about the customers at Starbucks.

00:53:13.940 So this is another very common thing.

00:53:15.160 Like these Starbucks employees are making videos complaining about their job while on the

00:53:20.080 job.

00:53:20.460 So the next time you're sitting in line at Starbucks wondering what's taking so long,

00:53:24.540 keep in mind that you might be getting held up because the employees haven't finished uploading

00:53:29.920 their TikToks yet.

00:53:31.440 Another TikTok video has this caption on the screen, quote, just reminding everyone that

00:53:35.580 Starbucks baristas can see you in the drive-thru when you're at the box.

00:53:38.920 So I saw you make faces and throw your hands up and say stuff under your breath to your friend

00:53:44.180 because I asked you what size pink drink you wanted.

00:53:47.120 I'm sorry I didn't hear you the first time.

00:53:48.900 I didn't mean to offend you.

00:53:51.300 Another barista agreed with this, warning customers that if she doesn't like your attitude

00:53:54.540 at the drive-thru line, she will intentionally make your order wrong. 0.99

00:53:57.700 Still, there's another recent TikTok video featuring a barista complaining about people

00:54:02.160 who order Frappuccinos too early in the morning.

00:54:05.220 I've also heard complaints about people who order complicated drinks too close to closing

00:54:08.460 time.

00:54:09.280 So don't order them in the morning.

00:54:11.780 Don't order them at night.

00:54:12.800 Don't order them in the afternoon because that's when all the workers are making TikTok

00:54:17.060 videos.

00:54:17.460 So just don't order the drinks at all.

00:54:19.500 Don't go to Starbucks because your presence is an imposition on the employees.

00:54:23.560 But also, the employees all need higher wages.

00:54:27.020 So this is what they demand.

00:54:28.800 Less business, less work, higher wages.

00:54:32.940 Economics 101, folks.

00:54:34.060 Now, here's the point that needs to be made.

00:54:37.700 And it's not just baristas who need to hear this.

00:54:40.540 Yes, they seem to be an especially aggrieved bunch, constantly persecuted by customers who,

00:54:46.560 you know, order things.

00:54:48.340 But this is a symptom of a widespread cultural epidemic.

00:54:51.760 We hear constant complaints from all sectors of the working world among high and low paid

00:54:56.300 workers.

00:54:56.980 Even Hollywood actresses worth millions like Jennifer Lawrence will still relentlessly complain 0.99

00:55:02.020 about their jobs.

00:55:02.880 Now, if there's legitimate abuse going on, actual injustice, then those should be exposed

00:55:08.860 and addressed.

00:55:09.460 But someone making a complicated order or getting a little annoyed with you is not abuse and

00:55:14.500 it's not an injustice.

00:55:16.440 It's just the job.

00:55:17.720 It's the job you signed up for.

00:55:19.020 It's the reason your position exists.

00:55:21.960 So here are some things that anyone should think about before they start whining and moaning

00:55:25.220 about their job.

00:55:26.080 And this, no matter what your job is, this goes for Starbucks baristas, people in my line

00:55:30.300 of work, whatever it is.

00:55:31.320 Number one, your job is not as difficult or taxing as you think it is.

00:55:38.780 It has its challenges, but there are many jobs more difficult than yours.

00:55:43.540 Every job has its own sources of frustration.

00:55:45.720 This is the other thing you hear from baristas anytime you talk about this and they're complaining

00:55:48.260 and you say, hey, you shouldn't complain.

00:55:49.200 It's like, oh, you tried doing this sometime.

00:55:50.760 You can't imagine how hard this is.

00:55:52.380 You could never do this.

00:55:54.800 But try working a customer service job?

00:55:56.640 I mean, I've done that.

00:55:57.460 Lots of us have.

00:55:58.260 I'm not saying it has its difficulties.

00:56:00.360 It is kind of stressful, but it's something that a lot of us have done and can do.

00:56:05.300 Your job is not as difficult as you think.

00:56:08.940 Two, also remember that you pursued this job.

00:56:12.120 You asked for it.

00:56:13.120 You went to the employer and said, can I have this job, please?

00:56:17.120 I want to do this.

00:56:18.900 And then they said, yes, you can do it.

00:56:21.080 Here are your job responsibilities.

00:56:23.200 And you said, yes, I'll do those responsibilities.

00:56:26.880 Look, there are people who don't have a job and would love to take yours if it's such a burden.

00:56:30.760 Also keep that in mind.

00:56:31.540 Three, you don't deserve any special commendation simply for showing up.

00:56:36.120 You have to work.

00:56:36.800 And even when you work, you still don't deserve special commendation just for that.

00:56:41.300 It's what's expected.

00:56:42.200 It's your responsibility.

00:56:43.180 It's your duty.

00:56:43.940 You aren't a martyr simply for filling your basic responsibilities.

00:56:47.680 Four, successful people are always the ones who go to their jobs looking to add extra challenges to their day.

00:56:57.580 That might sound like it might throw you for a loop.

00:56:59.580 It might sound crazy.

00:57:00.260 But people who are really successful, that's what they do.

00:57:03.920 No matter what their line of work is, they go into their job and they're looking actually to make the job harder.

00:57:09.340 They're looking for more challenges, more things to do.

00:57:12.600 They want to challenge themselves at the job.

00:57:16.040 And if that sounds mind-boggling to you, you can't even imagine someone doing that, well, it's why you are not as successful as you could be.

00:57:23.140 If you sit around all day, you know, dwelling on the difficulties of your work and trying to avoid them, you will languish in mediocrity forever.

00:57:33.180 You will never be successful.

00:57:34.420 You will never amount to anything worthwhile.

00:57:37.120 And five, most importantly, and here I climb atop a familiar soapbox once again, but I have to just say it.

00:57:44.980 My classic dad's speech.

00:57:48.260 Life is work.

00:57:49.260 There is no such thing as a work-free life.

00:57:51.460 Every life requires work to sustain it.

00:57:53.540 Either you will do that work for yourself or someone else will be made to do it for you.

00:57:57.380 Now, the latter option may seem attractive, but there's no honor in it and there's no success in it.

00:58:02.160 There's no happiness.

00:58:02.920 And it's certainly not the ethical approach.

00:58:05.220 It's also not an option for most people.

00:58:07.820 Now, in your case, most likely, just like in my case, we have to work.

00:58:13.400 We have no choice.

00:58:14.320 That's it.

00:58:14.860 That's life.

00:58:15.400 It just is.

00:58:17.300 It's the nature of human existence.

00:58:20.500 So you might as well put some effort in and have a good attitude about it and strive for success.

00:58:24.860 You have to do this.

00:58:26.760 So you can sit around complaining all day.

00:58:28.440 It's too hard.

00:58:29.160 I want to do it.

00:58:29.760 It's so difficult.

00:58:30.260 But it doesn't matter.

00:58:31.480 You're alive.

00:58:32.220 You're a human.

00:58:32.960 This is just what life is.

00:58:35.620 So you might as well accept it and try to make the most of it.

00:58:41.340 And one more guideline.

00:58:42.700 If you're going to complain about your job, if you are going to complain about it, and we all complain about our job sometimes.

00:58:47.720 But if you are going to do it, do it in the break room in whispers like a normal person.

00:58:52.020 Don't do it on the Internet.

00:58:54.640 These Starbucks baristas have violated all of these rules. 0.99

00:58:57.580 In particular, though, they violate that last one.

00:59:00.100 And so that is why, finally, they are the ones who are today canceled.

00:59:05.720 And that will do it for this portion of the show.

00:59:07.580 As we move over to the members block, hope to see you there.

00:59:10.580 Sign up for a Daily Wire membership if you haven't yet so you can join us for the final portion of the show.

00:59:14.820 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:16.160 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - September 15, 2022

Ep. 1022 - The Most Insane (And Hilarious) Backlash I've Ever Received

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