The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1095 - Dems Outraged That Republicans Want To Provide Medical Care To Infants

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Democrats prove once again that they are the most evil political party in American history by voting against legislation that would guarantee medical treatment to infants born alive after an abortion.

00:00:09.760 They tried to come up with other reasons to object to the bill, but as we'll see today, all those reasons are absurd.

00:00:14.340 Also, after another transportation-related catastrophe, there are even more questions about what exactly Pete Buttigieg does all day.

00:00:20.800 Plus, a business owner faces the pitchfork mob after video services of him spraying a homeless woman with a hose.

00:00:26.460 In our daily cancellation, the Golden Globes were hosted by a gay black man, which means that his performance was automatically praised as brave and inspiring, but I have a slightly different take.

00:00:34.940 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:31.340 Welcome to the show.

00:01:32.520 This will be my last show for the next few days as we prepare to welcome two new children into the family.

00:01:38.240 My wife is scheduled to be induced tomorrow, so at this time tomorrow we will likely have two newborns on our hands.

00:01:44.520 Many people have asked me, how do we do it?

00:01:48.220 How do we go from four kids to six kids and manage such a roster expansion without becoming totally overwhelmed?

00:01:55.180 And the answer is, well, I don't know, but we'll figure it out.

00:01:58.540 Like, that's the answer, as is so often the case in life.

00:02:01.080 That is the answer.

00:02:02.320 Nobody plans on having a second set of twins or even a first set, so these are decisions made above our pay grade, and all we do is accept it with gratitude.

00:02:09.320 Take the rest day by day.

00:02:11.100 I honestly have no idea how exactly one manages life with six kids, nine under, and two infants, you know, over the span of the next year.

00:02:21.820 But the good news is that we don't have to manage it for a year.

00:02:23.880 We only have to manage it for a day and then another day and another day, et cetera, and figure the rest out as we go.

00:02:29.200 That's the best advice I can give to new parents who are feeling worried or overloaded with new responsibility.

00:02:34.680 And now I'll get another chance to try and follow my own advice, which is always good.

00:02:37.620 Now, the impending birth of our fifth and sixth children was very much on my mind when I read about the story that we're opening the show with today.

00:02:46.560 Actually, it's two stories related and both happening in the House of Representatives.

00:02:50.060 First, the House of Representatives, now under GOP control, voted on and passed a resolution condemning the terrorist attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers across the country.

00:02:59.560 There are dozens of these attacks that have happened, often including vandalism, arson.

00:03:03.720 And they've been carried out over the past six months, especially since Roe was overturned.

00:03:09.620 They are not only crimes under state laws, state laws that prohibit things like vandalism and arson, but they're also federal crimes in violation of the FACE Act.

00:03:19.680 And you may recall the FACE Act, you may have heard about it recently, as it's the federal law that has been wielded recently against pro-lifers who have been charged with allegedly getting too close to the entrance of an abortion clinic.

00:03:32.640 One pro-life activist in Pennsylvania was arrested at his home in the middle of the night by federal agents because of this act.

00:03:40.020 He violated this act, allegedly.

00:03:42.500 Needless to say, the groups waging a terror campaign against pro-life pregnancy centers, even though those pregnancy centers are covered under the FACE Act,

00:03:50.580 and these terrorists are blatantly violating that very same law, they have not been pursued with the same vigor.

00:03:58.340 In fact, it doesn't seem like they're being pursued at all.

00:04:00.840 Now, the resolution condemning the attacks, then, is, of course, symbolic.

00:04:06.120 It has no actual teeth.

00:04:07.880 The terrorists are already breaking the law, multiple laws.

00:04:10.500 It's not as though an additional law is needed or would have any effect anyway.

00:04:14.080 But it is very notable, if not surprising, that nearly every Democrat voted against the measure.

00:04:20.120 All but three, 219 in total, voted no on a resolution which simply declared that the House of Representatives is opposed to setting pregnancy centers on fire.

00:04:31.520 That's the basic gist of the resolution.

00:04:34.600 And they voted no, obviously, because they're not opposed to setting pregnancy centers on fire.

00:04:40.280 Now, there were a few Democrats who countered with a different idea.

00:04:45.880 You know, they said, well, let's have a resolution that condemns attacks on both pro-life centers and abortion clinics.

00:04:52.980 They would not condemn the former unless the latter was also condemned, they said.

00:04:57.220 But that compromise would be no good because, for one thing, attacks on abortion clinics have already been sufficiently condemned by all of the most powerful institutions and people in the country.

00:05:09.260 We already know that the system condemns attacks on abortion clinics.

00:05:12.940 We hear it every day, okay?

00:05:15.280 Anytime the conversation comes up about abortion, anytime pro-lifers are mentioned, we hear condemnations on these alleged attacks that are happening.

00:05:22.900 So it's not needed.

00:05:24.800 That's already been happening.

00:05:26.360 We do not know that these same people actually do condemn attacks on pro-life centers, actually.

00:05:32.560 And now we know that they explicitly do not condemn them.

00:05:35.840 Also, when we talk about an attack on a pro-life center, we mean that it was vandalized or it was set on fire.

00:05:43.980 But when the other side talks about attacks on abortion clinics, they include protesters standing peacefully outside the building.

00:05:52.260 To them, that's an attack.

00:05:55.340 And this is why conservatives can never join with leftist condemnations of attacks because, to them, any form of opposition is an attack.

00:06:05.160 Yet this somehow was not the most shameful moment the Democrat Party had yesterday.

00:06:11.280 For that, here's the Daily Wire report.

00:06:12.740 In one of its first acts this session, the GOP-controlled House passed a bill Wednesday geared toward ensuring steps are taken by health providers to protect infants born alive after an attempted abortion.

00:06:23.460 The bill, called the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, establishes that health care practitioners who do not reasonably act to preserve the life and health of the child after an attempted abortion, as they would any newborn, face fines or up to five years imprisonment.

00:06:37.680 The bill also outlines civil remedies for the mother of an abortion survivor.

00:06:40.720 However, this reasonable legislation will protect a baby born alive following an abortion, said Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life.

00:06:48.080 The bill isn't about interfering with the so-called right to abortion.

00:06:51.100 It's about stopping infanticide.

00:06:52.860 Congress must act now to pass this legislation and protect these vulnerable babies.

00:06:58.220 The bill ultimately did pass through the House anyway.

00:07:01.040 But nearly every Democrat, once again, voted against it.

00:07:04.000 So not only will they not condemn setting pregnancy centers on fire, they also will not vote to condemn or criminalize killing a newborn infant who has survived an abortion.

00:07:14.100 Now, part of their argument against this act is that they say it's not necessary because this isn't happening, right?

00:07:22.340 There's no abortionist who would ever kill a newborn baby. 1.00

00:07:25.420 It's just not happening.

00:07:26.220 But that is pure gaslighting.

00:07:29.640 Abortion clinic representatives themselves, when given the opportunity, have not ruled out infanticide.

00:07:35.580 Let us not forget the case of Alyssa LaPolte Snow, Planned Parenthood lobbyist, testified in front of a Florida House of Representatives subcommittee in 2013.

00:07:46.960 Maybe you saw this video back when this first happened.

00:07:50.320 But let's refresh our memories.

00:07:51.380 Here's how she responded.

00:07:53.460 Again, she's a representative for the abortion industry. 1.00

00:07:56.920 And when she was asked, what happens when a baby is born alive?

00:08:01.320 What will the abortionist do? 1.00

00:08:03.800 Here's how she responded.

00:08:06.000 It's just really hard for me to even ask you this question because I'm almost in disbelief.

00:08:10.700 If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that's struggling for life? 0.99

00:08:20.080 You're recognized.

00:08:21.900 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:08:23.240 Well, we believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician.

00:08:34.080 Okay.

00:08:34.940 Chair Davis, and then we'll come back to you, Rep. Oliva.

00:08:38.200 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:08:40.720 And I believe you were in the committee room whenever I asked Rep. Pigman the question about what happens in a situation where a baby is alive, breathing on a table, moving.

00:08:52.560 What do your physicians do at that point?

00:08:55.980 You're recognized.

00:08:57.980 I do not have that information.

00:09:00.280 I am not a physician, a non-abortion provider, so I do not have that information.

00:09:08.360 Go ahead, sir.

00:09:10.740 I understand that you're not a physician, but you do represent physicians who do perform this activity.

00:09:18.220 Can you tell me what happens when a baby is alive on the table at that point?

00:09:24.720 What do they do with the baby that is struggling to live?

00:09:28.100 You're recognized.

00:09:28.580 I don't know, and as it's been referenced earlier, you know, we don't know even how prevalent this situation is.

00:09:35.020 That goes on for another five minutes.

00:09:36.840 Now, if babies are born alive and they're provided care, she would simply say so.

00:09:44.520 It'd be a very easy answer.

00:09:46.620 She would say, well, of course we provide care to a child in that circumstance.

00:09:50.020 But she would not say so because it is not so.

00:09:53.880 Of course it isn't so. 0.99

00:09:54.720 Of course the abortion clinics would prefer to kill the infant or let him die. 1.00

00:10:00.280 They obviously have no moral compunction about murdering babies, 0.94

00:10:03.060 and they realize it would be very bad for business to be delivering life-saving care to a child in the middle of a clinic dedicated to killing them.

00:10:10.540 They certainly don't want any ambulance pulling up outside with paramedics rushing in and taking a barely breathing infant to the hospital.

00:10:19.420 They don't want that.

00:10:20.700 Such a scene would cause, you know, for one thing, the other women in the waiting room to ask lots of questions that the clinic doesn't want to answer. 1.00

00:10:27.620 It is also a recognition, like trying to save a baby's life, rushing him to the hospital.

00:10:34.360 That is a recognition of the humanity of the baby, and they don't want to recognize that.

00:10:40.260 Their whole business rests on not recognizing that.

00:10:43.860 So it's easier to solve the problem another way, and that's exactly what they do.

00:10:49.420 And it's what the Democrats want them to continue doing.

00:10:52.780 There was a series of Democrat lawmakers who stood up on the House floor to register their shock and dismay over this bill.

00:10:58.540 They were not only opposed to giving medical care to dying infants, but they were outraged and offended at the very suggestion of such a thing.

00:11:06.540 Democratic Representative Suzanne Bonamici denounced the legislation by saying that it's extreme and dangerous.

00:11:13.860 The woman from Oregon is recognized for one minute.

00:11:17.580 Thank you, Madam Speaker.

00:11:18.480 This bill is extremist, dangerous, and unnecessary.

00:11:22.260 Extremist because it would criminalize doctors with up to five years in prison and put them in fear of providing life-saving, medically necessary procedures to those who are pregnant.

00:11:32.080 Dangerous because the bill has no exceptions to protect the health of the patient and no exception for cases where there is a serious fetal anomaly.

00:11:39.260 And unnecessary because, as Mr. Nadler said, it's already a crime to kill a baby born alive.

00:11:46.120 Well, I agree with her to a certain extent.

00:11:48.020 We should not criminalize doctors who kill infants or let them die from neglect by giving them five years in prison.

00:11:54.980 We should not do that.

00:11:56.600 Actually, that's outrageous. 0.99

00:11:58.320 We should criminalize them by giving them the death penalty. 0.99

00:12:01.500 That's what we should do.

00:12:02.120 As for the rest, we see again what Democrats mean when they call something extreme.

00:12:06.520 Extreme, extreme is basic moral decency and common sense.

00:12:10.340 That's extreme.

00:12:11.620 Treating human life like it has meaning rather than treating it like garbage to be tossed in the trash is extreme.

00:12:17.860 All that's extreme, say the Democrats.

00:12:20.300 Representative Nadler had an even more interesting take on this bill and a more fascinating objection.

00:12:27.060 Here's what he said.

00:12:27.620 The problem with this bill is not that it makes anything, that it is not that it provides any new protections for infants.

00:12:40.640 The problem with this bill is that it endangers some infants by stating that that infant must immediately be brought to the hospital.

00:12:49.600 Where, depending on the circumstances, that may be the right thing to do for the health and survival of that infant, or it may not.

00:12:58.160 That is the problem with this bill.

00:13:00.280 It directs and mandates a certain medical care, which may not be appropriate, which may endanger the life of an infant in certain circumstances.

00:13:11.200 That's why we oppose this bill.

00:13:13.780 Did you get that?

00:13:14.540 It might endanger a child's life to bring him to a hospital.

00:13:18.340 Now, if Nadler was actually concerned that the legislation doesn't do enough to protect children, he could have proposed an amendment, making it even more bulletproof.

00:13:30.100 Change it to say something along the lines of, the child must be offered whatever medical care is most likely to preserve his life, or worse to that effect.

00:13:39.620 If that language isn't already in the bill.

00:13:41.740 That would be a simple way to allay his alleged concerns.

00:13:45.440 But the Democrats weren't interested in adding language like that to the bill.

00:13:48.620 They didn't want the bill at all.

00:13:50.020 And the reason is clear.

00:13:51.740 They do not wish to acknowledge the humanity of the unborn child.

00:13:56.900 They are, the Democrats are, in a very literal sense, anti-human, anti-life, anti-child.

00:14:03.560 And they prove it more and more every day.

00:14:07.300 Now, let's get to our headlines.

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00:14:53.880 Okay, a lot to cover in the headlines.

00:14:56.780 And I suppose we'll start with this.

00:14:58.260 With a controversy in San Francisco, here's the ABC headline.

00:15:02.360 Art gallery owner who hosed down homeless woman in San Francisco finds it, quote, hard

00:15:07.340 to apologize.

00:15:09.300 The art gallery owner is seen in a now viral video spraying water from a hose onto an unhoused

00:15:14.680 woman.

00:15:15.760 Remember that, not homeless, unhoused.

00:15:18.920 What's the difference between homeless and unhoused?

00:15:22.000 Nothing at all.

00:15:22.800 There is no difference.

00:15:23.960 Those are like synonyms.

00:15:25.760 It's just that unhoused sounds more clunky.

00:15:30.320 And yeah, that's the politically correct term now.

00:15:32.700 It's distinction without a difference, but we've just decided like it's time to update

00:15:38.760 that language arbitrarily.

00:15:40.580 And so this is the new thing.

00:15:43.520 Hosing down an unhoused woman is stopping short of apologizing and is defending his actions.

00:15:48.460 Edson Garcia, the co-owner of Broch Cafe, recorded the cell phone video while he was on his way

00:15:55.660 to delivering a catering order just after 6 a.m. on Monday.

00:16:00.080 He said incredulously, I turned to the side and saw the guy pouring water on the lady. 0.99

00:16:04.200 Garcia, who's seen the unhoused woman in the North Beach neighborhood before, sometimes 0.75

00:16:08.640 asks her not to block the doorway to his cafe and has never found her to be belligerent.

00:16:13.080 He adds that given the weather conditions, the man's actions appeared especially cruel.

00:16:16.420 It was cold and raining.

00:16:18.240 She was screaming, OK, I'll move, I'll move. 0.50

00:16:20.600 It's not fair to see people doing stuff like that.

00:16:23.580 Although, interestingly enough, if you've seen this video and I've seen it, I don't recall

00:16:28.900 in the video this Garcia character actually like stepping in or saying anything and said

00:16:33.540 he just stands at a distance and records it.

00:16:35.960 ABC 7 news anchor Dion Lim tracked down the man with the hose, art gallery owner Collier

00:16:41.780 Gwynn, who admitted to his actions.

00:16:43.680 Quote, I totally understand what an awful thing that is to do, but I also understand

00:16:48.560 what an awful thing it is to leave her on the streets.

00:16:50.900 Gwynn says there were repeated attempts to help the woman over the past couple weeks and

00:16:54.140 that other nearby business owners have complained about her presence blocking the sidewalks and

00:16:57.360 entryways.

00:16:58.360 He says the police reports don't seem to help.

00:17:00.640 We called the police.

00:17:01.540 There must be at least 25 calls to the police.

00:17:03.400 It's two days in a homeless shelter, two days in jail, and then they dropped them right

00:17:06.400 back out on the street.

00:17:07.540 Monday, when Gwynn says she refused to move and resisted his help in moving her belongings

00:17:13.020 down the street, he sprayed her down as a last resort.

00:17:15.480 This woman is a very, very sad situation. 0.99

00:17:17.260 She's very psychotic. 1.00

00:17:18.460 All right.

00:17:18.620 So there's, again, this video and it's been making the rounds online and people are very

00:17:22.960 upset and saying what a horrible man this is.

00:17:24.760 Now, I'm not saying that he responded the right way here, but, or he did what I would have

00:17:30.280 done in that situation, but I am saying that as a society, we have shown, I think, a lot

00:17:38.740 of sympathy to the homeless, to drug addicts, to criminals.

00:17:44.100 I think that, again, as a society, we sympathize more with people like that than any other society

00:17:51.360 ever has.

00:17:52.160 Like, it'd be hard to sympathize more.

00:17:55.660 It would be hard to be more lenient.

00:17:57.300 It would be hard to be more, like, welcoming and all of that and enabling than we already

00:18:06.900 are.

00:18:07.300 So there's a lot of sympathy.

00:18:10.320 But my point is, what about sympathy with an understanding for law-abiding citizens who

00:18:16.500 are trying to live their lives and trying to run their businesses and are simply fed up

00:18:21.660 and desperate and they don't know what to do?

00:18:24.840 How about sympathy for that?

00:18:27.300 Okay, what about sympathizing with that?

00:18:30.020 If you are capable of sympathizing with some strung out drug addict on a street corner or

00:18:37.340 a criminal who's, like, you know, victimizing those same law-abiding citizens, if you're

00:18:41.520 able to find sympathy for those people, can you not sympathize with just normal human beings

00:18:47.400 who manage to follow the law, be productive citizens, care for their families?

00:18:51.600 They're trying to contribute to their community.

00:18:55.520 And yet they find themselves stymied every step of the way by these people in their communities

00:19:03.300 who are not contributing and who instead are making themselves into a strain and a drain.

00:19:08.740 Is there any sympathy for that?

00:19:13.880 Because for me, you know, that's where my sympathy goes first.

00:19:16.920 My sympathy first goes to the law-abiding people, the just normal people who are trying

00:19:21.920 to live their lives and be productive.

00:19:23.640 That's what I sympathize with first.

00:19:24.820 And that's the first thing I thought when I saw this video.

00:19:29.380 I think a lot of people, they see that first thing they think is, oh, that poor woman.

00:19:32.420 First thing I think is, like, this guy's been driven to the brink.

00:19:35.320 And he's trying to run a business.

00:19:37.020 And he's got homeless drug addicts just setting up encampments right outside his business.

00:19:41.380 And he's not the only one.

00:19:42.760 There's business owners all over these communities in nearly every city dealing with this.

00:19:47.000 They're just trying to live their lives and provide a good or a service to people in their

00:19:53.580 neighborhoods.

00:19:54.880 And they look outside and they've got just homeless drug addict refugee camps on the sidewalk. 1.00

00:20:02.660 And nothing they do.

00:20:04.260 Like, what else can they do?

00:20:05.720 I think that's what they're saying.

00:20:06.540 That's what this guy said.

00:20:07.420 He's like, what am I supposed to do about this?

00:20:10.600 I called the police.

00:20:11.640 I take her to the shelter.

00:20:12.860 I offer to help.

00:20:13.920 Nothing matters.

00:20:15.020 It always ends up back here.

00:20:17.160 What am I supposed to do?

00:20:21.100 And business owners who are having their livelihood stolen from them, taken from them, because

00:20:27.280 their communities are being overrun.

00:20:30.220 And, you know, people don't even want to walk down the street anymore.

00:20:32.460 Like, no one's going to go to the business because they don't want to have to walk by the

00:20:35.720 homeless drug addicts laying on the sidewalk.

00:20:38.040 And they don't want to have to walk their children by that. 0.59

00:20:41.080 And so these businesses are going under.

00:20:42.820 What do you want them to do?

00:20:43.740 Just accept it?

00:20:45.020 And say, well, that's how it is.

00:20:46.720 I guess my life is destroyed.

00:20:50.440 So people are desperate.

00:20:52.160 And when people get desperate, they do things that might make you queasy and uncomfortable.

00:20:59.160 And that's what happens.

00:21:01.260 But I blame the people in power who are responsible for causing this state of desperation.

00:21:09.320 That's who I blame. 0.96

00:21:10.120 So all these people who just instinctively look for excuses for the societal parasites and 0.94

00:21:19.420 the leeches and the criminals and all that, the dregs of society, everyone who instinctively 0.97

00:21:25.300 looks for every excuse for those people.

00:21:27.260 Can you take a little bit of that grace?

00:21:28.660 What I'm saying is take a little sliver of that grace that you will give to someone who

00:21:34.440 has decided to live their entire life dedicated to their favorite drug.

00:21:40.040 And so that you can't even help them because no matter whatever help you give them or money

00:21:44.120 you give them, they'll spend it on the drug.

00:21:45.780 Take a sliver of the grace that you show to that person who contributes absolutely nothing

00:21:51.420 to your community and only helps to destroy it.

00:21:53.800 A little sliver of that grace, not even, just like a little bit of it, a little portion of the grace

00:21:58.380 and sympathy and give it to everybody else who's affected by this.

00:22:06.340 That's what I'm asking for.

00:22:08.860 And I don't know anything else about this guy.

00:22:10.820 Maybe it'll turn out that he's a serial killer. 1.00

00:22:12.940 He's a psycho himself. 1.00

00:22:14.780 Maybe there's all kinds of details about him and he's just the worst guy in the world. 0.99

00:22:18.200 I don't know.

00:22:18.800 I don't know anything about him.

00:22:22.880 All I know is what we see in the video and it is possible, it is very possible to imagine

00:22:30.800 a scenario where someone is just driven to the brink and they don't know what to do anymore.

00:22:37.240 Update on a big story yesterday, Associated Press.

00:22:41.120 Computer breakdown sows chaos across the U.S. air travel system.

00:22:44.160 Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Wednesday after a system that offers

00:22:47.680 safety information to pilots failed.

00:22:49.920 And the government launched an investigation into the breakdown, which grounded some planes

00:22:52.580 for hours.

00:22:53.980 Federal Aviation Administration said preliminary indications trace the outage to a damaged

00:22:58.680 database file.

00:23:00.180 The agency said it would take steps to avoid another similar disruption.

00:23:03.920 So there was a damaged database file and that's what caused the disruption.

00:23:08.600 And Pete Buttigieg, you know, he was doing interviews yesterday.

00:23:12.960 He's had quite a tenure.

00:23:13.980 There was the rail worker strike recently, which happened as Buttigieg went on vacation.

00:23:19.660 There's the truck driver shortage.

00:23:21.960 Of course, the supply chain crisis that happened right as he was going on maternity leave.

00:23:25.840 And it also didn't make him, you know, he wasn't going to cut his maternity leave short

00:23:29.280 because of that.

00:23:30.760 And now every flight grounded for the first time since 9-11.

00:23:37.520 But don't worry, he's still doing a great job.

00:23:40.460 At least this is what we've been told by his defenders on social media and in the corporate

00:23:46.320 media.

00:23:47.320 All you have to do is look at his resume.

00:23:48.960 He's obviously doing a great job.

00:23:50.480 The leftist group Vote Vets tweeted this.

00:23:53.480 And this has kind of been the talking point about Buttigieg.

00:23:57.140 Secretary Buttigieg is a Rhodes Scholar, Harvard and Oxford alum, and served in Afghanistan for

00:24:01.460 the U.S. Navy as an intelligence officer.

00:24:03.460 If anyone is up for the task, it's him.

00:24:05.220 He's by far extraordinarily qualified for his job.

00:24:08.240 We can't say that for everyone in Washington.

00:24:10.960 Now, I think this is a great tweet, and I love it because it is the best argument, and

00:24:19.260 it's very succinct, but it is the best argument against credentialism that I've ever read.

00:24:26.360 Because that's what this is.

00:24:27.620 This is credentialism.

00:24:30.240 Yes, he hasn't done anything.

00:24:32.880 He hasn't demonstrated any aptitude at all in his job.

00:24:35.940 There is no evidence that he has been successful or that he's even slightly competent.

00:24:44.500 Now, yeah, can you blame him 100% for everything that happens in the world of transportation

00:24:51.760 when he's the transportation secretary?

00:24:54.380 Obviously not.

00:24:56.140 Okay, he's not personally sitting there checking all the computer systems at the FAA every day.

00:25:00.440 But the buck's got to stop somewhere, and he is the transportation secretary, and he's

00:25:06.260 getting paid accordingly.

00:25:07.040 He's getting paid quite handsomely.

00:25:08.420 He's taking, he had, you know, I think 18 private jet trips in 2022, so he's flying private

00:25:13.320 jets all over the world and all of that.

00:25:15.420 And so that means the buck stops with you.

00:25:17.500 And you can try to mitigate his culpability here to whatever extent you want to if you're

00:25:23.480 desperate to find excuses.

00:25:24.460 But the point is that there's lots of evidence that he's very bad at his job.

00:25:30.780 There is no evidence that he's good at it.

00:25:34.140 And they try to bail him out by pointing to all of his credentials and all the, you know,

00:25:38.400 all the classes that he took and the degrees that he has.

00:25:41.860 And look at all these impressive institutions that are on his resume.

00:25:45.400 Yeah, and none of that means anything.

00:25:49.760 Doesn't mean anything.

00:25:51.320 You can be a Rhodes Scholar.

00:25:53.300 You could go to Harvard and Oxford.

00:25:55.500 I mean, you could get a PhD at every Ivy League school in the world if you want to.

00:26:00.980 And that will not even come close to proving or demonstrating that you have any skills or

00:26:06.880 any actual aptitude in any area at all.

00:26:10.020 Because an ability to read about something, write papers, regurgitate information, also

00:26:20.180 the ability to pay for all this schooling, if you're even paying for it, you can have

00:26:25.900 that ability, and yet that's really your only ability.

00:26:30.160 There are very many people who are very educated in an official kind of sense, but then it turns

00:26:37.740 out that's their only skill.

00:26:38.800 Their only skill is in that.

00:26:40.300 It's like being a, they have a certain skill at being a student.

00:26:44.060 And so they can thrive in that particular environment when they're sitting in a class

00:26:47.620 and they're listening to lectures and they're repeating information and then they're writing

00:26:52.120 papers.

00:26:52.780 Like that is, that's a certain skill.

00:26:54.380 It is.

00:26:56.500 But it doesn't necessarily translate anywhere else in life.

00:27:02.140 Pete Buttigieg, probably the prime example of that.

00:27:06.640 Next we got this.

00:27:07.540 Representative Byron Donalds has been under intense criticism from the left and because

00:27:13.300 he deserves it, right? 0.93

00:27:15.040 Because he's committed the sin of being black and Republican. 0.99

00:27:18.620 And so that's just no good. 0.92

00:27:20.160 He appeared on Joy Reid's show and leftists on social media, they said that the whole interview

00:27:26.460 was just a smackdown.

00:27:28.060 She owned him.

00:27:28.860 She destroyed him.

00:27:30.180 She tore him apart.

00:27:31.200 And this part in particular has them cheering.

00:27:34.920 Let's watch it.

00:27:35.680 My friend, Jody Arrington, who's going to chair a budget, he wants to look into the budget

00:27:40.180 and also look into entitlements.

00:27:42.240 Do you know that social security is going to be insolvent in 2035?

00:27:45.240 It is not going to be.

00:27:46.040 That is not true.

00:27:46.640 Yes, it will.

00:27:46.780 That is actually what the numbers say.

00:27:47.960 No, it's actually not true.

00:27:49.020 Now, Joy, I'm a finance professional.

00:27:50.600 I do more than just Congress.

00:27:51.560 But it's actually not true.

00:27:52.700 I work in the financial community.

00:27:53.480 I am telling you.

00:27:53.700 That's actually not true.

00:27:54.580 Social security will go insolvent.

00:27:56.060 That's actually not true.

00:27:56.640 Those are the facts.

00:27:57.440 That's not true.

00:27:57.820 Should we not prepare for that?

00:27:59.180 What the Republican Party and what the Tea Party have proposed is privatizing social security,

00:28:04.220 which would actually subject social security to the whims of the market, which I don't

00:28:08.220 think that people, that's not what they paid into.

00:28:09.980 If you look at the returns of the S&P 500 since 2006, the returns of the S&P 500 since

00:28:16.660 2006, that includes 2008.

00:28:19.020 Okay, so you support privatizing social security.

00:28:21.360 I want to explain to you.

00:28:22.540 I am a financial professional.

00:28:23.960 I'm securities licensed.

00:28:25.060 Actually, I just lost my licenses because I'm not allowed to trade anymore because I'm

00:28:27.820 a member of Congress.

00:28:28.780 But let me assure you, if you look at the S&P 500 from 2006 until today,

00:28:34.220 the growth rate in the S&P 500 would have more than taken care of social security, way

00:28:39.800 more than the federal government has.

00:28:40.920 And each time that you had a crash, it would subject people's social security funds to crash.

00:28:45.000 Hold on a second.

00:28:45.600 So let me just, hold on a second.

00:28:47.000 We're not going to have a whole long thing on social security, but let me just be clear.

00:28:50.020 You are in favor of privatizing social security.

00:28:52.160 No, I'm not in favor of privatizing it.

00:28:52.880 But you just argued for it.

00:28:54.160 I said, you brought it up and I brought you the facts on the S&P 500.

00:28:58.060 So if a bill came forward to privatize social security, you'd be for it.

00:29:00.720 No, because what we should be doing.

00:29:02.520 Okay, then it's a moot point.

00:29:03.440 Then it's a moot point.

00:29:04.220 It's not a moot point.

00:29:04.940 You're trying to put words in my mouth.

00:29:06.460 But you just explained that the S&P would be a better return than social security.

00:29:10.920 The S&P 500 would have given better returns than the federal government has.

00:29:12.520 That is a fact.

00:29:14.360 Don't cheapen privatization when the data is crystal clear that the returns would have been better.

00:29:18.820 Okay, you're for it.

00:29:19.580 You've said that you're for it.

00:29:20.120 That means that it would have been a better situation than what we've seen to this point.

00:29:24.620 That's what counts as winning an argument on the left.

00:29:27.420 That's not true.

00:29:28.100 That's not true.

00:29:28.700 That's not true.

00:29:29.860 That's all she did the whole time. 0.81

00:29:30.840 This is cable news.

00:29:33.620 I don't know who won the argument there.

00:29:36.860 I'll tell you that cable news did not win the argument.

00:29:38.780 That's a good argument for getting rid of cable news.

00:29:41.620 That's everything wrong with cable news right there.

00:29:44.200 And by the way, do you know from that?

00:29:46.280 I'm actually interested to know.

00:29:47.580 I'd like to know how would Byron Donald's vote if there was, you know, a bill to quote unquote privatize social security.

00:29:55.840 He said no, but let me tell you what I would do.

00:29:59.260 And she wouldn't let him finish it.

00:30:00.740 I'd like to know.

00:30:01.640 Actually, I'm interested to know what his take is on that.

00:30:03.980 So asking questions that you will not allow the other person to answer is, that's MSNBC.

00:30:13.660 That's cable news in general.

00:30:15.800 And shouting, not true, not true.

00:30:19.700 I mean, literally, it's how my kids argue with each other.

00:30:23.480 That's what, cover your ears.

00:30:24.840 Not true.

00:30:25.300 I'm not listening.

00:30:25.880 That is how nine-year-olds argue.

00:30:30.200 And even for them, it's, if they act that way, I say, you're nine years old.

00:30:35.380 You're too old to be acting that way.

00:30:38.940 This is something as a parent happens quite often.

00:30:40.980 I am constantly telling my kids, whether the nine-year-olds or the six-year-old, that you are too old to be acting a certain way.

00:30:48.180 But it's a way that these adults act all the time.

00:30:52.640 Once again, society not doing parents a lot of favors, you know.

00:30:55.080 Because I tell my kids, Ed, you shouldn't act that way.

00:30:57.540 You should act this way.

00:30:58.120 You should be more mature.

00:30:59.260 And, you know, they can look out.

00:31:00.200 Once they're able to really be exposed to the culture, they'll see that.

00:31:03.440 What do you mean?

00:31:03.840 These adults are way older than me.

00:31:05.100 They act like this all the time.

00:31:06.720 Like, he said, I was too old for this, Dad.

00:31:09.980 He is right about Social Security, by the way.

00:31:11.900 And what will really make it insolvent or what will really bring the system down is that eventually there won't be enough workers to support it.

00:31:20.060 You know, the people that are defenders of Social Security will say that, well, it's not going to be insolvent.

00:31:25.400 It's not going into insolvency.

00:31:26.400 That's all a false narrative.

00:31:27.420 That's not true because, you know, it's not as though people paid in Social Security and then the money that they paid in went somewhere and it's being stored somewhere.

00:31:38.960 And now the government is robbing that storage box and we're going to run out of money, right?

00:31:44.060 The government is robbing Social Security, but the point is that it's constantly being funded by the current crop of workers.

00:31:54.340 That's what they say as a way of defending it.

00:31:56.960 But it's like, well, it can't be insolvent.

00:31:58.000 Well, yeah, but the problem is that eventually as our country becomes more and more top-heavy generationally, people are having fewer and fewer children.

00:32:09.440 They're just, and there are fewer and fewer people even getting jobs in the first place.

00:32:12.900 People dropping out of the workforce.

00:32:15.260 We're going to get to a point where there's just not enough workers around to support it.

00:32:19.180 Or in order to support it, the taxes would have to be so high, while on the other end, what you're getting out of it, if you're on Social Security, is so low that it's not worth it anymore.

00:32:32.300 That is where we're heading.

00:32:33.320 Whether it's going to be in 20 years or 30 years or 50 years, it's a matter of demographics.

00:32:41.100 It's a matter of just look at the replacement rate, the population replacement rate.

00:32:47.260 That's how we know.

00:32:49.860 That it's not, in the long term, it's not sustainable.

00:32:53.020 It's just, it's simply a question of at what point do we have to, do we officially have to confront the reality that this doesn't work anymore?

00:33:03.320 We keep putting it off, but putting it off and putting it off because no politician wants to deal with this because it's very unpopular.

00:33:09.040 It's unpopular on both sides.

00:33:11.100 And also, older people, they vote.

00:33:13.080 You know, they vote much more than younger people do. 0.99

00:33:15.040 And so, if you say anything about Social Security other than, let's keep doing it exactly like we're doing it now. 0.93

00:33:21.420 If you say anything outside of that, you're going to pay the price politically, which is why all these cowards, or most of them anyway, won't address it.

00:33:29.220 Personally, I'm in favor of privatizing, although I don't really like the phrase privatize.

00:33:37.080 That's not how I would put it.

00:33:41.860 Privatize makes it sound, it's just, it makes it sound more complicated than it actually is.

00:33:46.340 And for me, it's very simple.

00:33:47.680 Like, I want to be in charge of my own retirement.

00:33:50.280 Thank you, government, for offering to take care of that for me, but no thank you, I don't want it.

00:33:58.440 I just don't want you to do that.

00:33:59.980 I want to opt out of that system.

00:34:01.780 I don't want to be a part of it.

00:34:03.420 I want to keep my money, and let me worry about it.

00:34:07.920 I'm even willing, I'll sign some sort of contract if you want,

00:34:10.720 where I am pledging that I will take care of my retirement, and if I don't do it, if things go wrong,

00:34:17.680 if I say that I'm not, I'm not allowed to get any government assistance when I'm older.

00:34:22.740 Give me that contract, and I will sign it right now.

00:34:26.960 And I will live and die by that.

00:34:31.200 So that's what I mean by privatizing it.

00:34:33.880 And also, by the way, my concern about Social Security, here's my concern about it.

00:34:37.280 I think a lot of people missed the point.

00:34:41.100 My concern is less about the fact that eventually it won't be there anymore.

00:34:44.640 That's part of the problem.

00:34:46.880 But my bigger concern is right now.

00:34:50.040 It's that younger people and young families, they need that money now.

00:34:54.100 They can't afford this.

00:34:56.100 6% of your paycheck, that's substantial, especially over the course of a year.

00:35:00.420 You just can't afford it.

00:35:02.940 You've got young families who already can barely afford to go out and buy a carton of eggs and some milk.

00:35:09.260 They can't afford to have this massive amount taken out of their check every year to keep this system afloat.

00:35:15.440 They just can't afford it.

00:35:17.120 They need that money.

00:35:18.280 It's their money, and they need it.

00:35:19.760 That's my concern.

00:35:25.640 So I'm not even worried about 40 years from now.

00:35:29.780 I mean, I am worried about that.

00:35:30.980 We should be worried about it more.

00:35:31.940 But there's also the issue of right now that somehow gets lost in this conversation entirely.

00:35:38.080 That you've got young families who are just starting out their lives.

00:35:43.460 Their economic and financial stability is very important.

00:35:49.340 Arguably, it's the most important.

00:35:51.460 That's the group who are the most.

00:35:53.140 It's the most important for them to be stable and for them to be solvent.

00:36:00.360 And they cannot afford it.

00:36:02.080 All right.

00:36:05.700 I want to play this quick clip.

00:36:07.840 It's rather disturbing.

00:36:09.920 But Prince Harry, so he's got his memoir out.

00:36:13.440 And we talked about Prince Harry a little bit just to start the week.

00:36:17.640 And we mentioned how he very much wants his privacy or claims that he does.

00:36:21.540 And yet he did three, quote-unquote, major interviews just this week.

00:36:26.480 He's all over the place.

00:36:27.580 Now he's got this memoir out.

00:36:29.960 And even though he's someone who claims he wants privacy, in his memoir,

00:36:33.440 he's not only airing dirty laundry about his family,

00:36:35.880 but he goes into very intimate detail about himself

00:36:42.740 and providing information that nobody asked for.

00:36:47.900 And so I said that there's one part, apparently, in the memoir

00:36:50.040 where he talks about frostbite that he suffered on his genitalia,

00:36:54.780 which is already too much information, already TMI.

00:36:59.140 But then this was making the rounds on social media yesterday.

00:37:01.580 Here's the audio book clip of that little passage.

00:37:06.120 And it's way more disturbing than I even anticipated.

00:37:13.380 Listen. 0.98

00:37:14.860 My penis was oscillating between extremely sensitive and borderline traumatized 0.99

00:37:20.040 The last place I wanted to be was Frostnipistan. 0.98

00:37:23.420 I'd been trying some home remedies, including one recommended by a friend.

00:37:27.560 She'd urged me to apply Elizabeth Arden cream.

00:37:30.600 My mum used that on her lips. 0.99

00:37:32.240 You want me to put that on my todger?

00:37:34.000 It works, Harry. Trust me.

00:37:36.040 I found a tube.

00:37:37.340 And the minute I opened it, the smell transported me through time.

00:37:41.200 I felt as if my mother was right there in the room.

00:37:43.180 And I took a smidge and applied it down there.

00:37:46.660 So, I was reminding you of your...

00:37:59.120 I don't know.

00:38:00.200 We don't want to break that down.

00:38:01.420 I don't want to break that down any more than what we already heard there.

00:38:04.180 Except to say that...

00:38:06.220 Yeah, it's just like...

00:38:07.180 It's an interesting clip because it starts...

00:38:09.900 It starts disturbing.

00:38:12.220 Okay, we're beginning at the beginning of this little 30-second clip. 0.99

00:38:16.680 We hear about his penis being traumatized, which is already too much. 0.99

00:38:22.740 But then, like, as it continues, it's just layers and layers. 0.99

00:38:26.160 It's this...

00:38:27.120 It's like a very creepy onion.

00:38:29.660 And as you peel back the layers, it just gets worse and worse.

00:38:33.040 And by the end, you're left with many more questions.

00:38:36.560 Then you have answers.

00:38:37.600 And they're questions that you never really wanted to ask to begin with.

00:38:42.220 Except to say...

00:38:45.340 Maybe the ultimate answer here is that this is actually very disturbed.

00:38:48.500 This is like a disturbed person.

00:38:50.820 Prince Harry is.

00:38:52.140 And I also don't...

00:38:52.660 I don't understand why we still call him Prince Harry.

00:38:54.500 Maybe because nobody knows what's his last name.

00:38:56.760 So, just saying Harry sounds weird.

00:38:58.800 So, that's the reason he still has the Prince thing going on.

00:39:01.280 But it is a very disturbed person.

00:39:02.840 And he's somebody with...

00:39:04.840 Mommy issues and daddy issues and all kinds of issues.

00:39:10.800 And it might also explain how he ended up with Meghan Markle in the first place.

00:39:18.620 When we talked about this on Monday, I said that Meghan Markle is like the perfect...

00:39:23.920 She's really the perfect model for men to look at. 1.00

00:39:27.940 So, that they can look at her and everything about her and the way that she is.

00:39:32.540 And especially the way that she conducts herself in a marriage as a wife. 1.00

00:39:37.120 And then look at that and then find the opposite of that.

00:39:40.560 Just find the opposite of everything about her.

00:39:43.420 And you'll be doing okay.

00:39:44.780 Because all the red flags are there.

00:39:46.440 And one of the major red flags for Meghan Markle is that she has no respect for Harry's family. 0.99

00:39:54.840 She hates his family.

00:39:55.680 She has no respect.

00:39:57.460 There's another viral clip.

00:39:59.100 And I was looking for it.

00:39:59.740 I couldn't find it.

00:40:00.240 I didn't spend that much time looking for it.

00:40:01.480 But there's another clip in their Netflix miniseries that came out as part of their quest for privacy.

00:40:08.020 And that came out back in December.

00:40:10.000 And there's a now sort of infamous clip where she is making fun of Queen Elizabeth.

00:40:17.700 And making fun of, like, making a joke about the first time that she met Queen Elizabeth.

00:40:21.740 And just, like, in this very mocking, kind of eye-rolling way.

00:40:25.460 And meanwhile, Prince Harry is sitting there.

00:40:28.240 And you could tell he's not comfortable with having his family made fun of this way.

00:40:31.460 Especially in public on camera.

00:40:33.060 But he's just sitting there like a, you know, a little tame puppy dog.

00:40:36.200 And so I said, one of the red flags you're looking for as a man when you're trying to find a wife is if you find a woman and she doesn't respect your family, she hates your family, she wants to isolate you from your family and from your friends and people closest to you, that's a red flag.

00:40:56.060 The question for Harry is, like, did she, did he not know this about her?

00:40:59.160 And more and more I'm starting to think, well, he did know this about her.

00:41:01.800 And that's one of the reasons that he married her.

00:41:06.000 For him, the red flag was what attracted him.

00:41:09.440 Because of all his family issues and the fact that she resents his family is part of the reason he married her.

00:41:15.460 It was meant to be, you know, a finger in the eye of his family and all the rest of it.

00:41:21.240 That's the psychoanalysis, but I'll leave most of that for someone else.

00:41:28.340 All right.

00:41:29.480 I don't have a lot of time, so I got to choose.

00:41:33.100 This is from the Miami Herald.

00:41:35.360 Headline, she was catching a flight in Florida, then TSA noticed her emotional support snake.

00:41:41.720 Snake on a plane?

00:41:42.860 Almost.

00:41:44.000 This isn't the plot of a sequel to the action flick.

00:41:46.200 Last month, a woman traveling through Tampa International Airport attempted to stow her BOA constrictor in her carry-on luggage.

00:41:52.820 That was a BOA constrictor.

00:41:55.820 According to the Transportation Security Administration.

00:41:57.600 A TSA tweet shows the x-ray of the four-foot creature that passed through the screening machine passengers must navigate before getting to the gate.

00:42:06.000 The reptile is lit up in orange, coiled up in a figure eight.

00:42:09.040 Nearby are images of a laptop and two pairs of shoes.

00:42:12.700 The agency said that after the snake was discovered, the pet owner was called out of the line.

00:42:17.060 She reportedly told guards that the BOA constrictor named Bartholomew was her emotional support pet.

00:42:23.740 The Post reports, our officers at Tampa International didn't find this hysterical.

00:42:34.100 Well, it's not a bad pun.

00:42:35.040 You know, not a bad pun and also not a bad name for a BOA constrictor.

00:42:37.720 If you're going to have a BOA constrictor pet, which I don't recommend, Bartholomew, not a bad name.

00:42:43.040 Now, here's what I'll say.

00:42:44.040 You know, I'm actually, okay, I'm actually okay with this.

00:42:50.180 If we're going to do the emotional support animal thing at all, and if you're allowed to bring your dog on a plane, then I don't see any reason why you can't bring the snake to.

00:43:01.080 We, okay, the special status and privilege we give to dogs doesn't make any sense to me.

00:43:07.020 And so if we're going to do that, like, if I have to sit next to your dog on a plane, okay, if the plane can turn into a kennel, then why can't it turn into a, you know, reptile house?

00:43:20.760 Because I don't see any, like, you might see a difference.

00:43:22.920 You might say, well, a dog's totally different.

00:43:24.320 I don't see it.

00:43:24.940 To me, an animal's an animal, and I don't want to fly with an animal.

00:43:27.000 So if we're allowing that, then, yeah, bring the snake on, too.

00:43:28.960 So, now, you know, we make exceptions now.

00:43:33.340 So dogs are capable of actually providing a real service to human beings.

00:43:37.720 So a seeing eye dog or something like that, then that's different.

00:43:41.940 But anything where it's emotional support, it just makes me feel good to have this animal around.

00:43:47.380 If you can do that with a dog, then why not with an animal?

00:43:51.700 So if anything, we should have more of this.

00:43:53.120 Just, like, make the plane into a full-on petting zoo.

00:43:56.540 Bring your goats on, chickens, whatever.

00:43:58.500 Bring a cow on board. 0.99

00:44:00.060 Maybe it's, hey, they run out of, if they're not doing a beverage service, then you got a cow there for milk and whatever.

00:44:07.260 Keep doing it until everyone's had enough of it, and then we can all go back to a civilized society where we do not allow animals at all on the plane.

00:44:17.540 Unless you put them in the cargo hold or something like that.

00:44:20.160 Don't bring them up with everybody else.

00:44:21.600 All right.

00:44:24.660 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:45:45.580 Evan says, only Matt can describe bronies with that level of dry disdain.

00:45:51.720 How else would I describe them?

00:45:53.140 Is there any other way to describe bronies than with, well, I guess you could have enthusiastic disdain or, you know, a more sort of colorful disdain.

00:46:00.560 So, yes, my disdain is of a more dry flavor. 0.51

00:46:05.640 But disdain is, no matter what kind of disdain it is, it ought to be disdain when you're talking about bronies. 0.76

00:46:11.560 Sam says, Matt, pit bulls kill a total of 30 people a year, 30, mostly just their bad owners.

00:46:20.140 That is not nearly enough to create the kind of panic you're engaging in.

00:46:23.600 Okay, so this was a, this is an interesting conversation as we, and, you know, I think enough has been said about pit bulls.

00:46:32.200 Apparently, I didn't even realize this, but, you know, we've been talking about pit bulls a little bit, and I've mentioned it on Twitter.

00:46:38.160 And so this is, it's become a big thing on Twitter now.

00:46:40.660 It's been trending all week, I guess, is a conversation about pit bulls.

00:46:43.940 And probably enough has been said about it, but there's this exact argument that I've heard from multiple people.

00:46:53.180 That, well, you know, there are X number of pit bulls in the country, you know, millions or whatever, and only 30 people a year are killed by them.

00:47:02.220 And so it's just, look at the percentages, it's 0.0 whatever percent, and it's just not enough to justify.

00:47:06.660 Well, it does, it does raise the question of, like, well, how many people need to be horrifically mauled to death by pit bulls before you would admit that it's a problem?

00:47:21.520 But, so I'm thinking about this, and so here's my, here's the way that I would, I think about this.

00:47:26.560 Because that's always an interesting question.

00:47:27.900 Anytime you're talking about the threat that something poses or, you know, a danger in a certain area of life,

00:47:33.960 and you're trying to figure out, is this a reasonable danger or not, that's always kind of a question.

00:47:38.920 How do you, you know, if X number of people are killed by Y activity, well, is that too many, or is it not that many? 0.87

00:47:45.920 Or what, if it is, like, where's the line, where do you draw it?

00:47:50.000 I think part of the problem is that people are very often, when they're asking this question about something,

00:47:54.620 they're making apples and oranges comparison.

00:47:57.160 You know, taking this one thing and comparing it to something totally outside of its own category

00:48:00.880 in order to make the argument that this thing is safe or it's dangerous either way.

00:48:05.380 What you have to do is compare things within their categories, right?

00:48:10.000 So, the question is not, how many people are killed by pit bulls?

00:48:14.260 And by the way, it's not just killed.

00:48:15.440 Like, there's the number killed, and this person says 30.

00:48:18.980 Some people on Twitter were telling me it's 20 a year.

00:48:21.560 I think last year it was close to 50 that were killed.

00:48:25.860 Let's just say 30, though.

00:48:26.940 Let's just say 30.

00:48:27.620 Let's just go with that.

00:48:28.240 30 a year, okay?

00:48:30.040 That's a conservative estimate.

00:48:34.120 So, 30 are killed by pit bulls.

00:48:36.700 And you could say, well, look at the number of people killed in car accidents.

00:48:42.080 This is just astronomically more, and you don't want to ban all cars, do you?

00:48:47.760 Well, that's different, though, also, because, you know, if you get rid of cars, for example,

00:48:51.360 you have completely upended society, like modern civilization can't function without the automobile.

00:48:58.100 So, if all automobiles disappeared overnight, society would come crashing down.

00:49:02.600 If all pit bulls disappear, the same thing is not going to happen.

00:49:06.220 But the real problem is that that is something outside of its category.

00:49:08.700 It's not a relevant comparison.

00:49:09.640 So, what you have to look at is how dangerous are pit bulls, not compared to automobiles or lightning strikes.

00:49:18.680 How dangerous are they compared to other domesticated dogs?

00:49:22.360 And that's how you can judge whether this poses an unreasonable danger.

00:49:27.780 And when you make that apples-to-apples comparison, you find that the danger is certainly overwhelmingly unreasonable.

00:49:37.960 Because pit bulls kill, say, 30 a year.

00:49:41.080 All other dogs combined, all other dog breeds combined kill far less than that.

00:49:47.020 So, they are responsible for a vastly disproportionate number of not only fatal maulings and fatal attacks,

00:49:54.460 but also attacks that lead to hospitalizations.

00:49:56.480 They are responsible for almost all of them, while all other dog breeds combined for almost none of them.

00:50:04.580 And so, that's the point.

00:50:07.760 It's not how much more dangerous is a pit bull than some other thing that is not a dog,

00:50:11.280 but how much more dangerous is it than every other dog?

00:50:13.660 And when you find something that's an outlier like this,

00:50:17.360 that tells you that there is something seriously, catastrophically wrong.

00:50:22.960 The analogy that I made yesterday is, just to put this in perspective,

00:50:30.180 imagine for a moment that Burger King, this is not the case, but just hypothetically,

00:50:34.920 what if Burger King was responsible for giving 30 people a year fatal food poisoning,

00:50:40.780 and then hundreds more it put in the hospital with food poisoning?

00:50:43.660 So, 30 a year, hundreds more every year are given fatal or very serious food poisoning from Burger King.

00:50:52.760 And what if you looked and you saw that every other fast food restaurant combines to account for almost no other fatal food poisoning?

00:51:02.520 So, almost all of the fatal food poisonings that happen in the country are from Burger King specifically,

00:51:09.160 and that they account for a vastly, vastly disproportionate number of fatal food poisonings.

00:51:14.600 And so, it's 30 people every year, year after year after year after year, are killed by food poisoning from Burger King.

00:51:24.460 Now, here's the question.

00:51:26.560 Would you still eat at Burger King?

00:51:27.960 Yeah, Burger King might still be, in that case, safer than, like, skydiving or bungee jumping,

00:51:34.360 or it might even be safer than driving down the road.

00:51:36.680 But when compared to every other fast food option,

00:51:40.680 of course you're not going to eat at the place that kills 30 people a year.

00:51:43.920 So, there is a chance with Burger King, whereas the chance with every other fast food place of dying from food poisoning is almost zero.

00:51:54.640 So, I think that's the kind of apples-to-apples comparison,

00:51:57.480 and that's how you can tell that there's something serious.

00:51:59.820 Ashley says,

00:52:00.580 As my son just said, Matt is canceled because Dad cooks scrambled eggs on our electric stove all the time.

00:52:06.280 I guess you have to have more talent for that, Matt.

00:52:09.500 Life is rough as a popper.

00:52:11.520 Well, listen, you can do it, okay?

00:52:16.100 There's lots of things that can be done, but the question is, can it be done well?

00:52:19.840 And scrambled eggs brings up a whole other conversation that we don't have time for,

00:52:23.120 but I take scrambled eggs very, very seriously.

00:52:26.320 And what I found is that most people, when they think of scrambled eggs,

00:52:29.060 they just break some eggs into a bowl, they mix it around, they dump it in,

00:52:32.700 and then they just, you know, they scramble it, and that's it.

00:52:35.880 Okay, the fluffiness is not there.

00:52:37.640 It's not cooked the right way.

00:52:38.700 It doesn't have the flavor it's supposed to have.

00:52:40.620 It doesn't have the right, there's supposed to be a kind of fluffy and creamy texture to it,

00:52:43.700 and that's not there.

00:52:45.740 And so, what that tells me is that your husband just doesn't take his scrambled eggs seriously enough.

00:52:49.580 That's the problem.

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00:53:35.880 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:37.460 The Golden Globes happened two nights ago, and I'm telling you this because the chances are you didn't already know.

00:53:47.420 I only knew because part of my job is to scour the internet for all the news of the day,

00:53:51.560 including the most obscure bits of news, like the Golden Globe Awards.

00:53:55.380 And if the ratings are any indication, it would seem that most people were unaware or aware and totally uninterested in the Golden Globes.

00:54:02.520 Now, they didn't air last year at all because the people who run the show had to take a year off to confront their racism or whatever.

00:54:10.080 But this year's show was down 20% compared to 2021's broadcast, and that show in 2021 was down exponentially compared to the year before.

00:54:17.520 So nobody cares about this stuff anymore, and fewer and fewer people care every year.

00:54:22.000 I'm not here to tell you that you should care.

00:54:24.780 I'm only here to cancel someone because that's the segment.

00:54:27.560 And today, it must be the host of the Golden Globes for 2023, Gerard Carmichael.

00:54:33.440 Carmichael is an alleged comedian best known for coming out of the closet during one of his Netflix specials.

00:54:38.880 The Golden Globes needed to find someone who checked multiple diversity boxes, and as a gay black man, Carmichael fit the bill.

00:54:45.620 But is he actually a good comedian or a skilled show host?

00:54:49.400 Well, that consideration was not important, and it became very obvious that it wasn't important very quickly during Carmichael's opening monologue, which you can see part of here.

00:55:00.660 I'm here because I'm black.

00:55:08.740 I'll catch everyone in the room up. 0.67

00:55:15.520 If you settle down a little bit, I'll tell you what's been going on.

00:55:19.400 This show, the Golden Globes Awards, did not air last year because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which I won't say they were a racist organization,

00:55:35.360 but they didn't have a single black member until George Floyd died.

00:55:40.660 So do with that information what you will.

00:55:48.460 I'll tell you how I got here.

00:55:51.420 Why am I here on the stage with you guys tonight?

00:55:55.320 Well, I was at home.

00:55:57.300 I was drinking tea, and I got a phone call from my man, Stephen Hill.

00:56:10.660 Stephen Hill is a great producer, and he said,

00:56:13.740 Gerard, really, I'm honored to be making this phone call.

00:56:18.480 He said, I'm producing the 80th Golden Globes, and it would be an honor if you would agree to join as the host.

00:56:31.840 I was like, whoa.

00:56:34.560 You know, like one minute, you're making mint tea at home. 0.94

00:56:39.400 The next, you're invited to be the black-faced of an embattled white organization. 0.84

00:56:50.400 Hilarious stuff.

00:56:51.460 All the jokes.

00:56:52.880 And this goes on for another six minutes as Carmichael recounts the story of how,

00:56:56.240 the fascinating story of how he was offered the job because he's a brilliant comedian,

00:57:00.080 but he knew it was really because of his race.

00:57:03.180 And then he told the guy that it's because of my race, and the guy is like, no, you're great.

00:57:08.180 And told him he's really great.

00:57:10.020 And then he called his friend, and he asked her friend about it,

00:57:13.160 and she told him to take the job because he's making a lot of money for it.

00:57:17.360 And so ultimately, that's what he decided to do.

00:57:19.740 Though he wants the Golden Globes to know that this does not absolve them of their racism.

00:57:23.700 And that was the whole monologue.

00:57:25.720 That was it.

00:57:26.820 The audience members laughing uncomfortably the whole time.

00:57:29.540 Terrified that the cameras would show them reacting in a way that Twitter deems inappropriate.

00:57:35.220 That's the only funny thing about the monologue, potentially.

00:57:37.300 It has nothing to do with what he's saying.

00:57:39.040 But it's just because people in the audience, they're like, I don't know.

00:57:41.920 Because they know that at any moment, the camera could show them. 0.93

00:57:44.660 And so they're listening to a gay black man, and they're not sure. 0.96

00:57:48.180 Is he trying to be funny? 0.96

00:57:49.180 Am I supposed to laugh at this?

00:57:50.420 Or if I laugh, am I in trouble?

00:57:52.060 I don't know what to do.

00:57:53.360 Am I supposed to be crying?

00:57:54.500 What am I supposed to do here?

00:57:57.280 So what are the problems?

00:57:58.080 Well, first of all, comedians are supposed to be funny.

00:58:04.140 And, you know, I know this is a controversial statement these days, and certainly will come as a great shock to most modern comedians.

00:58:10.020 But comedians are supposed to be funny.

00:58:12.460 That's the whole job.

00:58:14.060 Gerard Carmichael isn't funny.

00:58:16.780 So he doesn't seem to have understood the assignment.

00:58:18.880 Now, you might object to my comedians are supposed to do comedy theory by saying that, well, sometimes a comedian might want to make a more serious or insightful point.

00:58:27.940 They don't all have to be Mitch Hedberg up there delivering a bunch of one-liners and non-sequiturs.

00:58:33.300 This is true, though we can only wish that most modern comedians were as good as Mitch Hedberg.

00:58:36.940 But the point is that a comedian is supposed to make those serious and insightful points while also being funny.

00:58:42.540 That's difficult to do, but those in the profession of being funny are supposed to be able to do that, because that's their profession.

00:58:53.600 I mean, literally anyone can stand up on stage and ramble.

00:58:56.200 It takes skill to not only make an insightful point, but to do it while being funny.

00:59:01.400 Yet that's the skill that comedians, by definition, are supposed to have.

00:59:05.300 It doesn't make any sense for a comedian to not even try to be funny.

00:59:08.500 It's like going to see a juggling act, and instead of juggling, the juggler stands in front of you and delivers an economics lecture.

00:59:15.320 Now, even if the lecture is good, it's got nothing to do with juggling.

00:59:18.220 Now, if you talk about economics while juggling, that might be interesting.

00:59:23.680 That would take some actual talent.

00:59:24.900 But we see this sort of thing all over society, and not just with comedians.

00:59:29.840 There's a severe lack of talent, particularly in the arts.

00:59:32.940 So we lack talented comedians, artists, painters, musicians, poets, filmmakers.

00:59:37.220 These are the people who don't actually have the talents necessary to perform their craft at a high level,

00:59:43.840 so they compensate by pretending that they're being bad on purpose.

00:59:49.420 That's like our whole culture now.

00:59:52.300 You're bad at it, but you're pretending it's on purpose. 0.77

00:59:54.900 We've made bad into its own style, its own genre, so that we can all pretend that the artist is engaging in some kind of bold deconstruction of the art form instead of facing the fact that he just simply sucks at his job. 0.96

01:00:09.140 Second, Carmichael allowed himself to be the token black guy, the diversity hire.

01:00:15.080 He thinks he can get around this or negate it by acknowledging it up front.

01:00:19.440 He thinks that, you know, that makes the whole performance meta and subversive, when in reality, he's just a sellout without an imagination.

01:00:26.760 This is another thing we see all the time now in art, especially anything involving Hollywood.

01:00:32.760 Hollywood is constantly making bad films, and there are films that acknowledge their own badness,

01:00:39.360 and that acknowledgement is supposed to, in itself, transform the badness into something good.

01:00:45.920 Superhero movies are the worst offenders of this sort of thing.

01:00:48.900 These films, they wink at the audience constantly, admitting to the corny and cliched nature of the whole thing,

01:00:55.700 while continuing along doing the corny and cliched thing.

01:00:58.660 Now, this might have been funny the first time it was done 20 years ago,

01:01:03.160 but 100 movies and 1,000 winks later is just a crutch used by lazy, boring writers.

01:01:09.760 In fact, it's gotten so bad now that the finale of the She-Hulk series, the season finale,

01:01:16.060 which, of course, I didn't watch, but from what I read,

01:01:18.900 it actually had the character, She-Hulk, walk through the screen and confront the writers of her own show

01:01:25.920 to complain about the bad writing.

01:01:29.600 Now, this was supposed to be subversive, once again, and self-aware and funny,

01:01:33.680 but instead it was just a direct admission by the writers that they are not good at their jobs.

01:01:40.100 It's not just superhero movies.

01:01:41.400 In Glass Onion, the sequel to Knives Out, the detective solves the murder,

01:01:44.740 discovering that it was the most obvious culprit all along,

01:01:47.960 like it's the guy that was obviously that guy the whole movie,

01:01:50.880 and then in the end they say, yep, it was that guy, right?

01:01:52.700 You had it solved from the beginning.

01:01:54.580 And then he repeatedly acknowledges, the detective does in the film, 1.00

01:01:57.720 that the murderer is stupid and obvious and lazy, 1.00

01:02:00.800 which is just another way of acknowledging that the writer of the film is himself stupid, obvious, and lazy. 1.00

01:02:07.240 These people have so thoroughly run out of things to say 0.99

01:02:09.840 that now they're actually talking about how they have nothing to say.

01:02:13.040 Third, most importantly, even if we can forgive Carmichael for being an unfunny sellout

01:02:19.160 and we're willing to sit back and listen to his lecture,

01:02:21.980 we'll discover that what he's saying about race is not the slightest bit brave or bold or risky.

01:02:26.880 That's how it was sold.

01:02:27.700 That's how the media reacted to it.

01:02:30.000 They said it was blistering.

01:02:31.480 It was a blistering monologue.

01:02:33.280 And there were people on social media saying it was brilliant, it was brave, it was courageous. 0.66

01:02:37.140 Well, it can never be brave for a liberal black person to confront a bunch of white people about their racism. 0.60

01:02:45.060 There is no version of a white people are racist speech delivered by a black person 0.96

01:02:49.680 that can ever be brave in our culture.

01:02:52.540 The reason it cannot be brave is that it has been done a million times already.

01:02:56.320 And every time it's done, it is guaranteed to be applauded by all of the most powerful people in the country,

01:03:01.420 including and especially the ones you're calling racist.

01:03:03.960 You cannot be brave if you're saying something that every Hollywood executive

01:03:09.060 and Fortune 500 CEO and politician would publicly agree with.

01:03:14.500 Even if what you're saying is right, it can't possibly be brave.

01:03:18.400 There's nothing brave about your willingness to be applauded for being brave.

01:03:22.940 Now, if Carmichael wanted to actually be brave and subversive and transgressive,

01:03:26.820 he would have stood in front of that audience and would have told them that as a black man,

01:03:30.280 he is not oppressed in America, that anti-black systemic racism is imaginary, 0.97

01:03:35.800 and that white guilt is a disease infecting a large portion of the population, 0.97

01:03:39.240 including everyone sitting in that room.

01:03:41.320 Now, that would have been a bold statement on a stage like that.

01:03:45.060 It would have also easily been, you know, much funnier.

01:03:48.660 Or, you know what?

01:03:50.540 Maybe strike that.

01:03:51.560 Because even more subversive and certainly more funny would be to say nothing at all about race.

01:04:01.360 Okay?

01:04:01.800 The truly bold move would be for the first black person, 0.97

01:04:06.920 and not only that, but a black gay person, 0.70

01:04:09.020 to host the Golden Globes

01:04:10.860 and then give a monologue that isn't about being the first black person to host the Golden Globes.

01:04:18.100 Okay?

01:04:18.460 In that environment, in that atmosphere,

01:04:21.260 for that guy to stand up there and give a monologue where he's telling jokes 0.93

01:04:26.340 that aren't about the fact that he's black, 0.97

01:04:29.860 now, that would be a curveball. 0.86

01:04:32.740 That's something that nobody would see coming.

01:04:35.520 But instead, he went the safe route and the unfunny route,

01:04:38.460 and that ultimately is why he is today canceled.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 12, 2023

Ep. 1095 - Dems Outraged That Republicans Want To Provide Medical Care To Infants

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