The Matt Walsh Show - January 26, 2023


Ep. 1101 - Why They're Filling Our Cities With Hideous Modern Art


Episode Stats

Length

59 minutes

Words per Minute

180.66835

Word Count

10,775

Sentence Count

674

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a New York City courthouse adorns its building with a satanic
00:00:04.020 monument to abortion. The statue is creepy and depraved and also hideous. In fact, our whole
00:00:08.400 society is plagued now by hideous and creepy artwork. It's all part of a larger agenda I'll
00:00:12.640 explain today. Also, Project Veritas caught a Pfizer executive on camera and what he reveals
00:00:16.900 is truly explosive. Stick around to hear about that. Plus, Eric Swalwell is traumatized after
00:00:21.300 being kicked off of the Intelligence Committee for sleeping with a Chinese spy. And Google has
00:00:26.040 massive layoffs leading to some unintentionally funny TikTok videos. We'll take a look at those
00:00:29.620 today. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
00:00:40.100 One of the great tragedies of my life is that I wasn't doing a show last week when Boston's MLK
00:00:45.840 statue, the news cycle, came and went and passed me by. The thing that motivates me to get up every
00:00:52.200 day and host this show is the very hope that one day I'll be able to deliver a monologue on something
00:00:56.960 as hilarious as a statue that's meant to honor Martin Luther King Jr., but instead looks like a
00:01:01.840 disembodied pile of limbs that arranges itself into a different sex act depending on the angle you view
00:01:07.140 it from. It's supposed to be a memorial to King, but the sculptor accidentally made a memorial to
00:01:12.420 Pornhub. Well, I assume it was an accident. Whether he meant for the thing to be sexualized, to be sort of
00:01:17.700 a sexualized three-dimensional Rorschach test is anybody's guess, but we do know that what he
00:01:23.680 created, whatever the intention was, is a giant $10 million hunk of garbage. There's a lot to be said
00:01:30.320 about the subject, not just to simply point and laugh at it, I mean mainly to point and laugh, but also
00:01:36.140 to discuss the continued and rapidly increasing uglification, if I can coin a term, of our society.
00:01:42.500 This is a process that is deliberate and systematic. Beautiful art is taken down and replaced by hideous
00:01:49.560 vomitous nonsense. Why is this happening? What is the end game? These are the important questions,
00:01:56.080 but I missed my chance, or so I thought, to talk about them. That is until New York City came to
00:02:01.000 the rescue. Only a week after the MLK sex sculpture revolted and amused us all, NYC has made their own
00:02:08.660 contribution to the conversation. They are attempting valiantly, I might say, to recover their crown as
00:02:14.600 the ugly statue capital of the country, and with this latest eyesore, they may have succeeded.
00:02:20.420 Here's the article from Time Out, which is a New York City news site. It says, statues of nine men
00:02:27.620 from history and religion perch atop the courthouse near Madison Square Park. Now, for the first time,
00:02:33.260 the representation of a woman has joined their noble rooftop plinths. Hava to Breathe Air Life,
00:02:40.660 an exhibition by artist Shazia Sikander, focusing on things of justice, has brought stunning golden
00:02:47.840 sculptures to Madison Square Park and the nearby courthouse at 27 Madison Avenue. Inside Madison
00:02:53.080 Square Park sits Witness, a monumental female figure measuring 18 feet tall and wearing a hoop skirt
00:02:59.360 inspired by the courtroom's stained glass ceiling dome. The figure's twisted arms and legs suggest
00:03:05.120 tree roots, referencing what the artist has described as the self-rootedness of the female
00:03:09.960 form. It can carry its roots wherever it goes. You can even use your smartphone to bring the figure
00:03:15.700 to life through AR technology. Adorning the nearby courthouse now, an eight-foot-tall female figure
00:03:21.900 resembles the park sculpture, but a lotus symbolizing wisdom replaces the hoop skirt. Her horns indicate
00:03:28.100 sovereignty and autonomy. A delicate collar nods to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
00:03:32.780 Ginsburg, who often wore detailed collars with her traditional black robe. The statue, the only woman
00:03:38.240 represented, sits next to figures including Confucius, Justinian, Moses, Zoroaster. At last,
00:03:46.240 this work puts a female figure on a level plane with the traditional patriarchal depictions of justice
00:03:51.760 and power. Well, not quite a level plane because those other sculptures are legitimate works of art.
00:04:00.440 This one is a satanic monstrosity. It's a woman with tentacles for arms and horns on her head, resembling
00:04:06.780 like a doodle that a very disturbed 10-year-old might draw. It's the kind of thing that the child in the
00:04:12.300 horror film sketches in his notebook right before his parents realize he's possessed. And on top of all that,
00:04:17.760 it looks cheap as though it was sculpted out of plastic. It looks like it was made of the same
00:04:22.400 material they use for those little green toy soldiers that you buy in a bag at the dollar
00:04:26.840 store. This is modern art in a nutshell. Cheap, ugly, stupid, and vaguely, or not so vaguely in this
00:04:33.700 case, demonic. New York City, by the way, is no stranger to ugly statues. Just a couple of years ago,
00:04:39.080 they confused us all with a monument sculpted by a, quote, conceptual artist and placed outside the
00:04:45.520 Rockefeller Center that looks like a giant cartoon head, like something that a not very talented
00:04:50.580 caricature artist might sketch. Really, it looks like a parody of African art, though the artist is
00:04:56.200 black, so he escaped the racism charge, I guess. But he certainly cannot escape the charge of being
00:05:01.680 a talentless hack, which is what he is. Now, to add insult to injury, while New York litters its streets
00:05:08.760 and buildings with these unsightly lumps, it's also actively removing its good art. Just a few days ago,
00:05:16.820 the city finally removed the statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has adorned the outside of its
00:05:21.840 Museum of Natural History for nearly a century. The stated reason for removing this statue is that
00:05:28.800 the depiction of a black man and a Native American man walking alongside Roosevelt makes the whole scene
00:05:35.760 somehow inexplicably racist. No one ever explains why, by the way. Just the fact that you've got a
00:05:42.300 white man and then there's a black man there also, that's racist. But the real reason it was taken down
00:05:48.540 is that the work of art commits two unforgivable sins in the modern age. One, it memorializes a heroic
00:05:54.860 white man, which, of course, you can't do. And two, it's beautiful. That's a beautiful work of art.
00:06:00.980 And beautiful art is no longer allowed. Of course, you don't need to live in New York or Boston to
00:06:08.660 have your eyes assaulted by these memorials to ugliness. Every American city is plagued by these
00:06:14.000 sorts of modern art mutations popping up everywhere like tumors. A while ago, I mentioned this art display
00:06:22.080 sitting outside the Tennessee Welcome Center right off of Interstate 81. So when I'm driving,
00:06:28.280 if you're coming down from Virginia into Tennessee and you stop off because you've got to use the
00:06:33.680 restroom, you'll be forced to look at this. Now, in times past, they may have welcomed you with a
00:06:39.160 glorious sculpture representing the state's unique culture and history. Instead, they give you this
00:06:46.000 weird orgy of malformed, ambiguously humanoid shapes. And again, you find this stuff everywhere.
00:06:52.680 We were visiting Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina, not to be confused with Nashville,
00:06:57.820 Tennessee, not long ago. And we found ourselves gawking at this towering pile of shapeless scrap
00:07:03.860 metal, which the artist calls Passage, but should have just been called Tetanus. And we could go on
00:07:10.440 with examples. In fact, a Twitter follower, this might be the worst one. A Twitter follower sent me this
00:07:15.260 photo that I had to look this up because I didn't quite believe that it was real. This is a photo of a
00:07:21.800 recently installed statue in Carmel and Indiana. And the statue is titled Rising Sun, but instead it
00:07:28.020 looks like a hairy potato or perhaps like something more anatomical in nature perched on a misshaped
00:07:35.640 platform of some kind. It has the aesthetic quality of like a Nickelodeon cartoon from the 90s,
00:07:41.780 except a lot more explicit. So what's going on? I mean, why are they making this ugly nonsense? Why
00:07:49.140 are our cities pockmarked with these hideously sculpted abscesses? Why are we all forced to
00:07:55.980 live in towns with the artistic equivalent of skin cancer? I think there are a few reasons.
00:08:02.300 And the first is pretty simple. Great artists have skill and they have training and they have
00:08:08.160 proper education. Our artists have none of those, so they're not capable of making anything that rises
00:08:15.180 to the level of classical art. I mean, they couldn't produce a sculpture that could pass for
00:08:20.420 something sculpted 200 years ago, even if they wanted to. One thing is like, notice the lack of
00:08:25.700 detail in all of these statues. This is the thing with all modern, you go to modern art museum, it's
00:08:29.540 the same deal. There's no detail in anything. The demon statue in the New York courthouse is mostly
00:08:35.720 just smooth and featureless, which gives it that kind of cheap flavor. And the artists didn't even
00:08:41.120 attempt to make arms or hands because those are the most difficult to get right. And so instead they,
00:08:47.940 look, when I was in art class in like seventh grade, I used to do the same thing. I couldn't,
00:08:52.800 I didn't know how to draw arms and hands because they're difficult. And so I would do something like,
00:08:56.760 oh, you know, I'm using my imagination. This is a person with, you know, tentacles for arms instead,
00:09:03.780 easier to draw. The sculptor in Boston did make arms and hands, but that's all he made
00:09:09.300 because it requires great skill to sculpt heads and faces. So he simply left them headless.
00:09:16.120 Meanwhile, the other statues didn't attempt to resemble anything at all so that there's no
00:09:19.740 standard they can be judged against. You know, if you try to make something that looks like something,
00:09:29.280 then everyone can look at your art and say, well, they can, they can judge it against what you're
00:09:34.100 trying to capture. If they, you know, it's the thing, if you make art and you're trying to capture
00:09:38.320 something or, or actually say something, then, then that gives people a frame of reference that
00:09:45.560 they can judge your art against. And so all of this in part is a cover for the fact that these artists
00:09:52.380 have no talent, but then even if they could make something beautiful, they probably wouldn't.
00:09:56.740 Modern art is ugly because modern artists can only produce ugliness and also because
00:10:03.880 they only want to produce ugliness. We are witnessing, as I noted at the top, the systematic
00:10:09.840 uglification of society. They make ugly things on purpose because to them, to make an ugly thing is
00:10:16.380 to commit a revolutionary act. They despise tradition. They despise all that came before us. And their ugly
00:10:23.860 art is an attack on tradition. All of this garbage is the diametric opposite of the sort of art that
00:10:28.920 our ancestors produced and celebrated and passed down to us. And that's reason enough for our cultural
00:10:35.100 elites, those in charge of facilitating our cultural decline, to prefer the garbage.
00:10:41.280 But most of all, they make, they make ugly things because they hate beauty. The artists of antiquity
00:10:47.100 made beautiful things, objectively beautiful. Things that all human beings can recognize as
00:10:54.340 beautiful. And they did this in order to lift the viewer up, to bring them up and into the experience
00:11:02.700 of beauty. Whereas the modern artist, clouded by his own ego, obsessed with his own hangups and
00:11:07.860 preoccupations and anxieties, creates things with the purpose of dragging the viewer down, sinking them
00:11:13.360 into a state of anxiety and confusion. A man named Jeremy Wayne Tate on Twitter made this point very well.
00:11:20.580 He wrote, quote, Renaissance artists aim to uplift the viewer and draw them into beauty. They were primarily
00:11:26.080 interested in their subjects. Modern artists aim to shock and confuse their primarily interested in
00:11:32.100 themselves. And that is the truth, no doubt. And truth ultimately is the enemy here, as always. Modern artists
00:11:41.640 hate beauty because they hate truth. The left in general hates beauty because it hates truth.
00:11:48.500 And as the English poet John Keats said, truth is beauty, beauty is truth, and that's all you need
00:11:53.900 to know on this earth. They know it and they hate it. And so they give us this ugliness instead.
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00:13:10.520 We begin with this news, major news. I'll read the Postmillennial report because I don't know
00:13:16.500 how well the audio will translate if you can't see the subtitles, but you should go and watch
00:13:19.920 the full video after the show. This is the report though from Postmillennial. It says,
00:13:23.860 Project Veritas released a new video Wednesday in which a Pfizer executive claimed the company
00:13:27.700 is attempting to mutate COVID via directed evolution in order to preempt the development
00:13:33.160 of future vaccines. As a result, hashtag directed evolution trended worldwide. Jordan Tristan Walker,
00:13:41.100 Pfizer's director of research and development, strategic operations, and an mRNA scientific
00:13:45.760 planner claimed that directed evolution is not the same as gain of function research,
00:13:50.080 which according to the outlet is defined as a mutation that confers new or enhanced activity
00:13:54.760 on a protein, meaning that the virus in question can become more powerful depending on the mutation
00:13:58.940 or scientific enhancement. Walker told an undercover Project Veritas journalist,
00:14:02.720 One of the things that we, Pfizer, are exploring is like, why don't we just mutate COVID ourselves
00:14:09.880 so we could create preemptively new vaccines, right? So we have to do that. If we're going to do that
00:14:16.700 though, there's a risk of like, as you could imagine, no one wants to be having a pharma company
00:14:21.160 mutating effing viruses. He added, from what I've heard is they, the Pfizer scientists are optimizing
00:14:28.860 the COVID mutation process, but they're going slow because everyone is very cautious. Obviously,
00:14:33.300 they don't want to accelerate it too much. I think they're also just trying to do it as an
00:14:36.860 exploratory thing because you obviously don't want to advertise that you're figuring out future
00:14:41.480 mutations. And then Walker pleaded, don't tell anyone, promise you won't tell anyone. The way the
00:14:46.800 experiment will work is that we'd put the virus in monkeys and we successfully cause them to
00:14:51.020 successively, successively cause them to keep infecting each other and we collect serial samples
00:14:56.660 from them. You have to be very controlled to make sure that this virus that you mutate doesn't
00:15:02.280 create something that just goes everywhere, which I suspect is the way that the virus started in Wuhan,
00:15:07.440 to be honest. It makes no sense that this virus popped out of nowhere. It's BS. Okay. Like I said,
00:15:12.880 you could watch this whole, I think it's about 10 minutes. You see this whole conversation
00:15:17.600 where a Pfizer executive is saying that they intend to do the same thing they did in Wuhan,
00:15:25.500 but we've got to be really careful. It's like the safety of the human race is at stake and we're
00:15:36.220 just going to trust that Pfizer is careful. Like they can do things that if it goes wrong,
00:15:43.020 millions will die, but it's all right because we could just trust them to be careful.
00:15:47.600 Because we know that these people historically have been very careful, right?
00:15:55.240 Now, I mean, this obviously should be breaking news in every media outlet. We have a high ranking
00:16:00.740 official advisor admitting that they're working on mutating the virus, admitting that it's the same
00:16:05.200 kind of thing they did in Wuhan, pleading that nobody finds out about it. Like how much more
00:16:10.340 explicit can you be? Yes, we're doing this dangerous thing. Please don't tell anyone we're doing it.
00:16:15.860 What else do you need to hear? Big pharma must be stopped. And I'm not interested in voting for
00:16:26.360 any Republican who isn't serious about holding these psychos accountable. They've been operating
00:16:31.860 with impunity for way too long, way before COVID, way before COVID. Okay, before COVID came along,
00:16:39.440 and before the vaccines came along, how about turning half the country into drug addicts,
00:16:45.620 inventing diseases to treat and profit off of, conducting dangerous experiments that imperil the human
00:16:54.200 race, injecting whatever they want into our bodies, lying about it the whole time. It's got to stop it.
00:17:02.080 We need leaders with the wherewithal to stop it. Now, I've already told you, we talked yesterday about
00:17:07.320 the penalties that I would prefer to see for drug traffickers. So you know what I would like to do
00:17:13.800 with drug traffickers? Well, let's start here. I mean, let's start with the ones who wear suits and
00:17:18.360 have offices on the top floor of fancy sky rises. I mean, after we try them for their crimes and convict
00:17:24.200 them in a court of law, because that has to be the first step, we're way past the point of congressional
00:17:30.920 hearings and investigations. We need both of those things, but they don't mean anything if they don't
00:17:37.040 lead to trials and criminal charges, convictions, punishments. And there are other actual policy
00:17:46.860 changes too that could be made if we really wanted to rein in big pharma. And some of this might seem
00:17:53.640 slightly indirect, but really it's not, and we need to be doing it. Reining in big pharma, right,
00:17:59.700 means, either it means it's simply a talking point, something that you say, but if it's more
00:18:05.280 than a talking point, it means cutting off the funds. It means taking money away from these people.
00:18:10.080 That's how you do it. Or that is at least a major part of any effective plan to rein them in.
00:18:16.700 Another big part is, again, criminal charges, trials, punishments. You got to take the money away.
00:18:22.360 And I'll tell you one way to do that. We've talked about this plenty of times on this show.
00:18:26.500 Ban the pharmaceutical companies from advertising their products directly to consumers.
00:18:33.380 Whether it's a pill that they're pushing or a vaccine or anything, they should not be allowed
00:18:39.800 to advertise it directly to consumers. And that is already the policy in almost every country in the
00:18:46.020 world. Almost every country in the world, most countries, they don't let the pharmaceutical
00:18:49.900 companies advertise directly to consumers. That was the policy in this country until I think it
00:18:54.200 was the mid-90s when the FDA changed it. The fact that this policy was changed and has not been changed
00:19:01.580 back, the fact that we still allow them to advertise to consumers only shows you that our politicians
00:19:09.100 are in their pockets because there's no good argument for allowing this.
00:19:13.140 I just read an article a couple days ago, and I'll pull it up maybe tomorrow. We'll talk about
00:19:19.360 this in more detail because it's very important. But basically, according to this article, the drugs,
00:19:27.200 there's kind of an inverse correlation here because the drugs with the biggest ad budgets
00:19:32.120 have the lowest therapeutic value. And why is that? Because drugs that work and are safe are actually
00:19:42.440 safe and actually effective. They don't need to be advertised. Doctors will prescribe them because
00:19:48.120 they work. There's no reason to advertise it. Okay, if the drug works and it's effective and all that,
00:19:55.820 then you don't need to go to your doctor and ask about it. Can I have this drug?
00:19:59.940 No, it's supposed to be you go to the doctor with your symptoms and then your illness is diagnosed
00:20:05.220 and treated. But drugs that don't work need advertising because they need you as the patient
00:20:14.440 to go to your doctor and ask for them. And then they need to incentivize the medical industry to
00:20:22.100 distribute these drugs, whether they work or not. And the other thing that they do with these
00:20:28.340 advertisements, the drug ads, they're not just selling drugs that are ineffective and potentially
00:20:36.940 dangerous. I mean, they're doing that. But they're also selling the disease. They sell the disease.
00:20:43.900 Right? That's why all the ads are the same. They say, do you have this XYZ symptom? Well,
00:20:48.560 talk to your doctor about this drug. They're not even asking you, oh, well, if you already have this
00:20:54.800 disease, here's a drug for you. It's like, let's convince you that you have this disease,
00:21:00.180 a disease that you might not actually have, diseases that might not even exist. Because
00:21:03.780 big pharma, they also invent diseases that don't exist so that they can treat them and profit off
00:21:08.480 of them. And then once they've toyed with your hypochondriac mind and convince you, you have this
00:21:18.400 thing, you go to the doctor and you plead for the pills that you want. And then most of the time you get it.
00:21:24.800 There is no good reason to allow this. There is just no good reason. The only reason to allow the
00:21:32.280 drug companies to advertise directly to consumers is if you're very concerned about making sure that
00:21:37.500 the big pharma executives make a lot of money. That's the only benefit. The only benefit is that
00:21:41.620 they make tons of money doing this. If you don't let them do it, they make a lot less money.
00:21:45.560 There is no benefit to the population. There's no benefit to me or you. It's only harm.
00:21:55.740 I bring all that up because, again, this is one way you rein in big pharma. But also,
00:22:00.540 if you're wondering why nothing is being done by the powers that be,
00:22:04.680 to hold big pharma accountable when it comes to COVID and the vaccine and the lies that we're told,
00:22:13.980 if you're wondering why, well, all you need to look at is this. I mean,
00:22:20.560 direct consumer, banning direct consumer ads, that should be a bipartisan. That should be one of those
00:22:24.920 very rare bipartisan issues because it should appeal to both sides. The right pretends to be skeptical of
00:22:30.580 the pharmaceutical industry. The left pretends to be skeptical of corporations and corporate greed in
00:22:35.740 general. Well, here you go. Here's an issue that both sides should agree on. And they don't, at least
00:22:42.620 not in Washington, because obviously they're in the pockets of this industry on both sides.
00:22:51.380 All right. I'm sure you recall a few weeks ago when there was great panic across the land because
00:22:57.260 Republicans couldn't agree on who to appoint as the new Speaker of the House. And this was a source
00:23:02.880 of tremendous heartache and fear and misery in the population. And I mean, specifically the population
00:23:08.380 of corporate media offices in D.C. Nobody else really gave the slightest damn about any of this,
00:23:13.540 nor should they have cared about it. But for those, particularly on the right, who are concerned
00:23:18.660 that not handing the Speakership over to Kevin McCarthy automatically, concerned that if we didn't just
00:23:23.940 give it to him, that it would somehow have disastrous effects, I think those people should
00:23:29.460 check out what Kevin McCarthy, now the Speaker of the House, has been doing over the last several
00:23:34.480 days. One of his first acts as Speaker of the House was to kick Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff off of the
00:23:41.240 House Intelligence Committees, which is a very good thing. But the fact that he's doing these good
00:23:46.800 things is not evidence that we shouldn't have resisted his Speakership, but rather it's evidence that
00:23:52.180 it's a very good thing we did. Because it's clear that McCarthy's resistance from the base
00:23:57.220 has resonated with him. We do have some power and control here, but we have to use it.
00:24:06.960 And even if it didn't provoke an authentic conversion experience for Kevin McCarthy,
00:24:11.280 it at least is forcing him to act like something other than an establishment shill for right now.
00:24:16.680 And that's just as good as far as I'm concerned. I don't, like, frankly, I don't care if these
00:24:20.620 people mean it or not. I don't care. I don't care what they actually think in their hearts. I don't
00:24:25.420 care about any of that. It doesn't make any difference to me. Who cares about that? All I
00:24:29.300 care about is what they do, the policies they implement, even if they do it begrudgingly.
00:24:35.320 If they do it and they wish they didn't have to do it, but they're only doing it because
00:24:37.940 they're being held accountable by the base and they hate us and they're muttering about us the whole
00:24:41.660 time. Fine. I don't care. Just do it. If they're doing it to appease us, good. That only shows the power
00:24:49.240 that we have. So McCarthy kicked them off the intelligence committee. And then he had this
00:24:53.700 really fantastic exchange with the DC journalists who challenged him on it. And again, what you're
00:24:59.560 about to hear from him, you would not have heard had we not challenged. If the base had not challenged
00:25:04.280 him, you wouldn't hear this. And we never, we haven't heard anything like this from Kevin McCarthy
00:25:08.520 until now. That's not a coincidence, but we'll watch a little bit of this exchange.
00:25:12.300 He's gotten elected by his district.
00:25:16.760 Okay. Let me be very clear and respectful to you. You asked me a question. When I answer it,
00:25:24.120 it's the answer to your question. You don't get to determine whether I answer your question or not.
00:25:28.140 Okay. In all respect. Thank you. No, no. Let's answer her question. You just raised a question.
00:25:35.360 I'm going to be very clear with you. The intel committee is different. You know why? Because what
00:25:39.340 happens in the intel committee, you don't know. What happens in the intel committee of the secrets
00:25:43.940 that are going on in the world, other members of Congress don't know. What did Adam Schiff do as
00:25:49.140 the chairman of the intel committee? What Adam Schiff did, use his power as a chairman and lie to the
00:25:54.620 American public. Even the inspector general said it. When Devin Nunes put out a memo, he said it was
00:25:59.580 false. When we had a laptop, he used it before an election to be politics and say that it was false
00:26:05.280 and said it was the Russians. When he knew different, when he knew the intel. If you talk
00:26:09.820 to John Radcliffe, DNI, he came out ahead of time and says there's no intel to prove that. And he
00:26:17.280 used his position as chairman, knowing he has information the rest of America does not and
00:26:22.440 lied to the American public. When a whistleblower came forward, he said he did not know the individual,
00:26:27.400 even though his staff had met with him and set it up. So no, he does not have a right to sit on that.
00:26:32.280 But I will not be like Democrats and play politics with these, where they removed Republicans from
00:26:38.060 committees and all committees. So yes, he can. Okay, good. Yeah. And then he goes on to talk
00:26:42.920 about Eric Swalwell. I mean, Eric Swalwell was involved in a, in a romantic affair with a Chinese
00:26:47.060 spy. So yeah, should he be on the intelligence committee? I mean, he's involved in a romantic
00:26:52.340 affair with Chinese spy. He also has chronic flatulence. So those are two good reasons why,
00:26:56.320 I mean, it's not fair to the other people on the committee to have him in there for really both of
00:26:59.960 those, both of those reasons. And that's the point that Kevin McCarthy made. Well, he didn't
00:27:04.780 bring up the flatulence thing. I wish he had. That's the, that's the only criticism I have of
00:27:08.180 this moment from Kevin McCarthy, a moment that once again, I, I do not believe we would have if we
00:27:13.520 hadn't challenged him to what we did. Now Swalwell for, for his part is very upset about not getting
00:27:19.860 his committee assignment. It's another one of those things, right? The DC shows how,
00:27:25.480 how terminally out of touch they are with any normal American that they think we care about.
00:27:34.240 Like they can come to us, they think they can come to us with a, with a sob story about not
00:27:38.900 getting a committee assignment. And they think that we'll care about that. They think there's anyone
00:27:43.600 in the country who's sitting around going, I really feel bad for Eric Swalwell, not getting his
00:27:49.000 committee assignment. So he's, he's addressing the media about it and holding back tears. He's very
00:27:55.320 upset. Let's listen. So this is purely about political vengeance. The cost is not only removing
00:28:01.380 us from the committee on the intelligence committee. The cost is not only breaking, shattering the most
00:28:07.720 precious glassware in the cabinet, a committee that's always been bipartisan. The costs are the
00:28:12.580 death threats that Ms. Omar, myself and Mr. Schiff keep getting because Mr. McCarthy continues to aim
00:28:19.320 and project these smears against us. Even though we have said publicly, these smears are bringing
00:28:25.500 death threats. He continues to do it, which makes us believe that there's an intent behind it.
00:28:31.260 But we will not be quiet. We're not going away. I think he'll regret giving all three of us more time
00:28:36.620 on our hands. Oh, he made a threat there himself. That's a threat, isn't it?
00:28:45.920 Yeah, actually, I am worried about Eric Swalwell having more time on his hands.
00:28:50.400 How many other foreign spies can he sleep with in a given year with all that extra time? So I am a
00:28:57.920 little bit concerned about that. By the way, nobody is making death threats to Eric Swalwell. I don't think
00:29:03.940 anyone's ever made a death threat to Eric Swalwell. No one would take him seriously enough
00:29:08.080 to actually make a death threat. He's not a serious enough figure in politics to warrant that to begin
00:29:14.000 with. But also, he wants us to believe that people are making death threats because of him not being
00:29:21.020 appointed to the House Intelligence Committee. No one is even aware of that or cares. And the kinds of
00:29:28.840 people who would send random angry death threats to politicians, these are not the kinds of people
00:29:34.360 who are paying attention to what the committee assignments are. So that's all, all very good
00:29:41.500 stuff. All right. Damar Hamlin, after his cardiac emergency on the football field a few weeks ago,
00:29:48.900 we're told he spent several days in the hospital, but he's now out, though still in need of lots of
00:29:55.720 physical assistance, including oxygen, is what we're told. Now, Hamlin showed up to the Bills
00:30:00.800 playoff game on Saturday or Sunday, whenever it was, and they lost. But the big story was Hamlin's
00:30:06.200 presence, at least according to the media. This is a big story. And he was up in a box seat. He wasn't
00:30:10.240 on the field. He was up in a box seat. He was watching. And the announcers referred to him frequently
00:30:14.580 throughout the game. Cameras kept showing him. And the TV production made a really big deal about him
00:30:20.360 being there. The weird thing is that Hamlin, though he was on camera a lot, he never, we never saw his
00:30:28.100 face. They never showed his face. He wouldn't show his face. And there are a few times where they showed
00:30:31.960 him up in the box seat, but it was like you, you, it was at such an angle that you couldn't really
00:30:37.580 see anything. All you could see is silhouette, had his face covered and all that. So, so he showed up,
00:30:45.480 but they didn't want to show him and he didn't want to be seen. It's a kind of bizarre. And then
00:30:51.600 any kind of bizarre thing will lead to theories on the internet. The internet theorists, some of them
00:30:57.320 speculated about or wondered whether Hamlin wasn't actually at the game, but rather was represented by
00:31:03.300 some kind of body double. And then from there, you know, from that theory, then it branches off and
00:31:08.460 then it could get, you know, even more implausible. But so maybe he's alive, but they sent the body
00:31:13.940 double to the game so they could get the storyline of him being there. Maybe he's dead, you know,
00:31:18.420 and, and this is a body double that they put. So all kinds of theories like that. As you can imagine,
00:31:22.440 the media does not like any of this one bit, very upset about the theories. As this, just one
00:31:28.380 example, this NBC sports article makes very clear headline, crazy, disturbing Damar Hamlin conspiracy
00:31:34.640 theory emerges. And it says in many respects, the modern world has lost its damn mind. Conspiracy
00:31:40.640 theories abound over everything. And it was unavoidable, we suppose, that some nutty conspiracy
00:31:45.540 theory would emerge regarding Bill's safety to Damar Hamlin. Our original plan was to ignore it,
00:31:50.020 to give it no attention, no credence, no oxygen. Sometimes, however, it's important for the rational
00:31:53.420 to expose the irrational so that some of the irrational aren't tempted to swallow the crazy
00:31:58.560 ass cheese. What? Who wrote this? I wish I had to swallow the, what kind of writing is this? So
00:32:06.560 they're not tempted to swallow the crazy ass. First of all, is that, what are we, the crazy ass cheese or
00:32:13.500 the crazy ass cheese? Which one are we talking about? Both are disgusting, but one is particularly
00:32:20.520 more disgusting. Anyway, how does the phrase crazy ass cheese make it into an article that is then
00:32:29.680 published by NBC News? How does that make it through the editing process? What is your editor doing if
00:32:37.120 they allow, if they're not going to flag you down and say, hey, you know that part about crazy ass
00:32:40.840 cheese? I don't know if we maybe would at least take out the ass. Anyway, as it relates to Hamlin,
00:32:49.120 there's actually a theory, completely unsupported by a shred of evidence that Hamlin died from the
00:32:53.260 COVID vaccine and that he has been replaced by a body double. Think about that one. The person who
00:32:57.020 attended Sunday's game between the Bengals and Bills isn't Damar Hamlin. It's someone else disguised
00:33:01.360 as Damar Hamlin and presumably his family and his teammates are in on it. And then it goes on and on
00:33:05.740 and on and it, you know, scolding the people that have spread this conspiracy theory around.
00:33:15.120 Now, a few things about this. First thing is that, as always, actually the media,
00:33:21.120 while they complain about these conspiracy theories and they pretend to be very offended,
00:33:25.980 upset by it, they actually like them and they want more, they want to encourage them.
00:33:29.800 That's the only reason to report on this. I didn't know that this theory existed until I read
00:33:35.380 some of the news articles condemning it. Like so many other people, I only found out about the theory
00:33:41.180 because of the left-wing media scolding those who were propagating the theory, but really they
00:33:47.240 themselves are the ones propagating it because they like it. They want that.
00:33:53.260 Now, I don't think Damar Hamlin is dead and replaced by a body double. Okay. I don't think
00:33:58.020 that for a lot of reasons. I mean, for one thing, just the sheer number of people who have to be
00:34:01.460 involved in a conspiracy of that sort. We're talking about family and friends and doctors and teammates,
00:34:05.580 the NFL, the media, like all of them would have to conspire to remain silent for what, forever?
00:34:11.560 You'd have to keep it going forever and pretend this guy is still alive. And doing that so they
00:34:18.060 can cover up what? I guess the idea is that he died from the vaccine. Well, they already gave their
00:34:22.460 version of why he was in the hospital. So if he died, they would have just blamed that. They would
00:34:27.020 have said he died from the football injury. And if you think that there's some sort of cover-up
00:34:30.900 going on, then that would be the cover-up. It's a lot simpler and you don't need to enlist
00:34:34.680 hundreds of people across multiple industries to cooperate in this conspiracy to pretend someone
00:34:42.100 is alive for the next several decades when he's actually not. Anytime you're theorizing a massive
00:34:48.560 elaborate scheme involving thousands of people who all must stay perfectly in line and silent,
00:34:53.320 this scheme is like hatched in order to achieve some extremely negligible benefit or whatever.
00:34:57.840 Anytime there's a theory like that, it demands a lot of evidence to believe and otherwise you
00:35:02.960 should be extremely skeptical. Doesn't mean that those kind of theories are always wrong. It just
00:35:06.120 means that I'm going to need to see some real good evidence for that. Especially in this case when
00:35:10.800 there's a much more plausible explanation, which is that DeMar, my theory would be that DeMar
00:35:16.540 Hamlin's face got kind of messed up from a stroke related to the incident and he doesn't want people
00:35:21.980 to see. Like that's my, that would be my theory. So that's the most plausible sort of explanation.
00:35:27.840 Which brings me to, if there's a, if there's a scandal here, you know, the real scandal,
00:35:33.460 if there is one, is that the NFL insisted on making Hamlin, they wanted the story.
00:35:40.520 Okay. That's the thing. That's what the NFL cares about. They care about the ratings,
00:35:43.400 obviously. This is what the media cares about. They care about the ratings. They care about the
00:35:46.740 story. They care about that more than anything else. And so, uh, the moment this happened to
00:35:54.120 DeMar Hamlin, the, uh, parasites in the media and NFL corporate offices, they were like,
00:36:02.040 you know, they were, they, they saw the money signs and being able to capitalize on this storyline.
00:36:10.680 Now they wanted a storyline. And so that's why they wanted to trot them out at this game,
00:36:15.660 you know, insisting on making Hamlin into some kind of hero, some sort of like martyr. And, uh,
00:36:22.920 and, and, and, and, you know, and they really wanted that storyline of him. And in reality,
00:36:27.240 DeMar Hamlin suffered something very terrible, feel very sorry for him. And that's it. Like that's,
00:36:34.260 that's, there's not much else to be said about it, but they wanted to make it a lot more than that
00:36:39.640 because they wanted the ratings and they wanted the storyline. So they brought him out when he clearly
00:36:43.900 was not ready to be out there. And they exploited the whole situation throughout the entire broadcast
00:36:49.960 by going back to it again and again and again. And, uh, the fact that he didn't want to show his
00:36:54.020 face just makes the whole thing all the more bizarre and weird and, and just, uh, you know,
00:37:00.920 gratuitous, I think. But, you know, also, as I've said before, I don't, the people that indulge in
00:37:09.600 elaborate conspiracy theories. Oftentimes I don't believe those theories for the reasons I've said,
00:37:14.880 but I don't blame people anymore for it. I just don't because there's been a total collapse of
00:37:21.900 trust. People simply don't trust any of the supposed authorities that are supposed to be in charge of,
00:37:32.260 you know, disseminating information and telling us what's going on.
00:37:35.600 The public doesn't trust any of those people anymore for good reason.
00:37:40.520 And because they don't trust anyone, then everyone is left to kind of make their own
00:37:44.420 assumptions about everything. And some people tend to make more kind of cinematic assumptions than
00:37:51.680 others. But I think the blame ultimately goes with, uh, the people who have lost our trust
00:37:58.660 and have created this situation. All right, let's get to the comment section.
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00:38:58.540 LFTR says, steep and highly socialized penalties work. It's called a deterrent. As society has
00:39:03.340 backed off and reduced penalties for crime, our cities have become graffiti-tagged, crime-ridden
00:39:07.800 hellscapes. This is not a coincidence. It's a direct result of choosing not to punish criminal
00:39:11.780 behavior. Right. Of course it is. That's obviously what's going on. Anyone who claims that, oh,
00:39:18.980 punishments are not a deterrent for behavior. This is someone who is denying one of the most
00:39:23.780 basic realities of human psychology, including their own psychology. Okay. Everybody is motivated
00:39:31.400 by incentives and disincentives. Which isn't to say that people are directly, perfectly controlled by
00:39:39.460 such incentives. No, you can incentivize a certain behavior and there will be some people who still do
00:39:45.120 not engage in that behavior. You can disincentivize certain behaviors and there are people who still will
00:39:48.680 engage in that behavior. So that will happen. But still, people are highly influenced by incentives
00:39:54.200 and disincentives. That's, everybody is. So to deny it outright, as people do, to claim that,
00:40:00.680 you know, no matter how much we clamp down on criminal behavior and no matter how much we punish it,
00:40:09.220 no matter how severe the punishments are, it'll have essentially no effect on the frequency of that
00:40:16.340 criminal behavior. That claim is not credible at all. Let's see. Jay Anderson says, from a historical
00:40:25.600 perspective, drowning women as witches was normal. Just because it was normal in history is no
00:40:30.080 justification for the same actions today. Obviously, I hope. Yeah. Which is why my argument for
00:40:37.760 corporal punishment and, uh, and the increased use of capital punishment, my argument is not simply
00:40:42.760 based on the fact that people have always done it. That's not my only reason. Though it is true
00:40:48.720 that, um, when it comes to, we hear cruel and unusual punishments. Well, these punishments are
00:40:54.020 certainly not unusual. They are probably the most usual punishments in the world historically.
00:41:00.360 That's not the be all and end all of the argument, but that is a reality and it's worth pointing out.
00:41:05.980 Because yes, the fact that something has always been done a certain way is not in and of itself
00:41:13.100 a sufficient reason necessarily to keep on doing it. But it does mean that if you are suggesting that
00:41:20.500 we do things in a radically different way, then you need to have a good reason for that.
00:41:27.420 It does shift to a large extent, the burden of proof over to you. Okay. If human society has always done
00:41:33.960 something a certain way and we've got the, the, the testimony of our ancestors going back through
00:41:38.480 the ages saying, this is the way to do it. This way works. It could be that, that we need to change
00:41:44.420 courses and not do it this way anymore. Sure. But if you're coming along and saying that, if you're
00:41:48.620 saying, no, let's cut, no, let's, let's cut it off right here and go in this radically different
00:41:52.940 direction because all those people are wrong. Okay. I'm, I'm open to hearing your argument. I really am.
00:41:57.860 But you got to make the argument. You have now assumed a burden of proof that in so many cases,
00:42:05.320 the people who are demanding that we sever ourselves from our ancestors never meet,
00:42:11.320 they never meet that burden of proof. Instead, they try to go the other way, the other way. It's
00:42:15.860 almost like for a lot of people, the fact that our ancestors did it is reason enough to not do it.
00:42:22.740 And that's supposed to be self-evident, which it isn't.
00:42:28.760 And these days we do have, many people have anyway, a radically different concept of what
00:42:34.440 constitutes justice and what, and, and, and, and, you know, how we should deal with and punish crime.
00:42:42.780 We have a radically different notion of it today. A notion that would have been totally foreign to
00:42:48.100 most people who've lived on earth. That in and of itself doesn't make it wrong, but you got to be
00:42:54.600 able to defend it. And defending it essentially by just saying, well, corporal punishment for thieves
00:42:59.680 is a, that just makes me squeamish. I don't, it doesn't make me feel weird.
00:43:04.920 That seems to basically be most people's argument and I don't find it particularly compelling.
00:43:10.620 B. Reese says, I once spoke to a woman who was against the death penalty. She had bumper stickers
00:43:14.420 that mocked the death penalty. One time, one, one said, why do we kill people who kill people to
00:43:18.420 show that killing people is wrong? I said, we don't do that. I said, uh, we kill people who
00:43:22.520 kill people so they don't kill more people. Her response, I hadn't thought about that. I said,
00:43:26.900 well, think about it. After the death penalty is executed, the person will never have a,
00:43:30.840 will never be a repeat offender. Never have a nice day. Well, you're right about that. That is one
00:43:34.640 of the benefits of death penalty is that, uh, the recidivism rate. Okay. So we can talk about the
00:43:38.280 deterrence rate, but certainly the recidivism rate for the death penalty is zero. So that is a benefit
00:43:42.440 of it. But, you know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, uh, I w I also wouldn't surrender to her argument in
00:43:49.560 that way. Like it's, yeah, you can, it is a valid method to communicate the severity of a crime
00:43:58.640 through the, through the death penalty. So, I mean, look at it this way.
00:44:06.100 Kidnapping someone, right? If you, if I were to take someone and lock them in a cage in my basement,
00:44:11.920 I would be kidnapping them and I'd go to jail for that, but I'm going to jail and they're locking
00:44:17.500 me in a cage. So would this woman say, we shouldn't lock people in cages to show them
00:44:21.860 that locking people in cages is wrong. Now, the answer to that is, yeah, that's exactly what we
00:44:27.840 should do. What are you talking about? That's actually a great way to show someone that what
00:44:32.780 they've done is wrong. Okay. If you don't know that locking people in cages is wrong, probably the,
00:44:37.700 the best way to show you that it's wrong is to put you in a cage. How else? What's a better way
00:44:44.080 is a better way. If you really want to show them locking people in cages is wrong is a better method
00:44:49.220 to keep them out of a cage and just, uh, sit them in a classroom and, you know, and give them
00:44:53.880 instruction. Maybe have a, have them talk to a therapist who tries to convince them by the force
00:44:59.900 of argument that they shouldn't lock people in cages. No, the best way to communicate it is,
00:45:04.560 okay, here's what that feels like. Here you go. And so, yes, it is entirely valid to make a
00:45:13.220 societal statement that, uh, that killing is wrong by killing people who kill as an entirely valid
00:45:20.600 method. And, uh, let's see what else. Finally, Kenny says, let's, we'll end on one person who agrees
00:45:31.360 with me anyway. Uh, I was a career criminal. I was in prison. Guess what? Mr. Walsh speaks truth.
00:45:35.920 And I have to tell you, Kenny, that I, that I, I hear this a lot from people who've actually been
00:45:39.540 in prison and who have lived a criminal life and have, uh, come out on the other end of it and have
00:45:44.040 reformed themselves. They tend to be bigger fans of law and order and criminal justice and punishment
00:45:52.140 than the people who have never experienced this.
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00:47:08.900 cancellation. A little while ago when Elon Musk took over Twitter and began making sweeping layoffs,
00:47:17.660 he was condemned as a heartless profiteer, a man who took over a company and gutted it out of
00:47:22.820 spite or just for fun. But recent events would suggest that Musk was only ripping the Band-Aid
00:47:28.160 off. He was doing what needed to be done, but doing it in a much quicker fashion. A few months
00:47:33.520 after those layoffs, the rest of big tech is now involved in its own purge of its workforce.
00:47:38.440 The Daily Wire reported this week, quote, Spotify revealed plans to cut headcounts by 6% due to
00:47:43.660 macroeconomic turmoil following similar moves from other prominent technology firms.
00:47:48.060 Spotify CEO Daniel Ek informed staff members in a Monday note that the music and audio platform
00:47:54.160 will reduce headcount to streamline operations. The announcement implies that 600 of the company's
00:47:58.760 9,800 employees will lose their positions. Spotify is one of the several technology companies to
00:48:03.560 announce layoffs in recent weeks as a response to overzealous hiring in the sector and broader
00:48:07.660 economic woes. Microsoft revealed that the company would dismiss some 10,000 employees while
00:48:12.160 Google will reduce its headcount by approximately 12,000 positions. And Amazon plans to dismiss
00:48:16.600 18,000 employees. More than 46,000 workers have been discharged from prominent American technology
00:48:21.780 companies in the first month of 2023, according to a report from Crunchbase, even after firms in the
00:48:26.960 sector dismissed 107,000 positions last year. So perhaps, as it turns out, the most successful
00:48:32.860 businessman in the world made those layoffs because it was the right business decision.
00:48:37.100 Maybe he didn't become the richest human in history by doing things haphazardly or without
00:48:41.000 good reason. There's an interesting thought. And what's even more interesting is that big tech
00:48:46.020 employees themselves, while still complaining about layoffs, have in the past inadvertently
00:48:50.500 revealed why the layoffs were necessary. Case in point, Nicole Tsai, who's a partner services
00:48:56.540 program manager at Google, or I should say a former partner services program manager at Google.
00:49:02.020 Tsai, like several infamous examples from the Twitter ranks, enjoyed posting these insufferable
00:49:07.020 day-in-the-life videos to TikTok, where she documented her exploits throughout the day,
00:49:11.620 which mostly consisted of bragging about all the perks that she enjoyed as a big tech minion.
00:49:16.080 I still remain personally perplexed as to why or how these day-in-the-life videos become so popular.
00:49:22.680 I can understand watching such a video about somebody who lives an interesting life
00:49:26.260 and does interesting things, like maybe a day-in-the-life of a scuba diver who explores shipwrecks,
00:49:32.780 or of a scientist on a remote research station in Antarctica, or even one of those guys who
00:49:38.700 repairs power lines 150 feet up. Like, I'd watch that. That, a day-in-the-life of that guy, I want
00:49:43.980 to see. These are impressive jobs that would make for fascinating content. A day-in-the-life
00:49:50.100 of a Silicon Valley pencil pusher doesn't exactly measure up. Yet, even so, Nicole Tsai posted this.
00:49:57.480 Here it is. A day in my life working from the Google LA office. I always grab some candy from
00:50:03.440 the reception before heading in. This used to be an old aircraft hangar, so the decorations hanging
00:50:08.160 from the ceiling kind of looks like an aircraft flying in. Before it was a Google office, this
00:50:12.260 aircraft hangar belonged to Howard Hughes, so there's tons of memorabilia. Next, I'm going to pass
00:50:16.640 by these art installations. They're a really good photo op, or you can sit in there and get some work
00:50:21.060 done. I'm going to head to the coffee shop to grab some coffee and a fruit cup since I missed
00:50:25.200 breakfast, and then I'm heading over to this butterfly-themed room to take my first meeting.
00:50:28.880 Then I'm going to head over to the confetti room to take my next meeting. It's so sparkly
00:50:32.520 and beautiful in here. I love that a lot of our rooms are themed. Then I'm going to grab my two
00:50:36.660 favorite drinks, which is this green tea and coconut water. Next, I'm going to go upstairs and grab some
00:50:41.580 lunch. They always have pizza and a variety of different vegetables and meat. The food is always
00:50:46.360 really good, and of course, everything you see in the office is free. On my way out of the cafe,
00:50:51.000 I ran into a doogler, which is a dog googler, and ran into some ghosts. When they were renovating the
00:50:56.280 office, there were a lot of spooky stories from the crew, so there's a whole area in the office
00:51:01.140 where you can listen to them. Then I got more work done and headed over to the massage chairs to wrap
00:51:05.740 up my day. Let me know what you want to see next. Well, it's important to get that massage in
00:51:11.360 after a grueling day of eating candy, drinking coconut water, taking selfies, perusing art
00:51:17.280 installations, petting the dog Googler. Now, in fairness, she did take two meetings, okay? So
00:51:24.180 there were two meetings, and that was her entire day. She had the two meetings and the rest of that
00:51:27.900 mostly just hobnobbing around, taking it easy, attending a meeting or two. The one thing missing
00:51:34.320 from her day is work or anything that we might call work. She didn't do anything or create anything or
00:51:45.140 make any important decisions from the looks of it. It's not clear from that video why Google needs her
00:51:52.000 in the building, and it apparently wasn't clear to Google either, which led to this unintentionally
00:51:56.460 hilarious follow-up video. Here it is. A day in my life getting laid off at Google. So I woke up to
00:52:02.140 this really ominous text from my boss, and I honestly had no idea what it was going to be about. So I called
00:52:06.540 her the minute I woke up and saw this, and she told me to check the news and my email. So I rushed
00:52:11.080 downstairs to find out that I had lost access to basically everything. I couldn't log into my email
00:52:15.940 or even check my calendar. I called my boss back, and we just sobbed over the phone because she was
00:52:20.760 also finding out about my layoff for the first time today too. I started getting calls from a bunch of
00:52:24.960 my co-workers and started finding out who else was let go on my team and some neighboring teams as well.
00:52:30.160 But I think the worst part is that it seems like no one was consulted on this decision, and everyone was
00:52:35.260 just finding out about the layoffs at the same time. It just felt like a really bad game of Russian roulette,
00:52:40.140 and there was no consistency around who was let go. It was also not performance-based,
00:52:44.920 so it just felt really random. I opened up LinkedIn, which honestly was not great for my
00:52:49.160 mental health. There were so many people who were in the same boat that were both equally as shocked
00:52:53.900 and blindsided, but it did help me feel a little less alone. Honestly, I spent so much of the day
00:52:58.780 crying that I just felt so tired from being sad and wanted to do something that would just make me feel
00:53:04.220 better. Luckily, I have an annual pass, so I headed over to Disneyland because I wanted to go eat my
00:53:09.220 feelings. So I started off with a cinnamon galaxy churro and then went to the teriyaki turkey leg.
00:53:14.960 This is a special limited edition item for the Lunar New Year celebration at Disney California
00:53:19.180 Adventure. I had some Rice Krispie, a corn dog, did some drawing, and even had another churro. I don't
00:53:25.080 really know what's next for me, but I'll be vlogging my journey and posting more content about it,
00:53:29.160 so feel free to follow along.
00:53:30.400 I have a sick sense of humor, so I really want someone with an even sicker sense of humor to make
00:53:38.940 a parody video of what would happen if one of these people was on death row and had to do a day in the
00:53:47.700 life of their execution. I just think that'd be fun. Here's a day in the life when I'm being executed.
00:53:54.340 I woke up, had my last meal. A couple of things. First of all, she says that the layoffs were a
00:54:00.900 really bad game of Russian roulette, which seems to suggest that there's such a thing as a good
00:54:05.520 game of Russian roulette. The whole point of Russian roulette is that someone dies at the end,
00:54:09.240 so it's going to be a very bad day for someone at least. Although maybe not for you, so okay.
00:54:13.440 Second, she just got laid off, lost her source of income, and her first reaction was to run down to,
00:54:18.700 was it Disneyland, to blow her discretionary funds on carnival snacks? Doesn't seem like a great
00:54:24.280 strategy. Third, listen, I don't have anything against this woman. I'm predisposed to dislike
00:54:31.800 her because she works for big tech, but for all I know, she's a very nice and delightful person,
00:54:36.340 for all I know. But my ability to feel sympathy for your tears is severely limited when you take
00:54:41.180 out your phone to capture your tears on video. I have been sad in my life. I've experienced setbacks
00:54:47.540 like we all have. I've never once felt the urge in the midst of that sadness to document it with my
00:54:52.200 phone. That's actually the last thing I would want, is I'm very sad about something and then
00:54:57.500 I have a phone in my face. It's the last thing I want. The instinct to pull out your phone while
00:55:02.340 you're crying is not one that I can begin to understand, and it automatically makes your
00:55:07.360 sadness at least partially performative because you're using it for content. You're using it for
00:55:12.640 clout. You're not taking your own misfortune seriously, and so why should I take it seriously?
00:55:18.720 Finally, there's a lesson here that I hope Nicole learns and all younger people learn.
00:55:24.160 It's not fun, but it's the truth. In the working world, everyone is expendable. Everyone is
00:55:33.820 replaceable. Now, you're not expendable as a human being. I'm not saying that you as a human are
00:55:39.560 expendable. You're not expendable in certain contexts, like in the context of your family. You're not an
00:55:44.780 expendable person. But at your job, you can be replaced. And eventually, one way or another,
00:55:50.760 you will be. Whether you quit, fired, laid off, retire. I mean, one way or another, eventually,
00:55:55.920 you're replaced. And that's the case for all of us. But you can greatly mitigate your replaceableness.
00:56:03.220 You can make yourself much less expendable. You can make it so that though you can still be replaced,
00:56:09.940 there are not that many people who can replace you. Your own vulnerability in this regard,
00:56:16.440 the reality that you will never be entirely indispensable, that shouldn't be a cause for
00:56:20.940 despair, but rather it should drive you and make you more ambitious and innovative and propel you
00:56:26.360 to work harder. Not in a paranoid way, but just in a like staying humble and working hard kind of way.
00:56:32.480 And if it does, if it does motivate you that way, then even if and when you are replaced,
00:56:38.980 you're nearly certain to continue on the path to success, though by the way of a detour.
00:56:44.600 We will always be, to one degree or another, expendable at our jobs, but you can become
00:56:49.100 virtually undeniable in pursuit of your larger goals. If you hone your abilities, if you never
00:56:54.480 become entirely complacent, if you work harder than everybody around you, you will be successful.
00:56:59.360 It is virtually guaranteed. I have never known in my life a hardworking, talented person who was
00:57:06.220 not by some measure successful. Maybe not rich, but rich is not, rich is one potential manifestation
00:57:13.740 of some forms of success. It is not in and of itself success. So maybe I'm not saying that every
00:57:18.160 hardworking, talented person is a millionaire, but they are all successful at the same time.
00:57:23.300 So here's your problem, Nicole, and it's a problem shared by many. You don't seem to be doing anything
00:57:30.960 or even attempting to do anything that cannot be done by virtually anyone. That is the most
00:57:36.920 vulnerable position you can put yourself in when you are contributing in a way that could just as
00:57:43.780 well be emulated by nearly anyone who walks in the door. In fact, your contributions can be absorbed
00:57:50.320 by other people without anything really being lost. You've made yourself highly, highly replaceable
00:57:57.860 and you've deprived yourself of any leverage. Further down the professional ladder, there are some
00:58:03.660 workers in the fast food industry who find themselves in the same position. They clamor for higher wages,
00:58:07.600 but they have almost no leverage because their positions can be simply erased and replaced by touch
00:58:12.480 screens. Now, the best response then is to work hard, develop your skills, become innovative,
00:58:18.740 put yourself in a position either in the same industry or somewhere else where you bring something
00:58:23.560 to the table that very few people can match. Now, this isn't about defending corporations or greedy
00:58:29.540 billionaires. I'm not telling you how I wish things were. This is not my vision of how I want the world
00:58:36.320 to be. I'm telling you how it is. And all we can do is to start with confront the fundamental reality
00:58:44.000 for what it is and figure out how to succeed within its confines. Whether you like the confines of reality
00:58:51.920 or not, there they are. You have to figure out how to operate in spite of them. That's the way forward.
00:59:00.480 Though for now, I must say you are still canceled. And that'll do it for this portion of the show as we move
00:59:05.320 over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.
00:59:08.400 Hope to see you there.