The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1103 - Black Cops Beat Black Man. Media Blames White Supremacy.

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, five black police officers are under arrest after fatally beating

00:00:04.400 a black man. Everyone involved is black, yet that hasn't stopped the media from pinning the blame 0.88

00:00:08.520 on white supremacy, of course. Also, police departments across the country have been 0.86

00:00:12.000 lowering their standards in order to attract new and, quote, diverse recruits. Does that play into

00:00:16.880 the incident in Memphis? Plus, the Paul Pelosi 911 call is finally revealed, which also reveals the

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00:01:34.880 On Friday evening, after several days of hype and buildup, video of the incident that led to murder

00:01:40.300 charges for five Memphis police officers was finally released. The body camera footage is a

00:01:46.860 couple different places where the footage is coming from, and the body camera is harder to interpret.

00:01:51.140 We see Tyree Nichols fighting with the cops after having been apparently pulled over for reckless

00:01:55.420 driving, but the footage is sort of blittery, blurry, and jittery, and difficult to discern.

00:02:01.160 The story is really told by footage from security cameras mounted to street lamps, and there we can

00:02:06.740 see the cops take turns beating and kicking Nichols while he's restrained. The five of them together

00:02:14.340 should have been able to figure out a way to subdue one man without pummeling him to death,

00:02:18.900 but these officers decided to use much more force than what the situation would seem to require. In

00:02:23.880 fact, if you saw the video from the street lamp security cameras without any other context,

00:02:31.640 you wouldn't think that it was an arrest at all, but rather like gang warfare. It looked like street

00:02:36.460 violence, not officers of the law executing an arrest. And the end result is that Tyree Nichols died in the

00:02:42.760 hospital a few days after the beating. Now, there's still much we don't know about this incident,

00:02:47.740 and even though the video is quite brutal, it's still always worth keeping in mind that everyone

00:02:52.240 is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I wouldn't be surprised if more details emerge in

00:02:57.980 the coming weeks and months that while probably not exculpatory for the officers, it's very hard to

00:03:02.940 imagine what kind of context could possibly let them off the hook here. It might at least help to

00:03:08.720 explain what exactly was going on. Did one or some of these cops have some sort of personal grudge

00:03:16.020 against Nichols? Is there a history here that we haven't been told about, which might explain why

00:03:20.200 the beating looks so personal? I have no idea. Hopefully we'll find out more as time goes on.

00:03:26.280 What I do know though, is that this event, whatever precipitated it, whatever explains it, 0.96

00:03:32.300 certainly had absolutely nothing to do with racism because this was a black man beaten by black cops 0.96

00:03:39.300 who work for a department run by a black woman in a majority black city governed by a majority black 0.98

00:03:44.880 city council. There are no white faces anywhere near this incident, which means that no honest and 0.68

00:03:52.940 intelligent person could try to pin this one on whiteness or white supremacy. But unfortunately for

00:03:59.200 all of us, honest and intelligent is a bar too high for many people, especially those in the media to

00:04:04.380 meet. And so leftist activists and media propagandists immediately went to work trying to explain how

00:04:10.080 the actions of five black men under the leadership of a black woman somehow represent an act of 0.98

00:04:15.740 anti-black racism. Van Jones over on CNN got the race baiting kicked off on Friday night with an op-ed 0.59

00:04:22.560 titled, quote, the police who killed Tyree Nichols were black, but they might still have been driven by

00:04:28.080 anti-racism. Jones goes on to explain, one of the sad facts about anti-black racism is that black

00:04:35.160 people ourselves are not immune to its pernicious effects. Society's message that black people are 0.70

00:04:40.340 inferior, unworthy and dangerous is pervasive. Over many decades, numerous experiments have shown that 0.98

00:04:46.500 these ideas can infiltrate black minds as well as white. Self-hatred is a real thing. At the end of

00:04:52.420 the day, it is the race of the victim who is brutalized, not the race of the violent cop that is most

00:04:57.140 relevant in determining whether racial bias is a factor in police violence, whether racial bias

00:05:02.700 is a factor in police violence. It's hard to imagine five cops of any color beating a white person to

00:05:07.760 death under similar circumstances. And it's almost impossible to imagine five black cops giving a 1.00

00:05:12.960 white arrestee the kind of beatdown that Nichols allegedly received. There you have it. White people 0.96

00:05:20.780 aren't to blame, even for things that white people don't do. Van Jones bases all of this on his own, 0.70

00:05:29.600 essentially his own lack of imagination. Because he says that it's hard to imagine a white person

00:05:36.040 treated this way by cops. Hard to imagine. And it might indeed be hard for him to imagine,

00:05:42.760 because he works for a media organization that simply ignores every occasion where a white person

00:05:47.840 is killed by police. It's not that Jones can't imagine a white person falling victim to police 0.75

00:05:53.440 brutality. It's that he chooses not to acknowledge such cases when they happen. He chooses not to

00:05:59.880 remember, for example, the worst police shooting ever caught on film, the one where Daniel Shaver,

00:06:04.520 an unarmed white man, is executed in the middle of a hotel hallway while on his knees begging for his life.

00:06:10.500 Shaver's skin color makes his story inconvenient. And so it's simply ignored, like so many other

00:06:18.340 stories just like it. Jones got to this narrative early, and many soon followed, though. Over the

00:06:24.500 past few days, Twitter has been full of tweets like this one from anti-racism educator, quote-unquote,

00:06:30.100 Tim Wise, who says, anyone who says the killing of Tyree Nichols can't be about racism because the cops were

00:06:36.000 also black, really doesn't understand how white supremacy or anti-blackness work. And then

00:06:41.860 Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost says, doesn't matter what color those police officers are, 0.84

00:06:47.520 the murder of Tyree Nichols is anti-black and the result of a system built on white supremacy.

00:06:53.280 Political commentator Mondaire Jones tweeted, if you think the Memphis police officers had to be 0.58

00:06:57.740 white in order to exhibit anti-blackness, you need to take that AP African American Studies course 0.98

00:07:02.880 Ron DeSantis just banned. It is, of course, more accurate to say that if you think violence 0.95

00:07:08.980 committed by five black men is somehow the fault of anti-black racism, then you've probably taken way 0.78

00:07:15.340 too many African American Studies courses. In fact, that kind of insane, paranoid thinking is exactly 0.99

00:07:22.100 why those sorts of courses shouldn't exist in public school in the first place. And you can find this

00:07:28.200 kind of messaging, of course, elsewhere on social media, like on TikTok, where this white woman

00:07:32.580 explains why every white person is directly guilty of carrying out this beating. You may think you

00:07:38.700 have a good alibi, maybe because you were in bed asleep in your home 500 miles away while it was

00:07:44.320 happening, but that doesn't mean you aren't culpable, she explains. I got a message today for some white 0.97

00:07:51.320 people. If we have white people listening, paying attention, I wouldn't mind if you would do this with 0.97

00:07:57.580 me. We rub our chests, we find our heartbeat, and we say, we did this. We did this.

00:08:05.320 White supremacy did this. I'm talking about Tyree Nichols. Police didn't do this.

00:08:18.820 The Memphis Police Department didn't do this. White supremacy did this. 0.97

00:08:28.980 Well, I say we take her confession seriously. If she says she did this, then arrest and charge her,

00:08:34.500 sentence her to life in a maximum security prison. After all, she says that she beat a black man to 0.99

00:08:41.680 death. Worse, she apparently did it through some kind of mind control mechanism. The black cops were 0.99

00:08:49.680 the ones doing the kicking and punching, but she says they didn't do this. She says it explicitly. 0.97

00:08:54.880 They did not do this. This weird white woman with the GI Joe buzz cut says that she was the one really

00:09:01.480 pulling the strings. I mean, she says us, we, but I mean, I had nothing to do with it. So if she's

00:09:08.340 saying that she was, arrest her, interrogate her, find out who her accomplices were.

00:09:13.720 If she doesn't give them up, then throw her in prison for the rest of her life. 0.87

00:09:17.820 Drop the charges on the cops and throw her behind bars. I would, I would unironically support that.

00:09:24.080 Just, she confessed. She said they didn't do it. Put her in jail then. Let's see how deep her white 0.97

00:09:31.160 guilt really runs. But it's not just idiots on TikTok with this message. The idiot running the 1.00

00:09:36.520 largest city in the United States was singing the same tune. Here's Mayor Eric Adams. 1.00

00:09:42.660 Let me ask you, Chief C.J. Davis, in my interview with her, she said that all the officers being

00:09:47.180 black, it takes race off the table. Do you agree with that? 0.94

00:09:50.680 No, no, I don't. I think that I understand what the chief was saying. And I think she

00:09:56.180 really handled this situation in a very professional way. She moved swiftly. She was sure that

00:10:02.580 those officers were removed from the department. She took all the necessary steps. But I think

00:10:07.560 race is still on the table. When a culture of policing historically has treated those from

00:10:14.020 different groups differently, even when the individuals are from that same group, that

00:10:20.000 culture can still exist. And we have to zero in on it, being honest about it, and making sure that

00:10:25.060 we properly train police for the realities of the cities that they are policing in.

00:10:29.820 Right. It's the system. It's the culture, racism, white supremacy. 0.66

00:10:35.620 The left will blame everyone and everything except the guys who actually did it.

00:10:41.280 And this is often the case, you may notice, not just in this situation. Whenever something bad

00:10:45.280 happens, they point the finger in every direction other than the direction where the culprit is

00:10:51.000 actually standing. These people would be very bad at the game of clue. I can't imagine. I mean,

00:10:56.580 even if all the evidence suggests that the murder was carried out by, you know, Colonel Mustard with

00:11:00.360 a candlestick in the dining room, they will still declare that it was ultimately systemic racism and

00:11:05.540 economic inequality and a lack of common sense candlestick control that really killed the victim.

00:11:11.880 They view everything through this lens, partly because it's, of course, more politically useful.

00:11:17.880 Why is that? Well, because there isn't much political utility in actually blaming an

00:11:22.000 individual for his own actions. Because an individual is small and limited and finite.

00:11:29.440 There's only so much you can do to harvest an individual's actions for political purposes. Now,

00:11:34.960 systems, on the other hand, systems, well, those are bountiful fields indeed, politically speaking.

00:11:42.520 And then beyond the political, the left is also philosophically committed to a view of life

00:11:46.400 that denies the individual free will and agency. They cannot accept that a person might make his own

00:11:53.700 choices and choose to do an evil thing and actually be culpable for that choice because in the end,

00:12:01.260 he has power over himself. If they accept such a proposition, then all kinds of scary boogeymen like

00:12:08.740 personal responsibility and moral standards and good versus evil come rushing in. And they can't have

00:12:16.140 that. But the concern, obviously, that arches over all of this is the racial narrative. And the

00:12:22.500 narrative demands that every evil that befalls a black person must be explained in terms of white 0.98

00:12:29.060 racism. And they are committed to this idea, too, and cannot abandon it either. Because if they were 0.56

00:12:36.800 to admit, if they were to admit, I mean, think about it. If they were to admit that perhaps

00:12:41.240 Nichols was beaten to death by five cops for some other reason, whatever the reason is, because the

00:12:49.080 cops were poorly trained or they had a personal grudge or they just happened to be bad and violent

00:12:54.380 people, et cetera, if they were to admit that, then they would be conceding that incidents of police

00:13:01.140 brutality or alleged police brutality can be explained that way, which then raises the question about

00:13:06.620 whether such alleged incidents carried out by white cops might also be explained that way.

00:13:12.980 It doesn't make sense to say that black cops beat a black man because of racism, but it makes even 1.00

00:13:17.720 less sense to say that every black man beaten by a white cop is the victim of racism, while the black 0.85

00:13:23.500 on black incidents have a variety of other non-racial explanations. Because if they have non-racial

00:13:28.640 explanations, then again, why couldn't the white on black incidents potentially have non-racial

00:13:34.280 explanations as well? I mean, you have entered into consideration other possibilities that would

00:13:40.600 now have to be thought about even when it's a white on black situation. Their narrative puts them in a bind

00:13:48.580 and the only way out is through. Either everything can be explained by racism or they must face the

00:13:58.560 possibility that lots of things are not explained by racism. The latter is untenable, so the former it is.

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00:14:53.680 EpicWill.com, promo code Walsh. Of course, the irony here is that if you're looking for a systemic

00:15:00.000 explanation for the Tyree Nichols situation, there actually is a very plausible one, but it's just

00:15:05.700 not one that the left wants to pursue or talk about. And even if you find a systemic, even if there

00:15:14.420 are systemic elements to what happened, which I think there are, we'll talk about in a second,

00:15:19.540 that still does not exonerate the individual from being responsible for their own actions.

00:15:25.200 But as far as systems go, the New York Post has this report. At least two out of the five Memphis

00:15:31.380 police officers charged with murder in the fatal beatdown of Tyree Nichols joined the force after

00:15:35.940 the department relaxed its hiring requirements. Tadarius Bean and Demetrius Haley both joined the

00:15:42.500 Memphis Police Department in August 2020, more than two years after the department dramatically

00:15:46.960 loosened the education qualifications to become an officer. Recruits no longer need an associate's

00:15:51.620 degree or 54 college credit hours to join the force and can get by with five years of work experience.

00:15:57.460 Loosening the required qualifications, however, means that the department is ultimately getting

00:16:01.440 less desirable job candidates. Mike Alcazar, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal

00:16:06.620 Justice and a retired NYPD detective, told the Post. He said, quote,

00:16:10.940 they're desperate. They want police officers, Alcazar said. They're going through it. They

00:16:15.340 check off some boxes saying, OK, they're good enough. Get them on. The department showed signs

00:16:20.380 of struggle with recruiting new officers offering $15,000 signing bonuses 2021 and 2022, according to

00:16:26.280 Fox 13. As of January 22nd, MPD was down roughly 500 officers, according to the news outlet. Last year,

00:16:35.140 the department lowered its standards again for new recruits, nixing the timed physical ability test

00:16:40.740 and cutting college education requirements from 54 credit hours to just 24. The department also

00:16:45.260 revealed that was even it was even offering waivers for people who have been convicted on felony

00:16:50.380 charges. So bringing the standards down and why this is happening in police departments all across

00:17:00.420 the country, why is it happening? Partly it's because they want to diversify their ranks. And this is

00:17:05.180 one of the solutions we were told after George Floyd, even though he died of a fentanyl overdose and

00:17:11.620 they all blamed it on the police officer. But after that happened, they said, well, one of the

00:17:15.180 solutions here is we need to we need we need the police departments to better reflect and look like

00:17:20.800 the communities they're policing. So they want to diversify. And that's part of the reason they

00:17:24.720 lowered the standards. The other reason is that they're just finding it difficult to find

00:17:28.660 police officers who want to deal with any of this. As society becomes more and more anti-cop and as the

00:17:38.680 media, you know, is looking to pounce on any police officer, well, not any, any police officer who's

00:17:46.260 involved in a physical altercation with a black person. They're looking to pounce no matter the 0.95

00:17:50.980 circumstances. And if you're, you also know, if you're a cop, that you're going to be tried

00:17:57.840 in the court of public opinion, you're going to be tried in the media before you ever get

00:18:01.980 a fair trial. And there's a good possibility that you never will get a fair trial, but because by the

00:18:06.200 time you get to trial, the jury pool is already tainted by the fact that the media has called you,

00:18:10.220 you know, a racist killer. And, and even your own department has, has labeled you that way.

00:18:15.380 Like the president of the United States is saying it. So people are looking at all this and of

00:18:19.540 course saying, I, I have no interest in this. Why would I want to put myself in this position?

00:18:27.180 And so they're lowering the requirements. It could also be said that when you, when you, uh,

00:18:32.460 cut off funding to police departments or you redirect, because remember they told us that when

00:18:40.620 they said, well, we said defund the police, we didn't mean literally defund them. We just meant

00:18:44.980 redirect the funds somewhere else. Well, they've been doing that in many cities as well. You

00:18:50.700 redirect the funds somewhere else, then you don't have the funds to train, to properly equip and train

00:18:55.300 police officers. You notice something that, um, when it comes to almost anything else, especially any

00:19:04.880 other government agency program, government activity, the left will say that the solution is

00:19:12.720 always more funding. This is especially the case in the education system. So if there's a problem with

00:19:18.460 kids, not getting a good education, if there's a problem with, uh, with, uh, teachers not being

00:19:22.140 good at their jobs, if there's any kind of problem, the education system whatsoever, the solution is

00:19:26.800 always more funding for education. And the reason why this problem exists is always that, well, they

00:19:33.260 don't have enough funding. So this is what they say in education, but with policing, somehow the solution

00:19:39.840 is not to fund, not to give more funding, but to take funds away, which is very interesting.

00:19:47.180 You know, there's good evidence that the police chief herself has benefited potentially from the

00:19:51.940 same, um, lowering of standards and, you know, possibly for affirmative action type reasons. She's a

00:19:59.700 black woman. And this was, you know, this is, again, this is, this was part of the solution we were told

00:20:03.540 to the alleged problems in police departments is, uh, diversify them, get women in there, get, uh, 1.00

00:20:11.140 just, just anything but white males is what you want. Well, the post-millennial has this story.

00:20:16.680 Chief Sarah Lynn Davis of the Memphis Police Department, which is at the center of attention

00:20:20.980 as protests of the fatal police beating of Tyree Nichols, sweep the nation, was previously fired

00:20:25.840 by the Atlanta Police Department after being accused of attempting to cover up the sex crimes

00:20:30.140 of a co-worker's husband. As the Hastings Tribune reports, Davis was terminated from a position

00:20:35.720 as APD's internal affairs commander for her alleged involvement in a botched sex crimes investigation

00:20:41.540 into the husband of an Atlanta police sergeant. According to the report, two detectives claimed

00:20:46.120 Davis instructed them to not investigate the suspected predator who was, uh, named Terrell Marion Crane

00:20:52.720 after police discovered sexually explicit images of him with minor girls. Crane was later indicted

00:20:58.260 by federal grand jury on charges of producing child pornography to which he pleaded guilty

00:21:01.980 to one count in January, 2009. The case required a federal indictment due to Atlanta police taking

00:21:08.960 no action. According to the publication, an investigation conducted by the city later found

00:21:13.280 that Davis was at fault for her inaction. Um, then chief Richard Pennington first demoted the

00:21:19.340 longtime law enforcement official from major to lieutenant before deciding to fire her, though she was

00:21:23.920 ultimately reinstated after challenging the decision with Atlanta civil service board. Okay. So she's

00:21:29.780 implicated and, uh, in covering up sex crimes of a guy who ends up being convicted of child pornography

00:21:37.560 and she's demoted and then fired from her position in Atlanta, but then ends up getting hired to run a police 0.92

00:21:49.320 department. How exactly does that happen? I mean, how do you go from you're fired on suspicions of

00:21:57.400 corruption? And then next thing you know, you're running the police department in Memphis.

00:22:03.680 Was there potentially some lowering of standards that happened there as well?

00:22:10.960 That seems pretty obvious, but what we know, which is even more obvious is that the left,

00:22:15.800 they don't care at all about police reform or corruption. This is one of the biggest misconceptions

00:22:24.160 in politics is that the left is their, their anti-cop, their anti-police. Uh, they are very deeply

00:22:30.580 concerned about police reform, police, you know, they, they, they want to tamp down on, on corruption

00:22:35.820 in policing and incompetence in policing. They don't care about any of that. They do not care at all

00:22:42.140 about any of that. What they care about is the racial narrative, the political narrative

00:22:49.820 and how these things can be exploited. That's all they care about.

00:22:55.480 Which is also, by the way, you know, uh, the, uh, the other thing we didn't, we didn't talk about

00:22:59.100 are the actual protests and rioting that happened after this video was released on Friday night.

00:23:05.060 And remember they, they built it up. They talked about how horrible it was. They got all the

00:23:09.740 protesters gathered in downtown Memphis and CNN was covering it. And they, they were saying as

00:23:17.000 all the protesters gathered, they're waiting for the release of the, it's like, like I talked about

00:23:21.140 last week, they're treating it like some sort of Hollywood premiere. Okay. This was not a Friday

00:23:24.960 news dump. This was a premiere date. Hey, everyone gather in the city. Let's get all fired up and angry. 0.99

00:23:30.380 And then we'll drop this video right into the middle of that. And it would seem like, I mean,

00:23:36.080 if you wanted to encourage writing, there'd be no better way to do it. And then they dropped the

00:23:41.840 video and it was a brutal and horrifying video. And, um, yeah, there were, there were protests

00:23:49.020 across the country and there was some writing and there was some looting that happened, which is

00:23:52.240 terrible, but it really has been not anywhere close to George Floyd 2020 levels. Even though

00:23:59.960 everyone agrees, like I haven't heard anyone say otherwise, everyone agrees that the Tyree Nichols

00:24:05.420 video is far worse than George Floyd. Okay. Um, now from my perspective, it's not hard for it to be

00:24:14.200 worse than George Floyd considering he was in the middle of dying of a drug overdose, but, but all the

00:24:19.480 same, everyone agrees with that. And I haven't heard anyone even defend the police officers. The most

00:24:25.900 anyone has said is like they, which I said, they deserve their time in court in a sense of proven

00:24:30.480 guilty, of course, but based on what we're seeing, it's, um, really a horrifying video. And yet it

00:24:35.440 hasn't reached that level. The rioting has not reached anywhere close to that level. And that's

00:24:40.780 because they don't have the racial angle. There are some other factors too. It's a little bit cold.

00:24:44.680 The rioters, they, you know, the rioters and looters, um, they're, they're sensitive to weather

00:24:51.760 conditions. I think the history has proven that, but even more so it's just, they don't have the

00:24:57.060 racial angle and it takes the wind out of their sails. It takes the wind out of the sails of the 0.99

00:24:59.980 media too. They're trying to, they're, they're trying to find a racial angle in it, but it's not

00:25:05.860 going to stick and they know it, which is why I just checked, uh, checked CNN's website and the

00:25:11.740 Tyree Nichols story is already below the top headline, which has nothing to do with Tyree

00:25:17.260 Nichols. And it's even below on their, um, on the, if you go on mobile anyway, they've got their top

00:25:22.940 story and then a review of, uh, the last of us, the last episode of the last of us on HBO. And then

00:25:28.920 there's another story and there's a story about Ashley Judd. And then below that you have Tyree

00:25:34.140 Nichols compared to George Floyd, where he was like the top story for, I don't know, three months.

00:25:41.740 Without the racial angle, it just, uh, quickly goes away. And nowhere is that more evident than,

00:25:49.700 you know, in any case where a white person is killed by police. 0.96

00:25:58.160 So we know if it's white officers killing a black person, we know what they do with that. 0.97

00:26:02.820 If it's black officers killing a black person, they're going to try to find something in it that 1.00

00:26:07.960 they can talk about. But if it's a white person being killed by cops, that just never makes the 0.99

00:26:14.020 headlines ever. That is never a major headline story ever. There are, there are never mass protests

00:26:21.120 on that ever because they don't care. All right. Just as the show ended on Friday news broke, that,

00:26:31.180 um, would seem to be the epic conclusion of the bizarre Paul Pelosi saga. Uh, finally,

00:26:37.980 we got the body cam footage from the night when Pelosi was bludgeoned by a hammer wielding attacker.

00:26:43.080 The footage, that footage doesn't really answer any questions in and of itself. Actually,

00:26:47.080 it raises more questions than it answers. All we see is Pelosi answer the door for the cops

00:26:51.540 standing with, uh, the guy, David DePap is his name, I believe. And, um, they, but they both kind

00:26:57.540 of have their hands on, uh, on, on the hammer that, that DePay brought into the house and then DePay

00:27:04.660 hits him over the head with it. And that's what we see in the video. It's a very strange clip,

00:27:09.060 also brutal. But shortly after that, the 911 call was released. And this, I think sort of makes

00:27:17.020 everything pretty clear. Remember, there were many questions about how this guy ended up in the

00:27:20.820 house. Did Pelosi know him? Was this, as some speculated, some kind of like male escort hired

00:27:26.700 to come to the house and it was a lover's quarrel. That was the theory being bandied about on Twitter

00:27:31.460 quite a bit. Um, all of those speculations were rampant on the internet rampant because as always,

00:27:37.060 we weren't being given the whole story. They were being oddly secretive about it. So people speculate

00:27:43.100 when you're secretive, you don't tell people the story, they speculate. And that's what happens.

00:27:48.500 Now that we have this to go along with, um, security camera footage, which was the third

00:27:52.760 thing they released. Now, all of these things, they got body camera footage, 911 call security

00:27:56.880 camera footage. They kept all of this for months, didn't show anybody. And then all at once they

00:28:03.100 released all of it. And we also see security camera footage of DePay actually breaking into the

00:28:07.860 house, smashing the glass in the back, coming into the house. And then there's the call. And,

00:28:12.580 um, let's listen to, uh, a little bit of the call. Here it is.

00:28:16.520 Please, Tony, four.

00:28:19.680 Oh, I guess, I, I guess I, I told him.

00:28:22.580 What is this?

00:28:24.300 This is San Francisco police. Do you need help?

00:28:28.900 Oh, what is a gentleman, uh, here just waiting for my wife to come back?

00:28:32.820 Nancy Pelosi. Uh, he's just, uh, waiting for her to come back because he's not going

00:28:39.020 to be here for a day. So I guess we'll have to wait.

00:28:44.520 Okay. Do you need, please fire a medical for anything?

00:28:48.860 Uh, I, I don't think so. I don't think so.

00:28:54.100 Zero, two, twenty, three, and fifty-eight seconds.

00:28:58.360 Uh, the, there's the, uh, um, is the Capitol police around?

00:29:05.860 No, this is San Francisco.

00:29:06.660 They usually protect my wife. They're usually here, they're usually here at the house.

00:29:10.100 Protecting my wife.

00:29:11.560 Uh, no, this is San Francisco police.

00:29:14.300 Friday, October.

00:29:15.500 I, I, no, I understand.

00:29:17.580 Um, okay, well, uh, I don't know, what do you think?

00:29:25.140 Second, okay.

00:29:28.360 Uh, he thinks everything's good. Uh, I've got a problem, but he thinks everything's good.

00:29:34.700 Okay. Call us back if you'd change your mind.

00:29:37.820 No, no, no, this, this gentleman just, uh, came into the house, uh, and he wants to wait

00:29:42.820 here for my wife to come home. 1.00

00:29:44.760 And so, uh, anyway, he told me he was going to.

00:29:48.900 Do you know, do you know who the person is?

00:29:51.220 No, I don't know who he is.

00:29:52.260 He, he, he, okay. So, uh, he has.

00:29:54.760 Now we started to see why I think they didn't want to release the call, uh, is it's because

00:30:00.120 it, it makes the 911 operator look terrible. I mean, it looked, it makes the police response,

00:30:05.700 the emergency response look absolutely awful. And I understand that we have the benefit of

00:30:10.940 hindsight and we have more of the context than she had on the call, but this is also

00:30:14.100 what you do for a living. And, um, she just would not pick up the hint. Like it could not

00:30:20.220 have been more clear. First of all, he says from the beginning, my wife is Nancy Pelosi. So

00:30:23.980 you know, my wife's Nancy Pelosi, someone is here waiting for her. I'm calling 9-1-1 because

00:30:32.260 someone is waiting for my wife named Nancy Pelosi. Wink, wink. She wouldn't pick up on the hint. 0.94

00:30:38.660 Like clearly, uh, Paul Pelosi is trying to ask for help without actually saying it because the crazy

00:30:45.640 guy, the meth head who broke into the house is standing there with a hammer. And so he probably

00:30:50.720 gave, uh, the paper some excuse and said, Oh, you want my wife? Well, sure. I'll call the police and 0.70

00:30:56.280 they'll bring her right over. And, um, and then he's, he's standing there and, and Paul Pelosi is trying

00:31:02.440 to convey this to the 9-1-1 operator without saying it out loud. What, what I, what, what,

00:31:08.500 I can't get over the part where she, where she actually says, he says, Oh yeah, well, uh, the guy

00:31:14.520 who came into my house says there's not a problem. I think there is a problem, but he says they're not.

00:31:18.100 The 9-1-1, 9-1-1 operator says, okay, well give us a ring back if you need anything. Okay. Well,

00:31:24.380 sounds like everything's totally fine on your end. Talk to you later. Could not possibly be more

00:31:31.600 oblivious. So this to me is pretty clear what happened. This is a crazy homeless drug addled

00:31:41.280 freak who came into the house and is, uh, and Paul Pelosi probably woke up. He was a little bit 0.99

00:31:49.360 flustered, didn't know what's going on. He called police, tried to get them to come over. He was

00:31:52.800 trying to keep the guy calm and then everything proceeded from there. So pretty, pretty clear now.

00:31:57.860 So what's the real story here? Well, the real story, as I said, from the beginning

00:32:04.200 is that, and this is not me moving the goalposts. Now there were some people on the right who really

00:32:11.020 fully bought into the theory that this was like a lover's spat between Paul Pelosi and a gay male 0.86

00:32:17.640 escort. This was, this was, this was some people on the right that they assumed that and fully bought

00:32:22.800 into it and that's what they believed. Now, from my perspective, from the beginning, I said, well,

00:32:26.520 that's, that's one theory. That's, that's, that's a potentially plausible theory only because,

00:32:32.800 and the fact that they're being secretive and not giving us more information, like why couldn't you

00:32:36.240 have released a 911 call the next day? There's no reason why you couldn't have. In many other cases,

00:32:40.980 they do. So when they're secretive about something, you start to suspect, well, maybe there's a reason

00:32:47.420 why they're being secretive. What could those reasons be? That was only one theory. What I said

00:32:53.460 from the beginning is that the, the other potential explanation, which is that this is San Francisco

00:33:00.920 and a violent homeless drug addict broke into the house and was acting crazy. That is also

00:33:08.680 perfectly plausible given that it's San Francisco. I would assume that kind of thing happens in San

00:33:14.560 Francisco all the time. Maybe not breaking the house in the middle of the night, but encounters

00:33:20.420 with violent, crazy drug addicts in San Francisco are very common. And so there's nothing implausible

00:33:26.520 about it. The real story then is that they tried to make this local crime story in San Francisco into

00:33:35.540 an indictment on Republicans. They tried to make this David DePaype guy who was hopped up on drugs and a

00:33:43.000 lunatic. They tried to make him into a, some sort of conservative right-wing militant. 0.57

00:33:49.060 Like he lived outside of, he lived in a bus outside of a hippie commune with the BLM flags and all that,

00:33:54.000 all the rest of it. And they tried to make him into a right-wing militant, which he never was.

00:33:58.280 Is he a left-wing militant? No, he's just, he's a crazy guy is what he is. 0.99

00:34:02.220 That was very clear from the very beginning. 0.85

00:34:03.740 But they tried to take up what is, what always seemed to me to be, and clearly now is, a local

00:34:12.660 crime story in San Francisco and make it an indictment on Republicans, which is just as absurd 0.67

00:34:16.800 as taking Tyree Nichols and making it an indictment of so-called white supremacy, just as absurd.

00:34:24.880 Really what, the lesson that we should take from this is that the crime in San Francisco,

00:34:30.600 where Nancy Pelosi lives and the area she represents, the crime is so bad there that it's now spilling

00:34:39.600 out into her own neighborhood. And she doesn't live in the inner city, which I'm sure is shocking

00:34:48.840 to learn. So it's now spilling out into the nice parts of San Francisco. And the Democrat officials

00:34:55.980 who have been in control, who've been in power, and have overseen San Francisco's slide into this

00:35:05.260 crime-ridden post-apocalyptic hellscape, they are now having to, you know, face the Frankenstein

00:35:15.220 monster that they created. That to me is the story. All right. I gotta, I gotta leave some time for this

00:35:24.180 because this is my favorite story of the year so far, uh, easily and potentially of the century.

00:35:31.480 I don't know, but it's a good one. So the ISU European figure skating championships at Espu Metro

00:35:38.240 Arena took place last week. Where is Espu Metro Arena? I have no idea. Somewhere in Europe, we can assume.

00:35:46.340 And it began with what was billed as a spectacular opening ceremony meant to celebrate equality and

00:35:53.420 diversity. That's what it was about. And for a little more on this ceremony, here's the write-up

00:35:57.280 on the Espu 2023 website. It says this. The ISU European figure skating championship at Espu Metro

00:36:04.220 Arena will begin on Wednesday, 25th, the 25th of January with a spectacular opening ceremony drawing

00:36:09.100 its inspiration from the event's theme, which is Just Be You. The Finnish figure skating association

00:36:14.900 promotes the importance of equality and diversity and develops skating according to its values.

00:36:20.300 The theme, Just Be You, will be visible part of the opening ceremony with performers from various

00:36:25.440 backgrounds. The half-hour opening ceremony was designed by synchronized skating coach Helena

00:36:30.320 Tainhara, together with choreographer and coach, uh, with a name that I'm not going to pronounce.

00:36:36.120 Quote, with a diverse group of performers, we want to show that the ice has space for everyone.

00:36:40.880 The opening ceremony will present skaters at various levels from non-professionals to top

00:36:45.300 athletes. On the ice, we will see single skaters, synchronized skaters, and pairs, including, um,

00:36:51.320 included among the performers are figure skater Mina Maria Antikainen, who defines herself as a

00:36:58.240 gender-neutral woman, and then other performers as well. Okay, so Mina Maria Antikainen, 0.83

00:37:05.840 about this fellow, and it is a fellow. First of all, this is a man. He's a Finnish dude in his 60s,

00:37:13.020 and has apparently always dreamed of being an ice princess, is what he has said. And he now identifies

00:37:18.360 as a woman, and as an ice princess. And so they put him out on the ice for the opening ceremony of this,

00:37:25.980 what I, what I think is like a major figure skating event. And, um,

00:37:32.040 he, we'll show you what that looks like. And, and, uh, well, first of all, before we show you the

00:37:39.480 video, I think we have a, uh, just a photograph of the guy himself. Can we put that up on the screen?

00:37:45.240 Do we have the photo of the actual ice skater? Okay, there he is. So looks a bit like maybe a, uh,

00:37:51.600 a cross-dressing Tommy Lee Jones, perhaps. You know, he actually looks like Stephen King

00:37:58.400 a little bit. He looks like a creepy, somehow a creepier Stephen King. If Stephen King was a

00:38:04.380 character in a Stephen King novel, then that's what that guy is. Um, in other words, a truly beautiful

00:38:12.820 woman. And if you don't think, I mean, look at this lovely lady, lady right here. If you don't

00:38:18.320 think that this is the most beautiful and gorgeous and graceful female athlete you have ever laid your 0.96

00:38:25.280 eyes on, then you are literally Hitler. That's the truth. If you do not applaud his, sorry, 0.86

00:38:34.820 her ice skating performance as the most impressive athletic display of all time, you are also Hitler, 1.00

00:38:42.840 which means that there are going to be a lot of Hitlers out there after we all watch this performance

00:38:47.260 together. So let's put this up. This, this was Maria, Mina Maria's performance on the ice. No,

00:38:53.940 not this one. That's, that's next. Yeah, here it is. Go ahead. Let's watch this together.

00:39:03.640 Right here he comes.

00:39:07.600 And this is actually impressive because this is the first time apparently he has ever been ice skating in

00:39:13.940 his life. I don't know what's more absurd that he identifies as a woman or identifies as an ice 0.94

00:39:23.600 skater. Oh, then he falls. He falls and can't get back up. Now I would, I normally wouldn't laugh

00:39:35.000 at an older man slipping on the ice. But what a performance remarkable, you know, and the audience

00:39:48.100 is just watching like, are we allowed to laugh at this? Are we supposed to laugh at this? The

00:39:52.700 audience has no idea. And this is in Europe. So they're, they're very afraid. Uh, they don't know

00:39:57.300 what they're supposed to do, but they're really looking at each other. Like, is this supposed to be

00:40:01.560 good? What are we supposed to do here? Well, you laugh at it. That's what you're supposed to do.

00:40:07.500 Um, that's what you're meant to do. Honestly, I took my kids. I think I mentioned this. I took my

00:40:11.720 kids ice skating a couple of weeks ago and, um, that it was my maybe third time ever putting on

00:40:19.920 ice skates. And the other two times were, I don't know, 20 years ago on like a date or something.

00:40:25.000 And I was more graceful than that. And I'm, I'm not even exaggerating. I was significantly better

00:40:31.100 than that. Compared to that guy, I'm practically, I can't name any famous figure skaters, so I can't

00:40:40.080 really finish the analogy, but whatever's the most famous one, I'm practically that person

00:40:44.180 compared to that guy. But it gets better, uh, because this guy also, this actually is not his

00:40:49.100 first time strapping on the skates. He also competed at an event in 2020 where he gave a performance

00:40:54.740 that was, uh, inspired by Japanese culture. Let's watch this one.

00:41:06.760 I mean, this, this in every sense, it looks like a scene from a Will Ferrell movie in 2003,

00:41:15.640 but it's not, this is real.

00:41:24.540 You know what's strange? He's actually gotten worse in the last two years because this is a

00:41:27.940 little bit better than what we just saw. He's regressing.

00:41:33.720 Oh, look at that. Okay. He's on one leg. I don't know. I don't know if I could do that. I didn't try.

00:41:39.000 All right.

00:41:46.900 Not a joke. Oh, it does a little twirly thing. Well, that's, how is it, how is that better? That

00:41:53.900 was, it was three years ago. How has it gotten worse since then?

00:41:56.800 I don't know if it's the, the, the hormones they have them on or what?

00:42:03.740 So this one is good because this is like an appropriation hat trick. He's appropriating

00:42:08.720 womanhood, appropriating Japanese culture and appropriating figure skating all at the same time. 0.98

00:42:15.680 But this is how the appropriation math works. It actually cancels. So you would think, well,

00:42:19.700 that's three times more offensive than, than other forms of appropriation. Um, no,

00:42:24.860 because it actually, it cancels, it all cancels each other out. And, um, because he's appropriating

00:42:31.340 womanhood at the same time as appropriating Japanese culture, it cancels out. And then it 0.77

00:42:36.860 actually becomes, uh, not only something that's okay and appropriate, but something that we should

00:42:41.380 celebrate. And I do celebrate it. And so I'd like to see more of, I want this guy in the Olympics.

00:42:47.020 Okay. I want him winning gold as a female figure skater in the Olympics. Let's just go all the way

00:42:52.580 and make everything into a total mockery because that's all it is. All right, let's get to the

00:42:57.940 comment section.

00:43:09.060 Captain Morgan Kayla says, Matt, nothing would give me greater joy than to hear you comment on

00:43:14.620 Dylan Mulvaney's new face reveal on Monday's show. Um, every time I hear you mention his name,

00:43:20.400 I cackle because I know what's about to follow is pure gold. Well, I'm going to disappoint you,

00:43:24.200 Captain Morgan, because I have nothing funny to say about Buffalo Bill Mulvaney, um, who, who did

00:43:30.200 reveal his, his new face after having face feminization surgery, where they shaved down the

00:43:36.180 face, like they cut into it to make it more quote unquote feminine, which is, which is kind of funny

00:43:43.200 to me to begin with because this guy apparently thought that his face was too masculine before

00:43:50.020 this. Like that was his problem. That would be like if I went and got hair transplants for my beard

00:43:56.580 to make my beard thicker as if that of all my physical problems, as if that's the one that I

00:44:02.080 need to focus on. And of all of Mulvaney's problems, a masculine face and physique has never been one of

00:44:09.320 them though. He is still a man. Okay. Even if a non-masculine one, he can carve his face into

00:44:14.520 whatever shape he wants to carve it into. He could become like a, he could become like leather face

00:44:18.880 and start stitching other people's faces onto his own, not to give him any ideas here, but, uh,

00:44:25.600 even then he would still be himself. Anyway, like I said, I have nothing to say about Dylan Mulvaney.

00:44:33.320 No matter what he does, he still looks like a Crispin Glover and back to the future anyway. So it doesn't

00:44:37.860 matter. Diabolic Doug says, I love the pickle, the ADL, SPLC, uh, et cetera, are in by having to

00:44:45.800 choose between allowing Matt to go about life uninterrupted and unimpeded or choosing to focus

00:44:50.160 their attention, write a unique report on all the ways Matt's beliefs make steam come out of their

00:44:54.880 ears and present him with the honor of most dangerous to their grip on power. Congratulations.

00:44:59.740 Well, that's, that's any, any of us who speak up against the left. This is the bind that we put them

00:45:04.880 in is that, uh, is that if they complain about us and call us names, we just laugh about it.

00:45:14.320 And then the more dangerous they make us seem, the more flattering it is.

00:45:21.260 But then at the same time, if they ignore us, then we just, that's fine too, because then I can,

00:45:26.960 without being annoyed by all the yapping in my ears, then I can just go ahead and do what I'm going to do.

00:45:32.320 Um, so no matter what, they kind of lose. And that's the great thing.

00:45:37.080 Daniel Liza says, I wish Matt would address the issue of false incriminations, whether it happened

00:45:41.960 intentionally or by mistake when discussing capital punishment. Well, yeah, this is, uh,

00:45:47.800 maybe the most common argument against capital punishment is that what do you do if, uh, if someone

00:45:52.560 is falsely convicted and then they end up being executed. And then obviously it's, that's an

00:45:56.500 irreversible procedure, let's say. And then if it turns out that they were innocent, then you've

00:46:01.360 killed an innocent man. And the common refrain that we hear is that, well, it's better to let,

00:46:04.900 uh, a hundred guilty men go free than to execute one innocent man. And on that, that latter point,

00:46:11.580 I'm not actually sure that's the case. Like, I don't know that that's the ethically correct

00:46:17.620 way of looking at it, that it's better for a hundred guilty people to go free than to execute

00:46:22.240 an innocent man. Um, I mean, maybe I could be persuaded of that, but I think it's the kind of

00:46:27.500 thing you have to argue for. You can't just state it as if it's self-evidently correct.

00:46:33.040 I don't think it is self-evident. I mean, it's an interesting question, but because when you,

00:46:39.060 when you, yes, if you, uh, if you are accidentally, you know, executing an innocent man,

00:46:44.040 someone was falsely convicted, it's not known by the justice system that he was falsely convicted,

00:46:48.360 he ends up being executed. That's a horrific tragedy. There's no question about it.

00:46:52.560 And then you have lost an innocent life. However, if you let a hundred guilty men go free,

00:46:58.160 especially guilty men who otherwise would have been executed, then now how many innocent lives

00:47:02.920 will be killed because of that? More than one, we can assume. So how do you, how do you weigh

00:47:09.580 those things? It becomes an interesting ethical question, but just, it's a question that I think

00:47:13.800 has to be fleshed out. I don't think we can simply assume again that, uh, well, it's better,

00:47:18.300 let a million guilty men go free into society. If it means that we could save one innocent person

00:47:23.720 again, not so sure about that. But, um, to your actual question, I think that it is possible these

00:47:33.060 days to be nearly 100% certain that someone is guilty. Uh, now you could argue that you can never

00:47:40.180 be certain, but then in a sense, you can never be certain of anything. Like I, I'm as certain as can

00:47:46.720 be that I'm not going to see an elephant flying through the, uh, you know, I'm not gonna look out

00:47:52.980 my window here and see an elephant flying across over the trees, especially because, you know,

00:47:58.740 the trees are fake, but even if they weren't allegedly fake, like, I'm pretty sure I'll never

00:48:04.340 see a flying elephant. Okay. I'm nearly certain, but it is like technically a philosopher would say,

00:48:10.320 well, it's, it's, it's logically possible. It could, you can't say that it's totally impossible

00:48:15.000 that it would happen. Well, sure. I'm as certain as can be. And I think we could be just about that

00:48:20.300 certain when it comes to convicting, uh, people of, of capital crimes these days because of DNA

00:48:25.820 evidence, because of, uh, you know, everything, all the security footage evidence and phones and

00:48:31.520 the way things are tracked and credit card and like all these things together can lead you to

00:48:38.060 near 100% certainty. And also a lot of times you have confessions in many cases, you have people

00:48:42.380 admitting that they did it. So add all that together. I think you could be nearly a hundred

00:48:47.300 percent certain, um, enough, more than enough to morally justify, uh, the death penalty. Now,

00:48:54.520 what about in societies where they don't necessarily have the technology to be that certain of somebody's

00:49:01.680 guilt? Uh, well then you could justify the death penalty on different grounds because if they don't

00:49:07.840 have that kind of technology, if this is like a third world country or something, not as developed

00:49:11.680 country, then, then there's a whole other reason for the death penalty, which is that you're not

00:49:17.540 going to, you probably don't have the infrastructure and the ability to keep dangerous people in prison

00:49:22.820 indefinitely, you know, for life. You don't, you don't have that ability to do it. And then,

00:49:27.140 and then the death penalty becomes even more necessary, arguably for that reason alone. So,

00:49:31.860 uh, one way or another, I think it leads to the death penalty being justified. 0.96

00:49:37.020 Templar turd. All right. Says, um, before watching Matt, I would get very defensive when I would be 0.94

00:49:46.600 called a homophobe and transphobe, but now whenever I'm called these things, I tell them that I'm very

00:49:51.460 flattered and I'm thankful that they recognize me for who I am. Thank you, Matt Walsh. That's,

00:49:55.660 and that's a fine way of responding, just being totally dismissive and in a, you know, in a snide

00:50:00.560 and sarcastic way, embracing the label that they put on you. It's fine. It's fine to respond that way.

00:50:05.060 If you, as long as really any response to the labels is fine, as long as you are not responding

00:50:10.700 by trying to desperately defend yourself against the label, the moment you do that, you lose

00:50:16.620 and anything else, whether you're dismissing, whether you're joking about it, whatever else

00:50:20.920 you do is fine. As long as it is in the end, basically a dismissive response. That is the

00:50:26.000 only, there are many forms of a dismissive response to that, but that is the only way to respond when

00:50:30.760 someone thinks that they can defeat your argument simply by labeling you, oh, you're, well, you're a 0.94

00:50:35.480 homophobe and that's it. Um, I, an example of this, I was, uh, talking last week about bad art. You

00:50:43.200 know, we talked about that on, uh, whenever it was Wednesday or something and the proliferation of bad

00:50:48.260 art. And I mentioned this on Twitter and I was accused of racism. I was accused of racism for

00:50:54.780 criticizing bad art. And the reason I was racist is that it wasn't just one person, excuse me,

00:50:59.640 it's like hundreds of people saying I was racist because some of the bad art that I cited was made

00:51:05.640 by black artists. And so this became a racist dog whistle where really I was saying that I don't want

00:51:11.160 black people making art is what they claimed. And there was one guy in particular who responded to 0.90

00:51:15.800 me and this is a guy's name is Ahmed Baba says, care to elaborate on what you mean by they?

00:51:21.440 Because I wrote in the tweet, uh, they make bad art or whatever. And care to elaborate on what you

00:51:27.300 mean by they? Let's see how deep you can dig this hole you're in. And that, that really rubbed me the

00:51:34.220 wrong way. Uh, not only because you have the totally baseless racism claim, but also, oh, you're in a

00:51:39.140 hole now. Let's see you dig your way out of this hole. Who says I'm in a hole? I don't care if you think

00:51:44.940 I'm not in, I'm, I'm, I'm standing up here on level ground. I don't know what hole you think I'm in

00:51:48.420 that I have to dig out of. So I responded to Ahmed and said, hi Ahmed, you can interpret my

00:51:52.360 statements however you want in your own fevered imagination. I truly don't care. And I don't

00:51:56.140 feel the need to justify myself to you. Please take your tiresome race baiting routine to someone 0.69

00:52:00.240 who gives a, thanks and have a great evening. I think that's a fine way of responding as well,

00:52:04.560 but no matter what, the point is I'm not here to justify myself. I don't, well, I interpret what

00:52:10.540 you said is racist. Okay. Then you do. I don't, that's how you, that's how you have chosen to see it.

00:52:15.860 That that's in your own mind. You have invented this. I, that's not my, it's not my job to talk

00:52:21.140 you down from that. So go ahead and go off. You can go live the rest of your life thinking that

00:52:29.040 I'm a racist because I don't like bad sculptures. You can live the rest of your life thinking that

00:52:35.120 doesn't mean anything to me. I don't care. Well, if you're a parent, then you know that the radical

00:52:41.200 left has infiltrated every aspect of your kids' lives from academia to medicine to children's

00:52:46.300 programming. They are pushing a woke agenda at every turn and doing everything they can to capture

00:52:50.700 their hearts and minds. If you're a parent, then this is deeply concerning and you may feel

00:52:55.680 powerless to stop the onslaught. But the good news is that many are finding a way to fight back.

00:53:00.020 That's why I'm excited to tell you about a brand new book published by DW Books, written by Bethany

00:53:03.980 Mandel and Carol Markowitz. It's, it's called Stolen Youth, How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and 1.00

00:53:09.300 Indoctrinating a Generation. And in Stolen Youth, an excellent book, they share testimonials from

00:53:14.260 parents who are witnessing just how far and out of control the agenda has become in corrupting our

00:53:20.620 morals. And, and it's also one that was exacerbated during the pandemic. This is an absolute must read

00:53:25.840 for parents who want to understand how we got here, what we're up against, and also most importantly,

00:53:31.060 how to go on the offensive, how to fight back, how to save our kids. Stolen Youth, How Radicals 1.00

00:53:35.380 Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation comes out on March 7th. But if you

00:53:39.260 click on the Amazon link in the description, you can pre-order your copy today. You don't

00:53:43.560 want to miss it. Make sure you do that. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:50.780 Growing up in the 90s, we saw many one-hit wonders come and go. They'd pop onto the music

00:53:55.840 scene with a piece of melodic and lyrical brilliance like Macarena or Tub Thumping or Mambo

00:54:01.480 No. 5, and their songs would be inescapable for five and a half months, piping through every

00:54:06.440 speaker, ubiquitous, floating on the breeze, almost becoming a part of the atmosphere.

00:54:11.620 And then just as suddenly, both the song and the musical act that produced it would disappear. And

00:54:16.460 we would never hear from Lou Bega or Chumbawamba or whoever made the Macarena ever again. Maybe they'd 1.00

00:54:23.340 turn up again briefly years later in a VH1 Where Are They Now segment. But usually, they simply faded

00:54:28.500 from view entirely, leaving us to wonder whether they ever actually existed. That's not how things

00:54:35.960 work anymore. These days, nobody ever goes away. Nobody ever fades from view. We are not permitted to

00:54:42.420 forget about anyone, no matter how much we may want to, because we're all connected. We're caught on the

00:54:48.100 same web. And so everyone has their 15 minutes of fame, but the 15 minutes never ends. And this is true

00:54:54.300 on a personal level, and it's also true in pop culture, where most pop artists are at most capable

00:54:59.000 of producing one moderately listenable song, their one real hit, but then they linger on indefinitely,

00:55:05.440 clamoring for attention, usually in ways that have nothing to do with the music. And in recent years

00:55:10.720 especially, a marginal pop star who already released their one arguably decent or at least maybe not

00:55:16.660 completely terrible song will cling desperately to relevance by doing two things. One, becoming increasingly

00:55:22.680 vulgar and explicitly sexual. And two, coming out of the closet. And often they'll come out of

00:55:28.220 multiple closets. They'll come out of the closet multiple times, finding one closet after another

00:55:32.380 to emerge from. We may call this the Demi Lovato strategy, though she neither invented it, nor is she

00:55:37.500 the only pop star to utilize it. Some came before her, and many have came after her. And this is the case

00:55:44.800 certainly for the singer named Sam Smith. You may remember Sam Smith as the guy who made that one song

00:55:51.520 10 years ago, Stay With Me, is what it was called. And it enjoyed its five and a half months of cultural

00:55:56.560 ubiquity. And it was around this same time that Smith came out of his first closet, announcing to

00:56:02.120 the world that he was gay. And that revelation didn't do much to generate any extra interest or

00:56:07.640 fame for Sam Smith, as we all kind of assume at this point that every pop star is gay. So he said,

00:56:12.680 hey, I'm gay. And we all said, yeah, okay. We figured. Perhaps disappointed that he didn't get more

00:56:19.040 publicity mileage out of his sexual preferences, Smith began revealing deeper and deeper levels 0.98

00:56:24.460 to his gayness, like the gay equivalent of a Russian doll. And just like an actual Russian doll, 0.98

00:56:29.740 the smaller thing disguised inside the larger thing is just a smaller version of the larger thing. So it

00:56:35.760 just kind of repeats itself in this infinite regress. A few years later, Smith came out as gender queer,

00:56:42.500 explaining that he, quote, feels as much like a woman as a man. He was, of course, never asked to

00:56:47.840 explain what the hell that's supposed to mean, or how he knows what a woman feels like, or how he

00:56:53.060 delineates between man feelings and woman feelings. It's good for his sake that he wasn't asked these

00:56:58.480 questions because he wouldn't have been able to answer them because the term gender queer is

00:57:02.500 completely meaningless. But gender queer Sam Smith was about as interesting to the public as gay Sam 0.60

00:57:08.140 Smith. So he went back to the drawing board. And two years after that, he came out of his third closet.

00:57:13.200 He announced that he's actually not just gay, not just gender queer, but in fact, non-binary and will

00:57:19.460 now use they, them pronouns. How does being non-binary differ in any meaningful sense from

00:57:25.040 being gender queer? And what do any of these terms mean? And in what way is he not simply just a gay

00:57:31.440 guy with feminine mannerisms like a million other gay guys? Well, again, he was never asked those

00:57:37.520 questions and couldn't have answered them if he had been. Then another several years passed and Sam

00:57:43.660 Smith put out more music than nobody cared about. And he realized that simply being a gay gender queer 0.96

00:57:49.020 non-binary they, them wasn't going to cut it. And that's when he decided that his only path back to 1.00

00:57:54.200 something approaching cultural relevance was to become basically the white male Lizzo. So Smith packed

00:57:59.940 on 150 pounds, dressed up in an outfit that reveals far more of his body than any human on earth ever

00:58:05.440 wanted to see. And he put out a new X-rated album and music video. And he explained this, this new

00:58:12.180 artistic direction in a recent interview that, where he explains that he knows that it's a risky move to

00:58:18.920 do this, but he's bold enough to try it. Listen. The music industry is just not used to queer 1.00

00:58:25.620 artists. If there was a big risk you took with this album, what would you say it was for yourself?

00:58:32.240 I'd say the biggest risk on this album was the element of sex. 0.74

00:58:37.100 Wow. The music industry isn't ready for queer artists, he says, which is a bit like claiming that 0.60

00:58:43.740 Zumba isn't ready for middle-aged white women. He also says that the biggest risk he's taking is

00:58:49.640 being sexual. I mean, that's a pretty big risk, we have to admit. I mean, it takes a lot of guts

00:58:54.380 to do the same thing that literally every other person in your profession is doing and has already

00:59:00.760 done and has been doing for decades. Following the easiest and safest trend. Now there's a risk.

00:59:06.200 I mean, that's boldness if I ever saw it. Next, he's going to tell me that he went out on a limb

00:59:11.620 and picked the Chiefs to go to the Super Bowl this year. I mean, this guy, I mean, sorry, this them,

00:59:17.820 he knows how to take risks, big risks. Granted, he might be the first pop star to go this direction

00:59:24.460 while looking like he plays right tackle on the Detroit Lions practice squad.

00:59:29.460 Though on second thought, I guess Lizzo has him beat there as well. So even on that point,

00:59:34.220 he's not the first. So Smith's latest musical effort may not be risky, may not be bold,

00:59:39.880 may not be revolutionary, but it is at least, we will admit, totally repulsive and grotesque.

00:59:46.660 And this is normally the part where I would play a clip of his disgusting music video that has gone

00:59:50.700 viral entirely for being disgusting, but I'm actually not going to do that in this case. I'm not going to

00:59:56.940 force you to start your Monday that way. Suffice it to say that Smith's new music video for his song,

01:00:03.480 which is called I'm Not Here to Make Friends, shows the morbidly obese singer in women's underwear 1.00

01:00:08.380 dancing awkwardly with both men and women wearing something similar to assless chaps, 1.00

01:00:12.920 who then start humping the floor with their bare butts sticking up, at which point streams of pee 0.99

01:00:17.360 start spraying all over them, and it gets worse from there. But I'm realizing that describing it may

01:00:23.480 even be more objectionable than just watching it, so you get the gist anyway.

01:00:27.020 Anyway, now, it's probably no use pointing out how morally debased all of this is, just as it's no

01:00:36.140 use observing how our society day by day comes to not only resemble, but in every sense rival,

01:00:41.920 Sodom and Gomorrah. I mean, that all goes without saying at this point, and it's also exactly what

01:00:46.360 these attention-starved, ugly, degenerate morons want us to say. It is true that Sam Smith is a filthy, 1.00

01:00:52.940 hideous pervert. It's also true that he wants us to say that about him. After all, as we've learned 1.00

01:00:58.200 from all of the Sam Smiths that came before this Sam Smith, part of being a pervert is getting off on 0.94

01:01:03.880 other people noticing that you're a pervert. Like, the thrill he gets from hearing people

01:01:08.800 describing that way is part of why he's a pervert and what makes him a pervert to begin with.

01:01:15.000 Which isn't to say that we shouldn't point it out, but rather that after we've delivered the moral 0.98

01:01:19.600 condemnation this kind of garbage calls for and deserves, we should also say the thing that is

01:01:24.420 just as true, and also the one thing that Sam Smith does not want us to say. The thing that those 0.97

01:01:30.360 of his ilk fear the most, because they know it is true, is that this routine, along with being 0.77

01:01:36.540 debased and disgusting and morally preyed, is also boring. It is dirty and stupid and gross and evil 1.00

01:01:43.460 and totally, utterly tiresome. Boring. Played out. We've seen it a million times already. 1.00

01:01:52.180 They cannot shock us anymore. As a culture, we are sadly far too jaded to be scandalized by anything.

01:01:59.100 You cannot scandalize us. You can't do it. Our eyes and minds have grown essentially calloused.

01:02:06.980 We've been swimming in this muck and filth for so long that another bucket may be demoralizing and

01:02:12.340 sad, but it can never shock us. It can never surprise us. To be intentionally ugly in a world

01:02:19.460 of ugliness only means that you blend in. You become part of the background. Now, you may be

01:02:25.000 noticed for a brief moment, but then you fade into the surroundings and you become merely part of the

01:02:29.660 fecal-flecked landscape. A decadent society is very generous to perverts in many ways, but the one

01:02:37.060 thing that the perverts are forced to give up, the one price that they must pay, is the element of

01:02:43.660 surprise. You can't surprise us anymore. And most of all, they lose their status as revolutionaries.

01:02:50.980 They're not challenging the system, but rather acting as guardians and reinforcers of it.

01:02:55.440 Now, if Sam Smith really wanted to shock us, therefore, he would have created something

01:03:01.800 good, something meaningful, something beautiful and true. Now, that would be something we're not

01:03:10.240 used to. Okay, you want to give the music industry something it's not used to? How about beauty and

01:03:15.820 truth? But that requires talent and moral clarity and an IQ somewhere above the freezing point,

01:03:23.200 which puts it out of Sam Smith's reach. And that is why Sam Smith is today canceled.

01:03:31.620 And I'll do it for this portion or so as we move over to the members block. If you're not a member

01:03:35.340 yet, you can become a member and use code Walsh at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.

01:03:39.520 Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

01:03:53.200 Hope to see you there.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 30, 2023

Ep. 1103 - Black Cops Beat Black Man. Media Blames White Supremacy.

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