The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1112 - Super Bowl Begins With 'The Black National Anthem,' And It's An Utter Disgrace

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Super Bowl features racially segregated national anthems.

00:00:04.240 This is being done to end racism supposedly, but it only causes and encourages what it

00:00:08.280 pretends to be fighting against.

00:00:09.520 Also, the UFO invasion is finally underway.

00:00:12.120 It's an exciting time for alien enthusiasts like myself, though some are speculating that

00:00:16.080 perhaps there is another explanation for the sudden epidemic of mysterious aircraft in

00:00:19.920 our skies.

00:00:20.540 We'll review all the possibilities today.

00:00:22.280 Plus, the worst ecological disaster in American history is currently unfolding in Ohio, but

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00:00:29.300 Why is that?

00:00:29.840 We'll talk about all that and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:38.180 Well, it has finally happened.

00:01:40.900 The alien invasion has begun.

00:01:43.660 Now, I know that some of you have been engaging in absurd and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories

00:01:49.740 coming up with ridiculous speculations about how the unidentified crafts being shot down in

00:01:54.620 our airspace are somehow not space aliens from a distant galaxy, but I, for one, will not demean

00:02:00.880 myself or insult your intelligence or my own with any wild conjectures like that.

00:02:06.600 We must assume that they are space aliens until proven otherwise.

00:02:11.260 That's the most reasonable thing to do right now.

00:02:14.540 And if it's not the most reasonable, then it is at least the most fun.

00:02:18.780 All I know is that I have waited my whole life for this moment, and I'm not going to let

00:02:23.360 anyone take it away from me now.

00:02:25.720 I would also like to state for the record, at the top, in case our intergalactic visitors

00:02:30.200 are listening to podcasts as they hover in our skies and plan their invasion, that I have

00:02:36.000 been a big supporter of aliens for a long time.

00:02:38.560 You can check my social media feeds, aliens, and my podcast catalog to confirm this.

00:02:43.480 I understand that you guys will want to incinerate much of the human race.

00:02:46.980 That's totally reasonable.

00:02:48.320 Frankly, I would do the same if I was in your position.

00:02:50.400 But you should also know that some of us down here have been very pro-alien, and it would

00:02:55.060 not be fair to lump us all together.

00:02:57.500 I'm not throwing anyone under the bus here.

00:02:59.840 I'm certainly not trying to betray my own species.

00:03:02.160 I wouldn't do that.

00:03:02.620 I'm just saying that if you want a list of human beings who have been especially disrespectful

00:03:05.960 to you, I'd be happy to provide it for your reference.

00:03:08.560 Two names that could go right on that list, by the way, work here at The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro,

00:03:12.120 Michael Knowles, very anti-alien.

00:03:14.260 In fact, I hate to say it, but every host here at The Daily Wire has been viciously anti-alien,

00:03:18.560 except for me.

00:03:20.120 I don't want anyone to get hurt, okay?

00:03:21.340 I don't want that.

00:03:22.740 But if people are going to get hurt, you should hurt them first.

00:03:26.100 That's all I'm trying to say.

00:03:27.520 But before we discuss the UFO invasion in any more detail, I want to begin the show with

00:03:32.020 something that is a far greater priority to most Americans, and that would be, of course,

00:03:36.420 the Super Bowl.

00:03:37.580 Indeed, I have no doubt that if the aliens had actually landed and emerged from their spaceships

00:03:43.120 last night.

00:03:43.800 For all we know, they did.

00:03:45.140 Because if the whole event was captured live on camera, it still would not have even trended

00:03:50.020 on Twitter because most Americans would care more about the game.

00:03:53.640 And this is the hardest pill for me to swallow as an alien enthusiast, that all the sci-fi films

00:03:59.500 got it wrong because they all assumed that however the alien invasion plays out, it would

00:04:04.460 at least be like a really big deal.

00:04:07.280 That's what all the sci-fi writers and films, they all just assumed that at least.

00:04:11.240 Maybe we get enslaved and killed by aliens.

00:04:13.540 Maybe we fight them.

00:04:14.420 But no matter what happens, everyone agreed that everyone would care at least that there

00:04:21.120 are aliens here.

00:04:21.880 But that's not how it actually has played out.

00:04:24.840 They didn't take into account, the sci-fi writers, our terminally distracted and frivolous

00:04:29.900 culture that can't pay attention to anything or care about anything for more than 18 minutes

00:04:33.560 at a time.

00:04:34.460 In reality, aliens could come here and actually begin leveling our cities and enslaving mankind

00:04:40.780 and we would get bored with the story in less than a week.

00:04:44.880 Because as long as we still have electricity and fast food and the internet and our streaming

00:04:48.820 services, I'm not sure the average modern Western person would really care whether intergalactic

00:04:53.980 space invaders conquer us or not.

00:04:56.700 In fairness to those people, on the other hand, space alien leadership couldn't possibly

00:05:00.900 be worse than our current leadership.

00:05:03.620 And there are a lot of reasons to think it'd probably be better.

00:05:05.520 So maybe they would have a point there.

00:05:07.760 With all that said, there was one moment during the Super Bowl broadcast that is, it's maybe

00:05:14.480 not more important than aliens, but it is worth reflecting on, even in light of our impending

00:05:19.040 planetary doom.

00:05:20.400 A moment that would probably be very confusing for our extra solar visitors if they happen

00:05:26.360 to turn on the game.

00:05:28.200 The NFL continued last night its alleged efforts to fight racism in the United States.

00:05:34.280 Efforts that for the past several seasons, up to and including the game last night, has

00:05:39.560 included writing the phrase, end racism, in huge letters directly on the field.

00:05:45.200 And many people expected that this would be enough.

00:05:48.220 We imagine that all the people of the world would see the phrase, end racism, written in

00:05:53.240 the end zone, and they would all say, wow, the NFL is right, we should end racism.

00:05:57.360 And then racism would be ended, and global peace and harmony would commence.

00:06:00.780 After all, racism only exists in the world because no one has ever suggested that it shouldn't

00:06:06.760 exist.

00:06:07.760 So we simply needed the NFL to go, hey, what if we cut out that racism stuff?

00:06:12.220 And everyone would respond, oh, so we shouldn't be racist?

00:06:15.700 Jeez, okay, well, we hadn't thought of that.

00:06:17.720 And that would be it.

00:06:19.480 At least that's what we thought.

00:06:21.160 But somehow this strategy has proven insufficient.

00:06:23.760 And so it has added, the NFL has added another prong to their anti-racist battle plan.

00:06:30.580 And yet again, last night, the Super Bowl began with the performance of two national

00:06:34.860 anthems.

00:06:35.580 There's the regular national anthem, the one written by Francis Scott Key after he watched

00:06:39.420 British ships lay siege to Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812.

00:06:43.700 And then the so-called black national anthem called Lift Every Voice and Sing.

00:06:47.820 This was the third year in a row where the most watched sporting event of the year featured

00:06:54.280 a special national anthem for one special racial group.

00:06:58.820 It's the third time the broadcast has featured the song, yet it's the first time that the song

00:07:03.780 was performed on the field, which is significant because that's, of course, how they also performed

00:07:10.000 the real national anthem.

00:07:11.120 Now, all of this is, of course, totally grotesque and outrageous and the kind of gratuitous display

00:07:18.740 that no country outside of the Western world would ever be stupid enough to allow.

00:07:25.440 And yes, I use the word allow here intentionally.

00:07:28.960 You'll notice that nowhere else do they permit individual racial groups to come up with their

00:07:34.240 own national anthems that are then performed before major events.

00:07:38.080 That's the sort of thing that can only happen here.

00:07:42.360 And I don't mean that as a compliment.

00:07:45.300 Now, there are, as always, some people looking to defend the indefensible and minimize even

00:07:50.360 the most outrageous excesses of leftism.

00:07:52.860 There are even conservatives who enjoy participating in this pastime.

00:07:56.000 There are many conservatives who love doing this.

00:07:58.180 And from those people who, you know, we've heard that, well, the Lift Every Voice and Sing,

00:08:03.920 it's a nice gospel song.

00:08:05.460 It's not actually a national anthem, so there's no reason for us to object to it.

00:08:09.900 They didn't call it the Black National Anthem during the broadcast, after all.

00:08:13.020 They didn't specifically say that during the broadcast.

00:08:16.220 For example, a guy named Ross Schumann, who identifies himself as a conservative, made this

00:08:20.140 case to me last night.

00:08:21.160 He tweeted, quote,

00:08:23.040 Well, except that the NAACP has billed the song as the Black National Anthem since 1917.

00:08:37.000 Not to mention, the woman who performed the song at the game, Cheryl Lee Ralph, said that

00:08:43.180 she was performing the Black National Anthem.

00:08:45.340 That's what she said.

00:08:45.940 She posted, quote,

00:08:47.960 It is no coincidence that I'll be singing the Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and

00:08:51.820 Sing, at the Super Bowl on the same date it was first publicly performed, 123 years ago.

00:08:56.200 Happy Black History Month.

00:08:59.080 So everyone, including the performer herself, knows what the song is and why it's being performed.

00:09:06.080 There's a reason they had her sing it on the field, with the audience in the stadium standing

00:09:12.320 in solemn reverence, just as they do for the real National Anthem.

00:09:16.400 There's a reason why every media report has hailed the inspirational rendition of the,

00:09:22.500 quote, Black National Anthem, and they've all called it that.

00:09:25.520 Specifically, the media, the NFL, the left, they're not celebrating the performance of a

00:09:31.360 gospel hymn, okay?

00:09:32.880 Their intention is not to glorify God.

00:09:35.060 That's not what they're excited about.

00:09:36.840 That may be the focus of the lyrics in the song, but that's not why it's included in

00:09:42.400 the broadcast, and that's not the intention behind its performance.

00:09:46.480 The intention is to do the only thing a racialized National Anthem can do, which is to divide Americans

00:09:52.920 along racial lines, elevate some races above others.

00:09:57.060 You know, some races are special, and they get two National Anthems, while the rest of us

00:10:00.560 have to settle for just one, while diminishing our most cherished national tradition.

00:10:05.060 Because the message of the Black National Anthem is that the actual National Anthem isn't enough.

00:10:13.100 It isn't good enough.

00:10:14.060 It isn't inclusive enough.

00:10:16.460 Like, nobody disagrees that Black people should have a National Anthem.

00:10:22.780 No one is saying that, oh, there's no—no one is looking at Black people and saying, you don't get a National Anthem.

00:10:27.640 This isn't for you.

00:10:29.700 No, the point is that the National Anthem is everyone's National Anthem.

00:10:34.440 So if you're a Black person, that's your National Anthem.

00:10:36.380 If you're a white person, that's your National Anthem.

00:10:38.620 If you're a Native American, that's your National Anthem.

00:10:42.140 It's everyone's National Anthem.

00:10:45.560 But the other message, the other idea behind this, which is just as false and just as insidious,

00:10:50.500 is that the situation—this is what they're trying to claim.

00:10:54.200 This is why they're doing it—that the situation hasn't improved much for Black people

00:10:59.360 since the song was declared the Black National Anthem over 100 years ago.

00:11:02.740 It was a rallying cry during the civil rights battle.

00:11:06.380 Well, bringing it back now, not just bringing it back,

00:11:09.620 but elevating it to a status equal to or even surpassing the real National Anthem

00:11:14.600 is meant to send the message that Black people still do not have their rights,

00:11:19.280 that the civil rights battle of 100 years ago is still ongoing,

00:11:23.460 which is all total nonsense.

00:11:27.220 And we see yet again that those supposedly fighting against racism

00:11:31.100 are, in fact, determined to create racial divides,

00:11:34.660 deepen them where they already existed,

00:11:36.700 open new wounds and reopen old ones,

00:11:39.400 and keep the resentments of the past forever at the forefront of our minds.

00:11:44.440 The whole point of performing the National Anthem, the real National Anthem,

00:11:50.080 is to, first of all, show our respect and gratitude for this country

00:11:56.060 and for the traditions in our country

00:11:57.900 and for the people who have made all this possible for us.

00:12:01.100 It's also to show our unity and to celebrate our national identity

00:12:07.000 under one flag and one God.

00:12:11.120 That's the point.

00:12:14.140 But the powers that be don't share that goal.

00:12:17.360 Their goal is exactly the opposite.

00:12:19.780 And that's what the Black National Anthem is really all about.

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00:13:25.600 Now let's talk about UFOs.

00:13:27.220 I have to tell you, this has been an exciting weekend for me, but also a painful one in many ways.

00:13:31.260 Exciting because of the alien invasion.

00:13:32.960 Very exciting.

00:13:33.360 But painful because I have to confront this deep rift in my own family.

00:13:37.300 This division between us, between those of us in my family who care about UFOs and those who don't.

00:13:44.540 And sadly, I am apparently alone on my side of the rift.

00:13:49.560 Because I've been trying to talk to my wife all weekend about the UFO story and give her updates.

00:13:54.640 But all she does is like laugh at me.

00:13:56.900 Last night, I was telling her about the latest.

00:13:59.520 And as I'm speaking to her, she pulls out her phone and starts texting her sister a transcript of what I am saying to her in the moment while laughing at me.

00:14:09.560 And I'm saying, can you take this seriously for five seconds?

00:14:13.200 I mean, what is going on?

00:14:14.840 Why are you not focusing on this?

00:14:16.540 And then I even tried to tell my son about this.

00:14:18.340 He's a nine-year-old boy.

00:14:20.280 And I figure if anyone is excited about aliens, as excited as he'd be, he'd be a nine-year-old boy.

00:14:25.260 So I was telling him about the cylindrical UFOs that we'll get to in a second, that they shot down and that had no visible means of propulsion.

00:14:33.220 And he said, what is visible means of propulsion?

00:14:35.000 I said, well, it means that we don't know how they're staying in the sky.

00:14:39.340 Okay?

00:14:39.840 We can't tell.

00:14:42.120 And then he looks at me and says, wow, cool.

00:14:44.120 Can I go play outside now?

00:14:46.640 Or you want to play outside in an alien invasion?

00:14:50.140 Go ahead.

00:14:51.280 Sorry that I'm boring you.

00:14:52.540 So it's been tough at home.

00:14:55.020 But the news cycle has been great anyway.

00:14:57.040 Here's a Daily Wire report that I think gets us up to speed pretty well.

00:15:00.580 It says, new UFO sightings appear to be popping up all around the United States over the past few days.

00:15:04.680 In the weeks since the U.S. military shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina,

00:15:09.460 officials say at least three other strange flying objects have been blasted out of the sky.

00:15:13.680 And there have been multiple additional incidents leading to temporary restrictions in pockets of sky around the Midwest.

00:15:18.660 In the most recent development, a U.S. F-16 fighter jet shot down a UFO over Lake Huron on Sunday, according to the officials.

00:15:26.640 The Defense Department said in a statement that President Joe Biden ordered the strike on the recommendation of military leadership

00:15:31.580 after an airborne object flying at approximately 20,000 feet was in U.S. airspace over the lake,

00:15:38.120 a location chosen for its low impact on people below and the improved odds for debris recovery.

00:15:43.640 The DOD statement said the object was detected Sunday morning and its altitude raised concerns,

00:15:50.160 including that it could be a hazard to civilian aviation.

00:15:53.500 The object flew in proximity to sensitive DOD sites and had potential surveillance capabilities,

00:15:58.340 but likely no kinetic military threat.

00:16:02.140 Continuing along, it says these objects were much smaller than the balloon shot down over the Atlantic Ocean last weekend.

00:16:06.840 According to Chuck Schumer, he said that he thinks that they are balloons.

00:16:16.120 That's his theory about it.

00:16:17.980 Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said on Friday the UFO shot down over Alaska

00:16:22.760 was about the size of a small car and not similar in size or shape to the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon.

00:16:29.760 So there was the balloon that they were very hesitant to shoot down.

00:16:37.300 And in fact, they let it float over the entire continental United States before they finally shot it down.

00:16:43.940 They're very hesitant to do it.

00:16:45.980 And they decided that we can afford to wait for like days and days and days while it goes over the entire country

00:16:52.480 and over military installations and nuclear sites and all the rest of it.

00:16:57.300 So they said we can wait for that.

00:17:00.420 But now, all of a sudden, if they see anything in the sky that they don't immediately recognize,

00:17:05.600 they're just taking it out.

00:17:07.460 So there has apparently been this shift in strategy that's interesting.

00:17:13.840 Here's a CNN reporter talking about the reports we've heard back from the pilots

00:17:19.280 who have gone up to investigate and engage with these objects.

00:17:23.120 And here's what they are saying.

00:17:25.020 This is kind of unusual that these pilots saw different things.

00:17:30.620 And that is sort of, I guess, adding to the mystery of all this.

00:17:33.400 Yeah, not even the pilots apparently were really able to identify what they saw.

00:17:36.600 And just to take you back for a sec, on Thursday, the U.S. defense officials sent F-35 fighter jets up

00:17:43.400 to try to figure out what this object was that was flying around near Alaska.

00:17:46.700 Those pilots, we have learned, have given very conflicting accounts of what they actually experienced,

00:17:51.620 with some pilots saying that the object interfered with the plane's sensors,

00:17:55.980 other pilots saying that they didn't really experience that,

00:17:58.540 other pilots saying that when they looked at the object,

00:18:00.720 they could identify no identifiable propulsion system,

00:18:04.800 and they did not know how it was actually staying in the air,

00:18:07.960 cruising at that altitude of about 40,000 feet.

00:18:10.300 So this is all added to the Pentagon's wariness of describing in more detail what this object actually is

00:18:16.760 until they can get more information through the debris that they are recovering right now.

00:18:22.660 So that's something, again, to keep in mind,

00:18:24.400 that they're claiming that they don't know what these things are,

00:18:30.020 and they don't even know how they're in the sky.

00:18:31.800 They don't know how they are managing to remain aloft in the sky,

00:18:36.060 and yet they're just shooting them all down anyway.

00:18:39.480 That's what they're claiming.

00:18:40.420 That's the story they're telling us.

00:18:42.940 And the theme that emerges rather quickly here is that the story they're telling us makes no sense at all,

00:18:48.680 because you don't just shoot things down without having any idea what they are,

00:18:52.420 especially when, again, we saw the previous week how cautious they apparently were to shoot something out,

00:18:57.800 even when they know what it is.

00:18:59.020 I mean, they knew it was a balloon from China that was here on a surveillance mission, a spy balloon.

00:19:07.160 And even knowing that, they were cautious about shooting it down.

00:19:11.140 Now we're supposed to believe that they have no clue what these are,

00:19:14.360 and they're like, oh, let's just take it down, we'll figure it out later.

00:19:16.380 Let's shoot it down, and we'll collect the pieces and figure out what it was.

00:19:21.000 I find that hard to believe.

00:19:21.980 But don't worry.

00:19:22.440 We have our best men on this job and women, including Karen Jean Pair,

00:19:28.120 who here she is explaining how the U.S. is handling all of this.

00:19:33.180 Why is the American military shooting something out of the sky over Canada?

00:19:39.280 Because it's part of NORAD.

00:19:41.320 The NORAD is part of what you call a coalition, a consortium.

00:19:47.620 A pact of nations.

00:19:48.380 A pact, exactly.

00:19:49.460 And so that's why we were able to do that.

00:19:51.060 Again, we didn't do it on our own.

00:19:52.900 We did it clearly in step with Canada.

00:19:59.560 Did she say Canada?

00:20:01.000 She did.

00:20:02.880 We shot it down.

00:20:04.780 It's NORAD.

00:20:05.740 It's part of the—

00:20:06.620 NORAD is the thing with the—

00:20:08.580 It's a thing with the group.

00:20:11.900 Exactly, right.

00:20:12.840 And they're in Canada.

00:20:14.300 It's the country, right?

00:20:15.280 It's up there.

00:20:15.880 If there are space aliens coming to invade us, this is who they are.

00:20:22.740 I don't think it's a coincidence.

00:20:23.840 Like, we get a dementia patient in the White House who then proceeds to hire a bunch of dementia patients.

00:20:33.820 And that's when the aliens show up?

00:20:35.260 I don't think that's a coincidence.

00:20:36.140 They were waiting for their moment.

00:20:37.180 And they looked at each other and said, this is it.

00:20:39.500 This is our time.

00:20:40.260 Like, there's not going to be a better time.

00:20:41.780 They just—this guy, okay, and now they're here.

00:20:46.360 But here are the clips that really matter.

00:20:48.560 I'm going to play two sound bites.

00:20:50.680 This is from General Glenn Van Herc of the U.S. Air Force.

00:20:54.980 First of all, here he is in a press conference.

00:20:56.280 We already heard a little bit about this.

00:20:57.300 But here he is talking about the objects and how they don't know how the objects are remaining in the sky.

00:21:03.960 I am not able to categorize how they stay aloft.

00:21:07.540 It could be a gaseous type of balloon inside a structure, or it could be some type of a propulsion system.

00:21:17.480 But clearly, they're able to stay aloft.

00:21:21.020 I would be hesitant and urge you not to attribute it to any specific country.

00:21:26.400 We don't know.

00:21:27.460 That's why it's so critical to get our hands on these so that we can further assess and analyze what they are.

00:21:32.840 Okay, now, but here's the big clip, because he's asked directly if these are space aliens.

00:21:40.540 And at least we can all—no matter how you feel about all this, maybe we can appreciate the fact that it's not often in a press conference with a military general that you get direct questions about a potential space alien invasion.

00:21:55.860 This might be the first time.

00:21:56.960 I don't know.

00:21:57.260 I'd have to check, but maybe is this the first time in history that this has been asked in a—this directly and explicitly?

00:22:04.300 And here's what he says.

00:22:07.440 Hi.

00:22:08.140 Thanks, Pat, and thanks for doing this.

00:22:10.060 This is for General Van Herc.

00:22:12.100 Because you still haven't been able to tell us what these things are that we are shooting out of the sky, that raises the question, have you ruled out aliens or extraterrestrials?

00:22:26.220 And if so, why?

00:22:27.240 Because that is what everyone is asking us right now.

00:22:32.140 Thanks for the question, Helene.

00:22:33.700 I'll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out.

00:22:38.540 I haven't ruled out anything at this point.

00:22:41.380 We continue to assess every threat or potential threat unknown that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.

00:22:50.660 Haven't ruled it out.

00:22:52.020 So there it is.

00:22:53.260 What else do you need to know?

00:22:54.340 But don't be alarmed.

00:22:55.120 Because the good news is that if you've seen the movie, myself as a student, you know, as something of an expert in this field of alien research, part of my research is watching all the alien movies.

00:23:09.740 And I've seen them all.

00:23:10.700 And one thing I learned from the movie Signs from M. Night Shyamalan is that the aliens, they can come all this way, light years away.

00:23:20.580 They figure out how to travel across space and time, traveling at the speed of light or even exceeding the speed of light.

00:23:25.760 They make it all the way here.

00:23:26.960 And then their plot is easily foiled by a locked basement door and a glass of water.

00:23:33.320 So if that was an accurate reflection of the alien knack for strategy and planning, then I think we'll be okay.

00:23:40.700 But, look, I know that some of you are skeptical that these are space aliens.

00:23:48.560 And you might point out that it's quite a coincidence that we had the whole Chinese balloon news cycle and then it immediately leads to this.

00:23:57.480 Now, what exactly the connection is between those two things, I don't know.

00:24:01.400 But it's interesting that these two news cycles have happened back to back.

00:24:05.040 You might also point out that if an advanced race of intelligent beings have mastered interstellar travel and they are at least slightly more intelligent and better at strategy and planning than the ones in the M. Night Shyamalan film,

00:24:18.180 then they probably couldn't be taken down that easily by a few missiles that we launch at it.

00:24:25.380 You know, and I understand those arguments.

00:24:27.120 Fair enough.

00:24:27.880 So let's just, for the sake of argument, allow ourselves for a moment to entertain the possibility that these aren't aliens.

00:24:33.460 I'm not saying I believe that, but let's entertain the possibility.

00:24:36.600 If they aren't, it's still, to say the least, a very bizarre event.

00:24:44.540 Because, you know, I know the most popular theory on social media right now, from what I've seen anyway, anecdotally, at least among right-wingers in particular, is that, well, this is just, this is like a giant distraction mechanism.

00:24:57.080 This is a diversion, right?

00:24:58.640 The Biden administration, they're pointing at the shiny objects in the sky and saying, look at that, because they don't want us looking over here at whatever else they're doing.

00:25:06.920 I have to say, I do find that theory a little bit underwhelming.

00:25:11.180 I don't find it very persuasive.

00:25:12.680 And it's not because I don't think that they wouldn't use diversions and distractions.

00:25:18.820 No, no, no.

00:25:19.080 They do that all the time.

00:25:20.080 Don't get me wrong.

00:25:21.120 The media, the Biden administration, the elites, they are constantly doing that.

00:25:25.600 They're constantly distracting us by saying, look over there at the shiny object, because they don't want us looking over here.

00:25:30.620 So that part, yeah, absolutely.

00:25:33.080 But that's exactly the point.

00:25:35.680 They do it all the time and easily.

00:25:37.900 They don't need to come up with some elaborate UFO hoax to distract us.

00:25:43.900 We are the most easily distracted group of people to have ever walked the face of the earth.

00:25:52.140 As I said at the top, we can't focus on anything for more than 15 minutes.

00:25:56.060 Even if there actually was an alien invasion, nobody would focus on it for that long.

00:26:00.760 It doesn't take, it takes almost no effort to distract us.

00:26:04.600 And so usually the Biden administration in particular, if they want to distract us, then they'll, you know, they can just wave a pride flag or something or light the White House up in pride colors.

00:26:14.220 And then they can, you know, just some real simple, easy virtue signaling thing so they can say, look, we're standing up for gay rights.

00:26:22.860 And meanwhile, you know, we're not, we're not looking over in the other direction.

00:26:27.800 They don't want us to look.

00:26:29.040 So that's all it usually takes.

00:26:31.580 It would not require anything close to this kind of elaborate planning that would go into a hoax of this kind, if that's what this is.

00:26:41.800 The other thing is that they obviously don't want us to know exactly what's happening.

00:26:49.420 They know more than they're telling us.

00:26:52.540 But yet they're telling us something, which is also an interesting detail.

00:26:56.420 Because they didn't need to tell us anything.

00:26:58.180 It would be pretty easy to not tell us about any of this and we wouldn't know.

00:27:01.440 It's not like most of us are, you know, these are, from what I understand, for the most part, these are not objects that people saw and then we started talking about it.

00:27:14.340 And then they came along and said, oh, yeah, we're trying to figure out what that is.

00:27:17.560 It's more like they told us, hey, there are these objects in the sky.

00:27:20.120 Well, what are the objects?

00:27:21.000 I don't know.

00:27:21.880 Who knows?

00:27:22.340 But they're there.

00:27:25.240 So it's something that's happening that they want us to know about, but they don't want us to know exactly what it is.

00:27:31.440 How do you make sense of all this?

00:27:34.800 I don't know exactly.

00:27:36.700 But I do know that however you explain it, certainly incompetence has to play a role here.

00:27:42.740 And that also makes it more difficult to speculate and more difficult to come up with reasonable theories because there's always that element of incompetence that you have to factor in.

00:27:54.640 Like I said a moment ago, I mean, just the simple fact that they're claiming they don't know what it is and yet they're shooting them out of the sky.

00:28:00.980 I don't know what it is.

00:28:02.340 They're also claiming that they know it's not a threat.

00:28:06.600 They're claiming to know that.

00:28:08.020 Don't know what it is.

00:28:08.720 Not a threat.

00:28:09.500 Yet we're shooting it down without figuring out anything else.

00:28:14.240 None of that makes sense.

00:28:16.300 Could be an indication that they're hiding something.

00:28:18.680 Well, they certainly are hiding some things.

00:28:20.780 Maybe that's part of what they're hiding.

00:28:21.860 But also, just keep in mind that these are, you just heard, Karen Jean-Pierre.

00:28:27.260 She represents the White House.

00:28:29.140 And she represents it well, or at least I should say accurately.

00:28:33.240 So these are incredibly incompetent idiots.

00:28:36.740 And you always have to remember that.

00:28:38.680 So it is actually plausible.

00:28:42.140 It's plausible that they really don't know what these things are, and they're just shooting them down anyway.

00:28:47.920 And partly they're doing that because they got embarrassed by the spy balloon before.

00:28:51.200 All of this adds up to, like we talk about on the show a lot, just the total collapse of public trust, which rears its ugly head constantly.

00:29:02.960 And this is another one of those cases.

00:29:05.640 Because all we can really know is that whatever is happening, they aren't telling us the truth about it.

00:29:10.720 Whatever they say is happening, it's probably not that.

00:29:14.680 Whatever else it is, who knows?

00:29:16.020 And that complicates matters, too, because, well, if we're following the rule, which I think is usually a pretty good rule,

00:29:23.620 that whatever they're saying it is, it's probably not that.

00:29:26.500 Well, they have themselves publicly entertained the notion that it might be aliens.

00:29:31.200 They've also come out and said that it's probably just balloons.

00:29:34.880 So if we're going with the it's not what they say rule, then it rules out both the most extraordinary explanation, which would be space aliens,

00:29:41.520 and then the least extraordinary, which would be balloons.

00:29:43.480 Because from the powers that be, we've been given both of those possibilities, which leaves a lot of room in between.

00:29:56.460 All right.

00:29:57.900 I have to mention this story as well.

00:29:59.880 And this is one, you know, if you're going with the this is all a distraction thing,

00:30:04.620 then, well, there is at least one major story happening in the country right now that they would want to distract us from.

00:30:10.660 Although, again, I still say they don't need any alien or UFO hoax to successfully distract us from this story,

00:30:16.560 especially because most people aren't paying attention to it in the first place, even though they should be.

00:30:22.520 And it's another story where things don't add up.

00:30:25.580 And it's just it's it's the official narrative doesn't make a lot of sense.

00:30:30.840 And we're obviously not being told everything, but we'll try to piece this together if we can.

00:30:35.940 We'll start with this from The Guardian.

00:30:37.960 Five days after a train carrying vinyl chloride derailed and exploded near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border,

00:30:45.740 crews ignited a controlled burn of toxic chemicals to prevent a much more dangerous explosion.

00:30:51.400 Thousands in East Palestine, pretty sure it's pronounced Palestine, not Palestine, all that's how it's spelled,

00:30:56.120 a town of about 5,000 people evacuated.

00:30:58.120 And officials warned that the controlled burn would create a phosgene and hydrogen chloride plume across the region.

00:31:05.260 Phosgene is a highly toxic gas that can cause vomiting and breathing trouble and was used as a weapon in the First World War.

00:31:12.900 Though no one died in the accident, the catastrophe serves as a wake-up call to the potential for more deadly freight rail derailments,

00:31:20.400 public health advocates warn.

00:31:21.520 By one estimate, 25 million Americans live in an oil train blast zone and had the derailment occur just a few miles east,

00:31:27.700 it would be burning in downtown Pittsburgh with tens of thousands of residents in immediate danger.

00:31:35.000 So, they had this train derailment, lots of toxic chemicals on the train.

00:31:42.380 And this happened, when this happened, about a week ago.

00:31:46.060 Toxic chemicals on the train.

00:31:47.340 And then there's an explosion and a fire, and it's releasing all these chemicals into the air and also into the groundwater.

00:31:55.260 And we're told that the burn was intentional.

00:31:58.280 That they're doing a controlled burn of toxic chemicals a few miles from a populated area.

00:32:04.980 And there's more going on here.

00:32:06.140 They actually, to make things stranger, they actually arrested a reporter who was reporting on the situation.

00:32:12.300 This is from WSWS.

00:32:13.480 In a shocking incident Wednesday, police arrested a national news reporter in the middle of a news conference by the Ohio governor on the train derailment in East Palestine.

00:32:21.540 Following the February 3rd crash, government and railroad officials had authorized a controlled release, quote unquote,

00:32:27.680 of thousands of pounds of toxins into the air and groundwater.

00:32:31.260 The reporter, Evan Lambert of News Nation, was at the back of the elementary school gymnasium in East Palestine,

00:32:36.320 completing a live broadcast as the governor was about to speak.

00:32:39.060 He was approached by local police officers and someone with the National Guard who told him he was talking too loudly.

00:32:44.720 Harris reportedly told Lambert to stop the broadcast.

00:32:47.980 Lambert ended the broadcast, and then there was a verbal exchange.

00:32:52.560 According to reports, at one point, Harris pushed Lambert.

00:32:56.100 The video posted by NBC station WKYC shows police surrounding Lambert at the back of the gymnasium.

00:33:02.260 Lambert is engaged in animated conversation with Harris and officers,

00:33:05.040 but does not appear to be doing anything resembling disorderly conduct.

00:33:07.980 He's soon escorted out by police and then forced to the ground for no apparent reason and handcuffed.

00:33:14.060 This is another one where they told us initially that he was reported for being belligerent or physically assaulting.

00:33:20.960 Turns out that's not what happened.

00:33:23.680 So they're burning toxic chemicals intentionally.

00:33:26.020 They're arresting reporters.

00:33:28.140 Meanwhile, people's pets are dying left and right.

00:33:31.120 This is the New York Post.

00:33:32.400 Animals are falling sick and dying near the site of a hellish Ohio train derailment last Friday,

00:33:36.480 which released toxic chemicals into the air, according to reports,

00:33:39.680 sparking fears of the potential health impacts the crash could have on humans.

00:33:43.580 Taylor Holzer, owner of a dairy farm just outside the evacuation zone in East Palestine,

00:33:48.640 said that several foxes he keeps on his property have become mortally ill.

00:33:53.460 He said others have developed watery eyes and puffy faces,

00:33:56.400 have uncharacteristically refused to eat for several days.

00:33:58.480 And then there are other people in the area that have also reported that their animals are falling sick.

00:34:06.620 And it's not just pets either.

00:34:09.480 One of the most disturbing aspects of this, and I think we have this report,

00:34:14.000 are that fish, there are rivers and water sources all around,

00:34:19.060 and there are fish that are turning up dead in the rivers.

00:34:22.480 And this is miles and miles from the site of the crash.

00:34:26.560 I think we have one of those reports here.

00:34:28.440 At the area, well and groundwater are safe.

00:34:32.080 However, after this couple saw dead fish in this creek that you're looking at,

00:34:37.540 they're deciding to not take any chances.

00:34:41.760 There was hundreds.

00:34:43.500 Russell Murphy is referring to the fish now belly up in Leslie Run.

00:34:47.940 He and his wife noticed them last night,

00:34:50.580 barely 48 hours after the fiery derailment, five miles away.

00:34:55.540 This is huge, huge environmental effects.

00:34:59.220 That's now one of many concerns the EPA now faces.

00:35:02.860 The impact of the fish, yes, there was an impact of those.

00:35:07.040 However, the levels as we have seen it are protective to groundwater.

00:35:11.860 We are aware there are some wells along that for residential wells.

00:35:15.360 Environmental cleanup crews were at and actually in that water today.

00:35:20.320 So are these booms, which are used to catch and stop anything that shouldn't be flowing here,

00:35:26.320 or into water wells, which Murphy uses for just about everything.

00:35:32.860 So the fish are turning up dead, pets are dying, toxic chemicals in the air and the groundwater,

00:35:38.880 and yet they tell us, oh, there's nothing to be concerned about.

00:35:40.680 It's, for some reason, it's not dangerous to your health as a human being.

00:35:45.640 It's not getting into the water supply that people are drinking, they're claiming,

00:35:48.500 even though the fish are all dying.

00:35:50.820 If you're curious what this all looked like, by the way, here's a report from Now This.

00:35:56.480 And the only reason I'm really playing this is just to see some of the footage.

00:35:58.960 If you are watching the video podcast,

00:36:00.980 to see some of the footage of what this looked like while all the chemicals are burning.

00:36:05.520 Let's watch this for a minute.

00:36:06.480 You're looking at a toxic cocktail of harmful and potentially deadly chemicals

00:36:10.100 purposely being burned off by authorities.

00:36:12.260 But why?

00:36:12.860 Let's rewind.

00:36:13.800 This all started with a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio,

00:36:16.860 a town of nearly 5,000 people.

00:36:18.580 Five of the cars that derailed were carrying vinyl chloride,

00:36:20.900 a dangerous chemical linked to multiple cancers.

00:36:23.100 It's used to make a whole bunch of things, from car parts to PVC piping.

00:36:26.280 But on its own, vinyl chloride can cause blisters, headaches, dizziness,

00:36:29.460 and can be deadly if breathed in for too long.

00:36:31.240 It's also unstable, and at least one of the train cars was at risk of exploding

00:36:34.440 and sending deadly shrapnel flying as far as a mile.

00:36:36.960 And while that massive explosion didn't end up happening,

00:36:39.080 many are wondering if the way authorities are going about mitigating the incident

00:36:41.740 is the best course of action.

00:36:43.140 To avoid a catastrophic explosion,

00:36:44.760 officials conducted a controlled release of vinyl chloride a few days after the derailment.

00:36:48.420 They pierced the train cars so the vinyl chloride could drain into a trench and burn.

00:36:51.700 It resulted in this.

00:36:53.120 Authorities said that the controlled burn would release hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the air.

00:36:57.160 Yes, as in World War I chemical weapon phosgene.

00:36:59.680 So what does that mean for residents?

00:37:01.360 Well, everyone living within at least a two-mile radius of the derailment site

00:37:04.240 was ordered to evacuate.

00:37:05.620 Ahead of the controlled burn, authorities released an evacuation map

00:37:08.180 and essentially said if you're in this area, leave or risk dying because of toxic fumes.

00:37:12.580 Authorities have been monitoring the air and water quality since the controlled release started

00:37:15.860 and said that none of the readings were concerning.

00:37:17.800 But many evacuated residents still have questions,

00:37:20.080 namely when they'll be able to return home safely.

00:37:22.160 While the possibility for a massive explosion is no longer a danger,

00:37:24.820 there's been no timeline given for when it will be safe for people to return to the affected area.

00:37:28.620 By the way, I have, if you notice, we're sort of piecing together local news reports

00:37:36.160 and things from Twitter as I'm talking about this.

00:37:41.620 And that's because that's where I'm learning about most of this.

00:37:43.780 Twitter, you give TikTok a hard time, but in this case, there are residents in the area

00:37:50.880 and other people that have been following this that have been reporting on it.

00:37:54.140 And we have to rely on that because for the most part,

00:37:57.480 the corporate media has had very little interest in this story.

00:38:01.700 If you go to CNN.com or NBC News, one of those New York Times,

00:38:04.900 you're not going to find much, if anything, about this.

00:38:09.720 Even though, again, to review, trade derailment,

00:38:13.340 they intentionally burn toxic chemicals, sending them into the air and the water supply.

00:38:17.780 Pets are dying. Fish are dying.

00:38:20.700 People are likely getting cancer as we speak, okay?

00:38:24.140 All of that is happening.

00:38:28.100 And there's very little interest in it.

00:38:31.720 This is, I mean, easily already one of,

00:38:36.120 at least one of the worst ecological disasters in American history.

00:38:40.220 Already, it's that.

00:38:42.040 And that's based on what little we know.

00:38:44.880 Because, again, in spite of the fact that this is happening in the modern United States,

00:38:48.640 okay, this is not happening in the middle of North Korea somewhere

00:38:51.220 where they've closed off all the avenues of information.

00:38:54.820 This is happening right here.

00:38:56.440 It's happening in Ohio.

00:38:58.500 And yet, we're being told very little about it.

00:39:01.780 And from what I've heard from people in the area,

00:39:03.920 what we are being told makes it seem a lot better than it actually is.

00:39:07.880 It's even worse than what little we're being told about.

00:39:10.460 So this, easily one of the worst ecological disasters in American history,

00:39:17.520 could prove to be the worst.

00:39:20.180 Kind of an American Chernobyl in many ways.

00:39:24.520 And just like with Chernobyl or many similar kinds of disasters,

00:39:29.420 we're not even going to know the full impact of this.

00:39:32.160 If people are getting cancer right now,

00:39:33.680 we're not going to know the full impact of it for years down the line.

00:39:39.060 And we might never know.

00:39:42.560 So this is something that we should be keeping track of.

00:39:46.040 It's a story to keep track of.

00:39:49.000 And it's also worth noting, I think,

00:39:50.800 that, you know, I can't help but notice

00:39:56.040 that this is yet another major transportation-related disaster

00:40:01.880 that's happening not just under the Biden administration,

00:40:05.560 but happening with Pete Buttigieg as our transportation secretary.

00:40:08.920 So Pete Buttigieg was given the job of transportation secretary

00:40:12.700 because he's gay.

00:40:13.740 And for no other reason, no relevant experience,

00:40:16.200 the only reason he got the job, and everybody knows this,

00:40:18.260 the only reason he got the job is because he's gay.

00:40:19.520 He likes to have sex with men.

00:40:22.740 And so for some reason,

00:40:24.080 that qualified him to be transportation secretary.

00:40:26.000 And what have we seen since he took over?

00:40:28.900 We've seen historic disruptions in the supply chain.

00:40:33.200 We've seen chaos at our ports.

00:40:35.520 We've seen unprecedented historic events,

00:40:38.800 like all flights across the country being grounded.

00:40:43.540 And now we have one of the worst train derailments

00:40:47.320 leading to potentially the worst ecological disaster in American history.

00:40:53.160 This is all under this guy's watch.

00:40:56.080 On top of everything else, I think we could say that this is,

00:40:59.620 this will prove to be the most disastrous diversity hire ever.

00:41:05.840 I'm not sure there's been a worse one.

00:41:09.260 But again, this is a story that we should keep track of.

00:41:11.840 All right, much less important news.

00:41:14.900 On a lighter note, going back to the Super Bowl,

00:41:17.780 before we get to the comment section,

00:41:19.660 you know, people have been talking about the commercials,

00:41:22.220 talking about, again, it's one of those things people talk about

00:41:24.020 for like half a day or less.

00:41:25.440 But there was finally a trailer for the fifth Indiana Jones movie.

00:41:30.080 And people are, because Disney's doing a fifth one,

00:41:33.280 people are somehow excited about this film.

00:41:35.060 So let's watch the trailer.

00:41:38.640 You.

00:41:39.560 Have we met?

00:41:40.800 My memory's a little fuzzy.

00:41:43.560 Are you still a Nazi?

00:41:47.580 Yeah!

00:41:50.380 Give him hell, Indiana Jones!

00:41:57.880 What are you doing here?

00:41:59.660 Let's go, India!

00:42:01.100 Hang on!

00:42:02.140 Okay!

00:42:05.060 Yeah, I don't know how people,

00:42:10.480 people just never learn.

00:42:12.080 You know, this is part of the programming, I guess,

00:42:17.000 that we are a culture obsessed with entertainment.

00:42:20.440 And when it comes to,

00:42:22.740 part of the reason why we like to be entertained all the time

00:42:24.560 is because people all, in fact, people say this,

00:42:26.480 I could turn my brain off.

00:42:27.340 I just want to watch something where I can turn my brain off.

00:42:30.060 Yeah, well, do you ever turn it back on is the question.

00:42:33.500 So somehow people never learn.

00:42:35.060 Because I'm watching some of the reaction to that trailer,

00:42:38.020 and most people, including, like, people that I know are conservatives,

00:42:42.340 seem pretty hyped about it.

00:42:43.620 They're pretty excited.

00:42:44.460 Oh, it looks, oh, it's good.

00:42:45.460 This is going to be great.

00:42:47.200 And I'm just wondering, and no offense,

00:42:48.920 but how stupid do you have to be at this point

00:42:51.900 to actually be excited for a franchise reboot film from Disney?

00:42:58.600 Like, how many times do you need to see how this works

00:43:02.320 before you learn that it is always going to be terrible?

00:43:07.220 Like, and the only way to stop it is if people just stop

00:43:10.420 showing interest in the films and stop going to watch them.

00:43:13.720 Because what's going to happen is this stupid movie is going to come out,

00:43:16.540 and people are going to flock to the theater,

00:43:18.220 it's going to make a billion dollars,

00:43:19.720 and 90% of those people are going to leave the theater

00:43:22.240 saying, that was terrible, it was woke garbage.

00:43:24.220 It was woke garbage that I just gave my money to.

00:43:27.880 And the next time they put out more woke garbage,

00:43:30.060 you know, another franchise reboot,

00:43:31.280 I'll go watch that one too.

00:43:33.140 And I'll keep watching them and keep giving them my money

00:43:35.280 until it changes.

00:43:39.460 I will reward this with my money,

00:43:43.040 and I will keep rewarding it until magically they stop doing it.

00:43:47.380 I don't know about that plan.

00:43:49.800 Look, Harrison Ford is a million years old,

00:43:51.820 and then they've got this actress, Phoebe Waller-Bridge,

00:43:55.120 who was, or Bridger, or whatever her name is,

00:43:58.060 who's going to be, she's in the film,

00:43:59.800 and they're setting her up as the new Indiana Jones.

00:44:02.520 Because remember, in Indiana Jones 4,

00:44:04.260 they had Shia LaBeouf,

00:44:06.040 and now we're pretending he,

00:44:07.580 wasn't he Indiana Jones' son in that film?

00:44:11.040 But now we're pretending he doesn't exist,

00:44:12.520 so I was getting rid of him.

00:44:14.380 And they're largely doing that because,

00:44:16.640 well, they don't want the new Indiana Jones,

00:44:18.700 who they set up to be a man,

00:44:21.040 least of all a white man.

00:44:23.040 So now the new one has to be a woman,

00:44:24.920 so they're going to set up the new female Indiana Jones.

00:44:27.920 She'll be taking the reins, or the whip in this case.

00:44:30.380 So it's going to be a geriatric Indiana Jones

00:44:32.580 teaming up with a girl Indiana Jones.

00:44:35.660 And what is the appeal of that exactly?

00:44:37.680 And I can guarantee you that the entire film,

00:44:42.320 it's going to be nothing but a whole bunch of jokes

00:44:45.000 about how Indiana Jones is this bumbling idiot man

00:44:48.200 who can't do anything right,

00:44:49.380 and so he needs the smart aleck woman there

00:44:52.400 who can kick ass and get things done.

00:44:56.400 You know, you guarantee it's going to be the scene

00:44:58.520 where Indiana Jones is about to be taken out by the bad guy,

00:45:01.020 and then he hears the gunshot,

00:45:03.040 and he thinks that he got shot,

00:45:04.460 and he looks over,

00:45:05.020 and it's the girl standing there, save the day.

00:45:07.680 And she'll make some, you know, wisecrack.

00:45:10.260 That's going to be the whole movie.

00:45:12.700 And people will still go,

00:45:14.040 it'll still make a billion dollars,

00:45:15.540 and people will still watch it,

00:45:17.160 even though we all know what it's going to be.

00:45:21.340 Just let these things die, okay?

00:45:24.540 Let them die.

00:45:26.860 On that note, let's get to our comment section.

00:45:28.660 Daily cancellations are the law and order of the day.

00:45:34.320 We the sweet baby gang.

00:45:37.680 Maxine says,

00:45:40.000 When I was in high school,

00:45:40.660 I fell to this social contagion,

00:45:42.340 mainly from the internet, not in school.

00:45:44.220 I was 100% certain that I was a boy.

00:45:46.200 I wanted my breasts removed.

00:45:47.380 I wanted to take testosterone

00:45:48.640 so I could have a deep voice.

00:45:50.240 Five years later,

00:45:50.980 I shudder in fear,

00:45:52.060 thinking about what would have happened

00:45:53.440 if I went through with it.

00:45:54.760 Thank God I found people like you

00:45:56.000 to wake me up before I ruin my life.

00:45:57.660 Well, I'm happy to hear that you were saved from that.

00:46:04.260 You were able to turn away from that

00:46:05.500 before getting entirely sucked into it.

00:46:08.300 I'm happy to hear that I was able to play

00:46:10.260 some kind of role in that.

00:46:12.200 On the other hand,

00:46:13.280 I am terrified to hear you tell me this story

00:46:17.980 and then tell me five years later.

00:46:19.860 So you're looking back on it five years ago.

00:46:21.440 So what that tells me is that five years ago,

00:46:23.560 it was already that bad.

00:46:25.660 Now, it doesn't surprise me.

00:46:26.820 I'm aware of that,

00:46:28.060 but I think it will be surprising to a lot of people

00:46:30.280 that even five years ago,

00:46:31.600 I think many people think of this

00:46:33.380 as like the last year or two

00:46:35.840 and it's gotten really bad

00:46:36.880 with the trans social contagion.

00:46:39.180 But even five years ago,

00:46:41.440 it was already very much a contagion.

00:46:49.020 Whitney says,

00:46:49.720 Dwayne Wade's kid is the only case I've ever heard

00:46:52.160 where the father is pushing the kid's transition

00:46:54.220 and the mother is fighting it.

00:46:57.840 Is the mother fighting it?

00:47:00.700 Is Gabrielle Union is the mother, right?

00:47:02.580 Or no, maybe you're right

00:47:03.840 because the Gabrielle Union,

00:47:05.080 I think is the stepmom of the kid.

00:47:07.940 And so I'm not sure.

00:47:09.740 I don't remember all the details of the story,

00:47:11.260 but what I do know is that yes,

00:47:12.860 whether he's doing it above the protests of the mom or not,

00:47:18.380 this is a case where the father is very clearly

00:47:21.860 playing a central role

00:47:24.820 in pushing the transgenderism on the kid.

00:47:29.160 And it is unusual.

00:47:31.680 Like you just,

00:47:32.160 you don't usually see the fathers doing that.

00:47:35.380 It's not unusual to have transgenderism pushed on kids

00:47:37.720 as we just talked about.

00:47:38.380 This is happening all over the place.

00:47:39.480 But in almost every case that you can think of,

00:47:43.460 certainly in all the prominent cases

00:47:45.060 that get a lot of attention,

00:47:46.680 it's almost always the mom pushing this on kids.

00:47:50.480 Just like,

00:47:51.960 as I've made this comparison many times

00:47:54.080 to Munchausen by proxy,

00:47:56.200 because that's exactly what this is.

00:47:58.340 Munchausen by proxy,

00:47:59.260 that's been a phenomenon

00:48:01.000 that's been known about for a long time.

00:48:02.760 And it's almost always a woman in that case.

00:48:05.380 Like historically,

00:48:05.940 it's almost always been a woman.

00:48:06.760 And with Munchausen,

00:48:07.920 it's almost always a mother

00:48:09.420 who is pretending that her child is sick

00:48:13.840 in order to get attention

00:48:15.840 so that she can get attention.

00:48:17.000 Or in the worst cases,

00:48:18.640 she is making the child sick

00:48:20.260 so that again,

00:48:21.040 she can get attention.

00:48:22.140 And that is precisely what is happening here.

00:48:24.140 You are making your child sick,

00:48:26.800 psychologically sick,

00:48:28.580 emotionally sick,

00:48:29.440 and also physically sick

00:48:31.640 when you start putting the poisons in them,

00:48:33.280 the hormones and everything,

00:48:34.300 puberty blockers.

00:48:34.940 And you're doing it

00:48:36.380 so that you can get attention.

00:48:39.280 Nathan Smith says,

00:48:40.800 man, I was really hoping Matt

00:48:42.120 would show the

00:48:42.820 hitting the brakes

00:48:43.760 makes you slow down

00:48:44.900 Dr. Hamada clip.

00:48:46.040 I laughed so loud

00:48:47.000 when that bit happened.

00:48:47.840 It's like something

00:48:48.320 from a freaking sitcom.

00:48:50.060 There are some real morons

00:48:51.060 in this local government

00:48:52.000 here in Tennessee.

00:48:53.020 Yes, I forgot about that moment.

00:48:54.420 So let's relive that now.

00:48:56.300 I forgot until I saw your comment.

00:48:57.780 That was a good,

00:48:58.320 and that got a laugh from me

00:48:59.240 sitting in the room,

00:49:00.080 in the hearing room.

00:49:01.100 This is the last clip we'll play

00:49:02.340 from this committee hearing,

00:49:03.300 which has proven quite fruitful

00:49:04.580 in terms of clips and show content.

00:49:07.280 So this is the guy, again,

00:49:09.660 who tried to corner me

00:49:11.040 on my credentials,

00:49:12.080 and we know how that went for him.

00:49:13.520 He did the same thing

00:49:14.360 to an actual doctor.

00:49:15.300 We played that clip,

00:49:16.080 Dr. Hamada.

00:49:17.200 This is another moment

00:49:18.460 from that questioning

00:49:20.640 of the doctor

00:49:21.580 that I had forgotten about until now,

00:49:23.140 but I did enjoy it

00:49:24.060 in the moment.

00:49:25.700 Here it is.

00:49:26.180 Amazingly,

00:49:28.460 liberal Europe has,

00:49:31.640 let me just say

00:49:32.760 the United States

00:49:33.640 has severely exceeded

00:49:35.760 even what liberal Europe has done

00:49:37.240 on many facets,

00:49:39.480 whether it's gender transformation

00:49:41.200 or the issues of life

00:49:43.120 or the issues of euthanasia,

00:49:44.620 et cetera.

00:49:45.880 I don't know what the problem is,

00:49:47.700 but it seems like

00:49:48.320 here in the United States

00:49:49.380 we are rushing

00:49:51.140 to extreme positions,

00:49:53.780 and with regards

00:49:54.740 to this in particular,

00:49:56.400 the UK, Sweden,

00:49:57.600 and Finland

00:49:57.960 have actually put the brakes on

00:49:59.500 with regards

00:50:00.600 to these gender transitions

00:50:02.040 in our pediatric population.

00:50:05.860 Chairman Payson,

00:50:06.780 you good?

00:50:07.440 All right.

00:50:07.720 Representative Clemens,

00:50:08.400 you recognize?

00:50:10.680 Yes.

00:50:11.380 Thank you,

00:50:12.060 Mr. Chairman.

00:50:13.800 I've got to take issue

00:50:14.920 with your position

00:50:15.880 about these European countries.

00:50:17.220 I think what you just said

00:50:18.100 about Finland

00:50:18.640 is actually completely false.

00:50:21.840 What part?

00:50:22.920 Well, you just said

00:50:23.700 that they put the brakes

00:50:24.560 on this entirely.

00:50:26.400 Is that accurate?

00:50:27.540 Are you going to sit here

00:50:28.280 and testify to this committee

00:50:29.120 that Finland just put the brakes

00:50:30.240 on this entirely?

00:50:32.020 From what I understand,

00:50:33.000 they have slowed down.

00:50:33.820 They have not.

00:50:34.400 They were fast-tracking

00:50:36.280 things like this,

00:50:37.480 but from what I understand,

00:50:38.800 they have put the brakes on.

00:50:40.500 Now they're slowing down.

00:50:41.720 They hadn't put the brakes on it.

00:50:43.900 Putting brakes on slows you down.

00:50:45.600 It was just,

00:50:50.340 man,

00:50:50.880 it was great.

00:50:51.480 There were so many moments

00:50:52.460 like that.

00:50:52.860 It was just,

00:50:53.340 this guy,

00:50:55.160 Clemens,

00:50:56.060 I forget his name now,

00:50:56.840 Lee Clemens,

00:50:57.380 I think,

00:50:57.900 he,

00:50:59.060 so many attempts,

00:51:00.560 it wasn't just me,

00:51:01.260 just so many attempts

00:51:02.260 to back people into corners

00:51:04.000 and to get a,

00:51:04.720 get like a gotcha moment

00:51:05.940 and it kept backfiring on him

00:51:07.700 over and over again

00:51:08.440 and I love that

00:51:09.480 because it's,

00:51:09.940 and it's not even semantics either.

00:51:11.380 It's like,

00:51:12.560 yeah,

00:51:13.980 they are,

00:51:14.540 they are putting the brakes on,

00:51:15.980 but as,

00:51:17.000 you know,

00:51:17.500 to play the analogy out

00:51:18.940 when you're in your car

00:51:19.800 and you put the brakes on,

00:51:21.620 it doesn't mean

00:51:22.160 that you are screeching

00:51:23.560 to a halt.

00:51:24.000 That might be how this guy drives,

00:51:26.120 the legislator,

00:51:26.840 but that's not how

00:51:28.320 it's supposed to go.

00:51:29.060 It just slows you down.

00:51:29.720 And it also is,

00:51:30.760 by the way,

00:51:31.360 completely true

00:51:31.940 that in a lot of these

00:51:33.840 European countries,

00:51:34.600 they are putting the brakes on

00:51:36.760 slash slowing down

00:51:39.260 with a lot of this stuff

00:51:40.300 and that should tell you something

00:51:44.100 because usually,

00:51:46.800 you know,

00:51:48.020 when you look at Europe,

00:51:51.260 Western Europe in particular,

00:51:53.040 you can find that they're,

00:51:54.360 you know,

00:51:54.520 they're always like a few train cars

00:51:56.260 ahead of us on the crazy train

00:51:57.440 and so you can look at where they are

00:51:59.380 and you know where it will be

00:52:00.260 in the future,

00:52:01.040 but in some areas,

00:52:02.660 they are pulling back

00:52:03.800 at least ever so,

00:52:04.620 maybe not completely,

00:52:06.400 but they are pulling back

00:52:08.460 from some of this

00:52:09.040 because they've seen

00:52:10.020 how disastrous it's been

00:52:11.400 while we just go full speed ahead.

00:52:13.920 So,

00:52:14.420 that is what's happening.

00:52:15.460 Another great moment there

00:52:16.160 at the hearing.

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00:53:05.240 Now let's get to our

00:53:06.000 daily cancellation.

00:53:10.840 Our first daily cancellation

00:53:12.040 of the week revisits a theme

00:53:13.620 that we have become familiar

00:53:14.920 with in this segment.

00:53:15.920 Another video has gone viral

00:53:17.300 of a young person,

00:53:18.240 appears to be Gen Z,

00:53:19.940 bitterly lamenting the fact

00:53:21.560 that he's expected to work.

00:53:23.000 In fact, he says that

00:53:23.860 this expectation is sick

00:53:25.540 and twisted, quote unquote.

00:53:27.700 Here he is.

00:53:29.100 It's sick and twisted

00:53:30.660 that I have to work

00:53:32.560 just to survive,

00:53:34.500 just to live my life

00:53:36.120 for basic ass necessities.

00:53:38.720 Like, I don't want to work

00:53:40.380 until the day I die

00:53:41.460 just to eat and sleep.

00:53:44.540 Basic human necessities,

00:53:46.480 it shouldn't be controversial.

00:53:48.780 Free housing, free healthcare,

00:53:50.700 shouldn't be a pipe dream.

00:53:53.100 And I know a lot of people

00:53:53.780 are going to be like,

00:53:54.260 oh, you should be doing this

00:53:55.420 or that.

00:53:56.560 No.

00:53:57.460 Like, what if I don't want

00:53:58.680 to be rich?

00:53:59.820 What if I want to achieve sh**?

00:54:02.500 I still have to work

00:54:03.260 until the day I f**king die

00:54:04.340 just to live?

00:54:05.800 Just to survive?

00:54:07.360 People give up

00:54:08.140 their entire lives

00:54:09.800 just to retire

00:54:11.720 at the ripe age

00:54:13.500 of 60 whatever.

00:54:15.960 For what?

00:54:16.980 To get paid dirt?

00:54:18.180 Even then?

00:54:19.600 People destroy their bodies

00:54:21.400 physically and mentally

00:54:22.780 just to feed into

00:54:24.540 a capitalistic system

00:54:25.680 that does not give a s**t

00:54:27.020 about you.

00:54:28.280 God didn't make me

00:54:29.020 the smartest angel,

00:54:29.980 but I know that s**t

00:54:30.880 needs to change.

00:54:32.520 And I don't want to be told

00:54:33.280 that I'm ungrateful,

00:54:34.880 that I should be

00:54:37.080 s**t happy

00:54:38.260 to have a job

00:54:39.620 where it's taking up

00:54:41.560 40 hours of my s**t week.

00:54:43.620 You know,

00:54:45.180 I want to spend time

00:54:45.880 with my family.

00:54:46.800 I want to do s**t

00:54:48.700 that is fulfilling to me.

00:54:50.900 But all that s**t

00:54:51.740 like requires

00:54:52.500 so much privilege,

00:54:53.820 requires so much wealth,

00:54:55.560 and it's just s**t

00:54:57.900 f**king messed up.

00:55:00.480 40 hours of my week?

00:55:01.920 People that complain

00:55:02.560 about a 40-hour-a-week job,

00:55:04.180 they blow my mind.

00:55:05.280 Do you know how lucky you are?

00:55:08.020 I know he said,

00:55:08.540 I don't want to be told

00:55:09.540 that I should be grateful.

00:55:10.380 Well, you should be grateful,

00:55:11.340 you brat.

00:55:11.680 You know how lucky you are

00:55:12.720 if you only work 40 hours?

00:55:14.280 That's it?

00:55:14.900 Only 40 hours a week?

00:55:16.780 That's all the time

00:55:18.280 you're working?

00:55:18.660 Think about that.

00:55:19.300 The amount of work,

00:55:20.720 period,

00:55:21.260 that you do in a week

00:55:22.160 is only 40 hours?

00:55:26.220 That is incredible to me.

00:55:28.360 I can't even conceive

00:55:29.540 of only doing 40 hours

00:55:31.480 of work in a week.

00:55:33.020 Okay, so we have, again,

00:55:34.760 a young man

00:55:35.400 who appears to be well-fed,

00:55:36.720 appears to be living

00:55:37.440 in some kind of

00:55:38.300 comfortable shelter,

00:55:39.100 presumably a house

00:55:40.000 or an apartment,

00:55:40.500 and who is obviously

00:55:42.200 blessed with any number

00:55:43.080 of luxuries like a phone,

00:55:44.200 internet connection,

00:55:44.940 we can assume copious amounts

00:55:46.140 of hair product.

00:55:47.400 He has all of this

00:55:48.340 and yet doesn't believe

00:55:49.940 that work should be

00:55:51.240 a requirement to maintain it.

00:55:53.080 It's sick and twisted

00:55:53.980 that he should have to work

00:55:55.020 just to live,

00:55:56.000 let alone to afford

00:55:56.640 his hair conditioner.

00:55:58.000 Now,

00:55:58.720 as I've often said

00:56:00.540 in response to these kinds

00:56:01.500 of disturbingly common

00:56:02.460 complaints from his generation,

00:56:04.340 about the fact

00:56:05.280 that you have to work

00:56:06.060 is like

00:56:06.320 about the fact

00:56:07.820 that you have to breathe.

00:56:08.660 You might as well

00:56:09.220 make a video whining like,

00:56:10.820 you're telling me

00:56:11.600 I have to breathe

00:56:12.320 every second of the day

00:56:13.460 just to live?

00:56:14.740 Exhale, inhale, exhale,

00:56:16.060 inhale all the time

00:56:16.980 just to live?

00:56:18.060 What if I don't want to breathe?

00:56:19.460 What if I want to live

00:56:19.980 at the bottom of the ocean

00:56:20.780 like a starfish?

00:56:22.200 Why should breathing

00:56:23.120 be a requirement?

00:56:24.140 This is sick and twisted.

00:56:26.260 In a certain way,

00:56:27.020 you'd be kind of right.

00:56:28.480 It is unfortunate

00:56:29.140 that we have to breathe.

00:56:30.500 We have to eat.

00:56:31.360 We have to sleep.

00:56:32.520 All of these are chores

00:56:33.660 that we are compelled

00:56:34.640 to complete every day

00:56:36.000 or in some cases

00:56:36.800 every second of the day.

00:56:37.900 It'd be a lot easier

00:56:38.960 if we didn't have

00:56:39.600 to do any of that.

00:56:40.360 It'd be easier

00:56:40.900 if we could exist

00:56:41.580 as immortal,

00:56:42.440 indestructible supermen

00:56:43.640 who need nothing

00:56:44.820 and want nothing

00:56:45.560 and can do anything

00:56:46.420 without expending

00:56:47.100 any energy at all.

00:56:48.460 That would be nice.

00:56:50.360 But that is not

00:56:51.280 how things are

00:56:52.460 or will ever be.

00:56:54.880 You can complain about it,

00:56:56.620 but those complaints

00:56:57.400 in 20 cents

00:56:58.000 still won't even buy

00:56:58.820 you a bottle of water,

00:56:59.640 especially with inflation.

00:57:01.100 Now, our friend

00:57:01.600 with the hair says

00:57:02.360 that working

00:57:03.300 should not be a necessity.

00:57:05.560 He says that there

00:57:06.460 should be universal housing,

00:57:07.900 universal health care,

00:57:08.980 and we should be given

00:57:09.800 all the food

00:57:10.260 that we need to eat.

00:57:11.800 All right, so who exactly

00:57:13.080 is building the houses

00:57:15.260 that we are living in?

00:57:16.780 Who is cultivating the food?

00:57:19.400 Who's providing

00:57:20.140 the medical care?

00:57:21.220 You could say,

00:57:21.840 well, the government

00:57:22.260 will do it,

00:57:22.820 but the government

00:57:23.840 is not a genie

00:57:25.000 that can make things

00:57:25.840 materialize out of thin air.

00:57:27.240 The government

00:57:27.580 can only hire

00:57:28.560 or more likely conscript

00:57:30.360 other people

00:57:31.640 to build the homes

00:57:32.580 and harvest the food

00:57:33.500 and so on.

00:57:34.960 What this means,

00:57:36.100 as I'm constantly

00:57:36.780 having to remind

00:57:37.540 the younger generation

00:57:38.460 and my own generation,

00:57:39.600 is that no matter

00:57:40.720 what happens,

00:57:42.200 no matter what system

00:57:43.440 is in place,

00:57:44.760 someone,

00:57:45.620 lots of people,

00:57:46.860 have to work

00:57:47.780 in order to keep

00:57:48.480 all of society afloat

00:57:50.100 and all of the many mouths,

00:57:52.500 including your own,

00:57:53.840 fed.

00:57:55.380 People have to work.

00:57:56.760 There is no way around it.

00:57:58.360 Our system

00:57:59.100 doesn't demand it.

00:58:00.240 Capitalism doesn't demand it.

00:58:01.620 Life demands it.

00:58:02.640 What you are demanding

00:58:04.080 is not that you get

00:58:04.880 to drop out of the system,

00:58:06.400 but that you be granted

00:58:08.060 the privilege

00:58:08.780 of benefiting from it

00:58:10.320 without contributing to it.

00:58:12.580 You want others

00:58:13.620 to work for you

00:58:14.840 in exchange for you

00:58:16.300 doing nothing.

00:58:17.960 You want slaves

00:58:19.440 is what you want.

00:58:20.340 That's what you want.

00:58:21.180 You have all the moral credibility

00:58:22.320 of a plantation owner

00:58:23.600 in the 1840s.

00:58:24.500 You have less

00:58:25.340 moral credibility,

00:58:26.260 in fact,

00:58:26.500 because even those

00:58:27.060 plantation owners

00:58:27.860 personally did more work

00:58:30.020 than what you're willing

00:58:31.320 to do, apparently.

00:58:32.640 So you want to do

00:58:34.200 literally nothing

00:58:35.540 and have everyone else

00:58:37.740 do everything.

00:58:39.780 But what you can't explain,

00:58:41.480 either morally

00:58:42.140 or economically

00:58:42.840 or logistically,

00:58:43.960 is why any of the rest of us

00:58:45.860 should submit

00:58:46.640 to that system.

00:58:47.500 Why should we agree

00:58:48.480 to that?

00:58:49.860 You know,

00:58:50.100 you're sitting there saying,

00:58:51.200 hey, I have a proposal.

00:58:53.180 Here it is.

00:58:53.840 I'll do nothing at all

00:58:55.020 and you guys

00:58:55.660 will take care of me

00:58:56.600 and do all the work

00:58:57.460 and in exchange

00:58:58.120 I will contribute

00:58:59.060 absolutely nothing

00:59:00.120 of value

00:59:00.680 to the world.

00:59:01.860 So you'll keep me alive

00:59:03.340 and comfortable

00:59:03.900 and you'll do everything

00:59:05.020 for me

00:59:05.500 and I will do

00:59:06.320 absolutely nothing

00:59:07.920 to help you

00:59:08.960 or to make your life

00:59:10.160 any better.

00:59:10.920 How's that sound?

00:59:12.960 Well, it sounds like

00:59:13.880 the easiest deal

00:59:14.980 in the world

00:59:15.600 to turn down.

00:59:17.360 It sounds like

00:59:18.180 you're a parasite

00:59:18.820 and you should be

00:59:20.320 thrown out

00:59:20.880 onto the street

00:59:21.640 and you should be

00:59:22.280 forced to contribute

00:59:23.180 to your own survival

00:59:24.260 or die.

00:59:25.900 That's what should happen.

00:59:27.860 That should happen

00:59:28.620 like this kid,

00:59:29.840 not even a kid,

00:59:30.580 a grown adult,

00:59:32.300 today,

00:59:33.640 he should be thrown out.

00:59:34.760 I'm assuming

00:59:35.080 his parents probably

00:59:35.940 take care of him.

00:59:36.880 Throw him out

00:59:37.300 on the street

00:59:37.700 and say,

00:59:38.400 you're done.

00:59:39.720 This is for your own good.

00:59:42.280 Figure out how to survive.

00:59:45.080 That's what it sounds like.

00:59:45.840 That's what you need.

00:59:46.860 Sounds like life needs

00:59:47.740 to give you some

00:59:48.260 shock therapy, son.

00:59:49.860 Sounds like there are

00:59:50.480 a whole lot of people

00:59:51.220 in your generation

00:59:51.960 who need the umbilical cords

00:59:53.420 finally cut.

00:59:54.020 It sounds like

00:59:55.320 you've been living

00:59:56.020 with nothing at stake,

00:59:57.380 no skin in the game,

00:59:58.480 no real pressure,

00:59:59.680 and you need some pressure.

01:00:01.740 You need some consequences

01:00:02.960 introduced into your cozy,

01:00:04.540 pointless existence.

01:00:06.820 By the way,

01:00:07.500 just so you know,

01:00:08.560 the only reason

01:00:10.080 you're able to exist

01:00:10.980 and survive

01:00:11.500 as such a soft,

01:00:12.920 non-contributing

01:00:13.780 little brat

01:00:14.380 is because of capitalism.

01:00:16.380 You complain that capitalism

01:00:17.640 has made your life

01:00:18.480 so difficult,

01:00:19.020 but in fact,

01:00:19.920 perhaps the greatest

01:00:20.660 indictment

01:00:21.580 on capitalism

01:00:22.620 is that it has

01:00:23.860 made your life

01:00:24.520 far too easy.

01:00:26.820 Capitalism's greatest flaw

01:00:28.260 is you.

01:00:31.440 Okay?

01:00:32.000 The greatest problem

01:00:33.080 with capitalism

01:00:33.640 is it has made people

01:00:34.860 like you possible.

01:00:36.540 Because prior to our

01:00:37.540 modern capitalistic age,

01:00:39.280 somebody with your attitude

01:00:40.340 would be dead.

01:00:41.700 You would have died

01:00:42.260 a long time ago.

01:00:43.560 If you refused to work

01:00:44.900 every day,

01:00:45.560 and I mean every day,

01:00:46.520 all day,

01:00:47.100 sunup to sundown,

01:00:48.080 that's the situation

01:00:49.040 that most people

01:00:49.580 historically have faced,

01:00:50.480 and even today

01:00:51.080 in most parts of the world.

01:00:52.320 You are working

01:00:53.040 every day,

01:00:54.320 every single day,

01:00:55.760 sunup to sundown,

01:00:57.260 and when the sun goes down,

01:00:58.360 you fall asleep,

01:00:59.480 dead tired,

01:01:00.240 and then you get up

01:01:00.860 and you do it

01:01:01.260 all over again.

01:01:02.260 And if you tried

01:01:02.860 to drop out of that system,

01:01:04.940 or if you complained

01:01:05.720 that it was too sick

01:01:07.100 and twisted,

01:01:07.980 and you didn't want

01:01:08.660 to participate in it,

01:01:09.700 you either would have

01:01:10.340 died of starvation,

01:01:11.900 or else the other people

01:01:13.360 in your community

01:01:13.960 or village

01:01:14.380 would have banded together

01:01:15.460 and killed you.

01:01:17.300 Or perhaps if you're lucky,

01:01:18.440 they merely would have

01:01:19.060 banished you

01:01:19.580 to the wilderness

01:01:20.120 where you could die

01:01:21.020 of exposure

01:01:21.620 or starvation

01:01:22.220 or get mulled to death.

01:01:24.380 That would have been

01:01:25.220 your fate

01:01:25.680 in literally any society

01:01:27.780 except for the one

01:01:29.480 you're complaining about.

01:01:31.800 A guy like this

01:01:32.760 complaining about capitalism,

01:01:34.100 it's like a billionaire

01:01:34.780 on a private jet

01:01:35.560 complaining about fossil fuels.

01:01:37.100 And the fact that

01:01:37.640 those two would agree

01:01:38.560 on nearly every issue

01:01:39.580 is not a coincidence.

01:01:41.960 The fact that

01:01:42.720 the anti-capitalist

01:01:43.960 Gen Z TikToker

01:01:45.340 lines up ideologically

01:01:46.880 with the billionaire class

01:01:48.320 is not a coincidence.

01:01:50.120 But that's something

01:01:51.220 to explore another day.

01:01:53.280 Instead, I'd like to

01:01:54.180 wrap things up

01:01:55.440 with a different thought.

01:01:57.380 You know,

01:01:57.760 we've talked about

01:01:58.860 Mr. Hare

01:01:59.440 and, you know,

01:02:00.580 and why he cannot

01:02:01.860 have what he wants.

01:02:03.620 He cannot,

01:02:04.500 he cannot have

01:02:05.820 the sort of existence

01:02:06.660 that he feels entitled to.

01:02:08.760 But let's,

01:02:09.220 let's not allow that

01:02:10.220 to distract us

01:02:11.300 from a more important point.

01:02:13.200 He can't have

01:02:14.140 what he wants.

01:02:14.720 And also,

01:02:17.380 he shouldn't want

01:02:18.500 what he wants.

01:02:20.380 As a young man,

01:02:21.660 you shouldn't want

01:02:22.800 to not work.

01:02:24.500 You shouldn't want

01:02:25.620 to coast through life.

01:02:27.740 He says he doesn't

01:02:28.600 want to achieve anything.

01:02:30.280 And in that lack

01:02:30.980 of ambition

01:02:31.560 and that mentality,

01:02:32.720 he is joined,

01:02:33.640 unfortunately,

01:02:34.100 by many in his generation.

01:02:35.640 But it is a deeply

01:02:36.860 depraved mentality.

01:02:38.640 It is not natural.

01:02:39.900 It is not normal.

01:02:41.180 Or at least

01:02:41.720 it shouldn't be.

01:02:43.040 As a young man,

01:02:44.040 you should have

01:02:44.460 big dreams

01:02:45.960 and goals.

01:02:46.800 You should have designs

01:02:47.740 on, like,

01:02:48.620 conquering the world.

01:02:49.980 You may lack wisdom

01:02:51.360 and experience,

01:02:52.300 but you should not

01:02:53.160 lack for ambition.

01:02:54.620 I mean,

01:02:54.780 that's the one thing

01:02:56.000 you should not lack for.

01:02:59.300 That's the one thing

01:03:00.120 you should have

01:03:00.560 in abundance.

01:03:02.100 It's what generations

01:03:03.100 of young men

01:03:03.720 before you had,

01:03:04.520 even if they had

01:03:05.100 nothing else,

01:03:06.120 they had that.

01:03:08.320 I can remember

01:03:09.140 being in my early 20s.

01:03:10.260 I was impulsive,

01:03:11.240 somewhat petulant,

01:03:11.920 some would say

01:03:12.480 I still am on both counts,

01:03:13.760 but I had ambition.

01:03:15.160 If someone had offered

01:03:16.060 to hand me

01:03:16.940 a million dollars

01:03:17.840 when I was, like, 22,

01:03:19.040 I would have taken it

01:03:19.980 because I'm not crazy,

01:03:20.780 but I didn't want it

01:03:22.540 to be handed to me.

01:03:23.180 I didn't sit around

01:03:23.820 dreaming of that.

01:03:24.580 My dream was not

01:03:25.640 winning the lottery

01:03:26.420 or earning an inheritance

01:03:27.840 from a rich relative

01:03:28.700 that I didn't know about.

01:03:29.780 I wanted to earn it myself.

01:03:32.320 I wanted to do it myself

01:03:33.680 so that I could say

01:03:34.700 that I did it.

01:03:35.440 I wanted to scratch

01:03:36.300 and claw my way

01:03:37.280 to success.

01:03:38.820 If anything,

01:03:39.480 my biggest flaw

01:03:40.100 was that I turned down help,

01:03:41.640 even when I needed it

01:03:42.680 because I wasn't willing

01:03:43.420 to admit that I needed it

01:03:44.760 because I wanted to climb

01:03:46.780 the mountain myself

01:03:47.500 or fail by myself.

01:03:48.600 Many young people

01:03:49.280 through history

01:03:49.740 have been driven this way.

01:03:51.200 When I say this about myself,

01:03:52.420 I'm so special.

01:03:53.820 I'm not.

01:03:54.600 That's the point.

01:03:55.580 It's totally normal,

01:03:56.740 or at least it should be.

01:03:57.760 To have this insatiable desire

01:04:01.020 to make something of yourself

01:04:02.860 as a young man

01:04:03.880 is supposed to be

01:04:05.120 the most normal thing

01:04:06.320 in the world.

01:04:07.040 And that's why

01:04:07.580 I just look with revulsion

01:04:10.860 at the young people

01:04:12.480 who don't have this ambition.

01:04:13.920 The folly of youth

01:04:15.580 is supposed to be

01:04:16.280 an overabundance of ambition,

01:04:18.900 fearlessness,

01:04:20.140 a propensity

01:04:20.740 to take too many risks,

01:04:23.100 to be too wild

01:04:24.480 in the risks that you take

01:04:25.840 in pursuit of greatness.

01:04:28.260 We're supposed to be

01:04:29.400 giving you lectures

01:04:30.120 about being patient

01:04:31.140 and taking things

01:04:32.420 one step at a time

01:04:33.440 and not trying to conquer

01:04:34.360 the world overnight.

01:04:36.420 Even at my still somewhat,

01:04:38.060 maybe arguably,

01:04:39.080 somewhat young age of 36,

01:04:40.320 especially now with six kids,

01:04:41.860 I'm supposed to be

01:04:43.380 the conservative

01:04:44.480 and cautious one,

01:04:45.960 and I'm supposed to be saying

01:04:47.340 to guys like Mr. Hare,

01:04:48.880 hey, settle down.

01:04:49.620 Be careful.

01:04:50.060 Be safe.

01:04:50.640 Don't overdo it.

01:04:51.740 Okay?

01:04:51.920 You don't have to conquer

01:04:52.480 the world overnight.

01:04:54.720 Instead, it's exactly

01:04:55.780 the reverse.

01:04:56.700 Even now,

01:04:57.740 even now,

01:04:58.360 me, middle-aged

01:04:59.660 and with a family

01:05:00.640 of eight to support,

01:05:01.640 I am still far more

01:05:02.820 willing to take risks,

01:05:04.240 far more ambitious

01:05:05.240 and vigorous in pursuit

01:05:06.320 of my goals

01:05:06.820 than these Gen Z TikTok whiners

01:05:08.740 who are younger

01:05:11.180 and have nothing to lose.

01:05:14.200 That's why I'm always saying

01:05:15.640 if you're a young person,

01:05:16.780 you have no family,

01:05:17.980 no kids,

01:05:18.780 nothing,

01:05:19.820 you can go out

01:05:21.560 and do anything.

01:05:22.860 Nothing should be stopping you

01:05:24.340 or holding you back.

01:05:24.900 You can move anywhere.

01:05:26.400 You can try.

01:05:27.300 You can try different things.

01:05:28.740 You can take risks.

01:05:29.900 There's almost nothing at stake.

01:05:31.580 Even if it goes horribly wrong,

01:05:33.000 you end up homeless or something.

01:05:34.460 It's not the worst thing

01:05:35.140 in the world.

01:05:35.420 You don't have any kids.

01:05:36.280 You can scratch and claw

01:05:37.500 and find you live in a car

01:05:38.800 for a while.

01:05:39.280 Lots of people have done that.

01:05:40.860 It's not ideal,

01:05:41.640 but you can do it.

01:05:43.280 Now is the time to do it.

01:05:44.320 Where is your energy?

01:05:45.380 Where is your desire

01:05:46.220 for greatness?

01:05:47.400 How can you be this jaded

01:05:48.800 and lazy already?

01:05:50.260 Well, I know the answer.

01:05:54.380 And it's not that the world

01:05:55.660 is so much harder

01:05:56.360 for young people today.

01:05:57.220 I don't want to hear that.

01:05:58.120 It's not that they've been dealt

01:05:59.280 a tougher hand

01:05:59.960 than anyone else in history

01:06:00.940 was ever dealt.

01:06:01.680 Now there are some unique

01:06:02.560 and profound challenges

01:06:03.440 that young people today face,

01:06:04.520 of course,

01:06:04.900 but every generation

01:06:06.080 has their challenges.

01:06:07.100 You don't have to go back

01:06:07.820 that far in history

01:06:08.540 to find generations

01:06:09.300 who face struggles

01:06:10.120 that none of us

01:06:11.220 could ever conceive of.

01:06:12.440 That's how hard they were.

01:06:14.200 So that's not it.

01:06:15.700 I think the answer

01:06:16.260 is much more banal.

01:06:17.060 The fact is that

01:06:17.760 the digital age,

01:06:19.000 phones, screens,

01:06:20.200 porn, video games,

01:06:21.460 social media,

01:06:22.060 has acted as a great

01:06:23.860 mental numbing agent.

01:06:25.360 Kids aren't programmed

01:06:26.200 from a young age

01:06:27.020 to seek stimulation

01:06:28.120 and affirmation

01:06:28.880 from anything but

01:06:30.340 the little dopamine machines

01:06:32.940 that they carry around

01:06:33.780 in their pockets.

01:06:34.420 The only success they crave

01:06:35.560 is the kind that can be measured

01:06:36.580 in likes and shares.

01:06:38.340 They're never alone

01:06:39.060 with their own thoughts

01:06:39.840 long enough to develop

01:06:40.660 the sort of rich inner life

01:06:41.980 where all of those dreams

01:06:43.060 and ambitions

01:06:43.620 are supposed to live

01:06:45.000 and grow.

01:06:47.060 Now there may be more

01:06:48.080 to the problem

01:06:48.560 but there isn't much more

01:06:49.540 to it than that.

01:06:50.180 I don't think there is.

01:06:52.060 We got an entire generation

01:06:53.460 addicted to phones

01:06:54.260 practically from birth

01:06:55.260 and as a result

01:06:55.900 we destroyed for many of them

01:06:57.260 any hope that they

01:06:58.680 might become successful

01:07:00.100 and well-rounded

01:07:01.580 as people.

01:07:04.260 And along with that

01:07:05.080 we destroyed civilization as well.

01:07:06.600 But the good news is

01:07:07.420 that the aliens

01:07:10.700 are just going to

01:07:11.100 vaporize us anyway.

01:07:12.020 So it's all a moot point.

01:07:13.980 In the meantime, however,

01:07:14.940 Mr. Hare is canceled.

01:07:18.040 That'll do it for this

01:07:18.840 portion of the shows.

01:07:19.360 Move over to the members block.

01:07:20.280 Hope to see you there.

01:07:21.220 And if you want to become a member

01:07:22.700 you can do that

01:07:23.400 using code Walsh

01:07:24.320 at checkout

01:07:24.720 for two months free

01:07:25.560 on all annual plans.

01:07:27.020 Hope to see you there.

01:07:27.540 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

01:07:28.800 Godspeed.

01:07:29.120 Hope to see you there.

01:07:37.080 We'll be right back.

01:07:42.400 Peace.

01:07:43.100 Peace.

01:07:43.280 Peace.

01:07:44.020 Peace.

01:07:44.580 Peace.

01:07:44.940 Peace.

01:07:45.520 Peace.

01:07:46.080 Peace.

01:07:46.580 Peace.

01:07:47.580 Peace.

01:07:48.740 Peace.

01:07:53.400 Peace.

01:07:54.040 Peace.

01:07:58.920 Peace.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 13, 2023

Ep. 1112 - Super Bowl Begins With 'The Black National Anthem,' And It's An Utter Disgrace

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