The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1150 - The Left’s Plot To Intimidate And Silence Me Has Failed Once Again

00:00:00.120 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, I'll tell you about my challenging week last week.

00:00:04.000 One attack after another, all designed to silence and intimidate me.

00:00:06.940 The good news is that it didn't work and it never will.

00:00:08.980 Also, a huge shock in the media world as Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News

00:00:12.900 and AOC calls for the government to censor right-wing media personalities.

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00:01:21.060 Well, I should have known that last week would be interesting.

00:01:24.760 It began in an unusual way.

00:01:26.620 On Sunday, I was leaving church with three of my kids in tow, and as I was walking towards the car,

00:01:32.600 I heard someone shout my name from behind me.

00:01:34.580 And I get flagged down by fans on the way out of church pretty frequently, as you might expect.

00:01:38.400 The church-going crowd is my core demographic.

00:01:41.320 So I didn't think it was anything out of the ordinary, and the guy ran up, shook my hand, started making friendly small talk.

00:01:47.540 But then his tone changed suddenly, and he told me that actually he thinks that my work has a terrible impact on the world.

00:01:54.460 He said that this church, the one we just came out of, is a place of love, not hate, and I'm not welcome there.

00:02:00.920 Now, I responded in no uncertain terms that he can't speak to me that way in front of my children, and that he should be ashamed of himself.

00:02:08.000 He turned around and walked hurriedly away, and that was the end of the conversation.

00:02:12.400 Now, I hoped that my kids who were standing there hadn't been paying attention maybe, and maybe didn't realize what the guy said to me.

00:02:18.720 I was hoping perhaps it didn't register on them.

00:02:21.480 But when we got to the car, my son started to cry, and he asked me why that mean man said those things.

00:02:28.740 And I explained to him that there are people in this world who don't like it when you speak the truth, and when you try to do what's right.

00:02:36.340 Their hearts are shrouded in darkness, and they hate the light, just as the Bible says.

00:02:40.900 I tried to act unfazed for the sake of my kids, but the truth is that I was extremely angry.

00:02:45.200 I don't care what you say about me or to me, but you've crossed a line when you make my boy cry.

00:02:51.000 But it was an important lesson for him to learn, and for me to relearn in preparation for the week ahead.

00:02:59.220 So on Monday afternoon, I was informed that YouTube was demonetizing my channel.

00:03:04.560 This was the first step towards a possible permanent demonetization or banishment from the platform entirely.

00:03:11.440 YouTube keeps its rules intentionally vague.

00:03:13.780 That's the way they play the game.

00:03:15.360 They'll penalize you for violating their policies, and yet they won't explain exactly what their policies are.

00:03:22.440 So the company gives itself the license to single anybody out for whatever reasons they decide.

00:03:28.740 They accused me of engaging in hateful conduct, which supposedly ran afoul of both their community guidelines and their ads guidelines.

00:03:36.740 They already took the step of deleting a number of my offending episodes, which are gone now from YouTube,

00:03:41.820 which is something that, again, they did on their own.

00:03:45.500 And now they're taking away our ads, which is a penalty of more than $100,000 per month.

00:03:50.740 That's what it adds up to.

00:03:52.660 Now, they provided us with just three examples of my infractions, and these aren't all of them, they said,

00:03:58.960 but they told us about three.

00:04:00.780 And they wouldn't tell us why they were infractions, but they said that, you know,

00:04:06.040 they told us what three of them were, and they said all three of them had to do with Dylan Mulvaney, coincidentally.

00:04:11.820 And they all seem to involve the crime of, quote-unquote, misgendering.

00:04:16.420 So, for example, one of the violations occurred when I referred to Mulvaney as a, quote, guy.

00:04:23.160 That was a violation.

00:04:25.580 And what you should know is that we were not flagged by the algorithm.

00:04:30.060 It's not one of those algorithmic glitches.

00:04:33.140 And this does not appear to be some low-level decision at the company either.

00:04:37.280 Yet, a path to remonetization is available.

00:04:41.500 It seems that we can get back into YouTube's good graces, get our monetization back by simply

00:04:47.060 respecting preferred pronouns, and refraining from offering any meaningful critiques of gender ideology.

00:04:53.600 In other words, all I have to do to get all that back is forfeit my integrity and betray all of my

00:05:01.860 deepest-held principles.

00:05:03.240 That's it.

00:05:05.280 Now, not to skip ahead, but I can tell you right now that my answer to that offer is not only no, but hell no.

00:05:12.320 The next day, shortly after I finished eating dinner with my family, I noticed that my Twitter account

00:05:18.240 had been logged out on my computer.

00:05:21.240 And I tried to log back in, but the password didn't work, and that's when I knew that I was hacked.

00:05:26.180 So I grabbed my phone to call my team about it, but my phone had stopped working at the precise moment

00:05:31.700 when the Twitter hack happened, and that's when I knew that the hack went far beyond Twitter.

00:05:36.460 As we would soon find out, the hacker had pulled off a maneuver known as SIM swapping,

00:05:41.580 and that's a thing where the targets, you know, the person who's being targeted, your phone number,

00:05:46.040 is transferred over to a SIM card that the hacker controls.

00:05:49.900 And once they have your number and your SIM card, they can access almost anything.

00:05:55.580 And this hacker did.

00:05:56.380 He got into my text messages, my DMs, my emails, everything.

00:06:01.960 Leftists and trans activists were giddy.

00:06:04.100 They were cheering on the attack.

00:06:05.440 They begged for my private messages to be released.

00:06:07.560 They said that I deserved to be the victim of this federal crime.

00:06:10.760 At least one journalist openly solicited my stolen information, put out his email address,

00:06:17.360 and asked for my stolen DMs and my stolen information to be sent to him, to be emailed to him.

00:06:22.860 The hacker then did an interview with this same journalist who works for the publication Wired.

00:06:27.880 The hacker apparently showed the journalist my tax documents, showed him some of my pictures,

00:06:33.140 some of my old emails.

00:06:34.680 The article directly quotes one of my private emails, though it contained nothing salacious or even mildly interesting.

00:06:41.580 In fact, it was a friendly exchange I had with Stephen Crowder 10 years ago.

00:06:46.860 And this made it into the Wired article for some reason.

00:06:50.560 The only interesting revelation in the article is that the hacker says that he had help in pulling off this hack

00:06:57.540 from an unspecified, quote-unquote, insider.

00:06:59.920 And we have independently, as we've been tracking this down, we've independently found other evidence,

00:07:05.840 which also points in that direction that there was help from an insider.

00:07:09.980 However exactly he did it and whoever helped him, and we will find all this out, I promise you,

00:07:15.060 it resulted in something much worse than the mere headache of somebody posting dumb tweets from my account.

00:07:20.400 This was a total violation of our privacy.

00:07:23.120 And if I'm being completely honest with you, it was one of the worst things that my family has ever experienced.

00:07:28.100 I didn't sleep that night.

00:07:30.520 I was up with our security team, our tech guys, lawyers, trying to put out a dozen fires all at once.

00:07:35.860 Through the following day, we had people on the phone with Microsoft, Apple, Google, Twitter,

00:07:40.500 my cell phone carrier, the FBI, local law enforcement, etc.

00:07:44.520 It was a nightmare, even with all these resources available to me.

00:07:47.800 The fact that we can just get on the phone with all these different companies and try to solve this problem,

00:07:53.780 even with that, it's a nightmare.

00:07:55.040 I can't imagine what this kind of attack is like for people who aren't so fortunate.

00:08:00.640 If you're stuck in a situation where all you can do is call 1-800 numbers, then that's going to make it all the worse.

00:08:07.920 On Wednesday, with no sleep, I flew to the University of Iowa to deliver a speech in front of what turned out to be a massive sold-out crowd.

00:08:14.820 A lot of energy in the room, which gave me enough of a boost to get through the event without passing out on stage

00:08:19.680 or, you know, descending into incoherent Joe Biden mumbles.

00:08:23.760 Outside, there were throngs of protesters taken to the streets.

00:08:26.660 They were stopping traffic.

00:08:27.940 They were blocking the exits out of the event.

00:08:31.140 They also dumped thousands of marbles in the hallway outside of the auditorium where the event was taking place

00:08:37.260 in hopes of, you know, making people slip and fall and causing serious injury to hundreds of people as they're walking out.

00:08:42.920 Now, fortunately, that plan failed.

00:08:45.980 So to summarize, it was a difficult week, but also fully in keeping with my experience over the past year or more,

00:08:53.660 especially since my film What Is a Woman came out.

00:08:55.800 We have been doxxed, threatened, stalked, harassed almost constantly.

00:09:01.140 The threats became severe and frequent enough shortly after the film came out to necessitate 24-hour armed security in our home. 0.88

00:09:08.700 Last night, there was a Reddit post which went viral from somebody calling me a homophobic Nazi and saying that I should be murdered.

00:09:16.860 The poster said that he's, quote, tired of me getting away with this.

00:09:20.060 And when he says getting away with it, what he's talking about is that I'm getting away with expressing my beliefs openly.

00:09:26.920 He's tired of that.

00:09:28.280 And he said that there needs to be consequences, quote, unquote. 0.95

00:09:31.820 The consequences, he specifies, should involve me being bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat. 0.63

00:09:36.160 And the thing is that this is not the sentiment of just one random weirdo on Reddit. 0.99

00:09:43.580 In fact, somebody posted something similar to Twitter a few weeks ago saying that I should be tortured and killed.

00:09:48.160 And it got tens of thousands of likes and thousands of supportive comments. 0.99

00:09:52.640 There is a wide consensus on the left that I deserve to be killed. 0.99

00:09:57.360 And they have made that point abundantly clear. 0.98

00:10:01.460 But the good news is that we're not taking any of this lying down.

00:10:05.060 I'm going to be working with law enforcement.

00:10:07.480 I am working with law enforcement right now to ensure that the person who hacked into my phone and anybody who granted him access is punished to the full extent of the law.

00:10:15.480 We are going to sue everybody involved.

00:10:18.980 I can't say much more about it right now, except that many different wheels are currently in motion.

00:10:23.660 And if the people who did this aren't nervous right now, they should be.

00:10:27.680 On the YouTube front, as long as they make affirmation of gender ideology a prerequisite for posting my show on the platform, I will not post my show on the platform.

00:10:39.900 But I also will not allow myself to be banished into obscurity off to some internet ghetto where nobody will find my content.

00:10:48.840 You see, big tech, this is the choice they want us to make.

00:10:52.980 They want me either to surrender my principles or become irrelevant.

00:10:58.820 And they'll be happy with whichever of those two options I choose.

00:11:02.620 Either one, fine with them.

00:11:03.900 Instead, starting today, we're going to make this show available to everyone for free on The Daily Wire.

00:11:13.280 It'll also be available on Rumble, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, all the other places you normally get your podcasts.

00:11:18.220 And we're trying something new as well.

00:11:19.500 Starting today, every episode of this show will also be posted in full on Twitter, which is now the most powerful free speech platform in the world.

00:11:27.040 And it seems like the place where this show belongs.

00:11:29.820 If you follow our channel on YouTube, you can still find plenty of content that we'll make specially for you.

00:11:34.900 We'll still post clips from the show so we can reach new audiences with our message.

00:11:38.800 But we're not going to give YouTube our full show so long as the situation remains as it is.

00:11:43.760 The point is that we're not going to capitulate, but we also aren't going to scale down and become obsolete.

00:11:50.880 Instead, we're going to be bigger.

00:11:52.740 We're going to be more innovative.

00:11:55.400 We're going to reach more people in more ways on more platforms.

00:11:58.640 That's our response.

00:12:00.760 And this is just the beginning.

00:12:02.000 I'll have more to announce soon.

00:12:03.540 Also, we've been talking with Congress.

00:12:05.480 YouTube shouldn't be allowed legally to hold its users to standards of conduct that it refuses to properly explain.

00:12:13.020 It's not just, this is what people need to understand.

00:12:14.740 It's not just that they target conservative voices, which they do, and that's bad enough on its own.

00:12:19.680 But that they do it in this incredibly underhanded way with intentionally ambiguous rules that are enforced unevenly according to their opaque policies that they often seem to be making up as they go along.

00:12:31.700 The only way this changes is if the people running YouTube experience a sudden and mysterious bout of integrity or if the law forces it to change.

00:12:44.460 And I'm not betting on the former, so instead I'll fight for the latter and I will take the fight all the way to Capitol Hill.

00:12:49.880 Now, there is a point at the end of this whole saga.

00:12:53.000 The point is that, one of the most important points anyway, is that the term culture war is no mere metaphor.

00:13:02.500 It's certainly not anymore.

00:13:04.200 We are up against people who have no interest in debates, no interest in discussion.

00:13:10.460 If you oppose them, they will not engage with your arguments.

00:13:14.820 They will simply try to silence you and ruin you.

00:13:18.580 There will be no rebuttals except for the ones that they issue in the form of censorship, death threats, and worse.

00:13:25.800 The more that they perceive that you are a threat, the more that they will work to destroy you and everyone associated with you.

00:13:35.360 That's the way it works.

00:13:37.300 But this should not dissuade us.

00:13:39.540 We shouldn't be discouraged by the viciousness of our opponents, but motivated by it.

00:13:45.400 It couldn't possibly be more clear who is on the wrong side and who is on the right side.

00:13:51.240 This is about as black and white as a cultural divide can possibly get.

00:13:55.620 There is one side that hates the truth, rejects the truth in principle, and wishes total destruction on everyone who speaks it.

00:14:04.120 All you have to do is choose the side that is not that side.

00:14:10.860 Now, it may require courage to take that kind of stand, but at least you'll know where to stand.

00:14:17.960 There's not any confusion about this.

00:14:19.760 As for my ongoing ordeal or ordeals, I should say, I didn't tell you all of it so that you would feel sorry for me.

00:14:31.420 Pity is the last thing that I want.

00:14:33.060 I chose this line of work.

00:14:34.760 I chose to be in this fight.

00:14:36.320 I went into it with my eyes open.

00:14:38.620 I knew what I was getting into.

00:14:39.560 I may get hit with a curveball on occasion.

00:14:41.420 I may be introduced to new concepts like sim swapping, for example.

00:14:45.720 But mostly, I'm getting exactly what I expected from the vicious, bloodthirsty rage mob and its leaders in big tech.

00:14:53.860 And it has not dissuaded me even slightly.

00:14:58.220 I still will not back down by an inch or compromise at all.

00:15:03.540 I have told you many times that I would rather be dead than surrender to these people, and I meant it.

00:15:11.900 So to all the people who are sending me death threats and posting my home address and hacking my accounts and trying to blackmail me and threaten me, giving away my personal information, mass reporting me to get me de-platformed and all the rest of it,

00:15:28.300 I want you to know that nothing you have done or will do or could do will ever make me shut up.

00:15:37.620 It will never happen.

00:15:40.120 None of your schemes have worked or can ever work.

00:15:43.220 It is all futile.

00:15:44.540 Your efforts are hopeless.

00:15:47.260 The truth is the truth.

00:15:50.240 And I will never pretend otherwise.

00:15:54.620 I am not here to make a martyr of myself.

00:15:57.240 I don't want any of the good guys to be martyrs.

00:16:00.920 I want us to win.

00:16:03.560 And we will.

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00:17:38.800 All right, to start with this breaking news that I just saw as we started to film today.

00:17:45.020 And so, I don't have any other details except for the statement, which I'm finding on Mediate, put out by Fox News.

00:17:53.240 And it says, Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.

00:17:57.380 We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.

00:18:01.400 Mr. Carlson's last program was Friday, April 21st.

00:18:05.120 Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 p.m. Eastern starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating Fox News personalities until a new host is named.

00:18:13.520 So, that's all we know right now. That's all I know anyway, that Tucker Carlson and Fox News have agreed to part ways.

00:18:20.040 All I can say is that this is a disaster for Fox News.

00:18:28.080 I don't know what precipitated this. I don't know what led to it.

00:18:31.820 I don't know who initiated this split, but I will say that whatever led to it, it's a disaster for Fox News.

00:18:40.560 This is because Tucker Carlson, by far and away, the most important, the most relevant, the most interesting figure at Fox News.

00:18:49.940 And there's not even a close second in that regard.

00:18:54.260 And also the most interesting, relevant, and important figure in all of cable news.

00:19:00.420 With Tucker Carlson, you have someone who the people are talking about.

00:19:06.520 This is, to be able to deliver a monologue, you know, a cable news monologue, and have it make the news.

00:19:15.260 Okay, you're delivering monologues that themselves become news, which is what Tucker Carlson does three times a week.

00:19:21.700 You know, that is a rare talent that nobody else in cable news has, and certainly nobody at Fox News has.

00:19:31.580 Okay, when's the last time a Sean Hannity monologue made the news?

00:19:35.420 When's the last time anyone ever, when's the last time anyone ever said to you, oh my gosh, you hear that Sean Hannity monologue?

00:19:40.520 You got to listen to that. That was incredible. That was really interesting.

00:19:43.860 I mean, it's never happened in the history of Sean Hannity's career, with all due respect to him.

00:19:49.240 But with Tucker Carlson, this was a normal occurrence.

00:19:51.780 So, disaster for Fox News. I'll be very interested to see where Tucker goes next.

00:19:58.320 All right. Moving on to this.

00:20:03.460 This is not nearly as big a news. I was going to start with this, and it seems to pale somewhat in comparison.

00:20:08.760 But I did want to mention that it wasn't all bad news for me last week.

00:20:13.640 In fact, I talked about that, the speech, University of Iowa.

00:20:18.120 And after that speech, a local publication in Iowa called Little Village, appears to be some website that does a lot of Iowa-related news.

00:20:28.820 Anyway, they put out this headline.

00:20:30.060 Iowa City receives the nation's leading anti-trans personality with trans-affirming chalk, chants, music, and disruption.

00:20:37.360 The nation's leading anti-trans personality.

00:20:43.200 Now, the fact that there was trans-affirming chalk, I didn't notice. 0.73

00:20:46.560 In fact, there was not only chalk, they also had a marching band. I forgot to mention that.

00:20:49.580 So, this was the first protest where they had their own marching band, and they had chalk, and they had everything.

00:20:53.800 And there was the marbles as well.

00:20:55.220 But nation's leading anti-trans personality, that's the part that jumps out at me.

00:20:58.900 I don't mean to brag, but I am really just racking up the accolades.

00:21:03.720 Because first, I won Transphobe of the Year 2022, then I'm crowned a nation's leading anti-trans personality. 0.97

00:21:10.100 And then I was made aware last week that there's some sort of poll on Twitter where they're trying to determine who the worst pundit of the year is.

00:21:17.240 And it was between me and Tucker Carlson.

00:21:19.100 Somehow, I'm winning.

00:21:20.660 So, I'm about to have worst pundit, nation's leading anti-trans personality, Transphobe of the Year.

00:21:26.420 This is like the conservative commentator equivalent of winning the, what is it, the EGOT, you know, the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony.

00:21:33.960 This is that equivalent, but for right-wing people, you know, people in right-wing media.

00:21:39.960 But there is even better news.

00:21:42.020 This is from The Daily Wire.

00:21:44.520 A Bud Light executive facing blowback over a partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney is taking a leave of absence.

00:21:50.940 Alyssa Heinerscheid, who we've talked about on the show, vice president of marketing at Bud Light,

00:21:56.140 will be replaced by Budweiser global marketing VP Todd Allen.

00:22:00.500 So, this is a quote-unquote leave of absence, but she's being replaced.

00:22:05.620 So, certainly seems to me to be a leave of absence that is strikingly similar to being fired.

00:22:11.800 The move reportedly is part of a shake-up in which senior marketers are more closely connected to every aspect of our brand's activities.

00:22:18.640 That's a quote from a Bud Light spokesperson.

00:22:21.660 That was on Friday.

00:22:22.520 And then, this is just in today.

00:22:26.040 We also have this from Breitbart.

00:22:28.640 Daniel Blake, who oversees marketing for Anheuser-Busch's mainstream brands,

00:22:32.980 has also taken a leave of absence following the backlash from the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light advertising campaign.

00:22:38.440 As Breitbart News reported, Bud Light vice president of marketing Alyssa Heinerscheid

00:22:41.720 had already taken a leave of absence for her role in pushing the ad featuring transgender Dylan Mulvaney. 0.97

00:22:45.940 Now, it appears her boss, Daniel Blake, has joined her.

00:22:50.860 A spokeswoman says,

00:22:52.000 Given the circumstances, Alyssa has decided to take a leave of absence, which we support.

00:22:56.440 Daniel has also decided to take a leave of absence.

00:22:59.860 Oh, we support.

00:23:00.980 We support her taking this leave of absence that we told her she has to take.

00:23:05.080 I assume.

00:23:05.900 So, we know, based on last week, that, you know, as we started to get the sales figures for Bud Light,

00:23:17.600 there was a precipitous decline ever since the boycott started.

00:23:22.380 And now, they're cleaning out their marketing department.

00:23:25.920 I mean, they have fired their top two executives in marketing at Bud Light.

00:23:31.220 So, this is, if you needed more evidence, like, if you still weren't convinced that the Bud Light boycott was working, is working, has worked,

00:23:42.100 then here it is.

00:23:46.240 I mean, what more evidence do you need?

00:23:49.440 Yeah, we still don't have all of the sales information.

00:23:52.960 There's still, you know, still a ways away from getting sort of the full picture of how the boycott has affected Bud Light.

00:23:59.740 But I can tell you this, okay, Bud Light has a lot of information about their own sales.

00:24:05.700 And if they were looking at the data and they saw that, you know, this was just something happening on Twitter and nobody cares

00:24:11.560 and it's not having any real significant effect on their sales, they're not going to start firing people over it.

00:24:17.540 Okay, they wouldn't have issued a statement.

00:24:19.340 They wouldn't have started releasing new commercials that are meant to, you know, repair their reputation.

00:24:27.440 They wouldn't be firing people.

00:24:28.400 They're doing all this because they're panicked and they're desperate.

00:24:32.820 So, this is a conservative boycott of a corporation that has gone woke, where we are punishing them for it.

00:24:41.100 And it's actually working.

00:24:43.040 We are really making a dent.

00:24:44.960 It is possible.

00:24:45.920 This only goes to show that as conservatives for so long have liked to brag about the fact that we're the silent majority.

00:24:57.840 And I'm not so sure that majority is actually true.

00:25:02.440 But there are a lot of us.

00:25:04.380 Whether we're the majority or not, you know, however you determine it.

00:25:06.780 But there are a lot of us.

00:25:09.860 And, but having those kinds of numbers, that doesn't mean anything.

00:25:17.260 It will have no effect if we are silent.

00:25:21.160 Okay, so it's, it's on us.

00:25:26.320 If we decide, there's power in numbers.

00:25:30.160 Yeah, we don't, we don't have control over the institutions.

00:25:32.800 We know all of the disadvantages.

00:25:34.360 But even so, we have numbers and there's power in numbers.

00:25:39.480 But we have to harness it and use it in a, in targeted, intelligent, strategic ways.

00:25:46.720 And that's exactly what is happening here with Bud Light.

00:25:49.260 And it's not over, by the way.

00:25:50.780 I'm not suggesting that because they've done all this, that we should take our foot off the gas.

00:25:55.580 Not at all.

00:25:57.920 As far as I'm concerned, yeah, firing the people responsible, that's a necessary step.

00:26:02.940 But the statement they put out, they haven't, they only put out one statement.

00:26:08.080 And it was not an apology.

00:26:09.840 And there needs to be an apology.

00:26:12.860 When that happens, firing, putting out a statement, that is a total surrender by the corporation.

00:26:18.760 That is absolute capitulation.

00:26:20.560 And that's a victory.

00:26:21.360 That, that, that means that we won.

00:26:22.780 That's it.

00:26:23.220 We won.

00:26:24.780 I think we're well on our way to that result, but we haven't gotten there yet, which means that we have to keep pushing.

00:26:28.600 AOC appeared on Jen Psaki's new MSNBC show, which is really, I say it's a new MSNBC show, but really it's sort of an update on the unofficial MSNBC show that she was hosting back when she was doing the White House press briefings.

00:26:43.480 AOC appeared and, well, just so happens that she casually called for the government to censor Tucker Carlson. 1.00

00:26:49.820 And this was before, right before Tucker Carlson was gone from Fox News, but let's listen to that.

00:26:57.380 Regulation in terms of what's allowed on air and what isn't.

00:27:01.460 And when you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence.

00:27:11.660 Very clearly incitement of violence.

00:27:13.820 And that is the line that I think we have to be willing to contend with.

00:27:21.840 So this is it.

00:27:22.860 This is the Trojan horse, the vehicle that they will use and are using to initiate a final crackdown on free speech.

00:27:30.240 This is the excuse that they will use and are using when the government comes in and starts openly punishing speech.

00:27:38.860 Incitement to violence, they say.

00:27:40.400 But the first step before we get to that and when it comes to the left, the first step always is to make the concept seem ambiguous or hard to decipher.

00:27:54.320 Before the left batters you over the head with something, they will first remove all objective meaning from that concept.

00:28:01.940 And that's what they've done with this idea of incitement to violence.

00:28:05.100 Because in reality, incitement to violence, you know, speech that incites.

00:28:11.180 I mean, that's a real thing.

00:28:12.920 People can do that.

00:28:14.580 That kind of speech exists.

00:28:16.900 But it's pretty simple to understand what it is.

00:28:20.220 If you are actively encouraging people to commit violence against somebody, then you are inciting violence.

00:28:29.580 The Supreme Court has ruled on this and they found that, you know, speech that incites violence is not protected speech.

00:28:37.140 But there's a way to determine whether speech qualifies.

00:28:42.700 In fact, they have a test for determining what incitement is.

00:28:45.200 It's called the Brandenburg test.

00:28:47.340 And according to the Supreme Court, incitement must involve two things.

00:28:52.320 Number one, the speech has to be directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action.

00:28:57.820 And two, the speech has to be likely to incite or produce such action.

00:29:03.560 Okay, so it has to be directly encouraging lawless action, criminal activity, imminent criminal activity.

00:29:11.660 And also it has to be likely that somebody would respond to the speech that way.

00:29:15.940 So, if I were to say, just as an example, if I were to say that the city of San Francisco is a hellhole and it's a cesspit, it's one of the worst places in the country, it's terrible, I hate it.

00:29:30.280 Well, you can't claim that I'm trying to incite a terrorist attack against the city by saying that.

00:29:35.840 I'm not directing anyone to do anything.

00:29:38.180 I'm just giving my opinion about the city.

00:29:41.140 It's a negative opinion.

00:29:42.300 It might be an opinion that if you live there, it hurts your feelings.

00:29:44.540 But I'm not inciting any kind of violence.

00:29:46.800 And just taking this Brandenburg test, if I were to even say, and I'm not saying this to be clear.

00:29:54.460 But if I were to say, San Francisco is a cesspit and it's a hellhole. 0.95

00:29:59.560 And somebody should set off a nuclear bomb in the city and reduce it to rubble. 0.88

00:30:06.440 That also likely wouldn't qualify as incitement under this standard.

00:30:11.220 Because even though I'm encouraging lawless action in that case, it's extremely unlikely that anyone would actually do the thing that I'm advocating for.

00:30:19.420 So, that's how kind of strict this standard is.

00:30:22.280 So, going over to real world examples, everything that they call incitement falls into this first category.

00:30:32.020 It doesn't even pass the first test.

00:30:33.560 If there's two tests, it doesn't even get past number one.

00:30:37.540 I'm not calling for a terrorist attack by simply saying I don't like San Francisco.

00:30:41.560 And conservative commentators, when they're criticizing leftist ideas and leftist people, and they're disagreeing with trans ideology, and they're criticizing LGBT activism and activists, and they're criticizing drag queens who sexualize children, and they're criticizing doctors who mutilate kids.

00:31:02.780 By criticizing these people and these ideas, we are not directing anyone to engage in any violence at all.

00:31:11.380 We're simply criticizing them.

00:31:13.700 We're giving our perspective about these people and what they're doing.

00:31:18.120 Even if we were making unfair or untrue criticisms, it still wouldn't be incitement.

00:31:26.180 But in this case, the criticisms are fair and true, which is important also.

00:31:30.040 So, what is actual incitement then?

00:31:34.060 Well, let's go back to the opening monologue.

00:31:37.240 How about the people who actively call for me to be murdered?

00:31:40.500 That is incitement.

00:31:42.420 I know something about incitement.

00:31:44.100 I see it a lot.

00:31:45.280 When you've got someone saying, hey, here's this guy, Matt Walsh. 1.00

00:31:48.380 Go kill him. 1.00

00:31:50.160 That's incitement to violence. 0.99

00:31:52.040 And also, it's clearly foreseeable that somebody might actually act on it.

00:31:56.500 So, if I'm ever shot in the head while walking down the street, you will be able to draw a clear and direct line between that action and all the people who have called directly for that action to be taken.

00:32:13.000 That's actual incitement.

00:32:14.340 But, of course, it's the kind of incitement that AOC is not at all worried about.

00:32:25.900 All right.

00:32:26.960 Also, I wanted to mention this.

00:32:31.420 Trump issued a statement about Ron DeSantis.

00:32:33.920 I think this was on Friday.

00:32:34.980 And, I mean, he's issuing statements about Ron DeSantis all the time.

00:32:39.520 But this one in particular was somewhat egregious.

00:32:44.600 So, this is what he said.

00:32:46.280 While Ron DeSantis engages in a weeks-long shadow campaign for president, boasting his playbook, Florida continues to tumble into complete and total delinquency and destruction.

00:32:57.360 On DeSantis' watch, Florida has become one of the least affordable states to live in the country.

00:33:01.200 In his first term as Florida governor, Ron DeSantis raised taxes on Floridians by more than $1.5 billion.

00:33:07.700 The National Low-Income Housing Coalition estimates that a Floridian making $10 an hour must work 86 hours per week just to afford rent on a modest single-bedroom home in Florida.

00:33:18.600 The cost of living in South Florida shot up 10% in just the last year alone, the highest increase by far in years, while the national average was only 6.5%.

00:33:28.180 Then he goes on, he says, prices are going up, blah, blah, blah, education is bad, and Florida has become one of the worst states, so on and so forth.

00:33:38.720 Now, there's a problem with this, aside from the fact that it's all lies and nonsense.

00:33:44.060 One of the biggest problems is that Trump is using far-left Soros-funded propaganda to hit DeSantis.

00:33:50.060 So Daily Wire has this report, quote,

00:33:52.600 Former President Donald Trump faced backlash from conservatives late last week after using far-left organizations and media to attack Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida.

00:34:01.420 Trump used data from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition and the Florida Policy Institute to attack DeSantis for allegedly leading the state to tumble into complete and total delinquency and destruction.

00:34:11.380 Fox News reported that the NLIHC is an organization dedicated to achieving racially and socially equitable public policy,

00:34:22.740 while the Florida Policy Institute is a left-line organization that claims to be nonpartisan.

00:34:27.780 Another report said that NLIHC was a pro-transgender nonprofit that's part of a coalition of progressive organizations backed by Soros.

00:34:36.060 Okay, so there are a couple problems here, and the first is that we should remember that Donald Trump was a resident of New York until recently, and he moved to Florida.

00:34:51.800 Okay, so he moved to Florida when Ron DeSantis was in charge of Florida.

00:34:56.560 So that's, if it's so terrible, and his leadership is so awful, why did you move there, and why are you staying there?

00:35:08.440 Donald Trump could get a house anywhere he wants to.

00:35:11.780 He chooses to be in Florida.

00:35:12.880 There's a reason for that.

00:35:15.400 And that's because, in fact, Florida is one of the states in our union that is thriving economically,

00:35:22.700 in terms of its respect for civil liberties, and culturally fighting back against the woke crazies, and all the rest of it.

00:35:32.620 Florida is just, and people can see that.

00:35:35.600 Okay, so I understand it's a primary, and you're going to criticize your opponent,

00:35:41.800 even though DeSantis has not officially jumped into the race, but you're going to criticize him.

00:35:46.620 That's fine.

00:35:47.440 You want to draw a contrast between yourself and the other guy, because you want to win.

00:35:51.340 You don't want him to win, so I get all that.

00:35:55.780 But the issue with Trump is that, number one, you can't insult people's intelligence.

00:36:01.980 It's one thing to insult DeSantis.

00:36:03.740 He's your opponent.

00:36:04.780 Fine.

00:36:05.480 But you're insulting everybody else.

00:36:07.780 You're insulting your own supporters.

00:36:09.920 You're insulting their intelligence when you expect them to believe this.

00:36:12.780 It's like when Trump goes on and on about how Ron DeSantis was the one who wanted to lock down the state,

00:36:20.820 and he was really the one pushing lockdowns when it was Trump himself who handed the country over to Fauci.

00:36:27.020 Trump didn't just hand the country to Fauci.

00:36:29.020 He put Fauci on TV every single day for months.

00:36:33.460 Okay, Trump started the prime time Tony Fauci hour.

00:36:42.980 So a lot of Anthony Fauci being crowned as a martyr, a hero, a saint, and all the rest of it, we have Trump to thank for that.

00:36:51.500 But not only did he not fire him, maybe you could make excuses for the fact that he didn't fire him.

00:36:57.040 It would have been, I don't buy those excuses, but you could try to make excuses.

00:37:00.540 You didn't have to put him on TV every day.

00:37:02.980 You didn't have to make him into a TV star.

00:37:04.980 You didn't have to do that.

00:37:07.200 But he did.

00:37:08.900 And he tries to pass it over to Ron DeSantis.

00:37:11.700 It's insulting to our intelligence.

00:37:13.380 We all lived through it.

00:37:15.180 Anyone who's going to be a voting agent in 2024 lived through it and remembers it.

00:37:21.500 And we're also aware that Florida is thriving.

00:37:24.760 It is.

00:37:25.680 We know that.

00:37:28.460 But the other point, too, is that, and I feel very strongly about this, as someone who is often the target of left-wing hit pieces,

00:37:37.660 you never use left-wing hit pieces against your own side, ever.

00:37:44.240 Things might get tough in a primary.

00:37:49.840 Totally get that.

00:37:50.840 But you never use left-wing hit pieces.

00:37:54.540 You don't use left-wing propaganda against your own side, against your own people.

00:37:58.620 You never do that.

00:38:00.780 Okay?

00:38:01.180 That means that you don't take out-of-context Media Matters clips and use those to hit somebody on your own side.

00:38:10.400 You don't take propaganda from some pro-trans, pro-BLM social equity organization.

00:38:19.040 You just don't do that.

00:38:21.560 Okay?

00:38:22.560 Because what you're doing in an effort to take down somebody you don't like, and the only reason you don't like it, the only reason Trump doesn't like DeSantis is because DeSantis is potentially going to run for president.

00:38:33.600 He feels personally betrayed by that.

00:38:35.660 So it's all personal.

00:38:37.960 It's all it is.

00:38:38.740 It's got nothing to do with principle.

00:38:39.740 It's got nothing to do with conservatism.

00:38:41.000 It's got nothing to do with who's a better leader, who's, you know, governance.

00:38:44.140 Nothing to do with any of that.

00:38:46.720 This is certainly not a policy.

00:38:48.220 These aren't policy differences.

00:38:49.480 You notice Trump rarely brings up any policy differences with Ron DeSantis.

00:38:55.040 It's always personal all the time.

00:38:58.920 So in an effort to land a blow on this guy that you personally don't like, you are legitimizing these far-left propaganda organizations.

00:39:11.380 And that, to me, is just unforgivable.

00:39:13.760 You never do that.

00:39:16.800 All right.

00:39:18.020 Legendary NBA coach Phil Jackson did an interview a few days ago where he said that he no longer watches the NBA because it's too political.

00:39:24.780 And this is, if you don't follow the NBA, I mean, I stopped following the NBA at exactly the same time that it seems Phil Jackson stopped following it.

00:39:32.160 But if you've never followed it, then what you should know is that this is, you know, Phil Jackson is, this is the guy that coached Michael Jordan.

00:39:39.200 He coached Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal.

00:39:41.800 I mean, this is a legendary, one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time.

00:39:46.260 And he's saying that he doesn't watch the sport anymore because of the way that it's been politicized.

00:39:52.600 Listen to this.

00:39:53.820 Do you still watch a lot of basketball?

00:39:57.720 No, I don't.

00:39:59.540 Tell me about that.

00:40:00.420 When and did you stop immediately from the time you stopped coaching?

00:40:04.400 No, I didn't.

00:40:05.460 I watched some of the game evolve and decided, and they went into the lockout year and they did something that was kind of wanky.

00:40:18.420 They did a bubble down in Orlando and all the teams that could qualify went down there and stayed down there.

00:40:24.680 No audience.

00:40:26.040 And they had things on their back like, you know, justice.

00:40:29.700 And I mean, a little funny thing like, you know, justice just went to the basket and equal opportunity just knocked him down.

00:40:40.220 And somebody, I have another name for a guy who has jersey in the back of a jersey had some other slogan.

00:40:46.740 And some of my grandkids thought that was pretty funny to play up those names.

00:40:53.800 So I couldn't watch that.

00:40:55.380 And the Lakers won, actually.

00:40:56.700 They won that year.

00:40:58.160 Do you feel like it just made little of the game?

00:41:02.420 Like it made it like a sideshow?

00:41:04.060 What do you think it was that turned you off?

00:41:06.640 Well, it was, they even had slogans on the floor, on the baseline.

00:41:13.720 It was catering.

00:41:17.140 It was trying to cater to an audience or trying to bring a certain audience into play.

00:41:22.200 And they didn't know it was turning other people off, you know?

00:41:25.200 People wanted to see sports as non-political.

00:41:29.240 You know, we've had a lot of different.

00:41:32.740 Okay, we cut it there.

00:41:33.680 So that's Phil Jackson saying.

00:41:35.920 And it's the same reason, as I said, the same reason I stopped watching the NBA.

00:41:39.740 It was just far too much.

00:41:44.100 Also, when they, yeah, they did the bubble year when they were all locked down.

00:41:49.020 There was no audience and no fans.

00:41:52.080 It's just too weird to even try to watch that.

00:41:53.960 But on top of it, the over-the-top, relentless politicizing that goes on.

00:42:02.240 So that was Phil Jackson's problem.

00:42:03.960 Now, as you might expect, people on the left not happy about this.

00:42:08.580 People associated with the NBA not happy with what Phil Jackson said.

00:42:11.900 So here's Jalen Rose, who's a former NBA player turned NBA commentator.

00:42:16.700 And he was upset about this.

00:42:19.140 Here's what he said.

00:42:19.660 You can't make this up.

00:42:21.940 Hall of Fame coach and 11-time champion Phil Jackson claims to have stopped supporting the NBA because it became too political.

00:42:30.220 When it went into the bubble and was catering to certain audiences by putting slogans on the back of jerseys and Black Lives Matter on the floor.

00:42:41.060 The same Phil Jackson that won championships with some of the greatest black athletes in the history of the game.

00:42:49.460 Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant made millions on their backs and off their sweat equity.

00:42:59.820 You're sitting up watching the game with your grandkids and y'all think it's funny when justice passes the ball to equal opportunity?

00:43:09.620 When somebody, when somebody shows you who they are, believe them.

00:43:15.160 So stop watching forever.

00:43:19.900 I mean, there wasn't even a criticism there.

00:43:22.140 This is, I was waiting for, all he did was restate.

00:43:26.860 All he did was restate in an outraged way what Phil Jackson said.

00:43:31.000 You think it's funny?

00:43:32.000 You think it's funny when justice passes the ball to equal opportunity?

00:43:35.960 Yeah, that is funny.

00:43:37.700 That's, that's very funny.

00:43:40.700 This is the, this is one of the great disadvantages that the left is dealing with right now in the culture war.

00:43:50.600 And something that we have hardly even begun to exploit, but it's a major one.

00:43:56.380 Yeah, yeah, they own the institutions, they own everything, but they are totally humorless now.

00:44:01.940 They are humorless scolds to the point where they'll, they'll pretend they don't see why it's funny or at the very least that make your eyes roll, you know, to have NBA players run around the court with slogans like equal, equal opportunity and justice.

00:44:21.320 If you can't see what makes that corny and, and, and, and, you know, laughable, well, that's the disadvantage that they're at there.

00:44:32.420 They are, they are required because obviously Jalen Rose knows that that's at a minimum incredibly corny.

00:44:41.480 He knows that, but he's not allowed to know that, right?

00:44:47.160 He has to, he has to pretend, even if they aren't really humorless scolds deep inside their minds, they have to pretend that they are.

00:44:54.040 They're not allowed.

00:44:54.820 Their ideology compels them to have no sense of humor.

00:45:00.700 They have to sacrifice their sense of humor on the altar of wokeism.

00:45:04.140 And that gives us an incredible opportunity, which we should be taking greater advantage of.

00:45:08.220 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:46:25.800 All right, it's been a little while since we've done a full show, so I had to go to our most recent video for comments, for the comment section.

00:46:33.780 This is the video, the segment that we did about the creepy weirdo Blippi and the children's YouTube entertainer who is actually incredibly terrifying.

00:46:49.280 We have some comments from that.

00:46:50.400 Matt Chainz says, I gained 500% more respect for Matt when he said he doesn't let his kids watch YouTube.

00:46:56.220 Most parents don't have the guts to do that.

00:46:59.520 You know, that really shouldn't require guts at all, just to say no to your kids.

00:47:03.600 It does not require courage.

00:47:06.520 I understand why parents don't want to say no.

00:47:12.940 I get that.

00:47:13.740 Saying no, it's like the path of least resistance as a parent, at least in the short term, is to say yes to everything.

00:47:23.660 Don't say no, because then you're not going to have your kid arguing with you.

00:47:27.480 They're not going to whine about it.

00:47:28.760 And if you're saying yes to something like, yeah, go watch whatever you want, go watch YouTube, well, then they're going to be out of your hair and they're going to be watching that all day.

00:47:35.620 And like I said, in the short term, that's the path of least resistance.

00:47:39.500 That's going to make, that makes your life easier in the short term.

00:47:42.600 Now, in the long term, you've just made it more difficult for your child to become, you know, a well-adjusted, successful, intelligent, interesting adult.

00:47:57.200 And that's going to cause a lot of heartache for you down the line and more importantly for your child.

00:48:02.540 But in the short term, it is easier.

00:48:07.120 But that's all it is.

00:48:08.160 So it's not, this is not a matter of having courage.

00:48:10.780 It's just a matter of being willing to, you know, put in a little bit of effort, being willing to, you know, pay attention to your kids.

00:48:19.280 Especially, listen, when, especially when children are younger, you know, your kids, kids are, the age of my kids are younger.

00:48:31.440 You can always, it's like, yeah, you, you, you can take pretty much anything away from them.

00:48:37.360 And they'll almost be fine with it if you replace that by engaging with them yourself, by paying attention to your kids.

00:48:50.200 So anytime my kids ask anything, they want to do anything, they want to watch a movie, they want to, whatever it is, whatever they're asking for.

00:48:58.680 If I say, if I just say, no, you can't do that, but, you know, go somewhere and play.

00:49:04.700 Well, they're going to be disappointed and they're going to whine and all the rest of it.

00:49:07.440 If I say, no, you can't do that.

00:49:11.300 Let's, how about you and I, how about we spend time together?

00:49:13.960 Let's go do this instead, all of us.

00:49:16.380 They'll always be happier with that compromise.

00:49:20.820 But that means you have to spend, you have to be willing to spend time with your kids and pay attention to them and everything else.

00:49:28.980 Robert Ortiz says, thanks, Matt, very helpful.

00:49:31.940 I have a three-year-old and I would like to know some of the shows you allow your kids to watch.

00:49:37.500 Pretty much at this point when it comes to kids shows, and there might be, there might be some other, I'm sure there are others out there that are good, but the ones that I'm most okay with.

00:49:47.480 So there's Bluey, which I think I was originally told about that by, by people in the comments or in the comment section.

00:49:53.660 So I have them to thank for that. 0.97

00:49:56.980 Bluey, you know, there's none of the woke garbage. 1.00

00:49:59.200 It's, you know, I think it's like, it's a, it's a, it's a wholesome show. 0.90

00:50:03.900 It's a good show for kids.

00:50:04.980 It's, it's not overly loud and obnoxious and, you know, it's just a, it's a wholesome fight and it's tolerable.

00:50:12.240 I'm not going to say that I enjoy sitting there and watching Bluey, but I can at least be in the same room as it.

00:50:17.840 And that's one of my, one of my most important tests when it comes to children's entertainment.

00:50:23.620 Yeah, if I see anything that smells of left-wing propaganda, then it's out the window immediately.

00:50:29.780 But if it's so obnoxious that I can't even be in the room when it's on, then I'm not going to let my kids watch it.

00:50:37.660 I'm not going to let their brain be subjected to that kind of stability.

00:50:40.120 So Bluey's not that, it's tolerable. 0.96

00:50:42.540 Masha and the Bear on Netflix, which I think is originally a, I think it's like a Russian show and it's been dubbed.

00:50:48.060 But there's not a lot of, there's not a lot of dialogue in it anyway.

00:50:50.580 That's another one.

00:50:51.420 The kids like that one.

00:50:52.360 And then outside of that, you know, most of the TV that my kids watch, it's like we, we'll watch TV as a family.

00:51:00.100 And I'm not going to sit there and watch a kid's show with them.

00:51:02.260 So we'll watch just Saturday morning, this past Saturday.

00:51:05.660 We watched, we were watching nature documentaries.

00:51:08.760 We're big, we're big nature documentary family.

00:51:11.520 I think I've said before, we like to watch survival shows.

00:51:14.300 Any kind of show where it's a guy who goes out into the woods and teaches his survival skills.

00:51:18.260 There's a bunch of shows like that.

00:51:19.480 We've watched all of them.

00:51:20.620 So we watched those as a family.

00:51:22.360 And that's what I prefer.

00:51:23.600 You know, it's, you like to be able to put the TV on for your kid and leave the room.

00:51:27.520 There's nothing wrong with doing that in moderation.

00:51:30.260 But I think ideally, TV, it shouldn't take over your life.

00:51:36.400 The screen should not take over your life.

00:51:37.960 But it should, as much as possible, it should be a family activity.

00:51:42.360 All right.

00:51:43.560 Hippie Hebrew Mama says, Matt Walsh acting like the whole world didn't already know about Blippi's past.

00:51:49.000 I didn't know about it.

00:51:49.780 Well, I didn't know who Blippi was until recently. 0.65

00:51:51.400 And then I was, I must say, shocked to find out his past, which I'm not even going to go into detail about what it was because I don't want to relive that again.

00:52:00.000 No, I didn't know that.

00:52:02.280 And I guess maybe I was being optimistic and I was being generous to the parents who allow their kids to watch it by assuming that they also didn't know this information.

00:52:10.900 Unless you're telling me that parents knew what this Blippi guy was doing before he became Blippi and they still put that on for their kids. 0.99

00:52:21.000 I hope that's not the case.

00:52:25.860 Skyla, and there are some Blippi defenses here.

00:52:28.400 Skyla says, Blippi's an Air Force veteran, not creepy at all, but can assume because he's sort of a large character clownish.

00:52:34.260 People can be freaked out by clowns.

00:52:36.300 He connects with kids because he does walkthroughs of really interesting play zones, museums, zoos.

00:52:41.260 Always points out colors, letters, great songs.

00:52:43.480 He made up the character for his nephew and it just took off.

00:52:47.360 The Spoken Wizard says, attacking Blippi?

00:52:49.300 I have to disagree with Matt on this one.

00:52:50.660 The guy visits kids' facilities and educational places like museums and aquariums. 0.78

00:52:54.780 I guess the more right you become, the more you turn into a prude.

00:52:59.540 And Cruz says, nah, this is a miss, Matt.

00:53:02.080 My daughter watches this and now she knows colors, counts, and even sings some of the songs he sings, like the dinosaur song, which is super fun singing with her.

00:53:10.360 Kids don't know about a grown man playing in a playground.

00:53:12.480 They just see, they see someone playing.

00:53:15.480 Yeah, he did some dirty stuff, but he doesn't anymore.

00:53:18.420 And I don't intend to tell my daughter she wouldn't understand anyway.

00:53:22.320 Oh, so you did know about that and you let your kid watch it.

00:53:25.540 Okay, listen.

00:53:27.100 And this is the Blippi defense that I've heard.

00:53:29.860 Oh, the kids watch and they learn shapes and colors.

00:53:32.360 And do you know how many different ways there are to teach your kids about shapes and colors?

00:53:38.380 That any kid's show does that.

00:53:40.340 Any kid's book does that.

00:53:43.840 There are many different ways.

00:53:46.400 Okay, my kids all learned about their shapes and colors and how to count.

00:53:50.960 My three-year-old knows all that stuff.

00:53:53.340 She's never watched Blippi.

00:53:54.260 Because there are so many other ways to teach them that.

00:53:58.980 That don't come with the downside.

00:54:03.080 Which is the, as Cruz says, the dirty stuff.

00:54:07.140 So, there's, you know, there are shows that I can put on for my kids that will teach them these things.

00:54:15.500 And that don't have the dirty background that Blippi does. 0.98

00:54:20.620 Quite dirty indeed, in fact. 0.99

00:54:23.640 And also, there are plenty of ways to teach them where you don't have the trade-off of it being creepy and loud and dumb and annoying. 0.96

00:54:31.660 Okay, this, I think this comes as news to some parents, but you don't need that. 1.00

00:54:37.840 Like, there are ways to teach kids information without having bright lights and sounds and all this stupidity screamed in their face. 0.99

00:54:47.420 There are other ways to do it. 0.99

00:54:49.080 There are better ways, actually.

00:54:50.400 And I would explore all of those options before I would ever go to Blippi. 0.86

00:54:57.620 I would rather my kids never learn how to count than learn it from Blippi. 1.00

00:55:03.380 If Blippi was the only person in the world who could teach my kids how to count, well, then I guess they'll never learn how to count.

00:55:10.700 They'll have to do without it.

00:55:12.500 When leftists tell you that America is systemically racist, they're lying.

00:55:15.780 All evidence points to the contrary, and every attempt to fix this nonexistent problem in the name of equity is making the country worse.

00:55:22.500 Heather MacDonald is shutting down the malignant ideology of anti-racism in her brand new book, When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.

00:55:32.420 Heather MacDonald's When Race Trumps Merit exposes how the BLM-fueled equity obsession is destroying Western civilization. 0.97

00:55:38.920 MacDonald is unafraid to break taboos about academic achievement and crime.

00:55:42.000 She provides the data and the life stories that show the damage being done to this country in real time, all in the name of equity.

00:55:48.100 This book is a must-read for anyone who's concerned about the present state of the country and worried for our future.

00:55:53.720 When Race Trumps Merit is available on Amazon or wherever books are sold.

00:55:57.640 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:56:03.200 One of my all-time favorite quotes comes from one of my all-time favorite people, Teddy Roosevelt.

00:56:07.560 I have the text of Roosevelt's man-in-the-arena speech hanging on the wall in my office.

00:56:13.580 And as that great man observed, it is not the critic who counts.

00:56:16.920 It's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have done better.

00:56:21.840 The credit belongs to the man who was actually in the arena.

00:56:24.500 It's better to try and fail while daring greatly than to never try or to achieve anything at all.

00:56:30.700 So that you'll never know either victory or defeat.

00:56:33.960 I'm paraphrasing now, but that's the general idea.

00:56:36.100 And it's a speech that came to mind on Thursday with news that Elon Musk's new rocket exploded after successfully lifting off from the launch.

00:56:46.200 Starship is the largest, most powerful rocket ever built.

00:56:50.260 It's a staggering 400 feet long with 16.5 million pounds of thrust.

00:56:54.880 Essentially, it's a skyscraper designed to go into deep space.

00:56:58.620 Eventually, Musk wants to use the rocket to send manned missions to the moon, to Mars, out farther into interplanetary space.

00:57:07.100 The vessel will be able to hold 100 people on each mission, along with all the supplies and fuel and everything else that they'll need.

00:57:13.500 But it requires a lot of trial and error to achieve something of this magnitude.

00:57:17.300 No intelligent person expects that SpaceX would be able to build Starship and then send it off to Mars on the first try without any issues.

00:57:27.880 Things certainly didn't work that smoothly in the early days of NASA or even in the later days of NASA. 1.00

00:57:32.380 But we are surrounded with lots of very unintelligent people who are seemingly proud of their stupidity. 0.97

00:57:39.040 And so the rocket's malfunction, a malfunction that was very much expected and planned for, was met with jeers and mockery from the peanut gallery. 1.00

00:57:48.800 There were many snide comments and laughing face emojis.

00:57:53.340 Leftists in particular were delighted, declaring that the explosion was some sort of cosmic retribution for Musk's ideological crimes.

00:57:59.840 The media joined in the celebration, laughing scornfully, tossing subtle and not-so-subtle jabs.

00:58:06.240 Here's Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe, turning the snideness level up to 100.

00:58:11.540 Listen.

00:58:12.960 It's Friday.

00:58:14.140 Yes, and Thursday was a very rough day for Elon Musk.

00:58:18.520 First, his $3 billion rocket exploded.

00:58:22.800 I'm going to question their framing.

00:58:24.620 They get a lot of great data out of that.

00:58:26.520 It exploded.

00:58:27.220 No, but it was a planned explosion.

00:58:31.020 It was, they got what they wanted.

00:58:33.800 They got a massive data.

00:58:35.720 It was a step forward.

00:58:36.940 It was an unscheduled disassembly, as they call it.

00:58:39.640 Well, I have had many of those.

00:58:41.020 Or it exploded.

00:58:41.820 I've had many of those.

00:58:42.360 Then he planned make people pay for Twitter verification.

00:58:48.600 His plan to do that blew up on the social media site.

00:58:52.700 And on top of all of that-

00:58:54.540 That was not good.

00:58:55.620 No.

00:58:55.960 That actually is.

00:58:56.580 Twitter's messed up now.

00:58:57.400 That's kind of a mess.

00:58:58.220 It's a shame.

00:58:58.980 And on top of all of that, Tesla's value dropped by around $50 billion as its stock price fell by 10%.

00:59:06.240 We're going to have much more on those stories straight ahead.

00:59:08.900 Not to be a nag here, but there are a million different market forces that are pushing and pulling.

00:59:17.680 It's just EVs are a lot more competition there.

00:59:20.180 All we're saying is it was a rough day.

00:59:21.920 Okay. 1.00

00:59:24.160 That was generally the tone from most of the media and many of the snickering idiots on social media. 0.99

00:59:30.600 Never mind that, as Joe Scarborough actually correctly pointed out, the failure was not really a failure. 0.97

00:59:35.660 SpaceX intentionally triggered the rocket's self-destruct system after it veered off course and the boosters failed to separate.

00:59:40.980 The failure was a malfunction, but identifying the malfunctions is the point of the exercise.

00:59:46.780 Again, nobody expected the thing to make it all the way to Mars on the first go.

00:59:50.180 Either way, it was meant to crash land.

00:59:52.560 They originally meant to crash land in the Pacific.

00:59:55.760 The only question was how far it would get before it was destroyed.

00:59:58.560 Ultimately, it made it 20 miles into space, which is pretty damned impressive for a vessel the size of a 40-story building.

01:00:05.100 It also means that they were able to gather important information.

01:00:07.700 It will make the next launch even more successful, which will in turn lead to another launch more successful than that one.

01:00:13.820 You have to walk before you can run.

01:00:15.700 You have to get your rocket twice the size of a Boeing 777 into the stratosphere.

01:00:20.180 Before you can get it into outer space.

01:00:22.520 This is what science and discovery are supposed to look like.

01:00:26.340 This is how they work.

01:00:27.280 Innovation is a series of failures.

01:00:29.740 As long as you learn from them, the process is working exactly as it should.

01:00:35.780 You can't achieve anything worthwhile without taking risks.

01:00:39.520 And if you take risks, you're guaranteed to fail at least some of the time.

01:00:44.560 Anybody who takes risks and never fails isn't really taking risks at all.

01:00:49.560 This is what separates risk-takers from everybody else.

01:00:52.920 The risk-taker has the courage to fail.

01:00:56.380 See, many people in our culture, they don't understand this point because we live in a world where so much of the innovation and discovery has already happened.

01:01:04.840 The trials and errors, those were all suffered before we were born.

01:01:10.280 And this is the story of modern society.

01:01:12.120 We inherited a world of luxury where everything comes easy and quickly, handed to us on a silver platter.

01:01:19.400 And we assume that it must have always been this way.

01:01:21.760 We don't appreciate the fact that there is a whole history of work and suffering and failure and sweat and tears and blood that is all baked into this cake that we're currently devouring ungratefully.

01:01:34.960 If somebody comes along and tries to push the boundaries, tries to do something new, we laugh because it looks absurd to us.

01:01:41.960 Because we are the most apathetic and ungrateful generation of human beings to ever exist on the planet.

01:01:47.440 But this isn't just about Elon Musk and the rocket that exploded. 0.91

01:01:51.680 In general, I am just tired of the losers who have never done anything, never achieved anything, never even tried to achieve anything,

01:02:02.120 and yet who think that they're in a position to criticize those who are actually in the arena.

01:02:08.180 There are the doers of deeds, to use Roosevelt's phrase, 0.93

01:02:11.660 and then there are the pathetic, scared little weaklings who sit off to the side, 0.97

01:02:16.040 offering their useless critiques while contributing nothing of substance to the world. 0.99

01:02:21.940 This dynamic has always existed.

01:02:23.840 Roosevelt pointed to it over a century ago.

01:02:26.040 But the difference is that we have so many in that latter category now.

01:02:30.260 We have so few doers of deeds and so many doers of nothing.

01:02:34.760 Ironically, the achievers, you know, the doers in the past, they achieved so much that they made it possible for people in our time to do nothing,

01:02:44.980 to achieve nothing, and yet live in comfort.

01:02:48.500 The sidelines have never been so crowded or so noisy, full of people who are terrified to step foot onto the field,

01:02:55.820 but will laugh nonetheless at anybody else who stumbles while doing what they would never do and could never do.

01:03:02.280 And a bunch of losers laughing at a guy who literally builds spaceships 0.76

01:03:09.160 is just the most absurd and extreme manifestation of this phenomenon. 0.96

01:03:13.120 It certainly is not the only one.

01:03:15.300 And that is why the entire do-nothing peanut gallery is today canceled.

01:03:21.720 That'll do it for this portion of shows. 0.91

01:03:22.960 We move over to the members' block.

01:03:23.940 Hope to see you there.

01:03:24.580 If not, talk to you tomorrow.

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The Matt Walsh Show - April 24, 2023

Ep. 1150 - The Left’s Plot To Intimidate And Silence Me Has Failed Once Again

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