The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1161 - How A False Rape Accusation Destroyed One NFL Player’s Life

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Wall Show, what is the cost of a lie? For many men falsely accused of rape,

00:00:04.860 the cost is their careers, reputations, their lives. Today, we'll discuss the story of Matt

00:00:09.000 Araiza, who had his NFL career ruined after he was accused of a vicious gang rape. A year later,

00:00:14.500 the truth has finally come out. Also, more alleged details about the mass shooting at a

00:00:18.840 Dallas outlet mall have come out, and they make no sense at all. We're supposed to believe that

00:00:22.880 the killer was a Mexican neo-Nazi inspired by the Jewish woman who runs the Libs of TikTok account.

00:00:28.800 In our daily cancellation, the tipping scourge has made its way to self-checkout machines.

00:00:32.760 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:48.060 today. These days we're told that there is no such thing as objective truth. Every person gets their

00:01:53.920 own truth based on their perceptions of their own, quote, lived experience, and each individualized

00:01:59.680 truth is just as valid as every other individualized truth. And according to this view of the world and of

00:02:05.880 reality, there's really no such thing as a lie, because to lie is to intentionally misrepresent

00:02:10.760 the truth, but you can't misrepresent something that doesn't actually exist. And this relentless

00:02:16.340 campaign to obliterate objective truth is always doomed to failure. The truth still exists. Those who

00:02:22.400 deny it or falsify it are not asserting their own truth, but simply telling a lie. And lies have

00:02:29.180 consequences, severe and appalling consequences, oftentimes. Consequences that all too often

00:02:35.560 are felt by everyone but the liars themselves. And that brings us to the story of Matt Ariza.

00:02:42.860 So early last year, everything was basically looking up for Matt Ariza, NFL prospect from San Diego

00:02:49.320 State. He was a punter, not a position that usually attracts much attention, but Ariza was a special case

00:02:54.500 because while still playing in college, his punting prowess had earned him the perhaps vaguely

00:02:59.880 sacrilegious nickname, Punt God. Finishing his final college season, he averaged 51 yards per punt,

00:03:07.060 which was an NCAA record. After getting drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round and booting an

00:03:13.400 82-yard punt in a preseason game, all signs indicated that he would live up to his nickname in the NFL and

00:03:19.020 have a long and illustrious professional career.

00:03:21.780 However, punters don't get a lot of press or accolades. They don't make as much money as other

00:03:25.480 positions, but they also don't take a lot of hits, which means that a good punter can easily play for

00:03:30.620 a decade and a half or even longer. So everything was set up for Matt Ariza. Nothing could get in

00:03:37.320 his way except a lie and a media eager to amplify it. In August of 2022, shortly after being officially

00:03:44.920 named the starting punter for the Bills, a civil lawsuit was filed claiming that he, along with

00:03:50.780 two of his teammates in college, viciously and brutally gang raped an underage 17-year-old girl

00:03:57.620 at an off-campus party a year before. There was, so far as the public or the media knew,

00:04:03.740 no evidence that the rape occurred, no proof other than the word of the accuser. But that's all the

00:04:10.660 media needed, of course. Immediately, the frantic headlines were published, labeling Ariza a rapist

00:04:16.300 and an abuser, relaying the alleged facts of the case, which were graphic and harrowing.

00:04:21.420 In a story that's oddly reminiscent of the Kavanaugh allegations, the alleged victim claimed that she was

00:04:27.060 at this party and she was led, quote unquote, drunk and half-conscious to a back bedroom in the home

00:04:34.940 where she was abused by three men over the course of an hour and a half, leaving her bloody

00:04:40.400 and crying. She says that eventually she was able to get out of the room and she ran out of the room,

00:04:45.900 bruised and bloodied and crying. CBS did an interview with the accuser at the time. Here's

00:04:50.400 what she said.

00:04:51.700 I was having to deal with this horrible traumatic experience that I never asked for.

00:04:57.660 The accuser, who just turned 18, alleges that Ariza and two other players assaulted her for more

00:05:04.240 than an hour at a party last October. I was bleeding. I was crying and my friend asked me what happened

00:05:12.320 and I told her I had just been raped. She wrote in her journal the next day,

00:05:18.120 all I keep replaying in my mind is being face down in a random bed, just waiting for it to be over.

00:05:25.800 Ariza's attorney says his client will be vindicated. What do you think is happening here?

00:05:30.640 He had what we call the deep pockets of these three young men. And I think it's,

00:05:34.900 I still think it's a money grab on her part on behalf of Mr. Ariza.

00:05:38.680 What does that feel like to you?

00:05:40.800 That makes me really sick to the stomach. I reported it a day after it happened. I was 17 years old

00:05:49.140 and I had no idea who Matt Ariza was.

00:05:53.540 Makes her sick to her stomach, she says. Well, it didn't take long for the bills to cave to the

00:05:58.060 public pressure and they released Ariza, a decision that was strongly criticized by the

00:06:02.220 media at the time, not because it was based on extremely questionable allegations, but because

00:06:06.320 it wasn't made quickly enough. Here's ESPN at the time taking the bills to task for not throwing 0.83

00:06:13.060 Ariza under the bus sooner. Listen.

00:06:16.280 They were aware late July. It happened now in late August. How do you believe the bills look now?

00:06:21.440 The bills don't look good. The bills don't look good because when you hear the details,

00:06:28.060 we're hearing it now. So it's fair to surmise that if the general counsel for the bills

00:06:34.360 spoke to the lawyer of the alleged victim, then you had that information and those details

00:06:44.700 before a few days ago. So the fact that you had those details and you waited this long to act,

00:06:52.800 that's a problem for the Buffalo bills. As a result,

00:06:59.100 it becomes a stain to some degree on the NFL, not the league office. I'm just talking about the

00:07:05.440 NFL shield because we're talking about an NFL team, even though this is a player that had happened

00:07:11.480 that allegedly had happened it while he was in college at San Diego state. Yep.

00:07:15.960 My point is, is that even though it happened at San Diego state with a college student,

00:07:23.060 allegedly while he was in college, the bottom line is he was a member of the bills. And once he was a

00:07:29.460 member of your organization and this came to light, you were supposed to act immediately,

00:07:35.520 especially since your general counsel brought it to you.

00:07:38.440 So it was a stain on the bills, on the NFL, and he's right, but not for the reasons that he thinks.

00:07:47.340 Now, I wanted to let that play out a little bit because you see that at no point in that discussion

00:07:50.960 or any other discussion on ESPN or any other news channel, did anyone seriously stop to consider

00:07:57.160 that a story of a violent, bloody sexual assault in the middle of a college party that lasted an hour

00:08:02.880 and a half might not be totally credible. Now, they may have used the word alleged to cover

00:08:09.600 themselves, but the message was clear. As far as they're concerned, as far as they were concerned,

00:08:14.360 Matt Ariza was guilty. A couple of months after Ariza lost his job in the NFL, the prosecutors

00:08:19.100 announced that they wouldn't be pressing charges in the case, but there were no additional details.

00:08:24.580 No additional information was released about that to explain that decision until this past week.

00:08:30.920 So 10 months later, 10 months for the narrative to set itself in stone, and now the truth comes out.

00:08:40.860 And as it turns out, Matt Ariza was not even present at the party when the alleged rape occurred.

00:08:45.760 And not only that, but evidence strongly suggests that no rape occurred at all.

00:08:51.380 Here's Yahoo News, quote,

00:08:52.560 A fuller picture of what police and prosecutors found, however, is now available via a 200-plus page

00:08:57.600 transcript of a 100-minute meeting obtained by Yahoo Sports where a deputy district attorney

00:09:02.400 offered a detailed explanation to the girl and her attorneys. Perhaps most notably,

00:09:06.880 the district attorney's office concluded Ariza couldn't have led the girl into the alleged gang

00:09:11.560 rape because he had left the home at about 12.30 a.m. an hour prior to when evidence suggests the

00:09:16.980 alleged gang rape would have occurred. Quote,

00:09:19.700 He wasn't even at the party anymore, deputy district attorney Tricia Amador explained to the girl.

00:09:23.560 Later, Amador stated of the timeline of the events, quote,

00:09:27.220 All I know is that at that point, suspect Ariza is gone from the party.

00:09:32.920 Prosecutors and police interviewed 35 witnesses, including friends of the accuser.

00:09:36.880 They also reviewed video of the sexual encounter that the accuser claims was a rape,

00:09:42.040 because there's video of it. Ariza isn't present in the videos,

00:09:45.840 and there's no indication in the footage that the sex was anything but consensual.

00:09:49.440 According to the physical evidence and witness testimony compiled by investigators,

00:09:54.360 which again includes friends of this girl, this was not a story of an underage girl being taken

00:09:59.440 to a room against her will and brutalized. Instead, the picture painted by those who

00:10:03.240 investigated the case is quite a bit different, and it goes something like this, according to the

00:10:07.500 evidence that they compiled. So the girl, who was 17 at the time, went to a college party a few

00:10:13.040 blocks from her house. She entered the party through a back gate. Multiple witnesses testified

00:10:19.640 that she told people at the party that she was 18. Multiple witnesses said that they heard her

00:10:24.540 saying this multiple times to multiple people at the party, saying that she was 18. Investigators

00:10:29.700 actually found video footage from a party the night before that this girl was at, where she's on

00:10:34.260 camera saying that she's 18. Yahoo News reports, quote,

00:10:37.960 The civil lawsuit alleged that soon after the girl's arrival at the party, she was separated

00:10:42.280 from her friends, and Arizo led her over to the side of the yard of the house, yard of the house

00:10:46.960 where he told her to perform sex against her consent. Arizo, however, has always maintained

00:10:51.720 that he never led her into a private area of the backyard, that she walked back there while he was

00:10:55.740 urinating. Witness testimony, again including the girl's friends, played a role in prosecutors

00:11:00.180 declining to press charges. Quote, the witnesses say that shortly after you arrived at the party,

00:11:05.200 you left and came back shortly thereafter, the DA, Tricia Amador said. And you told a friend,

00:11:10.260 quote, I just had sex. You didn't appear unhappy. You appeared to be having fun. 0.73

00:11:14.200 And the encounter on the side of the house with Matt, suspect Ariza, was consensual.

00:11:18.060 Amador also explained to the girl that additional witnesses alleged that at this period of time,

00:11:23.660 quote, you were approaching men at the party saying, I want you to bleep me, and if you don't bleep me,

00:11:29.340 you're a bleep. The report continues, quote, while the civil lawsuit claimed that's right

00:11:35.020 after the Ariza encounter in the side yard, the football player led her into the bedroom in the

00:11:38.780 house. The timeline established by authorities was much different. Prosecutors said that shortly

00:11:42.560 after being with Ariza, witnesses said the girl again left her group and came back to report she

00:11:47.480 had sex with a different man. Again, prosecutors explained, witnesses suggested it was consensual.

00:11:52.640 Quote, you had returned and then came back and said you had sex with a guy. This would have been the

00:11:56.940 second person that would have been in the progression of the evening, Amador said. Again,

00:12:00.480 you're described as being okay, not scared or distraught. You seemed happy. It seemed consensual.

00:12:05.720 Again, you're not intoxicated at this point that anybody would know your intoxication level to the

00:12:09.600 point that they would not be able to tell that you weren't able to give consent, Amador said.

00:12:14.600 So this was the second person that this girl decided to have sex with that evening. 1.00

00:12:18.800 And by this point, Matt Ariza had left the party. This encounter was captured on cell phone video,

00:12:25.580 and according to prosecutors, there's no indication in the footage that the sex was non-consensual.

00:12:30.480 All in all, the evidence again seems to strongly indicate that this girl went to this party,

00:12:38.540 accessed it through the back door, lied about her age multiple times, solicited sex with multiple men. 0.61

00:12:47.700 As witnesses saying that she was the one going and soliciting it, bragged about her sexual conquests 1.00

00:12:54.260 in the moment, had consensual sex repeatedly over the course of several hours, and then at some point 0.91

00:13:01.880 shortly after this sex marathon decided that she had been raped. According to this version of events, 0.79

00:13:07.340 and this is the version that's actually supported by witness testimony and physical evidence,

00:13:11.580 she came up with a story which was then used to destroy an innocent man's life.

00:13:16.820 Matt Ariza, the latest on him is that he plays for the Mexican Football League with hopes of making his way

00:13:22.800 back to the NFL, but that's unlikely to happen. Even after this, everything comes out. After being

00:13:27.640 vindicated in this way, his name and reputation have been permanently stained. Meanwhile, the accuser

00:13:33.240 still wants to bring the lawsuit to trial, hoping for a friendly jury that would be persuaded more by

00:13:38.760 her tears than by the facts of the case, and she might get exactly that.

00:13:43.680 If she doesn't prevail at trial, she still gets to go on with her life like nothing ever happened.

00:13:51.420 See, as always, false accusers are playing with house money because either their plan works and

00:13:58.100 they get paid, or it doesn't work and no harm, no foul. As far as they're concerned,

00:14:03.140 they suffer no consequences at all. This is the way the system is set up, but it doesn't have to be set

00:14:09.640 up this way. It seems incredibly obvious to me that false accusers, those who are proven to be

00:14:15.660 false accusers, if it's proven, as it seems to have been in this case with evidence, they should face

00:14:22.560 the same penalty that we would give to rapists. And by the way, I think that actually guilty and

00:14:28.800 convicted rapists should go to prison for life. I'd be in favor of life sentences at a minimum for actual

00:14:37.060 rapists. And I would be in favor of life sentences for those who falsely accuse someone of rape,

00:14:42.300 because to falsely accuse someone of rape is just as bad as being a rapist. There is no moral

00:14:48.380 distinction between the two. Because after all, if this girl had her way, Azira would, or Riza rather,

00:14:57.200 would not only be fired from his job and have his reputation permanently ruined, which is a terrible

00:15:01.680 fate on its own. Okay, when we talk about someone's reputation, we say rape ruins your reputation.

00:15:05.940 We're not just talking about like they're embarrassed by something or something embarrassing

00:15:09.300 happens. This is your whole life. This is your name. This is who you are. It's been dragged through

00:15:15.580 the mud. This is like every person you encounter for the rest of your life. You've got this scarlet

00:15:23.760 letter that you're wearing around on your chest. But it's not just that. If she had her way,

00:15:30.360 he would also be in prison. He'd be locked behind bars as a rapist and suffering all of the consequences

00:15:36.900 that come with being a rapist in prison. You could easily make the case that false accusations are a 0.80

00:15:44.560 form of attempted murder. You're trying to take a man's life away from him. And if he can't take his

00:15:50.800 life, he'll take everything he values in his life, his job, his livelihood, his friendships,

00:15:55.040 his relationships, his reputation, his name. And the fact that this is often done by women who are

00:16:02.800 simply embarrassed because they behaved whorishly only makes it worse. Now, we can't know the actual

00:16:11.360 motivations of any specific person who makes false accusations because we can't see inside their minds

00:16:19.060 in their souls. But it seems that often this is the motivation. Embarrassed because of the way that

00:16:26.820 you behaved, because you behaved shamefully and shamelessly. And so you're trying to recover your

00:16:34.440 ego and your own reputation by destroying somebody else. It can also be motivated by vengeance,

00:16:45.100 need for revenge, some kind of sick power play. But really casually destroying someone's entire life

00:16:53.340 because you're embarrassed is, it's psychotically evil. And like so much other evil in our society,

00:16:59.940 it goes unpunished most of the time. Because we are not a society that values truth, we don't

00:17:07.840 appreciate the real cost of a lie. And we're also beholden to the left's victimhood hierarchy.

00:17:13.200 Matt Riza, as a white male football player, simply didn't have enough victim points, or any at all

00:17:18.180 really, to have his side of the story taken seriously. These are the factors that create

00:17:24.100 the perfect storm that has destroyed the lives of many men. It's not fair. It's not just.

00:17:30.360 But it's also an unfairness and an injustice that young men should always be aware of.

00:17:36.640 And the best way to protect yourself from it, it's not foolproof, okay, but it's nearly so,

00:17:41.500 is, especially if you're a young man, stay away from hookup culture completely.

00:17:47.700 Now, you certainly don't deserve to be labeled a rapist because you're consensually hooked up with

00:17:51.180 some random girl who regretted it the next day. But that might be what happens.

00:17:56.740 There are a lot of reasons to reject hookup culture. This is far from the only reason.

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00:19:01.500 The story of the Texas mall shooter gets stranger and stranger by the day. This was a Hispanic man 0.92

00:19:09.080 named Mauricio Garcia. And not the name that you would expect for an alleged white supremacist,

00:19:17.040 quote unquote, or the ethnicity that you would expect. You know, when someone tells you about,

00:19:22.200 though, this white supremacist that committed a mass shooting, and you don't know the person's name,

00:19:26.180 but maybe you're guessing what the name might be. You would never guess Mauricio Garcia as the name.

00:19:33.240 But that's what we're told. And shortly after the shooting occurred, hours later, we had all kinds

00:19:37.780 of alleged details of his background, his ideological views. And we're told, again, that he's a Mexican,

00:19:43.900 neo-Nazi, white nationalist. And this is largely based on alleged postings of his on a Russian social 0.94

00:19:51.340 media site. So Mexican neo-Nazi posting on a Russian social media site. Here's NBC News.

00:19:58.080 A social media page appearing to belong to a gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas area outlet mall

00:20:02.200 had shared extremist beliefs with rants against Jews, women, and racial minorities posted since

00:20:07.260 September, as well as posts about struggling with mental health. Mauricio Garcia, 33, maintained a profile

00:20:13.280 on the Russian social networking platform OKRU, including posts referring to extremist online

00:20:20.400 forums such as 4chan and content from white nationalists, including Nick Fuentes and anti-Semitic

00:20:25.800 white nationalist provocateur. In the weeks before the attack, Garcia posted more than two dozen

00:20:31.020 photos of Allen premium outlets where an officer killed him after the shooting Saturday and surrounding

00:20:36.180 areas, including several screenshots of Google location information, seemingly monitoring them all at

00:20:40.100 its busiest times. Many of his posts referred to his mental health. In his final post, he lamented

00:20:44.360 what his family might say and wrote that no psychologist would be able to fix him. In another

00:20:50.240 post, he made disturbing comments about what makes a mass shooting important, quote unquote, and praised

00:20:56.300 a person who opened fire at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee this year, killing six

00:21:00.280 people, including three children. The shooter, along with that, also posted a series of, a little bit more

00:21:08.160 from NBC. The shooter also posts a series of links to other sites, including a YouTube account that

00:21:11.780 featured a video published the day of the shooting. In it, he removed a scream mask and said,

00:21:16.340 not quite what you were expecting, huh? He also posted photos of a flak vest emblazoned with patches,

00:21:23.220 one of them with the initialism for right-wing death squad, a popular meme among far-right extremist

00:21:29.320 groups. And then he also had supposedly swastika tattoos. We're also told that he allegedly posted some

00:21:36.840 content from Tim Pool. So Tim Pool was trending all of yesterday because he was mentioned in some

00:21:41.560 of his content. And he had another post, allegedly, which begins with the words,

00:21:47.920 this post was inspired by libs of TikTok. And then the post goes into a rant about Jews and how he

00:21:53.820 admires Hitler or whatever. So here's the full picture that's been painted for us that we're expected

00:22:00.560 to believe. A Mexican neo-Nazi with a page on a Russian social media site was an admirer of Tim

00:22:06.900 Pool and Nick Fuentes and Hitler, but also was a fan of the trans shooter that shot up a Christian 0.75

00:22:13.540 school and was inspired by libs of TikTok and his Jew hatred, even though the woman who runs libs of TikTok

00:22:21.440 is Jewish herself and has never posted, obviously, any anti-Jewish content.

00:22:26.960 Does that make sense? Did all that seem clear to you? Make total sense? Oh, not at all? Well,

00:22:34.020 yeah, exactly. I mean, if you take this at face value, I don't know what to tell you.

00:22:39.240 Meanwhile, even according to this official narrative, this guy was apparently openly posting

00:22:44.440 his intention to commit this shooting, posting photos from his reconnaissance of the location,

00:22:49.920 and no intelligence agency ever got wind of it. Yet another mass shooter who's out,

00:22:55.980 you know, basically openly announcing, hey, I'm going to commit a mass shooting, everybody.

00:23:00.500 Here's where I'm going to do it. I'm posting pictures of it. And our intelligence agencies

00:23:07.160 had no idea. Still too busy tracking the, you know, maybe the people at the parents at PTA meetings

00:23:14.260 and school board meetings, the real domestic terrorists. And then the shooting happens. So

00:23:19.420 intelligence agencies had no idea about it, no matter how often he was announcing his plans.

00:23:23.360 And then it happens. And then immediately after that, everyone knows everything about his entire

00:23:30.720 social media profile, including his obscure profiles on random Russian websites. The whole

00:23:37.260 thing is, I mean, call me a conspiracy theorist. I don't care. I don't, it doesn't just smell funny.

00:23:43.460 It reeks. Okay. First of all, Tim Poole, can we just say is a moderate. He's a, and I don't think

00:23:50.960 he would have any issue with me saying that. I don't know that he would, he would disagree with

00:23:54.680 that characterization. He's not, I've never heard him say anything remotely radical. He's like,

00:24:01.400 he's like a nice guy. Remember he got, he got kind of annoyed at me because I was being too mean to

00:24:07.000 Dylan Mulvaney, if you remember. So, and this is the guy who helped to radicalize a Mexican neo-Nazi.

00:24:15.420 Libs of TikTok is again, a Jewish woman who reposts content from leftists. 1.00

00:24:21.900 How, how would she inspire this? And the target doesn't even make sense on the theory that this

00:24:28.000 was some kind of right-wing terror event. He wasn't shooting up a drag queen story hour or a gay bar or

00:24:34.120 something. This was an outlet mall in Dallas. And you could see he's shooting randomly. He gets

00:24:40.120 out, it's, it's not a targeted, it wasn't, it didn't appear to be targeting any specific sort of

00:24:44.520 person. He gets out of his car and just immediately starts shooting at whoever happens to be walking

00:24:48.020 by. So the whole thing, the, the version of events that we're getting from the media right now,

00:24:55.540 it doesn't make sense to me. And, and meanwhile, the Covenant school shooting, this shooting

00:25:01.420 happened a couple of days ago. And all of this information, this alleged information came out

00:25:06.040 again, within hours, really. The Covenant school shooting was well over a month ago.

00:25:12.920 Still a mystery. Or we're supposed to believe it's a mystery. We've given, we've been given no

00:25:19.120 official information about this person's, uh, motive. And in this case, there's an actual

00:25:25.480 manifesto, which we were told in the, in the, in the hours, in the moments immediately following

00:25:31.800 the attack, we were told by the police chief that, that the, uh, manifesto does outline her

00:25:37.960 motivations. And he indicated that the fact that she was trans played a role in motivating the crime. 0.56

00:25:43.960 That's what the police chief said. And then, uh, that's the last, last we heard of it really

00:25:46.880 officially. And then after that, we heard nothing. And then we started hearing rumblings,

00:25:50.920 you know, uh, unconfirmed reports from anonymous people saying that, oh yeah, the manifesto,

00:25:57.220 it really doesn't say any much at all about why she did it. It's a, but we can't release it though,

00:26:02.440 because it would be a huge security problem. It wouldn't interfere with our investigation into

00:26:07.820 a dead person. If we released the manifesto, we never see the manifesto. We don't get all these

00:26:18.200 social media. This thing you notice, very interesting, uh, phenomenon here where when a,

00:26:25.660 when a mass killing occurs and the person who commits the killing is not, you know, in the

00:26:34.160 narrative is not convenient for the media. Have you noticed that we, that in those cases, huge

00:26:38.740 coincidence, the perpetrators never have a social media, uh, footprint. Now it's, it's, these are

00:26:47.220 people. It's always someone who's, well, apparently they didn't post on social media at all. No

00:26:51.460 Instagram, no Facebook, Twitter, nothing. But if it's someone who the media tells us is a white 0.56

00:26:57.480 nationalist or a neo-Nazi, then we get everything they've ever posted, including on platforms that

00:27:03.540 we didn't even know existed. It's not just the Covenant school shooting. Uh, what about Waukesha

00:27:08.820 years later? What, what was the motive behind that? Still supposed to be obscure.

00:27:18.220 If you see the way of this dynamic here and it doesn't, and it seems normal to you and you're

00:27:22.540 willing to take this at face value, then I can't help you. There's nothing I can say to you.

00:27:27.300 And it wouldn't surprise me. And I, I'm not making any official prediction, but it, it would not

00:27:31.480 surprise me if the, uh, manifesto were to come out soon now, like maybe even this week. Maybe now

00:27:41.680 the manifesto does come out and we'll see that, oh, but you know, there's nothing in the manifesto

00:27:47.600 at all about trans. It's a bunch of random ramblings. You can't even tell us. You can't 1.00

00:27:51.260 discern anything from it. Took us a month to release it over a month. We couldn't release it

00:27:55.840 for over a month. What we were doing in that month, who knows? All right, but here it is. And you see,

00:28:00.600 there's nothing there. It wouldn't surprise me if that were to come out this week.

00:28:08.420 All right. This is from Daily Wire. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced on Monday that

00:28:14.760 the agency introduced rules requiring airlines to reimburse customers who incur expenses due to

00:28:19.520 certain delayed and canceled flights, a move which comes as the industry faces elevated demand

00:28:23.680 and a constrained labor force. The proposed rules, which would apply when an airline delays a flight for

00:28:29.540 more than three hours or cancels a flight for a controllable reason, would mandate that the

00:28:33.820 firms offer compensation for stranded passengers as well as a meal or meal voucher, overnight

00:28:37.820 accommodations, and ground transportation between the airport and hotel. So they made this big

00:28:43.260 announcement yesterday. This is what they're working on. Biden was on hand for the announcement,

00:28:47.040 though it was difficult at first to tell what exactly he was trying to announce. Let's listen.

00:28:51.040 Thank you, Secretary Buttigieg. Thank you all for being here. Please sit down.

00:28:59.480 As we approach Memorial Day this weekend, and Memorial Day weekend, I'm rushing it,

00:29:05.380 and a busy summer travel season, I'm here to talk about steps my administration is taking

00:29:09.460 to make air travel better for all Americans. The airline industry is a key part of our economy,

00:29:15.800 and they've been critical partners in a number of important initiatives from requiring employees

00:29:20.820 to get COVID vaccines and thrusting the supply chain problems over the last couple of years.

00:29:26.600 But I know how frustrated many of you are with the service you get from your U.S. airlines.

00:29:31.920 Okay, well, I could make out some of that anyway. You know, no big deal. Again, just the President

00:29:39.760 of the United States can't speak. He's gotten to a point where he cannot, he sounds like a drunk

00:29:44.860 man all the time. He sounds like he just finished a bottle of wine in the span of an hour. That's

00:29:51.020 how he sounds all the time. But he's running for re-election. Yeah, let's go ahead. Let's give

00:29:55.560 him four more years. What could possibly go wrong? Press conference continues, and here he is

00:30:01.260 explaining the exact details of this very exciting plan. That's why I'm announcing a second critical

00:30:07.380 step today to protect American consumers. Later this year, my administration will propose

00:30:13.500 a historic new rule that will make it mandatory, not voluntary, but mandatory, for all U.S.

00:30:20.060 airlines to compensate you with meals, hotels, taxis, ride shares, and rebooking fees, and cash,

00:30:29.380 miles, and or travel vouchers whenever they're the ones to blame for the cancellation or delay.

00:30:35.160 And that's all on top of refunding the cost of your ticket. Airline passengers in Canada,

00:30:40.760 for example. The European Union and other places already get these compensations. And guess what?

00:30:45.860 It works. Oh, my gosh. I can never get used to it. I don't know if you've gotten numb to it at this

00:30:53.280 point, but I can never get used to the fact that our president is a senile man who can't speak.

00:30:58.840 Did he say rebooking food? If you have to rebook your food, you can rebook your food.

00:31:03.420 So what is this? Aside from the fact that the president is senile? Well, this, first of all,

00:31:08.720 is the Biden administration continuing its quest in its quest to find something for Pete Buttigieg to do.

00:31:15.180 Something other than solve actual transportation-related problems, because there's a lot

00:31:19.720 when it comes to that. For Pete Buttigieg's entire tenure, we've had supply chain problems,

00:31:27.820 and the ports are all jammed up, and we've got trains derailing all over the place and dumping

00:31:34.560 toxic chemicals into the water supply. It would seem like there's a lot for him to do. But they

00:31:38.300 don't want him to do that, because that would involve solving actual problems. But Pete Buttigieg is

00:31:41.880 an incompetent moron and has never done anything in his life. And so they can't set him to work doing 1.00

00:31:48.700 that. So they need to find some not real problem for him to fix. And this is what they came up with.

00:31:54.880 It's also the Biden administration trying desperately to get some kind of win on the

00:32:00.080 board. Okay, they want to get one in the win column, at least. Got to get a few points on the

00:32:04.960 board before election season really kicks off. And they've settled on this. But this is, first of

00:32:11.040 all, pointless. This is the classic example of the government identifying something that is,

00:32:20.180 it is an issue. We do have a lot of problems at our airports. Anyone who's been to an airport,

00:32:24.880 recently realizes that. But they come up with a solution that doesn't solve anything.

00:32:31.580 Because airlines already reimburse for flights canceled or delayed for long amounts of time

00:32:40.340 for reasons that are their fault. That's always been the trick. If your flight gets canceled,

00:32:45.840 they'll reimburse you. They'll put you in a hotel overnight. They'll give you meal vouchers. Most

00:32:50.460 airlines will do that. They'll do all that. If it's their fault, as it says in the new language

00:32:58.340 of this policy, if it's a controllable reason, they'll always do that. But their way around it

00:33:04.300 is to say, well, it wasn't our fault. We didn't have it. It was air traffic control. It was weather.

00:33:08.000 It was this. It was that. They can always point to some other thing that was outside of their

00:33:11.840 control. And there's no way for you to confirm it. If you go and your flight gets canceled and

00:33:16.640 you're stuck, you're stranded in the airport overnight and you're waiting in line at customer

00:33:19.300 service with 50 other disgruntled people, you get up there and you say, you know, you got to put me

00:33:26.580 up in a hotel. I'm stuck here. And they say, well, well, sorry, sir. It was an air traffic control

00:33:31.260 issue. How are you supposed to confirm that? Are you going to call up air traffic control yourself

00:33:35.880 and look into it? You can't. So that was always the loophole. And that loophole is still in place.

00:33:42.500 It hasn't changed anything. All it does is it adds another layer of bureaucracy to a system

00:33:48.840 that's already drowning in bureaucracy. Because it's also always been the case at airlines that

00:33:53.500 if something happens and they're not willing to reimburse you or you have some kind of problem

00:33:57.120 with the airline, they'll always tell you, oh, well, if you have an issue with this, if you have

00:34:00.920 any problem, then here's this number. You can call this number. And then after you call this number,

00:34:05.740 hit that number, hit a nine, hit a five, hit a two, hit a one, wait on hold for three or four

00:34:11.440 hours and then hit another thing. And you'll talk to someone and you'll tell them their problem.

00:34:15.480 And they'll say, well, we've got to put you on hold and send you over to this department. And

00:34:17.900 that's already been the case. And now the federal government's getting involved even more than it

00:34:23.880 already is. Is that going to make that process more efficient? Obviously not. But the really

00:34:29.800 frustrating thing is that, as I said, there is a problem here that air travel is a nightmare.

00:34:39.540 And that does cause real problems for people. It affects people's lives,

00:34:44.000 those who have to travel a lot. And the government could do something significant

00:34:50.300 to help alleviate this problem. And it's something that they could do directly.

00:34:56.800 And that would be to abolish the TSA. Okay. You could make, they could make traveling,

00:35:01.420 the traveling experience easier, quicker, more efficient. They could do all that by just

00:35:09.420 getting rid of the TSA. But that's the one thing that they won't do. Because they're not going to,

00:35:15.660 when they're trying to come up with solutions to problems, they're automatically going to dismiss

00:35:20.440 any solution that involves them being involved less. Any solution that takes power, authority,

00:35:28.340 money away from them is not a solution. That gets crossed off the board immediately.

00:35:33.240 That doesn't make it on the board in the brainstorming session.

00:35:38.760 But so often that is the actual solution. To get rid of the TSA, it's not going to solve every

00:35:42.840 problem, but it would make the experience a lot more efficient. People would miss, there'd be quite a,

00:35:49.880 there'd be fewer people, significantly fewer people who miss their flights because they're not

00:35:55.580 hung up on these long TSA lines. And TSA, which as we talked about before, is nothing but security

00:36:01.300 theater. That's all it is. It's a theatrical production. Um, they've done many tests on this

00:36:07.280 and they've found that, um, not only is there, there's not, there has not been in 20 years,

00:36:12.500 there has not been one confirmed case of a TSA agent thwarting a terrorist attack.

00:36:19.860 And if you ask about this, the official story from the government is, well, we can't, uh, give you

00:36:24.160 any examples because that would be a national security threat. Yeah, right. I give me, if they actually,

00:36:30.700 if there was an actual terrorist who had a whole plan and was trying to sneak on board and had,

00:36:35.020 and he was thwarted by a TSA agent, that would be, we would never hear the end of it. Are you

00:36:40.740 kidding me? They wouldn't be able to stop themselves from telling us all about it.

00:36:46.340 It'd be a national day of, uh, of celebration. They'd be giving a medal to this guy.

00:36:52.240 So the fact that they haven't told us, tells us that the TSA has never thwarted a terrorist attack.

00:36:58.240 There have been many tests that have been conducted to see how effective the TSA is in actually stopping

00:37:05.160 people from sneaking things on board. Um, and they failed those tests. They failed them miserably

00:37:11.440 almost every single time. And the, and, and the TSA was, we always have to remember they came up with

00:37:19.940 this entire elaborate solution after 9-11 completely unnecessary because you know,

00:37:28.660 what could have thwarted 9-11 on the day, you know, in the moment, um, if they had locked cockpit

00:37:34.500 doors, that probably would have thwarted it. Locked cockpit doors and you arm the pilots.

00:37:39.520 And certainly there would have been no 9-11. Well, now we do have locked cockpit doors and

00:37:44.380 they do arm the pilots. And that's, that's enough. That's enough to address the 9-11 factor.

00:37:49.500 All the rest of this, you got to take your shoes off. You can't bring a, you know, hair gel on board.

00:37:53.780 It's got nothing to do with stopping terrorist attacks. And, and you know, what frustrates me the

00:37:58.520 most about this whole thing is that the one, the one potential advantage to having a single agency

00:38:08.680 in charge of airport security all across the country is that you would think if you didn't

00:38:12.600 know any better, you would think that it would, at a minimum, there would be a standardized procedure

00:38:17.460 in place, which would make things a little bit more efficient because everyone knows what they're

00:38:21.160 getting into when they get to airport security. But somehow 20 years later, the procedures still

00:38:25.300 are not standardized. They're slightly different depending on what airport you're at.

00:38:30.260 Not different enough. I've heard some people say, well, they don't want to standardize it because

00:38:33.380 then the terrorists will know what to expect. So they want to keep them on their toes. Yeah,

00:38:37.560 they're not different enough to throw terrorists for a loop. They're just different enough to cause

00:38:41.960 little problems and delays that add up. Things like they, TSA can't decide when you get up to the

00:38:47.480 TSA agent before you go through the, the scanner. Do you, do you give them your ID and your

00:38:53.000 boarding pass or you just give them, give them your ID? You can't decide. This depends. Do you

00:38:57.440 take your laptop out of the bag or do you not? Do you take your belt off or do you not? I mean,

00:39:00.800 they, they can't, there's, there's, they can't decide what it's going to be. And so it's different

00:39:05.080 depending on the airport. And the other thing is that the TSA agents, they get annoyed at you

00:39:08.900 if you don't know the specific procedures that are in place for this one airport where they happen

00:39:14.380 to be. So the TSA agents expect is that there's going to be slightly different procedures at every

00:39:18.220 airport and that you will know all of those and you'll have them memorized. And so if you're,

00:39:23.480 if you're a little bit lagging behind because you're not familiar with the procedures at this

00:39:26.760 airport, they start yelling at you and get annoyed. So that's what we get from the TSA.

00:39:33.000 All right. I also want to mention this before we get to the comment section. Daily Mail has this

00:39:38.420 story. Transgender woman, as always, I have to give the qualifier. This is, I'm reading the language 0.99

00:39:44.440 in the Daily Mail report, which is not accurate language, but this is what it says in the Daily

00:39:48.980 Mail. A transgender woman has been sacked by Starbucks after showing, after footage showed

00:39:53.360 her berating a female customer and allegedly assaulting a man who filmed the incident. The

00:39:57.640 clash broke out at a Starbucks branch near the ferry terminal of Southampton, Hampshire on Sunday,

00:40:04.480 April 30th. The 56 second clip shows the employee on the same side of the counter as the customer

00:40:09.600 arguing with the customer. There's something that precipitated this, that the customer said

00:40:15.980 something that the trans identified person felt was transphobic. And that led to, there's footage

00:40:21.040 of it, which we'll play here.

00:40:51.040 You actually, actually, you battered me the phone. Give me the phone. You want to hear

00:41:01.540 me the phone. Let go of me. Give me the phone. I've got plenty of witnesses. Give me the phone.

00:41:05.420 I've seen. Let go of me. Give me the phone.

00:41:09.060 All right. So that was, uh, that was the encounter between the, the transgender employee who apparently

00:41:25.960 according to Daily Mail was fired, which is, uh, which is, you know, which is good. At least I

00:41:32.420 wasn't expecting that. Um, kind of expects that when I first saw that footage, I expected they would

00:41:36.260 throw the customer right under the bus and say that, Hey, you know, our trans employees, they they're

00:41:41.920 fighting for their lives. It's a genocide. They have to do what they can to survive. I expected 0.90

00:41:48.060 something like that from Starbucks, but, uh, they decided not to go that route, which is,

00:41:51.420 which is fine. Credit to them for that. Only a little tiny bit of credit. Um, and I appreciate

00:41:56.660 the woman too. I don't know what, I don't know what led up to this incident. I don't know what she

00:42:00.420 said that the trans identified person felt was transphobic. I don't care. Like whatever she said,

00:42:05.200 it was fine. Um, so I'll credit her for standing her ground. The only Monday morning quarterback,

00:42:13.120 uh, thing I will do here is, is to say that, you know, she, she seemed rather desperate to,

00:42:22.100 um, vindicate herself of the claim that she was transphobic. So she kept saying,

00:42:28.080 don't you dare call me transphobic, but how dare you call me transphobic?

00:42:32.220 I would prefer, and this is just future reference for anyone who finds themselves in a situation like

00:42:39.960 this, which if you've never been in a situation like this, um, most likely eventually you will be.

00:42:46.400 And so what I, what I think you should say is not how dare you call me transphobic. It's more like,

00:42:51.620 get out of my face. How dare you get in my face about this? How dare you think that it's my job

00:42:57.280 to support your self-perception? Okay. You're, you're playing make-believe here. How dare you

00:43:03.180 get in my face and expect me to play alone? Okay. Why don't you just leave me alone?

00:43:08.760 Okay. Well, how is this my job? I'm just here. I'm here to get a coffee. Okay. That's all I want.

00:43:12.080 I want a coffee. I don't want to get sucked in to your ego trip. Hey, you're, you're walking around

00:43:18.340 back in the counter and you've created this, this, uh, fantasy world for yourself where you're a girl,

00:43:24.660 even though you're not, how's that my issue? Just give me, pour me the damn coffee. How about that? 1.00

00:43:30.020 That's what I would like to hear her say. Pour me the damn coffee. This is not my problem. 1.00

00:43:34.420 As far as the transphobic claim. Oh, you say I'm transphobic. Oh, okay. No, I don't care.

00:43:39.880 Oh, you think I'm transphobic. Listen to me. I don't care that you think that it doesn't matter to me.

00:43:45.120 Um, what I do care is that you're getting in my face and trying to force me, compel me.

00:43:53.040 It's like draft me into, um, into supporting your self-perception, not my job.

00:44:02.100 So a slight, slight adjustment, but, uh, but overall, at least she stood her ground there.

00:44:07.340 Um, all too often we see exchanges like that, where the person who's really the victim in this,

00:44:12.020 the person who's being accosted, uh, backs down and says, Oh, well, I'm so sorry. I didn't realize

00:44:16.400 that you, I have no idea. Well, clearly you're, you're, you're a woman. You're a, look at you, 1.00

00:44:20.120 a beautiful woman. So she didn't do that. I appreciate that at least. All right,

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00:45:27.200 exactly a comment, but this was making the rounds yesterday and I appreciated it. Someone wrote a list

00:45:33.440 list of the 50 evilest white people, 50 most evil white people on earth. And, you know, the list starts 0.99

00:45:42.340 number one, Adolf Hitler. Not a lot of creativity there, but, you know, that's, I think everyone would 1.00

00:45:47.280 choose number one, Adolf Hitler. Heinrich Himmler, number two. Mussolini makes the top five. We could all 0.65

00:45:53.500 agree with that. Vladimir Putin makes the top 10, I think, way too high, especially above Stalin.

00:46:00.640 Um, and then Donald Trump in the top 15, which, uh, was a great honor for him. Um, Tom, Tom Brady

00:46:08.280 makes the top 30s. Tom Brady comes in at number 29. I think we could all, well, we could all probably

00:46:11.960 agree with that. Uh, and then I'm on the list. I made number 48 of the, uh, top 50 most evil white 0.98

00:46:17.060 people. Uh, so number 48, I'm right there. Um, I will say honored to be in the top 50, uh, something 0.80

00:46:25.740 I can add to the accolades that I'm just racking up all over the place. Transphobe of the year,

00:46:31.180 uh, most prominent, uh, uh, anti LGBT person in the country, whatever it was from the media

00:46:37.280 matters guy. And now top 50, most evil white person. So, and I know that beggars can't be 0.99

00:46:42.920 choosers, but at the same time, um, happy to be in the top 50 honored to be there. Um, I think I

00:46:50.380 deserve to be a little bit higher. Ron DeSantis is 45. Mitch McConnell's 46. I can make an argument

00:46:55.220 for myself to be at least in between, you know, I think I should edge out Mitch McConnell at this

00:46:59.720 point. Um, Derek Jeter is number 43. You know, I, I, I'd slide him down a couple of slots. So

00:47:07.700 top 50, not satisfied though. I'm not satisfied till I make the top 10. All right. Burge says

00:47:14.660 Maddie and his flannels in front of those old smoky mountains, disingenuousness heaped upon

00:47:20.120 disingenuousness. You know, I read these comments on Twitter. Now it's a slightly different tenor.

00:47:26.180 And I read a lot of this now, Matt with his flannels trying to put on a, this is a fake

00:47:32.200 image that he's created in his flannels. Um, what exact image, like what character is just a dad in

00:47:42.720 a flannel? Okay. If this is a, if this is some sort of fake phony brand that I've come up with,

00:47:49.600 it's the laziest one, it's the laziest brand imaginable. Um, they tried to get me to brand

00:47:57.180 myself a little bit different by putting me in the, in the, uh, in the sports jacket. And that

00:48:00.660 was too much effort. I said, I don't want to, it's like too much. All they want to wear is the

00:48:04.400 flannel. So, um, if this is a, if this is phony branding on my part, it's the, it's, it's extremely

00:48:11.840 low effort at a minimum. You got to give me that. Uh, another comment says what mental illness did

00:48:18.560 Neely have? Bipolar, schizophrenia. The only specific info I've heard on him is all the crimes 0.60

00:48:23.840 he has knowingly committed. Yeah, I think he was probably diagnosed. I don't know the specifics of

00:48:29.560 it either. Um, as far as was, was he actually officially diagnosed with something? He probably was.

00:48:37.620 Um, and, but, but that to me is not as relevant because, uh, although it's clear that this guy

00:48:47.500 was delusional and deranged, I'll say he was deranged. Um, as always, when we go right to the

00:48:55.080 mental illness thing, same with every mass shooting, we hear about mental illness, mental health. This is

00:49:00.980 something that, uh, really the people on the right are more likely to do because on the left,

00:49:05.140 they want to go guns and they want to go, if they can tie it to white supremacy, whenever they can,

00:49:11.560 if they can't do either of those things, then they go to mental illness. I think on the right,

00:49:16.340 and at least I'll give people on the right who do this credit because it's consistent,

00:49:20.020 but they'll go right to mental illness every time. And there's a, there's a, obviously that

00:49:26.740 plays a role. There's a factor there, but what ends up happening is that we remove all of the guilt

00:49:33.760 and blame, whether this is intentional or not. And I think especially people on the right who do it,

00:49:38.660 it's probably not intentional, but the effect is that we remove all the guilt and blame from the

00:49:44.620 individual. When we make it all about mental illness, like these, these are all purely crazy 0.79

00:49:49.760 people. I had no control over their own actions, but I don't buy that. I just don't, I don't buy,

00:49:56.880 I don't buy it in the kind of complete way that's, that so many people seem to.

00:50:05.460 I think almost everybody, and there are exceptions to this, but almost everyone has,

00:50:13.660 they're acting a certain way because at some level they are choosing to act this way.

00:50:19.340 Why do they want to act that way in the first place? When you dig down deep, that's, you know,

00:50:24.420 you can get into mental illness and all kinds of things. You get into things about their childhood

00:50:28.000 and abuse they suffered in childhood. All that stuff is there. But even in spite of that,

00:50:33.740 they chose to act this way. All these mass shooters, most of the time there's a lot of planning that goes

00:50:39.980 into it. And they make efforts to conceal what they're going to do. It may not be very convincing

00:50:51.080 efforts to conceal what they're going to do, but it's not like they're, you know, walking around

00:50:57.140 in public shouting to people that they're going to do this thing. So it's clear that there are

00:51:02.580 decisions being made, there are choices being made. And so I still hold people accountable for that.

00:51:07.960 Like, I don't care what mental illness you've been diagnosed with. If you commit an evil act,

00:51:12.680 you committed an evil act. I hold you accountable for that. And I honestly, I don't care what you're

00:51:17.360 diagnosed with. You did that. You, you've made that choice. Like that's still you in there somewhere.

00:51:24.820 So ultimately, like there's only one person who can be immediately accountable and most directly

00:51:31.720 blamed for your actions. And that is you as the individual who is doing these things.

00:51:37.200 Um, and Rufus says, you are a hate and fear-mongering idiot. You are a hate and fear-mongering idiot. 1.00

00:51:48.860 You are a hate and fear-mongering idiot. You are a hate and fear-mongering idiot. Okay. We really, 1.00

00:51:55.400 this, the Twitter comments might not work. I don't know. We might have to, we might have to come up

00:51:59.660 with a different plan. The unsupervised says, what Bluey does have is loving family members. If you don't

00:52:04.680 see yourself represented in that, the problem is yours, not the show's. Uh, and Evan says,

00:52:09.920 Bluey actually contains a lovely story about a boy with ADHD. He starts playing with another boy

00:52:14.140 whose dad is in the army and they play army together. It, it disciplines him a bit and he

00:52:19.340 can focus on the game. Okay. So I made a joke yesterday about how Bluey, and I've watched plenty 0.98

00:52:24.840 of Bluey with my three-year-old daughter, but I haven't seen all the episodes. I'm not a scholar on

00:52:28.800 the show and maybe it's in the way that some people are. And I made a joke, but they don't,

00:52:32.340 they haven't represented, you know, they need to have a dog with ADHD and a dog with anxiety

00:52:36.340 disorder to really represent everyone. Apparently there was a storyline with a, one of the characters

00:52:41.020 had ADHD, except that what I'm getting from this description is that they, they found a way in the

00:52:47.340 story, you know, for this character, they found a way to, you know, discipline. They found a way for

00:52:52.280 him to, I guess, harness that energy and, and they found a way to focus him. And the message,

00:52:58.320 unless I'm wrong, sounds like the message of the, of that episode was not that when a child

00:53:06.440 is easily distracted, we need to drug them into submission. So the entire episode did not end up

00:53:11.200 being one long advertisement for the pharmaceutical industry, which means that it's still, that's

00:53:16.940 another, that's problematic. As far as the left's concerned, that is also still problematic.

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00:54:15.560 For the last few years on this show, we have been covering what I would call the pandemic of

00:54:24.220 pointless tipping. Now it used to be that tipping was expected only if you were at a sit-down restaurant

00:54:29.260 or ordering a pizza for delivery. It's a simple time back then. Everybody knew the rules and

00:54:33.580 expectations. You were asked to leave a tip only in very limited and specific circumstances, which

00:54:37.420 meant that you could tip generously when those occasions arose. It was a win-win. The waiters and pizza

00:54:43.320 delivery guys, they made out pretty well, and you had the opportunity to feel magnanimous. I used to tip

00:54:49.160 upwards of 25%, even more for most tipping situations. I was essentially a philanthropist

00:54:53.720 back in those days. But then the dam started to crack a little bit, and suddenly places like coffee

00:54:59.680 shops were putting out tip jars. And, you know, why do I need to tip someone for pouring me a coffee?

00:55:04.520 I could do that by myself. I'm more than happy to. Let me behind the counter. I'll handle it.

00:55:08.940 Nobody ever bothered to justify the coffee shop tip jar, and we didn't have time to stop and think

00:55:13.020 about it because next thing you know, sit-down restaurants started offering to-go options,

00:55:16.760 but they still wanted tips even for that. We used to tip the waiter for serving the food. Now we're

00:55:21.600 being asked to tip the guy who simply hands a bag of food across the counter, and we got to tip the

00:55:26.380 same for that, we're told. Tipping had already gotten out of hand, and we hadn't seen the worst of it yet

00:55:31.280 because one day, seemingly out of nowhere, all at once, every store in America started using

00:55:36.140 touchscreen tablets at checkout, which makes it even easier to add a tipping option. And this was the

00:55:42.000 moment when the dam finally gave way. The simple, innocent days of tipping only on pizza night or

00:55:47.560 date night were gone, and now everybody wants a tip. Every cashier at every store suddenly turns

00:55:52.120 into a panhandler. Doesn't matter if you're at a bakery or a coffee shop or a fast food place or an

00:55:57.400 airport or a supermarket or a gas station, a hardware store. They all want tips. They've all decided that

00:56:02.960 inflation hasn't made life expensive enough as it is, apparently. And even as these industries

00:56:08.280 intentionally make their already too expensive goods and services even more expensive, the quality

00:56:14.200 of the goods and services declined. The website retailcustomerexperience.com reported last year

00:56:21.040 on a poll of over 96,000 consumers, which found that the quality of customer service has dipped

00:56:25.860 dramatically. So if you've noticed a significant increase in the number of customer service workers

00:56:30.100 who are totally disinterested and generally incompetent and often openly angry at you for walking

00:56:36.700 into their establishment to begin with, that's not your imagination. Like, we've all noticed the

00:56:42.020 same thing. And yet, at this precise moment when service has never been worse, we're being asked to

00:56:47.960 pay more than we ever have for it. But at least if you're tipping a, you know, sullen and lazy customer

00:56:56.220 service employee, you're still tipping an actual employee. You're tipping someone. You're tipping a human

00:57:01.300 being. Increasingly, even that is starting to change. The Wall Street Journal reports this week,

00:57:06.340 quote, quote, tipping at self-checkout has customers crying emotional blackmail. Zero interaction with

00:57:12.500 employees during a transaction no longer guarantees freedom from the moral quandary of how much to tip.

00:57:18.200 Prompts to leave 20% at self-checkout machines at airports, stadiums, cookie shops, cafes across the

00:57:23.780 country are rankling consumers already inundated by the proliferation of tip screens. Business owners say

00:57:29.280 the automated queues can significantly increase gratuities and boost staff pay. But the unmanned

00:57:34.860 prompts are leading more customers to question what exactly the tips are for. They're cutting labor

00:57:39.640 costs by doing self-checkout, but what's the point of asking for a tip? And where's it going? Says

00:57:44.420 Ishita Jamar, a senior at American University in Washington, D.C., who has noticed more self-serve tip

00:57:49.520 queues at restaurants she frequents. Tipping research, tipping researchers, that's a job apparently, 0.99

00:57:54.400 tipping researchers. And labor advocates say that so-called tip creep is a way for employers to

00:58:00.180 put the onus for employee pay onto consumers rather than raising wages themselves. Companies say that

00:58:06.560 tips are an optional thanks for a job well done. Job well done? Well, who did the job at a self-checkout

00:58:13.480 machine? Me? If anyone should be tipped after I use self-checkout, it should be me. And I really should

00:58:20.400 get a tip because I'm very efficient on the self-checkout, okay? Unlike a lot of people,

00:58:25.940 and they're in front of you in self-checkout, you know that's going to be a problem. They're

00:58:28.300 going to be there. They bag each thing slowly and individually and all that. I speed through that

00:58:33.420 thing. It's one of my best skills. And I've already taken on the role of the employee when I'm at the

00:58:40.480 self-checkout machine. I am scanning and bagging my own items. So the store should be tipping me for

00:58:47.060 my labor, not the other way around. Self-checkout has always been kind of a time of internal emotional

00:58:53.640 conflict for me. Because on the one hand, I appreciate how self-checkout caters to my

00:58:59.060 antisocial tendencies. So I like that. I don't have to talk to anybody. That's great. On the other hand,

00:59:04.000 I think it's certainly a generally unhealthy thing for society to replace human jobs with machines.

00:59:10.160 I don't think that's a good trend, okay? It doesn't go anywhere good. And besides, I sort of resent being

00:59:15.840 asked to do the job of an employee without being paid for it. I assume we get to the point where

00:59:20.300 Walmart expects the customers to come in at 3 a.m. to unload the trucks and stock the shelves and mop

00:59:25.880 the floors. And they'll still ask us to leave a tip at the end of it. And most people will. See,

00:59:31.580 that's the real story here. You know, it's clear that the tipping virus, it's spreading uncontrollably.

00:59:37.720 We all know that now. As with most things in our culture, the solution is to get back to the

00:59:44.520 basics, to return to tradition. The only people who should be asking for a tip are waiters

00:59:49.660 and fast food delivery people. Even though the food delivery apps already charge service fees and

00:59:55.660 delivery fees and delivery service fees and service delivery fees. And then they ask for a tip on top

01:00:01.180 of all that. So you're paying $87 for a hamburger before you add the tip. That's kind of a separate

01:00:06.280 issue. Waiters and delivery people, still, they can ask for tips. A few other service jobs that have

01:00:12.780 been grandfathered in, valets, coat checks, etc. Everyone else can make do with the wage that

01:00:18.380 they're already being paid. You're already getting paid to do your job. That's why if you're at the

01:00:23.880 checkout, your paycheck is for this right here. This interaction where I'm giving you something,

01:00:30.520 you're scanning it, you're taking the card. That's what that's for. That's what your paycheck is for.

01:00:35.000 It's for that. And that's how it used to be. And it's how it should be again. We can get back

01:00:41.840 there. But it's up to the customers to make that happen. The customers have to say no. See, this is

01:00:48.200 the other element in the perfect storm that has led to this tipping pandemic. Most people in our

01:00:52.680 culture, they don't know how to say no. They were never told no as kids. They never tell their own

01:00:58.020 kids no. They never tell anyone no. They tolerate everything. They accept everything. And they leave a

01:01:02.640 tip whenever the prompt comes up because they don't want to say no in that context either.

01:01:06.120 We have to recapture the long lost art of saying no. As much as I complain about the proliferation

01:01:12.840 of tipping, I'm really complaining on behalf of all of those people who are suckered into it because

01:01:18.540 it's not actually a problem for me personally. I have no trouble saying no. I will hit the no tip

01:01:23.180 option on the checkout prompt without feeling the slightest tinge of guilt. Okay, even if it's one of

01:01:28.460 those things where they really ramp up the emotional blackmail, but by asking you, sometimes if you're in

01:01:34.680 maybe say a drive-through line and they'll say, oh, did you want to add the tip here?

01:01:41.780 Probably 90% of people in, especially then will say, oh yeah, sure. I'll do. I have no problem

01:01:45.960 saying, oh no, I don't. Thank you for the opportunity. I don't. I'll just pay. I'll pay

01:01:50.140 the actual amount that's on the receipt and that's it. I thank you so much for the opportunity to pay

01:01:54.520 more, but I would, I'd rather pay less actually. I'm not stealing the goods that I purchased. I've

01:02:00.340 already paid for them. I don't feel morally compelled to voluntarily pay more than what

01:02:05.200 they cost because that's what the tip prompt is really asking. Here's your total. Would you like

01:02:10.600 to make it more expensive? No, I would not like that. No, thank you. That's all. That's all we need

01:02:16.800 to say. And saying no to tip to the tip prompts is just the start. It's good practice for all the

01:02:23.460 other no's we should be saying. Emotional blackmail is a common tactic in our society

01:02:28.380 and it's used to advance all sorts of insidious agendas. The over-tipping agenda is not the most

01:02:34.940 insidious, but it's not the least either. And the solution is the same either way. Just say no.

01:02:41.840 And to those asking for undeserved tips, we can also say you're canceled.

01:02:46.900 And that'll do it for the show. This portion shows we move over to Members Blocky. Become a member

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01:02:54.780 Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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