Ep. 1161 - How A False Rape Accusation Destroyed One NFL Player’s Life
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Summary
For many men falsely accused of rape, the cost is their careers, reputations, and lives. Today, we ll discuss the story of Matt Ariza, who had his NFL career ruined after he was accused of a vicious gang rape.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, what is the cost of a lie? For many men falsely accused of rape,
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the cost is their careers, reputations, their lives. Today, we'll discuss the story of Matt
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Araiza, who had his NFL career ruined after he was accused of a vicious gang rape. A year later,
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the truth has finally come out. Also, more alleged details about the mass shooting at a
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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today. These days we're told that there is no such thing as objective truth. Every person gets their
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own truth based on their perceptions of their own, quote, lived experience, and each individualized
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truth is just as valid as every other individualized truth. And according to this view of the world and of
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reality, there's really no such thing as a lie, because to lie is to intentionally misrepresent
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the truth, but you can't misrepresent something that doesn't actually exist. And this relentless
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campaign to obliterate objective truth is always doomed to failure. The truth still exists. Those who
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deny it or falsify it are not asserting their own truth, but simply telling a lie. And lies have
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consequences, severe and appalling consequences, oftentimes. Consequences that all too often
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are felt by everyone but the liars themselves. And that brings us to the story of Matt Ariza.
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So early last year, everything was basically looking up for Matt Ariza, NFL prospect from San Diego
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State. He was a punter, not a position that usually attracts much attention, but Ariza was a special case
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because while still playing in college, his punting prowess had earned him the perhaps vaguely
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sacrilegious nickname, Punt God. Finishing his final college season, he averaged 51 yards per punt,
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which was an NCAA record. After getting drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round and booting an
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82-yard punt in a preseason game, all signs indicated that he would live up to his nickname in the NFL and
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have a long and illustrious professional career.
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However, punters don't get a lot of press or accolades. They don't make as much money as other
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positions, but they also don't take a lot of hits, which means that a good punter can easily play for
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a decade and a half or even longer. So everything was set up for Matt Ariza. Nothing could get in
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his way except a lie and a media eager to amplify it. In August of 2022, shortly after being officially
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named the starting punter for the Bills, a civil lawsuit was filed claiming that he, along with
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two of his teammates in college, viciously and brutally gang raped an underage 17-year-old girl
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at an off-campus party a year before. There was, so far as the public or the media knew,
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no evidence that the rape occurred, no proof other than the word of the accuser. But that's all the
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media needed, of course. Immediately, the frantic headlines were published, labeling Ariza a rapist
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and an abuser, relaying the alleged facts of the case, which were graphic and harrowing.
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In a story that's oddly reminiscent of the Kavanaugh allegations, the alleged victim claimed that she was
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at this party and she was led, quote unquote, drunk and half-conscious to a back bedroom in the home
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where she was abused by three men over the course of an hour and a half, leaving her bloody
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and crying. She says that eventually she was able to get out of the room and she ran out of the room,
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bruised and bloodied and crying. CBS did an interview with the accuser at the time. Here's
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I was having to deal with this horrible traumatic experience that I never asked for.
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The accuser, who just turned 18, alleges that Ariza and two other players assaulted her for more
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than an hour at a party last October. I was bleeding. I was crying and my friend asked me what happened
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and I told her I had just been raped. She wrote in her journal the next day,
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all I keep replaying in my mind is being face down in a random bed, just waiting for it to be over.
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Ariza's attorney says his client will be vindicated. What do you think is happening here?
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He had what we call the deep pockets of these three young men. And I think it's,
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I still think it's a money grab on her part on behalf of Mr. Ariza.
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That makes me really sick to the stomach. I reported it a day after it happened. I was 17 years old
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Makes her sick to her stomach, she says. Well, it didn't take long for the bills to cave to the
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public pressure and they released Ariza, a decision that was strongly criticized by the
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media at the time, not because it was based on extremely questionable allegations, but because
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it wasn't made quickly enough. Here's ESPN at the time taking the bills to task for not throwing
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They were aware late July. It happened now in late August. How do you believe the bills look now?
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The bills don't look good. The bills don't look good because when you hear the details,
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we're hearing it now. So it's fair to surmise that if the general counsel for the bills
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spoke to the lawyer of the alleged victim, then you had that information and those details
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before a few days ago. So the fact that you had those details and you waited this long to act,
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that's a problem for the Buffalo bills. As a result,
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it becomes a stain to some degree on the NFL, not the league office. I'm just talking about the
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NFL shield because we're talking about an NFL team, even though this is a player that had happened
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that allegedly had happened it while he was in college at San Diego state. Yep.
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My point is, is that even though it happened at San Diego state with a college student,
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allegedly while he was in college, the bottom line is he was a member of the bills. And once he was a
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member of your organization and this came to light, you were supposed to act immediately,
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especially since your general counsel brought it to you.
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So it was a stain on the bills, on the NFL, and he's right, but not for the reasons that he thinks.
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Now, I wanted to let that play out a little bit because you see that at no point in that discussion
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or any other discussion on ESPN or any other news channel, did anyone seriously stop to consider
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that a story of a violent, bloody sexual assault in the middle of a college party that lasted an hour
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and a half might not be totally credible. Now, they may have used the word alleged to cover
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themselves, but the message was clear. As far as they're concerned, as far as they were concerned,
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Matt Ariza was guilty. A couple of months after Ariza lost his job in the NFL, the prosecutors
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announced that they wouldn't be pressing charges in the case, but there were no additional details.
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No additional information was released about that to explain that decision until this past week.
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So 10 months later, 10 months for the narrative to set itself in stone, and now the truth comes out.
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And as it turns out, Matt Ariza was not even present at the party when the alleged rape occurred.
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And not only that, but evidence strongly suggests that no rape occurred at all.
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A fuller picture of what police and prosecutors found, however, is now available via a 200-plus page
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transcript of a 100-minute meeting obtained by Yahoo Sports where a deputy district attorney
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offered a detailed explanation to the girl and her attorneys. Perhaps most notably,
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the district attorney's office concluded Ariza couldn't have led the girl into the alleged gang
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rape because he had left the home at about 12.30 a.m. an hour prior to when evidence suggests the
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He wasn't even at the party anymore, deputy district attorney Tricia Amador explained to the girl.
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Later, Amador stated of the timeline of the events, quote,
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All I know is that at that point, suspect Ariza is gone from the party.
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Prosecutors and police interviewed 35 witnesses, including friends of the accuser.
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They also reviewed video of the sexual encounter that the accuser claims was a rape,
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because there's video of it. Ariza isn't present in the videos,
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and there's no indication in the footage that the sex was anything but consensual.
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According to the physical evidence and witness testimony compiled by investigators,
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which again includes friends of this girl, this was not a story of an underage girl being taken
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to a room against her will and brutalized. Instead, the picture painted by those who
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investigated the case is quite a bit different, and it goes something like this, according to the
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evidence that they compiled. So the girl, who was 17 at the time, went to a college party a few
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blocks from her house. She entered the party through a back gate. Multiple witnesses testified
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that she told people at the party that she was 18. Multiple witnesses said that they heard her
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saying this multiple times to multiple people at the party, saying that she was 18. Investigators
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actually found video footage from a party the night before that this girl was at, where she's on
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camera saying that she's 18. Yahoo News reports, quote,
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The civil lawsuit alleged that soon after the girl's arrival at the party, she was separated
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from her friends, and Arizo led her over to the side of the yard of the house, yard of the house
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where he told her to perform sex against her consent. Arizo, however, has always maintained
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that he never led her into a private area of the backyard, that she walked back there while he was
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urinating. Witness testimony, again including the girl's friends, played a role in prosecutors
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declining to press charges. Quote, the witnesses say that shortly after you arrived at the party,
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you left and came back shortly thereafter, the DA, Tricia Amador said. And you told a friend,
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quote, I just had sex. You didn't appear unhappy. You appeared to be having fun.
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And the encounter on the side of the house with Matt, suspect Ariza, was consensual.
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Amador also explained to the girl that additional witnesses alleged that at this period of time,
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quote, you were approaching men at the party saying, I want you to bleep me, and if you don't bleep me,
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you're a bleep. The report continues, quote, while the civil lawsuit claimed that's right
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after the Ariza encounter in the side yard, the football player led her into the bedroom in the
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house. The timeline established by authorities was much different. Prosecutors said that shortly
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after being with Ariza, witnesses said the girl again left her group and came back to report she
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had sex with a different man. Again, prosecutors explained, witnesses suggested it was consensual.
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Quote, you had returned and then came back and said you had sex with a guy. This would have been the
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second person that would have been in the progression of the evening, Amador said. Again,
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you're described as being okay, not scared or distraught. You seemed happy. It seemed consensual.
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Again, you're not intoxicated at this point that anybody would know your intoxication level to the
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point that they would not be able to tell that you weren't able to give consent, Amador said.
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So this was the second person that this girl decided to have sex with that evening.
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And by this point, Matt Ariza had left the party. This encounter was captured on cell phone video,
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and according to prosecutors, there's no indication in the footage that the sex was non-consensual.
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All in all, the evidence again seems to strongly indicate that this girl went to this party,
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accessed it through the back door, lied about her age multiple times, solicited sex with multiple men.
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As witnesses saying that she was the one going and soliciting it, bragged about her sexual conquests
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in the moment, had consensual sex repeatedly over the course of several hours, and then at some point
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shortly after this sex marathon decided that she had been raped. According to this version of events,
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and this is the version that's actually supported by witness testimony and physical evidence,
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she came up with a story which was then used to destroy an innocent man's life.
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Matt Ariza, the latest on him is that he plays for the Mexican Football League with hopes of making his way
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back to the NFL, but that's unlikely to happen. Even after this, everything comes out. After being
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vindicated in this way, his name and reputation have been permanently stained. Meanwhile, the accuser
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still wants to bring the lawsuit to trial, hoping for a friendly jury that would be persuaded more by
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her tears than by the facts of the case, and she might get exactly that.
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If she doesn't prevail at trial, she still gets to go on with her life like nothing ever happened.
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See, as always, false accusers are playing with house money because either their plan works and
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they get paid, or it doesn't work and no harm, no foul. As far as they're concerned,
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they suffer no consequences at all. This is the way the system is set up, but it doesn't have to be set
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up this way. It seems incredibly obvious to me that false accusers, those who are proven to be
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false accusers, if it's proven, as it seems to have been in this case with evidence, they should face
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the same penalty that we would give to rapists. And by the way, I think that actually guilty and
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convicted rapists should go to prison for life. I'd be in favor of life sentences at a minimum for actual
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rapists. And I would be in favor of life sentences for those who falsely accuse someone of rape,
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because to falsely accuse someone of rape is just as bad as being a rapist. There is no moral
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distinction between the two. Because after all, if this girl had her way, Azira would, or Riza rather,
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would not only be fired from his job and have his reputation permanently ruined, which is a terrible
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fate on its own. Okay, when we talk about someone's reputation, we say rape ruins your reputation.
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We're not just talking about like they're embarrassed by something or something embarrassing
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happens. This is your whole life. This is your name. This is who you are. It's been dragged through
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the mud. This is like every person you encounter for the rest of your life. You've got this scarlet
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letter that you're wearing around on your chest. But it's not just that. If she had her way,
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he would also be in prison. He'd be locked behind bars as a rapist and suffering all of the consequences
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that come with being a rapist in prison. You could easily make the case that false accusations are a
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form of attempted murder. You're trying to take a man's life away from him. And if he can't take his
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life, he'll take everything he values in his life, his job, his livelihood, his friendships,
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his relationships, his reputation, his name. And the fact that this is often done by women who are
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simply embarrassed because they behaved whorishly only makes it worse. Now, we can't know the actual
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motivations of any specific person who makes false accusations because we can't see inside their minds
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in their souls. But it seems that often this is the motivation. Embarrassed because of the way that
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you behaved, because you behaved shamefully and shamelessly. And so you're trying to recover your
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ego and your own reputation by destroying somebody else. It can also be motivated by vengeance,
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need for revenge, some kind of sick power play. But really casually destroying someone's entire life
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because you're embarrassed is, it's psychotically evil. And like so much other evil in our society,
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it goes unpunished most of the time. Because we are not a society that values truth, we don't
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appreciate the real cost of a lie. And we're also beholden to the left's victimhood hierarchy.
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Matt Riza, as a white male football player, simply didn't have enough victim points, or any at all
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really, to have his side of the story taken seriously. These are the factors that create
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the perfect storm that has destroyed the lives of many men. It's not fair. It's not just.
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But it's also an unfairness and an injustice that young men should always be aware of.
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And the best way to protect yourself from it, it's not foolproof, okay, but it's nearly so,
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is, especially if you're a young man, stay away from hookup culture completely.
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Now, you certainly don't deserve to be labeled a rapist because you're consensually hooked up with
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some random girl who regretted it the next day. But that might be what happens.
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There are a lot of reasons to reject hookup culture. This is far from the only reason.
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But it's reason enough on its own. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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The story of the Texas mall shooter gets stranger and stranger by the day. This was a Hispanic man
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named Mauricio Garcia. And not the name that you would expect for an alleged white supremacist,
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quote unquote, or the ethnicity that you would expect. You know, when someone tells you about,
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though, this white supremacist that committed a mass shooting, and you don't know the person's name,
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but maybe you're guessing what the name might be. You would never guess Mauricio Garcia as the name.
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But that's what we're told. And shortly after the shooting occurred, hours later, we had all kinds
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of alleged details of his background, his ideological views. And we're told, again, that he's a Mexican,
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neo-Nazi, white nationalist. And this is largely based on alleged postings of his on a Russian social
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media site. So Mexican neo-Nazi posting on a Russian social media site. Here's NBC News.
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A social media page appearing to belong to a gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas area outlet mall
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had shared extremist beliefs with rants against Jews, women, and racial minorities posted since
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September, as well as posts about struggling with mental health. Mauricio Garcia, 33, maintained a profile
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on the Russian social networking platform OKRU, including posts referring to extremist online
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forums such as 4chan and content from white nationalists, including Nick Fuentes and anti-Semitic
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white nationalist provocateur. In the weeks before the attack, Garcia posted more than two dozen
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photos of Allen premium outlets where an officer killed him after the shooting Saturday and surrounding
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areas, including several screenshots of Google location information, seemingly monitoring them all at
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its busiest times. Many of his posts referred to his mental health. In his final post, he lamented
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what his family might say and wrote that no psychologist would be able to fix him. In another
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post, he made disturbing comments about what makes a mass shooting important, quote unquote, and praised
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a person who opened fire at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee this year, killing six
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people, including three children. The shooter, along with that, also posted a series of, a little bit more
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from NBC. The shooter also posts a series of links to other sites, including a YouTube account that
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featured a video published the day of the shooting. In it, he removed a scream mask and said,
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not quite what you were expecting, huh? He also posted photos of a flak vest emblazoned with patches,
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one of them with the initialism for right-wing death squad, a popular meme among far-right extremist
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groups. And then he also had supposedly swastika tattoos. We're also told that he allegedly posted some
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content from Tim Pool. So Tim Pool was trending all of yesterday because he was mentioned in some
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of his content. And he had another post, allegedly, which begins with the words,
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this post was inspired by libs of TikTok. And then the post goes into a rant about Jews and how he
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admires Hitler or whatever. So here's the full picture that's been painted for us that we're expected
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to believe. A Mexican neo-Nazi with a page on a Russian social media site was an admirer of Tim
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Pool and Nick Fuentes and Hitler, but also was a fan of the trans shooter that shot up a Christian
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school and was inspired by libs of TikTok and his Jew hatred, even though the woman who runs libs of TikTok
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is Jewish herself and has never posted, obviously, any anti-Jewish content.
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Does that make sense? Did all that seem clear to you? Make total sense? Oh, not at all? Well,
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yeah, exactly. I mean, if you take this at face value, I don't know what to tell you.
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Meanwhile, even according to this official narrative, this guy was apparently openly posting
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his intention to commit this shooting, posting photos from his reconnaissance of the location,
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and no intelligence agency ever got wind of it. Yet another mass shooter who's out,
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you know, basically openly announcing, hey, I'm going to commit a mass shooting, everybody.
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Here's where I'm going to do it. I'm posting pictures of it. And our intelligence agencies
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had no idea. Still too busy tracking the, you know, maybe the people at the parents at PTA meetings
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and school board meetings, the real domestic terrorists. And then the shooting happens. So
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intelligence agencies had no idea about it, no matter how often he was announcing his plans.
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And then it happens. And then immediately after that, everyone knows everything about his entire
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social media profile, including his obscure profiles on random Russian websites. The whole
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thing is, I mean, call me a conspiracy theorist. I don't care. I don't, it doesn't just smell funny.
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It reeks. Okay. First of all, Tim Poole, can we just say is a moderate. He's a, and I don't think
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he would have any issue with me saying that. I don't know that he would, he would disagree with
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that characterization. He's not, I've never heard him say anything remotely radical. He's like,
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he's like a nice guy. Remember he got, he got kind of annoyed at me because I was being too mean to
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Dylan Mulvaney, if you remember. So, and this is the guy who helped to radicalize a Mexican neo-Nazi.
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Libs of TikTok is again, a Jewish woman who reposts content from leftists.
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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.
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
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
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
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
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
00:40:51.040
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.
00:41:09.060
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
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?
00:43:30.020
That's what I would like to hear her say. Pour me the damn coffee. This is not my problem.
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,
00:44:20.120
a beautiful woman. So she didn't do that. I appreciate that at least. All right,
00:44:23.960
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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
00:45:42.340
number one, Adolf Hitler. Not a lot of creativity there, but, you know, that's, I think everyone would
00:45:47.280
choose number one, Adolf Hitler. Heinrich Himmler, number two. Mussolini makes the top five. We could all
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
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
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
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
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
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.
00:51:48.860
You are a hate and fear-mongering idiot. You are a hate and fear-mongering idiot. Okay. We really,
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
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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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,
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
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