The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1186 - Leftists Who Celebrate Violent Rap Music Suddenly Offended By ‘Violent’ Country Song

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, major backlash against a country song that allegedly promotes, quote, racism and violence.

00:00:06.080 But since when does the media or the left care about violence and music?

00:00:09.580 We'll talk about that.

00:00:10.380 Also, Louisiana Republicans override the governor's veto to pass a ban on child mutilation.

00:00:14.880 CNBC lists the worst states in the country.

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00:00:20.000 Charles Barkley goes on an unhinged rant against people who don't drink Bud Light.

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00:01:43.920 As you've probably noticed, the music industry is a degenerate wasteland full of semi-literate drug addicts who spew vulgarity and ugliness all over the culture like a never-ending stream of projectile vomit.

00:01:55.340 For just one example, of course, one of the most talked-about songs of the summer called Poundtown has the performer, Sexy Red, graphically describing her various orifices in the very first lines of the song.

00:02:05.820 And it's all downhill from there.

00:02:08.180 This is what passes for music in modern times.

00:02:10.060 And if you criticize any of it, if you object to any of this filth, no matter how aggressively disgusting, stupid, and morally deranged it is, you are dismissed as a prude.

00:02:20.440 If you do not want these morons and perverts to dump this audible sewage directly into your child's eardrums, then you're nothing more than a fainting church lady clutching your pearls.

00:02:31.260 The media will join in this course, of course, insisting that the music you object to is somehow actually artistically brilliant.

00:02:38.440 Sure, the average hit song these days sounds like it was written in crayon on a piece of toilet paper by an emotionally disturbed adult who still wears Velcro shoes.

00:02:45.940 But you're supposed to love all of it and never criticize any of it, or else you are nothing more than a puritanical scold.

00:02:53.500 But there are exceptions to this rule.

00:02:55.980 Every once in a while, the very people who love and defend the most heinous and disgusting music imaginable will encounter a song that they deem offensive.

00:03:05.400 They go from calling everyone else pearl clutchers to clutching their own pearls.

00:03:09.500 Suddenly, they're the ones fanning themselves and fainting.

00:03:12.160 These are always interesting and informative moments, and we happen to be experiencing one right now.

00:03:18.320 The song that has provoked the wrath of the sorts of people who regularly celebrate the most demented and hideous and artistically irredeemable music ever made is from country star Jason Aldean, and it's called Try That in a Small Town.

00:03:31.780 This song, we are informed, is deeply offensive.

00:03:34.860 I mean, it's probably the most offensive song that's been made this century based on the reaction.

00:03:42.320 So prepare yourself.

00:03:44.160 Here's a quick sample.

00:03:44.940 Try that in a small town.

00:04:12.620 See how far you make it down the road

00:04:17.080 Around here we take care of our own

00:04:22.120 You cross that line

00:04:23.800 It won't take long for you to find out

00:04:26.880 I recommend you don't

00:04:28.360 Okay, so just to review, Aldean is directing this at those who sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk, carjack an old lady at a red light, or pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store.

00:04:38.860 And warning that if they behave this way in a small town, they won't make it down the road because, as he says, folks in small towns take care of their own and don't put up with that kind of nonsense.

00:04:49.000 Now, as someone who lived in a town of fewer than 3,000 before moving to Nashville, I can confirm that this is basically how it works in my experience in small towns.

00:04:59.620 I, you know, where I lived, I never heard of anyone getting carjacked or sucker punched on a sidewalk.

00:05:05.760 Violent crime was virtually non-existent.

00:05:08.000 And this was all not in spite of, but at least partially because, everybody legally owned multiple firearms.

00:05:15.180 It was certainly not uncommon to hear gunshots coming from your neighbor's property, not because any crime was being committed, but because they were, you know, out back doing target practice or in the woods hunting for deer.

00:05:24.920 These were not the sorts of people you wanted to carjack or randomly assault on the sidewalk, which is why that sort of thing rarely, if ever, happened.

00:05:32.860 That's what Jason Aldean was trying to convey in his song.

00:05:35.440 Along with conveying that there's a, you know, a sense of community that you can find in a lot of these towns that oftentimes you don't find in the bigger cities, which is also, in my experience, true.

00:05:48.600 But, of course, somehow this is all, for some reason, offensive to many people on the left.

00:05:54.100 As mentioned, there has been a deafening cry of outrage against this song.

00:05:57.860 Many tweets like this from a woman named Reverend Dr. Jackie Lewis, who you know is insufferable based on the fact that she front loads her name with multiple titles. 1.00

00:06:05.840 But she posted, there's no non-racialized way to write a song about lynching.

00:06:10.620 When Jason Aldean sings, see how far you make it down the road, it invokes a very particular legacy.

00:06:17.580 Another viral post agrees, nobody can be shocked by Jason Aldean writing a racist as F song.

00:06:22.400 Him and his skanky wife hang out with Trump and dress their kids in anti-Biden clothing.

00:06:27.240 The song is as sh**ty as he is.

00:06:30.100 Many more posts, you know, where these came from, all of a similar tone and theme.

00:06:35.460 The Daily Beast slammed Aldean with this headline,

00:06:37.760 Jason Aldean catches heat for racist pro-gun lyrics, a modern lynching song.

00:06:42.860 The outlet claims that the song is not just a statement of Aldean's personal politics, but a disturbing call to arms, quote unquote.

00:06:49.820 They accuse the singer of, quote, suggesting that he's gearing up for a race war.

00:06:53.960 And by the way, their evidence for that accusation, that he mentions a race war in the song, is they quote this lyric from the song.

00:07:03.120 Got a gun that my granddad gave me.

00:07:05.140 They say one day they're going to round up.

00:07:07.880 So the Daily Beast sees a race war in that line, somehow.

00:07:12.060 I don't see it, but I guess this is like the leftist version of finding Jesus in a piece of toast.

00:07:16.400 I don't know.

00:07:16.760 Many other headlines echoed this sentiment.

00:07:19.520 Perez Hilton published his own screaming headline,

00:07:21.940 Music fans nationwide condemn Jason Aldean's violent new song, an awful music video.

00:07:27.760 Big yikes.

00:07:30.100 CNN agreed, noting that the lyrics allegedly evoke lynching and gun violence.

00:07:34.880 Other artists have denounced Jason Aldean.

00:07:37.100 Last night, Sheryl Crow posted this.

00:07:38.680 CMT, the country music television channel, joined the dogpile by abruptly pulling the music video from their rotation.

00:07:59.940 They didn't give, at this point, an official reason for that decision, but the reason is clear.

00:08:04.740 The backlash eventually prompted a lengthy response from Aldean, who released a statement yesterday with this clarification.

00:08:10.700 Quote,

00:08:11.600 Try that in a small town, for me, refers to the feeling of community that I had growing up,

00:08:15.700 where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief.

00:08:19.740 Because they were our neighbors, and that was above any differences.

00:08:23.420 My political views have never been something I've hidden from,

00:08:25.700 and I know that a lot of us in this country don't agree on how we get back to a sense of normalcy,

00:08:31.060 where we go at least a day without a headline that keeps us up at night.

00:08:33.640 But the desire for it, that's what this song is about.

00:08:38.400 Now, he also stipulates that this song is not about race and does not promote lynching.

00:08:44.080 These stipulations are totally unnecessary because everybody already knows that the accusations are completely absurd and meritless.

00:08:51.340 The people making the accusations especially know it.

00:08:53.940 In fact, if you immediately assume that lyrics condemning carjackings and random assaults are racist and anti-black,

00:09:04.000 then you have revealed something about your own feelings and assumptions about black people.

00:09:08.980 Okay, if somebody says,

00:09:10.040 I hate carjackings,

00:09:12.360 and you say,

00:09:12.980 Well, what do you got against black people?

00:09:14.500 You've admitted something about yourself.

00:09:17.100 It's like if I said,

00:09:17.740 Man, you know,

00:09:18.240 I can't stand the lazy, smelly weirdos,

00:09:20.860 and you said,

00:09:21.740 Hey, what's wrong with Mexicans? 0.98

00:09:24.860 Somebody in the exchange has made an unflattering statement about Mexicans,

00:09:28.160 and it wasn't me.

00:09:30.460 Something similar is going on with this reaction to try that in a small town.

00:09:33.660 Now, with all that said,

00:09:35.180 I must admit that there are some gratuitously violent lyrics in Jason Aldean's song.

00:09:42.560 Okay, we didn't play them for you.

00:09:43.660 It's a little bit offensive.

00:09:44.600 But, I mean, listen to these lines from the song.

00:09:48.080 I got some homies with pounds,

00:09:49.600 but we ain't that cool.

00:09:50.580 So I'm thinking about robbery.

00:09:52.220 Got to play this shit smart.

00:09:53.480 It's going to hurt they heart.

00:09:54.800 When they find out that it was me that was robbing them.

00:09:57.200 Got to catch him when it's dark.

00:09:58.520 Going to run up on his car.

00:10:00.140 That same one we always be riding in.

00:10:01.860 Ran up to his car,

00:10:02.600 made him grab the wheel.

00:10:03.680 I grabbed his neck like I'm Iron Man.

00:10:05.720 Just do what I say.

00:10:06.800 No, you don't want to die in here.

00:10:08.520 If you reach or you tweak,

00:10:09.700 I'm a fire in here.

00:10:12.360 Wow.

00:10:13.360 Really violent stuff from Jason Aldean.

00:10:16.200 Oh, wait.

00:10:16.640 No, that's not Jason Aldean.

00:10:17.960 I'm sorry.

00:10:18.480 That's not Jason Aldean at all.

00:10:19.660 That's one of the top rap songs on YouTube right now

00:10:22.000 from a rapper named King Vaughn.

00:10:24.840 This is actually a posthumous song from the artist

00:10:26.920 who was tragically killed in a gang shooting a few years ago.

00:10:30.260 Before his death,

00:10:31.220 he had been implicated in up to 10 different homicides, okay?

00:10:35.380 He's a rap artist with hit songs,

00:10:36.940 including one right now after he died,

00:10:38.820 implicated in 10 homicides.

00:10:41.580 So he was potentially an actual serial killer

00:10:44.480 with a music video that has 10 times the number of views

00:10:47.960 as Jason Aldean's song right now.

00:10:49.900 But Jason Aldean is the problem somehow.

00:10:53.640 He's the one we're worried about.

00:10:56.080 King Vaughn is not a unique case.

00:10:58.240 The rap genre is obviously full of actual violent criminals

00:11:02.760 who openly glorify murder, drug abuse, rape, robbery,

00:11:07.180 all manner of violent crime.

00:11:08.520 They directly call on their fans to engage in this behavior,

00:11:12.540 and their fans respond accordingly.

00:11:15.180 They have particular influence over fatherless inner-city kids

00:11:18.300 who they coax down a road of lawlessness and self-destruction.

00:11:21.840 This is what you get in rap music,

00:11:23.540 which is why every year, or sometimes multiple times a year,

00:11:26.360 rappers end up lying in the gutter,

00:11:27.900 bleeding out as the lifestyle they promote

00:11:29.780 comes back to destroy them.

00:11:31.200 Meanwhile, we're still waiting, as far as I know,

00:11:33.220 for the first country artist to be killed in a gang shooting.

00:11:35.440 It doesn't happen because country artists aren't the problem.

00:11:39.640 The problem lies with the genres of music

00:11:41.600 that had an automatic and universal pass

00:11:43.760 from the very people pretending to be scandalized

00:11:46.120 by Jason Aldean.

00:11:48.440 A few months ago, Billboard released its list

00:11:50.720 of the top rap songs of 2022.

00:11:52.520 Number one on the list is Glorilla and Hit Kid, FNF.

00:11:59.260 Part of that is the song title.

00:12:00.700 Part of it is the name of the rapper.

00:12:02.400 I don't know which is which.

00:12:03.140 But this song also made the best songs overall

00:12:06.320 of 2022 list for the Los Angeles Times,

00:12:09.280 NPR, Pitchfork, Time Magazine.

00:12:13.280 It's one of the hits of the previous summer,

00:12:15.000 went massively viral on YouTube and TikTok.

00:12:16.960 Here's a brief sampling of this artistic masterpiece.

00:12:20.340 Listen.

00:12:20.540 We hoppin' out in red lights, twerkin' on them head lights.

00:12:25.000 She say she can't come out sad today.

00:12:27.040 That means she scared, right?

00:12:28.060 I be put up in the winter in the summer,

00:12:30.280 pop out at night, raggin' on that top.

00:12:32.780 You better hold his head tight.

00:12:34.800 Anyways, life's great.

00:12:36.460 Still good.

00:12:37.840 Still eatin' cake.

00:12:39.140 Wishing there the .

00:12:40.100 Got my foot up on they necks as a .

00:12:43.180 Okay, one of the best songs of the entire year right there,

00:12:50.880 according to NPR in the LA Times.

00:12:52.960 Now, you might argue that the violent themes in that song

00:12:56.060 are less of a concern because the lyrics are so illiterate,

00:12:58.700 stupid, and unintelligible, 0.93

00:12:59.820 it's hard to tell exactly what she's even trying to say.

00:13:02.140 That's perhaps the one benefit of having a music scene

00:13:04.460 overrun by mentally disabled idiots with sub-75 IQs. 1.00

00:13:07.980 Be that as it may, can anyone seriously argue

00:13:11.280 that Try That in a Small Town is more objectionable

00:13:13.940 than the garbage you just heard?

00:13:16.120 Or any of the garbage just like it?

00:13:18.940 Of course, the crucial difference between Try That in a Small Town

00:13:21.540 and a song like Robberies or FNF, whatever it's called,

00:13:24.560 aside from the fact that Jason Aldean can read above a third grade level,

00:13:27.400 is that in the former case,

00:13:29.000 if the artist is advocating for any form of violence,

00:13:31.980 he's advocating for violence in self-defense

00:13:34.540 or in defense of the innocent against predators.

00:13:38.780 But in your typical rap song,

00:13:40.340 violence is advocated against anybody and everybody,

00:13:42.560 not for the sake of defending yourself or your community,

00:13:44.720 but for the sake of profit or settling a score

00:13:47.400 with someone from a rival gang

00:13:48.720 or proving how tough you are, etc.

00:13:51.380 You know, if a rap song mentions carjacking people at red lights

00:13:54.400 or pulling guns on liquor store owners,

00:13:56.120 it'll be because the artist is bragging about doing those things.

00:14:01.520 Aldean condemns those crimes.

00:14:03.940 Rap artists explicitly promote and glorify them.

00:14:06.660 A total indifference to human life.

00:14:09.520 Callous, violent amorality.

00:14:11.440 That is what you hear promoted in the kinds of songs

00:14:14.140 that will never, ever, under any circumstance,

00:14:16.680 be criticized by the Daily Beast or CNN

00:14:19.500 or Sheryl Crow or any of those people.

00:14:22.760 So, why does Aldean get held to a standard

00:14:27.880 that is never applied to the most popular rap artists in the world?

00:14:31.380 Well, because Aldean is white, number one,

00:14:33.900 and conservative,

00:14:35.500 and he sings country music.

00:14:37.060 I mean, that's the whole reason.

00:14:38.160 It's as simple as that.

00:14:40.260 They accuse him of racism,

00:14:42.240 but it's their own racism,

00:14:45.040 their anti-whiteism,

00:14:46.720 actually several forms of racism at play here,

00:14:50.320 given all the assumptions that they're making,

00:14:51.940 again, about black people

00:14:53.300 by taking his lyrics as racial.

00:14:56.300 That's what's driving us.

00:14:58.260 And there are political bigotries as well.

00:15:01.460 That's what's behind all of it.

00:15:03.400 And we all know it.

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00:16:13.920 We begin with good news.

00:16:15.760 The Daily Wire reports,

00:16:16.620 in a rare move,

00:16:17.220 the Louisiana legislature has vetoed,

00:16:19.520 or rather voted to override

00:16:20.860 Democrat Governor John Bel Edwards' veto

00:16:22.720 of a bill that shields children

00:16:24.320 from life-altering sex change procedures.

00:16:25.980 The bill, called Stop Harming Our Kids Act,

00:16:28.580 will prevent doctors from performing transgender procedures

00:16:31.720 like double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys,

00:16:33.880 and administering puberty blockers

00:16:35.180 and cross-sex hormones to children.

00:16:37.140 Quote,

00:16:37.800 Today was a huge win for the children of Louisiana.

00:16:40.160 I'm proud of my colleagues in the state legislature

00:16:41.720 for standing up to protect the children of our great state.

00:16:44.240 We made it clear today

00:16:44.880 that our children are worth fighting for.

00:16:47.280 This great victory would not have been possible

00:16:49.480 without the prayers and support

00:16:50.800 of parents, grandparents, pastors,

00:16:53.120 and grassroots organizations from around the state

00:16:54.880 who rose up and declared with one voice

00:16:56.540 that no one in Louisiana has the right to harm a child.

00:16:58.720 That is a quote from Louisiana Republican Representative

00:17:01.660 Gabe Furman, the sponsor of the legislation.

00:17:04.040 The House voted 75 to 23 to override the veto

00:17:06.160 with 69 Republicans being joined by six Democrats.

00:17:09.360 In the Senate, lawmakers voted 28 to 11

00:17:11.420 to adopt the measure.

00:17:15.480 So this is, and I was trying to skip ahead for this,

00:17:17.760 this is only, I believe, the third successful vote

00:17:24.500 to override a veto in the state since 1974.

00:17:27.620 So it doesn't happen very often, but it happened here.

00:17:31.160 And this is not even the first time

00:17:32.680 that a governor's veto has been overridden

00:17:34.900 for the sake of passing a child mutilation ban

00:17:36.920 into law in this country recently.

00:17:38.740 The same thing happened, if you recall, in 2021 in Arkansas.

00:17:43.060 So what we see is that not only have we,

00:17:47.440 when I say we, I mean those of us on Team Sanity,

00:17:51.220 those of us in the anti-gender ideology camp,

00:17:54.320 not only have we mobilized elected Republicans

00:17:56.600 to take this issue seriously,

00:17:57.760 but we have mobilized overwhelming support, okay?

00:18:01.540 We mobilized them to take the kinds of actions

00:18:03.260 that you very rarely see.

00:18:05.680 The pendulum is swinging back in our direction.

00:18:09.180 It has swung.

00:18:09.920 I mean, that has already happened.

00:18:11.040 There are, you know, and there are conservatives

00:18:12.340 who still don't want to admit this.

00:18:14.180 There are conservatives who still,

00:18:15.400 for whatever reason, they don't like it when I say this,

00:18:17.500 that we're winning.

00:18:19.040 Because I think they're terrified of winning.

00:18:21.080 Or, you know, this is, I think for some conservatives,

00:18:25.100 especially conservative commentators

00:18:26.200 who don't like to talk about the fact

00:18:27.440 that we're winning on this issue,

00:18:28.620 I think for some of them, this is not their issue.

00:18:31.780 They haven't done much on it,

00:18:33.100 and so they don't want anyone else

00:18:34.200 to get credit for anything,

00:18:35.140 and so that's why they don't want.

00:18:36.520 But whatever their motivation,

00:18:39.240 we are winning on this issue.

00:18:40.960 I didn't say it's over.

00:18:42.100 I didn't say we're done, okay?

00:18:44.020 I didn't say that we can just,

00:18:45.040 hey, well, that's it.

00:18:46.240 Let's go home, folks.

00:18:47.440 I didn't say that, but we are winning.

00:18:50.600 We just simply are.

00:18:51.560 And it's why I emphasize this,

00:18:54.020 because it's so important to acknowledge it.

00:18:56.380 Not just because it's a healthy practice

00:18:59.080 to acknowledge your wins

00:19:00.180 and to not always be down and doom and gloom

00:19:04.360 and everything is terrible.

00:19:05.580 I mean, we do plenty of that,

00:19:06.660 on this show especially.

00:19:08.820 But it's a healthy thing to recognize

00:19:11.400 and be grateful for the victories.

00:19:12.540 So there's that,

00:19:13.100 but then even from a strategic perspective, too,

00:19:15.700 strategically,

00:19:17.580 it's important to acknowledge victories.

00:19:20.700 Because other people,

00:19:22.720 you know, people who are not in the mix,

00:19:26.080 people who are not,

00:19:27.080 haven't quite chosen a side,

00:19:28.600 the people that are sort of like

00:19:29.460 floating in the middle,

00:19:31.240 they want to be on the winning side.

00:19:34.420 So when you're winning

00:19:35.540 and you say we're winning on this issue,

00:19:39.020 that is persuasive to those

00:19:41.720 who have not joined yet.

00:19:43.480 They want to join the winners.

00:19:46.320 One of the problems,

00:19:47.280 one of the strategic problems

00:19:48.840 with conservatives always talking about

00:19:50.960 how are we losing?

00:19:52.080 We're losing.

00:19:52.640 Everything's terrible.

00:19:54.000 And again, I know I do that plenty.

00:19:57.200 But one of the issues with that

00:19:59.080 is that it's not just like,

00:20:01.740 oh, you're being pessimistic.

00:20:02.820 It's, well, when you say that,

00:20:05.520 you're not going to convince anyone to join, right?

00:20:08.300 If we want to actually win,

00:20:11.200 then we need to recruit people to our fight.

00:20:16.620 And it's hard to do that.

00:20:18.100 When you say, hey, come here and lose with us.

00:20:19.940 We just lose everything.

00:20:21.800 Hey, you want to lose?

00:20:23.320 Come on over.

00:20:25.700 It's not a successful recruitment method,

00:20:28.740 which doesn't mean that we should be delusional

00:20:32.360 or we should be dishonest

00:20:33.740 or we should claim that everything's going great

00:20:35.380 and we're winning every fight.

00:20:36.560 No, I mean, realism is important.

00:20:38.440 But what I'm saying is,

00:20:40.780 even from a strategic perspective,

00:20:41.880 this is all the more reason

00:20:42.580 to celebrate the victories

00:20:43.500 and say, hey, we are winning.

00:20:44.860 This is the winning side.

00:20:47.400 Come and join us.

00:20:49.540 Okay, if you're late to the party,

00:20:50.620 that's fine.

00:20:51.560 I wish you were here earlier,

00:20:52.500 but we're not going to dwell on that.

00:20:56.000 Better late than never.

00:20:57.400 Okay, now is better than never.

00:21:00.620 Now, the left will take solace

00:21:02.060 in various polls or whatever

00:21:03.240 that supposedly show

00:21:04.140 that there's still a majority support

00:21:05.640 in this country

00:21:06.100 for quote unquote gender affirming care

00:21:07.780 for minors.

00:21:08.320 And there are plenty of polls

00:21:09.240 that do say that.

00:21:09.940 But what they don't tell you

00:21:12.900 is that support is falling drastically,

00:21:15.880 quickly.

00:21:16.760 The momentum is on our side.

00:21:18.820 The other thing they don't mention

00:21:19.600 is that the support

00:21:20.380 is based almost entirely on ignorance.

00:21:22.480 People support gender affirming care

00:21:24.300 because they don't know what it means.

00:21:25.740 It sounds good.

00:21:27.980 If you have no idea

00:21:28.960 and you're totally oblivious

00:21:30.020 and you have no frame of reference at all,

00:21:31.840 and I know for a lot of us

00:21:32.580 who are more plugged in,

00:21:34.000 it's hard to believe

00:21:35.140 that there could still be anyone

00:21:36.960 who doesn't understand

00:21:37.900 what something like gender affirming care means,

00:21:39.420 but those people do exist.

00:21:40.460 They definitely exist.

00:21:41.300 There are a lot of them.

00:21:43.240 And if you're in that camp

00:21:44.260 and you hear gender affirming care,

00:21:45.440 you don't know anything,

00:21:46.040 you don't know what it means,

00:21:46.820 you say, oh, okay,

00:21:47.480 that sounds good.

00:21:48.080 Yeah, affirming, right?

00:21:49.240 Yeah, we should affirm.

00:21:50.280 Affirm sounds good.

00:21:52.940 Sounds like the kind of thing

00:21:53.780 you should support, affirming.

00:21:55.740 But that's not what it actually means.

00:21:58.880 It means gender affirming care,

00:22:01.320 as we know,

00:22:01.600 means gender rejection care. 1.00

00:22:03.280 It means rejecting

00:22:03.960 who you actually are

00:22:04.900 in a violent way

00:22:06.460 that will cause 0.92

00:22:07.080 permanent physical damage

00:22:08.080 to your body,

00:22:08.940 your mind, and your soul.

00:22:10.200 So we have to explain that.

00:22:12.080 The other advantage that we have,

00:22:14.200 we have the truth on our side.

00:22:16.120 And that's a big deal.

00:22:18.640 Because it means that

00:22:22.160 if people can simply

00:22:23.080 be made aware

00:22:24.140 of what gender affirming care means

00:22:26.800 and what all this stuff is,

00:22:29.020 then they will quickly switch sides.

00:22:33.680 We don't even have to do

00:22:34.880 that much convincing.

00:22:37.060 For so many people,

00:22:38.880 all the convincing,

00:22:39.780 it's almost like you don't need

00:22:40.780 to even make an argument

00:22:41.820 for many people.

00:22:43.480 All you have to do

00:22:44.040 is just show them,

00:22:45.160 this is what,

00:22:45.700 here's what these words mean

00:22:46.840 that you're hearing.

00:22:47.940 Here's what's happening

00:22:48.940 to kids.

00:22:50.640 This is how widespread

00:22:51.560 the problem is.

00:22:53.080 And present it to them.

00:22:55.160 And most people,

00:22:56.540 when they hear that,

00:22:57.220 will say,

00:22:57.360 well, that's terrible.

00:22:58.020 No, I don't support that.

00:23:00.280 They're doing that to kids?

00:23:01.560 No.

00:23:02.620 That's how most people react.

00:23:04.640 So we don't need

00:23:05.300 to constantly keep things

00:23:06.280 covered in euphemisms.

00:23:07.440 We do the exact opposite.

00:23:10.160 It's the other side

00:23:10.800 that has to keep up

00:23:11.400 with the lie constantly.

00:23:12.620 All right.

00:23:13.440 This is from the New York Post.

00:23:14.520 NBA legend Charles Barkley

00:23:16.000 called beer drinkers

00:23:16.960 who boycott Bud Light

00:23:17.860 over its tie-up

00:23:18.680 with trans-influencer

00:23:19.600 Dylan Mulvaney

00:23:20.380 rednecks and assholes 0.99

00:23:22.020 during a profanity-laced

00:23:23.160 tirade in defense

00:23:24.060 of the beleaguered

00:23:25.320 Anheuser-Busch brand.

00:23:27.440 He was at some kind of bar

00:23:28.860 in California

00:23:29.480 where he was playing

00:23:30.740 a celebrity golf tournament.

00:23:32.480 And we have the clip.

00:23:33.280 Let's play it.

00:23:33.780 I want y'all to drink

00:23:36.500 this beer.

00:23:39.980 I want y'all to drink

00:23:41.480 this beer.

00:23:45.000 I got three kisses

00:23:46.820 to Bud Light.

00:23:49.680 Hey, and I want to say this.

00:23:53.100 If you're gay, bless you.

00:23:55.860 If you're transgender, bless you.

00:23:58.960 And if you have a problem

00:24:00.460 with that, you.

00:24:01.860 If you have a problem

00:24:05.700 with that, F you.

00:24:06.300 If you don't drink Bud Light,

00:24:07.880 F you.

00:24:11.400 And that's Charles Barkley

00:24:12.600 for you.

00:24:13.480 He's another one of these guys

00:24:14.760 who gets credit

00:24:15.500 even from people on the right

00:24:16.740 all the time

00:24:17.380 for being supposedly reasonable.

00:24:20.400 Right?

00:24:21.040 Every,

00:24:22.060 once every three and a half years

00:24:23.900 he'll say something

00:24:24.660 on an NBA pregame show

00:24:26.280 that's like vaguely reasonable

00:24:28.360 and maybe moderately insightful

00:24:30.640 on some kind of issue

00:24:31.900 and it'll get passed around

00:24:33.360 like crazy,

00:24:34.300 especially by people

00:24:34.900 on the right.

00:24:35.560 Charles Barkley

00:24:36.280 is one of the good ones.

00:24:38.720 Well, this is what you get

00:24:40.000 from one of the good ones.

00:24:41.080 This is what you get

00:24:41.680 from the reasonable guy.

00:24:44.520 He is a leftist.

00:24:46.140 Very clearly,

00:24:46.980 that's who he is.

00:24:48.620 This is the reasonable

00:24:49.560 leftist for you.

00:24:50.360 One of the good ones.

00:24:51.420 You're a redneck a-hole 1.00

00:24:52.760 if you don't drink Bud Light.

00:24:54.560 Okay,

00:24:54.780 if you don't think

00:24:55.180 that Bud Light

00:24:55.640 should endorse a man

00:24:56.580 dressed like a woman, 0.96

00:24:57.520 you are a redneck 0.97

00:24:58.720 and F you. 0.51

00:25:01.420 That's the reasonable

00:25:02.560 Charles Barkley.

00:25:05.220 And the really sad thing

00:25:06.460 is that by the standards

00:25:08.200 of the left,

00:25:08.880 he is still one

00:25:10.140 of the reasonable ones

00:25:10.900 by their standards.

00:25:13.620 But that's not saying much,

00:25:15.020 so we should probably

00:25:15.500 hold our applause

00:25:16.300 with this guy

00:25:17.100 the next time he says,

00:25:18.060 you know,

00:25:18.360 it'll happen again soon.

00:25:19.900 People are upset about this,

00:25:21.080 but it'll happen again soon.

00:25:21.960 He'll be on TNT

00:25:23.040 or whatever,

00:25:23.520 TBS,

00:25:23.900 whatever it is.

00:25:24.820 And he'll say something,

00:25:26.060 you know,

00:25:28.580 in six months from now

00:25:29.920 and you'll have

00:25:30.860 a lot of conservatives

00:25:31.580 that were upset about this

00:25:32.780 passing the video around

00:25:34.180 and say,

00:25:35.240 oh,

00:25:35.420 what a good guy he is.

00:25:38.140 Guaranteed to happen.

00:25:40.280 CNBC has a list

00:25:41.520 of what it says

00:25:42.380 are the 10 worst states

00:25:43.840 to live and work in.

00:25:44.900 And this is a list

00:25:45.400 that they update every year.

00:25:46.580 And now we have

00:25:47.340 the 2023 edition.

00:25:48.640 So if you were

00:25:49.400 thinking about moving somewhere,

00:25:51.540 you know,

00:25:51.820 a little bit up in the air,

00:25:52.840 you didn't know

00:25:53.140 where you wanted to live

00:25:54.020 and you're waiting

00:25:55.260 for guidance from CNBC,

00:25:57.820 okay,

00:25:57.980 maybe you were talking

00:25:58.700 with your family

00:26:01.360 about moving

00:26:02.000 and you said,

00:26:03.360 well,

00:26:04.020 we're not gonna make

00:26:04.380 any decisions.

00:26:06.040 Okay,

00:26:06.420 let's wait till CNBC

00:26:07.500 tells us what to do.

00:26:09.460 So if you're in that camp,

00:26:10.580 then this is a big moment

00:26:11.340 for you.

00:26:11.600 They finally released

00:26:12.280 the list.

00:26:13.580 They say they compile

00:26:14.920 the list

00:26:15.500 by the numbers,

00:26:16.640 quote unquote.

00:26:17.000 It's a strictly

00:26:17.660 objective determination

00:26:20.060 based on the data,

00:26:22.380 they say.

00:26:23.540 Now,

00:26:24.000 just to skip ahead

00:26:24.860 to the twist ending,

00:26:26.540 the list of the worst

00:26:27.780 states to live in

00:26:29.120 begins at number 10

00:26:30.960 with Florida,

00:26:32.000 one of the most

00:26:32.660 prosperous states

00:26:33.500 in the country.

00:26:33.940 It's one of the highest

00:26:34.500 rates of people

00:26:35.240 migrating to it.

00:26:37.520 And it ends with,

00:26:39.420 as the worst state

00:26:40.280 of all,

00:26:40.620 number one on the list

00:26:41.300 is Texas.

00:26:42.660 Again,

00:26:43.000 a prosperous state

00:26:43.940 where hundreds

00:26:44.840 of thousands of people

00:26:45.480 move to every year.

00:26:48.300 My own state,

00:26:49.040 Tennessee,

00:26:49.420 also makes the list,

00:26:50.300 which is news

00:26:50.880 to all the new

00:26:51.920 transplants

00:26:52.540 that show up here

00:26:53.120 every single day.

00:26:55.760 So it seems like

00:26:56.880 all of the worst states

00:26:58.060 are exactly the states

00:26:59.100 where the most people

00:27:00.960 want to live.

00:27:01.640 It's like,

00:27:01.980 the places where people

00:27:03.300 most want to live

00:27:04.280 are all the worst places,

00:27:06.180 we're being told

00:27:07.460 by CNBC.

00:27:09.420 And another big coincidence

00:27:10.700 here is that

00:27:11.580 every state on the list

00:27:13.080 is a red state.

00:27:15.520 I mean,

00:27:15.920 who could have seen

00:27:16.460 that coming?

00:27:17.320 They also have the list

00:27:18.040 of the best states

00:27:19.780 to live.

00:27:20.900 And I believe

00:27:22.020 every state

00:27:22.740 or certainly

00:27:23.120 the vast majority

00:27:23.800 are blue states.

00:27:24.680 So,

00:27:25.780 big surprise there.

00:27:29.080 But how do they,

00:27:29.740 so how do they

00:27:30.180 determine this?

00:27:31.120 You know,

00:27:31.400 how do they come

00:27:32.040 to this determination?

00:27:32.920 How do they say

00:27:33.380 that Florida,

00:27:34.220 really Florida

00:27:34.860 is one of the worst

00:27:36.040 states to live

00:27:36.860 in the country?

00:27:38.460 Texas is the worst.

00:27:39.900 There's not a worse

00:27:40.460 place to live

00:27:41.060 than Texas?

00:27:43.460 Well,

00:27:43.860 let's find out

00:27:44.300 how they came

00:27:44.860 up with this ranking.

00:27:46.900 This is from,

00:27:47.400 the article says,

00:27:48.000 each year as part

00:27:48.660 of our overall

00:27:49.180 assessment of state

00:27:49.920 business climates,

00:27:51.520 CNBC's America's

00:27:52.560 top states

00:27:53.060 for business study

00:27:54.180 considers how

00:27:54.820 welcoming each state

00:27:55.740 is to workers

00:27:56.340 and their families.

00:27:58.100 Life,

00:27:58.660 health,

00:27:59.000 and inclusion

00:27:59.760 is one of the

00:28:01.080 study's 10 categories

00:28:02.300 of competitiveness.

00:28:03.280 And this year,

00:28:04.040 with a nationwide

00:28:04.540 worker shortage

00:28:05.160 so severe,

00:28:05.980 the category is

00:28:06.520 taking on increased

00:28:07.220 importance in our

00:28:07.900 methodology.

00:28:08.320 We consider

00:28:09.420 multiple quality

00:28:10.200 of life factors,

00:28:10.880 including crime rates,

00:28:11.720 environmental quality,

00:28:12.380 and health care.

00:28:13.240 We also look at the

00:28:13.980 quality and availability

00:28:14.960 of child care,

00:28:15.800 which is one of the

00:28:16.120 most important factors

00:28:16.860 in getting parents

00:28:17.540 back into the workforce.

00:28:20.540 Casting the widest

00:28:21.360 possible net for workers

00:28:22.640 means not turning

00:28:23.480 anyone away.

00:28:23.960 So we consider

00:28:24.640 inclusiveness in state

00:28:26.000 laws by measuring

00:28:27.320 protections against

00:28:28.160 discrimination as well

00:28:29.120 as voting rights.

00:28:30.000 And with surveys

00:28:31.560 showing a substantial

00:28:32.260 percentage of women 0.77

00:28:33.100 considering abortion

00:28:33.940 restrictions when

00:28:34.780 making a choice of

00:28:35.920 where to live in the

00:28:36.600 wake of the Supreme

00:28:37.100 Court overturning

00:28:38.260 Roe v. Wade,

00:28:39.040 reproductive rights

00:28:39.960 are part of this

00:28:40.700 year's equation as

00:28:41.660 well.

00:28:42.660 Okay, so that's how

00:28:43.520 they came up with it.

00:28:44.060 It's just,

00:28:44.940 that's what the list

00:28:45.720 is.

00:28:46.200 Here are the most

00:28:46.940 conservative states.

00:28:48.300 Also, you shouldn't

00:28:48.820 live there because we

00:28:49.420 don't like, we don't

00:28:50.240 agree with conservatism.

00:28:53.060 And so there's not a

00:28:54.220 lot to say about it.

00:28:55.300 This is just a

00:28:55.820 farcical partisan list.

00:28:58.140 Except that, you

00:29:00.420 know, because of

00:29:00.700 course that's not

00:29:01.200 what CNBC is

00:29:02.940 directly saying.

00:29:04.640 They are not

00:29:05.480 directly saying,

00:29:06.280 here are the most

00:29:06.740 conservative states,

00:29:07.880 we hate them because

00:29:08.740 we're liberal.

00:29:10.360 They are trying to

00:29:11.380 frame this as, well,

00:29:12.820 because they're

00:29:13.740 conservative, that

00:29:14.460 means it's a low

00:29:15.060 quality of life and

00:29:15.720 nobody would want to

00:29:16.300 live there.

00:29:17.020 And it just shows how

00:29:18.480 the left and, you

00:29:20.480 know, the media

00:29:20.980 specifically, they have

00:29:23.960 really no concept of

00:29:26.980 what normal people

00:29:29.040 want out of life.

00:29:31.520 Like, what our

00:29:32.380 priorities are in

00:29:33.740 life.

00:29:34.100 They have no concept

00:29:35.500 of that.

00:29:37.680 Because to them,

00:29:38.600 there's nothing

00:29:39.040 farcical about this.

00:29:40.820 They really think

00:29:42.100 that when most, when

00:29:44.600 your average family is

00:29:46.000 deciding where to

00:29:46.840 move, that they're

00:29:48.580 going to take into

00:29:49.220 account things like

00:29:50.160 inclusiveness.

00:29:51.100 a guy, I can, I'm

00:29:56.340 willing to bet, I

00:29:57.260 mean, there's no way

00:29:57.700 to, there's no way

00:29:58.260 to verify this.

00:30:00.220 I'm willing to bet

00:30:01.020 that this is, that it

00:30:02.000 has never happened.

00:30:03.420 Okay, this conversation

00:30:04.180 has never happened.

00:30:05.740 Where you've got a,

00:30:06.660 just a normal working

00:30:08.900 class family sitting

00:30:10.980 around the dinner

00:30:11.420 table and they, they,

00:30:13.060 they got to move, you

00:30:13.980 know, they know, they

00:30:14.580 know they want to move

00:30:15.200 from where they are,

00:30:15.660 they want to go

00:30:15.980 somewhere else.

00:30:17.260 And they're talking

00:30:17.960 about where they could

00:30:18.700 go next.

00:30:19.260 You know, husband or

00:30:20.580 wife, you got a spouse 1.00

00:30:21.280 having this conversation.

00:30:21.860 Now, this part has

00:30:22.400 happened many, many

00:30:22.920 times.

00:30:24.480 I've been in these

00:30:25.140 conversations with my

00:30:25.980 wife on multiple

00:30:26.600 occasions as we've

00:30:27.460 moved around.

00:30:29.140 But here's the part

00:30:29.820 that's never happened.

00:30:31.700 Where husband or wife

00:30:32.820 throws out a state and

00:30:33.880 then someone, and then

00:30:34.360 the other one responds,

00:30:35.540 how inclusive is it?

00:30:37.760 Where does it rank on

00:30:38.560 the inclusivity scale?

00:30:40.880 Oh, no, no, oh, no,

00:30:41.680 honey, we can't move

00:30:42.360 there.

00:30:42.560 It's not inclusive enough.

00:30:45.080 Well, yeah, I mean,

00:30:45.640 look, the crime rate is

00:30:46.400 low, there are job

00:30:47.080 opportunities, there are

00:30:47.840 great schools for the

00:30:48.700 kids.

00:30:49.820 You know, it's

00:30:51.400 affordable, you know,

00:30:52.980 the living expenses are

00:30:53.960 down from where it is

00:30:54.660 here.

00:30:55.220 Here's all the, yeah, but

00:30:56.820 it's not inclusive enough.

00:30:58.320 The inclusivity.

00:30:59.380 Think of the DEI.

00:31:00.640 The DEI is not there.

00:31:03.520 That conversation has

00:31:04.580 just never happened.

00:31:06.520 It just does not

00:31:07.600 happen.

00:31:09.860 And the media doesn't

00:31:11.280 know this because they

00:31:11.660 don't understand anything

00:31:12.400 about human beings,

00:31:13.640 basically.

00:31:14.600 This is funny, though, to

00:31:15.540 read.

00:31:15.760 We're not going to go

00:31:16.080 through the whole list,

00:31:16.700 but Florida, I said, came

00:31:18.160 in number 10 on the list,

00:31:19.020 so it's the 10th worst.

00:31:20.000 Not the worst, but it's

00:31:20.760 number 10.

00:31:21.980 Here's what they say

00:31:22.640 about Florida.

00:31:25.480 Florida Governor Ron

00:31:26.320 DeSantis hopes to ride his

00:31:27.580 war on woke to the White 0.93

00:31:28.580 House, but it's not winning

00:31:29.480 his state points for quality

00:31:30.640 of life.

00:31:31.540 Supporters of the state's

00:31:32.420 Stop Woke Act, which

00:31:33.680 DeSantis signed into law in

00:31:34.940 2022, say it protects

00:31:36.460 employees from diversity,

00:31:37.580 equity, and inclusion

00:31:38.240 initiatives that DeSantis

00:31:39.180 says are toxic. 1.00

00:31:40.360 But many companies consider

00:31:41.580 DEI an economic

00:31:42.820 imperative, and courts have

00:31:44.880 struck down parts of the

00:31:46.140 law.

00:31:48.400 No, no company thinks that

00:31:50.100 DEI is an economic

00:31:51.160 imperative.

00:31:51.980 Many of them do it.

00:31:53.000 Many of them engage in

00:31:53.840 this.

00:31:54.420 It's a cultural imperative

00:31:55.800 for them.

00:31:56.300 It's a societal imperative.

00:31:59.020 It may in an indirect way be

00:32:01.480 an economic imperative

00:32:02.460 because they're worried about

00:32:03.980 the ESG score, they're worried

00:32:05.240 about the Corporate Equality

00:32:06.280 Index.

00:32:08.160 But this is not direct.

00:32:09.340 It's not like if you put DEI

00:32:12.220 as your top concern, that

00:32:13.620 it's going to really help

00:32:14.360 your business directly.

00:32:16.460 No, it's more that there

00:32:17.540 are going to be financial

00:32:18.300 penalties.

00:32:19.540 There are artificial

00:32:20.420 constructs put in place,

00:32:21.900 penalties that are going to

00:32:22.520 be put in place if you don't

00:32:23.520 do this.

00:32:24.920 So maybe in that sense, it's

00:32:26.560 an economic imperative, but

00:32:27.720 it's all completely

00:32:28.780 artificial.

00:32:31.980 The recent Supreme Court

00:32:32.820 decision on affirmative action

00:32:33.760 in higher education, however, is

00:32:34.740 expected to lead to new legal

00:32:35.980 challenges related to DEI

00:32:37.200 programs in the corporate

00:32:37.960 world.

00:32:38.300 Florida is one of the most

00:32:39.380 difficult states to vote in.

00:32:42.220 Wait, let me read that again.

00:32:43.740 Florida is one of the most

00:32:44.720 difficult states to vote in,

00:32:46.400 according to researchers at

00:32:47.340 Northern Illinois University.

00:32:50.680 And so that's really why it's

00:32:52.140 number 10 on the list.

00:32:52.960 And so and then they they

00:32:54.000 they give it a life, health

00:32:55.500 and inclusion score of 129

00:32:57.160 out of 350, which is a D

00:32:59.440 grade.

00:33:00.000 It's only a D.

00:33:01.160 It's passing grade, though.

00:33:03.060 You know, in most schools, I

00:33:04.020 think that counts as passing.

00:33:06.160 Here are their strengths.

00:33:07.480 Air quality, child care,

00:33:10.220 worker protections.

00:33:12.220 Sounds pretty good.

00:33:13.320 You know, you got good

00:33:13.840 child care.

00:33:14.400 You can breathe the air.

00:33:15.620 Sounds like necessities.

00:33:17.200 Weaknesses, inclusiveness and

00:33:18.980 reproductive rights. 0.98

00:33:19.940 OK, so the weaknesses are all

00:33:21.600 the things that no one gives a

00:33:22.940 damn about.

00:33:23.920 And then the strengths are the

00:33:25.360 things people actually care

00:33:26.080 about.

00:33:26.440 Got it.

00:33:28.120 I am curious, though, Florida

00:33:29.580 and I've never lived in

00:33:30.500 Florida, so therefore I've never

00:33:31.720 voted in Florida.

00:33:32.920 But I would like to know

00:33:34.120 Florida is one of the most

00:33:35.500 difficult states to vote in.

00:33:37.560 How is it difficult?

00:33:38.560 Exactly.

00:33:38.920 Do you have to is there like

00:33:41.380 you have to scale a rock

00:33:43.720 climbing wall to get up to

00:33:44.820 the poles?

00:33:47.180 Are the poles perched at the

00:33:48.780 top of some sort of precipice?

00:33:50.420 You have to climb up to it.

00:33:52.580 Is that how it works?

00:33:55.540 Or do they have, you know, is

00:33:56.800 it like a ballot on a on a

00:33:59.600 on a kind of a a dart board

00:34:01.840 and you have to stand 10 yards

00:34:04.960 back and throw your dart and

00:34:06.960 hope that it hits the candidate

00:34:07.860 you want?

00:34:08.400 I mean, that would count as

00:34:09.200 difficult to vote.

00:34:11.380 It also make voting a lot more

00:34:12.500 fun.

00:34:14.860 Is that how it works in Florida?

00:34:16.140 I don't know.

00:34:16.780 Maybe someone could fill me in

00:34:17.620 if those are if those are the

00:34:18.700 policies.

00:34:20.160 But I'm pretty sure it doesn't

00:34:22.140 work that way.

00:34:22.920 And if you want to vote, you

00:34:24.180 could just go and vote like

00:34:25.920 anybody.

00:34:26.760 And it's incredibly easy.

00:34:30.160 Pretty sure about that.

00:34:31.540 But I, you know, I stand to be

00:34:32.800 corrected.

00:34:34.420 I want to move to this.

00:34:35.240 I've had this clip for a couple

00:34:36.160 days.

00:34:36.380 I want to play Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:34:38.160 We had a clip from him earlier

00:34:39.020 this week.

00:34:39.760 And here's a different clip of

00:34:40.800 him that's been going viral on

00:34:42.140 social media this week.

00:34:43.260 This is this is Vivek Ramaswamy on

00:34:45.860 the Breakfast Club radio show.

00:34:47.540 And he is responding to the claim

00:34:49.340 that the U.S. is a white 0.96

00:34:50.820 supremacist country, as you have so 0.72

00:34:52.840 often heard.

00:34:53.900 Here's how he handles that.

00:34:55.820 I can absolutely blame white 1.00

00:34:57.140 supremacy.

00:34:58.120 A hundred percent.

00:34:58.580 Really?

00:34:59.420 Yeah.

00:35:00.380 See, say more and then I'll

00:35:02.820 respond to that.

00:35:03.400 I mean, just look at the history

00:35:05.100 of the country.

00:35:06.820 I guess it's really just that

00:35:07.880 simple for me.

00:35:08.920 The country has never fulfilled

00:35:11.540 its promises of freedom, liberty

00:35:13.440 and justice for all.

00:35:14.880 It's always been freedom, liberty

00:35:16.060 and justice for some.

00:35:17.040 Usually that some is white

00:35:18.540 people.

00:35:18.900 So here's what I would say in

00:35:20.120 response to that.

00:35:21.580 That is obviously true that the

00:35:23.220 nation has fallen short of our

00:35:25.600 promise since our founding.

00:35:27.740 But walk through some obvious

00:35:29.920 facts about America.

00:35:31.360 We're not founded on an ethnicity

00:35:33.000 or a monarch or a food or even a

00:35:35.820 religion.

00:35:36.800 We're founded on a set of ideals

00:35:38.760 that brought a group of people

00:35:40.300 together in 1776.

00:35:41.840 And we live by those ideals.

00:35:43.300 At least we aspire to those

00:35:44.220 ideals today.

00:35:45.860 A nation that aspires to ideals

00:35:48.180 that's not made up of gods, but

00:35:49.800 made up of human beings will

00:35:52.380 always fall short of those ideals.

00:35:54.020 So I think our worst hypocrisies as

00:35:56.840 a country, and we have many of

00:35:57.880 them, our worst hypocrisies

00:36:00.520 are our best evidence that we

00:36:03.140 have ideals at all.

00:36:04.900 You take a look at other

00:36:05.560 countries.

00:36:06.060 Nobody ever calls the Chinese

00:36:07.440 Communist Party a hypocrite or

00:36:09.040 China hypocrite or Iran a 1.00

00:36:10.440 hypocrite. 0.86

00:36:11.480 Why is that?

00:36:12.640 Because to be a hypocrite, you at

00:36:14.760 least had to have ideals in the

00:36:16.000 first place.

00:36:16.920 And so we're imperfect, but we

00:36:18.340 are about the pursuit of a more

00:36:19.920 perfect union, the pursuit of

00:36:21.060 happiness.

00:36:21.460 America is about the pursuit. 0.74

00:36:23.060 And so I think the trashing

00:36:24.460 ourselves, I think we are

00:36:25.600 actually.

00:36:26.000 The reason I say that is because

00:36:26.420 we never were included in those

00:36:28.360 ideals originally.

00:36:30.060 Originally.

00:36:30.680 But never and not originally are

00:36:32.060 two different things.

00:36:32.940 Originally, that's true.

00:36:34.820 Over 250 years of progress, if you

00:36:37.560 had somebody who was in 1870

00:36:40.400 looking at the world we live in

00:36:41.700 today, if you had somebody in

00:36:42.640 1960 who was looking at the world

00:36:44.440 we live in today as it relates to

00:36:45.780 race in America, we would be darn 0.91

00:36:47.460 close to what they would have

00:36:48.720 thought of as the promised land.

00:36:49.980 So I think we have to recognize

00:36:51.600 that America is about that

00:36:53.220 pursuit.

00:36:54.560 We're a lot further along than we

00:36:56.020 were 250 years ago.

00:36:57.840 And here's the other thing, too.

00:36:58.900 We got to set our expectations.

00:37:00.180 We will always fall short of our

00:37:01.480 ideals.

00:37:02.240 By definition, if there are human

00:37:04.120 beings and not gods living in a

00:37:05.620 nation that aspires to ideals, we

00:37:07.440 are fallen.

00:37:08.300 Man is fallen.

00:37:10.020 So that's that's.

00:37:12.260 I mean, well said, I thought he

00:37:13.400 handled that really well, handled it

00:37:14.620 better than than most Republican

00:37:16.840 candidates would, given the same

00:37:19.440 given the same same line of

00:37:21.040 questioning.

00:37:21.940 You know, it is it's it will never

00:37:23.700 not be funny to hear this kind of

00:37:25.160 thing coming from coming from

00:37:26.940 someone that is who's that?

00:37:28.220 I think that's Charlemagne.

00:37:29.080 Charlemagne, the God, as he calls

00:37:30.560 himself breakfast club.

00:37:33.100 He say, well, it's only freedom and

00:37:35.620 liberty for some.

00:37:37.420 To me, as a black man, I don't have

00:37:38.980 freedom and liberty.

00:37:39.560 Really, Charlemagne?

00:37:41.260 But what freedom do you not have?

00:37:43.980 If you're sitting on a talk show,

00:37:47.060 successful talk show with lots of

00:37:48.380 listeners, just saying whatever you

00:37:49.840 want every day.

00:37:51.800 You're getting paid lots of money

00:37:53.380 because net worth like 10 million

00:37:54.800 dollars is a millionaire.

00:37:56.040 Get a pay gets paid to sit and

00:37:57.620 talk.

00:37:58.940 Nothing wrong with getting paid to sit

00:38:00.100 and talk.

00:38:00.740 At least I'm not one to criticize you

00:38:02.780 for that.

00:38:03.760 But what freedom don't you have?

00:38:07.280 Just name it.

00:38:08.240 What is the freedom you don't have?

00:38:10.440 What is the freedom that I have that

00:38:11.820 you don't?

00:38:12.200 Can you name one?

00:38:14.840 Just name one.

00:38:15.760 That's it.

00:38:17.400 Like an actual freedom, an actual

00:38:18.740 legal right.

00:38:20.160 Maybe that's a better way of putting

00:38:21.040 it.

00:38:22.360 What is a legal right that I have,

00:38:26.880 Charlemagne, that you do not?

00:38:29.900 Can you name one?

00:38:32.160 You can't.

00:38:33.940 And you know that you can't.

00:38:37.280 Okay.

00:38:38.120 So stop with the nonsense.

00:38:40.400 That would be one way of handling it.

00:38:42.640 I think Vivek's way of handling it is

00:38:43.720 probably a little bit more.

00:38:46.700 He's going with the wind more flies

00:38:48.800 with honey sort of approach, which is

00:38:50.200 not normally my approach, but which is

00:38:52.520 fine.

00:38:53.800 But his point is also good.

00:38:55.380 Vivek's point is also good that, you

00:38:57.700 know.

00:38:57.840 So yes, if you are, if we're talking about what was

00:39:02.340 going on 200 years ago, but here's the thing

00:39:05.400 about time.

00:39:06.920 It's like time moves forward and things change.

00:39:11.000 And that's not, that's not some sort of easy out or

00:39:15.980 rationalization.

00:39:17.800 Okay.

00:39:18.080 That's not punting on the, on the issue.

00:39:20.000 It's just, that's the answer to a lot of this.

00:39:22.560 Time changes.

00:39:23.540 Times have changed.

00:39:25.240 That really is the answer.

00:39:26.480 It's not 200 years ago anymore.

00:39:27.820 It will never be 200 years ago, but there's time

00:39:31.880 doesn't move in that direction.

00:39:34.980 And it's also true that if you go back just as a, just

00:39:37.860 as a, as an academic note here, which, which, which I

00:39:40.680 think is important to note still.

00:39:41.860 So yeah, if you go back 200 years ago, you're going to

00:39:44.760 find that in this country, there was, you know, not racial

00:39:49.980 equality, really hardly any concept of it.

00:39:53.940 You would also find the same thing in literally every other

00:39:56.540 country on earth 200 years ago.

00:40:00.880 It's a, it's a situation you still find in many countries

00:40:03.680 today, mostly non-Western countries where the, just like

00:40:08.720 racial equality doesn't even exist as a concept.

00:40:11.860 But yeah, you go back 200 years and that's going to be the 0.57

00:40:14.120 case, but it's not then anymore.

00:40:17.180 And at a certain point, um, we have to be able to move on.

00:40:24.240 And if you think that, well, we still haven't, uh, it's still

00:40:27.180 not good enough.

00:40:28.780 Well, then you have to be able to answer number one, what is

00:40:31.140 the, what is the legal right that, that I have as a white man

00:40:33.800 that you do not have?

00:40:36.420 Um, and then you also have to be able to answer this, which

00:40:39.620 is okay.

00:40:40.720 If it's, if we're not there yet, if we don't have racial

00:40:42.920 equality yet, when will we be there?

00:40:46.900 What do you need to see that would let you know that things have

00:40:52.680 gotten better or that we've, that we've arrived and we actually

00:40:56.060 have legal racial equality in the country?

00:40:58.100 What do you need to see?

00:40:59.200 Um, that's another question that they'll never answer because, because

00:41:05.940 they know that it doesn't matter what happens.

00:41:09.300 Like there's no objective, there's not any kind of objective

00:41:12.040 statement that they're making.

00:41:13.620 We could literally elect a black man president to run the country for eight

00:41:19.880 years, elect them twice.

00:41:22.540 Makes no difference because all of this stuff, as I've often said, all this

00:41:28.340 stuff, the systemic racism, it is an unfalsifiable theory.

00:41:31.460 It is not grounded in facts.

00:41:33.380 And so there is no fact that can, um, that can dissuade the people who say

00:41:38.220 this.

00:41:39.720 Let's get to the comment section.

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00:42:31.100 Before we get into the comments, uh, I got to deal with this yesterday on the

00:42:33.980 show, I read a comment from a traitorous member of the SBG, a Judas who said

00:42:38.000 that in my absence, uh, he almost left the SBG and joined Michael Knowles's

00:42:43.860 off-brand cult called, uh, the creme brulee or whatever it is.

00:42:47.060 And I pointed out that first of all, we say SBG for life, which means, and it

00:42:51.940 means something, all right?

00:42:53.060 It means you can never leave.

00:42:54.380 You're not allowed to.

00:42:55.520 Second, I'm tired of these other Daily Wire hosts trying to steal my thunder,

00:42:59.680 steal my, steal my gig and start their own cults. 0.91

00:43:03.200 Okay.

00:43:04.120 Um, well, Knowles apparently responded on his show today and I haven't even really

00:43:07.960 listened to this, but, but let's play.

00:43:10.400 We don't need the part of him playing my clip.

00:43:12.120 Can we just play him responding to that?

00:43:14.660 We have that.

00:43:16.980 I don't disagree with him in principle.

00:43:19.060 I don't disagree in principle.

00:43:20.860 I, I remember for months and months, people would say, Michael, you need a name for us.

00:43:27.540 We want a name to, to go by.

00:43:30.520 And they, I don't mean to mock anybody's suggestions, but the suggestions, they were,

00:43:35.760 I totally agree with Walsh.

00:43:37.100 They were too on the nose.

00:43:38.080 They were too intentional.

00:43:38.720 I said, you can't, it's like giving yourself a nickname.

00:43:40.200 You can't do it.

00:43:41.980 And then I don't know what, what Candace's is.

00:43:46.800 The Klandus. 0.51

00:43:48.420 Klandus would be good.

00:43:50.020 Though that might, then they might call it the Ku Klux Klandus.

00:43:52.080 That would not be, that would be bad.

00:43:53.920 I don't know what a good pun would be for Candace. 0.99

00:43:56.120 The canned, I don't know.

00:43:58.840 But for the Crème de la Crème, to Walsh's point, this did crop up organically.

00:44:05.240 I never sat down, no one, none of you sat down and said, we're going to be,

00:44:08.720 I don't know where it came from.

00:44:09.800 I think it's because sometimes when the spirit moves me, I just start speaking in other languages.

00:44:15.000 You know, I'll speak in Italian, I'll speak in Latin, and occasionally French.

00:44:19.500 Here's how you know that it wasn't intentional.

00:44:21.940 I'm not French.

00:44:23.220 I don't, I don't, I barely even speak French.

00:44:25.200 It just, I don't know.

00:44:26.000 It came to me.

00:44:26.580 The Crème de la Crème.

00:44:27.220 And because you're very, very creamy people.

00:44:29.400 You know, you're, you're lovely.

00:44:31.340 You know, Media Matters is going to pull this out now and say,

00:44:33.800 Knowles' cult is all white. 0.53

00:44:35.480 But it's not, you're not all white. 0.71

00:44:36.540 You just happen to be all creamy.

00:44:39.000 So I, I totally agree with Walsh's point in principle.

00:44:43.120 It's just in practice, he's quite wrong.

00:44:45.100 And I, I suspect his, his vitriol about this comes from the fact that

00:44:50.960 he just doesn't speak French.

00:44:54.200 He doesn't know what the word means.

00:44:55.740 Crème de la Crème.

00:44:56.340 Vous êtes la Crème de la Crème.

00:44:59.320 Qu'est-ce qu'on peut dire?

00:45:00.240 Qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire?

00:45:01.080 All right, sorry, okay.

00:45:02.800 Can we, turn it off, turn it off.

00:45:04.800 Now he's showing off by speaking French.

00:45:06.740 No, I don't speak French, okay?

00:45:08.400 I speak American, damn it.

00:45:10.200 So I live in America.

00:45:11.660 And that's the SBG.

00:45:12.860 We are, we are, we're not, we're not elitist.

00:45:15.120 It's not an elitist thing.

00:45:16.700 This is, we're, this is salt of the earth people in the SBG.

00:45:19.380 That's what it is.

00:45:19.880 I don't even understand, I don't understand the distinction because the distinction makes

00:45:26.280 no sense.

00:45:26.740 There is no distinction between I'm, I'm right, but I'm wrong in practice.

00:45:30.220 What is that?

00:45:30.660 Is that, this is like, what is this, AOC?

00:45:34.400 Moral, morally incorrect fact or something like that?

00:45:37.900 What was the thing that she said?

00:45:39.220 Is this what we're getting from, from Michael Knowles?

00:45:42.380 No, it's not.

00:45:43.940 This is what, I know Candace claimed the same thing about her, her offshoot thing. 0.75

00:45:48.460 Brett Cooper.

00:45:48.920 Brett Cooper has one too.

00:45:50.440 Cooper Trooper.

00:45:51.720 Candace was the candy crushers or something like that. 1.00

00:45:54.480 All of them want to claim, no, I didn't, this is just, it happened organically.

00:45:57.960 No, it didn't.

00:45:59.600 Because your little fans, they saw the SBG and they said, oh, we want, we want to name

00:46:04.140 two.

00:46:05.800 No.

00:46:07.240 You know what?

00:46:07.740 The best you could do, just to use a nineties analogy, to go back to the nineties, we are

00:46:15.120 in the SBG.

00:46:15.840 We are, I would say, you know, maybe the in sync of the daily wire.

00:46:20.400 The best you could do is be the 98 degrees or the LFO.

00:46:26.200 You know, I'm running out of generic brand boy bands, but you get the point.

00:46:30.640 All right.

00:46:35.160 Lucas Ward says, the walrus float shows that even after Matt was forced to behead Johnny,

00:46:40.040 you can't keep a good walrus dead.

00:46:42.560 I think that is to it.

00:46:43.240 You know, I thought about that as well.

00:46:44.700 That was really, maybe that's why the story about the walrus float spoke to me the way that

00:46:49.020 it did and why I became not on the air, but, but, but off the air finding out about, I became

00:46:54.780 somewhat emotional about it because it was, it was a majestic, a majestic float, a great

00:47:01.340 work of art.

00:47:01.980 But then also I saw Johnny, the walrus reborn.

00:47:05.780 And I knew that it's true that no matter what happens, you think that you've destroyed

00:47:11.120 him and he will come back even bigger than before.

00:47:15.000 And I think that's, that's really the point.

00:47:20.260 E.K. 0.77

00:47:20.740 Smither says, Matt sounds reasonable regarding the virtue of not having content to consume,

00:47:25.520 but it's simplistic.

00:47:26.420 Many use that content to relax in the evening after a day of intense mental work like coding.

00:47:31.400 It's not to edify quite the contrary.

00:47:33.600 It is to entertain.

00:47:36.160 Well, I think I said, we were talking about the collapse of the, what we're being warned

00:47:39.700 is going to be the impending collapse of the entertainment industry.

00:47:42.220 And it was like, boo hoo.

00:47:43.200 Uh, no, that's actually could be a very good thing, but that's not me saying that it's

00:47:47.560 good if there are no more movies that exist.

00:47:50.420 Okay.

00:47:50.820 As a, as an art form, I think movies are very, I have made a movie.

00:47:53.960 So, uh, I think that it's a great, um, art form.

00:47:58.340 Uh, but, and I made this point in the monologue that, you know, this, what Hollywood is producing,

00:48:04.620 that is what is collapsing.

00:48:06.140 People are losing, losing interest in it.

00:48:07.640 And I'd like to see it replaced by better art.

00:48:12.900 Um, and that was the point that I was, I was making there.

00:48:15.960 Also, you say that, well, the, the point of entertainment, it's to entertain, not to edify.

00:48:20.300 Um, but I think that this is a false distinction.

00:48:23.340 There's no reason why I can't do both.

00:48:24.880 And when I, when I talk about how it was, and this is like any content that you consume,

00:48:28.780 any film that you watch, any music that you listen to, any book you read,

00:48:31.880 it should be in some sense edifying.

00:48:35.540 Okay.

00:48:36.520 Um, but that doesn't mean that it has to be a hitting you over the head sermon.

00:48:42.040 A lot of that stuff could be the opposite of edifying.

00:48:44.300 Cause it told you it's, it's boring and it's trite and, you know, it doesn't have any impact at all.

00:48:49.840 No, it just means that any story should have, should have something to say.

00:48:54.200 It should have some, you know, it should be grounded in some kind of truth about life.

00:48:58.100 Even a fiction story.

00:48:59.800 Um, and that's, that's the case.

00:49:02.800 That's, that's, that's the case of any, any form of art should be that.

00:49:08.540 Um, and finally, Alana says the video about arguing reminded me of something I would be forced to watch

00:49:16.600 if I got into a fight at recess.

00:49:18.160 I think that's exactly right.

00:49:19.340 Yes.

00:49:19.640 Spencer Cox and, uh, Jared Polis, the governors of Utah and Illinois, or rather Colorado,

00:49:26.200 respectively, doing a PSA to lecture us about not being mean to each other.

00:49:30.500 I was trying to put my finger on what, what, what exactly is this?

00:49:33.180 Like, where have I seen this kind of thing before?

00:49:34.780 And I think that's, I think that's it.

00:49:36.720 It's like when you get lectured because you got into a fight at recess.

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00:50:36.180 Also, men and women are undeniably different.

00:50:38.400 And not just physically, but also on a much deeper level.

00:50:41.240 And ironically, the more the left tries to erase those differences,

00:50:44.280 the more pronounced the differences actually become.

00:50:46.980 For example, women are generally more nurturing than men.

00:50:49.800 That's a fact.

00:50:50.840 Holding on to these facts and understanding them is essential.

00:50:53.600 And that's at the heart of Dennis Prager's new episode of PragerU's Master's Program.

00:50:57.800 In this series, Dennis is sharing 40 years worth of hard-earned wisdom,

00:51:01.420 and he explores all kinds of topics at the same time,

00:51:04.080 like how to be a good person, hurdles to happiness,

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00:51:07.960 But this newest episode is extremely important

00:51:09.640 because the more men and women understand each other,

00:51:12.100 the more they're able to accept and appreciate their unique differences.

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00:51:25.040 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:51:26.640 There are many downsides to living in a collapsing civilization.

00:51:34.060 Overall, I find the experience, frankly, unpleasant.

00:51:36.700 It's not something I would recommend, but there are a few small benefits.

00:51:40.020 One is that it's never difficult to find fodder for this segment of the show.

00:51:44.820 It can be a bit of a stretch sometimes, honestly, filling out an entire hour,

00:51:47.480 but I never have trouble finding material for the daily cancellation.

00:51:50.560 Content for this segment sprouts out of the ground.

00:51:52.560 It falls out of the sky, grows on trees.

00:51:55.200 We are surrounded by it all the time.

00:51:56.780 This is a very meager silver lining, I admit,

00:51:59.680 but we have to take what we can get.

00:52:01.380 And in our culture, there is always someone next in line

00:52:03.920 presenting my next daily cancellation segment to me, doing my work for me.

00:52:08.760 Today, it's the Wall Street Journal with an article about what it calls

00:52:11.660 the hot new invite divorce parties.

00:52:14.420 The article begins, quote,

00:52:15.560 After Brandy Stellars finalized her divorce,

00:52:18.140 she invited close friends to a soiree in May.

00:52:20.320 She mixed signature cocktails, hung a Bye Felicia banner,

00:52:24.600 and handed out fake rose petals to toss in the air.

00:52:27.500 Party decorations included a photo of a pair of penguins torn down the middle.

00:52:31.460 I ripped the penguins in half because penguins are monogamous birds

00:52:34.260 who are supposed to mate for life.

00:52:36.220 She says,

00:52:37.060 Well, I'm not your penguin anymore.

00:52:39.620 The newly uncoupled are throwing themselves blowout bashes 0.88

00:52:42.680 to mark their liberation from unhappy marriages,

00:52:44.900 almost like reverse bachelorette parties.

00:52:46.760 I wanted to celebrate not a divorce,

00:52:48.040 but a new chapter with people whom I love,

00:52:50.300 who want the best for me,

00:52:51.300 says Stellars,

00:52:52.080 who works at a cloud computing company in Columbus, Ohio.

00:52:55.680 Divorce used to be something to be ashamed of 0.94

00:52:57.500 due to societal pressures and stereotypes,

00:52:59.340 says Nicole Sodoma,

00:53:00.620 a divorce lawyer who wrote the book,

00:53:02.000 Please Don't Say You're Sorry about the topic.

00:53:03.960 But today, people have really decided to nip that societal shame

00:53:06.640 and instead embrace being divorced

00:53:08.500 as another stage of life that some of us experience.

00:53:10.840 By the way, I like the bit about penguins

00:53:13.880 because what she's basically saying is that

00:53:15.360 I am not able to live up to the standard of a penguin.

00:53:19.680 Okay, penguin.

00:53:20.680 That is a moral standard that I cannot meet.

00:53:24.220 Penguins.

00:53:25.920 Now, how about a spider that mates with the male spider 0.92

00:53:31.000 and then devours it?

00:53:31.980 That's more where she is, I think.

00:53:37.620 But yeah, divorce is just another stage of life,

00:53:39.780 says the divorce lawyer.

00:53:40.980 Kind of like, you know,

00:53:42.040 totaling your car at the bottom of a ravine.

00:53:44.400 It's just another stage of driving home from work.

00:53:47.080 Burning down your house is just another stage of building it.

00:53:49.840 Choking to death on a chicken bone

00:53:51.180 is just another stage of eating dinner.

00:53:53.520 That's what we're hearing from the divorce lawyer,

00:53:55.060 who, of course,

00:53:56.160 has absolutely no financial motive

00:53:57.960 to promote and normalize divorce.

00:53:59.360 This is certainly an unbiased observer

00:54:01.780 whose insights we can trust.

00:54:03.760 Definitely.

00:54:05.160 Reading on, quote,

00:54:06.300 On Etsy and Amazon,

00:54:07.500 brands sell Splitsville swag,

00:54:10.300 including end-of-an-error sashes,

00:54:12.200 thank-you-next,

00:54:13.520 rose-gold foil balloons,

00:54:15.220 and I do, I did, I'm done t-shirts.

00:54:18.180 On Pinterest, the online platform

00:54:19.580 for sharing creative ideas,

00:54:21.000 search trends show that people are gaining

00:54:22.400 a new perspective on divorce,

00:54:23.760 says Swastie Sarna,

00:54:26.360 Global Director of Data Insights at Pinterest.

00:54:28.740 Pinterest searches for divorce party games

00:54:30.940 surged 80%,

00:54:32.300 and searches for divorce cakes

00:54:34.080 rose 50% in June 2022

00:54:35.880 from a year earlier.

00:54:37.460 There were also jumps in searches

00:54:38.940 for divorce party decorating ideas,

00:54:41.420 35%,

00:54:42.200 and for divorce gifts,

00:54:44.000 30%, according to Pinterest.

00:54:45.780 It was just this feeling of,

00:54:47.280 I'm not ashamed of this,

00:54:48.300 says Nadine Adamson,

00:54:49.560 a real estate broker in Manhattan

00:54:50.880 and Brooklyn who had a divorce party. 1.00

00:54:53.240 I think being married for more than 10 years

00:54:54.900 in New York,

00:54:55.740 I was married for 12,

00:54:56.600 is a huge success.

00:54:59.320 Well, we can't even talk about

00:55:00.760 lowering the bar anymore

00:55:01.900 because at this point

00:55:02.580 it's buried under the ground.

00:55:04.260 You barely have to lift your feet

00:55:06.100 to get over it.

00:55:06.760 You can crawl

00:55:07.580 and get over the bar 0.98

00:55:08.920 at this point.

00:55:10.160 Being married for 12 years

00:55:11.500 and then divorcing

00:55:12.240 is a success,

00:55:13.440 she says,

00:55:13.880 a huge success.

00:55:16.020 This is like saying

00:55:16.600 that a man

00:55:17.120 is a hugely successful swimmer

00:55:19.320 if he makes it

00:55:20.140 a quarter of the way

00:55:20.800 across the pool

00:55:21.480 and then drowns and dies.

00:55:22.900 I can imagine Nadine

00:55:25.140 watching the guy

00:55:25.840 sink below the surface

00:55:26.820 because of course

00:55:27.700 she wouldn't try to help him

00:55:28.400 and declaring,

00:55:29.320 wow, he's just like Michael Phelps.

00:55:31.100 What a great swimmer. 0.79

00:55:33.780 Continuing,

00:55:34.380 quote,

00:55:34.900 Adamson had friends

00:55:35.840 from Los Angeles

00:55:36.560 fly to New York

00:55:37.280 and they booked

00:55:37.860 the hotel suite

00:55:38.540 where she had stayed

00:55:39.300 when she got married.

00:55:40.400 It felt like closure

00:55:41.320 in a really beautiful way

00:55:42.420 to be in the same hotel

00:55:43.440 with the same view,

00:55:44.380 she says.

00:55:45.280 The four of them

00:55:45.900 burned sage in the suite

00:55:47.360 to rid it of negative vibes,

00:55:50.120 filled the place

00:55:50.640 with balloons,

00:55:51.620 dined out,

00:55:52.160 and then had a sleepover.

00:55:54.000 Adamson also continues

00:55:55.040 to post on Instagram

00:55:56.040 with the hashtag

00:55:56.820 divorce party,

00:55:57.980 not because she keeps

00:55:58.700 throwing them,

00:55:59.400 but as a way

00:56:00.020 to highlight her new life,

00:56:01.940 such as upgrading

00:56:02.840 her brownstone

00:56:03.660 with a cozy

00:56:04.600 wood-burning fireplace.

00:56:06.520 I guess divorce parties

00:56:07.320 are a thing,

00:56:07.880 a Reddit user wrote

00:56:08.740 a few months ago

00:56:09.440 in a post that drew

00:56:10.180 nearly 4,000 comments.

00:56:11.820 The poster included

00:56:12.360 a photo of an invitation

00:56:13.300 from a divorcing couple

00:56:14.260 that was throwing

00:56:14.760 a joint party.

00:56:16.180 Plus ones are welcome.

00:56:17.440 Ours will be there,

00:56:18.360 it said.

00:56:19.580 Now you get the idea.

00:56:20.640 But eventually

00:56:21.600 the article ends

00:56:22.620 with this anecdote,

00:56:23.680 quote,

00:56:24.280 travel blogger

00:56:25.200 Maja Proskolt

00:56:26.680 says that her divorce process,

00:56:28.720 done without lawyers,

00:56:29.900 was lengthy enough

00:56:30.640 that by the time

00:56:31.180 the paperwork was done,

00:56:32.280 much of her grief

00:56:32.920 had settled

00:56:33.380 and she was ready

00:56:34.000 for a party.

00:56:34.900 Her sister supplied

00:56:35.560 a crown

00:56:36.060 and a finely

00:56:37.100 divorced sash.

00:56:38.520 The group went out

00:56:39.160 dancing where the club's

00:56:40.160 DJ called out,

00:56:41.540 let's have it for

00:56:42.080 Maja's divorce party.

00:56:43.940 That was a top,

00:56:44.820 that was a top life

00:56:46.100 moment for me,

00:56:47.020 she says.

00:56:48.680 A top life moment.

00:56:50.700 Well then,

00:56:51.080 Maja,

00:56:51.460 you have lived

00:56:52.620 an incredibly

00:56:53.200 pathetic life.

00:56:54.720 And that is the case

00:56:55.520 for all of these

00:56:56.140 divorce partiers, 1.00

00:56:56.940 nearly all of whom

00:56:57.840 you may have noticed

00:56:58.780 are women.

00:57:00.300 The fact that the

00:57:01.040 divorce party phenomenon

00:57:01.920 is almost entirely

00:57:02.740 driven by women

00:57:03.440 is yet more evidence

00:57:04.740 that the divorce epidemic

00:57:06.020 itself is mostly

00:57:07.080 driven by women.

00:57:07.860 Women are more likely 1.00

00:57:08.520 to initiate divorce,

00:57:09.980 much more likely

00:57:10.700 to throw themselves

00:57:11.640 a party celebrating

00:57:12.600 the betrayal

00:57:13.100 of their vows.

00:57:14.200 And this is not the point

00:57:14.900 that we're going to focus on today,

00:57:15.940 but it is worth noting.

00:57:17.740 There's a lot of discussion

00:57:18.620 including this week

00:57:19.380 about what's wrong

00:57:20.060 with men in our culture,

00:57:21.320 but this is more evidence

00:57:22.840 that women have some 1.00

00:57:24.020 very serious problems

00:57:25.020 of their own,

00:57:26.280 to put it mildly.

00:57:27.880 Now putting that aside,

00:57:29.200 the article notes

00:57:29.960 that there used to be

00:57:30.780 lots of shame

00:57:31.620 and stigma

00:57:32.280 surrounding divorce.

00:57:34.200 And these parties

00:57:34.760 are meant to be in part

00:57:35.740 a corrective to that,

00:57:37.120 a way of de-stigmatizing

00:57:38.540 what had been stigmatized.

00:57:40.500 You'll notice that our society

00:57:41.640 is obsessed

00:57:42.080 with de-stigmatizing.

00:57:43.360 But the problem is

00:57:44.740 that we take away

00:57:45.600 the stigma

00:57:46.200 without asking

00:57:47.640 why the stigma

00:57:48.500 was there

00:57:49.140 in the first place.

00:57:51.760 Divorce was treated 0.99

00:57:52.640 as an embarrassing

00:57:53.460 and shameful thing

00:57:54.400 in the past

00:57:55.140 because it is embarrassing

00:57:56.940 and shameful.

00:57:58.140 You are breaking a promise.

00:58:00.300 It is deranged

00:58:01.240 to actively celebrate

00:58:02.540 the breaking of a promise

00:58:03.680 no matter what

00:58:04.380 the promise was.

00:58:06.340 You know,

00:58:06.560 we've all broken promises

00:58:07.520 in our lives.

00:58:08.220 This is a human foible.

00:58:10.320 But it's quite another thing

00:58:11.480 to applaud

00:58:12.340 the breaking of a promise

00:58:13.600 to celebrate it

00:58:14.760 as a somehow enriching

00:58:16.380 and life-affirming choice.

00:58:19.020 And this is not just

00:58:20.000 any promise.

00:58:21.420 This is a solemn vow

00:58:22.740 made to someone

00:58:23.440 you claim to love.

00:58:24.480 A vow that you built

00:58:25.420 a whole life around.

00:58:27.200 And now you're tearing

00:58:28.040 that life into pieces

00:58:29.020 and leaving lots

00:58:29.760 of collateral damage

00:58:30.760 including oftentimes

00:58:31.440 your children

00:58:32.140 in its wake.

00:58:34.260 It's not just inappropriate

00:58:35.720 to celebrate this.

00:58:36.680 It is psychotic.

00:58:38.760 Yes,

00:58:39.060 the divorce may start

00:58:40.000 a new chapter

00:58:40.760 in your life.

00:58:42.000 You know,

00:58:42.520 just like if you get

00:58:43.240 into a drunk driving accident

00:58:44.680 and wind up in jail

00:58:45.560 for manslaughter,

00:58:46.800 that'll also start

00:58:47.680 a new chapter

00:58:48.500 in your life.

00:58:50.220 But just because it's new

00:58:51.260 doesn't mean it's good.

00:58:53.200 And this is not exactly

00:58:54.260 a profound insight

00:58:55.180 but it comes as news

00:58:56.040 to many in our culture.

00:58:57.500 Not all new things

00:58:59.140 are good.

00:59:00.520 Okay?

00:59:02.040 In fact,

00:59:02.700 I'm not even sure

00:59:03.500 that new chapter

00:59:04.620 is the right way

00:59:05.280 of looking at this.

00:59:06.800 Because when you abandon

00:59:07.920 your marriage

00:59:08.600 and your family,

00:59:09.660 it's less that you're

00:59:10.400 adding a new chapter

00:59:11.240 to your book

00:59:11.740 and it's more

00:59:12.140 that you're giving up

00:59:12.960 on the book.

00:59:14.920 You know,

00:59:15.160 you began writing

00:59:16.040 the story

00:59:16.540 when you met

00:59:17.140 your spouse

00:59:17.740 and you wrote

00:59:19.760 a story together.

00:59:21.680 It's a saga

00:59:22.440 full of joy

00:59:23.720 and hardship

00:59:24.300 and love

00:59:24.920 and sacrifice.

00:59:26.260 Divorce is not

00:59:26.880 the next chapter

00:59:27.680 in that book

00:59:28.440 but it's the abrupt

00:59:29.360 and unceremonious

00:59:30.520 and unsatisfying

00:59:31.740 and anticlimactic

00:59:32.780 end

00:59:33.380 to the great novel

00:59:34.900 that you had been

00:59:35.540 composing together.

00:59:37.220 Now you start

00:59:38.000 a whole new book

00:59:38.780 but the thing

00:59:40.100 is that you're

00:59:40.420 going to so often

00:59:41.000 find that the new one

00:59:42.740 is at best

00:59:43.400 a pale imitation

00:59:44.380 of the one

00:59:44.900 you gave up on.

00:59:46.460 The one you ruined

00:59:47.680 by ending too early.

00:59:50.920 Divorce is not

00:59:51.480 anything to celebrate.

00:59:52.480 It's something

00:59:52.760 to lament.

00:59:54.040 So if you have

00:59:54.520 a ceremony

00:59:55.060 to commemorate

00:59:56.040 your divorce,

00:59:57.000 it should be less

00:59:57.640 like a bachelorette party

00:59:58.760 and more like a wake

00:59:59.620 with an open casket

01:00:01.280 displaying your

01:00:01.960 broken promise

01:00:02.700 and your broken family.

01:00:04.620 A somber occasion

01:00:05.720 of mourning.

01:00:08.220 That would at least

01:00:08.900 be honest.

01:00:10.240 Still kind of weird though.

01:00:12.040 And that is why

01:00:12.820 divorce parties

01:00:13.580 are today

01:00:14.580 cancelled.

01:00:16.180 And that will do it

01:00:16.840 for the show today.

01:00:17.760 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:00:18.260 Have a great day.

01:00:19.460 Godspeed.

01:00:19.860 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - July 19, 2023

Ep. 1186 - Leftists Who Celebrate Violent Rap Music Suddenly Offended By ‘Violent’ Country Song

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