The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1194 - Lebron James Founded A School Based On Equity. It Is An Unmitigated Disaster.

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the media has spent years celebrating the public school that LeBron James founded in Ohio.

00:00:05.800 It's a school based around the principles of equity, and now we know that it is also an abysmal failure.

00:00:10.660 But what does that teach us about our society's approach to education in general? We'll discuss that.

00:00:14.480 Also, over 100 students in New York City identify as some kind of non-male, non-female alien species.

00:00:21.000 And some lawmakers are starting to think twice about legalizing weed everywhere.

00:00:24.360 A drag queen ends up on top of the Christian music charts, and I am forced to utterly destroy Ben Shapiro with facts and logic. 0.98

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00:01:32.420 There was a time way back in another era when the goal of the education system was to educate students.

00:01:38.420 And back in those days, the goal was pursued through a merit-based approach.

00:01:42.260 Kids were graded and ranked based on their performance.

00:01:45.300 High-performing students were advanced on.

00:01:47.640 Low-performing students were held back.

00:01:49.760 Well-behaved students were rewarded.

00:01:51.400 Poorly-behaved students were punished.

00:01:53.360 That was the general idea.

00:01:55.020 But this strategy has fallen out of favor in recent years.

00:01:57.640 It was too mean, we were told.

00:01:59.080 And racist, too, somehow.

00:02:00.560 Piece by piece, the system of merit-based education in public schools was dismantled until finally there was nothing left.

00:02:07.480 And into that gap came equity to replace it.

00:02:11.060 What does equity mean exactly?

00:02:12.900 Well, that's a question you'll never get a real answer to.

00:02:15.160 But in this case, we know what equity means from a practical perspective.

00:02:18.640 It means spending more money for worse schools.

00:02:21.660 It also means creating new schools from the ground up because the only way to guarantee that you're not perpetuating white supremacy is to start from scratch.

00:02:28.980 One of these new non-racist schools was founded five years ago in Akron, Ohio, with help from NBA all-star LeBron James.

00:02:35.740 This was a big deal, we were assured at the time.

00:02:38.100 NBC News was on the scene when the school launched.

00:02:40.980 Watch.

00:02:41.280 Kids arrive for the first day of school today in Ohio as a new approach to fix an old problem takes center court, led by someone who knows their stories more than they could imagine.

00:02:56.340 I know exactly what these 240 kids are going through.

00:03:02.160 I know the streets that they walk.

00:03:04.300 I know the trials and tribulations that they go through because I've been there.

00:03:07.940 Which is why NBA superstar LeBron James and his foundation are opening this school in Akron for at-risk third and fourth graders who struggle both in school and at home.

00:03:19.600 The most important thing that we can give them is structure and a sense of they just want someone to feel like we care.

00:03:31.140 I promise is a public non-charter school.

00:03:35.060 It offers an innovative approach, a longer class day and a longer school year and provides support to help kids with trauma.

00:03:43.200 The school will also help parents find a job and have an on-site food pantry for families.

00:03:49.160 Now, NBC News touts this school as a new approach to fix an old problem.

00:03:54.520 The most important thing, LeBron James says, isn't test scores or grades or any objective sense of achievement whatsoever.

00:04:00.420 Instead, the key is giving students, quote, the sense that someone cares about them.

00:04:05.020 That's not really an educational approach at all.

00:04:06.860 It's simply a cliche, not a new one either.

00:04:09.520 But it's one that taxpayers in Ohio have been compelled to fund.

00:04:13.120 As one local news report puts it, quote, the district will pay more than half the cost for the school, perhaps around 75%.

00:04:18.880 That total amounts to nearly $10 million a year charged to taxpayers for this I Promise school.

00:04:26.000 Yet the experiment was well worth the cost, the media reassured us over and over again.

00:04:29.340 You can go back over the past several years and find many, many media reports gushing over LeBron's school, calling for more schools just like it.

00:04:38.060 Maybe we should even make LeBron James the secretary of education while we're at it.

00:04:41.440 Why not?

00:04:43.020 NBC News would certainly be on board with that.

00:04:44.640 Just a month ago, they were on the scene again to do a follow-up story on the I Promise school.

00:04:49.420 And they say it's all been a smashing success.

00:04:51.940 Watch.

00:04:58.200 Five years ago, NBA superstar LeBron James opened the I Promise school in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.

00:05:06.080 The goal, to give at-risk youth a place to learn and feel supported.

00:05:11.940 I understand the mental state that goes in with these kids and where they come from.

00:05:17.080 About 1,600 students have attended the school, which demands that its students promise to always do their best and make healthy choices.

00:05:26.460 It's up to us as the mentors and everybody in place to help them to get to that point.

00:05:31.380 That's what kids want to know.

00:05:32.520 Do you care about me?

00:05:33.500 And we do here.

00:05:35.860 Proof of that?

00:05:36.920 Every graduate receives a college scholarship.

00:05:39.900 Now, to recap, 1,600 students have attended the school.

00:05:44.420 They promised to make healthy choices.

00:05:46.600 LeBron James cares about them, et cetera.

00:05:48.660 All sounds pretty good.

00:05:49.680 But wait a minute, NBC News.

00:05:51.780 How are the students actually performing in the classroom?

00:05:55.280 That bit of information was left out of the report, which seems a little odd.

00:05:58.420 I mean, wasn't the whole point of the school to help these children?

00:06:00.280 Just a month later, now we know exactly why NBC News overlooked that little detail.

00:06:05.540 A new piece in the Akron Beacon Journal reports that, quote,

00:06:09.280 Now, to restate, they haven't had a single student in the eighth grade class pass the state math test since they started at the school in the third grade five years ago.

00:06:27.900 That is not encouraging.

00:06:31.660 And to be honest, it's a little surprising because not all that long ago, the school claimed in a documentary that its students do extremely well on mandatory proficiency tests, including the so-called MAP standardized tests.

00:06:42.540 So here are some clips from that documentary in chronological order.

00:06:45.280 It's from YouTube Originals.

00:06:46.480 It's an hour and a half long.

00:06:47.360 We're talking about how great the school is.

00:06:48.880 It's got three million views on YouTube.

00:06:50.940 See what impression you come away with when you watch this.

00:06:53.980 Watch.

00:06:54.160 The true test of our We Are Family approach will be when our students take the MAP test.

00:07:01.060 MAP stands for Measures of Academic Progress.

00:07:04.680 Our third graders have to pass the MAP test in order for them to move on to fourth grade.

00:07:10.380 Since most of our kids started a year and a half or more below grade level, we have some work to do.

00:07:15.760 They need to make more than one year's growth by March.

00:07:19.260 If you don't pass the test, then you just have to stay in third grade.

00:07:26.360 And then you do it all over again.

00:07:29.780 That's the last thing that a kid wants to happen to them, is them to get held back.

00:07:35.240 That is a very embarrassing thing, and it can play with your emotions.

00:07:39.560 It can play with your psyche, your confidence.

00:07:42.880 Good morning, team IPS.

00:07:45.560 We are going to take our last administration of the MAP assessment.

00:07:52.180 We've been working so hard since the beginning of the year.

00:07:55.500 That day, Michelle FaceTimed me.

00:07:57.940 She was like, are you sitting down?

00:07:59.820 She never FaceTimed me, by the way.

00:08:01.460 And I was like, oh no, what happened to one of our kids, please?

00:08:04.080 Oh, tell me something happened to one of our kids.

00:08:05.660 She was like, our test scores just came back, and our kids just completely destroyed them.

00:08:12.780 The same kids a few months ago that was like in the lower, lower, lower percentile in everything.

00:08:22.700 What?

00:08:24.380 What?

00:08:25.620 Good question.

00:08:26.500 The students destroyed the standardized test, LeBron James says.

00:08:29.740 Later in the film, a thrilled administrator says that the students were at the 25th percentile and below.

00:08:35.100 But that now 91% of students are meeting their goals.

00:08:39.140 And they're all very happy about this.

00:08:40.220 But if you parse what they're saying carefully, it sounds like an apples to oranges comparison.

00:08:43.320 The administrator makes it sound like the students went from the 25th percentile in the district to the 91st percentile, which would be an extraordinary achievement.

00:08:51.880 But in fact, the 91% number just refers to students who are meeting their goals, whatever that means and however that's defined.

00:08:57.820 They're presenting the data like this in order to suggest falsely that their new method of education was working and specifically enhancing these test scores.

00:09:07.160 But in fact, it was doing exactly the opposite.

00:09:09.960 And in a brief moment at the very end of the documentary, we get some confirmation of that.

00:09:13.540 So watch as an official with the school admits that the district is not happy with the students' performance.

00:09:20.800 Students can either make progress in growth or achievement or both.

00:09:25.560 Growth is just that year and a half or more from the beginning of the school year.

00:09:30.000 Achievement is whether they're on grade level.

00:09:31.980 On growth, we were in the 99th percentile, but achievement on our state report card, we got an F.

00:09:39.780 The overall percentage of students who made their grade level markers was too low to warrant anything other than an F.

00:09:48.020 You know, we're not there yet.

00:09:49.640 So if you're following all this, there's all this celebration from LeBron James and all the taxpayer-funded administrators about how good the school's test results are.

00:09:59.500 And then they admit that despite this success, this alleged success, the school has somehow received an F from the district for student achievement.

00:10:07.640 They don't elaborate.

00:10:08.800 They don't tell you that, in fact, zero of the students in one class had ever met their grade level markers for math.

00:10:15.200 That seems like a significant discrepancy.

00:10:17.420 One that the media and taxpayers in Akron would be very interested in.

00:10:22.060 And yet, none of the media outlets that have fluffed this school in the past few years have bothered to cover it.

00:10:29.500 That documentary we just showed you has been out for almost two years.

00:10:32.600 NBC News must have missed it.

00:10:34.560 The truth is that corporate media didn't want to look too deep into the data because it's not just bad, it's terrible.

00:10:40.240 And it keeps getting worse the more you read it.

00:10:42.000 As the Albany Beacon Journal reports, the English scores for the eighth graders were not much better than the math numbers.

00:10:48.840 Quote, when the school's first class of eighth graders graduated from I-Promise, just 11% of them tested proficient on the state English language arts test.

00:10:56.800 The article goes on, two of I-Promise's biggest subgroups of students, black students and those with disabilities, are now testing in the bottom 5% in the state, landing the school on the Ohio Department of Education's list of those requiring targeted intervention.

00:11:09.120 Now, you often hear the counterargument that this is a school for troubled children, so of course their scores are going to be low.

00:11:16.600 That doesn't exactly explain why the scores are going backwards.

00:11:20.600 According to the data, quote, last year, sixth graders lost ground.

00:11:23.740 When they were in fifth grade, 7% were proficient on the reading test, and sixth grade, just 2% were.

00:11:29.640 Now, the point here is not to gloat over the failure of this experiment.

00:11:34.660 In some ways, it's a noble effort.

00:11:36.320 Admittedly, I'm not a fan of LeBron James personally.

00:11:39.140 I'll be the first to admit that.

00:11:40.400 He's a woke virtue signaller to such a degree that he pretends to read books about Malcolm X.

00:11:45.340 You've probably seen this clip before, but honestly, it's just too good to not share again.

00:11:49.200 Here it is.

00:11:52.280 Taylor, you want to follow up?

00:11:53.620 Yeah.

00:11:54.220 So you're holding the autobiography of Malcolm X along with Alex Haley.

00:11:57.820 I don't know how far you are into the book, but what's your biggest takeaway so far?

00:12:00.940 I kind of just started a couple days ago, but I've read a lot of notes over the years.

00:12:09.260 It's my first.

00:12:09.800 I'm actually reading this from start to finish.

00:12:13.120 But just a very, very smart man.

00:12:17.680 Very, very, very smart man.

00:12:19.300 And basically, his words in the 60s and what was going on is actually what's going on today still.

00:12:32.440 That's the guy who's going to reinvent our nation's educational system with his bold new approach.

00:12:39.580 The guy who is still failing his book reports at the age of 38.

00:12:43.540 Now, even if it's kind of funny to have a school run by a guy who pretends to read books,

00:12:48.280 and even if, aside from that, LeBron James is a reckless liar who regularly promotes BLM propaganda,

00:12:53.980 slanders police officers, etc., I can still respect a rich celebrity athlete at least attempting to do

00:12:59.760 something productive, which is more than what most of them will do.

00:13:03.960 But the reason for the school's failure is what's instructive here.

00:13:07.840 According to the accepted narrative, kids from, quote, marginalized groups struggle in schools,

00:13:13.500 especially inner city schools, because of systemic racism and a lack of funding.

00:13:18.440 Two issues that we're told are very related.

00:13:22.000 So here's a school founded by a wealthy black man with an extraordinary amount of funding,

00:13:27.480 both from taxpayers and LeBron's foundation, a school where everybody gets free lunch,

00:13:31.980 and they have access to all of the state-of-the-art educational tools, and all the computers, and everything,

00:13:36.540 and they're teaching based on STEM, and they're doing all this, and everyone graduates with a scholarship, and so on.

00:13:43.940 Yet the kids are still failing.

00:13:47.060 I mean, when it comes to math, literally all of them are failing, in eighth grade anyway.

00:13:51.720 In fact, they seem to be doing worse than they would in one of those allegedly underfunded schools,

00:13:57.300 where the vestiges of systemic racism are still allegedly present.

00:14:01.760 And we have data on that.

00:14:03.080 The way that I Promise select students is via a lottery,

00:14:06.280 in which students who place in the bottom 25% of test scores in the district are eligible.

00:14:11.920 But if you compare the I Promise students with kids in the bottom 25% in the district who did not attend the school,

00:14:18.080 the kids who didn't attend are doing better by most metrics.

00:14:23.400 Now, this tells us a few things.

00:14:25.580 All of them are forbidden truths.

00:14:29.000 The most important is that all of the funding and all of the inspirational platitudes in the world

00:14:35.440 cannot make up for broken families and bad culture.

00:14:41.580 Poor black kids come from both of those things, and the two are obviously related. 1.00

00:14:46.020 You will not be able to measurably improve any aspect of life for these kids,

00:14:52.060 especially their educational performance,

00:14:53.800 without addressing the fact that the culture they come from is deeply sick, 1.00

00:14:58.580 and their families are in absolute disarray.

00:15:02.780 Just talk to any teacher who has experience trying to teach these so-called, quote-unquote, marginalized groups.

00:15:09.200 Very often, the teachers will tell you that their behavior and attitude in class,

00:15:15.620 it's not just bad, it's, like, appalling.

00:15:19.520 It's abominable.

00:15:21.240 These kids who have not received any kind of intellectual or moral formation at home or in their communities,

00:15:28.200 in many cases, their parents do not care about their education or about anything.

00:15:34.400 The culture they're brought up in encourages them to act in outrageous ways and reject and disrespect all authority.

00:15:44.360 That's the fact of the matter.

00:15:46.300 That's the problem.

00:15:48.840 That's how you end up with kids in the eighth grade who, all of them, can't even do math.

00:15:54.120 Now, LeBron James can't solve all of those problems on his own, of course,

00:15:59.680 but he could start by at least acknowledging them and talking about them, but he won't even do that.

00:16:06.220 As always, the left seeks to solve problems without addressing the underlying fundamental issues.

00:16:11.380 It's like their genius plans to solve homelessness by putting the homeless in hotels or giving them free housing.

00:16:17.400 Well, you can give a homeless guy a room at the Ritz-Carlton,

00:16:20.180 and the place will look like a garbage dump within the span of three hours, and then he'll be right back out on the street.

00:16:26.160 That's because the homeless guy's problem isn't that he doesn't have a home.

00:16:30.040 Any halfway competent and sober person can manage to find some kind of housing, okay?

00:16:35.840 If you're sober and halfway competent, you're not going to end up sleeping on a box on the street corner.

00:16:40.480 You just won't.

00:16:42.840 His problem isn't a lack of housing.

00:16:44.480 It's that he's a drug addict or psychotic or both.

00:16:46.820 So it would be one thing if some coherent principle was at play here, but there's nothing coherent about any of this.

00:16:54.220 Consider that the left's solution to education and homelessness is to throw money at the problem,

00:16:58.540 but their solution to law enforcement is to do exactly the opposite.

00:17:02.980 So somehow the education system will improve if you give more money,

00:17:06.780 but the justice system will improve if you give it less money.

00:17:10.960 How does that make sense?

00:17:12.840 You'll never see any contemplation from this on the left.

00:17:15.680 Instead, they'll continue to push the most destructive policies imaginable,

00:17:19.540 only to backtrack when the consequences of their destruction are too obvious to deny.

00:17:24.220 Which is happening right now in Oakland, by the way.

00:17:26.280 The president of the NAACP's Oakland chapter just announced that, quote,

00:17:31.240 failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police,

00:17:33.800 our district attorney's unwillingness to charge and prosecute people who murder and commit life-threatening serious crimes,

00:17:38.340 and the proliferation of anti-police rhetoric have created a heyday for Oakland criminals.

00:17:44.900 Oh, you think?

00:17:46.760 Congratulations, NAACP.

00:17:48.020 You finally realize that crime is bad.

00:17:50.620 A stunning revelation.

00:17:53.200 But of course, they are also incapable of tracing the problem down to its roots.

00:17:57.620 The NAACP supports BLM's insanity when it gave them power, 0.94

00:18:00.840 and now they're against it because it embarrasses them.

00:18:02.620 That's all there is to it.

00:18:05.400 What happens next when it comes to education?

00:18:07.760 It's possible that once these people are sufficiently embarrassed by what they've done to public schools in this country,

00:18:13.300 they'll stop experiments like the one that's going on in Ohio right now.

00:18:16.540 But by that point, as if by design, it'll be far too late.

00:18:20.840 LeBron James will have moved on.

00:18:23.140 The children won't have that luxury.

00:18:25.380 They'll be uneducated, poor, and totally dependent on the government that pretended to care about them.

00:18:30.640 Most people would call that a disaster.

00:18:34.600 But our leaders have another name for it.

00:18:37.740 They call it equity.

00:18:40.400 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:19:50.300 Well, since we've been talking about disastrous public school system,

00:19:54.900 why not stay on that theme as we get into the five headlines?

00:19:58.320 The Daily Wire reports New York City began allowing children to identify as X

00:20:02.460 in their official public school records last year,

00:20:04.900 and data reportedly shows more than 100 children took advantage of the new gender designation of X,

00:20:12.020 which is also the name of Twitter now, by the way.

00:20:13.920 So they're identifying as Twitter, I suppose.

00:20:16.140 A total of 108 students in the nation's largest public school district

00:20:18.880 had their gender listed as X instead of male or female

00:20:21.600 in the first year that the option was available for students

00:20:24.540 claiming a non-binary or gender-fluid identity, according to Chalkbeat.

00:20:29.340 The X-gender students are just 0.1% of New York City's 1.1 million public school students,

00:20:34.300 but the numbers are expected to grow since the number of children

00:20:36.600 who identify as something other than their biological gender is also growing.

00:20:40.320 X, this is from the city's education department's,

00:20:43.920 gender change request form.

00:20:46.540 It says,

00:20:47.140 X, neither male nor female.

00:20:49.680 My student does not identify as male or female.

00:20:52.540 For example, identifies as non-binary, gender-expansive, or gender-fluid.

00:20:56.480 So this is something that you can fill out for your child if your child is neither male nor female.

00:21:04.000 Now, people who are invested in pretending that there is not a diabolical social contagion,

00:21:11.080 gripping hold of the youngest generation, causing a mass identity crisis,

00:21:15.080 the likes of which human society has never seen,

00:21:17.120 the people who want to pretend that none of that is the case

00:21:20.620 will glom on to the fact that this is only, only 0.01% of the students in New York City's schools, right?

00:21:26.620 It's only 100 kids, 108 kids, whatever it was.

00:21:30.760 But consider a few things.

00:21:31.880 First of all, this does not count the kids who identify as trans.

00:21:37.320 Because they would check, you know, male or female.

00:21:39.680 They would check the opposite sex of what they actually are. 1.00

00:21:41.760 They identify as male or female.

00:21:43.580 That's what it means to be trans, is that you think you're a female when you're really a male, or vice versa.

00:21:49.580 So that's a whole category that is not included in that 108 number.

00:21:54.480 And that is by far the more prevalent category right now.

00:21:57.500 Now, eventually it'll flip.

00:21:59.040 You know, right now the majority of kids who are confused about their gender will claim to be trans,

00:22:04.840 and then a minority of that group will claim non-binary status.

00:22:08.900 Because non-binary is growing, and I would say it's growing at a faster rate than trans is among the younger generation.

00:22:15.640 So eventually that'll flip.

00:22:17.620 But right now, that's a whole big chunk that's not included in that 108.

00:22:22.360 And also keep in mind, too, that this is a change that is made by the parents.

00:22:27.600 So only kids who have talked to their parents and asked their parents to do this,

00:22:33.960 and have parents who would agree, are included.

00:22:36.500 Now, of all the kids in a public school system in New York, who go around claiming to be non-binary, 0.98

00:22:44.860 how many of them would then go to their parents and ask their parents to fill out a form?

00:22:52.880 And of that group, how many have parents who will actually do it?

00:22:57.160 So that's what is represented here.

00:22:59.400 It's like a minority of a minority of the overall picture and the overall problem.

00:23:03.020 And so when you consider it that way, this is really a staggering, 108 is a staggering number.

00:23:12.580 Especially considering that when I went to school 20 years ago,

00:23:15.800 you would not have found 108 kids in the entire country who fit this bill.

00:23:21.840 Okay, this is 108 kids in one school district

00:23:24.800 who think that they are some kind of non-male, non-female, alien space creature.

00:23:32.360 And who have parents who will play along.

00:23:34.700 108 in one area of the country is a catastrophic number.

00:23:42.980 Again, staggering.

00:23:45.120 Like, imagine if there were 108 kids who said that they were dogs or chickens.

00:23:50.140 It's exactly the same kind of thing.

00:23:54.080 You know, because if you identify as non-binary, you are identifying as non-human. 0.89

00:23:59.280 Though you aren't, in fairness, identifying as a dog or a chicken

00:24:01.760 because they have, you know, dogs and chickens are male or female.

00:24:06.000 So actually, it would be better.

00:24:08.080 It would be more encouraging.

00:24:09.440 It would be a better situation if you had 108 kids who said they were dogs.

00:24:12.980 It is less crazy to pretend to be a dog than it is to pretend to be non-binary. 0.87

00:24:19.280 Because non-binary is a category of life form that doesn't exist

00:24:24.600 unless we're talking about, like, amoebas.

00:24:29.220 Okay, so you are identifying as an amoeba,

00:24:32.560 as some kind of single-cell organism.

00:24:36.020 Which is the real story here.

00:24:37.580 That 108 students in New York City schools identify, apparently, as self-replicating amoebas.

00:24:46.360 Because that's where you've got to go if you want to find creatures on this planet

00:24:51.040 that are neither male nor female.

00:24:53.680 Where the category does not pertain.

00:24:56.720 Now you're down to the single-cell organism level.

00:25:03.360 That's how crazy it is.

00:25:05.020 Which is why, as I'm always having to point out,

00:25:10.900 we talk about the slippery slope.

00:25:13.380 And, you know, I use the expression, too,

00:25:15.940 sometimes for lack of a better term,

00:25:17.680 just because it kind of everybody knows what you mean.

00:25:19.480 And there is, there's a lot of truth to the slippery slope idea

00:25:23.320 that as our culture progressively decays.

00:25:27.940 But at the same time, it's not exactly right.

00:25:31.720 You know, it doesn't quite capture what's actually happening in our culture.

00:25:35.280 In fact, it makes the situation seem better than it is.

00:25:38.640 Because a slippery slope scenario, you know,

00:25:41.040 everything is basically normal.

00:25:43.920 And then you start with one thing that's a little bit crazy.

00:25:46.460 And then that leads to the next thing that's a little bit more crazy.

00:25:49.300 And then on and on and on as we go down the slope, right?

00:25:52.200 But what we have done is we've skipped all of those less crazy steps

00:25:56.260 and gone all the way to the most crazy thing.

00:26:00.960 And then when we start covering some of those things that are less crazy,

00:26:03.800 we say, oh, now we're on the slippery slope.

00:26:05.280 No, now we're kind of like climbing back up the slippery slope

00:26:07.640 to cover the things that we skipped.

00:26:09.840 That's what's happening.

00:26:10.600 So we'll probably talk about this tomorrow because NBC News has a report,

00:26:16.260 I believe it's NBC, has a report about kids on TikTok

00:26:20.400 who are identifying as other races

00:26:22.240 and who think that they can transition to another race.

00:26:25.720 And that's another thing where you'll often hear on the right,

00:26:28.900 oh, there's slippery slope.

00:26:29.780 See, first we allow people to identify as another gender

00:26:32.900 and now they're identifying as another race.

00:26:34.900 That's not slippery slope because identifying as a different race

00:26:37.280 is a lot less crazy than identifying as another gender.

00:26:41.260 Still crazy, right?

00:26:42.680 But it's not nearly as bad.

00:26:45.380 So when it comes to identifying as something other than what you are,

00:26:49.800 your sex, that's the most insane, the most outrageous, 1.00

00:26:54.680 the most impossible version of that.

00:26:58.820 Identifying as another race is not,

00:27:01.120 identifying as another race, identifying as another age,

00:27:03.800 I mean, whatever.

00:27:06.400 All of that.

00:27:08.080 All that is crazy.

00:27:09.560 All of that is wrong.

00:27:10.600 All of that is stuff we should not affirm.

00:27:12.860 None of that is as bad as affirming a male as a female.

00:27:19.520 And it's the same thing here.

00:27:21.900 So we talk about,

00:27:24.480 you know,

00:27:24.780 eventually we're going to have kids that are identifying as other species 0.95

00:27:27.400 and that's already happening, you know,

00:27:29.180 and we tend to look at that as the next step.

00:27:33.560 But what I'm trying to explain here is that the non-binary thing,

00:27:37.140 which has fully taken hold,

00:27:39.800 and it's now like a mainstream idea,

00:27:42.280 that is much more insane, actually,

00:27:46.060 than identifying as another species.

00:27:47.520 because at least if you identify as a cow,

00:27:52.080 you're identifying as something that exists.

00:27:54.340 But a human being that is neither male or female,

00:28:00.060 that doesn't exist.

00:28:01.160 That's just a,

00:28:01.740 that's a fanciful,

00:28:03.460 that's like,

00:28:04.240 it's more like identifying as a dragon or something,

00:28:06.260 or a unicorn.

00:28:07.000 It's like,

00:28:07.220 you're identifying as a mythological creature,

00:28:09.480 is what you are,

00:28:10.320 is what you're doing.

00:28:10.940 So that's where we are,

00:28:14.740 on the slippery slope.

00:28:16.840 We're now in the process of going back

00:28:18.780 and covering those bases that we skipped.

00:28:20.640 And then once we've done that,

00:28:21.760 then we can continue on down the slope,

00:28:23.400 you see.

00:28:25.400 Fox News has this report.

00:28:27.120 Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky

00:28:28.720 has announced an official criminal referral

00:28:30.500 to the Department of Justice

00:28:31.360 with regard to Dr. Anthony Fauci.

00:28:33.760 Paul pointed to an email from February 2020

00:28:35.580 in which Fauci detailed a call

00:28:37.020 with British medical researcher Jeremy Farrar,

00:28:39.140 who was director of the Wellcome Trust at the time.

00:28:42.140 According to Fauci,

00:28:43.000 those on the task force call,

00:28:44.720 including Francis Collins,

00:28:45.760 former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute,

00:28:48.700 and other highly credible scientists,

00:28:50.200 quote unquote,

00:28:50.620 highly credible,

00:28:51.400 with expertise in evolutionary biology,

00:28:52.940 expressed concern about the fact,

00:28:54.620 upon viewing the sequences of several isolates of the NCOV,

00:28:58.180 that there were mutations in the virus

00:28:59.600 that would be most unusual

00:29:00.860 to have evolved naturally in the bats,

00:29:02.940 and that there was a suspicion

00:29:04.500 that this mutation was intentionally inserted.

00:29:07.460 Quote,

00:29:07.940 the suspicion was heightened by the fact

00:29:09.420 that scientists in Wuhan University

00:29:11.040 are known to have been working on

00:29:12.640 a gain-of-function experiments

00:29:13.800 to determine the molecular mechanisms

00:29:15.240 associated with bat viruses

00:29:16.460 adapting to human infection

00:29:17.600 and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.

00:29:20.760 This is according to Fauci

00:29:21.960 in these emails that have now been released.

00:29:27.060 Paul wrote on Twitter,

00:29:28.740 quote,

00:29:29.500 this directly contradicts everything

00:29:31.080 that Fauci said in committee hearing to me,

00:29:33.860 denying absolutely that they funded

00:29:35.260 any gain-of-function,

00:29:36.180 and it's absolutely a lie.

00:29:38.000 That's why I sent an official criminal referral

00:29:39.660 to the DOJ.

00:29:41.740 Now, the criminal referral is great.

00:29:43.340 You know, it's not going to go anywhere,

00:29:44.480 of course, right now,

00:29:45.200 but it's a good start.

00:29:47.680 Can it go somewhere in the future?

00:29:49.140 Well, that goes to the question

00:29:50.960 of what Republicans will do

00:29:53.720 if they gain power,

00:29:55.320 which is a big if.

00:29:57.300 And I think this is another one of those things

00:30:02.060 that it could all boil down to this

00:30:04.280 for you in the primary.

00:30:05.320 If you're trying to figure out

00:30:06.040 who should I support in the primary

00:30:07.060 and how should I make sense of this,

00:30:08.620 ask yourself,

00:30:09.400 which of these candidates do I believe

00:30:12.300 would actually have the gumption

00:30:14.720 to arrest and prosecute Fauci?

00:30:17.540 We all seem to agree,

00:30:18.680 on the right anyway,

00:30:19.300 I mean, every Republican,

00:30:20.040 if you were to take a poll of Republicans,

00:30:21.320 I'm sure this has been done,

00:30:22.840 take a poll of Republicans,

00:30:23.840 how many of them believe

00:30:25.280 that Anthony Fauci should be arrested

00:30:27.440 and prosecuted?

00:30:28.700 And it's going to be overwhelming support

00:30:30.420 for that idea,

00:30:31.100 as there should be.

00:30:32.800 Well, of the candidates,

00:30:34.280 who would actually do it?

00:30:37.340 That's the question we need to ask.

00:30:39.240 And this could be a single issue type of thing.

00:30:41.000 You know, I've said that I'm a single issue voter

00:30:42.840 in the primaries,

00:30:43.840 and the single issue is whether the candidate

00:30:45.860 will win the general or can.

00:30:47.460 What's the candidate that's most likely

00:30:48.840 to win in the general?

00:30:49.820 That's all you really need to think about

00:30:50.940 because nothing else matters

00:30:52.360 if you don't win.

00:30:53.100 If you don't actually become the president,

00:30:55.160 then all the rest of this stuff doesn't matter.

00:30:56.960 Winning the primary

00:30:57.840 and then losing in humiliating fashion

00:30:59.980 to a senile 82-year-old Biden

00:31:01.860 is not any kind of moral victory.

00:31:04.760 I mean, it's the opposite of moral victory.

00:31:06.100 It's an actual loss,

00:31:07.140 and it's a moral loss too.

00:31:09.300 So that should really be the single issue.

00:31:11.420 But you could also ask yourself this question,

00:31:13.300 which candidate do I believe

00:31:14.380 would really truly go in

00:31:16.020 and arrest and prosecute somebody like Fauci?

00:31:19.080 I mean, who's going to,

00:31:20.000 not just Fauci,

00:31:20.600 who's going to hold people accountable

00:31:22.300 for everything that happened

00:31:23.700 during COVID and the lockdowns?

00:31:26.400 And who's actually going to do that?

00:31:28.680 Who can I see aggressively

00:31:30.520 draining the swamp in this way?

00:31:33.400 Somebody with the know-how,

00:31:34.680 the follow-through,

00:31:35.280 the competence,

00:31:36.680 the focus to get it done.

00:31:39.260 I think either of these questions

00:31:40.760 will get you to the answer

00:31:41.980 of who should have your support

00:31:44.140 in the primaries.

00:31:45.580 All right, New York Post has this report.

00:31:47.100 Cardi B hurled her microphone 0.95

00:31:49.440 at an unruly concertgoer

00:31:51.060 who launched a drink at the rapper

00:31:52.600 during a performance in Las Vegas on Saturday,

00:31:54.880 becoming the latest artist

00:31:55.820 to have an object thrown at them

00:31:57.400 while on stage.

00:31:58.640 The New York native

00:31:59.300 had been performing Bodak Yellow

00:32:01.000 at Drys Beach Club in Las Vegas

00:32:04.420 when a fan raised a white decorated cup

00:32:07.300 and tossed liquid

00:32:08.460 in the 30-year-old rapper's direction.

00:32:10.580 The rapper at first was startled,

00:32:12.020 invisibly in disbelief,

00:32:12.900 and then decided to throw the microphone

00:32:15.780 at the woman.

00:32:16.920 Now, I don't care about this story

00:32:19.580 and you shouldn't either,

00:32:21.100 but I do want to play the video

00:32:22.100 because there's one aspect

00:32:23.700 of this video that's kind of funny.

00:32:27.400 So let's play it.

00:32:28.400 Okay, so the only thing

00:32:49.200 you need to notice from this

00:32:50.060 is how the vocals keep going

00:32:52.320 after she throws the microphone. 1.00

00:32:54.700 So apparently Cardi B,

00:32:56.020 I don't know if this is a ventriloquist trick

00:32:59.100 or something that she throws the microphone

00:33:01.060 and her voice at the same time.

00:33:02.900 That'd be a great trick.

00:33:03.900 I mean, that's a trick you should take

00:33:04.680 on America's Got Talent.

00:33:05.620 That's something.

00:33:07.980 So either that

00:33:09.460 or she's lip syncing on stage,

00:33:12.660 which of course is exactly what she's doing.

00:33:14.220 Now, this will come as a shock

00:33:16.440 to some younger people out there,

00:33:18.460 but did you know

00:33:21.020 that it used to be a huge scandal

00:33:23.860 when musical artists

00:33:25.940 were caught lip syncing?

00:33:27.700 This was like a big deal.

00:33:30.900 Entire careers were ruined

00:33:32.540 because of it.

00:33:34.960 Millie Vanilli,

00:33:36.280 more recently Ashley Simpson,

00:33:38.440 you know, it was back,

00:33:39.060 I don't know when that was,

00:33:39.680 was that 10 years ago or something?

00:33:41.420 So Millie Vanilli and Ashley Simpson,

00:33:43.460 they could have gone on

00:33:45.140 to become the greatest artists

00:33:46.680 of our time.

00:33:47.620 They had that in them.

00:33:48.980 I believe it.

00:33:50.120 I do.

00:33:51.160 Who knows?

00:33:52.060 Anyway.

00:33:52.920 But their careers were destroyed

00:33:54.300 when it came out

00:33:55.040 that they were lip syncing.

00:33:57.220 But these days,

00:33:57.940 it doesn't even make a dent.

00:33:59.480 All these people are lip syncing

00:34:00.620 all the time

00:34:01.260 and nobody cares.

00:34:02.940 It's like,

00:34:03.180 it doesn't,

00:34:03.660 it's far from destroying their career.

00:34:05.200 It doesn't even,

00:34:05.580 nobody cares.

00:34:06.280 It doesn't matter.

00:34:09.260 That was for Ashley Simpson,

00:34:11.060 is Jessica Simpson's

00:34:12.000 sister, right?

00:34:15.220 And you don't know

00:34:16.360 who that is either

00:34:16.840 if you're a certain age.

00:34:18.380 But anyway,

00:34:19.240 she was,

00:34:19.560 I think she was performing

00:34:20.780 on Saturday Night Live

00:34:21.780 and the track skipped

00:34:23.300 or something

00:34:23.800 and she kept singing

00:34:25.920 and you could tell

00:34:26.580 that there was,

00:34:27.200 that she wasn't,

00:34:27.940 or the track cut off

00:34:28.920 and then you could tell

00:34:29.560 that she was lip syncing.

00:34:30.200 That's what happened.

00:34:31.620 And that was an infamous,

00:34:32.420 that was an infamous video.

00:34:33.440 It was a big,

00:34:33.860 I mean,

00:34:34.000 I'm telling you,

00:34:34.420 it was a big deal.

00:34:35.200 Everybody cared about it.

00:34:36.420 The president did a press conference.

00:34:38.000 Everything was a whole big thing.

00:34:38.960 The UN was talking about,

00:34:40.200 it was a big deal at the time.

00:34:42.560 And yet in this video,

00:34:44.080 you have the artist

00:34:44.660 throw her microphone 0.99

00:34:45.820 in the middle of the set

00:34:46.720 while the track continues.

00:34:47.980 Which by all rights

00:34:50.180 should be a much more

00:34:51.040 infamous video

00:34:51.800 and yet it won't be.

00:34:54.140 Because all of these

00:34:55.180 pop stars and rappers

00:34:56.540 and whatever,

00:34:57.560 they all lip sync.

00:34:59.000 You go to their concert

00:35:00.140 and you might as well

00:35:01.040 be listening to somebody

00:35:01.960 play their Spotify playlist

00:35:03.740 from their phones.

00:35:05.160 That's what you're doing.

00:35:05.760 It's like you go to a concert

00:35:06.800 and you might as well

00:35:08.200 just have someone

00:35:08.700 hook their phone up

00:35:09.760 and hit play

00:35:11.320 on the Spotify playlist

00:35:12.360 and you just sit there

00:35:13.340 and watch it

00:35:13.880 because that's all

00:35:14.480 that's happening.

00:35:15.000 None of it is real.

00:35:16.420 Even the voices

00:35:17.540 aren't real

00:35:18.220 because it's all auto-tuned.

00:35:19.780 It's all fixed

00:35:20.680 with computers now.

00:35:21.480 So nothing is real

00:35:22.360 and nobody cares.

00:35:25.280 And I think it's because

00:35:26.500 back even 10 or 15 years ago

00:35:30.500 and certainly 20 or 30 years ago,

00:35:31.900 there was still

00:35:32.620 some kind of demand

00:35:34.000 for authenticity.

00:35:36.240 You know,

00:35:36.380 people cared about authenticity

00:35:37.620 and you wanted at least

00:35:39.720 the illusion of authenticity

00:35:42.860 but now there's no demand

00:35:45.480 for authenticity anymore.

00:35:46.460 Nobody cares if anything is real.

00:35:47.620 Like everything is fake

00:35:48.740 and everybody's accustomed to it

00:35:51.680 and used to it,

00:35:52.200 especially younger people.

00:35:54.200 And so it doesn't matter.

00:35:55.780 It doesn't get any attention anymore

00:35:59.600 which is unfortunate.

00:36:02.760 Maybe part of the reason for that

00:36:04.140 is that everybody's high.

00:36:05.440 You know,

00:36:05.560 everybody's stoned all the time.

00:36:06.800 New York Post has this article.

00:36:08.400 A pair of GOP state lawmakers

00:36:09.980 are pushing to ban

00:36:11.080 public pot puffing

00:36:12.840 in a long shot effort

00:36:14.380 to clear the air

00:36:15.120 of pungent clouds

00:36:16.200 of funky smoke.

00:36:17.980 State Senator George Borrello

00:36:20.160 from upstate Jamestown

00:36:21.580 joined Brooklyn Assemblyman

00:36:23.040 Michael Novikov

00:36:24.980 this week to sponsor a bill

00:36:26.740 that would prohibit

00:36:27.400 the public use of cannabis

00:36:28.560 unless a city or town

00:36:29.880 specifically permits it.

00:36:31.840 Novikov,

00:36:32.480 a freshman Republican

00:36:33.220 who won an upset victory

00:36:34.360 in 2022

00:36:35.020 in a district

00:36:35.940 centered on Gravesend,

00:36:37.600 introduced the measure

00:36:38.440 back in May

00:36:39.080 and modeled it

00:36:39.620 on existing laws

00:36:40.380 banning the open consumption

00:36:41.580 of alcohol.

00:36:42.880 And so that's what

00:36:43.360 they're trying to do here.

00:36:45.120 It probably is not going to happen.

00:36:48.200 Yet there has been,

00:36:49.220 even as the article notes,

00:36:50.460 Mayor Adams in New York

00:36:51.640 has complained

00:36:52.320 about the inescapable odor

00:36:53.600 of marijuana now.

00:36:55.500 And that's the case

00:36:56.140 in New York City.

00:36:56.720 I mean,

00:36:56.920 in New York City,

00:36:58.020 it's just everywhere.

00:36:58.660 You go to New York City

00:36:59.300 and everything smells like pot

00:37:01.220 all the time.

00:37:01.740 Everywhere you go,

00:37:02.500 it smells like pot.

00:37:03.080 And that is,

00:37:04.360 but that's also the case

00:37:05.100 in every big city

00:37:06.160 that I've,

00:37:06.460 I've been to a lot of cities

00:37:07.640 over the last year or two.

00:37:10.400 Certainly since they started

00:37:11.380 legalizing this stuff

00:37:12.420 everywhere

00:37:12.840 or decriminalizing

00:37:14.100 whatever their approach

00:37:14.840 has been.

00:37:15.580 And it's just everything,

00:37:17.240 everywhere you go,

00:37:18.280 it reeks of weed.

00:37:19.640 It just smells like,

00:37:20.880 it smells like living,

00:37:23.440 you know,

00:37:23.820 in the country in the past.

00:37:25.720 You get familiar

00:37:26.580 with the smell

00:37:27.100 of a skunk

00:37:27.920 wafting in the air,

00:37:29.080 roadkill.

00:37:30.340 And,

00:37:30.600 but every once in a while.

00:37:31.440 Now it just smells like

00:37:33.380 skunks have been run over

00:37:35.020 everywhere you go.

00:37:38.160 And if I ever happen

00:37:39.540 to be walking

00:37:40.040 with my kids

00:37:40.920 in a city,

00:37:42.380 which I don't do often,

00:37:43.500 but on occasion,

00:37:44.120 and they smell

00:37:45.100 something like that,

00:37:46.200 they'll always say,

00:37:47.000 oh,

00:37:47.100 there's a skunk,

00:37:47.820 skunk mussel.

00:37:48.380 Yeah,

00:37:48.860 that's right.

00:37:49.240 Yeah,

00:37:49.360 there's a lot of skunks

00:37:49.840 around here.

00:37:50.700 That's what that is.

00:37:52.820 And it's just everywhere.

00:37:55.100 And this just goes to show

00:37:56.100 it's one of the,

00:37:57.040 one example,

00:38:01.620 like a relatively small example,

00:38:04.140 but that goes to show

00:38:05.700 why it was all a lie.

00:38:06.960 You know,

00:38:07.080 they said that,

00:38:07.660 well,

00:38:07.900 we legalized pot,

00:38:08.820 it doesn't hurt anybody,

00:38:09.500 it doesn't hurt you.

00:38:10.680 Yeah,

00:38:10.940 it's not going to be

00:38:11.400 a problem for you.

00:38:12.180 Just let people smoke pot

00:38:13.020 if they want.

00:38:14.820 Oh,

00:38:14.960 they forgot to mention that.

00:38:15.700 It's like,

00:38:15.900 now you got to smell it

00:38:16.700 everywhere you go.

00:38:17.460 Now,

00:38:17.700 if you live in these cities,

00:38:18.860 that's just your whole life now.

00:38:19.840 You're smelling

00:38:20.300 this disgusting smell.

00:38:23.400 Part of the reason

00:38:24.040 why they banned,

00:38:24.980 like you can't smoke cigarettes

00:38:25.960 anywhere anymore.

00:38:27.360 You know,

00:38:27.840 they have,

00:38:29.240 maybe they'll set aside

00:38:30.420 one little area,

00:38:31.820 like for cigarette smokers

00:38:33.820 to go stand.

00:38:34.660 It's like a little circle

00:38:35.540 off somewhere,

00:38:37.080 you know,

00:38:37.280 way away from any buildings

00:38:38.640 or anything.

00:38:39.580 And you see them,

00:38:40.280 it's very sad.

00:38:40.920 You see them out there,

00:38:42.060 the cigarette smokers,

00:38:44.480 out,

00:38:45.800 it's five degrees out

00:38:48.040 and they're all huddled together,

00:38:49.240 you know,

00:38:49.500 in their little circle smoking.

00:38:51.760 People walk by

00:38:52.980 and throw tomatoes at them.

00:38:54.940 Smoke cigarettes,

00:38:55.780 you disgusting filth,

00:38:56.840 you animals.

00:38:57.380 That's what people do

00:38:58.020 to the cigarette smokers

00:38:58.920 because they are,

00:38:59.820 they're not even human basically.

00:39:01.660 They are,

00:39:02.180 they are,

00:39:02.660 they are second class citizens 0.99

00:39:04.000 if you still smoke cigarettes.

00:39:04.900 That's how it's treated.

00:39:05.860 And one of the big reasons

00:39:06.840 why we did that

00:39:07.700 was because nobody wanted

00:39:08.620 to smell the smoke,

00:39:09.580 smell the cigarettes.

00:39:11.300 Now,

00:39:11.500 it never bothered me.

00:39:12.220 Nobody ever polled me.

00:39:13.660 If I have to choose

00:39:14.500 between cigarette smoke

00:39:15.420 and pot smoke,

00:39:16.340 I mean,

00:39:16.480 personally,

00:39:16.880 I'd rather have

00:39:17.980 the cigarette smoke,

00:39:18.660 honestly.

00:39:20.200 But,

00:39:20.900 that's,

00:39:21.700 that's why we did it.

00:39:23.200 We just,

00:39:23.860 we said,

00:39:24.760 we don't want to smell it.

00:39:26.600 And then we went back around

00:39:27.920 and replaced it with pot

00:39:29.400 and said,

00:39:29.740 well,

00:39:29.840 yeah,

00:39:29.980 you can smoke that anywhere.

00:39:30.920 Just let everyone smell that.

00:39:34.040 And it's not just the smell either.

00:39:36.220 You know,

00:39:36.480 it's,

00:39:36.840 it's,

00:39:37.300 it's the smell,

00:39:38.220 but it's also just the general,

00:39:39.640 like everybody is high

00:39:40.860 all the time now.

00:39:41.760 So it's this general malaise.

00:39:44.140 It's this kind of dreary,

00:39:46.320 apathetic,

00:39:47.660 which we already had that

00:39:49.540 in our culture

00:39:50.200 before everyone was smoking pot

00:39:51.820 publicly.

00:39:52.780 And now it's even worse.

00:39:54.200 So it's,

00:39:54.540 in many ways,

00:39:55.120 it's like the last thing we needed.

00:39:58.140 In hindsight,

00:39:59.300 legalizing pot,

00:40:00.180 it's kind of like the last thing

00:40:01.460 we really needed in this culture

00:40:03.440 where apathy is already,

00:40:05.140 indifference is already

00:40:06.160 probably our number one

00:40:07.580 cultural problem.

00:40:08.440 And then you add this into it

00:40:10.640 and it just makes it a lot worse.

00:40:13.880 That's the other thing with cigarettes,

00:40:15.000 at least nicotine,

00:40:16.140 you know,

00:40:16.940 and I'm not recommending it,

00:40:18.760 but nicotine,

00:40:21.040 it makes you sharper.

00:40:22.040 It kind of gives you

00:40:22.620 a little bit of an edge.

00:40:23.520 It kind of wakes you up a little bit.

00:40:25.380 It helps you focus.

00:40:26.860 You know,

00:40:27.140 that's,

00:40:27.460 that's what it does.

00:40:29.000 Pot has the opposite effect

00:40:30.180 and everybody is high all the time

00:40:32.720 and it just smells like pot.

00:40:34.240 Then you mix in the fecal matter

00:40:35.680 in the air too.

00:40:36.580 And it's this disgusting combination.

00:40:38.440 It smells like a,

00:40:41.700 it smells like a,

00:40:42.300 yeah,

00:40:42.860 it smells like a skunk,

00:40:44.100 not just a skunk runner,

00:40:44.980 but with their,

00:40:45.740 with their innards pouring out

00:40:47.060 because then you,

00:40:47.600 that's how you,

00:40:48.960 that's that with the fecal matter 0.85

00:40:50.160 in all the cities together.

00:40:51.340 That's what all the smell

00:40:52.080 is in every single city

00:40:53.540 and it's disgusting. 0.90

00:40:54.380 All right.

00:40:58.060 I've had this for two days.

00:40:59.680 Do we have time?

00:41:00.460 Not really,

00:41:00.920 but we're going to do it anyway.

00:41:03.980 Before we get to our comments today,

00:41:05.160 I have to do something.

00:41:06.860 Unfortunately,

00:41:07.180 I don't have a lot of time for it,

00:41:07.980 but I have to destroy

00:41:09.640 Ben Shapiro

00:41:11.320 with facts and logic.

00:41:14.440 Last week on his show,

00:41:15.800 he talked about the UFO hearings

00:41:18.220 on Capitol Hill

00:41:19.000 and he had exactly

00:41:20.040 the same kind of dismissive attitude

00:41:21.520 that you would expect.

00:41:24.500 And it's the same attitude

00:41:25.300 that everybody here at DW has,

00:41:27.020 except me.

00:41:28.960 And originally I'd planned

00:41:30.260 to go through in great detail

00:41:31.740 and dissect everything

00:41:32.780 that he said about this.

00:41:34.160 And we're not going to do that.

00:41:36.000 Instead,

00:41:36.240 I would just want to call attention

00:41:37.020 to two brief parts

00:41:38.460 of Ben's offensive

00:41:39.600 and outrageous attack

00:41:40.460 on the alien believing community,

00:41:42.460 ABC.

00:41:43.580 And I think we have those clips.

00:41:45.420 Let's play the first one.

00:41:46.160 All righty, folks,

00:41:47.940 Congress is so effective

00:41:49.220 that they have time to spare.

00:41:50.720 And now they're having

00:41:51.380 a hearing about UFOs.

00:41:52.580 There was a big hearing

00:41:53.460 on the Hill about UFOs.

00:41:55.200 Now, you may ask,

00:41:56.380 why am I covering this

00:41:57.180 so far into the show?

00:41:58.140 Wouldn't that be like

00:41:58.700 the number one news?

00:41:59.480 No, because it's bullcrap.

00:42:01.200 OK, I'm just going to put out

00:42:02.400 there right now.

00:42:03.400 There are no aliens

00:42:04.460 on planet Earth

00:42:05.420 other than perhaps Bernie Sanders.

00:42:07.220 There are no aliens.

00:42:09.000 OK, that there may be

00:42:10.440 in the universe.

00:42:11.380 They haven't found us yet.

00:42:12.960 OK, so

00:42:13.580 first of all,

00:42:15.180 Bernie Sanders is not an alien.

00:42:16.200 He's like some kind of undead.

00:42:17.200 He's like a zombie.

00:42:17.860 He's an undead kind of thing

00:42:19.400 that came out of the ground

00:42:20.380 or dug out of the ground

00:42:21.400 like an orc.

00:42:22.400 But you are admitting,

00:42:24.580 Ben, to begin with,

00:42:25.520 and you always hear this.

00:42:26.720 I love when they're

00:42:27.520 saying the quiet part out loud.

00:42:29.800 OK, this is

00:42:30.940 and you'll always hear this.

00:42:32.580 And usually it's

00:42:33.380 a little bit more subliminal,

00:42:35.400 but here he's coming out

00:42:36.020 and saying,

00:42:36.360 admitting the preconceived

00:42:38.580 biases up front,

00:42:41.640 admitting that he rules out

00:42:42.940 the possibility

00:42:43.720 that any aliens

00:42:45.760 could have visited Earth

00:42:46.740 before looking at the evidence.

00:42:49.620 What does that mean?

00:42:50.340 It means that there's

00:42:51.020 no evidence at all

00:42:52.580 that could possibly

00:42:53.180 convince him.

00:42:55.180 So then

00:42:55.680 what

00:42:56.800 what credibility

00:42:58.100 does this point of view

00:42:59.200 have on this subject?

00:43:00.340 If you are saying

00:43:01.300 from the beginning,

00:43:02.020 you know,

00:43:02.160 if I come to you

00:43:02.640 and I say,

00:43:03.140 I have evidence

00:43:05.600 that aliens

00:43:07.620 have visited Earth.

00:43:08.900 I have evidence

00:43:09.480 and you say to me,

00:43:10.940 doesn't matter what

00:43:11.580 your evidence is.

00:43:12.200 I don't believe it.

00:43:13.220 I already don't believe it.

00:43:14.860 Well, OK.

00:43:15.940 See, when I show you

00:43:17.040 the evidence

00:43:17.600 and then you say,

00:43:18.620 yeah, that's not convincing.

00:43:20.280 Well, you were already

00:43:20.900 committed to that response.

00:43:23.060 You were openly committed

00:43:24.320 to that response

00:43:24.900 before you looked at it.

00:43:27.180 So your response

00:43:28.260 to the evidence

00:43:28.760 is meaningless.

00:43:32.240 As opposed to my approach,

00:43:34.240 which is very open minded.

00:43:36.060 Now, yes.

00:43:36.860 Am I certain that aliens exist?

00:43:38.260 Yes.

00:43:38.520 Am I certain they've been to Earth?

00:43:39.660 Yes.

00:43:39.920 But I'm also I'm open.

00:43:41.320 I'm open.

00:43:41.900 OK, I will listen

00:43:43.140 to the arguments

00:43:43.740 and I will respond to them.

00:43:45.800 So I have the much

00:43:47.080 more open minded

00:43:47.760 and dare I say tolerant.

00:43:53.440 And I would even say

00:43:54.300 enlightened perspective

00:43:55.460 on the subject

00:43:56.280 than Ben Shapiro does.

00:43:57.560 But here's where

00:43:58.620 we really get to get down to it

00:43:59.900 is with the next clip.

00:44:00.820 Watch this.

00:44:02.480 Weird how that keeps happening.

00:44:04.120 How like all of these systems

00:44:05.280 that would provide

00:44:05.840 for the surveillance are

00:44:07.360 they always go down

00:44:08.240 just like Bigfoot.

00:44:08.860 So many people

00:44:09.240 have seen Bigfoot

00:44:09.860 and yet and yet

00:44:11.080 nobody seems to have gotten

00:44:11.960 like a really credible

00:44:12.800 good view of Bigfoot

00:44:14.060 that they can then show

00:44:14.820 like we only

00:44:15.480 we're on a planet

00:44:16.340 where everyone has a cell phone

00:44:18.060 like every single person

00:44:19.080 with camera capabilities.

00:44:20.820 And you're telling me

00:44:21.860 that no one

00:44:22.980 has yet taken credible images

00:44:24.760 of any of this magically.

00:44:27.260 That's just that's just

00:44:27.900 how it works.

00:44:29.300 No, that's not

00:44:29.980 what we're telling you, Ben.

00:44:30.660 That's not what we're telling you.

00:44:31.440 In fact, there are

00:44:32.040 a lot of credible images.

00:44:33.420 This is not like Bigfoot.

00:44:34.760 OK, at this point,

00:44:36.080 I'm convinced that the people

00:44:36.900 here, especially Daily Wire,

00:44:37.640 keep making this Bigfoot comparison. 0.68

00:44:39.500 They're doing it

00:44:40.160 just to attack me personally.

00:44:41.400 They're doing it

00:44:41.720 just to annoy me personally

00:44:42.940 because this the comparison.

00:44:46.540 In fact, the comparison

00:44:47.860 only proves

00:44:48.840 why the alien stories

00:44:49.880 are more credible.

00:44:50.680 Because yes, with Bigfoot,

00:44:52.760 if you've got this race

00:44:54.300 of ape-like men 0.63

00:44:55.820 who live in the woods

00:44:57.420 in North America,

00:44:58.760 they're in your backyard

00:44:59.740 practically,

00:45:01.000 and they've been there

00:45:02.120 for forever,

00:45:03.120 you'd think that there'd be

00:45:04.220 some kind of compelling

00:45:05.740 video footage, photograph,

00:45:07.720 physical evidence, something.

00:45:09.560 And none of that exists.

00:45:10.400 So that's enough to tell you

00:45:11.340 that the whole story is bogus.

00:45:13.720 With aliens,

00:45:14.820 first of all,

00:45:15.400 you wouldn't even expect

00:45:16.760 as much compelling evidence

00:45:18.380 because these are creatures

00:45:20.180 that live many light years away.

00:45:23.160 And if they visit,

00:45:24.420 they're 50,000 feet in the sky

00:45:27.400 traveling at the speed of sound.

00:45:29.600 OK, whereas the Bigfoot

00:45:30.960 is this big hairy thing

00:45:31.880 lumbering along.

00:45:32.800 And so there's a lot of opportunity

00:45:34.140 to grab your phone.

00:45:36.040 The Bigfoot's walking by,

00:45:37.140 you could grab your phone,

00:45:37.800 your phone could be off.

00:45:39.060 And you go,

00:45:39.280 oh crap, I've got to turn it on.

00:45:40.380 And you take the time

00:45:40.980 to turn it on,

00:45:41.600 you pull the camera up,

00:45:42.840 and Bigfoot's still there

00:45:43.900 because he's so slow

00:45:44.720 and fat and dumb. 0.79

00:45:46.360 But with the UFO,

00:45:48.900 blink and you miss it.

00:45:50.860 And so there's not,

00:45:51.460 most of the time,

00:45:51.940 there's not enough time

00:45:52.500 to even pull your phone out

00:45:53.360 because the thing's

00:45:54.020 traveling so fast.

00:45:55.420 And yet in spite

00:45:56.540 of those obstacles,

00:45:57.740 still we have hundreds

00:45:59.140 and hundreds and hundreds

00:46:00.340 hundreds of photographs,

00:46:02.340 footage that we've seen

00:46:04.200 since the 50s.

00:46:05.460 I mean,

00:46:05.680 there are compelling

00:46:06.420 UFO photos back in the 50s

00:46:08.880 that still have not been debunked.

00:46:10.680 People want to say

00:46:11.420 that they're hoaxes,

00:46:12.000 but many of them still.

00:46:13.040 People have been,

00:46:13.800 you know,

00:46:14.420 experts have been looking

00:46:15.600 at them for decades

00:46:17.480 and haven't been able

00:46:17.980 to debunk them.

00:46:19.040 And so what do you expect?

00:46:20.020 You expect that

00:46:20.660 if UFOs have visited,

00:46:23.500 you would expect that

00:46:24.340 in, you know,

00:46:25.040 back in the mid-20th century

00:46:26.420 when there was,

00:46:26.880 there's photographic technology,

00:46:28.720 but not like it is today,

00:46:29.560 that every once in a while

00:46:30.560 you'd see a good photograph.

00:46:31.800 And then you would expect

00:46:32.500 that today there'd be

00:46:33.280 a lot more

00:46:33.800 and that's exactly

00:46:34.540 what we see, okay?

00:46:35.660 It's exactly what we see.

00:46:37.060 And not only do we have,

00:46:37.880 we have cell phone footage,

00:46:40.140 we have radar, okay?

00:46:41.800 We have data from radar.

00:46:43.360 We have,

00:46:43.940 we have videos

00:46:45.200 that Navy pilots have taken

00:46:47.300 where they're,

00:46:49.220 where they're up in the sky

00:46:50.900 and they're zooming in

00:46:52.220 on a thing

00:46:53.160 that is traveling

00:46:54.120 across the sky

00:46:55.300 and doing things

00:46:56.140 that defy the laws of physics

00:46:57.260 as we understand them.

00:46:59.020 Ben,

00:46:59.640 we have all of this.

00:47:00.920 It's there

00:47:01.700 for you to look at.

00:47:04.360 Okay,

00:47:04.760 but you refuse to,

00:47:05.560 you're not going to see it

00:47:06.560 if you have your eyes closed.

00:47:08.140 And I think

00:47:08.740 that's the issue here.

00:47:10.920 So your response is,

00:47:12.340 well,

00:47:12.700 if this was really happening,

00:47:14.200 then wouldn't there be,

00:47:15.500 you know,

00:47:15.760 you'd think you'd have pilots

00:47:17.000 that are up in the sky

00:47:17.980 and they see this stuff

00:47:19.240 and they get footage of it.

00:47:20.440 We do have that.

00:47:22.220 It's there.

00:47:23.820 That's the whole point.

00:47:24.700 That's why we're talking

00:47:25.400 about this.

00:47:27.280 Okay,

00:47:27.620 what's your explanation,

00:47:29.140 Ben?

00:47:29.800 How do you explain it?

00:47:31.540 How do you explain

00:47:32.440 what we can definitely say

00:47:35.340 are physical objects

00:47:36.500 in the sky

00:47:37.220 doing things

00:47:39.340 that are

00:47:41.100 centuries beyond

00:47:43.640 the technological capabilities

00:47:44.900 of our country?

00:47:49.560 So,

00:47:49.820 do the Chinese,

00:47:51.120 are they,

00:47:51.960 are they like 500 years

00:47:53.700 ahead of us

00:47:54.080 with technology?

00:47:55.300 And if they are,

00:47:56.120 why haven't they just

00:47:56.780 simply taken over

00:47:57.660 the whole world by now?

00:47:58.800 Why haven't they

00:47:59.480 just done that?

00:48:00.800 Why isn't the,

00:48:01.300 why isn't it the,

00:48:01.900 the whole globe China 0.98

00:48:03.000 if they have that

00:48:04.120 kind of technology?

00:48:05.400 Okay,

00:48:06.240 these are questions

00:48:06.820 you can't answer.

00:48:08.120 And you know why,

00:48:08.540 the real question,

00:48:09.160 Ben,

00:48:09.260 is not whether

00:48:10.160 there is

00:48:12.040 reason

00:48:12.820 to believe.

00:48:14.300 Okay,

00:48:14.580 the question is whether

00:48:15.720 you are willing

00:48:16.720 to believe.

00:48:17.860 Are you willing

00:48:19.280 to believe,

00:48:20.020 Ben?

00:48:21.400 That's what you have

00:48:22.100 to ask yourself

00:48:22.700 in your heart.

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00:49:19.400 Well, it's great

00:49:20.320 to be back

00:49:21.700 in Nashville,

00:49:23.240 back in the studio

00:49:23.880 ranting about aliens.

00:49:24.940 You know,

00:49:25.080 everything is right

00:49:25.560 in the world again.

00:49:26.100 Everything feels right.

00:49:27.040 It's been like three months

00:49:28.360 really since I've

00:49:29.120 consistently done shows here

00:49:30.240 but we're back now.

00:49:31.460 I'm excited about it.

00:49:32.760 Especially excited

00:49:33.500 to be home

00:49:34.180 after driving

00:49:35.280 about 20 hours

00:49:36.240 with my family

00:49:37.660 over the weekend

00:49:38.180 to get back here

00:49:38.980 to Nashville

00:49:39.440 in time to do the show.

00:49:40.840 That's two 10-hour

00:49:42.080 driving days

00:49:42.800 in a row

00:49:43.360 back-to-back

00:49:43.880 with kids.

00:49:45.080 Only other option

00:49:45.660 was to fly

00:49:46.180 with six kids

00:49:46.860 and that somehow

00:49:48.160 seemed even more hellish

00:49:49.320 and to make matters worse,

00:49:51.600 I had, as always,

00:49:52.700 my wife in the car

00:49:53.760 publicly shaming me

00:49:55.280 and I didn't even know

00:49:56.400 she was doing it

00:49:56.880 because I'm busy driving

00:49:57.620 but she was sitting there

00:49:58.900 like transcribing

00:49:59.780 some of the things

00:50:00.420 that I was saying

00:50:01.000 in the car

00:50:01.380 and posting them

00:50:02.740 to Twitter.

00:50:03.000 So here's one of her tweets

00:50:03.780 on Saturday.

00:50:04.380 She said,

00:50:04.720 Save me.

00:50:05.160 I'm trapped in the SUV

00:50:05.840 with Matt

00:50:06.360 who's outraged

00:50:07.420 and rambling

00:50:07.920 about how our children

00:50:08.680 have no idea

00:50:09.340 about the 90s

00:50:10.060 Sesame Street,

00:50:10.760 Bugs Bunny,

00:50:11.260 the Flintstones,

00:50:12.300 Marvin the Martian,

00:50:13.020 Looney Tunes.

00:50:13.900 Apparently he had a VHS

00:50:14.840 with six hours

00:50:15.520 of Looney Tunes on it

00:50:16.320 and that's all he watched

00:50:16.980 as a kid.

00:50:17.720 I finally asked him

00:50:18.320 why he cared so much

00:50:19.100 and could he please

00:50:19.580 stop subjecting us all

00:50:20.440 to cartoon characters

00:50:21.160 and storylines,

00:50:21.800 etc.

00:50:22.200 LOL.

00:50:22.660 Update.

00:50:23.440 He's still ranting about

00:50:24.500 quote,

00:50:24.820 the old days

00:50:25.440 when we made do

00:50:26.440 with what we had.

00:50:27.720 I can't stop laughing.

00:50:29.000 What is he,

00:50:29.500 85?

00:50:30.300 Well,

00:50:30.480 the answer to your question

00:50:31.100 is yes,

00:50:31.840 I am 85.

00:50:32.520 You knew that

00:50:32.780 when you married me.

00:50:33.900 Here's more context.

00:50:34.700 It's about seven hours

00:50:35.420 into our drive

00:50:36.100 and I was talking

00:50:36.780 to my 10-year-old daughter

00:50:37.720 who was sitting

00:50:38.380 in the middle row

00:50:39.000 and it was quiet

00:50:39.660 in the car

00:50:40.020 for the most part

00:50:40.680 because the boys

00:50:42.220 in the back

00:50:42.640 had been banned

00:50:43.240 from speaking

00:50:43.740 for 45 minutes

00:50:44.540 because they couldn't

00:50:44.940 stop fighting

00:50:45.440 and just gives you

00:50:46.860 an idea of how well

00:50:47.440 the car ride was going.

00:50:48.500 So anyway,

00:50:48.800 I happen to mention,

00:50:49.520 I don't remember

00:50:49.840 the context,

00:50:50.240 but I mentioned something

00:50:50.640 to my daughter

00:50:51.380 in passing about

00:50:52.160 Bugs Bunny

00:50:52.740 and she responded

00:50:54.000 and I quote,

00:50:56.400 who?

00:50:57.640 So she had never heard

00:50:58.720 of Bugs Bunny

00:50:59.180 in her life.

00:50:59.900 Had no idea.

00:51:00.800 So then I start quizzing her

00:51:01.600 about other,

00:51:02.200 you know,

00:51:02.480 famous children's characters.

00:51:03.900 Big Bird,

00:51:04.580 you know,

00:51:04.900 nothing on Big Bird,

00:51:05.760 never heard of Big Bird.

00:51:07.480 Popeye,

00:51:07.960 nothing.

00:51:08.520 So it was a travesty

00:51:10.080 and yeah,

00:51:10.380 you might put the blame

00:51:11.020 on me and say,

00:51:11.620 well,

00:51:11.680 why didn't you put

00:51:12.120 Looney Tunes on

00:51:12.800 for your kids?

00:51:13.780 I just assumed

00:51:14.600 that they would absorb

00:51:15.360 that stuff through like

00:51:16.280 osmosis or something

00:51:17.240 in the culture.

00:51:17.820 I didn't,

00:51:18.300 I didn't know

00:51:18.580 you had to deliberately

00:51:20.000 introduce your child

00:51:21.840 to Bugs Bunny.

00:51:22.800 I thought that just happens.

00:51:24.480 Okay,

00:51:24.620 my parents never sat me down

00:51:25.780 and said,

00:51:26.700 son,

00:51:28.180 you know,

00:51:28.380 there's this character

00:51:28.960 called Bugs Bunny.

00:51:29.680 It's just,

00:51:30.180 you know,

00:51:30.760 he's just there.

00:51:31.860 Bugs Bunny,

00:51:32.980 you know?

00:51:33.820 And my daughter

00:51:35.300 made it through

00:51:35.700 10 years of her life

00:51:36.480 and never heard

00:51:37.060 of Bugs Bunny.

00:51:37.680 So that started me

00:51:38.260 on this lengthy monologue

00:51:39.140 about the old cartoons

00:51:40.140 and, you know,

00:51:40.940 there was real artistry then.

00:51:42.200 They were actually

00:51:42.660 hand-drawn.

00:51:43.820 They were animated

00:51:44.440 and there was even real,

00:51:45.560 there was like real pain

00:51:46.680 and real suffering

00:51:47.440 in those old cartoons.

00:51:48.400 The classic slapstick humor

00:51:49.620 is the interplay

00:51:50.300 between the absurd

00:51:51.600 and suffering.

00:51:53.140 And, you know,

00:51:53.380 I was trying to explain this

00:51:54.580 and I told her how

00:51:55.740 when I was a kid,

00:51:56.700 I had a videotape

00:51:57.820 of Looney Tunes,

00:51:58.580 about six hours of it

00:51:59.500 that we recorded on VHS

00:52:00.600 and, of course,

00:52:01.640 you didn't know what VHS was.

00:52:02.640 I had to explain that.

00:52:03.720 And we watched that tape

00:52:05.000 and we just watched it.

00:52:06.220 Okay?

00:52:06.480 That was what we did

00:52:07.040 on Saturday mornings.

00:52:08.540 We sat and we watched the tape.

00:52:10.020 It was the one tape

00:52:10.960 and that's all we watched.

00:52:12.140 We didn't have Netflix.

00:52:13.120 We couldn't go and select

00:52:14.240 from a thousand different shows.

00:52:16.220 You just put on the tape

00:52:17.340 and you watch the tape.

00:52:18.600 In the morning,

00:52:19.280 someone would say,

00:52:19.740 oh, go grab the tape

00:52:20.500 and we grabbed

00:52:20.880 because there was the tape

00:52:21.580 and we just watched the tape

00:52:22.600 and that's what we did.

00:52:23.260 Okay?

00:52:23.680 That's what we did

00:52:24.280 back in those days.

00:52:25.040 I tried to explain this.

00:52:26.260 It was a whole thing.

00:52:28.580 And the great thing

00:52:29.280 is that my boys

00:52:29.760 had to just sit and listen

00:52:30.640 on account of the talking man

00:52:32.060 that had been imposed on them.

00:52:33.920 So, it was a good drive.

00:52:35.140 Educational for the kids

00:52:36.040 and for my wife.

00:52:37.280 Anyway,

00:52:38.560 basically no time

00:52:39.400 for comments now.

00:52:41.720 We'll do one or two.

00:52:44.640 Let's see.

00:52:45.820 Why doesn't Spike Lee

00:52:46.640 ever mention

00:52:47.160 that his ancestors

00:52:47.960 sold his ancestors

00:52:49.060 into worldwide slavery?

00:52:52.120 Well, that is one of the facts

00:52:53.420 about slavery

00:52:53.880 that never seems to get mentioned.

00:52:54.980 That should be mentioned

00:52:56.100 not because it's

00:52:56.800 whataboutism or anything

00:52:59.440 but because

00:52:59.900 if you're going to teach

00:53:01.560 about slavery

00:53:02.200 as I'm always arguing

00:53:03.760 that's great.

00:53:05.920 We should teach about that

00:53:06.860 because it's a historical fact

00:53:09.300 but we need to teach

00:53:10.880 the whole history of slavery.

00:53:12.120 Mike says

00:53:15.460 the reason they don't want

00:53:16.320 this taught

00:53:17.000 slavery taught

00:53:18.080 is their ancestors

00:53:19.380 faced worse in their lifetime

00:53:20.760 and became better

00:53:21.480 and more accomplished

00:53:22.280 than what's happening today.

00:53:24.380 That is an interesting angle.

00:53:25.720 It's like

00:53:25.900 why are people so upset

00:53:27.160 as we've been discussing

00:53:29.120 this one single item

00:53:31.580 in the Florida curriculum

00:53:32.940 on slavery

00:53:33.720 you know

00:53:34.420 they teach like

00:53:35.740 200 things about slavery

00:53:37.080 one of the things

00:53:38.080 that they teach

00:53:38.600 is that some of the slaves

00:53:40.120 were able to utilize skills

00:53:41.280 that they learned

00:53:41.820 in slavery

00:53:42.320 for their own betterment

00:53:43.740 and for their own

00:53:44.840 personal advancement

00:53:45.840 after being freed

00:53:46.640 and it's like

00:53:48.060 why is that so offensive to you?

00:53:49.800 Isn't that

00:53:50.420 isn't that a great story?

00:53:52.660 Isn't that a great origin story

00:53:53.860 for a successful person?

00:53:55.400 That even in great trial

00:53:57.840 and tribulation

00:53:58.560 they were able to

00:53:59.560 find something in it

00:54:01.200 that they later benefit from

00:54:02.220 that's the kind of thing

00:54:03.160 that we usually celebrate

00:54:04.320 in a person.

00:54:06.120 Why is that so offensive?

00:54:07.700 And I think the main reason

00:54:08.640 is that everyone's pretending

00:54:09.800 because they want to

00:54:10.760 take a shot at DeSantis

00:54:11.920 a secondary reason

00:54:13.440 might be what you're saying.

00:54:15.260 It's like to point out

00:54:16.100 that there were slaves

00:54:17.540 who managed to

00:54:19.540 after slavery

00:54:20.780 to succeed

00:54:21.560 and you know

00:54:22.680 and have

00:54:24.880 you know

00:54:25.620 and go out

00:54:27.080 and live a life

00:54:27.880 and find a life

00:54:28.460 for themselves.

00:54:29.860 Even ex-slaves

00:54:30.880 were able to do that

00:54:31.720 and yet you've got

00:54:32.960 modern people

00:54:33.580 sitting around

00:54:34.240 making excuses

00:54:35.580 or why they're oppressed

00:54:36.640 maybe it makes them

00:54:37.400 feel inferior

00:54:38.620 by comparison

00:54:39.200 so that might be it.

00:54:42.700 And finally

00:54:43.740 Perfect Storm says

00:54:45.780 I can just imagine

00:54:46.800 what people outside

00:54:47.740 Matt's hotel door

00:54:48.780 are thinking

00:54:49.300 the cleaning ladies

00:54:50.480 must be going

00:54:51.140 El Gringo Esta Loca

00:54:52.320 Yeah

00:54:53.960 I think about that

00:54:54.640 every time we're on the road

00:54:55.480 traveling

00:54:55.900 and I'm ranting

00:54:57.540 you know

00:54:59.140 and

00:55:00.060 it's

00:55:00.840 the walls are not

00:55:01.580 super thick

00:55:03.060 in a hotel room

00:55:03.700 so like everyone around us

00:55:04.860 can hear

00:55:05.260 and I guess

00:55:07.060 from their perspective

00:55:07.980 unless they know

00:55:08.680 unless they understand

00:55:09.320 unless they hear

00:55:09.840 and they

00:55:10.020 oh that's the Matt Walsh show

00:55:10.840 filming right next to us

00:55:11.540 most of the time though

00:55:13.160 they think

00:55:13.500 this guy

00:55:14.240 has just been going on

00:55:15.580 who is he talking to

00:55:16.560 for an hour

00:55:17.200 about all these subjects

00:55:19.060 that's kind of like

00:55:21.140 what happened to my family

00:55:21.820 in the car.

00:55:22.820 If you want some

00:55:23.600 positive news

00:55:24.360 in the culture war

00:55:25.040 since Roe v. Wade

00:55:25.840 was overturned

00:55:26.580 the left has lost

00:55:27.420 their minds

00:55:28.060 making abortion

00:55:28.800 their official sacrament

00:55:29.900 the pro-life efforts

00:55:30.600 which are more important

00:55:31.400 now than ever

00:55:31.900 are booming

00:55:32.500 you heard that right

00:55:33.160 despite the narrative

00:55:34.480 pro-lifers didn't go away

00:55:36.000 in fact they have

00:55:36.640 increased in numbers

00:55:37.580 as one of the largest

00:55:38.640 pro-life organizations

00:55:39.400 in the world

00:55:39.960 no one is in a better

00:55:40.840 position than 40 Days for Life

00:55:41.920 to end abortion 0.99

00:55:42.680 in each state

00:55:43.260 in a post-Roe America 0.98

00:55:44.300 40 Days for Life

00:55:45.480 is changing hearts and minds

00:55:46.460 in the most blue

00:55:47.000 pro-abortion states

00:55:47.900 they've had a record

00:55:48.860 number of locations

00:55:49.940 since Roe was overturned

00:55:51.360 and they grew in both

00:55:52.260 volunteers and locations

00:55:53.920 with about 1 million

00:55:55.060 volunteers in 1,500 cities

00:55:56.560 they hold peaceful vigils

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00:55:59.040 you can help them fight

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00:56:03.340 by giving a tax-deductible

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00:56:09.340 also sick of woke corporations

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00:56:28.280 I don't know what

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00:56:31.660 Jeremy actually cares

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00:57:03.600 today

00:57:04.040 now let's get to

00:57:05.600 our daily cancellation

00:57:06.420 one of my long standing

00:57:11.880 complaints about

00:57:12.640 the Christian entertainment scene

00:57:14.260 Christian music

00:57:14.960 Christian films

00:57:15.540 etc

00:57:15.840 is that they often put

00:57:17.440 message far ahead

00:57:18.840 of quality

00:57:19.700 as long as they get

00:57:20.520 the point across

00:57:21.200 as long as the content

00:57:22.100 is promoting

00:57:23.460 the Christian faith

00:57:24.320 then they aren't concerned

00:57:25.200 with its artistic merits

00:57:26.860 the audience

00:57:28.140 for this content

00:57:28.980 also adopts this attitude

00:57:30.180 often describing

00:57:30.960 a Christian movie

00:57:31.800 or hit Christian song

00:57:32.920 as great

00:57:33.600 without stipulating

00:57:34.800 that the greatness

00:57:35.660 is found in the message

00:57:37.200 but the vessel

00:57:37.980 for that message

00:57:38.860 is often times

00:57:39.600 corny, lame,

00:57:40.840 cliched, trite

00:57:41.700 if not downright

00:57:42.920 amateurish

00:57:43.580 and embarrassing

00:57:44.080 which means of course

00:57:45.320 that it won't even succeed

00:57:46.480 in the one objective

00:57:47.300 that it has put

00:57:47.940 before everything else

00:57:48.800 which is promoting

00:57:49.420 the message

00:57:49.820 none of the people

00:57:50.840 that you should want

00:57:51.460 to reach with the message

00:57:52.500 are going to endure

00:57:53.360 the artistic mediocrity

00:57:54.520 for long enough

00:57:55.100 to absorb

00:57:55.720 whatever message

00:57:56.880 you're trying

00:57:57.220 to get across to them

00:57:58.140 and so the whole thing

00:57:59.220 is a waste of time

00:57:59.880 fortunately

00:58:01.300 in recent years

00:58:02.180 Christian entertainment

00:58:02.940 has started to improve

00:58:04.120 these complaints

00:58:04.740 still pertain

00:58:05.300 to probably 75% of it

00:58:07.240 but in that 25%

00:58:08.980 you'll find

00:58:09.720 that faith-based art

00:58:11.100 you know

00:58:12.240 where there actually

00:58:13.080 are Christians

00:58:14.860 who are creating

00:58:16.080 real art

00:58:16.780 that doesn't need

00:58:17.640 to be graded

00:58:18.140 on a curve

00:58:18.700 now we're still

00:58:20.120 a long way

00:58:20.660 from where we should be

00:58:21.560 but we're moving

00:58:22.100 in the right direction

00:58:22.860 I think

00:58:23.380 in the meantime

00:58:24.880 the left is heading

00:58:26.420 the opposite way

00:58:27.560 very often now

00:58:28.500 it's the leftist

00:58:29.340 who finds himself

00:58:30.040 pretending

00:58:30.540 that some preachy piece

00:58:32.000 of woke entertainment

00:58:32.920 is great

00:58:33.720 on its artistic merits

00:58:35.180 when really

00:58:35.660 it's only great

00:58:36.620 at checking

00:58:37.020 all the progressive boxes

00:58:38.260 bad Christian entertainment 0.90

00:58:40.040 at least has a good message

00:58:41.240 even if it's a message

00:58:42.600 that nobody

00:58:43.040 but the already converted

00:58:43.960 will ever hear

00:58:44.600 bad leftist entertainment

00:58:46.120 doesn't even have

00:58:46.800 that redeeming quality

00:58:47.800 the message is garbage

00:58:49.620 and the vessel

00:58:50.460 for the message

00:58:51.300 is even worse

00:58:52.320 I would say

00:58:53.860 that drag 1.00

00:58:54.440 is perhaps

00:58:55.140 the best example

00:58:56.160 of this

00:58:56.720 yes drag

00:58:58.060 is degenerate

00:58:58.960 and morally depraved

00:59:00.040 especially when it's

00:59:00.680 performed in front of children

00:59:01.560 but even aside from that

00:59:03.020 it's also just really bad

00:59:04.560 the drag queens

00:59:05.740 are bad dancers

00:59:06.660 bad singers

00:59:07.380 bad comedians

00:59:08.140 bad performers

00:59:08.860 we've seen many viral videos

00:59:11.280 of drag performances

00:59:12.040 where children

00:59:12.560 are being subjected

00:59:13.700 to these sights and sounds

00:59:14.740 and conservatives

00:59:15.300 rightly focus on the fact

00:59:16.520 that the show

00:59:16.900 is inappropriate

00:59:17.460 for minors

00:59:18.060 but every time

00:59:18.980 I see one of these videos

00:59:19.800 you know

00:59:20.300 after I make note

00:59:21.080 of the fact

00:59:21.440 that all the adults

00:59:22.120 involved are child abusers

00:59:23.260 who should be in prison

00:59:23.920 I can't help but also note

00:59:25.920 just how bad

00:59:27.380 the performance is

00:59:28.440 on artistic grounds

00:59:29.520 so we always ask

00:59:31.340 why would anyone

00:59:32.000 subject their children

00:59:32.920 to that

00:59:33.420 and that's a very

00:59:33.920 important question

00:59:34.640 the most important one

00:59:35.500 but an interesting

00:59:36.780 secondary question

00:59:37.640 is why would any adult

00:59:38.800 subject themselves

00:59:39.660 to that

00:59:40.340 why would you want

00:59:42.040 to watch a man

00:59:43.080 in makeup

00:59:43.560 prance around awkwardly

00:59:44.940 on stage

00:59:45.480 and lip sync 0.99

00:59:46.060 to a Lady Gaga song

00:59:47.140 the answer is

00:59:48.920 that they go and watch

00:59:49.780 not because it's

00:59:50.440 a good and worthwhile

00:59:51.320 performance

00:59:51.960 but because it sends

00:59:53.320 a message

00:59:53.980 and that brings us

00:59:55.520 finally to a drag queen 0.96

00:59:56.520 named Matthew Blake

00:59:57.620 who goes by the stage

00:59:58.620 name Flamey Grant

01:00:00.240 and you should know

01:00:01.380 that this pun

01:00:02.660 represents the absolute

01:00:03.760 peak of Blake's

01:00:05.280 creative ingenuity

01:00:06.140 and wit

01:00:06.540 that's as good as it gets

01:00:07.980 it's all downhill

01:00:09.200 from there

01:00:09.660 now Blake along

01:00:10.940 with being a drag queen 1.00

01:00:11.960 also fashions himself

01:00:12.840 a gospel musician

01:00:13.880 and the drag gospel

01:00:15.380 shtick garnered him

01:00:16.300 all the success

01:00:16.900 you can imagine

01:00:17.520 which is none at all

01:00:19.100 until this past week

01:00:20.300 when the top spot

01:00:21.040 on the iTunes

01:00:21.700 Christian songs chart

01:00:23.000 was briefly occupied

01:00:24.160 by Flamey Grant

01:00:25.860 with his song

01:00:26.840 Good Day

01:00:27.500 the performers rise

01:00:29.040 from obscurity

01:00:29.600 to topping the charts

01:00:30.460 and then falling back

01:00:31.180 into obscurity again

01:00:31.920 is explained by this report

01:00:33.720 from Relevant Magazine

01:00:34.660 quote

01:00:34.960 there's a surprising new name

01:00:37.120 at the top of the

01:00:37.820 Christian music charts

01:00:38.740 this week

01:00:39.140 drag queen Flamey Grant's

01:00:41.140 Bible Belt Baby 1.00

01:00:42.140 has reached number one

01:00:43.100 on the iTunes Christian

01:00:43.920 and Gospel album chart

01:00:44.840 ten months after

01:00:45.840 the album's release

01:00:46.540 additionally Grant's

01:00:47.300 lead single

01:00:47.900 Good Day

01:00:48.540 peaked at number one

01:00:49.760 the surprise rise

01:00:51.120 to the top

01:00:51.780 is due in large part

01:00:52.760 to the Christian

01:00:53.820 worship artist

01:00:54.480 Sean Foyt

01:00:55.340 after he criticized

01:00:56.480 Derek Webb

01:00:57.140 former lead singer

01:00:57.980 of Cadman's Call

01:00:58.820 for collaborating

01:00:59.760 with Grant

01:01:00.260 on Good Day

01:01:01.020 quote

01:01:01.720 if you're wondering

01:01:02.280 the end goal

01:01:02.880 of the deconstruction

01:01:03.800 movement in the church

01:01:04.680 then look no further

01:01:05.880 than former worship leader

01:01:07.020 Derek Webb's

01:01:07.860 new collab

01:01:08.480 with a drag queen 1.00

01:01:09.220 Foyt wrote

01:01:09.740 these are truly

01:01:10.960 the last days

01:01:11.940 Grant responded

01:01:12.940 to Foyt's complaint

01:01:13.660 writing quote

01:01:14.140 end goal

01:01:14.740 baby we're just

01:01:15.500 getting started

01:01:16.080 along with a kissy face

01:01:17.080 emoji

01:01:17.420 over on Instagram

01:01:18.800 Grant shared the exchange

01:01:20.460 and challenged followers

01:01:21.520 to prove Foyt wrong

01:01:22.660 quote

01:01:23.340 Sean Foyt thinks

01:01:24.220 hardly anyone is interested

01:01:25.320 in a worship song

01:01:26.040 by a drag queen 0.88

01:01:26.740 Grant wrote

01:01:27.280 Good Day deserves a spot

01:01:28.960 on the Christian music charts

01:01:30.400 don't you think

01:01:31.000 within hours of the song

01:01:32.480 and album had reached

01:01:33.220 number one on iTunes

01:01:34.120 Christians and Gospel charts

01:01:35.660 now as of yesterday afternoon

01:01:37.720 it sat at number nine

01:01:38.800 and falling

01:01:39.300 but Mr. Flamey

01:01:40.680 is taking this

01:01:41.260 with all the humility

01:01:42.180 you might anticipate

01:01:43.280 from a man who appropriates

01:01:44.420 womanhood for a living 1.00

01:01:45.220 on TikTok

01:01:46.060 he compared himself

01:01:46.900 to a resurrected Christ

01:01:48.180 listen

01:01:48.880 well it is day three

01:01:50.780 of a drag queen 0.94

01:01:51.540 sitting at the top

01:01:52.260 of the Christian

01:01:52.940 iTunes charts

01:01:54.200 but you know what

01:01:55.140 even Jesus had

01:01:56.060 doubting Thomas

01:01:56.680 some people will not

01:01:57.520 believe it

01:01:57.860 until they see it

01:01:58.500 so there you go babe

01:02:00.180 touch the nail scarred hands

01:02:02.180 wait he's not even

01:02:04.080 at the top of the charts

01:02:04.780 in that video

01:02:05.320 I just noticed that

01:02:06.080 this is the

01:02:07.080 this is proof

01:02:07.900 that he's at the top

01:02:08.580 of the charts

01:02:08.980 and he's not

01:02:09.480 he's number six there

01:02:10.420 so anyway

01:02:12.260 but nothing surprising

01:02:14.360 there

01:02:14.540 just some gratuitous

01:02:15.400 blasphemy

01:02:15.920 from a progressive

01:02:16.620 quote unquote

01:02:17.220 Christian

01:02:17.700 these people try

01:02:19.320 so hard to be shocking

01:02:20.360 but they just end up

01:02:21.220 sounding like every other

01:02:22.180 low IQ heretic 0.96

01:02:23.280 who came before them

01:02:24.180 we're not impressed

01:02:25.400 Matthew

01:02:25.760 neither is God

01:02:26.880 and you'll find out

01:02:28.100 more about that later

01:02:28.960 I'm sure

01:02:29.420 but this story

01:02:30.640 does give us

01:02:31.180 the opportunity

01:02:31.620 to reflect on

01:02:32.520 something important

01:02:33.400 and for that

01:02:34.620 let me read a piece

01:02:35.400 of the Paste Magazine

01:02:36.560 article about all this

01:02:37.600 first the article

01:02:38.640 tells us how Blake

01:02:39.580 was a worship leader

01:02:40.540 for 22 years

01:02:41.380 before he decided

01:02:42.080 to start cross-dressing

01:02:43.000 pretty soon he was

01:02:44.060 delivering sermons

01:02:44.900 while dressed in drag 0.55

01:02:45.840 and preaching about

01:02:46.440 self-love and self-affirmation

01:02:47.820 and so on

01:02:48.280 eventually he teamed up

01:02:49.580 with Derek Webb

01:02:50.280 for a song on Webb's album

01:02:51.980 called The Jesus Hypothesis

01:02:53.720 and then we're told this

01:02:55.120 quote

01:02:55.340 The Jesus Hypothesis 0.97

01:02:57.000 features a duet

01:02:57.660 with Flamie Grant 0.54

01:02:58.480 Boys Will Be Girls 1.00

01:02:59.600 inspired by a friend

01:03:00.700 coming out to Webb

01:03:01.600 in it

01:03:02.420 Flamie puts her makeup skills 0.99

01:03:04.220 to use on Webb

01:03:05.060 transforming him into a drag 1.00

01:03:06.560 a drag queen

01:03:07.300 in a church sanctuary

01:03:08.220 Flamie sings

01:03:09.500 the last verse

01:03:10.280 quote

01:03:11.340 I heard Jesus loved

01:03:12.820 and spent his life

01:03:13.680 with those who were

01:03:14.540 abandoned by proud

01:03:15.440 and fearful men

01:03:16.280 so if a church

01:03:17.640 won't celebrate

01:03:18.320 and love you

01:03:19.040 they're believing lies

01:03:20.340 that can't save you

01:03:21.400 or them

01:03:21.960 because you're so beautiful

01:03:23.440 by any name

01:03:24.380 and that right there

01:03:26.520 is the crux

01:03:27.360 of quote unquote

01:03:28.140 progressive Christianity

01:03:29.580 you're beautiful

01:03:32.160 you should be celebrated

01:03:33.460 anyone who doesn't

01:03:35.400 accept you is awful

01:03:36.300 you're the greatest

01:03:38.060 I listened to about

01:03:39.460 60 seconds

01:03:40.140 of the Good Day song

01:03:41.700 that had its 15 minutes

01:03:42.960 of fame on the Christian charts

01:03:44.440 and it was enough

01:03:45.560 to hear a line

01:03:46.160 about how

01:03:46.620 quote

01:03:46.920 you are good in every way

01:03:48.780 you are good

01:03:50.260 in every way

01:03:51.260 the song says

01:03:52.440 and by you of course

01:03:53.740 the singer is talking

01:03:54.500 to himself

01:03:55.380 good in every way

01:03:57.140 beautiful in every way

01:03:58.580 special

01:03:59.100 amazing

01:03:59.640 now

01:04:01.060 traditionally

01:04:03.000 a Christian song

01:04:04.520 might have sentiments

01:04:05.520 like this

01:04:06.220 but the you

01:04:07.500 is directed

01:04:08.200 at God

01:04:09.040 you might well

01:04:10.560 find a line like

01:04:11.420 if a church won't

01:04:12.120 celebrate or love you

01:04:12.960 they're believing lies

01:04:13.940 except that again

01:04:15.140 the you

01:04:15.900 would be referring

01:04:17.000 to God

01:04:17.780 in Flamie Grant's

01:04:19.640 version of Christianity

01:04:20.320 churches exist

01:04:21.080 not to celebrate

01:04:21.800 and love God

01:04:22.400 but to celebrate

01:04:22.940 and love him

01:04:23.800 Flamie Grant

01:04:24.560 Christianity is

01:04:26.780 meant to be

01:04:27.640 an ego boosting

01:04:28.900 affirmation machine

01:04:30.100 just as everything else

01:04:31.080 in life

01:04:31.480 in Flamie's mind 0.71

01:04:33.220 is meant to be

01:04:34.040 God is supplanted

01:04:36.380 by the individual

01:04:37.300 by the self

01:04:38.180 and all of the worship

01:04:39.760 is directed at the new God

01:04:41.220 which is the self

01:04:42.020 but there's a problem

01:04:44.340 aside from the obvious fact

01:04:45.900 that it's heretical

01:04:46.560 and the disciples

01:04:47.320 of this false religion 0.99

01:04:48.220 are walking a road

01:04:49.100 to damnation

01:04:50.340 and destruction

01:04:50.840 aside from that

01:04:52.000 though not at all unrelated

01:04:53.020 is that it's also hollow

01:04:54.920 you're good

01:04:56.620 you're beautiful

01:04:57.140 you're special

01:04:57.780 you're above criticism

01:04:58.740 you should be accepted

01:05:00.220 and affirmed

01:05:00.800 all the time

01:05:01.300 by everyone

01:05:01.760 because why exactly

01:05:03.980 there's a reason

01:05:05.800 these people

01:05:06.120 have to continually

01:05:06.840 insist that they're great

01:05:08.140 and they feel great

01:05:08.840 about themselves

01:05:09.360 because they don't believe it

01:05:10.660 they know it's empty

01:05:12.260 now it's true

01:05:14.020 that we are all special

01:05:15.220 in a certain sense

01:05:15.940 because we're children

01:05:16.640 of God

01:05:17.060 created in his image

01:05:17.880 but that's not the hook

01:05:19.420 that the progressive

01:05:20.280 Christian

01:05:20.920 quote unquote

01:05:21.520 Christian

01:05:21.940 and always in quotes

01:05:22.860 there

01:05:23.080 air quotes

01:05:24.100 that's not the hook

01:05:25.140 that he hangs

01:05:25.840 his specialness on

01:05:26.900 because seeing himself

01:05:28.340 as a child of God

01:05:29.400 means humbling himself

01:05:30.640 before something

01:05:31.860 and someone greater

01:05:32.800 than himself

01:05:33.560 moreover it means

01:05:35.560 admitting that he was made

01:05:36.880 that he was designed

01:05:37.880 that he was given

01:05:39.420 an identity

01:05:39.980 without his personal input

01:05:41.260 or permission

01:05:41.860 it would mean that

01:05:44.020 if God made him male

01:05:45.120 for example

01:05:45.680 then he simply is male

01:05:47.200 as God intended

01:05:48.080 and any attempt

01:05:49.080 to change

01:05:49.660 his divinely created identity

01:05:51.000 would be an utterly futile

01:05:52.360 act of blasphemy

01:05:53.400 well he can't face

01:05:55.200 any of this

01:05:55.680 and so when he declares

01:05:57.200 himself great

01:05:58.120 and good

01:05:58.760 and special

01:05:59.340 it's not because

01:06:00.440 he sees himself

01:06:01.220 as an obedient

01:06:02.000 and grateful child of God

01:06:03.400 no

01:06:03.600 his sense of specialness

01:06:05.260 is grounded

01:06:05.840 in nothing

01:06:06.480 but his own ego

01:06:07.300 his personal greatness

01:06:09.220 is as solid

01:06:10.960 and definable

01:06:11.540 as a fart in the wind

01:06:12.680 he declares

01:06:13.800 I'm awesome

01:06:15.320 and everyone

01:06:15.860 should celebrate me

01:06:16.600 and we respond

01:06:18.340 why

01:06:18.960 and he answers

01:06:19.960 because I'm awesome

01:06:20.580 and everyone

01:06:20.900 should celebrate me

01:06:21.660 and we ask again

01:06:23.140 why

01:06:23.820 and he breaks down

01:06:25.320 in tears

01:06:25.580 crying that he's being

01:06:26.260 oppressed

01:06:26.640 rinse and repeat

01:06:28.140 over and over again

01:06:29.060 this is why

01:06:31.000 progressive Christianity

01:06:32.460 is dead Christianity 1.00

01:06:33.700 and dead Christianity 0.98

01:06:35.520 is false Christianity 1.00

01:06:36.820 it is a miserable

01:06:38.540 useless husk

01:06:39.600 of nothing

01:06:40.140 people come to faith

01:06:42.280 because they feel

01:06:43.040 a deep longing

01:06:43.860 in their soul

01:06:44.740 they know

01:06:45.320 that they alone

01:06:46.720 are inadequate

01:06:47.520 that they need something

01:06:49.140 that something is missing

01:06:50.300 this false Christianity 1.00

01:06:52.200 tells them

01:06:52.720 that actually

01:06:53.100 they don't need anything

01:06:53.800 they're already perfect

01:06:55.440 and good in every way

01:06:56.540 now they might like

01:06:58.440 the sound of that

01:06:59.220 stick around for a while

01:07:01.340 because they want to hear

01:07:02.440 more of these sweet

01:07:03.380 nothings whispered

01:07:04.180 in their ears

01:07:04.840 but ultimately

01:07:06.380 they'll find it pointless

01:07:07.640 and unsatisfying

01:07:08.520 and then wander away

01:07:10.220 as unfulfilled

01:07:10.940 and clueless

01:07:11.460 as they came

01:07:12.060 this is what you get

01:07:14.740 from the flamey grants

01:07:15.960 of the world

01:07:16.540 all of that

01:07:18.200 and bad puns

01:07:19.460 and that is why

01:07:21.260 flamey grant

01:07:22.620 Matthew Blake that is

01:07:24.480 is today cancelled

01:07:25.880 that'll do it for this portion

01:07:27.620 of the show

01:07:28.040 as we move over

01:07:28.480 to the members block

01:07:29.080 hope to see you there

01:07:29.700 if not talk to you tomorrow

01:07:31.160 Godspeed

01:07:31.940 music

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 31, 2023

Ep. 1194 - Lebron James Founded A School Based On Equity. It Is An Unmitigated Disaster.

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