Ep. 1203 - Police Arrest An Autistic Teenager For 'Homophobia'
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Summary
A 16-year-old girl in the UK was arrested for making an allegedly homophobic comment. Freedom of speech doesn t exist across most of the Western world, and our country is headed in the same direction. Also, the new CEO of Twitter explains what their new content moderation policies are, and I have concerns about them.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, an autistic girl in the UK was dragged out of her home and arrested for making an allegedly homophobic comment.
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Freedom of speech doesn't exist across most of the Western world, and our country is headed in the same direction.
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Also, the new CEO of Twitter explains what their new content moderation policies are, and I have concerns about them.
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I'll explain. Suicide reaches an all-time high, and nobody seems interested in talking about what's really driving the problem, but we will today.
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And a blue-collar folk singer who lives out in the woods in Virginia has gone massively viral with his new song.
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We'll play a clip for you, and you'll see why. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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There's not a lot of humor to be found in wokeism or safetyism or whatever you want to call modern left-wing ideology,
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but since it's Friday, it's worth acknowledging something that everyone knows deep down,
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which is that there are a few things about it that are, if we're being honest, pretty funny.
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Most jurisdictions in this country used to consider it a serious offense to lie and call somebody gay.
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You know, if somebody was straight and you started spreading rumors that they're secretly gay,
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then until very recently, New York courts would punish you for that without a second thought.
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The New York appeals court ruled that actually, you can call people gay all you want,
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Well, because according to New York court judges, if you lie and call somebody gay,
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if anything, you're probably improving the reputation in the community rather than harming it.
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That's because being gay has become a status symbol, at least in places like Manhattan.
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So suggesting that somebody is secretly gay, it's like calling someone secretly a millionaire.
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New York is now so woke that gay slurs, at least in some cases, are now acceptable.
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In that respect, strangely enough, New York is quite different from, say, the United Kingdom,
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Over there, they don't take kindly to unfounded accusations of homosexuality.
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We know that because this week, a team of police officers in Leeds
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raided the home of a 16-year-old autistic girl suffering from scoliosis.
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Well, she said that one of the officers that was on this team of people arresting her
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She didn't even imply that it was bad to be a lesbian in any way.
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She just said that this woman, this cop, looked like a lesbian.
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She's not going to have her own body up as well.
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She's not going to have her own body up as well.
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She's not homophobic. Look what you clenched in your face. Go away from my teenage daughter.
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What is up with you? There is something wrong with you, mate.
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This is what the British Empire has become. They used to rule the world.
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Now they scramble half the police department in response to a teenager who says,
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hey, you look like my lesbian nana. Now they're arresting a girl. Police are arresting a girl
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because that girl hurt the feelings of one of those police officers.
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It's quite a fall from grace, especially given that the police officer in question,
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if we're being honest, could definitely pass as a lesbian. Whether she's trying to look that way or
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not, it is a convincing display, let's just say. And at least in civilized progressive utopias like
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New York, they celebrate that kind of thing. You go up to a cop and say, you look like a lesbian.
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The cop will say, well, thank you so much. The UK obviously hasn't thought this all the way through
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though, because by arresting autistic kids who say that women look like lesbians,
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especially when they actually do look like lesbians, they're setting the message that
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looking like a lesbian is a bad thing. It's a horrendous insult. But that's the opposite of
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what the UK intends to do here. Really, they're trying to elevate LGBT people to a special sacred
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status and protect their feelings with the force of law, even if it means dragging a teenage girl to
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jail, kicking and screaming. But the truth is the United States isn't far from becoming the UK where
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children are sent to prison for offending the government. What happened to that girl in the
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UK is quickly becoming a hallmark of so-called Western democracies. Recently in Canada, for example,
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a pastor was arrested for the crime of protesting drag queens who were trying to indoctrinate children.
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I want you to watch this news report carefully because it's one of the most incredible
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clips you'll ever see. Watch. They should feel safe. There should never be an issue with safety.
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A pastor who tried to stop a drug reading session for kids at the Seton Library last week
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has been charged by Calgary police. Parents now questioning if these events are safe enough to
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attend with their kids. Police were called when protesters interrupted the library's reading with
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royalty event that was being presented by drug personalities to kids when several protesters
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entered the room shouting homophobic words at the children and their parents.
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36-year-old pastor Derek Scott Reimer was arrested and charged with hate-motivated crime for causing a
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disturbance and one count of mischief. In addition, City of Calgary peace officers have charged Reimer
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with six counts of harassment under the public behavior by law. Police say the disturbance scared
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the children who were at the reading sessions. Now, parents wonder if these events are still safe
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to bring their families. Yes, there should never be an issue with safety, says the woman. Police are
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questioning if the events are safe, says the reporter. Meanwhile, they show footage of the mob throwing
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the pastor to the ground. And the message is pretty clear. By safety, they mean you don't get to
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question their behavior or their viewpoints. You don't get to object when they sexualize children,
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but because they want to sexualize children safely, and you're making it unsafe. And if you do,
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you'll get attacked and thrown in jail. That's what they mean when they say safety. Safety no longer
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means safety in the traditional sense. For a long time now, it's meant something closer to emotional
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comfort. Like, that's what they mean when they say safety. To be safe is to feel good. It is to have
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nice feelings. And anyone who causes you to have not nice feelings and to feel not good
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is compromising your safety. This has been true in Canada for a while. A couple years ago,
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a man who was down on his luck went on a rant at the office of his local member of parliament,
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who was a woman named Catherine McKenna. And here's what he said. Watch.
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Can you help me? She says she's spending $5 billion, $10 billion a year on infrastructure.
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The PBO office, Eve Giroux, says she's only spending $5 billion a year. What's up with that?
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I don't go to work every day and bust my **** for this **** to steal our **** money. You're all
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scumbags. You're all **** pieces of trash. You **** scumbags. You're all kids' **** pieces of trash,
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just like Justin Trudeau. Raping kids. Wee charity. Sorry, kids in Africa. This money isn't for you. This money's for
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Justin Trudeau and his family. They need it a lot more than you. They need a bigger yacht. They
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need a bigger watch. They need five watches that are 20 grand. The **** scumbag pieces of ****.
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I hope you all burn in **** hell. You're all going to get what you deserve, you **** traitors.
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**** scumbag pieces of ****. All right, so he yells a few harsh words,
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including a few that were bleeped out. Makes some valid points as well, we should admit.
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But he never made any violent threats. And for that, Catherine McKenna called for a hate crime
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investigation, and authorities opened one. You see, in Canada, no one's allowed to say mean
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things to politicians. You can call conservatives, white supremacists all you want, but don't you
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dare attack the people in power. In a free country, which Canada, of course, isn't, you know, cussing out
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politicians would be considered a virtuous act, if not a national pastime. A way to keep our leaders
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humble and on their toes is a good thing. But in Canada, it's a potential hate crime.
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Now, we'd like to think that these attacks on freedom of speech couldn't happen here. But the
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truth is, they're already happening here. They're just not getting a lot of coverage.
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Recently, in Watertown, Wisconsin, police arrested a young Christian man for simply reading the Bible
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on the sidewalk in the vicinity of a public drag event. But that was all he was doing.
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Standing on the sidewalk, reading the Bible, and watch what happens to him.
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...serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, you shall love your
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neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one
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another. Hey, hey, what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? What is the problem?
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I don't have a location. What are you doing? What are you doing? You didn't give him any warning.
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You just grab the money. No, this is the same one that we had here before. Yeah, that was in there.
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It was not out here. What are the rules? What are you doing? You didn't do it.
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Let it go. You guys have been warning. They said we can have, because they said we can speak
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out here on the sidewalk freely. You can speak, but there's no way to fight. Nobody told us that.
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What are you doing? Nobody told me that. That's what I'm saying.
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How come there's no amplification? You guys are acting like thugs, man. They're like straight up
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thugs. Hey, you're taking away my hand. He has every right to be out here engaging in speech.
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He has every right to be out here engaging in speech.
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He has every right to be out here engaging in speech. The guy holding the camera says,
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and he's right, but we don't live in a country that cares about that sort of thing anymore.
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Marcus Traders, the man who was arrested for reading the Bible there,
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later spoke to the city council about what happened, and I want you to listen to what he said.
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Intolerance is an interesting word. Tolerance, intolerance, hatred, love, bigotry, things like
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that, because really every culture has something that it's intolerant towards and something that
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it's tolerance of. I mean, there are things like murder and rape and, you know, stealing and just
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crimes that we are intolerant towards as a society. And so every society has something that's
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intolerant towards. The question is just, what is our object of intolerance and what is our object
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of tolerance? When I showed up Saturday, all I did was read from scripture on the sidewalk. I read from
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the Bible, Galatians. And by the way, I wasn't reading Romans 1. I wasn't reading any passage that
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spoke against homosexuality or anything like that. I was reading a passage from the Bible about love,
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and I was arrested. No reason, not given any warning, not told anything about my amplification
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needed to be turning down. I was arrested and taken into custody simply for reading the Bible
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on the sidewalk. One thing to keep in mind there when you watch that is, I don't know if the police
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will try to claim that, well, he's disturbing, you're using the megaphone. You know, trans activists,
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you flip this around and no one's getting arrested, obviously. You know, I've had trans activists many
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times show up to my events and they can have bullhorns. They can have sirens. You know, they show
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up with bullhorns, air horns, sirens that are going off the whole time to drown you out.
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Cops will not step in. They will not say a damn word. One guy reading a Bible gets arrested
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on the other hand. Now, anyone watching that man knows that we just saw there. He knows that he's
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a far better person to have around children than men pretending to be women who talk to kids about
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their sexual fantasies. But Marcus Schrader was arrested anyway, and the drag queens were able
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to continue indoctrinating kids as the mothers of those kids looked on approvingly. It's the same
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thing that happens in Canada. Preach the gospel, go to jail. Preach perversion, police protect you.
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In many states in this country, this will soon become the norm. A bill that recently passed
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in the Michigan Statehouse called HB 4474 would make it a hate crime to cause someone to, quote,
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feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened. And the bill specifies that sexual orientation and
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gender identity or expression are protected classes. If you make someone feel threatened because
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of their gender identity, you can go to prison for five years. Now, what does it mean to make
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someone feel threatened because of their gender identity? Well, you know the answer to that
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question. Trans activists have been screaming for years at maximum volume that unless you affirm them,
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unless you affirm everything they think and feel, then you're committing literal violence. You're
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a terrorist. You're engaging in genocide. So yes, this bill means that if you refuse to lie about basic
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facts of biology in the state of Michigan, then you'll go to jail, just like that girl in Britain.
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They'll haul you out of your home, and they'll arrest you for telling the truth,
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just as we're seeing in other parts of the world that also allegedly are or were free.
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They'll take the fight right to you. And if you don't believe that, consider what happened on
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Wednesday to an elderly man in Utah named Craig Robertson. Robertson was obese, old, 75 years old,
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used a cane to get around. He went to church on Sundays, took care of his blind son. But he also
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liked to post angry memes and comments on social media, mocking and threatening Joe Biden, Kamala
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Harris, other random political figures. In response to those memes, before dawn on Wednesday, the FBI
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went to Robertson's home. Now, neighbors report that as many as 50 agents were on the scene.
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Craig Robertson soon after was shot dead in a hail of bullets. Now, why did FBI agents kill
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Robertson exactly? We don't know. The FBI won't tell us. We asked them yesterday. They refused to
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explain. The New York Post now reports today that Robertson allegedly pointed a gun at the agents,
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and maybe he did. We don't know that at this point. Maybe we'll find out more. Maybe we won't.
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But we do know that the neighbors are all confused and disturbed, trying to figure out why the federal
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government would need to send dozens of armed agents to a disabled elderly man's home because
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of things he posted online. Now, if you saw them swarming his house and didn't have any context,
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you'd think that they were taking down a drug kingpin. You'd never guess that the guy's crime
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was a Facebook meme. So the question that many are asking, especially those in Robertson's community,
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is whether this level of response was actually necessary. Did the FBI really consider
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Robertson a credible threat to the president of the United States? It's hard to believe.
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Now, it's not to defend the things that Robertson posted online, obviously. The point is that the
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most powerful law enforcement organization in the country, which is funded by your tax dollars,
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is completely unwilling right now to explain why they killed an American citizen two days ago.
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They have no justification for why they decided to go after him at 6 a.m. in the morning.
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They don't seem interested in providing a justification. If you're living in the UK or
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Canada, then it's quite possible that none of this is particularly shocking to you. You're used
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to this kind of thing. But if you thought the United States could never descend into totalitarianism,
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as those countries have, then what's happening in many states across this country should disabuse you
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GetRefunds.com, 1-843-REFUNDS. Terms and conditions apply. I think this is a good place to start coming
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off of the opening monologue. I want you to listen to this brief conversation that happened on CNN
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yesterday. Listen. When you hear the Ukraine exchange there, it's like watching the open of
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an old Tucker Carlson show. He's not there anymore, but that's what it is. And these are busy people.
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These are hardworking people. There are too many Democrats who want to say they're deplorables or,
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you know, why talk to these people? There are millions of them. This is a family that literally
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is an economic anchor in the community. The business started in the basement employs 80 people.
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The new solar company employs 15 people in a part of the country that has been devastated
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economically and challenged economically the last 25 years. They're good people. They raise money
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for the Girl Scouts. They go to church, but they believe things that would break our fact check
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machine. That's just a fact. And they don't trust us. They think we're part of the problem.
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Yes, that's right, John. They do. But here's why I like this, because this is one of those moments,
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and you see it every once in a while on CNN, one of those moments where someone seems to be
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getting dangerously close to self-reflection. He is standing at the precipice. He has walked right up to the
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edge of some kind of honest self-analysis, of self-awareness. He's like, he's almost there.
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He is so close, but he won't make it over the hill. He's not going to make it there all the way.
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And they never do. Yes, John, they think you're part of the problem because you are. You've lost the
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trust of the people. The media has lost our trust. Do you ever stop to ask yourself why?
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Okay. So sometimes they will, much of the time we get open contempt for the people that he's
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talking about, which is just like regular Americans, right? Sometimes they'll cloak it in this kind of
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like sympathy. We get that from John King there. He says, well, we shouldn't call them all deplorable.
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We should treat them with respect, which, okay, great. Good for you. But now we're getting into
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pity and it's patronizing and it's, no, let's not attack them. They're just confused. These are
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very confused people. Well, that's no better than just calling them all deplorable. In fact,
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I'd prefer that. I'd prefer that we're all, that you just call us all deplorable and awful
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than to go the other way and say, oh, these poor people, they're so confused. They don't know what's
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going on. They're so misled. They don't, they don't know any better. Let's not, let's not insult
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them. So let's not be impressed with that. That's no better. In fact, again, I think it's worse
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because if you really cared, if you really had any kind of empathy, then you would stop and think,
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well, why do these people not trust us? And the reason they don't trust you is that you've revealed
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yourselves to be partisan hacks and liars. And there's only, there's just only so many times that
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you can say things that turn out to be untrue before people don't trust you anymore. That's the
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way trust works. It works that way in a relationship. It works that way in a friendship. It works that way
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in any context. And it works that way when it comes to the public's relationship with the media
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or any institution. There are only so many times you can be misled before you say, well, I can't,
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I don't trust anything you say anymore. I can't. I wish I could. It'd be, it'd be nice if we had an
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honest media. It would be a useful thing to have, but we don't. And we hear about, they believe all
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these things that would break the fact check machine. Of course, lots of the things that they,
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that they believe are true. And if they break the fact check machine, it's because the fact,
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the fact check machine is already broken. It's designed to be broken.
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But then there, there are also, look, there are plenty of things that, you know, if you go up to
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an average person on the street and you talk to them, yeah, you might find plenty of things they
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believe that aren't true. You might even find a dreaded conspiracy theories that are outlandish.
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Many of them are not outlandish and in fact are also true, but there are outlandish ones as well.
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And maybe some of those are becoming more common also.
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But that again, goes back to the distrust. People know they can't trust you. They can't trust the
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media. And so that leaves a void. Like people want to know what's going on in the world and they want
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explanations for things. And, and if they're not going to get it, you know, the media exists as
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the mechanism to sort of find out these things. And if we can't trust that, that leaves us to
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speculate. That's all we can do. That that's a natural reaction. So when people look at something,
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say, well, why is that happening? What's going on there? What's up with that?
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Now, media comes with their narrative. Well, this is what's really happening.
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We know, well, we can't trust that. And so then either we could say, well, I won't think about
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that anymore. Then that's people don't do that. That's not human. Instead, we have this gap here
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and we fill it in. We just start thinking, well, what could be this could be that who knows?
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That all goes back to you. That's your fault. In the media, that is. The Hill has this report.
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The CEO of X, formerly known as Twitter, said in a Thursday interview with CNBC, the platform is
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healthier and safer than it was a year ago. Linda Iaccarino said, by all objective metrics,
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X is a much healthier and safer platform than it was a year ago. Since acquisitions,
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we've built brand safety and content moderation tools that have never existed before at this
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company. Iaccarino also referenced the company's recently introduced freedom of speech, not freedom
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of reach policy. And she explained what this means. And we'll go to the clip where she talks
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more about this. Staggeringly, they take it down. And that reducing that hateful content
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from being seen is one of the best examples how X is committed to encouraging healthy behavior
00:23:59.360
online. And today I can confidently sit in front of you and say that 99.9% of all posted impressions
00:24:10.600
are healthy. How do you define healthy though? Is porn healthy? Are conspiracy theories healthy?
00:24:17.200
You know, it goes back to my point about our success with freedom of speech, not reach. And if it's,
00:24:26.360
if it is lawful, but it's awful, it's extraordinarily difficult for you to see it.
00:24:35.820
But how many millions of people follow Kanye West? Lawful, but awful. And he's allowed back on.
00:24:42.160
You know, Kanye, who hasn't rejoined the platform yet, but is planning to do so,
00:24:48.600
will operate within the very specific policies that we have established, that we're clear on,
00:24:57.560
that everyone who's watching this or listening on spaces can access themselves. And we have an
00:25:04.440
extraordinary team of people who are overseeing hands on keyboards, monitoring all day, every day
00:25:12.500
to make sure that that 99.99% of all. All right. So there's a lawful, but, but awful speech, not
00:25:20.240
reach. It sounds like Dr. Seuss is running Twitter now. There are far too many rhyming policies. That's
00:25:25.640
my first problem. I'm okay with policies that rhyme easier to remember, but you can't overdo it. And she
00:25:31.240
had two in one sentence. Well, the thing is with our speech, not reach policy that if it's lawful,
00:25:36.520
but not awful. Let's calm down, Willy Wonka. More importantly, this is the kind of thing that
00:25:44.320
definitely worries me, not because it rhymes, but because when you start evaluating speech based on
00:25:49.020
whether it's healthy or whether or not it's awful or whether or not it's hateful, that's where you
00:25:53.700
ultimately end up basically enforcing the same rules that every other social media platform enforces.
00:25:59.140
And if you don't ban people, but you just make it so that nobody can see their account or interact
00:26:03.240
with their content, then you've effectively banned them and arguably it'd be better to just ban them
00:26:07.700
outright. Right. I, I would, at least if a, if a platform comes, it comes in and ban someone,
00:26:13.640
then they know that they've been banned. But if you limit their reach, there are ways you could do it
00:26:20.680
where they would know about it. And there are ways where they might not, where they might not know.
00:26:25.300
And we know the old Twitter was doing that all the time, putting people on blacklists and that sort of
00:26:29.380
thing, limiting their engagement, limiting their reach. These are more underhanded tactics. I don't
00:26:35.060
consider this better for free speech. Now, at the same time, we should acknowledge that this is not
00:26:40.620
quite as simple as some people on the right make it out to be. Like there are some who say,
00:26:46.840
Hey, free speech, let people post whatever they want. And that's it. Well, no, it's not that simple
00:26:53.880
because if you just let people post whatever they want, then you have porn and you have spam all over
00:26:58.880
the place and you have doxing and death threats and a platform can become just unusable. Because at that
00:27:06.460
point, you can't even use it anymore. It's just not, it's not an experience that anybody, that any
00:27:13.980
normal person would want to have. So obviously there does have to be certain kinds of content that you
00:27:18.480
don't allow. I think almost everyone agrees with that. But for me, once you take that factor into
00:27:25.660
account, the rest really is pretty simple because I don't see why the policy can't just be this.
00:27:34.040
Okay. Why? If you, if you, if you value free speech, then the policy ought to be this.
00:27:41.700
You can post whatever opinion you want, period. All opinions, all perspectives are allowed.
00:27:50.420
Doesn't matter what it is. Okay. And yes, that opens the door for, so all kinds of opinions people
00:27:56.640
can have that are objectionable, crazy, offensive, but it's your opinion. It's your perspective.
00:28:03.200
That's allowed. We're not going to amplify or deamplify anyone based on their opinions.
00:28:10.460
We're not going to, we're not going to play favorites. We aren't going to juke the stats at all.
00:28:14.920
We're not going to prop you up if we like your opinion. Just if it's an opinion, if it's a
00:28:18.580
perspective of some kind, it's allowed to say what you want as far as that goes, which means
00:28:24.220
that sexually explicit content, you know, porn would not be allowed. That's not a perspective.
00:28:31.060
That's not an opinion. If you're posting just spam, that's not allowed. If you're, if you're
00:28:35.760
actually, you're actually threatening people, like I'm going to come and kill you. That's not allowed.
00:28:42.200
Shouldn't be. Doxing, posting someone's personal information shouldn't be allowed.
00:28:45.720
And none of those things are opinions. None of those things count as a perspective that you might
00:28:51.100
have. And so look, no matter how you, you slice it, no matter how you decide what kind of content
00:28:57.360
is allowed, it won't be, there are always going to be gray areas. There are always going to be some
00:29:00.740
difficult cases, things that are like, wherever you draw a line, there are always going to be things
00:29:04.920
that get close to that line. And then that's when things get maybe a little bit complicated. But I
00:29:08.520
think this is the clearest possible line you can draw where we, yeah, we're not, you're not allowing
00:29:14.520
literally everything. You can't do that. You shouldn't do that. All right. I mean, right now
00:29:18.820
on Twitter, the CNBC host asks, I think a valid question, which is, well, okay, we're not going to
00:29:26.480
allow awful content or unhealthy content. What about porn? And right now there's porn all over Twitter,
00:29:31.540
sexually explicit content all over Twitter. It shouldn't be there.
00:29:33.700
In my opinion, it should be, you know, that's an easy one. Of course you ban that.
00:29:40.420
That's not valid expression. That's not, that's not like expression that we need in a,
00:29:45.060
in order to, in order to have any kind of dialogue. Um, again, it's not an opinion. It's not a
00:29:52.020
perspective. If you, if you just tell people, well, no, you can't post graphic sexual content.
00:29:56.680
You're not preventing them from sharing their perspective on things.
00:30:00.020
And right now that stuff is all over Twitter. It shouldn't be, that stuff should be banned.
00:30:06.640
So this to me is a pretty simple policy that rules out all the kinds of stuff that you really
00:30:16.580
do want to rule out. And it allows everything that, uh, you know, that, that should be allowed
00:30:22.760
and that can't really hurt anyone. It's just the thing. When you have pornography on a platform,
00:30:30.020
where children are also allowed, um, then that's harmful. Okay. You're exposing people,
00:30:36.580
especially kids to content that can be harmful for them emotionally, psychologically, um,
00:30:44.320
spiritually in every way. Obviously you dock someone, you could, that's, that's harmful. You
00:30:51.060
can actually, that's real world harm that you are doing to them. You start threatening death. Again,
00:30:56.280
that's harm. No one is harmed by an opinion. Even if you hate the opinion, even if it's the worst
00:31:02.380
opinion, even if it's the worst perspective that you've ever seen, you think it's the most outrageous
00:31:07.860
thing. You're not harmed by that. There's no harm is done. So if you really value free speech,
00:31:14.220
that ought to be the policy. All right. Here's a, uh, pretty terrible story, unfortunately, but
00:31:22.520
well worth discussing. The AP reports about 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U S
00:31:30.260
the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday, the centers for disease control
00:31:35.400
prevention, which posted the numbers has not yet calculated a suicide rate for the year, but available
00:31:39.460
data suggests suicides are more common in the U S than at any time since the dawn of World War II.
00:31:45.240
There's something wrong. The numbers should not be going up. So Kristen, uh, Christina Wilber,
00:31:48.960
45 year old Florida woman whose son shot himself to death last year. My son should not have died.
00:31:53.700
She said, I know it's complicated. I really do, but we have to be able to do something,
00:31:56.820
something that we're not doing because whatever we're doing right now is not helping.
00:32:00.820
Experts caution that suicide is complicated. The recent increases might be driven by a range of factors,
00:32:05.800
um, including higher rates of depression and limited availability of mental health services.
00:32:10.060
But a main driver is the growing availability of guns said Jill, uh, Harkavy Friedman,
00:32:15.440
senior vice president of research at the America foundation for suicide prevention,
00:32:18.660
suicide attempts involving guns and death far more often than those with other means
00:32:23.020
and gun sales have boom, placing firearms in more and more homes. And from there, we get into a long
00:32:28.040
diatribe about how guns are the problem. So everyone acknowledges that we have a major crisis.
00:32:34.000
More people are killing themselves at any other point in history. It's true, of course,
00:32:37.560
that more people exist today than at any other point in history. So in terms of raw numbers,
00:32:43.420
you're going to have more suicide. You're going to have more everything because there are more people,
00:32:46.860
but, uh, it's not just the raw numbers. It's also the suicide rate that even though that hasn't
00:32:51.700
been officially calculated for last year, uh, all available evidence points to the fact that that is
00:32:57.440
also going up to historic highs. Um, and there should not be 50,000 people killing themselves
00:33:06.820
in a given year. Obviously, I mean, something is not right to put it very mildly. Something is wrong
00:33:13.080
as the woman who lost her son says in the article. Uh, so what is it? Of course, the media falls back
00:33:20.160
on its common themes, which is it's guns and it's mental illness. We need fewer guns and we need
00:33:26.140
more drugs. That'll solve it, they say. But this suggests that a suicidal person who's in a state
00:33:32.380
of total despair and has given up on life, that they will continue living if you simply take the gun
00:33:40.880
away as if there aren't a thousand other ways to kill yourself. Right? And, and besides, even if it's
00:33:48.220
true that a suicidal man could be kept around, kept on earth for longer by taking his gun away,
00:33:56.000
that doesn't solve the problem of his despair. You've still left him in despair. Are we satisfied
00:34:02.660
with that? I'm not. So can you solve it with drugs? Well, no, that's clear. More people are on
00:34:09.520
psychiatric drugs than ever before. And more people are depressed and suicidal than ever before.
00:34:14.020
So the strategy isn't working. There's just no evidence on a, on a, on a culture wide scale.
00:34:19.600
There's no evidence that just getting more and more people on drugs, more and more people are
00:34:23.320
getting help, mental health services, that it, that it'll prevent this. All the evidence goes the
00:34:27.340
other way. Um, and there's a reason for that because depression is despair and despair is the loss of
00:34:36.340
hope. It's the loss of meaning a person in despair. This is the point I'm always trying to make. And I
00:34:43.580
harp on it because I think it's really important. And I rarely hear anyone bring this up, which is
00:34:48.540
amazing to me because it's so basic. A person in despair isn't crazy. Okay. He isn't sick in the
00:34:58.120
traditional sense of the word. His despair isn't even unreasonable. In fact, there are plenty of
00:35:05.920
valid reasons to feel despair. The world's a difficult place and many terrible things happen every
00:35:13.040
day. Um, you know, I always hear that depression is clinical if you feel depressed for no discernible
00:35:19.920
reason. And that's how you, that's one of the ways you know that it's a clinical issue because
00:35:24.480
someone's depressed and you look around their life and there's no reason for it. Well,
00:35:28.020
there's no such thing as being depressed for no reason. The very fact of being a conscious human
00:35:35.440
being in a world full of pain and death and suffering, the very awareness of, of the world
00:35:41.120
and of your own human condition and your place in that world, the awareness of pain and death that we
00:35:46.820
all have because we're sentient creatures. All of these are reasons to be depressed, reasons to be in
00:35:53.960
despair. Reasons that aren't, that make sense actually, which isn't to say that you should be
00:36:03.220
in despair or that we should leave people in despair. It doesn't mean that when someone is in
00:36:06.840
despair, we say, well, of course you feel that way, you know, go away. Obviously not. My point is simply
00:36:11.160
that we should, we should actually start by acknowledging that those who are in despair are
00:36:15.900
feeling that way because they've noticed and experienced some very real things about the world.
00:36:22.120
They aren't delusional. Okay. Um, we are just awful at handling depression in this culture and
00:36:31.000
nothing we're doing is making anything better. And yet nobody wants to make any, wants to even think
00:36:37.120
about it. There's no conversation. Well, maybe we should radically change our approach to this because
00:36:43.180
the more that we medicalize it, the more that we make this clinical, the worse everything is getting.
00:36:49.160
And so at what point I've been shouting about this for years and it's only just gets worse.
00:36:55.180
So the point that I'm making is ignored. The problem just keeps getting worse. It's like,
00:36:58.460
no, we're not going to do it that way. We'll keep doing it our way. Okay. Well,
00:37:01.720
what, when we get to 500,000 suicides in a year, will you then stop and think like maybe our
00:37:07.100
fundamental approach to this is just wrong. When someone is depressed, you know, what we do
00:37:14.220
basically as a society is we look around and we feign surprise and we say depressed. Well,
00:37:20.400
what possible reason could you have to be depressed? You must be sick. Here's a drug.
00:37:24.120
It'll make those thoughts go away. There's some kind of imbalance. You're depressed. There must be
00:37:28.580
an imbalance in your brain of some kind. That's the only reason I could possibly see why you would be
00:37:32.680
depressed. But that depressed person, you know, is justified in responding. Like, dude,
00:37:39.340
look around. What do you mean? Why am I depressed? Why wouldn't I be depressed? Have you seen life
00:37:46.080
recently? So I think it's better to acknowledge that there are many reasons in life for feeling
00:37:56.440
despair. And the next step is to help people navigate their way through that darkness by helping
00:38:03.620
them to have a sense of hope and meaning in spite of all that. The problem though is that a
00:38:09.320
drug cannot give you hope and meaning. I'm sorry, but they just can't put that into a pill.
00:38:15.920
There's no meaning pill. I'll take this pill and life will have meaning. They can't do that. They
00:38:20.520
can numb you. They can change chemical balances in your brain, perhaps. They can do things like that.
00:38:27.660
But they can't give you meaning. You can't take a pill and say, oh, now I know my life has meaning
00:38:34.300
again. And all despair, all depression, all suicide ultimately traces back to this, to this loss of
00:38:42.120
hope and meaning. And that's why we're seeing so much depression and suicide in the culture, because
00:38:46.520
the culture instills this meaninglessness into the population, into kids from a young age.
00:38:51.740
That's it. That's why it's happening. That's why it's a crisis level event in our culture.
00:38:59.560
Why do we have a lot of suicide in our culture? Well, because we have no meaning in our culture.
00:39:04.560
And people live these lives devoid of meaning, again, from a very young age.
00:39:09.360
They just, their whole life, they're staring at screens. They watch TV. They go on social media.
00:39:14.480
They play video games. There's not a lot of real human connection. There's not a lot of,
00:39:19.500
you know, religion is declining. Church attendance rapidly declining. Kind of that spiritual
00:39:27.960
bedrock of people's lives is slipping away, and it's being replaced. So our culture came along and
00:39:36.220
said, well, that's not what life is all about, actually. See, for thousands of years, people assume
00:39:40.960
that life is about, is all about, it's really about faith and about, you know, pointing yourself
00:39:51.540
towards the eternal. And then our culture comes along and says, well, that's not it. No. And people
00:39:58.280
listen, and they say, okay, well, so forget about all that. But that source of meaning hasn't been
00:40:05.640
replaced by anything. So no, don't find meaning in that. Find it in nothing. There you go. Here's
00:40:11.600
nothing instead. And until we address that, until we get rid of the fundamental nihilism that lies at
00:40:19.260
the heart of the culture, this will not get better. And in fact, it will get a lot worse. And so
00:40:26.440
this, what I'm saying can be ignored for another decade. And we'll check back in a decade in the
00:40:34.280
suicide. And there will be 100,000 suicides a year. Like, it's just going to continue in that
00:40:40.520
direction. It will not change until we actually deal with this issue on a much more fundamental
00:40:48.780
level. And until people are willing to talk about things like depression in a way that goes beyond
00:40:55.600
the simply clinical, sanitized language that we always use.
00:41:03.540
One other brief thing on a much, much lighter note before we get to the comments. This is from
00:41:11.300
the Mirrors. So this is a story that's been sent to me, I don't know, 600 times maybe in the past
00:41:17.360
couple of days. I'm not complaining, by the way, for good reason. So the Mirror reports,
00:41:23.600
a group of Peruvian villagers are living in fear as they believe they are under attack by
00:41:29.860
mysterious seven-foot-tall aliens that they've named Las Palacaras, which translates to the face
00:41:37.060
peelers. In a remote district of Alto Nane, Nane, I don't know, N-A-N-A-Y, Nane, located northeast of
00:41:45.740
Lima, members of the Iquitu tribe, hailing from the San Antonio native community, have recounted
00:41:51.860
chilling encounters with these extraterrestrial beings. Descriptions of the alleged extraterrestrial
00:41:57.220
beings include large heads, yellowish eyes, and immunity to the villagers' hunting weapons.
00:42:03.740
Some villagers have likened the aliens to the mythical pelicaras from folklore,
00:42:07.700
creatures said to feast on human faces, fat, and organs. Villagers claim that these enigmatic
00:42:13.600
figures, often shrouded in dark-colored hoods, have been targeting their community for nearly a month
00:42:18.840
since July 11th. Multiple incidents have been reported, with the most recent involving a 15-year-old
00:42:23.300
girl who was hospitalized after a confrontation with the aliens. There have been other, and as I
00:42:29.780
said, I've read, this is not just the Mirror. You might say, well, this is the Mirror. What is that?
00:42:36.100
What kind of publication is that? That's not credible. Well, I'll have you know that this
00:42:39.660
that this invasion of the face peelers has been reported by many media outlets. And in some of
00:42:47.980
the reports, what they're saying is that actually these aliens look a lot like the Green Goblin
00:42:52.140
from Spider-Man. So that's the story. Now, I have also seen videos that are going to, that purport to
00:43:02.740
show, well, I don't know what they're supposed to show. I mean, I've seen videos where lots of things
00:43:08.620
are happening in the videos, and it appears that there's disturbing things happening, but you can't
00:43:13.780
really see the aliens. But by no means should that dissuade us from believing this.
00:43:21.720
Look, these face peelers, they're hiding in the woods. They're not just going to come out.
00:43:27.620
I mean, you pull your phone out. This is one of the many ridiculous points that Ben Shapiro brought
00:43:33.160
up in our debate where I destroyed him. He said, well, why, why aren't the aliens on, on,
00:43:38.180
on video? You think it's that simple? You think you just pull your phone out and the aliens is going
00:43:43.320
to say, you think the face peeling alien is going to say, okay, here you go. Let me pause. Let's take
00:43:48.280
a selfie before I eat your face. Is that what the alien is going to say? Let's be realistic about
00:43:52.800
this. So it's not that simple. I don't want to hear that. I've heard too much of this,
00:43:56.620
the skeptics that don't believe these people. Skeptics online. Well, I want to see video. I
00:44:02.840
need to see video. Oh, do you want to, you want to go down to Peru with your, with your camera phone
00:44:09.440
and, and try to get, try to get the face peelers on video. You want to do that? One of the face
00:44:14.640
peeling aliens comes up to you. Is that what you're going to do? You're going to pull your phone out
00:44:17.460
right away so you can get it on social media, so you can get it on Twitter for your Twitter likes,
00:44:20.980
huh? No, what you're going to do is you're going to run away from the face peelers. So that's why
00:44:25.620
they're not on video. In fact, the fact that they're not on video is all the more proof that
00:44:30.320
they're real. Think of it that way. So I believe them. Um, I believe them. And I think that frankly,
00:44:38.120
if you doubt this story, that, uh, not only are you denying the evidence and you're denying the
00:44:43.600
science, but even, uh, and I don't use terms like this very often. I don't throw this kind of charge
00:44:48.520
around very often, but I would even say that it's culturally insensitive. And frankly, you could
00:44:54.060
argue racist, uh, to not believe, uh, these proven villagers who are speaking their truth and
00:45:00.500
talking about their experiences with the face peelers. And I believe them. And, uh, so the
00:45:05.440
aliens are here and they're peeling faces down in Peru and soon they'll be here. Okay.
00:45:13.180
And you know, why do they want to peel faces? I don't know. The aliens have been coming. They
00:45:21.180
came a long way. They've been doing their research. They've been on Tik TOK. They've seen what people
00:45:26.580
look like these days. They've seen a lot of faces and they said, we got to peel those faces off.
00:45:32.900
That's gross. We can't invade earth with people looking like that. So it could be, that could be
00:45:37.420
that. I don't know. I don't know the motivation. Anyway, it's real. It's happening. Let's get to
00:45:44.040
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844-RUFF-700 today. Okay. Well, speaking of, uh, the face peelers, you know, uh, well, let me start
00:47:15.220
with a brief story of, um, hope and dreams. I was told a couple of weeks ago, I think I mentioned on
00:47:23.920
the show. In fact, it was McKenna who texted me and said that, uh, paint your life, a wonderful
00:47:28.660
sponsor wants to come back on the show. And is there any painting that I would like for them to
00:47:33.520
do for me, um, so that I can talk, you know, more authentically about my experience with paint your
00:47:38.920
life. And they've done paintings for us in the past that were, they were great. And, uh, and I was
00:47:44.060
asked, well, is there a picture of your kids or a vacation with your family that you would like
00:47:48.540
memorialize in a painting? And I said, no, we have enough of that. Like, I know what my kids look
00:47:54.500
like. It's, it's, we don't need any more pictures of it. What I said is I would like something that
00:48:00.420
maybe doesn't memorialize an event that has technically really happened, or maybe it does,
00:48:05.460
but instead it, it speaks to a deeper truth. And so I asked, can I get a painting of me
00:48:14.000
greeting our alien overlords when they land on earth? Will you paint that for me? Paint your
00:48:21.840
life. And while this was their answer, let's unveil for everyone to see. Sean is here. Thank you,
00:48:28.360
Sean. And there it is. Can we see that on camera? That is the painting. Uh, there,
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I just want to say, you know, I don't get emotional very often on the show. I try not to,
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to get emotional and I'm, I'm holding back my emotions now, but as much as I can. But when I
00:48:51.880
lay my eyes on this, I see such beauty, such raw beauty and truth that, uh, it does, it makes me,
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it makes me well up with, I mean, it almost brings a tear to my eye almost. Um, and there are so many
00:49:04.560
details of this, you know, I just had this vision in my, in my head, I, it, but I didn't have it
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fully formed. And so they were able to take that vision and even include details that I never
00:49:16.300
expected. I mean, we've got the wall, we've got the product placement in, in the, which I think,
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I think it makes it even classier. So this is already a very classy painting,
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but having the product placement in the painting as well is so much classier. So we've got our
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merchandise. We've actually have, and I don't know, how do you explain this? Did I greet the
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aliens with merchandise from the Matt Walsh store on dailywire.com? Is this a gift that I gave them
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when they landed? Did they already have it themselves? Did they land because they're big
00:49:46.420
fans of the Matt Walsh show? Did they come all this way to have me sign the merchandise? These are
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all, that's a story, you know, that's what's so wonderful about this piece of art, this masterwork,
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this masterpiece is that that that's a story you can decide for yourself, you know? And I think
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that through the ages, when people look upon this painting that will one day be in the Smithsonian,
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they will, they'll debate this, you know, they'll say, did this happen? Did it not really happen?
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Did it happen only in spirit? But before it makes it to the Smithsonian, at least for the rest of my
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lifetime, this painting will be hanging in our living room above the fireplace. I did tell them,
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I said, make the painting as big as you possibly can. And they made it even bigger than I thought.
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And so I'll be bringing this home to my wife. And I, and I, you know, based on my experience with
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this sort of thing, if I know my wife, and I think I do, she is going to love this. She's going to look
00:50:50.460
at that and say, can we get five of them made? Can we get a painting like this in every room of the
00:50:55.560
house? That's what she'll be mad about. She'll say, oh, Matt, you only had, you only did one of
00:51:00.780
these? Well, that's, that's just for our living room, but what are we going to have in our bedroom,
00:51:05.360
for example? So anyway, I'm very much looking forward to bringing this home and for the way,
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the, how, how it will help to also strengthen my marriage as well. So this is great. Thank you to
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Paint Your Life. Go to paintinlife.com and get your own. I don't even know if they'll make a
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painting like this for everybody, but they made one for me. So great. Okay. We'll just keep that
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in the background as we move on to some of these comments here. I don't know how we can move on
00:51:29.220
from that. I almost feel like there's no point, but sweet momster says, I wonder which edited clip
00:51:37.520
will Jason Campbell post about today's show. I'm fascinated by his commitment to amplify
00:51:41.800
Matt Walsh content. Well, there's a comment from yesterday and there were, I don't think there was any,
00:51:45.980
I don't think media matters pulled any clip from yesterday, uh, from the show yesterday to,
00:51:50.620
which whenever that happens, I, I, I honestly feel bad about myself. Like that was a waste that
00:51:55.800
apparently I wasn't doing my job yesterday. If there was not one clip that they could pull and
00:52:00.680
be offended by. So, um, I, uh, I deeply regret that. Butts LaRue says the Pence ad was bad,
00:52:10.620
but still doesn't compete with the Terry McAuliffe July 4th. That may be the goat. Uh, yeah,
00:52:15.560
that was the one I think I kind of referred to that yesterday, but that was not the only ad of
00:52:20.120
this type, but it was one of those ads where he was at the grill wasn't even turned on. He's wearing
00:52:24.900
a, if I remember correctly, that was the one where he had an apron, you know, he's at the grill as if
00:52:29.820
we just caught, Oh, you caught me at the grill, grill up some burgers for the fam. And he had an
00:52:33.880
apron that still had the creases in it. You can tell he just took it out of the package. That was great.
00:52:38.560
Um, Ray Zist says, Matt, how can you reconcile saying both if being pro-life causes people to
00:52:46.880
lose, then so be it. And also the only issue that matters in a primary is electability.
00:52:51.920
Well, that's a fair question. Uh, I guess when I, when I talk about being a single issue voter
00:52:57.040
in the primaries and the only thing that matters is, can you be, can you actually win the general?
00:53:02.000
Uh, I sort of, when I say that, I, I sort of assume I'm talking to an audience that understands
00:53:06.720
some basic things about me. And one of them, one of the, one of those is that when I talk about
00:53:10.120
electability, I don't mean it in the way that it's traditionally meant because usually when someone
00:53:15.220
says, well, you got to be electable, they mean you have to be a moderate. You have to be, basically
00:53:19.640
you have to be a liberal. You have to be left, you have to be left wing, left leaning on everything,
00:53:22.960
especially social issues in order to be electable. I don't mean it that way. Um, so I mean,
00:53:27.920
starting from, if starting from the basic premise that the candidate is actually conservative. So
00:53:35.760
if we are dealing with candidates who are, if they're not actually conservative, then no, um,
00:53:41.340
voting for a liberal candidate because you think they're going to win the general
00:53:45.380
and beat the other liberal candidate makes no sense. You might as well, there's no point then just,
00:53:49.960
you could just vote for the Democrat then. Um, so if the candidates that you're considering are
00:53:55.500
actually conservative and you're trying to decide of the conservative candidates, which one do I want
00:54:01.640
to represent that viewpoint in general election? Uh, the only thing that matters from there is
00:54:08.300
whether or not they can actually win. So that's what I mean there. Um, and finally, polling station
00:54:17.380
says, I don't understand why trans people are so important that you've devoted years of your life
00:54:21.700
to talking about them. Well, uh, they're not, don't worry about that. What, what is important
00:54:27.540
though is the truth. Reality is important. Many would say, I would say it's the most important thing
00:54:34.280
and it's not my fault or my choice that trans activists have decided to be the greatest enemies
00:54:42.660
to truth in the world, in our lifetime. You know, trans activists are the greatest enemies to truth
00:54:47.540
in the entire world. And, uh, that's what they've, that's the decision they've made. That's the battle
00:54:53.680
they've decided they want to have. That's who they've decided they want to be. And so, um, what
00:54:59.140
that means, if I'm going to defend truth, it means that I'm fighting with these people quite a bit.
00:55:04.140
Um, I wish it wasn't that way. And I wish that there was not this group of people who are devoted
00:55:09.460
to denying the most basic facts of physical reality, but they do exist. And so I have to
00:55:18.440
fight against them because if we're not going to defend reality, then there's really not else.
00:55:23.740
There's nothing else worth talking about before I defend, if we're not going to defend, for example,
00:55:28.740
the reality of me meeting aliens and giving them my Johnny, the walrus merchandise.
00:55:34.520
It's one of the very real things we need to talk about. Candace Owens just wrapped the 10 part
00:55:40.100
series, convicting a murderer that you don't want to miss. It's one of the, one of our most
00:55:43.700
ambitious projects yet. You might think you're familiar with the Stephen Avery case and everything
00:55:47.840
that happened in Manitowoc County. This is especially true if you watch making a murderer,
00:55:52.260
but it turns out the filmmakers only told you part of the story and coming soon, Candace Owens will
00:55:57.000
unveil the shocking parts of Avery story that were omitted in the Netflix series. I'm so excited to
00:56:02.080
present the convicting a murderer trailer. Check it out.
00:56:04.820
This is a collect call from an inmate at the Calumet County Jail.
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The man served 18 years in prison until DNA evidence cleared his name.
00:56:13.700
The Two Rivers man was convicted of sexual assault in 1985, but exonerated with DNA evidence in 2003.
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Now, two years later, he again finds himself tied to a police investigation.
00:56:29.800
Accused of murdering Theresa Hallbuck on the Avery property, Stephen Avery's 16-year-old nephew admitted his involvement in the rape and murder of Theresa Hallbuck.
00:56:41.780
It was just this worldwide phenomenon. I think they framed this guy.
00:56:45.540
I think he intended to crush the vehicle, but ran out of time.
00:56:49.520
Avery thinks the $36 million lawsuit he filed is why he's being targeted in this investigation.
00:56:57.520
10-21 and 24 mainstream cops. Do we have Stephen Avery in custody?
00:57:02.020
Netflix made millions of dollars from making a murderer, but the filmmakers left out very important details, mountains of evidence that you have not yet seen. The blood vial.
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The most egregious manipulation from the movie.
00:57:15.540
That's when he started beating me because I told him that he's sick.
00:57:19.540
And I saw melted plastic parts of a cell phone.
00:57:47.540
I am not going to make the same mistake that the filmmakers did.
00:57:59.540
They all know that Stephen Avery committed this crime.
00:58:07.540
The evidence forces me to conclude that you are the most dangerous individual ever to set foot in this courtroom.
00:58:14.540
Well, to get the rest of the story, you have to watch the series, which is coming up this September.
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So you can watch Convicting a Murderer when it premieres.
00:58:34.540
Well, you know, this segment, the Daily Cancellation, is special to me.
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Indeed, I think it's probably special to the entire world.
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And I consider it a privilege, but also an important responsibility to cancel someone at the end of every show, every day, forever, until the end of time.
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But on rare occasion, very, very rare occasion, I find it necessary to dedicate this portion of the show to something other than cancelling some evildoer.
00:59:01.540
And usually this happens when there's something else I want to talk about for 10 minutes, but I can't find any other space for it in the show.
00:59:07.540
Anyway, the point is that today is one of those very rare days.
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So I want to tell you about a man named Oliver Anthony.
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He's a blue-collar guy, lives way out in the sticks in Virginia, basically off the grid.
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In his free time, he likes to play and sing songs that he writes.
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For the past few years, he's been occasionally recording his songs on his phone, posting them to his YouTube channel, which had, I don't know, maybe a few hundred subscribers.
00:59:29.540
His videos would get maybe a few dozen or a few hundred views.
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But that has changed rather suddenly over the last few days.
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This man and his music have gone massively viral, thanks primarily to one song of his called Rich Men North of Richmond, which made its way from YouTube to Twitter where it caught fire.
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And the video of him performing this song while standing in the woods in front of his deer stand has now been viewed millions of times.
00:59:51.540
The song is currently trending nationwide on Twitter, and he's even had public offers, including from our friend John Rich, to produce and distribute a studio album.
00:59:59.540
Oliver Anthony has gone from full obscurity, about as obscure as a musical artist can possibly be, playing songs in the woods by himself, to musical fame in the span of like two days.
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The best part is the song that has driven all of this.
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I've been selling my soul, working all day, overtime hours for bullsh** pay, so I can sit out here and waste my life away, drag back home and drown my troubles away.
01:00:37.540
It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to for people like me, people like you.
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I wish I could just wake up, ain't it not be true?
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But it is, oh it is, living in the new world, with an old soul.
01:01:00.540
These rich men, North Richmond, Lord knows they all just wanna have total control.
01:01:07.540
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do, and they don't think you know.
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But I know that you do, cause your dollar ain't sh**, and it's taxed to no end.
01:01:23.540
I wish politicians would look out for miners, and not just miners on an island somewhere.
01:01:38.540
Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothing to heat, and the old beast milking welfare.
01:01:47.540
Well God, if you're five foot three, and you're three hundred pounds, taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds.
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Young men are putting themselves six feet in the ground.
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Cause all this damn country does, is keep on kicking them down.
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Just a guy with a beard standing in the woods, singing about his troubles and playing the guitar.
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It's also what all country music should sound like, instead of sounding as it so often does, like generic pop music with a slight twang.
01:02:23.540
Most country music these days, like all other kinds of popular music, sounds like it was made by an algorithm, not a person.
01:02:29.540
And this song, on the other hand, sounds raw and real and human.
01:02:33.540
But it's interesting that a song like this has become an internet sensation.
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Because normally when you hear about a song that's gone viral, you assume that it must be Taylor Swift singing for the 90th time about one of her ex-boyfriends.
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Or maybe another rap song about the female anatomy or whatever.
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You imagine a song that people can dance to in TikTok videos, which they record in public somewhere, like at the grocery store, while confused shoppers look on.
01:02:58.540
You don't necessarily imagine a low-tech, low-budget recording of a folk song where a bearded guy stands in the woods and sings about the pain of being a working class American.
01:03:17.540
Oliver Anthony has raw talent and sometimes the combination of good music and raw talent is hard to ignore.
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Anthony is singing about the forgotten American.
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The working class man who breaks his back all day only to have his pockets picked by the IRS.
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While the people in charge of this country ignore his concerns and spit in his face whenever he tries to convey them.
01:03:41.540
He's speaking up for people who don't have a voice.
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And although there's real poetry in his lyrics, he's expressing those concerns using the same language that they would use.
01:03:52.540
Now, we hear so much about the need for representation in our culture, but the fact is that there are millions of people who are not represented anywhere.
01:04:02.540
Not in media, not in Hollywood, not in popular music, not in government, nowhere.
01:04:07.540
And those are the people who look and live like Oliver Anthony.
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It's also worth noting, I think it's interesting, those lines.
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That's why I wanted to play that much of it so you could hear the lines at the end.
01:04:20.540
This song is being called a populist anthem, which it is.
01:04:24.540
I think it may become the protest song of this generation.
01:04:27.540
But conventional wisdom says that attacking entitlements, attacking welfare is not populist.
01:04:33.540
In fact, we're told, if you really care about people like Oliver Anthony, you should defend entitlement programs and insist that we should continue spending hundreds of billions on them.
01:04:43.540
But the truth is that guys like Anthony, they work all day to provide for themselves and their own families.
01:04:49.540
They're not fans of the fact that their money is being taken from them.
01:04:53.540
Food is being taken out of their children's mouths in order to prop up this system of entitlements that really functions as nothing more than a vote buying scheme for Democrats.
01:05:02.540
OK, go up to almost any guy at any bar in any blue collar part of the country and ask them about welfare.
01:05:09.540
And they will say something very similar to what Anthony says in that song.
01:05:16.540
And yet Republicans are afraid to even mention the subject for fear that they'll lose the votes of the very people who are being scammed by this system.
01:05:25.540
I said there are two reasons why the song's popular.
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OK, people in this country are starved for authenticity.
01:05:57.540
We've got filters and Photoshop and A.I. and deep fakes.
01:06:07.540
And that's why a video of a guy pouring his heart out while he plays his guitar in the woods in front of his deer stand with his dogs laying there in the grass and the cicadas buzzing in the background.
01:06:17.540
It's like it's like it's a it's a glass of cool water for people who are thirsting for something real.
01:06:28.540
And maybe it doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.
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And for all of those reasons, Oliver Anthony is today certainly not canceled.
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And I'll do it for the show today and this week.