The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1217 - Here's How I Became The Media's Villain This Week

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media and the left have spent all week in a fit of rage because of one thing that I tweeted over the weekend.

00:00:06.340 We'll talk about why I'm the villain of the week and what's really behind all the over-the-top outrage.

00:00:11.120 Also, the CEO of leftist extremist group, the ADL, responds to the viral ban the ADL movement.

00:00:16.860 The mayor of New York warns that illegal immigration is going to destroy the city or whatever is left of it.

00:00:21.680 And another town tries to solve the homeless problem by simply giving the homeless a place to stay.

00:00:26.900 We'll see how well that worked out.

00:00:28.340 All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.140 We'll see you next time.

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00:02:05.780 Well, it is now Thursday by my calendar.

00:02:09.540 I did not plan to lead the show on Thursday talking about something that I tweeted on Sunday.

00:02:15.060 In fact, I didn't plan to talk about it at all.

00:02:16.900 But it turns out that what I tweeted on Sunday is very big news.

00:02:21.460 One of the biggest news items of the week, in fact.

00:02:23.480 Now, this is not according to me.

00:02:24.620 I don't find it especially newsworthy, to be honest.

00:02:27.560 But rather, it's according to the social media mob and the news media and daytime talk shows.

00:02:32.220 The Post had me trending for several days with thousands of outraged people screaming various unintelligible insults and telling me to kill myself in various gruesome ways and so on.

00:02:43.780 It was a subject of a lengthy and angry think piece by NBC News, another one by Rolling Stone, various other articles by other outlets, including the National Review, which called me out for, quote, shaming.

00:02:53.860 It was also discussed during a segment on The View. 0.89

00:02:56.700 And what makes all this quite funny and ironic is that everyone from the mob to NBC to Rolling Stone to the ladies on The View all agree that what I posted was stupid because I shouldn't care so much about the thing I posted about. 0.50

00:03:10.080 In fact, the subject of my post was so irrelevant that they all decided to spend days telling me how irrelevant it is. 0.67

00:03:17.940 It's a rather common phenomenon, in fact.

00:03:20.260 So let's back up and tell the whole story.

00:03:23.160 How did I become this week's supervillain? 0.62

00:03:25.320 What was the content of this post, the dumb post about a subject that doesn't matter, which is why it inspired multiple news articles informing us of how little it matters? 0.68

00:03:34.520 Well, it began with a TikTok video published by a woman named Julia Mazur. 0.92

00:03:38.060 Julia has a TikTok account where she frequently posts videos about her life as a single and childless 29-year-old woman.

00:03:45.260 She also has a podcast about the same subject where NBC tells us she talks about being pretty much done with the societal expectation that she'll be married and have kids by the age of 30.

00:03:55.320 The podcast is called Pretty Much Done.

00:03:58.420 So this is a woman who talks about this subject quite a lot and talks about it publicly, which would lead you to the conclusion that she wants people to notice and hear what she's saying.

00:04:09.520 Typically, if you have a social media account and a podcast dedicated to talking about your lifestyle choices, that's a good indication that you consider your lifestyle choices to be open for public discussion.

00:04:20.720 If you don't want public discussion about the choices you make in your life, then the smartest strategy would be to refrain from speaking publicly and frequently about the choices you make in your life and even hosting a whole podcast on the subject.

00:04:32.180 Now, granted, this woman had a relatively small following up until now, but I've never heard of a burgeoning TikTok influencer and podcaster who only wants a few thousand people to interact with their content. 0.89

00:04:43.640 The point is that when I saw one of her videos floating around on Twitter, I figured it's fair game to respond to.

00:04:50.780 If this was a secretly recorded video of Julia venting to her friends in the privacy of her own home, taken and posted without her knowledge, then I certainly would not respond or repost it.

00:05:01.080 I would never want to participate in the invasion of another person's privacy like that.

00:05:04.700 But I don't consider a public response to public comments to be an invasion of privacy.

00:05:10.340 Call me crazy.

00:05:10.900 As for those public comments, here is the video that started all of this ruckus.

00:05:17.540 Let's watch.

00:05:19.000 It's 1045 a.m. on a Saturday.

00:05:20.940 I'm 29 and single and I don't have kids yet.

00:05:23.740 Here's what your Saturday morning looks like when you're single at 29 and you don't have a kid running around the house.

00:05:29.880 I didn't rise from my bed until 1015.

00:05:32.560 Every time I thought I should probably get up and do something.

00:05:34.960 I thought, why?

00:05:36.120 Nobody's making me.

00:05:37.140 I'm not missing out on anything.

00:05:38.180 I went to Beyonce last night and I didn't get home until 1 a.m.

00:05:41.380 And I danced and drank my little heart out and I didn't pay a babysitter to watch my kids as I did that.

00:05:46.200 And I woke up a tad hungover this morning, which is probably why I was in bed for so long.

00:05:50.040 And I was just scrolling on my phone and I saw a picture of shakshuka and I thought, you know what sounds really good?

00:05:55.260 Maybe I'm going to learn how to make shakshuka today.

00:05:57.700 Because I have no plans and I don't have kids and I don't have a husband and I don't have errands to run.

00:06:02.440 I can go to the grocery store and learn how to make shakshuka.

00:06:05.420 So that's on my agenda today.

00:06:06.620 Also on my agenda, probably a rewatch of some Real Housewives of New York.

00:06:10.120 I'm also doing a rewatch of Normal People on Hulu, which is really spicy and I highly recommend.

00:06:14.700 Weirdly, I'm into this documentary on Netflix about Blue Zone countries. 0.97

00:06:17.980 So I've got a pretty stacked day.

00:06:19.740 Anyway, I say all this to say, whenever I'm hard on myself about why I'm not married and I don't have kids and I should be further along at 29, almost 30, I wouldn't want to do anything else this Saturday.

00:06:31.020 And I know that you can do all these things when you have kids and you're married and I understand.

00:06:36.660 But the effortlessness and ease of my life, just kind of focusing on myself and the shakshuka I want to make or the Beyonce concert I want to go to really pays off when I'm hard on myself for not being where society tells me I should be in life.

00:06:51.260 Okay, all right.

00:06:53.480 So there's the video.

00:06:54.780 I responded to that video and I saw it flooding around by tweeting this.

00:06:58.100 Her life doesn't revolve around her family and kids, so instead it revolves around TV shows and pop stars. 1.00

00:07:02.980 Worst of all, she's too stupid to realize how depressing this is. 1.00

00:07:06.020 Now, I'll admit the word stupid, a little harsh. 1.00

00:07:09.260 I don't think it was a crime against humanity. 0.99

00:07:10.820 I don't think it was worthy of four days of intense national outrage.

00:07:14.600 I don't think it was newsworthy.

00:07:16.580 And I think by Internet standards, it's like practically a high five.

00:07:19.620 I mean, it really doesn't get quite to the level of a lot of other stuff you find on the Internet, but it was a bit harsh.

00:07:25.440 But perhaps oblivious would have been a more accurate, certainly more charitable choice of words.

00:07:29.920 Too oblivious.

00:07:31.560 Now, I have been known, I admit, to use harsh language at times.

00:07:34.740 I know it will shock you if you listen to this podcast.

00:07:36.780 You say, well, you use harsh language?

00:07:37.800 I never heard it, but I do sometimes.

00:07:39.660 And I will tend to do that when I feel especially passionate about an issue.

00:07:43.640 And I do quite passionately oppose the promotion of childlessness and the idea that we should spend our young adulthood focused on self-centered pursuits and mindless amusements.

00:07:53.820 I very much oppose that idea.

00:07:56.000 I think it leads to despair and societal decay.

00:07:58.380 I think that if a critical mass of people adopt this approach, it eventually brings about the collapse of human civilization.

00:08:05.500 It's not to say that Julia on TikTok will cause the collapse of civilization,

00:08:08.720 but rather that the idea, the life philosophy that she, among many other people, promote, if accepted by enough people, will have that effect.

00:08:18.540 Which is why I tend to attack this idea quite vigorously.

00:08:21.820 Now, that could have been the end of the conversation.

00:08:23.760 It was one tweet about one TikTok video.

00:08:25.320 Not a big deal.

00:08:26.780 But then the outrage mob got to work. 0.97

00:08:29.540 And they swarmed.

00:08:30.800 And they screamed. 0.80

00:08:31.460 And they called me a bully and a Nazi and many other things.

00:08:34.700 They spent days.

00:08:36.840 I mean, days.

00:08:37.820 I was trending again for days because of this.

00:08:41.540 Many other influencers, including some conservatives, condemned me in no uncertain terms.

00:08:45.000 Random famous people like Mark Cuban jumped onto the dog pile.

00:08:48.300 They said that she's just a young woman having fun and I should butt out.

00:08:51.400 They said that her choices are none of my business.

00:08:54.040 They blamed me for bringing attention to Julia that they assumed she didn't want.

00:08:57.800 Which, again, is ironic because the whole reason I was trending and thus why Julia was trending by extension was because of all the people outraged at me.

00:09:06.920 If they had all shut up and gone about their day, there wouldn't have been any of this attention.

00:09:11.060 But then again, shutting up and going about their day is not exactly the M.O. of the outrage mob.

00:09:16.540 Next came the media.

00:09:17.900 Yesterday, NBC News published their article about this.

00:09:20.760 Now, this makes, I believe, my third NBC hit piece since July, which is a respectable pace of one per month.

00:09:28.760 Frankly, I think we could pump those numbers up and I'll try to do that.

00:09:31.320 But the article has this headline.

00:09:33.060 Quote, she was a child-free woman enjoying her Saturday.

00:09:36.940 Then came the culture warriors.

00:09:39.040 Reading now, it says Julia Mazur was having a relaxing Saturday when she decided to chronicle her day on TikTok.

00:09:44.020 By Sunday, she had become the most recent fodder for the Internet's ongoing culture war about societal expectations for women.

00:09:49.720 Mazur, 29, had posted a 92-second video to her 7,000 TikTok followers, laying out a day in her life as a single childless woman,

00:09:56.620 planning to take a crack at making the egg dish shakshuka and watch some TV.

00:10:01.260 The next day, the hate started to pour in.

00:10:03.400 Quote, all of a sudden on Sunday, I started receiving hateful comments, and then I caught wind that he had posted my TikTok, Mazur said.

00:10:09.000 He, in this case, is Matt Walsh, a conservative media provocateur who posted Mazur's video on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, 0.97

00:10:15.000 to his more than 2.4 million followers, stating that she is too stupid to realize how depressing this is. 0.98

00:10:19.560 Other conservative pundits piled on, some on the left, came to her defense. 0.99

00:10:23.460 I think some, the word some, is perhaps a bit of an understatement.

00:10:26.980 And actually, I didn't post the video on the platform.

00:10:29.280 Someone else did.

00:10:29.920 But we can't expect accuracy from NBC, after all.

00:10:33.560 I'm not going to hold them to that impossible standard for them.

00:10:36.820 We're then told this.

00:10:37.620 Quote, Mazur had inadvertently found herself in an ongoing and fervent corner of the culture war that is increasingly playing out online.

00:10:43.920 One where content that directs hate towards women, even against women with relatively small social media presences,

00:10:48.960 has become profitable and popular inside and outside of conservative circles.

00:10:52.420 Walsh and many other right-leaning voices are part of a larger conservative movement that promotes what they consider to be traditional family values.

00:10:57.920 That has included targeting medical gender transition procedures and openly criticizing women who have not married and had children.

00:11:04.380 One version of this ideology has become known as trad wife content, where women envision 50s-style housewife ideals, including subservience to their husbands, which has made the practice controversial.

00:11:15.620 Now, I'll say just another sidebar.

00:11:17.920 I think the word inadvertent is doing a lot of work there.

00:11:22.040 She quite advertently has created a lot of content talking about being, quote, child-free.

00:11:27.400 This is not a conversation she finds herself in by accident.

00:11:30.620 But the article continues.

00:11:32.320 NBC News reviewed hateful comments made on X about Mazur's appearance and her ability to have children in the future,

00:11:37.920 while Mazur said she also received direct hate and threats.

00:11:41.440 Quote, I understand that with social media, you're putting yourself out there to be judged or criticized,

00:11:44.920 but I don't believe anyone has the right to spread hate.

00:11:47.660 And the way his followers spoke about me and to me was deplorable, Mazur said in a phone interview.

00:11:51.860 It definitely gave me empathy for celebrities and influencers who put themselves out there.

00:11:54.840 It painted a new light for how the Internet works.

00:11:57.420 Now, a couple of quick things here.

00:11:58.840 I don't believe that I was spreading hate, but whatever you want to call it, I do have the right to say what I said for the record.

00:12:04.340 Second, obviously, if anyone is making threats against this woman, that is insane and wrong and grotesque.

00:12:10.700 I will say that I did not see a single person making anything even resembling a threat.

00:12:18.460 And it's interesting that NBC News reviewed the, quote, hateful comments, but they didn't review the alleged threats.

00:12:25.060 Make of that what you will.

00:12:26.660 From there, the article tells us how Mazur wants people to ignore, quote, societal pressure and, quote, live the lives they want to live for themselves.

00:12:34.880 It says that she rejected the, quote, rhetoric from her first-generation Russian-Jewish family, the rhetoric that said that she should get married and have kids.

00:12:43.940 And it ends with this quote.

00:12:46.300 I found myself in those safe, good-on-paper relationships, but I also found myself feeling deeply unhappy and unfulfilled because I felt like I was checking off a box to appease other people.

00:12:54.820 Throughout that process, I realized that's not the only thing that can make you fulfilled.

00:12:57.900 I'm 29 and single, and I feel fulfilled by my life and my career, by my friends and my family.

00:13:02.520 So she was in, according to her, good relationships with good men, which, by the way, according to the information about herself that she is volunteering to the public, she was in good relationships with good men.

00:13:13.820 She was, these were good, she says, they were safe.

00:13:16.800 But she says she left them anyway because she was unfulfilled for unspecified reasons, and now she's 29 and childless and focusing on spending her time watching TV shows and so on.

00:13:25.620 What's more, she wants to encourage other people to adopt this same strategy to, as she says, live for themselves.

00:13:32.800 Now, I must say again that I absolutely reject that.

00:13:37.300 I think it's terrible advice.

00:13:39.080 I think it's a terrible way to live, and I will never tire of fighting back against this despair-inducing philosophy, no matter who is promoting it.

00:13:45.860 Because the philosophy really is the point here.

00:13:49.620 It's the whole point.

00:13:51.320 It's not about some woman on TikTok.

00:13:54.300 And that's not what the left and the media are concerned about.

00:13:57.320 They're not angry at me for being mean to Julia.

00:13:59.920 They're angry at me for attacking a philosophy, a philosophy of self-centeredness and materialism that they all personally live by.

00:14:07.280 This was made clear in the Rolling Stone article about this, titled, The Right Would Like All Women To Be 1950s Housewives, Please. 0.84

00:14:14.840 Apparently, we've moved on from transphobia for cliques to shrieking at women for not giving birth.

00:14:20.300 What follows from there is all the tripe you would expect.

00:14:22.620 We probably don't need to read through any of it.

00:14:25.400 We also don't need to listen to Joy Behar's take on all this.

00:14:28.140 But as for that, we actually will listen to it anyway.

00:14:31.560 Here it is.

00:14:33.360 Yeah.

00:14:33.560 Now, he came to the defense of a 29-year-old woman who's on TikTok extolling the joys of being single and childless.

00:14:43.160 And it went viral after conservative commentator Matt Walsh, whoever he is, took issue with her stance.

00:14:49.340 Watch the TikTok.

00:14:50.960 Here's what your Saturday morning looks like when you're single at 29 and you don't have a kid running around the house.

00:14:57.060 I didn't rise from my bed until 10.15.

00:14:59.720 Every time I thought, I should probably get up and do something.

00:15:02.020 I thought, why? Nobody's making me.

00:15:04.320 I can go to the grocery store and learn how to make shakshuka.

00:15:07.240 So that's on my agenda today.

00:15:08.580 Also on my agenda, probably a rewatch of some Real Housewives of New York.

00:15:11.940 The effortlessness and ease of my life.

00:15:14.700 Just kind of focusing on myself and the shakshuka I want to make or the Beyonce concert I want to go to.

00:15:20.920 Really pays off when I'm hard on myself for not being where society tells me I should be in life.

00:15:26.400 Bravo.

00:15:26.920 Okay.

00:15:29.620 That's controversial.

00:15:31.120 One of your people.

00:15:32.220 Why is that?

00:15:32.740 Now, you know, in the get a life category, this Matt Walsh did a whole thing against her.

00:15:37.520 But my favorite is that Stephen Miller, the architect of family separation, weighed in on this about how children, the most important thing, unless they're migrants, I guess, or unless they're not his favorite type of children. 0.59

00:15:50.100 Stephen Miller, remember him?

00:15:52.200 Yes, I do, unfortunately.

00:15:54.040 And you know what?

00:15:54.780 Unfortunately, he has two children himself.

00:15:56.580 And I'm just saying that.

00:15:59.460 Well, Joy, you don't have to act like you've never heard of me.

00:16:02.160 We all know you secretly listen to my podcast every day, just like I secretly watch The View every day as penance for my sins.

00:16:08.920 In any case, it's obvious what's really going on here.

00:16:12.260 The media and the mob are pretending to white knight for a small-time TikTok influencer and podcaster who suffered the horrific fate of going viral, which is the one thing that every influencer and podcaster dreads most of all.

00:16:24.300 But they don't actually care about her.

00:16:26.400 As I said, they're angry, not that I criticized what Julia said, but that I criticized them.

00:16:33.240 She was expressing a point of view that they all agree with and live by.

00:16:38.480 And it's that point of view that they are passionately defending.

00:16:41.560 It's the point of view that says we should live for ourselves, focus on ourselves, and find happiness in our own pleasure and amusement, and that's it.

00:16:48.060 It's a point of view that says the highest joy is that which can be found by consuming pop culture content unencumbered by the demands of family life and parenthood.

00:16:57.020 The point of view, the one that places living for yourself over living for something greater and more enduring than yourself, is the dominant view in our culture.

00:17:05.480 And that is the point that Julie on TikTok gets wrong most of all.

00:17:09.880 Because she says that society tells her she should be married and have kids by 30. 0.90

00:17:16.200 But that is not at all what society says.

00:17:19.180 In fact, the mainstream of society, the most powerful voices and institutions, including corporate media, fully agree with her that young people should focus on themselves and have fun and put off marriage and family life. 0.77

00:17:31.360 We know they agree with her, which is why she said what she said, I disagreed, and everyone is defending her and attacking me over that, which is fine.

00:17:42.860 But it shows that where does society land on this?

00:17:47.500 Pretty clearly on her end of the spectrum.

00:17:51.000 Now, they agree that even if we find ourselves in a good relationship with a good person, we should leave it anyway in order to give ourselves more time to scroll social media and make shakshuka and whatever else.

00:18:04.260 So, between the two of us, if anyone is living in a way that is not approved by society, that is certainly not recommended by society, and is in fact, in many cases, scorned by many in society, it would be me.

00:18:17.260 I'm 37 with six kids.

00:18:18.520 She's 29 with none.

00:18:20.160 The powers that be approve of her choices much, much more than they approve of mine.

00:18:26.940 She is already living as society wants her to live, or at least as the forces driving society want her to live, because those forces don't actually want her or anyone else to be happy and fulfilled.

00:18:46.000 I do want that for her and for everyone, which is why I say, yes, you should get married and have kids.

00:18:53.680 I don't say that for my own sake.

00:18:55.700 I already am, okay?

00:18:57.680 So, this is not advice I need to give myself.

00:18:59.760 It's not something that I benefit from, but it's something that everyone, almost everyone, would benefit from.

00:19:06.120 That is what most human beings on this planet are meant to do, to start families.

00:19:11.560 It's what we are called to do.

00:19:13.580 It's what we are designed for, to form families, to build homes, to fill those homes with love,

00:19:20.860 and live in service to something greater, deeper, and more beautiful than our TVs and our phones and our careers.

00:19:30.340 There's nothing wrong with any of those things in proper proportion, but there's more to life than that, or at least there should be.

00:19:40.760 And that's what I want the Julias of the world to understand.

00:19:46.000 Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:20:32.720 So, late last week was an interesting hashtag campaign that started on social media.

00:20:37.820 It was hashtag ban the ADL, which is, of course, the Anti-Defamation League.

00:20:42.700 And this all began after Jonathan Greenblatt, who's the CEO of the ADL, tweeted that he had met with Twitter, and it was a productive meeting.

00:20:52.560 And they talked about how to keep hate speech off the platform.

00:20:55.660 This is what he posted.

00:20:56.340 I had a very frank and productive conversation with the CEO of Twitter yesterday about X, what works and what doesn't, and where it needs to go to address hate effectively on the platform.

00:21:06.800 I appreciated her reaching out, and I'm hopeful the service will improve.

00:21:10.900 ADL will be vigilant and give her and Elon Musk credit if the service gets better and reserve the right to call them out until it does.

00:21:16.860 So, a lot of people responded to that by saying, hey, if you want to be vigilant about keeping hate off the platform, then I guess we should ban the ADL.

00:21:24.600 And that's where the ban the ADL campaign was born.

00:21:28.540 You know, let's ban them and their, quote, hate speech from the platform if that's what they want, which is a brilliant idea in my opinion.

00:21:35.680 I'm fully on board with it.

00:21:37.500 Well, the ADL is not going to take this lying down.

00:21:40.500 They will lie.

00:21:41.900 They will take it lying, but they're not going to lie down. 0.78

00:21:44.460 So, they fought back the only way they know how, by calling all of their critics white supremacists. 0.88

00:21:49.860 Of course, here is Greenblatt on CNBC yesterday about all the terrible white supremacists that are attacking him. 0.82

00:21:56.120 Let's watch.

00:21:57.400 Well, so let's step back, right?

00:21:59.860 So, I had a meeting last week with Lindy Acarino, the new CEO of Twitter, right, at her request.

00:22:06.960 And we had a very frank and productive conversation.

00:22:09.280 I tweeted afterwards about that fact that we had a frank and productive conversation.

00:22:13.740 As I've had with Elon Musk in the past.

00:22:16.680 And then that triggered a number of white supremacists to organize this hashtag campaign, ban the ADL.

00:22:23.480 And you've got to understand, and we're used to this at the ADL, we regularly get attacked by the right and the left.

00:22:29.360 But this campaign went viral very quickly with white supremacists, you know, hardened anti-Semites and other people spreading it across the service.

00:22:40.120 And it literally was a trending topic.

00:22:43.080 The truth is, is that our community is vulnerable.

00:22:46.140 People are on edge.

00:22:47.460 And when Elon Musk is amplifying these people, like, it's very problematic.

00:22:53.340 Very problematic.

00:22:55.340 Very problematic.

00:22:56.380 Well, but that is the only explanation, right? 0.94

00:22:58.960 If someone doesn't like the ADL, it must be because they're white supremacists.

00:23:03.060 Yeah, so perhaps someone doesn't like the ADL because the ADL is a left-wing extremist group, an enemy of free speech, and thus an enemy of the United States and what it's supposed to stand for.

00:23:12.420 And it contributes absolutely nothing constructive to the conversation or society.

00:23:17.700 And the only thing that contributes to the conversation is by trying to shut any conversation down.

00:23:21.340 Any conversation that makes them uncomfortable anyway.

00:23:23.240 So that might be another reason why people were criticizing the ADL.

00:23:28.680 And that's the thing.

00:23:29.220 The ADL is the Anti-Defamation League.

00:23:32.000 And if you didn't know anything about it, you hear the name and you think, well, that's good.

00:23:37.960 They must be a good organization.

00:23:39.540 Defamation is bad.

00:23:41.040 Everyone dislikes defamation.

00:23:43.600 They're anti-defamation.

00:23:45.720 That's good.

00:23:46.480 Just like a similarly oblivious person might hear the Human Rights Campaign and think, oh, well, human rights are good.

00:23:54.640 That must be a great organization.

00:23:56.300 Or they might hear the American Civil Liberties Union and think, well, Civil Liberties are great.

00:24:01.180 I support those, so I support the ACLU.

00:24:03.200 But these are just names, and the names are smokescreens for radical, anti-American, anti-freedom organizations.

00:24:11.760 The ADL, just like the Southern Poverty Law Center, it exists to label its political enemies as terrorists and as radical extremists and as dangerous and to shut down their speech.

00:24:22.400 I've been singled out by the ADL myself as a – I think the phrase they used was an online amplifier of hate, they said, which in leftist language just means I'm a conservative.

00:24:36.740 So I made one of their watch lists.

00:24:38.360 They've got a bunch of watch lists.

00:24:39.240 At this point, if you're a conservative and you haven't made it on an ADL watch list, then you're real – I mean, you've got to do a self-inventory because you're really slacking.

00:24:48.140 The problem is that these organizations, ADL, HRC, all the rest, they are allegedly non-governmental organizations.

00:24:56.520 You know, these are not government agencies.

00:24:58.860 They have no legal power in theory, but they have been granted de facto legal powers, basically.

00:25:07.340 They've become de facto government agencies, kind of quasi-government agencies.

00:25:13.040 We live under the rule in this country of the ADL. 0.86

00:25:18.140 And similar organizations.

00:25:20.660 These pseudo-governmental bureaucracies, they run the country.

00:25:24.120 They determine what speech is allowed to be heard and what speech isn't allowed.

00:25:29.060 And that's the power and authority they've been granted quite illegitimately.

00:25:35.620 And that's why you have this absurd situation where Twitter is having a meeting with the ADL to determine what their hate speech policy should be.

00:25:44.620 But why would you meet with the ADL in the first place?

00:25:48.120 So when Greenblatt says, well, we had a productive meeting and we'll have more meetings, like, why?

00:25:55.880 Who cares about your opinion?

00:25:58.300 Twitter might as well meet with me.

00:26:00.100 They might as well call me into Twitter headquarters.

00:26:01.680 We have to have a conversation about what our policies should be.

00:26:03.940 In fact, I think I would have better advice on that end than certainly the ADL would have.

00:26:10.580 I know that I would.

00:26:13.440 But they're not.

00:26:14.140 They're not calling me in to talk about what their policy should be because I don't work at Twitter and I'm not any kind of authority figure.

00:26:21.340 So why talk to me about it?

00:26:24.380 True.

00:26:24.860 Why talk to the ADL about it?

00:26:27.020 What difference does their opinion make?

00:26:28.600 So why would you have a frank and productive meeting with them? 1.00

00:26:33.160 The only frank and productive meeting that I would have with the ADL if they wanted to have a meeting with me is the meeting where I tell them to kiss my ass. 1.00

00:26:38.100 That would be the end of the meeting. 1.00

00:26:40.060 And that could be pretty productive.

00:26:43.640 But this is what happens in the corporate world.

00:26:48.180 Even Twitter plays this game under Elon Musk, apparently.

00:26:50.960 And that's where these organizations get their power from, power that they should not have.

00:26:57.780 Like when the ADL or the SPLC, the HRC, you know, when any of these groups put you on a watch list, right, or label you dangerous, that should have no effect at all.

00:27:14.920 It should have zero effect.

00:27:16.500 It should be like Michael Scott in the office declaring bankruptcy by just walking outside and declaring the word bankruptcy.

00:27:25.880 It should just be like, that doesn't, who cares?

00:27:28.460 So you can declare, this person's on a watch list, all right?

00:27:31.440 What, I'm on an ADL watch list?

00:27:33.940 Are you sending spies around?

00:27:35.500 What do you mean watch, a watch list?

00:27:37.000 Who's watching?

00:27:38.780 It should mean absolutely nothing and have no teeth.

00:27:41.700 But it does have some teeth because, you know, the corporate world and the government has granted authority and power to these far left organizations.

00:27:54.940 As for banning the ADL, you know, I, anytime you have something like this going on, there's always going to be people on the right who say, no, we believe in free speech for all.

00:28:03.300 We can't, we can't, we can't defy our own principles.

00:28:06.660 We're hypocrites, you know, if we start calling for the ADL to be banned just because they want us all to be banned.

00:28:13.140 But no, it's, it's not hypocrisy. 0.69

00:28:16.040 Okay. 0.96

00:28:17.160 Hypocrisy. 0.99

00:28:18.320 First of all, hypocrisy is pretending to believe something that you don't really believe. 1.00

00:28:21.840 That's what being hypocrite means. 0.99

00:28:24.620 That's what hypocrisy is. 0.95

00:28:25.760 And so if we say, yeah, ban the ADL from, from Twitter for, for hate speech, we're not, that's not any hypocrisy on our end.

00:28:35.640 Okay.

00:28:36.120 Because it's not about our values.

00:28:38.400 It's about the ADL's alleged values.

00:28:41.120 So all we're saying is hold them to their own standards.

00:28:45.460 Hold them to their own professed value system.

00:28:50.440 And that's it.

00:28:51.280 Yeah, it's, again, not my value system, but that's not the point.

00:28:56.880 They should be forced to live by their own value system that they profess. 0.99

00:29:03.780 This is about holding them accountable for being the hypocrites. 0.72

00:29:06.960 And so that's why I'm always, I am always, always firmly in support of any attempt in any form to hold the left to its own standards.

00:29:23.000 And they're going to be standards that I don't agree with.

00:29:26.240 Okay.

00:29:26.560 So it's going to be like, I think you should hold them to that standard, but I, but I, but I don't want to be held to that standard.

00:29:31.440 But that's not hypocritical for me to say, because they're not my standards.

00:29:34.400 I never said that I believe that.

00:29:35.700 I don't.

00:29:37.060 But this is what you believe, you claim.

00:29:39.100 And so you should have to live with that.

00:29:42.600 It's, this is your medicine, not mine.

00:29:45.800 You should take it.

00:29:48.060 All right.

00:29:49.940 So what else we got here?

00:29:50.820 Daily Wire has this report.

00:29:52.680 Mayor Eric Adams warned during a town hall meeting on Wednesday evening that New York City is on the verge of being destroyed because of the large number of illegal aliens that are being sent to the Democrat-controlled city.

00:30:03.020 Adams said that never in his life has he encountered a problem.

00:30:05.720 He was not able to fix and bring to an end.

00:30:08.560 But that, that this illegal alien problem is one of those problems. 1.00

00:30:13.240 He can't fix it.

00:30:13.860 He doesn't know what to do.

00:30:14.680 He's helpless.

00:30:15.500 Let's watch a little bit of that meeting.

00:30:17.120 And let me tell you something, New Yorkers.

00:30:21.740 Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an ending to.

00:30:28.080 I don't see an ending to this.

00:30:29.660 I don't see an ending to this.

00:30:33.300 This issue will destroy New York City.

00:30:38.620 Destroy New York City.

00:30:40.520 We're getting 10,000 migrants a month.

00:30:44.340 One time we were just in Venezuela.

00:30:49.900 Now we're getting Ecuador.

00:30:51.660 Now we're getting Russian speaking coming through Mexico.

00:30:54.640 Now we're getting Western Africa. 0.71

00:30:57.260 Now we're getting people from all over the globe have made their minds up that they're going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City.

00:31:06.200 And everyone is saying it's New York City's problem.

00:31:08.800 Every community in this city is going to be impacted.

00:31:14.280 We have a $12 billion deficit that we're going to have to cut.

00:31:20.280 Every service in this city is going to be impacted.

00:31:25.640 All of us.

00:31:27.600 And so I say to you, as I turn it over to you, this is some of the most educated, some of the most knowledgeable,

00:31:34.720 probably more of my commissioners and deputy commissioners and chiefs live in this community.

00:31:41.240 So as you ask me a question about migrants, tell me what role you play.

00:31:46.820 How many of you organize to stop what they're doing to us?

00:31:51.360 How many of you were part of the movement to say, we're seeing what this mayor is trying to do and they're destroying New York City?

00:32:00.780 It's going to come to your neighborhoods.

00:32:02.200 All of us are going to be impacted by this.

00:32:07.320 I said it last year.

00:32:09.620 Yeah, so this is a good transition right from the last topic to this one because there's not much we even need to say about this.

00:32:18.380 This is a perfect example of what we just talked about that's playing out right now in New York City of holding the left to their own standards.

00:32:25.660 You know, Mayor Adams and, you know, other Democrats and leftist leaders in New York are speaking out about illegal immigrant, immigration.

00:32:38.000 And by the way, in pretty strident terms.

00:32:42.120 He's talking about how it's going to be the destruction of the city.

00:32:46.480 He's actually listing the places.

00:32:49.660 Nicaragua, you know, he's listing the places where the people are coming from saying we don't want these people.

00:32:54.580 It's the kind of thing that you hear that rhetoric from Donald Trump and it is it's racist, it's xenophobic, it's extremist.

00:33:04.220 Oh, my God, how could he say that?

00:33:05.520 And now we're hearing it from Eric Adams.

00:33:11.060 And he's not the only one.

00:33:13.960 My question is, where were you, you know, when you had many other towns for decades in this country, especially towns down south, towns around the border, border towns.

00:33:28.040 They have been crying out about this problem for decades.

00:33:33.280 And where were you on that?

00:33:34.460 Did you have anything to say about that at all?

00:33:37.420 Did you care at all?

00:33:40.060 Or, in fact, did you go the other way?

00:33:42.240 And when it was happening to other people, you said that you called it xenophobia and said, oh, we have to be welcoming.

00:33:49.900 This is always how it goes on the left.

00:33:51.160 They have these ideas, these alleged principles that are totally destructive and insane.

00:33:59.360 But as long as they are insulated from the consequences of these ideas, as long as they don't have to, as long as they can just propose them and then let other people deal with the consequences, it's fine.

00:34:12.140 Same thing goes with defund the police and have a relaxed attitude towards crime.

00:34:18.420 You know, take violent criminals and keep releasing them back out of this.

00:34:23.740 Be generous and kind to violent criminals by refusing to punish them for their evil deeds.

00:34:29.980 Well, as long as that's happening to other people and not to the leftist elites, it's all good.

00:34:37.460 But then the moment they start to experience the consequences of that, their own neighborhoods start to become unsafe.

00:34:43.440 Now they begin using the same language and saying the same things that those dastardly racist conservatives had been saying for years before.

00:34:55.660 And so that's exactly what's happening now.

00:34:58.980 And he's not wrong.

00:35:02.120 I mean, this is the destruction of the city.

00:35:04.420 There's no way you can't, you know, there's just, we live on earth.

00:35:10.760 And we are physical beings living in a physical space with finite resources and a finite amount of space.

00:35:18.680 You just, it just doesn't, it doesn't work.

00:35:21.840 You can't have an unending sort of conveyor belt system of dumping people into these places.

00:35:32.680 And it's not like populations are growing the old fashioned way by actual citizens having babies.

00:35:39.700 No, not that.

00:35:41.220 You're bringing in people who don't speak the language, who aren't part of the culture. 0.87

00:35:44.980 You're bringing in all these people, you're just dumping them there and saying, here you go, you deal with it.

00:35:48.180 So is it going to be the destruction of New York City?

00:35:49.940 Well, absolutely.

00:35:51.220 I don't know how, I'm not sure how much is left to be destroyed in that city, but yes.

00:35:55.800 Maybe we should say the continued destruction of it.

00:35:59.360 Do I have any sympathy for these people?

00:36:02.040 Well, no, I have as much sympathy for them as they had for all of the border towns that have been, again, crying out about this for decades.

00:36:13.280 All right, I wanted to do, I've had this for a few days.

00:36:15.180 I wanted to mention it.

00:36:16.260 A story in the sports world that's gotten some attention, a lot of attention from this past weekend.

00:36:22.500 Delaware has a report.

00:36:23.740 Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders, commonly referred to as Coach Prime, stunned the college football world on Saturday as his team upset number 17 ranked TCU, last year's national runner-up, in a 45-42 shootout in Fort Worth.

00:36:37.320 And Deion Sanders just came to this school and got a lot of attention when he came.

00:36:48.080 This was a school that was, I think they were 1-11 last year, so they won one game last year.

00:36:54.400 And he comes in and already they've won a game.

00:36:57.480 It's only one game, but they won a game.

00:36:59.460 And it's a story that, you know, it captures people because it reminds you of the sort of classic Hollywood sports movie.

00:37:07.400 You know, the charismatic coach comes into a struggling program, gives a bunch of inspirational speeches, team starts winning.

00:37:13.340 It's a great story.

00:37:14.920 I love stories like this personally.

00:37:16.660 Again, it's only one game.

00:37:18.180 I guess you don't want to spike football too much.

00:37:20.360 But it is a good story.

00:37:21.700 And Deion Sanders, he likes to give motivational speeches, which is big.

00:37:24.480 That's part of the Hollywood kind of theme and plot line.

00:37:28.160 And so here's a speech he gave before the game that they ended up winning.

00:37:31.920 And this went viral on social media.

00:37:33.200 Let's watch this.

00:37:34.720 Usually God gave me a word long before this, but he's been holding it.

00:37:41.160 Because it's not about them.

00:37:43.240 This is about us.

00:37:45.820 This has nothing to do with the team that's opposing us.

00:37:48.760 This is about us.

00:37:50.240 This ain't got nothing to do with the naysayers, the unbelievers, the haters, the doubters.

00:37:56.700 This is about us.

00:37:58.160 When we started this journey, we told you it was going to be trying.

00:38:02.200 It was going to be tough.

00:38:03.160 But you endured.

00:38:04.940 Because it's about us.

00:38:06.300 That man next to you is a miracle.

00:38:08.180 That man next to you is a believer.

00:38:10.020 That man next to you is a go-getter. 0.94

00:38:11.880 That man next to you is a dog.

00:38:13.600 That man next to you is somebody who wants this thing. 0.94

00:38:15.800 That man next to you is somebody who believes.

00:38:17.940 That man next to you is somebody that gots to have it today.

00:38:20.920 Thanks, sir.

00:38:22.800 We ain't got tomorrow.

00:38:24.640 We got now.

00:38:26.340 Yeah, sir.

00:38:27.540 We ain't got next.

00:38:29.060 We got now.

00:38:30.160 We got now.

00:38:32.800 We ain't coming no more.

00:38:34.380 I mean, if the coaching thing doesn't work out, I think he really is a future as a producer of

00:38:53.500 t-shirts. There's about 15 different t-shirt slogans in there. So it's a good speech. It's

00:38:59.680 not saying much, but a bunch of like YOLO type cliches, but it's all right. And it's not what

00:39:05.680 you say, but how you say it, at least when it comes to locker room speeches.

00:39:13.200 But the problem is that because it's the year of our Lord, 2023, in the United States of America,

00:39:19.780 everything has to have a racial element. So Deion Sanders himself, after the game, after the

00:39:24.840 victory, randomly decided to bring race into it. Let's listen to that.

00:39:31.100 Things that have never been done, and that makes people uncomfortable. When you see a confident

00:39:36.040 black man sitting up here talking his talk, walking his walk, coaching 75% of African-Americans in the

00:39:41.460 locker room, that's kind of threatening. Oh, they don't like that. But guess what? We're going to 0.69

00:39:47.300 consistently do what we do because I'm here and ain't going nowhere. And I'm about to get comfortable

00:39:51.680 in a minute. I'm about to get comfortable in a minute. So that's completely silly. Obviously,

00:39:58.700 every it's I'm coaching a locker room, 75% black players. Every coach is coaching a 75% black team,

00:40:07.480 you know, or more like 90% in most cases. Nobody is threatened by that or surprised.

00:40:14.620 The fact that you're a black head coach is irrelevant. I mean, that's not the point. 1.00

00:40:19.080 It's certainly not something that people find shocking or upsetting. Okay. Like anyone who is

00:40:25.720 shocked or upset or feels threatened by the existence of black people probably isn't watching college 1.00

00:40:31.180 football. So it doesn't make a lot of sense. And yeah, I don't think anyone is watching football

00:40:40.540 and going, uh, uh, there are too many black people are playing this. I don't see all these black 1.00

00:40:47.320 people. That's probably not happening. That's also a clip that now media matters can take and isolate 0.66

00:40:54.460 and have fun with. Uh, in fact, the irony is that Deion Sanders just left the HBCU. He coached a

00:41:00.400 historically black college. So 75% black people in the locker room is a reduction in fact, from what it

00:41:07.580 was at his previous school. So that's my issue with Deion Sanders. You know, he can't help but

00:41:12.500 make things racial. He, he also talks almost exclusively about himself. And you know, he's

00:41:16.820 always been this way. He's always been a, you know, look at me showboating type. And when I was talking

00:41:21.080 about this a few days ago, until people were saying to me that, well, this, this is what he's always

00:41:26.520 been like. Yeah. It's, it's one thing when you're in your early twenties, uh, and you're playing in

00:41:32.200 the NFL and you call yourself primetime and it's all about look at me when you're a football coach

00:41:37.000 pushing 60, uh, you, you hope you would have matured a little bit. And this kind of leadership

00:41:43.080 style of sort of like every, everyone look at me, I'm so special. Um, it, it can work

00:41:48.620 very briefly, but people get sick of it pretty quickly. Um, but even that stuff, the showboating

00:41:56.920 and all that, like, like that's fine, but you have to bring the racial angle into it and then

00:42:01.180 it just ruins everything as always story as old as time. All right. One other quick thing before

00:42:06.780 we get to, uh, the next segment, I have to mention this. There's a newsweek report says a

00:42:12.740 California based startup hoping to bring the first commercial flying car to market has said that it

00:42:17.800 will show the first glimpse of its prototype vehicle in action at the first of two trade shows

00:42:21.960 this week. Aleph automotive is, uh, already seeing pre-orders for its $300,000 model a, which is going

00:42:31.400 to be a flying car. And they haven't actually, so they haven't actually demonstrated what it looks

00:42:36.340 like flying yet, but they say that they're going to be doing that and they're already getting a whole

00:42:41.080 bunch of pre-orders and they hope that by 2025, they're going to have these flying cars on the market.

00:42:46.240 And I know that I've warned against flying cars before, but it bears repeating that this is a terrible

00:42:50.420 idea. Like when I was a kid, like anybody else, I used to dream of the day when we had flying cars,

00:42:56.580 but now, but then you become a driver on the road and you realize that this country is plagued by

00:43:01.460 terrible drivers. As I've told you many times, I am the only good driver in America. Everybody else is

00:43:08.840 bad. Um, I'm literally the only one on the road who knows how to drive. That is my firm conviction

00:43:14.980 after, you know, spending, um, 20 years on, on the road as a driver. So I can have a flying car if I

00:43:23.820 want it, but none of the rest of you can like putting the rest of you in a flying car is just

00:43:30.800 asking for pure carnage. Americans have not figured out how to drive on the ground. And now you're going

00:43:36.460 to put them in the sky. Don't just, just to illustrate how bad the drivers are. Here's something I

00:43:40.040 witnessed over the weekend. And it's really the only reason I'm talking about this just as an excuse to

00:43:43.980 complain about what I witnessed. Cause I got to tell someone this is real. This really happened.

00:43:47.620 Okay. I'm sitting at a stoplight in the left, uh, in the, you know, to, to, to turn left. I'm

00:43:53.860 sitting at a stoplight and, uh, we're in the lane to turn left and waiting for the green arrow.

00:44:01.660 Well, a car behind us gets impatient and wants to, to, uh, turn left right away. He doesn't want to

00:44:09.100 have to wait. So here's what he did. He crosses the double yellow line and drives on the wrong side

00:44:16.200 of the road for probably like 30 yards, a good 30, 40 yards driving on the wrong side of the road,

00:44:23.180 bypassing all the cars that are waiting to turn at the red light makes an illegal left-hand turn

00:44:29.380 on red from the wrong side of the road. But that's not the bad part. Three other cars

00:44:36.500 followed him and did the same thing. And that's what gets me the most because the first guy is

00:44:40.860 just suicidal. They're driving the reason you're having a head on collision. You're driving. You're

00:44:45.980 just suicidal maniac doing that. So in those kinds of people exist, I get it. But the other three, 0.60

00:44:52.620 like what are the other three thinking? The other three were just sitting there waiting for the light

00:44:57.240 to turn. They saw the other guy driving on the wrong side of the road and they said, Oh, well,

00:45:01.640 I guess I'll do that too. I mean, if he's doing it, I'll do it. I guess because this one guy is

00:45:05.740 breaking every traffic law in existence, that means that we're all allowed to. This must be a

00:45:10.540 special holiday of some kind where I didn't hear about, where we don't have to obey any of the

00:45:14.780 traffic laws. This must be like the purge, but for traffic laws. And so I guess I'll do what he's

00:45:19.640 doing. And here's my favorite part. The cars that are on the right side of the road start honking at

00:45:25.380 the ones that are driving on the wrong side. And the ones on the wrong side honk back angrily.

00:45:29.660 Like defense, it's a defensive anger and angry honks. As if they had some sort of argument.

00:45:37.500 As if there were some sort of justification for what they were doing.

00:45:41.780 And so when I think about flying cars, I think like those people are going to be in the flying

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00:46:51.920 There's some comments that defending Enrico Tarrio's 22-year sentence for January 6th,

00:46:59.060 even though he wasn't even in D.C. on that day. We talked about the start yesterday. He was given

00:47:05.260 the harshest sentence yet for someone for January 6th, even though, again, he wasn't there.

00:47:11.940 Patricia says, well, he organized it. That's even worse. Robert says, interesting point. So you wouldn't

00:47:17.840 arrest the mafia boss and the only dealer in the street and only the dealer in the street because

00:47:21.760 the mafia boss didn't sell the drugs in the street himself. The comment says he organized it. A lot

00:47:26.800 of comments like that. Here's the, but you're, you're, you're missing the, the point here with

00:47:34.000 these January 6th, uh, prosecutions. I already said yesterday, and I made this point before I've

00:47:39.660 made it when it comes to Trump that some of what we're seeing, the, the, the, what is now political

00:47:47.240 persecution would seem much less to be political persecution. You make, you can make the argument

00:47:53.880 that it's not political persecution. If we lived in a country that consistently, um, throws the book

00:48:03.540 at people who break the law. If we lived in a law and if we lived in a, in a, in a country with,

00:48:09.680 with real law and order. And there are countries like this out there. There are countries out there

00:48:14.600 that if you break the law, even a law that seems relatively minor, uh, there's going to be a harsh

00:48:20.440 penalty because there's just zero tolerance for law breaking. There are countries like that.

00:48:27.320 If we lived in a country like that, and then you told me that, um, someone who, uh, went into the

00:48:34.840 Capitol building uninvited during a riot, got 15 years in prison and we lived in a country like that.

00:48:41.020 Right. Then I would say, well, that makes sense. Like that's, that's, yep. That's, that's how it

00:48:45.160 goes here. Uh, you break the law and they're just gonna, there's the, they, they, they are going to

00:48:49.880 find, they're going to throw everything they can at you. And this is what they do with anyone who

00:48:53.580 breaks any law, but that's not the country we live in. Okay. That's not what's happening.

00:49:01.100 And that is the primary problem with how the January sixers are being treated. And I don't know 0.99

00:49:09.000 how else to, to explain that. I think I've made the point very clear. And, and in this case, now we

00:49:15.020 could look at, as I mentioned, you know, just one example, one example of many, but there was recently 0.96

00:49:21.200 a, uh, uh, a, uh, serial child rapist. I think this was in Ohio who got like half the sentence

00:49:30.140 that Enrique Tarrio got, uh, for serial child rape. Many cases like that were actual rapists,

00:49:39.480 child abusers, child molesters, pedophiles, murderers, uh, commit crimes are convicted and

00:49:46.360 are back on the street in, you know, a handful of years. But in this case, we have a, we actually

00:49:51.500 have more of a one-to-one comparison because it was only a few months before January 6th that there

00:49:58.420 were violent riots all over the country where, where government buildings were, were attacked

00:50:04.400 and federal government buildings were attacked. And in some cases set on fire, which never happened

00:50:11.440 to the Capitol building. Well, what did the government do in that? What did the federal government

00:50:15.700 do in that case? Almost nothing. Um, and I don't even know this off the top of my head,

00:50:21.260 but I'd be very interested to find out all the BLM riots that happened in 2020. What is the

00:50:27.120 harshest penalty? Who, who got the longest prison sentence out of all the riots, all the things that

00:50:31.880 happened. And again, people were killed, uh, bill, police stations were invaded while the police

00:50:38.480 officers inside it ran for their lives and burned to the ground. What was, what was the, the,

00:50:42.480 the stiffest penalty? Did anyone get 22 years in prison for any of that? I don't think so.

00:50:50.620 Um, and Cheesecake Flash says, I'm a 40 year old electrician. I'm attending an online university

00:50:57.640 in pursuit of a journalism degree, or, uh, if college is so unnecessary, the DW could save me a lot

00:51:03.700 of trouble. But the reality is that a degree is necessary unless you wish to be overlooked.

00:51:08.640 But it's interesting that you, you give your own, I mean, first of all, your last sentence that a

00:51:15.300 degree is, is necessary. There are cases where that's correct, but usually with a caveat.

00:51:23.360 Now there are, there are some, if you want to be a doctor, if you want to be a lawyer,

00:51:26.640 like everyone agrees that you need formal education beyond, uh, K through 12. Okay. You need formal

00:51:35.400 education beyond grade school. Everyone agrees with that. So there are some professions where

00:51:40.420 obviously you really do need, uh, uh, uh, you know, college education. There are a lot of other,

00:51:48.040 uh, careers that are not in that category where you quote, where you quote unquote need a college

00:51:55.100 degree. It's an artificial need. The need for, um, continued formal schooling. If you want to be a

00:52:01.280 surgeon is not artificial, but you definitely need to go and learn more in a formal environment in

00:52:07.180 order to be a surgeon. A lot of these other places though, like anywhere in the corporate world where

00:52:12.440 you end up sitting behind in a cubicle somewhere entering like data into a computer and many of those

00:52:18.420 jobs, you do need a college degree, but it's artificial. It's only because these, the corporate

00:52:23.540 world has just decided that that's going to be a litmus test. That that's how they're going to

00:52:27.320 filter. That's the film filtration system. And they want to make it easier. And this HR departments

00:52:32.120 want to make it easier on themselves. And it's just like a shorthand. It's like, it gives them an

00:52:35.700 excuse to toss out half of the resumes in the stack right out of the gate, but it's an artificial need.

00:52:43.360 And so we need to, but what are we going to do about that artificial need?

00:52:48.020 Like the only way to stop this is to this, this inflated artificial need for, for a college degree

00:52:54.860 is, um, is if more and more people just refuse to go along with it and say, I'm not going to go.

00:53:00.500 But then there are, then there are professions where you just don't need a college degree at all,

00:53:04.040 even artificially. And so it's interesting that you use yourself as a personal example,

00:53:08.220 because you're an example of, you know, electric, electrician, you don't need a college

00:53:12.620 degree for that. Cause I'm sure, you know, you'd be a very successful electrician without having a

00:53:18.720 college degree. And, um, you want to get into journalism out of, out of the electrician trade. I would,

00:53:24.040 you know, I mean, you'll make your own choices. You know, it's best for you. I would very much

00:53:27.500 advise against that. I think you're, you're, you're right now are in a better, a much better

00:53:31.500 and more respectable profession than journalism. So I cannot imagine why somebody with real skills

00:53:36.280 in a profession, being electrician would want to become a journalist, but you do. Okay. Um,

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00:54:51.240 you know, I'd hate to say I told you so, but I don't actually hate to say I told you so. I love

00:54:54.660 saying it. So from the very beginning of when the Stephen Avery case became sensationalized by the

00:54:58.880 series Making a Murderer, I've been very outspoken on my belief and my opinion that Stephen Avery is

00:55:04.280 completely guilty. I posted it all over my socials. The man is a convicted murderer. Not afraid to say it.

00:55:10.920 It's so blatantly obvious that he committed this crime. But Hollywood, for some very strange reason,

00:55:15.060 wanted to paint this man as an innocent victim of corrupt law enforcement. He wasn't. The

00:55:19.680 filmmakers left out huge parts of the story to support an anti-police narrative and make him

00:55:23.560 seem more innocent than he was. That's just good television, I suppose, but it's also dishonest

00:55:29.640 and wrong. We at The Daily Wire happen to think that good television can also be aligned with the

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00:55:47.340 the case of Stephen Avery and his involvement in the murder of Teresa Halbach. Details about his

00:55:51.680 criminal history, his character, and violent tendencies towards women. Evidence that was all left

00:55:55.460 out, rearranged, or misrepresented. It's all going to come to the surface. Most importantly,

00:55:59.480 you're going to see how Hollywood and the media craft narratives to influence the public in a way

00:56:03.680 that's favorable to them. It's one of the biggest things we've done in Daily Wire history. Here's

00:56:08.300 a teaser. Take a look. Coming up on Convicting a Murderer. Part of me don't want to believe that

00:56:13.400 he did this. The blood that was on that back area was indicative of the head wound. My brother likes

00:56:19.160 to push a lot of people around. I don't give a f*** about anything. I ain't gotta listen to nobody. 0.97

00:56:24.260 How were these filmmakers able to convince so many people that a man like Stephen Avery is innocent?

00:56:29.920 How many times did he stab her? Once. And show me where? Right here. They gave him power. They're

00:56:38.400 trying to get everything on me that they did. It's not good for an Avery to have power. I told you 0.69

00:56:43.420 all along, keep your f*** about shot. I can hurt Stephen. I'm not going to lie for him no more. I 1.00

00:56:48.540 can't do it. Watch Convicting a Murderer, a new 10-part series on Daily Wire Plus.

00:56:55.140 It's very obvious to me what the filmmakers were trying to do, but you should just watch

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00:57:20.780 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:57:28.860 A couple of weeks ago, I got into some trouble with some online leftists who for some reason

00:57:33.740 watch my show obsessively like Joy Behar. They were furious that I said something everyone knows

00:57:39.840 is true, which is that the primary problem facing homeless people isn't the fact that they don't

00:57:45.540 have homes. Homelessness is instead a symptom of many other problems that homeless people have,

00:57:50.560 almost invariably including drug addiction, a general disinterest in being productive members

00:57:55.320 of society. And usually that disinterest is fueled by drug addiction or alcoholism or mental illness.

00:58:01.800 Like all harsh truths that happen to be undeniable, you're not supposed to say that out loud.

00:58:06.140 So in response, a swarm of leftists attacked and we're very upset about it. That's a theme here

00:58:11.700 today on the show and in every show really. I'm going to play one example of these attacks because

00:58:15.780 it's important to understand the reasoning from the left on the topic of homelessness such as it is.

00:58:21.260 And as just one example, I'll show you a clip from a YouTube channel called Secular Talk. Now,

00:58:27.420 there are two things you should know about this clip before we play it. First of all,

00:58:30.720 he spends the first minute or two of the video before the clip we're going to play explaining

00:58:34.900 why my position on homelessness does not comport with the teachings of the Bible. Now, he's totally

00:58:41.140 wrong about that, of course. The Bible, after all, the Bible is the book that says if a man will not 0.82

00:58:45.140 work, he shall not eat. You know, it does not recommend or condone a sedentary, self-destructive

00:58:50.660 lifestyle. But putting that aside, this guy's channel, again, is literally called Secular Talk.

00:58:57.140 He's an atheist. That's his whole shtick. And yet, while totally rejecting the Bible in every way,

00:59:02.000 he will still, like any other secular leftist, try to use it on occasion to win an argument, 0.96

00:59:07.280 which is always funny to watch in a pathetic kind of way. The second thing you should know is that 0.88

00:59:11.000 the title of this video of his says, homeless people don't need homes. Matt Walsh. The statement

00:59:16.640 is putting quotes, quoting me as saying, homeless people don't need homes. The problem is I never

00:59:20.860 said that. He's making up a quote and putting it in the title of the video. So we're off to a bad

00:59:26.020 start. But anyway, here's the clip that helps set up our discussion today. Let's watch.

00:59:31.520 So his point is, hey, man, it's not that they don't have, the problem isn't that the homeless

00:59:36.100 people don't have homes. Yes, it is. They're drug addicts. 0.52

00:59:41.520 They're drug addicts, and they have mental health problems. That's his point. Okay, well, 1.00

00:59:46.160 let's look at the numbers on this. So this is from Addiction Center. The National Coalition

00:59:49.980 for the Homeless has found that 38% of homeless people are alcohol dependent. Okay, 38%. Now,

00:59:57.560 keep these numbers in mind, and I'm going to give you the context for it in a second.

01:00:00.480 But let's just point out 38% is actually not a majority. That's not a majority. Okay, more.

01:00:05.420 26% are dependent on other harmful chemicals. Okay, so 26% are drug addicts. 38% are alcoholics.

01:00:14.400 Okay, got it. Then they go on to say, oftentimes, addiction is a result of homelessness. In other

01:00:22.940 words, he flipped the causation. What he's saying is, you're an alcoholic, or you're a drug addict,

01:00:28.720 and that's why you became homeless. What they're saying is, no, oftentimes, the homelessness comes

01:00:35.020 first. And then because you're homeless, you kind of want to take the edge off of your harsh reality.

01:00:40.680 And so you turn to substances, whether it be alcohol or other kinds of drugs. So he flipped

01:00:46.860 the causation. Now, I'm sure there are some instances where the causation does work in the

01:00:51.800 way that he laid out there. Some people are alcoholics, or they are drug addicts. And then that

01:00:55.880 helps as one of the factors to lead them to become homeless. But in many instances,

01:01:00.980 maybe even more instances, maybe the majority of instances, it's first comes the homelessness.

01:01:05.880 And then in order to take the edge off of your harsh reality, you turn to substances so that you

01:01:10.540 can survive. Well, that was that was great. In order to debunk my point, he proves it. Now,

01:01:18.240 first, he's throwing out random statistics that we're supposed to believe on face value,

01:01:21.980 because they come from a group with homeless in the title. He tells us nothing about where these

01:01:26.360 stats come from, how they were compiled, what the methodology was. He just tells us, well,

01:01:31.760 some group says this, like, okay, well, so automatically, I'm supposed to believe that?

01:01:37.540 I mean, if you actually believe that only 26% of homeless people are using drugs, 1.00

01:01:42.540 if you really believe that, then you are simply too dumb to bother having a conversation with. 0.99

01:01:47.320 And I just don't, I don't believe that anyone believes it. Really, only 26% of homeless people 0.99

01:01:52.240 are on drugs. I mean, it just so happens, like, if you live anywhere where you see homeless people,

01:01:57.240 if you drive around, see them in Nashville. I can't remember the last time I saw homeless people,

01:02:01.940 a homeless person that wasn't obviously on drugs. But the funny thing is that even if we buy

01:02:09.300 these clearly absurdly undercounted statistics, my point still stands. We saw there in the screenshot

01:02:17.080 that 38% of the homeless are alcoholics, 26% are addicted to other drugs. That's already 64%,

01:02:26.180 which is a large majority, which is exactly what I said. But then we also see in the screenshot that he

01:02:34.520 didn't highlight. That's a 33%, again, according to these stats that are obviously being very,

01:02:41.760 very conservative in their estimates. But still, 33% are mentally ill. So 38 plus 26 plus 33. 0.90

01:02:51.480 And then you've got, according to these stats, the sum total of homeless people who are

01:02:56.580 addicts or mentally ill. Well, that's pretty much all of them, isn't it? I'm no math whiz,

01:03:03.680 but that's like all of them. Even if we allow for some overlap in these categories,

01:03:08.820 which obviously there's going to be, still it's clear that almost all homeless people are either

01:03:14.460 mentally ill or on drugs or both. Which again, was exactly my point. But then we're told that

01:03:21.760 actually I have the causation flipped. He insists that homeless people first become homeless,

01:03:27.020 presumably due to systemic racism or the economy or whatever. And then to cope with their terrible

01:03:31.940 situation, they turn to drug abuse. He has no evidence for this. There's no proof of it.

01:03:37.500 It's just nothing but his own assumption. An assumption that does not comport with basic

01:03:42.200 common sense at all. Like what is more likely? That a totally functioning and contributing member

01:03:48.380 of society somehow ends up homeless and then says, well, I might as well smoke crack.

01:03:52.480 Or that a person starts smoking crack, it takes over their life and soon they're on the street.

01:04:01.660 Now, there may be cases of the former, but the latter is obviously the way this usually works.

01:04:08.220 There's no denying it and also no reason to deny it. Well, maybe there is a reason. For the left,

01:04:14.440 the appeal of this causation argument is obvious. It absolves not just homeless people for their conduct,

01:04:20.160 but also the politicians who spend ever-growing amounts of taxpayer money on so-called homelessness

01:04:24.920 initiatives. After all, if homeless people are living good and virtuous lives and only turn to

01:04:29.380 drugs because they don't have a roof over their heads, then you might think it's reasonable for

01:04:32.860 large states like California to spend $42,000 per homeless person every year. You might not mind

01:04:39.400 the fact that by contrast, California spends less than $14,000 per year per student in grades K through

01:04:46.240 12. That disparity should bother you because all of that spending on homelessness reduction

01:04:52.420 is simply encouraging dysfunctional people to make the same decisions that made them homeless in the

01:04:58.560 first place. And we have a lot of real observable case studies to prove this, not random statistics by

01:05:04.500 some group that you found on Google, but actual real-world events we can look at and see,

01:05:11.020 oh, well, how did that work out? Okay, here's how it worked out.

01:05:12.980 It turns out that when you give a homeless person a roof over his head, when you make them housed

01:05:20.700 people instead of unhoused people, as the left likes to say, they still resort to using drugs and

01:05:26.260 behaving dysfunctionally. Take a look at this news report this week out of Rutland County, Vermont.

01:05:31.260 This is one of the many places that's decided to house homeless people in hotels free of charge

01:05:36.860 on the theory that that'll make everything better. Because the only problem, according to the left,

01:05:43.580 according to the guy we just saw on YouTube, the only problem for homeless people is just that they

01:05:46.620 don't have a home and you give them a home and everything is better. Well, let's see how that's

01:05:52.000 going. Issues at hotels that are under the state's homeless voucher program are causing concern in some

01:05:58.840 communities. According to DCF, there are 927 households still taking part in that program.

01:06:05.440 Rutland County has the biggest slice of that number with 236 households.

01:06:09.820 Our Ikeman David joined the tour of a hotel in Rutland County, which officials say has been causing problems.

01:06:16.060 Brett Desanne lives in the Cortina Inn on a state-funded voucher. It's been a concern for the local community.

01:06:22.500 Not good. Hectic. Just crazy. The drugs is out of control.

01:06:29.760 Tuesday afternoon, local and state officials from Rutland County toured the Cortina to see the issues

01:06:35.420 up close. The hotel is just off of Route 7, which currently has 130 rooms that use the vouchers

01:06:41.420 on the state's hotel voucher program.

01:06:43.880 It's depressing.

01:06:47.120 You can smell the feces smell. That's where the whole place smelled it.

01:06:52.940 Doors all around the property were unlocked and open.

01:06:57.220 So there's feces all over the place, according to the police chief. Everyone's on drugs. The

01:07:01.720 homeless are leaving the hotel to rob nearby businesses. Hearing all that, you might come 1.00

01:07:06.360 to the conclusion that the problem facing all these homeless people was not, in fact, their lack of a

01:07:11.080 home. After all, the enlightened residents of Rutland, Vermont, have removed the variable of

01:07:16.200 homelessness here, and yet these people are behaving in exactly the same way they did without a home.

01:07:21.420 We gave them a home, and the problem didn't go away. It's almost like the homeless person's problem

01:07:27.860 isn't that he doesn't have a home. Now, is this an outlier? Is this an aberration that only occurs

01:07:33.800 in Rutland County, Vermont? Let's see. The mayor of Casper, Wyoming, is currently in full-on panic mode

01:07:38.800 because roughly 200 people who have been living in a vacant motel in his city have managed to trash the

01:07:43.920 in addition to leaving 500 pounds of feces on the streets and the sidewalks. Quote, it's like

01:07:49.100 nothing I've ever seen before. It's third-world country stuff happening in Casper, Wyoming.

01:07:53.220 That's according to the mayor. Now, I don't know how the mayor came up with an exact estimate of the

01:07:57.800 cumulative weight of human fecal matter, and frankly, I don't want to know. But the point is that

01:08:03.320 the homeless moved into town and completely destroyed it. They had access to a vacant motel,

01:08:10.020 to housing, and they proceeded to demolish it and make it unlivable. Again, this is a repeatable

01:08:16.640 scenario. I'm not cherry-picking. It's happening everywhere that homeless people find a place to

01:08:21.240 stay. The Los Angeles Times recently reported that a hotel called the Mayfair sustained $11.5 million

01:08:27.440 in damages while it was being used by the city to house homeless people as part of something called

01:08:31.740 Project Room Key. Quote, windows of the 294-room boutique hotel in LA's Westlake neighborhood

01:08:37.880 had been shattered. Bathrooms had been vandalized. In some locations, carpet had been torn off the

01:08:42.600 floor. I mean, why would you go into a hotel and tear the carpet off the floor? Well, I'll tell you

01:08:49.340 why you do that. If you're psychotic or on drugs, that's why you do it. Emails obtained by the Los

01:08:56.700 Angeles Times show that social workers assigned to the hotel reported that homeless people were

01:09:00.440 threatening the staff, they were assaulting people, and so on. Instead of recognizing what a

01:09:05.760 disaster this whole idea was, Los Angeles politicians, including the mayor, want to double

01:09:09.220 down on it. They want to buy the Mayfair outright and do it all over again. The LA Times spoke to

01:09:14.700 one resident who lives across from the hotel for his thoughts on the idea, and here's what he said.

01:09:18.720 Quote, the neighborhood is still recovering from Project Room Key. The purchase of the Mayfair

01:09:22.240 would just completely destroy the community once again. That's a reasonable concern because it

01:09:27.840 happens everywhere that homeless people are put in hotels. During COVID, the Lucerne Hotel in New York

01:09:32.720 City became a shelter for the homeless. And what happened next? Well, according to NBC News,

01:09:36.620 quote, many on the Upper West Side said that their quality of life had been suffering as a result,

01:09:40.520 complaining about having to walk by people passed out on sidewalks and performing lewd acts along the

01:09:45.100 street. Now, I could go on because there are many places where they have tried this,

01:09:52.180 but you get the idea. It always works this way. Now, to be clear, I'm not looking to just dump on the

01:09:57.380 homeless or mock them. These people are clearly suffering. They are in an unenviable situation,

01:10:03.080 no matter how you slice it. But we have to be honest about what they're suffering from exactly.

01:10:09.780 And we have to be honest that one way or another, whether it's because of addiction or psychosis or

01:10:13.480 character flaws or anything else, they're almost always homeless due to their own behavior, their own

01:10:19.160 choices. These choices of behavior need to change. And if there's a burgeoning epidemic of homelessness,

01:10:25.060 and there is, then the real crisis is that so many Americans have fallen into these self-destructive

01:10:31.420 patterns of behavior. We can't solve the homeless problem without acknowledging that. Politically

01:10:37.800 correct terms like unhoused are meant to downplay, you know, a homeless person's own role in their own

01:10:43.080 homelessness. But that is the exact opposite of what we should be doing. Ultimately, this becomes a

01:10:50.000 conversation about the crisis of despair in our culture that has led to so many people,

01:10:54.700 simply giving up on leading whole and productive lives. Unless we have that conversation, as we've

01:11:01.300 seen in Vermont and Los Angeles and New York and Wyoming and all over the country, the problem will

01:11:05.700 only get much more expensive and much worse. This is societal decay. And it is a choice. And ultimately,

01:11:14.340 productive members of society, people who would never dream of doing hard drugs or of relieving

01:11:18.860 themselves in public or committing lewd acts in public, they are the ones who will bear the cost of

01:11:24.180 that choice. Which is why the people who insist on being politically correct about the homeless

01:11:29.560 problem, rather than just being correct about it, are today canceled. That'll do it for the show

01:11:36.580 today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 07, 2023

Ep. 1217 - Here's How I Became The Media's Villain This Week

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