The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1220 - Our Country Is Run By Senile Half-Dead Zombies

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Joe Biden went overseas to project strength to our adversaries.

00:00:04.380 Instead, he fell apart on camera once again because he is a senile old man at the head of 0.98

00:00:08.480 the most decrepit and pathetic gerontocracy in the history of the world. Also, another big 0.99

00:00:12.740 sexual harassment scandal rocks the college football world, but there's more to this story.

00:00:16.440 We'll talk about it. And a rapper is arrested for murder after allegedly confessing to the crime

00:00:20.500 in a song. Plus, one of the hot new trends sweeping the country is called manifesting,

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00:00:31.040 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:53.220 We've grown so accustomed to being ruled by elderly politicians who are decaying in front of us that

00:01:58.480 it's easy to forget how abnormal this actually is. But the truth is that there are countries in the

00:02:03.620 world where the vast majority of elected officials are middle-aged and even capable of, if you can

00:02:08.360 believe it, completing sentences. One of these countries is Sweden. Sweden's parliament is among the

00:02:13.280 youngest in the world. The prime minister, speaker, first deputy speaker, second deputy speaker are all

00:02:18.160 under the age of 60. This is a long-running trend in that country, which elected its youngest 0.97

00:02:22.560 parliament in 2014. Going back for the last decade or so, Sweden hasn't had a prime minister over the

00:02:27.980 age of 65. If you're looking for an explanation for why Sweden didn't lock down during COVID, and many

00:02:33.660 people still are looking for an explanation, this seems like it might be a good place to start.

00:02:38.400 Led by its relatively young government, Sweden didn't implement mask mandates. They didn't close

00:02:44.160 the schools and restaurants and force everyone, regardless of their age, to stay in their little

00:02:48.220 pods. Children didn't miss years of education and critical social development. Small businesses

00:02:53.680 weren't destroyed. Pastors weren't hauled out of church services and thrown in prison.

00:02:58.020 And after all that, after ignoring the infinite wisdom of Tony Fauci and the World Health Organization,

00:03:03.260 Sweden recorded the lowest excess death rate of any European nation during COVID. In fact,

00:03:08.660 Sweden's excess death rate was half of our countries. Suicide and overdoses didn't spike.

00:03:14.360 The morgues weren't overrun with COVID fatalities. People over the age of 70, in many cases,

00:03:20.860 voluntarily stayed home. For everyone else, life continued as normal. Now, in retrospect,

00:03:27.120 these are maybe some of the benefits of having leaders on the right end of the actuarial table.

00:03:32.800 As the last few years have demonstrated, when politicians aren't themselves five seconds from

00:03:38.960 keeling over dead, they're less likely to bring down all of society in a desperate attempt to

00:03:44.080 prolong their own lives. On the other hand, when you're governed by a gerontocracy, especially a

00:03:49.740 secular gerontocracy, which has nothing to look forward to after death, then you can't count on that 1.00

00:03:55.880 kind of stability. You can't be assured that your leaders won't declare an emergency and take away

00:04:01.120 your rights any more than you can be assured that they won't start World War III in Ukraine because 0.80

00:04:06.260 they want to play Churchill with the time they have left on Earth. It's no secret the United States

00:04:11.920 has transformed into a gerontocracy in the last several years. Right now, roughly one-fourth of

00:04:18.900 Congress is over the age of 70. And that number has never been higher in American history. In 1900,

00:04:26.060 nearly 40% of the politicians in the Senate and the House were in their 40s. That number is now down

00:04:31.680 to just 20%. And of course, as we know, the current president is now the oldest sitting president to ever

00:04:38.420 hold the office. Joe Biden will turn 81 in just a couple of months. In fact, presidents now are so old

00:04:45.720 that the two far and away frontrunners for their party's nominations, Biden and Trump,

00:04:51.100 are both older than Bill Clinton. And Bill Clinton is now, who was elected to his first term

00:04:57.160 three decades ago. So when a current president is older than a former president who's been out of

00:05:04.140 office for over 20 years, you know something is wrong. But you already knew all this. I mean,

00:05:10.380 by this point, it's not exactly a secret that Joe Biden is old. What has only become apparent in

00:05:17.140 recent days, however, is the extent of Joe Biden's decline, as well as the willingness

00:05:21.540 of his staff to put his mental decay on full display for everyone to see. You know, we're all

00:05:27.460 used to seeing footage of Biden falling apart or falling down or falling apart and then falling down

00:05:32.220 in front of the cameras. What we're not used to seeing is what happens Sunday night in Hanoi.

00:05:36.820 Joe Biden was in Vietnam supposedly to project strength against China. The idea is that Vietnam

00:05:43.120 and the United States will work together in a new strategic partnership that will

00:05:47.440 somehow deter the Chinese government from, say, invading Taiwan. But in the end,

00:05:53.160 in a shocking turn of events, Joe Biden did not project strength against China. Instead,

00:05:58.320 Biden led a rambling 30-minute press conference during which he admitted that he was

00:06:02.380 just following orders from his staffers by calling on preselected reporters. And then Biden appeared to

00:06:08.140 lose his train of thought about a dozen times before saying out loud that he was going to bed.

00:06:14.460 Watch.

00:06:15.600 Light for and I see. I'm just following my orders here. I have a game plan. He may have a game plan.

00:06:25.180 He just hasn't shared it with me. But I tell you what, I don't know about you, but I'm going to go to bed.

00:06:32.380 That is maybe the one single quote that most encapsulates Biden's presidency.

00:06:39.760 It's the quote he'll be remembered by. I don't know about you, but I'm going to bed.

00:06:44.740 Now, I have to say, I have to admit that at first I was a little underwhelmed by Trump's

00:06:48.940 Sleepy Joe nickname for Biden, mostly because I would have preferred an alliteration like

00:06:54.480 Geriatric Joe or Bumble and Biden, something like that. But it turns out that Trump really nailed it.

00:07:00.440 He really did. And this was not one isolated senior moment during the presser either. This went on for

00:07:07.180 a while. Towards the end of his press availability, Joe Biden referred to the Southern Hemisphere as the

00:07:13.100 third world before realizing that's not something you're supposed to say out loud. And then Joe

00:07:18.100 Biden's press secretary, like the man behind the curtain, cuts him off mid-sentence. Jazz music starts

00:07:24.620 playing. The only thing they were missing was the big cartoon hook to drag him off stage.

00:07:29.780 Watch this.

00:07:30.440 We talked about at the conference overall. We talked about stability. We talked about making

00:07:36.240 sure that the third world, the, excuse me, third world, the, the, the Southern Hemisphere had

00:07:44.420 access to change it, had access. It wasn't confrontational at all. Thank you, everybody.

00:07:50.720 This ends the press conference. Thanks, everyone. Thank you.

00:07:53.100 The President of the United States.

00:08:23.080 Everybody. I don't think we've ever seen that before. I don't think we've ever seen

00:08:27.320 staffers cut off a presidential press conference in mid-sentence because the president is babbling

00:08:34.500 too much. And as embarrassing, embarrassing as this is, it would be a mistake to write it off as

00:08:40.060 yet another Joe Biden gaffe and then just move on. And that's inevitably how these kinds of clips are

00:08:45.020 typically spun in the media. The right uses them to say, ah, Biden is old and the left just ignores

00:08:50.020 them. And then that's it. But there's something very significant about this. And perhaps the most

00:08:55.520 significant takeaway from the whole incident is that, is that this press conference happened at

00:09:00.760 all. At no point did anyone in the White House, apparently, or the Pentagon or the State Department

00:09:05.560 veto the idea of Joe Biden taking a trip to Vietnam where he would inevitably beclown himself on

00:09:12.280 camera. Why is that? They knew he'd humiliate himself and the country. He does it every time

00:09:17.460 he's asked to speak off the cuff. They knew that. And they also knew that unless they intervened,

00:09:23.420 he'd never shut up at the podium. This is also why he's given so few press conferences,

00:09:28.800 especially when compared to recent presidents, especially Donald Trump.

00:09:32.120 So why was he up there at all? I mean, why go through the trouble of scheduling this trip? And why,

00:09:38.520 as Joe Biden began rambling, did White House staffers twist the knife in such an overt public

00:09:44.460 fashion, embarrassing him intentionally like that? Joe Biden's own press secretary played him out with

00:09:51.520 lounge music against his wishes while he was still talking. It's hard to think of a more obvious way

00:09:56.700 to humiliate a president of the United States. So if we're trying to intimidate China, this is a strange 0.57

00:10:03.340 strategy, to say the least. On the other hand, if the goal was to give Xi Jinping a laugh and convince

00:10:09.420 him that Taiwan is his for the taking, then actually the Biden administration just succeeded beyond its

00:10:14.640 wildest imagination. The U.S. government, by sending Joe Biden to Hanoi, erased any doubt in Beijing as to

00:10:21.600 the capability of Joe Biden to stand up for Taiwan or any other country in the region.

00:10:25.620 You have to wonder if that was the real point of the trip. Maybe an administration that's beholden

00:10:31.540 to China wanted to send a signal to Beijing that they have nothing to worry about. If that's the

00:10:36.860 case, then Joe Biden's presser is just one of many such signals that have been sent to our adversaries

00:10:41.420 in recent weeks. 81-year-old Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell isn't going to push back on

00:10:46.320 China's territorial ambitions anytime soon. That much is clear. He's no longer able to reliably answer

00:10:52.080 questions from the media without freezing up completely. In between reaffirming his indefinite

00:10:57.520 commitment to spending billions of taxpayer dollars on Ukraine, Mitch McConnell is doing his best

00:11:02.160 impression of a stroke victim. Now, you've likely seen the clips of McConnell standing at the microphone,

00:11:07.280 staring blankly off into space, unable to speak, somehow managing to make John Fetterman look downright

00:11:13.960 communicative by comparison. Now, of course, McConnell's physician, after that happened,

00:11:19.540 wrote a letter, kind of a nothing to see here letter, insisting that McConnell is in tip-top shape.

00:11:25.220 But you would have to have dementia yourself to believe that.

00:11:29.240 Last week, to give another example, 83-year-old Nancy Pelosi claimed that she's running again to 0.94

00:11:33.940 represent San Francisco because she is in gratitude to her constituents who really

00:11:38.860 need her to address the challenges the city is facing. Watch.

00:11:45.020 I feel very exhilarated by the encouragement I had to continue representing my great city of San

00:11:51.500 Francisco. You have the White House behind you. I have homes in San Francisco behind me,

00:11:56.540 and that is my strength. And the needs that our city have right now really call for me

00:12:04.600 to stay another term. I had the privilege of representing San Francisco for a long time,

00:12:11.460 I've had. And they have given me the latitude to serve as speaker, as leader for over 20 years,

00:12:18.040 and WIP as well. Visit 87 countries, serve 30 years on the Intelligence Committee, all of those things.

00:12:24.760 But at the same time, being central to my service was representing my district. In gratitude to

00:12:31.600 them for that, I have agreed to stay on another term in order to help meet the needs that we have now.

00:12:39.060 How generous of her. In gratitude, she's going to remain in power. I'm so grateful that I will

00:12:44.760 not relinquish power until I'm dead. That's the only way I'm going to relinquish it, because I'm so

00:12:50.380 grateful. You know, in San Francisco, fecal matter is all over the place. Robberies are so frequent that

00:12:55.880 news reporters can't cover crime anymore without getting robbed themselves. The city's office buildings

00:13:01.300 are empty. Therefore, what San Francisco needs now, Nancy Pelosi says, is more of the same leadership

00:13:06.260 that put them in that position to begin with. What it needs most of all is an ancient, decrepit old

00:13:12.400 woman who's been in politics for 40 years and accomplished absolutely nothing the entire time. 0.98

00:13:19.080 And somehow, that sales pitch will work. Nancy Pelosi will indeed win re-election, assuming that 1.00

00:13:24.660 she can survive to that point. In fact, if we're being honest, it may not even be necessary that she

00:13:28.680 survives. Last year, a Democrat Pennsylvania state representative named Tony DeLuca was re-elected

00:13:33.620 even though he died a month before election day. And in that same election, coincidentally enough,

00:13:40.040 John Fetterman became one of Pennsylvania's two senators, even though he hasn't been able to string

00:13:44.280 together sentences for a long time. And you've seen all the painful videos of the last year or so.

00:13:50.640 And in case you're wondering if Fetterman has maybe improved in recent weeks, the answer is that he

00:13:55.640 has not. Here he was, just to show you, filming a campaign video for Bob Casey while wearing his

00:14:02.260 signature hobo hoodie, during which Casey is basically holding back laughter because of how

00:14:07.960 absurd the whole thing is. Watch.

00:14:10.960 Hey, Bob Casey!

00:14:12.440 John Fetterman!

00:14:13.400 Hey, everybody!

00:14:14.580 Hey, last year, you all helped elect John Fetterman to the United States Senate. I need your help in 2024.

00:14:20.160 2024. Please chip in wherever you can.

00:14:22.780 I'm telling you how serious it is that we make sure we keep Bob Casey in the Senate right now.

00:14:27.340 Can you help chipping in a couple bucks to make sure we keep Bob Casey right here in this Senate

00:14:32.100 right now? Bob Casey!

00:14:33.820 Thanks, John Fetterman!

00:14:35.740 Hey, last year, you guys elected a cucumber to the Senate. So if you don't elect me, then I'm going to be very

00:14:42.480 insulted. So if you're going to elect this guy, then why wouldn't you also elect me?

00:14:46.440 It's an interesting pitch. I mean, he makes a good point, actually.

00:14:51.940 The 54-year-old adult male says, can you help chipping in a couple bucks? This is serious.

00:14:58.280 Pennsylvania, you know, this is a guy who wants to represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate.

00:15:03.840 Can't even be bothered to take off the hoodie and put on a suit.

00:15:06.860 John Fetterman, though, is not an elderly man, but he's the kind of politician who could only get

00:15:10.700 elected in a gerontocracy. Only a country that has stopped caring about mental competence would

00:15:16.280 even contemplate electing someone like Fetterman to represent a state of 13 million people.

00:15:21.720 And we are long past that point. Dianne Feinstein doesn't understand much, but she understands that

00:15:27.380 at least. She currently represents a state of 40 million people, even after surrendering power of 1.00

00:15:32.200 attorney to her daughter. Feinstein has also apparently surrendered legislative powers to her

00:15:36.780 staff, who told her to shut up and vote aye in the middle of a hearing just last month. 0.98

00:15:41.560 This is a pretty incredible clip. Watch this.

00:15:44.940 Note the presence of a quorum. We will now vote to report the defense appropriations bill

00:15:49.340 favorably subject to amendment. The clerk will call the roll.

00:15:53.960 Senator Feinstein.

00:15:59.880 Say aye.

00:16:01.060 Pardon me?

00:16:01.660 Aye.

00:16:01.800 I would like to support a yes vote on this. It provides $823 billion. That's an increase

00:16:15.360 of $26 billion for the Department of Defense. And it funds priorities submitted.

00:16:24.020 Yeah, just say aye. Okay. Just. Aye. Thank you. Senator Durbin. Senator Reid.

00:16:35.640 Now, when you watch that, beyond the obvious point, which is that Dianne Feinstein is a decaying 0.85

00:16:42.240 husk who shouldn't even have a driver's license, much less a Senate seat. Notice again how the staff 0.88

00:16:47.580 handle the situation. They just come right out and tell Feinstein what to do in full view of the

00:16:53.360 public. They're not ashamed in any way of admitting that they are running Feinstein's

00:16:57.780 office. And in that respect, they're just like Joe Biden's handlers who have no problem silencing

00:17:03.060 the president of the United States with jazz music like he's a drunk winner at some award show that

00:17:07.400 nobody watches. What this shows us is not simply that we're living in a gerontocracy. I mean, it's

00:17:13.360 much worse than that. These episodes reveal that like the late Soviet empire, we've actually gotten 0.83

00:17:19.280 used to living in a gerontocracy. We're not ashamed of it anymore. Political operatives whose entire job

00:17:25.640 is to shield their bosses from bad press have no problem shoving this in our faces. This means that

00:17:31.840 our gerontocracy is much more than an international embarrassment. It's now a full-blown national security

00:17:37.720 crisis. They aren't just laughing at our leaders in East Asia right now. This isn't just social media

00:17:44.480 fodder for them. At this moment, our enemies are proceeding with the understanding that our

00:17:49.340 government is incapable of holding a press conference, much less mounting any kind of

00:17:54.260 defensive response to a surprise attack. And unfortunately for all of us, when it comes to

00:18:00.920 that, they're probably right. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:18:56.600 Okay, we'll start with this Yahoo reports on a story that's gotten a lot of attention, made a lot

00:19:02.540 of headlines from the college football world. A prominent football coach has been suspended,

00:19:08.040 soon to be fired, most likely after claims of sexual harassment. And the media has done their

00:19:14.140 usual routine of just basically assuming the guy is guilty. The school's assuming the same.

00:19:19.480 And there are some people on the other side that are defending the coach and saying, no,

00:19:22.260 he's certainly innocent. And I sort of think that everyone is wrong. So it's one of those cases.

00:19:28.660 But here's the story. Michigan State head football coach Mel Tucker has been suspended after reports

00:19:33.620 he sexually harassed anti-rape activist Brenda Tracy. Multiple media reports reported late Saturday

00:19:39.920 night that Tucker allegedly harassed Tracy as she was working with his team. Tracy, a rape survivor who

00:19:44.900 works with college football teams and other organizations regarding sexual assault education,

00:19:48.420 filed a complaint with Michigan State regarding Tucker's alleged actions. And he's been the

00:19:53.460 subject of a Title IX investigation at the school. Tucker, 51, is 19 and 14 in his time at Michigan

00:19:58.540 State's as Michigan State's head coach, though 11 of those wins came in one season. He was hired by

00:20:05.420 the Spartans ahead of the 2020 season after one year as Colorado's head coach. After a two and five

00:20:10.280 debut season, Michigan went 11 and two in 2021 and won the Peach Bowl. The rapid improvement earned

00:20:18.140 Tucker a 10-year contract extension with $95 million guaranteed. That money, however, is guaranteed

00:20:24.360 only if Tucker is fired without cause and is at risk if the school finds that Tucker, quote,

00:20:30.160 engaged in any conduct which constitutes moral turpitude or which, in the university's reasonable

00:20:34.760 judgment, would tend to bring public disrespect, contempt, or ridicule. Okay, so reading about the

00:20:42.760 contract there because there's some important context potentially, Michigan State locked in

00:20:48.940 with a $95 million contract, which, by the way, is already insane that universities have this kind of

00:20:56.320 money to spend on football coaches. Nothing new, nothing, this is not news, I realize, but it's worth

00:21:01.080 reflecting on just a moment. $95 million on a football coach. Okay, but there's a, if there's a student debt

00:21:10.220 crisis, it's on the taxpayers to fix. We're the ones who have to fix it. So the schools themselves have

00:21:17.120 hundreds of millions lying around for football coaches, but we have to pay off the loans of the

00:21:24.540 college kids that those same schools scammed. Which is why, you know, I've always been very much

00:21:33.600 opposed to student debt relief, you know, because that really means redistribution of wealth where

00:21:40.440 we're taking from people who didn't take out the loans, you know, working class people who didn't

00:21:44.180 pay off the loans and were paying off the loans of college graduates. It's kind of like an upper-class

00:21:49.060 welfare system. So I've always been opposed to that. However, the one form of student debt relief,

00:21:54.700 student debt forgiveness, that I personally could entertain is where you're taking the money from

00:22:00.280 the schools. You're forcing the schools to pay off the loans. Now that's something we could talk about.

00:22:08.520 The schools are the ones running this scam, and they're also the ones who have hundreds of millions

00:22:13.240 of dollars, again, laying around. Anyway, so they locked in for this contract based on one good

00:22:20.200 season. His other seasons have not been that good. So now they could potentially salvage most of that

00:22:26.340 money if they fire him with cause for committing sexual harassment. The other point that we have to

00:22:32.280 mention here is that this is a black head coach, which, you know, that does become relevant

00:22:40.000 because there's very much an incentive for these schools to give big contracts to black head coaches

00:22:46.760 so that they can show up. You know, he got this contract in 2020. Probably not a coincidence.

00:22:52.300 But then also, if they want to fire somebody like that, then that's all the more reason why they

00:22:57.000 need to have cause. They need to have a scandal. So we start to understand what their motivations,

00:23:05.600 the school motivations might be to take this claim seriously. Reading on. Tracy says that

00:23:12.480 Tucker made sexual comments about her and masturbated during a phone call between the two 0.58

00:23:17.780 in April 2022. According to USA Today, Tucker acknowledged his conduct during the phone call 0.86

00:23:23.780 to Michigan State investigators and said in a letter to investigators that the two were having

00:23:27.720 consensual, quote, phone sex. According to the USA Today report, Tucker, who is married,

00:23:32.980 pursued Tracy romantically after she started working with the team. She reportedly told investigators

00:23:37.700 she rebuffed Tucker's advances before he called her for over a half hour on April 26th.

00:23:43.600 Now, some more important context that's not mentioned here. It's been shown through

00:23:47.060 phone records that Tracy and Tucker had, I think, 27 phone calls that all averaged about 30 minutes

00:23:55.040 before this, before the alleged sexual harassment and all that. 27 phone calls for 30 minutes.

00:24:06.000 I have not talked on the phone with anyone for 30 minutes since I was in high school, maybe.

00:24:13.520 So now imagine, like 30 minutes on the phone is a long time. That is a long time, especially these days.

00:24:20.120 That might as well be 30 days on the phone. I mean, that is a marathon phone call.

00:24:25.920 And now imagine 27 calls with a person for 30 minutes. The significance of that is it would seem

00:24:33.120 to very, very much suggest that they were in some kind of romantic relationship. Okay? And I certainly

00:24:39.860 cannot imagine a situation where a woman, where it would be appropriate for a woman to have 27 30-minute 1.00

00:24:46.300 phone calls, often late at night, with a married man, who she knew was married, of course.

00:24:54.100 Also, by the way, Tucker says that two months after the phone sex call, she sent him a happy

00:24:59.000 Father's Day text message. Okay. Continuing. Now we're going to read what she told investigators

00:25:06.900 about what happened. In her interview, Tracy became extremely tearful to the point of sobbing,

00:25:12.860 describing this portion of the party's encounter. A report from Michigan State obtained by USA Today

00:25:18.100 said, Tracy could hear Tucker masturbating, including, quote, every stroke. She could hear 0.60

00:25:23.320 the noise of some kind of lubrication being used. Tracy said it was so loud and gross. She could hear

00:25:29.300 Tucker moaning and groaning. Tracy kind of froze in the moment at first. Tracy thought to herself,

00:25:34.760 oh my God, this is happening and I can't stop it. It's going to happen whether I like it or not.

00:25:38.660 Tracy was trying to figure out what to do. It didn't occur to Tracy that she could hang up.

00:25:44.960 Tracy kept thinking over and over that she has to say something and that she couldn't let this

00:25:48.220 happen again, referring to her prior experience of being a victim slash survivor of sexual assault.

00:25:53.660 All right. So I don't know what happened. I don't know if this guy is guilty or not of what he's being

00:26:02.020 accused of. Here's what I think I do know, uh, that there are no good guys in this case that there's

00:26:08.460 really no one to root for, right? Uh, you've got Michigan State giving this insane contract to this 0.93

00:26:15.540 guy, then using this claim to get out of it. You've got Tucker who at best, at best is a married man

00:26:23.620 with children having phone sex with some other woman. Um, and on top of that, on top of the fact 0.99

00:26:29.280 that he's betraying his family, which, you know, is obviously the most important point he's doing

00:26:34.420 this after getting a $95 million contract. He's got paid a $95 million. You're going to put all that

00:26:42.000 on the line to have phone sex with some random woman. So just utterly treacherous and reckless 1.00

00:26:50.000 and stupid behavior by Tucker again at best. And then you've got Tracy who at best, at best 1.00

00:26:58.140 chose to stay on the phone for apparently 36 minutes while a guy masturbates rather than just 1.00

00:27:06.880 hanging up the damned phone. We're told it didn't occur to her that she could hang up. What? What 1.00

00:27:13.680 do you mean? It didn't occur to you. You forgot that there's a hang up function on the phone. You

00:27:18.560 didn't remember that. Oh, I can hang these things up. I had no idea. Oh, you mean I can, oh, I can

00:27:24.580 take the phone down from my ear and hang it up. I didn't, I forgot that I could do that. So we're

00:27:31.080 supposed to imagine her on the phone, like listening to this and going, I don't know what to do. How do

00:27:35.520 I stop this? How do I stop hearing this thing that's coming out of this phone that's right against

00:27:40.140 my ear? Um, like, is this the first time you've ever used it, a phone in your life that you didn't,

00:27:46.820 you don't know how these things work? So if Tucker had, had, uh, had, uh, non-consensual

00:27:54.060 phone sex, which, you know, was a sexual harassment. If that happened, then he's a disgusting creep. 1.00

00:28:00.000 Um, at a minimum, if it was consensual, he's still a creep given that he's married, 0.98

00:28:07.360 but there has to also be like a modicum of personal responsibility that factors into this,

00:28:14.060 um, for the person on the other end of the phone where you like, it's, you know, it's not victim

00:28:20.380 again, again, assuming that, that the claim is true that he did this without permission or without,

00:28:24.800 you know, it was not reciprocal. It's not victim blaming to just say, okay, like just you have

00:28:32.200 agency as a person exercise a little bit of personal agency. It doesn't take much. It's not

00:28:39.820 like they're in the same room or something. And she can claim that she felt threatened by his

00:28:43.520 presence. He's thousands of miles away. You're on the phone. But of course, the bigger question is

00:28:49.780 whether, uh, the claim of the lack of consent is even true. And, um, you know, some of these

00:28:54.060 additional facts really call that into question. You know, the, the, the happy father's day text two

00:28:59.000 months later, if that's the case, like you're claiming you're traumatized by this and then you text

00:29:02.560 him happy father's day after it, that that's hard to believe. Um, but, but who knows? I have no idea.

00:29:08.520 I don't know Mel Tucker. I don't know the woman. Uh, one could be a liar. They both could be liars. 0.95

00:29:13.200 I have absolutely no idea. No idea. All I can do is evaluate the facts that are not in dispute. 0.63

00:29:19.300 And those facts are that Mel Tucker is a married man who had phone sex, whether reciprocal or not

00:29:25.760 with a woman who stayed on the phone with him for 36 minutes, a woman who was on the phone with him 0.93

00:29:30.180 often late at night for half an hour at a time, 27 times, despite knowing that he's a married man.

00:29:35.960 So it's just like one of those things where nobody is doing the right thing here. And, um,

00:29:41.500 there just isn't any good guy at all. Um, and it does. And by the way, if, if Mel Tucker is innocent

00:29:49.240 of the sexual harassment claim, um, it, this is just another good reason to be faithful to your wife.

00:29:58.580 Okay. Not that you deserve to have a false accusation. If it is false, you know, no one

00:30:04.660 deserves false accusations, but, um, it is more difficult for me to have sympathy for someone

00:30:10.920 when you're putting yourself in a situation like this, you're a married man going after this other 0.99

00:30:17.780 woman on the phone. Like you're putting yourself, if it's a false accusation, you're putting yourself

00:30:22.420 in that position. Despite your $95 million contract, you've got a family to lose. You got a hundred million

00:30:27.680 dollars to lose. And you still do that. You're, you're a freaking moron, which is why I've seen,

00:30:33.320 I have seen some people, like I said, uh, some, uh, uh, mostly the media has just been assuming the 1.00

00:30:40.320 guy's guilty. Cause that's what you do in the Me Too era. I have seen a few people going the other

00:30:44.300 way. Some, some, a few commentators said, Oh, this man's innocent. He's being railroaded.

00:30:49.060 Uh, he's, it's very hard to feel sorry for him either one way or another. I mean, honestly.

00:30:55.880 Um, okay. Just get married, stay married and be faithful to your spouses. Solves a lot of these

00:31:01.020 problems. It really, really does. Daily Wire has this report. Top lawmakers on the Senate's

00:31:06.080 permanent subcommittee on investigations are asking for the FBI and the department of justice to provide

00:31:10.700 unredacted documents on Saudi Arabia's role in nine 11 as numerous records on the subject have

00:31:16.240 remained classified in a letter to attorney general Merrick Garland and FBI director, Christopher

00:31:20.960 Ray, uh, Senator Richard Blumenthal and Senator Ron Johnson asked for unredacted documents so they

00:31:27.260 can better understand Saudi Arabia's connection to nine 11. Uh, the senators wrote on Sunday,

00:31:32.920 quote, no one was more affected by these attacks than the families of those who lost their lives.

00:31:37.440 Um, our inquiry into Saudi Arabia's attempts to influence us affairs has underscored yet again,

00:31:41.760 the need for transparency, particularly regard regarding Saudi Arabia's connections to the nine 11

00:31:45.960 attacks. Um, now I bring this up because, uh, this to me is where, you know, we, we just had

00:31:55.120 the anniversary of nine 11, of course, yesterday. And that always brings up the conversations about

00:32:01.860 nine 11 conspiracy theories, which are kind of having their moment in the sun yet again. Uh,

00:32:07.200 you know, it's, it was a while. It seemed like we weren't talking about nine 11 conspiracy theories.

00:32:11.100 Bush did nine 11, that sort of thing. Um, that was a very popular thing in the, you know,

00:32:15.620 early two thousands after nine 11. Now it's sort of, uh, become it's in vogue again,

00:32:20.780 but this to me, we talk about something like, what was Saudi Arabia's role in nine 11? What did we,

00:32:28.820 what did our government know about that? When did they know it? I mean, this is where the real nine 1.00

00:32:33.220 11 conspiracies, as far as I'm concerned, the legitimate ones come into play. There is no doubt

00:32:38.840 that we haven't been told the full story about nine 11. I mean, that is just true. And of course, 0.99

00:32:45.720 if you say, if you say even that these days, I think, uh, you know, Ramaswamy said something like

00:32:49.820 this recently that we haven't been told the full, the full story. And if you say that you're

00:32:53.740 immediately accused of being a conspire, it's a nine 11 conspiracy theory. Well, there's just no

00:32:59.220 question that there's been a coverup of crucial information related to nine 11. But the coverup,

00:33:07.760 it seems to me is about covering up the extent of the intelligence failures on nine 11 failures,

00:33:14.160 potentially both unintentional and intentional. Um, also covering up how our lax immigration

00:33:20.080 enforcement played a role in this questions about what did our government know about, uh,

00:33:24.840 about the nine 11 plan before it was carried out, who knew it, when did they know it? How much did

00:33:32.320 they know what was done? Why wasn't anything done? Was anything done? I mean, lots of questions like

00:33:38.740 that, that have not been sufficiently answered. And is there a conspiracy there somewhere? I mean,

00:33:45.200 quite possibly multiple conspiracies to me though, the, the absurd conspiracy theories are the ones

00:33:52.720 about how the building was rigged with explosives or whatever. Um, I mean, that theory to me has never

00:33:59.180 made any sense on any level whatsoever, not for a lot of reasons. I mean, one of them is just,

00:34:03.540 so they rigged three buildings with TNT and nobody noticed these buildings that are open 24 seven and

00:34:10.560 they rigged them and no one noticed that happening. Um, and then they, they rigged the, the buildings

00:34:17.420 with explosives and then flew planes into them. That's overkill. Like why would they do that? Why

00:34:23.880 wouldn't, if they wanted to have buildings blow up, blame it on Al Qaeda. Um, and Al Qaeda was going

00:34:29.580 to like go along with this for some reason by, by, by taking credit for it. Then why wouldn't you

00:34:34.800 just blow up the buildings with explosives and say that Al Qaeda planted the explosives? But like,

00:34:39.260 wouldn't that be the plan that you say you're going to let's rig them with explosives and then fly

00:34:43.780 planes into them and then detonate them after the planes fly in. Um, it just, it doesn't make any

00:34:49.040 sense. Like intuitively on a, on just a common sense level, that theory. And I've been, of course,

00:34:54.240 like anyone else who lived through nine 11, I've been hearing these conspiracy theories

00:34:57.460 for over 20 years now. Um, and they never made any sense to me, especially when you don't need it.

00:35:03.960 Like from the very beginning, there are people saying, well, how did the buildings fall?

00:35:08.620 How did they fall? There must've been, they must've been explosives. Commercial airliners flew into them.

00:35:14.580 It's probably how they fell. Like it's not, well, you mean to tell me a commercial jet

00:35:18.880 can take down a building? Yeah, I probably, I mean, none of us had ever seen anything like that

00:35:24.840 before, but I can very, like anybody else, I can remember watching that as it unfolded

00:35:29.500 and seeing the buildings fall. And there was nothing confusing to me about the buildings falling.

00:35:34.660 The fact that the planes flew into the buildings, that was very confusing and bewildering.

00:35:38.400 But, but the fact that the buildings fell after that, I didn't find that shocking. I was like,

00:35:42.000 well, yeah, that's probably what would happen. You got, you got, you have these commercial jets

00:35:46.860 packed with jet fuel flying 400 miles an hour into a building. It's probably going to make them fall.

00:35:54.320 And then, and then another part of the theory, apparently, because then there's a,

00:35:57.400 well, what happened to building seven? Building seven collapsed.

00:36:01.620 So, so, so, so the theory is that they rigged three buildings with explosives

00:36:09.660 and then flew planes only into two of them and then detonated the third building anyway.

00:36:17.620 Why would they even do that? If you're, if you are the government mastermind coming up with all this,

00:36:22.560 why, what, why, why? It seems to me on the theory of just chaos and things are happening

00:36:27.980 and then building seven falls, like that makes more sense to me than this is all planned. And for

00:36:32.680 some reason, like, why did they do that? Did they do that just so they could lead a trail of

00:36:35.920 breadcrumbs for people to, to crack the case? It doesn't make any sense to me.

00:36:42.600 How did building seven fall? Was all, that, again, to me has never seemed all that confusing.

00:36:46.920 You've got massive buildings on fire right next to them. You know, you've got debris,

00:36:53.500 flaming debris falling down, sets the building on fire, the building falling. It has never seemed all

00:36:58.920 that confusing. But the thing that is most to me has always been absurd about this particular 9-11

00:37:07.000 conspiracy. And again, there are conspiracy theories that, that are very valid. Again,

00:37:12.100 going back to what did the government know? What are the intelligence failures? How are they able to

00:37:16.200 plan all this and, and, and, and do like practice runs and stuff in the United States without us

00:37:22.740 knowing about it? You know, all those kinds of things. But this particular theory about, which has

00:37:27.460 always been a little bit like amorphous, you know, even by the conspiracy theories as well,

00:37:32.340 they would have rigged with explosives. Who, who rigged them? How do they do it? Why,

00:37:35.380 why are they doing this? Never been very clear. But the, the thing about that particular theory that

00:37:40.040 I've always found most absurd is just the idea that our government could pull that off and keep it a

00:37:50.420 secret for over two decades. Like, if you know anything about our government and the bureaucracies

00:37:58.560 that run our government, uh, they are not nearly competent enough to hatch a scheme like that,

00:38:05.460 pull it off and keep it a secret. It's, they just aren't. Um, we are, we are leaving us.

00:38:12.520 Are there people in our government who are evil enough to do something like that if they thought

00:38:16.540 they would benefit them? Sure. Competent enough? Uh, no, that is always going to ultimately be my,

00:38:24.480 my number one pushback against some of the more, uh, shall we say cinematic conspiracy theories

00:38:31.060 involving our government. Yeah, there's, there's conspiracies that happen, but if you, if you,

00:38:36.460 if your conspiracy relies on our government being really a bunch of evil geniuses, then, then, uh,

00:38:46.280 I mean, the evil part I can buy, the genius part, I just can't.

00:38:52.120 And, and as always with this kind of conspiracy theory, the worst part about it is that it

00:38:56.080 distracts from some of the conversations that we should be having. Um, and we're stuck in this kind

00:39:04.020 of, uh, Hollywood la-la land sort of thing. All right. Uh, what else do we got here? Maybe time

00:39:10.940 for one more, and I got to skip ahead to this cause it's really important. Um, a sad story,

00:39:17.260 unfortunately, uh, which is another black man who has been falsely accused, uh, another victim of

00:39:23.760 systemic racism. And CNN has the report about this. Nevada rapper, uh, Nevada rapper was arrested on a

00:39:30.180 murder charge after Las Vegas police said that he confessed to the murder in his song lyrics.

00:39:34.540 Kenwan McDaniel was arrested August 29th on the charge of open murder with a deadly weapon.

00:39:41.080 His bail was set Thursday at $1 million with electronic monitoring. According to court records,

00:39:46.460 uh, McDaniel has been considered a person of interest in the death of Randall Wallace on

00:39:50.480 September 18th, 2021, in part due to his connection to a vehicle that matched the description of one used

00:39:55.320 during the crime. Detectives noted the music, uh, music video that was, uh, posted in July

00:40:01.520 from McDaniel bore a sufficient level of similarity to the details of the murder.

00:40:07.240 This includes the fact that Kenwan confessed to the murder in his lyrics. Details provided by Kenwan

00:40:12.980 in his music video were not released to the public and would not be common knowledge. Uh, the Warren

00:40:17.340 said one lyric included in the warrant is quote, is a lyric in the video, park the car, double back on

00:40:23.300 feet, the smartest way to slide, drove in, double lock, yo man, make sure you got yo bod.

00:40:30.100 I don't know what that means. Double lock, yo man, make sure you got yo bod. 1.00

00:40:37.960 Anyway, the warrant states that that is a, those are details of the killing. So apparently in the

00:40:44.040 actual kid, we don't know exactly what happened to killing, but apparently in the killing, uh,

00:40:48.560 yo man was double locked and they made sure they got yo bod. So that did happen in the crime. 0.86

00:40:55.940 Um, and then it, it's shows up in the lyrics. Anyway, I just want to make sure I have this

00:41:02.140 straight. Uh, someone is shot and killed and you just assume that it's Kenwan McDaniel just

00:41:12.600 because his car was at the scene of the crime. And he also described the crime in graphic detail

00:41:19.500 in a song and actually confessed to committing it. So just because of that, he's a suspect.

00:41:29.440 Come on, just come on. If I was his public defender, that would be the case I would make

00:41:35.680 to the judge. Your honor, come on, relax. All right. Just let's be cool about this.

00:41:42.260 But we know what's really going on here. Kenwan was arrested because he's black because he's black 0.98

00:41:48.140 and because his car was at the scene of the crime and because he confessed to the murder in a song, 0.98

00:41:52.720 but mostly because he's black. And I want to tell you something else about Kenwan McDaniel. And I

00:41:57.920 know, I know a lot about this guy. I've been following his career for a long time. This man was

00:42:01.400 turning his life around. Okay. He was, he was, uh, he, uh, and he was, he's, he was a good kid. Uh,

00:42:08.020 he won the spelling bee in second grade. I mean, that didn't happen. He probably wouldn't,

00:42:12.760 he wouldn't win a second grade spelling bee today, but he did. He was about to get accepted

00:42:17.460 into medical school. He was turning his life around. And now this. So actually let's listen

00:42:21.980 to a little bit. I think we have the song, don't we? Yeah, we do have it. Okay. So we have the song,

00:42:26.040 a little bit of the song where he allegedly confessed to the murder. And I think there, you know,

00:42:30.460 the cops say that this song implicates him. I think it vindicates them. I think that you, 0.64

00:42:35.920 that we can clearly show that he's, he's not guilty by this song when you listen to it.

00:42:40.740 And I'll tell you why in a second, but let's listen. 0.95

00:42:42.360 I'm the reason why you did your punish message to that midget. How you let them turn your mama's 1.00

00:42:48.020 spot into a place. That ain't what he banged, but where they hanged. So he in it. My day with

00:42:53.160 that fire, you hear his eye. See your body twitching. No ski. So, you know, it's me. I'll take

00:42:57.640 dropping falls like he won't beef, man. You a hold of me. Hop up on FaceTime and cop and please,

00:43:02.120 man. I'm exposing him. Hop another for somebody. I was supposed to be. Ain't touch none of mine.

00:43:07.500 We all here. Yo, Pondelae deceased. Always speaking on KP. That's crazy. Went up on the drill. 0.55

00:43:12.880 Y'all left him dead. Dried up like a razor. Blaming bro. And secretly, y'all know y'all the reason

00:43:17.380 he did. Hyped him up. Pumped up his head. Backdoughed him in front. I want rappers. I want pimps and

00:43:22.580 trappers. Everybody around. Let these hoes keep dropping falls. We find funnels down. 1.00

00:43:27.100 A song, by the way, is called Fady Free. And it's a great song. I've been bumping it on my

00:43:34.000 Spotify playlist for months. I play it all the time in the car with my kids. I mean,

00:43:39.460 every time I play it, they're like, oh, is this Fady Free again, Dad? Jeez. So I'm a big fan.

00:43:44.660 But this, when you listen to the song, you know that he's innocent because there's no way he confessed

00:43:50.420 to the murder in that song because he couldn't have confessed to anything because he's not speaking

00:43:55.920 words. He's not speaking an actual human language of any kind. And so, I mean, how could he have?

00:44:02.020 He's mumbling incoherently. So, you know, I mean, who knows what he's saying is the point. And that

00:44:09.620 really should be the defense by what I assume is going to be a public defender. That should be the

00:44:15.160 defense. Like, Your Honor, no one knows what the hell this guy's saying in that song. You know, we don't

00:44:19.740 know. He could be giving us a cure for cancer for all we know. He could be giving us a new recipe

00:44:25.980 for a great new ham and cheese quiche for all we know. Like, he could be. We don't know. Nobody

00:44:32.100 knows what he's saying. He doesn't even know what he's saying. So if you were to ask Kenwan McDaniel,

00:44:38.380 what were you trying to say in that song? He would not be able to tell you. And so, therefore,

00:44:43.620 he is innocent, free Kenwan. Put that on the t-shirt. Another innocent man, like Poo Shiesty, 1.00

00:44:55.100 being taken down by the system. It's a travesty. All right, let's get to Was Walsh Wrong?

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00:46:10.260 to these comments, you'll notice that the beautiful painting that used to sit behind me in this shot

00:46:15.060 is gone, but that's actually good news. Don't worry. Nothing's happened to the painting. It is

00:46:20.140 gone now because it is in my home where it belongs. I finally brought it home, and this is the painting

00:46:25.240 that I had commissioned from Paint Your Life depicting me meeting a group of aliens and giving them some

00:46:30.140 merchandise from my merch shop, obviously a depiction of an actual historical event, as we all know,

00:46:35.400 and it's a huge painting. It's perfect for, you know, a fireplace mantle and as a focal point in

00:46:41.140 a room, and that is now where it sits in my home. And first of all, I want you to see what it looks

00:46:48.040 like in the room. I want you to see what it looks like in the room because I got home from work last

00:46:52.280 night. My wife was still out, so I was able to take the paint. I timed getting home for when she

00:46:58.400 wouldn't be there because I, and not because I'm trying to sneak, because I wanted to surprise her,

00:47:03.380 and I knew it'd be a great surprise for her. So I was able to take the painting in and set it up

00:47:07.220 right on the mantle. I moved aside whatever crap was already there and put my painting on the mantle,

00:47:13.120 which is right in the sitting room off of our master bedroom, so that my, and the reason I put

00:47:17.880 it there is so that my wife could see it every night and every morning, every time she goes into our

00:47:22.440 room, every time she wakes up, she'll see it right there. And I wanted to give her that gift

00:47:27.780 because I, because, you know, I'm her husband. I love her. So, and anyway, I want you to see what

00:47:33.240 it looks like in the space. So there's the, there's the, there it is in the space. Now,

00:47:37.600 I mean, you have to admit, okay, the colors match. Like this looks good in that space. You have to admit

00:47:43.660 that. It actually looks good in the space. It matches. It does match, doesn't it? All the,

00:47:50.500 you got the, whatever those colors are and they all match together. I'm colorblind,

00:47:53.880 but I do know that it matches. And, uh, and so this is the best troll. So you thought that, 0.55

00:48:00.360 well, you put it somewhere where it clashes and looks gaudy and it doesn't work in the room.

00:48:03.800 And that's the best way to troll my wife. Actually, the best way to troll her is to put it in a room 1.00

00:48:08.360 where it kind of works because then she can't deny it. And she came home and she saw the painting

00:48:13.520 there. And, uh, and she, even she, you know, she had some, she had some thoughts about the

00:48:19.820 painting and about the fact that it's in the room. So some thought we don't need to talk

00:48:22.640 about what the thoughts were, but even she had to admit that it works in the room. She had to admit

00:48:28.340 that. And then, and then she said, well, it's only, it's a, it's an accident. You're colorblind.

00:48:34.160 You didn't know that it would work. It just, it, well, was it an accident or was it fate? Okay.

00:48:40.680 Ask yourself that. Is it an accident or is it providence? Is it divine providence?

00:48:46.940 Think about it. Anyway, it's an extraordinary painting. And then, uh, I also got an image

00:48:53.160 of, uh, we'll put it in the next picture because I showed it to my kids and that what, this is not

00:48:58.040 staged. This is their actual reaction to it. You can see my, my son, he's like, he's almost

00:49:02.120 like he's, he's blown away by it. He's like this, this picture of them looking at the painting

00:49:07.540 itself looks like a Renaissance painting. So it's a Renaissance painting of people looking

00:49:11.840 at a Renaissance quality painting. And my other son pointing at it, they're absolutely stunned

00:49:16.480 by it, uh, staggered by its beauty. They may have been more into the painting than they

00:49:23.640 otherwise would have been because I may have told them that this was a real event that actually

00:49:29.020 occurred. And my three-year-old daughter, she certainly believed that as she should. I don't

00:49:33.920 know if the other two did, but they humored me anyway. And so that's where it is. And, um,

00:49:38.380 that is where it will stay. Uh, just great. Just, just amazing. And our, our house is now

00:49:45.920 a home officially. Okay. Uh, so I'll get some of these comments here. These are all, so I'll

00:49:51.580 read, just read through a few of them and then I'll respond to them as a whole. Cause these

00:49:54.080 are all about toxic workplaces. We talked, uh, I guess it was last week now about, um, the

00:49:58.960 Jimmy Fallon show and how it's another one of these, um, places that's been exposed in a

00:50:03.600 Rolling Stone article as being a toxic workplace. So this is the new, as I said, it's a kind of the

00:50:08.440 me too movement now of toxic workplaces where every other month we're told about another place

00:50:13.940 where the workers have revealed it's a toxic work environment. And then you read about,

00:50:18.680 you're expecting maybe, uh, some, some, some, uh, dark and dirty secrets about what's going on

00:50:24.160 behind the scenes in these places. And then you read about it and it's just like,

00:50:27.140 oh, the boss yelled at me once. We have to work. We have to answer emails. I had to answer an

00:50:33.200 email at 7 30 PM once. It's so toxic. So I'm skeptical of the very concept of toxic workplaces.

00:50:40.880 I think usually when someone talks about a toxic workplace, they're just describing a workplace

00:50:44.740 and some of the challenges that inevitably come with that. But some of the comments disagreed.

00:50:49.300 Uh, first one says, somebody please explain to me why my employer has the right to disrespect and 0.99

00:50:53.660 belittle me as Walsh apparently thinks they do. A leader does not have to disrespect or belittle their

00:50:58.320 team to get results out of them. In fact, that's exactly how you get the worst results out of your team.

00:51:02.180 If you don't want to give respect and dignity in the workplace, see ya. I'll find an employer who

00:51:06.800 will. Cyberscape says, this is still a bad take. Ever since COVID and tons of people were either

00:51:11.500 fired or quit, everyone that remained was forced to do the work of two plus full-time employees for

00:51:16.160 the same pay, myself included. And we get yelled at 40 hours a week because work isn't getting done

00:51:21.120 as quickly. The workforce is more toxic now just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean

00:51:25.680 it's not happening. Uh, Richard says, Matt, when you've worked in an environment where your boss

00:51:30.200 makes bad decisions, refuses to listen to employee concerns, then blames them for the inevitably poor

00:51:34.780 outcome or for a manager who doesn't understand that being uptight and volatile doesn't get the

00:51:38.900 best out of people. Then you'll understand what a toxic work environment is. The real thing

00:51:42.760 isn't just people getting hypersensitive about criticism or demanding special treatment. It's a

00:51:47.380 very real, very stressful situation to find yourself in that can cause a great deal of damage.

00:51:52.580 And Angela says, Matt, Matt trying to claim this is a normal working environment sounds like an

00:51:56.820 admission that this is exactly what it's like to work at the daily wire. And I'd be willing to bet

00:52:01.220 that diva Matt is doing the yelling. Okay. First of all, I've never yelled at anybody here. Um,

00:52:09.160 rarely, rarely have I yelled and that's true. Rarely, uh, as for the rest of this, look, I never said

00:52:18.460 that your employer should overwork you or should yell at you or should make bad decisions. My point is

00:52:26.560 that it's an element, uh, that there's an element of this kind of thing in every job, in every

00:52:31.720 workplace. I've had a lot of jobs in my life. Um, not that many over the past 10 years or so I've,

00:52:37.620 I've been more consistent since I, you know, uh, got married and became a, you know, I had kids and

00:52:42.440 became a real adult, but, um, so things have been more consistent, but for the 10 years before that,

00:52:47.420 I had like, I don't know, 15 jobs or something. And one thing I've learned is that there are certain

00:52:53.780 frustrations and complaints that you'll hear in literally every workplace without exception.

00:52:59.860 I mean, one of the comments, what was one of the comments said, Hey Matt, I guess you've never

00:53:02.640 worked in a place where your boss makes bad decisions. What do you actually think that there

00:53:08.680 are any workplaces in existence where bosses don't make bad decisions? Bosses make bad decisions here.

00:53:17.060 They do. I, for, for example, they have let me bring up aliens during every backstage for the past

00:53:23.480 14 months. The audience hates it. They don't want to hear about anymore. And I keep bringing it up

00:53:28.740 and ruining every show and, and I'll bring it up again tonight and no one will stop me. They won't

00:53:36.060 stop me and I'll just keep doing it. So there are bad decisions everywhere, including here. And look,

00:53:42.480 bad decisions, tempers flaring, frustrations, feeling underappreciated, overworked. Again,

00:53:50.200 these are the experiences of all workers everywhere for all of time. And that doesn't make it okay.

00:53:57.760 That doesn't mean that there aren't degrees to any of this and that, you know, that you can't get to a

00:54:01.980 level where it really is beyond what's ordinary. But, um, and it doesn't mean that you should always

00:54:07.100 accept your situation. I'm not saying that either. Okay. If you feel underpaid, maybe you are. Go try

00:54:14.040 to negotiate for a higher salary. I've done that plenty of times. Go into the boss's office and say,

00:54:18.880 look, this is what I'm getting paid. This is what I think I deserve to get paid. And here's why.

00:54:23.920 And, and you talk about it. Sometimes it'll go your way. Sometimes it doesn't. But again,

00:54:27.380 these are universal experiences. They just are. They just are. And let me ask you this. Do you think

00:54:34.580 that there's any workplace in the world where employees don't gather together in the break room

00:54:41.740 and gossip and complain about where they work? Do you think there's any workplace where in the

00:54:48.980 break room, the employees go, man, everything's just perfect here. Everything's great. And I have

00:54:54.000 no complaints. What about you? Do you have any complaints? No, I have no complaints. Everything's

00:54:57.040 great. Everything is absolutely great. Everything has gone a hundred percent how I want all the time.

00:55:00.880 Maybe that's what employees who work in like Kim Jong-un's palace might say in the break room,

00:55:07.900 if they have a break room, which they probably don't. That's only because they know that if

00:55:11.200 they're overheard, they'll be fed to the wild hyenas in the basement. But in most cases,

00:55:16.420 there are complaints and many of them are valid. Some of them aren't, but many of them are valid.

00:55:21.280 So the question is whether you want to dwell on that and pity yourself and cry about your toxic

00:55:29.520 workplace. You know, say my workplace is toxic. I'm a victim. This is terrible. It's the worst thing.

00:55:35.680 It's everything. I don't like it. I don't like any of it. Or whether you want to succeed in spite of

00:55:40.980 all that and, you know, even use your coworker's self-pity and doomerism and pessimism as an

00:55:47.600 opportunity to climb higher on the ladder while they're all down there, you know, feeling sorry

00:55:52.560 for themselves and all of that. Like, so those are the two options. And, um, and that's, that's,

00:55:58.460 that's it for me. Like that's, that's, that's the point. Um, yeah, there are complaints. Some of them

00:56:03.720 are valid, but you, you, you know, and you can dwell on it. That's the thing with the toxic workplace

00:56:08.000 stuff is just dwelling on the complaints, self-pity and all the rest of it. And it's not going to get you

00:56:13.100 far in life, unfortunately. Hi, it's me, Matt Walsh, bestselling author and flannel shirt

00:56:20.120 enthusiast. Halloween is almost upon us and there's nothing scarier than handing out candy

00:56:24.640 from woke corporations that hate your values. Back in March, in response to a chocolate ad

00:56:29.360 featuring a man who thinks he's a woman on women's day, we decided to launch Jeremy's chocolate and

00:56:34.200 people responded by the hundreds of thousands. It was a runaway success. So here's your friendly

00:56:38.520 reminder that Halloween is approaching and it's time to stock up on good unwoke chocolate.

00:56:42.820 Head over to jeremyschocolate.com and order your chocolate today. That was a message from me,

00:56:49.260 Matt Walsh. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:56:57.900 One of the hottest new trends, which is really a new version of last decade's hot new trend and the

00:57:02.680 decade before that and before that and so on is called manifesting. This is the practice of

00:57:07.300 trying to get good results by doing absolutely nothing at all. And to engage in manifesting,

00:57:12.820 is to think happy thoughts and then expect happy things to materialize for you out of thin air as

00:57:19.100 a reward. It's essentially optimism on steroids or maybe more like optimism on hallucinogens.

00:57:25.600 And not to skip to the end of the conversation, but the first thing you should know about manifesting

00:57:29.200 is that the only thing it actually manifests is disappointment and failure. Here's the New York

00:57:33.720 post on that. Quote, manifesting the suddenly trendy practice of thinking that aspirational thoughts or

00:57:39.240 ideas will cosmically attract success might not be as harmlessly woo-woo as it's hyped up to be.

00:57:46.240 Those who believe in the practice of manifesting are at higher risk of going bankrupt, according to a

00:57:50.500 new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Researchers from the University of

00:57:55.440 Queensland in Australia also found that daydream believers were more likely to be lured into risky

00:57:59.820 investments and more apt to dangerously presume that they can achieve an unrealistic level of

00:58:04.500 success in a short amount of time. Imagine that. Quote, in our studies we define manifestation as the

00:58:09.300 belief that if you send out your desires to the universe through positive thoughts, visualization or

00:58:15.000 acting as if goals have already come true, like writing a pretend check to yourself, the universe will

00:58:20.000 deliver what you desire. Lead study author Lucas Dixon told the Times UK. This appears to be the

00:58:27.380 fundamental belief that lies behind manifesting. Faith that the universe is not only a conscious

00:58:32.280 entity, but one that is generous and kind and wants us all to be happy and successful. This belief is,

00:58:39.780 to put it mildly, misguided. We'll get back to that in a moment, but a little bit more from the post

00:58:43.600 report. Quote, manifestation could lead to people fixating more on symbolic actions like visualizing

00:58:49.020 success rather than instrumental actions such as managing personal finances. Those who believe in

00:58:54.260 manifesting are more likely to feel that they have control over fairly uncontrollable aspects of their

00:58:58.480 life, whether they get rich quick or become famous, Dixon said. In business, this could lead to an

00:59:03.160 opportunity cost where time is spent focusing on more uncontrollable long-term goals rather than

00:59:08.600 controllable short-term goals. Now, that's what manifesting is. And this all makes you wonder where this

00:59:16.660 manifesting stuff is coming from. What's driving its popularity? Where are people getting these ideas?

00:59:23.080 Well, like all bad ideas in modern society, the answer is mostly TikTok. On that platform,

00:59:29.140 countless influencers have manifested millions of followers for themselves by promising to give

00:59:34.680 special manifestation tips, tricks, and techniques. And here's just one of these videos that has,

00:59:40.680 by the way, over 100,000 likes, very popular. And here are the techniques that she suggests. Watch.

00:59:46.620 This manifestation method is going to get you anything you want. Every time I do this method,

00:59:54.620 I quantum leap my life. Literally, things start manifesting within 24 hours. I've used this method

01:00:02.440 to manifest money. I've used this method to manifest my relationship. And I've used this method to

01:00:07.660 manifest anything on my vision board whenever I feel aligned with it. Make sure you bookmark this

01:00:13.380 because this is a method that you're never going to forget. See, most people start manifesting by

01:00:18.440 saying, this is what I want. Instead of telling the universe, this is what I want, I tell the universe

01:00:24.820 to show me how effortlessly this comes to me. You can do this to manifest money. You can do this to

01:00:31.460 manifest your special person. You can do this to manifest a new version of yourself. Never again say,

01:00:37.540 I want this. Because that whole phrase implies lack. I teach you how to manifest in 30 days here.

01:00:45.520 Now, watching that video, I'm reminded of being in third grade or maybe it was fourth grade at the

01:00:52.580 beginning of the school year when the teacher told us to write down our hopes and dreams for the year

01:00:57.520 on a piece of paper. And then she gave us envelopes and told us to decorate the envelopes with pretty

01:01:02.600 colors. And then we put the paper with our hopes and dreams into the envelope. And we put our

01:01:07.340 envelopes in a special box, which I think she called our dream box or hope bin or something like

01:01:12.060 that. Anyway, even at eight years old, I can remember thinking how pointless and fruitless the

01:01:16.440 whole exercise was. But based on the popularity of this manifesting trend, it's very troubling to think

01:01:21.800 that so many adults lack the skepticism that I had when I was eight. And just so you know, I was not

01:01:29.640 a very smart eight-year-old at all, just to be clear. Now, if you spend any time on manifestation

01:01:35.260 TikTok, you'll notice that each manifesting guru has their own magical combination of words that's

01:01:40.560 supposed to lead to health and prosperity. None of them can seem to agree on what the special phrase

01:01:45.700 is supposed to be. Watch. Use this one affirmation to manifest money within 24 hours. I want you to

01:01:51.460 comment down below if you manifest any sort of money within 24 hours. I'm assured to you that it will

01:01:55.380 work. I am magnetic to money. Money can't get enough of me. I am magnetic to money. Money cannot

01:02:02.320 get enough of me. Visualize yourself as a magnet, drawing in abundance and wealth because you are

01:02:08.260 a beautiful being and you deserve to live an enriching, fulfilling life. Follow for more

01:02:12.500 manifestation tips. Manifestation tips!

01:02:15.460 There it is. I guess I'll have to go check my bank account to see if that worked, though I don't have

01:02:20.080 very high hopes. How is this even supposed to work, by the way? Do you say the phrase and the money

01:02:24.140 falls out of the sky? Does it materialize out of thin air? Or are other people with money suddenly

01:02:30.740 put under some kind of spell where they feel compelled by mysterious forces to give that

01:02:35.120 money to you? And if that's it, then isn't this kind of a cosmic form of attempted robbery? I guess

01:02:41.060 that's the sort of ethical question we talk about if we could get past the fact that all this is

01:02:44.080 abject nonsense and we really can't get past that fact. Just as one last example, here's another

01:02:48.540 manifestation expert with more conflicting manifestation advice and this one has nearly

01:02:53.920 200,000 likes. Here's what she advises. Watch. If you need to manifest something overnight, get nearly

01:03:01.220 instant results to manifest a text, a call, college acceptance, to hear good news. This is one of the

01:03:07.480 methods that the people who are doing manifest magic at the top of my page are using to see results

01:03:12.260 like this. You and I are going to be manifesting whatever it is you desire during this video right

01:03:17.480 here, right now. So get ready. This is the I am sure method. Right now, close your eyes and get very

01:03:23.060 clear on what your intention is. What is it exactly that you are trying to manifest? Take another second

01:03:28.400 to really think about it. What is it? We know our thoughts create a reality, but our words create our

01:03:33.640 reality even faster. You're going to be penetrating into our subconscious mind, reprogramming it. These

01:03:39.260 three words will instantly align you and put you into a frequency that has the desire. You are now

01:03:45.180 going to affirm out loud, I am sure, followed by your desired manifestation in the present tense. For

01:03:51.400 example, I am sure I got the promotion. I am sure Jake texted me. Repeat it out loud 10 times. Now this is

01:03:58.740 even more effective if you are able to write this out 10 times on a piece of paper. Till you fall asleep

01:04:04.100 tonight. Every single time the desire pops into your head, repeat to yourself, I am sure X. This is one of the

01:04:10.980 methods that the people who are doing my Manifest Magic workshop at the top of my page are using to see

01:04:15.280 results like this. Try it out, fall for more and make sure you grab that workshop.

01:04:21.020 I am sure every TikTok influencer will float off into space. I am sure every TikTok influencer will float off into space.

01:04:30.320 Maybe I just solved the TikTok problem. Or maybe I accomplished nothing at all. I wouldn't put much

01:04:40.040 money on the former. Now, you know, we aren't going to spend any more time establishing that all this is

01:04:44.840 totally bogus. The only thing your manifestations manifest is more bull****. We don't need to harp on 0.99

01:04:49.360 that. Instead, I think there are two more specific points that are worth making. First, manifestation is

01:04:53.960 itself yet another manifestation of a secular society's need for religion. What we discover time and time

01:04:59.620 again is that you cannot really have an entirely irreligious culture. Humanity needs religion. If

01:05:04.900 you chase religion out, you'll be left with a religion-sized hole that must be filled and in its 0.99

01:05:09.180 place will inevitably be just a secularized version of what it was replacing. In other words, manifesting

01:05:15.540 is nothing more than a godless prayer. That is, it's a prayer that rejects the being who can actually 0.99

01:05:22.060 answer the prayer. It's a prayer that calls upon the universe for aid rather than calling upon

01:05:26.860 the creator of the universe. And the thing about prayer, though, traditional prayer, religious prayer,

01:05:32.140 is that you can't treat it like a magical spell. It's not a mystical incantation that will bring

01:05:36.940 you fortune and fame if you utter the correct combination of syllables. In Christianity, to pray

01:05:41.480 is to lift your heart and mind to God, to lift, you know, to look towards heaven, to humble yourself,

01:05:46.600 and yes, sometimes to ask for something that you need or want, though that's not the only reason a

01:05:50.900 person should pray. And at any rate, the answer, you know, from the Christian conception of prayer,

01:05:55.960 the answer to the prayer may be no. In fact, oftentimes it is. And the faithful Christian

01:06:01.580 understands this and accepts it. He also understands that God expects us to participate

01:06:05.800 in our own lives. He expects us to work and strive. If we sit around chanting about all the stuff we want,

01:06:12.120 we can be pretty sure that we won't get anything. But the modern secularist removes all this from his

01:06:16.960 version of prayer. He removes God, first and foremost. He removes humility. He removes his

01:06:21.080 own obligation to act and to work and to seek and to put in the effort. And what we're left with is an

01:06:26.380 entirely self-centered exercise in futility, calling out to nothing and nobody, demanding that, you know,

01:06:33.280 what you don't deserve and refuse to work for. And that's because, and here's the second important

01:06:39.020 point, if you are telling the universe what you want, you are talking to empty space. The universe

01:06:46.080 doesn't care about you. The universe doesn't know you exist. The universe doesn't know anything

01:06:51.160 because it has no mind. It is big, dumb, violent, terrifying. The universe would destroy you and the 1.00

01:06:57.600 planet you live on without thinking twice because it doesn't think at all. The universe is indifferent.

01:07:04.380 This is the reality we have to just accept. We live in an indifferent universe. The universe itself

01:07:09.680 is indifferent. It is not going to make fortune and fame fall out of the sky for you. It'll give you

01:07:15.280 nothing from the sky, but maybe rain. And it will usually be more rain than you want or not as much

01:07:20.220 as you need because the universe doesn't care what you want or need. That's the cold reality. It is a

01:07:25.280 reality as cold as the universe itself, which by the way, is about negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit

01:07:30.180 on average. What does this mean? It means that if you want someone to love and care about you,

01:07:35.280 you need to pray to God, not a big empty space. It also means that even if you pray to God,

01:07:39.640 you still need to work towards your goals. Nothing wrong with having big aspirations,

01:07:44.820 but you need to be willing to slave away day after day, dealing with all the frustrations and minutiae

01:07:50.260 in order to actually make those aspirations manifest into something tangible. The manifestation

01:07:55.980 is something that you do yourself. You make them manifest. If you aren't willing to do that,

01:08:01.800 then you'll just be a loser, whispering sweet nothings to yourself, accomplishing nothing, 0.97

01:08:06.320 and becoming nobody. That's what manifesting will get you. And it's why manifesting is today 0.99

01:08:12.980 manifestly canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:08:17.640 Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 12, 2023

Ep. 1220 - Our Country Is Run By Senile Half-Dead Zombies

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