The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1236 - An Epidemic Of False Accusations

00:00:00.040 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, there is an epidemic of false accusations in this country.

00:00:03.980 The lives of innocent people are destroyed based on fabricated stories of racism,

00:00:07.580 sexual harassment, or other sins. Recently, we've seen two of the most egregious cases.

00:00:11.460 We'll talk about them. Also, Kevin McCarthy is kicked out of his job as Speaker of the House.

00:00:15.280 L.A. County officially abolishes cash bail in most cases. And yet another far-left activist

00:00:20.260 falls victim to violent crime. We'll talk about the very important, potentially life-saving lesson

00:00:24.760 we can learn from these incidents. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:06.180 which is ostensibly an outdoor recreation company. It's June of 2023, several years after the moral panic

00:02:11.880 over BLM and George Floyd has started to subside. You've run a few gender-bending advertisements

00:02:18.280 for Pride Month to keep your overlords at BlackRock happy. Everything is normal. Everything is fine,

00:02:23.340 you think. But then one weekday at 3 a.m., one of your brand ambassadors, someone you're paying to

00:02:30.560 represent your company to millions of people all over the world, suddenly freaks out on social media.

00:02:35.080 He says that he's just been subjected to a flagrant act of white supremacy at a bar in Bozeman,

00:02:40.980 Montana. He claims the culprit is a guy named John Talbot, who works at an apparel company called

00:02:46.180 Outdoor Research. And then to explain exactly what he's talking about, your brand ambassador,

00:02:51.460 whose name is Manoa Ainu, uploads this footage to Instagram. Watch.

00:02:57.380 Hey, yo, Outdoor Research. I'm not even playing, man. This guy, John, he came up to me,

00:03:04.200 introduced himself, said, you look like someone I should know.

00:03:09.400 It was at a bar at the Crystal, which I often frequent.

00:03:12.200 A lot of my friends are there or work there. And this guy came up to me and then started talking all this stuff,

00:03:22.980 started asking questions, very directed at diversity. And I answered honestly. And he kept cutting me off,

00:03:32.280 didn't want to hear what he was wanting to hear, but what he was asking for, which is very, very obvious.

00:03:43.260 So when I started to check him on it and correct him and direct him and educate his ass for free, for free,

00:03:52.540 for free, for free, for free. He got very defensive. So I said, yo, we're done talking. Conversation is over, bro.

00:04:01.620 Told you the truth. Don't cut me off while I'm talking. If you're asking, you're not listening and you're asking.

00:04:10.920 Very big red flag. Back up. I went inside. He came inside, tried to shake my hand. And I was like, yo,

00:04:19.700 you're apologizing. He just started apologizing over and over again. And I'm like, if you're apologetic,

00:04:24.640 buy me a beer. At least that's the minimum you could do. And right after that, he squared up to

00:04:30.920 me, got right in my face like this. And he's like, I didn't do anything wrong.

00:04:37.580 How do you apologize and say you don't do anything wrong within like five seconds? Oh, because you're

00:04:43.100 not truly apologetic. So this guy, John, who designs product, there's something for you guys or

00:04:48.980 are. Please check him. This guy's tripping. He's racist.

00:04:55.260 So let's recap the story you just heard. White guy, John, with outdoor research, approached black guy,

00:05:01.200 I knew who works for the North Face and tried to introduce himself. And then white guy, John, proceeded to ask

00:05:06.480 too many questions. And then to add insult to injury, he tried to shake I knew his hand. He was too polite, which,

00:05:12.700 as we all know, is a telltale sign of white supremacy. Then if you can imagine it, John refused to buy.

00:05:18.520 I knew a beer, which saying that he did nothing wrong. So he denied that he was a racist, which

00:05:24.920 is, of course, the purest possible evidence that he is a racist. So he put it all together. And this

00:05:29.960 was a modern day lynching in Bozeman. But North Face's brain ambassador wasn't done there. For good

00:05:35.200 measure, I knew also uploaded some more thoughts about this highly upsetting, clearly racist incident.

00:05:40.740 And in one of these posts, I knew wrote, quote, I hope there are repercussions, ideally an

00:05:45.620 extermination. That's what he called for an extermination. I knew added that John had displayed

00:05:51.360 gaslighting, toxic masculinity and white guilt. He accused John of wanting to fight him. He also

00:05:57.760 told his 15,000 followers on Instagram, quote, reshare and tag outdoor research. So this boy has

00:06:02.880 consequences for his actions. Our outdoor microcosm can't have people like this.

00:06:08.180 Now, again, pretend you work at the North Face or outdoor research, for that matter.

00:06:13.140 You're sitting in their corporate offices and you see all this. What do you do when you're

00:06:17.660 confronted with a rambling video like this, which doesn't even come close to making any

00:06:21.380 kind of substantive accusation at all? It's just an incitement to harass some random guy.

00:06:28.020 Do you fire this brand ambassador immediately? Tell all your other brand ambassadors to stop

00:06:32.660 uploading unhinged videos at three in the morning? Do you feel shame that you've invested

00:06:37.560 seven million dollars in hiring brand ambassadors who are apparently delusional and unstable?

00:06:43.960 Or for some reason, do you do as you're told and try to exterminate, quote unquote, this white dude

00:06:49.160 who made the mistake of not buying some other dude a beer? Well, as you might have guessed already,

00:06:55.440 the North Face went for that last option. They apparently decided that the 3 a.m. rants on Instagram

00:06:59.940 about awkward encounters at a bar really scream outdoor recreation. So they went to bat for their

00:07:05.560 brand ambassador. Dave Burleson, who was the North Face's senior athlete coordinator at the time,

00:07:10.240 publicly called on John's employer to punish him. Quote, outdoor research, please hold your

00:07:14.340 employee, John, that is in Bozeman right now accountable to the racists in the outdoor industry.

00:07:19.420 We will find you and we will remove you. You know, it's like it's like George Bush standing on top

00:07:25.420 of the rubble after 9-11 with the megaphone promising to hunt down Al-Qaeda. Except in this

00:07:30.740 case, they're hunting down random white people who have socially awkward encounters with black men at

00:07:35.380 bars. You know, basically the same thing. It's basically Al-Qaeda. And it gets worse. When Dave

00:07:39.960 Burleson at North Face posted that bizarre response on social media, he was apparently already aware that

00:07:46.540 Ainu was a deranged and unreliable activist. Just a couple of years earlier, a movie producer and

00:07:52.540 ice climber named Ari Novak says that he alerted Burleson and North Face to Ainu's tendency to lie

00:07:58.180 about racism. This is a repeat thing with this Ainu guy. So in one instance, at the 2020 Michigan

00:08:04.700 Ice Festival, Novak says that he had told Ainu that it was dangerous to climb in an area that was

00:08:09.980 closed at night. And in response, predictably enough, Ainu accused Novak of racism because

00:08:14.400 Novak said, was trying to help him and make sure he wasn't killed and said, don't climb in this

00:08:19.780 area at night. It's dangerous. That made him a racist. Novak says that he told the North Face

00:08:24.260 about this episode, but they seemingly didn't take any action whatsoever. Here's how Novak

00:08:29.880 described Ainu. Quote, he's always trying to create a situation where he can have a fight over race.

00:08:35.920 Now, there are many other troubling examples along these lines, but the basic idea

00:08:38.980 is that North Face had reason to know all of this ahead of time. And still, despite everything they

00:08:46.640 knew or should have known, they called on Outdoor Research to fire John Talbot. And a predictable

00:08:51.960 result followed within hours, according to exclusive reporting from the Daily Wire, Spencer Lindquist,

00:08:56.480 Outdoor Research responded. And they ordered John to leave Bozeman immediately, like he was a diplomat

00:09:00.980 being recalled after an international incident. And for good measure, Outdoor Research strongly implied

00:09:05.640 that John was guilty of some unspoken act of white supremacy. They said that their company,

00:09:10.740 quote, does not support or tolerate discriminatory conduct based on race or any other reason.

00:09:15.640 And we take these matters very seriously. Ultimately, even though I knew admitted that

00:09:20.740 Talbot hadn't said anything racist to him, Outdoor Research did terminate John Talbot. So he lost his

00:09:25.680 career. They caved to the mob and his reputation and livelihood was destroyed. That's all according

00:09:31.020 to Talbot's new lawsuit against the North Face and their brand ambassador. Talbot is fighting very hard

00:09:36.060 in court to get compensation for what was done to him. And if he fails, however, and this all depends

00:09:41.760 on activist courts anyway. If he fails, he'll never work in the industry again. He'll have a very hard

00:09:46.580 time providing for his family. And this is what a single, incoherent, unintelligible accusation of

00:09:53.840 racism can do to someone in 2023. All it takes is an unhinged black guy saying that a white guy

00:10:00.100 didn't buy him a beer and his career is destroyed. If that surprises you, if that seems like something

00:10:07.360 that should never happen in a country with due process and the rule of law, then you should know

00:10:11.860 that it's actually just the beginning. As bad as unfounded accusations of racism may be, the impact

00:10:17.220 of accusations like that pale in comparison to what malicious accusations of rape can do to someone.

00:10:25.880 Rape accusations, they don't just end your career. They can put you in prison, whether they're true or

00:10:30.300 not. Now, yesterday, I went into some detail about the case of former Major League Baseball pitcher

00:10:35.200 Trevor Bauer. He was a Cy Young award winner, one of the best pitchers in the league. This was not

00:10:40.040 just some random baseball player. He was a star in the league. He was also a Trump supporter who said

00:10:44.220 some things that trans activists didn't approve of. And now, just a couple of years later, he's been

00:10:48.900 exiled to Japan because no team in the United States will hire him. Well, how did that happen?

00:10:54.940 In the summer of 2021, Trevor Bauer was publicly accused of brutally beating a woman they had slept with.

00:11:00.280 Here's how the Washington Post reported on the accusations at the time. Quote,

00:11:03.320 a temporary domestic violence restraining order filed against Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor

00:11:07.540 Bauer and granted by a court Monday, details graphic allegations about two separate encounters and

00:11:12.460 includes photos of bruises and a bloodied lip suffered by the woman who obtained the order.

00:11:17.400 Now, this initial article from the Washington Post was, for the most part, fair by their standards,

00:11:23.260 which are pretty low. It went on to explain that the restraining order was issued ex parte,

00:11:28.340 meaning the judge never heard Bauer's side of the story. The article included the fact that Bauer

00:11:33.880 denied the allegations. The Post also reported that there were, quote, records of text messages

00:11:38.380 between Bauer and his accuser in which his accuser discussed wanting to be choked and slapped during

00:11:43.220 sex. Some of those messages were sent after Bauer supposedly abused this woman. After she was abused,

00:11:51.000 she was apparently sending text messages talking about how she likes being slapped and choked during sex.

00:11:54.660 So right away, those are massive red flags, which tell you that there are like at a minimum two

00:12:01.620 sides to this story. But very quickly, the news media and Major League Baseball dispensed with any

00:12:06.760 pretense that Bauer was entitled to the presumption of innocence. And within days, the MLB put Bauer on

00:12:11.940 administrative leave, quote unquote, which would turn out to be a permanent leave. And then a few weeks

00:12:17.060 later, the Post ran a follow-up article which claimed that Bauer had beaten up another woman several

00:12:22.040 years earlier in Ohio. This article did not name the woman. It also didn't include a series of text

00:12:27.640 messages from this accuser, which Bauer had provided to the Post weeks before their article

00:12:32.040 was published. And in these messages, which were sent after Bauer allegedly assaulted this woman,

00:12:36.800 we can see that the woman desperately wants to see him and to be with him. She sent him hundreds of

00:12:42.780 messages while he was in the dugout at a game. And he keeps telling her that he wants to end their

00:12:47.560 relationship, but she keeps bombarding him with frantic messages that are completely unhinged.

00:12:53.920 Now, none of that mattered. The Washington Post didn't bother to print those messages because

00:12:57.180 they knew the damage was already done. Bauer would never play baseball professionally in the United

00:13:02.620 States ever again. And a few months later, indeed, the MLB formally suspended Bauer for two full seasons.

00:13:09.340 The league said that it had conducted an extensive investigation and concluded that Bauer had violated

00:13:15.100 their domestic violence and sexual assault policy. But somehow the MLB's investigation apparently

00:13:20.780 didn't uncover the text from Bauer's primary accuser, which I briefly touched on yesterday.

00:13:27.320 And in case you missed it, here's Bauer describing some of those messages that you would think are

00:13:32.260 very, very relevant. And if you're conducting any kind of investigation into this case,

00:13:36.460 like one of the first things you would do is look at these text messages. They didn't look at

00:13:40.220 them at all. Here's that video again. Next victim, star pitcher for the Dodgers. A text Lindsay Hill

00:13:46.960 sent to a friend before she ever even met me. What should I steal? She asked another, in reference to

00:13:51.880 visiting my house for the first time. The answer? Take his money. So how might that work? I'm going to

00:13:57.780 his house Wednesday, she said. I already have my hooks in. You know how I roll. Then, after the first time

00:14:03.320 we met, net worth is 51 mil, she said. She better secure the bag, was the response. But how was she

00:14:10.340 going to do that? Need daddy to choke me out, she said. Being an absolute whore to try to get in on

00:14:15.380 his 51 million, read another text. Then, after the second time we met, former Padres pitcher Jacob

00:14:21.020 Nix told her, you got to get this bag. I'll give you 50,000, Lindsay replied. Her AA sponsor asked her

00:14:27.400 at one point. Do you feel a tiny bit guilty? Not really, she replied. Since then, her legal team

00:14:33.220 has approached me multiple times about coming to a financial settlement. But, as I have done since

00:14:37.320 day one, I refused to pay her even a single cent. In August of 2021, Lindsay Hill's claims were heard

00:14:43.280 in court. And during those legal proceedings, critical information was deliberately and unlawfully

00:14:48.380 concealed from me and my legal team. Information like this video, which was taken by Lindsay Hill

00:14:54.680 herself, the morning after she claimed she was brutally attacked, emotionally traumatized,

00:14:59.600 and desperate to get away from me. And now we have the metadata, so there can be no dispute.

00:15:04.540 It was taken mere minutes before she left my house on the morning of May 16th, 2021, without my knowledge

00:15:10.360 or consent, of course. In it, you can see her lying in bed next to me while I'm sleeping, smirking at the

00:15:16.120 camera without a care in the world, or any marks on her face. Now, last night, in response to a post from

00:15:22.100 Elon Musk, Trevor Bauer said that it appeared that his accuser's lawyers had access to all this

00:15:27.540 evidence the entire time. Bauer wrote that, quote, speaking specifically about the video of her

00:15:32.440 laying in bed next to me with no marks on her face the morning after she claims I brutally attacked

00:15:36.540 her. An email containing that video was sent to her attorney, Brian Friedman, before the hearing in

00:15:41.300 2021, and it was never turned over to us. Perhaps that's why he insisted on adding his name to the

00:15:46.240 release party section in the settlement agreement. So this appears to be a setup from a sociopathic

00:15:52.720 gold digger and potentially her attorney as well. This woman admitted that she was going to rip off

00:15:58.180 Trevor Bauer, repeatedly admitted this in writing. And, you know, in the interest of fairness, we should

00:16:05.040 tell you that as of this week, this woman, the woman in question here is still coming up with what she says

00:16:11.800 are innocent explanations for these text messages. She's appearing on podcasts saying that all those

00:16:16.500 text messages were sarcastic. She was just being sarcastic. And that Trevor Bauer did abuse her,

00:16:22.400 as she said he did. She says these texts are being taken out of context. It's really hard to imagine a

00:16:29.520 context that would vindicate her in this case, but that's what she's claiming. At the same time, this

00:16:36.120 woman agreed to drop her claims against Bauer without receiving a single cent from him, which is

00:16:41.580 a pretty strong indicator that she doesn't have a case. But either way, Trevor Bauer will be able to

00:16:47.680 continue his career such as it is in Japan and probably only in Japan. But this could have ended

00:16:54.000 very differently. Trevor Bauer was also investigated by the local district attorney. And that's something

00:16:58.800 that doesn't happen when you're accused of like, you know, offending a random black guy at a bar,

00:17:02.860 at least not yet. Prosecutors in California were thinking of throwing Trevor Bauer in prison,

00:17:07.860 maybe for the rest of his life, as they've done in many similar cases. Fortunately for Trevor Bauer,

00:17:13.200 the evidence was completely non-existent. So the DA's office ultimately concluded there was no case

00:17:17.620 there. They couldn't try it even if they wanted to, and they probably wanted to. But the potential was

00:17:23.800 there. And this is why false rape accusations are, as I said yesterday, just as evil and just as

00:17:30.560 dangerous to society as rape itself and should be treated as such. Fabricated rape accusations have

00:17:37.940 the potential to ruin lives and families and put people in prison. And if you knowingly subject

00:17:45.040 someone to that kind of hell, then you should face a lifelong punishment yourself. But of course,

00:17:50.780 that's not what's going to happen here. The woman who apparently lied about Trevor Bauer will likely

00:17:54.680 face no consequence at all. The only consequence is that she doesn't get any money from her lawsuit.

00:17:58.840 Now, at the same time, as Trevor Bauer himself admits, this doesn't mean that men are completely

00:18:04.360 powerless to avoid being in these kinds of situations. Here's Bauer's reflection on what

00:18:10.780 he thinks he did wrong in all of this. This is from early last year, before he could go into details

00:18:16.940 about the specifics of the charges against him. But watch what he said.

00:18:20.820 In evaluating my life over the recent months, it's clear that I've made some poor choices,

00:18:25.820 particularly in regards to the people that I've chosen to associate with. But I am not

00:18:31.720 the person that this woman, her lawyers, and certain members of the media have painted me to be.

00:18:40.220 Now, that's some honest self-reflection, which is something that you very, very rarely see

00:18:43.920 these days. And what Trevor Bauer is saying is absolutely right.

00:18:47.560 You know, men can choose not to hook up with random floozies. They can choose not to engage

00:18:53.620 in this kind of sexual behavior with women they barely know, which is, for one thing, the moral

00:18:59.720 path. It also happens to be the smart path from a purely self-interested perspective. If you want

00:19:04.400 to protect yourself, that's what you would do. Now, this isn't to blame Trevor Bauer for what

00:19:09.740 happened to him. He's not responsible for this woman's pathology. At the same time, we should

00:19:14.740 acknowledge that these kinds of psychopathic women are out there, and they will lie and smear

00:19:20.200 innocent men in order to make some money, in order to exercise their control, to get whatever sick

00:19:24.620 thrill they get out of it. Just like there are sociopathic race hustlers out there who have no

00:19:29.720 compunction about ruining the lives of innocent people like John Talbot. And no matter how well-meaning

00:19:36.080 you are or what your politics are, keep in mind, John Talbot had literally worked on DEI committees

00:19:41.220 in the past. But even then, you are vulnerable. The identity of your accusers will matter far more

00:19:49.620 than the facts of whatever situation you're involved in. So, all that means is that we should

00:19:56.300 keep all that in mind and act accordingly. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:20:48.100 McCarthy was forced to vacate the speakership on Tuesday after Democrats voted in support of Representative

00:20:53.240 Matt Gaetz's motion to vacate the speakership. The 216 to 210 vote marked the first time in U.S.

00:21:00.320 history that the House has ever removed a speaker. The last time that a speakership was even challenged

00:21:04.580 was more than 110 years ago. The other seven Republicans who sided with House Democrats included

00:21:09.520 Representative Annie Biggs, Ken Buck, Eli Crane, Bob Good, Matt Rosendale, Tim Burchett, and Nancy Mace.

00:21:17.880 Representative Patrick McHenry has been named Speaker pro tempore to preside over the House until a

00:21:23.220 new speaker is named. Um, and McCarthy, uh, has said that he is not going to run, uh, to be elected

00:21:32.940 again. So he's done. Here's the moment when, uh, this historic announcement was made on the House

00:21:40.120 floor. Let's watch. Gays are 216. The nays are 210. The resolution is adopted without objection. The motion

00:21:50.560 to reconsider is laid on the table. The office of Speaker of the House of the United States House of

00:21:57.760 Representatives is hereby declared vacant. All right. Uh, that is a stunner. You have never seen what you

00:22:09.700 see unfolding now in the well of the House, uh, in American history. Okay. Now to be perfectly honest

00:22:16.960 with you, uh, I don't really care about this at all. I don't, I don't care who the Speaker of the

00:22:25.540 House is. I'm a terrible conservative pundit because I should be totally fascinated by this

00:22:30.900 story. It's historic. It's historic. It is historic. It's the first time in American history,

00:22:35.280 but, um, but I really don't care. You know, all the other nerds and conservative media are treating

00:22:41.200 this like Christmas. It's, it's, it's whether they're for it or against it, you know, whether

00:22:44.880 they like it or don't like it, it's just, it's the content, the content we can get from this moment.

00:22:50.320 It's incredible. Um, but I just don't see it that way because, um, I don't care that much.

00:22:56.660 I don't know if other people care. I suspect that this is the kind of thing that the news media and

00:22:59.980 political pundits and podcast hosts find utterly absorbing, but most normal people don't care all that

00:23:04.600 much. Like if I went up to some random person at the grocery store and said, can you believe it?

00:23:08.480 Kevin McCarthy was vacated. They would probably say, who was, what happened to him? Why are you

00:23:16.700 talking to me? Go away. Uh, my problem is, look, my problem is, uh, is, uh, just, I admit full on

00:23:24.660 cynicism, which I think is fully justified. I have no faith in these people whatsoever. They aren't

00:23:28.720 doing anything. It doesn't seem to matter. I guess that's the point for me is that I would care a lot

00:23:35.780 more if I felt like it mattered who the speaker of the house is, but I don't think it matters.

00:23:42.940 Like I don't think ultimately it ends up having any effect whatsoever on anything.

00:23:50.340 You know, we could, we could go back through the last 25 years of American history and we could

00:23:58.300 replay it all again with different speakers of the house along the way. And I think everything would

00:24:04.920 look the same. Okay. It's supposed to be the butterfly effect where if you change one thing,

00:24:09.640 like if you go back 20 years one day and you wear a khakis instead of blue jeans one day,

00:24:15.220 it's going to, there's the butterfly effect and you know, things you, you come back to the present

00:24:21.240 day and everything's different somehow. Um, I, that may be true in many cases, but I think with the

00:24:26.380 speaker of the house, it really would make no difference at all. Like everything would be the

00:24:28.920 same. So, um, that's part of the issue. I don't like Kevin McCarthy at all. He was just another

00:24:36.640 standard Republican, wasn't moving the ball forward on, on anything that mattered, rubber stamping

00:24:41.040 welfare payments to Ukraine, et cetera, and so forth, the whole thing. Uh, and he shouldn't have

00:24:46.600 been speaker in the first place. He deserved to lose the job. So in terms of, of experiencing this

00:24:52.300 historic humiliation, I think he deserves it. At the same time, I agree with those who've pointed

00:24:58.640 out that we, we may very well end up with someone who's worse. Like we may end up with someone worse

00:25:07.080 in the end anyway, or at least someone who's basically the same. And that's obviously what

00:25:12.100 the Democrats are wagering, which is why they joined in this effort because they think it benefits them

00:25:17.220 and, and it might, you know, I've always said in politics that, um, this shouldn't be,

00:25:26.140 this shouldn't be your only strategy. This shouldn't be your only kind of guiding principle,

00:25:30.020 but you should figure out what your enemies want you to do and then do the opposite.

00:25:37.220 If you're ever doing something and then you look over and you're seeing your enemies watching you

00:25:41.500 doing it and applauding, kind of silently applauding to themselves because they're so happy that you're

00:25:46.180 doing this thing, then you probably shouldn't be doing it because your enemies, they don't want

00:25:51.420 anything good for you. It's not, it's not, it's not because they're, they're interested in your best

00:25:55.440 interests. It's because they, they have determined that whatever you're doing is helping them.

00:26:01.120 And in this case, uh, the Republicans have done what we know the Democrats wanted to do because

00:26:06.200 they're the ones who voted for it. So was this an exception to that rule? I guess we'll find out.

00:26:12.760 Where does that leave us? Uh, you know, I don't know. Um, I don't think it leaves us anywhere

00:26:19.100 in particular. I mean, it, it, I guess it does depend on, on, uh, who the new speaker of the house

00:26:23.740 is going to be, how long it's going to take to get someone else into that position. I just have,

00:26:30.520 I'm sorry. I have no, I have zero faith that they're going to put anybody better in there.

00:26:36.040 No faith in that whatsoever. And that's why you can't really, you know, the, the people that want

00:26:43.720 to call this whole thing a disaster or say that it's a major victory or whatever. I don't think

00:26:48.920 you can say that one way or another right now, because if you, if you kick, uh, if you kick

00:26:53.680 Kevin McCarthy out and then ultimately you end up with, with an even worse sort of an even swampier

00:26:59.440 swamp creature, then obviously it's not a win. Um, if you kick them out, you somehow put someone

00:27:06.240 in there who's actually effective and is a real conservative, then it's a major win.

00:27:10.700 So I don't think we can say right now. We got to see how this thing, uh, plays out. I have already,

00:27:17.280 for what it's worth, you know, I announced on Twitter, speaking of historic announcements,

00:27:20.980 I announced, uh, last night on Twitter that I'm, I'm throwing my own hat into the ring for the job

00:27:25.580 of a speaker of the house. You don't need to be in Congress to have that job. So technically a podcast

00:27:32.340 host is, is qualified, maybe not qualified, but I can have it. So I'm, you know, if they want me to

00:27:40.320 do it, I'll do it. I think that's probably, even if it's not me, that's probably like one way or

00:27:46.060 another. And this is, this is always the paradox. This is always the catch 22, but in any of these

00:27:52.600 allegedly important political roles, the best people for them are going to be people who aren't

00:27:57.540 really interested in them, like who don't desperately want to do them. That's true for

00:28:01.660 president, true for any of these positions, the people who desperately want it are going to be

00:28:08.100 the worst because they desperately want it for their own sake. It's not that they desperately want

00:28:13.400 it because they, they, they feel so strongly about, uh, helping the American people. It's not really

00:28:17.580 what it is. It's their ego that makes them so desperate. So you got to find someone, uh,

00:28:23.940 the, the first, first thing is you got to find someone who's not really running for it

00:28:29.740 and doesn't really want the job. And it's going to be sort of a, um, uh, sort of a reluctant

00:28:36.300 person, but we'll, but we'll take it if you convince him. Nancy Mace was one of the Republicans

00:28:41.920 who voted to kick McCarthy out. And, uh, she explained her reasoning. Let's listen to her.

00:28:47.380 As a woman, I have been fighting for women's rights since before I ever came to Congress.

00:28:52.780 And when Roe v. Wade was overturned, I continued that fight and I've made deals with Kevin McCarthy,

00:28:58.980 with the speaker that he has not kept to help women in this country. And we have done nothing

00:29:03.400 for them. And I come from South Carolina. When you shake my hand and you make a promise and you

00:29:08.360 don't keep it, there are consequences to those actions. And as a woman who has been fighting my

00:29:14.700 party on this issue to be made promises that we're going to work to get women greater access to birth

00:29:19.060 control and we don't do it. And now we're 10 months in and we don't have time to do it.

00:29:23.620 Or as a survivor of rape. And I worked all year on a rape kit bill that hasn't seen the time of day.

00:29:30.420 I cannot tell you how frustrating that is as a woman in this conference, in this Capitol to have that

00:29:37.600 happen. If you make a promise, you should keep it. And if you promise women you're going to help

00:29:42.220 them, then you damn well better do it. As a woman, as a woman, as a woman, did I mention I'm a woman?

00:29:49.760 As a woman, I feel that as a woman, the best thing I can do as a woman is to be a woman as a woman.

00:29:56.900 And to say as a woman that my view as a woman is that as a woman, here's what I think as a woman.

00:30:04.940 Nancy, why don't you try, rather than speaking as a woman, like just speak as someone who

00:30:11.480 communicate your point of view without feeling the need to list your victim credentials every

00:30:19.320 three and a half seconds. But it is also interesting if you can decipher all of that.

00:30:24.940 It's interesting because Nancy Mace's complaint is that Kevin McCarthy was too right wing.

00:30:30.320 Like he was not supporting the pro-abortion agenda. That's what she's really upset about.

00:30:35.800 And that's also the complaint of every Democrat who voted for this motion.

00:30:42.040 What's their problem with Kevin McCarthy? It's not that he's an establishment Republican,

00:30:46.520 milk toast. That's not their problem with him. As far as they're concerned, he's a radical right

00:30:52.680 winger. And what that means is that almost everyone who actually voted him out, almost all of them,

00:30:59.100 almost everyone who's responsible for getting rid of him actually did it because he's too

00:31:04.940 conservative. Now, you and I know that that's not true. He's not too conservative or really

00:31:08.720 conservative at all. So that's ridiculous. But that was the motivation behind almost every vote

00:31:15.340 to vacate, which is also an interesting thing to keep in mind here. All right. Moving from that to

00:31:22.720 this report from CBS News says, Los Angeles County will officially move to a zero bail system on

00:31:27.620 Sunday, ending the years long standard of setting cash bail amounts for defendants commensurate with

00:31:32.960 the severity of the crime that they're accused of committing. A process critics say favors the rich

00:31:38.320 while doing little to protect public safety. But the zero bail system has come under fire from

00:31:42.960 hardline law and order backers who contend it removes accountability from the justice system by

00:31:46.340 allowing the vast majority of arrestees to be quickly released from custody rather than kept in jail

00:31:50.240 as they await charges in trial unless they're accused of the most serious of crimes.

00:31:54.780 County Sheriff Robert Luna told the Board of Supervisors last week,

00:31:58.460 our communities have not been shy about telling us how nervous they are about this change.

00:32:03.000 He said he understands the need to respect constitutional rights of arrestees, but said

00:32:06.580 zero bail can demoralize deputies and police officers to work hard to make arrests only to watch the

00:32:11.420 offender walk away with a citation as the victim looks on in disbelief. Yeah, that's one of the

00:32:17.240 consequences of a zero bail system. Before we talk about this, the LA County DA George Gascon,

00:32:23.400 who is a Soros goblin, one of the worst DAs in the country, one of the worst human beings in the

00:32:27.740 country, period. He was interviewed this week by the Fox affiliate, the local Fox affiliate in Los

00:32:32.360 Angeles, and asked about the zero bail system. And here's what he said. Do you think that cash bail is

00:32:39.540 unconstitutional? You know, I believe that how much money you have in your bank account should not

00:32:45.000 determine whether you're going to get out or not. LA County District Attorney George Gascon sits down

00:32:48.960 with us on the week LA County enacts a judge's order to switch to a so-called zero cash bail system,

00:32:55.340 meaning most suspects will now be quickly released from custody, except for those accused of the most

00:33:00.280 serious crimes. I strongly believe that if you have an open case, you should not be released.

00:33:06.940 If we determine that you're a danger to our community, you should not be released. It doesn't

00:33:11.440 matter how much money you have. 12 LA County cities are suing to try and stop this policy

00:33:17.220 out of public safety concerns. Do you agree with them? I don't. I think that fighting this and saying

00:33:22.880 we want to get rid of it all together and go back to the way the system was before, it flies in the

00:33:28.020 face of reality that the old system wasn't working. Big picture for people that are concerned that this

00:33:33.840 is going to make LA County less safe and people are going to be held less accountable. What say you?

00:33:39.920 What I say is that there are things that need to be improved. We're going to work on them. I don't

00:33:45.360 believe that long-term this is going to make the county less safe. I think it's going to make us

00:33:48.940 safer because it's going to create more room in our county jail to hold the people that are dangerous.

00:33:54.220 He says that includes suspects accused. So, you know what? I could tell this guy's a pathetic,

00:34:01.760 without knowing anything about him, if I didn't know anything about him, I could already tell that

00:34:05.320 he's a pathetic weakling and an awful DA, without knowing anything about him, without even paying

00:34:12.060 attention to the content of what he's saying. It's just his whole vibe, the way he speaks.

00:34:17.360 Oh, you know, crime's a problem and we're going to work hard on it. It's a problem. We're working

00:34:23.520 on the problem. This is not someone who hungers for justice. You could tell that much right off the

00:34:29.720 bat. And he says that this will make the city safer because it creates more room for violent

00:34:35.360 criminals in the jail. So, but the question then is that, are you actually going to put

00:34:40.640 the violent criminals in jail? Are you going to do that? And is there actually a problem right now

00:34:47.960 where you have violent criminals who you want to put in jail and you would put in jail, but you can't

00:34:54.100 because there's no room. Is that a real thing that's actually happening? Is there someone walking

00:35:00.060 around the streets right now in Los Angeles who's a violent criminal has been arrested and you tried

00:35:04.380 to put him in jail and they said, sorry, you know, no vacancy, no room at the end. Is that, is that

00:35:12.960 actually happening? I don't, I don't buy that for one second. I don't buy it for one second. It's total

00:35:17.540 nonsense. This is always the excuse made by the anti-law and order folks on the left. Well, we

00:35:26.600 need more room. We need, we need more room in the, in the jails for the really violent and dangerous

00:35:31.100 people. Yeah. And then when, when, when the violent and dangerous people get arrested, what are those

00:35:37.540 same people say? They say, well, you know, he's, he's, he's reformed. He's, he's not a danger. This is

00:35:42.640 someone who's been persecuted by systemic racism. We, we, we, we, we need to worry about reforming

00:35:48.440 and not punishment. That's what they say. And besides, if you do have a problem with capacity

00:35:53.880 limits, it's an easy problem to solve. Number one, build, build more jails. Okay. That's one

00:36:00.500 thing you could do. And, uh, and in the meantime, if you have too many violent criminals to fit in a

00:36:05.260 jail, then, um, I guess the violent criminals are going to be more uncomfortable. Just jam them in there.

00:36:11.460 Okay. What do you mean? There's no space. Put them in there. Find, find spot for them.

00:36:17.400 I don't care if they're on, they're not gonna be comfortable. There's too many people. Who cares?

00:36:20.740 Who gives a damn if they're comfortable or not? They're in jail. That's their problem. El, El,

00:36:25.360 El Salvador, you know, they take a jail with a capacity of 5,000 and they put like 50,000 people

00:36:31.940 in there. They find a way to do it. So it can be done, but I don't think that's the issue at all.

00:36:38.800 I think that's an absolute lie on his part. His objective is not to get more dangerous people in

00:36:44.260 jail. It is to get people out of jail because that's what he's doing. And it's the opposite,

00:36:49.060 obviously, of what you should be doing. If your city is plagued with crime, what you should be

00:36:53.540 doing is finding ways to put more people in jail for longer, not finding ways to let more people out

00:36:59.700 or make sure they spend less time in jail. It's a pretty simple equation. If you have a problem

00:37:07.460 with crime, then you need more people in jail and you need them there longer. Now, is cash bail a plot

00:37:14.120 to criminalize or penalize poverty? No. It is a way of keeping dangerous people in jail. And it's a way

00:37:20.320 also of incentivizing them to come to court. That's the whole point of bail. Or one of the central

00:37:30.100 points is this is the collateral. This is the incentive. If you don't come to court, then you

00:37:38.120 lose the money. If there's no bail, then what's the incentive? He doesn't even address that point.

00:37:44.660 Now, it's not a perfect system by any means. There are plenty of people who, you know, the bail is

00:37:52.580 put up by someone. It's not even their money and they still won't show up to court. But if there's

00:37:57.300 no money, if there's no bail, then there's no incentive for these people to show up to court.

00:38:05.320 And that's what you're going to end up with, which, of course, is all by design.

00:38:10.560 All right. There's one other story I want to mention here, which is an interesting story.

00:38:14.660 Um, this is from the Detroit Free Press. It says, the Michigan Supreme Court made history on Friday

00:38:22.640 in letting the unprecedented charges stick against James and Jennifer Crumbly, who are the parents of

00:38:28.860 the Oxford school shooter who must now stand trial for their alleged roles in the deaths of four

00:38:33.340 students murdered by their son in 2021. The Crumbly's are the first parents in America charged in a mass

00:38:39.980 school shooting as prosecutors seek to hold them criminally liable for buying their son the gun that

00:38:44.600 he used in the massacre and for never telling the school about the weapon that they were summoned

00:38:48.420 over when they were summoned over his troubling behavior. The parents who are facing involuntary

00:38:53.780 manslaughter charges have been fighting for two years to get the charges dismissed.

00:38:56.860 Their final appeal was before the Michigan Supreme Court, which seven months after receiving the

00:39:01.160 request opted not to hear their case. In a one paragraph order released on early Friday morning,

00:39:06.580 the state's highest court wrote, it is denied because we are not persuaded that the question should be

00:39:10.320 reviewed by this court. To avoid a trial, the Crumbly's who have been jailed for almost two

00:39:14.640 years now, they've been in jail for almost two years. Wow. Could still cut a deal in the case and

00:39:22.460 plead guilty in exchange for potential leniency. However, the prosecution would have to agree to any

00:39:27.500 such agreement and the judge would have the final say. If convicted, each parent faces up to 15 years in

00:39:33.440 prison. Yeah, this is a fascinating case. And I have to say, and I've heard

00:39:42.260 people on both sides of this. And one of the things that makes it interesting is that I'm not

00:39:49.080 sure there's a clear left-right divide. Whether you're conservative or liberal, you could kind of

00:39:55.820 come down on either side of this thing. But to me, I find it very troubling. I think it's a very

00:40:02.280 troubling precedent. Now, that's not to defend the parents, obviously. I think in most, before you

00:40:11.320 even look at the specifics, and there are specifics in this case that are quite damning for the parents,

00:40:16.460 but even without knowing the specifics, when you've got a school shooter situation and you've got a

00:40:21.900 child who is, and I don't know how old Ethan Crumbly even was a child, but you have a parent,

00:40:31.460 you have someone who is capable of committing a crime like this, it's always really hard for me

00:40:38.260 to believe that the parents didn't know something was wrong. And then it becomes a question of,

00:40:45.340 like, you had to know that your child was deeply disturbed. Maybe you didn't imagine anything quite

00:40:53.860 like this, but you had to know that there were some serious problems here. And what did you do about

00:41:00.820 it? And in this case, so far, the courts have determined that the Crumbly's didn't do anything

00:41:07.140 about it. And not only that, but they bought the kid a gun. So they're being charged with manslaughter,

00:41:12.100 which I can, you know, I can understand the argument, but there is, there is the matter of

00:41:18.920 precedent here. And it becomes like, I don't necessarily see any self-limiting principle.

00:41:24.600 This is not a self-limiting thing. So if we're setting the precedent that now you can charge parents

00:41:31.220 for the heinous actions of their kids, I guess my question is just, how far does that go?

00:41:41.380 Because although in many cases, in some cases, a kid does something horrible, you know, it is true

00:41:48.460 that the parents should have known that something was wrong. But there are two things. Number one,

00:41:56.080 the parent could know that something's wrong with their kid. It doesn't mean that there's only so much

00:41:59.980 you can do. So maybe they're trying to, so they're getting counseling, they're doing everything they

00:42:04.920 can, but it's not something you can't just, if God forbid you end up with a kid this troubled,

00:42:10.260 it's not, you can't just flip a switch and fix them. And then it's also true too, that, that,

00:42:15.840 you know, it's, it's possible that you're, that you could have a kid that seems perfectly normal

00:42:20.500 and well-adjusted and then goes way off the rails quite suddenly. Maybe not to the extent of

00:42:26.440 becoming a mass shooter, hopefully, but in other ways, at least. And, and kids are, as, as they grow

00:42:34.520 older, you know, they are human, they are, they are their own, they're human beings the entire time.

00:42:39.080 They are, they are increasingly sort of their own people and they have their own minds and they can do

00:42:46.360 things that you, that you've, they can, you, you try to raise them a certain way and they can

00:42:54.900 consciously choose at a certain point, especially as they get older to reject how they've been raised

00:43:00.240 and act a different way. All of that is true. And so when you start prosecuting parents for the crimes

00:43:07.060 of their kids, it really becomes, uh, it does, it does become a slippery slope. So that's, that's what

00:43:12.240 I think maybe you could look at this case and say, there are some aspects of this case that are

00:43:16.400 especially egregious, given that the school told them about Ethan Crumbly and, uh, and, and, and all

00:43:26.740 of his very disturbing behavior. They bought him a gun, you know, especially that part of it.

00:43:32.600 So you can look at aspects of this case that are especially egregious

00:43:35.980 and maybe we agree on that. But then the question is what, you know, what, what principle are you

00:43:43.680 establishing and how does that become, how is that applied in other cases? And I do have to also ask

00:43:51.360 if we're holding the Crumblies accountable, like what about when we go into the inner city and we see

00:43:59.880 nothing but violent behavior and you see teenagers running around committing heinously violent acts

00:44:08.940 against each other, against random pedestrians walking around, you know, all of that violence.

00:44:16.700 Are we holding any of those parents accountable? Or we find it, you know, what about the father who

00:44:21.480 abandons the kid in the first place? What about the, the mom who's, you know, what if she's too busy

00:44:26.740 off doing drugs or whatever, partying, not paying attention to her kid, kid turns into a gangbanger,

00:44:32.920 you know, is, is, is committing heinous violent acts at the age of 13. Are we going to throw her in jail

00:44:37.660 too? I mean, look, if you, if you can make an argument for the Crumblies, you can certainly make

00:44:42.220 an argument over here. I think it's basically the same kind of argument. What was this argument of

00:44:49.720 like egregious kind of neglect, a failure to engage in any kind of moral formation with your child?

00:44:59.140 If that's what we're saying, I guess, I guess my point is, I don't know why we're just applying that

00:45:03.920 to these particular parents. When there are a lot of kids out there and older and people who are not kids

00:45:11.940 anymore, committing all kinds of violent crimes, and you can quite easily trace their behavior back,

00:45:20.180 at least in part, to gratuitous failures of parenting. And so if we're starting to prosecute

00:45:28.820 people, then are we, are we prosecuting all of them? Are we prosecuting everybody? In the next few

00:45:34.420 years, are there going to be like thousands of parents who are in court, sitting in jail for years,

00:45:40.900 waiting for the, for, for, to even, for the trial to even start? Because they're being blamed for,

00:45:48.020 for, for the behavior of their kids. Is that where this goes? And it's, it's a tough one because

00:45:54.120 I don't, that, that becomes total chaos if it goes that direction. I don't think it should go there.

00:46:02.440 But then if it doesn't, then this does seem unjust that we're singling out these parents in

00:46:07.860 particular and not these others. All right, let's get to, was Walsh wrong?

00:46:17.380 So a few days ago, we talked about the college student loan debt crisis, and which we're hearing

00:46:24.120 a lot more about now because the pause on student debt was expired, a pause that had, pause that was

00:46:30.120 put in place and then extended and extended, extended, extended over and over again by Biden,

00:46:33.560 finally expired on October 1st on Sunday. And so a lot of complaints again about all these

00:46:39.920 college grads who actually have to pay their bills, God forbid. So, but anytime we talk about

00:46:46.500 student debt, it is always going to go back. It's going to go back to me on my, once again,

00:46:51.980 up on my soapbox, one of my many different soapboxes I like to jump on. And this one is,

00:46:56.180 you know, one way that we, really the only way we solve ultimately the student debt crisis is by

00:47:02.840 fewer and fewer kids leaving high school and then going right into college. We need people to skip

00:47:11.720 college. We need lots of people to skip that whole, skip the whole thing, the whole scam. Skip it.

00:47:20.180 Go do something else with your life. That's the only way that we get this under control. So a few

00:47:24.560 comments responding to that. Charizard Norris says, disagree in some aspects to become an accountant

00:47:31.020 and gain your CPA. You need five years of college. If you don't know what you want, don't go. Also go

00:47:37.160 in knowing your morals will be questioned, especially if they're against liberal ideology. Well, then you

00:47:41.280 don't disagree with me at all. I never said that everyone should skip college. I never said that

00:47:44.960 there's no role for college at all or that, you know, you don't need college for any career.

00:47:52.980 Obviously there are careers that you might want to get into where you do need, and it's not even an

00:47:58.200 artificial need. Like you actually need continued formal schooling in order to do those jobs

00:48:03.220 effectively. And in those cases, yeah, go to college, but you hit on the important point,

00:48:10.520 which is that if you know that's what you want to do, if you happen to be what is increasingly

00:48:16.360 becoming a rare breed of 18 year old who actually knows what you want to do with the rest of your life,

00:48:22.400 or you think you know, and you know that you do need more formal schooling for that, then go and

00:48:28.740 pursue that formal schooling. Absolutely. But if you don't know exactly what you said, if you don't

00:48:36.840 know what you want to do with your life, don't go to college, which is most. Most kids out of high

00:48:43.780 school have no clue what they want to do with their lives. None at all. And none of them,

00:48:52.100 zero percent of 18 year olds who don't know what they want to do with their life should go to college.

00:48:56.760 It's crazy. It's not just like a bad strategy. It is crazy. Now it's not crazy on their part,

00:49:03.200 as they don't really know any better. It's crazy for us as a society to be pushing kids into this.

00:49:11.920 It's crazy that high schools aren't communicating this message to the kids and saying, listen,

00:49:18.120 saying to the seniors, saying to the juniors, listen, if you don't know what you want to do

00:49:21.720 with your life, don't apply for college. You only need college for certain careers. And if you don't

00:49:28.660 know what career you want, then it's insane to go and take out those loans. Don't do it.

00:49:34.480 And there's no reason to, because guess what? If you graduate high school and then you go out into

00:49:40.120 the working world for a few years and you decide and you figure out what you want to do with your

00:49:44.660 life and you figure out that you want to be, so you want to be an engineer, an accountant, you want

00:49:48.540 to be, you want to get into, you want to be a doctor, you want to be an architect. If you figure that

00:49:53.560 out, then you can go to school. Okay. There's, there's no rule saying that you have to go to college by the

00:49:59.340 time you're 19. You have to enroll, you know, by the time you're 19 or you can't go. That's not the

00:50:03.740 case. And then the concern is, well, you'll be behind, you'll be behind. Be behind who? Behind

00:50:08.520 what? What, who are you racing exactly? That's the beauty of graduating. Once you get out of the

00:50:15.720 formal education system, you're not, you're not racing anybody anymore. There's not, there's

00:50:19.960 falling behind. You're not falling behind anybody. This is your own life now. So there's zero,

00:50:25.760 there is zero downside, zero to a kid graduated high school and not going to college. If they

00:50:33.620 don't know what they want to do with their life, zero downside to that. There is massive downside

00:50:38.840 to going to college when you don't know what you want to do. So this is the, this is the message that

00:50:45.620 everybody, every parent, every teacher, everyone should be saying this. It is so obvious,

00:50:51.800 but I tell you why they don't, because it's all part of the scam. The university system,

00:50:58.780 the education system, they're not going to say this because they know that if, if, if fewer kids

00:51:04.560 go to college right out of high school, that a lot of those kids who don't go, they're going to

00:51:10.600 find out that they are going to eventually find out what they want to do with their lives. And

00:51:14.980 they're going to realize it's, it's something that they don't need college for. And they're never

00:51:18.180 going to go to college and the university system isn't going to make that money anymore.

00:51:24.480 So that's what this is all about. It's a total scam.

00:51:28.260 And at least parents, like if you're a parent and you're not communicating this

00:51:31.800 to your kids, then you, then it is negligent on your part, like get it together.

00:51:40.160 Okay. And if you're paying, if you're helping to pay for loans for your kid to go to college,

00:51:46.460 who doesn't know what they want to do with their life, if you're paying for that, what is the,

00:51:50.160 what, what is the matter with you? What are you thinking? It's insane. I'll tell you one thing,

00:51:57.240 you know, I can't, if my kids graduate high school and they're 18, 19 years old and they don't know

00:52:02.780 what they want to do with their life and they want to go to college, I can't, I'm not going to stop

00:52:07.760 them. But you better, you're going to pay for it yourself. I'm not, I'm not putting a dime to it.

00:52:12.780 If you don't know what you want to do with your life. Adolfo says, what are all those young people

00:52:18.240 supposed to do in the meantime, if we're supposed to boycott the system, changes like this could take

00:52:22.700 years to take place. I'm not saying boycott the education system. That's not what I'm saying.

00:52:26.480 I wouldn't phrase it as boycott. You know why? For the same reason that, look, I think it's a very bad

00:52:31.660 idea for 18 year olds to go out and buy luxury cars. Okay. You shouldn't go out at the age of 18

00:52:38.140 and buy a $75,000 luxury sedan. You shouldn't do that. So am I saying that 18 year olds should

00:52:44.780 boycott the luxury sedan market? No, boycott is not the, is not the way that I would phrase that.

00:52:52.580 What I'm saying is that's not something that you need. And that's going to be a, in most cases,

00:52:58.660 a very reckless purchase. And so you shouldn't make reckless purchases. It's not boycott. This isn't

00:53:04.580 like a temporary suggestion of some sort of temporary measure to put in place to bring the

00:53:10.560 cost of luxury vehicles down. I'm saying in general, just don't do that. And for not all,

00:53:17.100 but most 18 year olds out of high school, taking out the loans for a college education, it's like

00:53:23.680 buying a luxury car. It's like this big expensive thing that you don't need. You may never need.

00:53:29.180 And it is, it's, it's, uh, and you know what? And you're, and you're buying it for the wrong reasons

00:53:35.660 because the reason why most kids want to go right into college when they don't know what they want

00:53:40.780 to do with their lives, it's not because they're excited about education. It's not that it's because

00:53:47.240 all their friends are doing it and they want to go party and it's fun. Like they, it's a fun thing.

00:53:51.580 It's like vacation. That's why most of the kids want to do it. I know I'm not, I don't think I'm

00:53:56.740 revealing anything that's going to be, uh, breaking news to anybody. Finally, dark cylinder says saying

00:54:03.020 you don't need to go to college for success. Doesn't really mean a whole lot when the person

00:54:06.040 saying it is famous with a career that only a handful of people pull off. Uh, I always love

00:54:12.440 these responses. Like the, the position that I'm in right now, do you think I was in this position

00:54:19.100 when I made the decision to not go to college when I was 18 years old? Uh, no. Okay. At the

00:54:26.660 time, as I've said many times, uh, a, a broke and unknown person as most 18 and 19 year olds

00:54:34.800 are, well, that was certainly, it certainly qualified. I certainly qualified for that.

00:54:39.560 And, uh, and I didn't go to college and it took me a little bit. It took me a while to,

00:54:46.020 you know, a while. It took me years, took me years to really figure out what exactly I wanted

00:54:50.120 to do and what I'm called to do, what my vocation is, um, in life. Uh, because, and that's just,

00:54:58.700 it's, it's a, it's a, it is a rare, as I said, it's a rare type of, uh, of a teenager, even at 18

00:55:05.880 or 19 years old, who really has it, has that figured out. Some of them do. Uh, you really got

00:55:10.900 your head on your shoulders and you know what, you know, 18 or 19, you know what you want to do.

00:55:14.360 That certainly was not me. And, uh, I took some time and I figured it out and this, for me, it's

00:55:19.640 this, it's a somewhat unique line of work. Uh, but there are many different careers you can choose

00:55:29.380 where a college education will be at a minimum pointless. And you know what? All of those are

00:55:37.000 careers where it's, if it's, it's just all about the product, right? So for me, if I can create

00:55:45.440 content that people enjoy and want to listen to it, like no one cares. No one's checking the wall

00:55:49.740 to see if there are degrees in the wall. No one cares about that. Either you enjoy the content or

00:55:52.780 you don't. It's as simple as that. Um, and there are many careers that are like that, that are outside

00:55:57.740 of media. It's like either you can do it or you can't. And if you can do it, nobody cares if you,

00:56:02.680 what, what, no one cares what school you went to, if you went to school at all.

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00:57:14.500 could talk about something a bit more serious. Yesterday, we discussed the story of the leftist

00:57:19.260 activist in Philadelphia who was murdered in his home after spending the previous several years

00:57:24.040 aggressively downplaying the violent crime problem in his city. And he mocked those who pointed out that

00:57:29.160 Philadelphia had become a crime-ridden wasteland. And then he himself ultimately fell victim to the

00:57:34.360 problem that he denied. So it turns out that reality still exists and will assert itself even

00:57:40.880 if you have your head firmly planted in the sand. And that was in Philadelphia. Now we have a story out

00:57:45.260 of New York with some very similar themes. The Post Millennial reports, a stabbing took place early

00:57:51.100 Monday morning in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood claiming the life of poet and far-left

00:57:57.120 activist Ryan Carson. The 32-year-old was walking down the sidewalk with his girlfriend when he was

00:58:01.180 attacked by a stranger. A video emerged of the incident. It shows the couple sitting on a bench

00:58:05.240 on the sidewalk when a man walks past them in a black hoodie. The man crosses the street, walks half a

00:58:10.600 block down, then begins kicking over scooters in the street. The couple rise and walk in the same

00:58:15.000 direction when the man turns around and approaches the couple. The couple continue walking toward him.

00:58:18.820 A confrontation ensues wherein Carson puts up his hands and seems to attempt to dispel the tension.

00:58:23.000 The man gets close to him and Carson pushes him off. Surveillance footage cuts to after the

00:58:27.160 stabbing with Carson on the ground and his girlfriend standing by him. The attacker makes a motion toward

00:58:31.700 her as well before moving off. According to the New York Post, the incident took place shortly before

00:58:35.760 4 a.m. on Monday, just near a bus stop. Okay, so there is a video, as it says, of the incident. I'm not

00:58:42.800 going to play the part where Carson is actually stabbed to death. No reason for anyone to watch that,

00:58:46.480 but I want you to see everything that led up to this murder. Watch.

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00:59:45.760 Now, this is obviously very sad to see.

00:59:57.680 It's tragic any time a deranged, violent, useless social parasite who's been left to

01:00:02.920 roam the streets by our even more useless justice system randomly murder someone.

01:00:07.580 It's obviously always a terrible thing.

01:00:08.860 And also we should acknowledge that Carson appears in that video to place himself between

01:00:12.360 the crazy guy and his girlfriend, potentially saving her life in the process.

01:00:16.100 And that takes real courage.

01:00:17.500 So it's not for the sake of gloating, obviously, that we point out that Carson was not only

01:00:22.760 a far left activist, but according to reporting from Andy Ngo, was a self-described Antifa member.

01:00:28.040 And his girlfriend, Ngo reports, had previously posted anti-cop sentiments, writing that the

01:00:33.360 police do not protect you along with ACAB and BLM.

01:00:37.080 Now, these details are relevant, not because we want to dunk over a dead body, but because

01:00:41.220 there are very important lessons that must be learned in order to prevent this sort of

01:00:46.060 thing from happening in the future.

01:00:47.780 So let's review this.

01:00:51.120 First of all, Ryan and his girlfriend are out walking the streets of Brooklyn at 4 a.m.

01:00:56.880 Now, I don't know what they were doing out there or why they were out there.

01:01:00.100 The Daily Mail claims that they were waiting for a bus, but in the video, you can see them

01:01:03.900 getting up from the bench and walking away from it towards someplace else.

01:01:08.360 But even if they were taking the bus, either way, you don't walk in the city at 4 a.m.

01:01:13.760 and you don't take public transportation in the city at 4 a.m.

01:01:18.000 Everything is more dangerous after dark in the city, and every person you encounter has

01:01:21.820 a greater likelihood of doing you harm.

01:01:23.940 That's not paranoia.

01:01:24.900 It's just the reality.

01:01:25.920 So mistake number one was being there in the first place.

01:01:29.500 Second, he sees the lone black male in a hoodie walk by at 4 a.m.

01:01:33.620 And he and his girlfriend immediately get up and walk the same direction.

01:01:39.380 They don't even wait for a few minutes to let him pass and put some distance in between

01:01:43.260 them.

01:01:43.760 They decide to head his direction when they're 20 feet away from him.

01:01:47.620 They don't cross the street, as they should have done.

01:01:49.840 They don't turn and walk the other way, which also would have been a better choice.

01:01:52.820 They walk right towards him, which was mistake number two.

01:01:55.760 And third, when the guy goes crazy and starts knocking over scooters or whatever he was doing,

01:01:59.960 Carson continues to walk towards the commotion.

01:02:03.540 And when the crazy guy notices them and starts screaming at them, Carson tries to engage,

01:02:08.020 telling him to chill as if he had any chance of calming a knife-wielding psycho who's going

01:02:13.240 berserk on a street corner in the middle of the night.

01:02:16.460 And as soon as the crazy guy started yelling at Carson, saying, what are you looking at?

01:02:20.020 And, you know, et cetera, Carson still could have probably escaped with his life if he had

01:02:24.700 simply turned and crossed the street and, and don't stop making eye contact, just go

01:02:31.000 the other way and gotten himself and his girlfriend out of the situation.

01:02:35.220 But he didn't do that.

01:02:37.180 Now, there's a whole list of common sense judgment calls that Carson could have made,

01:02:41.080 but he didn't.

01:02:42.560 And now, tragically, he's dead because of it.

01:02:45.200 This is where his status as a far-left activist comes into play.

01:02:49.020 Not for making fun of him, but for potentially understanding why he made this series of glaring,

01:02:57.140 easily avoidable errors.

01:02:59.520 Now, we cannot know for sure what was in his head at the time.

01:03:02.140 But we do know that leftist ideology will not allow its adherents to make common sense

01:03:06.680 judgment calls because those judgment calls are based on stereotypes.

01:03:11.760 According to Carson's ideology, it would make him racist to cross the street and avoid that

01:03:16.420 interaction.

01:03:16.980 It would be judgmental.

01:03:18.160 It would be marginalizing.

01:03:19.220 It would be otherizing.

01:03:21.760 Leftist ideology would rather that you be killed than you make those kinds of assumptions.

01:03:27.600 Even if your assumptions are statistically justified, especially if they're statistically

01:03:31.980 justified.

01:03:33.420 Leftist ideology says it's better to die than that.

01:03:37.360 And Ryan Carson did.

01:03:39.520 Now, this has become a major problem.

01:03:42.320 As human beings, we should have an innate ability to calculate risk, recognize patterns,

01:03:48.160 and assess potential hazards.

01:03:50.140 And most of this should be automatic, almost unconscious.

01:03:54.180 This basic level of situational awareness is what keeps you alive.

01:03:58.300 But leftism has been working for years to interfere with that process, to kind of short-circuit that

01:04:05.000 hardwired programming that we all have and to negate our ability to run these kinds of

01:04:11.280 assessments.

01:04:11.660 In fact, the whole mental process I just described in their religion, the religion of leftism, leftism is called

01:04:18.100 unconscious bias and implicit bias.

01:04:21.160 And it's something that they say we should actively reject.

01:04:25.640 According to leftism, when our gut says that guy looks dangerous or don't walk that way or this seems kind of sketchy,

01:04:31.840 we're being driven by the racism embedded deeply in our subconscious, and we should ignore it.

01:04:37.180 You know, the proper response, they say, is to ignore what our gut is telling us and charge ahead.

01:04:42.760 And this is not a straw man.

01:04:45.040 Like, go up to any DEI professional and ask them.

01:04:48.260 Show them the first part of that video before we get to the stabbing and the guy going crazy.

01:04:53.000 You got the two white guys on, the white people on the bench, lone black male in a hoodie, walks by,

01:04:57.620 4 a.m. in the city, you know, and ask anyone who works in DEI, would it be okay for those two white

01:05:07.020 people on the bench to look at that guy and say, you know, I think I'm gonna go the other, I'm gonna

01:05:09.860 cross the street.

01:05:11.260 They will all tell you no.

01:05:13.340 No, if you do that, you're racist.

01:05:16.000 No, you have to de-center your whiteness and dismantle white supremacy.

01:05:21.180 Even if it means ending up bleeding to death on the sidewalk.

01:05:23.580 Now, those of us whose minds have not been overtaken by the virus of leftism,

01:05:29.720 we make these gut-level risk calculations all the time.

01:05:33.620 And we should admit it.

01:05:35.880 Because there's nothing wrong with it.

01:05:38.060 In fact, not only is there nothing wrong with it, but it's the right thing to do.

01:05:41.080 So just as one of hundreds of potential examples from my own life, and any reasonable person,

01:05:46.380 we all have hundreds of examples.

01:05:47.660 So here's just a recent one for me.

01:05:49.220 Recently, I was out driving with my son at night, coming from somewhere to my house.

01:05:54.860 And it wasn't very late, but it was dark.

01:05:56.860 And we needed gas.

01:05:58.420 So I pulled into a gas station.

01:06:00.400 And before I stopped at a pump, I noticed a couple of guys hanging around off to the side.

01:06:04.640 These were young black males, both in hoodies, not pumping gas.

01:06:07.800 Apparently not engaging in any kind of legitimate gas station-related business.

01:06:12.860 Now, did I know for sure that they were dangerous?

01:06:15.520 Of course not.

01:06:16.340 They weren't visibly committing any crimes.

01:06:17.960 They weren't doing anything that justified calling the police.

01:06:20.100 They were just there.

01:06:22.300 Now, maybe if I had pulled up to a pump and gotten out of my vehicle,

01:06:25.820 they would have come over to me and talked to me about the gospel of Jesus Christ.

01:06:29.480 Maybe they were out there fundraising for the Knights of Columbus.

01:06:31.840 It's possible.

01:06:32.540 Anything is possible.

01:06:33.460 But the situation didn't feel right to me.

01:06:36.660 I got a bad vibe.

01:06:37.600 I didn't like the way it all looked.

01:06:38.760 I had my son in the car with me.

01:06:40.160 I'm not taking any chances.

01:06:41.440 So I left.

01:06:42.080 And the whole process of risk calculation took about 10 seconds.

01:06:45.760 You pull in, didn't even stop the car.

01:06:47.100 Pulled in and said, I don't like the look of this.

01:06:49.280 I'll go somewhere else.

01:06:50.940 Now, did I make stereotypical assumptions?

01:06:54.200 Hell yes, I did.

01:06:55.500 What else was I going to do?

01:06:57.000 You can only work with the information you have immediately available.

01:07:00.920 Was the assumption based entirely on race?

01:07:03.060 No, obviously not.

01:07:04.080 If I'd pulled in and seen a middle-aged black woman at a pump putting gas in her Camry or whatever,

01:07:08.440 I wouldn't have been concerned.

01:07:09.940 So my calculation was taking everything into account.

01:07:13.480 Everything about the situation, the people, everything.

01:07:15.920 Many different factors, including how they were dressed, what they're doing, the context,

01:07:20.080 or in this case, not doing as they were not pumping gas.

01:07:22.860 But if I was a leftist, the point is, then the fact that they were black males would have prevented

01:07:29.700 me from running that risk calculation at all.

01:07:32.260 I would have felt guilty for making assumptions based on stereotypes, however grounded in reality

01:07:37.100 those stereotypes might be.

01:07:39.420 I would have stopped the car, I would have gotten out, and maybe everything would have

01:07:42.580 been fine.

01:07:43.520 Or maybe I would have gotten carjacked with my child in the backseat.

01:07:47.100 These are the risks that leftism would have you make.

01:07:51.480 Now, late last month, a white female tech CEO in Baltimore named Pava LaPere was brutally

01:07:56.120 beaten and murdered inside her apartment complex, allegedly by someone named Jason Dean Billingsley.

01:08:00.940 And Jason Dean Billingsley is a black man with an extensive rap sheet that includes assault and

01:08:06.360 rape.

01:08:07.100 And yet he was still out on the streets, of course.

01:08:09.780 But how did Billingsley get into the apartment complex?

01:08:13.540 Well, the doors are secure, and only residents can get inside.

01:08:16.720 Well, according to investigators, LaPere opened the door for Billingsley and let him into the

01:08:22.060 building.

01:08:22.360 He said that he forgot his key, and she believed him, or pretended to.

01:08:26.080 And then after letting him in, she got into an elevator with this ominous-looking guy with

01:08:34.040 neck tattoos.

01:08:35.340 There's a guy with neck tattoos trying to get into what we assume is a higher-income apartment

01:08:40.820 complex, because you've got a CEO living there.

01:08:43.780 And she sees this guy and says, oh yeah, he looks like he lives here, even though clearly

01:08:48.000 he doesn't.

01:08:48.560 A short time later, she was dead on the roof.

01:08:52.060 Her body wasn't discovered for several days.

01:08:54.680 Now, we don't know LaPere's politics, but as a white female tech CEO in Baltimore, we

01:08:59.060 can probably assume that she wasn't exactly the sort of person who would walk around in

01:09:03.360 a MAGA hat.

01:09:04.860 And so, we can also safely assume that a certain amount of white guilt led her to open the door

01:09:10.440 for this guy with neck tattoos, who didn't have a key for the building, and then getting

01:09:16.360 an elevator with him.

01:09:18.440 She didn't want to stereotype.

01:09:20.180 So instead, she died.

01:09:23.100 Another tragedy.

01:09:24.680 And what makes it all the more tragic is that it is all so easily avoidable.

01:09:30.620 All of it can be avoided.

01:09:33.700 But first, you have to free your mind from leftism.

01:09:38.580 That'll do it for the show today.

01:09:39.640 Thanks for watching.

01:09:40.440 Thanks for listening.

01:09:41.300 Have a great day.

01:09:42.620 Godspeed.

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