The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1241 - California Passes An 'Anti-Racist' Law So Insane That It Seems Like A Joke

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, it sounds like a joke, but it's true.

00:00:02.780 California has instated an ebony alert system designed specifically for missing black people.

00:00:07.780 In fact, they've started to racially segregate the whole missing person system,

00:00:11.680 and it gets crazier from there somehow.

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00:01:47.420 So here's a hypothetical.

00:01:49.320 Let's say you're a 25-year-old adult male living in Compton, California,

00:01:53.200 and you flip burgers for a living.

00:01:54.980 And then one day after a fight with your parents or your siblings or whoever,

00:01:58.680 you decide that you've had enough of the day-to-day,

00:02:01.240 and maybe you get a little high,

00:02:03.580 and you decide that you're going to be a no-show at work,

00:02:05.980 and you go for, I don't know, a road trip with your friends to Las Vegas for a long weekend.

00:02:10.400 It's all very fun and irresponsible behavior,

00:02:12.560 and as it happens, it's not exactly unheard of in places like Compton.

00:02:17.420 And let's say that your boss at the burger shop notices that you didn't show up for work,

00:02:21.460 and he reports you missing.

00:02:23.520 And following company protocol, he calls the police,

00:02:26.500 and he tells them that you've gone AWOL.

00:02:28.820 He says he has no idea why this is happening or what's going on, but you didn't show up.

00:02:33.040 Well, how should law enforcement respond in that situation?

00:02:37.820 Starting next summer, in the biggest state in the country,

00:02:40.200 the answer to that question will depend on one thing, your skin color. 0.93

00:02:44.780 If you're black, the cops will respond to your boss's call by buzzing every cell phone in the state, 1.00

00:02:50.600 telling millions of people to be on the lookout for you. 0.98

00:02:53.420 State authorities will plaster your name and description all over billboards on the interstate.

00:02:58.120 They'll even put you on television in the ticker at the bottom of all the college football games. 0.97

00:03:03.220 That's if you're black, to be clear. 0.90

00:03:05.260 Now, if you happen to be white, on the other hand, well, it's a different story. 0.96

00:03:09.020 If you're white, the authorities will do precisely none of that. 1.00

00:03:12.540 Instead, they'll probably just hang up the phone and tell the pizza guy that he's wasting their time.

00:03:17.920 Now, if that sounds far-fetched, you should know that actually it's not.

00:03:20.820 It is, in fact, what's coming very soon in the state of California.

00:03:23.860 It's the result of a new law that was just signed by California's governor

00:03:27.500 and future presidential candidate Gavin Newsom.

00:03:29.760 Under this law, if black people under age 25 go missing for any reason,

00:03:37.020 then law enforcement has the authority to issue something called, and I'm not making this name up,

00:03:42.200 it's called an ebony alert.

00:03:44.320 It's kind of like an amber alert, but in several key respects, it's very different.

00:03:49.300 Watch.

00:03:50.760 On our news tonight, Governor Newsom signed a law that can help track down young people of color

00:03:55.840 who have disappeared.

00:03:56.920 Tonight, we're getting answers on how the new ebony alerts will work

00:04:00.940 and who can benefit from them.

00:04:03.500 California now has a new tool to help find missing black youth.

00:04:07.960 Amber alerts have been around for two decades,

00:04:10.480 and since that time, more than 370 children and at-risk individuals have been located.

00:04:16.640 Time is of the essence when it comes to an actual alert.

00:04:19.340 But some critics say African-Americans are often overlooked by the notification system.

00:04:24.600 You see the difference of when white girls go missing and black girls go missing. 0.70

00:04:29.360 The sense of urgency is not there.

00:04:30.880 African-Americans, whether they're children or young adults, are often listed as runaways.

00:04:36.240 State Senator Stephen Bradford is the author of a new law that creates ebony alerts

00:04:41.060 for a community disproportionately impacted by missing youth.

00:04:45.180 African-American young individuals make up almost 40% of those individuals who come up missing.

00:04:51.740 It's going to put significant change in how we react.

00:04:54.440 Barry Axios with Voice of the Youth says many young women who vanish end up being victims

00:04:59.560 of sex trafficking.

00:05:00.660 Here in Sacramento, especially, a lot of our girls get exploited. 1.00

00:05:04.260 In addition to amber alerts, California also has blue alerts for suspects who attack

00:05:09.760 a law enforcement officer, silver alerts for missing seniors and people with disabilities,

00:05:14.840 and feather alerts for missing indigenous people.

00:05:18.320 So how is an ebony alert different?

00:05:21.460 Expanding the age from 12 to 25, because right now, a amber alert is for 17 years or younger.

00:05:28.460 Okay.

00:05:29.260 All right.

00:05:29.640 So I wanted to hear all that because there's a lot going on here, starting with the fact

00:05:33.280 that California already apparently has something called feather alerts for Indians.

00:05:38.100 And now they're adding ebony alerts to the mix, because naturally, when you think of

00:05:42.080 black people, you think of the word ebony, just like feathers come to mind when you're

00:05:46.660 talking about Native Americans. 0.88

00:05:48.480 Now, I suppose there are probably more stereotypical and insulting names they could have come up

00:05:53.060 with, but these are still pretty bad.

00:05:56.160 And for the record, I had to double check that news clip to make sure it wasn't satire,

00:06:00.040 make sure this wasn't some like way too on the nose Babylon bee skit, but it's real.

00:06:04.300 They really have feather alerts out West for missing Indians.

00:06:09.380 So people in California will be sleeping or watching a football game or drinking some

00:06:12.980 zesty craft beer.

00:06:14.160 Then they'll get a feather alert on their phones, and they're expected to, I guess,

00:06:17.640 drop everything they're doing and scramble to find some missing indigenous person once

00:06:21.080 they see a feather alert pop up.

00:06:23.760 That's a real thing that happens in California, at least since last year, when feather alerts

00:06:27.880 were first implemented.

00:06:29.420 And this didn't strike anyone in California as being completely and totally absurd, apparently.

00:06:32.820 We can speculate as to why that might be.

00:06:35.420 Maybe a lot of Berkeley grads honestly believe that white supremacist cowboys are still out

00:06:39.820 there tormenting the indigenous peoples at every turn. 0.97

00:06:43.820 Whatever the case, they do indeed have feather alerts in California, and they're not joking

00:06:46.980 about it.

00:06:47.300 This is serious business.

00:06:49.280 Given that simple, if incredible, fact, you have to wonder why California authorities haven't

00:06:52.800 deployed, or maybe they eventually will deploy, a whole assortment of other stereotypical

00:06:57.400 alerts for every conceivable ethnicity under the sun.

00:07:00.640 At this point, why not keep going?

00:07:03.160 They have an alert that's tailor-made for Indians, and why stop there? 1.00

00:07:07.300 Possibilities are endless.

00:07:08.920 They could have a General Tso's alert for missing Asians, for example.

00:07:12.720 They could implement a sombrero alert for Hispanics, a leprechaun alert for missing Irish Americans. 0.95

00:07:19.140 Of course, the left doesn't care about two of those three groups, so this probably wouldn't

00:07:22.480 happen.

00:07:23.100 But given that they're now embracing every stereotype imaginable in their quest to be anti-racist,

00:07:28.140 it's not hard to picture something like this down the line.

00:07:30.780 And actually, on second thought, by the way, I think Kung Paweller has a better ring to

00:07:33.800 it.

00:07:34.100 And if they don't implement that for missing Asian people, then at least this would be a 1.00

00:07:37.300 good system to put in place for when the Uber Eats driver doesn't show up with your

00:07:41.160 Chinese food order.

00:07:42.420 Put out the Kung Paweller. 1.00

00:07:44.620 Find your food.

00:07:45.360 Now, at the same time, if you pay close attention to that news clip we just played, you probably

00:07:49.820 have more pressing concerns.

00:07:51.860 For example, you might wonder why black people need a separate system of emergency alerts 1.00

00:07:57.460 at all.

00:07:58.140 I mean, for one thing, amber alerts don't do much, no matter what your skin color might

00:08:02.800 be.

00:08:03.000 As a recent USA Today analysis found, quote, amber alerts are extremely rare, and even when

00:08:07.680 they're used, it's unclear how much they help bring children home safely.

00:08:12.080 Now, on top of that, the data we have suggests that the amber alert system is not discriminating

00:08:18.280 against anyone.

00:08:20.320 Like, in fact, it's exactly proportional.

00:08:22.880 So according to that same analysis, quote, from 2017 through the end of 2021, black children

00:08:27.540 made up 37% of missing child reports and nearly 37% of amber alerts, indicating the issues,

00:08:34.800 the alerts are issued proportionally.

00:08:37.000 So what exactly is the problem here?

00:08:39.120 It's exactly proportional.

00:08:40.840 What conceivable reason could there be to implement yet another iteration of a useless

00:08:46.280 system that clearly isn't discriminatory in any way?

00:08:50.640 Well, here's an NAACP flack and California State Senator Stephen Bradford, who is going 0.99

00:08:55.840 to try to explain that to us.

00:08:57.620 Listen.

00:08:58.940 The NAACP California-Hawaii State Conference brought the idea for an ebony alert to State

00:09:04.880 Senator Stephen Bradford out of Los Angeles County.

00:09:07.560 The alert would be specifically for black youth and young black women between the ages of

00:09:12.780 12 and 25.

00:09:14.480 Under Amber Alert criteria, they say black youth are disproportionately classified as runaways.

00:09:20.360 Criteria for the Amber Alert is that law enforcement has to believe that there's suspicion of someone

00:09:25.940 being abducted.

00:09:27.000 As for the ebony alert, we kind of broaden that language to basically if you're missing

00:09:32.800 under a suspicious or unexplained circumstance.

00:09:36.440 Senator Bradford says for him, the data is clear.

00:09:39.520 Although African Americans make up 14% of the country's population, they make up almost 38%

00:09:45.900 of individuals who go missing every year.

00:09:48.560 It's unfortunate that here in California in 2023 that we need separate types of notifications,

00:09:55.380 but we see through the data that these groups are being ignored when it comes to

00:09:59.980 finding them and dedicating the same level of resources to help bring them home.

00:10:05.080 Okay, so first of all, note how they frame this.

00:10:07.160 They say that these ebony alerts are for black youth and young black women, but these new ebony

00:10:12.660 alerts in California by law will also sound for 25-year-old black males.

00:10:17.280 So let's just be clear about that.

00:10:19.420 But moving on, what they're saying is that a lot of black people who vanish aren't being

00:10:24.160 counted as missing persons and therefore aren't eligible for Amber Alerts.

00:10:28.400 And they're saying that's racist.

00:10:30.000 So understand their argument.

00:10:31.280 You need to know that in order for authorities to issue an Amber Alert by law, authorities

00:10:35.340 need some evidence that a child was abducted or disappeared for some reason against their

00:10:39.800 will.

00:10:40.160 And yes, it has to be a child, not an adult.

00:10:42.900 If there's no evidence of that, then the child is not classified as missing.

00:10:46.160 They're classified instead as runaways.

00:10:49.240 And you would think this especially makes sense for adults.

00:10:52.780 If a 24-year-old person goes missing and there's no evidence at all that there's any

00:10:56.920 foul play, then in almost every case, that's just someone who ran off for whatever their

00:11:03.360 reasons are.

00:11:03.940 It's not actually an emergency that the whole state needs to be alerted to in the vast majority

00:11:09.720 of cases, if the circumstances are like that.

00:11:12.000 So what the proponents of Ebony Alerts are saying is that the police are deliberately

00:11:16.780 misclassifying black people as runaways just to cook the missing persons data because, 0.95

00:11:22.060 of course, the police are racist.

00:11:23.900 In fact, that's exactly what California legislators say in the text of their legislation on Ebony

00:11:29.600 Alerts.

00:11:30.020 We don't have to guess about this.

00:11:31.200 Here's what California lawmakers put in the bill.

00:11:33.020 Quote, being identified as a runaway can also be a legal loophole for law enforcement because

00:11:37.580 when a child is listed as a runaway, the police are allowed to delay response and investigation

00:11:41.360 time.

00:11:42.120 In cases where the child is mislabeled as a runaway, this delay is crucial time that could

00:11:47.200 be spent locating a child in danger.

00:11:49.240 So they're just coming out and saying that the police are lying about the large number of

00:11:53.900 black runaways. 0.83

00:11:55.200 The cops are taking advantage of a loophole in the law so that black youth can be abducted 1.00

00:11:59.140 without any investigation. 0.84

00:12:00.120 They're saying that there are many cases, apparently, where the police suspect that a black child

00:12:05.300 has been kidnapped and is in imminent mortal danger, and yet they just classify it as a 0.96

00:12:09.700 runaway because they don't care when black kids are kidnapped. 0.87

00:12:11.960 That's what they're saying, which is a claim that's spelled out in the legislation from the 0.96

00:12:16.980 legislature of the state of California.

00:12:19.360 They can't think of any other conceivable explanation for why a lot of black people might be unaccounted

00:12:23.900 for.

00:12:24.480 Their theory is that all these young black people are being abducted and that there's some 0.94

00:12:29.020 sort of epidemic of black kids being kidnapped, and all the racist cops have decided to conspire 0.97

00:12:34.820 to hide that fact. 0.97

00:12:36.840 They know that all these missing black people definitely can't have anything to do with,

00:12:40.440 I don't know, the fact that 70% of black children are born to unmarried mothers.

00:12:44.600 They also know that it can't possibly be apparently related to the fact that more than 64% of black

00:12:49.200 children grow up in single-parent homes, which the chances of a child being a runaway when

00:12:56.500 they grow up in a fatherless home, those chances are much, much higher.

00:13:01.320 And so it makes a lot of sense that if you have a community where there are more fatherless

00:13:05.060 homes, you're going to have a lot more runaways. 0.90

00:13:06.680 All of that makes sense.

00:13:07.720 It's exactly what we see in all the data.

00:13:09.600 But none of that is relevant in their mind.

00:13:14.380 Instead, California's legislature is convinced that the problem is racist cops who have apparently 0.86

00:13:18.240 decided in unison not to investigate missing persons cases involving black people.

00:13:23.140 And the California government's solution to that invented problem is to implement the

00:13:27.260 same solution that South Africa implemented long ago, which is race-based policing, where

00:13:32.220 people with preferred skin colors are entitled to a police response, while people of disfavored 1.00

00:13:37.220 skin colors are ignored.

00:13:39.060 They're codifying that into law.

00:13:41.860 Here's the key part of this new ebony alert legislation in California.

00:13:45.100 Quote, a law enforcement agency may request that an ebony alert be activated if that agency

00:13:49.140 determines that an ebony alert would be an effective tool in investigation of missing black

00:13:53.460 youth, including a young woman or girl.

00:13:56.340 That's it.

00:13:57.020 That's all that's necessary.

00:13:57.960 There's no requirement that authorities suspect an abduction or some kind of kidnapping.

00:14:02.100 That's the standard for issuing a statewide alert for non-black, non-white people 1.00

00:14:07.080 when they go missing under the amber alert system.

00:14:10.400 The text of this new legislation in California admits that.

00:14:13.340 Here's what it says.

00:14:13.980 Quote, the amber alert system must fulfill strict criteria for the message to be broadcast.

00:14:18.960 If these criteria are not met, an amber alert cannot be issued and the child is labeled

00:14:23.160 as a runaway.

00:14:24.940 But the ebony alert system does not have to obey any such restrictions.

00:14:28.040 It's enough, according to this new legislation, for authorities to determine that an ebony alert

00:14:32.040 would be a, quote, effective tool for finding a young black person who's missing.

00:14:37.080 There's no other standards outlined in the law, just a bunch of suggestions.

00:14:42.260 The bill goes on to state, for example, that if a black youth disappears under unexplained

00:14:46.160 circumstances, then that could be sufficient to trigger the statewide alert.

00:14:51.360 Non-black victims, by contrast, have to show that they've been kidnapped, essentially. 0.93

00:14:56.120 So let's take stock of what's happening.

00:14:57.660 The state of California is taking a system that doesn't appear to work, which is the

00:15:02.380 amber alert system, and they're duplicating it.

00:15:05.300 Only this time, they're baking in a policy of explicit racial segregation.

00:15:09.360 So they're doubling down on something that doesn't seem to actually be working.

00:15:14.440 Classic government move there.

00:15:17.180 And, which is also becoming a classic move, they are racializing it.

00:15:21.820 Now, it's not clear how this will work, by the way.

00:15:24.300 Let's say a 17-year-old black teenager goes missing.

00:15:26.560 Does that teenager get an amber alert in addition to an ebony alert? 0.99

00:15:31.100 And for that matter, what happens if an elderly Native American disappears? 0.78

00:15:34.340 Do they get a feather alert along with a silver alert?

00:15:37.920 Is there some way to combine all these categories and have an ebony silver feather alert?

00:15:43.020 All it would take is an elderly black person who identifies as a Native American, and we can do it.

00:15:48.600 We can achieve the singularity.

00:15:50.380 The possibilities are truly endless.

00:15:51.940 Or maybe in that scenario, the 17-year-old black teenager wouldn't get an amber alert because they're getting the ebony alert.

00:16:01.260 Maybe that's the way to work.

00:16:03.140 You know, if a black person goes missing, they get the ebony alert, and if a white person goes missing, they get the amber alert. 0.70

00:16:07.860 Well, in that case, California will have established a truly segregated emergency alert system with a separate alert for whites and blacks.

00:16:16.540 At that point, they might as well go all the way and change amber alert to ivory alert.

00:16:22.400 Of course, either scenario is insane and counterproductive, to say the least.

00:16:27.040 It defies logic, really.

00:16:28.260 I mean, think about it.

00:16:28.740 If you're really worried about racist cops and MAGA Republicans who supposedly aren't trying to find missing black people, why would your solution be to categorize all future missing person alerts by race? 0.85

00:16:41.620 By your own logic, now the racist cops and MAGA Republicans can simply ignore the alerts for whatever race they don't like. 0.55

00:16:48.380 So you're making it easier in that case.

00:16:50.380 Again, we can mock this all day, but all these contradictions and inconsistencies aren't simply the inevitable result of top-down, state-driven social engineering.

00:16:58.460 They're also the inevitable result of the worldview of California politicians and liberals more generally who refuse to recognize reality even when it hits them in the face.

00:17:08.240 You know, the truth is that a lot of young black people do run away from their homes.

00:17:11.620 They do it voluntarily.

00:17:13.060 And the reason they do it is that when they were young, their fathers ran away from them.

00:17:17.440 It's a tragedy that repeats itself generation after generation.

00:17:21.400 It's one of the reasons every urban center in this country is getting more dangerous every year.

00:17:26.380 But predictably, instead of doing something about that problem, instead of addressing the crisis of single-parent homes in the state of California and across the country, Democrats have once again decided to blame their political opponents.

00:17:36.700 They're saying the cops are responsible.

00:17:38.360 They're claiming MAGA Republicans are behind it, etc.

00:17:41.760 That's the explanation they've settled on.

00:17:43.360 As a result, a lot of Californians are about to wake up at 3 a.m. to random blaring alerts on their cell phones, along with all the earthquake notifications and the push alerts about newly deposited poop on the sidewalk.

00:17:55.460 Of course, many Californians will decide to opt out of these alerts indefinitely because they're too constant and too annoying.

00:18:01.240 And a lot of police resources will be wasted pursuing runaways who left home voluntarily.

00:18:06.560 And in the end, black people will continue to disappear, probably at the exact same rate. 1.00

00:18:12.600 Unless something extraordinary occurs, this cycle will continue, unburdened, as Kamala Harris might say, by what has been.

00:18:21.500 For California liberals like Gavin Newsom, that's good enough.

00:18:24.660 You know, for everyone else, and especially for every non-Ebony person who goes missing in the state of California, this sends a very clear message. 0.68

00:18:30.600 It is an explicit betrayal of the race-neutral system of laws that this country has upheld for generations.

00:18:38.300 So this new law in California, I mean, obviously needs to be struck down as quickly as possible.

00:18:42.820 It should be condemned by every Republican politician and conservative power center in the country.

00:18:48.020 You know, a law that explicitly says, if you are a runaway, you only get an alert if you are black and not if you're white.

00:18:56.060 I mean, that kind of law should be condemned by everyone.

00:18:59.480 And if that doesn't happen, if your race can somehow dictate how you're treated by the police, then nothing else really matters.

00:19:05.140 I mean, all the debates about Ukraine and the debt ceiling and Speaker of the House, they all pale in comparison.

00:19:10.860 When they come for you, whatever that charge might be, you'll be judged on the basis of characteristics you can't control.

00:19:16.480 If you're not indigenous or a person of color, then no cell phone alert will sound when you disappear. 1.00

00:19:22.760 There'll be no signs on the highway telling motorists to be on the lookout for someone matching your description.

00:19:27.280 You'll be isolated and demonized and condemned.

00:19:30.520 You'll be classified as a runaway and forgotten immediately, which is a depressing realization in some respects, kind of demoralizing.

00:19:38.100 But in reality, it's clarifying. It tells you something important.

00:19:40.520 It communicates loud and clear the intent of the people who hate you more than anything else in the world.

00:19:45.100 It tells you that everything they pretend is an injustice, isn't reality, a punishment that they desperately want to inflict on you.

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00:21:05.440 Daily Wire has this report.

00:21:06.500 Representative Rashida Tlaib, who has an extensive history of anti-Semitism, lashed out Wednesday after a video of her went viral on Tuesday night, 0.95

00:21:13.100 where she repeatedly refused to condemn the brutal acts of terrorism committed by Palestinian terrorists against the Jewish state of Israel.

00:21:18.780 More than 1,200 Israelis were murdered in the attacks on Saturday, with thousands more injured.

00:21:22.280 At least 22 Americans were killed. 17 more are still unaccounted for.

00:21:25.220 And she was asked while she was walking the halls of Congress what her, you know, if she's going to condemn these acts.

00:21:35.620 And we have that video where she gives her answer, which is no answer at all, which is also an answer in and of itself.

00:21:42.140 Anyway, here it is.

00:21:44.980 Terrorists have cut off babies' heads and burned children alive.

00:21:49.880 Do you support Israel's rights to defend themselves against this neutrality?

00:21:53.240 We're just going to go through here.

00:21:55.500 You can't comment about Hamas terrorists chopping off babies' heads?

00:22:05.160 Congresswoman, do you have a comment on Hamas terrorists chopping off babies' heads?

00:22:12.660 Do you have nothing to say about Hamas terrorists chopping off babies' heads?

00:22:16.160 Do you condone what Hamas has done? 0.88

00:22:23.240 Chopping off babies' heads, burning children alive, breaking women in the street?

00:22:27.580 Do you have no comment about children's heads being chopped off? 0.93

00:22:41.200 Congressman, why do you have a Palestinian flag outside your office if you do not condone what Hamas terrorists have done to Israel? 0.56

00:22:47.600 I mean, it's pretty incredible.

00:22:56.720 Well, on one hand, it's not incredible because you can't be surprised when Democrats refuse to condemn the murder of babies.

00:23:02.660 After all, they've been actively funding the murder of babies and cheering it on in this country for over half a century.

00:23:09.460 So this is not surprising on one end, but still, you know, you'd think it'd be very, like, this is, this, if this is a gotcha question for you, I mean, you could always say that the person asking the questions is trying to embarrass Rashida Tlaib and it's a gotcha question. 0.97

00:23:24.400 And that might be true, but only because, only because, like, we know that she's a scumbag and that this somehow is a difficult question for her. 0.74

00:23:33.220 But if that's, if that's a gotcha question, if that's a difficult question for you, that's your fault. 0.98

00:23:37.700 That says something about you.

00:23:39.420 Because for any normal person with any kind of functional moral compass, when you're asked, well, do you condemn this terrorist attack against civilians?

00:23:46.800 It's very easy to just say, of course I condemn it.

00:23:49.340 It's a horrible thing.

00:23:51.880 It's easy to say.

00:23:52.960 It's not, that's it.

00:23:54.120 That's all you have to say.

00:23:54.960 And, and if, if for some reason you can't say that, then really we have to assume that, that you support it.

00:24:04.140 Because why else would you not condemn it?

00:24:07.380 Um, and it's not as though it's an unfair question.

00:24:13.580 Yeah, I, I think for a lot of people to go up to them and ask, do you condemn a terrorist attack?

00:24:17.560 It's almost an unfair question because it, it, it, it's like, it should be so obvious.

00:24:21.860 Well, of course, of course you condemn.

00:24:22.880 To even ask the question is to imply that there, that there is a question about whether or not this person condemns it.

00:24:28.500 And so for most, most normal people, that's why you would never go up to a normal person on the street and say, do you condemn terrorist attacks?

00:24:34.120 Because you would assume that everybody does.

00:24:36.840 But in Rashida Tlaib's case, uh, there's at, at a minimum, a real question about how she feels about this.

00:24:43.260 Especially considering, yeah, she has that Palestinian flag hanging outside of her office. 0.99

00:24:46.540 And as far as that goes, here's one of her fellow Democrats defending the Palestinian flag outside of the office.

00:24:53.000 Let's listen.

00:24:54.660 Should your colleague Rashida Tlaib still have the Palestinian flag outside of her office?

00:24:59.100 I don't know what, she's Palestinian.

00:25:01.220 You know, that doesn't mean she's a terrorist.

00:25:04.700 It doesn't mean that she condones this.

00:25:07.100 Rashida, I haven't, I haven't, I fly a Danish flag, uh, in, at my house.

00:25:14.260 Um, it doesn't mean what?

00:25:17.660 Have you been supportive of her comments?

00:25:19.380 I disagree with some of her comments.

00:25:23.520 Um, she lamented the death on both sides.

00:25:27.240 Uh, and, and I think she, she condemned, I don't, I don't have her statement right in front of me, but she condemned, uh, terrorist activity.

00:25:38.640 Um, you know, actually the, the issue, even, even before this event occurred last weekend, uh, having a Palestinian flag,

00:25:49.260 outside of your office, uh, if, when you are a politician, you know, your office, when you work in Congress is a problem regardless of any terrorist attack.

00:25:59.120 And it's not the same.

00:26:00.240 Now, I don't like the idea, frankly, of, uh, of American politicians flying the flags of other countries, of other people, uh, anywhere, even at their own home.

00:26:09.500 Now, you can't prevent them from doing it at their own home, but, um, at, at your office, uh, it's, it's an issue regardless.

00:26:19.260 Okay.

00:26:19.960 You shouldn't have any, it shouldn't even be allowed to have any foreign flag flying anywhere outside of your office, anywhere. 0.68

00:26:31.460 Um, because you're an American politician and that should be as a, as a representative allegedly of the American people,

00:26:41.400 the only flag that you should be flying anywhere is the American flag.

00:26:47.100 So, it's already a problem.

00:26:49.740 And yes, when you have an American politician who's flying the flag of another people,

00:26:55.380 it does call into question their loyalties.

00:26:59.280 And, uh, except with Rashida Tlaib, I think there's actually no question at all.

00:27:02.720 It's pretty clear.

00:27:03.640 Okay.

00:27:03.820 I know I've dumped on Lindsey Graham all week and, uh, there's no need to continue because I've made my point,

00:27:08.780 but I'm going to continue anyway, because this latest clip from him is somehow, he's just getting more and more deranged,

00:27:15.280 uh, as each day goes on.

00:27:18.420 Uh, and he's one of the loudest voices right there, right now out there explicitly calling for a world war three.

00:27:24.860 You know, he, this is what he wants.

00:27:26.180 He wants a world war three, uh, which is going to, which, which certainly will result in the deaths of millions of, of people,

00:27:33.860 millions of Americans probably alone.

00:27:36.180 Um, so this is the latest clip from him.

00:27:38.560 And as I said, it's somehow the most deranged of all.

00:27:41.500 Listen to a little bit of this. 0.97

00:27:43.720 What I would do is I would bomb Iran's oil infrastructure. 1.00

00:27:48.040 The money financing terrorism comes from Iran. 0.97

00:27:51.520 Again, it's time for this terrorist state to pay a price for financing and supporting all this chaos.

00:27:58.040 Yes.

00:27:58.400 If you're the Iranians, if we're up to me, this war escalates. 0.98

00:28:02.280 I'm coming after you.

00:28:03.500 I think this is what I'm trying to clarify here because I, I'm wondering.

00:28:08.060 Us and Israel, us and Israel, us, the United States.

00:28:10.780 No, no, I'm going to be crystal clear.

00:28:12.580 The United, let me just, let me just, um, let me just understand you just to be clear.

00:28:17.320 You're saying that you would want the United States and Israel to bomb Iran, even in the 0.89

00:28:23.140 absence of direct evidence of their involvement in this attack.

00:28:28.840 Yeah.

00:28:29.820 So if there's an escalation, Abby, if there's people's throats being cut on television as

00:28:36.560 Israel goes into Gaza and they're threatening to kill the hostages, if Hezbollah is unleashed 0.93

00:28:43.960 on Israel in the north, it will be because Iran is supporting that. 0.82

00:28:49.580 If you don't get the connection between Iran and this terrorist activity by Hamas and Hezbollah,

00:28:55.060 you're missing a lot.

00:28:56.200 Okay.

00:28:56.360 This is a terrorist state. 0.91

00:28:58.380 So this is Lindsey Graham saying that even that, that he wants to bomb Iran, no matter 0.99

00:29:02.560 what, he wants to go bomb them right now.

00:29:04.620 And, uh, he wants to do it regardless of, of anything that's going on in Israel.

00:29:07.900 Even if we can't, even if there's, even if, you know, hypothetically for the sake of argument,

00:29:11.660 if there's no evidence, if we cannot establish any evidence that Iran's directly involved

00:29:15.480 in this, he still wants to go bomb them.

00:29:17.540 And he wants us to be involved in that. 0.67

00:29:19.280 He says us, he means Israel and ourselves and America should go bomb Iran, uh, which, which 1.00

00:29:25.160 obviously, which obviously is a kickoff of, uh, of a, uh, a much greater, uh, war that

00:29:32.820 quickly becomes a world war.

00:29:35.180 Um, I think one of the most relevant things about, about Lindsey Graham, well, there's

00:29:40.960 a couple of things here, and this is true of not all of these, uh, neocon war hawks,

00:29:45.680 but it's true of some of them.

00:29:47.460 Lindsey Graham, most of all, uh, first of all, he's been, he hasn't had a real job in, I

00:29:51.820 don't know, 30 or 40 years.

00:29:52.960 He's been three or four decades in, in public office.

00:29:56.140 Um, so he's already, for that reason, totally disconnected from average, normal people and

00:30:04.320 the concerns of average, normal people.

00:30:06.420 And on top of that too, I think it's relevant to point out that he's an old man, I don't 0.58

00:30:10.340 know, pushing 70, I imagine at this point.

00:30:12.680 And he has no kids.

00:30:14.300 He's a, uh, he's a lifelong, he's a lifelong bachelor as we call them to be polite.

00:30:20.060 Um, and he has no kids.

00:30:21.900 So he's a, he's a childless old man who's been in political office for three or four

00:30:26.340 decades.

00:30:27.480 And he has, he has no, what makes that relevant is that he has no real stake in the future

00:30:33.380 of this country.

00:30:34.520 Um, and, and if we, if there is a world war, a devastating world war, well, he doesn't have

00:30:39.860 any kids that will have to live in what the world becomes after that.

00:30:46.140 And, um, he doesn't stand to lose everything that the rest of us can lose if there's a

00:30:52.140 world war.

00:30:52.520 In fact, for, for people like him, uh, a war means more power and more wealth.

00:30:57.620 That is the conflict of interest for these people that for them, you know, for us, we

00:31:02.580 think of war and we think, well, that that's sometimes war is necessary.

00:31:06.540 And it does happen.

00:31:07.880 Of course, sometimes it is necessary.

00:31:09.180 In my mind, it's only necessary when you're defending your nation, when you're defending

00:31:12.500 your own nation.

00:31:13.900 But, um, either way in a war, it's a, it's, it's a, it's a sacrifice.

00:31:20.300 It's a loss.

00:31:21.220 You lose a lot, right?

00:31:23.400 Uh, that's for the citizens, but for these people, the conflict of interest is that they,

00:31:29.480 they gain what we lose, they gain.

00:31:32.640 Um, and so we're, we, you know, given the fact that they stand to gain from going to

00:31:40.140 war, then we can only, what, trust their judgment and, and, uh, their restraint and

00:31:45.320 their virtue.

00:31:46.640 Well, unfortunately, we don't have a lot of people in public office that have displayed

00:31:50.280 any of those things.

00:31:51.800 And that's what worries me.

00:31:53.700 All right.

00:31:53.820 This is from USA Today.

00:31:54.920 It says, uh, they say students have fallen three grade levels behind.

00:31:57.920 They say behavior has never been worse.

00:31:59.320 They say it's as if they have to teach people who have only built one story houses, how to

00:32:03.380 build skyscrapers.

00:32:04.640 And they say they've been too scared to talk about it until now.

00:32:07.060 Teachers are taking to TikTok to express their fears, frustrations, and worries about the

00:32:11.200 state of education more than three years after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted school shutdowns

00:32:15.520 and remote learning nationwide.

00:32:17.940 Though the problem with some students underperforming is nothing new, many teachers say the gap between

00:32:22.260 where kids are and where they ought to be has never been more staggering.

00:32:25.720 To make matters worse, these teachers say the education system isn't doing enough to

00:32:29.000 address the issue and that most of their colleagues are too scared to call it out publicly.

00:32:32.680 But thanks to a new viral video, they say they feel emboldened, validated, and feel free

00:32:36.620 to say their piece.

00:32:38.340 It all started when a seventh grade teacher in Georgia spoke out on TikTok last week about

00:32:42.240 how much kids are struggling, revealing most of his students entered the school year performing

00:32:45.860 at a fourth grade level or lower.

00:32:47.660 So this is the original viral video.

00:32:49.740 Maybe you've seen this.

00:32:50.860 And it's got something like four million views at this point with a teacher talking about

00:32:55.140 what it's like in his classroom and how far behind the kids are in his seventh grade classroom.

00:32:59.820 And then many other teachers have joined in and said, yeah, this is exactly what I'm

00:33:02.800 experiencing as well.

00:33:04.160 So before we talk about it, let's watch the video from this teacher.

00:33:07.660 No, y'all, can we talk about it?

00:33:10.220 Can we please talk about it?

00:33:11.000 Let's take a moment to discuss.

00:33:12.120 Let's take a moment to debrief.

00:33:13.220 Let's take a moment to unpack.

00:33:14.780 So I'm not really understanding why they're not telling y'all.

00:33:16.920 Like, we all know that the world is behind, like, you know, globally, like, you know,

00:33:19.720 because of the pandemic and stuff.

00:33:21.040 But I don't understand why they're not stressing to y'all how bad it is.

00:33:24.080 Like, I'm not even trying to be funny, but these kids are...

00:33:28.900 I'ma just say this.

00:33:30.380 I teach seventh grade.

00:33:31.480 They are still performing on the fourth grade level.

00:33:33.280 I don't care how you flip it, turn it, swing it, swing it, swindle it. 0.52

00:33:39.980 They're still performing on the fourth grade level.

00:33:41.960 Ain't nobody talking about how they just keep moving, passing them on.

00:33:44.720 They just keep passing them on, passing them on, passing them on, passing them on, passing

00:33:47.540 them on, passing them on.

00:33:48.420 I can put as many zeroes in this grade as I want to.

00:33:50.720 They're going to move that child to that grade next year.

00:33:52.920 Ain't nobody talking about that.

00:33:54.460 Why they not talking about that?

00:33:55.500 Why they not telling y'all that y'all...

00:33:57.520 And why don't y'all know that y'all kids not performing on that grade level?

00:34:01.380 Why y'all don't know this?

00:34:02.900 Why y'all don't know?

00:34:04.020 Talk about it.

00:34:04.700 Let's unpack.

00:34:05.500 Because y'all be quick to talk about, oh, the teacher this, the teacher this, the teacher.

00:34:07.980 It's your job.

00:34:08.460 It's your job, baby.

00:34:09.240 I just got here 30 days ago.

00:34:11.780 She was performing on the fourth grade level since fourth grade.

00:34:17.300 Why we not talking...

00:34:18.060 Let's talk about it.

00:34:20.820 You're the teacher.

00:34:21.560 You're supposed to be...

00:34:22.140 Again, she's been on the fourth grade level since the fourth grade.

00:34:24.520 We in seventh grade now.

00:34:25.340 So you let this child go three years and you never knew that your child was still in the

00:34:29.060 fourth grade and never left the...

00:34:30.340 Hang it up, flat screen.

00:34:33.800 In fourth grade, this would be nice.

00:34:34.920 I still have kids performing on grade K, one, two, and third grade levels.

00:34:38.520 I could probably count on one hand how many kids are actually performing on their grade

00:34:42.220 level.

00:34:43.200 So just imagine, you don't know that your child been on the second grade level since the

00:34:46.700 second grade and they now in the seventh or eighth grade.

00:34:48.740 Are you joking right now?

00:34:51.280 And these are future leaders, our future doctors, our future nurses, our future...

00:34:54.320 Please, please.

00:34:57.800 Let's talk about it.

00:34:58.640 He says, let's unpack twice.

00:35:01.000 You don't need to use that phrase once in your life, really.

00:35:04.860 Certainly not twice in a 90-second video.

00:35:07.460 But putting that aside, okay, yeah, it is something we should talk about.

00:35:14.280 And it is like, it's a major problem.

00:35:19.420 I don't know how else to put it.

00:35:21.280 We've got a generation of kids who are not being educated and who they're going to graduate

00:35:29.500 like barely knowing how to read, okay?

00:35:31.960 It's coming.

00:35:32.680 It's happening right now.

00:35:36.280 Everything, Idiocracy, you know, that movie imagined, I think it was 500 years in the future 1.00

00:35:43.160 when we lived in a world dominated by sub-75 IQ morons. 1.00

00:35:49.000 That was being way too optimistic. 1.00

00:35:51.480 500 years?

00:35:52.540 Okay, we're talking about the next, like, five years.

00:35:54.980 That's what we're looking at if we're not already there.

00:35:57.700 And yes, it is a major problem.

00:36:01.080 And he's right to point it out.

00:36:02.900 He's also right that he's right to put much of the responsibility on parents

00:36:08.840 because there are a lot of parents who are not aware of their own child's abilities

00:36:15.640 and their own child's struggles.

00:36:17.380 They're not aware of it or don't seem to be concerned about it.

00:36:20.500 They're not working with their kids.

00:36:21.820 This is not the case for every parent at all.

00:36:23.840 And I don't even know if we can say most parents,

00:36:25.640 but there's certainly a large preponderance of parents, way too many.

00:36:29.320 I mean, one is too many, but there's way too many parents

00:36:30.980 who are not concerned with their kid's education.

00:36:34.100 They just ship the kid off to school, and then the kid comes home,

00:36:36.720 and they just assume, say, well, they've taken care of that.

00:36:39.620 And the kid comes home, and they're playing video games,

00:36:42.560 or they're on TV, or they're on their phones, and that's all they do.

00:36:44.440 And that's all the parents want to do also, which is part of the problem.

00:36:47.900 All the parents want to do is be on their phones staring at screens,

00:36:50.440 and so that's all the kids do when they're at home,

00:36:52.420 and there's no kind of real intellectual life, intellectual engagement of any kind

00:36:57.200 between parent and child.

00:36:58.820 And then for a lot of these teachers, they become very frustrated

00:37:04.380 because then they try to talk to the parents about it.

00:37:06.740 Parents don't want to hear it, and then they just put the onus back on the school,

00:37:10.240 and so that's what goes on.

00:37:12.500 And so that's true, and that's a major problem.

00:37:16.480 However, it is also true that the school system itself

00:37:20.000 and the teachers themselves bear an enormous amount of responsibility here as well.

00:37:25.120 And when I watch a video like that, and I see a lot of these other teachers

00:37:28.500 that are joining in, I don't see enough personal responsibility.

00:37:32.920 Yeah, you're calling on parents to take responsibility.

00:37:35.040 Great, fine, agreed.

00:37:36.420 But where's your personal responsibility?

00:37:39.160 Okay, it's easy enough to say, oh, I just got here 30 days ago.

00:37:41.920 Fine.

00:37:42.740 That might be the case for you personally with this next group of children

00:37:46.800 when the school year just started last month.

00:37:50.400 But the school system itself and the school system is running.

00:37:55.680 When we're talking about the school system, we're talking about teachers and administrators.

00:37:58.120 Okay, the system is not some sort of organism.

00:38:02.400 It's comprised of people.

00:38:05.000 And so we're talking about teachers and administrators,

00:38:07.720 and they have also failed miserably.

00:38:10.680 And I don't hear nearly enough discussion about that.

00:38:14.280 I mean, you want to have a conversation?

00:38:15.540 This guy is saying, let's talk about it.

00:38:17.680 Okay, let's have it.

00:38:19.420 So what's going on on your end?

00:38:21.500 Why have you guys failed so catastrophically?

00:38:25.720 Because the thing is, this problem is not, it didn't just start now.

00:38:29.740 In fact, it's been trending this way for decades.

00:38:32.080 Okay, it's been trending this way for a long time.

00:38:35.720 Years and years and years, way before COVID, it was trending in this direction.

00:38:39.420 We already had a major problem years ago of people graduating high school with no grasp

00:38:45.060 on basic subjects like civics, geography, history.

00:38:49.520 We already had a major problem of kids coming out of high school, 18 years old.

00:38:53.540 And if you ask them, you know, to name 10 of the 50 states in the country, they'd be stumped.

00:39:01.440 Okay, if you ask them to tell you what century the Civil War occurred in, they'd be stumped.

00:39:08.320 So we already had that problem.

00:39:10.900 And now the problem is getting much worse.

00:39:13.140 And there's no way you can't absolve the parents, but you also can't absolve the education system itself,

00:39:17.380 which too often is how this conversation goes.

00:39:22.080 It's actually, it's easy to blame the parents.

00:39:25.160 Everybody blames the parents.

00:39:26.220 Everyone blames the parents for everything.

00:39:27.720 And any problem that happens in society, we all turn to the parents and say, oh, it's all bad parenting.

00:39:31.980 And that's, there's always an element of that.

00:39:35.000 Okay, there's truth to that.

00:39:37.040 But that's the easy thing to say.

00:39:40.440 What's more difficult and what people don't want to say is, you know what, we also have a problem of,

00:39:44.580 there are a lot of really bad teachers.

00:39:47.260 They're just bad at their jobs.

00:39:50.180 On top of the bad parents, we also have bad teachers.

00:39:53.000 And we have an education system.

00:39:54.120 Yeah, it's true that if you're, if, you know, you send your kid off to the education system,

00:39:59.460 you should not just assume that that takes care of it and you don't have to participate in your own kid's education.

00:40:09.220 You shouldn't assume that.

00:40:10.560 So no matter where you send your kid to be educated or if they are educated at home in a homeschooling environment,

00:40:15.800 either way, you, you should be participating actively every day in your child's education.

00:40:21.860 That's true.

00:40:22.500 But also, we do have this thing in this country called the education system.

00:40:27.380 And so it's not unreasonable for parents to expect that if they send their kid to the education system,

00:40:36.300 that their kid will be educated in that system.

00:40:40.740 And that's not happening at all for a lot of these kids.

00:40:46.380 And when we hear representatives of the education system talking about it,

00:40:50.980 they always put the onus back on the parents.

00:40:53.980 They never take any responsibility for it themselves.

00:40:56.440 They refuse to.

00:40:58.320 And if you try to, if you, everyone acknowledges that there are bad parents out there.

00:41:03.280 But the moment you say, you know, there are also bad teachers.

00:41:05.540 How dare you?

00:41:06.220 Teachers are saints.

00:41:07.220 They're, they're martyrs.

00:41:08.220 They're, they're, they're perfect in every way.

00:41:10.320 What is bad teachers?

00:41:11.300 How dare you?

00:41:13.220 No, you know what? 1.00

00:41:13.760 There are a lot of horrible, stupid teachers. 1.00

00:41:17.040 Teachers who, who don't even have a grasp of the subject that they're supposed to be teaching. 1.00

00:41:23.660 That is also the case.

00:41:26.020 And until you're willing to talk about that, you're not actually ready for this conversation at all.

00:41:30.980 Guess what?

00:41:31.580 We can't put all the blame on COVID here, but the, but that's, that is a, that, that really amplified the problem.

00:41:40.360 And it's sped up a lot of these trends.

00:41:43.560 Okay.

00:41:43.920 That was a lot of these troubling trends that we already saw.

00:41:45.960 Well, who decided to shut the schools down?

00:41:49.700 And in fact, who, who was in the streets marching, demanding that the schools stay closed?

00:41:57.520 Who was that?

00:41:59.020 It was the teachers, wasn't it?

00:42:03.240 The teachers were marching in the streets, demanding that they, that schools remain closed for their own sake, because they're so scared of getting a cold.

00:42:11.900 Any accountability for that?

00:42:15.960 Schools closing, that was, the schools themselves were behind that.

00:42:22.460 And insisted on it.

00:42:24.280 And for a lot of these teachers, you know, schools opened up again across the country.

00:42:29.260 I mean, they, they closed for at least, almost every school was closed for at least like half a year, which is a long time for a child to miss out on education.

00:42:37.800 Some of them were closed for over a year, a year and a half.

00:42:40.900 But when they did start opening up again, the teachers were the ones saying, keep them closed.

00:42:46.960 I don't know if, if, if, if Randy Weingarten and company had their way, maybe the schools would still be closed.

00:42:52.500 I don't know.

00:42:53.040 If it was really up to them.

00:42:56.740 So maybe there should have been more teachers.

00:42:59.280 I know, I know it wasn't every teacher.

00:43:01.180 There were some teachers said from the beginning, no schools need to stay open.

00:43:03.980 You can't just stop educating kids.

00:43:05.280 You can't do that.

00:43:05.940 But there weren't nearly enough.

00:43:09.380 So maybe there should have been more teachers who, instead of being out in the street saying, no, keep them closed.

00:43:13.880 I'm scared.

00:43:14.680 I don't want to get a cold.

00:43:16.840 Maybe there should have been more teachers in the street saying, open these schools up. 0.56

00:43:19.360 We need to educate our children.

00:43:20.700 We care about them.

00:43:21.920 You know what?

00:43:22.240 Maybe there should have been more teachers saying, you know what?

00:43:24.000 I am willing to risk getting sick for the sake of, of, of, of educating.

00:43:28.280 That's how much I care about my job.

00:43:31.840 I'm willing to make that sacrifice.

00:43:33.900 If you weren't willing to make the sacrifice, if you're so terrified of getting a cold because you're a coward, that you're willing to sacrifice a child's education, don't come complaining now.

00:43:42.660 What about that guy?

00:43:43.540 I mean, I have no idea what that guy.

00:43:44.860 I have no idea where he was on COVID back in 2020.

00:43:47.560 Maybe he wasn't even teaching at the time.

00:43:49.000 I don't know.

00:43:50.720 But, and I could be totally wrong about this.

00:43:53.220 I would be somewhat surprised if it turned out that that guy in particular back in 2020 was, was, was, was a voice crying out in the wilderness saying, keep the schools open.

00:44:03.780 Could be wrong.

00:44:05.540 But one thing I can say, a lot of, a lot of teachers now are complaining about kids are far behind.

00:44:09.420 And I know for a fact that many of those teachers were not only happy that schools closed, but were insistent on it and wanted to keep them closed for longer.

00:44:24.140 And now they pretend to be so concerned, you know, now when it's like too late, honestly, I hate to say it, but it's too late for a lot of these kids.

00:44:32.720 A lot of these kids, they don't have, they don't have parents who are going to teach them.

00:44:37.040 They just don't.

00:44:37.820 They should, but they don't.

00:44:40.580 And you sacrificed a year of education, of, of whatever education they were getting in the public school system.

00:44:45.620 You sacrificed a year of it and they fell way behind and they haven't been able to catch up.

00:44:51.760 And, and now a lot of those kids are feeling just like overwhelmed and, and they've given up.

00:44:58.220 You know what happened?

00:44:58.960 The school system gave up on these kids around COVID.

00:45:04.260 And a lot of the kids have responded by giving up on school.

00:45:09.020 That's what's going on here.

00:45:12.620 All right.

00:45:13.160 Finally, most important news of the day before we get to the next segment, the Daily Loud on Twitter reports is where I get most of my news.

00:45:19.920 Breaking.

00:45:20.460 A couple, a couple in California, Colorado rather, shared footage they captured on a train of what they believe to be the legendary Bigfoot.

00:45:27.580 Um, let's watch this video of Bigfoot.

00:45:30.760 Yeah, there's big, I mean, you can really tell, you can tell that it's Bigfoot.

00:45:53.500 But I think all the evidence is, let's play this video one more time.

00:45:56.840 So I want everyone to notice all the different nuances of this video that I think proved.

00:46:02.140 So there, so you see that creature is obviously very hairy.

00:46:07.700 Doesn't look like any human being.

00:46:11.980 He's taking a squat.

00:46:12.980 He's doing his business.

00:46:13.760 He's just trying to do his business out, you know, where else is he going to go?

00:46:19.320 He's Bigfoot and this train, and now he's on camera, which is pretty embarrassing for him.

00:46:24.120 Uh, now I will say that there's a community note on, uh, on this post on Twitter, which says this.

00:46:29.820 This is located in Silverton in Durango.

00:46:32.620 It's part of a quite popular Bigfoot themed expedition trailer company called Sasquatch Expedition Trailers.

00:46:38.480 The owner regularly dresses up as Sasquatch.

00:46:40.640 Uh, to me, that doesn't mean anything.

00:46:43.360 That doesn't prove anything to me just because this was in a theme park, apparently, where people dress up as Bigfoot.

00:46:49.780 That, that to me is not, I don't find that to be compelling evidence, um, against this being the actual Bigfoot at all.

00:46:56.700 Uh, if anything, I think that only further proves that it probably is the actual Bigfoot.

00:47:01.500 Um, because if you're the actual Bigfoot, where else would you go?

00:47:05.860 You would probably go to a place like this where you know that you'll be welcomed and accepted.

00:47:10.640 So, to me, that only makes me even more certain that this is Bigfoot.

00:47:15.260 Um, basically, look, I, I, uh, I believe this couple.

00:47:18.820 Um, I believe them.

00:47:20.660 I don't think that they would lie.

00:47:22.620 Uh, and I think it's frankly, uh, uh, just like with the UFO sightings, it's frankly offensive to just assume that they made it up.

00:47:33.000 Um, I believe their testimony.

00:47:34.840 It's right there on video.

00:47:36.080 That's high quality footage.

00:47:38.080 I think.

00:47:39.320 It's as good as you're going to get for Bigfoot.

00:47:42.240 Let's get to was Walsh wrong.

00:47:43.960 Okay, a couple of comments.

00:47:49.340 Uh, we only need a couple because many of them are on this same theme.

00:47:53.820 Taz Hahn says,

00:47:55.060 Matt's definition of the colonization on Europeans in America seems like a contradiction because he speaks of colonization as good, but decolonization as bad, I'm just not following, sounds the same to me by his logic.

00:48:07.260 And another comment says, so if colonization has historically been good, then why are you so opposed to being colonized, creating open borders, let them take your jobs, your lands, and hopefully when they're done murdering you in 200 years, they'll get you, uh, they'll get you flying cars, cure for cancer, teleportation, et cetera.

00:48:23.980 Um, yeah, the people that are coming here as illegal immigrants are, uh, they're going to be the ones that come up with the flying cars, sure. 1.00

00:48:31.140 Now, so a few things on these two related comments.

00:48:34.360 First and most importantly, the early European settlers, because I, I hear this, you know, of course, this is a very common argument that, uh, that, hey, uh, if you think the European settlers had every right to come here and set up shop as they did, then how, how could you possibly object to immigrants coming across the border, uh, the early European settlers were themselves illegal immigrants is the claim.

00:48:54.140 Well, the early European settlers came, they were not illegal immigrants by any definition of the term.

00:49:00.220 There was no, there was no, there was no law, there was no law, okay, there was no law governing the wilderness that these European settlers came to.

00:49:12.040 It was a mostly unpopulated wilderness.

00:49:15.840 Um, there was a relatively sparsely distributed assortment of warring primitive tribes.

00:49:22.260 There was no nation, there was no country.

00:49:24.700 Um, there were, there were tribes and the settlers came into this wilderness and they built a civilization.

00:49:33.220 They built a country.

00:49:34.460 There was not one there and they, they made one, they made it from scratch and yes, they fought for it.

00:49:41.020 And this to me is obviously very different from illegal immigrants coming into a fully formed modern country with a central government and setting up shop in an already established neighborhood and reaping the benefits and the entitlements and everything else. 0.97

00:49:54.720 On one hand, you have a, you have a, you have a, a, a settler in a savage wilderness surviving and, and building a civilization.

00:50:02.900 On the other hand, you have an immigrant in Dallas, Texas on food stamps and welfare. 0.99

00:50:08.540 Okay.

00:50:09.320 It's just not the same.

00:50:10.880 I think very clearly these are two different categories that we're dealing with.

00:50:15.720 Second point, which is related is that things are different now.

00:50:20.440 Okay.

00:50:20.840 Not everything is the same as everything else.

00:50:22.460 In earlier times, the whole world was governed by one law.

00:50:27.140 I said there was no law governing, uh, what would become the United States when the settlers came here.

00:50:31.860 And that's, that's true on the, on the, on the books anyway, because there were no books.

00:50:35.480 I mean, there wasn't even a written language.

00:50:37.120 Okay.

00:50:38.020 But there was one law, one unwritten law, and it governed the entire world.

00:50:43.100 And that was the law of conquest.

00:50:45.660 The world at this time was largely unsettled, that vast portions of it unexplored, unknown.

00:50:52.460 And you have people from different areas, all seeking the same land and all, all fighting over it.

00:50:58.140 Every, that's what everybody did.

00:50:59.780 Okay.

00:51:00.780 And, and when you had a whole bunch of disparate groups fighting over the same land, that all, they all came to this land.

00:51:07.700 Okay.

00:51:08.000 None of them popped out of the ground there.

00:51:10.400 They all came to it and fought over it.

00:51:12.700 There, who had a right to it?

00:51:15.100 Who had a right to it?

00:51:16.000 You know, as I'm always pointing out, if you say the so-called indigenous people had a right to the land, which indigenous people?

00:51:22.480 They were, they were not a homogenous group.

00:51:24.400 These were tribes killing each other. 0.94

00:51:26.140 So which tribe had a right to, you know, which, which tribe?

00:51:29.860 Well, it's just, we could break it down by regions of what is now the United States.

00:51:34.860 The Northeast, which tribe had a right to that, to that territory? 0.83

00:51:39.780 Is it the tribe that happened to be there when the, when the European settlers first came to that part of the continent?

00:51:46.740 Because that tribe killed the other tribe that was there and they killed the one before that and that before that and before that. 0.84

00:51:50.840 So to speak of who had a right to it, just, it, it's incoherent.

00:51:56.240 And that's why you had the law of conquest.

00:51:58.800 And it's the law that all people of that time understood and lived by.

00:52:01.960 Indian tribes certainly included.

00:52:03.720 If you wanted land, you had to fight for it.

00:52:05.980 And if you wanted to keep your land, you had to defend it.

00:52:08.040 And if you couldn't fight for land, you weren't going to get in.

00:52:10.200 If you couldn't defend it, you weren't going to keep it.

00:52:12.220 Simple as that.

00:52:13.620 Everyone understood this.

00:52:15.340 Everyone across the entire world.

00:52:16.740 I know it seems scandalous to us these days, but this is the way the world worked.

00:52:20.060 And actually on the third point is that I say things are different now, but, and they are, but even so, you know, underlying all of it, the law of conquest still applies.

00:52:35.080 It's still there.

00:52:36.160 It's never really totally defunct because even now, if a country wants to exist, it has to defend itself.

00:52:45.820 Every country on earth is where it is and has the borders that it has because at some point in the past, whether recently or farther back in the past, it fought for it.

00:52:57.700 Every country on this planet was born in blood, every single one, every single one.

00:53:06.740 It is where it is because people fought for it and killed the other people who were there before.

00:53:11.980 And they probably killed someone else and so on and so on going back through the, through the ages.

00:53:15.440 And so it still applies that if you want to stay where you are, you have to be able to defend yourself.

00:53:24.080 And if a country cannot or will not defend itself, it will cease to exist.

00:53:27.440 And that goes for America. 0.69

00:53:31.900 You talk about the immigrants.

00:53:34.320 If America will not defend its borders, then America will cease to exist.

00:53:38.860 And not only that, but America will deserve to no longer exist if it lacks the will to defend its own existence.

00:53:47.380 So I actually don't expect the rest of the world to just sort of lay off and say, hey, leave them alone.

00:53:55.360 They're, you know, let's, they, let's, they've had a, they've had enough.

00:53:58.840 They've had a rough time.

00:53:59.780 I don't expect that.

00:54:01.780 As far as the illegal immigrants pouring across the border, I don't expect them to not try to come here. 1.00

00:54:07.700 Okay.

00:54:08.140 As I've said many times, if I lived in Mexico, I wouldn't want to live in Mexico either. 1.00

00:54:13.360 I'd probably try to sneak across the border if I thought I could do it.

00:54:15.820 I, that's probably exactly what I would do.

00:54:18.400 And if I looked and I looked at the process to become a legal immigrant and I saw how much more, how much longer it would take and how more difficult it is.

00:54:25.860 And I thought I could just walk across the border and be out of this hell hole governed by drug cartels, then I'd probably do it.

00:54:34.460 Yeah.

00:54:36.400 So that is why I don't put the onus actually on the illegal immigrants.

00:54:41.260 I'm not saying, it's not like, I don't think we plead with them and say, please just, please just leave.

00:54:45.820 Leave us alone.

00:54:46.560 Please respect our laws.

00:54:48.620 Honor system, guys, please.

00:54:50.280 Come on.

00:54:52.060 I don't think that's how you defend a border.

00:54:53.320 I don't think you defend a border that way.

00:54:54.380 I don't think you defend it with, hey, come on, guys.

00:54:56.200 Come on, please.

00:54:57.980 We've had enough.

00:54:59.360 Will you leave us alone for a minute?

00:55:00.520 That's not how you do it.

00:55:02.200 No, you defend a border with walls and guns.

00:55:07.320 You defend it with force.

00:55:09.260 Because you recognize that you can complain about it all you want, but there are always going to be people who want to come in.

00:55:15.340 They want to sneak in either because they want to set up there and they want to reap the benefits of this country that is not their country or because they have other more nefarious intentions.

00:55:24.800 Like, they're always going to be out there, always.

00:55:28.620 For as long as the world exists, they're going to be there.

00:55:32.380 And so you have to be able to defend yourself against them.

00:55:35.360 And if you can't or you won't, you will not exist anymore as a country.

00:55:38.780 And again, as I said, you will not deserve to exist as a country.

00:55:42.680 There's no, I mean, you can cry out and you can complain about it.

00:55:45.000 You can say, this isn't fair.

00:55:46.180 This isn't fair.

00:55:46.720 It doesn't matter.

00:55:47.200 No one cares that it's not fair.

00:55:48.660 It's not the way the world works.

00:55:49.780 Defend your land.

00:55:54.220 So yeah, it still applies.

00:55:56.020 It all still applies.

00:55:56.900 It's the way it goes.

00:55:57.540 It's the way the world works.

00:55:59.740 You can either accept it or not.

00:56:01.280 And I mean, if you don't accept, it doesn't matter because the world still works the way it does.

00:56:05.020 Well, it's that time of the week again.

00:56:06.380 This week's episode of Convicting a Murderer introduces an unlikely truth seeker.

00:56:10.460 A cadaver dog named Loof might just uncover the hidden secrets found on Avery's property.

00:56:16.100 Last I checked, dogs don't carry hidden agendas or ulterior motives like, say, a filmmaker might.

00:56:20.600 But as you might expect, this loyal and honest good boy was not featured in the other docuseries

00:56:25.300 because he discovers powerful and incriminating evidence against Stephen Avery.

00:56:29.880 Take a look.

00:56:31.040 Coming up on Convicting a Murderer.

00:56:33.460 Brendan Dassey had confessed to burning Teresa Halbach's clothing,

00:56:37.820 but you don't see anything about her clothing or the jean rivets in Making a Murderer. 0.70

00:56:42.140 He told me to go throw it on the fire.

00:56:44.560 Throw what on the fire?

00:56:45.640 The clothes.

00:56:46.760 And it's not the only detail that they left out.

00:56:48.980 Other items were found in the burn area.

00:56:52.100 One of them was Teresa's tooth.

00:56:54.260 Her ashes, her bone fragments, were found in his backyard.

00:56:57.860 And what do you do once she's on the fire?

00:56:59.580 We threw some tires on top of her and some branches. 1.00

00:57:02.640 Also left out are the tools that were found around the pit.

00:57:06.420 There was a shovel, there was a rake.

00:57:08.740 You try to take the shovel and try to break the bones apart.

00:57:12.100 You know why you don't know about that one?

00:57:13.240 Because they didn't want you to know that.

00:57:14.880 Yeah, but because they were showing us to us.

00:57:16.160 You saw what he wanted to see.

00:57:17.140 Life in prison he's going to get.

00:57:18.840 And he's only 16.

00:57:20.220 And what am I supposed to do?

00:57:21.540 I had told you all along. 1.00

00:57:23.100 Keep this f***ing mouth shut. 0.99

00:57:24.220 Episode 8 of Convicting a Murder is now available to stream exclusively on Daily Wire+. 0.99

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00:57:38.740 If you're not a member, head over to dailywireplus.com slash subscribe to sign up

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00:57:49.760 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:57:50.880 If you're a young person, it's important to find marriage role models.

00:58:01.220 Older couples who have been together for a while, navigated many of the sorts of challenges

00:58:05.040 that you are facing or will face, and have maintained and strengthened their bond through

00:58:09.720 it all.

00:58:10.320 It's important to find people like this, and hopefully your own parents can provide that

00:58:13.420 example.

00:58:13.820 If not them, then maybe another relative or a friend or someone else.

00:58:18.540 Unfortunately, there aren't many public figures who can fill this role for you.

00:58:22.120 If you're looking for a roadmap to a healthy marriage, the celebrity community isn't the

00:58:26.540 place to find it, but they can still be of some help.

00:58:29.800 You know, there aren't many people in public life who can serve as positive role models for

00:58:33.220 married couples, but there are plenty who can be negative role models.

00:58:36.680 They can show you, they can't show you which way to go, but they can show you which way

00:58:41.440 you should not go.

00:58:43.100 You can observe them and how they behave and endeavor to do the opposite of whatever they're

00:58:47.500 doing.

00:58:48.460 When it comes to negative role models, the good news, and also the bad news, is that the

00:58:51.540 supply is endless.

00:58:53.220 But perhaps there is no famous married couple on earth that has been more helpful in this

00:58:58.800 regard than Will and Jada Smith.

00:59:02.100 That's with all due respect to Prince Harry and Meghan and John and Giselle Fetterman and

00:59:06.280 Kim Kardashian and whoever she's married to this month.

00:59:08.360 Will and Jada are, without a doubt, the greatest negative marriage example you could ever hope

00:59:13.880 to find.

00:59:14.900 If you want a happy and healthy marriage, all you really have to do is just do nothing that

00:59:19.500 Will and Jada do and everything they don't do.

00:59:21.760 They're like a lighthouse in a storm, except you always want to go the opposite direction

00:59:25.680 from wherever this lighthouse is pointing.

00:59:27.860 That brings us to the latest in the Will and Jada horror story.

00:59:31.300 The couple has made it back into the news this week with Jada now on the interview circuit

00:59:36.980 to promote her upcoming memoir, which is called Worthy.

00:59:40.580 I don't know who would ever purchase a Jada Pinkett Smith memoir, but I do know that if

00:59:45.360 I was in charge, I would keep a database of everyone who purchases the book, and I would

00:59:49.860 immediately and permanently revoke their voting rights.

00:59:52.600 These are the kinds of fresh ideas we need in Washington, but we're not getting, but that's

00:59:57.040 a topic for another day.

00:59:58.380 In any case, Jada made a personal announcement in her memoir, which came out in her interview

01:00:02.180 with NBC this week.

01:00:03.840 Watch.

01:00:04.120 There are so many surprising things in the book, but the thing that surprised me

01:00:09.580 the most that I actually had to re-read it because I said, is this true?

01:00:14.640 Right.

01:00:15.720 Was that in 2016, you and Will decided that you were going to live completely separate lives.

01:00:24.400 Yes.

01:00:24.720 It was not a divorce on paper.

01:00:27.140 Right.

01:00:27.660 But it was a divorce.

01:00:30.620 So from the year 2016, which is seven years ago now, y'all have been apart.

01:00:40.060 Yeah.

01:00:42.200 She can't even hide her glee.

01:00:43.960 She's so happy about it.

01:00:45.440 She's so happy about having an estranged, being estranged from her husband.

01:00:48.480 Now, first of all, someone needs to tell the interviewer that we don't need the clapping

01:00:51.580 sound effects while she's asking questions.

01:00:53.200 But as for Jada, she goes on to explain that she's living a completely separate life from

01:00:57.120 Will and that they split up in 2016 because they were exhausted from trying.

01:01:01.780 The words of a true hero.

01:01:03.560 This revelation is especially humiliating for Will Smith because everyone immediately drew

01:01:07.160 the connection to the slap heard around the world.

01:01:09.940 And now we know that Will not only embarrassed himself in a desperate attempt to impress his

01:01:13.620 wife, but that he did all this for a woman who'd left him five years earlier. 0.95

01:01:18.240 Keep my wife's name out of your effing mouth, he famously declared. 1.00

01:01:21.740 But apparently that woman doesn't really consider herself to be his wife.

01:01:26.120 Jada, you know, could have kept their unique marital arrangement to herself, shielding Will 0.99

01:01:31.460 from further embarrassment.

01:01:33.460 But then again, she has a memoir to sell.

01:01:35.140 So she decided to keep the separation a secret until she figured out a way to monetize it.

01:01:39.580 Of course, this is just the latest in a long line of ritual public humiliations Jada has 1.00

01:01:44.860 subjected her estranged husband to.

01:01:46.600 There was another one very recently when she posted an Instagram video of her and Tupac in

01:01:50.840 the 90s dancing to Will Smith's song, Parents Just Don't Understand.

01:01:55.740 And it's well known that Jada still pines for her deceased lover, Tupac.

01:01:59.200 So this was seen by many accurately, I think, as a not so subtle dig at the man that she is

01:02:04.960 still technically married to.

01:02:07.020 And, you know, that's what she does. 1.00

01:02:08.860 She finds little ways to twist the knife. 0.96

01:02:10.680 It's her specialty.

01:02:12.400 There's, you know, for example, this video from a few years ago where she decides to film

01:02:16.020 herself not respecting Will or his boundaries.

01:02:21.260 Watch.

01:02:22.260 You know, Steph is coming to the table. 0.98

01:02:24.580 She's going to be at the red table.

01:02:25.960 Would you say she has been instrumental in you and not redefining our relationship?

01:02:30.180 I would say don't just start filming me without asking me.

01:02:33.520 Oh, my goodness.

01:02:34.720 If you could film me.

01:02:35.440 Sam, come help us again, please.

01:02:37.760 I'm still dealing with foolishness.

01:02:39.580 Don't. 0.72

01:02:40.080 No, no.

01:02:40.520 She, yeah, because she don't just. 0.62

01:02:42.440 Would you say that she helped us heal the hurts that we caused between one another?

01:02:47.480 My social media presence is my bread and butter.

01:02:50.120 Okay?

01:02:50.380 So you can't just use me for social media and not, you know, don't just start rolling.

01:02:55.260 I'm standing in my house.

01:02:56.720 Don't just start rolling.

01:02:59.520 That's pretty rough to watch.

01:03:00.600 I think for obvious reasons.

01:03:01.640 I will say.

01:03:02.160 I mean, just.

01:03:03.820 It's.

01:03:04.400 I can't imagine.

01:03:05.360 My own wife.

01:03:06.200 I'm just trying to imagine my own wife.

01:03:07.580 First of all, filming me without even asking me for her.

01:03:10.460 She wouldn't do that.

01:03:11.540 But then if she started filming me and I said, please don't film me.

01:03:14.000 And she did it anyway.

01:03:14.700 And then she posted it on the Internet.

01:03:17.380 I would be furious.

01:03:20.200 Fortunately, I'm not married to a woman who would ever do that. 1.00

01:03:22.080 But this is this is this is Jada Pinkett Smith.

01:03:25.500 Pretty rough.

01:03:26.300 But of course, nothing.

01:03:27.820 Since we're on the subject, we cannot avoid what is possibly one of the cringiest videos of all time.

01:03:34.480 Nothing can possibly compare to the infamous red table talk where Jada pulled Will in to have a conversation about the time when she cheated on him.

01:03:43.000 Let's all relive that cringe together.

01:03:47.320 You during that time launched into an interaction with August.

01:03:53.800 What do you feel like you were looking for?

01:03:58.640 I just wanted to feel good.

01:04:01.500 It had been so long since I felt good.

01:04:08.020 And it was really a joy to just help heal somebody.

01:04:13.440 Yeah.

01:04:14.240 I think that has a lot to do with my codependency, which is another thing that I had to learn to break in this cycle.

01:04:22.800 Just that idea of needing to fix and being drawn to people that need help, whether it's your health or whether it's your addictions.

01:04:31.520 There's something about that childhood trauma that feels as though it can be fixed through fixing people.

01:04:45.880 Man, still tough to watch every time.

01:04:49.540 I mean, imagine your wife cheats on you and you say to her, how could you do this?

01:04:54.760 I'm broken.

01:04:55.660 I'm devastated.

01:04:56.220 And she says, well, I just wanted to feel good.

01:05:00.400 Oh, okay.

01:05:01.440 Well, if that was your reason, I wasn't sure what your reason was.

01:05:04.660 But if it was that, then never mind.

01:05:06.860 And that was actually somehow the least cringy segment of that video.

01:05:10.000 But the whole thing is brutal.

01:05:11.540 The cuckolded Will Smith describes his wife's affair as launching into an interaction.

01:05:16.740 Why did you launch into an interaction with that man?

01:05:20.660 And for her part, his wife shows no remorse and, in fact, congratulates herself on her infidelity by claiming that she slept with another man in order to help heal him.

01:05:29.940 Then to add another terrible insult to an already grievous injury, she declares that it makes her feel good to fix people.

01:05:37.020 Yet her own husband is sitting there broken into a thousand pieces.

01:05:41.940 And all this frustration would build for several years until the moment when Will set his career on fire by taking it all out on Chris Rock at the Oscars.

01:05:49.360 Jada, meanwhile, sits there and watches, making no attempt to stop him from walking up on stage to commit assault in front of a live audience.

01:05:55.660 And also makes no attempt after the fact to defend him or come to his aid in any way.

01:05:59.500 She is, in short, as I've already dubbed her, the worst wife in America. 1.00

01:06:03.980 And Will Smith is, without a question, the most pathetic husband in America. 0.99

01:06:07.680 Which is a sad reality, especially when you consider that before his wife got to work exposing and humiliating him, 0.97

01:06:13.220 Will Smith was, it's easy to forget now, he was perhaps the most polished, clean-cut, marketable, seemingly together star in Hollywood.

01:06:23.300 Now he's a laughingstock, thanks to his wife.

01:06:25.380 You know, a good wife builds her man up, a bad one breaks him down. 1.00

01:06:31.780 And Will Smith is nothing at this point if not broken down.

01:06:35.540 That's why they are such a powerful, albeit negative, example.

01:06:38.980 They reveal pretty much every facet of a bad relationship.

01:06:41.780 They embody everything that a married couple can do wrong. 0.97

01:06:44.980 And they model one thing in particular, and that is the need for respect in a marriage.

01:06:50.040 Especially a man's need for respect.

01:06:52.600 Jada has clearly never respected her husband.

01:06:55.380 And he has never demanded respect or commanded it, most of all.

01:06:59.760 And the end result is heartache and humiliation.

01:07:02.680 When a man feels respected at home, he'll be happy and confident and eager and ambitious.

01:07:08.060 You know, he'll want to go out and conquer the world because he feels like his wife respects him and is proud of him.

01:07:13.400 You cannot put a price on that.

01:07:15.340 It's impossible to describe just how important that is to a man and what it can do for him.

01:07:19.000 Now, when he's deprived of that respect, it's likely to make him frustrated, temperamental, sullen, all the other things that Will Smith has become.

01:07:27.120 In fact, the decline of his career and his public image precisely tracks with the decline of his marriage.

01:07:32.320 The more disrespected he was by his wife, the less respectable he became.

01:07:36.260 This is the way it works.

01:07:36.980 The more a man is respected, the more respectable he becomes.

01:07:42.520 And the less, then the less.

01:07:45.120 The good news is that it's usually pretty easy to avoid marrying a woman who doesn't respect you.

01:07:51.280 All you have to do is not marry a woman who doesn't respect you, okay?

01:07:57.040 It is that simple most of the time.

01:07:58.600 It's possible that a woman might hide her inner Jada. 0.99

01:08:03.700 She might present herself as wholesome, affectionate, respectful, supportive, and when she's not.

01:08:09.860 But most people, most women and most people in general, don't have those talents of deception. 1.00

01:08:15.220 Like, Jada Pinkett Smith doesn't. 0.90

01:08:17.320 I saw one clip of her, and I knew everything I needed to know about her.

01:08:20.840 30 seconds is all it takes.

01:08:22.700 It's hard to believe that Will didn't know.

01:08:24.800 There are almost always red flags like this.

01:08:27.240 And most of the time, they're obvious.

01:08:28.460 For example, you know, you see this kind of thing all the time for people.

01:08:32.040 If you're dating someone, and that person ever does or says anything in public to intentionally make you look bad.

01:08:43.220 Okay, we're not talking about just playful, teasing back and forth.

01:08:45.880 I'm talking about they're trying to make you look bad.

01:08:48.520 They're trying to actually embarrass you.

01:08:51.300 If that ever happens, that is a glaring siren telling you to leave the relationship.

01:08:55.880 Like, if you're a day before getting married and that happens, leave immediately.

01:09:00.700 You dodged a bullet.

01:09:01.640 Because the propensity to publicly belittle and disrespect you will only get worse, not better.

01:09:07.900 And your woman's instinct is completely backwards of what it should be. 1.00

01:09:12.100 Her instinct should be to cover you, to prop you up, to show that she's proud of you.

01:09:17.160 If someone complains about you to her, she should want to defend you, not join in.

01:09:21.360 A woman should brag about the man that she's with, not deliberately try to make him seem lesser in the eyes of the public. 0.51

01:09:28.860 As I've said before, my wife's supportive nature was obvious to me almost from the moment I met her.

01:09:33.940 And it hasn't changed in 12 years.

01:09:35.180 And I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that Jada's unsupportive, resentful nature, her propensity to humiliate the people she supposedly loves, 1.00

01:09:43.780 I'd be willing to bet that that was all obvious, okay, to any person with eyes and ears from the moment Will met her.

01:09:52.660 He ignored those warning signs.

01:09:54.900 And now look at them.

01:09:56.840 This is what happens.

01:09:58.840 And it's why both Will and Jada Smith are today canceled.

01:10:05.180 That'll do it for the show today.

01:10:06.740 Thanks for watching.

01:10:07.300 Thanks for listening.

01:10:08.120 Have a great day.

01:10:09.140 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:10:09.840 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 12, 2023

Ep. 1241 - California Passes An 'Anti-Racist' Law So Insane That It Seems Like A Joke

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