The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1245 - While We Look Overseas, Terrorists Are Streaming Across Our Own Border

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, as we have our focus trained on events overseas,

00:00:03.720 terrorists are streaming across the border in this country.

00:00:06.200 What's more, the Biden administration is facilitating this invasion.

00:00:09.020 I'll explain.

00:00:09.640 Also, Biden is in Israel bumbling around and mumbling to himself.

00:00:12.880 This is the man who's supposed to help us avoid World War III, which means, of course, we're screwed.

00:00:16.960 And Britney Spears has a new memoir where she reveals that she got an abortion at Justin Timberlake's request years ago.

00:00:22.020 In her daily cancellation, a young woman complains that her business marketing degree

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00:00:30.460 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:44.640 Most of the attention at the moment is focused on events overseas,

00:01:48.100 and this is understandable to some extent,

00:01:49.780 as the current conflict in the Middle East is obviously very important

00:01:53.520 and has far-reaching implications.

00:01:55.820 The problem is that, first of all,

00:01:57.320 our own leaders do not appear to be focusing on the right things

00:02:00.660 as it relates to that conflict.

00:02:01.860 Namely, they should be focusing on doing everything they possibly can

00:02:04.660 to avoid World War III.

00:02:07.180 That should be the top priority,

00:02:08.840 but they seem entirely uninterested in avoiding a global conflict.

00:02:12.000 If anything, they're motivated in the opposite direction.

00:02:15.660 Many of them seem to want a world war,

00:02:17.540 and if they want it, then they'll get it.

00:02:19.600 Second, as our gaze is directed at events thousands of miles away,

00:02:23.740 our own country finds itself in an increasingly dire situation.

00:02:27.840 We may soon have a sort of Middle East-style chaos in this country,

00:02:32.640 thanks to our own undefended, unprotected borders.

00:02:35.700 In fact, I probably shouldn't use the word may.

00:02:39.100 There's no may about it.

00:02:40.440 It will happen.

00:02:41.440 We are inviting it.

00:02:43.380 And I'll show you what I mean.

00:02:44.700 But first, let's go back to one of the biggest lessons from 9-11,

00:02:48.180 which is that hindsight bias can get people killed.

00:02:52.520 So here's how a lot of people thought prior to 9-11.

00:02:54.880 They figured, well, no terrorist has ever hijacked

00:02:58.160 or has hijacked a U.S. commercial aircraft anywhere in the world

00:03:01.340 for well over a decade.

00:03:02.660 You know, at that point, it had been a decade.

00:03:04.440 And they certainly have never flown them into buildings.

00:03:07.920 And therefore, it's crazy to worry about any terror group

00:03:10.640 hijacking planes and flying them into buildings.

00:03:12.520 They haven't done it before.

00:03:13.780 Pretty much everyone in aviation thought like that.

00:03:16.100 In fact, just months before 9-11,

00:03:19.540 the leader of a major pilot safety association

00:03:22.040 publicly opposed the idea of reinforced cockpit doors.

00:03:25.980 And he said, quote,

00:03:27.000 even if you make a vault out of the door,

00:03:28.920 if they have a noose around my flight attendant's neck,

00:03:31.180 I am going to open the door.

00:03:33.700 So there's no point in having the reinforced doors was his point.

00:03:36.180 The 9-11 commission put that quote in their report

00:03:39.320 because the pilot's attitude reflected FAA guidance at the time,

00:03:43.560 which stated that airplane crews should basically just do whatever hijackers want

00:03:49.020 because there's no way that they're going to grab the controls

00:03:52.140 and turn the plane into a missile, for example.

00:03:55.460 Well, the moment the terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners

00:03:58.320 and flew three of them into buildings and one of them into the ground,

00:04:01.500 everybody on the planet immediately understood

00:04:03.260 how wrong the old way of thinking was.

00:04:06.320 You don't discount the risk of a particular type of terrorist attack

00:04:09.720 by saying it hasn't happened yet.

00:04:11.720 Instead, you look for vulnerabilities in the existing system that we have

00:04:16.840 because obviously, you know, the bad guys are doing the same thing.

00:04:21.240 And that was supposedly all learned and settled after 9-11.

00:04:24.440 But apparently, this lesson has not been learned,

00:04:27.300 or at least it's been forgotten or just ignored, at least in Washington.

00:04:31.340 Last month, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing

00:04:34.320 to investigate how an operative with ties to ISIS had managed to smuggle

00:04:38.940 more than a dozen migrants from Uzbekistan

00:04:42.020 into the United States through the southern border.

00:04:45.680 Now, the FBI still has no idea exactly how many Uzbekistanis

00:04:49.760 this ISIS smuggler allowed into this country,

00:04:53.060 nor do they have any way to track them all down.

00:04:55.320 They're lost in the wind, which isn't surprising given that this past fiscal year

00:04:59.340 there were more illegal crossings at the border than at any other time

00:05:02.920 in the history of this country.

00:05:07.060 Well, how are Democrats' preferred, quote-unquote,

00:05:09.920 immigration experts responding to this development?

00:05:13.580 For a lesson on that, here's a clip from last month's

00:05:16.680 House Judiciary Committee hearing in which a vice president

00:05:19.180 at the Libertarian Cato Institute explains

00:05:21.540 that Republicans are fear-mongering about the border.

00:05:25.460 Why?

00:05:25.780 Well, because illegal migrants haven't conducted any terrorist attacks yet.

00:05:31.620 Watch.

00:05:33.040 The title of this hearing is

00:05:35.440 Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border.

00:05:37.960 When I first heard that was the title, my reaction was

00:05:40.900 What Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border?

00:05:44.520 Zero people have been murdered in attacks

00:05:47.940 committed by terrorists who entered as illegal immigrants.

00:05:50.940 Zero people have been murdered, injured in attacks

00:05:55.260 committed by terrorists who entered illegally.

00:05:58.900 Zero attacks have been carried out by immigrants who entered illegally.

00:06:04.180 So that's the logic.

00:06:05.520 It's kind of a pre-9-11 logic, and Democrats are nodding along.

00:06:09.840 Terrorists haven't used the wide-open southern border

00:06:12.500 to conduct a large-scale terrorist attack so far,

00:06:14.980 and therefore you're paranoid for thinking that it's a possibility.

00:06:17.600 That's the idea, and pretty much every Democrat in Congress endorses this view,

00:06:21.200 which is, you know, it's kind of like

00:06:22.920 saying that you should just leave the door of your house wide open

00:06:26.980 at night while you go to sleep

00:06:28.580 because, well, you've never been the victim of a home invasion robbery before.

00:06:33.100 It hasn't happened yet, and therefore it will never happen,

00:06:35.740 and therefore there's no reason to do anything to prevent it from happening.

00:06:38.740 This is how they're responding to the news

00:06:40.960 that ISIS is bringing in migrants from Uzbekistan

00:06:43.780 that are completely unvetted.

00:06:45.680 We don't know anything about them.

00:06:47.360 That's despite the fact that Uzbekistan has a long history

00:06:49.860 of exporting terrorists to this country.

00:06:52.040 On Halloween night in 2017, for example,

00:06:53.880 a 29-year-old Uzbek migrant, who was here on a visa,

00:06:57.180 drove a truck into pedestrians and cyclists in Manhattan,

00:07:00.720 killing eight of them and wounding many more.

00:07:03.360 That attack followed the sentencing of another Uzbek migrant,

00:07:06.620 also here on a visa, who was found guilty of terrorism charges

00:07:09.420 for planning to bomb Coney Island.

00:07:12.100 Democrats and libertarians, apparently,

00:07:14.080 want you to ignore all of that because those Uzbekistani terrorists

00:07:17.880 didn't arrive through the southern border.

00:07:20.160 They came on a plane.

00:07:21.740 Therefore, they're saying you have no reason to worry about border security

00:07:25.160 because they would come on a plane.

00:07:28.080 It's a totally nonsensical approach, obviously,

00:07:30.740 but that's what they're going with.

00:07:32.820 Republicans, for the most part,

00:07:34.460 they're not focused on it one way or another.

00:07:36.080 They want you to focus on Ukraine and the Middle East.

00:07:38.800 Mitch McConnell, who somehow is still in office,

00:07:40.920 says Ukraine is our top priority right now.

00:07:43.760 As a result of this bipartisan consensus in Washington,

00:07:47.100 this decision to focus on every other border except our own,

00:07:50.080 there's now a very real risk that Americans will die.

00:07:53.860 In fact, Americans are already dying,

00:07:55.520 if not from terrorism, then from gang violence

00:07:58.440 and other kind of violence that comes across the border.

00:08:00.320 As CNN reported, the episode involving the ISIS smuggler

00:08:04.260 was so alarming that an urgent classified intelligence report

00:08:07.120 was circulated to President Joe Biden's top cabinet officials

00:08:09.760 in their morning briefing book.

00:08:11.700 For some counterterrorism officials,

00:08:13.580 it shows that the U.S. is deeply vulnerable

00:08:15.280 to the possibility that terrorists could sneak across

00:08:17.320 the southern border by hiding amid the surge of migrants

00:08:20.200 entering the country in search of asylum.

00:08:23.260 Now, to be clear, the Biden administration,

00:08:26.020 they aren't simply ignoring the problem.

00:08:27.900 That'd be bad enough.

00:08:28.520 They are actually facilitating it.

00:08:31.420 After 9-11, the U.S. government started using a category

00:08:34.240 called special interest aliens,

00:08:36.380 which is kind of a funny euphemism,

00:08:39.080 but the idea is to flag migrants coming from countries

00:08:42.680 that promote terrorism, such as Uzbekistan.

00:08:45.120 These are the special interest aliens.

00:08:48.500 The idea was to be transparent with Americans

00:08:50.960 about who exactly is coming into this country and from where.

00:08:55.220 But the Biden administration has decided

00:08:56.620 to hide all of that data.

00:08:58.520 Because they don't want us to know.

00:09:00.360 At the same hearing we just showed you,

00:09:02.360 Todd Benzman of the Center for Immigration Studies

00:09:04.540 also testified.

00:09:05.380 He told lawmakers that, quote,

00:09:06.940 the Biden administration has taken steps

00:09:08.460 to obscure the number of special interest aliens

00:09:10.400 from the U.S. public,

00:09:11.600 ending routine reporting of these apprehensions

00:09:13.960 by nationality.

00:09:15.640 And indeed, on the Border Patrol website,

00:09:17.240 they don't list the number of special interest migrants

00:09:19.240 coming from the vast majority of Muslim countries.

00:09:21.460 They don't want you to know how many people ISIS

00:09:24.000 could be bringing to this country

00:09:25.380 from places like Uzbekistan and other places.

00:09:28.380 But many of those numbers have leaked out anyway,

00:09:31.980 in spite of the Biden administration's best efforts.

00:09:34.680 And Todd Benzman told the House Judiciary Committee

00:09:36.560 what those numbers show.

00:09:38.340 It turns out that our southern border

00:09:39.940 is so overwhelmed with migrants

00:09:41.600 that we're not able to effectively screen

00:09:43.600 special interest aliens at all.

00:09:46.380 Watch.

00:09:46.600 Expect those screening programs

00:09:49.720 to be degraded indefinitely

00:09:51.260 because vast numbers of special interest aliens

00:09:54.360 are currently pouring through the Darien Gap

00:09:56.680 between Colombia and Panama.

00:09:58.980 Usually 10,000 migrants or less

00:10:01.240 pass through the gap.

00:10:02.800 In 2023, however,

00:10:04.580 300,000 plus have gone through the gap.

00:10:08.560 And whereas only 3,000 or 4,000

00:10:10.680 special interest aliens among them

00:10:12.480 reached our southern border annually,

00:10:14.720 the Daily Caller just reported

00:10:16.980 that 75,000 came in just the last nine months.

00:10:21.840 DHS cannot possibly vet

00:10:24.040 or even interview a fraction of these numbers,

00:10:27.760 raising the terrorism risk.

00:10:30.860 And whereas about 20 aliens

00:10:32.400 on the terror watch list

00:10:33.460 were caught at the southwest border

00:10:35.100 in prior years,

00:10:36.760 since this crisis began in 2021

00:10:38.860 through the end of July,

00:10:40.920 Border Patrol apprehended

00:10:42.040 an almost implausibly large number

00:10:44.460 of them,

00:10:45.340 258 as of now.

00:10:48.300 Those watch listed 258

00:10:50.100 are just the ones

00:10:51.000 Border Patrol managed to catch.

00:10:53.380 Border Patrol failed to apprehend

00:10:54.960 a record-breaking 1.8 million migrants

00:10:57.600 who slipped into the interior.

00:11:00.500 Now, those numbers don't seem even possible.

00:11:03.620 Between October 2022 and August 2023,

00:11:06.220 that's less than a year's time,

00:11:08.280 more than 75,000 special interest aliens

00:11:10.140 were encountered by Border Patrol.

00:11:12.720 Before the current border crisis,

00:11:14.000 that number of special interest aliens

00:11:15.680 encountered by Border Patrol officials

00:11:17.040 was closer to 3,000.

00:11:19.300 And these are just the migrants

00:11:20.500 that were encountered.

00:11:21.860 The actual number of special interest aliens

00:11:23.620 arriving at our borders

00:11:24.600 is far larger,

00:11:25.920 though it's impossible to know

00:11:26.900 how many.

00:11:28.760 And again,

00:11:29.160 these are just the people

00:11:29.960 coming from countries

00:11:30.840 that the U.S. government

00:11:31.560 believes are a high-risk

00:11:33.340 terrorist states.

00:11:35.720 We're also importing

00:11:36.740 the rest of the Third World, too,

00:11:38.060 without any vetting whatsoever.

00:11:39.500 Along with de-policing,

00:11:41.740 that's leading to a drastic increase

00:11:43.380 in violent crime rates

00:11:44.380 in this country,

00:11:45.140 all over the country.

00:11:46.660 We're not taking in families

00:11:48.240 or stable households.

00:11:49.220 We're taking in mostly young men

00:11:50.780 with no ties to this country,

00:11:52.900 no loyalty to this country,

00:11:54.660 and very little to lose.

00:11:56.800 And in response,

00:11:57.940 a lot more migrants

00:11:58.700 are coming our way.

00:12:00.080 This was the scene

00:12:01.280 in Mexico recently

00:12:02.560 as yet another large group

00:12:03.720 of migrants,

00:12:04.320 apparently from Haiti,

00:12:05.900 broke through barriers

00:12:06.920 at a refugee office.

00:12:08.780 Look at this.

00:12:30.880 So you see that there.

00:12:33.220 And you can see

00:12:33.940 the crowd for yourself.

00:12:34.900 When Democrats talk about

00:12:36.160 illegal immigrants,

00:12:37.340 they want you to imagine

00:12:38.640 mothers with young children

00:12:40.400 fleeing poverty and oppression,

00:12:42.820 you know,

00:12:43.040 the huddled masses

00:12:44.080 yearning to breathe free,

00:12:45.400 they tell us,

00:12:46.300 because they think

00:12:46.920 that a poem engraved

00:12:47.960 on a large statue

00:12:48.880 carries the weight of law

00:12:50.520 and should actually determine

00:12:52.720 our immigration policy.

00:12:53.980 But that does not really describe

00:12:55.820 a great number of the migrants

00:12:56.860 pouring across the border.

00:12:58.260 There are some mothers

00:12:59.120 with young children,

00:13:00.400 okay,

00:13:00.720 but what you just saw

00:13:01.980 in the video,

00:13:03.120 there was a bunch

00:13:04.380 of young military-aged males.

00:13:07.420 And one of the things

00:13:08.260 about those people

00:13:09.160 is that these are

00:13:09.820 the sorts of people

00:13:10.640 who could be of use

00:13:12.380 in their own countries.

00:13:14.640 They could be trying

00:13:15.600 to improve their own homes,

00:13:17.840 fighting to make

00:13:18.500 their own countries

00:13:19.460 prosperous

00:13:19.980 or at least livable.

00:13:22.620 I mean,

00:13:22.820 imagine if these countries

00:13:23.680 actually retained

00:13:24.720 all of their young,

00:13:26.680 able-bodied,

00:13:27.900 strong males

00:13:29.000 liberals to help

00:13:30.460 actually,

00:13:31.880 literally,

00:13:32.880 and in every other sense,

00:13:33.700 build the country.

00:13:35.700 But instead,

00:13:36.360 they all come here

00:13:36.940 to take advantage

00:13:38.220 of the welfare state.

00:13:39.940 And they come here

00:13:40.780 not always

00:13:41.300 with the best intentions.

00:13:43.280 This is what happens

00:13:43.840 when politicians

00:13:44.320 promise free health care

00:13:45.360 to illegal aliens,

00:13:46.260 as every Democratic Party

00:13:47.440 presidential candidate

00:13:48.380 did in the last election.

00:13:49.860 It's what happens

00:13:50.360 when the President

00:13:50.800 of the United States

00:13:51.400 announces his commitment

00:13:52.320 to making America

00:13:53.060 less white

00:13:53.740 and decides to defame

00:13:55.340 any Border Patrol officer

00:13:56.920 who tries to enforce the law.

00:13:58.840 It's what happens

00:13:59.440 when we are more concerned

00:14:00.680 with other countries'

00:14:01.480 borders than our own.

00:14:03.340 This is why people

00:14:04.060 from Haiti

00:14:04.560 and so many other countries

00:14:05.500 are heading

00:14:06.160 for the U.S. border,

00:14:07.480 which is not even

00:14:08.240 remotely secure.

00:14:10.160 ISIS sees this happening.

00:14:11.380 Every terrorist organization

00:14:12.280 on the planet

00:14:12.760 sees it happening.

00:14:14.140 They saw the atrocities

00:14:15.300 that Hamas was able

00:14:16.080 to commit against Israel,

00:14:17.100 which has one of the most

00:14:18.080 closely surveilled

00:14:19.640 and guarded borders

00:14:20.700 on the entire planet.

00:14:23.960 There's no doubt

00:14:24.660 that they're looking at that

00:14:25.580 and then they're looking

00:14:26.580 at our open border

00:14:27.420 and they're seeing

00:14:28.620 an opportunity

00:14:29.200 to commit similar acts

00:14:30.600 of barbarism

00:14:31.340 in this country.

00:14:32.160 It's not fear-mongering,

00:14:33.040 it's just the reality.

00:14:35.120 Courtesy of ISIS,

00:14:35.960 there's reason to believe

00:14:36.680 that many of these terrorists

00:14:37.460 are already here.

00:14:39.760 And we can respond

00:14:40.820 to that reality

00:14:41.520 either by closing

00:14:43.860 and militarizing the border

00:14:45.180 and beginning

00:14:45.660 mass deportations

00:14:46.820 or we can do nothing

00:14:49.120 and just get ready

00:14:51.200 for the inevitable.

00:14:52.740 There will be an attack.

00:14:54.340 The left will pretend again

00:14:55.620 to relearn the lessons

00:14:56.660 of 9-11 all over again

00:14:57.880 and American citizens

00:14:59.980 who are the only citizens

00:15:01.600 our leaders are supposed

00:15:02.920 to protect and defend

00:15:04.140 will die as a result.

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00:16:10.460 Hundreds of Lebanese

00:16:11.220 demonstrators

00:16:11.740 waving Palestinian

00:16:12.680 and Hamas flag

00:16:13.500 surrounded the U.S. Embassy

00:16:14.520 in Beirut Tuesday night

00:16:15.700 after Hamas

00:16:16.340 falsely accused Israel

00:16:17.400 of hitting a Gaza hospital

00:16:18.800 in an airstrike.

00:16:20.360 The protesters gathered

00:16:21.220 at the U.S. Embassy

00:16:21.900 hours before President Joe Biden

00:16:23.260 was scheduled to arrive

00:16:24.060 in neighboring Israel

00:16:24.820 to meet with Prime Minister

00:16:25.700 Benjamin Netanyahu

00:16:26.460 in a show of solidarity

00:16:27.940 with Israel

00:16:28.480 as a response

00:16:29.020 to the devastating

00:16:29.540 Hamas terrorist attack

00:16:30.680 on October 7th.

00:16:32.720 The demonstration also came

00:16:33.700 after the terrorist group

00:16:34.560 Hezbollah,

00:16:35.180 which is based in Lebanon,

00:16:37.540 called for a day

00:16:38.360 of unprecedented anger

00:16:39.760 at Israel

00:16:40.420 and the United States.

00:16:41.560 The demonstrators

00:16:42.000 scaled a fence

00:16:42.820 to plant a Palestinian flag

00:16:44.820 at the U.S. Embassy

00:16:45.340 and set a building on fire

00:16:46.820 just outside the security gate.

00:16:49.660 On Tuesday,

00:16:50.180 legacy media outlets

00:16:50.880 and leftist politicians

00:16:51.600 ran with a story

00:16:52.220 pushed by Palestinian officials

00:16:53.480 claiming that Israel

00:16:54.720 targeted a hospital

00:16:55.860 in the Gaza Strip

00:16:56.940 in an airstrike

00:16:57.760 and killed 500 civilians.

00:16:59.900 However,

00:17:00.140 video footage of the explosion

00:17:01.040 shows the area

00:17:01.600 near the hospital

00:17:02.140 lit up with fire

00:17:03.500 moments after a barrage

00:17:04.660 of rockets launched

00:17:05.840 from the Gaza Strip

00:17:06.620 towards Israel,

00:17:08.040 meaning one of Hamas' rockets

00:17:09.540 likely malfunctioned

00:17:10.900 and landed on the hospital.

00:17:13.060 Okay, so on this hospital thing,

00:17:17.980 first of all,

00:17:19.240 I have to say

00:17:19.880 that I'm extremely impressed

00:17:22.340 with the peanut gallery

00:17:24.640 on Twitter.

00:17:25.640 You know,

00:17:25.920 because I used to think

00:17:27.040 that social media

00:17:27.840 was full of a bunch

00:17:28.760 of ignorant loudmouths

00:17:30.440 shouting into the abyss

00:17:31.640 about stuff

00:17:32.240 they don't know anything about.

00:17:33.840 I used to think that,

00:17:35.120 but then this war

00:17:35.760 in the Middle East started

00:17:36.540 and suddenly,

00:17:37.580 it turns out

00:17:38.060 that everyone on the internet

00:17:39.540 is an expert

00:17:40.860 in Middle East relations

00:17:42.140 and they know

00:17:42.960 everything about it.

00:17:43.580 I had no idea.

00:17:44.540 I didn't realize

00:17:45.040 I was dealing with

00:17:45.820 people who are so well,

00:17:47.840 very well read on the topic

00:17:49.220 and with this incredible intuition

00:17:51.220 to just know exactly

00:17:52.300 what's going on all the time

00:17:53.760 and anytime anything happens,

00:17:56.020 they know exactly

00:17:57.160 who's to blame for everything.

00:17:59.320 Not only that,

00:17:59.980 but when there's

00:18:00.840 some kind of new development,

00:18:02.200 like let's say

00:18:02.620 a hospital allegedly

00:18:03.480 is hit with a rocket,

00:18:05.960 they know exactly

00:18:06.840 what happened

00:18:07.520 even before

00:18:09.320 any solid information

00:18:10.780 is available at all.

00:18:13.980 Like all we know,

00:18:16.200 well, all we think we know

00:18:17.280 is that a hospital

00:18:18.180 was hit with a rocket

00:18:18.920 and that's the only information,

00:18:22.100 supposed information

00:18:22.920 that has been released.

00:18:24.180 And you get all these people

00:18:24.920 on Twitter

00:18:25.300 who they know exactly,

00:18:26.260 they know who did it,

00:18:27.900 they know why they did it

00:18:29.820 within seconds.

00:18:32.300 I mean, it's amazing.

00:18:34.460 The intuition,

00:18:35.740 it's like magical.

00:18:39.320 But me,

00:18:40.100 you know,

00:18:40.460 I admit I'm not an expert.

00:18:42.420 I don't have,

00:18:44.140 in fact,

00:18:44.740 I don't have any

00:18:45.380 firsthand knowledge

00:18:46.260 of what's going on

00:18:47.180 over there right now.

00:18:49.800 I'm the only one

00:18:50.740 in the country,

00:18:51.520 apparently,

00:18:52.460 who's out of the loop on this.

00:18:53.780 I don't know where

00:18:54.260 the rest of you guys,

00:18:56.020 I don't know how

00:18:56.840 you all have this

00:18:58.020 firsthand knowledge

00:18:58.660 of everything that's

00:18:59.120 happening over there.

00:18:59.740 You know exactly

00:19:00.180 who's to blame for everything.

00:19:01.180 I don't have that.

00:19:02.260 So I'm the only non-expert

00:19:03.640 and I'm just over here

00:19:04.960 like I can only go

00:19:06.100 based on the information

00:19:07.000 that filters to me

00:19:08.180 and either it's coming

00:19:09.540 from corporate media outlets

00:19:10.980 for the most part

00:19:11.680 or it's coming

00:19:12.780 through social media

00:19:14.560 you know,

00:19:15.820 accounts

00:19:16.220 and many times

00:19:17.180 these accounts,

00:19:17.740 I don't even know

00:19:18.020 who they are,

00:19:18.620 they're in foreign languages.

00:19:20.480 That's the situation

00:19:21.340 I'm in.

00:19:21.980 Apparently,

00:19:22.280 I'm the only one.

00:19:24.400 So,

00:19:25.380 I must say that

00:19:26.460 when I heard about

00:19:27.680 the hospital explosion,

00:19:29.360 I didn't know

00:19:30.400 exactly what happened.

00:19:31.220 Israel said Hamas did it,

00:19:32.680 Hamas said Israel did it.

00:19:35.200 Some media reports,

00:19:36.780 actually many media reports

00:19:37.920 blaming Israel

00:19:39.420 for it right away.

00:19:41.360 I saw a few that were,

00:19:43.400 I didn't see any initially

00:19:44.520 that blamed Hamas

00:19:45.180 but I saw a few

00:19:45.840 that indicated,

00:19:46.720 you know,

00:19:46.980 maybe Hamas did it.

00:19:49.420 Didn't have any

00:19:50.080 firsthand knowledge myself

00:19:51.000 and then we get

00:19:54.620 more information,

00:19:56.220 what we think is information

00:19:57.180 anyway this morning,

00:19:59.040 that after we were told

00:20:00.520 that a hospital

00:20:01.340 was blown up,

00:20:02.400 like the dominant narrative

00:20:04.480 on social media anyway

00:20:06.900 and in corporate media

00:20:08.220 was that a hospital

00:20:09.560 was leveled,

00:20:10.420 it was blown up,

00:20:11.260 500 people were killed

00:20:12.220 in the process

00:20:12.880 and that it was likely

00:20:14.600 because of Israel.

00:20:15.740 That was the dominant narrative.

00:20:18.320 But what we see online

00:20:19.460 right now

00:20:20.340 is actually indicating

00:20:22.080 and now we have

00:20:23.120 video footage

00:20:24.360 and we have things

00:20:25.220 that seem a little bit

00:20:25.720 more reliable

00:20:26.260 because you can actually

00:20:26.820 see for your own eyes

00:20:27.760 and that all indicates

00:20:30.140 that the hospital

00:20:31.080 wasn't blown up at all,

00:20:33.840 that the hospital

00:20:34.960 was not blown up.

00:20:37.180 Now,

00:20:37.680 what we're seeing now

00:20:38.320 are images

00:20:38.820 of a parking lot

00:20:39.900 next to the hospital

00:20:41.100 that is partially damaged.

00:20:45.180 So we went from a,

00:20:46.040 we went from a hospital leveled

00:20:48.320 and 500 people killed

00:20:50.040 to a partially damaged

00:20:51.780 parking lot

00:20:52.600 that,

00:20:53.820 you know,

00:20:54.580 likely if a missile

00:20:56.100 or rocket

00:20:56.780 hit a parking lot

00:20:58.560 next to a hospital,

00:20:59.340 probably killed

00:21:00.120 some innocent people

00:21:00.780 which is a terrible thing.

00:21:02.640 Unlikely that it killed

00:21:03.420 500 people though

00:21:04.840 in a parking lot.

00:21:07.200 So,

00:21:08.300 no matter what,

00:21:09.560 no matter what,

00:21:10.480 the initial story

00:21:11.320 seems to have been false

00:21:12.300 which isn't a surprise,

00:21:14.420 okay,

00:21:14.680 because this is information

00:21:15.600 coming out of a war zone.

00:21:18.060 We're getting information

00:21:19.220 out of a war zone.

00:21:20.200 And if you're

00:21:22.600 the sort of person

00:21:23.220 who just accepts

00:21:24.320 the first bit of information

00:21:25.820 you get out of a war zone

00:21:27.260 from clearly biased sources,

00:21:29.640 not just biased,

00:21:30.980 but these are people

00:21:32.140 who are in a war,

00:21:33.540 they're killing each other.

00:21:35.660 So they obviously

00:21:36.480 would have no compunction

00:21:37.300 about lying.

00:21:39.280 I mean,

00:21:39.580 that's propaganda.

00:21:41.700 It's part of any war.

00:21:42.840 It's especially part of wars now

00:21:44.020 in the information age.

00:21:45.700 So the only

00:21:48.520 honest and intelligent way

00:21:51.720 to respond in that situation

00:21:52.740 is just to be very cautious.

00:21:55.920 And when you hear,

00:21:56.760 especially you hear

00:21:57.160 a dramatic story,

00:21:58.220 you hear about a hospital

00:21:59.100 being blown up.

00:21:59.940 It could have happened.

00:22:02.020 I mean,

00:22:02.160 these things happen in wars.

00:22:03.440 It's not like it's impossible.

00:22:04.480 It's not like you heard

00:22:05.100 this story about the hospital

00:22:05.900 being blown up.

00:22:06.840 There was no reason

00:22:07.560 for you to automatically assume

00:22:09.220 that it isn't true

00:22:10.300 because it could be true.

00:22:12.320 That kind of thing

00:22:12.980 could happen.

00:22:13.640 But it is a dramatic

00:22:19.120 kind of story.

00:22:24.000 And so the intelligent

00:22:27.060 and honest way

00:22:28.060 to handle that

00:22:28.680 is to say,

00:22:29.240 well,

00:22:29.480 let's wait for more information.

00:22:31.660 Let's hold off

00:22:32.340 on drawing conclusions.

00:22:33.980 But then again,

00:22:34.860 you're a human being.

00:22:35.760 You have a mind.

00:22:36.540 And so you can't help

00:22:37.340 but try to understand things

00:22:39.540 as you see them.

00:22:40.300 And you arrive

00:22:41.540 at at least tentative conclusions.

00:22:44.220 And so here's how

00:22:45.360 I kind of navigate this.

00:22:46.620 Going back to yesterday,

00:22:47.480 I heard the news

00:22:47.900 about the hospital.

00:22:49.120 Didn't know what was going on.

00:22:51.020 Neither did you.

00:22:52.360 Okay?

00:22:52.660 Neither did anybody.

00:22:54.440 And so you can only

00:22:55.740 really use your common sense

00:22:56.820 to arrive at kind of

00:22:58.420 an educated guess.

00:23:00.260 And my common sense

00:23:01.300 told me,

00:23:01.740 first of all,

00:23:02.660 that it would make

00:23:04.560 no sense at all

00:23:05.400 for Israel

00:23:05.980 to intentionally

00:23:06.720 blow up a hospital.

00:23:07.360 So the story

00:23:08.400 that Israel

00:23:08.840 targeted a hospital

00:23:10.160 and leveled it,

00:23:12.860 technically possible

00:23:14.340 with no other information.

00:23:16.160 I can't say

00:23:16.620 for sure

00:23:17.460 it didn't happen.

00:23:18.080 Technically possible.

00:23:19.500 It's not like

00:23:19.960 some sort of

00:23:21.540 logical impossibility.

00:23:23.660 Very,

00:23:24.200 very unlikely though.

00:23:25.280 Just very unlikely.

00:23:26.760 Common sense tells you

00:23:27.500 it's very unlikely

00:23:28.380 because they have

00:23:29.680 no incentive.

00:23:30.920 Even if you think

00:23:31.660 that Israel

00:23:32.020 is the evil empire,

00:23:32.940 even if you think

00:23:33.480 that Darth Vader

00:23:34.160 is in charge over there.

00:23:36.180 Just from a pure

00:23:37.080 self-interest standpoint,

00:23:39.380 they gain nothing

00:23:40.260 from blowing up a hospital.

00:23:41.360 So your common sense

00:23:42.340 should tell you

00:23:42.820 when you first hear that story,

00:23:44.520 why would they do that?

00:23:46.180 How does that help them?

00:23:47.480 I mean,

00:23:47.700 they're fighting a war.

00:23:48.720 That doesn't,

00:23:49.280 it doesn't,

00:23:50.720 whatever you think

00:23:51.560 about the ethics

00:23:52.880 of it,

00:23:54.420 and obviously

00:23:56.060 blowing up a hospital

00:23:56.880 is to call it unethical

00:23:58.340 would be a massive

00:23:59.000 understatement,

00:23:59.460 but it doesn't,

00:24:00.440 it doesn't,

00:24:00.940 we don't need to get,

00:24:01.600 it doesn't help

00:24:02.240 any objective.

00:24:03.480 All it does,

00:24:04.060 it would turn

00:24:04.620 the world against them,

00:24:06.120 turns world opinion

00:24:06.760 against them,

00:24:07.540 makes it less likely

00:24:08.380 that other countries

00:24:09.000 help them or take their side.

00:24:10.880 There's no reason

00:24:11.420 to do it.

00:24:12.860 So it's a bizarre claim.

00:24:16.040 It also seems unlikely

00:24:17.220 that the Palestinians

00:24:18.000 would blow up

00:24:18.580 their own hospital.

00:24:19.780 So we're left with

00:24:20.760 one way or another,

00:24:22.020 most likely a misfire,

00:24:23.560 a mistake,

00:24:24.220 someone accidentally

00:24:25.080 did it, right?

00:24:26.100 This is your common sense

00:24:27.060 is what should tell you that.

00:24:28.500 It's just like,

00:24:28.940 most likely seems like

00:24:29.820 this was probably,

00:24:30.600 no one,

00:24:31.120 probably was not

00:24:31.620 a targeted situation.

00:24:33.480 And then you have

00:24:34.900 to ask yourself,

00:24:35.600 okay,

00:24:35.800 which side has the more

00:24:36.840 sophisticated rockets

00:24:37.800 and technology?

00:24:39.760 Well,

00:24:40.200 it's Israel,

00:24:40.840 which makes it less likely

00:24:42.500 that they'd be the ones

00:24:43.400 to make that kind of mistake,

00:24:44.920 which means,

00:24:45.480 yeah,

00:24:45.680 it was probably Hamas.

00:24:46.540 just seems like the common sense

00:24:50.760 assumption in light,

00:24:52.620 in lieu of additional information.

00:24:56.340 Given the alleged target

00:24:58.340 or given what happened,

00:25:00.120 very unlikely that it was targeted

00:25:01.440 on either side

00:25:02.380 because neither side

00:25:03.220 gains anything from doing that.

00:25:05.380 And so it's a mistake.

00:25:08.240 Which side is more likely

00:25:09.660 to make that kind of mistake?

00:25:10.640 Which side has the cruder technology?

00:25:12.620 Well,

00:25:12.780 there's no question about it.

00:25:13.720 that's what your common sense

00:25:15.960 should tell you

00:25:16.500 and then more information

00:25:17.720 comes out this morning

00:25:18.620 and then it seems like,

00:25:19.440 okay,

00:25:19.740 well,

00:25:19.920 yeah,

00:25:20.140 if that was your common sense

00:25:21.400 sort of assumption,

00:25:22.160 then it seems like

00:25:23.360 it's being vindicated.

00:25:27.120 One thing we certainly

00:25:27.920 can't rely on

00:25:28.540 is our leaders

00:25:29.120 to help us out

00:25:29.920 or lend any clarity.

00:25:31.260 As I already mentioned,

00:25:32.360 you know,

00:25:32.700 our leaders are,

00:25:34.580 we cannot,

00:25:37.080 one thing we cannot assume

00:25:38.860 is that they're going

00:25:39.340 to help us navigate

00:25:40.020 through this.

00:25:40.680 And just to make

00:25:41.940 that point clear,

00:25:43.080 Biden is in Tel Aviv now

00:25:44.980 and here he is,

00:25:45.980 we've got a couple

00:25:46.260 of clips from here.

00:25:46.700 Here he is,

00:25:47.120 first of all,

00:25:47.520 talking about this

00:25:48.600 alleged hospital explosion.

00:25:51.920 Watch.

00:25:52.680 I was deeply saddened

00:25:54.180 and outraged

00:25:54.760 by the explosion

00:25:57.100 at the hospital

00:25:57.720 in Gaza yesterday.

00:25:59.720 And based on what I've seen,

00:26:00.880 it appears as though

00:26:01.840 it was done

00:26:02.960 by the other team,

00:26:04.120 not you.

00:26:06.100 But there's a lot

00:26:07.020 of people out there

00:26:07.800 not sure.

00:26:08.520 So we've got a lot,

00:26:09.900 we've got to overcome

00:26:10.480 a lot of things.

00:26:12.540 Great insight, Biden.

00:26:13.540 Thanks for that.

00:26:14.000 So we have to overcome

00:26:15.520 a lot of things.

00:26:17.300 We have to overcome.

00:26:18.300 He can barely,

00:26:18.720 he can barely stay awake.

00:26:20.220 He's half asleep.

00:26:21.780 He can barely wake himself

00:26:22.820 up enough

00:26:23.340 to speak.

00:26:27.400 Which really came through

00:26:28.560 in this next clip,

00:26:29.960 especially.

00:26:30.380 Watch this.

00:26:31.520 You know,

00:26:32.520 years ago,

00:26:34.600 I asked the Secretary of State

00:26:36.000 would he and I

00:26:36.520 work in the Senate

00:26:37.280 to write something

00:26:38.200 for a man.

00:26:39.700 He said,

00:26:40.480 he wrote a line

00:26:41.280 that I think

00:26:42.500 is appropriate.

00:26:44.460 He said,

00:26:45.200 it's not,

00:26:46.500 we lead,

00:26:47.740 not just,

00:26:49.900 well,

00:26:50.200 I won't go there,

00:26:50.960 I'll wait later.

00:26:52.500 Take it too much time.

00:26:54.380 What?

00:26:56.240 We are so screwed.

00:26:58.080 I hate to say it,

00:26:59.300 we really are.

00:27:00.000 I mean,

00:27:00.660 this guy's barely awake

00:27:01.860 and we have him

00:27:05.660 overseas right now

00:27:06.660 on the brink

00:27:07.640 of a world war,

00:27:09.100 sleepwalking

00:27:10.140 and babbling

00:27:10.880 to himself.

00:27:12.960 Meanwhile,

00:27:13.480 Israel's trying

00:27:14.020 to fight a war

00:27:14.660 and now they have

00:27:15.160 to babysit grandpa.

00:27:17.520 You know,

00:27:17.980 how much,

00:27:18.340 how much did they,

00:27:19.000 did they hate it

00:27:19.640 when they heard the news

00:27:20.320 that Joe Biden's

00:27:21.500 showing up?

00:27:21.960 They're like,

00:27:22.160 can you send someone else?

00:27:23.060 We don't,

00:27:23.300 really?

00:27:25.280 I can't really

00:27:25.960 babysit right now,

00:27:26.700 guys.

00:27:26.940 Does anyone believe

00:27:29.380 that this brain-dead

00:27:30.720 vegetable

00:27:31.260 is going to steer us

00:27:32.560 through this crisis

00:27:33.280 in a competent way?

00:27:35.500 Does anyone have faith

00:27:36.400 in that?

00:27:37.220 Nobody does.

00:27:39.960 And worst of all,

00:27:40.800 there's no indication

00:27:41.500 that they would even

00:27:42.240 want to steer us

00:27:43.620 through it.

00:27:44.780 But who's they?

00:27:45.580 We don't know.

00:27:46.100 Who's actually in charge?

00:27:46.820 Who's calling the shots?

00:27:48.180 We don't know.

00:27:49.820 It's not Joe Biden.

00:27:53.420 It's like his handlers

00:27:54.660 behind the scenes

00:27:55.760 using Joe Biden

00:27:58.700 as this half-dead

00:28:00.120 semi-conscious puppet

00:28:02.940 as the world

00:28:05.120 teeters on the

00:28:06.060 brank of a world war.

00:28:06.860 It's,

00:28:07.180 I don't know

00:28:08.880 how else to put it.

00:28:09.360 It's just a really

00:28:10.380 dire situation

00:28:12.120 that we're in.

00:28:12.660 It truly is.

00:28:14.120 All right.

00:28:15.040 Moving on to

00:28:15.760 slightly less important news.

00:28:17.500 Britney Spears

00:28:18.160 has a book coming out

00:28:19.400 and,

00:28:20.080 you know,

00:28:21.280 everything going on

00:28:21.840 in the world,

00:28:22.240 this is the good news

00:28:22.920 at least,

00:28:23.860 that all of the most

00:28:24.820 insufferable women

00:28:25.680 in the country

00:28:26.280 apparently have memoirs

00:28:27.980 coming out.

00:28:28.360 We've got Jada Pinkett Smith

00:28:29.200 as a memoir,

00:28:30.360 Britney Spears

00:28:30.780 as a memoir.

00:28:32.120 Now we just need one

00:28:32.820 from, I don't know,

00:28:33.440 Joy Behar

00:28:34.100 and we'll really

00:28:35.620 complete the trifecta.

00:28:36.740 But there's one revelation

00:28:37.800 from the book

00:28:38.260 that's getting a lot

00:28:38.860 of attention

00:28:39.280 and here's NBC News.

00:28:43.140 We're back now

00:28:43.880 with a major revelation

00:28:44.780 from pop icon

00:28:45.740 Britney Spears.

00:28:46.620 In an excerpt

00:28:47.380 from her new book

00:28:48.580 called The Woman in Me

00:28:49.780 provided to People magazine,

00:28:51.520 Spears said she had

00:28:52.680 an abortion

00:28:53.220 as a teenager

00:28:54.100 after a pregnancy

00:28:55.320 with Justin Timberlake.

00:28:57.140 For more on this,

00:28:57.740 let's bring in

00:28:58.160 Callan Rosenblatt.

00:28:59.060 She's NBC News'

00:28:59.980 youth and internet

00:29:00.540 culture reporter.

00:29:01.240 Great to have you

00:29:01.740 with us.

00:29:02.180 Good morning, Callan.

00:29:03.160 So this abortion bombshell

00:29:04.360 is really what everybody

00:29:05.240 is talking about so far

00:29:06.800 in what we've seen

00:29:07.560 from the book.

00:29:08.220 What exactly does she say

00:29:09.500 happen and how does she

00:29:11.020 feel about it now?

00:29:12.280 Good morning,

00:29:12.760 Savannah and Joe.

00:29:13.780 So Britney Spears

00:29:14.640 talks about being deeply

00:29:16.160 in love with Justin Timberlake

00:29:17.200 at the time.

00:29:18.060 And although they weren't

00:29:19.080 really ready for this,

00:29:20.000 she said she'd always

00:29:20.840 anticipated starting

00:29:21.740 a family with him

00:29:22.720 and that they were going

00:29:23.360 to share their futures

00:29:24.040 together.

00:29:24.860 So when he said that

00:29:26.320 he wasn't ready

00:29:26.780 to be a father,

00:29:27.520 she said it was a really

00:29:28.640 difficult decision for her.

00:29:30.180 She said she has since

00:29:31.180 agonized over this decision

00:29:32.900 and that it's been

00:29:33.500 a really big challenge

00:29:35.500 for her.

00:29:36.180 And fans are really

00:29:37.800 empathizing with what

00:29:38.840 she says in this book

00:29:39.720 about being really

00:29:40.540 conflicted about having

00:29:41.880 this abortion after

00:29:42.780 falling pregnant in her

00:29:44.020 either early teens or

00:29:45.560 sorry, her late teens

00:29:46.820 or her early 20s.

00:29:48.360 And has Justin Timberlake

00:29:50.560 responded at all to the

00:29:51.840 book or to this claim?

00:29:54.080 People magazine had

00:29:55.100 reached out to Justin

00:29:55.880 Timberlake, but no reps

00:29:57.080 have responded yet for him.

00:29:58.640 All right.

00:29:58.840 So the free Britney movement,

00:30:00.320 of course, was a huge part

00:30:01.240 of her being released

00:30:02.000 from her conservatorship.

00:30:03.420 How are they reacting

00:30:04.660 to this revelation?

00:30:07.100 Yeah, so fans online are

00:30:08.520 really heartbroken for

00:30:09.440 Britney.

00:30:10.060 They say, you know,

00:30:11.040 Justin Timberlake has

00:30:11.980 in the past been under

00:30:13.260 scrutiny for some of his

00:30:14.300 treatment around Britney

00:30:15.780 Spears or how some of that

00:30:16.940 relationship shook out.

00:30:18.000 So now fans are really

00:30:19.420 reassessing some of the

00:30:20.240 music from that time.

00:30:21.540 They're saying they're

00:30:22.160 really heartbroken over

00:30:23.120 the song Crime.

00:30:24.140 All right.

00:30:24.740 So this is good news.

00:30:26.820 The free Britney movement

00:30:28.060 is on the case.

00:30:29.240 And that makes me feel

00:30:29.940 much better.

00:30:30.580 You know, the idiots who

00:30:31.620 demanded that a mentally

00:30:32.520 unstable woman be freed

00:30:33.660 from her conservatorship

00:30:34.720 because they saw a

00:30:35.800 documentary about her

00:30:36.660 and assumed that they

00:30:37.460 saw a documentary and

00:30:38.460 that was enough for them

00:30:39.440 to sum up like years and

00:30:41.360 years and years of court

00:30:42.500 cases and everything else.

00:30:43.560 And they knew everything

00:30:44.440 they needed to know based

00:30:45.320 on that, that we need to

00:30:46.940 free Britney.

00:30:48.400 And now they're chiming

00:30:49.520 in, which is which is

00:30:50.400 fantastic.

00:30:51.560 This is an interesting

00:30:52.280 story, though, and it's a

00:30:53.180 sad one.

00:30:53.540 Apparently, Britney Spears

00:30:54.280 at some point as a young

00:30:55.280 adult, maybe 19 or 20

00:30:57.580 is the assumption, had

00:31:01.020 an abortion at, she says,

00:31:03.280 Justin Timberlake's

00:31:04.060 insistence.

00:31:05.580 Now, a few things here.

00:31:08.360 Number one, Britney Spears

00:31:10.300 was, we must say, a

00:31:11.620 multimillionaire at the

00:31:12.960 time.

00:31:13.120 So the idea that she had

00:31:14.900 to kill her baby because

00:31:16.080 she couldn't care for the

00:31:17.180 child without Timberlake's

00:31:19.260 help just doesn't fly.

00:31:22.320 She was a very wealthy

00:31:23.240 woman who had an abortion

00:31:24.240 rather than care for her

00:31:25.120 child.

00:31:26.820 And that's what happened.

00:31:29.300 And she's responsible for

00:31:30.440 her own choices, trying to

00:31:31.260 pawn this all off on the

00:31:32.400 guy or acting like she was

00:31:33.960 a destitute, desperate,

00:31:35.540 poor woman with no other

00:31:37.060 choice or whatever.

00:31:38.240 All of that is wrong.

00:31:39.120 Not that an abortion would

00:31:40.040 be justified if she was

00:31:41.140 poor, but she wasn't.

00:31:42.620 So that's the first

00:31:44.620 thing.

00:31:44.840 Now, that said, if the

00:31:45.980 story is true, then

00:31:47.300 Justin Timberlake carries

00:31:48.260 an equal amount of the

00:31:49.280 blame, as it was equally

00:31:50.880 his child, and they're

00:31:52.380 both responsible, which

00:31:55.420 needs to be said.

00:31:58.360 But there's this thing

00:32:00.080 that happens in the

00:32:00.900 pro-life movement where

00:32:03.120 pro-lifers don't want to

00:32:05.860 be seen as villainizing

00:32:07.600 women, and they

00:32:09.660 especially, and they want

00:32:12.860 to be able to reach

00:32:13.480 women, especially before

00:32:14.800 an abortion happens, be

00:32:16.320 able to reach out to

00:32:17.040 them.

00:32:17.680 This is what pregnancy

00:32:19.240 resource centers are all

00:32:20.400 about, which is good.

00:32:21.880 It's like you want to be

00:32:22.320 able to reach women,

00:32:22.960 especially when you're

00:32:24.220 dealing with a woman who

00:32:25.480 is contemplating abortion

00:32:28.020 but hasn't gone through

00:32:28.940 with it yet.

00:32:30.100 Then the approach is

00:32:31.460 certainly not to shout at

00:32:33.440 them and scream at them

00:32:34.320 and heap guilt and all of

00:32:35.320 that.

00:32:35.420 Because if you do that,

00:32:36.180 then it's going to send

00:32:37.600 them into the arm.

00:32:38.480 That's what the abortion

00:32:39.580 industry wants you to do

00:32:41.060 because it sends them,

00:32:42.700 it sends the woman into

00:32:44.060 their demonic arms.

00:32:47.340 And pregnancy resource

00:32:48.440 centers and you've got

00:32:49.200 sidewalk counselors that go

00:32:50.420 to the abortion clinics,

00:32:51.120 they know all of this and

00:32:52.140 they're very good at

00:32:52.780 reaching out to these

00:32:53.360 women and not sugarcoating

00:32:56.500 the issue at all, but at

00:32:59.780 the same time reaching out

00:33:01.120 in love with grace and

00:33:02.300 patience and all that.

00:33:03.620 And that's all good.

00:33:05.420 But there, it, there's a

00:33:09.220 segment of the pro-life

00:33:10.680 movement that, that goes

00:33:12.560 too far in wanting to

00:33:15.480 completely absolve the

00:33:17.680 women entirely of any

00:33:20.900 guilt whatsoever and, and

00:33:22.360 to paint and to, to

00:33:23.500 present it as though the

00:33:24.940 women are just as much

00:33:26.700 victims of abortion as the

00:33:28.400 child, as if they have no

00:33:29.660 agency.

00:33:30.160 And I, I'm seeing this, um,

00:33:34.240 and it's true that, that it

00:33:37.200 is true that oftentimes

00:33:37.940 women are, are exploited by

00:33:39.980 the abortion industry, uh, are

00:33:41.920 lied to, and we should keep

00:33:43.880 that in mind, um, as well.

00:33:47.380 But I'm, I'm just seeing that

00:33:48.660 with this story as well.

00:33:49.560 I'm seeing some pro-lifers

00:33:50.540 that are, well, this is all

00:33:51.320 about Justin Timberlake.

00:33:52.180 He's the villain here.

00:33:52.940 Let's talk about him.

00:33:54.180 Let's not talk.

00:33:54.720 Well, no, hang on a second.

00:33:56.200 She, she might, she's, she

00:33:58.660 was a 19 or 20 year old

00:33:59.660 woman, filthy rich, and, uh,

00:34:03.060 decided, well, if Timberlake

00:34:04.280 isn't on board, then I'm

00:34:05.080 going to kill the child.

00:34:05.700 I mean, that, that, to

00:34:07.340 absolve her of, of guilt is

00:34:09.840 not the right approach

00:34:10.540 either.

00:34:12.660 I mean, the answer is that

00:34:13.660 this is, it, it, every baby

00:34:16.500 has a mother and a father.

00:34:17.860 And if both the mother and

00:34:19.040 father are on board with

00:34:21.440 killing the child, then

00:34:22.840 they're both, as far as I'm

00:34:23.920 concerned, equally to blame.

00:34:26.200 Um, but what I really want

00:34:30.300 to focus on is, is, is the

00:34:31.760 sadness, the heartbreak that

00:34:32.980 we're hearing about.

00:34:35.020 Uh, Brittany Spears said

00:34:36.100 she's still torn up about

00:34:37.000 it.

00:34:37.140 The media is reporting this

00:34:38.460 as sad news, heartbreaking

00:34:39.900 news.

00:34:40.340 We just heard that the, that

00:34:41.500 people are heartbroken, fans

00:34:42.760 are heartbroken.

00:34:44.500 And it is very sad and it is

00:34:46.380 heartbreaking.

00:34:46.900 Anytime a child is killed, it

00:34:48.220 is sad and heartbreaking.

00:34:50.060 Um, I don't have any, any

00:34:52.320 problem with people taking

00:34:53.120 that tone when talking about

00:34:54.460 abortion.

00:34:54.840 That's the appropriate tone.

00:34:56.080 It's a terrible thing, but

00:34:58.400 it's interesting that people

00:34:59.280 who support abortion, people

00:35:00.660 who defend a woman's quote

00:35:01.680 unquote right to abortion

00:35:02.720 will describe it this way.

00:35:05.520 You know, we talked about

00:35:06.560 this recently.

00:35:07.260 It's, and it's something that

00:35:09.060 the pro abortions, if you're

00:35:10.020 on the pro abortion side, you

00:35:11.100 should really think about

00:35:11.960 that.

00:35:12.980 And I know that there are

00:35:14.140 in fact, uh, plenty of

00:35:16.340 people on the pro abortion

00:35:17.000 side who watch this show

00:35:18.720 because I hear from them.

00:35:19.420 So if you're in that camp, ask

00:35:22.840 yourself this, if abortion is

00:35:25.720 not the killing of a human

00:35:27.820 child, then why is it sad?

00:35:30.540 Why is it such a mournful,

00:35:32.460 difficult subject?

00:35:33.440 I mean, either way, um, no,

00:35:38.540 it's either, it's a, it's a,

00:35:41.460 it's a either or, okay, this is a,

00:35:43.300 it's a binary choice.

00:35:44.760 Either abortion kills a human

00:35:46.340 person or it doesn't.

00:35:48.080 And if it doesn't, which is what

00:35:51.420 you claim, then there's nothing sad

00:35:54.380 about it.

00:35:54.840 If the quote unquote fetus is a

00:35:56.440 lifeless, inhuman clump of cells

00:35:58.280 with no value, then an abortion is

00:36:01.040 no different from getting like a

00:36:02.420 wart removed.

00:36:03.860 And why would anyone talk about a

00:36:05.460 wart removal?

00:36:06.060 Like it's some tragic thing.

00:36:07.220 Why would a woman still be

00:36:08.580 mourning the loss of a wart 20

00:36:10.520 years later?

00:36:10.980 It's absurd.

00:36:12.880 So if you see this kind of story

00:36:16.080 as sad, then you must realize at

00:36:18.480 some level that the child is not a

00:36:20.340 wart, that the child is not some

00:36:22.720 lifeless growth, but is indeed a

00:36:25.660 child.

00:36:27.320 And if you recognize that

00:36:28.780 intuitively, then how do you

00:36:31.020 how can you support abortion at

00:36:32.160 all?

00:36:32.380 I mean, how can you defend the

00:36:33.340 killing of a human child?

00:36:36.340 Okay.

00:36:36.640 The only thing that could ever

00:36:38.120 make abortion defensible is if it

00:36:39.960 is not the killing of a human

00:36:41.820 child.

00:36:43.800 That's the only thing that can make

00:36:44.740 it defensible.

00:36:47.000 But, and even then, I wouldn't say

00:36:51.520 that it's, that it's defensible.

00:36:52.780 I've talked about this before, that,

00:36:53.940 you know, the claim that it's not a

00:36:55.200 child, but merely a potential child.

00:36:57.580 Well, abortion still is not

00:36:59.040 justified, even if what we're dealing

00:37:00.860 with is the potential.

00:37:03.460 But that's the only way you can even

00:37:06.480 get halfway to making an argument in

00:37:08.920 support of abortion is first you have

00:37:10.280 to make the case successfully that the

00:37:14.400 child is not a human child, which you

00:37:16.680 can't make that case because it's

00:37:17.880 ridiculous.

00:37:18.360 But if the child is a human child, then

00:37:25.100 killing a human child is wrong

00:37:26.840 self-evidently.

00:37:28.780 It's like, it's the definition of an

00:37:31.680 evil act.

00:37:33.300 It's the kind of thing where if that's

00:37:36.400 not wrong, then I don't know what the

00:37:40.740 word wrong means anymore.

00:37:41.780 If it's not wrong to intentionally,

00:37:45.560 deliberately kill an innocent human

00:37:47.460 child, then what, what could possibly

00:37:50.040 qualify as wrong?

00:37:52.420 You've taken the worst kind of thing

00:37:54.940 and you have excused it.

00:37:58.860 And so, in so doing, you have excused

00:38:00.660 everything else down the line before you

00:38:02.080 get to the worst thing.

00:38:04.740 So that is really the dilemma.

00:38:08.420 And the only consistent position if

00:38:09.980 you're, if you're pro-abortion, you

00:38:14.060 have to see abortion as like a happy

00:38:17.120 or at least neutral thing.

00:38:19.560 But I think most people, even if they

00:38:21.860 claim to be pro-abortion, they

00:38:22.800 intuitively recognize that it is sad,

00:38:24.300 it is heartbreaking.

00:38:26.420 And if your mind is telling you that,

00:38:27.920 that it's sad and heartbreaking, you

00:38:28.920 should really ask yourself why.

00:38:32.120 Finally, a new poll released on

00:38:33.500 Tuesday has revealed that with Robert

00:38:35.020 F.

00:38:35.200 Kennedy Jr.

00:38:35.860 now running as an independent

00:38:36.980 candidate instead of a Democrat, he's

00:38:38.440 taking a chunk of Trump support.

00:38:39.980 Pushing Biden into the lead, according

00:38:41.840 to the NPR PBS NewsHour Marist

00:38:44.300 National Poll, in a two-way race

00:38:46.240 between Trump and Biden for the 2024

00:38:47.680 presidential election, 49% of

00:38:50.020 registered voters said that they would

00:38:51.240 vote for Biden, while 46% said that

00:38:53.760 they would vote for Trump, with 5% being

00:38:56.060 undecided.

00:38:56.700 With Kennedy thrown into the mix,

00:38:58.360 Biden's support dropped to 44% among

00:39:00.540 registered voters, while Trump's sunk to

00:39:02.140 37%.

00:39:03.560 Okay, that's how far, that's how far his

00:39:09.300 support sank, with RFK Jr. in the race.

00:39:15.460 And this is exactly what I said would

00:39:17.960 happen.

00:39:19.080 You can ignore the poll if you want, but

00:39:21.360 as I said, RFK Jr. in the race is a

00:39:24.860 disaster for Trump.

00:39:25.880 I don't want to say it seals it.

00:39:30.740 I don't want to say that it makes it a

00:39:32.120 foregone conclusion that he's going to

00:39:33.120 lose.

00:39:34.100 Anything could happen in politics, but

00:39:36.040 it puts him in an even deeper hole.

00:39:40.800 I mean, a really deep hole.

00:39:42.420 It just does.

00:39:43.960 Independent candidates always take more

00:39:45.560 from Republicans than Democrats, but

00:39:47.560 it's an especially major problem for

00:39:49.120 Trump, in this case, for a number of

00:39:51.420 reasons.

00:39:51.640 To begin with, RFK is uniquely able to

00:39:54.860 exploit the areas where Trump is

00:39:57.000 weakest, especially when it comes to big

00:39:59.940 pharma and the vaccine.

00:40:02.160 So Trump has called himself the father

00:40:05.900 of the vaccine.

00:40:07.760 He actually said that about himself.

00:40:10.300 He's also the guy who made Fauci into a

00:40:12.040 star.

00:40:12.540 So, and we know how Biden feels about the

00:40:15.680 vaccine and Fauci.

00:40:17.520 So these are two pro-vaccine, pro-Fauci

00:40:20.860 people, at least in action.

00:40:22.660 Now, Trump now says he doesn't like

00:40:23.980 Fauci, but in his action, he was pro-

00:40:26.160 Fauci, put him on TV every single day

00:40:27.520 for, it felt like, 10 years.

00:40:30.820 So if big pharma corruption and the

00:40:32.540 COVID vax are big issues for you, and

00:40:34.640 they are still big issues for a sizable

00:40:36.340 portion of the electorate, then, you

00:40:39.180 know, on that issue, there's not much

00:40:40.820 daylight between Trump and Biden, and

00:40:42.660 then RFK jumps in, and for a certain

00:40:46.680 portion of those people, he's your guy.

00:40:47.920 Now, I'm not saying he should be your

00:40:50.240 guy.

00:40:51.080 He shouldn't be.

00:40:53.300 You know, this, if you vote for RFK

00:40:55.320 Jr.

00:40:55.660 in the general election, you are

00:40:56.800 ensuring that Biden will be reelected.

00:40:58.620 You just are.

00:40:59.840 You're putting Biden back in office.

00:41:03.720 That's all you achieve, because you

00:41:05.020 got to, as I always say, we got to

00:41:07.200 deal in reality.

00:41:08.160 It's the, it's all we have.

00:41:10.080 And the reality is, it's going to, if

00:41:11.660 Trump and Biden are the nominees, it's

00:41:13.380 going to be one of the two of them.

00:41:14.920 RFK Jr.

00:41:15.480 is not going to win.

00:41:16.940 It's just, it said nothing certain in

00:41:19.320 politics.

00:41:19.840 That's pretty much certain.

00:41:20.640 He's not going to win.

00:41:22.300 So it would be a very stupid thing to

00:41:25.340 throw your support to, to RFK Jr., but

00:41:28.600 people will do it.

00:41:29.760 People will make that stupid decision.

00:41:32.160 And there's not a lot of margin for

00:41:33.900 error for either Trump or Biden.

00:41:36.460 So, yeah, the six, what was it, 16%

00:41:39.080 they're claiming for RFK Jr.

00:41:41.840 Yeah, 16%.

00:41:44.260 That, to me, strikes, like, I'd be

00:41:46.560 very surprised if he actually got 16%

00:41:48.220 of the vote.

00:41:50.280 But he doesn't need to get 16%.

00:41:53.060 I mean, if he gets 3%, 4%, 5%,

00:41:58.300 it probably seals it for Biden, because

00:42:03.100 neither one of the major candidates have

00:42:06.560 room for error on this.

00:42:07.460 So you got to face that.

00:42:10.400 I mean, if you're, if you're still

00:42:11.380 telling yourself that, oh, RFK Jr., he

00:42:13.360 hurts Biden more than he hurts Trump.

00:42:16.180 Just, it's, it's, that's crazy.

00:42:19.400 Okay.

00:42:19.920 That's just not, there's no argument for

00:42:22.460 that.

00:42:22.700 I'm sorry.

00:42:24.780 And I think you need to face reality for

00:42:27.740 what it is, because first of all, just on

00:42:29.720 its merits, you should be the sort of

00:42:31.180 person that faces reality.

00:42:32.220 But also, it's not like they're, once

00:42:35.560 you understand that, once you understand

00:42:36.900 who RFK Jr.

00:42:37.940 is a threat to, the game's not over.

00:42:42.100 So there's a lot, not even close to

00:42:43.620 over.

00:42:43.820 So there's a lot that can be done.

00:42:45.900 And now you need to start thinking,

00:42:47.480 Trump campaign should be thinking very

00:42:49.060 carefully about how do they actively

00:42:52.600 court those voters, those potential RFK

00:42:56.000 people?

00:42:56.460 How do you get them over here?

00:42:57.500 Um, and as I said before, they should

00:43:00.900 be offering him a cabinet position as

00:43:02.520 well, publicly.

00:43:04.620 Um, maybe you probably won't take it, but

00:43:07.820 you make the offer, try to get him out

00:43:09.560 of the race.

00:43:10.360 And, but that also shows to his voters

00:43:12.280 that, hey, you know, this is, this is a

00:43:14.120 safe space for you.

00:43:14.940 You can come here.

00:43:17.300 That's what needs to happen.

00:43:18.780 Um, my fear for Trump is that once you

00:43:22.640 start seeing, uh, poll results like

00:43:25.720 this, that he's going to start lashing

00:43:28.800 out at RFK Jr.

00:43:30.240 In, in typical Trumpian fashion.

00:43:32.120 Uh, and that kind of strategy works for

00:43:34.260 a lot of politicians, but I think, I

00:43:35.300 think it would backfire majorly, uh, for

00:43:38.460 RFK Jr.

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00:44:38.980 Okay, this is from, we just talked about

00:44:42.100 reality.

00:44:42.660 Here's Mr. Reality, as he calls himself.

00:44:45.360 I think I win the was Walsh wrong section.

00:44:48.000 Texas penal law absolutely does specifically

00:44:51.200 allow what the Houston store owner or that

00:44:54.120 Houston store owner to shoot the robber in

00:44:55.760 the back.

00:44:56.860 Technically, by letter of the law, the guy

00:44:58.340 is not guilty.

00:44:59.320 Okay.

00:44:59.500 Anyway, this is one where I want to be wrong

00:45:02.480 because, as we talked about yesterday, I think

00:45:07.400 it would be, it's a miscarriage of justice to

00:45:09.560 throw this guy in prison.

00:45:11.680 I think what he did should be allowed and I don't, I

00:45:14.300 very much do not want to see him go to prison, but I

00:45:18.540 think that he will because the system is stacked against

00:45:22.740 people like that and if they have, you know, if they can

00:45:26.040 find it, if by the letter of the law, they can send you

00:45:29.520 to prison for the rest of your life, they're going to

00:45:31.440 do it.

00:45:32.660 But Mr. Reality here shares the section of a penal law

00:45:36.420 that he thinks lets this guy off the hook.

00:45:39.780 Here's what it says.

00:45:41.320 Deadly force to protect property.

00:45:43.800 These are the, this is the law.

00:45:45.960 A person is justified using deadly force against another to

00:45:48.440 protect land or tangible movable property.

00:45:50.660 If, then here are the conditions.

00:45:54.240 I kind of wish it would just end there.

00:45:56.440 You can use deadly force to protect land or property.

00:46:00.520 But it doesn't end there.

00:46:02.820 So, if he would be justified in using force against the

00:46:05.600 other under section 941 and when and to the degree he

00:46:09.120 reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately

00:46:10.660 necessary to prevent the other's imminent commission of

00:46:13.380 arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during

00:46:16.480 the nighttime or criminal mischief during the nighttime or to

00:46:19.480 prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing

00:46:21.560 burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, robbery, or theft during

00:46:25.200 the nighttime from escaping with the property and he reasonably

00:46:28.400 believes that the land or property cannot be protected or

00:46:30.840 recovered by any other means or the use of force other than

00:46:33.780 deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would

00:46:35.880 expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or

00:46:38.340 serious bodily injury.

00:46:39.160 Okay. It sounds like that covers this guy except you're missing the

00:46:46.900 caveat. At nighttime.

00:46:49.480 Now, that's what it says.

00:46:51.200 To me, it's completely stupid that daytime or nighttime would factor in

00:46:55.800 at all. Who gives a damn if it's daytime or nighttime?

00:46:58.620 Why should that matter?

00:47:00.200 So, the idea that what this guy did if he had done it eight hours later in

00:47:03.500 the day, it would have been okay is nuts. But that is what the law says. It

00:47:08.800 says, uh, you can, you can shoot someone to recover your property or, or

00:47:14.400 rather to, to, to stop them from escaping with your property if they

00:47:18.460 commit theft at nighttime. Um, now these other things don't require the

00:47:25.280 nighttime, I don't think. So it looks like arson, robbery, aggravated

00:47:30.080 robbery, you know, that can be day or night, but for theft and criminal

00:47:35.040 mischief, it specifically says during the nighttime. Again, I, and that, that I

00:47:39.560 hadn't read the, the actual section of the law until you posted. I'm glad you

00:47:42.920 did that. To me, it's like mind boggling that you, it's a totally

00:47:47.540 arbitrary, uh, requirement that they put in there, but it's in there. And

00:47:55.660 that's what I'm saying. Now, prosecutors, they don't have to charge the

00:47:59.780 guy or they could slap on the wrist. I mean, there, there are ways around this

00:48:04.360 if they want it, but, but, um, and if I was in charge, I wouldn't be charging

00:48:07.660 him, but the system is, is specifically interested in putting guys like that in

00:48:17.200 prison. So that's the unfortunate reality. Um, dog is the username says my

00:48:28.140 three-year-old took tick tocks from a tick tax from a gas station store. One

00:48:31.780 time. Do you think we should give the store owner the ability to shoot my

00:48:34.560 child to get the item back? There needs to be limits on the use of force

00:48:37.600 against the, against thieves by store owners. Um, I went back and paid the owner

00:48:42.260 FYI. No, I don't think they should be able to shoot your three-year-old. I think

00:48:45.580 they should be able to shoot you. I'm joking. Of course, look, you, you, you're

00:48:51.180 taking extreme scenarios, uh, to try to make it seem like this is, it's impossible

00:48:57.020 to decipher this issue, but no, obviously like it would be very easy to write the

00:49:03.640 law in such a way that would, that would empower people to use force to recover

00:49:08.620 their property, uh, to use force against people who are, you know, infringing on

00:49:12.960 their rights by stealing their property while also ensuring that we are not

00:49:17.320 giving people a license to shoot three-year-olds. Okay. You put that

00:49:21.560 requirement in there. This, this doesn't count for toddlers. Like put that in the

00:49:25.480 law. That's fine. I think we would all agree on that. And, uh, there, there are

00:49:30.720 other qualifications you can put in there as well that just, you know, things

00:49:33.620 that, that, um, that, that I think are just basic common sense, but I think you

00:49:39.800 understand, I think you understand what I'm talking about. I think you

00:49:43.140 understand that, um, the, we're not interested in empowering people

00:49:47.300 to shoot three-year-olds for taking tic-tacs. And again, it'd be very easy

00:49:51.440 to, uh, open up the law to empower people to better protect themselves

00:49:57.560 without giving them license to kill three-year-olds. Clearly, I think we

00:50:01.780 could, clearly you could write a law in a way that would be very clear about

00:50:04.820 that. Um, no, the, the, what I think we should actually be interested in doing

00:50:11.260 is empowering people in the situation that this guy was in. It's a grown man

00:50:15.500 comes in, steals from the cash register. Or how about all these, uh, stories,

00:50:20.740 videos that we see of, um, these organized looting campaigns where people just

00:50:26.540 come in and they take whatever they want and they walk out. I think that the law

00:50:32.600 should allow you to use deadly force in those situations, both, both to recover

00:50:37.220 your property because no one has any right to take it. And that is your livelihood.

00:50:40.960 And so it is your life, but also because it's the only way that I can see to restore

00:50:48.820 any semblance of order in our society and to stop these sorts of things from

00:50:54.340 happening in the future. It's the, it's the only really, really the only way to

00:50:58.000 dissuade people from, from acting this way. And finally, Nikki Nick says, was Walsh

00:51:04.600 wrong that Kennedy will take bites from Trump's candidacy was incorrect. I knew it

00:51:08.680 when you said it, Matt Walsh, the Democrats don't want Biden. Kennedy is still

00:51:12.180 representing some of the things they want and believe in. And he's not 80, 187

00:51:16.680 years old. Well, this is unfortunate timing for you to leave that comment

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00:51:26.120 that I'm a hundred percent correct. Uh, yeah, he might, he might take a little

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00:52:49.600 We begin our daily cancellation today with a viral video making the rounds on social media.

00:52:54.100 This is apparently a TikTok influencer named Allison, who seems to have a decent size following. And I'm

00:52:58.620 not looking to pick on her personally, but she does set us up for a broader conversation. I think

00:53:03.600 is worth having because the attitude that she displays here is certainly not representative

00:53:08.180 of every young adult entering the workforce, but she does represent a sizable portion of that group.

00:53:13.440 And if you're in that group, if her complaints resonate with you, then I think this segment is

00:53:18.240 for you. With that in mind, here's the video. Watch.

00:53:22.320 I have a bone to pick with America. So I'm headed to my serving job.

00:53:29.360 I hate it. I hate it.

00:53:34.480 Why I make more money serving. I have my literal business marketing degree that put me in a cute

00:53:42.520 $80,000 in debt. And I make more serving sushi rolls because I was, I've been applying to marketing

00:53:52.600 jobs for weeks now. And the pay cut is insane. Insane. But the jobs that are like a cute $150,000 to $200,000

00:54:03.360 a year. I'm not getting those. I'm a 20, almost 25 year old. My birthday's soon. Almost 25 year old

00:54:11.380 chick going against, you know, corporate ass America. People with so much experience. All I

00:54:18.360 got is my degree. You know, people say, get your degree, but then they don't talk about how you

00:54:24.080 need experience. The degree was the experience. Honey, relax. Okay. So there it is. Now I'm going

00:54:34.860 to once again, assume my role as dad of the internet and give this young lady and any young person in

00:54:39.500 her position, some advice. There are a lot of young people in her position. So I think it's

00:54:43.400 worthwhile. So just to restate the dilemma, Alison has a degree in business marketing. And this is not

00:54:48.600 a metaphorical degree. She tells us it is a literal degree, a literal whole ass degree, as she might

00:54:53.560 say. She currently has a job as a waitress, which she effing hates. And she wants to land a position

00:54:58.960 in her chosen field. But the problem is that all the jobs she can get would pay her less than she

00:55:04.460 makes as a waitress. She's been applying to jobs for effing weeks now, but all the positions that

00:55:08.740 pay big money, 150, 200K, she can't get because she doesn't have experience. Plus, as she says,

00:55:14.300 she's competing against corporate ass America. But she feels that it's unfair because she feels she

00:55:18.600 does have experience as the degree was the experience, she says. Now let's sort through this.

00:55:26.140 I'm going to try to help Alison and anyone else in her boat. So here's some advice, three points.

00:55:30.080 First of all, clean up your language, young lady. Dropping multiple F-bombs in a one-minute video

00:55:37.140 makes you sound low-class and stupid. You might not actually be low-class and stupid, but that's

00:55:42.460 what your language conveys. This is especially true for women. You can say it's sexist all you want.

00:55:48.400 Doesn't matter. It's worse for women. Men shouldn't be shouting vulgarities all over the place either.

00:55:54.220 But if you're a woman, it makes you look and sound especially ridiculous. It makes people cringe all

00:55:59.060 the more. Men especially are repulsed by foul-mouthed women. You should know that. And

00:56:06.620 employers, especially if they're men, are going to be repulsed by them too. So it's repulsive. We don't

00:56:14.900 like it. Second, I cannot emphasize this enough. Never publicly complain about your job. I say it

00:56:24.040 again. Never publicly complain about your job. It is never a good idea to declare to the world that

00:56:30.080 you effing hate your job. If I was an employer and my employee made a video announcing that they hate

00:56:35.780 their job, then I would immediately help them out by relieving them of this thing that they hate.

00:56:41.260 Now, it's not that I would be under the illusion that all of my employees love their jobs. I don't

00:56:47.160 think that I would see a video like that and say, I can't believe it. I thought everyone loves this job.

00:56:51.020 Especially if I'm running a restaurant, I'd be well aware that a large percentage of my workforce

00:56:55.000 hates being there. I used to work at a restaurant. I know that. But I expect you to pretend that you

00:57:01.740 love it. It's your responsibility to pretend that you love it. Yes, imagine that. You should pretend.

00:57:08.260 But I don't really feel that way. It doesn't matter. Pretend that you do. Jobs are not places for

00:57:13.080 emotional honesty. As an employer, I expect you to have a positive attitude about your job,

00:57:18.060 regardless of how you feel about it. That's because I expect you to have

00:57:21.780 greater emotional maturity than a three-year-old. And actually, even with my three-year-olds,

00:57:26.260 I don't accept this. If I tell my children to do a chore and they are sulking and sullen and they

00:57:31.700 stomp their feet, I tell them, come back here. Let's try it again without stomping your feet.

00:57:36.360 But I don't want to do the chore. I don't care if you don't want to do it. You have to do it. And you know

00:57:39.940 what else? You're going to do it with a positive attitude. But this isn't just about the job you

00:57:44.100 currently have. More importantly, if I'm the boss that holds the key to the better job that you want,

00:57:49.860 I am definitely not going to give the key to you if you're out there crying about how you hate your

00:57:53.920 current job. In fact, if you come to the interview and even in private complain to me about your

00:57:59.300 current job, I will not hire you. This is how most employers operate. You should know that.

00:58:05.320 If you present yourself as a whiny, sulking, complaining sort of person, you're not going to

00:58:09.560 get hired. Even if you have reasons to hate your former job. Even if you have the most

00:58:13.200 valid complaints in the world. We all have valid complaints about our jobs. Even if they're valid

00:58:17.560 and you tell it to the person that's interviewing for the new job, you're probably not going to get

00:58:22.920 the job. You know why? Because why would anybody want to bring your bad attitude into their environment?

00:58:30.160 Bad attitudes are a virus, a sickness. They destroy morale. I'm not an employer, but I can tell you that

00:58:35.760 I don't want anyone on my team who has a bad attitude. I want people who are ambitious, eager,

00:58:39.940 who want to be there. They want to be where they are. They want to keep moving up in the

00:58:43.060 world. If I have someone on my team who seems to not like being there, then they're not going to

00:58:46.940 be there for very long. I don't want to be around that. This is why you should never complain about

00:58:51.680 your job in any context where a current or future potential employer might hear you.

00:58:55.940 If you want to move up in the world, present yourself as eager, ambitious, positive, and grateful.

00:59:01.000 Even if you aren't really that kind of person, pretend that you are. And after a while,

00:59:07.840 you may even convince yourself that you actually are eager, ambitious, positive,

00:59:11.600 and grateful, which will mean that you've really become all of those things. This is known as the

00:59:15.920 fake it till you make it approach. And I'm here to tell you that fake it till you make it is in many

00:59:21.080 ways the key to success in life. Believe it or not, if there's one cliche that you should cling on to

00:59:27.600 that will help you through life, it is that one. Fake it till you make it.

00:59:32.900 Third, your generic business marketing degree is mostly worthless, I'm afraid. You have every right

00:59:38.560 to be frustrated by that. I would be if I was in your shoes. The system lied to you. You were duped.

00:59:43.640 They charged you a lot of money for this piece of paper. They told you it would unlock all kinds

00:59:48.200 of opportunities. And now you're discovering that it doesn't exactly work that way. It's not that

00:59:51.780 simple. Why? Well, because the fact that you sat in classrooms and learned about business marketing

00:59:56.800 in textbooks does not mean that you actually have any skill or ability in any field related to that

01:00:03.720 very broad and somewhat ambiguous category. Employers look at your business marketing degree

01:00:08.760 and it tells them nothing about you. You could be a brilliant, ambitious, innovative, highly skilled

01:00:15.180 genius with a business marketing degree. You could be. Or you could be an incompetent, lazy moron with a

01:00:20.860 business marketing degree. Either sort of person can get a business marketing degree. And there are

01:00:26.180 sadly many more in the latter category than in the former. Which actually is not that sad come to think

01:00:31.560 of it because if you are competing in the job force, in the job market, the fact that there are so many

01:00:36.040 incompetent, lazy, sad sack sort of people is an advantage for you. It makes it even less difficult

01:00:44.280 to get a leg up over them. And what all that means is that you need to prove yourself in your chosen

01:00:51.180 industry the same way as anybody else. You have to start at the bottom and work your way up.

01:00:56.360 Your degree is not work experience, Allison. It doesn't count. Your degree only proves that you

01:01:02.620 have experience getting degrees. You are very qualified to go out and get a business marketing

01:01:07.780 degree. So you have experience doing that. But as for performing in an actual job, getting real world

01:01:13.560 results, you have not demonstrated any aptitude there. Your degree doesn't prove your abilities

01:01:18.480 in that area one way or another. And I realize this is disappointing to hear, but you just have to

01:01:23.640 accept it and get on with it. You're going to have to start at the bottom of the ladder and climb your

01:01:27.260 way up. You thought, you thought like so many other graduates, you thought that the degree was an

01:01:31.600 elevator that would take you to the top floor effortlessly and automatically while you look

01:01:37.580 down and pity all of those poor wretches trudging up the steps one step at a time. But now you find

01:01:45.560 yourself at the bottom of the same staircase. One of those poor wretches yourself. The place you never

01:01:51.740 wanted to be. You thought the degree would get you out of that. And now here you are.

01:01:56.560 Except with a lot of debt weighing you down. You don't like that, which is fine. You don't have to

01:02:02.040 like it. Nobody would. But nobody cares if you like it or not. Now you just have to decide if you're

01:02:09.620 going to get moving or stay at the bottom of the steps whining while life passes you by.

01:02:14.380 No one's going to hand you a $200,000 salary. You have to earn that. And yes, it might mean taking an

01:02:19.400 opportunity in the short term that pays you less than you could make working for tips at a

01:02:24.300 restaurant. Imagine that. That's part of being a successful person. Sometimes you take an opportunity

01:02:29.520 where it seems worse than what you had before, but you're doing it for the long term because you

01:02:36.040 have a strategy in mind. You're losing the battle to win the war type of situation.

01:02:43.160 That was my situation when I first started working in media at pretty much the lowest

01:02:47.780 possible level. I wasn't even at the bottom rung of the ladder. I was beneath the ladder down in the

01:02:51.400 basement. And I was earning less at that time than I had a few years earlier as a teenager delivering

01:02:57.220 pizzas. But these are the kind, and I could have just, and if I, if all the matter, you know, if I,

01:03:02.060 if I had the same attitude as Allison, I would have said, well, I'm just gonna keep delivering

01:03:05.080 pizzas. I made more money doing this. And you know what I'd be doing right now? Delivering

01:03:08.800 pieces. I'd still be there. But these are the kinds of sacrifices you have to make and risks

01:03:16.100 you have to take if you want to succeed. I keep using the ladder analogy, but that's probably not

01:03:20.740 the most accurate image because the path to success, any kind of success in any area of life

01:03:25.400 is not a simple linear movement from point A to point Z with each step bringing you clearly closer

01:03:32.120 to your goal. Actually, the path involves going up and then going down again, then going up higher

01:03:36.900 than you were before and then down a little bit and so on and so on. It's less a ladder and more

01:03:41.700 like chutes and ladders. Now we would all prefer if this was not the case. It would be nice to live

01:03:47.060 in a world where the next job you get after serving sushi rolls always paid better than the one you had

01:03:51.520 before. It would be nice if you could hang out in college for four years, party most of the time,

01:03:56.580 get a low effort degree like business marketing, and then be handed a corporate job with a corner office

01:04:01.700 and an $850,000 salary at the age of 24. That would be pretty great. What a world that would be.

01:04:08.940 Unfortunately, that's not the world we live in or will ever live in. And if you want to succeed in

01:04:13.880 this world, you need to deal with its realities. So to review, clean up the language. Stop complaining

01:04:22.020 about your job. Don't waste your money on a generic worthless degree. And if you already did waste your

01:04:27.180 money, then I'm sorry about your luck. You got screwed. That's it. It happened. You can't change

01:04:32.360 it now. But either way, you have to start at the bottom and climb your way up painstakingly,

01:04:38.080 one step at a time, and pretend that you like it the whole way up. That's the way. There is no other

01:04:44.380 way. So get on with it or else you are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for

01:04:51.360 listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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