The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1269 - How Government ‘Diversity’ Initiatives Are Leading Us To A Major Airline Disaster

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Wall Show, you probably have not heard about it, but we have come

00:00:02.880 very close to some major airplane disasters recently, and the government's diversity

00:00:07.160 initiatives have a lot to do with it. Also, the media smeared a young child as racist for wearing

00:00:11.720 an Indian headdress. Turns out the kid is Native American. Plus, the left is very upset about our

00:00:16.760 new sports comedy. We'll look at some of their reactions today. And a new TikTok campaign urges

00:00:21.320 people to dump the water out of their water bottles so that the oceans don't dry up. This

00:00:25.480 is a real concern that some people really have. We'll talk about all that and more today on The

00:00:29.840 Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.320 Since Roe v. Wade was overturned,

00:00:59.100 the left has lost their mind, making abortion their official sacrament. But the grassroots

00:01:02.960 pro-life efforts, which are now more important than ever, are booming. Despite the narrative,

00:01:06.820 pro-lifers have not gone away. In fact, they've increased in number. One of the efforts I support

00:01:10.280 is 40 Days for Life because they're changing hearts and minds in blue pro-abortion states.

00:01:15.360 With one million volunteers in 1,600 cities, 40 Days for Life holds peaceful vigils outside

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00:01:24.540 and they've grown in volunteers. The success has come with new unwanted attention, though,

00:01:28.260 from the DOJ. 40 Days for Life just made national headlines because they're suing the DOJ on behalf

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00:01:48.360 at 40daysforlife.com. That's 40daysforlife.com. So here's an interesting thought experiment. Imagine

00:01:55.620 one of your friends comes up to you with a big smile on his face and tells you that he just got

00:02:00.100 a brand new job. And he's vague on the specifics, but he says it's a federal government job and it

00:02:06.140 pays six figures. It didn't require any kind of bachelor or associate degree or a physical fitness

00:02:11.300 test or anything like that. But your friend does tell you that as part of the application process,

00:02:14.980 he had to complete a couple of computer exams. And then as the conversation goes on, your friend

00:02:19.980 recounts a few of the questions from one of those exams. He tells you the questions went something

00:02:24.780 like this, quote, would more classmates remember you as humble or dominant? What age did you first

00:02:31.640 start making money? How many high school sports did you participate in? At this point, you're thinking

00:02:37.900 to yourself, that's a little bit odd. What kind of job would ask questions like this? It all sounds

00:02:44.360 kind of dumb and unserious. So your friend reassures you that he had to complete a second 0.91

00:02:50.560 test as well. And the second test asked slightly more challenging questions like, what's the

00:02:55.340 difference between the numbers eight and six? And if you answered two, then congratulations,

00:03:00.180 you could also pass this test and get this job. Now, at this point, if you had to guess what job

00:03:06.860 your friend just landed, what guess would you make? Based on all the information provided and

00:03:12.800 knowing this is a government job, what would you think? Well, you'd probably make some obvious

00:03:18.340 assumptions right away. You'd think at a minimum that whatever job your friend is gunning for in

00:03:22.980 the federal government, it can't be that important. And indeed, there are a lot of very unimportant

00:03:28.020 jobs in the federal government, jobs that were made for incompetent and unimpressive people.

00:03:33.820 I mean, the government kind of exists to provide jobs for those sorts of people. So

00:03:37.380 you might think, well, maybe it's one of those jobs. Maybe your friend got a gig in

00:03:40.900 the Department of Education, for example, or the IRS. That would make sense.

00:03:46.540 But then imagine that your friend informs you that he is not working in some frivolous government

00:03:50.200 agency that contributes nothing of value to humanity. Imagine he tells you that, in fact,

00:03:55.120 he applied to be an air traffic controller. And after just a few months of training, very soon,

00:04:00.160 he's probably going to be directing planes with hundreds of people on board.

00:04:05.440 This may be a hypothetical thought experiment, but it is very much grounded in reality. I didn't make up

00:04:09.920 any of the test questions I mentioned earlier. They're all based on real air traffic control

00:04:13.900 exams or practice exams. Now, 10 years ago, this little hypothetical scenario would have been

00:04:21.260 unthinkable. But everything changed very quickly in 2013 when the Obama administration embarked on

00:04:26.440 a plan to diversify the ranks of air traffic controllers. Obama's FAA chief at the time announced

00:04:32.720 that he intended to transform the agency, which includes air traffic control, into a, quote,

00:04:37.600 more diverse workplace. As part of that plan, air traffic controllers no longer needed to take a

00:04:43.240 more demanding cognitive assessment before being hired. Instead, all they needed was a high school

00:04:47.640 diploma and the ability to speak English and apparently to do very basic math that, like,

00:04:52.460 a third grader could do. All the tests were dumbed down to the point of being absurd and pointless. 0.58

00:04:59.160 Now, the result over the past decade has been exactly what you would expect, even if you haven't

00:05:03.960 heard about this. The number of air traffic controllers who are not white men has significantly

00:05:10.340 increased, while the number of white men has decreased. That was the whole idea, according

00:05:14.260 to the FAA. This is what they tell us. Coincidentally, so have the number of near collisions involving

00:05:20.740 commercial airlines. Those have increased significantly. According to a database maintained by NASA,

00:05:27.500 which relies on data self-reported by pilots, the number of near misses has more than doubled

00:05:31.960 over the past 10 years. In just the past year, there have been more than 300 near misses involving

00:05:38.100 commercial airlines, averaging more than five per week. And just to emphasize that point again,

00:05:44.200 they diversify the FAA and near misses immediately doubled. Now, correlation does not prove causation,

00:05:53.080 but it can point towards it. And in this case, there is a giant glowing sign pointing in that direction.

00:05:59.400 Of course, only a handful of these incidents receive any major media attention, so it's easy

00:06:04.060 to underestimate the scale of the problem. No matter what social media platforms you frequent,

00:06:09.400 you don't really hear a lot about a lot of this. And that's why, in a moment, I'm going to go through

00:06:13.320 some of the near misses that have gotten very little coverage. But I'll start with an incident that did

00:06:17.000 get some attention from the national news media, because it helps put the broader problem into some

00:06:21.120 context. So this incident happened in July, when air traffic controllers put two aircraft,

00:06:26.140 an Allegiant air passenger plane and a Gulfstream jet on a collision course shortly after the

00:06:31.180 Allegiant plane had taken off from Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood International Airport. And here's how

00:06:36.880 that all played out. Watch. The FAA and NTSB are investigating a very close call in the skies over

00:06:43.740 South Florida, an Allegiant Airlines plane and a private jet forced to take evasive action to avoid a

00:06:50.620 collision at 23,000 feet. Here's Tom Costello. Allegiant air 485 had just taken off from Fort

00:06:58.780 Lauderdale, headed for Lexington, Kentucky. When it happened, the pilot forced to make a sudden

00:07:04.140 extreme climb 600 feet in seconds to avoid another plane, throwing flight attendants to the floor and

00:07:11.340 terrifying passengers, including Jerrica Thacker and her family flying to Kentucky after a Caribbean cruise.

00:07:18.240 It was honestly the scariest thing I've ever been through. It felt like when you go on the top of

00:07:23.360 a roller coaster and you go straight down from the highest point. The FAA says it happened when

00:07:28.300 controllers put the Allegiant flight and a Gulfstream business jet on intersecting routes, both at 23,000

00:07:35.060 feet. That's when both planes collision avoidance warnings known as TCAS activated, ordering the

00:07:42.720 Allegiant pilot to immediately climb and the Gulfstream pilot to descend. If not for TCAS,

00:07:48.160 these airplanes would have gotten very, very, very close or have potentially collided.

00:07:53.100 Now, the report goes on to mention that the pilot's last minute evasive maneuver was so extreme that it

00:07:57.460 sent one flight attendant to the hospital. That's how close these things got. And if there's anything

00:08:01.540 reassuring in that clip, something that might make you feel a little better if you, like me, plan on

00:08:06.420 boarding a plane in the near future, it's that the automated software called TCAS saved the day.

00:08:11.940 This is a system that relies on transponders that are installed on all domestic aircraft. And as you

00:08:17.120 heard, it's capable of sounding an alarm in the cockpit and directing planes away from one another if

00:08:22.800 there's a risk of an imminent collision. It's a fail safe for when air traffic controllers mess up

00:08:27.580 and command planes to fly into one another. But TCAS isn't perfect. It certainly doesn't prevent all

00:08:34.080 midair collisions. In 2002, two passenger jets collided over Germany because one pilot followed TCAS while

00:08:40.140 another listened to the air traffic controller who incidentally was later murdered by a family

00:08:45.140 member of one of the passengers. That's a whole story. In fact, just this year, TCAS failed to

00:08:50.200 prevent a midair collision at an international airport in this country, Houston Hobby. And

00:08:55.020 fortunately and miraculously, nobody died as a result of that collision, but it was very close

00:08:59.820 to being disastrous, as you can imagine. And that incident illustrates the obvious, which is that

00:09:05.000 a fail safe is just that. It's a fail safe. It's not capable of solving all potential problems. It's

00:09:10.400 not capable of solving all midair collisions, nor is it designed to. Especially when planes are close

00:09:15.900 to the ground and covering a lot of ground very quickly in close proximity to one another, things

00:09:20.220 can happen too quickly for the system to respond. And those are the kinds of incidents that are

00:09:26.040 happening more and more often, I'm afraid to report. A month ago at Portland International Airport,

00:09:31.500 for example, an Alaska Airlines jet turned directly into the path of a departing SkyWest airliner.

00:09:37.980 Air traffic controllers didn't notice this until the planes were right on top of each other.

00:09:42.120 And in that case, the Alaska plane was trying to land, but it had to execute a go around because of

00:09:47.220 high winds. And around the same time, the air traffic controller was telling a departing SkyWest

00:09:52.660 plane to turn right. But for some reason, the Alaska pilot responds to that command and he turns right

00:09:58.940 into the path of the SkyWest plane. The controller completely misses this until pretty much the last

00:10:04.660 possible moment. Radar data shows that the planes came within 250 feet vertically and less than 2,000

00:10:10.940 feet horizontally, which is very, very close in plane terms. And even closer near miss took place in

00:10:17.540 August at San Diego International Airport. Controllers cleared a private plane to land right on top of a

00:10:24.460 Southwest plane. And they noticed their mistake just before the private plane hit the Southwest jet

00:10:29.200 on the runway. The plane got within 100 feet of the Southwest passenger jet. Now, there's no TCAS

00:10:35.680 system that could prevent something like that either. If the visibility had been worse and if the

00:10:40.980 controllers didn't notice the problem, there would have been a collision and hundreds of people would

00:10:45.420 likely be dead. You can go to YouTube and find many clips showing these near misses. Most of them don't

00:10:51.220 translate well for the audio podcast listeners, so we're not going to play them here. But I do want to

00:10:55.040 show you one for those who can see the visuals. And this may be the most, one of the most shocking

00:10:59.700 recent examples. It's from JFK Airport in New York City earlier this month, which is one of the busiest

00:11:04.860 airports in the world. An American Airlines passenger jet was lining up for its approach when air traffic

00:11:10.920 controllers told a small private plane to line up for a parallel runway. But the private plane didn't follow

00:11:16.640 that instruction. Instead, it made a beeline for the same runway the American Airlines plane was going

00:11:20.760 for. At no point in this process did controllers notice the problem. They also didn't notice that

00:11:26.220 the private planes didn't read back the right clearance. Instead, the only person who noticed

00:11:31.560 anything wrong were the pilots of the American Airlines jet when the private plane was already right

00:11:36.980 on top of them. Watch this.

00:11:41.100 Good speed 235, turn left heading 260 NSF 22 right, localizer.

00:11:46.680 Left 260 NSF localizer, good speed 235.

00:11:52.320 American 28 maintain 170 knots, 60ME towers 19-1.

00:11:57.740 American 28, 170 knots, 60ME towers 19-1.

00:12:01.380 178, where's this Pilatus going?

00:12:03.520 He's landing in the parallel, American 28, 22 right.

00:12:05.860 He is right above us, American 22, 28.

00:12:11.520 American 28, 170 knots, 60ME.

00:12:15.560 Head speed 235 flat and 180, so it appears you joined 22 left.

00:12:21.540 Roger, we'll fly heading 180, good speed 235.

00:12:29.500 We're breaking off for American 28, he's right above us. 1.00

00:12:32.140 Yeah, we were watching on the scope, but it got a little tight.

00:12:36.800 It got way too tight. If we hadn't bailed out, we would have collided.

00:12:39.760 So if we hadn't bailed out, we would have collided, is what's said there.

00:12:44.580 And that's what the pilot of an American Airlines Airbus said just a couple of weeks ago at JFK Airport.

00:12:50.100 There was apparently no TCAS instruction to take evasive action.

00:12:53.920 If there had been, the pilots should have called it out, but they didn't.

00:12:56.880 There was certainly no ATC warning.

00:12:58.760 And one of the pilots just looked out of his window, or maybe saw something on the screen,

00:13:02.260 and realized the plane was coming right for him, and he realized it just in time to save a lot of lives.

00:13:07.980 Now, I could go on and on.

00:13:09.260 There's the Southwest Airlines flight on July 2nd, which had to abort its landing at New Orleans International Airport

00:13:14.140 because of a Delta plane that was taking off from the same runway.

00:13:18.420 The passenger planes came within seconds of hitting each other.

00:13:21.340 And that same month, an American Airlines plane nearly crashed into a Frontier Airlines jet on takeoff

00:13:26.220 because nobody, including ground controllers, noticed that the nose of the Frontier Airlines jet

00:13:31.340 was jutting out into the runway.

00:13:33.460 Earlier this year, in February, an air traffic controller routed a Spirits airline flight

00:13:37.920 within 200 vertical feet and 700 horizontal feet of a cargo plane.

00:13:42.640 So you get the point.

00:13:44.560 Now, it's true that we can't blame this dramatic rise of near misses solely on diversity and equity efforts.

00:13:52.020 You know, single variable explanations are rarely sufficient,

00:13:54.700 especially when you have a complex issue like this.

00:13:57.740 For one thing, when Ronald Reagan fired more than 10,000 air traffic controllers who went on strike

00:14:02.580 back in the 80s in violation of federal law, a bunch of new controllers needed to be hired.

00:14:08.000 And many of those controllers recently hit retirement age all at the same time,

00:14:11.940 which creates a staffing crunch, and that's also part of the issue.

00:14:16.980 But that staffing crunch was foreseeable.

00:14:19.880 It's been obvious that it would happen since Reagan fired the controllers more than four decades ago.

00:14:24.700 The problem is that instead of providing incentives for competent people to become air traffic controllers,

00:14:31.540 say, by raising the salary, providing more training, offering better hours, you know, those sorts of things,

00:14:36.620 the government chose to do what it always does.

00:14:39.240 It drastically lowered the standards in the name of equity.

00:14:43.700 And the Biden administration is still proud of this.

00:14:46.160 Right now, on the FAA's website, you'll find this line.

00:14:49.120 Quote, the mission of the FAA involves securing the skies of a diverse nation.

00:14:54.240 It only makes sense that the workforce responsible for that mission reflects the nation that it serves.

00:15:00.920 Actually, no, that doesn't make sense.

00:15:02.960 The job of the FAA and air traffic control is preventing catastrophic accidents where a lot of people die.

00:15:10.260 It doesn't matter what the workforce looks like.

00:15:13.460 Everybody knows this because deep down, everybody knows that diversity doesn't actually matter.

00:15:17.740 Everybody knows that.

00:15:19.520 And that's why no passenger on a plane has ever cared in the slightest about the racial makeup of the guys in the cockpit

00:15:25.880 or the ones on the ground directing the plane.

00:15:29.000 Just like nobody's ever cared about the diversity of fire departments when they're trapped in a burning building.

00:15:35.360 Nobody's ever cared about diversity among brain surgeons when they have a tumor that needs to be removed.

00:15:39.860 When it comes down to it, when it really matters, diversity doesn't matter.

00:15:47.020 And we all know it.

00:15:49.140 But unfortunately, that's what the FAA has been focused on lately.

00:15:52.860 Just a year ago, the FAA launched yet another initiative to diversify the ranks of air traffic controllers,

00:15:58.100 meaning to hire people based on qualities other than competence.

00:16:01.320 The FAA calls this the BATC campaign.

00:16:04.300 The agency says in a press release that, quote,

00:16:07.080 building on last year's successful campaign to receive more applications from women and other underrepresented groups,

00:16:12.520 the FAA will again work with diverse organizations, host Instagram Live conversations,

00:16:17.740 and work with social media influencers.

00:16:20.280 So that's what the FAA is working on right now as we have this catastrophic rise in near misses at airports and in the skies.

00:16:29.360 They're working on getting more women and underrepresented groups by partnering with Instagram influencers.

00:16:36.240 So they want to get people, you know, into the towers, air traffic control.

00:16:40.560 They want to get the sorts of people who are listening to Instagram influencers.

00:16:45.200 So this is a disaster waiting to happen.

00:16:50.560 That much is clear.

00:16:51.240 What's not clear is whether we'll be getting a workforce that's capable of preventing two jetliners full of passengers

00:16:56.520 from colliding with one another while they're each going in excess of 500 miles an hour.

00:17:01.760 And that is alarming, to say the least,

00:17:04.080 because every single week we're discovering that the existing crop of air traffic controllers is barely capable of doing that.

00:17:10.940 Now, keep in mind, this is all happening even as airlines also begin their own quest to add more equity to their ranks.

00:17:18.660 It was only a couple of years ago that United Airlines pledged to diversify its pilots,

00:17:24.100 and many other airlines have followed suit.

00:17:27.300 So very soon we will have diverse air traffic controllers directing diverse airline pilots

00:17:34.900 who have all been hired for reasons other than their skill and competence while thousands of lives hang in the balance.

00:17:43.520 And inevitably, many are lost in the process because that's where this will go.

00:17:50.280 Now, you often hear aviation experts say that nothing ever gets fixed until a lot of people die,

00:17:55.160 which is not a thought that will help cure your anxiety about flying, but it's true.

00:17:59.380 It's what they say, and it's been true throughout the history of aviation.

00:18:01.760 Planes didn't have wind shear detectors until commercial airliners started crashing in bad weather,

00:18:07.320 just shy of the runway.

00:18:08.800 TCAS wasn't mandatory until there were a lot of mid-air collisions.

00:18:11.740 Pilots didn't have to de-ice until an Air Florida plane nosedived into the Potomac

00:18:16.640 after sitting for too long on the tarmac on a snowy day.

00:18:20.060 What this means is that if history is any guide,

00:18:23.620 soon enough we may finally start to get some solutions to the air traffic control debacle

00:18:28.100 we're seeing right now all over the country, from Portland to San Diego to New Orleans to New York,

00:18:32.980 pretty much every other major metropolitan area in the country.

00:18:36.260 And that's because, as problematic as it may be for the Biden administration's equity agenda,

00:18:41.360 we're closer than we've been in more than a decade to a disaster of truly historic proportions.

00:18:46.720 Like, it is going to happen, and probably soon.

00:18:49.220 And when it does, a lot of people will die.

00:18:53.380 And then, and only then, when it's too late, will anything be done about the problem.

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00:19:54.020 So here's an update on a story that we closed with yesterday.

00:19:58.840 And this is from the Daily Mail.

00:20:02.560 Says, a sports reporter who accused a young Chiefs fan of racism against both black people and Native Americans

00:20:07.320 has learned that not only was the child not wearing blackface, but he is a Chumash Indian to boot.

00:20:13.940 Deadspin reporter Karan Phillips accused Holden Armenta of mocking black people after seeing a picture in profile,

00:20:19.220 which did not show the half of his face painted in red of his beloved football team.

00:20:23.720 Phillips also slammed Holden's Native American headdress and his tomahawk chop gesture,

00:20:29.540 claiming the little boy had found a way to hate black people and Native Americans at the same time.

00:20:34.040 This evening, it emerged that the youngster has Native American heritage with a grandfather serving on the

00:20:39.240 Santa Yanez Band of Chumash Indians,

00:20:41.700 and that the team's multi-ethnic squad had enthusiastically joined in with Holden's Indian chopping gesture. 0.59

00:20:48.860 So there's a video of, you know, there's more video of this, the kid at the game,

00:20:56.080 and in one of them, he's doing the hand chopping gesture, and he's like in the front row.

00:21:01.840 And so there's a lot of the football players that are on the sideline, and they see him doing it, and they join in.

00:21:06.520 And these are also, by the way, most of them black players.

00:21:11.920 And they see the kid in the face paint, and they don't start weeping because of how racist it is. 0.54

00:21:18.020 Instead, they say, oh, this is fun. The kid is here. It's great.

00:21:22.700 So this young boy was defamed as a racist for wearing blackface and an Indian headdress.

00:21:29.260 But it turns out, well, he was not wearing blackface, obviously, and he's actually Native American by heritage, 0.76

00:21:36.820 which is all just more ammo that I desperately hope is used in court to sue and bankrupt the parasitic fake journalist who wrote the article. 0.87

00:21:47.600 You know, I know it's easy to say, but if this was my kid, you know, I would make it my mission in life to ruin this man's life.

00:22:00.980 Like, I want him to wake up every day for the rest of his life regretting that one article.

00:22:06.520 I want the first thought in his head every day when he wakes up, and every night when he goes to bed,

00:22:13.260 I want the first and last thought to be, man, I wish I hadn't written that.

00:22:19.140 Just no mercy is the only way forward.

00:22:27.620 That's what I would do. It's what needs to happen to these people.

00:22:30.080 They are pure evil. They truly are. They need to pay, literally. 0.99

00:22:33.940 This is, you know, writing a defamatory hit piece on, like, a five-year-old is, you know,

00:22:46.560 it's not like one of those things that maybe you might do as a journalist that's just, like, sort of vaguely over the line.

00:22:52.560 There's a gray area, and, you know, you went a little bit too far or whatever.

00:22:57.140 There might be situations like that, but this is not that.

00:23:00.300 This is so far over the line that when you turn back, you can't even see the line anymore.

00:23:06.300 Okay, the line is somewhere past the horizon.

00:23:09.780 This is psychotic, evil behavior.

00:23:12.460 This is just an evil person, the person who wrote this article, who needs to pay dearly for it.

00:23:19.440 And it's going to continue. 0.97

00:23:20.560 You're going to continue having these parasites who make money by trying to destroy the lives of random, innocent people for no reason. 0.97

00:23:32.500 They're going to continue doing it until they pay, until they are made to suffer serious consequences. 0.98

00:23:37.940 That's the only way.

00:23:43.220 Now, with that said, I also wanted to make a point here that people are making a big deal out of the fact that the kid is Native American, apparently.

00:23:53.700 But, and yeah, like I said, in the defamation lawsuit, which I certainly hope is filed, that I think fact will be salient.

00:24:02.960 But it doesn't actually matter.

00:24:05.960 Okay, like, it doesn't make this any more outrageous.

00:24:10.720 Okay, it's not like, if you're a rational person, it's not like you're going to see the hit piece yesterday, assuming it's a white kid, and say, oh yeah, well, that was a good article.

00:24:21.720 You should have written that.

00:24:22.500 And then find out that he has a Native American grandfather and say, well, never mind, this is totally wrong. 0.97

00:24:28.380 It was already as outrageous as it could possibly be.

00:24:33.780 So, this shouldn't be a thing where we say, oh, you called the child racist, but he's not white, so you're wrong.

00:24:42.100 Because it wouldn't matter if he was white.

00:24:45.140 It wouldn't make it any better if he was white. 0.99

00:24:50.540 But an Indian headdress, here's the point, an Indian headdress on a white child is just as innocuous and innocent and inoffensive as an Indian headdress on a child with Native American ancestry. 0.95

00:25:05.760 There's no difference, actually, for normal people.

00:25:10.620 There's no difference.

00:25:13.120 And I think that's an important point to make.

00:25:16.940 And that's even leaving aside the fact that if the child is American and he was born here and he's American and his family's American, then he's already Native American.

00:25:31.640 He's Native to this country, regardless.

00:25:34.680 So, the distinction is irrelevant in the first place.

00:25:38.460 All right, you've probably heard about the latest Disney flop over Thanksgiving weekend.

00:25:42.200 But I haven't personally had a chance to gloat over it, so let's talk about that.

00:25:47.620 This is the Daily Wire's report on it.

00:25:49.660 Disney's new animated film, Wish, failed to perform well at the box office over Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

00:25:54.860 It was especially tough for the studio following the massive flop of the Marvels earlier this month.

00:25:59.940 Wish debuted in third place at the box office, grossing just $19.5 million in its three-day opening weekend.

00:26:05.840 Which is, for an original Disney film on Thanksgiving weekend, $20 million is abysmal.

00:26:16.400 And it got $31 million over the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, which is also abysmal.

00:26:21.200 This was significantly less than forecasted and doesn't come close to recouping the $200 million production budget.

00:26:26.780 And I always have to remind everyone that when you hear about the production budgets, that's only the tip of the iceberg.

00:26:33.960 Because that doesn't count the marketing budget, which could be even more than the production budget.

00:26:42.440 So, the fantasy musical stars Ariana DeBose as the main character, Asha, and Chris Pine as the villain, King Magnifico.

00:26:51.720 The synopsis says,

00:26:52.520 Young Asha makes a wish so powerful that it's answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called star.

00:26:59.000 With star's help, Asha must save her kingdom from King Magnifico and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.

00:27:11.380 And Wish has a 49% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so critics don't like it either.

00:27:17.060 Audiences don't care.

00:27:18.060 Critics don't like it.

00:27:18.600 It's just a flop all around.

00:27:20.520 Now, and this is, you know, there was a run there, there was a stretch, and we'll talk about this in a second, where, like, every Disney film was not only a smash success commercially, but was also critically acclaimed.

00:27:35.100 If you go to Rotten Tomatoes, however much stock you put in Rotten Tomatoes, which I think that Rotten Tomatoes is, you know, it's actually, it gets a bad rap, but it's, there are exceptions, but it generally gives you a pretty good idea of whether a movie is good or not.

00:27:47.060 Um, so it used to be that every film is a, is a commercial smash success, and every film has, like, 95% of Rotten Tomatoes, and, uh, now the exact opposite is the case.

00:27:59.360 Nearly every film they're putting out is a flop, and, uh, everybody hates it, and even the critics can't find a reason to like it.

00:28:06.080 Now, um, this, this is just Thanksgiving weekend, but really, uh, this whole year has been bleak.

00:28:14.820 Here's IGN on that.

00:28:17.320 Um, after WISH's underwhelming opening this past weekend, the spotlight is on Disney once again, and the rough year this once incredibly reliable brand has had.

00:28:24.440 To specify, as Variety pointed out in a recent analysis of this troubling box office streak,

00:28:29.720 Disney looks primed to end 2023 with a single, without, without a single movie crossing the $1 billion mark.

00:28:37.620 To be clear, the $1 billion mark is not an easy one to cross.

00:28:39.900 Only two movies, Barbie and the Super Mario Bros. movie, have done it this year, but that used to be nearly a given for Disney.

00:28:46.680 Um, we're not going to count 2020-2021, which were, uh, abnormal years because of the COVID-19 lockdowns.

00:28:53.520 Um, but going back to pre-pandemic times, Disney had a whopping $7 billion hits in 2019 alone.

00:29:01.900 They had seven films in 2019 that went over a billion dollars.

00:29:06.120 Uh, last year they had one, which was Avatar, and this year they have none.

00:29:13.040 So it is trending in exactly the, uh, wrong direction if you're Disney.

00:29:18.180 Now, we've talked about why Disney is falling apart.

00:29:22.180 Um, partly it's a, it's a total lack of originality.

00:29:27.160 You know, that, that's some of this.

00:29:29.560 Like, these movies just aren't very good.

00:29:31.860 They're not original, they're not innovative, they're not, they're not interesting.

00:29:34.840 It's the same thing over and over again.

00:29:36.920 Uh, you know, it, it turns out that these franchises, you can only go back to the well.

00:29:41.460 Like, eventually the well does dry up.

00:29:44.080 Now, this Wish film is not a franchise film.

00:29:46.060 This is actually their attempt at something like a, uh, you know, a, a, an original film.

00:29:50.900 But it's bad.

00:29:52.500 And, um, nobody cares.

00:29:54.380 Nobody wants to see it.

00:29:55.000 But then the second thing is also, um, and Disney has recently acknowledged this, in fact,

00:30:00.980 that their foray into the culture war has been a total disaster for them.

00:30:08.120 So, that's the other thing that we should acknowledge here, and that you're not going to see this.

00:30:13.180 Certainly, you're not going to see any mainstream media report that acknowledges this.

00:30:17.680 But it's true, that, uh, Disney, you know, we can put them in the Bud Light category.

00:30:26.740 That, that's a, it's a big part of the story here.

00:30:29.960 That their failure is at least partially a big, in, in, in large part, I think, um, a success of conservatives in the culture war.

00:30:40.980 You know, Disney decided to go to war against conservatives in a very direct and kind of deliberate and explicit way.

00:30:50.040 And they lost.

00:30:51.780 They lost the war.

00:30:54.180 And now they have a, a year, at least a year of flops to show for it.

00:30:58.960 So, again, you're not going to find any media report that acknowledges that.

00:31:03.760 You're not going to say, that, that will not happen.

00:31:05.880 But it's the truth.

00:31:07.860 The truth is that we pulled a, we pulled a Bud Light on Disney, too.

00:31:13.280 So, when you look at the success of conservative boycott efforts, um, and even boycott isn't, I don't, I don't think that's quite the right term, exactly.

00:31:26.420 It's not exactly a boycott.

00:31:29.340 It's kind of a branding effort.

00:31:32.620 Okay, you have these companies that are trying to brand us a certain way as conservatives.

00:31:37.080 Certainly, that's what Disney's doing.

00:31:39.280 And we have turned around and branded them.

00:31:42.440 So, it's not so much boycott as branding.

00:31:46.540 We successfully branded Bud Light, you know, a far-left, crazy, woke company.

00:31:52.400 And it destroyed them.

00:31:53.580 And we have branded Disney the same.

00:31:57.840 And it's killing them, too.

00:32:00.720 So, this is, these are, these are major successes for conservatives in the culture war.

00:32:04.240 These are the kinds of successes that, uh, that seemed impossible for years.

00:32:09.460 And that, and that, and that even now, you have conservatives, this is not possible.

00:32:12.800 You can't, you can't take, you know, you can't make a dent in a company like Disney.

00:32:16.300 Oh, yes, you can.

00:32:17.400 Because we did.

00:32:18.120 This is not all happenstance.

00:32:21.500 This is, this is deliberate.

00:32:22.580 Um, and even in spite of that, you know, this is what makes it so remarkable, is that there's probably nothing Bud Light can do.

00:32:34.400 Bud Light is screwed forever.

00:32:35.660 There's just nothing they can do.

00:32:37.920 Uh, Disney, I mean, they could come back from this.

00:32:41.020 Like, all they have to do is say, look, okay, we're, we're bound out of the culture where we want, we want nothing to do with it anymore.

00:32:49.640 And, and, uh, and then, but then also start making films that people want to see.

00:32:57.640 Just take the wokeness and the political correctness out of the films entirely.

00:33:02.920 This Wish film, from what I understand, it's, it's, uh, at least by recent Disney standards, it's not, like, overly woke. 0.94

00:33:13.140 But it still is, because, of course, you've got the white male, who's the villain, and then you've got the protagonist, has to be this young brown girl, and she wants to grant everybody's wishes, and the greedy, horrible white man. 0.61

00:33:26.140 So it's like, they, they can't pull back from that. 0.90

00:33:30.500 If they just pulled back from that, and started telling good stories, put the wokeness aside, put the political correctness aside.

00:33:37.100 Um, if they just did that, then they could start churning out billion-dollar movies again.

00:33:48.100 But they, they can't.

00:33:49.920 Like, they can't stop themselves at this point.

00:33:52.580 They're on a, they're on a train that they can't stop.

00:33:55.080 And now they're paying the price for it, which I think is fantastic.

00:33:59.180 Okay, LGBT Nation, um, has this headline.

00:34:02.300 As the left continues to, speaking of movies, continues to react to, uh, our film we have coming out that's, uh, premiering, well, we're going to the red carpet premiere tonight, Lady Ballers.

00:34:11.160 It'll be, uh, available for everybody else on, uh, dailywireplus.com on Friday.

00:34:17.340 Um, here's the headline from LGBT Nation, or I think it's LGBTQ Nation, doesn't matter.

00:34:23.300 Right-wingers made a comedy movie attacking trans women in sports, and it looks terrible.

00:34:28.400 Matt Walsh wears a wig and a beard in the role of a trans queer woman. 0.98

00:34:32.300 We'll return to that in a moment, but here's the article.

00:34:36.460 The far-right and viciously anti-trans Daily Wire has announced its first feature-length comedy film written to mock trans women and girls who are fighting for the right to participate in sports as their gender.

00:34:46.420 A trailer for the film entitled Lady Ballers depicts a group of cisgender men deciding to pretend to be trans women and join a women's basketball league as, uh, one team with the intent of dominating the sport.

00:34:56.740 The trailer calls the film the most triggering comedy of the year, a derisive, uh, reference to the right-wing narrative that progressives are snowflakes who are easily triggered.

00:35:05.500 And LGBT Nation is, uh, is, is, I guess, trying to combat that narrative by being triggered by it.

00:35:13.820 But this is ironic, they say, considering that the people at the Daily Wire were so triggered by the existence of trans people that they made an entire movie about something that has never happened.

00:35:22.920 Well, when you say something never happened, you mean, like, the existence of trans people has never happened?

00:35:27.200 Because you're right about that.

00:35:28.460 No, we're not triggered by the existence of trans people because we can't be triggered by something that doesn't exist.

00:35:33.540 So I'm not triggered by the existence of trans people for the same reason that I'm not triggered by, um, the Tooth Fairy.

00:35:40.980 Now, if the Tooth Fairy existed, I would be triggered by that.

00:35:45.100 The idea of some mythical creature coming into your child's window at night and stealing his tooth is very disturbing, and I'd find that triggering.

00:35:54.680 But, but it doesn't, but the Tooth Fairy's fantasy doesn't exist, so I'm not triggered.

00:35:59.120 And it's the same with trans people. 0.95

00:36:02.260 There is no such thing as a trans person, so it could not be true. 0.57

00:36:05.720 There are people who claim that label.

00:36:08.620 There are people who say they are trans.

00:36:10.920 There are people who I, who, uh, quote-unquote, self-identify that way.

00:36:15.600 But they are not actually that, because nobody can be that.

00:36:19.660 Just to be clear.

00:36:21.880 Um, the film stars several Daily Wire commentators, including one of its most well-known, Matt Walsh, who is known for his own, uh, anti-trans film, What is a Woman?

00:36:28.240 Okay, so I want to say something here, and I've seen this not just from, uh, this website, but from, uh, some YouTubers and others on the left reacting to the film, even though they haven't seen the film yet.

00:36:39.980 Um, but all claiming that I am playing a trans person or a gay person or both in the movie.

00:36:47.180 And first of all, how dare you assume my gender?

00:36:53.060 My identity is not up for debate or discussion.

00:36:56.900 My own personal journey is not something that, that you should make assumptions about.

00:37:01.700 And frankly, I don't believe that I should have to explain it to you.

00:37:04.540 And just because I put on a wig, you know, just because I wear a wig and, like, a Buddhist robe thing or whatever it's called in the movie, that doesn't mean that I'm trans or gay.

00:37:18.280 I could be.

00:37:20.260 That's my own truth, though.

00:37:22.200 That's my journey.

00:37:23.180 That's my identity.

00:37:25.260 Okay?

00:37:25.560 That's my self-expression.

00:37:27.400 That's how I choose to move in the world and to move through these spaces in the world.

00:37:34.720 Now, as it happens, even though, again, I shouldn't have to explain myself to you people, I am not queer in the film.

00:37:41.120 Okay?

00:37:41.740 Just want to make that clear.

00:37:42.880 I am not queer.

00:37:44.400 But I am vegan, which is close enough.

00:37:48.360 So they came to me and they said, we need you to play a gay character in a movie.

00:37:51.640 And I said, I can't do that.

00:37:53.820 And they said, fine, you can be straight.

00:37:55.240 And then I said, look, let's meet in the middle.

00:37:57.840 I'll be vegetarian.

00:37:59.040 And that's how that came about.

00:38:01.080 Or at least that's the version of how it came about that I want officially documented on Wikipedia.

00:38:05.640 So we'll go with it.

00:38:09.260 It is.

00:38:09.980 And then also, probably the most offensive thing about this statement, Matt Walsh wears a wig and a beard.

00:38:16.260 What do you mean wears a beard?

00:38:17.400 This is all real.

00:38:18.620 Okay?

00:38:20.460 The wig, maybe not.

00:38:21.460 All right.

00:38:29.020 Maybe staying on this topic a little bit.

00:38:30.400 Here's a viral video of a man who spent thousands of dollars trying to feminize his voice in an effort to become a woman.

00:38:38.360 And it's an interesting video.

00:38:41.280 Let's watch.

00:38:41.780 All right, everyone.

00:38:44.340 This is it.

00:38:46.400 So glamorous, right?

00:38:48.120 This will be the last recording with my old voice.

00:38:52.880 Before I'm heading into voice feminization surgery, I won't be able to speak for two weeks.

00:39:00.640 And then it'll still be another month before I have 100% usage of my voice.

00:39:10.340 So wish me luck.

00:39:12.540 And we'll see everyone on the other side.

00:39:14.940 Okay, it has now been 15 months since my first voice feminization surgery.

00:39:22.420 Spent $20,000.

00:39:24.160 Had three different procedures.

00:39:26.640 This is probably about as good as it's going to get.

00:39:29.740 So let's do a little before and after.

00:39:31.680 But we are not going to do the tired rainbow passage.

00:39:34.500 Instead, we are going to do lyrics from a late 80s UK band called Pop Will Eat Itself.

00:39:41.980 Here goes.

00:39:43.220 Before and after.

00:39:43.980 One, two, check.

00:39:47.600 High tech in stereo.

00:39:49.900 Quad row.

00:39:51.020 Any way you go but loose.

00:39:53.200 One, oh, oh, one uses.

00:39:55.280 We got the juice, the bruise, the fuses.

00:39:57.800 The volume in this room is much too groomed.

00:40:01.620 We need a big bad boom. 0.99

00:40:03.260 Noise KO.

00:40:04.560 Disco Inferno.

00:40:06.100 Hey ho, yo, let's go. 0.56

00:40:08.220 Let's rock the show.

00:40:09.780 Blow the speakers.

00:40:10.620 See them glow.

00:40:12.180 So now you know.

00:40:13.220 It's not what you do, but the way that you do it.

00:40:16.180 The speaker she blew, but the way that you blew it. 1.00

00:40:19.580 P-W-E-I always knew it. 0.99

00:40:22.080 We'll teach all this in a song.

00:40:23.900 It won't take long.

00:40:24.940 Did it.

00:40:25.740 We're through with it.

00:40:26.720 Hit it.

00:40:27.140 Wow.

00:40:30.520 All of that money and effort to end up looking and sounding like Satan in The Passion of the Christ.

00:40:37.680 Or maybe like Kathy Griffin. 1.00

00:40:40.440 Or maybe like Kathy Griffin. 1.00

00:40:41.960 So, which there's very little daylight between those two characters.

00:40:46.320 At best.

00:40:47.940 And I mean, and I'm being very generous here.

00:40:51.300 Maybe he sounds a little bit like my overweight female bus driver when I was in middle school who smoked like three packs a day and had been since the Carter administration.

00:41:06.700 So, at best, maybe he's achieved that.

00:41:11.300 I don't think he's even made it that far, though.

00:41:13.780 And it kind of demonstrates the point that I always make, which is that, you know, if you're a man, we talk about men appropriating femininity, but they can't really do it. 0.52

00:41:26.080 Like, they can never truly appropriate and inhabit or even convincingly portray femininity. 0.96

00:41:35.220 You will never really be feminine if you're a man. 0.91

00:41:38.480 But you can reject your masculinity.

00:41:41.980 You can't reject your manhood.

00:41:43.320 You'll always be a man.

00:41:44.760 But you can be, you know, non-masculine.

00:41:52.400 Like, you listen to that guy and you look at him.

00:41:54.420 He definitely, he certainly doesn't look and sound masculine.

00:41:58.280 Nobody would say that that's a masculine sound or a masculine look.

00:42:03.260 He's still a man.

00:42:04.260 He's definitely not a woman, but, and he doesn't pass for a woman.

00:42:07.960 But he also doesn't exactly look or sound like a man.

00:42:12.100 So, he is stuck in limbo.

00:42:13.980 And that's where all these people end up.

00:42:16.440 They end up in limbo.

00:42:18.340 So, you know, kind of a visual metaphor.

00:42:21.640 It's like, imagine you have a great canyon, and on one side you have men, and on the other

00:42:29.860 side you have women. 0.99

00:42:31.980 Well, there's no way that you can jump across.

00:42:35.120 The two sides are too far apart.

00:42:37.260 There's no bridge connecting them.

00:42:38.820 You cannot make it from one side to the other.

00:42:40.900 What you can do, though, is just, like, hurl yourself down into the cavernous abyss, and

00:42:49.060 you'll still be on that side, but you'll end up as some kind of, like, mangled distortion

00:42:54.640 of what you were before, which is what, which is where these people end up.

00:43:00.080 So, you got a lot of people who were on both sides who are now kind of lingering in that

00:43:05.120 abyss, and they're never going to make it over to the side they want to be on.

00:43:08.080 They'll never make it back up to the side they should be on, and so instead they are

00:43:12.780 forever stuck in this kind of abyss, this kind of no man's land, or, in his case, no

00:43:21.240 woman's land, because he's not a woman. 0.99

00:43:22.980 Um, and, uh, it's, ultimately, it's, it's quite sad.

00:43:32.680 It's also absurd, and with absurd things, you can't help but laugh at them.

00:43:37.600 So, these are both appropriate responses.

00:43:40.200 Let's get to Was Walsh Wrong?

00:43:41.860 Serious Rising says, I think the idea that putting any kind or amount of black makeup 1.00

00:43:50.980 on your face constitutes blackface is totally ridiculous. 0.97

00:43:53.280 That being said, the parents should have probably known better. 0.98

00:43:55.980 I would argue they did know better, and they allowed it just to be inflammatory.

00:44:01.020 Um, I think there's no reason to think that whatsoever.

00:44:03.680 There's no reason to think that they were, what, like, dangling their five-year-old child

00:44:08.800 out as bait for internet trolls, um, you'd have to be pretty much the worst parent on

00:44:15.080 earth to do that, and I don't think there's, I think it's very unfair to assume that these

00:44:18.560 are the worst parents on earth.

00:44:19.960 No, here's what you assume, is that these are just normal people who are not terminally

00:44:24.400 online, and the thing is, if you're not terminally online, and if you're not scrolling Twitter

00:44:28.400 all the time, uh, like I am, then you wouldn't even think, like, you know, those of us who

00:44:35.160 are immersed in this world all the time, um, unfortunately, yeah, you might, you might

00:44:41.220 see black, any kind of black makeup on someone's face, and you kind of know, because you're so 1.00

00:44:46.980 jaded and cynical, uh, you, you, you know, it's like, yeah, yeah, someone's stupid enough 0.98

00:44:52.280 out there to intentionally misinterpret that, but if you're a normal person, and you're not 0.99

00:44:57.920 spending all your time, then you don't even think that way, and it's hard for those of

00:45:02.500 us who have our minds polluted by being immersed in this stuff, it's hard for us to even understand

00:45:09.160 how normal people think, and a normal person who is not immersed in it, it wouldn't even

00:45:15.200 occur to them, but you got black makeup, uh, you know, black and red makeup, like, what,

00:45:21.500 you wouldn't even think that there'd be a problem with that.

00:45:25.080 You also wouldn't think that there'd be a problem with, with the headdress.

00:45:29.240 Again, if you're not immersed in all of this, and, uh, and, and you're not online all the

00:45:35.840 time, and even a headdress, you go, like, well, he's a kid in a headdress, and we're

00:45:40.020 at a, it's the chiefs, we're at, he's doing the tomahawk chant, like, what do you mean?

00:45:43.120 People weren't doing this forever, what's the problem?

00:45:47.400 And you would be correct to see it that way, that there's no problem, there's no, there's,

00:45:50.540 it's, it's, it's perfectly fine. Um, so I think, uh, I think maybe you are a very jaded

00:45:59.780 person and very cynical like myself, and you're assuming that everybody is that way, but everybody

00:46:05.080 is not. Now, sadly, this family, now they will be, uh, but, uh, but before this, I think

00:46:13.740 they weren't. I think they just went to a football game and were having a fun time, and, like,

00:46:17.420 had no concept that this would lead to any kind of public attention whatsoever.

00:46:26.000 Uh, Ray says, so I was the only one that heard Kevin McCarthy say America is not a country,

00:46:30.140 not only a country, but also an idea. He didn't just say it was an idea, and he sure, uh, didn't

00:46:36.700 say that we couldn't protect the physical part of it. Something could be a physical thing and

00:46:41.680 an idea. Um, well, no, it can't. Uh, something cannot be a physical thing and an idea at the

00:46:50.060 same time. Now, you can have ideas about a physical thing, but the thing itself is not

00:46:55.980 an idea. So, for example, the chair that I'm sitting on right now, I could have ideas about

00:47:02.460 it. You know, I can look at it and think to myself, there's a chair, and so I've had an

00:47:08.180 idea about the chair, but the chair itself is a chair. The chair is not, you wouldn't look at this

00:47:12.520 chair and say, well, that's both a chair and an idea. That's not merely a chair. It's an idea. No,

00:47:18.220 it's not. It's just a thing, and any ideas you have in relation to it are just ideas in relation

00:47:23.980 to it, but they are in relation to the physical thing. They are not the thing itself, right?

00:47:30.020 Which is why I stipulated, like, a house, before it exists physically, is only an idea. It is a plan

00:47:37.160 you have to build, but you haven't done it. Once you do, it's not an idea anymore. It is entirely

00:47:42.960 a thing, and it would not be accurate to say, well, my house is both a house and an idea.

00:47:47.900 No, because whatever ideas you have in relation to your house are not the house itself.

00:47:52.300 And I know this sounds like semantics, and it probably is, but it's an important point when it

00:48:01.060 comes to this thing about country, the country is a country and an idea. Now, granted, I think that

00:48:06.580 most of these boomer conservative types who say this stuff, they don't really think it through.

00:48:12.280 They don't think about, they don't totally think about the, just like you, they don't really think

00:48:16.920 about the implications of what that means or how nonsensical it actually is. They certainly don't

00:48:23.000 think to themselves, you know, like, no one else says that about their country. This is something that

00:48:28.480 only we say. If you're from China, right, you would never say, well, China is both a country and an idea.

00:48:36.260 And if that wouldn't make any sense about China, then it doesn't make any sense about America.

00:48:42.280 Like, America is not any different in that sense. There may be different ideas underlying,

00:48:48.860 like, that underlie the formation of the United States, but countries are countries.

00:48:56.640 And they all kind of operate the same way in that way. They are physical things that you have to

00:49:03.260 protect physically. And finally, Paula says, still going to say it, Chauvin had a duty to care.

00:49:13.200 People screamed at him that Floyd was unresponsive and he didn't act.

00:49:16.540 I don't know how big of a crime that was, but it was a crime.

00:49:22.640 Well, I don't agree with you. I don't think that it is a crime. I don't think that is,

00:49:26.760 but that's not the crime that he was charged with. So even if I did agree with you,

00:49:30.860 we would both have to agree that he was falsely convicted.

00:49:35.820 But, and that's not what anybody says about him, right? That's never been the, that's not,

00:49:41.860 that wasn't the criminal charge. That's not what anyone says. You know, it's not,

00:49:45.500 oh, George Floyd was having an overdose and Derek Chauvin failed to administer care in time.

00:49:51.400 That's a whole different narrative. And that's also a narrative that does not,

00:49:57.580 if that's all that anybody ever thought about this, 2020, the riots never would have happened.

00:50:04.800 Nobody would remember George Floyd's name or have ever even known his name.

00:50:08.900 It would be kind of like a non-issue.

00:50:13.380 No, all of this is centered around the claim that Derek Chauvin directly killed George Floyd,

00:50:18.300 which is false. And that's important to establish. I also think that your claim is

00:50:24.380 false as well. Here's the way I look at it. If you are going to overdose on drugs or commit a crime,

00:50:37.980 it's like you're better off choosing one or the other. I mean, really don't do either. The best

00:50:42.140 case, best thing to do is to do neither of those things. Don't commit a crime. Don't overdose on

00:50:47.400 drugs. To do one of those things is a horrible decision that could have horrendous results for

00:50:56.860 you. If you do both, then you have just made a series of choices that are so self-destructive

00:51:05.500 and so suicidal that whatever happens next is 100% your fault. And so when George Floyd decided to

00:51:16.440 commit a crime and then overdose on drugs or overdose on drugs and then commit the crime,

00:51:21.040 whatever order these things happened in, everything that happened as a result is totally on him.

00:51:29.820 Because now you've put the cops in a position where, okay, yeah, you're having some sort of

00:51:33.440 medical thing. You also committed a crime. You're also resisting arrest. They have to deal with all

00:51:39.100 of these things. You know, you're, you, you are a very large man who has committed a crime.

00:51:46.560 You're resisting arrest. They can't just let you go. And so they have to deal with all these things at

00:51:53.380 the same time. And it's pretty obvious to the cops in this case, like their first priority was like,

00:51:58.260 let's restrain this guy. Let's make sure nobody else gets hurt. And, um, in the process,

00:52:05.840 he died by his own, because of the overdose. So I guess that's really the way of putting this is

00:52:11.420 that their priority, when you've got this man who committed a crime, he's this large guy,

00:52:17.920 he's resisting arrest, he's overdosing on drugs. He is now a physical threat to the officers and to

00:52:24.720 the people around him. And the first priority is not to save George Floyd from the consequences of

00:52:30.440 his own stupid actions. That's like priority number five on the list. The first four priorities 1.00

00:52:36.900 are let's protect everybody else. And if we can get around to saving your from this dumb thing you've 0.98

00:52:45.180 done, then we will. But our first priority is not you. It's everybody else. That's the way it goes. 0.94

00:52:52.920 When you just, when you, when you're a criminal and you go around doing drugs and all the,

00:52:55.780 like now every, the fact that he's, that he's tripping on drugs, that alone also makes him a

00:53:02.540 danger to people around him. He's irrational. You don't know what he's going to do.

00:53:07.720 And so if I'm in that position, my first priority is let's get this guy restrained.

00:53:11.680 Let's make sure he can't, I want to make sure he doesn't harm me. Okay. And I want to make sure

00:53:16.320 he doesn't harm anybody else. Um, and that's it. And, and, and that should be, that should be the

00:53:23.740 end of that story. And the only moral of the story is don't, don't poison yourself with fentanyl.

00:53:30.880 And if you do don't, they'll go, go then and, uh, and commit a crime, like go call, call an ambulance

00:53:36.980 instead. Remember when we were allowed to laugh at things that were absurd, instead of having to say

00:53:43.980 that, uh, they aren't absurd at all. And in fact, that they're very good and you're a very bad person 0.83

00:53:48.460 for thinking otherwise. Well, back when Hollywood could make comedy films like Dodgeball or Wedding

00:53:53.220 Crashers or Tropic Thunder, uh, without having to tow some politically correct line, uh, you know,

00:53:58.980 well, the Daily Wire is, is, uh, is tired of this situation, tired of not laughing. And this Friday,

00:54:03.060 we're dropping the most triggering movie of the decade so far. It's a sports comedy about the funniest

00:54:08.640 thing to ever happen in sports. Grown men who cannot beat other grown men calling themselves 0.97

00:54:13.600 women and then absolutely dominating girls who spent their entire lives training to be the best. 1.00

00:54:18.520 Every studio in Hollywood should be racing to make this movie. They aren't, they won't, they can't.

00:54:24.120 And so we are. Their worldview simply will not allow them to say what virtually every American

00:54:28.500 knows to be true, that men are on average faster and stronger than women, that the entire reason we 0.89

00:54:33.540 created women's sports was to keep men out and that men cannot become women, no matter what some clown 0.96

00:54:38.760 with a PhD in gender studies says about it. That's just not possible. You're allowed to believe 0.99

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00:54:47.600 look at the official trailer for Lady Ballers. Here it is. In a world where women's sports is being 1.00

00:54:56.060 transformed, the Daily Wire calls foul with the most triggering comedy of the year. 0.67

00:55:13.500 Guys, this is serious. Sports can be your pathway to a better life. What, like yours?

00:55:20.000 Please don't steal my catalytic converter again. Winning matters. It's the key ingredient in becoming a winner.

00:55:25.220 Maybe you should try it sometime.

00:55:27.620 Are you going to move?

00:55:28.840 I am not.

00:55:31.600 Let's cut to the chase. I know you're not a woman. 1.00

00:55:34.640 Hey, you don't know how he identifies. 0.93

00:55:37.460 If you can beat them.

00:55:38.500 What do you know about the U.S. Opens for the Global Games?

00:55:41.080 You want us to compete as women. 0.88

00:55:43.080 $5,000 prizes.

00:55:44.400 My lover says you were a great coach back in the day.

00:55:46.540 Join.

00:55:47.240 This is the way the world is now.

00:55:48.800 My eight-year-old daughter told me all about it.

00:55:50.340 So a guy can become a girl with no physical changes at all. 0.92

00:55:54.520 Oh, that's called gender fluid. 1.00

00:55:56.100 So I can be a woman on the court and a man in the bedroom. 0.57

00:56:00.100 I can't believe it.

00:56:01.240 Nice! 0.94

00:56:02.200 You mean when you're sleeping?

00:56:03.400 Yes.

00:56:05.300 Coach.

00:56:06.060 Alex.

00:56:07.260 We could play basketball.

00:56:08.640 We'd have to get the whole team back together.

00:56:10.100 It's time.

00:56:10.940 We're in.

00:56:12.060 I'm in.

00:56:13.020 I'm in.

00:56:14.040 Duke Plank.

00:56:14.760 Lady Baldur's.

00:56:16.360 Mount up.

00:56:19.440 Like a girl. 0.99

00:56:20.400 That's why I'm with her.

00:56:24.900 Believe me, my truth.

00:56:26.680 This is my truth.

00:56:30.460 From Heroes.

00:56:31.420 Day one of being a girl athlete.

00:56:33.820 I love being a girl.

00:56:36.100 To She-Ros. 1.00

00:56:37.280 We could dominate every woman's sport. 1.00

00:56:40.200 Running.

00:56:41.020 Swimming.

00:56:41.700 Soccer.

00:56:42.340 I said sport, Felix.

00:56:46.280 It's ladies basketball, boys.

00:56:48.800 Nobody watches.

00:56:51.500 Excuse me.

00:56:53.120 Are these seats open?

00:56:55.060 Never mind.

00:56:55.920 Getting dunks.

00:56:57.760 And tucking trunks.

00:57:08.040 You know she didn't.

00:57:14.540 That's the biggest I've ever seen on a lady. 1.00

00:57:17.620 I don't care.

00:57:18.540 Lady Baldur's.

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00:58:00.940 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

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00:59:23.200 You know, in the modern age, people tend to be very socially conscious.

00:59:26.240 We live in a culture filled with extremely selfless and empathetic individuals who are

00:59:30.960 always looking to get involved in worthwhile social causes.

00:59:34.840 That is, just as long as the cause requires them to expend little to no effort and contribute

00:59:40.120 nothing of value to the world.

00:59:41.940 We'd love to come together for no reason and rally around nothing to do nothing at all.

00:59:47.400 This is the most popular sort of activism around, and TikTok is the best place to organize

00:59:51.820 these kinds of charitable endeavors.

00:59:54.820 So here's the latest.

00:59:55.880 A new viral TikTok video has called attention to the scourge of, quote unquote, trapped water.

01:00:01.900 What is trapped water?

01:00:02.980 Well, here's a user who goes by the name Spread Your Dreams, explaining in a video that has been

01:00:08.440 viewed now over 3 million times, and here's what she says.

01:00:12.840 I just picked this up.

01:00:14.440 It's a full bottle of water.

01:00:16.540 And I'm on this quest to dump out any water that gets trapped in the plastic, because once

01:00:23.200 it's trapped in these plastic bottles, we now have lost it basically forever.

01:00:30.420 So it's really important when you see, hi doggo, when you see water that's discarded, to open

01:00:38.200 it up and dump it out.

01:00:42.840 Alternately, to make sure that when you're done with water, and that goes for like, you 0.99

01:00:49.620 know, juices or sports drinks or whatever, dump that shit out if you're not going to use it. 0.96

01:00:56.000 Because if you don't, it's trapped forever, and we've lost that water to our ecosystem. 0.99

01:01:03.640 So, thanks.

01:01:04.560 So there it is, the new current thing, free the water.

01:01:11.060 If you find a bottle laying around with liquid inside, dump the liquid on the ground.

01:01:15.340 Don't even worry about what the liquid is, just, you know, dump it on the ground.

01:01:18.420 And if you don't, eventually the earth will run out of water.

01:01:22.480 And this is an idea that may sound completely insane, because it is, but it resonated with

01:01:27.960 the folks on TikTok.

01:01:28.820 Here are the top comments on that video.

01:01:31.380 Somebody named Simply Sarah says, not me teaching the water cycle today, but never thinking about

01:01:36.800 this.

01:01:38.080 Kenz says, trapped water just ruined my day.

01:01:42.080 Rachel Okeke says, I've thought about this every day since I learned about the water cycle,

01:01:47.000 and this video makes me feel so validated.

01:01:50.200 Another comment says, we'll now be anxious about trapped water forever.

01:01:54.560 Another one, no, seriously, this freaks me out.

01:01:57.600 All water has to go back to the rain cycle.

01:02:01.380 Yes, we must facilitate the water's journey back into the rain cycle.

01:02:05.800 That's why I typically, what I will do is I'll bring all of my half-empty water bottles

01:02:10.520 up into the sky in a helicopter, and I empty them directly into a cloud, because that is

01:02:15.820 the safest and most environmentally friendly strategy, I think.

01:02:20.020 The ocean's not going to dry up on my watch, I'll tell you that.

01:02:23.900 But still, many TikTokers are now very concerned about the trapped water problem, because some

01:02:27.480 random woman made a video about it. 0.99

01:02:29.060 This was followed by a bunch of other videos from other people on the platform talking about

01:02:33.000 how anxious this issue has made them watch.

01:02:37.200 Is anybody still thinking about that lady who's talking about trapped water in water bottles?

01:02:42.600 I've thought about it every day for, I don't know, two weeks now.

01:02:46.980 It makes me very sad.

01:02:48.380 Every day, she thinks about water in water bottles.

01:02:55.460 Now, as expected, soon the media joined in.

01:02:57.940 Yahoo published an article with this headline,

01:02:59.800 Woman Warns About the Dangerous Phenomenon That Is Trapped Water. 1.00

01:03:03.980 They report,

01:03:04.460 One TikToker recently created a video titled Free the Water to inform her viewers about the dangers

01:03:09.480 of trapped water and the need to dump out liquids contained in plastic bottles that aren't going

01:03:13.800 to be used.

01:03:14.560 According to the Texas Water Quality Association, trapped water is indeed a big problem.

01:03:19.800 In the U.S. alone, we waste 22 million gallons of water each year in landfills due to trapped

01:03:24.420 water inside plastic water bottles, the organization wrote on the QWET website.

01:03:28.780 Quote,

01:03:29.900 That is 22 million gallons of water that we will never get back into the Earth's water

01:03:34.620 cycle.

01:03:35.480 The organization went on to point out that fresh water makes up an extremely small fraction

01:03:38.520 of all the water on Earth, and that there is no new water being created.

01:03:42.480 The water that exists on our planet and the atmosphere is all there is.

01:03:45.940 That means that when we effectively take it out of circulation by trapping it indefinitely

01:03:49.320 in plastic, that decreases the total water supply for all life.

01:03:54.100 Okay, now, I'm no water expert, but let me just be the first to say that this is all 0.82

01:04:02.960 a bunch of insane nonsense.

01:04:05.980 And to begin with, a small fraction of the water on Earth is fresh water, yes, but a huge

01:04:13.120 fraction is salt water, and the salt water becomes fresh water when it evaporates.

01:04:19.000 So water from the ocean goes up into the sky as a gas, and it comes down as fresh water.

01:04:27.020 That's why the rain is not salt water, even though much of it is coming from the ocean.

01:04:33.200 So that's the way it works.

01:04:36.180 And altogether, the Earth holds about 326 million trillion gallons of water.

01:04:42.020 A typical bottle of water is 16 ounces, which means that there are eight bottles in every

01:04:48.480 gallon, which means that the Earth has enough water to fill 326 million trillion bottles eight

01:04:58.360 times.

01:04:59.640 And that means it would take millions of years to even begin to noticeably deplete the water

01:05:07.360 supply by leaving water trapped in water bottles.

01:05:09.980 Okay, we could, you could try to do it.

01:05:13.980 We could all band together as a species and say, we want to dry up the oceans with water

01:05:19.560 bottles, and we would just like spend all day filling water bottles from the ocean.

01:05:24.340 And it would still take us millions of years to achieve this.

01:05:28.540 But actually, you couldn't even do it in a million years, because water bottles will decompose

01:05:34.040 eventually, and they'll decompose in about 500 years.

01:05:38.420 And so by the time you get to millions of years, all the water bottles have decomposed,

01:05:43.940 and the water has escaped.

01:05:46.080 And even that is irrelevant, because it's not even true that water left in bottles will not

01:05:49.940 be able to escape until the bottle decomposes.

01:05:51.680 In fact, if the cap was ever opened, then the water will still evaporate and escape from

01:05:56.920 the bottle, from the cracks where the cap was opened, in a comparatively short amount

01:06:01.380 of time.

01:06:01.940 And if for some reason the bottle was never opened and yet discarded, it will almost certainly

01:06:05.980 be compacted and crushed at the landfill, at which point the water will come out and escape.

01:06:13.300 So, to review, it would be impossible to significantly deplete the water supply by

01:06:19.860 leaving water trapped in plastic bottles forever.

01:06:22.960 And it's also impossible to leave water trapped in plastic bottles forever anyway,

01:06:27.060 because plastic may take a long time to decompose.

01:06:30.360 It is not magical, indestructible material, however.

01:06:35.340 It is not eternal.

01:06:37.440 At the absolute most, it would be trapped for 500 years, which is a long time, but not forever,

01:06:42.680 and not nearly enough time to make a dent in the water supply.

01:06:46.060 But in reality, the water in the bottle that you throw into your garbage will almost certainly

01:06:50.380 be freed and traveling back up into the atmosphere in the form of a gas within the week,

01:06:53.960 if not sooner. 1.00

01:06:55.920 So, everything about this trend and the logic behind it is false and stupid and ridiculous 0.99

01:07:01.040 and not based in science or common sense or any notion of objective reality at all. 0.99

01:07:06.720 But it gives people a new thing to pretend to worry about for a few days, and it gives them

01:07:10.320 a very easy way to pretend that they're making a difference in the world.

01:07:14.020 Just dump out your Gatorade, and suddenly you're saving 8 billion people from dying of thirst. 1.00

01:07:18.760 That doesn't make sense, but if you're very stupid, it might make you feel good about 1.00

01:07:23.660 yourself, which of course, as we know, is all that matters, at least in the minds of 1.00

01:07:27.700 the trapped water crusaders, who are all today, we must say, canceled.

01:07:34.160 That'll do it for the show today.

01:07:35.180 Thanks for watching.

01:07:35.700 Thanks for listening.

01:07:36.320 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:07:37.280 Have a great day.

01:07:38.160 Godspeed.

01:07:38.520 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 29, 2023

Ep. 1269 - How Government ‘Diversity’ Initiatives Are Leading Us To A Major Airline Disaster

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