The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1287 - The Fentanyl Crisis Is Destroying Our Country And Our Leaders Couldn't Care Less

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, fentanyl deaths reached record levels again this past year.

00:00:03.860 Meanwhile, the Biden administration is doing everything it can to open the border and let

00:00:06.960 the poison keep streaming into our communities. Also, a school shooter in Iowa reportedly

00:00:11.100 identified as gender fluid. Why are we seeing so many LGBT mass shooters? Plus, a man in California

00:00:16.740 claims that his car was vandalized by a Nazi. And multiple very credible reports suggest that

00:00:22.160 10-foot-tall aliens have invaded a mall in Miami, so that's interesting.

00:00:25.960 Finally, speaking of aliens, Madonna is on tour and embarrassing herself repeatedly on stage.

00:00:31.400 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:02.620 Towards the end of last year, the Biden administration launched what it claimed was a major

00:02:06.760 crackdown on the fentanyl supply that appears, that enters in this country from China. As Associated Press

00:02:13.240 reported, in one of the biggest actions the administration has taken against fentanyl trafficking,

00:02:17.260 the U.S. on Tuesday announced a series of indictments and sanctions against 14 people

00:02:21.580 and 14 firms across China and Canada related to the import of the drug to the United States.

00:02:26.980 One of the targets of these sanctions was a company based in China that provides pill dyes for a

00:02:32.540 counterfeit oxycodone. The spokesman for the Treasury Department called the sanctions,

00:02:36.900 quote, the latest step in the rapid scaling up of our work targeting the financial flows that power

00:02:43.360 the global illicit drug trade. So they made a big show of the whole process as a way of convincing

00:02:48.820 people that they're doing something about fentanyl trafficking, particularly from China. Now what the

00:02:53.960 Biden administration didn't announce publicly is that behind the scenes, they were making it much

00:02:58.520 easier for illegal migrants from China to enter this country. They were doing the opposite of 0.99

00:03:03.980 sanctioning Chinese criminals. They were making life easier for them. They were facilitating their 1.00

00:03:08.620 entry into the country. According to a reporting this week from the Daily Caller, beginning in April

00:03:13.020 of 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection dramatically changed the vetting process for Chinese citizens

00:03:19.560 entering the United States illegally. Instead of asking these illegal aliens around 40 questions, 0.98

00:03:26.120 Border Patrol headquarters instructed agents to ask just five questions. And specifically,

00:03:30.860 agents are told to ask about the Chinese migrants' military service, universities, place of birth,

00:03:37.360 employment, and political party. If they answer those questions without any red flags, they're now

00:03:43.520 released into the United States with a court date several years in the future that we just hope they'll

00:03:49.440 show up for, but of course they won't. These illegals are no longer asked questions about their firearm use, 0.97

00:03:56.480 connections to human trafficking, drug trafficking, prior arrests, among many other issues that you

00:04:02.780 think would be relevant. The upshot is that instead of spending hours deciding whether to allow a single

00:04:08.760 illegal alien from China into this country, now Border Patrol can clear a Chinese migrant in like a few

00:04:14.920 minutes. They're no longer presumptively turned back to China. Instead, they're presumptively allowed

00:04:19.780 into the United States. And once they're in this country, these Chinese nationals, people we 1.00

00:04:25.160 effectively haven't screened, are free to do whatever they want. If they're transporting fentanyl,

00:04:30.880 they can distribute it. If not, they can do what thousands of Chinese nationals are currently doing 0.99

00:04:35.160 in Mexico. They can coordinate the distribution and manufacturing of the drug. And we really have

00:04:41.460 no idea what they're going to do. The Biden administration's policy as of early last year is to make sure that

00:04:46.320 no one has any idea what these Chinese nationals are doing in this country. Now, all this is to say, 1.00

00:04:52.080 contrary to White House press releases, there is in fact no serious effort to punish the countries that

00:04:57.920 are responsible for the vast majority of fentanyl in this country. In fact, there's a deliberate effort

00:05:03.940 to make it easier for illegal aliens to come to the United States along with whatever they happen to be 0.63

00:05:09.680 carrying. That's true of Chinese migrants as well as migrants from pretty much every other country.

00:05:15.040 And how is that working out exactly? Well, here's one way to measure the consequences. In 2023,

00:05:20.440 all across the country, fentanyl deaths hit record levels. In Seattle, which doesn't enforce drug laws

00:05:26.260 at all, there were a total of 1,060 fentanyl overdoses last year. That's an increase of more than 30%,

00:05:32.700 which is dramatic from 2020 when 717 people died in fentanyl-related deaths in King County. That's just

00:05:39.680 one small, relatively small region area of the country. And that's the number of deaths they're

00:05:45.120 dealing with. And if you go back a few years earlier in 2015, a grand total of just three people

00:05:49.600 in all of King County OD'd on fentanyl. So we went from three to over 1,000. Now, Seattle is

00:05:57.640 a completely different city. Fentanyl is, because of this, they've been transformed and not for the

00:06:04.280 better. Fentanyl is now so prevalent in Seattle that people walking downtown often see paramedics

00:06:10.600 and police officers responding to overdoses. This is a normal thing to see now. A few days ago,

00:06:16.300 for example, one local journalist recorded one of those moments. He caught up with a man who had

00:06:21.660 just overdosed a few minutes before. And let's see how that played out.

00:06:25.040 Unbelievable. Looks like Seattle PD along with fire just saved a dude, Odean. Oh. Was he

00:06:35.060 overdosing right here? Yeah, no, no. He was right there by the cardboard.

00:06:38.380 Yeah. Fentanyl? Oh, thanks.

00:06:41.420 How come he's not taking services?

00:06:45.760 Hey, you okay? Come on, man.

00:06:51.060 Come on, man. You okay? Come off, man. You okay?

00:06:54.580 I'm perfectly excited. They just saved your life, man.

00:06:57.140 I don't need no life-saving, dude. I've been smoking this s*** for 20 years, dude. 0.95

00:07:01.220 Yeah, I'm 100% okay. Why don't you just go to the hospital for a checkup? 0.99

00:07:04.660 You don't need to follow me. I'm going to go that way.

00:07:07.340 All right.

00:07:09.700 So you notice how routine this is for everybody involved. The police and the firemen aren't fazed by it.

00:07:14.520 They're just kind of walking away. Not remotely shocked that the guy who was just overdosing is

00:07:19.880 walking away, practically promising to overdose again as quickly as possible.

00:07:24.900 You also notice the other guy, when he's asked, well, was he overdosing on fentanyl?

00:07:28.960 Yeah, definitely. It's just assumed. Well, of course he was overdosing on fentanyl, because everybody is.

00:07:35.420 Now, it definitely isn't unique to Seattle. It's happening in pretty much every big city.

00:07:39.620 Sacramento County also saw record fentanyl deaths last year. And in LA, the Los Angeles Times just

00:07:45.400 reported that, quote, for the first time in recent years, fentanyl surpassed methamphetamine as the

00:07:49.680 most common drug listed as a cause of overdose deaths. Fentanyl was blamed at almost 60% of all

00:07:55.180 accidental drug or alcohol overdoses in 2022. Since 2016, the LA Times reported overdoses in Los

00:08:02.080 Angeles County, quote, have increased almost threefold. And there were about 200 more overdose deaths in

00:08:06.920 2022 than in 2021. 2023 was also San Francisco's deadliest year for drug overdoses on record. And

00:08:14.720 once again, fentanyl was involved in the vast majority of those deaths. This is a city, by the

00:08:19.720 way, that banned vaping. You can't vape at San Francisco because that's unhealthy. But, I mean,

00:08:27.120 you could die of fentanyl overdose. And instead of rounding up the drug dealers and removing them

00:08:31.780 from the streets, the city is encouraging the creation of more open air drug markets. That's

00:08:36.460 their solution. They want more treatment, quote, unquote, for drug addicts, which means

00:08:41.420 no punishment, no consequences whatsoever. Watch.

00:08:46.740 We have seen record number of deaths due to overdose in San Francisco.

00:08:52.220 Through the end of November, 752 people have died this year as a result of accidental overdoses in San

00:08:57.860 Francisco. That's already more than the deadliest year on record, 2020, when there were 726 deaths.

00:09:04.300 The majority of these preventable deaths continue to be driven by fentanyl.

00:09:10.640 At a news conference, Dr. Hillary Cunnings of San Francisco's Department of Public Health says

00:09:14.720 officials are working to improve access to drug use treatment.

00:09:18.240 Removing barriers to medications for addiction treatment, which are the most effective way to

00:09:24.300 prevent death and overdose in people who have an opioid use disorder.

00:09:31.220 Now, when they say drug treatment in San Francisco, what they're really saying is they're going to

00:09:35.400 invest in more so-called safe injection sites, which, of course, is an oxymoron.

00:09:40.460 There's no way to safely inject yourself with poison.

00:09:44.060 A year ago, San Francisco enlisted an army of nonprofits to operate these open air drug markets,

00:09:49.080 which are ways for druggies to get high in public without violating the law.

00:09:52.580 And the results have been predictably catastrophic.

00:09:55.160 But San Francisco isn't changing their policy.

00:09:57.200 In fact, they say this is the only way to stop.

00:09:59.000 The only way to stop this is to do more of this.

00:10:01.100 You know, the way that you stop it is you aggressively crack down on the drugs,

00:10:05.540 and especially on the people who are bringing the drugs and selling them.

00:10:08.840 You aggressively chase them down and you throw them in a cage for the rest of their lives

00:10:14.960 at a minimum.

00:10:16.020 That's one thing you can do with the drug dealers.

00:10:18.400 But that's not what we're doing.

00:10:21.460 And so we're seeing this all across the country as this collective slow-motion suicide at the

00:10:28.280 hands of fentanyl continues.

00:10:29.800 New York City has similar safe injection sites.

00:10:32.280 And how's that working out?

00:10:33.060 Well, it's hard to say exactly because New York is a little slower to report their data

00:10:37.640 from 2023.

00:10:38.640 But their numbers from 2022 show a similar spike.

00:10:41.200 Late last year, New York's health department revealed that there were 3,026 overdose deaths

00:10:47.500 in New York City in 2022, which they said was, quote, the highest number of deaths since

00:10:52.480 reporting began in 2000.

00:10:55.840 The authority said that fentanyl was found in more than 80% of those overdose deaths.

00:11:01.700 The limited data we do have from 2023 indicates that the surge is just continuing and growing

00:11:07.120 exponentially as it is everywhere in the country.

00:11:09.240 According to New York's special narcotics prosecutor, quote, many people are dying of

00:11:14.280 drug overdoses in New York City more than ever before.

00:11:17.660 In 2022, drug poisonings claimed 3,026 lives in the city, a 12% increase over the prior year.

00:11:24.980 Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the crisis worsened

00:11:29.720 in 2023.

00:11:32.100 Now, some of the stories coming up in New York City certainly suggest that's true.

00:11:35.580 Late last year, for example, a one-year-old boy died of a fentanyl overdose in a daycare in the

00:11:41.620 Bronx.

00:11:42.980 Three other young children were rushed to the hospital.

00:11:46.240 And authority said the daycare was being used as a fentanyl mill.

00:11:50.040 The husband of the daycare owner promptly fled to Mexico where he was arrested.

00:11:54.600 I mean, this is the kind of crime that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

00:11:57.400 But now it's happening, and it's not unthinkable anymore.

00:12:01.260 It's not just adult men dying from fentanyl overdoses, as tragic as that already is.

00:12:06.460 Although they certainly are a large portion of the deaths, women and children are dying too.

00:12:10.960 This is a trend that you'll find in pretty much every major city in the country.

00:12:14.720 And the administration has done nothing to stop these deaths.

00:12:20.680 In the meantime, the federal government has opened up the southern border completely so

00:12:23.840 that these dead Americans are being replaced with foreign nationals.

00:12:30.040 Now, it's easy to become numb to these statistics, but they truly have become hard to believe in

00:12:36.460 recent months.

00:12:36.960 I mean, this isn't a real epidemic.

00:12:38.740 We hear the word epidemic used a lot for a lot of things.

00:12:41.440 This is a real epidemic.

00:12:44.360 As of August, we're now at the point that more illegal aliens are being encountered at the

00:12:49.460 southern border every month than are being born to American mothers.

00:12:54.000 And that's according to government statistics.

00:12:57.060 But there's no replacement going on, remember.

00:12:58.600 We can't use the word replacement.

00:13:01.420 But curiously enough, by the way, the government didn't announce those statistics like they

00:13:04.880 announced their pointless sanctions against China.

00:13:07.000 There was no emergency press conference at the White House to explain

00:13:10.260 how it's possible that we're replacing the American population with illegal aliens 0.99

00:13:15.000 and what we can do to reverse course.

00:13:18.820 Instead, this government data had to be dug up by a small account on X called Data Hazard.

00:13:24.960 And keep in mind, these numbers are just the illegal migrants that authorities are encountering

00:13:31.020 at the southern border.

00:13:32.400 So these are the people who are caught or turn themselves in.

00:13:36.240 It's just that.

00:13:37.320 And if you look at the chart, it doesn't account for the hordes of illegal migrants who cross

00:13:41.740 into this country completely undetected.

00:13:43.560 So it should be much higher than what you see.

00:13:48.080 What this means is that at the precise moment that fentanyl deaths and drug ODs are hitting

00:13:52.760 record levels, so is the level of illegal migration into this country.

00:13:57.600 We're losing thousands of Americans every month to fentanyl, especially young people.

00:14:01.980 Even as we import tens of thousands of criminals, many of them coming from the countries that 1.00

00:14:07.420 are making and distributing the fentanyl.

00:14:10.500 And this migration is only going to increase from here.

00:14:14.980 Honduras is reportedly sending thousands of migrants on buses towards this country every

00:14:19.300 day.

00:14:20.100 Why wouldn't they?

00:14:22.420 Central America doesn't have very many livable cities anymore, so they're doing the rational

00:14:26.400 thing and they're fleeing.

00:14:27.460 The problem for Americans, whether they're toddlers and daycare or people trying to live 0.99

00:14:34.080 a normal life in Seattle or New York or Los Angeles or any number of other cities, is that

00:14:40.940 we have nowhere else to go.

00:14:44.560 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:14:46.020 Daily Mail has the report on the latest school shooting, which happened yesterday.

00:14:59.200 The teenage Iowa school shooter who killed one child and injured five others, including

00:15:03.140 his principal, turned the gun on himself after his rampage.

00:15:06.540 Cops said Dylan Butler, 17, was a senior at Perry High School, opened fire on Thursday morning,

00:15:12.480 shooting dead a sixth grader who attended Perry's Middle School.

00:15:18.140 Butler was armed with a pump-action shotgun and handgun, both of which are illegal for

00:15:22.540 a 17-year-old to obtain in Iowa.

00:15:24.500 He also had a rudimentary explosive device, which was undetonated and was later rendered safe

00:15:28.520 by fire marshals.

00:15:29.960 17-year-old died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound by the time first responders arrived at

00:15:33.120 school shortly after 7.40 a.m.

00:15:34.960 The ordeal triggered a mass evacuation of 1,785 students on their first day of classes after

00:15:42.020 winter break.

00:15:42.740 Cops have yet to provide a possible motive.

00:15:46.980 But this was, as I said, just the latest school shooting.

00:15:51.820 And now, there are some interesting additional details about this shooter.

00:15:59.820 And Libs of TikTok, one of the only real journalists left in the country, has reported on some of

00:16:05.420 these details.

00:16:06.020 So reading from her posts, breaking, Perry High School shooter identified this is allegedly

00:16:11.500 his TikTok account.

00:16:12.480 There's an image of it which was already scrubbed.

00:16:15.560 He posted this photo before the shooting from the school bathroom.

00:16:18.660 He appears to be part of the LGBTQ community with the LGBT flag in his bio.

00:16:23.680 In another post, he put the hashtag genderfluid.

00:16:29.820 She then provides examples of some of these videos and posts where the shooter posts hashtag

00:16:36.200 genderfluid.

00:16:36.980 He also has a post saying, love your trans kids.

00:16:40.440 And according to Libs of TikTok, his Instagram page has his pronouns listed as he, they.

00:16:45.240 Now, all of these pages have been scrubbed.

00:16:50.020 And it is creepy, to say the least, how quickly this happens.

00:16:56.480 I mean, like, within seconds, as soon as, and this only happens for certain of these

00:17:04.200 shooters, but when you've got details like LGBT flags and that sort of thing, as soon

00:17:10.100 as we hear about the shooting, you go to the person's social media page, it's already down.

00:17:15.820 They've scrubbed everything immediately.

00:17:17.940 And, um, and that's the way it worked here, but this is reportedly what the, what these,

00:17:24.560 uh, social media accounts said.

00:17:27.260 And if that's all the case, then this is yet another LGBT mass shooting. 0.94

00:17:32.400 And that, of course, uh, can be added to the Nashville shooting, the shooting in Colorado

00:17:36.520 Springs, Aberdeen, Denver, now Iowa.

00:17:39.660 These are all reportedly trans or quote unquote gender fluid shooters.

00:17:43.900 Now, do we know that, uh, this guy was consciously motivated by his reported gender fluid identity

00:17:53.000 to commit this crime?

00:17:55.380 No, we don't know that.

00:17:56.600 And if we, if he was, we'll never be told as we saw with the Nashville shooter, of course,

00:18:02.440 you know, they're not going to tell us the full story.

00:18:04.260 If in fact, this guy was driven by LGBT radicalization to go and shoot up the school, we're just not

00:18:10.200 going to be told that.

00:18:10.820 So we don't know.

00:18:11.520 We'll never know.

00:18:13.160 Um, it's not hard to see how that might happen though, because the left constantly claims

00:18:18.820 that LGBT people are under attack, that they're victims, that they're being erased, that they're

00:18:23.460 being targeted by some imaginary genocide. 0.92

00:18:26.080 And when you take a troubled person and you fill their head with that sort of nonsense,

00:18:30.360 you are giving them the motivation.

00:18:31.880 You're giving them the onus, the perceived moral right and justification and, and, and

00:18:38.060 even necessity to act out violently.

00:18:40.860 So could that have happened here?

00:18:42.600 I don't know.

00:18:45.280 Uh, we'll probably never know.

00:18:47.500 But, but here's what we do know.

00:18:49.020 And this is really the reason why, uh, these kinds of details matter.

00:18:53.240 We know that any kid, um, who, who is identifying as trans or gender fluid is troubled.

00:19:03.580 So we know that they have severe emotional and mental problems.

00:19:08.120 And, and that's why we're seeing this emerging pattern of LGBT mass shooters. 0.99

00:19:14.380 A kid with mental problems is more likely to identify as trans or non-binary or whatever.

00:19:21.480 And by the way, even the LGBT activists will admit that.

00:19:24.000 Now they're not going to phrase it that way.

00:19:25.980 And they're certainly not going to tie it to mass shootings, but they'll be the first 1.00

00:19:30.660 to tell you that, uh, the way that they'll put it though, is that there are mental health

00:19:35.400 comorbidities, uh, that are very common with, with kids who identify as trans or gender

00:19:40.980 fluid, which is just another way of saying that almost all of these kids are, are mentally

00:19:47.200 troubled.

00:19:48.840 Um, but the problem is, and you might say, well, yeah, if a kid is committing a mass shooting,

00:19:56.600 obviously, uh, he's got mental problems.

00:20:00.740 And that's always been the case for as long as there have been school shooters.

00:20:03.460 The issue though, is that for these quote unquote, trans kids, gender fluid, non-binary,

00:20:10.680 because their issues are cloaked under the LGBT flag, they don't get the help they actually

00:20:16.960 need.

00:20:17.920 Now they might be put on psychiatric drugs.

00:20:21.020 Okay.

00:20:21.500 I mean, they're all put on psychiatric drugs, and we've talked about the connection between

00:20:25.960 that and mass shootings, but the guidance, you know, and help that they really need that

00:20:33.420 they're not going to get.

00:20:34.260 I mean, a 17 year old boy saying I'm gender fluid.

00:20:41.220 That's a red flag right there.

00:20:43.680 Okay.

00:20:44.020 So it's, that's a major red flag.

00:20:46.740 Doesn't mean he's going to run out and shoot up a school necessarily, but it, it does mean

00:20:52.220 that he's confused.

00:20:53.220 He's lost, he's self-loathing.

00:20:56.040 He's probably got a lot of resentment, a lot of anger, a lot of very bad things are happening

00:21:01.100 in his head.

00:21:02.080 And that is what has compelled him to announce, you know, to identify this way and make this

00:21:08.440 announcement.

00:21:08.860 And, and so that should lead to a person like this getting help, but they don't because

00:21:18.020 the schools and parents and doctors, they don't take the gender fluid identification as

00:21:23.820 the massive red flag that it is.

00:21:25.460 Instead, they take it as an expression of some deep inner truth.

00:21:29.480 So when the kid says, oh, I'm gender non-conforming, I'm gender, you know, non-binary, they don't say,

00:21:36.740 oh, oh, oh my gosh.

00:21:38.080 I mean, this kid's got, got some serious issues.

00:21:40.380 We need, we need to, we need to take this seriously.

00:21:42.820 Instead they say, oh, oh, he's got it.

00:21:44.880 No, he's got it all figured out.

00:21:45.980 He's, isn't this a beautiful thing?

00:21:49.720 He's, he's figured himself out.

00:21:50.880 He knows who he is.

00:21:52.300 He's living his truth.

00:21:57.540 And so all of this is just neglected.

00:22:00.180 And, um, whether it leads to a school shooting or not, it does, it cannot lead anywhere good.

00:22:06.740 And that, I think, is the connection here.

00:22:12.000 All right, we'll move, um, to California, where there's some news out of California that's, uh,

00:22:18.020 um, getting some attention this week.

00:22:21.380 Um, in fact, uh, an alleged hate crime occurred in California, if you can believe it.

00:22:26.680 And here's a local news reporting on this alleged hate crime.

00:22:31.740 Let's watch.

00:22:32.080 In other news at 10, disturbing video from San Pedro, where a man wakes up to find his

00:22:39.060 newly painted sports car vandalized with racist slurs and a swastika.

00:22:44.440 And the victim says it is not the first time people of color have been targeted in his

00:22:49.220 neighborhood.

00:22:50.060 KTLA's Rick Chambers live in San Pedro with a story you'll see only on five.

00:22:54.960 Rick.

00:22:55.220 Yeah, Micah, while other vehicles in this man's neighborhood have also been vandalized

00:23:01.140 in recent months, this one seemed more race-based and personal.

00:23:05.500 And as you mentioned, it apparently has happened before.

00:23:09.840 I couldn't believe that this happened to me in San Pedro.

00:23:12.780 Reginald Scott is referring to the vandalism on his car.

00:23:16.760 Sometime between Christmas and New Year's, somebody spray-painted his Mustang using swastikas

00:23:22.120 and the N-word.

00:23:23.720 They also slashed his tires.

00:23:25.960 He says it might be a racial threat for parking in front of someone else's home.

00:23:30.640 Even if you're parked where you're not supposed to be, I don't think that gives you the right

00:23:35.440 to spray-paint on somebody's car and call them a racial slur.

00:23:40.040 That's hurtful.

00:23:42.660 It's just wrong because they flatten his tires, they damage it, and it's just something that

00:23:47.960 you don't want to see every day because, you know, what if that could have been my vehicle?

00:23:51.440 And Reginald Scott claims that this has happened twice before.

00:23:55.280 Somebody set his truck on fire two years ago, and then...

00:23:59.320 During Halloween, they kept my truck tires and sprayed some stuff all over it to where

00:24:05.120 this is starting to up, and then we're starting to get scared being around here.

00:24:09.820 So much so that he keeps his son close by and says that his wife now is scared.

00:24:15.340 She don't want the doors to be unlocked.

00:24:19.180 She don't want the... 1.00

00:24:21.020 She pretty much is on high alert.

00:24:23.420 The Scots say that they filed a police report, but now, after 20-plus years in San Pedro,

00:24:29.500 it might be time to relocate.

00:24:31.380 If you think you'd like to help the Scott family, you can go to our website at ktla.com.

00:24:37.840 We will have a link to their GoFundMe page there.

00:24:40.820 In San Pedro, I'm Rick Chambers, guys.

00:24:42.720 I'll throw it back to you in the studio.

00:24:43.800 There it is.

00:24:45.980 I was waiting for it.

00:24:47.580 The GoFundMe page.

00:24:49.820 Of course, they have a GoFundMe page.

00:24:53.160 What do you need funds for?

00:24:55.280 Because someone spray-painted your car?

00:24:56.860 Like, maybe, I guess, to get a paint job?

00:24:59.360 Is that all?

00:24:59.960 Are they just going to raise a couple hundred bucks to get a new paint job?

00:25:03.860 Something tells me probably not.

00:25:06.580 Oh, no, they need to go...

00:25:07.540 They need more money than that, just because it'll make them feel better.

00:25:11.600 The only thing that can heal the emotional trauma is cold, hard cash.

00:25:19.500 That's the one thing that could do it.

00:25:21.080 But, you know, the kid is right.

00:25:22.820 What the kid said there, I think, is right.

00:25:26.160 He makes a good point that just because someone parks in your spot,

00:25:29.200 that doesn't give you the right to spray paint racial slurs on his car.

00:25:32.960 As tempting as it might be when someone parks in your spot, you know,

00:25:36.560 to vandalize their car, you don't have the right to do that.

00:25:39.980 Yeah, and I would agree with that.

00:25:43.580 And allegedly, this vandal spray-painted, you couldn't really see it in the report there,

00:25:52.460 but it was Merry Christmas N-word, but they didn't say N-word.

00:25:57.200 And then also, they spray-painted a swastika on the car.

00:26:00.120 And I don't know if you noticed, but they actually blurred out the swastika,

00:26:03.040 because, God forbid, you actually see the swastika.

00:26:06.500 They blurred that out, but it was a swastika and Merry Christmas N-word.

00:26:12.580 And I think we have the pictures.

00:26:14.260 Pull up, just pull up the swastika, and that's the one we need to see. 0.87

00:26:21.760 Okay, there it is.

00:26:22.600 We'll keep that up on the page there, because...

00:26:25.120 Now, first of all, this is exactly what you would expect in the Nazi hotspot of San Pedro, California. 0.74

00:26:35.260 A place where this man, and this man alone, apparently, has repeatedly been targeted by Nazis.

00:26:42.920 I don't know why they're only picking on him and nobody else.

00:26:47.000 I don't know what it is. 0.86

00:26:48.280 But these are Nazis.

00:26:49.820 It's very interesting, though, because these are Nazis who, oddly enough...

00:26:53.260 I mean, they're so dedicated to Nazism that they're committing a hate crime 0.55

00:26:56.960 that would land them in federal prison for years.

00:26:59.520 I mean, if you really did something like this, and you were caught,

00:27:02.940 which you would easily be caught, by the way.

00:27:04.400 I mean, if you did this in the middle of some day,

00:27:05.740 it was people have ring cameras and security cameras.

00:27:08.100 It'd be pretty easy to find out who did it.

00:27:10.200 And you're going to go to federal prison.

00:27:11.240 I mean, they're going to come down hard on you.

00:27:13.740 So these are Nazis who are so...

00:27:15.920 But they're so dedicated to their Nazi principles that they said, it's worth it. 0.98

00:27:21.360 I'll go to federal prison for 10 years just to put the swastika on the car. 0.93

00:27:25.620 But then at the same time, they're that dedicated to Nazism, 0.80

00:27:30.160 but they're also so clueless about Nazism that they don't know how to draw a swastika.

00:27:36.560 Because that ain't it.

00:27:37.660 Now, I know this is one of those things where you really can't win,

00:27:42.160 like if you're correcting someone's swastika.

00:27:44.780 I'm not trying to claim that I'm the swastika expert here,

00:27:48.600 but that is not actually what a swastika looks like.

00:27:52.600 And, well, that's not a Nazi swastika anyway.

00:27:56.180 That's actually closer to the ancient Hindu symbol that the Nazis took the swastika from.

00:28:05.800 So maybe the perpetrator is Hindu.

00:28:10.020 Who knows?

00:28:10.700 Maybe this is a Hindu person fresh off the boat who's legitimately trying to be friendly, 1.00

00:28:17.880 but something's been lost in translation.

00:28:21.180 I mean, he did say Merry Christmas.

00:28:24.240 Now, you know, of course the media is reporting on this alleged hate crime as fact

00:28:30.320 without a hint of skepticism.

00:28:34.780 Even though, like, literally every case like this for the last 20 years has been a hoax.

00:28:41.940 I mean, every single one.

00:28:45.140 And you can correct me if I'm wrong,

00:28:46.140 but has there been a case of someone spray painting the N-word or a swastika

00:28:50.440 and it didn't turn out to be done by the person who's claiming to be the victim?

00:28:54.600 Has there been one case like that in 20 years?

00:28:57.360 I don't think so.

00:29:02.520 So every single case is a hoax, but the media reports this.

00:29:05.960 They don't even say allegedly.

00:29:07.680 They're just like, yep, it happened.

00:29:09.860 This one, this, this one, all the other ones, maybe not, but this one really happened.

00:29:15.560 And look, I'm not saying, and I can't for legal reasons at this point say

00:29:20.300 that this is definitely a hoax.

00:29:23.660 You know, it's not, it's not impossible that this guy was really targeted by San Pedro Nazis.

00:29:35.780 It is possible.

00:29:36.920 Like, it's logically, technically, from a philosophical perspective, possible.

00:29:42.820 You know, people say when pigs fly, right?

00:29:44.980 When they're trying to indicate that something didn't happen.

00:29:49.100 It's like, when pigs fly, but, but, you know, it's logically possible for pigs to fly.

00:29:54.300 I mean, there's nothing impossible about it.

00:29:56.540 It's not like a square circle or a married bachelor.

00:29:58.820 You know, these are logical contradictions.

00:30:00.440 And so they're therefore philosophically impossible.

00:30:03.260 But, but there is a possible universe where pigs fly, you know, and, and, and, and where a San Pedro Nazi vandalizes a car. 0.92

00:30:11.280 There's even a possible universe where a flying Nazi pig vandalizes a car. 0.89

00:30:16.240 I mean, that, that is also possible.

00:30:19.100 And I'll go so far as to say this, to this guy's credit.

00:30:23.200 If we do, and, you know, the, the theoretical physicists and the atheists, 0.96

00:30:27.940 they all speculate that we live in a multiverse with trillions of realities playing out simultaneously in different dimensions.

00:30:35.740 And, and, and, and if that's true, then I will even say that probably in one of those realities, this guy's story is true.

00:30:46.580 You know, of the trillions of universes, there's probably one where he really, his car really was vandalized by a Nazi. 0.74

00:30:55.120 It's just that that's almost certainly not what happened in this reality.

00:30:59.940 In this reality, like, we all know that this is almost certainly a hoax.

00:31:03.440 Because, again, it always is a hoax.

00:31:05.640 And it's so bad at this point, and so obvious, that as soon as the story is reported, every single comment now,

00:31:14.260 I mean, you go on Twitter, go to the page, every comment is like, okay, Jesse, yeah, all right.

00:31:20.460 So these things happen, and everyone except the journalists reporting on it know exactly what it is the moment they hear about it.

00:31:29.040 They know exactly what it almost certainly is, the moment they hear about it.

00:31:39.320 But we'll see, you know, this might be, look, 20 years without a real, without a real hate crime like this, maybe this will be the first one.

00:31:47.060 And as I said, it'd be very easy, you know, it would not be hard to find, especially, again, in San Pedro, like, there's probably only one white guy on the entire block.

00:32:00.880 And I don't want to cast aspersions on that one white guy.

00:32:03.220 I'm just saying that, like, there's probably only, like, one guy who could even possibly be, which at least narrows down the search a little bit.

00:32:11.420 All right. 0.96

00:32:18.420 Well, you know what, I should correct myself, because there can be black Nazis. 0.97

00:32:22.300 One of them is Dave Chappelle, I'm told. 0.96

00:32:25.720 You know, we talked about Dave Chappelle's recent, most recent stand-up special on Netflix, where he has another joke about trans people.

00:32:34.840 And the Daily Wire has some reporting on the backlash against this, which, as you expect, there's some backlash.

00:32:42.060 Comedian Dave Chappelle is once again facing backlash from leftist critics for making jokes about the trans community in his newest Netflix comedy special.

00:32:50.400 The outrage stems from comments Chappelle made in The Dreamer, which was released on December 31st.

00:32:55.920 A reviewer from Rolling Stone complained about Chappelle being obsessed with trans people.

00:33:00.460 Marlo Stern wrote, quote, it's unfortunate that Chappelle's The Dreamer is, like some of his prior Netflix specials, obsessively fixated on the trans community.

00:33:10.320 Because it's not an area he particularly excels at, resorting to puerile premises and punchlines.

00:33:19.060 He added, quote, there are, of course, ways to artfully tell a trans joke. 1.00

00:33:23.240 Take Michelle Wolf's recent Netflix special, It's Great to Be Here.

00:33:26.540 But Chappelle, yeah, right.

00:33:29.400 Look, I haven't seen Michelle Wolf's trans joke, her artful trans joke. 1.00

00:33:34.200 Something tells me it's not hilarious. 0.93

00:33:38.220 But he says, but Chappelle is apparently incapable of having most of his bits extend beyond mocking genitalia or pronouns. 0.86

00:33:44.860 It's not just tired, but uninspired.

00:33:48.600 Variety editor William Earle agreed that Chappelle has an obsession with mocking trans people and suggested he should try some new material.

00:33:56.540 Sean McCarthy said, Dave Chappelle's new Netflix special proves he's learned nothing.

00:34:00.320 It feels so frustrating to sit and watch comedians with the stature of Chappelle and Gervais devote so much of their time and energy to bullying the LGBTQ plus community when they could be doing something else on stage.

00:34:12.700 And then they have the temerity to question us, the audience, for not laughing with them.

00:34:17.900 The temerity.

00:34:19.540 The temerity.

00:34:20.800 How dare he?

00:34:21.700 You notice the strategy that they're taking now because they know, you know, I think that they have at least the minimal self-awareness to realize how lame they look when they complain about jokes.

00:34:38.820 I do think, and I know to accuse the left of having any self-awareness is going out on a bit of a limb there, but I do think that they realize kind of what that looks like.

00:34:54.720 And, you know, you don't want to be on the side that's always complaining about jokes.

00:34:59.720 You know, it is true that if you went back 30 years and if you go back 30 years ago and you had no other context and you heard that there was a stand-up special that had caused controversy and people were complaining about it and were offended.

00:35:22.360 30 years ago, without knowing anything else, you could probably assume that it was like conservatives that were offended by whatever was said.

00:35:32.900 But that has completely flipped on its head now, and I think the left realizes that.

00:35:37.840 And the more that they are in that position, the lamer and less cool they seem.

00:35:42.360 So now they've tried to, yeah, they're offended, but they've tried to, they're taking this approach of, no, I'm not offended.

00:35:51.100 I just think it's, this is just boring.

00:35:53.140 I'm bored by it.

00:35:54.160 Talk about something else.

00:35:57.180 These, what was it?

00:35:58.380 These jokes are puerile.

00:36:00.400 These are juvenile, these juvenile punchlines.

00:36:04.960 Now, of course, they're saying he should get new material and talk about something else.

00:36:09.300 I mean, first of all, he does talk about many other things.

00:36:14.140 Like a Dave Chappelle stand-up special is going to be an hour long.

00:36:18.260 And maybe in an hour, he'll tell one joke about trans or two, which will take up like three minutes of a 60-minute special.

00:36:28.480 It's the left and the media, like, it's their choice to focus only on that part of it.

00:36:35.960 Because, of course, they are the ones who are obsessed with that issue.

00:36:40.040 But, but also, like, there are plenty of black comedians who 98% of their material is making fun of and complaining about white people.

00:36:50.820 You know, it's not every black comedian, but there's plenty of black comedians where that's almost the entire thing.

00:36:56.780 It's like 30, they have a career that spans 30 years.

00:37:00.160 And almost every moment of it is spent on white versus black jokes, and that's it. 0.80

00:37:08.720 And something tells me you're never going to hear Rolling Stone say about a black comedian who's joking about white people.

00:37:15.360 Hey, find some other material.

00:37:16.560 Come on, is this all you got?

00:37:17.480 Just talking about white people all the time? 0.53

00:37:19.000 No, it's, but when they, when the gaze is turned to trans people, even just for a brief moment, that's when it's too much.

00:37:32.240 I mean, and, and, and they act as though Dave Chappelle is doing entire specials on nothing but the trans stuff.

00:37:42.380 Which, by the way, he could do.

00:37:43.600 I mean, there's enough material you could do easily.

00:37:47.080 And you could have an hour-long set where you do nothing but make fun of these people.

00:37:51.340 And that, that, that would be quite easy to do.

00:37:55.240 Um, because you, you know why, you know, if you're a trans activist or in the media, you're upset about this.

00:38:02.220 Do you want to know why someone like Chappelle continually mocks the trans stuff?

00:38:09.180 Well, it's because it happens to be the craziest thing happening in our culture right now.

00:38:17.080 That's why it gets, it actually should be, it, it, it should be talked about and made fun of quite a bit more than it is.

00:38:26.960 Because if you are to look around at our culture to try to find the most mockable parts of it, well, right there, right, that, that takes the cake.

00:38:38.880 It's not just the most absurd, here's the thing, the trans agenda, it's not just the most absurd thing happening in our culture right now.

00:38:45.380 Now, it's the most absurd thing that's ever happened in the history of the planet, okay? 0.95

00:38:51.200 The whole history of the human race, this is the most absurd and ridiculous thing that's ever occurred.

00:38:56.620 And so, yes, there are at least a few, a few stand-up comedians who have noticed that and can point to it and say, that's pretty funny.

00:39:08.280 And the other reason that I think Chappelle comes back to it also is that you believe that you should be exempt from mockery.

00:39:14.020 And there are at least a few stand-up comedians left who realize that the people who think they should be exempt from mockery are the ones who should be mocked the most.

00:39:24.300 Just out of principle.

00:39:25.240 All right, you know, I woke up to huge news this morning and the first thing I saw when I went on Twitter, well, there were two things trending.

00:39:36.700 When I went on, the first thing in the morning I saw Miami Mall and aliens.

00:39:43.940 And I knew immediately what that meant.

00:39:46.600 I didn't need to do any more research.

00:39:48.000 I saw it and I was like, okay, well, aliens landed and they went to a mall in Miami.

00:39:52.460 Obviously, it's what happened.

00:39:54.080 And sure enough, that is exactly what happened.

00:39:56.940 And we have evidence, we have proof, and we'll get to it.

00:39:58.940 But here's the report from Newsweek.

00:40:00.780 An incident at a Miami shopping mall which resulted in the arrest of four teenagers earlier this week has sparked the spread of a bizarre, this is their word, bizarre, theory on social media which suggests that the alleged presence of aliens at the Florida establishment.

00:40:16.180 More than 60 police cars swarmed the Bayside Marketplace in downtown Miami on Monday night to shut down a fight involving a group of teenagers who were also throwing fireworks at each other in the open-air shopping mall.

00:40:28.460 Four teenagers were arrested in connection to the incident.

00:40:31.080 According to the suspect's arrest reports mentioned by the television station, the juveniles were causing a riot inside the mall and causing panic.

00:40:38.660 Okay, so that's the official story that there was a fight at a mall.

00:40:45.980 When's the last time you heard of a fight at a mall?

00:40:48.040 In Miami of all places?

00:40:50.020 I don't think so.

00:40:51.300 So immediately you hear that you think something else is going on here.

00:40:54.060 That doesn't sound right.

00:40:55.960 And that's when you go and you go, well, where am I going to find the truth?

00:40:59.960 I'm not going to find it from these corporate media outlets.

00:41:01.980 So I got to go to TikTok.

00:41:04.400 And TikTok is on the case.

00:41:05.660 Various independent journalists on TikTok have been reporting that, in fact, there were giant aliens at the mall.

00:41:14.960 And that's what caused the disturbance.

00:41:17.520 So here's one video from a woman on TikTok who's kind of breaking it all down and giving us the basic facts of the case.

00:41:24.380 Let's watch that.

00:41:25.220 The Miami police was not dispatched there for a juvenile fight.

00:41:30.360 And the obvious need for such an enormous police presence was far more sinister than what we've been told.

00:41:36.520 As multiple witnesses claimed to have seen, I can't believe I'm going to say this,

00:41:41.400 creatures that stood 8 to 10 feet tall, walking outside and even inside of the mall.

00:41:47.020 And the pew-pews that were reported, and even the pew-pews you might hear in some of the videos,

00:41:52.400 had nothing to do with the juvenile fight.

00:41:54.660 According to these witnesses, it was actually the mall-goers shooting to protect themselves

00:41:59.400 from these 8 to 10 foot tall creatures in self-defense.

00:42:03.580 Now, that's all you need to hear, really.

00:42:07.640 10 foot tall aliens at the mall, people shooting at them.

00:42:11.160 She told you about it.

00:42:12.220 That's it.

00:42:13.160 Why would she lie about it?

00:42:14.480 But why would this woman, whoever she is, lie about this?

00:42:20.200 There's no reason that I can think of.

00:42:23.140 And so it's essentially impossible that she lied.

00:42:26.600 But if you are skeptical and you're saying, oh, well, she wasn't there.

00:42:32.500 Okay, well, let's listen to someone who was there and gives an eyewitness report of what he encountered.

00:42:39.100 And this is pretty disturbing, I warn you, but let's listen to what he has to say.

00:42:44.500 Since nobody's going to talk about it, I figured, you know, like, you know what I'm saying?

00:42:50.420 I was, uh, I was down in Miami for, uh, the New Year's, you know what I'm saying?

00:42:54.480 Me and my girl, I got a little time shared.

00:42:56.620 We was down there on a, um, like a mini vacay, you know, just to start the New Year's off right.

00:43:01.540 So anyway, we happened to be at that mall.

00:43:03.860 So, um, we had Foot Lock or whatever.

00:43:07.140 Next thing you know, you start hearing all this commotion outside.

00:43:09.340 Sound like fire, like firecrackers or something.

00:43:11.360 So, you know what I'm saying?

00:43:12.400 I, you know, I grabbed a close.

00:43:13.820 I'm like, yo, we about to get up out of here.

00:43:15.020 Because, you know, I originally thought that they were shooting.

00:43:18.160 You know what I'm saying?

00:43:18.520 I thought, you know, some type of, um, gunfight had broke out, whatever the case is.

00:43:22.560 Because, you know, we're not familiar with Miami.

00:43:24.140 We're not familiar with this city. 0.92

00:43:25.520 So I'm like, damn, I ain't even got my blick. 0.97

00:43:27.920 So, you know what I'm saying? 0.98

00:43:28.640 We about to, we about to, we about to swerve.

00:43:30.680 So, next thing I know, it's like crazy.

00:43:34.040 Like, we just see all these people running. 0.99

00:43:36.180 Like, you know, fat, fat, fat chicks. 1.00

00:43:39.280 You know, old ladies. 1.00

00:43:40.360 Like, I'm talking about moving.

00:43:42.280 You know what I'm saying?

00:43:42.820 Like, yo, old people even move. 1.00

00:43:44.780 I'm talking about moving.

00:43:46.180 So, you know, my girl, she's like, what's going on?

00:43:47.900 Like, where are we out?

00:43:49.000 Like, I'm not going to ask no questions.

00:43:50.240 We're just going to follow the crowd.

00:43:51.800 Next thing you know, you know, real, like, gunshots start going off.

00:43:55.300 So, you know what I'm saying?

00:43:56.040 Like, we're trying to, we're trying to follow the crowd.

00:43:58.140 Get out of here.

00:43:59.100 I look back.

00:43:59.820 I look back, no cap, yo.

00:44:01.860 No cap.

00:44:02.660 I look back. 0.65

00:44:03.400 It looked like, like, like a big-ass shadow.

00:44:06.980 But it was solid at the same time.

00:44:08.940 Like, a few, like a few shadows.

00:44:10.820 But they were solid at the same time.

00:44:12.660 And it almost looked like they was coming our direction.

00:44:15.400 Like, they were just chasing us.

00:44:18.060 There it is.

00:44:19.180 No cap.

00:44:20.480 He said it himself.

00:44:21.340 No cap.

00:44:22.120 And you might think, oh, this is cap.

00:44:25.260 But he's saying, no, it's not.

00:44:26.880 There's no, sans cap.

00:44:28.360 There's no cap.

00:44:30.320 And 10-foot-tall alien shadows, shadow aliens, have landed.

00:44:36.340 And they went to Foot Locker.

00:44:39.280 Think about it.

00:44:39.900 The thing that really sticks out to me about his testimony is he said that fat chicks were running. 0.77

00:44:43.780 And now, you tell me, why else would a fat chick run? 1.00

00:44:49.020 Have you ever seen a fat chick run? 1.00

00:44:50.320 If they were in the habit of running, they wouldn't be fat.

00:44:53.180 So, you think, well, why would they be running?

00:44:55.720 Were they giving free samples at Cinnabon?

00:44:58.080 That'd be one reason.

00:45:00.000 Cinnabon doesn't give free samples.

00:45:01.960 Okay?

00:45:02.260 I've asked.

00:45:04.800 So, that's out.

00:45:06.040 You narrow down the list.

00:45:07.540 Must be aliens.

00:45:08.200 Now, I will say, I've been told that the guy who made that video has since come out and said that it's a hoax and he didn't really see anything.

00:45:15.800 But that just proves even more because they got to him.

00:45:20.420 You know, he said what he saw and then later comes out and says, oh, I was just kidding.

00:45:25.160 Yeah, right.

00:45:26.540 Of course, he would say that after he gets the knock on the door, you know, and the SUVs pull up.

00:45:34.260 And they tell him, you better take that back, mister.

00:45:37.760 That's what the FBI probably said.

00:45:39.440 But here's the part where you're saying, oh, well, if there were really aliens at the mall, why didn't anyone get them on video?

00:45:45.580 And I hate this talking point because I've talked about this before.

00:45:48.540 You know, this idea that, well, why is there a video?

00:45:50.740 Do you really think that if you were being chased by 10-foot-tall shadow aliens from Neptune or whatever that you would take a second to pull your phone out?

00:45:59.200 You're running for your life.

00:46:00.120 You've left your footlocker purchases behind.

00:46:01.740 You haven't even taken those.

00:46:03.580 And you're going to have time.

00:46:04.920 You're going to think while you're going to backpedal while you're running?

00:46:09.980 That doesn't make any sense.

00:46:10.960 But as it happens, someone did get the aliens on film.

00:46:14.440 So this particular video has gone viral and where you can actually see.

00:46:18.480 Let's play this.

00:46:19.020 You can actually see the aliens.

00:46:27.940 You can see them somewhere.

00:46:33.460 Oh, right there.

00:46:35.960 Look at that.

00:46:39.560 Was that it?

00:46:40.480 Yeah, that was it.

00:46:42.980 So, okay, I think we only need to see it once.

00:46:45.940 Did you, someone who apparently had a camera phone.

00:46:49.760 It's like this person happened to have the first camera phone ever made in history.

00:46:53.660 And, but they got footage of an alien.

00:46:57.240 And he's like this smudge.

00:46:58.900 He's a smudge.

00:46:59.220 It looks like a smudge.

00:47:00.000 It's a smudge alien.

00:47:01.600 And the other guy said it's a shadow alien.

00:47:03.700 So these are, the aliens themselves are blurry.

00:47:05.980 That kind of answers the question of why.

00:47:07.580 Why?

00:47:07.720 Every time we see an alien on camera, they're blurry.

00:47:09.620 It's because the aliens are literally blurry themselves.

00:47:16.440 Last question you ask is, well, why do the aliens go to the mall?

00:47:18.960 Seems like an odd place to go.

00:47:22.180 That's not hard to explain.

00:47:23.120 Think about it.

00:47:23.500 You've been in a spaceship for thousands of years, probably.

00:47:29.700 You just land here.

00:47:32.360 They probably need to pick up some supplies.

00:47:34.140 Like they need to get out, stretch their legs.

00:47:36.280 And they need to pick up some supplies.

00:47:38.040 Like they probably like toiletries.

00:47:40.940 Maybe a quick snack.

00:47:42.460 There's probably an alien who forgot his jacket.

00:47:45.280 You know, I know with my kids, we go on a trip.

00:47:47.520 And as soon as we get there, there's always at least one kid is like,

00:47:50.420 I forgot a shoe.

00:47:51.940 So not both shoes.

00:47:52.540 You forgot one shoe.

00:47:53.720 Right on my jacket.

00:47:55.680 And so you got to go.

00:47:56.620 What do you have to do?

00:47:57.100 You have to go to the mall because you don't know where else to go.

00:47:59.260 And you go to the mall and you have to buy this thing.

00:48:00.860 So I could see something like that might have happened to these aliens.

00:48:04.400 The next thing you know, they're being shot at.

00:48:07.740 And so what was a peaceful jaunt to the mall by these aliens 1.00

00:48:14.660 has now become the beginning of the destruction of our planet.

00:48:22.880 Thankfully.

00:48:24.360 So those are the facts.

00:48:25.880 Let's get to the comment section.

00:48:27.260 If you're a man, it's required that you grow up in hay with a sweet baby gang.

00:48:35.400 First comment says, Jordan Peterson gives the best response to these anti-human overpopulation

00:48:42.120 doomsayers.

00:48:43.120 If you think there are too many people, there's a very easy solution to that.

00:48:45.880 You could leave.

00:48:47.240 Not surprisingly, they tend to change their tune once that obvious fix is presented to

00:48:50.900 them.

00:48:51.140 Yeah, I've also made the same point.

00:48:56.180 It's kind of an obvious point that if you really believe there are too many people on

00:49:00.480 the planet, then you can take matters into your own hands and you can kill yourself.

00:49:06.840 If I'm not, I don't want you to. 0.99

00:49:09.120 I'm not telling you to.

00:49:09.920 I think suicide's a terrible tragedy and it should never happen.

00:49:12.540 But if you actually believe that, and if there are mass amounts of people who really believe

00:49:20.480 that, then that is a step you can take.

00:49:26.540 No one does.

00:49:27.060 Like you never hear, when people commit suicide tragically, you never hear anyone doing it

00:49:29.820 because they're trying to solve overpopulation though.

00:49:33.100 No, instead they say, no, no, no, I don't want to die. 1.00

00:49:36.240 Let's kill the babies though. 1.00

00:49:38.860 You know, let's kill the babies and we'll kill them. 1.00

00:49:41.780 Not me. 1.00

00:49:44.300 Because as, and I think it was Chester Tanner, C.S. Lewis, one of them said that, you know,

00:49:49.820 when you're talking about overpopulation, it's like these, and I'm paraphrasing, but

00:49:56.780 the people that talk about, they never include themselves in the, in the over category, right?

00:50:03.460 You know, they're, they are population and the over is, uh, is everyone else, especially kids.

00:50:11.460 Um, next one says, just finished watching the latest episode.

00:50:15.040 Dinks at this point just irritate me. 1.00

00:50:17.040 I don't care how much money I spend on my child.

00:50:19.320 It will never take away the joy I see in my daughter's face when I get her something.

00:50:23.360 Thank you, dad is the best.

00:50:24.860 Even if I just work for them, I'll sacrifice.

00:50:28.440 Um, yeah, that's true.

00:50:30.540 You know, I, we talked about how, when it comes to the, the dinks and people advocating 1.00

00:50:35.160 childlessness and all they ever do is talk about the money and all they ever do is the

00:50:41.440 only thing that their whole case centers around, oh yeah, money, more money.

00:50:45.380 You won't have to spend as much money.

00:50:46.560 And as I pointed out, that's, that's the, first of all, they exaggerate that aspect of it.

00:50:52.960 That's not the most important aspect at all of that we should be talking about, but you bring

00:50:57.580 up an interesting point, which is that, you know, when you become a parent, you actually discover

00:51:02.960 something that I think when you're not a parent is like, you can't even imagine, which is that

00:51:08.440 you, there's actually joy to be found in spending money on someone else.

00:51:15.960 Now, not all the time.

00:51:17.280 Like there are plenty of times when it's frustrating as a parent, when you just see you make money

00:51:21.960 and you just see it fluttering out the door.

00:51:24.040 And, uh, you know, when we, or when my wife goes to the grocery store and buys like seven 0.96

00:51:31.000 boxes of cereal and cereal these days, you know, it's like $90 a box or whatever.

00:51:37.460 And she buys seven boxes of cereal and puts them in the pantry.

00:51:40.980 And the next day they're all gone.

00:51:43.040 Like somehow these kids, I don't know how it's pot.

00:51:45.100 How did you eat that much cereal in a day?

00:51:46.880 What is happening?

00:51:48.820 So there's that kind of thing where it becomes frustrating.

00:51:51.100 I don't find a lot of joy in that.

00:51:52.320 But generally, uh, there is joy to be found in providing for your family.

00:51:58.640 And, um, and I think if you're not a parent, you can't even, I could say when I was a parent,

00:52:05.500 I, I couldn't, I really, I couldn't even conceive of what that would be like to actually enjoy,

00:52:11.380 you know, giving something to someone else and that real kind of deep sense. 0.96

00:52:17.080 Um, but of course these dinks, they, they don't understand that. 1.00

00:52:22.320 Uh, Matt in Canada, at least in BC, dink means penis. 1.00

00:52:29.300 It always has. 1.00

00:52:30.640 Every time you say someone is a dink, you're just calling it like it is. 1.00

00:52:34.760 And I can't contain my glee. 0.82

00:52:35.780 Is that true?

00:52:37.220 Yeah.

00:52:37.720 I have to look that up, but I don't want to.

00:52:39.880 Someone else look it up. 0.99

00:52:40.720 Is dink slang for penis in Canada? 0.99

00:52:45.140 Like I always knew it had to mean something like that. 0.99

00:52:47.240 It just doesn't, it's gotta be, it, it, that's what it sounds like.

00:52:50.860 It sounds like it means that. 0.99

00:52:53.240 And, and they are, they apparently enjoy being called giant penises. 0.99

00:52:58.960 Okay. 0.99

00:52:59.360 It's just been confirmed that it is true. 1.00

00:53:00.900 That dink means penis. 1.00

00:53:05.020 Oh, that's great. 1.00

00:53:06.220 That's great.

00:53:06.700 What did that guy say?

00:53:07.460 He said, wait a second.

00:53:09.600 We got to go back to that clip.

00:53:11.460 Didn't that guy say he fell in love? 0.93

00:53:13.820 The dink said he fell, he, he, he fell in love with dink. 1.00

00:53:17.160 That's what he said. 1.00

00:53:18.220 He said he fell in love with penis. 0.99

00:53:19.560 I didn't, I'm not saying he said, that's what he said. 0.97

00:53:21.420 We got married fairly young and we both just decided for many reasons we didn't want kids.

00:53:28.920 And then at some point we heard the acronym dink and I think just really fell in love with it. 0.95

00:53:36.000 You know, you see the nose ring on a man and you just know that's the kind of man who falls in love with dink. 1.00

00:53:46.240 Yeah, we'll just, we'll just stop there.

00:53:47.700 Actually, I think that's enough.

00:53:49.260 We'll just, we'll stop and let that process. 0.85

00:53:51.420 It's no question that we are living in a clown world.

00:53:54.160 The characters in power are straight out of a carnival.

00:53:56.400 Basic notions of right and wrong, justice, truth, and even reality itself have been thrown out the window.

00:54:01.680 The world is coming to an end.

00:54:03.180 So how are we to make sense of it?

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00:54:56.960 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:55:04.400 Well, Madonna recently embarked on her new global tour called Celebration.

00:55:09.240 And indeed, the tour is an opportunity to celebrate her musical career,

00:55:13.980 which effectively died 25 years ago and yet has lingered on in zombified form.

00:55:19.180 Horrifying and confusing spectators all the while.

00:55:21.880 As far as I can tell, she has not had a number one single since the tail end of the Clinton administration.

00:55:26.740 She hasn't been even vaguely relevant on the music scene at any point this century.

00:55:31.740 The last time she made headlines was when she kissed Britney Spears at the VMAs in 2003. 1.00

00:55:37.280 Way back then, she had already entered into her desperate attention whore phase, 0.99

00:55:41.060 grasping for relevance in whatever way she could. 0.85

00:55:43.700 And 20 years later, Britney Spears is now dancing half naked on Instagram with butcher knives

00:55:47.680 and Madonna looks like a geriatric Marilyn Manson still trying to be a sex symbol, 1.00

00:55:52.100 even though she's been AARP eligible for a half, you know, a decade and a half.

00:55:57.400 And anyway, now she's on tour.

00:55:59.840 Now there's nothing wrong with a 65-year-old singer going on tour.

00:56:05.240 Aretha Franklin was still performing at the age of 75 before she died.

00:56:09.040 But a 65-year-old woman should perform like a 65-year-old woman. 1.00

00:56:15.640 Classy, refined, mature, dignified, dazzling with a beautiful vocal performance rather than relying on sex appeal.

00:56:25.200 The problem, though, is that Madonna can't sing and she can't write good music 1.00

00:56:29.800 and she wouldn't know classiness and refinement if it fell out of the sky and landed on her head,

00:56:35.020 which means that the people who buy tickets for the Celebration tour and for the life of me,

00:56:39.280 I can't understand why anyone would, are in for an incredibly cringey display.

00:56:44.820 And however cringey you think it might be, I assure you that it's even worse than that.

00:56:49.940 So case in point, here's a 12-second viral clip from Madonna's latest stop on her tour.

00:56:56.320 And here's what it looks like.

00:57:05.020 Now, if you're wondering what a wreck time at the nursing home will look like in the year 2070, there it is.

00:57:21.120 And for those who are blessed to only be listening to the audio podcast and were therefore spared the visuals,

00:57:27.500 I will just tell you that Madonna appears to be wrapped in aluminum foil

00:57:31.460 while she clings onto a support rail and gyrates clumsily to techno music. 1.00

00:57:38.080 And, you know, it's kind of like if you brought your elderly aunt to a rave

00:57:42.980 and she got way more into it than you expected.

00:57:47.160 It's an embarrassing sight to behold, but also oddly fascinating in the same grotesque way

00:57:52.080 that, you know, you might gawk at roadkill while you drive by trying to figure out, like,

00:57:56.900 is that a raccoon or a fox? What is that?

00:57:58.920 And by the way, this is a good time to tell you that, and I did check for myself.

00:58:03.760 Madonna's next stop is in Boston in three days.

00:58:06.940 And you might think, well, it's in three days.

00:58:09.280 There's no way I can go.

00:58:10.040 All the seats are going to be, all the tickets are sold out.

00:58:12.620 No, there are plenty of seats still available.

00:58:14.400 In fact, you can buy a ticket for 60 bucks.

00:58:16.720 You can buy a ticket for $60 to Madonna's tour in three days.

00:58:20.280 You know, people were, like, literally killing each other over Taylor Swift's tickets or buying

00:58:26.740 them for $95,000.

00:58:29.460 But Madonna, you can go see for 60 bucks.

00:58:31.720 Shockingly, people are not tripping over themselves to go watch Grandma in Zumba class for two hours.

00:58:36.420 But needless to say, if you find this spectacle ridiculous, then the problem isn't with the

00:58:43.920 aging pop star throwing her hip out while she tries to twerk on stage. 0.95

00:58:48.840 The problem is with you.

00:58:50.620 You are ageist, according to the media.

00:58:52.800 The Independent reports today, quote,

00:58:54.120 So, Madonna is being defended from ageist trolls after a video showing the singer performing

00:58:58.660 while holding a beam for support, surfaced online.

00:59:01.760 Earlier this week, a clip from the Like a Prayer Singer Celebration Tour was shared on TikTok,

00:59:06.480 showing the star, 65, dancing energetically while holding a pole positioned behind her.

00:59:13.620 Now, let's pause there for a moment.

00:59:16.420 And I can tell you it's never a good sign when the best thing someone can say about your dance moves

00:59:22.200 is that they were energetic.

00:59:25.080 Like, if you perform a dance routine, and you go up to someone and you say,

00:59:28.280 Hey, what did you think?

00:59:30.060 And they respond, Yeah, wow, it was energetic. 0.99

00:59:35.720 I mean, that means you sucked, okay? 0.98

00:59:38.100 Anyway, The Independent continues, 0.97

00:59:40.040 Many trolls then proceeded to incorrectly conflate Madonna's decision to hold the rail for support with her age

00:59:45.460 and sent her messages of vitriol online.

00:59:48.180 However, it has since been revealed that during this particular segment of the show,

00:59:51.380 Madonna is dancing while standing on a moving platform, meaning she is holding the pole for her safety.

00:59:57.400 Oh, well, that changes everything.

00:59:59.580 The 65-year-old woman needed to hold the pole while she danced for her safety. 1.00

01:00:04.020 That solves that, I guess.

01:00:05.900 People Magazine reports that other aging musicians are coming to Madonna's defense.

01:00:10.160 Quote, Chuck D is coming to Madonna's defense.

01:00:12.520 On Thursday, the public enemy frontman, 63, posted to X to defend the Frozen singer, 65.

01:00:18.460 By the way, Frozen singer is like, I guess that's a song.

01:00:22.080 That's what they mean.

01:00:22.740 They don't mean that she's like literally frozen, like cryogenically frozen,

01:00:26.600 although she does sort of look like she has been.

01:00:29.840 Anyway, defend against trolls making ageist comments about her performance during her career-spanning celebration tour.

01:00:35.540 He said, quote,

01:00:35.960 At 63, I know I can bike better than I ever did, and Pilates ain't easy, but I give it to Madonna for pushing the bars, D said of the legendary pop star.

01:00:44.680 Flav is taking Pilates, too, and he's 64, so ageism sometimes gets like racism both ways if you let it.

01:00:53.580 Ageism sometimes gets like racism both ways if you let it.

01:00:58.180 I think Chuck D had a stroke when he wrote that last sentence.

01:01:02.560 I don't know what that means. 0.92

01:01:03.840 But you see, the point is, it is ageism to notice how ridiculous an older woman looks when she tries to pretend that she's still 22. 0.83

01:01:14.000 And Madonna herself has made this point many times.

01:01:16.260 A few months ago, she appeared at the Grammys, and her face, if you remember, was so weird and puffy from plastic surgery

01:01:22.180 that she looked like she'd been attacked by a swarm of bees shortly before appearing on stage.

01:01:27.400 And again, people noticed how weird she looked, and she responded by calling them ageist.

01:01:33.280 The Guardian reported at the time, quote,

01:01:35.160 The 64-year-old singer denounced the entertainment industry for its biases against women who have continued to work long into their careers.

01:01:43.160 Quote,

01:01:43.340 Once again, I am caught in the glare of ageism and misogyny that permeates the world we live in.

01:01:47.980 A world that refuses to celebrate women past the age of 45 and feels the need to punish her 0.60

01:01:52.780 if she continues to be strong-willed, hard-working, and adventurous.

01:01:56.580 She said that she has, quote,

01:01:57.760 Never apologized for any of the creative choices I have made, nor the way that I look or dress, and I'm not going to start.

01:02:03.200 I've been degraded by the media since the beginning of my career, but I understand that this is all a test,

01:02:07.420 and I am happy to do the trailblazing so that all the women behind me can have an easier time in the years to come. 1.00

01:02:14.000 Yes, thank you for trailblazing, Madonna.

01:02:16.080 You have blazed a trail that other women can follow so that they, too, can become addicted to Botox 0.96

01:02:22.160 and end up looking like the creepy puppet from Saw.

01:02:25.540 How brave of you.

01:02:27.500 Now, as for the ageism claims, let me just say one thing.

01:02:33.140 We are not an ageist society.

01:02:36.780 We are the opposite.

01:02:38.380 We are an age-denying society. 1.00

01:02:40.860 And that's how you end up with 65-year-old pop stars and 80-year-old presidents

01:02:46.440 and a Congress filled with people who took office sometime around the War of 1812.

01:02:52.240 You know, it's also why plastic surgery is a booming industry, especially among Gen Z.

01:02:57.220 You know, in Gen Z, I mean, they are actually young, 1.00

01:02:59.640 but in their desperation to stay young, they get lip filler and Botox and lifts and implants,

01:03:05.520 and ironically, they end up looking a lot older.

01:03:08.300 They end up looking like middle-aged Stepford wives. 0.99

01:03:13.000 Ageism is not even close to our problem.

01:03:15.180 Our problem is our refusal to age and to accept the reality of aging.

01:03:20.000 Madonna is just, she is too old to be gyrating on stage in a skin-tight aluminum leotard. 0.99

01:03:29.860 And we can argue about whether anyone of any age should be behaving that way, 1.00

01:03:33.420 but there's no question that for her, at her age, she looks pathetic and clumsy and ridiculous. 0.99

01:03:41.520 And it's not that a 65-year-old woman can't be beautiful. 0.99

01:03:44.520 No, a 65-year-old woman can be beautiful, but a beautiful 65-year-old woman 1.00

01:03:49.540 is a 65-year-old woman who knows that she is 65 and embraces the fact.

01:03:56.660 You know, beauty and truth go hand in hand.

01:04:01.420 But when you are not honest with yourself and the world about who you are,

01:04:05.660 you end up looking not beautiful, but weird and grotesque.

01:04:09.420 Just like there are plenty of 25-year-old women who would be beautiful and were beautiful, 1.00

01:04:13.700 but then they defiled themselves with unnecessary plastic surgery,

01:04:17.560 and now they, too, look weird and grotesque.

01:04:22.020 You know, aging is a reality of human existence.

01:04:25.200 And we find this reality scary, almost unspeakable, really,

01:04:29.260 because it reminds us of death.

01:04:31.340 I mean, we treat it as literally unspeakable.

01:04:33.280 Like, it's embarrassing to ask someone their age, right?

01:04:37.520 We say you shouldn't ask someone.

01:04:39.660 Someone's age is an embarrassing fact, and we take that for granted. 0.95

01:04:44.560 Well, you know, in traditional societies, you go back to their history,

01:04:48.000 if you went up to someone and asked them,

01:04:50.120 although they wouldn't be, oh, that's, I don't, you know, I'm 25.

01:04:54.880 I've been celebrating my 25th birthday for 30 years now.

01:04:58.720 They wouldn't do that.

01:05:00.060 They'd be proud of their age.

01:05:02.100 If somebody was 75, they would say, I'm 75.

01:05:04.500 They'd be proud of it, because it means they've been alive for 75 years.

01:05:07.840 But here we treat it as actually embarrassing to have lived a long life. 0.97

01:05:16.260 It's ridiculous.

01:05:18.100 And the reason is that we are in a constant state of denial about death. 0.82

01:05:23.040 You know, we say things like, age is just a number.

01:05:26.180 But that's only true in the same sense that height is just a number,

01:05:29.440 or the temperature outside is just a number.

01:05:31.480 No, we come up with numbers to symbolize these realities, but they are still realities.

01:05:37.440 We could stop keeping track of age altogether.

01:05:39.700 We could assign it no number at all.

01:05:41.960 And that wouldn't change the fact that we all get older one second at a time,

01:05:45.640 and eventually our bodies start to break down, and our minds start to break down,

01:05:49.520 and then we die.

01:05:51.140 That is the lot that we have been given.

01:05:53.440 Happiness and harmony and beauty can be found in accepting it and acting accordingly.

01:05:58.240 So, the most beautiful thing that Madonna could do right now is retire and go home 0.98

01:06:05.060 and put on some slippers and sit on her porch and read books to her grandchildren.

01:06:11.280 Let the wrinkles form on her face.

01:06:13.800 Let the hair go gray.

01:06:16.000 Let herself be who she is.

01:06:18.580 And she is not a 22-year-old pop star.

01:06:21.720 She was that once. 0.97

01:06:23.380 She will never be that again.

01:06:25.980 Time to accept it.

01:06:27.500 And until she does, she is, again, canceled.

01:06:32.180 That'll do it for the show today.

01:06:33.060 Thanks for watching.

01:06:33.540 Thanks for listening.

01:06:34.100 Talk to you on Monday.

01:06:35.720 Have a great weekend.

01:06:36.840 Godspeed.

01:06:37.200 Godspeed.

01:06:37.260 We'll be right back.

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