The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1289 - The Invisible Bogeyman Of 'White Supremacy'

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we're hearing more and more about the phantom of white supremacy

00:00:03.880 in the lead up to election day. But white supremacy shouldn't be anywhere on the list

00:00:07.300 of our top concerns. I'll talk about it. Also, a bunch of passenger jets have been grounded after

00:00:11.660 they were found to have loose bolts. Are we heading closer to that major airline disaster

00:00:16.800 that I warned was coming? Plus, the defense secretary went missing for several days and

00:00:21.000 nobody noticed. And that's not even the first time that kind of thing has happened in this

00:00:24.600 administration. Finally, the video has gone viral of a female track runner beating a random guy in

00:00:29.600 a race. Trans activists and feminists are celebrating the video, but I'll explain why

00:00:33.380 it actually undermines their position. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:26.600 George Allen Kelly is a 75-year-old rancher who lived for more than a decade on a 170-acre

00:02:32.860 property in Keno Springs, Arizona, which is just over a mile from the southern border.

00:02:37.860 On January 13th, 2023, Kelly sent a text message to his son telling him that he had spotted, quote,

00:02:43.400 33 drug runners on his property. The message itself was nothing out of the ordinary. For years,

00:02:49.940 Kelly had made similar complaints about illegal migrants trespassing at his ranch on their way

00:02:55.120 into the United States. Sometimes Kelly told his family members, you know, and these migrants were

00:03:00.780 armed. But on this particular occasion, Kelly made an unusual request. He asked his son if he could drive

00:03:07.660 up and help defend the property. And his son replied, nope, be careful. Kelly's next text was,

00:03:14.440 careful is not an option. It is either run or fight, and I'm too old to run. Mom is locked and loaded also.

00:03:21.660 Now, 17 days later, yet another group of illegal migrants trespassed onto Kelly's ranch, and this time

00:03:26.660 it was at least three people, probably more. Kelly told authorities that he was frightened because he

00:03:32.220 had heard gunfire earlier in the day from a larger group of migrants. So to warn this new group of

00:03:37.680 migrants away, Kelly fired a series of warning shots with his rifle because, again, they were on his

00:03:43.500 property. And one of those shots, authorities allege, ended up killing a 48-year-old illegal alien from

00:03:50.020 Mexico. Now, this illegal alien had been arrested and deported several times from the United States

00:03:55.580 already, but he was able to keep coming back to this country because the White House decided not to

00:04:00.220 enforce immigration law. This week, George Allen Kelly rejected a plea deal offered by prosecutors.

00:04:06.140 They want him to plead guilty to negligent homicide and then serve eight years in prison, but he told

00:04:11.380 them no. So Kelly's trial for murder will take place in a couple of months. And whatever you think of

00:04:17.060 George Allen Kelly or this case, personally, I think the man should not spend one single second in jail

00:04:22.560 for defending his property from invasion after he had been abandoned by the federal government.

00:04:28.940 There's no denying that the Biden administration deliberately created the circumstances that led

00:04:34.740 to the shooting. So if you want to blame anybody for it, you blame the people in the administration

00:04:39.760 who created those circumstances. I mean, this is an elderly man with no criminal history.

00:04:45.860 You know, he's been alive on this earth for over seven decades, hasn't committed any crimes.

00:04:50.960 He has a piece of property, just wants to defend his property, trying to protect his wife from

00:04:57.220 criminals that the Biden administration repeatedly encouraged to trespass on his property. And nobody

00:05:03.700 can dispute any of that. Unsurprisingly, though, when Biden delivered a speech in South Carolina

00:05:09.420 yesterday on the topic of systemic injustice in the United States, Joe Biden did not mention George

00:05:15.380 Allen Kelly. Even though George Allen Kelly is certainly a victim of systemic injustice. In fact,

00:05:22.760 as far as I could tell, Biden has never mentioned Kelly a single time. He's trying to throw the guy

00:05:27.720 in prison, but he's never mentioned his name or talked about the case. Instead, Biden devoted the

00:05:32.280 entire speech yesterday to what he calls the greatest threat facing this country, something called

00:05:37.880 quote unquote white supremacy. And you've probably heard about this white supremacy thing before this

00:05:43.220 white supremacy thing Biden argues is a far greater danger to the United States than the wide open

00:05:48.400 Southern border, which allows foreign criminals to terrorize American citizens and invade their

00:05:52.920 property. It's one of the greatest dangers we face, period, Biden says, is white supremacy. And to that

00:05:59.900 end, Biden spoke extensively about a mass shooting that took place in that same church nearly a decade

00:06:05.680 ago in 2015. Watch a little bit of this. On June 17, 2015, the beautiful souls, five survivors and five

00:06:14.860 survivors invited a stranger to enter this church to pray with them. The word of God was pierced by

00:06:22.000 bullets and hate rage propelled by not just gunpowder, but by a poison poison as for too long haunted this

00:06:33.540 nation. What is that poison? White supremacy. Oh, it is. It's a poison throughout our history.

00:06:44.520 It's ripped this nation apart. It says no place in America, not today, tomorrow or ever.

00:06:53.260 White supremacy is a poison, Biden says. And never mind the mixed metaphors, because he says it's a

00:06:59.300 poison and he says that it's haunting the nation and a poison doesn't haunt. So he should have said

00:07:04.160 that it's a ghost haunting the nation, which, by the way, would be would be closer to accurate that

00:07:08.660 it is a ghost. It's a phantom. It's a thing that doesn't really exist. But he says anyway, that this

00:07:13.520 thing is tearing the fabric of this country apart. And to prove that point, to prove how pervasive and

00:07:18.900 all-encompassing white supremacy is, Biden is talking about a mass shooting that occurred in 2015.

00:07:23.900 2015. Now, you may already realize this, but there have been a lot of shootings and homicides in this

00:07:32.860 country since then. There have been, in fact, well over 100,000 homicides in the nine years since that

00:07:39.320 shooting took place. And a hugely disproportionate number of the victims of those homicides have been

00:07:45.920 black. But Biden isn't interested in talking about any of that, because, of course, as we know, a hugely

00:07:50.700 disproportionate number of the people killing those black people are also black. So instead,

00:07:54.320 we go back to 2015 to make the point about white supremacy. Now, Biden is also, of course, not

00:08:01.020 interested in talking about all the mass shootings that have been committed by, say, trans-identifying

00:08:06.380 mass shooters since 2015. There have been several of those. And Biden certainly isn't talking about

00:08:11.620 the killer who mowed down five people last year in Texas, including a nine-year-old boy.

00:08:15.420 Yes, the killer had been deported four times before once again entering the U.S. illegally. But

00:08:21.820 that's not the point, Biden says. He doesn't want you thinking about the preventable systemic failures

00:08:27.400 that cause these tragedies. Instead, he wants you to focus on the one mass shooting that he pretends

00:08:34.260 to care about so he can demonize men who look like George Allen Kelly. Now, at this point, you have to

00:08:38.840 ask yourself, I mean, does any of this actually work anymore? Does anyone buy it? It's not 2020.

00:08:44.040 People, most people anyway, seem to have come down from the hysteria they experienced after George

00:08:49.760 Floyd's overdose death. Many people seem to have had some time to come to their senses at least a

00:08:55.720 little bit. So does this still work? I mean, if I were to list the top 5,000 problems facing the

00:09:04.140 United States in 2024, white supremacy wouldn't be on the list and it wouldn't be close to making the

00:09:11.020 list of the top 5,000. Does anybody seriously think otherwise at this point? Now, you're not

00:09:17.260 supposed to linger on what Biden said, of course. You're supposed to get outraged about a church

00:09:21.440 shooting from a decade ago and conclude that white people are the problem. Joe Biden's handlers are

00:09:28.160 going for emotion, not reason, of course. But it's important to dwell on this for a little bit just

00:09:31.800 to underscore how totally and completely dishonest all of this is. Even if you use, you know, the

00:09:39.580 left's own data and pretend that it's all accurate, which is always a dubious proposition, there's still

00:09:46.600 no conceivable argument that white supremacy is a significant threat in this country or that any of

00:09:53.720 our major problems can be traced back to it. So consider, for example, a report from the left-wing

00:10:00.520 ADL, which is effectively just an arm of the Democratic Party. And this was a report from last

00:10:05.220 year. And the report states that, quote, all the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by

00:10:11.980 right-wing extremists. And of those murders, the ADL reports, 80% were committed by white supremacists.

00:10:18.940 Well, that sounds pretty bad. I mean, Reuters certainly thought so. They wrote up a whole

00:10:24.360 report with this headline, white supremacists behind over 80% of extremism-related US murders

00:10:30.200 in 2022. So it's all very scary, you know, or it would be, until you do what the ADL doesn't want

00:10:39.640 you to do, which is to look at the data for more than five seconds. So if you do that, you discover

00:10:46.480 a couple things. For one thing, in all of 2022, there were a total of just 25 extremist-related

00:10:53.340 murders that the ADL identified. Okay, this is, again, according to their numbers. If we just take

00:10:59.100 their numbers at face value, you end up with 25. And that's for the entire country of 330 million

00:11:06.740 people, talking about 25 murders. Now, for comparison, far more people are struck by lightning

00:11:13.640 every year. Has anyone ever said that lightning strikes are the greatest threat facing Americans?

00:11:18.380 I mean, it's absurd. Here's maybe a better comparison to put 25 into context. The city of

00:11:23.580 Chicago does 25 murders in two weeks, every two weeks, all year, every year. And that's one city

00:11:33.580 in the span of half a month. But 25 alleged extremism-related murders in the entire country

00:11:40.420 in the entire year is a crisis, we're told. So with that context in mind, let's look at the ADL's

00:11:48.480 language. They say that, quote, 60% of the murders came from just two incidents, deadly shootings

00:11:54.000 in Buffalo, New York, and Colorado Springs, Colorado. So for the most part, we're talking about a grand

00:11:59.020 total of two incidents. And one of those mass shootings, the shooting in Colorado, was committed

00:12:02.940 by a self-described non-binary individual whose lawyer demanded that the court respect his preferred

00:12:09.800 pronouns. And this is someone that the ADL has coded as a right-wing domestic extremist.

00:12:16.940 Yes, a right-wing domestic extremist with preferred pronouns. I mean, how do you end up coming to that

00:12:24.160 conclusion? Well, it's because the ADL's methodology has determined that, basically, by definition,

00:12:29.660 if somebody commits a mass shooting, they are automatically a right-wing extremist.

00:12:35.320 That's the way it works with this kind of data. And, you know, that's why it's not designed to

00:12:39.560 withstand any kind of scrutiny. The point is to convince Americans that there's an epidemic of

00:12:44.920 white nationalists committing mass shootings and to demonize the political enemies of the Biden

00:12:48.740 administration in order to lay the groundwork for their imprisonment, or worse. That's why they're

00:12:54.760 lying about right-wing extremism, quote-unquote. It's why they're going after George Alan Kelly.

00:12:59.240 It's also why the Biden campaign just posted this graphic on social media. And this is

00:13:03.820 officially from the Biden campaign, which explicitly compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

00:13:10.660 Now, of course, there's nothing innovative about this comparison. We hear this from

00:13:15.980 the left all the time. It does represent something of an escalation, though, coming officially from the

00:13:22.200 Biden campaign and explicitly making this connection between Trump and Hitler. And how do they do it?

00:13:28.460 Well, they list a bunch of Trump quotes, and they try to link those quotes with Hitler quotes as

00:13:33.780 clumsily as possible. In fact, they're not even full quotes. These are, you know, vague paraphrases

00:13:40.440 of Trump, and then they are compared to paraphrases of Hitler. And then I guess they expect us to be

00:13:47.040 mind-blown by how closely the two align. Now, the funniest thing is that they say that Trump is like

00:13:55.620 Hitler because Trump has declared that forces within our country are worse and more dangerous

00:14:01.940 than enemies outside of the country. And they say, well, that's exactly what Hitler said.

00:14:07.240 But that's exactly the sort of thing that the Biden administration says all the time. They are

00:14:14.520 constantly warning that domestic extremists are a greater threat than foreign terrorists. That was

00:14:20.360 the point of the speech Biden just gave yesterday. Now, the only difference is that Trump generally

00:14:27.520 identifies powerful people and institutions like the media as his enemies, correctly identifies them as

00:14:34.080 such. Biden, on the other hand, goes after voters. I mean, his boogeyman is MAGA Republicans,

00:14:40.860 which means, you know, we talk about MAGA Republicans. It's not just Republicans in Congress.

00:14:44.980 That means the tens of millions of Americans who support Trump. So that's the level of political

00:14:51.880 discourse we have achieved in this country. It's not subtle or intelligent or clever in any way. This is

00:14:56.860 a campaign to dehumanize anybody who would vote against the Biden administration so that they can be

00:15:02.540 imprisoned or worse. And it's been going on for quite some time. Now, this week, the Washington

00:15:08.740 Free Beacon reported that the Biden administration has once again begun distributing federal funds on

00:15:13.520 the basis of race. And you might remember that all the way back in the beginning of the administration,

00:15:17.960 they tried to allocate farm aid based on the skin color of the farmers. The administration was going

00:15:24.140 to make loan forgiveness payments to so-called minority farmers to the tune of $4 billion,

00:15:28.620 while excluding, specifically, farmers who are white. Now, a federal judge had to put a stop to

00:15:36.380 that. But now they're essentially doing the same thing. Again, according to the Free Beacon,

00:15:41.580 there are hundreds of millions of dollars allocated in two pieces of federal legislation,

00:15:45.680 the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

00:15:50.400 The point of the legislation, Biden said, was to, quote,

00:15:53.380 create new well-paying jobs for workers who, quote, helped build this country.

00:15:58.480 The idea is to provide financial support to industries that are going to be phased out as

00:16:02.820 the Biden administration plunges headlong into its suicidal plan to shut down the nation's coal

00:16:07.680 industry by 2035. But if you read the fine print, as the Washington Free Beacon did, you'll find that

00:16:14.100 White House bureaucrats have been insisting that only majority minority areas receive this federal

00:16:20.340 funding. And they've rigged various bureaucratic rules to make that a reality. Majority white areas

00:16:26.320 like Gillette, Wyoming, for example, are getting shut out of these grants entirely, even though they are

00:16:33.520 mining towns that would qualify for the money in every other respect. But too bad, they have the

00:16:39.280 wrong skin color. So no money for them. Again, this is part of an easily observable pattern. Everywhere

00:16:45.460 you look, the administration is doing what it can to demonize and humiliate Americans because of their

00:16:50.060 race. As just one part of that effort, Joe Biden's National Park Service recently proposed removing

00:16:55.880 the William Penn statue from a park in Philadelphia. Now, William Penn, you may have guessed from the

00:17:04.420 name, or if you know anything about American history, you already know this, is the founder of the state of

00:17:08.780 Pennsylvania. And Biden wanted his memorial gone because he's white. This comes just a few weeks

00:17:15.780 after the Biden administration ordered that a century-old memorial to post-war reconciliation

00:17:20.240 had to be torn down in Arlington National Cemetery, which we talked about on the show.

00:17:25.000 In the case of the Penn statue, they wanted to replace it. They wanted to take it down and replace it

00:17:29.660 with something else that would honor Native Americans, who, by the way, did not found the state

00:17:36.580 of Pennsylvania. Why were they doing this? Well, you know, because William Penn did great things.

00:17:42.900 He founded the colony that became Pennsylvania. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London without

00:17:48.680 hesitation for his faith multiple times. He believed in religious freedom. And of course, he was white.

00:17:54.940 Those were his sins, so they tried to take him down, just like the statues of Columbus,

00:17:58.760 Teddy Roosevelt, and so many others. Now, late yesterday, in a development that we haven't seen

00:18:03.340 in many similar cases, the Biden administration did suddenly back off of this plan. People noticed

00:18:09.900 how deranged it was, and they spoke up about it, and within just a few hours, the White House caved.

00:18:16.040 So the Penn statue can stay for now. They have conceded. All it took was some social media backlash

00:18:21.340 and complaints from a few politicians, and they folded. But the important fact is that they tried

00:18:26.940 to do this in the first place. Now, they may have backed away from their demolition plans for the

00:18:32.800 William Penn statue, but they're not backing away from the underlying agenda.

00:18:36.520 And as we head closer to the election, you can expect to hear a lot more demonizing of White

00:18:42.920 people, many more warnings about the phantom dangers of White supremacy, warnings that should be

00:18:49.680 greeted with the same shrugs and eye rolls and confused head scratches that Biden would get if he said the

00:18:55.420 greatest threat facing our country is like a big evil dragon who lives up in a lair in the mountains

00:19:00.720 somewhere. He might as well be saying that. After all, we have to worry about white supremacy in

00:19:06.380 this country about as much as we have to worry about evil dragons. But this is all that the powers

00:19:11.940 that be have. It's what they rely on. They need you scared and angry and resentful and confused

00:19:17.380 because that's the only way they win. Now, let's get to our five headlines.

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00:20:13.200 We'll begin with this very encouraging news. United Airlines from CBS News. United Airlines and Alaska

00:20:21.720 Airlines say that they found loose hardware on door plugs on several of their grounded Boeing 737 Max 9

00:20:27.740 planes days after a door plug blew off of an Alaska Airlines plane while it was in flight. United said in

00:20:35.280 a statement CBS News, since we began preliminary inspections on Saturday, we have found instances that

00:20:39.720 appear to relate to installation issues in the door plug. For example, bolts that needed additional

00:20:44.000 tightening. These findings will be remedied by our tech ops team to safely return the aircraft to

00:20:49.420 service. Alaska Airlines said in a statement Monday night that as our maintenance technicians began

00:20:54.920 preparing our 737-9 Max fleet for inspections, they accessed the area in question. Initial reports from

00:20:59.960 our technicians indicate some loose hardware was visible on some aircraft. When we're able to proceed with

00:21:06.200 the formal inspection process, all aircraft will be thoroughly inspected in accordance with detailed

00:21:09.620 instructions provided by the FAA in consultation with Boeing. It did not specify, though, how many of

00:21:15.560 these planes have these loose bolts. So that's the encouraging update. And of course, you heard about

00:21:21.980 the flight, as mentioned, where the door blew off while they were still in the air. And apparently,

00:21:30.120 by just pure dumb luck, there didn't happen to be anybody sitting in the seat right next to where the

00:21:35.720 hole blew open. If there had been someone there, you know, they wouldn't be here anymore. They would

00:21:43.560 probably be in several different places strewn across the state of Oregon. And now they tell us

00:21:48.140 that there are loose bolts on a bunch of different planes. A bunch of different 737 Max 9s all have

00:21:53.660 these loose bolts. Which is, I mean, the kind of thing you don't like to hear about planes, to put it

00:22:00.080 mildly. You know, if somebody's talking about loose bolts or loose screws or something, that should be

00:22:07.480 referring to IKEA furniture, not passenger jets. You would like to think that there wouldn't be any

00:22:15.400 bolts that need tightening on an airplane, much less multiple airplanes. And not only that, but they

00:22:21.780 needed this potential disaster to occur before they went back to check. You know, I know that

00:22:30.480 whenever I'm boarding a plane, I always, you know, I always try to inspect the aircraft myself

00:22:38.600 from like the window in the terminals. I'll look at the airplane. I'll do a little inspection.

00:22:44.500 And then when I get on the plane, I look around. And I always see things that concern me. I'll see

00:22:53.260 a little bit of something on the plane that looks like it's a little rusty there or something looks

00:22:56.980 like. So I see that all the time. But every time I see that, I think to myself, well, you know,

00:23:02.340 it doesn't look good. But I mean, don't be ridiculous. Obviously, they wouldn't send the plane

00:23:06.820 into the sky if that was actually a problem. So they must have it under control. That's what I tell

00:23:12.160 myself. But now I can't tell myself that anymore. Now, now I'm wondering if maybe they really should

00:23:18.800 before we all get on the airplane, maybe they should have all the passengers just walk around

00:23:23.980 the airplane to do a quick inspection to see if we see any dents or loose screws or anything.

00:23:31.140 It's like they do if you, if you rent a car, you know, you rent a car from Enterprise,

00:23:34.420 they bring you out to the lot and then they have you do a little circle around the car

00:23:37.440 to check for damage. So maybe we need to do that with planes too. I don't know.

00:23:42.160 Because they don't seem to be picking up on this stuff on their own. Or even worse,

00:23:46.740 even worse, they are picking up on it. And they do know about some of these problems.

00:23:51.580 But they're not doing anything about it. So here's a spokeswoman with the National

00:23:55.480 Transportation Safety Board. She gave a press conference yesterday about all this. And

00:24:00.720 here's something that she said. Listen.

00:24:03.160 Now, our systems group began looking at all the aircraft systems. They documented the entire flight

00:24:12.940 deck. And they asked about the auto pressurization fail light that did illuminate in three previous

00:24:23.400 flights. There was a decision by Alaska Airlines to a restriction. Actually, they put in place,

00:24:32.280 they call it an ETOPS restriction that prevented that plane from being flown to Hawaii over water so that

00:24:42.420 it could, if so, if some light did illuminate, it could return very quickly to an airport.

00:24:47.220 Okay, wait. Hang on here. Just one second. So Alaska knew that the plane had pressurization problems.

00:24:57.100 And rather than send the plane in for repairs, they decided instead to just not fly it over water?

00:25:07.260 I mean, how is this not a major scandal? They said, yeah, there might be an issue. Just don't take it

00:25:17.060 over water and it'll be fine. I mean, think about that for a second. Think about how you would feel

00:25:22.600 if you were getting on a plane and you knew about, like if they told you, if the captain came on the

00:25:29.520 intercom and said, ladies and gentlemen, expecting a smooth flight this evening. Everything looks good.

00:25:34.540 Just as long as we don't fly over any large bodies of water, everything should be fine.

00:25:38.640 And also, as long as you're not sitting next to the doors, then we expect everything to be fine.

00:25:44.740 We just need to be able to land this puppy, you know, in a split second if we need to.

00:25:49.560 It really is amazing.

00:25:52.160 And it's like Alaska Airlines was basically acting, was acting like me 15 years ago when I was broke

00:26:00.900 and I had a, and my tire blew out. I put the spare on and I was riding around on the spare

00:26:06.500 for three months because I couldn't afford to get a tire. And anytime somebody got in the car with me,

00:26:11.440 I would just tell them, it's like, everything's probably fine. I just, I can't go over 50 miles

00:26:15.580 an hour and I don't go on highways in this thing because I, you know, in case anything happens.

00:26:21.020 But you would hope that commercial airline companies would be a little more responsible

00:26:25.280 than I was when I was a broke 22-year-old. But they're not. And keep in mind, here to me is the

00:26:31.980 real point of this, is you keep in mind what you heard on this show a few weeks ago. Remember,

00:26:39.460 it was like three weeks ago when I did a monologue on this show where I warned you that we are heading

00:26:45.320 towards some major airline disasters. And, and in the three weeks since I said that, there was a

00:26:55.460 collision of a passenger aircraft on a, on a runway in Japan. That was a couple of weeks ago. And then

00:27:02.720 you have a hole being blown open in the side of a plane while it's at cruising altitude. That's just

00:27:08.600 in the three weeks since I said that. So we are, and neither of those are the major, I mean, the

00:27:16.060 collision of the plane could have been a major disaster. Fortunately, it wasn't as bad in terms

00:27:20.180 of casualties as it could have been. So we have not had the major disaster yet, but we are well on our

00:27:26.280 way. And I normally enjoy saying, I told you so, but when it comes to this, I'm not going to enjoy

00:27:31.980 saying it. Um, I don't want to be right, but I am because it, and it's not like I, this is not some

00:27:39.100 kind of prophecy on my part. It's just that it's clear when you look at the situation that the

00:27:46.840 competence and quality and skill level in the airline industry has dropped dramatically over

00:27:53.260 the past 20 years and especially over the past 10. And that's happening in every major industry and

00:27:59.320 including the airline industry. Um, and why is that happening? Well, there are, there are really

00:28:05.340 actually multiple cultural factors that, uh, play into that, but the number one culprit is DEI

00:28:15.040 diversity. We've got to diversify the ranks, too many white men. Uh, we got to get more people

00:28:20.100 involved, which doesn't mean, okay. And of course, every time I say this, uh, you always have idiots

00:28:25.880 that hear that. Oh, you're saying that a black person can never fly. No, it's once you start

00:28:31.180 emphasizing in the hiring process, anything but merit and skill and competence, when anything at all

00:28:40.220 comes above that in the hiring process, in any industry, especially the airline industry, for God's

00:28:46.260 sake, when that happens, bad things follow. And, and so that's it. You don't need to be in

00:28:53.720 Nostradamus to, to, to predict that. It's just, it, it will happen. It's, it's, it's inevitable.

00:29:00.700 Um, and so, yeah, we're well on our way. I hate to say, especially as someone who still flies all

00:29:08.160 the time. I, I very much, um, wish this was not the case, but it is. All right, moving on to Axios.

00:29:15.860 Uh, we're back to a familiar yarn with this one, this time from Axios. Um, here's the report.

00:29:21.540 During the hottest year on record, the global average surface temperature fell just shy of

00:29:26.180 the 1.5 degree warming limit under the Paris climate agreement. This is not really the point.

00:29:32.360 I just want to pause here. It's hilarious to me that we've set a limit for how hot the earth can

00:29:38.340 be. So they got together and they said, here's the limit of how hot it can be. What do you mean?

00:29:44.300 There's a, who cares about your limit? Like, what does that do you think you can set the thermostat

00:29:48.180 for the earth and just decide this? Um, so it's very funny, but, but continuing the climate of 2023

00:29:57.420 was the hottest scene in at least 125,000 years for the first time in instrument records. Uh, some

00:30:05.840 daily global average temperatures went well above the other Paris guardrail of two degrees Celsius.

00:30:10.960 Okay. So here we go again, um, where they say that temperatures are the hottest, not just in our

00:30:19.560 lifetime. Um, and not just since they started keeping temperature records and not even just

00:30:25.760 since when they started keeping historical records of anything, they're saying it's the hottest in 125,000

00:30:33.300 years, well before the dawn of human civilization. Uh, that's how far back they're going.

00:30:40.620 And this is pretty simple. You know, your BS detector needs to be calibrated well enough to

00:30:46.680 at least pick up on this kind of BS. You don't even need a BS detector. Okay. This is a dump truck

00:30:53.960 load of BS pulling up right to your front door. And, and, and I mean, you, you can, you can sniff it out

00:31:00.440 without, without much trouble. You don't even need to open the door to sniff it. Um, the idea that

00:31:06.740 anybody actually knows the precise global temperatures from 125,000 years ago is laughably

00:31:16.360 ridiculous. Okay. I don't care. You can take any scientists with all the qualifications in the world.

00:31:24.220 I don't care how long their resume is, how many papers they've written, how many schools, uh, how many,

00:31:29.540 how many degrees they have in pH. When they start saying that you laugh in their face, you laugh in

00:31:35.400 their face. You say you moron. You're just an idiot is all you are. Um, because it's completely insane.

00:31:45.600 Nobody has any freaking idea what the temperature was tens of thousands of years before the pyramids

00:31:53.600 were built, much less when the pyramids were being built. Nobody knows. Nobody. How could they?

00:32:02.600 There wasn't anyone around to keep track. Like who are we going to ask? Now, do you know where they get

00:32:07.820 these figures from? Um, because without fail, as I'm saying this right now, I'm going to get a bunch

00:32:13.980 of smarmy comments. You don't know any, read a book sometime. You don't know anything about it. They,

00:32:17.920 they, they can figure, they know this, they know this for sure. It's like, and these people saying

00:32:22.080 this, they don't know how they don't know how, if you ask them, you go to the comments right now and

00:32:26.820 you see all the smarmy comments and you ask any of them, well, yeah, how do they know? How do they

00:32:30.740 know? Tell me how they know what the temperature was on like May 15th in the year, 10,041 BC.

00:32:39.460 How do they know that? Well, they just do. It's science because of science. Science is a magical

00:32:47.420 crystal ball that tells them. Um, and the truth, if you want to know how they really get these numbers

00:32:56.340 is that they pull them out of their asses. That's how they get them. But a scientist won't tell you

00:33:02.140 that if you ask him, if you ask him, oh, where did you get this? He won't say, why from my own ass,

00:33:07.560 of course, that's where I got it, even though it's true. Um, here's what they will say. So I'm

00:33:13.080 going to read now from NASA's website. Okay. This is not from some climate skeptic website. It's from

00:33:18.720 NASA. And, and here's what they say about how they gather this temperature and, uh, atmospheric,

00:33:24.140 uh, information from thousands of years ago. Here's what they say. Ice cores are scientists' best

00:33:31.220 source for historical climate data. Every winter, snow, uh, some snow coating Arctic and Antarctic ice

00:33:37.120 sheets is left behind and compressed into a layer of ice. By extracting cylinders of ice from sheets

00:33:41.700 thousands of meters thick, scientists can analyze dust, ash, pollen, and bubbles of atmospheric gas

00:33:47.420 trapped inside. The deepest discovered ice cores are an estimated 800,000 years old. The particles

00:33:52.640 trapped inside give scientists clues about volcanic eruptions, desert, uh, extent, and forest fires.

00:33:58.460 The, uh, the presence of certain, um, ions, uh, indicate past ocean activity, levels of sea ice,

00:34:05.200 and even the intensity of the sun. The bubbles can be released to reveal the makeup of the ancient

00:34:10.200 atmosphere, including greenhouse gas levels. Other tools for learning about earth's ancient

00:34:16.440 atmosphere include growth rings in trees, which keep a rough record of each growing season's

00:34:21.860 temperatures, uh, moisture and cloudiness going back about 2000 years. Okay. So they are looking at

00:34:29.840 ice. They're looking at ice and they're looking at tree rings. And from that, we're supposed to believe

00:34:36.360 that they have extracted, not just very rough temperature sort of ballpark estimates,

00:34:43.500 but what we're supposed to believe is that they have precise yearly annual records that are accurate

00:34:51.740 down to the last degree. That's what they want to believe. So it's not like they're saying, okay,

00:34:58.700 from the year 125,000 BC to 75,000 BC during that global, uh, era, temperatures were relatively warm

00:35:08.800 or whatever, you know, they're not saying because that's a rough, very rough sort of generalized

00:35:16.320 estimate. Instead, they want us to believe that they can identify the temperatures by exact years

00:35:23.600 dating back 125 millennia and give exact temperatures by looking at tree rings.

00:35:34.800 I mean, this is, I use this analogy yesterday for something else, but this is really like reading

00:35:40.200 tarot cards. This is, this is, it's straight up superstition at this point. You, you might as well

00:35:46.320 believe that someone can look at a tarot card and tell you what your future is going to be.

00:35:50.180 Um, so it is totally absurd. And that's why, again, the, the only appropriate response to this

00:35:58.960 is just to laugh at it. All right. Here's a bizarre story from CNN. Um, the Pentagon's announcement

00:36:08.720 late Friday that U S defense secretary Lloyd Austin had been in the hospital since new year's day

00:36:13.420 shocked both the Pentagon press corps and the national security establishment.

00:36:17.220 Three days on many questions remain, including what's wrong with Austin and when he'll leave

00:36:21.940 Walter Reed national military medical center in Maryland. But CNN's reporting and further

00:36:26.440 disclosures from the Pentagon have begun to shed some light on these still murky circumstances around

00:36:30.540 his hospitalization and why it took so long to inform other senior officials. And we get into the

00:36:36.640 timeline. Austin went into the hospital for an elective procedure on December 22nd when he was on

00:36:40.820 leave. Um, he went home the following day, continued to work from home allegedly. And then he experienced

00:36:49.080 pain and went back to the hospital and, um, and nobody knows exactly. It says for days, other Pentagon

00:36:57.020 officials and senior members of the Biden administration, including president Joe Biden,

00:36:59.740 did not know that the defense secretary was in the hospital. Among those in the dark was, uh,

00:37:06.360 Hicks to whom Austin transferred some of his authorities on January 2nd.

00:37:12.720 So he, he transferred his authority, um, over to somebody else, but that other person didn't even

00:37:20.940 know that he was in the hospital. So the other person didn't know that the power had been transferred

00:37:25.800 to him. Joe Biden did not know that his defense secretary had been in the hospital for days.

00:37:31.780 Now, granted Biden doesn't know anything because he's a vegetable, but nobody, his, his handlers,

00:37:39.920 let's say in the white house, apparently didn't know this guy was in the hospital. So he disappeared

00:37:44.440 and, uh, and still nobody knows why or exactly when nobody knew that he was gone. Uh, he has some

00:37:51.480 mysterious health thing going on and he's the secretary of defense. John Brennan, former CIA director

00:37:57.860 was interviewed about this on MSNBC and, uh, here's what he had to say. I think we all wish

00:38:04.080 secretary Austin a full and speedy recovery. And as you point out, there's still a lot that we don't

00:38:08.480 know about his medical condition and what it was that, uh, required him to go back into a Walter Reed

00:38:15.460 and the ICU, uh, on one January. And it is possible that his health condition or his medical condition,

00:38:22.260 uh, clouded his judgment at that time. I don't know whether or not he was under some types of medication,

00:38:27.280 whatever else. Uh, and so that could have been the reason why he decided not to notify people as he

00:38:33.400 should have. All right. So no big deal. Uh, it's just the guy running the defense department who

00:38:40.140 might, we're told have clouded judgment because of his medication, whatever the medication is.

00:38:47.640 And we don't know that either. So, and they say again, that this all stems from some kind of

00:38:52.560 surgery that had complications. Uh, we can only guess what the surgery might be. Um, I think it'd

00:38:59.480 be inappropriate to, to speculate about what his surgical, uh, needs are or what his illness is.

00:39:08.060 I will just say, and, and I, and I say this very respectfully, but if I, if I had to

00:39:15.760 guess, if I, if I had to come up with some theory about what he was doing in the hospital,

00:39:21.220 um, my guess is that Lloyd Austin was getting gender reassignment. Um, and I only, only because

00:39:28.680 that seems to be the pattern over at the Pentagon. And, uh, it's, it's, it's a thing. It's, it's what

00:39:34.300 they do over at the Pentagon. So they're really into that sort of thing. And so maybe Austin was

00:39:38.540 going in for the Rachel Levine special. Maybe he went in and said, give me the old Rachel,

00:39:42.160 Rachel Levine. Um, and it's, you know, I could see a scenario where Lloyd Austin's looking at

00:39:50.140 Rachel Levine, who's a fake admiral and is getting all of these awards and all this recognition

00:39:56.020 and all these accolades, um, simply for, for being a man pretending to be a woman. And Austin's probably

00:40:02.300 saying to himself, I, this is not fair. I want, I want some of that too. So maybe he went in for the

00:40:06.420 gender reassignment though. There's a lot of complications that could come out of the, out of

00:40:09.780 that kind of surgery because you are mutilating your genitals. And, um, and so that could be

00:40:14.100 where all this comes from. I, and I think again, it's inappropriate to speculate, totally inappropriate.

00:40:18.680 Um, but, uh, that's at least to me, that's the most likely scenario at this point. Maybe we'll learn

00:40:26.160 more. Uh, what I do know is that we have yet again with this administration, another cabinet official

00:40:33.700 who just disappears. And, and not only are we not given much information about it, nobody notices that

00:40:43.660 he's gone. So what does that tell you about the government? That these are, it's not even like we

00:40:51.340 know in a bureaucracy that there are thousands of people who could disappear from the face of the

00:40:59.140 earth tomorrow. And nobody would notice. It could be one of those, you ever see that show, the

00:41:04.180 leftovers on HBO. It's a really good show, by the way, only it was only three seasons long and wrapped

00:41:09.820 up a few years ago. But anyway, in the premise of the show is that, is that one day, like whatever

00:41:15.040 it was, half of the population of the earth simply disappeared. And, um, and that could happen in the

00:41:21.780 federal government and, and nobody would know, like you wouldn't even notice because most of these

00:41:25.580 people are totally useless. But you would think if you didn't know any better, that at least the

00:41:32.380 people at the very top of the pile, the people that are running these agencies, uh, you would think

00:41:38.780 that they might have something relevant to do every day so that if it's not done, people would notice.

00:41:48.320 But no, that's not the case. In fact, oftentimes the people at the top are the most useless of all.

00:41:52.960 Um, and, um, yet they still get paid and, and they still have an enormous amount of power.

00:42:04.240 Um, all right. Do we have to talk about this? I think we do very briefly. I want to simply touch on

00:42:11.820 this. Um, well not touch on this, but I want to mention it. You've probably, uh, heard by now the

00:42:19.060 story of the naked guy, uh, in the Bass Pro Shop aquarium. If you don't, here's Business Insider

00:42:25.900 with the report. A 42-year-old man was arrested in Leeds, Alabama after diving into a Bass Pro Shop

00:42:31.260 aquarium naked. Uh, the man crashed his car, disrobed, and executed a daring plunge into the

00:42:37.420 store's massive aquarium on Thursday night. Uh, eventually the man climbed over the side of the

00:42:42.300 aquarium falling to the concrete floor below where he, uh, was knocked out unconscious and,

00:42:48.100 uh, and then he was arrested. He was charged with public lewdness, disorderly conduct, uh,

00:42:52.900 several other charges. Apparently he spent five minutes in the water before officers arrived on

00:42:59.200 the scene. So, and, and there's, there's plenty of videos and images of this event that have gone

00:43:06.080 viral. Um, I'm not going to share them here. I will say two things. One is that, I mean, I'm amazed

00:43:13.140 that you can apparently swim naked in a Bass Pro Shop aquarium for five minutes before the cops show up.

00:43:22.160 That, that's an enormous amount of time. Think about that, five minutes before anyone pulls you out of it.

00:43:29.540 Now, true, I don't really, there's nothing to compare it to. I don't, I don't know what the

00:43:32.860 average time is for swimming naked in a Bass Pro Shop aquarium. So I can't really say this is above

00:43:37.860 average. Um, and I, as far as I know, he's the first one to do it. So he's sort of setting the bar,

00:43:43.240 but five minutes is a lot of time. And, um, but the second thing is that, and this is one of the

00:43:51.840 reasons why I haven't talked about this story is that I find it really kind of difficult emotionally,

00:43:57.320 um, as a Bass Pro fan myself. And look, I know as well as anybody Bass Pro, uh, is a lot of fun.

00:44:09.420 And sometimes, you know, you go to Bass Pro and look, you just go a little nuts. You get,

00:44:15.200 you get a little wild in the Bass Pro. We've all been there, but, but usually that means that you just

00:44:19.060 buy a lot more fishing tackle than you were originally planning on buying, um, disrobing

00:44:28.020 and jumping in the aquarium should not be a part of that. And that's the thing that for me to see a

00:44:33.820 man defile the sanctity of the Bass Pro fish tank is very upsetting. So for Bass Pro fans, this is our

00:44:43.080 January 6th. I mean, this is the day that will live in infamy for us. Um, I'll never be able to look

00:44:49.740 at a Bass Pro aquarium the same way. Again, I'll always have that image seared in my mind. Uh, and

00:44:56.680 it is, uh, it is a tragedy. Let's get to, was Walsh wrong? First comment, uh, says, I think you were a

00:45:07.520 little harsh on the flat earthers. I don't buy the theory, but they do raise some interesting points

00:45:12.080 worth considering. Uh, they don't, they raise no interesting points. The only thing interesting

00:45:17.980 about flat earthers is that they exist in the first place. Uh, the fact that anyone, um, in the current

00:45:25.120 year, when things like satellites exist, the fact that anyone can still be a flat earther, that is

00:45:31.860 arguably interesting, but they don't say anything interesting. They have no points. They have no

00:45:36.800 credible arguments at all, of course. Uh, but I will say that I find, and I, and I hear this on the,

00:45:41.740 on the rare occasion when the flat earther thing comes up. And I even years ago, I did a, I think

00:45:46.460 I did a whole show on the flat earther theory, uh, probably more time devoted to the topic that was

00:45:51.720 necessary. Um, and there was, and I, there was a lot of feedback to that. And I remember, and first of

00:45:59.600 all, there were a lot, there were many more pro flat earth theory responses to that I, that I ever

00:46:09.000 expected. There was also a lot of this kind of thing where it was like, well, I don't really buy

00:46:14.760 it, but, uh, but, but, you know, it's, we, we, we should be open-minded that position. I find to be

00:46:21.060 in some ways, even more flabbergasting than the flat earth position itself. Cause I, I can explain

00:46:28.080 why someone's a flat earther, right? It's because they're, they are gullible in the extreme. Uh,

00:46:34.280 they're probably pretty low IQ and they're extremely ignorant about basic facts about the

00:46:40.920 world. And all of that makes sense to me. I know those kinds of people exist in the world. And so I

00:46:45.920 can kind of wrap my head around that, but this attitude is a bit more mysterious because you're

00:46:52.400 smart enough to not buy the flat earth theory, which isn't really a theory, by the way, a theory

00:46:57.360 is a system used to explain observable phenomena in the physical world. That's what a theory is.

00:47:05.440 And that's why we call gravity a theory. It's not because we're just guessing the gravity exists.

00:47:09.320 It's because of its explanatory and predictive power. That's why we call it a theory. And, uh,

00:47:13.760 but flat earth does not explain or describe or predict anything. Um, so it's not a theory. It's just a,

00:47:20.000 it's a nonsense, but anyway, so you know, that the quote unquote theory is wrong and yet you're

00:47:28.320 willing to consider it. You're, you're open-minded to it. That's what it, it's like, I can understand

00:47:33.020 a child who thinks that Santa Claus is real and I can understand adults who know that Santa Claus

00:47:39.600 isn't real. What I can't understand is an adult who basically knows that Santa Claus is real, but is

00:47:46.460 open-minded to the possibility that he might be real. That's, that is hard for me to, uh,

00:47:54.180 to figure out. All right. Nuance gal says, remember when right-wingers said they backed the blue

00:48:01.000 virtue signal about it, then mocked the cops who testified about being beaten, having heart attacks

00:48:05.740 on January 6th. Well, you know, I have a, I have a radical approach to the police that you call

00:48:13.520 yourself nuance gal. So if you're a fan of nuance, then you should understand this. Um,

00:48:20.120 so my radical approach to the police is that I back them when they're right and I criticize them

00:48:28.840 when they're wrong and that's it. That's what I do. It's not, so that's the new, it's a little,

00:48:34.540 it's like a, it's a little small nuance in there, but it's not, it's not too subtle. It's easy to

00:48:39.220 detect when they, when they do the right thing. I, I back them. Uh, and when they do the wrong

00:48:45.200 thing, I criticize them and it's really not hard. I don't, I don't find that to be difficult.

00:48:52.580 So, you know, when someone, when someone says, uh, oh, you know, you were on the side of, uh,

00:48:59.680 Derek Chauvin with George Floyd, but then at the same time you were criticizing cops who were

00:49:04.780 arresting, uh, you know, parents at the park during COVID because, well, how's that? How does

00:49:10.480 that make any sense? Well, well, well, because the cops that were arresting, you know, the dad at

00:49:16.140 the park with his daughter and in COVID that those cops were wrong. And so I criticized them for it.

00:49:22.060 Uh, Derek Chauvin actually, despite being convicted unfairly was, was not wrong. And so I don't

00:49:29.220 criticize him. That's, that's it. That's my whole strategy. Antonio says, finally, Coy is funny.

00:49:37.600 Even without Handler, people have bad nights. You don't have to be an ass to the guy to be against

00:49:41.820 the left. He's a comedian. Chill, Matt, and have more charity. Shapiro ain't that great either.

00:49:48.180 Should you be judged that way? I know, I guarantee Ben Shapiro could come up with a better standup set,

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00:51:07.380 Now perhaps you've seen this viral video as it's been circulating online over the past several days. In the

00:51:18.900 video, which has been viewed tens of millions of times on Twitter and millions more on TikTok, we see a D1

00:51:24.660 female track star, Alana Sabakan, racing some random guy in sweatpants. And the random guy is apparently

00:51:32.640 the track runner's boyfriend's friend. She tells us in the video of the race, which she narrated and

00:51:40.000 posted to her TikTok account, that the friend had challenged her to a race. And supposedly, according

00:51:44.840 to her, the friend, quote, refused to believe that a woman could beat him in a race. So unsurprisingly,

00:51:50.860 the woman did beat him in the race. And, you know, she's a D1 track runner and he's a guy with no

00:51:56.160 experience in track who rolled off his couch and decided to race this girl, apparently just for a laugh.

00:52:03.160 And he lost, which is not a big surprise. Here's the video.

00:52:07.000 I am a D1 track athlete. Let me tell you about this one time. I, for some reason,

00:52:11.200 raced my boyfriend's friend over 400 meters. He refused to believe that a woman could beat him

00:52:15.400 in a race. He does not run, but he challenged me to 400 meters. And I only agreed because I was doing

00:52:19.700 a 400 workout already. So I was like, sure, join me. Then he ended up bringing both his parents,

00:52:23.700 his family, his friends. And I was like, what the heck did I get myself into? But to narrate what went

00:52:28.600 down, I just ran the first 200 meters with him. I just stayed with him. I'm

00:52:32.500 not exerting myself for no reason. I have nothing to prove here. If you're crazy enough

00:52:36.840 to challenge a 400, 800 athlete to a 400 race, that's on you. I'm not going to correct you.

00:52:41.820 And then since he does not run at all, his lack of fitness really hit him hard after 200 meters.

00:52:47.400 And I was like, okay, let me just go now. And then as you should always do,

00:52:51.340 I finish hard because that's what you do as a track runner. And this was also one of the reps of

00:52:56.460 my 400 workouts. So I'm just doing my workout here. So yeah, there's me pushing hard. I actually

00:53:01.320 felt some lactic. Um, and then, uh, yeah, so the gap was widening. I actually ended up running 57

00:53:09.000 for this, which is pretty good for practice.

00:53:12.980 Now, uh, that video has been celebrated by feminists and trans activists all over social

00:53:18.320 media. They're very excited about it. The feminists see it as a great girl power moment

00:53:22.260 where a woman puts a man in his place and the trans activists see it as a proof that

00:53:26.500 there's no real difference between the sexes. And there's no reason why biological males

00:53:31.260 shouldn't be able to compete against women. Um, now, in fact, as I will explain,

00:53:35.820 the video is actually an embarrassment for both groups. It does not make their case. It undermines

00:53:41.920 it, but don't tell that to the media, which has been fawning all over the story as well.

00:53:46.800 Alana's race against the random dude has been reported by dozens of media outlets,

00:53:51.940 today.com published an interview with the runner, which, so they, because they felt like they had

00:53:56.660 to interview her and, uh, just reading part of it. Here's what it says. A man who challenged

00:54:01.720 division one track and field athlete Alana Sabah Khan to a foot race was swiftly defeated in a viral

00:54:06.880 video that illustrates why female athletes should never be underestimated. Sabah Khan 22 tells today.com

00:54:13.720 that when she first heard murmurings that her boyfriend's friend thought he could outrun her,

00:54:17.820 she found it ridiculous. But when she was already set to work out at a nearby track,

00:54:21.040 she asked if he wanted to join. He didn't really know what to challenge me in, she says. He was like,

00:54:26.400 yeah, I could beat her in the 400, not realizing that that was one of the hardest track events. And

00:54:30.200 that was one of my secondary events. Alana, whose main event is the 800 meter race, finished the 400

00:54:35.640 meters in 57 seconds, which was quote, pretty good for practice. She said in the video, her personal

00:54:40.840 best times are 53 seconds for a 400 meter leg of a relay and 54 seconds in an open race. Now,

00:54:48.380 okay, wait just a minute here. She said that she barely exerted herself and ran a 57 against the

00:54:55.340 guy. But she also says that her personal best is a 53. So running a 57 when your absolute personal

00:55:02.600 best is only four seconds faster than that means that you were definitely exerting yourself. Okay.

00:55:07.700 This was not a casual jog. If your best is a 53 and you run the 400 and under 60, then you were

00:55:15.180 trying. Okay. You were definitely trying, but we'll get back to that in a moment. The Today article now

00:55:20.280 veers off into a kind of woe is me tale of men disrespecting female athletes. And this we're

00:55:26.480 supposed to believe is a real epidemic. Quote, it was far from the first time Sabah Khan, who started

00:55:32.620 running when she was five years old, had been challenged to a race by a man. Quote, ever since

00:55:37.000 I was younger, a lot of guys would want me to race them on the playground because they thought

00:55:41.020 that they could beat me. She says early reactions to the video suggest to Sabah Khan that this was a

00:55:45.900 universal experience. Quote, a lot of women were saying that they experienced that a lot, mainly men

00:55:50.500 trying to challenge them in their sport or talent or whatever they do. She says, in fact, 12% of men in

00:55:56.380 Great Britain think that they could score a point playing tennis against Serena Williams, according

00:56:00.760 to a 2019 poll conducted by YouGov UK, which sampled 1,732 adults. Sabah Khan eventually turned

00:56:09.200 off comments on the TikTok page after it stirred controversy, with some turning it into a debate

00:56:14.880 over whether men or women are better athletes. Okay. I have to confess, I'm a little confused here.

00:56:21.880 I mean, what was the point of that tidbit about 12% of men in Great Britain thinking they

00:56:26.360 can score a point against Serena Williams? 12% is a very small number. So if the premise here is

00:56:35.260 that men are overconfident in their athletic abilities and always disrespecting female athletes,

00:56:40.920 so much so that this is a universal experience for women, then 12% doesn't really make the case.

00:56:48.160 12% is hardly universal. And also, by the way, a certain portion of that 12% of men probably could

00:57:00.100 score a point against Serena Williams. Maybe not beat her, but score a point. So this article is

00:57:05.380 stepping all over the point it's trying to make, which is consistent with the pattern that we see

00:57:09.620 emerging here. So let's go back to the video. This is a highly trained D1 female track star

00:57:18.360 running hard enough that she finishes with a time four seconds off of her personal best,

00:57:23.160 and yet she only beats some random dude off the street by, it would appear, like five seconds at most.

00:57:29.520 five seconds is a pretty good amount. But keep in mind that the only thing the man has going for him

00:57:45.240 is that he is a man. He's not a runner. He's not an athlete. He's not trained. He has no experience

00:57:52.140 with track and field. He's just a guy, and that's it. And that alone was enough to keep him within

00:57:58.580 striking distance of a D1 female track athlete. Now, just to kind of make the point clear,

00:58:08.600 imagine how this race would look the other way. Imagine some random woman off the street

00:58:14.480 challenging a D1 male track athlete to a 400-meter race. She would not come within five seconds.

00:58:23.180 They would not be on the same straightaway on the track at the same time. It wouldn't happen.

00:58:28.580 The guy would be crossing the finish line while the woman had barely made it halfway around the track

00:58:34.300 at best. In fact, we can make it even easier for the woman in this hypothetical scenario. So imagine

00:58:40.080 a D1 female track runner challenging a D1 male track runner. And for that, we don't need to resort

00:58:47.880 to hypotheticals because the truth can be seen in the numbers. So let's go back to the

00:58:51.320 2023 NCAA outdoor track championships, which happened in June. The winning male runner in

00:58:59.100 the 400 event finished with a time of 44.24 seconds, which is nearly 10 seconds faster than Alana's best

00:59:07.000 time, or twice as much as she beat the other guy by. The guy who finished eighth in that championship

00:59:16.500 match had a time of 45.3, which is nine seconds faster. But I mean, let's be fair. Alana doesn't

00:59:25.980 claim to be a division one champion. She just says she's a division one, you know, runner. So let's

00:59:31.960 compare those times to the actual female champions. First place among the women finished with a time of

00:59:37.720 49.2. So if you're keeping track at home, that means that the fastest woman on the track was four

00:59:44.260 seconds slower than the guy who finished eighth. But it gets better. The women's world record for the

00:59:51.680 400 meter dash, okay, the fastest time ever recorded by any woman ever in history is 47.6 seconds.

01:00:00.480 And that record has stood in place since 1985. For nearly 40 years, the fastest time by any woman

01:00:10.120 anywhere in the world ever is 47.6. Which means that the eighth place finisher for the men in the NCAA

01:00:18.640 championships in 2023 beat the women's world record by two seconds. But it gets better still, because the

01:00:26.400 the women's record was set by a German runner named Marita Cook. And Cook has long been suspected of

01:00:33.440 using steroids. Okay, 47.6 seconds, two seconds slower than the college kid who finished eighth

01:00:39.720 among the men last June, is seen as so unattainable for women and has proven so impossible for any other

01:00:46.320 woman to even come close to beating, that it's assumed probably correctly, that it was achieved with

01:00:51.540 the help of performance enhancing drugs. But we still aren't done. Okay, Alana's personal best,

01:00:57.360 again, is 53 seconds. We've already established that she would get totally annihilated by her male

01:01:03.780 college counterparts. Only we don't even need to limit it to college. Alana attends the University

01:01:09.220 of Virginia. And just for fun, I went to check the times for Virginia high school runners. And so here,

01:01:15.580 for example, are the results for the boys 400 meter race at the class six state high school

01:01:20.840 championships last year. First place finished in 48.1 seconds, which, fun fact, would have been fast

01:01:28.900 enough to win the gold medal in the women's 400 meter race at the Tokyo Olympics. This is a high

01:01:36.600 schooler. 17th place among the high school boys finished at 51.33, which means that Alana, on her very

01:01:44.340 best day, would not finish in the top 17 among high school boys in her state. Okay. So to review,

01:01:55.920 the fastest high school boy in Virginia is faster in the 400 meter race than the woman who won the gold

01:02:01.980 medal in the event at the last Olympics. And the fastest college male is significantly faster

01:02:08.080 than the woman who set the world record for her gender, a record that has proven so untouchable for

01:02:12.860 four decades that most people assume she was on drugs. And Alana is slower than all of them,

01:02:19.420 though she's still pretty fast, you know, fast enough to beat some random guy off the street by

01:02:23.840 four or five seconds. So what does this all prove? Well, it proves that basically exactly the opposite

01:02:32.200 of what the feminists and trans activists were hoping to prove with this story. It proves instead

01:02:37.580 that men and women are very different and men are vastly superior in almost every sport, which is

01:02:43.600 why men and women should not compete against each other in those sports. Men are faster and stronger

01:02:48.700 than women on average, a lot faster and stronger, a whole hell of a lot faster and stronger. So much so

01:02:55.080 that no woman in history, even ones hopped up on steroids, have run a 400 time that would have placed

01:03:02.640 them in the top eight at the NCAA men's championship last June. So there's no competition here. Like

01:03:11.460 there's nothing to talk about, though we are still forced to talk about it. We shouldn't have to talk

01:03:17.460 about it. All things being equal, I would rather not spend my time explaining that men are better than

01:03:23.060 women at sports. I would rather not have to go and pull up all of these like times and information

01:03:28.600 and provide actual citations just to prove a thing that everybody in the world has known until three

01:03:34.380 seconds ago. And so we could end this conversation. We could all move on. If you people, you on the left

01:03:43.440 would just stop with the nonsense already and simply admit what cannot be denied. As long as you're

01:03:50.020 running around making idiotic claims about how men and women are the same and men have no biological

01:03:55.200 advantages, then the sane among us will be forced to continue correcting you. We can't simply allow

01:04:01.560 your idiocy to go unchallenged. So cut the crap and drop the act. Admit that men are faster than women

01:04:08.340 and men are stronger than women. Men are not women. Admit it or we will be compelled to continue embarrassing

01:04:15.460 you as I have just been forced to do here again. And just remember, as this happens, that it's all

01:04:24.960 your fault and also that you are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for

01:04:31.140 watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 09, 2024

Ep. 1289 - The Invisible Bogeyman Of 'White Supremacy'

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