The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1290 - The DEI Rot In The Airline Industry Is Way Worse Than You Think

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we've talked before about how the DEI agenda is infecting

00:00:03.960 the airline industry and putting all of our lives in jeopardy. It turns out the rot is

00:00:07.700 much worse and goes much deeper than you know or want to know. Also, Cori Bush introduces

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00:00:17.620 The newest consumer product that people are lining up and camping out overnight for is

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00:03:56.300 In December of 2022, a Boeing 777 operated by United Airlines took off from Hawaii in heavy rain. And

00:04:04.020 about a minute into the flight, the aircraft plummeted towards the ocean. It came just 750 feet

00:04:10.380 from hitting the water at high speed, which almost certainly would have killed all 280 people on board.

00:04:15.340 In the end, the pilots saved the aircraft by just a matter of seconds. Now, for more than two months,

00:04:21.460 no one heard about this incident. It was as if it had never happened. And by the time the mainstream

00:04:26.520 news reports began appearing in February, more than two months later, United assured the public that

00:04:32.060 the FAA had been notified and that an investigation would be forthcoming. Watch.

00:04:38.400 All righty. Scary moments like this, though, for some passengers on a United flight out of Hawaii.

00:04:43.220 Just moments after takeoff, the plane took a steep nosedive coming within 800 feet of the ocean's

00:04:49.340 surface. This happened December 18th. Flight tracking data shows the Boeing 777 took off from

00:04:55.120 Maui in a huge storm. You can see their climb to 2,200 feet, then descended at 8,600 feet per minute

00:05:03.060 towards the water. A passenger told CNN it felt like a roller coaster and that people were screaming

00:05:08.300 on board. Oh, my goodness. The pilots recovered from the nosedive and then safely made the trip

00:05:13.560 to San Francisco. United says a formal report was filed with the FAA. The pilots then received

00:05:18.880 additional training. The whole incident lasted around 45 seconds.

00:05:22.580 That's a long flight after something like that happens on takeoff. Now, notice how there's not

00:05:29.560 much curiosity from the news anchor there about why this incident took so long for the airline to

00:05:35.700 disclose to the public. It's the kind of thing that you'd like to think we'd hear about right

00:05:38.640 away. There's also not much of an explanation about what happened exactly. It's implied that the

00:05:43.580 pilots may have made a mistake because they're getting more training. But what mistake did they make

00:05:49.800 exactly? Well, late last year, we got something of an official answer. It turns out that according

00:05:54.840 to the NTSB, the captain called for the flaps to be retracted to the five-degree setting, which is a

00:06:01.040 normal setting for takeoff. But the first officer thought the captain had called for a 15-degree

00:06:06.260 setting, so he selected that one, which was the wrong one. And that misunderstanding caused a major

00:06:11.640 problem because the plane was going far too fast for that flap setting. To avoid damaging the plane,

00:06:17.280 the captain started to slow the aircraft while he tried to diagnose the problem. Instead of realizing

00:06:21.920 his mistake, the first officer suggested that maybe the instruments were malfunctioning, and the two

00:06:26.580 pilots continued to kind of troubleshoot the problem. In the process, they became disoriented

00:06:31.120 as the plane quickly lost altitude. The pilot's confusion continued until the plane blared an alarm

00:06:36.960 telling them that they were about to die if they didn't apply maximum power and pull up, and they did.

00:06:41.040 And fortunately, nobody was harmed. Incredibly, both pilots of the flight are still employed by United

00:06:48.500 Airlines, we're told. They nearly killed everybody on board through their incompetence, but that's not

00:06:54.640 disqualifying, apparently. Beyond some basic information about their flying experience, we still

00:06:59.920 don't know much about those two pilots. For example, we know that the first officer has a total of 5,300

00:07:05.060 hours of flying experience, which is respectable for his position. But at the time of the incident,

00:07:09.860 he only had 120 hours in the Boeing 777. And according to a report by Tucker Carlson last year,

00:07:16.020 which cited an anonymous source at United shortly after this near catastrophe took place,

00:07:20.680 this first officer was a new hire at the airline. Could that lack of experience have played a role?

00:07:27.480 And more to the point, could either of the pilots' identities have played a role in their hiring?

00:07:33.220 Or the airline's refusal to terminate them after they almost steered a passenger jet

00:07:38.080 into the ocean? We don't know. We're not allowed to know because the federal government and the

00:07:43.640 airlines don't want us to know any more information about the identity of these pilots or any of their

00:07:49.240 pilots who are involved in near disasters or anything else about what actually happened.

00:07:53.740 There is an ongoing information blackout about these kinds of events, and it's deliberate.

00:07:58.820 But in their various public statements and press releases, United Airlines has made it very clear

00:08:04.100 that they are mainly interested in hiring pilots on the basis of skin color and gender rather than

00:08:10.320 competence. In fact, they participated in a Vice documentary back in 2022, United did,

00:08:16.560 about their DEI initiatives. Watch.

00:08:19.820 So we are in a plane right now, about to take off with a student from United's new ABA Academy.

00:08:25.100 I'm a bit nervous, but let's do this.

00:08:29.860 Purefoy is training to become a pilot with United Airlines, which became the first major airline to

00:08:35.480 launch its own flight school at the beginning of this year. But United is making another push.

00:08:41.280 It said half of its recruits are going to be women or people of color.

00:08:44.760 A pretty ambitious goal for airline pilots who are 93% white and 95% male. Black women make up less 1.00

00:08:53.400 than 1% of the pilot industry.

00:08:56.760 I have a confession, guys. I have never seen a black woman fly a plane. 1.00

00:09:02.680 What made you want to become a pilot?

00:09:04.500 So I was a flight attendant for three years on a major U.S. airline and absolutely loved it.

00:09:10.680 So a couple of years ago, United decided that 50% of its new pilot recruits are going to be

00:09:15.940 women or people of color, and they're promoting flight attendants to make that happen. Later on 0.87

00:09:20.360 in that Vice documentary, it suggested that the point of this initiative is to alleviate

00:09:24.760 the pilot shortage. Well, how is that going? A few days ago, the conservative commentator

00:09:30.080 Ashley St. Clair posed a few questions to United based on some information that she had received,

00:09:35.780 and here's what she wrote, quote, on July 29th, a United plane was nearly totaled after a hard

00:09:41.040 landing. Who was flying that aircraft? Was the co-pilot a former flight attendant who was fired

00:09:46.200 and then rehired through United's DEI program despite being on a list to not return to United?

00:09:51.860 Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings, including simulator training?

00:09:56.360 Am I also correct that United has covered up this DEI disaster and many others?

00:10:00.860 That's the question she posed again from based on insider information that she had received.

00:10:05.780 Now, United didn't reply, which you may have noticed is something of a pattern.

00:10:10.360 No one thinks we deserve to know anything about what's going on in the cockpits of the planes

00:10:14.840 that we are flying in. You're just supposed to assume that everything's fine and that the

00:10:19.060 flight attendants are transforming into master pilots at United's training academy.

00:10:24.320 But the more you look into the specifics of United's diversity initiatives,

00:10:29.560 the less solid that assumption seems to be. It turns out that United partners with several

00:10:35.080 historically black colleges and universities or HBCUs as a way of recruiting pilots. One of the

00:10:41.460 popular statistics focused accounts on X, which uses the name IO, noticed that two of the schools

00:10:47.560 that United has decided to team up with, which is Delaware States and Elizabeth City State University,

00:10:53.340 are, quote, in the bottom 2% of all undergraduate institutions in the United States.

00:10:58.120 The bottom 2% is where they're finding their pilots. Elizabeth State, the account noted,

00:11:04.960 quote, had the distinction in 1980s of being the only university in which the average SAT math score

00:11:10.420 was lower than that score which would have been produced if a person had guessed B on all multiple

00:11:15.820 choice questions on the test. That's a pretty sobering reality, especially if you plan on flying United

00:11:22.380 anytime soon. Now, to be fair to United, they don't just recruit from HBCUs with no standards.

00:11:28.200 As a writer who goes by the pseudonym Peachy Keenan found, United also recruits

00:11:32.140 from an organization called Sisters of the Skies.

00:11:36.260 Yes, that is an organization that sends pilots to United Airlines,

00:11:40.260 and their acronym is literally SOS.

00:11:44.300 At least you can rest assured that they have a sense of humor at United as your plane is plummeting

00:11:49.140 to the ground. Maybe that will give you a little bit of a laugh. And it gets better. Watch.

00:11:54.960 Jada Williamson's always dreamed of sitting in the cockpit and calling the shots. 1.00

00:11:59.720 What I like about flying is you get to see different things you've never seen.

00:12:05.240 But that dream of a career in aviation is a rare one for black girls to accomplish, 0.58

00:12:10.380 with fewer than 1% of pilots, women of color.

00:12:13.900 It was tough, I won't lie, because there was no one that looked like me.

00:12:16.940 Now, Captain Teresa Claiborne is part of a group of trailblazing black women pilots, 0.99

00:12:22.360 hoping to increase those numbers.

00:12:24.560 We believe if they see it, they can be it.

00:12:26.380 She was the first black female pilot in the U.S. Air Force and is president of Sisters of the Skies.

00:12:32.540 She is now a United Airlines pilot.

00:12:35.800 Why do you think more black women aren't becoming pilots? 1.00

00:12:39.180 It's extremely expensive.

00:12:40.980 I mean, it takes upwards of $100,000 to get your licensing to fly.

00:12:44.840 So, if our young ladies are not seeing it, if their parents don't have the funding for it,

00:12:50.260 then it's not going to happen.

00:12:53.660 Well, that's inspirational.

00:12:54.960 If they can see it, they can be it.

00:12:57.800 You know, that's the kind of thing.

00:12:58.720 If you're flying in a plane, you know, that's what you want out of your pilot,

00:13:04.480 to know that, well, they saw it, at least.

00:13:07.760 That's the qualification that they fall into, that they saw it and they became it.

00:13:13.760 Now, again, this is an organization that's training the pilots that are flying commercial aircraft.

00:13:19.180 And this isn't training, really.

00:13:20.760 It's like a kindergarten classroom.

00:13:23.240 And with these vapid self-help slogans and inspirational slogans,

00:13:27.680 at no point are these people concerned about safety or competence.

00:13:30.380 They want to put black women in the cockpit because they want to inspire more black women.

00:13:36.740 And that makes them feel good.

00:13:39.080 Not because they think they're getting smarter or better pilots.

00:13:42.200 Because if you want to get smarter or better pilots, then that's all you're concerned with.

00:13:46.160 You just go looking for pilots who fit these qualifications, regardless of what they look like.

00:13:50.500 If they happen to be a black woman, then great. 1.00

00:13:52.260 If it ends up that you have no black women pilots, then that is also great. 1.00

00:13:56.640 Because if you're just hiring and recruiting based on merit,

00:13:59.520 then whoever's in there is the best for the job.

00:14:01.940 And it's fantastic.

00:14:04.300 And this is not just some PR stunt.

00:14:06.320 United is actually falling through on this.

00:14:08.220 According to United's latest corporate diversity report,

00:14:10.760 of the 51 students that graduated from United's first class of pilots,

00:14:14.380 quote, nearly 80% were women or people of color.

00:14:19.040 So they vastly exceeded their target of 50%.

00:14:22.160 And you can just decide for yourself whether they got to that 80% figure

00:14:26.220 because it just so happened that almost all the most qualified people were women or people of color.

00:14:33.400 I mean, if you believe that, then fine.

00:14:36.760 They've almost completely eliminated white men in their training classes. 0.82

00:14:41.500 And we're led to believe that this is progress.

00:14:45.060 Meanwhile, pay no attention to the planes plummeting towards the ocean

00:14:48.600 or smashing into the runway, which is happening right now.

00:14:52.960 To be clear, this is a problem that extends far beyond United Airlines.

00:14:56.800 I mean, they're maybe the most vocal about their DEI practices, but every airline does.

00:15:00.680 A few years ago, in February of 2019,

00:15:03.180 an Amazon Air cargo plane, a Boeing 767,

00:15:06.420 operated by a contractor called Atlas Air,

00:15:09.220 plummeted into the Trinity Bay near Houston.

00:15:11.760 Now, what was the reason for that crash?

00:15:14.780 Well, the first officer, Conrad Aska, accidentally pressed the button,

00:15:18.960 giving the plane a massive jolt and thrust, which pitched the nose up.

00:15:22.980 And instead of reacting calmly to the situation,

00:15:25.560 as trained good pilots are supposed to do,

00:15:29.000 he panicked and he forced the control column all the way down.

00:15:32.440 The plane broke through the clouds and disintegrated on impact with the water.

00:15:36.800 Now, Conrad Aska never should have been flying that plane.

00:15:40.900 Prior to joining Atlas Air and Amazon, he had worked for seven different airlines

00:15:45.000 where he developed a reputation for pressing random buttons in emergencies.

00:15:49.160 He would always panic in the simulator and just lose all situational awareness and start pressing buttons.

00:15:57.080 But airlines kept putting him in the cockpit anyway.

00:16:00.340 And that's why, in its final report on the crash, the NTSB cited,

00:16:04.260 Now, what explains those systemic deficiencies?

00:16:20.000 Well, we can't say for sure.

00:16:21.500 We do know that Conrad Aska was born in the Caribbean nation of Antigua.

00:16:25.620 He was a black man, which certainly checks some diversity boxes.

00:16:29.420 And we also know that Atlas Air's website is full of platitudes about the importance of hiring candidates

00:16:34.720 based on certain characteristics like their race and gender.

00:16:38.280 So, we can come to some unauthorized theories here about why Conrad Aska was flying that plane.

00:16:46.200 And none of them are very encouraging.

00:16:49.160 Now, this is not to single out Amazon or United or Atlas.

00:16:53.480 This kind of diversity hiring is endemic in the aviation industry.

00:16:56.620 Keenan says that she's received several messages from pilots warning her of this danger in recent days.

00:17:03.240 So, here's one anonymous message that she posted, quote,

00:17:07.700 Every airline has an informal pilot assignment program that makes sure their unfireable DEI problem children are always paired with adult supervision.

00:17:18.160 These programs are maintained by aging boomers who are immune to the Kool-Aid. 1.00

00:17:22.700 As these guys retire, every flight will be a roll of the dice.

00:17:26.520 Now, remember back, we just talked about that flight that almost crashed into the ocean.

00:17:32.240 And you had the one person who didn't know what they were doing and pressed the wrong button.

00:17:35.980 And then the other guy that's trying to figure out.

00:17:38.680 Is that one of those situations?

00:17:40.540 Was this a babysitting mission?

00:17:42.460 We don't know.

00:17:43.180 This rampant DEI mandate doesn't just extend to airlines either.

00:17:47.700 A few weeks ago on the show, when I predicted that we're due for a major air disaster soon, I talked mainly about DEI-based hiring and air traffic control.

00:17:55.320 There's also a push to diversify the ranks of companies that manufacture and install various airline parts.

00:18:00.560 And that includes companies like Spirit Aerosystems, which is no relation to Spirit Airlines, which manufactured that door that blew out on the Alaska Airlines flight over Portland the other day.

00:18:11.960 Like United and Atlas Air, Spirit Aerosystems' website is full of DEI propaganda.

00:18:16.820 In fact, just days before the door blew out on the plane, Spirit executives were posting eagerly on LinkedIn about their next big diversity event.

00:18:26.420 Meanwhile, the company knew they had more serious problems.

00:18:29.700 Shortly before the door fell off of a passenger plane mid-flight, Spirit Aerosystems was hit with a class action lawsuit in federal court.

00:18:37.220 And in the lawsuit, investors alleged that Spirit was aware of the systemic defects in their products, but ignored them and falsified documents to hide them.

00:18:47.720 In one instance, the lawsuit alleged, quote,

00:18:50.060 auditors repeatedly found torque wrenches in mechanics toolboxes that were not properly calibrated.

00:18:55.080 This was a potentially serious problem, as a torque wrench that is out of calibration may not torque fasteners to the correct levels,

00:19:01.760 resulting in over-tightening or under-tightening that could threaten the structural integrity of the parts in question.

00:19:07.780 But the mechanics didn't want to comply with the audit.

00:19:10.160 According to the lawsuit, quote,

00:19:11.280 Now, obviously, if these accusations are even remotely true,

00:19:24.580 they reveal some very concerning problems at a company that makes critical components for the planes that you are flying in.

00:19:30.540 So how did things get so bad?

00:19:32.880 Well, it turns out that according to the lawsuit,

00:19:35.360 Spirit fired roughly 50% of its workforce in response to the COVID lockdowns.

00:19:40.580 They terminated many experienced mechanics, quote, unquote,

00:19:43.660 in response to the economic consequences of those shutdowns, according to the suit.

00:19:47.560 Well, when they were doing that,

00:19:49.660 how did Spirit decide who to retain after these unnecessary lockdowns?

00:19:54.720 How did they decide who to hire after the lockdowns ended?

00:19:57.640 Why did they keep the engineers who apparently don't understand how to calibrate their torque wrenches?

00:20:04.480 If you take Spirit Air Systems at its word,

00:20:06.900 they probably hired a bunch of diverse mechanics.

00:20:10.000 That's what all their marketing materials and investor pitches dictate.

00:20:14.300 But the truth is, at this point, we can't be more specific than that.

00:20:17.880 Is it possible that a crack team of mechanics

00:20:19.880 manufactured the doors on all of these United and Alaska airplanes?

00:20:25.380 As of now, yes, it is.

00:20:26.660 Maybe the fault lies not with Spirit, but with Boeing,

00:20:30.220 which has been in decline ever since it made the decision to outsource key elements of its business

00:20:34.420 to overseas programmers and penny pinchers in Chicago.

00:20:38.660 Maybe Boeing installed the door improperly.

00:20:42.480 We don't know.

00:20:43.340 But at a certain point, we're entitled to some answers.

00:20:46.560 We shouldn't have to guess or speculate about this.

00:20:49.100 We should know the qualifications and the identities of the people manufacturing and installing these airplane doors,

00:20:55.400 just like we should know the qualifications and identities of the United pilots who are skimming the water with Boeing passenger jets.

00:21:01.600 We shouldn't have any doubts about their competence.

00:21:05.160 We're the ones who just funded the bailouts for all these companies.

00:21:10.240 We're the ones risking our lives when we board these planes.

00:21:13.620 And yes, the situation is that dire.

00:21:15.500 Last night, I put out a general invitation to commercial airline pilots to message me anonymously if they prefer,

00:21:21.300 which, of course, most of them do, to tell me their firsthand experience of how DEI is impacting their profession.

00:21:28.660 And I'm still going through all the messages.

00:21:30.820 I received a lot of them, a lot.

00:21:34.160 But what I can tell you is that as I sit here today after reading everything that I've read,

00:21:39.940 I am not at all eager to ever board a plane again.

00:21:43.100 I mean, the airline industry is in the process of actively making itself less competent and less reliable.

00:21:49.320 And the pilots themselves will tell you that if they're in an environment where they can say it without getting fired.

00:21:54.460 When it comes to the pilots, you know, the old guard, the masters of their profession,

00:21:59.100 who were hired and promoted based on their skill alone, they are still mostly in control.

00:22:04.860 But that is changing.

00:22:07.960 And meanwhile, the airline industry is hiding the truth and lying about the dangers we face.

00:22:13.100 Like the COVID cultists who wrecked the economy, the DEI cultists desperately don't want you thinking 0.99

00:22:17.940 about the downstream effects of their ideology.

00:22:23.280 And as a result, every time an airplane takes off in this country,

00:22:26.620 we are getting closer and closer to discovering those downstream effects the hard way.

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00:23:49.440 Speaking of DEI hires, Representative Cori Bush was talking about her reparations plan yesterday.

00:23:58.180 Daily Wire has a report.

00:23:59.200 Representative Cori Bush got a virtual earful in response to her latest demands for reparations 0.98

00:24:04.720 in which she claimed that black Americans were owed restitution for the damages wrought by slavery,

00:24:09.340 Jim Crow laws, and other policies.

00:24:11.920 Bush took to X to outline her grievances and announced that she had put forth a resolution

00:24:14.960 designed to address them, quote,

00:24:17.500 Our country owes a debt to the descendants of enslaved black people, not just for slavery, 0.74

00:24:22.800 but for what followed, like black codes, redlining, Jim Crow, and mass incarceration.

00:24:27.940 That's why I introduced my reparations now resolution.

00:24:31.220 This country has an obligation.

00:24:33.860 Critics questioned Bush's knowledge and understanding of history,

00:24:35.980 noting that everyone of the policies she had taken issue with

00:24:38.380 had been authored, supported, and even championed by her own party, the Democrats.

00:24:44.140 All Democrat policies, radio host Dana Lash pointed out,

00:24:47.720 I'm totally for your party, making amends for what it did,

00:24:49.920 including to indigenous Americans when they sent them on the Democrat genocide trail.

00:24:54.160 Okay, so some of the Dems are the real racist stuff,

00:24:59.800 which to me is by far not the most compelling response to the claim that we should have reparations.

00:25:10.060 But if you look at the text of the resolution,

00:25:13.860 just reading a little bit here, because it gets into some of the specifics about

00:25:16.560 what exactly she's calling for,

00:25:19.860 and the other representatives, and there are several of them who signed on to this resolution,

00:25:24.160 it says,

00:25:25.160 recognizing that the United States has a moral and legal obligation

00:25:27.760 to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans

00:25:30.080 and its lasting harm on the lives of millions of black people in the United States. 0.89

00:25:34.460 Whereas black people are and always have been human beings, 1.00

00:25:36.900 yet the federal government has historically failed to recognize our dignity and humanity,

00:25:40.760 blah, blah, blah, so on and so forth, historical sins.

00:25:46.880 Then we get to the numbers.

00:25:48.480 Whereas financial reparations must be paid by the federal government

00:25:50.840 for an amount that respected economists have estimated totals

00:25:53.700 at minimum at $14 trillion,

00:25:56.560 to eliminate the racial wealth gap that currently exists between black and white Americans. Okay,

00:26:04.260 so only $14 trillion. What's $14 trillion between friends? And by the way, why should it be $14

00:26:12.160 trillion? Well, because economists have said so. And which economists? Well, respected ones.

00:26:18.620 Respected economists have said that we should pay $14 trillion. Well, okay, that's all we need to

00:26:23.280 know. Whereas scholars have estimated the United States benefited from 22 million hours of forced

00:26:32.120 labor between 1619 and the end of slavery in 1865, which can be valued at $97 trillion today.

00:26:40.040 Whereas if the United States closed racial gaps for black people in the areas of housing, education,

00:26:44.640 wages, and investment 20 years ago, $16 trillion could have been added to the economy. So we're

00:26:49.560 throwing around a lot of figures here, $14 trillion, 22 million hours, $97 trillion.

00:26:55.900 And again, if you're wondering where these numbers come from or anything, don't worry about it.

00:27:00.780 Economists have said so. The experts and scholars and economists who are all respected have said that

00:27:06.840 these are the numbers. And so that's it. What else is there to talk about? You know, I look at this kind

00:27:14.120 of thing, and I go back to that phrase, this country owes a debt to black people. Now, putting aside all 1.00

00:27:21.480 of the many moral and logical and legal problems with reparations, you know, the fact that you're

00:27:28.320 allowing people to cash in on suffering that they themselves did not personally experience,

00:27:33.460 the fact that you are penalizing and stealing from people who did not commit this historical sin

00:27:39.320 or have anything to do with it, nor did they know anyone who committed it, nor did their parents

00:27:43.540 or their grandparents commit it. The fact that plenty of black people themselves in this country

00:27:49.800 are not even descendants of slaves, just as plenty of white people are not descendants of slave owners.

00:27:58.040 The fact that if you go back far enough, every black person in this country is also likely a

00:28:03.960 descendant of slave traders and slave owners themselves. And every white person is descended

00:28:09.520 either from slaves or from people who suffered similar forms of oppression because slavery and

00:28:15.040 oppression are global phenomena stretching back thousands of years. And so everybody with maybe

00:28:20.420 very few exceptions can tie them, can say that they were, can trace their bloodline back to those

00:28:27.640 sorts of things. But leaving all that aside, it is just poisonous to promote this idea that you are owed

00:28:37.840 something just by virtue of your mere existence. We have come a long way from ask not what your country

00:28:46.020 can do for you. Now it's demand what your country owes you. Except that this country does not owe a

00:28:51.660 damned thing to black people or to white people or to anyone else. At least it doesn't owe, I guess we 0.98

00:29:00.240 should stipulate there, the country doesn't owe anything special to you or to anyone else based on

00:29:08.080 your skin color or any other demographic fact about you. Now we are entitled to our legal rights. We're

00:29:15.220 entitled to having our basic human dignity respected. We're entitled to the basic protection of the law.

00:29:20.760 We're entitled to, we're entitled to the sovereignty of our country, the protection of our borders. We

00:29:26.860 are owed that as American citizens. The government specifically owes that to us. It's their job to

00:29:34.780 provide that. And these are things that we are collectively supposed to have by virtue of being

00:29:42.280 Americans and of being human beings. Like again, your human dignity should be respected because you're

00:29:48.520 human. But even then, even in those cases, owed is, uh, is, is, is not the word that I would use

00:30:00.060 because owed carries too much baggage. And when you talk about owed, it quickly becomes the childish,

00:30:09.140 ridiculous, spoiled entitlement of somebody like Cori Bush. And at any rate, beyond these basic legal 0.86

00:30:17.520 rights and so forth, beyond that, you know, what there's that category. And then once you get

00:30:24.240 outside of that category, you're not entitled to anything. If you want something great, we all want

00:30:30.960 things. Go get it, go earn it. Don't tell me that you're owed it. I don't give a damn what you think

00:30:38.220 you're owed. The world cares even less. I mean, you can stand outside at night and shout into the 0.61

00:30:46.760 universe about what you think it owes you. It doesn't matter because the universe is going to

00:30:52.620 look back at you, uh, totally indifferent. And if you're a black person and you want whatever, 1.00

00:30:59.700 whatever amount you think that should be given in reparations, if you want that amount, well then go 0.98

00:31:03.580 work and go find a way to earn that amount, go get your own reparations. It's just the most toxic

00:31:10.000 thing. The most untenable situation is to have a bunch of people in this country who, uh, are, are

00:31:16.640 sitting around waiting for what they're owed. And this is what we have, not just when it comes to

00:31:21.740 reparations, but in general, this is the mentality that's been inculcated in entire generations of

00:31:28.720 people. So you have a bunch of people who've never done anything, have never achieved anything,

00:31:32.800 have never really worked for anything or earned anything in their lives. And they're sitting around

00:31:38.000 on their useless asses and crying about what they're owed. You know, we can't have a functional 1.00

00:31:44.300 country with people like that. And also, by the way, you, you cannot be a happy person in life

00:31:50.600 if that's the way you operate. If you spend every day thinking about what you're owed,

00:31:59.620 you're not going to be a happy, well-adjusted, and certainly not a successful person.

00:32:06.440 All right. Fox News has, uh, this story. Famed radio host Howard Stern, who has voiced concerns

00:32:13.160 about getting COVID-19 for years and was absent from a show last week, announced Monday that he had

00:32:18.520 finally contracted the virus. Uh, Stern told listeners, we were supposed to be back last

00:32:23.340 week. We weren't because I got COVID-19. Stern has regularly expressed his fear of COVID, admitting

00:32:27.940 that it has gotten him into fights with his wife because he's paranoid and neurotic, especially when

00:32:32.080 it comes to the virus. Stern, who turned 70 this week, said that he had never felt that sick before

00:32:36.680 and credited being vaccinated for not making him feel worse. Uh, so he got it, he got it. And it was,

00:32:43.560 and according to him, it was really bad, but, uh, thank God for the vaccine because otherwise

00:32:48.380 he would have gotten it and it would have been bad. I mean, the exact same thing would have

00:32:52.920 happened. Um, he said, I just want to announce something. COVID is really bad. You don't want

00:32:58.380 COVID. Oh, F he says. So this is just a funny story because Howard Stern has been vaxxed and boosted

00:33:07.700 like, I think like eight times. Uh, I don't even think that's an exaggeration. And he's been hiding in

00:33:13.480 his house for three years and, uh, and then he got it anyway. And my favorite part maybe is this guy

00:33:20.340 announcing that COVID is really bad and you don't want this. Let me tell you guys, you heard about

00:33:26.780 this COVID thing. Have you heard about it? You don't want it. Trust me. Like as if we haven't all

00:33:32.380 already had it, you know, we know what COVID is. Okay. And it really isn't that bad, but especially now

00:33:39.280 it's, it's literally just a cold. It's a head cold. Who's, how would you, I think it's funny

00:33:44.240 now when I, when I hear, even when I hear anyone say, Oh, I got COVID last week. How do you even know

00:33:50.940 that you had COVID? Are you still testing? Are you still going to Walgreens and getting tests to find

00:33:56.520 out if you have COVID? Why? Why do you need to know? What difference does it make? You'll have a

00:34:01.780 cold. Like, what do you need to know the specifics for? But we can imagine that Howard Stern probably

00:34:07.020 takes tests every single day. So that's how we know. And, you know, I do want to say one thing

00:34:11.340 about this and I was thinking about it because on the show over the past few days, we've talked about

00:34:16.840 the issue of aging gracefully. And I have been critical of Madonna, who's, who's around the same

00:34:26.340 age. She's 65. Howard Stern's almost 70 or just turned 70 or whatever. And I've been critical of

00:34:31.120 Madonna for good reason, because she is humiliating herself by refusing to age gracefully and trying to 0.99

00:34:36.700 pretend that she's still 25 when she's really 65. But I think, I think in fairness, we should point

00:34:42.460 out that there are other ways to age poorly. And Howard Stern gives us another example. He has aged

00:34:50.380 very poorly. He is not aging gracefully at all. And it's got nothing to do with how he dresses. As far

00:34:57.320 as I know, he dresses like a normal person. And thank God he isn't up on stage anywhere, like twerking

00:35:02.760 in spandex like Madonna. As far as I know, he's not doing that. But he has aged poorly because as

00:35:08.800 he gets older, the only thing he cares about is self-preservation. He's terrified of his age. He's

00:35:14.180 terrified of his impending death. He's terrified of the inevitable. And so he's 70 years old, locking

00:35:21.640 himself away in his house so he doesn't get a cold. And then he gets it anyway. Hiding from the world so

00:35:27.280 that he can prolong his own existence just a little bit longer. And it's not just physical,

00:35:33.440 you know, there's the physical self-preservation, which for some people as they get older become,

00:35:39.920 again, a form of not aging gracefully, becomes an even more of an obsession. But he's also become a,

00:35:49.640 there's also the kind of economic self-preservation. He's become, Howard Stern has a watered down,

00:35:54.640 neutered, pale imitation of his past self. He stopped taking any sorts of risks, which includes

00:36:00.960 the risks that you might take with ideas and content that you put out into the world. And he's,

00:36:06.820 you know, he's become woke and uber liberal and turned into this, this neutered dog, 0.76

00:36:13.580 whimpering and whining and begging for treats from the left. And I'm not, when I say that, you know,

00:36:19.860 I'm not saying that Stern should still be acting the way that he did back in the nineties or saying

00:36:27.540 all the same things or, you know, a lot of the stuff that he said and did back in the nineties was

00:36:31.760 truly objectionable. Like when he was, when he was perving after the Olsen twins when they were 13 or

00:36:36.920 14 or whatever. So it's not that he should continue doing that or when his whole show was just bringing

00:36:42.760 in women and having them get naked. The point isn't that he should still be doing that. It's that 0.87

00:36:48.340 even as you get older, you can find other ways, better ways to, uh, be innovative and push the

00:36:58.260 boundaries and be interesting. And instead he has collapsed in on himself and turned into this

00:37:03.840 pathetic, sterile creature because he doesn't want to lose money. He doesn't want to lose invitations 0.99

00:37:10.440 to the cocktail parties, even though he's not going to them because he's afraid of COVID.

00:37:13.180 Uh, and he's clinging on to everything pathetically until death takes him, which,

00:37:21.280 which it will, as it will for all of us. All right. Speaking of clinging to things pathetically, 0.63

00:37:29.000 the Today Show has a report about the hot new consumer product on the market that, uh, everybody

00:37:36.480 is raving about. Apparently this, this is all completely news to me. I'm not even pretending

00:37:43.600 to be out of the loop to be cool or something. I really didn't even know. I, I didn't know that

00:37:47.620 this was a thing. Apparently it's a thing. There's a cup, um, a new cup. Actually, it's not a new cup.

00:37:52.920 It's a cup brand that's been around for a hundred years, but recently people are very, very, uh,

00:37:59.280 determined to get their hands on this particular cup. Here's the Today Show with the report.

00:38:04.380 The hot gift drawing screams and sobs of joy and all this hysteria over a cup.

00:38:15.980 The Stanley quencher cup that is sold in over a hundred different colors. The $45 reusable

00:38:22.120 bottles are flying off shelves. The hashtag Stanley cup racking up 6.7 billion views on TikTok

00:38:29.820 with videos of fans collecting them, decorating them, naming them, even camping out for them.

00:38:36.320 So it's almost three o'clock in the morning. People lining up overnight at Starbucks and Target

00:38:40.640 stores to snag a limited edition version.

00:38:43.420 I got white and blue.

00:38:45.500 Aaliyah and Sarai dives cups runneth over after unwrapping theirs on Christmas morning. 0.64

00:38:50.620 Why are you so obsessed with these cups?

00:38:53.820 So everyone in school basically has them. Usually I don't drink a lot of water, but like when I have

00:38:59.720 this cup, I drink like more water. Believe it or not, the Stanley brand has been around for more than

00:39:04.900 a century. These cups used to be favored among construction workers, but in 2017, after a popular

00:39:11.500 mommy blog posted about them, the company introduced new pastel colors and sales skyrocketed

00:39:17.200 from 73 million in 2019 to 750 million last year. Stanley's CEO spoke to CNBC's Make It.

00:39:25.340 So it was a slow build over many months. And then you could see that the waiting lists began to grow.

00:39:33.400 Adding to the hype, viral videos of the cup's apparent indestructibility,

00:39:37.800 like this one that survived a car fire.

00:39:41.400 Well, that's good. I mean, it's important to have a cup that can survive a car fire.

00:39:45.540 I mean, you yourself probably won't survive the car fire, but at least your cup will be okay.

00:39:50.620 And that's all that matters. Your cup will survive. Your cup will live on to tell your story through

00:39:56.300 the ages, I guess. So this is the new sensation. It's an insulated cup. I mean, that's all it is.

00:40:03.160 There are millions of insulated cups on the market. They're all the same. The Stanley cup is not

00:40:09.180 functionally different from any other insulated cup, but this is the one that everybody wants right now.

00:40:14.180 And why do they want it? They don't know. They couldn't tell you. But they'll camp out overnight

00:40:21.720 for it. They'll camp out overnight for a cup. And they want it because everyone else has it,

00:40:28.720 which by the way, from a child, as we saw in the Today Show report, asking children why they want the

00:40:36.380 cup, for a child to say, oh, I want it because all my friends have it, like that is understandable

00:40:39.880 from a child. Now, what I don't understand, first of all, is like how, what's the background? I always

00:40:47.980 want to know what's going on behind this. What's the behind the scenes story for how those two random

00:40:53.080 little girls ended up on the Today Show to talk about their cups? Like I assume a Today Show producer 1.00

00:40:59.620 would have had to contact those girls' mother and say, oh, we, can we have your kids on the show to 1.00

00:41:09.580 talk about their cups? So I don't, and I don't know why you'd agree to that as a parent, but in any,

00:41:16.140 in any event, it's one thing for children. It's another thing for adults, but this is what they're

00:41:21.560 doing and they're waiting in long lines for it. And there are, there are, there are a lot of videos

00:41:26.280 like this. So here's one of a very long line of people at Target waiting for, apparently it's

00:41:32.220 a, specifically a pink Stanley cup. They all want a, the pink cup is the, is the one that everyone

00:41:37.340 wants the most. Even guys, even, even, even men want the pink cup. And then an argument breaks out

00:41:43.260 when a group of young guys who, again, for some reason want a pink cup, uh, and they cut in line

00:41:49.000 and it starts an argument and let's watch this. They're like you. Yeah. Okay. Keep talking.

00:41:56.180 This is going to go mega viral. So these two got, these three cut in line behind the rest of these

00:42:03.380 people who are all here waiting. So I'm just going to protect the collectors and the people who

00:42:09.200 rightfully get here. Bye. So line etiquette. If you wait, it doesn't matter. She's going to bring 0.91

00:42:18.180 out the video proof and that's what's going to go on. So it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter to

00:42:24.040 me. It doesn't matter to me. I'm just here to advocate for the people who are waiting.

00:42:27.820 You can tell me anything you want. It's good. We have a line judge here. No, I'm not a line judge.

00:42:33.820 I'm just, I'm just a decent human being. I'm a decent human being who waited. And I know I heard

00:42:41.060 this gal behind you wait a long time and she was unhappy. If you guys want to watch this jokester

00:42:47.060 on live, Ray is sunshine on Tik TOK. Uh, I hate everything about this. This is everything I hate

00:42:54.580 altogether. You got a bunch of mindless morons waiting in line for some consumer product threat. 1.00

00:43:03.820 Target. You got a guy cutting in line. You've got a woman taking a video bragging that it's going to 1.00

00:43:10.980 go mega viral. Everything. Now, normally I would say that line cutters are the scum of the earth

00:43:15.680 and deserve to have their voting rights taken away, except in this case, which they do. But in this 0.99

00:43:20.860 case, everyone in that line should have their voting rights taken away. Now I know that I say this

00:43:25.920 about a lot of different people that should have their voting rights because there are a lot of people

00:43:28.360 that should have their vote. There should only be like five people in this country that have the right

00:43:30.960 to vote at this point. Um, but, but at least we could start here. Like if I was in charge,

00:43:37.120 I would just show up anywhere. They're selling a Stanley cup, anybody in line. It's like, okay,

00:43:41.960 what's your name? You can't vote anymore. You're done. You're vanished from you'd never,

00:43:45.320 you're never allowed to vote again for the rest of your life. Cause you're a way like maybe

00:43:50.760 if there are two people, like if you're waiting in line and there's two people and you're waiting

00:43:55.300 in a line that's three people long, I could accept that. But you go to the end of that line,

00:44:03.060 but how do you, you walk in and you see that line. How do you not just immediately turn around? Oh,

00:44:06.300 the line's this long for a cup. I don't, I'm not gonna wait this line.

00:44:10.560 And then you say to yourself, okay, you know what? I'll do this. This will be my day. I'll spend my day

00:44:17.100 doing this. Um, and those cups, by the way, are all like 50 bucks. I looked it up unless you get

00:44:25.560 them on the secondary market for $10,000. So we've got inflation. We have people that are having

00:44:31.380 trouble making ends meet. Uh, the economy's in the toilet and yet people are also spending 50 bucks a

00:44:38.860 pop on a trendy cup. And the thing is, if you were to ask any of the people standing in that line,

00:44:47.880 you look at all the dead eyed and dazed people in any of these lines waiting for the Stanley cup,

00:44:54.060 none of them would be able to explain why they want that particular cup. If you went up to them

00:44:59.020 and said, what are you waiting in this line for? Oh, I want a Stanley cup. Why that cup? What do you

00:45:03.980 need that cup for? Uh, I don't know. It's a cup. They don't even seem excited about the cup. They're not

00:45:11.780 standing there with wild anticipation for their treasured cup. They're just there. It's almost

00:45:17.900 business-like as if they're required by law. It's like, you'd think that was a line at the DMV. You'd

00:45:23.100 think that people are required to be there by law, but they're not. They've decided to spend their day

00:45:29.240 doing this for a cup. What would a Stanley cup fan say if I were to, because this is a cup that has

00:45:35.960 fans. If I asked them to explain their fascination, what would they say? Oh, I like it because it can

00:45:43.720 hold liquids and it can keep my coffee hot. Yes. And you can go to Walmart and find literally hundreds

00:45:52.100 of cups that perform both of those functions just as well. In fact, the first function of holding

00:45:57.280 liquids, I got news for you. Every cup on earth can do that. Find any cup at all and it can hold your

00:46:05.720 liquids or it's not a cup by definition. And as far as keeping it warm or cold, that that's an insulated

00:46:12.720 cup and, uh, and any cup. Look, I know this is nothing new. These pointless trends to consumer

00:46:19.640 obsessions. Uh, I lived through the Beanie Baby craze of the nineties. Okay. So, uh, I know all

00:46:25.040 about it, but it is, uh, it is, it's just pathetic. Even so a cup is a cup. So get over it. That is 0.96

00:46:33.540 unless it's a leftist tears tumbler or a sweet baby gang insulated mug. Now these are real high

00:46:42.260 quality cups. Now these are cups that you should pay a premium for. And you will, if you go to

00:46:47.580 dailywire.com slash shop, which you should right now, let's get to what was Walsh wrong. 0.90

00:46:58.440 Julian says, when you got to the scientists pull data out of their asses, you have no idea how much 0.98

00:47:02.880 you embarrassed yourself. Please invite someone to show you, uh, to your show so you can debate on 0.94

00:47:08.160 the issues you can't understand. I think you should stick to fighting against LGBT insanity. 1.00

00:47:13.360 Uh, Julian, that's fair. You're right. I do apologize. I said that scientists are pulling,

00:47:17.460 uh, climate change data out of their asses. The, the, the, the, you know, alleged information that 0.98

00:47:22.780 says that the world is the warmest it's been in 125,000 years, which they couldn't possibly know.

00:47:29.040 But in fairness, I don't know for a fact that they extracted this information directly out of 0.99

00:47:34.100 their own ass. Uh, I don't know that that was, that was really my theory. I think I said that 0.99

00:47:38.960 that was my best guess. Um, but you're right. It's an inappropriate guess. And I'm sorry for that.

00:47:45.440 It's because it's possible that they got this information by digging directly into a literal

00:47:50.380 pile of so they could have gotten it that way. Um, so they got it out of their own ass. They got a 0.99

00:47:57.560 pile of, you know, there's a few different places, a few different sources of this kind of

00:48:01.580 information. Um, and, uh, I guess we didn't, we just don't know for sure, but if I had an expert,

00:48:07.100 if I was able to ask an expert, I would certainly ask them that question. Uh, let's see. Matt doesn't

00:48:13.940 realize that in most discussions, he's the random guy, the boyfriend's friend who brings zero expertise

00:48:19.760 and training to the table. He gets that the boyfriend's friend should be easily beaten,

00:48:24.560 but doesn't see how easily beaten he is by experts. First of all, what do you mean beaten?

00:48:31.240 Like beaten in what way? What's, what's the competition? When I offer my perspective and

00:48:38.380 opinion about topics, uh, what, what competition am I in? And also it's interesting that whatever

00:48:48.380 topic I'm talking about, um, and you said, well, you should have an opinion about that unless you're

00:48:53.880 an expert. I can pretty much guarantee that you yourself have an opinion on that topic and are

00:49:00.740 more than willing to share it with anyone. So you can do it, but other people can't unless they're

00:49:05.100 a quote unquote expert. In fact, even your opinion that only the experts should talk about that,

00:49:09.580 that is also an opinion that I could argue you don't have the expertise to share.

00:49:15.920 Um, but of course the, the biggest problem is that when you talk about experts these days,

00:49:20.520 uh, you know, I wish that meant something I do. I wish that saying the word expert had some meaning

00:49:29.940 and some weight behind it, but it just doesn't because when you have the quote unquote experts

00:49:34.120 claiming that they can, for example, read a tree ring and tell you exactly what the temperature was

00:49:40.740 on, uh, July 12th, uh, 45,000 BC, like when the experts are saying that means you can't trust

00:49:48.500 them. And when the experts are telling you that men can have babies and so on, uh, it just means 0.57

00:49:52.840 that, uh, the experts don't really mean anything anymore. Finally, Jen says, I did not do track

00:49:57.440 and field in high school for two years in a row. I was the fastest person in my high school. Even the

00:50:02.980 guys who did track and field in football, stop acting like a woman can't possibly be better at a 1.00

00:50:07.300 sport. No, you weren't Jen. That no, you weren't that fact. That's not true. Yeah, sure. You were

00:50:13.900 the, you were some rent. You didn't even run track. You were a girl in high school and you could beat 1.00

00:50:18.820 every male athlete in your, did, did they all race you? You didn't even run track. How do you know

00:50:24.700 that you're the fastest? Did they all line? Did you have some kind of school wide race with every

00:50:28.700 single, uh, boy in the school and you beat them all? Is that how it worked?

00:50:33.320 Uh, now look, Jen, I, I, I never said that a woman can't possibly be better at a sport.

00:50:42.300 Of course a woman can be better. What do you mean better at it? Like a woman 1.00

00:50:45.340 can be better than someone else in a sport. A woman could even be better than a man in a sport. 1.00

00:50:51.540 Serena Williams, uh, would beat me in tennis. It wouldn't even be close. I've never played tennis

00:50:58.500 in my life. I've never watched it. I don't even know how to play. Uh, so anyone, I mean,

00:51:03.300 a 12 year old who, who has played tennis in an organized way for a couple of years would beat

00:51:09.080 me easily. Uh, so yes, there's plenty of women that could beat plenty of other men. What we're

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00:52:34.240 today. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:43.180 You probably remember the alleged musical artist Lil Nas X, real name Montero Lamar Hill. He came on to

00:52:48.940 the scene five years ago, marketing himself primarily to young children performing at

00:52:52.540 elementary schools and singing duets with Elmo. Then after going out of his way to amass this

00:52:58.260 audience of minors, Hill switched course dramatically and came out as gay and then started releasing 0.98

00:53:03.140 ridiculously vulgar and graphically sexual songs and videos. Only a year after dancing on stage with 0.91

00:53:10.060 the Sesame Street gang, Hill put out a music video where he performs a lap dance on Satan. So that kind of

00:53:15.860 gives you an idea of the pivot here. There is of course nothing especially new and certainly nothing

00:53:20.460 interesting about a pop star who makes obscene and deviant and stupid music, but Hill set himself 0.99

00:53:25.500 apart as an especially creepy predatory scumbag by taking the time to lure in an audience of 1.00

00:53:31.580 elementary age children before making the pivot to the obscene and deviant and stupid stuff. Well, 1.00

00:53:38.080 I should amend that, I guess, because his original single, Old Town Road, was definitely extremely

00:53:45.860 deviant or obscene. He saved that rebrand for later. And now Lil Nas X has reemerged, promising

00:53:51.420 a new single that will be released on Friday titled J Christ. As you've already predicted, given the

00:53:57.220 title, Hill is going the sacrilege route this time around as he desperately begs for our attention.

00:54:03.360 In the lead up to his crappy song coming out, he's put out a bunch of blasphemous images and promos. 0.89

00:54:08.720 In one ad, he is seen crucified on a cross. Here's what that looks like. 0.93

00:54:23.660 So there's that. In another, he is again dressed as Jesus while scarfing down the Eucharist and

00:54:28.580 taking shots of communion wine. And then once again, he's on the cross, as you can see in this

00:54:45.740 promo image where he's on a cross being hoisted up. Don't worry, though, as the media insists,

00:54:51.900 Lil Nas X is not trying to make a mockery of Jesus. Just because he's mocking Jesus doesn't mean he's

00:54:57.140 trying to make a mockery of Jesus, you see. People.com reports, Lil Nas X is leaning back 0.94

00:55:01.860 into biblical imagery for his new era. On Monday, the Grammy winner unveiled the cover artwork

00:55:06.380 for his upcoming single, J Christ, featuring himself resembling Jesus on a cross,

00:55:11.280 shortly before clarifying he's not looking to offend any religious group with the photo.

00:55:15.580 Quote, my new single is dedicated to the man who had the greatest comeback of all time,

00:55:19.000 wrote Lil Nas X, 24 on X, alongside the J Christ cover image and announcement.

00:55:23.640 The Old Town Road performer then quoted a previous post claiming that his upcoming single features

00:55:28.360 a very beloved pop star and said it was God. After reposting some fans' tweets expressing

00:55:33.160 excitement for his new music, Lil Nas X took to the social media platform once again, less than an

00:55:37.960 hour after sharing the J Christ single cover, to clarify his motive. The crazy thing is nowhere in

00:55:43.540 the picture is a mockery of Jesus. He wrote, Jesus's image is used throughout history and people's art

00:55:48.900 all over the world. Lil Nas X continued, I'm not making fun of S. Y'all just got to keep trying

00:55:54.320 to gatekeep a religion that was here before any of us were even born. Shut the F up. 0.99

00:56:00.040 Well, yes, it's true. Jesus has been depicted in art for hundreds of years, but historically, 0.98

00:56:05.940 he was depicted in a way meant to venerate and glorify him. There was a lot of Jesus-related art

00:56:10.700 being produced in Europe in the 14th century, for example. But here's the thing. If you went back in

00:56:17.140 time and showed people an image of yourself on the cross in 14th century Europe, or you showed

00:56:23.760 yourself pounding shots of communion wine, well, you're going to have to explain that to the

00:56:29.120 Inquisition, and it's probably not going to go well for you. And that's because this is obviously

00:56:35.000 meant to ridicule Christianity and blaspheme Christ. And that's why, you know, when I say that 0.98

00:56:41.000 it won't go well for you, I mean that you'll be burned at the stake, just to be clear.

00:56:44.120 But Hill, as usual, even though we don't have an Inquisition these days, lacks the courage to

00:56:51.540 stand by his own provocations. He's a coward along with being a sacrilegious degenerate, 0.99

00:56:56.300 and so he always does these things with a little bit of a wink and a nod and a little bit of a, 0.99

00:56:59.960 well, I didn't really mean it offensively. Now, speaking of cowardice, that's the first point that

00:57:07.500 many people make about this sort of thing. The first thing you can't help but notice is that

00:57:11.960 whenever one of these pitiful attention whores decides to grasp for relevance by blaspheming 1.00

00:57:17.600 a religion, they always choose the same religion. You know, if you get all of your information about 0.98

00:57:23.400 the world from Hollywood films and pop music, you might come to the conclusion that there's only one

00:57:28.500 religion that exists on the entire planet, because there's only one that attracts their mockery and

00:57:34.200 derision. But as it turns out, there are many other religions, including ones with billions of

00:57:39.840 adherents. Yet these spineless frauds who want to be seen as bold and transgressive are very careful

00:57:46.400 to only transgress the one world religion that you can get away with transgressing,

00:57:52.180 the one you're allowed to disrespect while still being celebrated in the mainstream and accepted by

00:57:56.880 our cultural elites and everything else. You know, there's one religious group that you are allowed

00:58:03.720 to offend without suffering any consequence whatsoever. And these brave and daring artists

00:58:10.480 are very careful to stay safely inside that particular box. Why is that? Well, first, because

00:58:19.180 people like Hill are, again, fraudulent cowards. They want to build a transgressive brand without doing 0.96

00:58:25.820 or saying anything that actually is transgressive in our culture. You know, I'm not sure there's much

00:58:31.260 value in being shocking and offensive just for the sake of being shocking and offensive, but I know

00:58:35.960 for sure that there's absolutely zero value in pretending to being shocking and offensive while

00:58:41.360 studiously avoiding doing anything that our society actually deems shocking and offensive. You know,

00:58:48.320 it's one thing to be a shock jock. It's another thing to be a neutered, ball-less little puppy

00:58:52.680 pretending to be a shock jock. And that's the category that Lil Nas X falls into. But I must admit,

00:59:02.620 we as Christians are not blameless here. The other reason that Christianity is the only mockable 1.00

00:59:09.040 religion is that we have allowed it to be the only mockable religion. You know, Hill will dress up like 1.00

00:59:17.460 Jesus and pretend to be crucified, making a parody out of our most sacred image. But we all know

00:59:23.420 that he would never in a million years even consider dressing up like Muhammad, for example.

00:59:31.180 And why is that? Well, that's because Muslims simply will not tolerate that sort of disrespect. 0.99

00:59:38.140 They just won't tolerate it. And that's why it doesn't happen. And there was a time many centuries

00:59:44.120 ago when Christians wouldn't tolerate it either. But then Christianity in the West became infected 0.98

00:59:50.020 with the disease of liberalism. And most of our leaders started preaching that tolerance is our

00:59:55.740 greatest virtue. Never mind the fact that Jesus Christ himself never once called us to be tolerant,

01:00:01.960 never talked about it. And in fact, demonstrated forceful, even violent intolerance when he drove the

01:00:08.340 money changers out of the temple with a whip. But that story, like so many others in both the old and

01:00:14.020 New Testament, isn't mentioned very often by our priests and pastors. Instead, they preach about

01:00:18.820 some new, modern, totally invented version of Jesus who, from the way they tell it, would likely be a

01:00:24.260 corporate DEI administrator if he was walking the earth today. We have become a weak and impotent

01:00:30.980 church that tolerates ridicule. And so that's exactly what we get. But whatever the reason for this 0.62

01:00:39.020 dynamic, the fact is that there is nothing provocative or new or bold or interesting about

01:00:44.920 somebody making fun of Christianity or engaging in anti-Christian sacrilege. Pop stars have been doing

01:00:50.220 that for 40 years. Marilyn Manson was portraying himself as crucified back in the 90s. Modern artists

01:00:55.420 were submerging crucifixes in tanks of urine in the 80s. You're not being subversive with this stuff.

01:01:02.140 You're just jumping on a bandwagon that's been chugging along for decades.

01:01:05.380 Now, it may be blasphemous and objectionable, but it's also played out and boring. And that's

01:01:12.740 where we're left in our culture of decadence. These people have been trying to shock us with

01:01:17.120 the same tired routine since the Reagan administration. A guy like Lil Nas X, he has no

01:01:23.760 musical ability to speak of, no artistic integrity, no skill or talent of any kind. And so he relies on

01:01:28.740 empty provocation. But even his provocations are trite and derivative. We're not shocked anymore by

01:01:35.860 the profane and the vulgar, because we've seen it a million times where we are swimming in this sewage

01:01:41.820 every day of our lives. He's just adding another bucket and no one even notices anymore.

01:01:49.460 And that is why Lil Nas X is again today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for

01:01:57.860 watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 10, 2024

Ep. 1290 - The DEI Rot In The Airline Industry Is Way Worse Than You Think

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