The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1292 - The ‘Expert’ Class Is Crumbling Before Our Very Eyes

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the so-called expert class is crumbling before our very eyes,

00:00:04.660 and that's great news for all of us. Also, an alleged Republican turns a hearing about

00:00:08.800 Hunter Biden into a discussion about white privilege, and police in Canada are warning

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00:02:04.560 Defense is out of commission and no one's even pretending anymore that the Commander-in-Chief has

00:02:08.620 any idea what's going on in the world. So unless you're heavily invested in weapons manufacturing or

00:02:13.300 you sit on the board of Raytheon or something like that, you probably have a lot of urgent questions

00:02:17.400 about last night's U.S. military strikes in Yemen, if you even heard about them. Now, you might wonder,

00:02:22.100 for example, who exactly the Houthis are and why they made the decision to shut down a critical

00:02:26.260 international trade route by terrorizing ships in the Red Sea. It's almost like they're asking for

00:02:31.240 U.S. military involvement in the region or something. You might also have questions about

00:02:35.560 whether this is somehow a wag the dog scenario, given the Biden administration's disastrous poll

00:02:40.780 numbers. But regardless of your position on yesterday's missile strikes, these are all fair

00:02:45.520 concerns. You're not a conspiracy theorist for asking about them. After years of relentless lies,

00:02:52.080 from cable news quote-unquote experts, the skepticism isn't really noteworthy at all. I mean, we're all

00:02:57.920 skeptical. In fact, at this point, even the experts themselves have basically conceded, in so many

00:03:03.820 words, that they can't be trusted. And that's become especially clear in just the past few days. From the

00:03:09.000 airline industry to medicine, we are witnessing the collapse of the expert class in this country.

00:03:15.760 They've lost their legitimacy, and they know it. Now, you may have heard about Tony Fauci's

00:03:21.520 admission in a closed-door House committee hearing the other day. Fauci began by denying that he ever

00:03:27.340 played a role in shutting down any schools in this country. And that's a lie, of course.

00:03:31.180 Fauci's agency provided official guidance calling on schools to shut down, which exposed those schools

00:03:37.060 to civil liability if they refused. And then Fauci was asked about his infamous guidance that everybody

00:03:42.740 needed to socially distance or stand six feet apart. Now, as you probably remember, this six-foot rule

00:03:47.840 became gospel in the country basically overnight. Every business and school and government building

00:03:52.600 and airport put up little placards and stickers on the floor instructing everybody to obey. And at the

00:03:58.560 time, we were told that the science, quote-unquote, mandated this rule. But the other day, Tony Fauci

00:04:04.260 admitted what he always knew all along, which is that there was, in fact, no scientific data justifying

00:04:10.320 this whatsoever. He says essentially that they just made it up on the spot. Here's a New York

00:04:14.100 Post reporter describing Fauci's closed-door testimony. Listen.

00:04:19.420 Fauci also had the opportunity to speak with members about other guidance he provided,

00:04:24.860 such as six feet of distance to slow the spread of the virus. Fauci surprisingly said to the committee

00:04:30.540 members that that guidance, quote, sort of just appeared, end quote, without scientific input.

00:04:36.320 Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University Medical School and an eventual COVID response

00:04:42.320 coordinator in President Biden's White House, said that the six-feet requirement never struck

00:04:47.120 him as, quote, particularly sensical, end quote. So we're told that the guidance just appeared

00:04:53.940 miraculously like manna from heaven. Nobody knows where it came from or why, but there it was.

00:05:00.980 Six feet apart, they said, for no reason. Like, why not seven? Why not 10? Why not 100? Why not

00:05:06.540 three? Many of us asked this at the time. Well, it turns out there's no reason. Literally no reason.

00:05:12.480 Six feet is just what was decided by whoever decided it. This isn't the first time that Tony

00:05:17.740 Fauci has admitted to lying to the public about COVID. At one point, you may remember that he told

00:05:22.040 the New York Times that he had deliberately misled Americans about the concept of herd immunity

00:05:26.820 by continually moving the goalposts. Now, you may remember herd immunity. That was the idea that

00:05:32.100 once a certain number of people became immune to COVID, whether through infection or vaccination,

00:05:36.480 then the virus becomes less of a threat and we can resume our normal lives. But somehow,

00:05:42.120 Fauci's threshold for herd immunity kept changing throughout the pandemic. He kept saying that a

00:05:47.240 bigger percentage of Americans needed to get the virus before herd immunity would apply. And then

00:05:52.180 when the Times asked him why he kept changing the percentage, he admitted it was just social

00:05:58.260 engineering. This week, though, Fauci dropped the pretense of science entirely. He just admitted that

00:06:04.480 he was making stuff up. He was misleading us about pretty much every aspect of COVID, from social

00:06:08.740 distancing to masks, to the COVID shot, to herd immunity. And now that he's out of powder, he can

00:06:15.040 finally admit it because he knows he won't suffer any consequences. Not that he would have suffered them

00:06:19.220 while he was in power. This is one of those stories that's getting buried for obvious reasons. I mean,

00:06:24.120 for one thing, nobody wants to talk about Fauci anymore or COVID or the lockdowns. For a lot of

00:06:30.240 different reasons, liberals and conservatives alike would prefer not to revisit the time in very recent

00:06:36.340 history when Fauci was the most visible and powerful person in the country. And also, admittedly,

00:06:41.180 there's a lot going on in the world. Fine. But if you take 10 steps back, you'll see that the new

00:06:47.900 expert class, the people who demand to be taken as seriously as Fauci, are struggling to replace him.

00:06:54.980 Like him, they simply have no credibility. Recall again the story that broke the other day on Axios.

00:07:00.420 We talked about it. And here's what they wrote, quote, breaking the climate of 2023 was the hottest

00:07:04.940 scene in at least 125,000 years. For the first time in instrument records, daily global average

00:07:10.940 temperatures went well above a Paris guardrail of two degrees Celsius. Now, along with that scary

00:07:17.100 headline, Axios includes a chart that only goes back until the 1970s, strangely enough.

00:07:22.820 But all the same, they're insistent that 2023 was the hottest climate the world has ever seen

00:07:26.680 in 125,000 years. Now, you know, I could reference a bunch of other experts who contradict this theory.

00:07:34.060 I could tell you all about Steve Malloy, a senior fellow at the Energy and Environment

00:07:38.460 Legal Institute, who debunked this garbage science in the Wall Street Journal recently.

00:07:44.020 Malloy pointed out that, if you can believe it, we actually didn't have satellites or temperature

00:07:48.420 stations to measure temperature 125,000 years ago. He also writes that even today, most of the world

00:07:53.500 isn't covered by temperature stations. And the temperature stations we do have are still very

00:07:58.920 inaccurate. In fact, he wrote, it's been estimated that 96% of U.S. temperature stations produce

00:08:04.800 corrupted data. So what does that mean? It means we can't trust temperature data

00:08:10.360 today, much less the information we're getting from before human civilization was formed.

00:08:17.560 But I don't really have to cite any of this because it's all obvious to anyone with any

00:08:21.800 common sense whatsoever. That's why the comments on that Axios article are pretty much uniformly

00:08:27.020 negative because people just aren't buying the lies anymore. This is a trend that's been causing

00:08:31.780 a lot of panic. You know, people not buying it anymore. Causing a lot of panic among experts and

00:08:37.000 institutions that aren't used to being challenged, including pretty much every corporate backer

00:08:41.020 of the anti-white scam known as diversity, equity, and inclusion. These are institutions that insist

00:08:46.800 that DEI is a core part of their mission. They say that their companies and universities simply cannot

00:08:51.280 survive without it. But the moment you expose them, they run away in horror. All you have to do is shine

00:08:57.320 a light on what they're doing and they give up. That's what just happened to Spirit Aerosystems.

00:09:02.280 That's the manufacturer of the door that blew out on the Alaska Airlines flight recently while the

00:09:07.060 plan was taking off. Yesterday, I came across a TikTok video that was uploaded by Spirit Aerosystems

00:09:13.920 employees or, you know, an intern possibly. Uploaded about a year ago. And this is footage from

00:09:20.220 a conference for women in engineering. The video caught my eye because the hashtags were

00:09:25.980 women in engineering and spirits dream team. This is the dream team that, you know, is at the company

00:09:33.800 that makes these doors. So naturally, I clicked on the video. I wanted to see what an engineering dream

00:09:39.280 team looks like at a company that is very clearly incompetent at engineering. And here's what I found.

00:09:50.220 Well, you know, what they lack in engineering talent and skill, they make up for in sass. 1.00

00:10:18.700 And so now you can shout girl power while you're being sucked out of a giant hole in the side of 0.96

00:10:25.100 a plane at 30,000 feet. You know, take a little solace at least that these, these ladies, you know, 1.00

00:10:30.760 these are, these are some sassy ladies who made that door that has now killed you. And this is the 1.00

00:10:36.780 dream team of the company that, that made the door that fell off a passenger plane flying over Portland

00:10:40.500 the other day. And within about an hour of me posting that video on Twitter, the Spirit Aerosystems

00:10:45.800 employee or intern took it down. You know, it's been up for a year. And then coincidentally, you

00:10:53.620 know, I, I, all I did was, it's not like I went to some private place. It's not like I took it off some

00:11:01.440 private hard drive somewhere. It was on their TikTok. It's been there for a year. And all I said was,

00:11:08.480 hey guys, look at this thing they posted. And they took it down because they know that this is absurd.

00:11:13.780 They know it's completely incompatible with their mission. All you have to do is expose it and they

00:11:18.780 fold. Same thing just happened at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Hopkins DEI office, which, which is

00:11:24.660 something that exists for some reason. South had an email to employees alerting them to potential

00:11:29.800 patients who have unearned privilege. The list includes males, Christians, white people, English

00:11:35.480 speaking people, middle or owning class people, cisgender people, heterosexuals, and able-bodied

00:11:41.580 people, among others. Now I'll say that again. Johns Hopkins Medicine believes that males, Christians,

00:11:47.840 white people, English speaking people, middle class people, cisgender people, heterosexuals,

00:11:52.460 and able-bodied people are inherently privileged. And of course the word privilege is a very thinly

00:11:57.120 coded word. What Hopkins is really saying, of course, is that they don't like Christians or whites or

00:12:02.920 heterosexuals, et cetera. They're not looking at any real markers of privilege. They're just

00:12:07.220 indulging their bigotry. That's the unmistakable message here. Keep in mind, this is a hospital and

00:12:12.100 a medical school we're talking about. They have the ability to administer treatments that can save

00:12:16.960 people or kill them if they're done the wrong way. Their only job is treating people. They shouldn't

00:12:23.440 be making lists about groups of people who, you know, they have resentment towards. That kind of thing is

00:12:30.080 threatening, actually. And they know that. And that's why, as soon as this was published online

00:12:35.040 by the X account, End Wokeness, Hopkins took their little hit list down. Their DEI office issued a

00:12:43.260 completely insincere apology, and they just kind of scampered away. Now again, this is a pattern.

00:12:49.700 Also yesterday, the same day that Hopkins took down its DEI list and Spirit took down its TikTok video,

00:12:54.520 Southwest Airlines deleted a post on X about its, quote, all-female flight crew. The post read,

00:13:01.620 all-female flight crew? Go off, Queens. But as it turns out, people don't care about the gender 1.00

00:13:08.360 diversity of their flight crew. It's not what they're looking for. They care about competence.

00:13:13.480 They care about not dying. And in no uncertain terms, thousands of people let Southwest know that.

00:13:18.060 So once again, they deleted the post and pretended it never happened. Now, it's easy to take this kind

00:13:26.000 of thing for granted, but just a few years ago, it would have been unheard of. I mean, Fauci never

00:13:29.940 would have admitted fault. Neither would Johns Hopkins, as they told us to stay socially distant

00:13:34.000 and wear masks. Neither would the airlines, as they bombarded us with propaganda about the

00:13:38.200 importance of DEI. But now these frauds are actually being held to account. When they try to lie,

00:13:44.260 like Axios did with their climate alarmists, no one buys it anymore. When they try to push their

00:13:48.800 ham-fisted social engineering, people call them out on it. And what this basically means is that

00:13:54.640 the rule of the expert class is effectively over. They can't tell us to swallow DEI anymore,

00:14:01.440 any more than they can tell us to wear a mask or stand six feet apart. And for everyone who cares

00:14:07.580 about competence and public safety, this is the best possible outcome. For bloated DEI bureaucracies,

00:14:13.920 on the other hand, this development marks, at long last, the beginning of the end.

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00:17:26.480 this. Hunter Biden showed up at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee this week for a hearing

00:17:30.860 about whether he'll be held in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena. So Republicans are still

00:17:39.320 going after Hunter. We're still doing the Hunter Biden thing, which is fine, which is good. He's a crook

00:17:45.240 and should be held accountable. I will say that there was an intense focus on Hunter before the election 0.98

00:17:52.840 in 2020. And I said at the time, much to the chagrin of many conservatives, that politically,

00:18:00.020 politically, the Hunter Biden stuff is not a winner. Now, I'm not saying it's a loser. I'm not saying

00:18:05.480 that it'll hurt you. I'm not saying that. It's just nothing is what it is. Like most people don't care.

00:18:12.400 Almost nobody outside of conservative pundits and people on Twitter care about the Hunter Biden story

00:18:18.060 at all. They're bored by it. They don't care. They don't know about it. It doesn't matter to them.

00:18:22.920 So it's not a political winner. It's not going to help you win an election. Doesn't mean you shouldn't

00:18:27.880 try to hold them accountable for being corrupt. I'm only saying that some Republicans clearly think

00:18:33.620 that this is a good political platform for them. And it's just, it's not that.

00:18:41.280 And now here we are in 2024, we're doing the Hunter Biden stuff again. And, you know, this is not a

00:18:48.140 defense of him. Throw him in jail, toss the key away. As far as I'm concerned, that would be fantastic. 0.99

00:18:53.740 Just as long as you realize that not one single person on election day is going to make their

00:18:58.480 decision based on their feelings about Hunter Biden. That's just it. So continue along, hold them

00:19:06.240 accountable. Just, you know, it doesn't, you don't need to try to turn it into a political,

00:19:09.980 you know, slam dunk because it's just, it's not. It's in this case, it's just you doing the right

00:19:15.660 thing. And I bring that up for a reason because you want to bring him in, hold him in contempt of

00:19:22.980 Congress. Well, you should. He's guilty of that along with many other crimes. But of course you have

00:19:29.120 some Republicans who want to use these, these kinds of hearings and things as a platform for

00:19:37.260 themselves to, to get attention and to score political points. And that brings us to the

00:19:43.920 performance. And I emphasize the word performance of representative Nancy Mace. She is allegedly a 0.97

00:19:50.080 Republican. She's, she's one of the Republicans that likes to turn any hearing she's in, into a chance 1.00

00:19:57.540 to get some play on Fox news. She, she loves talking about Hunter Biden because it's a, for her,

00:20:04.120 it's a, it's very safe. It's a safe thing to go after. It's a safe topic. It's easy red meat

00:20:08.140 and it's safe, you know. And all she cares about is trying to create viral moments. She's basically

00:20:16.660 one of these congressional versions of a TikTok influencer. And we have a lot of those and she's 1.00

00:20:21.600 one of them. And she's also a left-wing plant on top of it. So case in point, listen to this moment

00:20:27.560 that was supposed to be a, a dunk, you know, it was supposed to be a mic drop moment from Nancy

00:20:32.120 Mace and was sadly treated as such by some on the right. But let's listen to what she said in this

00:20:39.020 hearing. Carrie recognizes Ms. Mace from South Carolina. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Chairman Comer.

00:20:45.240 Um, first of all, my first question is who bribed Hunter Biden to be here today? That's my first

00:20:50.840 question. Um, second question, you are the epitome of white privilege coming into the oversight 0.98

00:20:57.040 committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What 0.96

00:21:02.380 are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here. Mr. Chairman, point of inquiry, Mr. Chairman, 1.00

00:21:08.980 um, if the gentle, if the gentle lady wants to hear from Hunter Biden, we can hear from him right

00:21:14.580 now, Mr. Chairman, let's take a vote and hear from Hunter Biden. What are you afraid of?

00:21:19.400 Hold on, hold on, hold on. Order, order, order. Are women allowed to speak in here or no? Are women 1.00

00:21:24.460 allowed to speak in here or no? Could you keep interrupting me? I'll interrupt the chairman.

00:21:28.140 Shut up, Nancy. No, no. Well, you're not allowed to speak anymore. Uh, my God, these morons. I mean, 0.98

00:21:37.480 all of it is embarrassing. I'm, I'm embarrassed for them. And these are the people that are elected

00:21:44.480 to represent us in Congress. What the, what in the world are we doing, uh, electing people like,

00:21:54.800 like Nancy Mace? She's in South Carolina. I don't know what her district is. If you live in that

00:22:01.520 district, what is wrong with you? Like, what about this woman was appealing to you? Explain that. I want

00:22:08.580 someone to explain it. I want a Nancy Mace voter to step up to the plate and tell me what about her 1.00

00:22:14.300 of all the options was appealing to you. And so Nancy Mace, Nancy Mace trots out the white privilege 1.00

00:22:22.340 line. You know, you Dems are the real racist, that whole thing. Oh, you got them that time. Wow. 0.99

00:22:30.360 Checkmate. And then she follows it up by screeching about how women aren't allowed to speak. Like, 1.00

00:22:35.260 shut up. It's one leftist cliche after another. And yet I saw this clip being passed around on 1.00

00:22:42.680 Twitter by conservatives who were impressed by it. Some, some conservatives that I respect or

00:22:50.200 respected were sharing this clip. Like, Oh, Nancy, you got to see this. Look at this. She really took

00:22:56.000 Hunter Biden to task. Did you watch the clip that you're posting yourself? Really? Her ranting about

00:23:02.220 white privilege and how women aren't allowed to speak. You, that, uh, you find that impressive. 1.00

00:23:08.140 There's zero difference between what Nancy Mace said and what AOC would say.

00:23:12.540 It's exactly the same. She wouldn't be targeting Hunter Biden, but it's everything else is the same.

00:23:19.080 Well, she really showed them. She said the word balls. That's what, yeah, that's what we need. 0.99

00:23:26.160 You know, we need a woman who's willing to say the word balls. That's a, that's, 1.00

00:23:29.100 that's the really impressive. She really tells it like it is. You idiots.

00:23:35.840 I'm sorry, but if you listen to that clip of Nancy Mace as a conservative and you're impressed by it, 1.00

00:23:40.160 then you just, you have the IQ of a doorknob and, and your opinion is irrelevant.

00:23:44.120 I mean, have some self-respect. This is the epitome of lame, performative Fox News, 0.87

00:23:50.940 BoomerCon posturing. And if it still impresses you, then you're hopeless. 0.53

00:23:55.960 Now this started, it gets worse because Nancy Mace, this is supposed to be a hearing about Hunter

00:24:04.000 Biden. Again, important, not, not a political, you know, it's not a political, it doesn't matter

00:24:09.520 politically. No one cares, but still important. There are plenty of things that are important

00:24:12.920 that don't matter politically. Um, and so let's talk about that. But instead Nancy Mace, the Republican 0.98

00:24:18.960 has decided to turn this into a hearing on white privilege and that's what it became. And so

00:24:24.460 this started a whole, a whole back and forth about white privilege. And, uh, she was soon rebuked by

00:24:30.980 a Democrat Congresswoman because you know, the moment Nancy Mace, Nancy Mace brings up white 1.00

00:24:35.120 privilege and she thinks that it's a checkmate. So we got him, we got you. See, we, we use the term

00:24:40.180 before you and now we win. But instead every Democrat in the room, when they hear white 0.65

00:24:45.200 privilege, their, their ears perk on, they say, Oh yeah. So let's talk about that instead. I would

00:24:49.180 love, Oh, you want to talk about white privilege instead of talking about Hunter Biden, the president's 0.97

00:24:53.400 son being corrupt. Yes. Awesome. Nancy. Thank you. Let's have that conversation instead. And so 0.97

00:24:58.740 that's exactly what happened. And Democrat Congresswoman, uh, Jasmine Crockett had this to say. 1.00

00:25:05.220 I can't get over the gentle lady from South Carolina talking about white privilege. 1.00

00:25:11.220 It was a spit in the face, at least of mine as a black woman for you to talk about what white 1.00

00:25:16.660 privilege looks like, especially from that side of the aisle. And let me quote your now ousted speaker 0.71

00:25:22.660 and what he had to say about the Republican party and y'all's lack of diversity. When you look at the

00:25:28.580 Democrats, they actually look like America. When I look at my party, we look like the most restrictive

00:25:34.580 country club in America. So let me tell you something. Y'all don't know what white privilege

00:25:39.700 looks like, but I'm a, I'm a show you a little bit of something. You see, you want to talk about

00:25:45.220 a two tier justice system. And this is the only time that y'all have ever referenced it when this

00:25:49.940 country has a history, when it comes to black and brown folk of having two separate sets of rules. 0.91

00:25:56.740 And right now, what you want to do is have two separate sets of rules because

00:26:00.580 Mr. Moskowitz offered y'all a fair situation. He said he would

00:26:05.380 Y'all's got the white privilege. Y'all don't know nothing about no white privilege. No cap,

00:26:11.700 y'all. No, you think we got the white privilege? Y'all got the white privilege.

00:26:18.340 Listen, that's y'all. Y'all got, y'all got white privilege. We ain't got no white privilege. You got

00:26:22.100 the white privilege. These are the dumbest people alive and they're, and they are in Congress. 1.00

00:26:28.820 Do you realize something? Do you realize that the halls of Congress 1.00

00:26:32.820 used to be a place where extremely intelligent people spoke eloquently and, and debated the

00:26:40.020 issues of the day in a mature and insightful manner? Did you, do you realize that, that

00:26:45.620 it wasn't all that long ago? I mean, like go back a hundred years. It doesn't even matter.

00:26:52.020 Just choose any random time on the calendar prior to the last, uh, I don't know, 30 years,

00:26:56.820 go back a hundred years and, and look at the, the transcript of, of like any congressional hearing

00:27:02.660 on any topic. It doesn't even matter. And it doesn't matter. The party doesn't matter what they're

00:27:08.820 talking. You read the way that they spoke. It's like, and then compare it to today.

00:27:21.220 I mean, a debate between Nancy Mace and Jasmine Crockett is a debate between a rock and a tree

00:27:27.620 stub in terms of the collective IQ involved. And, uh, and that's, and that's what the, that's what a

00:27:36.820 hearing on the president's side, like this is a serious issue. The president, the United States,

00:27:44.260 the, the, the, the, the president of the United States, his son is corrupt, involved in, in financial 0.91

00:27:52.100 and political corruption. Uh, he's, he's, he's, he's in contempt of Congress and this is what we're

00:28:01.460 doing. And so that sends it back to Nancy Mace who, uh, has, uh, has a response on the white privilege

00:28:09.140 point. Let's watch that. Hey, so I'll give her a little more time. Thank you. And then I'll yield

00:28:14.900 to my colleague from Florida. I'm going to try to be quick here because I was accused by my colleague

00:28:20.340 on the other side of the aisle about my white privilege. I want to say, number one, as the

00:28:25.060 former ranking member of the civil rights subcommittee under chairman Raskin last session,

00:28:30.420 I take great pride as a white female Republican to address the inadequacies in our country. I come from a

00:28:37.140 district where rich and poor is literally black and white, black versus white on most days. My

00:28:44.580 largest jail in my district, which is the largest jail in the state jail in the state of South Carolina

00:28:49.860 has had seven or eight deaths in the last two years. And I was there with our black and African

00:28:56.500 American council members. We get it, Nancy. We get it. I don't have white privilege. You have it.

00:29:02.580 No, I don't have it. You have it. No, you're the one with the white privilege.

00:29:10.260 My God, just hit us with the asteroid already. I'm just hit us. It doesn't. All right. What, 1.00

00:29:15.060 what's the apocalypse going to be? A super volcano. I'll take that. Whatever gets the job done the

00:29:20.580 fastest. Let's just do that and get it over with. Cause I give up. I mean,

00:29:26.820 And Republicans vote, they voted for this rambling, midwit, liberal, attention monger moron they voted 1.00

00:29:37.940 for. So just to be clear about this, by the way, it shouldn't need to be said, white privilege is a 1.00

00:29:45.140 myth. There is no circumstance where a conservative and alleged conservative should ever unironically be

00:29:52.260 accusing anyone of having white privilege, especially not Hunter Biden. Nancy, you dumbass. 1.00

00:29:59.940 He has enormous privilege. Yes. But it's political privilege. It's class privilege. It's Democrat 1.00

00:30:06.980 privilege. If he was, if Hunter Biden was Barack Obama's son, if his name was Hunter Obama rather than

00:30:15.460 Hunter Biden, he would have the exact same privilege. Okay. He'd be in the same boat, probably even better

00:30:20.740 off. In fact, that's cause it's got nothing to do with his race, class privilege, uh, economic

00:30:30.420 privilege, political privilege. All of those exist. Sure. If you're in a higher financial bracket,

00:30:36.740 yeah, there's all kinds of privilege that comes with that.

00:30:41.300 You know, if you're, if you're connected to political elites, if you are a political elite,

00:30:45.300 there are tons of privilege that come with that. And then if on top of all that, you're also a Democrat,

00:30:50.580 a rich politically connected, uh, Democrat. Well, that's, you cannot get more privilege than that.

00:30:56.980 That's all the privilege that he's, well, I mean, then on top of it, if you add in, you know, you're,

00:31:01.380 you're a gay and you start adding in some of the victim points on as well, maybe come out as trans.

00:31:06.180 I mean, that's, you know, then you can start adding some privilege there as well, but

00:31:09.460 that's basically as privileged as it possibly gets. And so it has exactly nothing to do with race.

00:31:17.140 Nancy Mason knows that of course, but I feel that it needed to be stipulated. Okay.

00:31:22.180 I guess I'm in kind of a bad mood today. Turns out, um, ABC seven has this a warning about porch

00:31:30.900 pirates in Canada is getting a lot of attention, but not for why you'd think police in Quebec

00:31:35.460 issued a warning, not to the pirates themselves, but to victims. They were advised that Canadian law

00:31:40.580 means people should not be posting videos of alleged package thieves or risk violating their privacy.

00:31:46.100 Canadian police say instead, anyone who has video evidence of a crime should turn it over to

00:31:50.580 authorities and not post it publicly. So here is comms officer, Lieutenant Benoit Richard,

00:31:56.340 explaining this policy. You cannot post the images yourself because, uh, uh, you have to remember

00:32:03.780 that in Canada, we have a presumption of innocence and posting that picture could be a violation of

00:32:09.540 private life. Instead, he says, if anything is stolen, call 911. If you get some proof,

00:32:15.940 that somebody might've stolen something, then call the police, give the proof to the police,

00:32:20.900 and then we'll do the investigation. We'll bring that person to justice and we'll file some charges.

00:32:27.380 Uh, it's just amazing. Amazing. People, this epidemic of package thieves, people walking up onto

00:32:34.260 private property and stealing your private property. And the police in Canada are worried about,

00:32:38.820 uh, are worried about the thieves and the fact that they might be getting publicly shamed.

00:32:42.900 A presumption of innocence. So I'm just trying to figure this out. Like,

00:32:49.220 maybe you can help me. What, what is the scenario where somebody could walk up on your porch,

00:32:54.180 steal your package off of your porch and yet be innocent of stealing? What's the scenario where

00:33:01.460 you could watch someone steal something from you and yet they are innocent of stealing?

00:33:07.380 Now I understand that if you heard secondhand about someone stealing someone else's package,

00:33:13.300 then you can't be sure the person is guilty. Um, if you saw somebody taking a package off of

00:33:18.580 somebody else's door, it might look like they're still, but maybe they're not. Maybe that's a family

00:33:22.660 member who's going to collect packages because the resident is out of town. Like, you know, sure. But

00:33:28.020 if it's your package and it's your house and it's your porch and someone you don't know takes it,

00:33:36.500 how could they be innocent? Okay. Presumption of innocence is a legal, I think this is a general

00:33:45.540 point that needs to be made here because we hear this a lot about innocent until proven guilty.

00:33:49.300 Okay. Innocent until proven guilty is a, is a prince is a legal principle for courtrooms.

00:33:56.260 It doesn't apply to, to individual people. It doesn't apply to us. It doesn't apply to like your, 0.62

00:34:02.180 your brain. Okay. In your brain, you're allowed to see that someone is doing something and know that 0.59

00:34:07.140 they're guilty and you can even say it. It's only in the courtroom. The courtroom has to pretend

00:34:13.780 essentially, or, or, or, or come in with, with, with the premise, uh, with the starting premise

00:34:19.780 that we don't know if you're guilty or not. And we're going to find out in the course of the court,

00:34:23.940 uh, of the trial. Okay. That in the court outside of the courtroom, we don't have to presume innocence

00:34:29.140 of anybody. Like you can, if you see someone committing a crime, you obviously know they committed it.

00:34:35.380 You don't have to pretend you don't know because they haven't been, well, I just saw him do this

00:34:39.780 thing, but I need to, but now he needs to be a jury of people who didn't see him do it need to also

00:34:47.940 say that he did it in order for me to know that he did it. No, no, no. That's not how it works.

00:34:54.180 Especially when there's a, you have a scenario where they could only be guilty. There's no other

00:34:57.540 explanation. Okay. Maybe like, what would be a scenario where someone would take your package

00:35:02.220 and they're not guilty of that? Maybe if, maybe if they thought that the package was a bomb

00:35:08.260 and they were running up to take it to diffuse the bomb, you know, and if, and, and if this is

00:35:18.180 like a diehard scenario, uh, maybe then that wouldn't call it. They're still taking the package

00:35:25.540 though. It doesn't belong to them. So technically I don't know, but maybe in that case you wouldn't

00:35:29.700 call that theft. Is that the theory? I guess it's technically possible, but for all intents and

00:35:34.940 purposes, if somebody takes your package, you can be certain that the theft took place. Just like if

00:35:37.860 somebody walks up and punches you in the face, you could be certain that an assault has taken

00:35:41.980 place. It happened to you. It happened to your face. You were right there, right? Uh, then they

00:35:46.640 might, and you know, the thing is they might end up walking free. They, a jury might, or a judge

00:35:52.800 might say, well, yeah, well, we don't know if that really happened. Everybody else might not, but you

00:35:58.320 know, because you saw it. Um, the Hill has, uh, this report, Jason DeFord, the rapper turned country

00:36:06.860 singer known as jelly roll, appeared before Congress on Wednesday to urge lawmakers to pass

00:36:12.300 legislation combating the supply and distribution of fentanyl. Uh, DeFord testified at a Senate

00:36:18.560 banking, housing and urban affairs committee hearing on stopping the flow of fentanyl, where

00:36:22.240 he called on lawmakers to get the fend off fentanyl act across the finish line. The legislation

00:36:27.300 passed the Senate last July, but has yet to make it through the house. Uh, committee chair,

00:36:32.640 Sherrod Brown said, I'm guessing most of you didn't have jelly roll testifies at Senate banking

00:36:37.500 committee on your 24 bingo card, but few speak and sing as eloquently as openly as shall we say

00:36:43.780 this early about addiction as Mr. DeFord. Um, I'm not going to get hung up on it, but I,

00:36:50.520 I really don't need the Twitter cliches at a Senate banking committee hearing, but this wasn't on your

00:36:56.900 dingo card. We're talking about the fentanyl crisis at a banking committee hearing. We don't need the

00:37:02.880 little, but are you going to put up, you're going to put a gif up on the, uh, on the screen as well.

00:37:09.940 I am in a bad mood. I just am. Let's admit it. Anyway, that's not the point. Let's, uh,

00:37:16.780 hear what jelly roll had to say. I've attended more funerals than I care to share with y'all.

00:37:22.460 This committee, I could sit here and cry for days about the caskets I've carried of people I loved

00:37:27.320 dearly, deeply in my soul. Good people, not just drug addicts, uncles, friends, cousins,

00:37:37.000 normal people. Some people that just got in a car wreck and started taking a pain pill to manage it.

00:37:42.520 One thing led to the other and how fast it spirals out of control. I don't think people truly,

00:37:47.100 truly understand so many people equally. I think it's important for me to tell y'all that I'm not

00:37:55.940 here to defend the use of illegal drugs. And I also understand the paradox of my history as a drug

00:38:02.680 dealer standing in front of this committee. But equally, I think that's what makes me perfect to

00:38:07.360 talk about this. I was a part of the problem. I am here now standing as a man that wants to be a part

00:38:13.960 of the solution. I brought my community down. So he gave a powerful testimony. I'm glad that he was

00:38:20.380 there. And he's 100% right. This is a crisis. It's an epidemic. Talked about it on the show a few days

00:38:25.540 ago. And as for this law, this Fendahl Fentanyl Act, from what little I've read about it, seems good.

00:38:34.740 But the real way to solve the problem, of course, is to go much further and much harder.

00:38:38.800 And as you've heard me argue, the makers, suppliers, and sellers of fentanyl and similar

00:38:44.440 street drugs are mass murderers. They are intentionally killing thousands of people.

00:38:49.780 Now, yes, the people are taking the poison willingly, sort of. But so what? I mean,

00:38:57.280 I was thinking about this earlier. You think about

00:38:59.560 this argument from people that, yeah, they're selling a poison that's killing thousands of

00:39:07.020 people. Well, they're not really mass murderers because they're not. The people are choosing to

00:39:09.600 take the poison. But you don't apply that. Like Jim Jones and the Jamestown Massacre,

00:39:16.060 the People's Temple, Jamestown Massacre, you're familiar, the drinking the Kool-Aid, cyanide-laced

00:39:20.980 Kool-Aid. 500 people or however many it was, hundreds of people died. Now, why do we call it a massacre?

00:39:29.780 You know, the people all drank the Kool-Aid with cyanide. They drank it willingly, at least the adults did.

00:39:35.740 As far as I know, many of them, many of them at least, knew even that it was poisoned. It was an

00:39:42.520 act of suicide. And let's just say for the sake of argument that they did know. Most of them knew

00:39:48.920 they were taken. Well, does that change anything? Does that make it not a massacre? And if Jim Jones

00:39:55.980 had not killed himself, would anyone object to him being brought up on 500 or however many it was

00:40:04.320 charges of capital murder and being executed? I don't think anyone would object.

00:40:10.440 You orchestrated the mass, quote unquote, suicide of hundreds of people. You poisoned hundreds of

00:40:17.360 people. You're a mass murderer. Of course, you should be, you should get the death penalty for 1.00

00:40:22.220 that. So why does that not apply to drug dealers and drug suppliers? Now, if your answer is that, 0.92

00:40:31.300 well, the people's temple drinking the Kool-Aid, that was different because they were brainwashed.

00:40:36.080 They were brainwashed. True. Sure. They were brainwashed. And that adds to the guilt of the

00:40:43.360 cult leader in that case. The people that are taking the fentanyl, okay, they're not psychologically

00:40:48.740 manipulated. They are neurologically manipulated, which is even worse. These are all addicts. And

00:40:55.040 so the drug dealers get them addicted. And then the addicts, quote unquote, choose to continue taking

00:40:59.760 the poison. So one way or another, no matter how you slice it, like in my mind, these people have even

00:41:08.060 more culpability, if anything, uh, for poisoning thousands of people than do, you know, then does

00:41:15.660 a cult leader who poisoned hundreds of people. Uh, it, it is, it is a massacre. So what's happening

00:41:22.420 with fentanyl is, is a massacre. It is a mass killing that is going on every single day being,

00:41:28.120 being orchestrated and funded and profited on, um, by drug dealers and drug suppliers.

00:41:35.480 And so if you want to put a stop to this, then you have to arrest these people and you have to

00:41:43.660 make an example of them. And you do that by giving them the death penalty. And you know, that's not 0.94

00:41:49.800 going to stop all drugs from being sold forever, but, but that will, that, that will make a dent in

00:41:56.140 the problem in a way that nothing else ever will. Uh, and I, and I just don't see any moral argument

00:42:03.480 against it. In fact, I find the moral arguments against it to be like pretty absurd.

00:42:09.120 All right. I found myself, uh, before we get to the next segment, I found myself yesterday in

00:42:14.380 another controversy. Um, I was trending on Twitter because, uh, because of this yesterday on the show,

00:42:20.040 if you watched, you remember I was responding to a comment from somebody who speculated that all

00:42:26.500 those men who are lining up at target or wherever to buy pink Stanley cups are just buying them for

00:42:33.680 Valentine's day gifts. And I made the point that no man buys a Valentine times day gift for his wife

00:42:41.720 or girlfriend in January. Okay. No man is doing it. No man is even thinking about Valentine's day

00:42:47.140 in January. No man is even like aware that Valentine's day is the next month. I mean,

00:42:52.540 you're aware of it if you ask them and they'll think about it, but they're not, that's not anywhere

00:42:55.260 in their mind at the moment in January. Um, and in fact, as I explained, you know, no man buys a

00:43:04.360 Valentine's day gift before February 11th. And as I explained, buying a Valentine's day gift in

00:43:11.680 January would be gay. You know, it would literally make you a homosexual literally. And that's what I said, 0.99

00:43:19.340 obviously being entirely seriously serious. And as you might expect media matters, uh, heard this

00:43:26.300 and they swooped into action. They were on the case and they clipped part of that conversation

00:43:31.080 and they posted it and they posted it in a way to make it seem like I was being completely serious

00:43:35.720 because of course I was who would joke about a thing like that, you know, calling random things

00:43:41.480 gay. It's like no one ever makes those kinds of jokes. It's not like that's a, that's a comedy

00:43:46.260 classic. It's not like that's the kind of joke. That's always funny no matter what,

00:43:50.460 just pointing at a random thing and calling it gay. But you know, that was not the case. It was

00:43:54.420 totally serious. And so, uh, they clipped it. This is the part that they clipped just for context.

00:43:59.380 Um, but of course, 97% of us are buying the Valentine's day gift on the way home from work

00:44:05.780 on February 14th. But buying a Valentine's day gift for your wife a month early

00:44:12.320 is the gayest thing you could do. Don't do that because if you get, if it's January 3rd and you 1.00

00:44:19.060 tell your wife, I got you Valentine's day gift already, she's going to say, so you're gay. Well, 1.00

00:44:25.640 that kind of ruins Valentine's day, doesn't it? Look, I don't make the rules. Okay. I just follow

00:44:31.220 the science and that's all I do. And here's the good news. Yes, you are gay. If you buy a Valentine's 1.00

00:44:38.000 day gift a month ahead of time or more than four days ahead of time, actually, but for an 0.86

00:44:42.800 anniversary gift, you're allowed to buy that six days ahead of time without being gay. You buy it 1.00

00:44:49.320 seven days ahead of time, then you're gay. You buy it a week or more ahead of time, you're gay, but 0.99

00:44:52.360 you know, you have six days. That's a pretty good window. And that's good news for Christmas. You get 0.96

00:44:57.080 a five day window before the gayness sets in. And now you're thinking, what about birthdays? Well, 1.00

00:45:02.180 that gets a little bit complicated. So if your, if your wife is celebrating a decade birthday,

00:45:08.320 say 30, 40, 50, 60, then I'd give you two weeks where I don't give you, but science gives you two 0.99

00:45:13.240 weeks before you're gay. Now, if it's, if it's a, it's a birthday, like in the interval intervals 0.91

00:45:19.200 between the decades, then it's a, then it's a, it's a, you have a four day window. Anyway,

00:45:25.780 this is just a science. This is, this is physics. Actually, this is, I think Albert Einstein was the

00:45:29.200 first person who, who talked about that. I didn't even make it up. This is, I'm, I'm literally

00:45:32.680 quoting Albert Einstein who talked about this, uh, a long time ago. So anyway, that clip went viral

00:45:38.180 and thousands of people responding to it. Uh, you know, I'm trending on Twitter over that

00:45:43.820 the bar for trending is pretty low these days. Uh, and there's a lot going on in the world. Like

00:45:50.720 there's actually a lot going on, you know, and I think I made it into the top 15 of all. I made it

00:45:55.840 to the top 15 of all the topics in the whole world that people were talking about on Twitter 0.96

00:45:59.340 yesterday was me saying that you're gay for buying a Valentine's day gift a month early. Like that, 0.95

00:46:05.040 that's just, and I'm the one, look, I don't, I don't, I'm not going to object to the attention,

00:46:10.520 but at the same time, come on, let's raise our standards a little bit. So, you know, you have,

00:46:15.480 you have lots of people on the left responding outraged, uh, again, taking it very seriously.

00:46:20.520 And then as usual, people on the right, or at least not on the left are also taking the media

00:46:27.540 matters clip at face value and, and believing they're framing completely. So there were a bunch

00:46:35.100 of apparent alleged conservatives responding to that clip you just saw with lengthy rebuttals.

00:46:42.680 Okay. So, uh, Mary Catherine Hamm said, Twitter conservative masculinity discussion seems to keep 0.99

00:46:48.940 saying and demonstrating that demonstrating competence is effeminate. Know how to help your

00:46:54.040 partner. The gay thought about a holiday ahead of time about a holiday lane. Can parent small 1.00

00:46:59.600 children alone because you're capable at life, not just a job simp, but competence is hot though.

00:47:06.860 Jennifer Greenberg said, um, no, being organized and planning ahead tells your wife, you care.

00:47:12.360 And actually it's smart to make dinner reservations or book a wine tasting now because they fill up fast.

00:47:18.400 I mean, look, if buying a Valentine's day gift, you know, a month ahead of time is gay than booking 1.00

00:47:27.400 a wine tasting a month ahead of time. I mean, now that's, that's far worse. Anyway, I guarantee I'll

00:47:35.800 go, uh, it'll go over better than CVS chocolates and the last flowers the grocery store had. CVS has

00:47:42.160 great chocolates. There's nothing wrong with CVS chocolates. Dean Abbott said, this level of

00:47:47.000 understanding is common among low awareness men. More than a few identify their poor time management,

00:47:52.600 their lack of forethought and planning, their insensitivity to the impact of their actions

00:47:55.980 with the core of masculinity. For them, masculinity is not defined by the things a man cherishes enough

00:48:01.100 to die for, but by the number of things he doesn't care about. Okay. A lot of that, a lot of like little,

00:48:07.440 little think pieces, um, analyzing my, uh, my comments about buying Valentine's day gifts.

00:48:14.540 Now, usually, look, usually in, in this sort of scenario, uh, I will keep up the joke until my

00:48:20.900 dying breath and I'll never break character. I'll never let the bit go usually, right? Like if I'm

00:48:28.000 joking about something and people take it seriously, then that just means I'm going to, I will never,

00:48:31.280 ever admit that I was joking ever. But I do have to violate my own rules here just for a moment

00:48:36.620 to marvel at this because, and we've seen it a million times, but still, you know, if you see

00:48:44.420 that media matters clip, obviously totally out of context, obviously joking around, and then you

00:48:54.080 respond to it as thousands of people, including conservatives have done as though I meant it as a

00:49:00.600 serious analysis. There are only two possible reasons why you would do that. And one is that you

00:49:05.440 are indescribably dumb and that you so lack basic comprehension that you somehow don't understand 1.00

00:49:15.340 the most obvious joke in the world when you hear it. So that's possible. Uh, and then the second 1.00

00:49:22.700 option is that, you know, it's a joke and yet you're, you're going along with the dishonest, 0.55

00:49:26.140 ridiculous framing because you want to take a shot at me and score points, uh, which is,

00:49:31.300 you know, which is the thing, the activities, what people do is what Twitter exists for people 0.96

00:49:35.000 to take things that are meant a certain way clearly. And then everyone just sort of pretend

00:49:39.020 that they don't know how it was meant. And everyone all together, this is like, there's an agreement.

00:49:45.340 Let's all, yeah, we're all just going to, let's have fun today. We're going to pretend

00:49:47.680 that we don't understand what this means.

00:49:49.280 Now for most people on the left, it's clearly, you know, option two is, is what they do. Now,

00:49:56.300 many of them are very stupid and they don't understand humor and they don't understand 1.00

00:49:58.800 jokes. And so option one, so it's a little bit of both, but you know, obviously with someone like 1.00

00:50:03.640 me, they're looking for any chance they can to, to, uh, to, uh, to score a point. And so I get that,

00:50:08.660 but, uh, for the alleged non-leftists, that's what I find interesting. You know, even like a Dana

00:50:16.440 Lash, uh, jumped in on this one with a snarky little comment about what I said, it's like you,

00:50:23.840 but you know, clearly that this is a joke. You know, what media matters is, you know, what they do,

00:50:28.520 right? They do it to you. And so what are you doing? Why are you doing this?

00:50:36.920 Um, and it, for conservative, it's conservatives. It's, it's, you know, it's like this instinct. It is,

00:50:44.560 it's, it's, it's like the suicidal instinct by conservatives that they can't help themselves.

00:50:49.820 They, they, they love, they love to, to jump on a dog pile against one of their own people.

00:50:55.360 Like they, they'll do it. And of course, every time, every time media matter starts a dishonest

00:51:00.620 dog pile on me or on anybody else, you know, if it's happening to Ben Shapiro, anybody else here

00:51:05.380 or Candace, like you, and you look at the, at all the people that are doing the little quote

00:51:10.500 tweets and adding their two cents and all, it's like, there are a lot of conservatives that are

00:51:14.420 doing it even though they know, like they know better. And, and why it's like, it's, you know,

00:51:23.040 some of it, there's, there's probably a lot behind it. I mean, there's personal jealousies and

00:51:28.460 resentment and whatever. And, you know, there's probably people who I thought I was friendly

00:51:32.520 with who don't like me for whatever reason, who cares? Uh, but it's also, there's also this,

00:51:38.500 this level of, of instinct by, by, by many on the right. It's hard to wrap your mind around,

00:51:44.620 but it's a self-destructive instinct that the leftist does not have. Their instinct is the

00:51:48.760 other way. Their instinct is circle the wagons. That person's with us. We're going to defend them.

00:51:53.400 Like we'll defend them first and then ask questions, you know, we'll defend them. And

00:51:57.440 then we'll find out why we're defending them. Uh, and for people on the right, it's the other way

00:52:02.640 around. You know, they see one of their own people getting attacked for some dumb reason. 0.91

00:52:06.660 And their first instinct is like, yeah, that person sucks. That's terrible. And then, 1.00

00:52:10.840 and then they'll, maybe they'll go back. It's like, why are we going after that guy again? Oh,

00:52:14.460 cause it was joking. Okay. It's a, it's very bizarre. All right. Let's get to the comment section.

00:52:22.620 If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard. Hey, we're the sweet baby gang.

00:52:29.860 Great. Just a couple of comments here. Uh, quickly. We talked yesterday a little bit about

00:52:36.460 the California efforts to ban tackle football across the entire state for, uh, kids under the

00:52:42.360 age of 12, I believe it was a few comments on that. Uh, first one says every time the left doesn't

00:52:47.640 like something for their kids, they decide it's bad for everyone else's kids and they pass laws.

00:52:52.200 You don't like it. Let your kids, let your boys play badminton. Mine will play football. Um, and that

00:53:00.360 that's true. And that also brings up a point. I think that's one of the other comments brings up

00:53:06.460 that I somehow a point I, I, I didn't make when we were, we were talking about this yesterday,

00:53:12.680 which is that, you know, you've got to, you're talking about parental rights and let parents

00:53:19.440 decide. Well, so on this particular topic, their position is that parents shouldn't be allowed to

00:53:25.900 decide to put their kids in and their young kids in football. It's too dangerous. And yet, you know,

00:53:31.120 they will tell you that, uh, that parents absolutely should be able to decide whether to put their kids

00:53:37.060 on chemical castration drugs. So on that, let the parents decide, but on football for a 10 year

00:53:46.000 old, uh, that is something that's, it's so dangerous and harmful that you can't, uh, we have to take that

00:53:52.260 decision away from parents. It just could not be more backwards, right? Especially when the hormones

00:53:59.880 and puberty blockers, that is, it's not that that might cause damage or that might have a bad side

00:54:05.280 effect. It is damaging. It is intended to damage. The body is intended to, um, at a minimum interfere

00:54:12.460 with the normal development and growth of the body with football injuries are, they happen, but they

00:54:19.080 are definitely a side effect. It's not the point of the, of the game is not to get injured. Um,

00:54:25.280 Oh, and someone else does bring that up. Imagine thinking kids can choose to play football under 12

00:54:30.640 and also thinking they could choose to be another gender or can't choose to play football under 12, 0.77

00:54:34.400 but can choose to be another gender and get chemically or physically castrated. Right. Um, 1.00

00:54:41.180 Anna says, my son is turning nine in a few days. The past, this past fall, we did his first season

00:54:45.860 of tackle football and it was without a doubt, the absolute best youth sports experience we ever had.

00:54:51.300 He had fun. He overcame his fear and anxiety. He grew in strength physically and emotionally. He made

00:54:55.660 friends and he got to do something viscerally male and aggressive without being punished for it.

00:55:00.120 So youth tackle football is an awesome thing and indispensable for kids who don't have a male

00:55:04.720 role model around, uh, California is wrong. Um, I think indispensable is the right word for,

00:55:13.460 for it's not for every kid. Not every kid wants to play football. Most don't obviously,

00:55:17.040 but like, I guess here's the point. If you have the kind of boy, the kind of son,

00:55:24.160 um, who, who would love tackle football and who's like made for that kind of sport. If you have that

00:55:31.340 kind of, uh, son that you're raising, there really isn't any other sport that's going to be an

00:55:37.060 acceptable substitute for him. There are a lot of kids or a lot of, there are, you know, a lot of

00:55:41.440 eight year old boys out there that want to play baseball. Baseball is great for them, but it sounds

00:55:45.740 like for your son, it's just like football is exactly what he needs to be doing. And you take them out

00:55:50.500 of that and say, no, we're going to do a, we're gonna do tennis instead. It's just not, it's not

00:55:55.380 going to work. Um, and, uh, finally banning tackle football is a bad idea unless you want to prevent

00:56:04.260 a generation of boys from having brain injuries. And where's your evidence of that, by the way,

00:56:09.800 so there's a generation of boys that have grown up with brain, a generation have grown up with brain

00:56:14.800 injuries. Now I know, you know, the idea that like every person who played, who's played tackle

00:56:19.580 football has horrific permanent brain injuries. I understand that that's, that's just commonly,

00:56:24.160 that that's commonly believed and understood. And so when I question that, it sounds, uh, it sounds

00:56:30.040 almost ludicrous to question it, but, but I do question it, you know, um, the, the risk of brain

00:56:39.020 injuries in football, especially at that age, it's not non-existent. It is overstated. Okay. People talk

00:56:45.420 about it like every single person who finishes playing football is paralyzed or something.

00:56:50.880 Um, when those kinds of injuries are extremely rare. Um, but the other thing, as I mentioned

00:56:58.160 yesterday is that, yes, there's, there's the physical risks involved in football. If you take

00:57:05.420 that away, just like we take away the physical, you know, other, other sports and games that we've

00:57:10.360 deemed to be too violent or whatever, you take all that away. You are not taking away the kind of

00:57:18.160 male propensity for wanting to take risks and wanting to engage in, you know, violent and 0.74

00:57:26.320 aggressive behavior. You're not taking that away. That's still there. And so many of these boys are

00:57:31.600 going to look, you know, it's like every day on Twitter, if you go and scroll down your feed,

00:57:36.640 you'll see some video pop up of, uh, you know, what someone, someone like roller skating on,

00:57:43.740 on, on the, or skateboarding, not roller skating, skateboarding on the edge of a building or

00:57:47.640 something like that. Um, that, that sort of thing, like taking, and people are doing it for TikTok

00:57:51.600 clicks and all the rest of it, but taking like crazy suicidal type risks. Um, and things like

00:57:59.060 TikTok and social media make that even worse because they incentivize it. But the point is that,

00:58:03.300 and it's almost always young men and boys that are doing that sort of thing. Girls don't do it, 0.95

00:58:07.200 but that's because there is that propensity. There is that need for like adrenaline and taking risks

00:58:12.260 and everything. And so, uh, either we are going to give kids an outlet for that sort of behavior,

00:58:17.520 a controlled disciplined outlet, you know, or you just release them into the world and let them figure

00:58:23.320 it out for themselves. And that I think proves to be disastrous most of the time. It's a new year,

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00:59:20.060 Well, cosmetic surgery is on the rise across the country, especially among Gen Z and not all the

00:59:24.700 procedures are the traditional type. If you can call any cosmetic surgery traditional, this new

00:59:29.800 generation is, uh, it's getting innovative, often in the most grotesque ways imaginable. So for

00:59:34.080 instance, one of the hottest procedures on the market is called, uh, keratopigmentation, which

00:59:40.220 along with being a great Scrabble word that I think I pronounced correctly, actually, is also a surgery

00:59:44.620 to change the color of your eyes. The New York Post reports, quote, don't want to be a brown-eyed girl 0.61

00:59:50.200 anymore. If you're not afraid of the risks, including going blind, iris color changing surgery,

00:59:55.460 the latest procedure to go viral online, might be for you. The process known as keratopigmentation

01:00:00.380 involves using a laser to create a tunnel in the superficial cornea in order to place pigment.

01:00:05.580 But experts are warning it could lead to many terrifying conditions, including blindness,

01:00:09.520 not to mention it's not approved for cosmetic use. Just last week, the French company New Color,

01:00:13.960 experts in keratopigmentation, shared footage of one patient who changed her brown eyes to a stark,

01:00:19.340 vibrant blue, an eclipse scoring 16 million views on TikTok. But for one model, it cost her her 0.95

01:00:24.760 precious vision. Nadine Bruna traveled to Colombia to change her hazel orbs to a bright gray, undergoing

01:00:31.200 a different procedure that uses a silicone implant, only to lose 80% of her vision in her right eye and 0.97

01:00:36.920 50% in her left. Well, that is surprising. Apparently, if you let someone burrow a tunnel into

01:00:41.720 your cornea and inject it with ink or, I guess, an implant or whatever it was in that case,

01:00:46.140 it might do some damage to your eyes. It turns out that intentionally damaging your eyes will

01:00:51.960 result in damaged eyes. Who could have known? And by the way, if you're wondering what the end

01:00:56.460 result of this eye surgery looks like, well, here it is.

01:01:01.280 So you can see there, if you're trying to look like one of the X-Men, then this is the procedure

01:01:20.640 for you, I guess, which maybe, it probably makes it sound cooler than it really is. In truth,

01:01:24.940 she just looks bizarre, you know, like some kind of AI recreation of herself. But this is the effect

01:01:31.040 that most cosmetic procedures have on people. And that's a problem because cosmetic surgery,

01:01:35.600 as mentioned a moment ago, has never been more popular. Long gone are the days when only aging,

01:01:41.520 upper-class, 52-year-old women got work done. Now everyone is doing it, especially young people.

01:01:47.140 Plastic surgery procedures increased by 20% from 2019 until now, according to plasticsurgery.org.

01:01:52.360 The same source tells us that the Gen Z crowd accounted for nearly 40% of all nose jobs in 0.76

01:01:58.240 the previous year and 25% of all cheek implants. Because cheek implants are apparently a thing.

01:02:05.980 Meanwhile, my generation of millennials seem to be particular fans of buttock augmentations and have

01:02:10.600 accounted for more than 40% of those. Perhaps not surprisingly, liposuction is the most popular

01:02:15.580 cosmetic procedure of them all, right ahead of breast implants. And all of these surgeries are being

01:02:20.340 performed more often, and they're starting at younger ages. The New York Post again reports,

01:02:26.000 as celebrities scramble for doses of weight loss aid, Ozempic, Gen Z is booking cosmetic procedures 0.86

01:02:30.980 more now than ever. In fact, 75% of plastic surgeons saw a spike in clients under 30, according to

01:02:36.960 data released last week by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,

01:02:42.220 which is a consistently higher plateau over the five previous years. Board of Certified Plastic

01:02:47.120 Surgeon Dr. Ashley Amalfi said that she's seen an uptick in young clientele at the

01:02:52.780 Quatala Center for Plastic Surgery in Rochester, New York, and now about one-third of her patients

01:02:57.420 are Gen Z. Quote, I really see that as sort of this extension of the beauty market. She called the 0.93

01:03:03.080 trend great. They are a population in general who's just taking really good care of themselves.

01:03:09.280 Now, I'm not sure that taking good care of themselves is the first attribute that I would

01:03:12.080 associate with Gen Z or any other current American generation. You know, over half of Gen Z are obese, 0.96

01:03:16.840 first of all, so it's hard to say that they are particularly adept at self-care. And they may

01:03:20.500 use the phrase self-care and talk about it a lot, and they make TikTok videos about it, but

01:03:24.080 the results tell us a different story. And of course, plastic surgery is rarely an example of

01:03:29.500 taking care of yourself. Now, sure, here and there, you might find a person who had a procedure done,

01:03:35.600 and they actually do look better because of it. I mean, that does happen. I'm not denying that.

01:03:38.980 There are people who have deformities or other sorts of visible physical afflictions, burns,

01:03:44.020 that sort of thing, where plastic surgery could truly change their lives for the better.

01:03:47.720 But those cases are likely in the minority, probably a rather small minority. And most

01:03:51.540 of these people, especially the 26-year-old women going to the surgeon for cheek implants

01:03:55.520 and Botox and lip fillers and so on, they wind up looking significantly worse by the end

01:04:01.300 of it because they look less human. It's like that woman's eyes. I don't know what that looks 0.99

01:04:08.280 like. Those are not human eyes. It doesn't look like a human's eye. I don't know what that

01:04:11.260 is. It looks artificial. And that's the general effect of so many of these procedures. They make

01:04:17.440 you look less real, less authentic. And looking less real and less authentic automatically means

01:04:23.120 that you look worse because to look less human is to look worse as a human. Because as it turns out,

01:04:29.960 you as a human being are a whole, complete creature. You are not a potato head doll. You cannot mix and match

01:04:36.120 your parts and reassemble yourself however you choose. Well, you can do that thanks to the wonders

01:04:40.860 of modern medicine, but everyone will be able to tell that you've done it. You know, we'll look at

01:04:46.280 your reassembled face and think, hmm, something's a little bit off about that. It's not quite right.

01:04:52.560 So you may not like your eyes or your lips or your nose or whatever, but those are your eyes and your

01:04:57.780 lips and your nose. And if you go and get different eyes, lips, or nose, they're not going to be yours

01:05:01.840 anymore. Your cheek implants may look like cheeks, but they probably won't look like your cheeks.

01:05:09.220 It will appear as it is, like parts have been artificially attached to you or artificially

01:05:13.660 inflated to resemble a size and shape they were never meant to be. It's certainly the case for every

01:05:18.580 lip augmentation that's ever been done. And that's what makes plastic surgery so uncanny. You know, the

01:05:23.740 weird thing about it is that, like, if I see you for the first time and I never knew you before,

01:05:28.740 never saw you before, most of the time, I, like anybody else, will still be able to tell if you

01:05:34.500 had work done on your face. It'll be obvious that those artificial or artificially accentuated features

01:05:39.860 are not your features, which is kind of interesting when you think about it because I don't know you.

01:05:44.180 I've never seen you before, but I know that how you look right now is not how you really look.

01:05:50.760 That's because the picture doesn't quite make sense. The features don't fit together. It doesn't

01:05:54.400 match. It's not real. There's something asymmetrical and inauthentic and out of balance.

01:05:58.740 You don't look how you were made to look. And even people who don't know how you were made to

01:06:05.100 look can tell. But of course, people don't believe that they were made these days at all. That's part

01:06:10.180 of the problem. The reason cosmetic surgery is as popular as it is is exactly that. Many people think

01:06:15.980 that they basically materialized out of the ether for no reason and for no purpose. And now they are

01:06:21.400 gods over themselves. They are in charge of their own self-creation. They set to work then rebuilding

01:06:27.640 their own bodies. And at the end of the whole process, if it ever does end, which often it

01:06:30.880 doesn't, they have become some pale imitation of what they were before. Some weird Picasso-like

01:06:36.620 rendition of themselves. Which, like any remake, is only very rarely an improvement over the original.

01:06:45.000 And that is why the plastic surgery craze is today canceled. That'll do it for the show today and

01:06:53.660 this week. Have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

01:06:57.020 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 12, 2024

Ep. 1292 - The ‘Expert’ Class Is Crumbling Before Our Very Eyes

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