The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1296 - The Next Stage In The Slippery Slope Begins As The Media Pushes 'Polyamory'

00:00:00.220 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the media starts off the year with a full-court press to push open marriages and polyamory.

00:00:06.180 There have been three glowing profiles of open relationships in major publications in just the past week.

00:00:11.180 So why are they pushing this so hard, and why now? We'll try to answer that.

00:00:14.400 Also, the new head coach of the New England Patriots starts off his tenure with a speech about anti-racism.

00:00:19.400 And more and more studies are linking marijuana use with schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions.

00:00:23.960 Finally, the WEF featured, among other things, a pagan shaman casting a spell.

00:00:29.040 Well, paganism is back in a big way. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:11.800 This is Tori. She fell in love with Travis.

00:02:41.800 Travis. And Ethan. And Mark. And Chris.

00:02:49.000 Their four-way relationship is working wonders for them.

00:02:51.580 The relationship could best be described by having Tori as the hub and all of us are spokes on a giant wheel.

00:02:58.500 But not everyone understands the dynamic.

00:03:01.380 I was like, oh, you're kidding. That you're joking.

00:03:04.440 How will this poly relationship cope with a further addition to the family?

00:03:08.720 Yes. How will they all cope with the new addition to the family?

00:03:13.720 Well, unfortunately, we got an answer to that question rather quickly.

00:03:17.700 And the answer is horrific.

00:03:19.800 Only five weeks after the baby was born, the baby you just heard about there,

00:03:24.700 Ethan Baucom, one of the five musketeers, was arrested for abusing the infant so viciously

00:03:30.720 that she had severe injuries to her ribs, lungs, limbs, internal organs, and had several brain bleeds as well.

00:03:39.000 Now, Baucom reportedly told police that he injured the baby because he was frustrated that she was preventing him from sleeping.

00:03:47.040 So it turns out that the man who volunteered to be a part of this grotesque, unstable, and dysfunctional polygamous relationship 0.99

00:03:55.120 is also himself a grotesque, unstable, and dysfunctional person, which should come as no surprise.

00:04:01.380 But it would be a surprise to you if you listen to the media, which has been in the midst of a full-court press over the past few days

00:04:07.800 to promote this kind of dysfunction to the masses.

00:04:11.400 So first up, and this, again, is all in the past week as we start off 2024.

00:04:17.140 First up to the plate was the New York Times with an article about, according to the headline,

00:04:20.780 a polyamorous mom who had a big sexual adventure and found herself.

00:04:26.080 Now, this polyamorous mom has apparently just published a memoir titled 1.00

00:04:30.060 More, A Memoir of Open Marriage.

00:04:34.640 Because, needless to say, what the world needs most right now is yet another memoir

00:04:39.100 written by a middle-aged woman about how she embarked on a quest of self-discovery 0.99

00:04:42.660 and the quest involved nothing but, you know, having sex with a bunch of random dudes. 0.98

00:04:46.920 That's exactly what we need right now.

00:04:48.820 You know, there's a memoir like this published every 45 minutes or so, and they're all the same.

00:04:54.160 You know, all of these women are interchangeable. 1.00

00:04:56.140 Their experiences are as uninteresting as they are unoriginal.

00:05:00.480 And their insights, what little insights they have, are equal parts cliched and bogus.

00:05:05.680 Now, next, there was a big piece in USA Today declaring, in its opening paragraph,

00:05:11.360 open relationships are having a moment.

00:05:13.220 Polyamory, ethical non-monogamy, and similar terms are becoming a bigger part of our cultural lexicon.

00:05:18.760 But perhaps the most known type of open relationship is swinging, and swingers are having a moment, too.

00:05:24.060 Just ask Kylie George, a swinger who chronicles her journey on Swing Talk,

00:05:28.240 a hashtag with more than 2.6 billion views on TikTok.

00:05:31.740 The community also connects via symbols, and upside-down pineapple is the most viral and well-known.

00:05:38.480 George recently married her partner, and the pair were able to celebrate with all of their Swing Talk creator friends

00:05:45.620 and communicate within a Discord group of more than 30,000 members.

00:05:49.360 They plan events, educate, provide resources, and enjoy a safe communal space.

00:05:54.020 Now, you could have probably gone your whole life and been happy not knowing that something called Swing Talk exists,

00:06:02.940 but now you know, for better or worse.

00:06:05.260 And that leads, finally, to New York Magazine with its cover story for its latest issue,

00:06:10.900 promising a practical guide to polyamory for, quote, the curious couple.

00:06:16.640 Now, before we read any of the article in this issue of the magazine,

00:06:22.120 we should note the cover of the magazine, which you can see right here.

00:06:25.600 And you can see the words polyamory in big, bold block letters,

00:06:29.980 along with a picture of four cats embracing.

00:06:33.720 And it kind of makes you think, why did they choose cats for the cover photo?

00:06:39.280 I mean, there must have been some thought put into this.

00:06:41.460 They must have discussed this at some length, like, what's the cover photo going to be for this big issue about polyamory?

00:06:49.440 And they reviewed all the possible options and decided to go with cats,

00:06:54.020 which is an interesting choice,

00:06:56.320 considering the more obvious choice would be a photo of an actual polyamorous couple.

00:07:01.320 I'm sure they could find plenty of polyamorous people who are, you know, willing to pose for the picture. 0.88

00:07:08.440 After all, these people are not nearly as camera shy as we all wish they were.

00:07:13.700 But you could see why they didn't go that route.

00:07:17.020 And for one thing, you know, polyamory represents mating habits more often found in animals than in humans.

00:07:23.780 By pushing this on us, they are pushing us to behave like beasts.

00:07:28.140 And that could be the message here.

00:07:29.700 But I think more likely they realize that most polycules in real life are a horror to behold.

00:07:35.280 You know, we saw what happened the last time they gave us a face of polyamory.

00:07:40.460 And they don't want to make that mistake again.

00:07:42.460 So they'd rather not show you the kinds of people who are actually doing this.

00:07:47.140 So they show you cats instead.

00:07:49.140 Anyway, once we move past the cats, we're told the story of a married couple named Nick and Sarah,

00:07:54.780 who have chosen the polygamous lifestyle.

00:07:57.240 And here's what it says, just right off the bat.

00:08:01.980 Quote,

00:08:02.200 Non-monogamy is really just designing the bounds of what we want in our relationship and what we're comfortable with, Nick says.

00:08:09.480 For Nick and Sarah, the relationship design looks like this.

00:08:12.340 Nick and Sarah are married.

00:08:13.780 Sarah has had multiple other committed relationships while married to Nick.

00:08:17.080 Currently, Nick has a girlfriend, Anna, who has a husband, Alex.

00:08:20.240 And Alex has other people with whom he explores his desires.

00:08:23.440 The easiest way to explain all this might be in the love language of most ethically non-monogamous people.

00:08:28.920 Google Calendar.

00:08:29.780 Sarah and Nick share a calendar.

00:08:31.660 Nick and Anna share a calendar.

00:08:32.920 Alex and Anna share a calendar.

00:08:34.700 Sarah and Anna do not share a calendar, but are aware of who has Nick's time on any given day.

00:08:39.320 Same for Nick and Alex.

00:08:41.020 They are Sarah and Nick and Anna and Alex, a modern polycule, living, laughing, loving, and doing a lot of therapy.

00:08:48.900 Oh, I bet.

00:08:50.720 Yes, what a joy this must be.

00:08:53.160 You know, if you want a date night with your wife, you have to put it in her Google Calendar

00:08:58.520 and hope she doesn't already have plans with her boyfriend that day.

00:09:01.660 Like, that's the idea here.

00:09:03.620 Now, this article in New York Magazine goes on and on for thousands of words.

00:09:09.800 The author and the people she's interviewing are under the impression that their story is an epic, fascinating adventure.

00:09:17.860 In reality, it is, again, the same story all of these people, all these other polyamorous groupings are telling.

00:09:25.380 It's the exact same story.

00:09:27.220 Sarah, the wife, says stuff like,

00:09:28.960 As we've seen, women like this, you know, they love to talk about their sexual dalliances as journeys, right? 1.00

00:09:42.140 As if she's Frodo trekking across Middle Earth, you know, to destroy the ring in Mordor. 0.99

00:09:49.660 And not just a middle-aged woman having sex with different dudes. 1.00

00:09:53.940 And then we're told that Nick, the husband at first, struggled with the whole his wife has sex with other guys thing. 0.78

00:10:01.740 If you can imagine, you know, it was a little bit hard at first.

00:10:05.800 But Sarah helped him very generously to work through these feelings.

00:10:10.880 And at one point, we're told when Nick was feeling especially jealous, Sarah asked him,

00:10:15.640 How do you need to feel loved by me?

00:10:19.580 Which is a pretty good question for a wife to ask her husband or vice versa. 0.99

00:10:24.320 The problem is that apparently, stop having sex with other guys was not an acceptable answer to that question.

00:10:33.640 And, you know, because why is that?

00:10:35.440 Well, it's important that the couples in open marriages or open relationships support each other.

00:10:40.200 And supporting each other always means, in their world, bottling up your feelings while your spouse has one affair after another.

00:10:49.980 Which is to say, supporting your spouse in this case means not being a human.

00:10:54.860 It means not responding in a human, natural way to the fact that your spouse is serially unfaithful.

00:11:03.680 Now, if you're wondering, though, what this kind of support looks like in practice,

00:11:10.740 here's a video from a popular polyamory TikTok account called Remodeled Love.

00:11:16.440 And in the video, we see what is apparently a husband gushing over his wife's latest boyfriend.

00:11:26.840 Unfortunate choice of words there, perhaps.

00:11:28.920 But anyway, watch.

00:11:31.000 What I was just saying is that this man gets it, okay? 0.99

00:11:34.940 Because you are a f***ing catch. 0.97

00:11:37.120 And he makes an effort. 0.99

00:11:39.440 He puts intentionality into his communication.

00:11:42.500 He comments on your posts and your stuff.

00:11:45.400 He makes plans.

00:11:46.460 He wants to be around.

00:11:47.580 He's proactive. 0.80

00:11:48.920 He's got a great f***ing attitude, just in general.

00:11:51.300 And he's just a delight to be around. 0.92

00:11:53.140 And you deserve someone.

00:11:55.380 And he's a pretty great lover, apparently, as well.

00:11:58.420 So, these are all of the things that you've been wanting.

00:12:03.940 And I'm just telling Stargazer here over text that there's, while you've had a lot of great partners,

00:12:09.800 there's always been crucial pieces of intentionality missing.

00:12:12.880 But this man gets it.

00:12:14.300 Now, if you didn't know any better and you saw that video, you would think that this was, you know,

00:12:20.280 this was the woman's gay best friend and not her husband.

00:12:24.120 And then when you're told the context, you realize that your original assumption was still basically correct for all intents and purposes.

00:12:31.900 Now, you may be asking yourself, are any of these people actually happy living this way?

00:12:38.660 Because, again, if you're a normal person and you see all this and you hear all this, you think, well, that just sounds totally miserable.

00:12:44.620 Like, that sounds, it's like a walking nightmare, a waking nightmare every single day.

00:12:49.960 Who would want to live this way?

00:12:51.180 Right. That polyamorous quintuple that we talked about at the start of the monologue, they did their best to appear happy.

00:12:59.000 And then a few months later, one of them landed in jail for nearly beating the woman's five-month-old child to death.

00:13:04.420 The guy in that video we just played a moment ago is trying his best to appear happy and, quote-unquote, supportive.

00:13:10.380 But if you listen to these people speak for longer than 20 seconds, which is not an easy task, I admit,

00:13:17.120 you'll find that their deep, profound unhappiness eventually comes seeping through.

00:13:22.720 And soon it's the only thing you can see when you look at them.

00:13:26.280 So the facade of happiness lasts for about 20 seconds.

00:13:29.620 And then if you listen for longer than that, all the rest of it is, oh, dear God, we are desperately unhappy.

00:13:36.200 Indeed, even in these propaganda pieces meant to promote polyamory, still the majority of the word count is devoted to explaining how the participants deal with their resentment and jealousy.

00:13:50.440 So jealousy, by their own account, is an ever-present feature of their lives.

00:13:55.340 Now, that's not the case in a healthy, monogamous relationship. 0.99

00:13:58.560 In a healthy, monogamous marriage, which is to say a real marriage, jealousy really shouldn't even come up.

00:14:06.200 If you trust your spouse, your spouse is faithful, nothing to be jealous about.

00:14:12.800 But in these people's lives, it's just every single second of the day.

00:14:16.680 But they have their ways of explaining that away.

00:14:18.560 So back to the New York Magazine article again briefly.

00:14:22.200 Quote, celebrating your lover while they marry their partner, while supporting your lover's lover's lover,

00:14:27.320 while they go through it, is an example of what Anna calls living life on hard mode.

00:14:32.680 There's a real sense of connection that I think comes from doing hard things.

00:14:35.500 And I'm someone who loves to do hard things, Sarah explains further.

00:14:40.100 Some people like to run marathons.

00:14:42.360 We like to do polyamory, complex relationship stuff.

00:14:49.340 Sarah's favorite activity for the two of us to do is couples therapy, Nick says, smiling.

00:14:54.540 Navigating the relationship dynamics is kind of generally a fun thing for us.

00:14:57.960 It's like for relationship nerds.

00:15:05.760 You know, there's a lot of different puns you could make, and Sarah talking about she likes to do hard things. 1.00

00:15:09.260 But, you know, we're not going to get into that.

00:15:10.400 And this is another tangent I'm not going to get into right now again. 0.97

00:15:14.200 But here's more proof that most therapists are completely useless.

00:15:20.680 I mean, these two are apparently seeing a couples therapist, like, recreationally. 0.64

00:15:25.000 And this couples therapist has, we can assume, given them advice that does not include stop engaging in serial adultery.

00:15:35.200 So they are a couple that is constantly in a state of adultery, and they're going to a couples therapist.

00:15:40.640 And given the fact that they keep going back to their therapist, we can assume the therapist has never once said to them,

00:15:46.260 you know, one thing that could make things better for you guys?

00:15:48.080 Stop having sex with people that are not each other. 0.99

00:15:52.480 But aside from the fact that therapy is so often a scam,

00:15:54.880 what we see here is the familiar attempt to paint sin and failure and selfishness as complexity.

00:16:01.260 You know, their open marriage is making them both miserable,

00:16:03.460 but that's only because it's hard, you know,

00:16:07.420 and it's hard in the same way that running a marathon is hard, they say.

00:16:11.460 And the analogy is interesting because, of course,

00:16:13.500 running a marathon is exactly what they are not doing.

00:16:17.640 Okay, a monogamous marriage can much more accurately be compared to a marathon.

00:16:22.820 Now, I don't really like that comparison because a marathon, to me,

00:16:25.700 just seems totally miserable from start to finish, which marriage is not.

00:16:29.520 But at least marathons take commitment and perseverance.

00:16:34.880 And those are the two things that polyamorous people absolutely avoid at all costs.

00:16:41.320 Being polyamorous isn't hard in the sense that marathons are hard.

00:16:45.860 These kind of relationships are hard in the sense that it's hard to be a heroin addict, 0.76

00:16:49.840 you know, in the sense that it's hard to be a pathological liar because you have to keep up with all the lies.

00:16:54.340 It's hard not because you're taking on a challenge or you're doing something difficult but worthwhile, 0.86

00:16:59.980 but because you are a weak person following your most base desires,

00:17:04.180 entirely unwilling to control your urges or strive for virtue.

00:17:08.100 That's the kind of hard we're talking about.

00:17:11.220 You know, your life is hard not because you're doing hard things,

00:17:14.400 but because you refuse to do hard things.

00:17:16.380 It is hard in the way that it's hard to be weak,

00:17:18.860 not in the way that it's hard to be strong.

00:17:20.820 Those are very different kinds of difficulty.

00:17:23.920 And the difference is that there is no true happiness,

00:17:26.540 there's no true joy available at the other end of the difficulties

00:17:30.460 that you are experiencing as weak and unfaithful people.

00:17:36.380 You know, unlike if you are strong and virtuous and trying to be committed

00:17:40.320 and faithful and a good spouse,

00:17:43.380 you know, there's hardships and difficulties that come in that sense in family life.

00:17:48.780 But at the other end of it is immense joy.

00:17:52.720 Whereas with this kind of hardship and difficulty,

00:17:54.720 at the other end of it is just more hardship and difficulty.

00:18:00.060 So a monogamous marriage, which is to say, again, a real marriage,

00:18:03.500 will have hardship, sure.

00:18:04.960 You're not going to be on cloud nine every moment of the day until death do you part.

00:18:08.500 That's just not reality.

00:18:09.380 But there is immense joy available to you if you both work for it.

00:18:13.460 In the case of the non-monogamous marriage,

00:18:15.520 the open relationship, which is to say the fake marriage,

00:18:17.780 there's no joy ever available.

00:18:20.520 The most you can hope for is momentary pleasure,

00:18:22.700 which is something you could have gotten in monogamy as well. 0.85

00:18:25.280 So there's nothing you can get out of it that's good that you couldn't have gotten

00:18:28.020 with a real marriage.

00:18:29.880 There's lots of bad stuff that you will get out of it

00:18:32.140 that you would not have gotten out of it had you had a real marriage.

00:18:36.460 You know, in a real marriage, a monogamous marriage, 0.70

00:18:38.420 you could have had the pleasure and the joy

00:18:40.140 if you had had the discipline and integrity to go get it.

00:18:43.780 So there's no doubt that these non-monogamous groupings

00:18:46.620 are full of absolutely miserable, self-hating, jealousy-riddled people

00:18:50.160 trying to find a way to be happy in an arrangement 0.95

00:18:52.580 that churns out nothing but despair and anxiety every single day. 1.00

00:18:56.620 That's the reality for the poor fools on the ground 0.99

00:18:59.540 who are trying to actually live like this, 1.00

00:19:01.160 trying to live like beasts instead of human beings,

00:19:03.960 like cats instead of people.

00:19:06.480 And by the way, by focusing on the unhappiness of the adults involved,

00:19:10.200 I don't mean to suggest that their suffering is the most dire side effect

00:19:14.040 or consequence of polyamory.

00:19:16.340 No, I mean, as we saw at the top, by far the worst thing

00:19:18.960 is the untold misery and trauma and suffering and abuse

00:19:24.100 and worse, suffered by the children who are brought into

00:19:27.120 and brought up in these chaotic, degenerate, and dysfunctional environments.

00:19:31.900 So as always, children are the real victims here.

00:19:34.780 But what about the elites who are pushing this?

00:19:36.660 I mean, what do they get out of it?

00:19:40.140 Why has the media jumped on board the polyamory train all at once

00:19:44.880 with such coordination?

00:19:46.840 Well, because this is the next step in the destruction of the nuclear family.

00:19:51.060 Some of us conservatives, not enough of us, but some of us,

00:19:55.380 predicted 10 years ago that this is where it would all lead.

00:19:59.720 You know, after Obergefell, there are some of us who said,

00:20:04.260 this is what's happening next.

00:20:05.300 And it's happening.

00:20:07.460 We said that the assault on marriage would not simply end there.

00:20:12.040 It would continue to the next destination.

00:20:13.800 Of course, we were laughed at and we were accused of engaging in a slippery slope fallacy.

00:20:18.740 But as always, it turned out that the slope was as slippery as we said.

00:20:22.400 And the only thing fallacious about it are the arguments presented by the people

00:20:25.760 who are trying to expand the definition of marriage into oblivion.

00:20:28.780 So that's where the fallacy is.

00:20:31.300 But the slippery slope is real.

00:20:32.760 Now, don't give us too much credit for being right, though.

00:20:36.440 Like, it didn't take a profit or a genius to see this coming.

00:20:39.920 The marital union has two essential dimensions.

00:20:43.380 It is fundamentally, in principle, procreative.

00:20:45.540 And it is monogamous and committed.

00:20:50.340 Once they waged an assault on one dimension, it was only a matter of time before they moved

00:20:54.060 on to the next.

00:20:54.560 And it really didn't even matter which one they started with, because the end result is

00:20:58.680 the same.

00:20:59.380 So wherever it began, we know where they want it to end, with the death of the family, which

00:21:05.980 has always been the number one enemy and the greatest of all threats to the leftist elites

00:21:09.840 who run our country.

00:21:10.980 They cannot enact their agenda and exercise total control over a culture that is comprised

00:21:16.220 of strong, loving, individual family units where children are raised by caring mothers and

00:21:21.160 protective fathers.

00:21:21.860 They cannot control—if that's the way society is set up, they are—there's nothing they

00:21:29.000 could do.

00:21:29.320 The elites, for all their money and power, would be rendered nearly impotent if that's

00:21:34.520 the kind of society we had, which is why they have to tear down the family and have been

00:21:39.620 trying to do so for many decades.

00:21:42.060 And tragically, they have largely succeeded.

00:21:44.220 They haven't succeeded, anyway, on a general level.

00:21:50.080 But I can tell you, they have not torn down my family, and they never will.

00:21:54.640 And hopefully they haven't torn down yours either.

00:21:57.700 Whatever you do, don't let them.

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00:23:07.720 Well, for those who don't follow football, the NFL playoffs are currently underway.

00:23:12.540 My Baltimore Ravens are playing on Saturday against the Houston Texans, and that's neither

00:23:17.220 here nor there.

00:23:17.900 I just want to mention it, you know, because I'm excited about it.

00:23:21.100 So much to my chagrin, nobody in the audience cares about football.

00:23:25.320 You guys, you don't care about football, and you don't care about aliens.

00:23:28.560 And those are like half of the things I care about.

00:23:31.240 And yet somehow we make this relationship work.

00:23:33.160 You know, I don't know how we do it, but we do.

00:23:34.920 So anyway, for the teams who didn't make the playoffs, it's been a bit of a bloodbath

00:23:38.460 for coaches.

00:23:39.760 Lots of coaches are getting fired.

00:23:41.200 You know, as always happens at the end of the regular season.

00:23:43.540 And the difference is that this time you've got some legendary coaches that are getting

00:23:49.560 the boot, including Bill Belichick from the New England Patriots after 475 years as their

00:23:54.620 head coach and after winning like 83 Super Bowls or whatever it was, he's now gone.

00:23:59.460 And a few days ago, his replacement was announced.

00:24:02.860 And the guy taking over is named Gerard Mayo.

00:24:06.320 He's 37 years old.

00:24:07.640 He's a former player.

00:24:09.040 He has no head coaching experience.

00:24:10.260 He has very little coaching experience in general.

00:24:12.340 And he's the guy they're bringing in to take over the most successful, you know, take over

00:24:18.280 for the most successful NFL coach of all time.

00:24:20.940 So we'll see how that works out.

00:24:22.720 I'm guessing it will work out very poorly.

00:24:24.680 That's my prediction.

00:24:26.040 In fact, I'm even more sure that it will work out poorly after watching the introductory

00:24:30.660 press conference for the new coach yesterday. 0.73

00:24:33.300 Gerard Mayo, I guess we should mention now, is black.

00:24:36.740 And that's a fact that shouldn't matter and shouldn't even be notable, especially in 0.56

00:24:40.260 the NFL, when like 70% of everybody in the NFL at every level is black.

00:24:45.000 But it does matter because it became, of course, a focal point during the press conference,

00:24:50.140 which in turn made the press conference a subject of discussion on social media with lots of

00:24:54.620 people sharing their opinions about it.

00:24:56.920 So first of all, just as context, this is maybe worth noting that Mayo explained in his

00:25:02.760 opening remarks that after retiring from the Patriots as a player, he was first a player and

00:25:07.380 now he's a coach.

00:25:08.140 But as retiring as a player, he initially left football and went to go work in the financial

00:25:13.580 field.

00:25:14.400 And it was while working in finance that he learned a valuable lesson that will help him

00:25:20.080 as an NFL coach.

00:25:21.760 And here he is explaining that lesson.

00:25:24.100 I took a break.

00:25:25.100 I went to Optum.

00:25:25.980 I needed a break from Bill.

00:25:27.100 I went to Optum for about four years and I came back.

00:25:32.460 And one thing I came back with, I learned a lot at Optum, Larry Renfro, Mike Mateo, those

00:25:37.400 guys.

00:25:37.920 I learned a lot at Optum about diversity, right?

00:25:42.600 About diversity and inclusion.

00:25:44.700 And you better believe it, being the first black coach here in New England means a lot

00:25:48.360 to me.

00:25:50.740 But those guys taught me, you have to take ideas from other people, black, white, green,

00:25:56.260 yellow, it really doesn't matter.

00:25:58.000 Old, young.

00:25:59.820 Yes, this is an NFL head coach taking over for the greatest coaching legend in the history

00:26:03.940 of the sport, explaining how he learned about the importance of diversity and inclusion

00:26:08.380 while working in finance.

00:26:11.380 If you are a Patriots fan, it's hard to imagine a more discouraging thing to hear from the

00:26:17.560 new head coach of your team.

00:26:19.740 I mean, there are worse things, I guess.

00:26:21.180 He could have said that he learned about diversity and inclusion from watching Dylan Mulvaney

00:26:25.880 TikToks.

00:26:28.220 I mean, they could have actually hired Dylan Mulvaney to coach the team.

00:26:31.740 That would be worst of all.

00:26:33.160 We're not quite there yet.

00:26:34.240 We'll be there in a few years.

00:26:35.300 So that's where we are now.

00:26:38.660 But in any event, this comment about diversity and inclusion, I think, lends some context to

00:26:43.460 what happened next.

00:26:44.480 During the media questions, during that portion of the event, when they took questions, Mayo and

00:26:50.360 the owner of the team, Robert Kraft, were asked, of course, about the significance of Mayo being a

00:26:56.160 black head coach.

00:26:57.700 And Robert Kraft gave basically a good answer. 0.86

00:27:00.640 He said that he hired the best man for the job, and that man just so happened to be black.

00:27:05.580 He said that Mayo's color is not relevant to him. 0.95

00:27:07.940 He wasn't looking to hire a black man.

00:27:09.300 He was just looking to hire the best guy.

00:27:11.420 And this is the best guy, in his opinion. 0.97

00:27:13.420 Happens to be black. 1.00

00:27:14.980 It doesn't matter.

00:27:17.360 So that's the right answer.

00:27:19.040 Like, that's the correct answer.

00:27:20.060 That's a good answer.

00:27:21.880 I don't know if it's true.

00:27:23.480 You know, I don't know if that's actually accurate.

00:27:26.460 I'm not sure if they hired the best man for the job or if they were looking to make a diversity

00:27:29.840 hire.

00:27:30.540 We do know that the NFL does a whole hell of a lot to incentivize slash force teams to at

00:27:35.920 least consider, quote unquote, minority candidates.

00:27:38.800 And I have to say, quote unquote, minority candidates, because, again, in the context of the NFL,

00:27:42.300 black men are not the minority.

00:27:45.680 So those are not minority candidates, by any stretch of the imagination, in the NFL.

00:27:49.580 But anyway, that's the answer that he gave.

00:27:53.040 And we have no reason to believe that it's not true.

00:27:56.420 But Gerard Mayo himself had a different take.

00:27:59.640 In fact, in his answer, he kind of rebuked indirectly the owner who was sitting right next

00:28:05.320 to him, and he said this.

00:28:07.340 I do see color, because I believe if you don't see color, you can't see racism.

00:28:13.700 And whatever happens, black, white, disabled person, even someone with disabilities, I always,

00:28:22.020 you know, for the most part, people are like, you know, when they're young, they kind of make

00:28:25.980 the spot hot.

00:28:26.960 Younger people know what that means.

00:28:28.980 But what I would say is, like, no, I want you to be able to go up to those people and really

00:28:33.780 understand those people.

00:28:35.240 So it goes back to whatever it is, black, white, yellow, it really doesn't matter.

00:28:40.600 But it does matter.

00:28:41.580 So we can try to fix a problem that we all know we have.

00:28:44.140 Okay, now, as I said, that clip went viral, and lots of people did not like Mayo's statement

00:28:50.880 that he does see color.

00:28:52.100 Like, that's the thing people are kind of focusing in on, is that he said that he does

00:28:56.160 see color.

00:28:57.040 But that's not the problem here.

00:28:58.400 Okay, that is not the issue with what he said.

00:29:00.000 Of course he sees color.

00:29:01.120 We all do.

00:29:01.840 Like, we all notice the races of the people that we are interacting with.

00:29:07.220 Saying that you don't see color is, it's nonsensical.

00:29:09.940 It's like saying you don't see height.

00:29:11.260 Well, I don't see height.

00:29:12.040 I don't even notice.

00:29:12.800 Like, of course you notice it.

00:29:14.380 If somebody's short, you notice it.

00:29:15.880 If somebody's tall, you notice it.

00:29:16.980 Of course you do.

00:29:19.560 In fact, every time you look at someone, you notice these facts about them.

00:29:23.600 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:29:25.060 We don't have to pretend, and should not pretend, that we don't notice other people's races. 0.97

00:29:30.160 It's completely silly. 0.57

00:29:31.940 So that part is fine. 0.87

00:29:34.980 The rest is the problem.

00:29:36.400 Because first, the reason why he says he sees color is, you know, well, if the reason had

00:29:43.220 been, well, I do see color because I have eyes, and it's a fact about someone that I can see,

00:29:48.000 and so I do see color.

00:29:49.580 If he had said that, then that would be fine.

00:29:50.820 But instead, he says that he sees color so that he can stop racism.

00:29:53.440 So this guy is, according to him, constantly on the lookout for racism.

00:29:58.780 Even though as a black NFL player turned coach who is 37 years old and has been a star athlete

00:30:05.320 all his life, he is unlikely to have ever encountered very much racism.

00:30:11.000 And in fact, it's like almost all but guaranteed that I have encountered more racism than he

00:30:18.700 has.

00:30:19.520 In fact, that's like definite.

00:30:23.300 And in the context of being an NFL player, like as an NFL player and now coach, you're

00:30:29.300 not encountering any racism at all, ever.

00:30:31.640 Like he's just, it just doesn't exist there.

00:30:34.200 Um, yet he's constantly on the lookout for it, he says.

00:30:38.240 And this is what it means to value diversity and inclusion after all.

00:30:43.000 I mean, that's what it means.

00:30:44.020 He said he values diversity and inclusion, and now he's explaining what that means.

00:30:47.280 And this is what they taught him in finance.

00:30:49.960 Instead of teaching him, you know, finance.

00:30:53.580 Also, just the idea that there's anything significant at all about hiring a black coach is, of course, 0.98

00:30:58.700 absurd. 0.77

00:30:59.680 Again, 70% of the NFL is black or more. 0.95

00:31:01.980 There are many black coaches.

00:31:02.880 There are plenty of black head coaches in the history of the league and today.

00:31:07.460 Now, there are fewer black head coaches by proportion, um, which who cares? 1.00

00:31:13.260 Just like there's fewer white people by proportion in pretty much every other position, uh, in

00:31:19.320 the NFL or on the sidelines.

00:31:21.080 But how do you end up with more white head coaches than black? 0.56

00:31:23.500 Well, it's because a black person who is involved in football and interested in football, uh,

00:31:29.180 at that level is just more likely to get into the business as a player.

00:31:32.880 Um, and, and like going back, you know, going back through childhood, if you have a, if you

00:31:39.720 have a black child who's very interested in football, it's the proportions tell us it's 0.99

00:31:46.240 more likely that they're going to get involved as a player.

00:31:49.460 Whereas with, if you have a white kid and plenty of white kids that play football, but as you 0.59

00:31:53.580 go up and up and up, um, it, it, it becomes a less and less white sport, shall we say? 0.84

00:31:59.020 And so if you, for, for, for white people, if they want to remain involved in the sport 0.52

00:32:03.120 at that level, the more likely to do it on the sidelines.

00:32:05.200 Like that's just, that's, that's the way it works out.

00:32:07.540 Um, and you know, both groups are making millions of dollars, uh, both are doing fine, whether

00:32:13.300 they're players or coaches.

00:32:14.640 So we don't have to worry about either one of them and there's no racism involved here.

00:32:20.400 But the greater issue I think is just the idea that we need this guy to pontificate about

00:32:26.680 racial issues in the first place.

00:32:28.620 I mean, listen to what he said, listen to what he actually said.

00:32:31.940 So I took the liberty of transcribing it and here's what he actually said, quote, whatever

00:32:39.480 happens, black, white, disabled person, I've always, even somebody with disabilities, I

00:32:43.480 always, for the most part, people are like, you know, when you're young, they kind of make

00:32:47.140 the spot hot.

00:32:47.880 Younger people know what that means.

00:32:49.320 But I would say, what I would say is like, no, I want you to be able to go up to these

00:32:53.020 people and really understand these people.

00:32:54.360 So it goes back to whatever it is, black, white, yellow, it really doesn't matter, but it

00:32:57.980 does matter.

00:32:58.540 So we can try to fix the problem that we all know we have.

00:33:02.760 I'm not trying to be funny here.

00:33:04.000 I have no idea what any of that means.

00:33:06.920 There's not one coherent thought in that whole jumble.

00:33:09.900 It's just babbling nonsense.

00:33:11.540 It doesn't mean anything.

00:33:13.460 We understand the basic gist that he's trying to articulate some anti-racism thing because

00:33:19.300 he starts off by saying, I do see color, we got to spot racism, like that part.

00:33:23.160 And so that we can guess that the rest of it is trying to elaborate on that point, but

00:33:29.680 it doesn't actually make any sense.

00:33:31.940 Um, you know, if I, if I were to read you that transcript and without any context, you

00:33:38.180 would honestly, again, not trying to be funny, you would honestly assume that I am reading

00:33:42.940 a transcript from somebody who was having a stroke or you would think it was a Joe Biden

00:33:46.500 speech, which is, which is basically the same thing.

00:33:48.360 Now, here's the point.

00:33:51.020 I don't blame Gerard Mayo for, for that.

00:33:56.180 He's a football coach.

00:33:57.700 He was a player before that.

00:33:59.680 And for all I know, he'll be a great football coach.

00:34:02.400 Again, I'm skeptical of hiring somebody with such little experience, uh, to replace, especially

00:34:08.100 the most legendary NFL coach of all time, but you could end up being plenty of coaches that

00:34:11.860 have been hired at that age and then end up being great coach.

00:34:14.280 So he could be a great coach.

00:34:15.800 Um, uh, he, he knows plenty about football.

00:34:19.780 Uh, he knows a lot more than I do about it, but he's not a social commentator.

00:34:24.120 Okay.

00:34:24.320 He's not a philosopher.

00:34:25.220 That's why we don't need any time you got any of these people in sports, like with very

00:34:30.540 rare exception, very rare exception.

00:34:33.320 Most of the time you got these people in sports, they're asked some question at a press conference.

00:34:37.220 Tell us about the significance of the racial this and that. 0.99

00:34:40.460 What they have to say is if you can even understand what they're trying to say, it's like the dumbest

00:34:45.580 thing you've ever heard because this is not, this is not what these, uh, people, this is 0.83

00:34:51.000 not their job.

00:34:52.100 Right.

00:34:52.460 And this is not, they, they live their lives obsessed with football is all they think about

00:34:57.320 is football, which makes a lot of sense if you're in the football business.

00:35:01.820 Um, but we don't need these guys to give us sermons.

00:35:04.320 And in fact, it would just be better if they didn't, it really would be.

00:35:09.100 All right.

00:35:10.380 I want to move to this, this interesting report from News Nation about the rising problem of

00:35:16.740 marijuana induced psychosis.

00:35:18.920 And, uh, this is the part where all the libertarians in the audience, you know, if you were tracking

00:35:25.280 along with most of the show up until now, well, if you're a libertarian, you probably were

00:35:27.980 not on board with the stuff about open marriages anyway.

00:35:30.560 But, uh, so once again, you're going to be upset with what we have to say about this.

00:35:33.840 But anyway, here's, uh, the report from News Nation.

00:35:35.840 New data is suggesting that teenagers who use marijuana are experiencing psychotic episodes

00:35:42.500 along with it.

00:35:43.400 Yeah.

00:35:43.420 Kelsey's back with details.

00:35:45.220 Well, Mark and Adrienne, when you take a look at the numbers, this really is alarming.

00:35:48.740 So the DEA says that the average amount of THC concentration in a product has more than

00:35:53.420 tripled in the last 30 years.

00:35:55.980 Now, many Americans believe that cannabis is harmless, but we spoke to parents who say

00:36:00.180 this drug took their son's life.

00:36:03.980 His daily drug of choice was marijuana and marijuana has the highest conversion rate to

00:36:08.920 psychosis more so than any other drug.

00:36:12.780 Yes.

00:36:13.300 Had our son never smoked marijuana, I believe he would firmly be here today.

00:36:17.840 The buckets has said that their son, Randy, started smoking pot as a freshman in high school.

00:36:22.600 His habit then got out of control.

00:36:24.760 Doctors told him his marijuana use was triggering psychotic episodes.

00:36:28.560 Randy then took his own life at 21 years old, and his family believes that marijuana is

00:36:34.220 to blame.

00:36:35.220 But Randy's parents are not alone here.

00:36:37.700 According to analytic firm Truveta, marijuana-induced psychosis has gone up more than 50% since 2019.

00:36:45.780 And a study published by the American Journal of Psychiatry found that experiencing just one

00:36:50.640 psychotic episode after cannabis use can be harmful.

00:36:53.920 In fact, it increased the risk of developing schizophrenia or bipolar disorder by 47%.

00:37:00.580 And this risk was found to be higher for those between the ages of 16 and 25.

00:37:06.020 But critics of this psychosis research argue that they should differentiate between the

00:37:10.520 types of marijuana, explaining that all substances can be negative and have negative effects.

00:37:17.140 Marking Adrian.

00:37:17.700 So the numbers here are pretty remarkable.

00:37:20.960 50% increase in marijuana-induced psychosis.

00:37:25.000 One psychotic episode from marijuana increases your chances of developing schizophrenia by 47%.

00:37:29.400 Now, I know there are plenty of people who are big pot smokers, and they will reject this

00:37:35.420 data completely. 0.99

00:37:36.100 But if you hear this and you out of hand just say, that's not true, that's dumb, you're only 0.98

00:37:45.400 doing that because it's your drug of choice. 0.96

00:37:48.040 You have to realize at some level that your refusal to even consider the serious health hazards

00:37:52.580 of marijuana is due to your own very clear personal bias, and also your fear of the possibility

00:37:59.560 that you may have damaged your own health.

00:38:01.400 Now, I would have less of a problem with the legalization of weed all over the country if

00:38:10.680 there was at least some honesty about it.

00:38:13.780 Okay?

00:38:14.080 If there was some honesty, then I still would not be in favor of it at this point.

00:38:18.500 And I've said before, we've talked about this, that there was a time when I bought into the

00:38:23.780 kind of libertarian arguments about marijuana legalization, and it's not any worse than alcohol,

00:38:28.380 and that kind of thing.

00:38:28.760 But you have to be willing to observe the things that are happening around you, and

00:38:36.240 then potentially, if you can believe it, change your mind.

00:38:42.340 And so when we look at what's happened with the legalization of marijuana, it is really

00:38:48.200 hard to argue that it's had any positive effect on our society whatsoever.

00:38:52.460 I mean, I would challenge anyone to point.

00:38:54.040 So look at any of these cities that have legalized it or decriminalized it, and how's that working

00:39:00.420 out?

00:39:01.440 Show me the positive.

00:39:04.180 Okay?

00:39:04.480 What's the benefit that these communities are now reaping because of this?

00:39:09.140 But there's always this fundamental dishonesty about it, and what you get from these pro-weed

00:39:17.180 activist types is just a total refusal to admit any of the dangers or side effects of

00:39:22.480 weed at all.

00:39:24.020 So this stuff was legalized all over the country basically on a fantasy.

00:39:28.140 It was legalized on the urging of people who claim that there's literally no downside to

00:39:32.580 using this drug.

00:39:33.220 It's like magic.

00:39:34.280 It's the one drug in existence that has no downside because it's just a plant, man.

00:39:38.900 It's a plant.

00:39:39.940 As if there are plenty of plants that are poisonous.

00:39:43.420 There are plenty of plants that can kill you.

00:39:45.000 There are plenty of things that occur in the natural world that you should not consume or

00:39:49.640 much less light on fire and inhale.

00:39:52.340 So the fact that it doesn't mean anything, but that's the kind of argument we got with this

00:39:58.580 absolute refusal to engage with any of the side effects.

00:40:02.640 And you don't find that, okay, with people who are opposed, for example, to the prohibition

00:40:08.320 of alcohol, which I'm certainly opposed to that.

00:40:12.820 Still, you don't, none of us deny, like, if you tell us that alcohol can cause liver damage

00:40:17.600 and that DUIs are a big problem and, you know, public drunkenness is bad, like, we're not

00:40:22.240 going to deny that.

00:40:22.960 We're not going to sit here and say, oh, no, that's a bunch of fear-mongering.

00:40:26.460 Like, of course, yeah.

00:40:30.760 So it was always absurd.

00:40:32.200 It was always a lie.

00:40:33.020 And so we're left with the reality, I think, that no matter what, whatever the drug is,

00:40:39.920 right, there are going to be drawbacks.

00:40:41.580 There are going to be side effects.

00:40:43.020 There's going to be the potential for harm, no matter what the drug is.

00:40:47.720 And so that gives us three options when it comes to laws and policies related to these

00:40:53.020 substances.

00:40:54.600 Three broad options.

00:40:55.460 I think one option is to ban literally everything, all alcohol, all tobacco products, all drugs,

00:41:01.340 marijuana, everything, and try to have the world's first teetotaler society, at least

00:41:06.520 on this scale, you know, having a teetotaler site.

00:41:08.960 But I think most people understand that that's not practical.

00:41:10.940 That's not possible.

00:41:12.180 It's not even necessarily desirable, even if you could do it.

00:41:15.920 So no one is, like, seriously suggesting that.

00:41:19.020 Very few people are.

00:41:19.580 So if that's out, then two is to legalize everything entirely.

00:41:25.120 There are plenty of people who have this view, where we say, well, just legalize it.

00:41:29.020 Everything's legal.

00:41:29.560 But we've seen how that's worked out in the cities that have effectively or actually done this.

00:41:36.520 And it has been a total catastrophe.

00:41:39.420 You cannot make any argument, any coherent argument, that any of these communities have

00:41:44.240 benefited in any measurable way by any metric from the total legalization of these drugs.

00:41:51.260 So three, that brings us back to three, which is where we were to start with, which is that

00:41:57.860 most of this stuff is illegal, but then one or two, a few of them remain legal.

00:42:05.100 So you are, you're kind of choosing which of these are going to be legal.

00:42:10.280 And for a long time in this country, alcohol and cigarettes and, you know, and cigars and

00:42:17.880 other tobacco products, just putting it under the cigarette umbrella for now.

00:42:21.640 So for a long time in this country, alcohol and cigarettes were legal.

00:42:26.420 And basically everything else was illegal.

00:42:30.080 And although there are plenty of risks and downsides to those substances, I think it's

00:42:37.020 pretty clear that that was the best, most productive, highest upside, lowest downside option.

00:42:44.740 I think that's clear.

00:42:45.980 Now, alcohol obviously can be incredibly dangerous if abused.

00:42:51.880 If consumed in moderation, then it's fine.

00:42:55.380 It just makes people a little looser, a little more social, a little less stressed out.

00:42:59.960 And cigarettes obviously have their downside.

00:43:01.780 I don't smoke cigarettes.

00:43:04.800 You know, and that's largely because of the downsides that I do recognize.

00:43:08.740 But, you know, at least nicotine tends to make people more energized, more focused.

00:43:12.760 You know, there's no real, like if you're around someone who smokes, if you're standing right

00:43:19.180 next to someone who is actually in the act of smoking a cigarette and you don't like the

00:43:23.280 smell, I don't actually mind the smell, but then that might be a downside.

00:43:25.920 But other than that, like being around people who smoke cigarettes is not a problem.

00:43:31.980 You know, they're not, there's nothing they're going to do.

00:43:33.920 There's nothing about them.

00:43:34.720 And that's going to be a problem.

00:43:36.780 Being in a society where almost everyone smokes cigarettes is not really a problem.

00:43:42.520 We were a country where, for a long time, where everybody was smoking cigarettes and

00:43:48.940 everybody was drinking whiskey.

00:43:49.900 You know, aside from the 13 years during Prohibition, we were a country for a long time where that

00:43:54.840 was like pretty much everyone was using tobacco products and everybody was drinking whiskey.

00:43:58.520 And during that period, we were the greatest country in the world.

00:44:03.540 Like we were going to the moon and winning world wars and we had strong families and strong

00:44:10.180 communities.

00:44:10.940 Now, I'm not saying that those things happened because of alcohol and cigarettes, right?

00:44:15.580 I'm saying that alcohol and cigarettes did not prevent those things from happening.

00:44:18.980 That is pretty clear, but we don't have to speculate.

00:44:20.960 Can you be a productive, well-ordered society where alcohol and cigarettes are both legal and

00:44:29.620 widely consumed?

00:44:31.540 The answer is yes.

00:44:32.980 100% yes.

00:44:34.040 We know that because we've seen it.

00:44:37.620 What kind of society do we become when you add drugs like marijuana into the mix?

00:44:42.120 We've never been a society where marijuana is both legalized to the extent that it is and

00:44:52.220 as widely consumed as it is right now.

00:44:55.500 And everybody's just walking around stoned all the time.

00:44:59.020 How does that work out?

00:44:59.960 Like a society where everybody is stoned, is that productive, energetic, successful?

00:45:05.620 Is that a winning society?

00:45:06.980 If we could rewind the tape back to 1900 and do it over again, except that in this case,

00:45:12.800 everyone is smoking weed to the same extent that they are now, do we have all those same

00:45:17.640 successes?

00:45:19.080 I think there's a really good chance we don't.

00:45:22.800 Because we can look around, go to any city where this stuff is legal and you just smell

00:45:27.700 the stench of marijuana everywhere you go and everyone is stoned.

00:45:30.420 This is not a substance that propels people to be productive and energetic and to get

00:45:37.520 things done and all that sort of stuff.

00:45:40.360 And I know when I say that, there's going to be plenty of people saying, oh, I have a PhD

00:45:44.720 and I smoke marijuana all the time.

00:45:47.340 No one is claiming that smoking marijuana is going to prevent you individually from achieving

00:45:53.520 whatever you want to achieve.

00:45:54.460 I'm talking about on a societal level, on a grand scale.

00:45:58.180 You know, we know on a grand scale what society looks like when everyone's drinking alcohol

00:46:03.680 and smoking cigarettes, because that's what it was, you know.

00:46:07.780 And we know that it was pretty good.

00:46:11.320 Like it worked out pretty well.

00:46:13.940 What does it look like when everyone's stoned all the time?

00:46:17.180 We're going to find out.

00:46:18.380 We're finding out right now.

00:46:19.860 I would say the early returns are not good.

00:46:22.540 And I think that that's really, that's the best argument.

00:46:30.360 Like now that we, now that we're not speaking theoretically about these things, we can just

00:46:33.740 look at the new information, look at the data when it comes in.

00:46:38.000 And I think when we do that, we should adjust our, our views on these things.

00:46:44.120 All right.

00:46:45.240 That was only two headlines.

00:46:46.640 It's supposed to be five headlines.

00:46:47.480 It's never actually five, but that was only two.

00:46:48.920 So I will briefly mention this one from the Hill.

00:46:53.940 A new analysis has found that minority Americans will make up the majority of the nation's population

00:46:57.760 by 2050.

00:46:59.020 Using data from the American Community Survey, Collage Group found that since 2021, America's

00:47:04.200 multicultural population has increased by nearly 4 million.

00:47:09.440 About 192.2 million white Americans make up about 58% of the population.

00:47:14.980 Black, Hispanic, Asian, and other races account for about 141.1 million Americans, according

00:47:20.200 to this group.

00:47:21.660 By 2050, Hispanic Americans are expected to have the most population growth, an increase

00:47:25.080 of about 6%, while the white population is expected to decrease by about 11%.

00:47:29.540 And then that leads to a majority multicultural Americans.

00:47:36.260 Now, I don't even know what, like, I, I do know what they're trying to say, because we

00:47:44.360 all do, but in literal terms, multicultural American makes, doesn't mean anything.

00:47:50.120 It doesn't, it makes enough, it makes no sense.

00:47:52.140 It makes about as much sense as person of color does in a literal sense. 0.95

00:47:56.620 Because as I pointed out many times, everyone is a person, everyone has color.

00:48:00.580 The other option is to be translucent, and, and nobody is that, so we all have color.

00:48:07.060 Like, what do you mean you're a person?

00:48:08.280 I'm a person that has color.

00:48:09.480 Like, okay, congratulations, we all do.

00:48:11.720 It's like saying you're a person of, to go back to this analogy from real, it's like saying 0.54

00:48:14.740 you're a person of height.

00:48:16.700 I have a height.

00:48:18.340 What do you think the rest of us are?

00:48:20.020 What do you think is the case for the rest of us?

00:48:23.580 So, and multicultural Americans, the same thing.

00:48:25.700 It doesn't make any sense.

00:48:26.480 And it's also, okay, so you've got multicultural Americans, quote unquote, and then you've

00:48:33.000 got white people, and what are you saying?

00:48:35.760 So we are one, so we're not multicultural, we're, we're single culture people?

00:48:40.680 Is that what you're saying?

00:48:42.600 But hold on, I thought you said that white does not even, is not even a culture.

00:48:47.000 That we don't have a culture, I thought.

00:48:48.360 So which is it?

00:48:49.560 That we have one culture as opposed to multicultural?

00:48:53.740 And when you say multicultural, what do you mean?

00:48:55.280 Like the individual people are multicultural?

00:48:58.120 It doesn't make any sense.

00:49:01.260 But we know what they're trying to say, which is that, because here's what they don't want

00:49:05.800 to say.

00:49:06.840 They say person of color, multicultural Americans, diverse person.

00:49:10.820 That makes the least sense of all when they talk about a diverse, not even a diverse group.

00:49:16.280 Now they say diverse person.

00:49:18.680 The person himself individually is diverse.

00:49:21.880 Again, makes no sense.

00:49:24.400 Because what they don't want to do is just paint this in these stark terms that they really

00:49:31.100 mean it, which is white and non-white.

00:49:34.900 That's all they're talking about.

00:49:36.160 That's all they care about.

00:49:37.260 And so when they talk about, we need more diverse people, we need more non-white people. 1.00

00:49:41.580 And when they're celebrating the rise of multicultural Americans, they are celebrating the rise of 0.81

00:49:45.920 non-white Americans.

00:49:47.020 They are celebrating that there will be fewer white people. 0.93

00:49:48.980 That's what they're celebrating.

00:49:51.120 And that's what's happening here.

00:49:52.840 And this is very interesting because I was told, I have been assured, as we've all been,

00:50:00.280 that this is not happening.

00:50:01.720 That in fact, to talk about this is a white supremacist theory.

00:50:06.800 Right?

00:50:07.040 It's a white supremacist conspiracy theory.

00:50:10.760 A great replacement.

00:50:12.220 It's not happening.

00:50:12.960 So now it's, of course it is happening, but when they say that it's not, if I talk about

00:50:21.360 it and then they shout and say it's not happening, what they're really saying, again, you have

00:50:24.060 to read through the coding.

00:50:25.880 What they're really saying is, you're not allowed to talk about it.

00:50:30.520 We can talk about it and frame it the way that we want it to be framed, but you're not

00:50:35.640 allowed to talk about it.

00:50:36.700 They don't want to say that.

00:50:37.520 So instead, when I talk about it, they just say, it's not happening.

00:50:41.240 And then five seconds later, they're saying, there's fewer white people.

00:50:44.680 Hooray.

00:50:45.600 And that is, in fact, what they are celebrating.

00:50:48.640 But, you know, it's interesting that when you get to the end of this article or towards

00:50:51.520 the end of it, they say, we're hearing from various people, various analysts and everything.

00:50:58.900 We're talking about how great all this is.

00:51:00.020 And then it says, despite the increasing multiculturalism in America, the report found that black Americans

00:51:04.860 are particularly affected by systemic inequalities.

00:51:08.000 Both Hispanics and black Americans are least likely to have earned a bachelor's degree and

00:51:11.380 earn less than the total median population.

00:51:16.260 Okay.

00:51:16.720 So, you know, least likely to earn a college degree means that you are systemically oppressed.

00:51:23.800 Wait a second.

00:51:25.000 Women are now more likely to earn college degrees than men.

00:51:27.440 So does that mean that men also are systemically oppressed?

00:51:30.820 Well, no, not in that case.

00:51:32.040 Not in that case.

00:51:35.660 What this tells us is that they're still hanging on to the victimhood.

00:51:38.720 So they could do a whole article saying that non-white people are taken over.

00:51:43.280 There's fewer white people.

00:51:44.180 This is fantastic.

00:51:45.040 We're so happy about it.

00:51:46.620 But then in the end, they always have to throw in, but, but, wait, but then the people

00:51:51.380 that are going to be in the majority, they're still the victims, just so you know.

00:51:54.660 They're always going to be the victims, and no matter what, they are always the recipients

00:52:00.180 of systemic inequality, no matter what happens.

00:52:05.060 Because no matter what, they cannot let go of the victimhood narrative, because that's

00:52:09.140 all they have, as we know.

00:52:10.620 It's no question that we're living in a clown world.

00:52:12.600 The characters and power are straight out of a carnival.

00:52:15.180 Basic notions of right and wrong, justice, truth, and even reality itself have been thrown

00:52:19.440 out the window.

00:52:20.060 The world's coming to an end.

00:52:21.440 How are we to make sense of it?

00:52:22.640 Well, you can join Jonathan Padjo in the new four-part series, End of the World, as

00:52:27.040 he explains why the world, as we know it, is coming to an end, how to survive it, and

00:52:30.440 how we can plant the seeds for the next world today.

00:52:34.760 In the end of the world, you'll receive a thoughtful framework to make sense of these

00:52:37.860 confusing times and a roadmap to lead us out of the clown world and restore order.

00:52:42.600 All episodes are available now exclusively on Daily Wire+.

00:52:44.420 If you haven't become a member, it's a perfect time to do so.

00:52:47.100 Go to dailywire.com slash subscribe, unmask the carnies, and see beyond the end.

00:52:51.560 Watch End of the World today.

00:52:53.840 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:52:55.320 When businesses and schools were starting shutting down in the United States in 2020, millions of

00:53:07.680 Americans learned about the World Economic Forum for the first time.

00:53:11.580 They heard all about the Great Reset, which was the WEF's plan to build back better, as

00:53:17.700 Biden administration said, by making sure that Americans couldn't own property anymore.

00:53:21.740 They also discovered that just months before the COVID outbreak, the WEF meticulously planned

00:53:27.500 something called Event 201, which was an exercise that was supposedly designed to prepare the

00:53:33.560 world for a pandemic that, in the end, turned out to be strikingly similar to COVID.

00:53:39.400 Imagine that.

00:53:39.960 And of course, millions of Americans learned that the WEF believed very strongly in social

00:53:44.420 distancing and lockdowns.

00:53:46.580 At one point, WEF went so far as to declare that, quote, extreme social distancing is pretty

00:53:50.920 much the only intervention available to help individuals stay healthy.

00:53:54.660 Now, whatever you think of all that, you have to admit that it doesn't exactly square with

00:53:57.280 what we just saw the other day at the 2024 meeting of the World Economic Forum.

00:54:02.840 And this is real footage, we'll play, from one of the WEF's panels on climate change, which

00:54:08.260 featured a variety of business leaders, including the CEO of IKEA, who was there.

00:54:11.960 Towards the end of this panel, a shaman from an Amazon tribe in Brazil is invited onto the

00:54:18.200 stage, and to put it mildly, she does not comply with the infamous social distancing commandments 1.00

00:54:23.960 of the World Economic Forum.

00:54:25.420 In fact, this shaman violates pretty much every fundamental principle of hygiene that you can

00:54:30.460 possibly imagine.

00:54:31.940 And to be clear, this was not a spontaneous moment.

00:54:35.240 The WEF planned it out and invited this shaman, knowing exactly what she would do, and then she 0.91

00:54:40.360 did it.

00:54:40.700 So I want you to watch as the indigenous shaman from some Amazonian tribe walks right up to

00:54:47.860 each panelist at the WEF, and as part of some kind of ritual, sneezes right in their faces.

00:54:54.080 Watch.

00:55:10.700 Watch.

00:55:19.920 Watch.

00:55:28.540 Watch.

00:55:31.840 Watch.

00:55:32.560 Watch.

00:55:33.860 Watch.

00:55:35.140 Watch.

00:55:37.020 Watch.

00:55:38.420 Watch.

00:55:38.600 Watch.

00:55:39.780 as the clip goes on, everybody in the audience erupts in applause. Then several of the elites

00:55:55.480 in Davos give the shaman a hug after receiving her spittle at point-blank range. It's as if the

00:56:02.580 last four years never happened. All that's out the window now. So really, there's two

00:56:08.040 possibilities. Either they're really confident that their 10th COVID booster is 100% effective

00:56:12.240 or there's something else going on here. To figure out exactly what could explain this, I went and

00:56:17.960 looked for the translation of the incantation that this shaman delivered to the folks in Davos

00:56:24.120 just prior to sneezing on them. And here's what she said, apparently. I'm doing my best to do this

00:56:31.160 justice. Quote, the voice of all the people of the forest, us indigenous people, the voice of nature,

00:56:36.980 voice of the forest. We count on you and ask your help, all the people, so that we may unite the

00:56:42.100 hands and hearts and thoughts in the same direction for healing of the planet. And the healing is

00:56:46.300 spiritual. The forest, our forest, is our life. She is asking for help and she is asking that we may

00:56:51.340 all be united in our hearts and in our thoughts. And when we are all united in our hearts and our

00:56:55.500 thoughts, our mother earth will listen to us. So this is kind of as expected, Gaia worship. There's

00:57:03.100 not really any other way of putting it. The most powerful business and political leaders on the

00:57:07.340 planet are effectively acknowledging that they are not, in fact, motivated by science or by data or by

00:57:14.200 anything. This is paganism. The truth is that they want to sabotage energy production and decarbonize the 0.93

00:57:21.360 planet because they idolize the rain gods. These people are pagans. And in ancient times, we know the

00:57:30.620 world was dominated by paganism and then Christianity took over. And now we are plummeting back into 0.99

00:57:36.020 paganism again. Of course, none of these CEOs would be caught dead actually living with some

00:57:42.580 primitive tribe in Brazil. So at some level, they know how preposterous this whole tribal fetish is,

00:57:48.720 but they clearly want to foist it on the rest of us. And that's what their pagan religion commands.

00:57:54.280 And make no mistake, this is paganism in its most primitive form. And we could call it 0.99

00:57:59.280 neo-paganism. And maybe you could because it's a modern phenomenon in some ways. But

00:58:06.860 this is also primitive. And we've seen a lot of this in corporate America lately. You might remember

00:58:12.920 the Apple advertisement from last year, which starred an overweight black woman who's literally 1.00

00:58:17.540 called Mother Earth. And in the ad, Mother Earth talks about how important it is to remove all the

00:58:22.540 carbon from the atmosphere, which of course would instantly kill all human life on the planet. But

00:58:27.060 that's also a feature, not a bug for these people. But Tim Cook and the rest of the Apple executives,

00:58:33.220 they just nod along and they're listening there obediently to Mother Earth. As more and more major

00:58:38.660 corporations adopt paganism, the implications for civilization are stark, obviously. And we'll talk

00:58:45.320 about that before we get to that. It's important to emphasize that freakish primitive displays are

00:58:50.280 nothing new for the World Economic Forum. So here's a clip you might remember from the last meeting of

00:58:55.160 the WEF, where for some reason they decided to put some kind of a musical performance on, and if you

00:59:02.740 could even call it a musical performance. But here it is. Listen.

00:59:05.560 like a flower or cheese. I'll throw my hand back to you. I'll throw my hand back to you. I'll throw my hand back to you.

00:59:12.560 I can sing. I can sing. I'll sing. I'll sing. I can't sing. I'll sing. I'll sing. I'm.

00:59:22.560 Ooooooo, like a flower or a cheek.

00:59:33.780 Out throw my head back and sing, I sing, I sing.

00:59:45.820 Luaidie et. apela rejoice-o beelle?

00:59:52.560 Yeah, actually, I think I'd prefer the witch doctor over that on second thought. 0.91

00:59:57.940 And as amusing as it is to mock these people, the fact remains that they do have a lot of power.

01:00:03.280 And their brand of Gaia worship, like any primitive religion, demands human sacrifice.

01:00:08.700 They want to cause human suffering as an offering to Mother Earth.

01:00:12.600 Of course, they won't suffer. They're not going to suffer themselves.

01:00:16.620 But you will.

01:00:18.160 It's like the Aztec priest is not cutting out his own heart up top the Aztec temple. 0.97

01:00:25.760 No, he's bringing on the slaves to be slaughtered. 0.86

01:00:29.120 And that's the way it's working here.

01:00:30.400 And to that end, watch as a panelist at the WF explains her definition of ecocide, as in genocide of ecology, which she says should be prohibited.

01:00:41.000 Essentially, she's calling for a ban on farming and fishing, which would mean mass starvation and depopulation.

01:00:46.060 I mean, it would mean the death of billions of people, like, within weeks.

01:00:52.920 And that's, of course, what the WF wants. Watch.

01:00:56.480 Ecocide, as a word, is becoming better known around the world.

01:01:01.260 And the concept is generally mass damage and destruction of nature.

01:01:04.260 But legally speaking, what our organisation and other collaborators aim to do is to have this recognised legally as a serious crime.

01:01:13.760 Because one of the issues that sort of pervades all of this discussion is that we have a kind of cultural, very grained habit of not taking damage to nature as seriously as we take damage to people and property.

01:01:25.700 And that, I mean, you know, if you're campaigning for human rights, at least you know mass murder, torture, all of these things are serious crimes.

01:01:33.040 But there's no equivalent in the environmental space.

01:01:35.540 And so, you know, unlike an international crime like genocide that involves a specific intent, with ecocide, what we see is actually what people are trying to do, what businesses are trying to do is make money, is farm, is fish, is do all of these things that are producing energy and so on as well.

01:01:57.360 But what's missing is the awareness and the conscience around the side effects, around the collateral damage that happens with that.

01:02:06.480 Well, the WF knows how this plays out.

01:02:08.620 I mean, they managed to convince Sri Lanka to give up fertilizer because according to the principles of Gaia worship, farming is bad.

01:02:14.500 So the WF told Sri Lanka that if they wanted to get a high ESG score, which is something that the Great Reset demands, then they'd have to ban fertilizer.

01:02:22.380 Well, what happened as a result?

01:02:24.080 The country's economy collapsed.

01:02:25.380 The president fled under the cover of darkness.

01:02:28.340 Rioters took over government buildings.

01:02:30.480 There were widespread power outages and food shortages.

01:02:34.000 The WF responded to this colossal disaster by removing a page from their website about how Sri Lanka would, quote, be rich by 2025.

01:02:42.340 Yeah, real rich they are now.

01:02:44.280 They pretended like they had no idea what happened to Sri Lanka.

01:02:46.460 Of course, most people in our country never even heard about it at all.

01:02:50.740 And that's because they want to keep pushing ESG scores so they can ruin other countries.

01:02:55.380 And we have indeed seen that happen, too.

01:02:57.700 Similar economic collapses have taken place in the Netherlands and Ghana in recent years.

01:03:01.640 Both countries with high ESG scores, incidentally.

01:03:05.140 To his credit, the newly elected president of Argentina, Javier Malay, spoke out against the agenda of the WF at the WF this week.

01:03:15.560 And he was kind of the lone voice of sanity.

01:03:19.240 He condemned these people to their faces.

01:03:21.180 You could say that he kind of had his Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes moment.

01:03:25.700 Listen.

01:03:26.460 Good afternoon.

01:03:28.440 Thank you very much.

01:03:29.920 Today, I'm here to tell you that the Western world is in danger.

01:03:37.040 And it is in danger because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty.

01:03:51.740 Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by some well-meaning individuals willing to help others and others motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste,

01:04:07.340 the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism.

01:04:14.240 We're here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world.

01:04:24.380 Rather, they are the root cause.

01:04:26.880 Do believe me?

01:04:28.160 No one better place than us, Argentines, to testify to these two points.

01:04:33.420 Now, a lot remains to be seen as to whether Javier Malay will follow through on his campaign promises.

01:04:38.400 So far, he appears to be doing so.

01:04:39.840 But the bigger issue is that very few leaders, if any, are actually saying the same things in this country.

01:04:47.260 And that leaves us vulnerable, just as the Netherlands and Sri Lanka were vulnerable.

01:04:52.600 The WEF certainly appears to recognize that, which is why they're already planning to get another lockdown.

01:04:57.580 And this time, it's for something called Disease X that has not yet been identified.

01:05:03.020 But watch.

01:05:03.640 After we started putting a placeholder, you know, the first that came was in the Disease X is COVID.

01:05:15.840 So we have experience now.

01:05:18.040 And we are preparing based on that experience.

01:05:20.700 A lot of assessment has been done by independent panels and experts.

01:05:26.080 And based on the recommendation, many initiatives have, we have already started many initiatives.

01:05:33.980 And then the other key in order to have better prepared and to address the Disease X is the pandemic agreement.

01:05:40.920 The pandemic agreement can bring all the experience, all the challenges that we have faced, and all the solutions into one.

01:05:48.580 And that agreement can help us to prepare for the future in a better way.

01:05:56.620 Because this is about a common enemy.

01:05:59.760 And without a shared response, starting from the preparedness, you know, we will face the same problem as COVID.

01:06:09.420 And deadline for the pandemic agreement is May 2024.

01:06:14.120 And member states are negotiating.

01:06:15.780 This is between countries.

01:06:16.880 And I hope they will deliver this pandemic agreement by that time, on the deadline.

01:06:25.660 Now, that guy is the director of the World Health Organization.

01:06:28.760 He doesn't even have a medical degree.

01:06:31.000 During COVID, we learned that he's a shill for the Chinese Communist Party. 0.91

01:06:34.180 And yet, here he is still in power.

01:06:36.340 He's already planning for the next pretext to shut down all the schools and close all the businesses.

01:06:41.380 And that's inevitably going to happen.

01:06:44.240 It might happen this year.

01:06:45.320 It might happen in a decade.

01:06:46.240 You know, if you think we can just move on from COVID and let's not talk about it, let's not worry about the lessons, let's not have any accountability, which is the attitude a lot of people have about it, right and left.

01:06:56.000 And when they do, remember that clip of the shaman that they imported from the Amazon to spit in their faces. 0.99

01:07:11.380 Pull up that footage on YouTube, assuming they haven't taken it down by that point.

01:07:15.520 Share it as widely as you can.

01:07:18.200 Because these are people whose only concern is causing as much suffering as possible in order to appease their sky god.

01:07:25.680 They don't remotely care about science or good governance any more than the Aztecs did.

01:07:30.260 And that's why the World Economic Forum and all the pagan elites who are now covered in the mucus of a tribal witch doctor are today, needless to say, canceled. 1.00

01:07:43.060 That'll do it for the show today.

01:07:44.040 Thanks for watching.

01:07:44.520 Thanks for listening.

01:07:45.400 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:07:46.340 Godspeed.

01:07:46.620 Godspeed.

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