The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1297 - UFC Fighter Delivers A Masterclass In How To Deal With The Media

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, a UFC fighter gives conservatives and especially Republican

00:00:03.780 politicians a masterclass in how to deal with the media and leftist false narratives. It's a class

00:00:09.340 that a lot of them desperately need. Also, a Democratic congresswoman claims that she was

00:00:13.480 the victim of a racist incident at the Capitol. Her story is a bit dubious, to put it mildly.

00:00:19.200 Plus, Democrats work on a new federal law to ensure the humane treatment of rodents. This

00:00:23.720 is from the same party that, of course, supports the mass slaughter of human children. In our 0.79

00:00:27.880 daily cancellation, a dispute at a drive-thru window has gone viral. Everybody on all sides

00:00:33.140 of this issue is wrong, as usual. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

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00:01:47.840 So it was just a few days ago that a Republican lawmaker from South Carolina named Nancy Mace 0.99

00:01:53.580 invoked the invented concept of white privilege in a congressional hearing. She was supposedly trying

00:01:58.740 to put Hunter Biden in his place by saying that he's the beneficiary of white privilege because he

00:02:03.520 could ignore subpoenas without suffering any consequences. But as I explained on the show at the

00:02:07.740 time, all Nancy Mace achieved was to legitimize the left's framing, which is fundamentally anti-white

00:02:14.200 and fraudulent. Hunter Biden does not benefit from his skin color. He benefits from the fact that he's

00:02:19.060 the son of the president of the United States. And there's a lot of privilege that goes with that

00:02:23.480 regardless of what your skin color happens to be. And everybody knows that. So all Nancy Mace

00:02:27.280 accomplished was reinforcing a false narrative that demonizes millions of white people and accuses them

00:02:32.420 of having unearned privilege simply because they were born with a certain skin color. She also managed to

00:02:37.600 derail the entire hearing by allowing Democrats to harp on their own personal definitions of white

00:02:42.720 privilege instead of discussing the subject at hand. And they were quite happy to not discuss

00:02:47.080 the subject at hand. So Nancy Mace kind of threw them a lifeline so that they could change the 0.98

00:02:52.220 subject. Now, as counterproductive and idiotic as Mace's stunt was, it wasn't surprising. Mace isn't 1.00

00:02:58.420 exactly a staunch far-right conservative. She raises money for Liz Cheney. She came out in support of the 1.00

00:03:04.480 so-called LGBTQ movement. She voted to hold former Trump advisor Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress.

00:03:10.820 This is the track record of someone you might expect to adopt the left's narrative on white

00:03:17.440 privilege because she's adopted so many of the left's other narratives. Now, the much bigger problem 0.72

00:03:23.140 is that Nancy Mace is just one example of a far larger problem in the Republican Party. And this is

00:03:31.760 one that affects politicians we're told are considerably smarter and more right of center than Nancy

00:03:36.920 Mace. So take Matt Gaetz, for example. Gaetz obviously doesn't comply with the left's new

00:03:42.860 speech code, usually. He publicly humiliated Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of

00:03:48.360 Staff at the time, for teaching soldiers about white rage. He also led the effort to oust House Speaker

00:03:56.160 Kevin McCarthy because he wasn't sufficiently committed to the America First movement. Of course, McCarthy was

00:04:01.420 replaced with a guy who also doesn't appear to be all that committed to the America First movement.

00:04:07.440 But all the same, Gaetz is not someone you would normally expect to pull a Nancy Mace and start

00:04:14.040 adopting the left's framing on identity politics. But this week, that's exactly what Matt Gaetz did.

00:04:21.440 Appearing on Newsmax, Gaetz began talking about Donald Trump's big win in Iowa. And he said that based on his

00:04:27.940 experience on the ground in Iowa, Trump is attracting more, quote unquote, diverse voters, meaning, you

00:04:32.920 know, voters who are not white. And Gaetz presents this as a very, a very good thing. Not just that

00:04:38.960 he's happy that there are minorities voting for Trump, but in fact, he's happy that according to him,

00:04:46.860 the white voters are being replaced by non-white voters. Here's how he phrased it. Listen.

00:04:52.180 What I could tell you is like, for every Karen we lose, there's a, there's a Julio and a Jamal ready

00:04:57.340 to sign up for the MAGA movement. And that abodes well for our ability to be more diverse and to be

00:05:03.040 more durable as we head into. So he says for every Karen we lose, there's a Julio and a Jamal 0.55

00:05:08.940 ready to sign up for the MAGA movement. Now, if we decode the language there, Gaetz is saying that

00:05:15.140 in the freezing tundra of Iowa, he apparently didn't see a lot of white women, but he did see tons of 1.00

00:05:21.540 Hispanics and black people coming out for Donald Trump. You know, they were probably waving the 0.99

00:05:26.440 MAGA flag around in the blizzard or whatever. Now, even if you pretend that's true, which it 0.74

00:05:32.360 clearly isn't, the language Gaetz used in that clip tells you a lot. I mean, no Republican, Gaetz

00:05:40.120 included, would ever dream of speaking the same way about black voters in the reverse. It would never 0.78

00:05:47.360 happen. You would never hear Gaetz say of black voters who don't vote Republican, which is the 0.98

00:05:52.640 vast majority of them, by the way. You never hear him say, oh, we don't need those Jamals. We've got 1.00

00:05:56.920 plenty of white people that take their place. He would never say that. Never in a million years would

00:06:01.700 he say that. He's only going to talk like that about white women or Karens, as he calls them.

00:06:07.620 This is a level of contempt and disregard reserved only for white people. And even Republicans join in. 0.94

00:06:14.860 So that's what I would like to ask Matt Gaetz. Well, you would never say the reverse. You would

00:06:21.620 never say, we don't need the Jamals. We've got white people. Never in a million years would you 1.00

00:06:24.920 say that. You feel perfectly fine saying that about white women. Why is that? Why is it? 0.86

00:06:31.820 Like, in your mind, why is it okay to say it about the one group but not the other?

00:06:36.820 Here's one Republican who is even considered to be far right in Matt Gaetz, who, in that snippet anyway,

00:06:43.360 entirely adopted the left's anti-white rhetoric and racial double standards. That's how pervasive

00:06:49.780 this stuff is. He's happy to attack Karens, but he'd never do the same in reverse because then he'd 0.89

00:06:57.400 be called a racist. And, well, we can't have that. And the other remarkable thing about this clip

00:07:05.160 is how it inverts all of the conservative arguments we've been hearing for the past several years.

00:07:10.120 So we went from, you know, Democrats denying that the great replacement was happening to admitting

00:07:16.780 it and saying that it's good to now Republicans also now agreeing that it's good, apparently, and

00:07:22.980 advocating for a great replacement in their own party. But along with being objectionable on a number

00:07:29.740 of levels, this is also politically suicidal. Okay, it actually isn't at all even close to true that every

00:07:36.720 white female voter Republicans lose they're replacing with a black voter. That is not happening. That is 1.00

00:07:41.900 not true. It's a fantasy. White women still support Republicans in far, far, far greater numbers than 1.00

00:07:50.300 black males. It's not even close. In fact, as Ann Coulter has pointed out many times, the only group that

00:07:57.120 Trump lost ground with in 2020 was white people, specifically white men. So they should be trying to win 0.92

00:08:04.740 those voters back. But instead, their messaging is, well, screw them. We don't need them anyway. 0.98

00:08:11.080 Which is just the dumbest, most politically delusional thing I've ever heard. Republicans 1.00

00:08:17.580 have apparently decided that the key to victory is to pander for the minority vote while alienating

00:08:23.340 explicitly their key constituency. Now, whatever explains this self-defeating embrace of identity

00:08:31.800 politics among conservatives, it's definitely catching on. It's not just Nancy Mace or Matt

00:08:35.440 Gaze doing it. In that same hearing where Nancy Mace talked about white privilege, Georgia Congresswoman

00:08:40.620 Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's another one who, according to the media anyway, they certainly wouldn't say

00:08:46.740 that she's a centrist or that she's a moderate Republican. They would say she's far right, according

00:08:51.080 to them. So in that same hearing, she claimed that Hunter Biden was afraid of her because she's a

00:08:56.740 strong, independent woman. Listen. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Excuse me, Hunter. Apparently,

00:09:03.020 you're afraid of my words. I like to reclaim my time, Mr. Chairman.

00:09:16.460 Wow, that's too bad. I think it's clear and obvious for everyone watching this hearing today

00:09:22.880 that Hunter Biden is terrified of strong, conservative Republican women because he can't

00:09:28.820 even face my words as I was about to speak to him. What a coward. Now, I mean, I can barely watch 1.00

00:09:36.200 that clip without cringing to death. And Republican women, I plead with you to stop this. Just stop it. 1.00

00:09:44.760 Don't go the girl boss routine, okay? It's embarrassing as hell when the left does it, 0.94

00:09:51.660 but it's even worse when you do it. Okay, at least that kind of pandering sounds somewhat natural

00:09:57.560 coming from them because they've been doing it for so long and they sort of own that kind of

00:10:01.880 identity, but they own that. But it's still cringy. For you, it's like, what are you trying to achieve?

00:10:08.740 Who do you think that this is appealing to? He's not afraid because he's a criminal. He's afraid

00:10:13.820 because we're girl bosses, independent women. He doesn't want any part of us. It's hard to think of a

00:10:19.540 better way to torpedo the case against Hunter Biden than to use lines like that. Like when you have a

00:10:24.560 strong case against somebody, you don't say they're afraid because you're a woman. You say they're

00:10:28.720 afraid because of the damning facts and evidence that you've assembled. This is the exact opposite

00:10:33.680 of what Republicans should have done in this hearing, but one after another, they did it.

00:10:37.400 They kept committing to these vapid displays of identity politics over and over again. By the way,

00:10:41.780 Nancy Mace played the girl boss card too in that same exact hearing. So this is two Republican women 0.98

00:10:47.080 in the same hearing playing the sexism card for no reason. It's like, you're on the right side here.

00:10:54.640 The other side has nowhere to hide. Hunter Biden's a criminal. So that's all you need to say. You 0.99

00:11:00.180 don't need, this is, this is, what's even the point? Just a humiliating performance all around.

00:11:06.400 And it's not just confined to that one hearing or to that Matt Gaetz interview. By now, we're all

00:11:12.300 familiar at this point with, with Nikki Haley's constant use of this kind of rhetoric. And in

00:11:17.500 case you somehow missed it, here's just a, a, a mercifully short clip. And I'm using this because

00:11:21.440 it's one of the shortest clips, uh, just to show you what I'm talking about. Listen to say is the

00:11:26.320 fact that I think this is exactly why Margaret Thatcher said, if you want something said, ask a

00:11:31.700 man, if you want something done, ask a woman. Now, of course, Nikki Haley says stuff like this 0.99

00:11:36.400 constantly. Uh, just like the remarks from Nancy Mace or Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gaetz,

00:11:41.040 it's totally indistinguishable from something that AOC might say. It's the most cliched form

00:11:46.620 of gender politics imaginable. It's not just stupid. It adopts the left's basic narrative. 1.00

00:11:51.880 And, and what we're hearing over and over is, is left-wing identity politics, which is a narrative,

00:11:57.300 uh, that has cost millions of people jobs and college admissions and contracting jobs and federal

00:12:02.580 financial assistance and so on. It's been a disaster for this country and needs to stop. And instead of

00:12:07.260 saying that Republicans more and more embrace it and reinforce it at every turn. Why is this

00:12:14.180 happening? Well, at some level, this is of course, an attempt to win over voters. You know, it's a

00:12:19.000 political thing, but on that level, it's, it's obviously a terrible idea. It doesn't work.

00:12:25.080 Okay. You may remember, uh, that Donald Trump triumphantly pushed something called the first

00:12:29.400 step act when he was a president, which Gates also promoted. And the Trump team even ran a Superbowl ad

00:12:35.160 featuring a drug trafficker that Trump had let out of prison. The idea, according to Trump's inner

00:12:39.760 circle was to improve the GOP's, uh, voting share among black Americans, uh, by, you know, uh, letting

00:12:47.080 more criminals out of prison. So at a time when crime is rampant and getting worse, the idea was

00:12:52.060 to let more criminals out of jail to win votes. Now, of course it didn't work. Black voters in 2020 did 0.83

00:12:58.280 what they've done in every modern election, which is that they voted overwhelmingly for Democrats

00:13:02.960 and Trump got basically the same percentage of the black vote that George W. Bush did back in

00:13:08.040 2004. So the big win is supposed to be that he got more black votes than Romney or McCain, at least.

00:13:15.260 Well, hooray. What a triumph. So if identity politics is a ploy for votes, it doesn't seem likely to work.

00:13:24.860 It certainly doesn't work at the level you would need it to work to really shift, uh, things politically

00:13:30.820 in this country. Um, because it just doesn't convince anyone. But if you take a few steps

00:13:36.760 back, it's not hard to see that identity politics is just one part of a much larger problem among,

00:13:41.480 among conservatives. Increasingly, uh, conservatives are embracing the narratives of the left wholesale.

00:13:49.900 Identity, left-wing identity politics is just one of those narratives. But this is a problem that

00:13:54.820 is much more far-reaching than that. Uh, you know, we saw when Nikki Haley mourned the death of George

00:14:00.560 Floyd, she immediately bought the official narrative. And then she went on to say, as American cities were

00:14:05.060 burning down, that George Floyd's death needed to be personal and painful for every American.

00:14:11.100 We also saw this from Mitt Romney, who marched with BLM and chanted their slogans. And the guy who

00:14:15.820 replaced Kevin McCarthy, Mike Johnson, did a media tour after George Floyd's overdose death,

00:14:20.340 overdose death, calling it a heinous murder and repeating a bunch of BLM talking points about how

00:14:25.420 racist our country is. In fact, when it comes to 2020 and BLM and George Floyd, it's very difficult

00:14:30.620 to find a single elected Republican anywhere who did not immediately adopt the left's narrative about

00:14:37.360 that incident. Um, so the Republican party is led by people who can't help but adopt the left's premise

00:14:45.560 at every turn. And sometimes people you don't expect fall into this trap. So take this clip of

00:14:50.480 Ron DeSantis at a CNN town hall a couple of days ago. And I want you to watch as CNN's Wolf Blitzer

00:14:55.460 asks DeSantis a question that's premised on a completely false narrative. And then, and then

00:15:01.540 notice, uh, how Ron DeSantis responds or, or, and, and how he doesn't respond. Listen.

00:15:07.720 For the weekend, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, Texas, as they simply tried to cross

00:15:13.720 the Rio Grande. After the drownings, federal authorities got a distress call about two

00:15:18.480 more migrants in distress, but agents were physically barred by Texas authorities from

00:15:24.120 entering the area. What obligation does the United States have to protect the lives of these migrants?

00:15:30.140 Well, first of all, I think this is part of the problem with an open border because you're

00:15:33.840 incentivizing some really perilous behavior. Um, there's people that are paying large amounts of

00:15:40.060 money to coyotes and drug cartels to be brought into this country. There are people being abused

00:15:45.900 sexually. There are people that are being trafficked. We're in the country. A U S is incentivizing this.

00:15:52.220 It's madness. So stopping the, the, the migration and having a closed border is the humanitarian thing

00:15:59.420 to do. Now I am going to empower the States to be able to enforce immigration law. I don't think that 0.74

00:16:06.260 Texas should have to sit there and deal with all the consequences of the federal government

00:16:11.260 neglecting, uh, their duties. And I think that's been a problem with the Biden administration

00:16:16.560 saying we're not federal immigration laws just for the feds. You can't do it, but they're not doing it.

00:16:22.940 So what we're just supposed to let this happen. So we're going to work together with the States

00:16:27.360 and the local sheriffs. So you're not going to have these conflicts like that exist right now

00:16:31.920 between Biden and Texas or between Biden and local sheriffs and places down in Texas.

00:16:37.840 Now, as Mike Cernovich has pointed out on X, CNN is flat out lying about what happened. And in

00:16:42.680 response, uh, and probably because nobody briefed him on this, which by the way, is inexcusable for

00:16:48.000 his team to not have briefed him. But DeSantis just kind of accepts the premise and he pivots,

00:16:52.040 he pivots from there and he's, but he accepts the premise, which originated from the Biden White House,

00:16:58.360 even though it was completely wrong. What happened is that the White House originally claimed that,

00:17:03.880 quote, a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass and Texas officials blocked U.S. Border Patrol

00:17:08.700 from attempting to provide emergency assistance. That was a report that millions of people heard

00:17:12.720 from CBS News, which broadcast the narrative first. But shortly afterwards, Joe Biden's DOJ

00:17:17.440 contradicted that version of events entirely. As Fox's Bill Mulligan pointed out, the DOJ made it

00:17:22.620 clear that, quote, the migrants had already drowned at 8 p.m. and the Border Patrol didn't inform Texas

00:17:26.640 until an hour later at 9 p.m. The DOJ now confirms those migrants had been deceased for an hour

00:17:32.560 before Texas was even alerted about it. So, you know, it's just like the false claims that the

00:17:38.660 Border Patrol had whipped illegal immigrants. As Bill Mulligan pointed out, you know, this is another

00:17:43.120 one. The narrative is a total lie, as the Biden administration has now implicitly admitted. But

00:17:49.680 even after the DOJ admitted that, CNN asked DeSantis about it on the debate stage. And, you know,

00:17:54.260 everybody proceeded to operate under the assumption that it was true. And DeSantis usually does a very

00:18:00.080 good job of not accepting the left's premise, of not taking them at face value or adopting their

00:18:06.400 narrative. But the point is that there are so many lies and there are so many false narratives that even

00:18:12.020 someone like DeSantis can fall into them. And this can happen in even more subtle ways. Like, we live in a

00:18:17.440 culture that is so totally dominated by leftism. Often, even the language we use, our vocabulary,

00:18:24.760 has leftist assumptions embedded into it. So take a phrase like biological male, for example.

00:18:31.680 You hear all the time from conservatives. I've used the term myself plenty of times. And obviously,

00:18:36.520 when we use the term, our intention is not to suggest that there are any other kinds of males

00:18:42.180 besides biological ones. I mean, usually we're arguing the exact opposite. But when you take a

00:18:47.720 second to think about it, you realize that the phrase does imply that. I mean, if you're saying

00:18:51.380 biological male and you're putting that qualifier on it, it would seem to imply that

00:18:56.100 there are non-biological males, which there aren't. So if it requires this much care and precision to

00:19:03.220 avoid implicitly accepting a leftist premise, and if even Republican politicians who are usually very

00:19:09.220 good on that score can trip up in blatant ways, the situation is hopeless for most Republican

00:19:15.780 politicians who are, by and large, not very good and who have not exhibited a capacity for anything

00:19:20.180 close to that level of care and precision. They're too busy running around shouting girl power slogans, 0.97

00:19:26.240 right? But every once in a while, we do get an example of somebody on the right totally refusing to go

00:19:32.400 along with the left's narratives. And it's just that you usually have to look outside of Congress to find it.

00:19:39.220 And I want to show you this because this is what it sounds like when you completely refuse

00:19:46.900 to give these people even an inch to go along with their narrative even a little bit.

00:19:53.240 So you can look this week to UFC fighter Sean Strickland for this example. Strickland is an

00:19:58.460 American who just arrived in Toronto for the UFC fights this weekend. And he's talking to the press

00:20:06.080 at a press conference, the Canadian press, and they tried to corner him and talk about some things

00:20:12.620 that he's tweeted or things that he said in the past that they find to be homophobic or whatever. 0.59

00:20:17.060 So dumb gotcha questions that also, by the way, have nothing to do with UFC, have nothing to do with him 0.97

00:20:23.320 as an athlete. And we know how this normally goes when people are backed into a corner, they're given 0.98

00:20:30.700 these gotcha questions. Know how it usually goes. But let's hear how it went this time.

00:20:35.080 We've got a pretty supportive gay and lesbian community in this city. I did want to ask you

00:20:39.300 about something you wrote a couple of years ago. You said, if I had a gay son, I would think I'd...

00:20:42.920 Oh, look, another, another, each time saying, the swamp, you guys, the swamp. 0.98

00:20:46.900 You become a champion, you become a star, and someone...

00:20:49.040 Let me ask you something. Are you, are you, are you gay? 1.00

00:20:51.680 I haven't had the chance to interact with a more diverse man. 0.99

00:20:53.380 Are you, let me know, are you gay? 0.96

00:20:55.200 Can I hear, could I get an answer? 0.98

00:20:56.080 Well, no, I'm asking, I'm, this is a part of the, are you, are you a gay man?

00:20:58.920 I'm an ally of the community.

00:21:00.140 Okay. If you had a son and he was like, you know, you had a son, he was gay, you'd be like, 1.00

00:21:04.280 oh man, you don't, you don't want a grandkid? 0.91

00:21:05.980 No problem with it. 0.99

00:21:06.820 Oh man, well, dude, you're a weak man, dude. You're like, you're part of the problem. 0.99

00:21:11.360 You elected Justin Trudeau. Like, would you, when he sees the bank accounts, like you're just

00:21:16.840 pathetic. And, and the fact that, the fact that you have no backbone and, and has he shut down 1.00

00:21:24.460 your country and sees bank accounts? You asked me some stupid shit like that. Go yourself. Move 1.00

00:21:29.860 the on, man.

00:21:30.680 I didn't answer the question, but I did want to ask also things you said about the trans community.

00:21:34.240 You said, uh, this past October, when they announced the Bud Light sponsorship, that

00:21:37.540 you'd go so hard on Bud Light in your next fight. They'll have to accept me or denounce me

00:21:41.320 when, uh, when they know what, and we'll know what they stand for.

00:21:44.360 Are you, this guy's like, this Canadian is not that Canadian. 0.63

00:21:47.280 Are you still going to use your fight time to kind of speak on that?

00:21:49.280 Here's the thing about Bud Light. Here's the thing about Bud Light.

00:21:56.720 10 years ago to be trans was a, what? A mental illness. And now all of a sudden people like you 1.00

00:22:02.500 have weaseled your way in the world. You are, you are an infection. You are the definition 1.00

00:22:11.440 of weakness. Everything that is wrong with the world is because of you. And the best thing is, 0.95

00:22:18.580 is the world's not buying it. The world's not buying your bullshit. You're fucking peddling. 1.00

00:22:23.500 The world is not saying, you know what? You're right. Chicks have, the world's not saying that 1.00

00:22:28.900 world say, no, there are two genders. I don't want my kids being taught about, you know, who they 1.00

00:22:34.460 could in school. I don't want my kids being taught about, you know, their sexual preference. Like,

00:22:40.160 this guy's the enemy. You want to look at the enemy to our world? It's that motherfucker right

00:22:46.780 there. We have to ask how many conservative politicians could hold their ground in a 1.00

00:22:51.200 situation like that and affirm in the face of an ally, quote unquote, of the LGBTQIAXYZ plus community 0.99

00:23:00.220 that transgenderism is a mental illness. I mean, how many would do that? You'd probably count the 1.00

00:23:05.780 number on one hand, if that. Most Republicans are faced with that same line of questioning.

00:23:11.500 You know, they would say something like, well, I support and love all people, especially members

00:23:15.240 of our LGBTQ plus community, who so often face persecution and intolerance and blah, blah, blah,

00:23:20.420 et cetera. But notice how Strickland doesn't even remotely accept the premise of this hack's

00:23:26.060 questions. He doesn't concede that he was wrong to speak his mind or to think unimproved thoughts.

00:23:32.000 He treats this person with contempt and scorn and the person deserves it because he understands what

00:23:38.700 this person's trying to do. These are not innocent questions. This is not a normal interview where

00:23:42.780 he's, hey, gee, what do you think about the fight? It's not anything like that. Like, this guy's just

00:23:46.680 trying to destroy him. He's trying to embarrass him. This guy's trying to embarrass Sean Strickland.

00:23:51.420 He's got bad intentions. And so Strickland responds accordingly. You know, he immediately identifies

00:24:02.200 the reporter as a propagandist and laughs in his face. And he reaffirms what he said before because

00:24:08.200 it's what he believes is true. It's his view on the matter. He's not going to change it now just

00:24:13.860 because someone's upset about it. And then afterwards, at his second press conference in Toronto,

00:24:18.700 after there had been full, you know, media cycle about this and a lot of outrage, and it came up

00:24:23.320 again, here's how Sean Strickland responded the second time. He's told a lot of things about Canada,

00:24:30.020 but coming in here to that ovation, what does it feel like to be a hero to these people?

00:24:34.840 You know, man, no, let me, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you guys something.

00:24:44.620 And this is what the media doesn't understand when it comes to me and you guys and Australian

00:24:51.400 fans. Let me tell you guys something. You guys don't care about me fighting. Yeah, me and

00:24:59.460 Dreykus, we're going to have a death match. Someone's going to get their hand raised. Someone's

00:25:05.280 going to get their hand raised. But when have you ever seen a UFC champion, George St. Pierre,

00:25:13.440 or anybody else, stick up for you guys. I do it. I do it. I am not chasing the Chinese checkmark

00:25:24.220 of Nike. I don't give a about that. I care about you guys. I care about you guys being free.

00:25:32.220 I care about you guys having freedom of speech. I give a about you guys. And I'll tell you what,

00:25:39.280 you guys are awesome. And I cannot wait to make this man go to war for you guys. Let's go.

00:25:49.520 Now you can hear the crowd loves it. I mean, at one point, a guy runs up to the stage to shake his

00:25:56.400 hand. So he doesn't back down. Everyone in the audience recognizes that, appreciates it.

00:26:01.800 He makes a mockery of the people who wanted him to cower and apologize. And there were a lot of them

00:26:06.600 in Canada, particularly in the media. He makes it clear that hate speech isn't real. It does not.

00:26:12.360 But, which is bold to say in Canada, where transphobia, quote unquote, can get you charged

00:26:16.920 with a crime. And so there you have a UFC fighter who's a more vocal supporter of freedom of speech

00:26:22.300 than pretty much any conservative politician in America. You're not going to find him talking

00:26:27.900 about white privilege or strong conservative women. This is what resonates now. If the Republican 0.99

00:26:33.120 Party wants to win elections, this is the path it needs to take. If they reject all of the ways

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00:26:51.280 act or any pandering to quote unquote, Julio and Jamal, as Matt Gaetz would put it. We need politicians

00:26:58.520 who are capable of acting like normal people and of just standing on the truth. And if a UFC fighter

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00:28:33.580 Okay, we were just talking about false narratives, which leads us quite smoothly into our top

00:28:37.440 headline, and this is a big headline because apparently, if you can believe it, a United

00:28:41.080 States Congresswoman was a victim of a racist incident inside the Capitol building. I mean,

00:28:47.620 you really can't go anywhere these days to escape from racism, can you? It's just, it's everywhere.

00:28:52.080 So here's Democratic Representative Barbara Lee last night. Listen.

00:28:57.040 These are not little kinks, first of all. Racism, institutional racism is in the DNA of this

00:29:04.580 country. When you look at what has taken place, look at our Native Americans, the genocide of Native

00:29:10.420 Americans. When you look at what has taken place as it relates to African Americans, 250 years plus of

00:29:16.120 enslaving African Americans. And then you look at the disparities now in our community in terms of

00:29:22.120 health care, unemployment, the wealth gap, housing. You can't tell me that systemic racism does not

00:29:28.820 exist. It's not just a little kink. I do want to cut that off just for a second. We haven't gotten

00:29:34.040 to her personal story of racist victimization yet, and it's quite a, it's a doozy. So we'll get there

00:29:40.260 in a second. But we have to note that the preamble she offers here about systemic racism is totally

00:29:48.180 false. Speaking again of leftist premises, you know, that are false, we hear this familiar trope

00:29:54.760 about the genocide of Native Americans. There was no genocide of Native Americans. We are the only

00:30:01.940 country in the world that would invent a genocide that we perpetrated. Okay? Like our modern fables

00:30:10.200 of American history are all centered around making us the bad guys. Our new sort of foundational myths

00:30:17.060 are all centered around making us the bad guys. And that's the exact opposite of how these myths and

00:30:22.520 fables usually work. But, you know, we're the most self-loathing society that's ever existed on

00:30:27.760 earth. It's a sickness. And that's where you get this Native American genocide thing. European settlers 1.00

00:30:34.320 and later Americans fought wars against the Indians. These wars lasted for many, many years. These were

00:30:41.000 wars with lots of hostility on both sides. It was a war. It was a battle. Many, many battles. Hundreds of

00:30:48.200 years, really. It was a series of battles. It was, it was, and that's it. You know, it wasn't, it wasn't like

00:30:54.800 one war. It wasn't a constant state of all-out war all over the country, all over the continent,

00:30:59.900 rather. But this land was conquered partly through a series of battles over many years. That's not a

00:31:06.500 genocide. That's how a land is conquered, fair and square. It's how the Native tribes conquered it 1.00

00:31:12.100 themselves. And then it's how they themselves were conquered. And, and also besides, you know,

00:31:16.940 more Indians died by disease than anything else. And that also is not a genocide. It's not,

00:31:21.380 these were not biological weapons. They weren't dropping bombs or whatever. They were, this is

00:31:26.380 not that they weren't, they weren't making viruses in a lab in Wuhan. A lot of this was happening

00:31:31.780 before the germ theory of disease had been fully devised anyway. So, so it's not a genocide. All

00:31:37.600 right. And speaking of things that didn't happen, but speaking of things that, that also didn't happen,

00:31:43.180 let's continue. Secondly, you have personal racism, which is hard to address, but I'll give you one

00:31:49.440 little story that shows you why we need to understand that I don't think she really understands

00:31:54.440 racism. I was walking from the house building on Capitol Hill to the Capitol and a man, a white guy

00:32:01.500 stopped me and told me I could not get into the members elevator. And you know, we have pens and I

00:32:06.580 was going to vote. And he blocked me from getting into the elevator and told me I was not a member of

00:32:11.740 Congress and it was for members only. I said, sir, I'm a member of Congress. And he, I showed him my pen

00:32:16.760 and he said, whose pen did you steal? Now, this is an example of what personal racism is and how

00:32:23.300 people of color constantly have to deal with this each and every day. But systemic racism is in the

00:32:29.200 policies of this country. And just look at what they're trying to do in terms of eliminating diversity,

00:32:34.180 equity, and inclusion. They're trying to not allow for an equal and level playing field. And so it's a

00:32:41.580 very dangerous position that she has. She's clueless. Well, that's a shame. And I'm sorry that you had

00:32:48.260 to deal with that, Congresswoman. Thank you for sharing that with us. Now, of course, Caitlin

00:32:52.640 Collins, the anchor, just sits there staring blankly and doesn't ask any follow-up questions at all.

00:32:58.480 It's almost like she knows the story is completely made up. So she doesn't want to pry. Because actually,

00:33:05.320 if you believed it, then you'd have a lot of questions. Like, who was this random white guy

00:33:12.380 blocking the elevator? Just a guy? Was that? Was it a security guard? And if it was a security guard,

00:33:19.840 did you report this incident to his superiors? Is the guy fired? And if he's a security guard that he,

00:33:27.600 when he works there, how could he not recognize you and know that you're a representative of,

00:33:32.820 and I mean, was this his first day on the job? And if it was, was he stopping every non-white member 0.98

00:33:40.800 of Congress who walked by? Like, did he not know? Is this a security guard working on Capitol Hill

00:33:47.540 who is not aware that non-white people are also representatives? Was this a security guard who came

00:33:53.700 here in a time portal from the year 1803 and just was unfamiliar with the concept of non-white

00:33:59.520 congressional representatives? I mean, we've had black people in Congress since like 1870. Okay.

00:34:05.780 So this guy would, I guess he came from before that. This is a, you know, he came in a time machine

00:34:14.480 from a, or maybe the guy's like 200 years old. He's a 200 year old rookie security guard who was looking

00:34:20.220 for a change of career later in life. And he got to Congress and he looked around. He said,

00:34:24.820 what's going on here? Maybe it wasn't a security guard. Was it a staffer? Did some white staffer

00:34:33.360 go up to a black Congresswoman and accuse her of stealing her pin? Is that it? So, so this is

00:34:41.820 someone who just decided randomly out of nowhere to completely nuke their own future political career.

00:34:47.080 Did some staffer decide to commit a suicide bombing of his own career?

00:34:51.020 That seems very strange. Or what, or was it another member of Congress? And if so, who? Are we

00:34:59.600 supposed to believe that Barbara Lee was accosted by some racist Congressman? And, and what through

00:35:04.440 her, through her abiding sense of mercy, she's decided to not tell us the guy's name? Really? Is that

00:35:10.880 what we're supposed to believe? So a white Republican racist Congressman accosted her and, but she's not 0.96

00:35:19.120 going to tell us who she's, you know, I don't want to get the guy in trouble. Right. Of course, 0.92

00:35:24.440 it's impossible to believe any of these scenarios. Um, uh, or at least, well, I'm not gonna say it's

00:35:30.500 impossible to believe because, uh, you know, it's, it is technically possible. Like anything's technically

00:35:37.480 possible. She could have told me that, um, she was walking through the halls of Congress and she saw

00:35:43.840 somebody, uh, levitating, you know, off the ground. It's like, I mean, it's, it's not, it's technically

00:35:52.380 possible in the sense that anything that's logically possible is, is therefore possible.

00:35:59.520 It's like, well, that's actually even more because that's, that, that would bring to mind

00:36:02.420 demonic possession or something. And I, so that, in fact, I would probably readily believe that.

00:36:07.500 So maybe that's not the best example to prove my point, but you get it. So anyway, uh, are any of

00:36:12.360 these scenarios, here's the real question. Are any of these scenarios remotely close to as likely

00:36:16.840 as the far more plausible scenario that Barbara Lee just made it up? You know, so you've got

00:36:22.940 all these, it could have been a Congress, it could have been a security guard from, uh, from,

00:36:27.900 from a time machine from the past. Could be like, I can't, it's, it's, it's positive. Time machines

00:36:33.100 could exist. Maybe, uh, could be a staffer who just decided like I'm going to ruin my entire career

00:36:38.420 for no reason. Um, could have been a Congressman whose identity she's protecting because she's just

00:36:44.600 so kind. Uh, or, or it could be that she just made this up. Um, and of course that's what,

00:36:54.660 what's happening that she made it up. Like none of this happened. She made it up. Uh, so what could

00:37:00.420 possibly, the more interesting question, the question of whether or not that happened is not

00:37:04.840 interesting because we all know that it just flat out didn't, um, I mean, I'll bet $10,000 right now

00:37:10.460 that it didn't happen. But the more interesting question is what could possibly possess her

00:37:16.440 to randomly invent this racist incident that definitely didn't happen? That to me is the

00:37:25.120 interesting question. And I think the answer is that it's a reflex at this point. Like on the left,

00:37:29.680 inventing stories of victimhood is, is instinct. It's reflexive. It's like, uh, it's, it's like a

00:37:36.260 hiccup. Okay. It's this almost involuntary physiological response. They blurred out race

00:37:41.820 hoaxes without even thinking about them. That's how severe the self-victimhood obsession has become.

00:37:47.060 It's how ingrained their desire for victimhood is. And that's why, that's why it must be great,

00:37:53.920 you know, to be a black person in a room full of libs. It's gotta be great. I'm a little bit

00:38:01.480 jealous. I have to admit, because the trolling opportunities are tremendous because if you're

00:38:06.860 a black person in a room full of libs, you can, you can make up any story that you want and they

00:38:12.940 will accept it at face value with no further questions, which is amazing. But you could walk 0.90

00:38:19.460 in and say, Hey guys, sorry, I'm late. Uh, I was, uh, I was, uh, I was just assaulted by a group of

00:38:25.460 five racist Nazi ninjas on the way in here. And, uh, fortunately I was able to fight them off with 0.94

00:38:32.460 my superior swordsmanship, uh, which I learned from my years studying, uh, martial arts in Japan. And,

00:38:38.480 and no matter what you say, they'll, they'll accept it. And without, without any follow-up questions at

00:38:46.140 level. And, um, and it's possible to do because this kind of victim is this self-victimization,

00:38:57.480 whether it's racial, whether it's race-based self-victimization, uh, it's gender-based,

00:39:03.680 sexual orientation-based, whatever it is, it's, it's just reflexive. Like I don't even,

00:39:08.560 it's interesting to, to, to think like, did, did Barbara Lee go into that interview having already

00:39:18.500 invented this fake story and planning on saying it? That's possible. But I also think it's quite

00:39:25.100 possible that she didn't even plan on making that up. She just did. She could hear herself making this

00:39:31.080 up while she was saying it. And then she said, okay, I guess this is what we're doing because it's

00:39:35.400 such a reflex for them. Um, pretty amazing. It's, it's also, you know, you, you look at,

00:39:41.140 you go on Twitter or, or, uh, in fact, Caitlin Collins tweeted out this, um, this video herself,

00:39:46.680 obviously in a non-skeptical way. And I mean, every single comment is from people saying,

00:39:54.260 oh, did they yell, uh, did he yell, this is MAGA country too? Barbara Smollett, like that's 0.88

00:40:00.240 every comment. Like nobody believes this stuff anymore. No one falls for it. Um,

00:40:06.600 and it also shows you how out of touch the media is that like Caitlin Collins,

00:40:10.980 if she had any kind of awareness, she would know that most people are not going to believe that

00:40:17.460 nonsense. And so she wouldn't tweet out the clip. She would rather just pretend it never happened

00:40:23.660 because it's embarrassing. But she, Caitlin Collins lives in a world where people still buy this

00:40:29.960 garbage. All right. Here's something, uh, important tweet from representative Ted Lieu. 1.00

00:40:36.680 Glue traps are among the cruelest ways to eliminate rodents. They're inhumane and can be dangerous to

00:40:42.180 humans and their pets. Pleased to introduce a bill today to place a national ban on glue traps.

00:40:50.240 Okay. So we've got members of Congress making up racism stories while others are working on a bill

00:40:55.660 banning glue traps. And it really tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it?

00:41:01.660 Americans are suffering. American humans are suffering. And Congress is busy working on

00:41:06.800 protecting the wellbeing and dignity of rats. Like, nevermind the fact that, that obviously this

00:41:13.420 does not fall under the purview of the federal government. Clearly the federal government shouldn't

00:41:17.940 be in the business of legislating what sort of methods we use to catch rodents. If anybody should be,

00:41:23.880 uh, policing that. And I'm not convinced that anyone should be, but it should be local and state

00:41:29.000 authorities if anyone, but, but that's not the important takeaway. The most important takeaway is

00:41:34.780 that Democrats are pushing this bill to protect rats and mice from inhumane treatment. And, and, uh,

00:41:43.060 and what does inhumane mean? It means like literally means non-human, unhuman. Um, and so we're

00:41:50.180 treating them in a, what it means like we're treating them like they're not humans, which they

00:41:54.040 aren't. And yet these are the same people who support the killing of human beings in the womb 0.79

00:42:01.160 at every stage of development. So in the mind of a Democrat, this, and this is, this is a fact,

00:42:06.800 this is not hyperbole. They really do believe that rats, actual rats have more rights, are entitled to 0.83

00:42:14.660 better treatment, more humane treatment than actual human beings in the womb. Now think about this,

00:42:21.960 even if you think that abortion should be legal, you're wrong if you think that, but, but if you do,

00:42:29.300 well, when's the last time you heard any of these people ever say that we need to have more humane

00:42:35.580 abortion practices for the babies themselves? So again, you go along for a second, for the sake of

00:42:42.400 argument, if you were to go along with their, um, position on abortion, um, wouldn't you at least

00:42:53.760 be concerned about the, about, uh, the humane, quote unquote, termination of human life, given that

00:43:05.440 you are when it comes to rats? But when have you ever heard any of them express one word of concern?

00:43:12.400 They care about that ever. They care about humanely killing convicted criminals. They care

00:43:19.000 about that. We got to be humane in the way we kill convicted criminals. They care about humanely 0.94

00:43:22.040 killing rats, but babies in the womb, well, they could be dismembered and tossed in a hazardous waste

00:43:27.640 dumpster, which is exactly what happens. Nobody on that side has, I've never heard any of them my whole,

00:43:34.200 and I've been, and I've been in the pro-life movement, uh, essentially my entire life.

00:43:38.700 And I've talked to a lot of people on the other side, and I've never heard any of them

00:43:43.340 even whisper a single word of concern about at least, um, preventing the babies in the womb from

00:43:53.020 feeling pain while they're being killed. And not that that would make it okay to do, obviously,

00:43:59.660 but my point is simply, it's like, you're not telling us not to kill rats, but you, but you're

00:44:05.460 saying we got to be humane in how we kill rats. And you care so much about it. We have to have a

00:44:08.100 national ban on glue traps. But so like, so you have that, at least that, that small amount of

00:44:15.720 concern that you have for rats, you don't, but you don't have that for humans, at least that much.

00:44:21.320 No, they don't. They, they really do put rodents above, because the way they look at it, the human

00:44:29.160 in the womb has zero rights, zero, uh, not just zero legal rights, legal rights, but also zero moral 0.88

00:44:35.780 rights. The human in the womb is not a moral entity. We don't have to take that individual into account

00:44:44.580 at all. And look, I know there are plenty of people on the right who, um, foolishly want to

00:44:52.360 move on from the abortion issue and, and, um, they don't want to talk about it. Uh, you're scared of

00:44:58.180 it. You're intimidated. You think it's a political loser. Um, I mean, talk about adopting the left's

00:45:03.660 narrative. There's a lot of people on the right who have done that with this issue, but you tell me,

00:45:08.120 how do we move on from this? How do we do it? Our leaders quite literally believe, and have put

00:45:16.440 into law, or trying to put into law, the idea that rats are entitled to more humane treatment

00:45:22.420 than human children. How, how do you move on from that? Like, how do you put that to the side?

00:45:30.620 How do you worry about anything else when we haven't at first established at a minimum

00:45:36.860 that human life is more precious than rodent life? If we can't, like, how do you, how do you say,

00:45:44.040 uh, is human life, we'll worry about that later. Let's move on. Any other issue that you claim to

00:45:50.780 care about is going to be premised on, or based on the assumption that human life is more valuable

00:45:59.280 than rodent life. Because everything else, whether you want to move on to, uh, taxes, you want to move

00:46:04.800 on to the border, you want to move on to, uh, the economy, you want to move on to gun rights,

00:46:09.760 you want to move on to anything else. Foreign policy. If human life is not more valuable

00:46:15.800 fundamentally from its inception than rodent life, then none of that other stuff matters.

00:46:19.820 Who cares about any of that? Oh, we got to protect the border. Why? Well, because it's hurting Americans.

00:46:24.780 What do Americans matter? It's like, fundamentally, you're no better than a rat. Who gives a, who gives a 1.00

00:46:29.320 about you? Who cares? Oh, we need gun rights. Why? I got to protect my family. What does your 0.98

00:46:34.080 family matter? Family doesn't matter. I mean, you, you, from birth, you, your children are no better

00:46:39.980 than rats, which means inherently they're no better than rats, right? That's, that's the assumption 0.98

00:46:46.340 we're working with. Um, and if that's not your assumption, which if you're on the right, I certainly

00:46:54.180 hope it isn't, then you can't just abandon that argument or surrender it or give it up or try to

00:47:01.500 table it for now. It's all, that's a battle that has to continue to be fought. The bad doesn't mean

00:47:10.920 it's the only thing we talk about. Okay. There's not, there's no risk of that. Okay. So there's no

00:47:15.720 risk of abortion being the only thing that conservatives talk about. Um, it's, it's, you know, it's increasingly

00:47:21.680 becoming the only thing we don't talk about, but it is a battle that has to continue to be fought,

00:47:28.000 um, protecting the intrinsic value because that's why abortion matters. And if you can't see that and

00:47:34.100 you're on the right, then I don't know, you're hopeless. You really are. If you can't see that

00:47:38.780 what it actually is about is it's a fight over the intrinsic value of human life. Um, and, and really

00:47:48.420 whether human life has any intrinsic value. And that, that, that is, that is, uh, a battleground

00:47:59.560 that we simply cannot surrender. You surrender that battleground, you've given up everything.

00:48:03.420 Everything falls if you give that up. Uh, okay. Briefly, a daily wire report, Star Trek actor

00:48:13.320 LeVar Burton was shocked to discover that one of his ancestors was a white Confederate soldier

00:48:18.020 soldier. The 66 year old star was told the surprising fact about his lineage during an

00:48:22.720 episode of the PBS series, Finding Your Roots. The former reading rainbow star, uh, told show host

00:48:28.500 Henry Louis Gates Jr. That he didn't know much about his family tree as he was estranged from his

00:48:32.700 father. Uh, but it turns out that, uh, he's got white in his background. He's got Confederate 0.56

00:48:36.940 background. Here's, uh, Burton getting the news. Wow. That's him. You are looking at your great,

00:48:44.000 great grandfather, James Henry Dixon. It's difficult to make out, but that's, that is your biological

00:48:52.160 great, great grandfather. Now, I'd have fought you five minutes ago if you told me that I had a white

00:49:02.700 great, great, great grandfather. You do. You can fight me, but it's the truth. And ain't nothing

00:49:08.940 you can do about it. What? Kunta. Kunta. Got white ancestry. That's right. What? Yeah. Come on now, 0.97

00:49:18.860 Skip. You know, you took two DNA tests. The two major commercial DNA tests almost never have tested

00:49:25.820 an African-American who was a hundred percent sub-Saharan African. Wow. We all have white 0.98

00:49:30.200 ancestors, but this is close. That's right. But this is close. And by name. So LeVar Burton is,

00:49:39.940 uh, just for the background on this, he's of course a big time leftist. He's a race grifter type. Uh, 0.88

00:49:45.540 he's a fan of quote, racial justice, as they put it. Um, he's, he's tweeted in the past that racism

00:49:51.420 and xenophobia, quote unquote, preside over every aspect of America. And that's where he's coming

00:49:58.260 from. And now he's found out that he's partially white and also, uh, Confederate at the same time,

00:50:03.860 which is hilarious. You know, I don't know why, like if you are a famous person or marginally, uh,

00:50:11.180 LeVar Burton, I don't know. Like if you're even marginally, you know, if you're a, uh, a, uh,

00:50:16.260 an F list celebrity, whatever it is, what, or even if you're not a celebrity, like why would you

00:50:23.360 want, what would, what would possess you to take part in this? Like why, I understand you want to

00:50:27.640 know your family lineage, but why do you want to find out the news on camera? You know, not only are

00:50:33.840 you giving these, this, uh, TV show, like you're giving them the, the, the, the, your blessing to go

00:50:42.180 through your family ancestry, but then you're going to, it's like, you know, let them tell you

00:50:46.980 about it and frame it however they want live on camera. It's like, I, I, I, for the life of me,

00:50:52.320 I cannot understand why you would want to do that. Uh, I don't know how much they're paying people to

00:50:59.000 appear. I guess LeVar Burton is probably pretty desperate these days. So they put themselves in

00:51:03.640 this, in this position. Uh, and there have been others. I forget, forget who it was, but there was

00:51:09.120 another, there have been a few incidents like this of someone kind of like LeVar Burton finding out

00:51:14.760 that if the, you know, their great, great grandfather was a slave owner, was a confederate

00:51:19.480 or whatever. Um, which is very funny, but, but then also the point that we take away from it is

00:51:25.100 I think pretty obvious. Uh, those are a few points, but, um, like one of the big ones is how this relates

00:51:31.680 to, uh, the, the reparations, you know, debate or, or really any, any debate, the white guilt in

00:51:39.600 general, all the things that, that grow from that route. Um, that, you know, if you were to start

00:51:47.940 assigning, uh, handing out money and, uh, compensating people for their quote, for their

00:51:54.940 supposed ancestral trauma, how does that even work? Like, what do you do with somebody like LeVar Burton?

00:52:01.220 What do you do with someone, whoever it was that, you know, the great, great grandfather was a slave 0.94

00:52:07.040 owner? Do they, do they get a pay, do they pay themselves? Do you like take money from them and

00:52:12.840 give it back to them? How does it work? Well, of course it doesn't work, which is why the only real

00:52:19.420 answer is, uh, to let the past stay in the past and to move on from it. Um, to, to, to learn lessons of

00:52:26.980 the past, which is an important thing to do, uh, to honor our ancestors. And it's also important for

00:52:33.960 you to know about your own ancestry and your own bloodline. All that is great.

00:52:38.800 But, uh, other than that, living in the present and certainly not trying to cash in on the suffering

00:52:44.600 and persecution of people in the past, suffering persecution that you yourself have never experienced.

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00:53:54.240 So our daily cancellation today on a Friday is all about a dispute at a drive-thru lane. And needless

00:54:06.580 to say, this is a deeply important issue. And it's one that has evoked strong feelings from the public.

00:54:12.360 There's a lot to say about this random video of two people arguing in a drive-thru lane. And yet,

00:54:17.280 still, most people seem to be missing some of the nuances and complexities of this issue. So we'll

00:54:24.580 go through them today. As the New York Post reports this week, a video has gone viral of a mom at a

00:54:28.940 Panera Bread drive-thru trying to order her meal, while the Panera Bread employee on the other end 0.52

00:54:33.900 refuses to take the order because the woman's daughter is allegedly screaming. And I should tell

00:54:39.120 you that, perhaps as you'd already expect, thousands of people have reacted to this clip. And the peanut

00:54:44.300 gallery's verdict is almost unanimously on the Panera Bread employee's side. So everybody agrees

00:54:51.060 that the customer, who some have dubbed Panera Bread Karen, is in the wrong here. And let's

00:54:57.580 watch the video and see if the internet got this one right, which of course they didn't, but let's

00:55:01.620 watch it. So you are going to refuse to take my order because my child was screaming? Yes, I have the

00:55:07.660 right to do that. You're more than welcome to come inside or you can place an order online and we'll make

00:55:10.740 it for you. And what is really like, you're going to not take my order? Yes, ma'am. That is what I'm

00:55:16.900 saying. Okay. All right. Well, I do have this on video and I will be emailing corporate because

00:55:21.700 that's just like completely rude. I cannot come inside because my daughter does not have shoes on. 0.91

00:55:27.620 Do you understand that? No, I understand, but you're also more than welcome to order through

00:55:31.280 online as well. So you want me to take an extra 20 minutes and order online?

00:55:40.880 That's not convenient to me. It's your job to take orders and stuff and this is ridiculous. 0.98

00:55:47.200 So I'd like you to take my order, please.

00:55:58.880 Okay. I will be happy to take your order as long as your daughter doesn't scream, all right?

00:56:03.200 I think that's a pretty good decision on your part. Okay. I don't need this attitude.

00:56:08.320 Okay. Now let's walk through this. Three points of analysis. First of all, we can't even talk about

00:56:15.840 the dispute until we deal with the fact that this woman went to a Panera Bread drive-thru in the first 1.00

00:56:22.000 place. There's simply no good reason, there's no valid excuse to ever go to a Panera Bread drive-thru.

00:56:29.520 Panera sells high school cafeteria caliber food at sit-down restaurant prices. I mean,

00:56:34.960 it's the worst of all worlds. You get the prices of a sit-down restaurant place

00:56:39.360 with sub-fast food quality meals. The sandwiches are bland. The baked goods are stale and depressing.

00:56:50.400 The soups are Campbell's tier at best. I mean, they taste like something that was in a can that's

00:56:55.520 been sitting in your pantry. The salads are salads. So it's a disaster all around. And Panera is awful for

00:57:01.600 every meal, but I think breakfast is the worst. Panera breakfast tastes like the continental breakfast that

00:57:07.040 you would get at like the Comfort Inn down the street. Except that the Comfort Inn, the breakfast is

00:57:12.240 complimentary at least. And also the Comfort Inn coffee would be far better than what they serve at Panera.

00:57:17.120 Panera coffee is an abomination that cries out to God for vengeance. If I served you, and I think this is true,

00:57:24.640 if I served you Panera coffee and I didn't tell you it was coffee, you wouldn't know what it was supposed to be.

00:57:29.120 You would be flummoxed. You would have no idea what you're ingesting. It's this lukewarm, dull, weak,

00:57:36.160 uninspired, sort of vaguely caffeinated liquid substance. And again, Panera commits all of these

00:57:44.240 culinary sins while charging premium prices for them. So that's what makes it so bad. So Panera is

00:57:50.480 terrible. That's the first thing. You shouldn't be there. Second, with that established, we move to

00:57:58.080 the employee. Now, as mentioned, most people are on his side. And that's no surprise, given that most

00:58:06.640 people are stupid. And now the woman is not blameless here, which I'll explain in a moment. 1.00

00:58:11.760 But neither is the employee. OK, we can't know for sure what was happening before the video began.

00:58:17.200 We can't know how much screaming the child was doing. But I think it's fair to assume that it was on

00:58:22.800 par with what we heard in the video. And yes, we can hear a couple of outbursts from the child

00:58:29.360 in the background. And children do that sometimes. They're known to do that. But it's nowhere near

00:58:36.480 a level of noise that would make it impossible to take the woman's order. 0.99

00:58:41.280 It's a little annoying and slightly distracting, but you can still do your job. You can still do the

00:58:46.240 thing you're paid to do. The only thing you're paid to do is to stand there and take the orders

00:58:50.720 of the customers. And the idea that you could have someone say, well, I'd rather not. I'd rather not

00:58:57.360 with you. You displease me. You displease me. Please continue on. I'm displeased. I won't take your order.

00:59:05.680 And the fact that everyone's on this guy's side, are you kidding me? Even if the screaming was a little

00:59:10.640 worse before the video started, that's also possible. Still, it seems unlikely that the

00:59:16.080 drive-through worker was literally unable to complete the order. All signs point to the fact

00:59:22.000 that the Panera employee simply found the child's whining irritating. And so he decided that he wasn't

00:59:26.320 going to do his job. And he says, I have the right to not take your order. No, you don't. But actually,

00:59:31.600 you don't have the right. It's Panera Bread decides. You work for them. They decide. And I'm pretty

00:59:36.160 sure Panera Bread, does Panera Bread have a policy that you don't have to take an order if there's a child

00:59:40.240 crying in the background. Is that their policy really? I'm pretty sure it's not. So no,

00:59:43.920 you don't have the right. Do your freaking job. That's just not how it works, or at least not how 0.99

00:59:49.280 it should work. But increasingly, it does work this way because the sense of entitlement in this

00:59:54.320 country is out of control. And it's particularly glaring in the service industry where, and nobody

00:59:59.040 wants to call this out or talk about it because you sound elitist or something, but we all know it.

01:00:03.200 So you go into these places that the workers are visibly and audibly angry. They're already angry

01:00:10.880 that you showed up in the first place to make them do their job. And everyone demands a tip for

01:00:16.160 everything, no matter how shoddy the performance is. And employees think nothing of openly complaining

01:00:21.360 about their customers and lecturing them, sometimes on social media. And so I see this incident as part of

01:00:27.760 that whole picture. Now, I'm more old school, as you know. I have a traditional mentality about

01:00:33.680 these things, which is to say I have the right mentality about these things. And my mentality is

01:00:38.800 this. Do your damn job. Just do your job. Yeah, it's difficult. The kid's crying. I don't care. Do 1.00

01:00:45.600 your job anyway. It's still your job. Just do it. You're annoyed. You're sad. You're upset. Your tummy

01:00:50.560 hurts. I don't care. Do your job. I say this as a general principle. It applies to everybody,

01:00:55.040 all industries. We have reached a crisis level of people not simply doing their damned jobs. 0.97

01:01:01.600 You know, but this is how I was raised. In fact, I can remember when I first started working as a 0.95

01:01:06.320 teenager and I would work these kind of service jobs. I did a lot of them. And I would come home

01:01:11.280 after my shift and I'd complain to my parents about all the annoying customers and the incompetent

01:01:16.640 managers and how unhappy I was in my job and I don't want to go. And my dad would look at me and say,

01:01:21.440 like, do you think the point of your job is to make you happy? Do you think that's why you're

01:01:26.000 there? No. The point of your job is to fulfill your responsibilities, to do what your boss asks

01:01:30.080 you to do and to earn a paycheck. So it doesn't matter whether it makes you happy or not. That's

01:01:35.200 what you're supposed to do. News for you is millions of people go to work every day and they're not happy

01:01:40.800 doing what they do, but they do it anyway because it's their responsibility. But you know,

01:01:45.680 this is what I would hear growing up. It's glaringly apparent that many people today do

01:01:51.600 not have dads at home who will give speeches like that. So instead, we end up in exactly the

01:01:57.440 situation we find ourselves in. You know, like that guy, I don't know who that guy was. It sounded like

01:02:03.840 a younger guy. Sounded like he's probably a teenager or something. I would hope that if he's got a dad at

01:02:09.840 home, like if that was my son and I heard that video, that kid's going to have problems when he

01:02:14.160 gets home with me. Okay. Because I would say, first of all, do your job. Second of all, don't speak

01:02:19.360 that disrespectfully to someone. This woman, do not disrespect her that way. Telling her to adjust 0.99

01:02:26.160 her attitude. Who the hell do you think you are? Like, this is the kind of thing, the kind of message 1.00

01:02:31.200 that kids need to hear and they don't. Third, with all that said,

01:02:36.080 I still cannot take this woman's side. My contrarianism can only take me so far on this 1.00

01:02:44.720 one. Now, yes, I think she's right to expect that her order should be taken. Yes, I understand why

01:02:50.120 she doesn't want to go in in order because her kid doesn't have shoes. And I know there are some

01:02:54.400 people online who were saying, why does your kid have shoes? You know, because if you're a non-parent,

01:03:00.220 you might be judgmental about that. But parents understand that sometimes you need to leave the house.

01:03:04.320 Your kid has lost her shoes for the 97th time this week and you got to go and you're not going to be

01:03:09.520 going inside anywhere anyway. So you're like, forget it. Never mind. You don't need your shoes.

01:03:12.640 We've all been there. So I'm with this woman every shoeless step of the way, except for one point. 0.98

01:03:20.800 She recorded and posted it. You know, not every minor dispute with a stranger needs to become

01:03:27.320 content for public consumption. It is possible, believe it or not, to simply have a disagreement with

01:03:32.240 another person. One where they are wrong and have a contentious back and forth. And then it ends

01:03:40.720 and you move on with your life and that's it. It's like, it's possible to do that. And before the

01:03:48.220 internet, that's what everyone did all the time. Can you believe it? People would have, you get into

01:03:52.960 conflicts, you get into arguments, you would get, you know, someone would wrong you in some small way. 0.62

01:03:57.220 And it just happened and you experienced it and it kind of sucked. And then you kept a living and

01:04:05.460 that was it. And it was over. Not everything needs to live forever on the internet. Not everything needs

01:04:11.300 to be discussed. Not everything needs to be content. And recording it and posting, it's like the adult

01:04:16.260 version of being a tattletale. You know, oh yeah, I'm telling TikTok on you. So the moment you do that,

01:04:23.040 you automatically become the bad guy or at least one of the bad guys. So in this case, as far as I

01:04:28.980 can tell, they're both the bad guys. The employee is wrong for not taking the order. The woman is wrong 1.00

01:04:33.460 for recording it and snitching to the internet. The internet is wrong for siding with the employee.

01:04:40.320 Panera Bread sucks. Everyone is wrong. Everything is bad. Everyone involved is canceled. 0.99

01:04:47.020 Happy Friday. And that'll do it for the show today. On that note and this week,

01:04:54.220 hope you have a great weekend. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 19, 2024

Ep. 1297 - UFC Fighter Delivers A Masterclass In How To Deal With The Media

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