The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1304 - The Skyrocketing Epidemic Of Fake Hate Crimes

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a new FBI reports that hate crimes are continuing to skyrocket across the country and have now reached an all-time high.

00:00:06.860 But one brief look below the surface on this story reveals that the real epidemic is not hate crimes, but hate crime hoaxes.

00:00:12.920 Also, the Biden administration continues its crusade against pro-life activists.

00:00:16.080 Government workers go on a hilarious one-day hunger strike.

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00:00:25.960 We will analyze that claim and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:20.820 Well, hopefully you took the time to celebrate as Monday marked the five-year anniversary of the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax.

00:02:27.320 And I say that with some hesitation because I know that there's really not a single living person who ever wants to hear the name Jussie Smollett ever again.

00:02:34.160 Every detail of that story has been covered.

00:02:36.020 Every joke that can be made about it has been made.

00:02:39.100 But if there's a silver lining in that whole episode, it's that everybody on the planet received a crash course in how easy it is to lie about quote-unquote hate crimes.

00:02:49.500 You can come up with the most ridiculous story imaginable and people will buy it.

00:02:53.740 The media especially will buy it and they will repeat it. 0.78

00:02:57.020 That was the moment that hate crime hoaxes peaked, you would think.

00:03:01.200 So if you're a rational person, you might assume that post-Smollett, the number of reported hate crimes would go down at least a little bit.

00:03:09.320 After all, the gig is up.

00:03:10.580 You know, no one's ever going to be as naive as they were back in 2019 ever again.

00:03:14.560 But that assumption, as logical as it might seem, would be very wrong.

00:03:19.000 Just the past year, there's been a rash of cases just like Smollett's, complete with outlandish claims that don't make any sense, which the media buys without any hesitation whatsoever.

00:03:28.200 And there's so many examples that, you know, it's hard to choose, but here's one of the best ones.

00:03:33.600 Last summer, there was the curious case of Scott Rowan, who told reporters in Southern California that he was set on fire on the sidewalk because he's gay.

00:03:43.880 Which raises a whole lot of questions that the media never asked.

00:03:48.140 Here's how the gumshoes at the local ABC affiliate covered that story. 1.00

00:03:52.120 Watch.

00:03:53.020 A routine walk turned into a nightmare for a Southern California man.

00:03:56.560 39-year-old Scott Rowan went to a restaurant in his San Diego neighborhood to inquire about a job.

00:04:02.420 He says he heard two people yelling homophobic slurs at him, so he yelled back.

00:04:06.640 Rowan, who was gay, says the next thing he knew, he was being doused with some sort of liquid and then set on fire.

00:04:14.140 Immediately after that, I just, I went up kind of like coals on a barbecue.

00:04:19.320 Simply just went into flames.

00:04:22.120 They were obviously out targeting the LGBT community.

00:04:24.940 Rowan suffered second-degree burns, mostly along his side and back.

00:04:29.200 Not clear if he'll need surgery.

00:04:30.840 He says this is definitely a hate crime, and he filed a police report.

00:04:34.180 Now, you'll notice that there's no effort whatsoever to verify this guy's story.

00:04:38.900 To recap, we're told there was a gay guy who was out for a routine walk in San Diego, whatever that means, on his way to a restaurant, when he heard two people yell homophobic slurs at him, because obviously anyone could tell this guy was gay from a mile away.

00:04:52.240 He's just walking down the street. 0.89

00:04:53.840 And, of course, there are a bunch of anti-LGBTQ assassins roaming the streets of Southern California on the hunt for anyone who looks gay so they can set them on fire, which would seem to mean that they've been setting a lot of people on fire in Southern California. 0.95

00:05:10.540 But naturally, in response, this gay guy yelled back at his assailants, and then to his horror, he noticed that he had been doused with some kind of liquid and set on fire. 0.90

00:05:20.160 Literally, the only innovation over the Jussie Smollett hoax in that whole story is the bit at the end about getting set on fire.

00:05:26.800 And everything else, from the stuff about the restaurant to the number of assailants to the slurs, it's pretty much identical.

00:05:31.880 In fact, this claim is perhaps more similar to the story of a biracial woman named Althea Bernstein in Madison, Wisconsin.

00:05:38.880 And maybe you remember her.

00:05:39.680 She claimed that she was doused with lighter fluid and set on fire by a gang of white racists who accosted her while she was waiting at an intersection.

00:05:48.780 Authorities opened a hate crime investigation into that alleged attack and then quietly dropped it a few weeks later, saying only that they couldn't prove that the event had ever occurred at all.

00:05:57.600 Which is odd, considering that it supposedly happened at an intersection in the middle of a city with dozens of cameras all around.

00:06:05.160 But to give Scott Rowan some credit, you know, we do know that he was indeed actually set on fire.

00:06:10.660 There's no denying that.

00:06:11.420 He's got the burns.

00:06:13.100 So there's an ounce of believability, at least to one aspect of this story.

00:06:17.360 He was set on fire somehow.

00:06:20.200 And, you know, if you don't look into any of the other details or inspected it in any way whatsoever, then maybe that's enough for you.

00:06:28.280 And, of course, the news media, the news of this alleged hate crime went viral in left-wing circles.

00:06:33.540 Antifa went wild with it, etc.

00:06:36.020 Unfortunately for the narrative, though, the truth eventually did come out, precisely three days later.

00:06:41.260 I want you to watch as the same crack news team that brought you the original story pulls what may be the single biggest about face in the history of journalism.

00:06:50.420 Watch.

00:06:50.900 Police say a man who says he was attacked and burned in an alleged hate crime is suspected of assaulting a pregnant woman.

00:06:59.020 Earlier this week, Scott Rowan, who is gay, told us he was set on fire in a targeted attack in San Diego.

00:07:05.300 Investigators paint a different picture.

00:07:06.680 They say they got a 911 call that night of a man attacking a pregnant woman.

00:07:10.780 She was bleeding and had several injuries requiring her to go to the hospital.

00:07:15.180 An hour later, officers got a report of a man saying he'd been set on fire.

00:07:19.240 Officers determined the man with the burn injuries was the suspect in the attack on the pregnant woman.

00:07:24.380 Then they say she retaliated using fire as a weapon against him.

00:07:29.380 So far, no one has been arrested.

00:07:31.240 Okay, well, that's a little different. 0.98

00:07:35.440 So instead of two homophobic bigots trolling the streets of San Diego looking to torch some random gay guy, 0.97

00:07:41.440 now we learn that the gay guy was actually beating a pregnant woman to the point that she was bleeding and had to go to the hospital. 0.98

00:07:47.040 And while she was being attacked, she somehow set the gay guy on fire in self-defense.

00:07:52.080 Now, you note how the news station is not ashamed about any of this.

00:07:54.520 They don't apologize to their viewers for airing a completely false story with no vetting whatsoever.

00:07:59.400 That's because they don't care.

00:08:00.300 Their job and the job of corporate media in general is to stoke as much division as possible.

00:08:04.580 If they get caught in a lie, then they'll just shrug and move on to the next one.

00:08:07.480 And yes, they did participate in the lie, even if they didn't.

00:08:10.860 They may not have known that this really stemmed from an attack on a pregnant woman. 0.99

00:08:16.420 But these are, I mean, these may be relatively mid-IQ people, but they're not mentally brain-damaged absolute morons. 0.95

00:08:25.040 So they would have known that there are plenty of aspects of the story that are dubious at best. 0.85

00:08:32.060 What do you do if you're in the news media and you hear a story like this?

00:08:34.480 Some guy comes to you and says that he was set on fire in San Diego by some anti-gay bigots who just happen to be roaming the streets and looking for people.

00:08:44.700 What do you do if you can't, you don't report it at all until you can confirm the details of the story.

00:08:52.900 That's what you do if you actually care about accuracy and reporting.

00:08:56.140 But of course they don't.

00:08:58.180 Now, fortunately for the news media, there have been plenty of other fake hate crimes for them to talk about.

00:09:02.800 So they can always just move on to the next one.

00:09:04.180 There was the case of the 20-year-old Ohio man who claimed in November to be the victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime.

00:09:10.480 And here's how the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CARE, described that episode.

00:09:14.860 They said the man, quote, was walking home from eating lunch when a car slowed down and rolled down the window. 0.65

00:09:20.920 The driver of the car allegedly started yelling at him using anti-Palestinian statements like kill all Palestinians and long live Israel. 0.96

00:09:27.220 As he swerved his car to intimidate the victim, the driver then allegedly turned around and hit the man while shouting, die. 0.92

00:09:35.800 You know, coming home from restaurants and stuff like that has proven it's a very dangerous thing if you're on the left.

00:09:41.840 I mean, these people are getting assaulted all the time on their way home from restaurants.

00:09:46.040 Now, for good measure, CARE posted a picture of this guy in a neck brace in the hospital just to underscore how Islamophobic this country has become.

00:09:53.200 As you may have guessed, none of that was true.

00:09:55.820 Police later obtained video evidence that the man's injuries resulted from a fight with his brother earlier in the day.

00:10:02.300 Confronted with the fact that they were completely wrong about this supposed hate crime, CARE did not admit their mistake.

00:10:07.360 They didn't offer any explanation for the decision to amplify a clearly fraudulent narrative.

00:10:11.540 Instead, they said this, quote,

00:10:13.800 Our understanding is that the brother has secured their own legal counsel.

00:10:17.340 We do not yet know anything more about the nature of the charges.

00:10:21.520 That was their statement.

00:10:22.500 Not, we're horrified, we misled the public about a brutal hate crime that didn't happen.

00:10:27.060 Just, he's got a lawyer, so, you know, we're not talking about it anymore.

00:10:30.060 Moving on. 0.73

00:10:31.740 Again, there's never any remorse from these liars. 1.00

00:10:33.900 Probably because they can't even tell how ridiculous they look. 0.99

00:10:37.500 They're so far gone that they don't see it. 0.99

00:10:39.720 Remorse requires shame and self-awareness.

00:10:42.540 And these people have neither of those.

00:10:44.000 That could explain the recent stunt by California Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who, as I mentioned before, we played this video on the show a couple weeks ago, launched into a bizarre story on CNN recently about a supposed racist incident that occurred at the Capitol.

00:10:57.340 And if you missed this, let's watch that again.

00:11:00.460 Racism, institutional racism is in the DNA of this country.

00:11:06.740 When you look at what has taken place, look at our Native Americans, the genocide of Native Americans.

00:11:12.240 When you look at what has taken place as it relates to African Americans, 250 years plus of enslaving African Americans.

00:11:18.700 And then you look at the disparities now in our community in terms of health care, unemployment, the wealth gap, housing.

00:11:27.320 You can't tell me that systemic racism does not exist.

00:11:30.540 It's not just a little kink.

00:11:32.000 Secondly, you have personal racism, which is hard to address.

00:11:35.700 But I'll give you one little story that shows you why we need to understand that I don't think she really understands racism.

00:11:41.940 I was walking from the House building on Capitol Hill to the Capitol, and a man, a white guy, stopped me and told me I could not get into the members' elevator.

00:11:51.820 And, you know, we have pens, and I was going to vote.

00:11:55.140 And he blocked me from getting into the elevator and told me I was not a member of Congress and it was for members only.

00:12:00.160 I said, sir, I'm a member of Congress.

00:12:02.280 And I showed him my pen, and he said, whose pen did you steal?

00:12:05.600 Now, this is an example of what personal racism is and how people of color constantly have to deal with this each and every day.

00:12:15.240 Yes.

00:12:15.740 Well, I mean, at least he didn't have lighter fluid on him, you know, so that's the one good thing.

00:12:19.200 But once again, right away, you know, nothing makes sense about the story.

00:12:22.300 And you can tell she's lying because she leaves out the kind of details you would need to verify the story.

00:12:27.100 She doesn't tell you when this incident happened, which would allow Capitol Police to pull up the surveillance tapes in about 10 seconds.

00:12:33.280 And conveniently, she doesn't offer any description of the white guy.

00:12:37.480 Like, who is he?

00:12:38.920 Is he a police officer? 0.98

00:12:39.980 Is he a random vigilante patrolling the elevators of Capitol Hill to make sure no black Congresswomen get inside? 0.96

00:12:47.180 We have no idea. 0.94

00:12:48.480 And she didn't mention it because this is all made up.

00:12:51.140 Like all these other recent hate hoaxes, it just makes no sense.

00:12:53.940 And by the way, she has also just moved on from that.

00:12:56.640 She never came, she never circled back around to say, oh, well, here's some more information about that.

00:13:00.780 You know, let's go find, no, just move on to the next thing.

00:13:04.140 And I could go on and on and on, listing dozens of fake hate crimes that have been reported over the past year.

00:13:08.640 But the data tells the story.

00:13:10.360 We are indeed witnessing an epidemic of fake hate crimes in the post-Smollett, post-BLM era. 0.99

00:13:18.440 As many news organizations reported this week, the FBI has determined that from 2018 to 2022,

00:13:22.440 hate crimes in the United States have increased by a staggering 60%.

00:13:27.360 And if that sounds bad, rest assured, we're told that it gets even worse.

00:13:32.420 The problem is especially acute among students, the Bureau tells us.

00:13:35.340 In that same period from 2018 to 2022, according to the FBI, reported hate crimes in schools and colleges have doubled, nearly doubled.

00:13:42.580 Elementary and secondary schools are the hotspots, we're told.

00:13:44.820 Supposedly, the most common hate crimes in schools are anti-black hate crimes, followed by anti-Jewish, followed by anti-gay.

00:13:53.820 Anti-white hate crimes don't make the top three.

00:13:56.480 Despite the fact that white kids are the victims in nearly every video of an assault at a school by one race against another,

00:14:04.860 that we've seen in the last 10 years, there may be a couple of exceptions to that,

00:14:09.020 and I'm just going to grant that there probably is a couple.

00:14:11.540 I can't even think of any.

00:14:13.020 Almost every single video you see is like this, for example.

00:14:16.880 I want you to watch this footage of a recent beating at a school in Florida,

00:14:19.540 which again comes to us from a local ABC affiliate.

00:14:22.380 And notice what's not mentioned in this report.

00:14:25.320 Here it is.

00:14:26.520 Police closing in on suspects after a brutal beatdown near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

00:14:30.680 And viral video shows a teen pummeled in a parking lot before he's picked up and slammed to the ground.

00:14:36.580 Local 10 crime specialist Bridget Matter, live now in Coral Springs, with that investigation.

00:14:41.160 Bridget.

00:14:42.900 And the students seen in this brutal video, they have been identified,

00:14:46.760 and police are working to make those arrests.

00:14:48.760 The victim here has suffered a skull fracture and was hospitalized.

00:14:54.140 Disturbing cell phone video shows the brutal beating of a student at North Community Park in Coral Springs.

00:15:00.120 Eventually, some witnesses step in to help.

00:15:05.020 Another angle of the beating shows the students slammed to the ground. 0.97

00:15:08.900 All I could think was these people are animals.

00:15:11.320 What prompted the fight is unknown.

00:15:14.940 So, and that's not a fight, by the way.

00:15:16.900 That's, you know, 10 people stomping the hell out of one person.

00:15:21.140 That's not a fight.

00:15:21.760 That's just a, that's an assault, and that's attempted murder.

00:15:24.480 So, there was a brutal beating of a teenager in a parking lot at a school.

00:15:29.280 The victim suffered a skull fracture.

00:15:30.740 He had to be hospitalized.

00:15:32.260 The motive, we're told, is unknown.

00:15:34.580 Just no way to explain why this might have happened.

00:15:37.440 What's not mentioned in the report, conspicuously enough, is that the teens who beat the student were black and the victim was white.

00:15:42.080 And just in case you think that this was another innocent mistake by the local news crew, rest assured that the national media did precisely the same thing.

00:15:48.720 Fox News reported on the incident as another example of, quote, juvenile violence that's rocking the nation.

00:15:55.740 Juvenile violence.

00:15:56.700 Nothing else can be said about this form of violence and who's committing it, and it's just juvenile.

00:16:02.560 That's it.

00:16:04.240 But the cause of the brawl, we're told, is unknown. 0.96

00:16:06.880 So, it's clear that when black people beat up white people at school, then the identities of the attackers isn't something you're supposed to talk about.

00:16:12.620 The national news media doesn't think it could possibly be related to the motive, even though we all know what they'd be saying if the races were flipped around the other way. 0.51

00:16:21.920 And given all this, there's obviously a lot of reason to doubt the FBI's latest hate crime data.

00:16:29.160 Nobody wants to talk about anti-white hate crimes, even when they're occurring on camera.

00:16:32.800 So, we should expect some under-reporting in that area.

00:16:37.140 But for just a moment, let's take this FBI reporting at face value, right?

00:16:40.440 And assume that, indeed, there's been a dramatic rise in the number of hate crimes in schools.

00:16:45.680 Let's just pretend, right?

00:16:47.560 Let's live in that fantasy world for a second.

00:16:49.160 Well, if that's the case, then it would seem to suggest that our schools are an even bigger disaster than we thought.

00:16:54.980 Test scores and student productivity are going down.

00:16:58.100 We already know that.

00:17:00.060 And they tell us hate crimes are going up.

00:17:01.660 Now, considering that schools have never focused more on preaching tolerance and diversity,

00:17:07.360 this would mean that their efforts to bring about racial justice have been a catastrophic failure and are doing more harm than good.

00:17:14.220 You'd think that, you know, that realization might prompt some self-reflection from the activists who've been lecturing us for years about the importance of DEI and racial reckoning and so on.

00:17:23.800 Turns out, none of it's working.

00:17:25.900 Just like affirmative action, this grand social experiment hasn't solved any of the problems that it was supposed to solve. 0.94

00:17:30.840 And that's according to the people who, you know, came up with this plan.

00:17:35.780 And in this case, that's certainly the implication of this FBI report, if we assume it's accurate.

00:17:40.780 But the truth is that the FBI report is not accurate.

00:17:43.480 Just like all the reports of hate crimes from 2016 weren't accurate, back when we were told that Donald Trump was emboldening white supremacists or whatever.

00:17:50.520 The moment you dive into the specifics on hate crime stats, you realize what a fraud it is.

00:17:56.700 The only way this stuff works is if you never look even an inch below the surface.

00:18:00.620 And as soon as you do, you see that there's just nothing there.

00:18:03.900 It's empty.

00:18:05.360 Now, all of this data is based on reported hate crimes.

00:18:08.940 So the media will say hate crimes are on the rise.

00:18:10.940 But what they often leave out, especially in the headline, is that, no, reports of hate crimes are on the rise.

00:18:19.200 And that part is true. 0.74

00:18:21.640 In other words, if somebody tells a teacher that they were called a mean name because of their skin color, that would count as a reported hate crime.

00:18:29.260 Doesn't matter if there's no conviction or even an arrest.

00:18:31.500 All it takes is for somebody in a police department somewhere to code an incident as potentially related to hatred, whether they can prove that the incident even happened.

00:18:41.960 But that's it.

00:18:43.560 And by the way, the police are incentivized to do this by the Biden DOJ.

00:18:47.660 The DOJ awards millions of dollars to local police departments that report hate crimes.

00:18:52.340 So there's a massive gap between reported hate crimes and hate crimes that actually result in a conviction.

00:18:58.880 And what's funny is that you never hear anyone talk about what exactly this difference is.

00:19:03.720 I mean, none of the media reports this week even mention it.

00:19:06.100 I went through several media reports about the reported hate crimes and the numbers.

00:19:10.700 Well, OK, how many convictions have there been?

00:19:14.160 How many of these cases have actually been proven?

00:19:17.900 Now, if you go on the FBI's website, you're not going to find that information either, at least not prominently.

00:19:22.140 But I went looking for it on the website of the California Department of Justice.

00:19:25.180 And I thought this would be a good state to check since it's one of the most left-wing states in the entire country, if not the most left-wing.

00:19:30.720 So we can assume that they're going to vigorously prosecute as many alleged hate crimes as possible.

00:19:36.040 Here are the most recent numbers we have.

00:19:38.380 In 2022, the state of California reported a whopping 2,589 hate crimes.

00:19:44.240 And depending on your perspective, in a state of 40 million people, that might not seem like many.

00:19:48.160 But let's pretend it's an alarmingly high figure, you know, just for the sake of argument.

00:19:52.040 Well, guess how many of those reported hate crimes resulted in hate crime convictions, according to the California DOJ?

00:19:58.080 Out of 2,589 supposed hate crimes in a state of 40 million, how many of them were actually proven in a court?

00:20:04.820 Well, the answer is a grand total of 53.

00:20:09.180 So that's roughly 2% of them.

00:20:12.880 98% of them in a state that, again, is incredibly incentivized in many different ways to prosecute as many of these as they possibly can.

00:20:20.600 98% of them never proven in a court of law.

00:20:24.840 Many of them, there was never even any charges brought.

00:20:28.200 And again, this is in the jurisdiction where the prosecutors are presumably the most aggressive on charges like this,

00:20:33.100 and where juries are extremely predisposed to convict.

00:20:37.000 And you can reproduce numbers like this in any state in the country.

00:20:39.160 There's a massive gulf between reports and charges of hate crimes, and an even greater one between reports and convictions.

00:20:48.060 Obviously, that's because most of these reports are nonsense.

00:20:51.260 What we actually have is a massive epidemic of false hate crime reports that are eating up who knows how much law enforcement resources and law enforcement time.

00:20:59.900 Now, it's tempting to dismiss all these reports as hoaxes, you know.

00:21:05.080 And it's easy to say that all these reports are from mentally imbalanced, cynical people looking for attention or sympathy or something like that.

00:21:11.600 And undoubtedly, that's a big part of it.

00:21:13.220 But that's not the whole explanation.

00:21:15.640 I mean, a lot of these people claiming that they're victims genuinely believe they are.

00:21:20.140 We've raised a generation to see hate crimes everywhere.

00:21:22.300 Everybody from law enforcement to academia to the corporate press have participated in that indoctrination.

00:21:28.140 So the truth is that this epidemic of false reports is as much a product of hoaxes as it is of brainwashing.

00:21:33.700 And that's why we shouldn't be surprised that the numbers are going up.

00:21:37.200 And it's also why we shouldn't be remotely shocked to learn that ground zero for these reports are schools and universities.

00:21:43.880 Indoctrination is their job.

00:21:46.360 Five years after Jussie Smollett, it's safe to say that they've gotten very good at it.

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00:22:53.540 Daily Wire reports today on a story that deserves a lot of attention and should be getting quite a bit more than it is getting.

00:23:00.120 The jury is set to deliberate on the fate of six pro-lifers who face 11 years in prison after being accused by the Department of Justice for a conspiracy against rights over a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility in March 2021.

00:23:13.680 On Monday, the fourth day of the trial, lawyers for the defendants and the Department of Justice delivered their closing arguments at the Fred D. Thompson Federal Courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

00:23:23.860 The pro-lifers, Chet Gallagher, Coleman Boyd, Heather Idani, Cal Zastro, Paul Vaughn, and Dennis Green are charged by the government of violating the FACE Act and conspiring against rights, a charge that could lead to 11 years in prison.

00:23:38.120 The charges stem from a protest that took place in a hallway outside of a Mount Juliet abortion provider on March 5th, 2021.

00:23:45.480 On that day, a group of demonstrators gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside of Carafam Health Center Clinic.

00:23:53.200 The group prayed, sang hymns, and urged women showing up to the clinic to not get abortions.

00:23:57.740 During closing arguments, lawyers for the defendants noted the peaceful aspect of the event, which they referred to as a rescue,

00:24:03.500 and said that the pro-lifers never conspired to oppress, threaten, or intimidate anyone at Carafam, as the government alleges.

00:24:10.120 Jody Bell, Gallagher's lawyer, said the group was at Carafam to offer help, consistent with their religious beliefs to women that their aim was rescuing the unborn.

00:24:19.140 Bell noted that the group was in the hallway leading to Carafam because it was located in an office building,

00:24:23.360 and it was impossible to know what women were coming for abortions by just standing outside the building.

00:24:28.900 A lawyer for Zastro said that the only agreement the group made was to save lives.

00:24:32.620 There was no yelling or carrying of any weapons.

00:24:35.740 Boyd's lawyer made a similar argument, saying that the group would have yelled and not sang church hymns and carried weapons, not Bibles, if they had malicious intent.

00:24:43.620 And during her final statements to the jury, Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Klopf likened the actions of the six pro-lifers to that of a group of people attempting to convince someone not to vote

00:24:52.720 and blocking the entrance of a polling location.

00:24:55.360 She said that something is not peaceful if laws are broken.

00:24:59.860 Hmm.

00:25:00.340 It's not peaceful if laws are broken.

00:25:04.460 Interestingly, we're hearing that now.

00:25:07.480 A courtroom gallery and an overflow room were both packed with roughly 70 people.

00:25:14.260 And so they're awaiting the verdict and sentencing if they're found guilty.

00:25:20.500 So, okay, so these people were standing peacefully in a hallway.

00:25:25.800 They never assaulted anybody.

00:25:28.160 They never vandalized.

00:25:30.120 They never damaged any property.

00:25:32.840 Okay?

00:25:33.420 They stood peacefully.

00:25:34.380 And we hear a lot about peaceful protests.

00:25:37.220 And we know the irony of very often when we hear peaceful protest.

00:25:42.300 It's, you know, the mostly peaceful protest with the fire raging in the background.

00:25:45.980 That's not this.

00:25:46.660 This is like actually peaceful.

00:25:48.200 They were just standing there.

00:25:49.760 And they're not accused of doing anything violent.

00:25:51.660 No one is suggesting otherwise.

00:25:53.080 Except the district attorney who's saying that, well, if you break a law, it's automatically violent.

00:26:03.000 Which, again, is very interesting because we don't hear that logic from DAs and prosecutors all the time.

00:26:13.600 I mean, in fact, very often on the left, we're told there's all manner of nonviolent.

00:26:20.800 She has just suggested that the category of nonviolent crime doesn't exist.

00:26:27.080 That's what the prosecutor said.

00:26:28.520 That's her argument.

00:26:29.600 That there's no such thing as a nonviolent crime.

00:26:31.020 Because if you're committing a crime, it's automatically violent.

00:26:34.640 Which, wow, okay.

00:26:38.400 So there's a whole lot of people that are being let out of jail or are never being sent there in the first place on the logic that it's a nonviolent crime.

00:26:46.800 That apparently now the federal government is saying all those people need to be in jail.

00:26:52.220 But, of course, we could pull up many examples of Joe Biden himself talking about nonviolent crime.

00:26:57.180 And why, quote unquote, nonviolent criminals shouldn't go to jail.

00:27:02.880 And yet, in this case, because they're pro-lifers, they're automatically violent because they're committing a crime.

00:27:09.740 And now the federal government wants to put them away for 11 years.

00:27:12.180 11 years in prison for that.

00:27:16.800 I mean, think about the prosecutors in this case.

00:27:19.740 Like, they have to know that the defendants are just, these are just normal people who would never harm anyone, have never harmed anyone, have never even threatened to harm anyone, never would.

00:27:33.040 They pose no threat of any kind to anyone.

00:27:36.000 These are productive members of society.

00:27:39.600 And yet, you know, you as a prosecutor are trying to lock them away for 11 years.

00:27:44.220 More than a decade in prison.

00:27:45.560 It's like, there's no way that you actually think that's the right thing to do.

00:27:50.380 How do you sleep at night?

00:27:52.680 How do you go home and sleep at night after spending a day arguing for throwing these totally normal people who pose no threat to anyone in jail for a decade?

00:28:01.700 Now, needless to say, BLM rioters who torched police stations and assaulted cops and who looted and robbed and vandalized and hurt people and property never got 11 years in prison. 0.84

00:28:17.860 Like, just by comparison, okay, one of the guys who burned the police station in Minneapolis got three years.

00:28:23.080 And that was burning a police station to the ground three years in prison.

00:28:28.020 11, for standing outside of an abortion clinic.

00:28:36.920 There's no justice in this country.

00:28:38.580 There's no justice.

00:28:39.480 It doesn't exist.

00:28:41.060 Whatever existed, you know, whatever bit of justice still existed has been buried by the Biden administration, nail in the coffin and buried.

00:28:49.800 This is full-on, extreme, Soviet-style political persecution happening in broad daylight in front of everybody.

00:28:59.300 We can all see it.

00:29:01.080 They aren't hiding it.

00:29:03.820 And who's getting the brunt of it?

00:29:06.200 Well, pro-lifers are.

00:29:08.180 It isn't talked about very much at all, even on the right.

00:29:11.100 But there is a campaign of political persecution against pro-lifers happening right now.

00:29:18.460 They're having their homes raided.

00:29:21.780 You know, the case of Mark Houck, I've talked about that many times.

00:29:25.660 The Biden administration tried to throw him in prison for, like, pushing a guy.

00:29:29.900 Pushing a guy who was harassing and accosting his 12-year-old son.

00:29:33.760 Mark Houck just pushed him.

00:29:35.120 And the guy fell over.

00:29:38.800 And Biden sends the feds to his house to drag him out of his home and tries to put him in federal prison for it.

00:29:45.620 So that's happening.

00:29:48.740 They're taking peaceful protesters, throwing them in prison.

00:29:52.380 It's very similar to what Biden has been doing to January Sixers.

00:29:56.280 But this is worse because these people, the pro-lifers, are being targeted for protesting the murder of babies.

00:30:03.160 They're being targeted for, in most cases, not even going inside a building, okay?

00:30:09.300 It's like they went inside the Capitol.

00:30:11.720 They didn't even go inside the clinic.

00:30:13.240 They were outside of it.

00:30:16.340 And they're looking at 11 years in prison.

00:30:19.780 And the thing that really gets me about this, the thing that really enrages me about it,

00:30:24.600 is that most people on the right I'm talking about, most people, even on the right, are ignoring the persecution of these pro-lifers.

00:30:39.860 And, you know, we say the same thing about the January 6th defendants, but that's not really true at this point.

00:30:45.880 I mean, you can hear people talk about the January 6th defendants everywhere, on the right.

00:30:49.360 And, of course, in the media it's a different thing, but you can listen to Fox News, and they'll talk about January 6th defendants.

00:30:57.720 This is a widely discussed thing among conservatives about what's happening in January 6th defendants, as well it should be.

00:31:04.380 I'm not complaining about that.

00:31:07.140 But my point is that what's happening to these pro-lifers really is being ignored.

00:31:10.460 Like, it's being all but ignored by many people on the right.

00:31:16.760 And listen, this thing people do, and I myself am the target of it very often, where people come after you and say,

00:31:25.720 why aren't you talking about that?

00:31:26.600 Like, they have their pet issue or whatever, and they get angry at you for not talking.

00:31:30.620 Because whatever you're focused on, you shouldn't be focused on that.

00:31:32.980 You should be focused on this other thing.

00:31:33.980 And then if you're a conservative person in media, pretty soon you find yourself in a position where,

00:31:40.720 no matter what you're talking about at any given moment, you've got 25 other groups yelling at you,

00:31:46.880 saying you should be talking about this thing, no, this, that, this.

00:31:49.840 And that gets really annoying, and it's a ridiculous game that we play.

00:31:55.300 And so, I don't want to play the same thing here.

00:31:59.260 But the difference in this case, for the conservative commentators who are ignoring the plight of these pro-lifers,

00:32:07.100 is that this is an actual, this is not an oversight, I guess is what I'm saying,

00:32:13.820 or the product of, you know, we're just talking about something else.

00:32:16.980 Our focus is elsewhere.

00:32:19.520 It's not really that.

00:32:21.260 This is a considered plan.

00:32:27.340 Again, this is a strategy.

00:32:29.340 This is a political strategy by many on the right to ignore this kind of stuff entirely.

00:32:36.000 Because they want to pivot away from abortion. 0.91

00:32:39.000 They don't want to talk about it.

00:32:40.020 As many conservatives have just abandoned the field of battle completely on this issue.

00:32:45.700 Now, granted, many of them were never on the field of battle to begin with.

00:32:49.660 But, you know, they have abandoned it even more.

00:32:55.400 Like, they were just on the sidelines before, and now they're not even in the stadium.

00:32:58.380 Okay.

00:33:00.520 So, they've abandoned this fight to whatever extent they were engaged in it in the past.

00:33:06.000 And these pro-lifers who are being targeted for political persecution by the Biden administration,

00:33:12.000 they are, they get thrown out as well.

00:33:16.780 Because you can't really, you know, to focus on them and talk about them and what they're going through,

00:33:21.680 and to call attention to it, and shed some light on it,

00:33:26.000 is to bring up the issue of abortion.

00:33:28.880 And they go hand in hand.

00:33:31.060 Now, you don't need to be pro-life, or you shouldn't need to be pro-life to see that this is just wrong.

00:33:39.940 That we shouldn't be sending people to jail for, to federal prison for 11 years for praying outside of an office.

00:33:48.260 Okay.

00:33:49.120 So, you shouldn't need to be pro-life to see that.

00:33:52.160 But, inevitably, when this topic comes up, it brings up the abortion topic,

00:33:56.380 and there are a lot of conservative commentators and activists and so on

00:33:59.240 who've just decided that they're ashamed of that issue, they're afraid of it, they're scared of it,

00:34:04.200 they think it's unwinnable, they don't want to talk about it,

00:34:07.280 and they are, they've totally thrown up the white flag.

00:34:14.240 And that's the thing that is deeply frustrating about this.

00:34:21.260 And, you know, I say that as someone who, I mean, I can't imagine if I had a family member

00:34:26.460 who was one of the pro-lifers being targeted in this way.

00:34:31.680 All right.

00:34:33.000 Daily Mail has this.

00:34:34.120 Dozens of U.S. government workers will stage a one-day hunger strike

00:34:37.140 to protest the Biden administration's support for Israel amid the war with Hamas.

00:34:41.360 Members of Feds United for Peace told The Guardian

00:34:43.820 that employees from over two dozen government agencies, including the Departments of Defense and State,

00:34:47.960 plan on a day of fasting on Thursday.

00:34:51.080 The officials participating will show up at work either dressed in black

00:34:53.880 or wearing keffiyeh scarves or other symbols of Palestinian solidarity.

00:34:58.800 They said they're witnessing, or they're protesting starvation as a weapon of war

00:35:02.060 by intentionally withholding food from entering Gaza,

00:35:05.340 where more than 26,000 people, most of the civilians, have been killed since the war began,

00:35:09.780 according to the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory.

00:35:12.420 You know, I really find this inspiring.

00:35:17.080 I'm so inspired that I would love to see like 80% of the federal workforce

00:35:21.760 participate in the hunger strike indefinitely.

00:35:25.020 I mean, if one day is inspiring, and it is, imagine how inspiring a month would be.

00:35:30.820 I'd love to see 80% of the federal workforce go on a hunger strike for a month.

00:35:36.260 That, I think that's going to be the most inspiring.

00:35:38.460 That's the most likely to bring about world peace, and they should do it.

00:35:43.400 And we'll see how many are left at that point, and we'll see if we have to start it up again.

00:35:48.160 You know, Vivek wanted to fire half of the federal workforce for, you know,

00:35:51.320 but I think having them starve themselves to death is, you know, is an alternative.

00:35:56.860 I mean, I'm not, you know, if that's, if they're volunteering for it, I'm not saying I want that.

00:36:02.040 And, of course, just a day isn't going to do the trick, though.

00:36:06.300 That's the point.

00:36:08.000 I mean, is there anything more indicative of modern society than a day-long hunger strike?

00:36:12.740 Is there anything that better represents our culture than a day-long hunger strike?

00:36:17.320 And you know they're not even going a full day.

00:36:18.900 You know that's not happening.

00:36:20.340 Like, it'll be 5.45 p.m., and they'll be scarfing down Whataburger or something.

00:36:26.000 What, I said I'd go all day without eating.

00:36:28.060 This is evening.

00:36:29.200 I've never really understood the hunger strike concept anyway.

00:36:35.960 Because if you're trying to extract confessions out of me or out of whoever,

00:36:40.580 like, how is making yourself hungry going to do that?

00:36:44.740 I don't get it.

00:36:46.100 If you don't do what I want, I'm going to make myself hungry.

00:36:51.000 Okay?

00:36:52.060 Then be hungry.

00:36:53.420 Okay, I don't care.

00:36:54.860 My kids try to do this.

00:36:55.840 This is something kids do, you know.

00:36:57.180 And you'll find on the left, their protest methods are very often sort of, like, inspired by the behavior of two- and three-year-olds.

00:37:05.160 And so my kids will do this sometimes.

00:37:06.580 Like, my four-year-old, just last night, actually, she was mad at me about something.

00:37:09.800 We're eating dinner.

00:37:11.300 And she crosses her arms and says, I'm not eating dinner.

00:37:14.140 I'm not going to eat.

00:37:14.960 And I said, okay, fine.

00:37:18.520 More food for me.

00:37:20.360 Like, we're having spaghetti and meat sauce.

00:37:22.460 And we've got garlic bread.

00:37:24.020 This is delicious.

00:37:26.000 You know, and, like, the rest of these kids, they never stop eating.

00:37:28.360 So if that means I get to have more, and you want to, like, that's fine.

00:37:31.460 That's your choice.

00:37:32.860 Now, of course, the difference is that I don't want my kids to starve to death,

00:37:35.720 which is never really in the cards anyway because their hunger strike will never last more than 45 minutes,

00:37:40.580 and they'll be in the kitchen asking for a snack.

00:37:42.180 That's the way it goes.

00:37:43.360 But outside of my house, most of the time, you know, the sorts of people who go on hunger strikes

00:37:47.160 are not exactly the sorts of people whose comfort and well-being are at the top of my or anyone else's list of priorities.

00:37:58.200 Again, I don't want them to starve themselves to death.

00:37:59.820 I'm just saying it's not the top of the list.

00:38:04.320 And also, by the way, another form of protest that can be even more inspiring

00:38:10.040 and that you've seen people use sometimes historically is self-immolation.

00:38:14.960 So you can actually set yourself on fire to protest something.

00:38:18.460 So, you know, maybe that's something that these government workers would want to consider.

00:38:23.420 And I'm not saying that I want a bunch of bureaucrats to burn to death.

00:38:29.620 I'm not encouraging them to do that. 0.91

00:38:31.740 I'm not saying I want it.

00:38:32.600 I would never say that out loud on camera.

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00:39:48.980 Well, yesterday we did 20 minutes on the moon landing where I was defending the fact that

00:39:55.580 one of the most documented events in history actually happened because it did.

00:40:00.840 And I was debunking the moon landing hoax conspiracy theory.

00:40:04.580 And a lot of comments on that.

00:40:06.880 A lot of comments.

00:40:08.600 And it, I mean, it's, I'll be honest.

00:40:11.900 It's like 85% against the moon landing being real.

00:40:17.360 This is, oh man, we are in trouble.

00:40:21.320 We are in trouble as a country.

00:40:23.760 It's like, when it comes to the moon landing, we're at the point now, I think,

00:40:28.300 where the mainstream view is that it never happened.

00:40:32.640 In spite of the fact that every single one of the points that they raise is easily debunked,

00:40:38.840 as I already have done, and also in spite of the fact that, as I pointed out in that lengthy

00:40:43.720 model, I'm not going to repeat the whole thing, you can go watch it, but that these people that

00:40:48.180 are suggesting that it was a hoax have zero evidence for their own theory of the case.

00:40:56.560 Like, they are asserting an entirely different event that they claim happened, which is that

00:41:00.580 the staging of this thing on a soundstage somewhere.

00:41:05.320 No evidence of that.

00:41:07.280 Not any at all.

00:41:09.820 And yet, that's the one we're going to believe.

00:41:13.280 The one that has zero bits of evidence.

00:41:17.020 I'll read a couple of comments.

00:41:18.360 Polly Smith says, Matt, I'm sorry, but you really haven't done nearly enough research.

00:41:21.720 If we went to the moon, then why haven't we been once every 10 years since, at a minimum?

00:41:25.120 The moon landing is only real if we go once every 10 years.

00:41:31.960 I mean, that's not arbitrary at all.

00:41:34.020 The good thing about that, Polly, is that that is not an entirely arbitrary, completely

00:41:39.140 ad hoc thing that you've just come up with.

00:41:42.840 Well, in order to be real, we have to go once every 10 years.

00:41:47.240 What?

00:41:48.660 Where did you come up with that?

00:41:51.620 How do you explain all the natural contradictions in the footage?

00:41:53.900 Explain all the information NASA supposedly destroyed, etc.

00:41:58.040 Cobra says, bro, if you put a man on the moon in the 60s when all the computers at NASA

00:42:01.420 combined had the computing power of a smartphone, why haven't we done it again?

00:42:05.360 We haven't gone back because we never went in the first place.

00:42:09.600 Another one, putting your trust in the government about the authenticity of the moon landing

00:42:12.300 is no different than trusting Fauci and Big Pharma on jab safety.

00:42:16.540 Several of the astronauts who took part in the landing died suddenly or remain silent

00:42:20.440 about it.

00:42:20.880 Remain silent about what?

00:42:26.060 Which of the astronauts are remaining silent that have never talked about going to the moon?

00:42:29.280 They went to the moon.

00:42:29.760 Which ones?

00:42:31.220 What are you talking about?

00:42:34.680 The other thing is people just make things up like this.

00:42:38.060 And so there's, I'll admit, I've addressed a lot of the moon landing stuff.

00:42:41.280 Some of the stuff is hard to debunk because it's just completely invented.

00:42:47.680 There's no, you just made it up.

00:42:49.820 Yeah, there's astronauts.

00:42:50.540 They don't even want to talk about going on the moon.

00:42:53.440 Okay.

00:42:56.300 Cobra says, not to mention, have you seen the photos of the lunar lander?

00:42:59.380 Anyone could easily build an exact replica in their garage.

00:43:02.380 It's not remotely impressive.

00:43:03.360 Chris says, regardless of anyone's view on the moon landing, I do think it's incredibly

00:43:08.400 arrogant and immature to call anyone who has a different opinion on it a denialist as

00:43:12.540 it's tantamount to nothing more than name calling. 0.90

00:43:15.400 In view of the examples you gave of those you've interacted with who questioned the moon

00:43:19.340 landing, you clearly haven't done any real research on the subject because they are most

00:43:23.560 certainly not the main arguments moon hoax believers have.

00:43:27.000 And your idea that thousands of people would have to be in on it is ludicrous as everything

00:43:31.640 was compartmentalized, so very few people would need to know the full story.

00:43:35.940 It's very clear that you have no real understanding of the moon conspiracy as a whole.

00:43:40.000 You seem to be basing your opinion on a few weak random statements posted on your feed.

00:43:43.280 So with greatest of respect, I would strongly recommend you do some solid research on the

00:43:45.980 subject and debunk some of the way stronger arguments before calling anyone who has a different

00:43:49.400 opinion a denier.

00:43:51.020 And even after doing so, if you still come to the conclusion the moon landing was real,

00:43:53.720 I would avoid calling those who don't agree deniers as it really doesn't make you look

00:43:58.420 good.

00:43:58.640 Okay.

00:43:59.980 First of all, I have heard many times now that in my 20-minute video addressing moon landing

00:44:06.000 deniers that I neglected their strongest arguments, yet no one has told me what the stronger arguments

00:44:10.940 are.

00:44:11.320 So I keep hearing, like Chris said, this lengthy comment saying, you've neglected the strong

00:44:15.560 arguments.

00:44:16.580 What are they?

00:44:17.500 You spent a lot of time telling me about the strong arguments.

00:44:20.120 You didn't tell me what they were, though.

00:44:21.340 And that's because he knows that, of course, I did, in fact, make sure to specifically address

00:44:27.100 most of the arguments.

00:44:28.260 Now, there are no strong arguments, so I can't address the strong ones.

00:44:31.640 They don't exist.

00:44:33.120 But I addressed the arguments, and I didn't just dismiss them out of hand.

00:44:40.280 What you have done and what you see in these comments is dismissing me out of hand.

00:44:43.800 They're just reasserting their original point and saying, well, you clearly haven't done

00:44:48.040 research.

00:44:48.720 You're still wrong.

00:44:49.460 Okay.

00:44:50.740 That is what dismissal looks like.

00:44:53.520 But laying out what the argument is and then explaining why I disagree with it is what

00:44:58.340 I did in my original monologue, which is not dismissive.

00:45:02.300 That is actually engaging with your points, which I have not seen in any of these comments

00:45:07.660 on the other side.

00:45:08.980 I think what you see in most of these comments to my monologue, most of the responses are

00:45:19.220 just kind of repeating the same assertions I already addressed in the monologue.

00:45:24.540 And this thing about how we've never gone back, and I addressed that at length.

00:45:29.360 I gave a specific answer.

00:45:31.520 I even gave examples of other kinds of technology that we abandoned from that same era to show

00:45:37.760 that this is not unprecedented, and it didn't happen in a vacuum, no pun intended.

00:45:42.420 And yet the response is just to repeat the claim, making no attempt to rebut what I said.

00:45:49.840 And I've got to say, I find it surprising how this point, this, well, why did we go back

00:45:54.940 thing?

00:45:55.920 I find it surprising how this is by far and away the most common objection that I have

00:46:00.080 seen from the moon landing deniers.

00:46:03.320 And I've now heard from literally thousands of them.

00:46:07.800 And this is the single, this is the single most common point that people bring up to me

00:46:12.220 is that, well, why haven't we gone back?

00:46:14.280 And yet it's by far the weakest point.

00:46:17.960 It's the easiest to explain.

00:46:19.600 And it's also not even true.

00:46:20.760 We did go back five times.

00:46:22.160 So it's kind of confusing to me as to why people think, like, why that's so compelling

00:46:29.700 to people, but it appears to be.

00:46:32.020 And I think what's going on here, or part of what's going on, is that many people find

00:46:37.200 it unbelievable that we went to the moon.

00:46:40.340 No matter what the evidence is, no matter what any of the details are, just going in viscerally

00:46:46.100 from the start, they can't believe it.

00:46:48.060 So in a literal sense, it is unbelievable to them.

00:46:51.020 They just can't believe it.

00:46:52.020 They don't, that's how impressive the achievement was.

00:46:55.720 And that's also how unimpressive and decadent our culture is today, that when we look back

00:47:01.600 at those achievements, we can't even accept that they happened.

00:47:05.980 Because we look around at the world today, we say, like, no one's doing that kind of

00:47:08.360 stuff now, so it must not have happened then.

00:47:11.640 It's a sad commentary on our culture.

00:47:17.180 But, and you're not wrong for pointing that out, by the way.

00:47:20.240 Like, that is an interesting fact, that we were doing all these crazy cool things, and

00:47:24.600 now we're not doing any of that.

00:47:26.480 Yeah, that is true.

00:47:28.960 But that's not evidence that it didn't happen.

00:47:33.020 And I think it becomes this kind of argument from incredulity, where people say, I can't

00:47:38.020 personally wrap my head around it.

00:47:39.800 I don't know how this was achieved.

00:47:41.160 I don't understand the mechanics of it.

00:47:42.820 Therefore, it didn't happen.

00:47:43.660 But the problem is that your own inability to understand the way something happened, or

00:47:50.240 how it happened, is not a hole in the story.

00:47:53.580 Okay?

00:47:54.480 A hole in your understanding of the story is not a hole in the story itself.

00:48:01.740 And I think that's an important point.

00:48:04.080 So, you know, I see a lot of this sort of thing where people say, oh, you're telling

00:48:09.940 me that they made it into space, 250,000 miles to the moon, in that old tin bucket?

00:48:16.960 Yeah.

00:48:17.660 I mean, that's what happened.

00:48:18.620 It wasn't really a tin bucket.

00:48:19.900 But yeah, basically, that's what happened.

00:48:22.360 I know it's mind-boggling.

00:48:24.280 Human beings have done a lot of mind-boggling things in the name of exploration.

00:48:27.860 I mean, can you personally understand how they build submarines that allow people to

00:48:33.460 go to the deepest depths of the deepest parts of the ocean without getting crushed to death

00:48:37.820 or suffocating?

00:48:40.960 You know, I mean, if you were given all the parts to build a submarine like that, would

00:48:45.720 you be able to do it in 1,000 years?

00:48:47.220 No, you wouldn't.

00:48:47.900 I wouldn't be able to do it.

00:48:49.960 But people have.

00:48:51.760 Like, you could look at a submarine and say, you're telling me that thing?

00:48:54.300 That thing went all the way?

00:48:55.520 That went all the way to the bottom of the ocean, the Marianas Trench?

00:48:59.240 Really?

00:48:59.760 Come on.

00:49:01.540 Like, it did.

00:49:02.300 Yes.

00:49:02.620 I mean, that is what happened.

00:49:05.340 In fact, in fact, get this.

00:49:08.620 They built the first submarine that went down to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in the 1950s.

00:49:14.460 It successfully completed the first dive down to the deepest part of the ocean in a manned

00:49:18.500 mission in 1960.

00:49:20.800 1960, they were going down in what looked to be these horrifying suicide machines all

00:49:27.280 the way to the bottom of the ocean and surviving and coming back up.

00:49:31.640 So are you noticing a pattern?

00:49:33.020 I mean, in the 1960s, they went to the bottom of the ocean.

00:49:36.760 They went up to the moon.

00:49:38.480 They were flying, as I said yesterday, supersonic passenger jets that could make it from New York

00:49:43.360 to London in three hours in the 1960s.

00:49:46.240 And we don't really do any of those things anymore.

00:49:49.560 Does that mean they were all made up?

00:49:52.060 Does that mean that none of them ever happened?

00:49:55.440 No.

00:49:56.520 No, what you're seeing is what happens when very intelligent human beings have the spirit

00:50:01.300 of discovery within them.

00:50:03.360 And we don't have it anymore.

00:50:05.840 But we did have it in the past.

00:50:08.340 And that is how incredible things are achieved.

00:50:14.760 And I mean, do you understand that in the 19th century, in the 1800s, they were able to

00:50:21.720 send exploratory missions to the North Pole, to the most desolate regions of the world,

00:50:27.080 where they would stay trapped in the ice for like three years in the 1800s without any modern

00:50:34.620 technology at all, and they would survive, and they would come home.

00:50:40.080 Can you wrap your head around how they managed to do that?

00:50:42.220 I can't.

00:50:43.740 But they did.

00:50:44.560 It happened.

00:50:45.960 In fact, can you understand, really?

00:50:47.740 I mean, you could read books about it, but can you really understand how a ship's captain

00:50:52.600 in, let's say, 1650 would have been able to leave a port in Spain and sail thousands of

00:51:02.980 miles across an ocean they've never seen before, they've never been across, and land on some

00:51:08.460 little speck of an island somewhere 2,500 miles away in the middle of this vast blue ocean.

00:51:15.600 And that they were able to do this with no technology of any kind of, no GPS, no satellite,

00:51:21.620 nothing.

00:51:22.580 They had their own eyes and a compass.

00:51:26.220 Can you understand how they did it?

00:51:27.320 I mean, could you ever do that?

00:51:29.340 Can you wrap your mind around that?

00:51:31.840 I can't.

00:51:33.160 Every time I read books like this, I'm blown away.

00:51:35.360 I'm like, how could you, I don't know, how is this possible?

00:51:38.440 How is it possible to do?

00:51:40.860 And yet they did it.

00:51:43.080 Because people, because when you have a culture that is driven to explore, and driven by so

00:51:49.740 many things, by curiosity, by competition, by personal pride, by patriotism, by faith,

00:52:00.640 you know, all these things.

00:52:01.940 And when you have all of that, and you put it inside a brilliant mind, and a great man,

00:52:12.540 and you have a bunch of those kinds of men in a culture, then you can do unbelievable

00:52:17.060 things.

00:52:19.180 And if we had had enough of that from the moon landing until now, we would already be

00:52:24.400 on Mars.

00:52:25.740 Like, we would already be on a moon in Jupiter, a moon of Jupiter.

00:52:28.200 I mean, we would, who knows, maybe we'd be outside the solar system by now.

00:52:32.540 Um, because that is what's possible.

00:52:35.280 And we've lost that.

00:52:37.160 Doesn't mean it didn't happen.

00:52:38.460 All right.

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00:53:09.560 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:53:10.740 So for today's daily cancellation, I'm going to have to once again resume my role as the

00:53:20.960 dad of the internet.

00:53:21.980 That is my true calling, after all.

00:53:23.460 My vocation is to deliver dad lectures to people on the internet who apparently never

00:53:27.680 received any growing up.

00:53:28.840 So we begin with an article in fortune.com with this headline.

00:53:32.540 Gen Z and millennial worker productivity is being crushed by bosses who don't understand

00:53:37.600 them, top economic university research says.

00:53:40.340 Now this is not a surprising headline.

00:53:41.880 As we know, the favorite pastime of Gen Z and millennials is to complain about people 1.00

00:53:45.300 not understanding them.

00:53:46.980 You don't understand us is like the whiny mantra of our two generations combined.

00:53:52.080 It's the banner we march under.

00:53:54.220 We're convinced that no one in history can relate to our struggles or understand our pain.

00:53:58.720 No one's ever had it harder than us, we tell ourselves.

00:54:01.900 That appears to be the general thesis of this fortune article.

00:54:04.460 It begins, quote, starting a career has increasingly felt like a rite of passage for Gen Z and millennial

00:54:10.040 workers struggling to adapt to the working week and stand out to their new bosses.

00:54:15.760 Now let's pause and reflect just for a moment.

00:54:18.720 Starting a career has increasingly felt like a rite of passage for Gen Z and millennial workers.

00:54:23.740 This is like saying, eating food has increasingly felt like a necessary step to avoid starvation

00:54:30.540 for Gen Z and millennials.

00:54:33.020 Younger generations have a narcissistic tendency to believe that everything they're experiencing 0.95

00:54:37.400 is somehow unprecedented and unique.

00:54:40.120 But now it's really getting out of hand.

00:54:41.280 I mean, starting a career has been a rite of passage for every generation since the dawn

00:54:46.120 of the industrial age.

00:54:47.360 Let's just clarify that from the beginning.

00:54:49.700 Continuing.

00:54:49.980 But it looks like those bosses aren't doing much in return to help their young staffers

00:54:54.400 adjust to corporate life.

00:54:55.880 And it could be having major effects on their company's output.

00:54:58.540 Research by the London School of Economics and Protivity found that friction in the workplace

00:55:04.340 was causing a worrying productivity chasm between bosses and their employees.

00:55:09.640 And it was by far the worst for Gen Z and millennial workers.

00:55:12.480 The survey of nearly 1,500 UK and US office workers found that a quarter of the employees

00:55:16.860 self-reported low productivity in the workplace.

00:55:19.240 More than a third of Gen Z employees reported low productivity, while 30% of millennials

00:55:22.520 describe themselves as unproductive.

00:55:24.340 Employees with managers who are more than 12 years their senior, the average age gap between

00:55:28.880 bosses and workers, are 1.5 times as likely to report low levels of productivity and nearly

00:55:33.640 three times as likely to report being unsatisfied in their job.

00:55:37.440 Millennial and Gen Z workers thought that their abilities in active listening, time management 0.79

00:55:41.380 and judgment and decision making needed to be honed to improve their productivity.

00:55:45.220 A key obstacle, though, appears to be getting that point across to their older managers.

00:55:51.200 Okay, let me just give a little unsolicited career advice here.

00:55:57.360 If you have had trouble communicating to your boss that you struggle with listening, time

00:56:01.920 management and decision making, that's good.

00:56:05.860 It's good that you have not successfully communicated that problem yet.

00:56:10.880 Stop trying to communicate it.

00:56:13.080 Keep that to yourself.

00:56:15.780 And that's because your boss is not interested in helping you develop the basic qualities

00:56:20.800 of a functional adult.

00:56:23.200 If you don't have those qualities, your boss's solution will be to fire you.

00:56:27.340 So if he hasn't noticed yet that you can't function as an adult, then don't tell him.

00:56:32.800 Like, he'll figure it out.

00:56:34.040 But, you know, sometimes in these places it takes a while.

00:56:36.460 So just ride the wave, at least.

00:56:39.860 Now look around your office.

00:56:42.040 Do you see little chairs at little tables with glue sticks and crayons?

00:56:45.400 Do you see cubbies where people are keeping their lunchboxes?

00:56:48.760 Do you see an alphabet rug in the middle of the room where you sit and listen to somebody

00:56:52.620 read Dr. Seuss books?

00:56:54.520 Probably not.

00:56:55.460 And that's because your place of employment is not a kindergarten classroom.

00:56:59.140 You are not there to learn how to listen and pay attention.

00:57:01.760 You are expected to already have those fundamental skills.

00:57:05.440 And if you don't, then you are wildly unqualified for all jobs in existence. 0.99

00:57:10.600 You are a broken person. 0.61

00:57:12.580 And your manager cannot be expected to fix you. 0.91

00:57:15.700 That's not in his job description.

00:57:18.340 The article continues in that vein and ends this way.

00:57:20.780 According to research by Vitality, employees under the age of 30 were losing 60 productivity

00:57:24.800 days a year, largely due to issues with their mental health.

00:57:28.240 Younger workers were more likely to suffer depression, to report significant financial

00:57:31.680 concerns, and to be dissatisfied with their jobs, the health insurance group found.

00:57:35.840 The findings also point to a trend of younger workers losing motivation for a career as an

00:57:39.600 increasingly unequal economy removes their incentives to succeed in the workplace.

00:57:43.380 In a viral video responding to criticism of Gen Zers by 54-year-old comedian Rick Mercer,

00:57:48.040 TikToker Robbie Scott laid out exactly why Gen Zers might be putting in less work than their 1.00

00:57:52.820 parents did.

00:57:54.420 Now there's plenty to say about what I just read.

00:57:55.760 But first, let's watch this video from TikToker Robbie Scott.

00:57:58.300 And this went viral recently.

00:57:59.440 It has millions of views, thousands of comments from Gen Zers and millennials shouting, amen.

00:58:04.140 It's really resonated with the younger generations.

00:58:06.180 And let's listen to it.

00:58:08.040 I hate to sound like that person crapping on a younger generation, but she's literally

00:58:12.100 saying, what's it like to do something that the vast majority of people in North America

00:58:16.460 have done for their entire lives? 0.90

00:58:18.360 We need to stop expecting the same damn people who bought a four-bedroom home and a brand new 0.96

00:58:22.500 Cadillac convertible off of a $30,000 a year salary working at Perkins to understand what 0.97

00:58:27.640 it's like to be working 40-plus hours a week with a master's degree and still not being

00:58:31.100 able to afford a 400-square-foot studio apartment in bum-f**k Iowa, okay? 0.99

00:58:34.880 I don't care if you're a boomer, if you're Gen X, if you're f**king dead in the ground. 1.00

00:58:38.480 I don't give a s**t. 0.99

00:58:39.160 Nobody likes to work 40-plus hours a week.

00:58:41.360 No one likes it, okay?

00:58:42.740 If that were true, we wouldn't have so many of you trying to become billionaires so that

00:58:46.680 you can one day pay people to do that work for you so you don't have to do it.

00:58:50.700 We're not crying.

00:58:52.340 We're not getting angry and whiny and entitled because we can't work 9 to 5.

00:58:57.480 Yes, we can.

00:58:58.540 We do it every day, which s**t is we're holding up our end of the deal, right?

00:59:03.180 We're staying in school, okay?

00:59:05.020 We're going to college, okay?

00:59:06.820 We've been working since we were 15, 16 years old.

00:59:08.820 We've built a huge line of credible references doing everything that y'all told us to do

00:59:12.720 so that we can what?

00:59:14.280 Still be living at our parents in our late 20s?

00:59:17.160 Millennials and Gen Z are working more than any other generation ever has. 0.92

00:59:21.100 It's a fact.

00:59:22.240 We are more educated than any other generation.

00:59:25.280 Also a fact.

00:59:26.320 We are also making considerably and disproportionately much less than any other generation has.

00:59:31.400 Also a fact.

00:59:32.540 And that is kind of...

00:59:34.100 I know people in their mid-30s who have been working for 20 years.

00:59:39.200 That's like 70% of their waking life.

00:59:41.500 They have been working and they still cannot afford to purchase their first home. 0.93

00:59:45.580 And I don't live in New York or f**king LA. 0.74

00:59:47.340 I live in Minnesota. 0.97

00:59:48.580 Minnesota.

00:59:49.520 That is why some of us are crying.

00:59:51.700 That's why some of us are angry because this is annoying.

00:59:54.600 We're holding up our end of the deal and someone on the other side is not holding up their end.

00:59:58.100 And it's annoying, okay?

00:59:59.200 Anyway, if boomers and Gen X had experienced what it's like to work as much as they did and get nothing in return, 0.93

01:00:04.860 they would be able to sit across from us and go, oh my God, I feel you. 0.97

01:00:07.540 This is so s**t. 0.98

01:00:08.260 And you know what? 0.74

01:00:08.600 Some of you are capable of cultivating empathy and I appreciate you.

01:00:11.000 But those of you who have nothing to say but s**t judgments and calling us entitled, 0.99

01:00:14.920 f**k you because you don't get it. 1.00

01:00:17.640 Okay, well, Robbie, I'm a millennial. 1.00

01:00:19.560 I'm not that much older than you. 0.98

01:00:20.760 And I will say, yes, you are entitled and spoiled and lazy. 1.00

01:00:25.460 And you need to stop crying like a little pathetic baby. 1.00

01:00:28.140 Now, let's just run through a few points here. 0.99

01:00:30.700 Boomers were not buying Cadillac convertibles and four-bedroom homes off a $30,000 a year salary, okay? 0.57

01:00:38.600 If you had gone to Perkins in the 1980s, you're not going to find a bunch of Cadillac convertibles that the waitresses are driving.

01:00:45.480 That's a fantasy you've made up to justify your feelings of persecution.

01:00:48.680 And if you cannot afford a studio apartment in Iowa on a 40-plus-hour-a-week job with a master's degree, then you need to find a new career in a hurry.

01:00:58.200 I mean, what's your salary?

01:00:59.180 Negative $20,000 a year?

01:01:01.180 Are you getting charged money to work your job?

01:01:03.780 You should definitely be able to afford a studio apartment in Iowa or in many other places, even in this economy.

01:01:09.380 Like, is everybody in the world homeless?

01:01:11.160 If you can't afford, 40 hours a week, you cannot afford a studio apartment.

01:01:14.360 That means everyone's homeless.

01:01:15.340 Like, almost everyone in the world is homeless now, I guess, apparently.

01:01:18.720 And you go to Iowa, everyone there is homeless.

01:01:20.920 The entire state.

01:01:22.840 Look, I know things can be tough, but there's no need to wildly exaggerate.

01:01:27.140 It's true that boomers had an easier time affording housing.

01:01:29.820 It also happens to be true that boomers, on average, were buying much smaller homes and fitting more people into them.

01:01:35.580 One, these days, the average home size has gone up while the average household size has gone down.

01:01:42.120 So you've got fewer people who are looking for more house, okay?

01:01:46.980 Now, when I was a kid, we lived in a 2,000-square-foot single-family home.

01:01:50.800 I had eight people in my family sharing that home.

01:01:54.620 Now, the average family size today is 2.5 people, and the average house size is 2,500 square feet.

01:02:01.220 So people want bigger houses for fewer people.

01:02:03.840 And they also want to fill their houses with more expensive stuff.

01:02:06.820 Now, that doesn't entirely negate or explain away the struggles people have finding housing these days.

01:02:11.680 I'm not denying that.

01:02:13.080 But it does add a little bit of necessary context.

01:02:16.760 The boomers were not getting jobs as waiters at Denny's and then going out and buying castles with drawbridges and moats and a squadron of guards and shining armor, okay? 0.65

01:02:25.940 So just calm down a little bit with the hyperbole.

01:02:29.020 Are millennials and Gen Z more educated than any other generation in history, as Robbie says?

01:02:32.800 No, definitely not, not, Robbie.

01:02:35.780 Millennials and Gen Z, on average, have spent more time in formal educational facilities and have earned more fancy pieces of paper and have spent more money acquiring them, yes.

01:02:46.160 But are they actually more educated?

01:02:47.880 To be educated is to be knowledgeable.

01:02:49.940 And there is very little evidence that young adults today are more knowledgeable than previous generations.

01:02:54.620 In fact, all evidence points to the contrary.

01:02:58.100 That's because the education you acquired was mostly useless. 1.00

01:03:01.000 And in many cases, it made you dumber than you were going in. 0.99

01:03:04.460 And if you're mad about that, you should be. 0.99

01:03:06.220 You got scammed.

01:03:07.240 You got worked.

01:03:08.240 You had your pockets picked.

01:03:09.540 I mean, you got taken for a ride.

01:03:12.980 But, you know, I noticed these self-pitying Gen Z rants are rarely directed at the university system, which is the system that scammed you and gave you the worthless education that they charge you six figures for. 1.00

01:03:25.320 Take it up with them.

01:03:26.800 Why are you yelling at them?

01:03:28.060 And these rants also rarely end with what should be the obvious conclusion that people need to stop surrendering their money and their minds and their financial futures to these institutions that will do nothing but squander and destroy all of it.

01:03:40.100 Now, it is true that millennials, or rather, is it true, as he says next, that millennials and Gen Z are working more than any other generation?

01:03:50.240 Well, this case, that millennials and Gen Z are working more than anyone, seems to rest on the belief that baby boomers were the first generation of humans to ever live on Earth. 0.72

01:04:01.180 Robbie seems to be laboring under the impression that the human species sprouted suddenly out of the ground like dandelions about 75 years ago.

01:04:08.540 Now, it still almost certainly wouldn't be true that young adults today are working more or working harder than baby boomers did at the same age.

01:04:17.140 You know, even that is probably not true.

01:04:20.240 But at least there, you might have a case.

01:04:23.020 The problem is that the baby boomers are one generation. 0.98

01:04:26.020 There have been thousands of generations of humans on the planet.

01:04:29.160 Did you not learn that when you were getting your master's degree?

01:04:32.640 At best, at best, you might have it harder.

01:04:38.000 Might.

01:04:39.340 And you might be expected to work harder.

01:04:41.620 Might, in certain respects, than one other generation of humans.

01:04:46.980 One, beyond them, you have no case, Robbie.

01:04:51.060 Now, do you really think you have a more difficult and laborious life than people who lived in, say, 1910?

01:04:59.080 The generation that literally built this country with their bare hands?

01:05:02.680 Are you working more than them?

01:05:04.780 What about a guy your age who lived in 1870?

01:05:08.020 Or 1720?

01:05:09.840 Or the 1690s?

01:05:11.220 Go back and back and back, Robbie.

01:05:12.920 Would you trade places with any of them?

01:05:15.620 Do you think you're working more, working harder, and striving more to get less than any of them were?

01:05:22.000 Now, you can't tell me it was a long time ago.

01:05:23.820 It doesn't count.

01:05:24.320 You just said millennials and Gen Z are working more than any other generation ever has.

01:05:28.480 Which means you're claiming that you are working more than the hundreds of human generations who grew up in agricultural societies,

01:05:34.640 had to work hard labor from sunup to sundown to sundown every day, seven days a week,

01:05:39.600 and then come back to a two-bedroom cottage shared by 10 people and repeat that every day forever until their bodies broke down and they died at the age of 52.

01:05:47.860 Do you really think you work more or harder than them?

01:05:51.180 No, not even close.

01:05:52.540 So when you say that you work more than any other generation,

01:05:55.380 what you mean is that you think you might be working more than some people in one generation.

01:06:01.560 Might be, maybe.

01:06:03.380 But compared to literally the whole entire rest of human history,

01:06:07.080 you are living in absolute luxury.

01:06:09.600 I mean, another way of putting this is that your generation has it easier and lives in more comfort and luxury

01:06:14.800 than all other generations of humans that have ever lived, with the possible exception of one.

01:06:22.840 That's what you're really saying.

01:06:24.340 But when you phrase it like that, it's kind of hard to keep the pity train going, isn't it?

01:06:28.880 Now, does that mean that your own struggles aren't real?

01:06:31.280 Does that mean that you're not experiencing any hardships at all?

01:06:34.680 Does that mean that you have no legitimate gripes?

01:06:37.580 No.

01:06:37.840 I mean, you have your struggles and your hardships and your gripes.

01:06:41.480 Even if your wealth and comfort basically makes you an Egyptian pharaoh compared to the vast majority of humans who ever lived, 0.99

01:06:47.980 still, you know, you have your own hurdles.

01:06:50.480 Some of them are relatively significant.

01:06:53.600 Okay, fine.

01:06:54.920 It's been acknowledged.

01:06:57.560 Your complaints have been officially registered.

01:06:59.700 I will write it on a slip of paper, and I will put it in the cosmic suggestion box.

01:07:04.300 Here are the things that Robbie doesn't like about reality right now.

01:07:08.620 He wishes these were different.

01:07:10.720 Got it.

01:07:11.400 Noted.

01:07:12.480 Now what?

01:07:13.140 Because no matter how legitimate your complaints might be, you still have to live your life.

01:07:19.020 That's the thing that you people miss.

01:07:21.960 The other option is to stand paralyzed, waiting for the road to smooth out ahead of you.

01:07:26.940 But it never will.

01:07:27.980 You keep saying, and I hear this a lot, we've held up our end of the deal.

01:07:34.360 What deal?

01:07:35.960 What deal do you think was made with you?

01:07:40.000 Who did you make this deal with?

01:07:41.820 Okay, life is not a giant Dave and Buster's prize counter where you just cash in your tickets and get a little trinket from the assigned bin.

01:07:49.020 Well, I've got this many tickets, and so I should get that.

01:07:51.100 That's the deal.

01:07:52.820 It's not a simple exchange like that.

01:07:54.660 Life is toil.

01:07:55.660 Life is work.

01:07:56.780 Life is a constant battle.

01:07:58.040 Okay, life is climbing down into a pit and grabbing happiness and success from the mud and holding onto it with your teeth and climbing back out of the pit covered in mud and with calluses on your hands.

01:08:10.320 That's what it is.

01:08:11.940 Now, I wish it was as simple as just doing a few things on a checklist.

01:08:15.600 Go to college.

01:08:16.400 Get a degree.

01:08:16.860 Get a job.

01:08:17.320 And then joy and fulfillment just descends out of the clouds right into your arms.

01:08:23.640 I wish it worked that way.

01:08:24.960 I really do.

01:08:26.120 But it doesn't.

01:08:26.920 It never has.

01:08:27.880 It never will.

01:08:30.000 If you want success, you're going to have to scratch and claw and fight and crawl and grab it and hold on, as everyone else has had to do.

01:08:39.060 There is no other way.

01:08:41.280 There has never been any other way.

01:08:44.780 For almost anyone except the absolute most privileged few, which you are not, and neither am I.

01:08:52.580 Oh, well.

01:08:54.280 Now, it's okay to be disappointed or frustrated by certain aspects of reality.

01:08:58.220 But if you're waiting for someone to come along and magically rescue you from it or change your reality for you or fix whatever you think is broken in your world, you'll be waiting forever.

01:09:10.480 And you will die before it happens.

01:09:13.880 You'll have to change it and fix it yourself.

01:09:16.560 But you're never going to do that if you're too busy crying that it hasn't already been done.

01:09:23.440 Okay?

01:09:24.220 That's life.

01:09:25.840 This is life.

01:09:27.400 It is how it works.

01:09:29.060 Welcome to it.

01:09:30.560 It will never work any other way.

01:09:33.560 You don't like it.

01:09:35.100 You don't have to like it.

01:09:36.320 It doesn't matter if you like it or not.

01:09:41.400 That's the part you seem to miss.

01:09:44.760 And that is why you are today, I'm afraid to say.

01:09:48.060 Cancel.

01:09:49.500 That'll do it for the show today.

01:09:50.420 Thanks for watching.

01:09:50.880 Thanks for listening.

01:09:51.800 Have a great day.

01:09:52.960 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 30, 2024

Ep. 1304 - The Skyrocketing Epidemic Of Fake Hate Crimes

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