The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1311 - I've Obtained Internal Footage Revealing The FAA's Plans To Reduce The Number Of White Males In Aviation

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, I've obtained internal footage from the FAA revealing their plan to reduce the number of white people in their ranks.

00:00:06.480 According to my investigation, the effort to make the airline industry less safe and less reliable goes farther than you think.

00:00:12.300 We'll talk about that.

00:00:13.120 Also, NBC absurdly blames libs of TikTok for dozens of alleged bomb threats.

00:00:18.080 And with comedian Shane Gillis hosting SNL this week, the media has made sure that offensive jokes from his past have quote unquote resurfaced.

00:00:24.480 Plus, Apple just released their augmented reality nerd goggles that they hope you'll wear on your face for the low price of more than $3,000.

00:00:31.340 We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:54.480 The Matt Walsh Show

00:01:24.460 If you've listened to this show regularly over the past few months, you know that I've done a couple of monologues on the aviation industry.

00:01:53.880 The frequency of near disasters in the sky has increased dramatically in recent years.

00:01:57.800 And as I've noted, the increase began around the same time that the Obama administration began a concerted effort to diversify the FAA, including air traffic control.

00:02:06.120 Now, according to a NASA database, which tracks self-reported data from pilots, we now average roughly five near misses per week, more than double the number from a decade ago.

00:02:16.640 And that's not even getting into the obvious maintenance issues that have been, you know, popping up, including doors and wheels that have been flying off of planes mid-flight.

00:02:24.140 Now, given how terrible all this looks from the outside, I wanted to get a better idea of what's happening internally at the FAA and major airlines in this country.

00:02:33.220 You know, we hear a lot about DEI in the abstract sense, but we rarely get a glimpse of what it looks like in practice.

00:02:38.340 We don't often hear firsthand testimonials from people affected by DEI because they're worried about, you know, protecting their careers so they don't talk about it.

00:02:46.560 They know if they speak out, they'll face termination.

00:02:48.560 They'll probably be blackballed from the industry forever.

00:02:51.400 But with social media, some level of anonymity is possible.

00:02:54.380 So to take a closer look at how far this DEI rot has spread, I tweeted this.

00:03:00.700 If you're an airline pilot and have firsthand knowledge about the DEI agenda being forced into your profession, send me a DM and tell me about your experiences.

00:03:07.420 Curious, yet terrified to see how bad it is at this point.

00:03:11.280 Now, I sent that out a couple weeks ago.

00:03:13.260 To say that my inbox was completely flooded would be an understatement.

00:03:16.020 I received too many DMs to count from pilots and other professionals in the aviation industry.

00:03:21.160 Virtually every message that I read told me the same thing, that the ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion is the top priority in their workplaces.

00:03:31.260 It goes without saying, but this is an industry where one mistake can kill hundreds or even thousands of people.

00:03:37.100 This is not comparable to DEI departments in universities or corporate America, as destructive and wasteful as those departments are.

00:03:45.360 DEI in the aviation industry could lead to a catastrophic disaster.

00:03:48.560 And that's why, even though it was a risk, several of these sources provided me identifying information to validate their identities,

00:03:55.600 along with permission to post some of the internal documents and footage that they obtained and shared with me.

00:04:00.920 These people knew that they might lose their jobs, but they decided that getting the word out was more important.

00:04:06.880 Yesterday, I posted some of this material on my Twitter feed.

00:04:10.380 They revealed that at the very highest levels of the FAA, there's an effort underway to reduce the number of white men who work in the aviation industry.

00:04:19.520 This is a priority of the FAA.

00:04:21.740 In April of 2022, the FAA's acting deputy chief operating officer, a woman named Angela McCullough, led a meeting with the FAA's flight operations division.

00:04:31.120 This division is responsible for all aspects of aviation operations, including overseeing airline maintenance.

00:04:36.720 So it's a pretty important division.

00:04:38.880 But McCullough did not spend the call talking about ways to make sure that airplane doors don't fly off mid-flight.

00:04:44.780 She didn't say a word about the importance of keeping the wheels attached to jetliners as they're taking off.

00:04:49.100 Instead, McCullough talked extensively about DEI.

00:04:52.480 And as you'll see, she was prompted to do so by a man named Will Riggins, who's the FAA's vice president of flight program operations.

00:05:00.220 And if that name does sound familiar to you at all, it's probably because Riggins is the same guy who conspired to find ways to hide Pete Buttigieg's spending on government aircraft.

00:05:09.960 So we've seen him in the news before for all the wrong reasons.

00:05:15.740 And then this, we know, means that this is a completely corrupt group of bureaucrats who have come around and assembled here to talk about the problems of white men in aviation.

00:05:27.000 And here's a little bit of that.

00:05:28.320 And we're looking at that, but we're also looking at really a need across the agency to recruit and retain a diverse population of folks.

00:05:39.820 And as you mentioned earlier, you know, how much that adds to the process.

00:05:44.740 What do you think are some of the key points that we need to remember as we embark on this challenge going forward?

00:05:51.660 Oh, that's a pretty good question.

00:05:56.340 I think one of the things we need to know is that everyone else is embarking on the same thing, right, just across the system.

00:06:04.960 So competition is going to be, competition is going to be, it's just going to be really heavy, right?

00:06:11.180 So, A, I think we need to know that.

00:06:14.180 I think it's going to take some creativity.

00:06:17.040 You heard Tim say, and he and I had talked about, and we're going to see you all, is, you know, are there opportunities for any partnerships with universities or trade schools that specialize?

00:06:29.700 We kind of talked about from, you know, ramp to cockpit.

00:06:33.160 Is there some things that we would want to look at there?

00:06:36.340 So, Will Riggins says, we're looking at a need across the agency to recruit and retain a diverse population of folks.

00:06:42.900 And in response, McCullough talks about the arms race of DEI that's occurring in the industry.

00:06:47.220 She mentions partnerships with universities.

00:06:49.520 And then she says that the FAA wants to look at something called ramp to cockpit.

00:06:54.680 Now, let's think about both of these things for a minute.

00:06:57.040 When she's talking about partnerships with universities in the name of diversifying aviation, McCullough is referring to relationships that airlines have established with historically black colleges and universities.

00:07:06.540 And, for example, United Airlines has allied with, allied with Elizabeth City State University.

00:07:12.800 The airline describes this as a, quote, partnership that seeks to not only train future pilots, but also bring more women and people of color into the ranks of commercial aviation.

00:07:20.700 In case it's not obvious, Elizabeth City State University is not a hotbed of engineering or aviation talent.

00:07:27.440 In fact, it's not a hotbed of any kind of skill whatsoever.

00:07:30.080 The average SAT score at the school is 960 out of 1600, which is one of the lowest scores you'll find anywhere in the country as an average score for a university.

00:07:39.840 The only reason for partnerships like this is because of the racial makeup of Elizabeth City State University, which is overwhelmingly black.

00:07:46.620 This is the kind of partnership that, based on this video, senior FAA officials want to see more of.

00:07:52.820 They want to partner with the worst, most mediocre, least impressive universities in the country.

00:07:59.420 They're not interested in seeing the best pilots in the cockpit.

00:08:02.100 They're interested in seeing more black pilots and, quote, unquote, diverse pilots in the cockpit.

00:08:06.920 But I also could explain why McCullough is promoting something called ramp to cockpit in that footage.

00:08:11.260 When she says ramp, she's referring to ramp agents who are responsible for loading and unloading baggage on airplanes.

00:08:20.200 So evidently, the FAA believes that these employees deserve some sort of specialized program to encourage them to become pilots.

00:08:27.600 But nowhere in this footage does McCullough explain why this makes any sense whatsoever.

00:08:32.740 It does not follow.

00:08:34.040 This doesn't follow in any way.

00:08:35.440 The job of a baggage handler is completely different from the job of an airline pilot.

00:08:41.920 They are totally different.

00:08:44.420 There are precisely zero transferable skills or even interests.

00:08:48.660 The only thing that makes them the same is that you're both working around a plane.

00:08:53.820 Just because you have a job working around a plane doesn't mean you should be flying them.

00:08:58.100 This is like having a janitor to surgeon pipeline at a hospital or setting up a program so that the window washer cleaning the outside of the skyscraper can one day become an architect designing skyscrapers.

00:09:11.520 These two lines of work have almost nothing to do with each other.

00:09:14.460 So what's the point of this?

00:09:16.780 Well, a few seconds later, McCullough provides something of an answer.

00:09:20.080 She tells the FAA's senior leadership in flight operations that their whole division is, quote, white male dominated.

00:09:25.320 Then she says that, well, that should change.

00:09:28.540 And Will Riggins, rather than reacting with surprise to this suggestion, of course, agrees with her.

00:09:34.360 Watch.

00:09:35.240 We need to be willing to have a conversation about kind of what's standing in our way from approaching some of these things differently than we have historically approached them.

00:09:45.400 And just even the internal bias, I mean, particularly in flight ops, your whole program is very heavily male dominated.

00:09:53.620 It just is.

00:09:54.360 And really, it is white male dominated.

00:09:56.660 I mean, let's just say what it is.

00:09:59.460 And so let's be willing.

00:10:01.060 That is today what it is.

00:10:04.160 And then let's talk about what could the future look like if you really had this program that was representative of the whole country, right, of the whole world.

00:10:16.040 And sometimes those are challenging or, you know, difficult or I would say people get a little bit uncomfortable talking about that and like, hey, we're not going to make change unless we get a little bit uncomfortable.

00:10:29.760 And let's be uncomfortable and let's be uncomfortable together and let's do the right things and support each other moving forward.

00:10:35.860 So I don't know if you wanted all that, but you got it, sir.

00:10:39.660 No, that's great.

00:10:41.360 Honestly, those are some words that we really need to spend some time, I think, kind of digging through and thinking about. 0.71

00:10:48.100 One thing you know that if you hear somebody on the left use the phrase, we need to have an uncomfortable conversation, you know that the dumbest thing in the world is about to follow from that. 0.96

00:11:00.540 Whatever comes next is going to be the dumbest thing you've ever heard. 0.98

00:11:03.480 That's the way it always works. 0.97

00:11:04.420 And, of course, there's no pushback from anybody in that clip as they listen to this.

00:11:08.120 Nobody says, well, wait a minute.

00:11:09.200 Why should baggage handlers become pilots?

00:11:12.040 What's wrong with having a lot of white men in flight operations exactly? 0.97

00:11:14.860 What is the problem?

00:11:15.920 What problem has been caused by the disproportionate number of white men?

00:11:21.180 What issue are you trying to solve, lady? 0.97

00:11:24.960 They don't say that.

00:11:25.560 Instead, this woman gets complimented for her insights. 0.97

00:11:29.620 But, of course, not everybody on that call was in agreement.

00:11:31.720 They didn't want to speak up because they'd be fired, but they knew that this was going to happen.

00:11:35.300 So one individual recorded the meeting.

00:11:37.620 And this source had seen several white men get passed over for jobs because of their skin color.

00:11:41.920 And he or she heard these kinds of remarks all the time at the FAA.

00:11:45.860 That's why they saved it and saved the video.

00:11:48.700 And that's why we have it now.

00:11:50.640 As of this morning, neither the FAA nor the Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, have responded to this footage.

00:11:56.720 That's because it reflects exactly what they believe.

00:11:58.660 This is what they talk about behind closed doors.

00:12:00.560 They want fewer white people flying planes and working in flight operations, including maintenance. 1.00

00:12:05.260 They want fewer white people doing everything. 0.70

00:12:07.820 They want more baggage handlers to become pilots.

00:12:10.940 And they're not remotely concerned about professional standards or competence or safety.

00:12:15.240 That topic just doesn't come up in their discussions.

00:12:18.580 This is what DEI is all about.

00:12:20.240 It's not limited to Pete Buttigieg's agency.

00:12:22.220 In response to my post, I received several other tips from sources outside of the FAA who say that they are seeing similar policies all across the aviation industry.

00:12:31.680 Airlines are promoting DEI just like the FAA is, even when it clearly endangers passengers.

00:12:38.740 So here's another example.

00:12:39.580 One source piloted at Delta Airlines told me this, quote,

00:12:44.000 We recently had a transgender pilot repeatedly receive negative reviews during his first year probationary period from captains he flew with regarding attitude, CRM, and judgment.

00:12:54.920 Yet the chief pilot officer, office, CPO, was unwilling to address the issue.

00:12:59.520 Had this not been a transgender pilot, the individual would likely not have successfully completed their probationary period.

00:13:04.160 Coincidentally, that CPO has a management pilot on staff who recently transitioned who was able to weigh in on these matters.

00:13:12.840 This is what the airlines and the FAA will never admit publicly.

00:13:15.900 They'll never admit that they're lowering standards and endangering the public in order to get more diverse pilots flying planes.

00:13:22.100 And from an official standpoint, it's because they haven't passed a policy officially saying the standards are being lowered.

00:13:28.200 Instead, what happens in practice is exactly what this pilot told me and many other similar stories I've heard.

00:13:34.160 That they kind of unofficially look the other way when incompetent people who are in a preferred group are screwing up.

00:13:43.820 And that's what's happening.

00:13:45.180 The source also sent along this internal Delta Airlines manual that's designed to help Delta pilots, quote, transition into another gender.

00:13:53.000 And here's what that looks like.

00:13:54.760 It reads, helpful steps for transitioning at Delta.

00:13:58.580 And of course, there's the pilot with the gay trans pride flag or whatever.

00:14:02.240 It draped over his body, like exactly what you want to see, right? 0.72

00:14:06.460 It goes without saying that, I mean, this is incredibly irresponsible for several reasons.

00:14:11.200 Put aside the fact that Delta is discriminating against qualified pilots on the basis of their skin color and their gender and promoting incompetent pilots instead.

00:14:19.040 This document shows that Delta is also going out of their way to recruit trans-identifying pilots.

00:14:24.180 People who have extremely high rates of mental illness and a propensity for suicide.

00:14:29.140 Remember, these are people who, according to the trans activists themselves, are at risk of killing themselves if they're misgendered or if they don't receive all the affirmation they feel they need.

00:14:42.240 I mean, this is a category of people with suicidal ideation rates that are, like, exponentially higher than the general population.

00:14:54.240 And the FAA and Delta want more of them flying commercial aircraft?

00:14:59.080 In fact, in private, they're open about the fact that they're willing to endanger the public in order to hit diversity goals. 0.96

00:15:06.880 Recently on Twitter, somebody named Trace Woodgrains has been looking closely at FAA documents that were unearthed in a long-running class action lawsuit filed against the agency back during the Obama years.

00:15:18.080 And he found proof that the agency does not care if diversity, quote-unquote, costs people their lives.

00:15:25.780 Like, they've put it in writing.

00:15:27.940 In 2013, for example, FAA leaders reviewed this slide.

00:15:31.360 And the slide reads, key questions for leadership.

00:15:34.420 What are the relative values of diversity in the prediction of performance-slash-outcomes?

00:15:38.860 There is a trade-off between diversity, adverse impact, and predicted job performance outcomes.

00:15:44.680 How much of a change in job performance is acceptable to achieve diversity goals?

00:15:51.800 So there it is, as clear as possibly could be.

00:15:55.480 Like, they are willing to trade job performance in order to achieve diversity goals.

00:16:02.640 And what does job performance mean when you're an airline pilot?

00:16:06.460 If you perform poorly in your job as an airline pilot, it means, like, 200 people die.

00:16:11.400 Now, I can answer the question that they've asked rhetorically, what kind of trade-off is acceptable?

00:16:18.660 Well, no trade-off in job performance is acceptable to achieve any diversity goals in any industry, especially the airline industry.

00:16:27.160 Like, the whole mission of the FAA is supposed to be to make sure that people don't die on airplanes.

00:16:32.940 Really, it should be summed up that way.

00:16:35.480 But increasingly, it's clear that that's just not important to the FAA.

00:16:38.800 I didn't mention this on Twitter, but one of the sources who DMed me sent me this information as well.

00:16:45.940 This is another DM I got.

00:16:47.660 Quote, I was unaware of this until recently, but the FAA has authorized special issuance medical certificates to individuals on SSRIs.

00:16:55.120 The FAA and the Airline Pilot Association are looking to broaden slash expand the SSRI and mental health on-ramps back to being able to exercise a first-class medical certificate.

00:17:05.580 In other words, the agency is doing everything it can to ensure that pilots taking antidepressants can fly.

00:17:13.420 These are pilots who are struggling with depression and who need medical assistance with their depression that they can be flying people in the sky.

00:17:23.240 At the same time, the source says, quote,

00:17:26.420 The FAA just sent a letter requesting Congress not to raise the mandatory retirement age from the current age of 65, and the FAA primarily states safety as a justification.

00:17:34.960 Obviously, there's zero safety data that shows a switch is flipped when you turn 65 and you're somehow instantly less competent.

00:17:40.580 We all know competent 70-year-olds and incompetent 50-year-olds running around.

00:17:43.780 The point is that the FAA and the Pilots Association are much more willing to go along with the idea that SSRIs and transitioning pilots should be at the controls,

00:17:50.900 and that's somehow more safe than someone who just woke up on their 65th birthday.

00:17:57.200 So, these are the kinds of incoherent medical standards we've come to expect in the FAA.

00:18:02.280 A year ago, for example, the FAA abruptly lowered its medical certification guidelines for pilots with heart block.

00:18:10.180 And this is a serious condition.

00:18:11.460 It makes it harder for the heart to pump blood effectively.

00:18:14.340 Before the change, pilots with first-degree block had to provide medical documentation proving they had, quote,

00:18:20.920 no evidence of structural function or coronary heart disease.

00:18:25.400 Now, many pilots with first-degree heart block can fly without this documentation.

00:18:30.500 There was a lot of speculation that this was due to complications of the COVID shot or that this might implicate the safety of passengers.

00:18:36.140 The FAA denied that.

00:18:37.700 But, of course, we have no reason to believe anything they say anymore.

00:18:40.060 However, this is what we can expect from the federal government at this point, even on matters of life or death.

00:18:46.700 They have just no credibility.

00:18:49.460 There are some more documents I posted on Twitter along these lines, including some insider information on how the FAA awards contracts to various small businesses.

00:18:56.740 These small businesses handle important engineering and logistic tasks for the agency.

00:19:00.920 But it turns out that these contracts, like everything else these days, often prioritize socially disadvantaged businesses,

00:19:07.260 which, according to federal regulations, typically means that they aren't owned by white people.

00:19:11.800 In the FAA's eFAST contract system, these disadvantaged businesses get first dibs at contracts valued under $150,000.

00:19:19.560 And what this means is that the FAA has adopted a gender and race-based spoil system for pretty much everything, at every step.

00:19:28.320 Whether you're a baggage handler, a pilot, a contractor, you will get priority treatment if you look a certain way.

00:19:34.820 The only way to bring an end to this madness is for more whistleblowers to do what these whistleblowers did yesterday and speak out about it.

00:19:45.620 Record the meetings where they tell you they don't want white people working for them.

00:19:50.560 Save the document showing they're promoting incompetent pilots because they're trans. 1.00

00:19:54.220 If we expose enough of this, then it might finally collapse the whole scheme under the weight of its own absurdity.

00:20:03.460 If we don't, if we allow it to fester, as everyone on that FAA video conference did,

00:20:09.900 then before long, as I've been warning now for months, a lot of people are going to die as a result.

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00:21:52.540 Okay, we jump right off, unfortunately, with the most horrifying thing you've heard in some time.

00:21:57.060 This is another blood-curdling story from Redux, which is an outlet that I reference all the time on the show

00:22:02.080 because they're among the very few outlets that are doing actual journalism in this country.

00:22:05.480 And so here's the story.

00:22:09.040 A trans-identified male in Kentucky has reached a plea deal after being charged with sexually abusing a baby

00:22:14.200 and will avoid prison so long as he meets certain conditions.

00:22:18.320 Maria Childers, a former daycare worker, hired a prominent trans activist lawyer to represent him in this sickening case. 0.70

00:22:24.960 As previously reported by Redux, Childers was arrested in February of 2023 after the Department of Community-Based Services

00:22:30.300 received an anonymous tip detailing an alleged incident of abuse that had occurred in November of 2022 at Explore Learning Academy.

00:22:37.880 The tip, reportedly written by one of Childers' co-workers,

00:22:40.780 accused of making inappropriate comments towards an infant while changing the child's diaper

00:22:44.320 and touching the baby inappropriately.

00:22:48.780 Redux has now obtained court records detailing the full complaint against Childers,

00:22:52.520 which show that he was accused of both physical and sexual abuse while employed at the daycare.

00:23:00.300 And you could go to Redux and read the specifics of the actual abuse that was inflicted.

00:23:07.000 I can't even read it. 0.88

00:23:07.680 It's just infuriating and disgusting. 0.90

00:23:14.140 But the point is that he was saw, witnessed sexually abusing a baby, whether it's changing the type. 0.91

00:23:24.540 The police were contacted.

00:23:26.080 Going back to the report, after being taken to the police station for questioning,

00:23:28.720 Childers initially claimed that he had not changed the infant's diaper at all.

00:23:31.340 He later admitted to having done so after an officer presented him with evidence in the form of a text

00:23:36.200 that he had sent to the daycare's director confirming the baby's diaper had been changed.

00:23:39.680 He then tried to deny he had ever said anything inappropriate,

00:23:42.040 but admitted he often said things that were taken out of context.

00:23:45.300 So he lied, and his lie was found out.

00:23:46.880 He lied some more.

00:23:47.600 The lie was found out.

00:23:48.860 You know, you start to see what happened here.

00:23:52.780 Childers was placed under arrest and charged with one count of first-degree sexual abuse of a victim under 12,

00:23:56.980 and three counts of first-degree criminal abuse of a child under 12.

00:24:00.880 He was then booked at the McCracken County Jail.

00:24:05.740 And he was initially marked as male by both the police and the jail, because he is a male.

00:24:10.440 But then they switched it to female, because, of course, we have to respect the pronouns

00:24:15.200 and the gender identity and lived experience of this guy who sexually abused a baby.

00:24:24.760 And then Childers goes, and he gets this trans activist lawyer, who's also a man who identifies as a woman,

00:24:32.980 gets representation from this lawyer.

00:24:34.380 After taking on the case, the lawyer, Leach is his name, last name Leach,

00:24:40.140 submitted a motion to reduce Childers' bond,

00:24:42.240 complaining that he did not have access to estrogen while in solitary confinement at McCracken County Jail.

00:24:47.380 After some negotiation with the court, the motion was ultimately approved,

00:24:50.080 and Childers' bond was reduced from $100,000 to $5,000.

00:24:54.280 The bond conditions included no contact with children to remain away from the daycare

00:24:57.920 where they had been employed, where he had been employed.

00:25:02.620 On January 29th, Childers struck an apparent deal with prosecutors.

00:25:06.700 In exchange for a guilty plea, his charge of first-degree sexual abuse of a victim under 12

00:25:11.560 was amended to Class A misdemeanor sexual misconduct.

00:25:15.920 And the remaining abuse charges were dropped.

00:25:18.880 And what that all means is that he's going to get probation,

00:25:24.520 and he's not going to serve any prison time at all.

00:25:27.920 And it's possible he may not even have a criminal record.

00:25:33.000 Will he at least have to register on the sex offender registry?

00:25:36.780 I don't know. It sounds to me like probably not.

00:25:39.220 That isn't mentioned in the story one way or another.

00:25:41.960 But given that they're reducing everything, they're calling it a misdemeanor,

00:25:44.960 he might not even have a criminal record, he's not going to prison.

00:25:47.980 Seems like a good chance he's not even going to be on the sex offender registry.

00:25:50.100 And either way, you know, it's bad enough that I had to go back and read the first part of the article twice

00:26:00.100 just to confirm that this did happen in Kentucky and not in Canada.

00:26:05.500 Because this is the kind of moral insanity that we often see out of Canada, unfortunately.

00:26:10.200 But now it's made its way down to Kentucky, where someone who sexually abused a baby won't even go to prison.

00:26:15.960 And, I mean, this is someone who, it should go without saying,

00:26:20.580 should be put at the front of the line for the electric chair, if we still had one, which we should.

00:26:27.420 This should be like a, you know, a cut-the-line pass at Disney World

00:26:32.540 that, but takes you right to the front of the line for the electric chair.

00:26:35.440 You get right in front, and that's it.

00:26:39.220 But instead, he isn't even going to prison.

00:26:42.780 Like, in saner times, the townspeople would be gathering right now as we speak to watch 0.98

00:26:47.460 while this piece of garbage has let up the steps where the rope is waiting for him. 0.99

00:26:53.020 Instead, he's not even going to prison. 1.00

00:26:54.940 If he had just gotten life imprisonment and solitary confinement for the rest of his life,

00:26:59.140 I would be upset about that, because I would say that that is far too generous.

00:27:04.260 That's far too lenient.

00:27:06.760 But this, I mean, this is just a farce. 0.83

00:27:08.480 It's a sick, horrific joke.

00:27:10.720 Now, we should acknowledge, of course, that our justice system already has a habit 0.99

00:27:14.160 of letting the worst scum in existence off the hook with a slap on the wrist, or even less. 0.98

00:27:19.000 This is already happening, was already happening. 1.00

00:27:22.780 And before you take into account the trans factor,

00:27:26.760 there's a good chance that this animal would have gotten a sentence much, much lighter than he deserves,

00:27:34.240 regardless of how he identifies.

00:27:36.600 But then you add that into the picture.

00:27:38.360 You add that into this mess of anti-justice,

00:27:41.800 which is what you get from the justice system these days.

00:27:43.820 You add in the victim tokens, the identity politics, the trans card that he can play. 0.96

00:27:47.900 And that's how you end up with a baby rapist who doesn't go to jail.

00:27:55.520 There's just, once you add in the left-wing victim politics, there's just no chance.

00:27:59.420 There's no hope of any kind of justice actually happening.

00:28:03.100 Here's a related story.

00:28:04.380 At least it stays in the world of gender identity insanity. 1.00

00:28:07.340 This is the NBC News headline.

00:28:09.320 Headline is,

00:28:09.840 Story says,

00:28:16.360 Last March, police in Coralville, Iowa, investigated a bomb threat targeting a junior high school.

00:28:21.380 Authorities brought in specially trained dogs to sniff for explosives

00:28:23.940 and started looking into why someone might try to target the community's teachers and students.

00:28:29.040 Law enforcement quickly determined that the threat was a hoax.

00:28:31.560 Detective Hannah Vorak from the Coralville Police Department arrived at a theory.

00:28:36.480 Quote, it appears this all stems from a post made earlier this week by Chaya Rychik and her libs of TikTok account.

00:28:44.320 Rychik 29 is not accused of making any bomb threats in Iowa or anywhere else.

00:28:48.060 But about a day and a half before authorities responded to the threat at Coralville Northwest Junior High, 0.79

00:28:51.920 Rychik posted that the school offers a pornographic book in its library that teaches kids about gay sex. 0.93

00:28:57.720 She wrote on the platform, 0.96

00:28:58.660 These are the books they're giving your kids to read in school.

00:29:00.580 The book, This Book is Gay, a coming out guide for LGBTQ teens with book bans.

00:29:06.480 Going back years, they call it a book ban.

00:29:08.520 It's not really a book ban.

00:29:11.180 Coralville was not alone.

00:29:12.180 Officers and government officials in four other jurisdictions,

00:29:14.280 Burbank, California, jurisdictions in Minnesota, Oregon, Oklahoma City,

00:29:20.160 told NBC News that they believe Rychik sparked threats in their localities with her posts on social media

00:29:24.340 that digitally heckle people such as drag performers, LGBTQ teachers,

00:29:28.940 and doctors who treat transgender patients.

00:29:31.020 So that it's a it's a it's quite a long expose.

00:29:35.020 Um, but this is the basic idea back to the familiar game again of trying to blame conservatives,

00:29:41.080 uh, try a right chick in this case of being responsible for bomb threats. 0.98

00:29:46.380 But think about and what was it?

00:29:49.340 21 bomb threats.

00:29:50.260 They're they're trying to pin on her in this case.

00:29:52.560 Think about all the assumptions you have to make in order to blame libs of TikTok for a bomb threat 0.99

00:29:59.500 called into a school or, uh, you know, a school that had gay porn in the library 0.99

00:30:03.120 or a hospital that was mutilating kids or drag queen that was that was, uh, 0.99

00:30:07.900 that was exposing themselves to children.

00:30:10.660 Like these are all the kinds of situations where you allegedly get these bomb threats

00:30:13.920 after libs of TikTok exposes it.

00:30:15.400 But in order to blame her, think about the assumptions you have to make, uh, you have

00:30:22.020 to assume really three things.

00:30:24.160 So number one, you have to assume that the bomb threat actually happened, which is a big

00:30:28.000 assumption.

00:30:29.060 In many cases, it's an entirely unwarranted assumption.

00:30:33.620 In other words, most of these are reported bomb threats.

00:30:37.080 The media might say, oh, bomb threat happened.

00:30:40.160 But mostly these are reported bomb threats.

00:30:42.420 What happened is that we were told that a bomb threat happened.

00:30:45.520 Most of the time, we don't have any proof that the bomb threat even actually occurred.

00:30:49.940 Um, so it just as easily could be the case that the person reporting the threat made it up.

00:30:55.140 Why would they make it up?

00:30:56.420 Well, for the obvious personal, political, and ideological reasons.

00:31:00.560 They have all the motivation in the world to make this up.

00:31:04.600 But you have to assume.

00:31:05.420 So you have to assume the bomb threat actually happened.

00:31:07.460 Next, you have to assume that if the bomb threat happened, it was a conservative,

00:31:10.580 a libs of TikTok follower who made it.

00:31:13.120 And this is another massive assumption.

00:31:14.540 And most of the time, it is the least likely of all possibilities.

00:31:18.920 It could be true.

00:31:20.440 Like, I'm not saying that it's impossible.

00:31:22.700 You know, you look at all the supposed bomb threats that have happened.

00:31:25.440 Um, and, uh, it's, it's probably true that some of them were from somebody on the right, 0.99

00:31:31.540 some delusional, stupid person who, who does this and, uh, calls in a hoax thinking that 0.98

00:31:37.240 they're helping in some way. 1.00

00:31:38.300 And, and, and they're obviously only helping the left in actuality.

00:31:41.960 So, you know, that, that could be the case.

00:31:45.920 But most of the time, the more logical assumption is that if the bomb threat even really occurred,

00:31:50.940 which again is an assumption in and of itself, that it was probably somebody on the left who

00:31:56.940 called it in.

00:31:57.580 Um, obviously the left has much more to gain from a bomb threat than the right.

00:32:05.500 Uh, and so we know something about the left.

00:32:07.060 First of all, we know the left is very willing to do these kinds of hoaxes.

00:32:10.220 They do it all the time.

00:32:11.280 I mean, constantly.

00:32:12.540 Okay.

00:32:12.820 Every week it's another hoax from these people.

00:32:14.580 They, they, they, it's their, their favorite thing to do in the world is, is a hoax.

00:32:17.640 And then they have everything to gain from it.

00:32:21.580 You know, if it was a TikTok exposes a hospital and says, oh, they're mutilating kids.

00:32:25.420 And then a bomb threat is called in.

00:32:27.660 No one on the right gains anything from that.

00:32:30.820 All of the advantage for, from that goes to the left.

00:32:35.340 So if you don't know who did it, the first thing you should ask yourself, if you're a

00:32:39.260 smart person is, well, who would gain from this?

00:32:42.020 Who would have motivation to do this?

00:32:45.340 And it's almost always going to be the left.

00:32:46.900 But you have to assume that's not, you have to assume that the bomb threat really happened

00:32:51.420 and that it was, and that it was, it was a conservative.

00:32:55.020 Then finally, you have to also assume or just flat out claim that libs of TikTok somehow

00:33:00.780 had a responsibility to not report on these things due to the theoretical possibility that

00:33:07.880 someone might call in a bomb threat as a result.

00:33:10.280 That's what the media is implying here.

00:33:12.540 Like, it's not like Chaya Reichich is lying about these cases.

00:33:15.200 These are schools that have pornographic material in the classroom.

00:33:17.740 That is true. 0.86

00:33:18.400 These are hospitals that are mutilating and butchering kids.

00:33:20.700 That is true.

00:33:21.300 She's, you know, drag queens that are exposing themselves to kids, performing for kids. 1.00

00:33:25.220 All that is true.

00:33:26.300 She's telling the world about it.

00:33:27.340 She's reporting on it.

00:33:29.080 But they're saying what?

00:33:30.100 It's her duty to keep it to herself because of what might happen if she tells people.

00:33:34.780 Because what she's talking about is so horrific and the behavior of these people is so evil

00:33:40.380 that if you tell people about it, it might, it might provoke this kind of response.

00:33:46.280 Well, you notice how they never apply that logic the other way.

00:33:50.240 Like, they never apply, they never apply this logic to themselves, certainly.

00:33:54.820 In fact, it stands to reason that, that printing an article blaming Chaya for bomb threats

00:34:00.980 will lead to threats against her.

00:34:03.100 It almost certainly will happen.

00:34:05.580 Is that, so the guy who wrote this article, is that his fault when those threats come in?

00:34:11.320 Every, every time the media runs a negative article about me, there's a chance that I will

00:34:15.460 get threats and I oftentimes do.

00:34:16.800 Um, that's, is that their fault?

00:34:22.560 What happens if Donald Trump is eventually assassinated?

00:34:27.020 Right?

00:34:27.660 That's, that's certainly not outside the realm of possibility.

00:34:30.380 That's a very plausible possibility.

00:34:32.240 Will the media take the blame because of its incessant, incessant, uh, negative coverage of, of Donald Trump?

00:34:38.340 Of course they won't.

00:34:39.240 So, so the whole thing is, it, pretty much on, on, on every level that you inspect this,

00:34:46.440 you find that it is a, uh, that it's just one false narrative after another.

00:34:52.180 All right, TMZ headline, comedian Shane Gillis, uh, comedian Shane Gillis' racial ethnic slurs

00:34:58.840 resurfacing before SNL hosting gig.

00:35:02.600 Article says, comedian Shane Gillis is back under the microscope with SNL announcing he's hosting.

00:35:06.680 It reminds some people of the, uh, racial epithets that he used in his podcasting days.

00:35:12.860 Shane's known for his edgy stand-up comedy.

00:35:14.920 He's very popular on YouTube and Netflix.

00:35:16.240 And while he hasn't shied away from his past controversial humor, it's jarring to hear him

00:35:20.440 dropping slurs in the middle of anecdotal jokes.

00:35:23.760 Lorne Michaels and SNL hired Shane in 2019, but fired him before he ever appeared on the

00:35:27.180 show due to backlash over anti-Asian jokes he'd made on a different podcast.

00:35:31.720 Um, the offensive content here comes from a podcast called A Fair One, and Shane delivers

00:35:36.240 some controversial jokes, or at least the language was controversial, as he unloads the N-word,

00:35:41.300 the homophobic F-word, and a particular Jewish slur.

00:35:45.660 Um, okay, so, so this is a story.

00:35:48.400 The comedian Shane Gillis is hosting SNL, and now his offensive jokes, quote-unquote,

00:35:53.740 have, quote-unquote, resurfaced.

00:35:56.180 Which, to begin with, can we stop using the word resurfaced in this way?

00:36:01.200 It drives me nuts when I hear resurfaced.

00:36:04.460 These clips of Shane Gillis did not resurface.

00:36:06.640 They didn't just happen to float back up to the surface accidentally.

00:36:10.020 It's not like you were looking, you know, the internet's a giant vat of water, and, uh,

00:36:14.360 it, oh, look, this clip of that podcast, it just bubbled up to the surface.

00:36:18.580 Who knew?

00:36:19.760 Just floating on the surface like a, like a, like a leaf.

00:36:23.300 Driftwood.

00:36:24.900 No, resurfacing is what happens when you, you know, it, it sounds, it's like if you dump a body in the river,

00:36:31.700 but you don't use enough cinder blocks, and it resurfaces a week later,

00:36:34.700 and next thing you know, the cops are knocking on your door.

00:36:36.740 And I know that sounds like a very specific and detailed example, but don't worry about that.

00:36:41.000 My point is that these clips did not resurface.

00:36:44.120 The media very intentionally and specifically went back and found them.

00:36:47.720 And in this case, it's not even, so the, the, the clips of Shane Gillis that have gone viral this time

00:36:52.620 because of his hosting, the fact that he's going to host SNL in a couple of weeks.

00:36:57.700 It's not the same clips of him making the quote unquote anti-Asian jokes before they got him fired from SNL.

00:37:03.960 These are new clips.

00:37:05.380 And so what the media did is they said, well, let's go find, let, let's go, let's go, uh,

00:37:08.900 let's go find some offensive things that he said in, you know, in the meantime.

00:37:12.800 Um, since the last time we found the offensive jokes and they went looking for it and they found it.

00:37:19.440 Um, because apparently horror of horrors, a comedian has a history of making jokes, if you can believe it.

00:37:27.420 And what are these jokes?

00:37:28.720 Well, TMZ helpfully included, uh, clips of some of these resurfaced jokes from one episode of his podcast a few years ago.

00:37:36.840 And, uh, let's, let's listen to that.

00:37:38.820 The driver of the bus didn't show up for two hours.

00:37:42.460 We were all sitting on the bus, hot bus for two hours.

00:37:45.120 Was he a white guy?

00:37:46.640 Nah, he was.

00:37:47.640 Yeah, no, I'm kidding.

00:37:48.500 Ethnic.

00:37:50.240 Woo, compound media, dude.

00:37:52.120 We in the house, baby.

00:37:53.700 White people, white people, white people, white people. 0.99

00:37:57.600 Why the f*** is, uh, CNN on in here? 0.99

00:38:00.220 It's always. 1.00

00:38:00.680 Are you guys f***ing gay now? 1.00

00:38:02.320 We're on Fox, dude. 1.00

00:38:03.340 This is f***ing right-wing white s***. 1.00

00:38:05.760 Get this CNN Jew s*** off of here, dude. 1.00

00:38:08.120 I need some alt-right f***ing Fox News, dude. 0.99

00:38:13.340 Yo, Rafe, I f*** with that, dude. 1.00

00:38:15.180 F*** that c*** face. 1.00

00:38:16.340 Oh, f***. 1.00

00:38:17.540 Yo, where you been at? 1.00

00:38:18.480 F*** heavy with that. 0.92

00:38:19.740 And they're like, uh, this next song was because, uh, it was a real sad song and we wrote it because, uh, 2016 was such a hard year for us because of the election. 0.99

00:38:30.460 And I was like, yo, these guys are so f***ing gay. 0.99

00:38:37.080 And it was, I turned around, uh, to this chick that I'm seeing and I was like, yo, I f***ing love Donald Trump. 0.99

00:38:45.220 And she, she's young and like, you know, she's young.

00:38:48.680 So she's like, what?

00:38:49.840 What did you say?

00:38:50.760 Is this the first she's hearing of this?

00:38:52.640 She knows. 0.99

00:38:53.060 This is the first time I genuinely turned to her and was like, for real, this, these f***s make me love. 0.97

00:39:00.680 I, like, 90% of the time I'm like, man, I wish someone else was the president. 0.97

00:39:04.300 Uh, so there it is.

00:39:07.340 It's, you know, quite traumatizing.

00:39:10.640 Are we going to pretend that, like, that wasn't funny, first of all?

00:39:15.220 I mean, it sounded to me like funny people having a conversation and joking around.

00:39:19.080 That's what it sounded like to me.

00:39:20.820 Um, TMZ, TMZ says it's, it's jarring.

00:39:24.620 It's jarring.

00:39:25.700 That's jarring.

00:39:26.520 It's very jarring to hear that kind of language used.

00:39:29.240 So jarring.

00:39:30.220 Is it really?

00:39:31.560 Is it actually jarring for you, TMZ?

00:39:34.300 You've, really, you've never been in a conversation where people are joking around and using colorful language and being on PC and all that?

00:39:40.420 You've never encountered that in your life?

00:39:42.120 Really?

00:39:42.560 You've never encountered that? 0.97

00:39:44.680 So sometimes I'm still, I'm still not quite sure whether these people are pretending to be offended or whether they really are such absolute dorks and losers that they've never encountered this kind of thing in real life. 0.89

00:39:57.740 Um, maybe it's a combination of the two. 0.88

00:40:00.660 I don't know.

00:40:01.000 But I guess the good news, really, the takeaway from this is kind of a positive, which is that when the supposedly offensive clips first resurfaced a few years ago and Gillis lost the SNL job, there was a fair amount of outrage in the public against Shane Gillis himself because of his jokes.

00:40:22.820 Just looking at the kind of reaction on social media and that sort of thing, it did appear that there were a fair number of people who were actually pretending, at least pretending to be upset about it.

00:40:34.740 But now it's completely flipped.

00:40:37.820 Um, I haven't seen anyone.

00:40:39.200 I'm sure there are some people, but, uh, I, I, I've seen very, very few people who are offended by this, who are saying, well, that's, he shouldn't be allowed to host.

00:40:49.080 That's inappropriate.

00:40:50.340 Shouldn't use language.

00:40:51.260 I'm, um, I can't believe, I've, I've seen very little of that.

00:40:54.840 Almost everything that I've seen, almost all of the reaction is like, okay, guys, give it a rest.

00:40:59.680 These are jokes.

00:41:01.180 Okay.

00:41:01.540 It's vulgar.

00:41:02.340 But he's a comedian.

00:41:03.260 He's making jokes on a podcast.

00:41:05.540 We don't care.

00:41:06.920 Like, just go away now.

00:41:08.920 Move on.

00:41:09.780 Doesn't matter.

00:41:11.200 And, uh, that does seem to be what the vast majority of people are saying to this.

00:41:14.980 Because I think people are simply sick to death of this whole game.

00:41:18.640 They are tired of it.

00:41:21.040 Um, cancel culture.

00:41:22.340 I'm not going to say that it's, that cancel culture is dead, but I do think that it's dying. 1.00

00:41:27.860 And it's dying, uh, from, from, from pure exhaustion, right?

00:41:33.840 People are, people are exhausted with it.

00:41:36.480 And at this point, I think everyone, now I've been, this is where I've been the whole time,

00:41:40.860 but I think everyone kind of is at a point now where the moment you hear resurfaced or,

00:41:46.940 oh, they said this 10 years ago.

00:41:48.460 It's like the moment you hear that, I don't even care what it is.

00:41:50.480 Honestly, if someone is on the radar because they got some job or whatever, and, and then,

00:41:57.140 uh, and then the media comes along and says, well, listen to what they said 10 years ago.

00:42:00.380 I automatically say, I don't care.

00:42:02.480 I honestly don't care what they said.

00:42:03.560 I does, whatever they said, it doesn't matter to me.

00:42:05.960 The fact that you went and dug this thing up, I don't care what they said.

00:42:08.700 Makes no difference.

00:42:09.860 It's, it is inadmissible.

00:42:11.760 I think that's where we are now, right?

00:42:13.980 Court of public opinion.

00:42:14.960 I think we're at a point now where the court of public opinion, this is inadmissible evidence

00:42:19.340 to begin with.

00:42:20.620 When you play this game and you dig up the old things, inadmissible, we don't care.

00:42:26.220 We're not going to do it.

00:42:27.940 And then with something like this, I don't even know most of that, like, do you not understand

00:42:31.660 the stuff he's saying about white people?

00:42:33.760 It's actually more of self-deprecating the jokes that he's making.

00:42:36.920 If anything, he's actually making fun of white people, like calling Fox News alt-right.

00:42:41.100 That's not a, if any, if he's making fun of anyone there, he's actually making fun of,

00:42:46.620 it's like self-deprecating and he's making fun of the right.

00:42:48.740 Do you not?

00:42:49.140 Well, they don't, they don't understand it, or at least they're pretending not to.

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00:43:54.380 Mr. Reality says, Crumbly's parents knew their son was dangerous and disturbed, and they

00:43:58.160 left a gun around that he had access to.

00:43:59.880 It doesn't matter that he was charged as an adult.

00:44:01.700 He was fully culpable, but he was also culpable for, they were also culpable for negligently

00:44:06.000 making it much easier.

00:44:08.040 Someone else agrees.

00:44:09.300 Yes, we should charge the parents too.

00:44:10.540 We should also allow victims to sue them.

00:44:12.240 As long as the parents of children who are shot by cops during the commission of a crime

00:44:15.540 are allowed to sue the cops, then the parents of criminals under 18 should be both charged

00:44:21.400 and liable for damages.

00:44:23.260 They created these monsters and should be punished for it.

00:44:25.620 But there's a lot of comments like this that I don't even necessarily disagree.

00:44:33.840 I don't think these comments are actually responding to my argument because I'm not disagreeing

00:44:41.180 with the culpability.

00:44:42.300 I'm saying that Crumbly's parents, the school shooter, their parents are culpable.

00:44:48.220 Definitely.

00:44:49.140 That seems very obvious.

00:44:50.300 They're culpable in the sense that they're at least partially to blame.

00:44:53.060 If they had done things differently as parents, if they had made different decisions, if they

00:44:57.980 had put in like even just maybe 5% more effort as parents, probably this doesn't happen.

00:45:07.580 So I don't, my position is that, yeah, I think that they're culpable and I think they're

00:45:13.520 partially to blame, but no, I don't think they should go to jail for it because none of this

00:45:20.420 is, if this was all in a vacuum, then sure, then there's nothing to talk about if it's

00:45:25.520 happening in a vacuum, but it's not happening in a vacuum.

00:45:28.020 It's happening in a courtroom where precedents are set.

00:45:32.080 And my concern is that the precedent you're setting is something with no limiting principle

00:45:36.660 and I can easily see, you know, you don't need some far-fetched, slippery slope, theoretical

00:45:43.260 hypothesis of where this is going to end up.

00:45:50.420 It's really connecting very simple dots here, which is that if their actions make them legally

00:45:56.780 culpable, it means that they can be legally charged then by the exact same logic, exact

00:46:02.560 same logic, you could legally charge probably thousands of parents of violent criminals today.

00:46:09.720 There should be thousands of parents that are being frog-marched into a courtroom right now 1.00

00:46:14.680 today.

00:46:16.980 And is that, is that prudent?

00:46:21.780 Like, does that make sense to just start tossing thousands of parents in jail along with their

00:46:26.920 kids?

00:46:28.680 All right.

00:46:29.620 Responding to my ice spice segment.

00:46:33.960 Saracen says, you're smarter than everybody we all get by now. 1.00

00:46:36.700 You're incredibly lame and an absolute prick, but you're smarter than the internet. 1.00

00:46:39.980 Congrats. 1.00

00:46:41.300 Well, no, I never said I was smarter than everyone.

00:46:42.800 I am smarter than anyone who's a fan of ice spice or any music like that.

00:46:46.540 Like, I am smarter than all of them for sure.

00:46:48.140 But I mean, that's a, that's a low bar to get over.

00:46:51.700 You know, that's like, that's like saying I'm smarter than every squirrel in that tree over

00:46:58.760 there.

00:46:59.040 It's just not, that's not saying much, but yes, I'm smarter than every ice spice fan.

00:47:02.800 Uh, another comment says, 90 music was, uh, was better, but definitely not less raunchy.

00:47:09.780 NWA, two live crew, Lil' Kim, come on. 1.00

00:47:13.540 Uh, I, I, yes, I think we covered this yesterday.

00:47:18.180 Yeah.

00:47:18.420 The music back then was, was plenty raunchy. 0.94

00:47:21.020 It was also very often quite stupid, but I do think that it has certainly gotten much 0.94

00:47:28.400 more explicit, even than it was in the nineties when you have now female rappers, like making 0.99

00:47:36.560 entire songs describing their bodily orifices.

00:47:41.400 Okay.

00:47:42.140 I, that is, and these are just, these aren't like, uh, little stunts or jokes or something

00:47:48.920 that are on an album.

00:47:49.840 So it's like, these are hit songs that have hundreds of millions of streams on, um, Spotify.

00:47:57.900 I think that that does represent an escalation from what you found in the nineties, uh, keeps

00:48:04.060 getting more and more depraved.

00:48:06.260 Finally, blank drug says, oh man, you love counting crows and that terrible song, Mr. Jones

00:48:10.200 should have kept that truth hidden from the public. 1.00

00:48:12.660 It's like admitting you like to get punched in the scrotum by fire trolls. 0.99

00:48:16.100 They're not that bad. 0.99

00:48:17.900 Look, I'll fully admit.

00:48:20.500 Yeah.

00:48:20.740 I think the Mr. Jones by the counting crows is a great song.

00:48:23.660 I have no shame, no shame in my game at all.

00:48:26.000 I will admit that it's impossible for me to judge it.

00:48:29.020 Like many, like a lot of the nineties music, music, I cannot judge it objectively.

00:48:34.320 So I don't know.

00:48:35.240 It could be an awful song.

00:48:36.540 It could be absolutely terrible.

00:48:37.980 But when you grow up in the nineties, you have that, you have that nostalgic attachment

00:48:41.440 to a lot of this stuff.

00:48:42.520 Uh, but I'm at least in everyone, every, you know, every millennial, you hear them going

00:48:47.260 on about the nineties all the time.

00:48:48.160 It's super annoying.

00:48:48.960 I understand to hear us talking about it.

00:48:51.100 Uh, the nineties was not as great as we make it out to be, but this is just, this is, this

00:48:55.000 is what we do.

00:48:56.260 I can at least admit that this stuff was probably like, we're judging it on a massive curve because

00:49:02.280 just because of the nostalgic attachment we have to it.

00:49:05.100 Um, it could all be terrible.

00:49:07.400 I don't know.

00:49:07.940 I can't, I'm usually pretty objective, but when it comes to that, I just can't, I can't tell

00:49:12.060 you.

00:49:12.200 I don't know.

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00:49:41.520 Now let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:49:49.600 There's been a long running effort by the big tech companies in Silicon Valley to convince

00:49:53.480 Americans that they need to strap expensive devices to their faces in the name of augmented

00:49:58.220 reality.

00:49:58.960 The idea is that instead of just looking at the world and the people in the world, like

00:50:03.640 a normal person, you can instead overlay information in real time over everything you see.

00:50:08.840 Because who wants to look at the world, right?

00:50:11.400 The world, who wants reality?

00:50:12.760 Who wants the world and like the earth and all of the splendor of nature and the universe?

00:50:19.240 Who wants any of that?

00:50:20.040 We need, no, we need to, we need to spruce it up a little bit.

00:50:23.480 So you can look at like sports scores while you're outside on the beach.

00:50:26.840 You can answer text messages without pulling out your phone.

00:50:29.560 No matter where you go, you can have an app right in front of your face, floating in front

00:50:34.680 of you.

00:50:35.820 Now, most people spend 10 hours a day looking at their phones already, but big tech says

00:50:40.000 we need to pump those numbers up.

00:50:41.400 We need to make sure that we are using their products literally every waking moment of the

00:50:46.440 day.

00:50:47.160 Those very few hours of autonomy and independent thought and actual engagement with the physical

00:50:51.780 world that most people get these days, even that has to be claimed by our Silicon Valley

00:50:58.220 overlords.

00:50:59.520 They see that as a problem.

00:51:01.040 The fact that we still have any of that, the fact that we have two hours a day when we're

00:51:05.300 not looking at screens, that's like, they're saying, we got to get those two hours.

00:51:08.620 We can't let them have the two hours.

00:51:09.820 They want it all, all of it.

00:51:11.460 That's the idea.

00:51:12.580 And inside the bowels of Silicon Valley marketing departments, you can tell that they've never

00:51:17.260 been totally sure about this pitch and how to go about it.

00:51:19.900 They understand how unnatural all of this sounds.

00:51:22.060 So they've always done their best to paper over kind of the nerd factor, the loser factor

00:51:27.720 of needing to have this screen in your face at all times in order to make augmented reality

00:51:33.060 seem cool.

00:51:34.200 So 12 years ago, for example, Google unveiled its first big augmented reality product called

00:51:39.220 the Google Glass.

00:51:40.580 But the centerpiece of their demo was not some overweight guy secretly scrolling through

00:51:45.460 the internet as he sat alone on his sofa.

00:51:47.100 Instead, Google decided to portray Google Glass as the product of choice for skydivers and

00:51:52.240 daredevils who, for some reason, want to broadcast extremely low-quality video of their jumps over

00:51:57.660 the internet.

00:51:58.600 So here's a few snippets of the demo, which we can conclusively say 12 years later is a textbook

00:52:05.760 example of trying way too hard.

00:52:07.840 Here it is.

00:52:08.260 Watch.

00:52:08.420 That looks like the view down.

00:52:12.980 It looks like a long way down.

00:52:14.600 Yeah.

00:52:14.840 You can turn it sideways.

00:52:17.300 Oh, yeah.

00:52:17.780 There's the ballpark.

00:52:18.660 This is good.

00:52:18.900 Stop here.

00:52:19.640 Yeah.

00:52:19.940 Yeah.

00:52:20.760 Moscone Center.

00:52:21.780 I got a visual on you.

00:52:23.300 You know, it's pretty exciting.

00:52:26.100 Hopefully they landed.

00:52:27.160 All right.

00:52:34.060 And they're coming in.

00:52:36.200 First one's coming in.

00:52:39.120 Woo-hoo-hoo! 1.00

00:52:41.020 All right.

00:52:43.480 Yeah.

00:52:46.520 And, you know, there's only one good way down the side of a building.

00:52:50.620 It's pretty high up there if you haven't been up there before.

00:52:59.680 Don't try this at home, kids.

00:53:00.960 These are trained professionals.

00:53:02.520 All right.

00:53:02.680 Now we've got to get down there.

00:53:06.140 Want to unplug me?

00:53:08.300 All right.

00:53:08.680 Are they going?

00:53:10.500 Oh, wait, wait, wait.

00:53:11.260 That went away.

00:53:12.160 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:53:13.920 No, no, no.

00:53:14.440 We're on the third.

00:53:15.100 Okay.

00:53:17.300 You can picture the marketing meeting that led to this.

00:53:19.920 They knew they had a weird kind of nerdy product.

00:53:22.100 They knew that nobody wanted to wear this outside.

00:53:24.780 It's an aesthetic nightmare.

00:53:26.420 So they decided to pay some people to jump out of an airplane while they're wearing Google

00:53:30.700 Glass, and then they rappel down the building like they're in a Mission Impossible movie,

00:53:34.160 and they race around with it on bikes, and they do everything possible to make you forget

00:53:37.500 about the actual product, which does precisely one thing during this whole demonstration.

00:53:41.300 It streams an extremely blown out, low-quality video over the internet.

00:53:44.760 It does what a $20 webcam would do, basically.

00:53:47.480 Needless to say, Google Glass was a failure.

00:53:49.120 Google shut down the entire product line shortly afterwards, but big tech was not deterred.

00:53:54.340 A company called Oculus started releasing their own headsets before they were bought by

00:53:59.060 Meta, and these headsets were not designed simply for augmented reality, but also for

00:54:03.380 virtual reality.

00:54:04.680 This means that you put VR goggles on your face.

00:54:06.960 They completely then replace your normal vision.

00:54:09.980 They don't simply complement what you see in the real world, although they're all capable

00:54:13.140 of doing that as well.

00:54:13.840 Now, in many cases, these VR goggles can completely replace the physical world that you're looking

00:54:19.200 at.

00:54:20.400 Now, to market these VR headsets, Meta went in exactly the opposite direction of Google.

00:54:24.560 Instead of trying to desperately appear cool, Meta decided to be as aggressively weird and

00:54:29.660 creepy as they could possibly be.

00:54:31.240 It was a bold marketing strategy, we must say.

00:54:33.660 To give you an example of what it looked like, here's how Meta announced one of their exciting

00:54:37.500 new VR software updates a little over a year ago.

00:54:40.000 The point of this new update was to announce that within the Metaverse, which is the company's

00:54:44.380 VR universe, people will soon be able to see each other with legs.

00:54:49.140 So pretty soon they'll have legs.

00:54:51.020 That's the big update.

00:54:52.560 They'll no longer be floating heads with no limbs.

00:54:55.240 And to announce this breakthrough, VR Mark Zuckerberg struts out with his VR legs while

00:55:00.300 his adoring audience, still legless, applauds enthusiastically, and tosses confetti in the air.

00:55:05.680 It's like a real-life Black Mirror episode.

00:55:08.200 Here it is, watch.

00:55:08.800 There's one more feature coming soon that's probably the most requested feature on our

00:55:14.020 roadmap.

00:55:15.640 Legs.

00:55:20.100 Legs?

00:55:20.700 I know you have been waiting for this.

00:55:22.340 I think everyone has been waiting for this.

00:55:24.460 But seriously, the legs are hard, which is why other virtual reality systems don't have

00:55:29.460 them either.

00:55:30.280 And the perceptual science behind this is actually quite interesting.

00:55:33.680 And we discovered early on...

00:55:34.800 So you see, the little people are overjoyed that the founder of their VR world has legs

00:55:39.580 now.

00:55:40.220 Maybe one day they too will have VR legs.

00:55:43.020 Now, the metaverse, needless to say, was an unconditional failure.

00:55:46.120 When it was announced, Citi valued the metaverse at $13 trillion.

00:55:50.500 That's how much value they said it could bring to the world.

00:55:53.920 $13 trillion.

00:55:55.840 But after it launched, nobody used it.

00:55:58.400 The most popular platform in the metaverse had just 38 active users every day.

00:56:03.120 Horizon Worlds, which was supposedly the killer app for the metaverse, reportedly made just

00:56:07.500 $470.

00:56:08.700 That's $470 and 0 cents total.

00:56:13.560 Like, you could make more money if you filmed yourself lighting random objects on fire and

00:56:16.960 uploaded it to YouTube.

00:56:18.760 And meta spent like $40 billion on this.

00:56:21.740 In fact, they could have lit the $40 billion on fire and put that on YouTube, and they would

00:56:27.280 have made a lot more than $470 back in ad dollars.

00:56:31.440 Now, as I say this, I know there are some people who, you know, say that, well, these

00:56:35.240 are just early iterations of a technology that eventually is going to become ubiquitous.

00:56:40.020 That's certainly what Silicon Valley thinks.

00:56:42.320 They're not stopping with these products.

00:56:43.520 They're continuing to pour money into it.

00:56:45.720 And that's why Apple has just released something called the Apple Vision Pro.

00:56:48.820 The Vision Pro is essentially a slightly more advanced version of Meta's VR headsets.

00:56:55.180 So it's a giant hunk of metal and plastic that you put on your face.

00:56:59.320 It tracks your hands.

00:57:01.020 It allows you to interact with virtual apps.

00:57:03.620 So you may have seen videos of people, influencers, using this thing in public.

00:57:07.480 And here's what that looks like.

00:57:08.920 Watch.

00:57:09.060 Watch.

00:57:29.320 Okay, good.

00:57:29.980 So if you want to look like a schizophrenic on the subway, you wear one of those, as if

00:57:32.780 there aren't enough schizophrenics on the subway already. 0.97

00:57:34.980 Watching these clips, it's not hard to imagine that very soon we'll be reading reports about

00:57:38.840 Apple Vision Pro, Vision Pros being ripped off of people's faces while they type away at

00:57:43.800 the invisible keyboard in the sky.

00:57:46.260 These things cost $3,500, by the way.

00:57:49.400 It's a $3,500 piece of equipment you are wearing on your face.

00:57:52.400 On the subway, and you're doing it in a way where you have reduced peripheral vision and

00:57:59.180 much less situational awareness.

00:58:01.400 It's hard to imagine a dumber idea than wearing one of these things outside in an urban environment.

00:58:07.700 But people are doing it anyway because they have no regard for their personal safety.

00:58:11.140 That's how committed they are to the future of spatial computing and augmented reality.

00:58:16.040 But of course, there's something deeply strange about it, which is why everyone's filming

00:58:20.740 these clips.

00:58:22.740 Covering your face in public is not normal.

00:58:24.740 No matter how many times they told us to wear masks during COVID, it never became normal.

00:58:28.960 Seeing people's faces is the main way you understand them and recognize them and interact with them.

00:58:33.920 People will just never get used to this because it flies in the face of just our basic human

00:58:38.400 psychology.

00:58:39.840 And that certainly explains the reaction to one popular YouTube personality who showed off the

00:58:43.660 Vision Pro recently in New York City.

00:58:45.680 And he put the video up and it's basically just walking around.

00:58:49.180 People are looking at him like he's a freak. 1.00

00:58:51.500 Because, well, he looked incredibly stupid walking around with a giant clunky nerd goggles 1.00

00:58:55.560 on his face. 1.00

00:58:56.960 This is what you get for spending $3,500 to attach a big tech gadget directly to your face.

00:59:02.380 You get the confused stares of strangers.

00:59:05.580 That's assuming they don't just take the thing off your face and run away and pawn it somewhere,

00:59:08.520 which is what's going to end up happening.

00:59:10.080 Now, if it sounds like I'm mocking the idea that this technology will ever catch on, or that

00:59:15.500 I'm saying that the whole project is doomed to fail and big tech will have to eventually

00:59:19.700 give up, that's not what I'm saying.

00:59:21.600 In fact, I think the opposite outcome is more likely.

00:59:24.660 Silicon Valley will continue to pump trillions of dollars into this technology.

00:59:28.520 And then they'll make it smaller and more affordable.

00:59:32.200 They'll do everything they can to make augmented reality the next big thing that strips away

00:59:36.600 whatever is left of our privacy and autonomy as human beings.

00:59:40.380 Smartphones, smartwatches, other smart devices.

00:59:42.520 They were the first major step.

00:59:45.620 And now people don't leave their computers behind anywhere.

00:59:49.560 Everywhere they go, they're tracked.

00:59:51.280 Their purchases are tracked.

00:59:52.300 Their location is tracked.

00:59:53.640 Their social media use is tracked.

00:59:55.660 And when the time comes that everybody's wearing VR and augmented reality headsets,

01:00:00.280 then everything they see in real life will be tracked too.

01:00:04.300 And that's one absolute inevitability here.

01:00:07.860 You wear one of these things and you are giving big tech immediate access to everything

01:00:12.340 you do, everywhere you go, and everything you see.

01:00:17.240 Which means, and that's why, like, why do you, that's the story here.

01:00:21.280 That they've spent, big tech spent a lot of money on this, billions and billions.

01:00:24.560 It hasn't worked yet.

01:00:25.920 They keep on trying.

01:00:27.080 For a decade now, they've been trying.

01:00:28.940 Why are they so desperate to make this work?

01:00:32.680 Because of the absolute power and control it gives them over the people who buy this stuff.

01:00:37.700 It means that, you know, you are destroying not only your own privacy, but also the privacy

01:00:44.680 of everybody that you look at and interact with.

01:00:47.460 Because they will automatically be on camera through your nerd goggles.

01:00:51.540 But worse than all that, worse than the final death of whatever's left of our privacy,

01:00:56.620 worse is the fact that the nerd goggles set up a filter between you and the real world.

01:01:02.960 You are allowing Apple to provide the literal lens by which you see and access the world

01:01:09.120 around you.

01:01:10.660 Now, we already have a major problem of big tech through its algorithms determining, in

01:01:15.820 large part, how we perceive the outside world and what we know about the outside world.

01:01:20.420 So that already, they are already able to shape that through their algorithms.

01:01:25.380 But the nerd goggles will be the final step.

01:01:27.760 They'll put the last nail on the coffin of our independent perception of the world.

01:01:33.500 Should that happen, it'll be another giant, probably irreversible step towards a dehumanizing

01:01:40.420 and basically unlivable dystopia.

01:01:44.360 People become more distant, disconnected, more tech-dependent than they already are.

01:01:50.000 Therefore, more depressed and anxious and joyless than they already are.

01:01:53.400 There will be nowhere anyone can hide from the all-seeing eye of Silicon Valley oligarchs.

01:01:59.860 And that's why they're so obsessed with getting this technology off the ground.

01:02:04.840 And that's why they've spent billions and billions and billions of dollars to make their

01:02:07.660 dark, dystopian dream a reality.

01:02:10.460 And they'll spend billions more until it happens.

01:02:12.160 And that's why the Apple Vision Pro and all of the devices that want to

01:02:16.660 block out your surroundings and make you exist in some artificial, big tech-constructed world

01:02:21.720 are today canceled.

01:02:24.900 That'll do it for the show today.

01:02:25.580 Thanks for watching.

01:02:26.060 Thanks for listening.

01:02:26.560 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:02:27.080 Godspeed.

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