The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1339 - Bloodbath In California After Minimum Wage Is Raised To 20 Dollars An Hour

00:00:00.080 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, California decides to address the economic crisis by making it worse.

00:00:04.620 They raised minimum wage to $20 an hour for fast food workers, and the predictable bloodbath ensued.

00:00:09.460 Also, the media settled on their latest Trump hoax. We'll take a look at it.

00:00:12.100 Plus, a new book explores the way that children have been rewired by smartphones.

00:00:16.560 And the manager of a new fast food restaurant gets poor reviews from customers.

00:00:20.160 But he knows the real reason for the bad reviews. Racism, of course.

00:00:23.360 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:00:59.000 For several years now, Democrats in the state of California have enjoyed all the perks of one-party rule.

00:01:04.740 With supermajorities in the state legislature, they don't have to deal with an opposition party.

00:01:08.500 They certainly don't need to provide any kind of transparency to the public.

00:01:12.000 They're completely free to enact the Democratic Party's grand vision,

00:01:14.940 just like the leaders of notorious utopias like Baltimore, Selma, Detroit, Oakland.

00:01:20.100 If states are the laboratories of democracy, then California is the laboratory of the Democratic Party.

00:01:24.580 Whatever Democrats want, they get.

00:01:26.840 And that's why hundreds of thousands of people flee California every year.

00:01:30.520 And it's why a lot more are about to leave the state.

00:01:33.240 Because California, without much discussion or debate,

00:01:36.320 just raised its minimum wage for certain fast food workers to $20 an hour.

00:01:40.720 That is a 25% hike in wages, up from $16 an hour.

00:01:44.880 The law applies to chains with 60 or more locations in California.

00:01:48.060 And it includes franchises, many of which are family-owned.

00:01:51.160 Now, the totally foreseeable and inevitable followed from this new policy,

00:01:56.900 which is that a bunch of fast food chains announced mass layoffs.

00:02:00.240 Others started raising prices, and at least one restaurant so far has closed down completely because of this.

00:02:06.280 Watch.

00:02:06.600 Rising wages, California's fast food workers started earning more money today, 25% more than they were making yesterday.

00:02:14.620 The pay raise could mean higher prices at some restaurants,

00:02:17.240 and has reportedly prompted at least one Central Valley business to shutter.

00:02:21.360 Today, the employees of the Foster's Freights in Lemoore showed up for work,

00:02:25.160 but got their last paycheck instead.

00:02:27.320 Action News anchor Nick Garcia was in Lemoore tonight and talked to workers about the abrupt closure.

00:02:32.540 Some of the people who worked at this Foster's Freights thought it was an April Fool's Day joke

00:02:39.180 until they saw the closed sign for themselves and reality sunk in.

00:02:43.980 I was like, okay, April Fool's, be for all.

00:02:48.640 Not April Fool's.

00:02:50.040 I realized that she was not joking.

00:02:51.780 I drove straight over here and got my last check.

00:02:55.240 So those employees at Foster's Freights went from $16 an hour to $0 an hour,

00:03:01.560 thanks to the minimum wage hike, which California declares a win for workers.

00:03:06.460 And they're not alone, those workers.

00:03:08.320 When this law was signed, two large Pizza Hut franchisees laid off more than 1,200 delivery drivers.

00:03:13.560 In San Jose, the Wall Street Journal reports that two small Vitality Bowls restaurants have cut their workforces in half.

00:03:19.640 Restaurants like Jack in the Box are testing fire robots and automated drink dispensers so they can fire more employees soon.

00:03:26.480 Hours are being cut as well.

00:03:27.600 And of course, prices are going up too across the board.

00:03:30.020 The New York Post reported that at one Los Angeles area Burger King,

00:03:33.120 prices for a Texas Double Whopper went from $15.09 on March 29th to $16.89 on April 1st once the law went into effect.

00:03:42.280 That's an increase of nearly $2 for the same exact, already horrifically overpriced food in just two days.

00:03:49.900 The Big Fish meal went up by $4 from $7.49 to $11.49.

00:03:54.260 So that is the precise increase in hourly wage passed directly and immediately to the customers.

00:04:01.200 Several other menu items went up anywhere from $0.25 to $1, the Post found.

00:04:05.520 And from what I've seen, some of the advocates of the minimum wage hike on social media

00:04:09.780 have tried to dismiss the concerns over the price hikes by saying that $0.25 to $1 isn't a very steep increase.

00:04:16.460 But what they're ignoring is that, first of all, as a percentage of the overall price of the item,

00:04:20.560 these hikes are already significant.

00:04:23.080 And second, this law has been in effect for less than two days.

00:04:27.480 And this is what has happened only in that time frame.

00:04:30.580 We can assume the prices will continue to go up from there.

00:04:33.340 One of the many fast food companies raising prices is the fried chicken restaurant Raising Cane's.

00:04:38.480 The CEO of the company went on CNBC recently to talk about the impact of this legislation on his business.

00:04:43.820 Now, based on everything I've just said, you might assume that the CNBC anchor conducting the interview

00:04:47.820 would have maybe a dim view from a business perspective of this new legislation.

00:04:53.120 After all, you'd expect someone at a business-oriented network to understand that higher prices and fewer jobs

00:04:58.140 are generally a bad thing.

00:05:00.420 But here's how she frames her question.

00:05:02.840 What about if your workers are making more money and then others are as well?

00:05:08.380 In California, do you anticipate any kind of sales potential benefit from people having more disposable income

00:05:15.080 to buy more chicken fingers?

00:05:16.860 You know, we have always tried to do, stay consistent, do one thing better than everyone else.

00:05:22.340 So we focus on what I call everyday value.

00:05:25.580 Now, the CEO doesn't really answer the question, probably because he's there for a nice PR opportunity.

00:05:29.720 He doesn't want this to be adversarial, or maybe he wasn't paying attention.

00:05:32.580 But it's an incredible question to ask in earnest, which she appears to be doing.

00:05:36.460 If you give minimum wage workers a raise, but in the process you make it more expensive for them to live and eat,

00:05:42.860 you haven't really given them a raise.

00:05:44.600 You haven't made it easier for them to purchase more chicken fingers.

00:05:48.320 This is especially the case for the many workers who have already lost their jobs because of this,

00:05:52.840 and the many more who will lose their jobs in the future.

00:05:55.300 Now, the fact that this is apparently difficult to say out loud, even for the CEO of Raising Cane's,

00:06:00.820 tells us a lot about how California got into this position.

00:06:04.380 Very few people in the state seem to understand basic principles of economics,

00:06:07.600 or at least they don't want to talk about those principles.

00:06:11.300 But the fast food workers themselves understand very clearly what's going on here.

00:06:14.740 They realize that they didn't actually get a raise.

00:06:17.100 Here's an employee from Jack in the Box explaining a basic economic reality that the governor of her state doesn't seem to comprehend.

00:06:25.500 Listen.

00:06:26.900 I mean, it's good you're getting more money, but at the same time, it's going to increase everything else.

00:06:31.440 But Silva has concerns about how fast food companies may respond to this.

00:06:35.500 Cutting employee hours, or in some cases, restaurant hours.

00:06:39.100 The fast food worker union reps laid it out in a press conference this morning.

00:06:42.460 Even when you cut hours, you can't sell fewer hamburgers or tacos, so it's not the preferred strategy for most employers.

00:06:50.320 The raise doesn't fix all problems for Silva.

00:06:53.000 She wants to buy a house. 1.00

00:06:54.500 We try, and they want double the amount of the income or triple your income for the rent and the deposit high.

00:07:05.080 There's no way we can make it neither.

00:07:06.520 So how does a fast food worker understand the economics of the situation better than the CNBC anchors?

00:07:13.220 Why is she raising issues that California's politicians don't seem to understand? 0.98

00:07:16.940 Whatever the answer is, this is getting to be a running theme in California.

00:07:19.460 A couple of years ago, California sent out millions of inflation relief checks, which accomplished nothing except making inflation even worse.

00:07:27.020 But there was no opposition party that could block those checks, just like there's no opposition party to block this minimum wage increase.

00:07:32.300 In fact, in California, the labor unions obtained non-disclosure agreements during the negotiations for the minimum wage bill.

00:07:39.420 So nobody can talk about how exactly this bill came about.

00:07:42.320 There's never going to be a full explanation for why, for example, Gavin Newsom's friend and donor at Panera Bread managed to secure an exemption for fast food restaurants that make bread.

00:07:54.520 Not that we really need an explanation for that.

00:07:56.540 It's the kind of naked corruption that one-party states are well known for.

00:07:59.780 But you don't need an insider's look into the legislative process to know how poorly conceived this law is.

00:08:05.320 That's because after the bill was passed, legislators went back and added a bunch of other exemptions, including fast food locations in airports, stadiums.

00:08:14.580 That's how you know you're dealing with a very well-thought-out law.

00:08:16.700 The legislators just go back and redo it sort of on the fly a few weeks later.

00:08:21.320 And these are the people manipulating the economy in the most populated state in the country.

00:08:24.900 They're doing it as haphazardly as you would expect. 0.99

00:08:27.300 Now, the truth is that raising the minimum wage by 25%, which is obviously a very sizable hike, in the midst of inflation and a struggling economy, is incredibly stupid. 0.99

00:08:37.480 And there's really no other word for it. 0.95

00:08:39.140 It attempts an end run around the actual problems that California is facing, except really it's worse than that because they aren't just avoiding the problems but actively making everything worse.

00:08:48.360 They're trying to solve problems by creating more of the problems they're allegedly trying to solve.

00:08:54.200 And they aren't done.

00:08:55.280 In fact, some leaders in California think that $20 an hour is still too low.

00:09:00.220 It's not even half of what they think the minimum wage should be.

00:09:04.720 Here's Representative Barbara Lee. 0.99

00:09:06.220 Both of our Democratic opponents are calling for a minimum wage between $20 and $25 an hour.

00:09:13.480 You're calling for a $50 an hour federal minimum wage.

00:09:17.140 That's seven times the current national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

00:09:21.740 Can you explain how that would be economically sustainable for small businesses?

00:09:26.080 You have 60 seconds.

00:09:26.920 First, let me say, I owned and ran a small business for 11 years.

00:09:33.400 I created hundreds of jobs, benefits, retirement benefits, also health care benefits.

00:09:40.560 I know what worker productivity means, and that means that you have to make sure that your employees are taken care of and have a living wage.

00:09:49.400 In the Bay Area, I believe it was the United Way, came out with a report that very recently, $127,000 for a family of four is just barely enough to get by.

00:10:04.440 Another survey very recently, $104,000 for a family of one, barely enough to get by.

00:10:10.560 Low income because of the affordability crisis.

00:10:13.860 And so just do the math.

00:10:15.240 Just do the math.

00:10:16.100 Just do the math.

00:10:17.860 Do the math, says the woman who apparently can't add two plus two. 1.00

00:10:20.720 She wants to mandate six-figure incomes for the people who run the cash register at McDonald's. 1.00

00:10:25.880 And she wants to do that on the federal level, by the way.

00:10:27.680 She wants this nationwide. 0.72

00:10:30.920 Now, you notice that she was asked about the economic sustainability of such a plan and did not pretend to even address that concern.

00:10:37.300 That's because, of course, it is not sustainable at all.

00:10:39.620 $20 an hour isn't sustainable.

00:10:41.540 $20 an hour has already caused a bloodbath of layoffs and price hikes.

00:10:46.960 $50 an hour would simply be the end of any place that they tried it in California would be the end of commerce in California, which means the end of California itself.

00:10:56.480 So, on second thought, maybe her plan has some benefits, you might say.

00:11:00.860 But you notice what Lee said in the clip there.

00:11:03.580 She said that a family of four needs a six-figure income just to get by.

00:11:09.720 Now, that's not really true.

00:11:10.780 You could get by on less.

00:11:13.220 You know, when I had a family of four, we got by on significantly less than $100,000 a year.

00:11:18.720 But think about how that applies here.

00:11:22.360 You know, she's saying that minimum wage workers need a massive mandatory raise because that's what's necessary for families of four to survive, according to her. 0.97

00:11:34.680 And this obviously implies that there are a lot of single-income households of four where the breadwinner makes minimum wage.

00:11:42.100 But that's not generally the case.

00:11:44.240 And this is really perhaps the most important point here.

00:11:46.320 Minimum wage jobs are not meant to be careers in the first place.

00:11:51.080 These are supposed to be jobs for teenagers working part-time while they finish high school.

00:11:55.700 These aren't jobs that grown adults with kids and mortgages are supposed to be doing for years on end.

00:12:00.900 So, if you've been working at a job, you know, for five years, ten years, whatever, and you still make minimum wage, there's obviously a serious problem, and it's not one that a minimum wage hike can solve.

00:12:13.740 Now, personally, I want every minimum wage worker to get a hefty raise.

00:12:17.860 But that can be achieved and should be achieved by earning a raise or by getting some work experience under your belt and then going out and finding a better job somewhere else.

00:12:25.580 Minimum wage is supposed to be a stepping stone, not a foundation to build your life on.

00:12:29.740 You know, it's a bit like if lawmakers passed a law declaring that all tent manufacturers must make their tents big enough and sturdy enough that, you know, they can be lived in for six months at a time.

00:12:42.200 But that's not what tents are supposed to be used for.

00:12:45.560 That's not what a tent is.

00:12:47.420 A tent is something you stay in for a few days at a time.

00:12:50.360 Now, lawmakers in California might respond, well, that's not true.

00:12:53.160 In our state, lots of people live in tents for years.

00:12:55.740 They set them up right on the sidewalk.

00:12:56.820 Yes, but the problem there is not that the tents are insufficient homes.

00:13:01.680 The problem is that those people are trying to turn tents into homes.

00:13:05.540 Okay, the problem is with how the tent is being used.

00:13:09.260 And minimum wage is like the tent of salaries.

00:13:12.420 It's meant to be very temporary.

00:13:14.060 It's a temporary structure that you're not supposed to stay in very long.

00:13:19.460 Now, the advantage of working a minimum wage job is that the bar is pretty low because it is an entry level job and because you are working with, you know, again, a lot of teenagers, 16 year olds get paid minimum wage.

00:13:32.040 And the advantage is that that sets the bar pretty low.

00:13:35.480 You show up on time.

00:13:37.500 You look presentable.

00:13:38.800 You put the effort in.

00:13:39.780 You be reliable.

00:13:40.640 Be moderately competent.

00:13:42.280 Have a moderately good attitude.

00:13:44.780 Cover all the basics.

00:13:46.180 And you'll be on the fast track to a better job, either at your current place of work or somewhere else.

00:13:49.900 You don't need to wait around for the government to force your employer to give you a raise.

00:13:54.540 As I've said plenty of times before, the best way for a minimum wage worker to make more money is to not be a minimum wage worker anymore.

00:14:02.520 And that's a basic truth that you won't hear from politicians like Barbara Lee.

00:14:07.220 Instead, they'll promise you the pie in the sky.

00:14:10.140 The bad news is they probably won't deliver on that promise.

00:14:13.740 The worst news is that they might.

00:14:16.760 And then everyone's problems will get much worse.

00:14:20.900 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:14:28.220 Now I've been extremely clear and I've spoken in my stance that abortion is undoubtedly evil and should be illegal in all circumstances.

00:14:33.980 I'm also aware of the indoctrination and pro-abortion propaganda pushed by public schools and other liberal institutions.

00:14:39.720 You all have heard their lies that a baby in the womb is just a clump of cells or that a woman's reproductive rights include termination of pregnancy if the baby's life is an inconvenience to her.

00:14:48.280 And then there's the quality of life argument that abortion is somehow justified because the mother doesn't have the means to take care of her baby.

00:14:55.040 I don't think these people actually know what they're saying.

00:14:57.400 Our society needs a massive overhaul when it comes to helping young women understand the inherent value of life and the duty and joy of motherhood. 0.94

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00:15:44.540 Now, before we get to the headlines or to the lesser headlines, I need to start with the big news of the day, of the week, the month, arguably the century.

00:15:52.360 You know, a couple days ago I posted a picture on Twitter of myself in a judge's robe sitting at a judge's bench.

00:16:00.600 And I said that I was finally fulfilling my life's calling to be a judge.

00:16:04.760 And many people, basically everyone, I mean basically everyone thought that I was joking.

00:16:08.020 Because we did, it was on April Fool's, you know, in fairness.

00:16:11.740 But now I can reveal to you officially that I was not joking.

00:16:15.960 This is not a joke.

00:16:17.300 I am now a judge.

00:16:18.580 I am now officially, officially America's preeminent legal authority and expert.

00:16:26.120 And next week we will be premiering my new show, my court show, appropriately called Judged.

00:16:34.020 Take a look.

00:16:37.980 All rise for the Honorable Judge Walsh.

00:16:43.640 Please be seated.

00:16:44.680 Thank you.

00:16:44.780 Miss Goldstein.

00:16:49.360 Mr. Bentley.

00:16:50.080 Mr. Outerbridge.

00:16:51.220 Mr. Spicer.

00:16:51.740 Your Honor.

00:16:52.020 Mr. Barney.

00:16:52.660 Yes, Your Honor.

00:16:53.100 Ms. Singh.

00:16:53.520 Yes.

00:16:53.900 At 30,000 feet, my lips exploded. 0.99

00:16:56.200 Why would I pay writ to somebody who had sex with my sister? 1.00

00:16:58.760 A dog bit my finger. 0.98

00:16:59.800 He's allergic to like the grass.

00:17:01.400 If he didn't want me to drive the car, he would have took the key.

00:17:03.240 I had it with him.

00:17:06.040 Has anyone told you you're the worst negotiator that's ever lived?

00:17:08.780 I've never been more annoyed than I am in this moment. 0.91

00:17:10.600 Not even close.

00:17:20.320 That does it.

00:17:21.320 Please get the hell out of my court. 1.00

00:17:22.260 Now, yes, again, I must emphasize that this is real.

00:17:35.140 I have my own court show on The Daily Wire.

00:17:37.660 I'm very excited about it.

00:17:38.360 We obviously live in a world deprived of justice, deprived of truth.

00:17:44.640 And I'm here to change that.

00:17:46.600 And these are real people.

00:17:48.200 These are actual real cases.

00:17:49.380 I do have real legal authority to rule over their disputes and to impose monetary damages.

00:17:57.500 Why would anyone give me that power?

00:17:59.940 Why would anyone come to me with an actual real dispute, a legal dispute they're having?

00:18:04.800 Well, that's easy because they recognize that I am uniquely equipped to handle any of these disputes as a person who is, as you know, always right about everything.

00:18:12.740 I've never been wrong about a single thing ever.

00:18:14.540 You know that if you watch this show.

00:18:15.640 And I was also right about something else that I wanted to mention that, you know, I've been missing shows.

00:18:21.600 If you watch the show, you know I have been missing episodes seemingly at random for the past year.

00:18:27.080 And many in the audience were upset, even accusing me of being lazy and unreliable and saying many other unimaginable things to a man of my stature, to a judge like myself.

00:18:38.240 And I said that I was working on some major projects and that these absences will be worth it.

00:18:43.640 So here's one of them.

00:18:46.840 And I say one of them because we're not done yet.

00:18:49.720 There's more to come.

00:18:50.780 And what's coming next is, well, you're going to like it.

00:18:55.000 You're going to like it in the audience.

00:18:56.740 Some other people won't like it.

00:18:58.020 But that's a topic for another day.

00:19:00.560 For now, my court show, Judge, is the headline premiering next week, Tuesday, April 9th, 8 p.m. Eastern.

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00:19:20.860 Okay, we have our latest Trump hoax, the media's latest Trump hoax, I should say.

00:19:27.820 The Biden campaign's Twitter page posted this clip, and I'll play the clip for you.

00:19:32.660 And then I'll tell you what their caption for the clip is.

00:19:35.680 And, of course, the entire media picked it up and ran with it.

00:19:38.500 But here's the clip of Trump Watch.

00:19:41.680 The Democrats say, please don't call them animals.

00:19:44.020 They're humans.

00:19:44.560 I said, no, they're not humans.

00:19:46.100 They're not humans.

00:19:46.840 They're animals.

00:19:48.120 So there's the short clip.

00:19:49.420 Now, the caption, which, again, the whole media has repeated, the caption that Biden

00:19:53.200 offered is this.

00:19:56.580 Trump, Democrats said, please don't call immigrants animals.

00:20:00.420 I said, no, they're not humans.

00:20:02.560 They're animals.

00:20:04.040 Okay, except that's not actually the quote.

00:20:05.620 Even the out of context clip that they provided, they're still misquoting it.

00:20:09.880 Because what he really said was, Democrats said, please don't call them animals.

00:20:14.620 I said, no.

00:20:16.640 He didn't say immigrants.

00:20:17.440 He said them.

00:20:19.420 And, of course, Biden, he didn't even put immigrants in brackets.

00:20:23.540 You know, he just pretended that was the actual quote.

00:20:26.780 That's not what was said.

00:20:28.180 So who is the them in this context?

00:20:31.260 Well, let's listen to the full clip to get that context.

00:20:34.040 Here it is.

00:20:34.300 A student in Georgia who was barbarically murdered by an illegal alien animal. 0.68

00:20:41.160 The Democrats say, please don't call them animals.

00:20:43.460 They're humans.

00:20:44.020 I said, no, they're not humans.

00:20:45.560 They're not humans.

00:20:46.300 They're animals.

00:20:47.860 Nancy Pelosi told me that.

00:20:49.320 She said, please don't use the word animal, sir, when you're talking about these people.

00:20:52.940 I said, I'll use the word animal because that's what they are.

00:20:55.560 I'll never forget my vow to her.

00:20:58.880 Okay.

00:20:59.360 So there you go. 0.99

00:21:00.020 The animals in this context are specifically the illegal immigrants who murder American citizens. 1.00

00:21:06.040 He's saying murderers are animals. 0.89

00:21:08.340 Now, if you're a very sensitive soul, you might still take issue with that.

00:21:14.080 You might say that all human beings are human and we shouldn't use dehumanizing language about any of them, no matter what terrible things they've done.

00:21:22.480 Now, I personally don't mind the dehumanizing language.

00:21:24.680 It is dehumanizing language. 0.99

00:21:26.060 I don't mind it for the simple reason that the language itself isn't what dehumanizes the scumbag killer. 0.84

00:21:36.160 So maybe I should, it's not dehumanizing language. 0.96

00:21:39.020 It is dehumanized language. 0.99

00:21:42.080 And the difference is that these criminal scumbags, their own behavior, their own decisions, their own choice to be scumbag killers is what dehumanizes them. 0.99

00:21:57.020 So they have done the dehumanizing of themselves. 1.00

00:21:59.140 They have dehumanized themselves by behaving in a way that is subhuman, that is barbaric.

00:22:06.160 That is, that's beneath the dignity of a human being.

00:22:08.840 They are behaving like animals.

00:22:11.140 So the language is just a reflection of their own behavior.

00:22:14.340 It's a recognition of their choices.

00:22:16.840 So I don't have an issue with it. 0.97

00:22:18.100 But the problem is that, you know, the Biden campaign and the media, but I repeat myself, of course, are not being honest, obviously, because they're godforsaken liars and they lie about everything.

00:22:28.580 So they're not out there arguing that, hey, you know, we should use humane language, even when we talk about the worst kinds of people.

00:22:35.140 I think that that would just be better.

00:22:37.000 But they're not saying that.

00:22:38.180 Instead, they're arguing that we shouldn't call all immigrants animals, even though nobody is doing that.

00:22:44.040 Nobody has done that.

00:22:44.900 Nobody would do that.

00:22:45.680 Nobody thinks that. 0.97

00:22:46.640 That's in your cartoon version of the world, you know, where Trump and all conservatives are cartoon villains and they go around talking about how all immigrants are animals.

00:22:56.840 No one thinks that.

00:22:57.540 No one is saying that. 1.00

00:22:59.780 Criminals, scumbag criminals who murder innocent people, they are animals. 1.00

00:23:03.500 That's why they get locked in cages. 1.00

00:23:07.140 You know, that you could argue that putting someone in prison is dehumanizing to a certain extent.

00:23:12.540 And it is.

00:23:13.300 But again, because it's like you take anyone else and you throw them in a cage.

00:23:17.760 You can't put them in a cage.

00:23:19.740 They're not animals.

00:23:20.500 Well, yeah, if it's an innocent person, it's dehumanizing.

00:23:24.080 But if you have chosen to act like an animal, then we as a society are forced to treat you like an animal.

00:23:30.460 Like we have to put you away in a cage.

00:23:32.440 We have to put you in a cage because like we do animals, because that's how you are acting and we have no choice.

00:23:42.900 And I think we should be, there's no reason that we can't be honest about that in our language.

00:23:47.780 All right, Daily Wire has this report.

00:23:48.840 Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at NYU Stern, said in an interview this week that smartphones and social media have led to numerous problems for Gen Z.

00:23:55.640 Haidt made the remarks while speaking to Firing Line with host Margaret Hoover about his new book,

00:23:59.260 The Anxious Generation, How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. 0.54

00:24:05.360 He explained that the great rewiring refers to a five-year period between 2010 and 2015 when society fundamentally changed for adolescence with the emergence of smartphones and social media.

00:24:15.520 He said the very concept of social media, posting things that make you stand out because you're desperately fighting for attention,

00:24:20.260 has been detrimental to adolescents because they're learning these behaviors during puberty.

00:24:24.980 We have a quick clip of this, I believe.

00:24:27.020 Let's watch that.

00:24:29.260 So there's very important older research by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler where they looked at, they had gigantic health data sets, the Framingham Heart Study.

00:24:40.620 And they were able to see that, you know, if one person takes up smoking, their friends are more likely to take up smoking.

00:24:45.400 But actually, so are their friends' friends.

00:24:47.400 And even friends' friends' friends.

00:24:48.720 So the things we do spread out through social network.

00:24:51.180 We affect each other.

00:24:53.680 Now, it turns out, when you're looking at emotions, girls and women, when they study women, when a woman is depressed, that spreads out to her network.

00:25:02.880 Whereas when a man is depressed, it doesn't.

00:25:05.200 Women talk about their feelings. 1.00

00:25:06.620 They're more connected in that way.

00:25:08.160 Girls, you're connecting on social media.

00:25:09.560 Where it just turns out, in many communities, the more anxious and depressed you are, the more you get support.

00:25:17.700 The more extreme your symptoms, the more you get likes and followers.

00:25:21.520 Of course, it's good to de-stigmatize mental illness.

00:25:24.900 We don't want people to be ashamed.

00:25:25.980 But, boy, is it a terrible idea to valorize it, to tell young people, you know what, the more you have this, the more popular you'll be, the more support you'll get.

00:25:35.780 And so you get this explosion, not just of anxiety, it's in part, I think, spread sociogenically, it's called, from social causes, not from internal causes.

00:25:44.100 But we get it for dissociative identity disorder, and it seems to be the case for gender dysphoria as well.

00:25:48.840 And you think that the data demonstrates that it is above and beyond just the phenomenon of coming out and increased awareness.

00:25:55.180 Yes, because it happens in clusters of girls. 1.00

00:25:58.360 It happens in clusters of girls who had no previous gender dysphoria when they were young.

00:26:02.200 So it's very different.

00:26:03.240 So this is obviously not the first time we've heard this, but the more it's talked about, the better.

00:26:07.860 I mean, we need to be talking about it a lot more than we are.

00:26:11.540 Now, we need to do more than talking, but it starts with talking, with acknowledgement of the problem.

00:26:17.320 And the problem is, as the title of Haidt's book says, that generations of children are being fundamentally rewired.

00:26:22.780 The epidemic of gender dysphoria, the dramatic historic rise in depression, anxiety, and everything else, all of those things are symptoms.

00:26:30.960 They're very bad, very troubling symptoms of the underlying issue.

00:26:34.000 And the underlying issue is that we have completely changed what childhood is and who children are by giving them these little screens to orient their entire lives and identities around.

00:26:45.420 You know, I talk about the orientation, you know, when it comes to children, the orientation.

00:26:50.960 How do they orient themselves?

00:26:53.820 Like, where are they looking?

00:26:56.120 Who are they looking to?

00:26:57.860 How are they orienting themselves in the world?

00:27:00.780 And where are they picking up their cues and getting direction?

00:27:05.040 Sort of like, what's their compass that they're looking at?

00:27:08.820 Not only to navigate the world, but also to develop a sense of their own identity, a sense of themselves, of their place, you know, in reality.

00:27:16.680 And for most of human history, children look to adults, the adults in their lives.

00:27:23.140 They look to the elders, whether it's their parents, grandparents, village elders, you know.

00:27:28.480 That's most of human history.

00:27:29.780 That's the way that it worked.

00:27:30.940 That's how children discovered the world, discovered themselves, who they are, what it means to be a person, all these things.

00:27:37.520 They would look up, you know, they were literally looking up to the people that were bigger and wiser than them.

00:27:42.060 And that's how they were learning.

00:27:42.820 And then the advent of modern public school came along, and the kids instead started looking to each other, to their peers.

00:27:53.420 And this was a negative development.

00:27:57.300 This was harmful.

00:27:59.040 And this is where you started to see things like extended adolescence, where you've got, you know, 27-year-olds who are still acting like they're 13 and these sorts of things.

00:28:06.520 And that began with kids in public school who spend most of their time around each other, like a giant Lord of the Flies experiment.

00:28:17.200 And they're basically raising each other, and they're learning about the world by looking at each other.

00:28:21.660 But none of them know what the hell's going on, so they're just chasing each other.

00:28:25.140 They're going around in circles, right?

00:28:28.100 And that was bad enough.

00:28:29.500 But now it's gotten so much worse, because now they look to each other, to their peers, through their phones.

00:28:36.280 They are orienting themselves to the world based on their peers as they were before, but they are accessing their peers through the filter of their phone screens.

00:28:45.660 And even this, even this aspect of the problem is just an aspect of the problem.

00:28:51.940 The problem itself, again, the fact that kids are spending every waking moment of their lives on these things, the problem itself is so vast.

00:28:59.980 It is so all-encompassing that it's almost impossible to talk about it without breaking it down into smaller pieces.

00:29:05.980 And the fact is that we are completely changing who our kids are, how they act, how they interact with the world, you know, everything with phones.

00:29:15.820 And maybe it's hard to appreciate this entirely until you see the contrast.

00:29:22.720 Now, you can think back to your own childhood and say, well, you know, geez, when I was a kid, this isn't what childhood was like.

00:29:29.220 But that kind of contrast, you know, you're looking back with rose-tinted glasses, right?

00:29:32.640 And you have nostalgia, and so it's hard to draw that comparison.

00:29:36.560 But you can notice the contrast, you know, in the present day.

00:29:40.460 And this is something my wife and I notice all the time, because as you know, none of our kids have phones.

00:29:45.200 They have spent zero minutes of their lives on social media.

00:29:48.160 They don't even know what social media is.

00:29:50.420 You know about all this, because I rant about it all the time.

00:29:52.800 But the point is that when my kids are around their friends whose parents have the same policy,

00:30:00.440 and who, you know, they don't do the phones, they don't do any of that,

00:30:03.980 then in those cases, everything seems normal, as it should be.

00:30:08.980 And, you know, they're out running around in the woods.

00:30:12.360 They're just being kids, like we were when we were kids.

00:30:16.160 And it's great.

00:30:17.100 It's exactly what childhood should be.

00:30:19.840 But when my kids are around other kids their age,

00:30:24.580 whose parents do not have this no phone policy,

00:30:29.240 kids who have smartphones and all that,

00:30:32.660 and many, even though my oldest kids are about to turn 11,

00:30:37.560 many kids their age have not only have smartphones,

00:30:39.860 but have had them for, like, four or five years or longer.

00:30:44.220 And when you see that, that's when, I mean, the difference is so stark.

00:30:49.700 It is, it's shocking, the difference.

00:30:53.460 The smartphone kids are generally not interested in doing things like running around outside and,

00:30:59.460 you know, being a kid.

00:31:00.220 They tend to be much more jaded and cynical, even at such a young age.

00:31:04.880 They can't pay attention.

00:31:06.200 They cannot pay attention to anything.

00:31:08.860 They don't want to do anything that doesn't involve a screen.

00:31:12.560 They just have no interest in anything that is not screen related.

00:31:16.980 Even the way they speak is different.

00:31:20.980 You know, I can listen to a kid speak for 20 seconds,

00:31:23.660 and I can tell you immediately whether his parents let him have a smartphone or not.

00:31:28.500 Because the language, the way that they speak is different.

00:31:33.020 And this is a self-perpetuating problem,

00:31:34.800 because the non-smartphone parents notice this difference,

00:31:40.040 just as we have with our own kids.

00:31:41.920 And they also notice how this difference is very isolating to their non-smartphone kids.

00:31:49.720 You know, their kids have trouble relating to these other kids.

00:31:53.120 They literally don't speak their language.

00:31:56.340 And that's a challenge.

00:31:58.520 Feeling isolated as a child, that's no small thing.

00:32:01.540 I mean, we as adults can say, as I've given the speech to my own kids many times,

00:32:06.920 you know, it's okay to stand out.

00:32:10.280 It's good to stand out.

00:32:11.100 You don't have to go with the crowd and all that kind of, you know, that whole speech.

00:32:13.700 But when you are a kid and you feel isolated and you feel like

00:32:18.060 there's this whole world that other kids are living in that you don't even have access to,

00:32:24.900 again, it's a very isolating feeling.

00:32:27.060 But the trade-off is worth it.

00:32:30.580 Because to be perfectly frank with you,

00:32:33.460 when I see those other kids that have been on the smartphones forever,

00:32:37.420 and I see how they act and I see how they speak,

00:32:39.800 I hear how they speak,

00:32:40.740 and there's just a certain lack of, like, vitality and childhood innocence,

00:32:47.960 it's so obvious.

00:32:50.580 And I see that.

00:32:51.380 I think I don't want my kids to be that way.

00:32:54.680 It is so much better for them to not be like that.

00:32:57.180 And the trade-offs are significant.

00:33:02.960 But they are definitely worth it.

00:33:07.860 All right.

00:33:08.780 Here's someone that you should meet.

00:33:10.480 This is Aisha Sadiqa.

00:33:11.980 She's a UN climate advisor.

00:33:13.560 As Libs of TikTok pointed out yesterday, posted this video.

00:33:16.080 So this woman works at the UN and yet is not only a radical climate change alarmist,

00:33:22.540 but is also rabidly anti-white.

00:33:26.480 And maybe the word yet is not necessary there,

00:33:28.320 as if there's some sort of conflict between, you know,

00:33:30.920 working at the UN and having this attitude.

00:33:33.300 Everyone at the UN does.

00:33:34.400 But anyway, take a listen.

00:33:37.540 I say this because the climate crisis is not possible.

00:33:41.460 The climate crisis is not a result of natural disasters.

00:33:44.860 It's actually man-made.

00:33:46.080 It's a result of...

00:33:47.680 I'm going to say it again because I think they missed it.

00:33:50.280 The climate crisis is man-made.

00:33:52.880 And it's not just man-made, it's white man-made. 0.66

00:34:00.580 It is the result of capitalism.

00:34:03.460 There's a colonialism.

00:34:04.960 There's a racial oppression.

00:34:07.160 And so, if you want to get involved,

00:34:09.740 the way that we save our planet

00:34:11.360 is when we protect the most vulnerable communities among us. 0.63

00:34:15.380 And this includes black trans women.

00:34:19.580 This includes indigenous peoples.

00:34:21.700 And this is why it includes children and young folk.

00:34:25.000 Because when we protect them,

00:34:26.720 then we can protect everybody else.

00:34:28.480 Okay, so, you know what really gets me about this?

00:34:34.620 Well, first of all, it's just not true.

00:34:36.980 It's not true on several different levels.

00:34:39.060 But on the racial end of it,

00:34:41.660 most of the air and water pollution in the world

00:34:44.140 comes from Asia.

00:34:45.440 So she says that climate change is not only a man-made problem,

00:34:48.320 but a white man-made problem.

00:34:49.680 Well, most of the air and water pollution on Earth

00:34:53.280 comes from Asia.

00:34:55.660 In fact, we talked about it recently,

00:34:56.960 that one Asian country has 83 of the top 100

00:35:00.920 polluting cities.

00:35:04.000 The cities that have the most pollution,

00:35:06.460 one Asian country has 83 of those top 100 cities,

00:35:09.580 and that's the country of India.

00:35:11.120 So, you know, that's Asia. 0.81

00:35:17.040 And then Africa is the second worst offender 1.00

00:35:19.220 when it comes to water pollution, specifically.

00:35:22.340 Which means that the people that are destroying the planet,

00:35:25.360 the worst offenders at destroying the planet, 0.99

00:35:28.220 are non-whites. 1.00

00:35:30.060 So that's the first thing.

00:35:31.580 But the second is,

00:35:32.620 and I was thinking about this today,

00:35:34.580 which is that if there could possibly be one advantage,

00:35:38.520 if there could possibly be one positive,

00:35:40.640 one little glimmer of a bright side,

00:35:43.320 to climate alarmism,

00:35:45.260 which there is no advantage, okay?

00:35:48.520 But if there could be one,

00:35:51.900 it would be that climate alarmism,

00:35:55.580 you would think and hope,

00:35:58.340 would have at least,

00:35:59.840 even though it's totally false and everything else,

00:36:02.640 it would at least have a sort of unifying effect.

00:36:06.480 You know?

00:36:07.340 Because if the planet is really doomed,

00:36:09.620 if the climate apocalypse is on the horizon,

00:36:12.000 then we're all screwed, right?

00:36:14.240 We're all in the same sinking boat.

00:36:17.320 It's like if there was an asteroid headed towards Earth,

00:36:20.780 you know, an asteroid the size of Australia or something,

00:36:24.960 headed towards Earth,

00:36:25.660 we're all going to be vaporized.

00:36:26.660 And that's what these people think climate change is anyway,

00:36:31.500 basically.

00:36:32.840 Well, then,

00:36:34.040 when it hits,

00:36:34.980 we're all going to be equally dead.

00:36:37.220 So maybe we can find some measure of unity 0.97

00:36:40.460 in our shared sense of being totally screwed. 0.97

00:36:43.840 Like I said, 0.72

00:36:44.320 it's a very small silver lining,

00:36:46.000 but you would hope that would be there.

00:36:48.000 But we can't even get that

00:36:49.700 from the climate alarmists.

00:36:51.640 And the reason is that the climate alarmists,

00:36:54.860 they filter their climate alarmism

00:36:56.700 through the victim-oppressor narrative.

00:37:00.640 So even this,

00:37:03.120 even a planet-wide catastrophe,

00:37:05.600 which they falsely believe is on the horizon,

00:37:08.440 even that somehow becomes an us-versus-them thing.

00:37:12.360 Everyone's going to die,

00:37:13.520 and it's still like

00:37:14.540 some people are more affected than others by this.

00:37:17.160 And we know that's because this is all,

00:37:22.940 of course,

00:37:23.280 a left-wing phenomenon,

00:37:25.540 and this is leftism.

00:37:29.420 Seeing the world

00:37:30.300 based on this calculation

00:37:32.260 of victim versus oppressor.

00:37:36.520 Which, by the way,

00:37:37.860 there was another round of discussion,

00:37:40.780 there's been another round of discussion

00:37:41.900 on social media this week

00:37:43.120 about defining the word woke.

00:37:47.160 And I think this time,

00:37:48.320 I think Libs and TikTok, 0.66

00:37:49.900 Chaya Rejic,

00:37:50.600 she was giving a speech,

00:37:52.000 and she was asked for a definition of woke,

00:37:55.200 and she didn't immediately offer

00:37:57.020 one that is totally cohesive.

00:37:59.760 And so that becomes,

00:38:00.900 at least in the clip,

00:38:01.520 that's circulating.

00:38:02.720 I'm sure it's largely out of context.

00:38:05.880 But, and that became another round of like,

00:38:07.460 oh, see, those conservatives,

00:38:09.280 they can't even define the word woke.

00:38:12.240 Well, part of the reason why

00:38:13.480 it can be hard to define,

00:38:14.400 because we're talking about,

00:38:15.140 it's an ideology.

00:38:16.080 You know, an ideology.

00:38:17.640 These are ideas, okay?

00:38:19.840 This is not like being unable

00:38:21.720 to define the word woman.

00:38:22.800 Woman is a biological category. 1.00

00:38:25.640 It's a physical thing, okay,

00:38:28.080 with the physical definitions.

00:38:31.160 Ideas are not that.

00:38:34.100 You know, ideas change.

00:38:35.780 They can be,

00:38:36.380 and with something like wokeness,

00:38:37.980 it's a whole bunch of really confused ideas.

00:38:41.000 And the ideas themselves also change.

00:38:43.280 That's one of the hallmarks of a woke person

00:38:46.280 is that they can say something one minute,

00:38:49.120 and then five minutes later,

00:38:50.460 say completely the opposite

00:38:52.040 and seem to believe both of those things

00:38:54.880 at the same time.

00:38:57.280 And so when people look at that,

00:38:59.340 and we can see this pattern,

00:39:01.700 and we see like there's this category of people

00:39:03.740 who have this confused idea of the world,

00:39:05.820 but trying to define what that confusion is

00:39:09.240 is a little difficult sometimes.

00:39:13.580 But it is perfectly possible to define.

00:39:17.480 There are many,

00:39:17.800 it has many defining elements.

00:39:19.380 And, you know,

00:39:20.860 if someone presses you for a definition,

00:39:24.260 a one-sentence definition,

00:39:25.540 you could do worse than this,

00:39:27.540 which is seeing the entire world

00:39:30.880 through this lens of victim versus oppressor.

00:39:34.700 That all of reality,

00:39:36.100 all of reality,

00:39:37.220 every aspect of reality itself

00:39:39.940 is defined

00:39:43.500 by the victim versus oppressor dynamic.

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00:41:05.960 Now, on Monday,

00:41:07.180 I went into great detail

00:41:08.000 explaining why Beyonce's new cover

00:41:09.800 or reinterpretation

00:41:11.460 of the classic Dolly Parton hit

00:41:13.180 Jolene is an abomination,

00:41:15.020 and there have been some comments 0.53

00:41:16.580 disagreeing with me on that point,

00:41:19.700 even though,

00:41:20.200 as I've already explained,

00:41:21.080 all disagreement

00:41:21.740 is now unconstitutional

00:41:25.340 because I am a judge.

00:41:27.840 But this is from Autumn.

00:41:30.280 She says,

00:41:30.740 Beyonce and mediocre

00:41:31.900 don't belong in the same sentence.

00:41:34.520 Well, I would agree

00:41:35.340 if you're talking about her looks

00:41:36.480 or her dance moves. 0.90

00:41:37.800 Like, she's a good-looking woman, 0.97

00:41:39.080 no question.

00:41:39.680 She's a great dancer. 1.00

00:41:41.560 But the truth is,

00:41:42.560 and you know this,

00:41:43.140 you know it deep down.

00:41:44.100 You know it deep down, Autumn,

00:41:45.440 that if she was not

00:41:46.780 an attractive woman, 0.60

00:41:47.660 she would have no career

00:41:48.860 as a singer.

00:41:50.380 Like, you know,

00:41:51.000 and that's not a statement

00:41:52.560 that's true of every female singer. 1.00

00:41:53.960 There are plenty of female singers

00:41:55.160 who have had great careers,

00:41:57.880 legendary careers,

00:41:58.720 despite not being

00:42:00.600 necessarily beautiful.

00:42:02.200 And the reason that

00:42:04.220 they had those careers

00:42:05.100 is because their music

00:42:06.120 was that incredible.

00:42:08.260 But they were great artists.

00:42:10.600 But Beyonce,

00:42:11.620 take out the looks,

00:42:12.860 and she's, you know,

00:42:13.740 she's a passably okay singer

00:42:15.600 who doesn't play any instruments,

00:42:17.440 doesn't write her own music.

00:42:18.940 So on talent alone,

00:42:20.240 on merit alone,

00:42:21.100 she's mediocre. 1.00

00:42:23.020 Sorry to say.

00:42:23.900 It's just,

00:42:24.380 it's the truth.

00:42:26.240 Another comment says,

00:42:26.900 kids are dying,

00:42:27.740 and you're here

00:42:28.200 at your own grown age,

00:42:30.600 fake outraged

00:42:31.640 over a song

00:42:32.420 and entertainment.

00:42:34.560 This is my favorite

00:42:35.260 kind of comment.

00:42:36.620 And I love it

00:42:37.380 because you could use it

00:42:38.020 against anyone,

00:42:38.780 no matter what they're saying

00:42:39.680 or what they're talking about.

00:42:41.500 Now, for one thing,

00:42:41.900 I'm not outraged

00:42:42.600 at Beyonce's song.

00:42:44.040 You know,

00:42:44.240 sure, it is upsetting

00:42:45.020 when somebody massacres

00:42:46.240 a classic song.

00:42:47.060 I don't like it.

00:42:48.360 But I do take exception

00:42:49.660 to that

00:42:50.100 on principle.

00:42:52.460 But I'm not emotional

00:42:53.480 about it.

00:42:54.220 I just think it's bad.

00:42:55.760 And as for me

00:42:56.480 talking about this

00:42:57.180 while kids are dying,

00:42:58.120 I'm not sure

00:42:58.440 which kids you're referring to,

00:42:59.520 but I just wonder

00:43:01.260 if you go around

00:43:02.200 shouting that

00:43:03.100 at anyone

00:43:03.920 who says anything

00:43:04.820 that doesn't relate

00:43:05.780 to this nonspecific tragedy

00:43:07.300 that you're talking about.

00:43:09.240 I would imagine

00:43:10.040 that you yourself

00:43:10.840 on a daily basis

00:43:12.160 talk about like

00:43:13.540 a thousand different things

00:43:14.440 that have nothing to do

00:43:15.240 with kids dying.

00:43:17.620 And I wonder,

00:43:18.140 would you have said this

00:43:19.040 if I had done

00:43:19.840 ten minutes

00:43:20.480 on why the song is good?

00:43:22.100 What if I had praised

00:43:22.860 the song

00:43:23.340 for ten minutes?

00:43:24.880 Then would I be permitted

00:43:25.920 to discuss this?

00:43:27.900 Even though

00:43:29.140 quote-unquote

00:43:29.560 kids are dying?

00:43:32.540 Let's see,

00:43:32.880 another one says,

00:43:33.640 Russell says,

00:43:34.160 Matt,

00:43:34.360 this is a bad take.

00:43:35.180 I'm not watching this.

00:43:36.100 The music industry

00:43:36.740 has always done

00:43:37.320 covers or remixes.

00:43:38.320 Most popular songs

00:43:39.100 have three or more versions

00:43:40.200 over the decades.

00:43:42.280 Another one of my favorite

00:43:43.080 types of comments.

00:43:43.980 This is a bad take.

00:43:45.000 I'm not watching this.

00:43:46.840 Well then,

00:43:47.180 how do you know

00:43:47.540 it's a bad take?

00:43:49.460 I disagree with what you said

00:43:50.800 and also I have no idea

00:43:52.620 what you said.

00:43:54.540 Another classic.

00:43:55.240 Dr. Flerkin says,

00:43:58.340 Matt,

00:43:58.820 I see your point,

00:43:59.720 but Beyonce didn't 0.96

00:44:00.500 destroy the classic song.

00:44:01.940 She transformed

00:44:02.760 the defeatist attitude

00:44:03.840 that Dolly portrayed

00:44:04.720 and changed the victim

00:44:05.660 into a character

00:44:06.320 that is willing to fight

00:44:07.220 for her livelihood.

00:44:08.020 I appreciate the transformation

00:44:09.020 into a proactive opponent

00:44:10.820 rather than a defenseless victim.

00:44:14.620 Okay,

00:44:14.880 well look,

00:44:15.600 I agree that the attitude

00:44:17.840 Beyonce has

00:44:18.780 in her version

00:44:19.340 is generally

00:44:20.920 a better attitude

00:44:22.140 than what you find

00:44:23.920 in Dolly's version.

00:44:25.320 But the point of music

00:44:26.400 is not to demonstrate

00:44:28.360 a good attitude.

00:44:30.260 Okay,

00:44:30.440 the point of music

00:44:31.240 is to connect

00:44:31.920 with the human experience.

00:44:34.360 So Dolly's song

00:44:35.280 is defeatist

00:44:36.020 in a certain way

00:44:36.580 if that's how you want

00:44:37.120 to put it,

00:44:37.480 but that's real.

00:44:38.660 People feel that way sometimes.

00:44:40.180 People feel defeated.

00:44:42.280 And many pieces

00:44:44.740 of great art

00:44:45.480 in all different mediums

00:44:47.080 have been created

00:44:48.840 out of that feeling

00:44:50.840 of defeat.

00:44:52.820 Because it's real.

00:44:53.740 Again,

00:44:53.860 people have worries,

00:44:54.700 they have fears,

00:44:55.220 they have anxieties.

00:44:56.060 Art expresses that.

00:44:56.980 It doesn't mean

00:44:57.440 that all art

00:44:58.320 has to wallow

00:44:59.200 in pain and misery,

00:45:00.260 but sometimes it does.

00:45:01.840 Because people,

00:45:02.840 because sometimes people do.

00:45:04.400 And so we create art

00:45:05.340 that reflects that.

00:45:06.880 And it's just, 0.98

00:45:07.460 it's ridiculous

00:45:08.080 to correct a piece of art

00:45:09.940 by giving it

00:45:11.000 a more positive outlook.

00:45:12.660 Okay,

00:45:12.980 it's just,

00:45:13.420 it's insane.

00:45:16.100 I mean,

00:45:16.340 it's like,

00:45:17.760 imagine if somebody

00:45:18.520 did a reinterpretation

00:45:19.760 of the song

00:45:20.580 Man of Constant Sorrows

00:45:22.100 and instead

00:45:23.200 the new version

00:45:23.840 is called

00:45:24.360 Man of Optimistic Outlook.

00:45:28.220 Like,

00:45:29.120 it wouldn't make any sense

00:45:31.000 if somebody made that song,

00:45:32.460 that remake.

00:45:33.960 It wouldn't make any sense

00:45:34.600 for you to say,

00:45:35.000 well,

00:45:35.680 yeah,

00:45:35.920 but it's better

00:45:36.480 to have an optimistic

00:45:37.220 outlook

00:45:38.040 than to be a man

00:45:39.760 of constant sorrows

00:45:40.780 who wants to be sorrowful

00:45:42.180 all the time.

00:45:42.720 That's not how you want to be.

00:45:43.720 Come on,

00:45:44.100 cheer up.

00:45:45.720 Well,

00:45:45.900 yeah,

00:45:46.100 I mean,

00:45:46.300 it is better

00:45:46.760 to be optimistic,

00:45:47.560 but that's not

00:45:47.960 what the song is about.

00:45:49.360 That's not what the song

00:45:50.060 is meant to express.

00:45:51.680 You've just completely

00:45:52.460 emptied that song

00:45:53.820 of what that song

00:45:54.900 is supposed to mean.

00:45:55.940 If you want to make a song

00:45:56.860 about being optimistic,

00:45:57.940 then go ahead and do it,

00:45:59.100 but just go make that song,

00:46:01.100 make a different song.

00:46:02.800 But why take

00:46:03.820 this song

00:46:05.280 that's about sorrow

00:46:06.560 and try to rip out

00:46:08.040 everything that makes it

00:46:09.000 what it is?

00:46:10.640 Or imagine,

00:46:11.260 imagine if,

00:46:12.080 because like I said,

00:46:12.560 you apply this

00:46:13.560 to any other medium,

00:46:14.600 it just looks even 0.99

00:46:15.220 more ridiculous. 0.97

00:46:16.140 Imagine if somebody 0.97

00:46:16.660 made a remake

00:46:17.680 of Schindler's List,

00:46:22.420 but in their remake,

00:46:23.940 there's no Holocaust,

00:46:25.040 everybody's happy,

00:46:26.340 and Schindler's List

00:46:27.420 is really just

00:46:28.120 his list of people

00:46:28.940 that he's inviting

00:46:29.540 to his birthday party

00:46:30.560 at Dave and Buster's.

00:46:32.380 Okay?

00:46:33.180 Now,

00:46:33.440 it would be incoherent

00:46:34.740 to justify that butchery

00:46:36.440 by saying,

00:46:36.980 well,

00:46:37.160 but a birthday party

00:46:38.120 at Dave and Buster's

00:46:38.920 is way better

00:46:39.500 than the Holocaust. 0.58

00:46:41.100 This is a much more

00:46:41.800 positive and happy story.

00:46:44.180 Well,

00:46:44.400 sure it is,

00:46:45.220 but that's not,

00:46:46.660 what the original piece

00:46:47.640 of art was trying

00:46:48.380 to express.

00:46:49.580 You cannot correct

00:46:50.600 something just by

00:46:51.360 making it happier.

00:46:52.320 That's not how art works.

00:46:54.080 That's not art.

00:46:55.060 That is,

00:46:55.880 that is,

00:46:56.560 that really is appropriation.

00:47:00.120 Okay,

00:47:00.260 we use this word,

00:47:00.840 we hear the word

00:47:01.500 appropriation all the time,

00:47:02.660 and most of the time

00:47:03.920 it is wildly misused.

00:47:05.660 But in this case,

00:47:06.560 that's actually

00:47:06.980 what that is.

00:47:07.420 You're appropriating

00:47:08.560 someone else's

00:47:09.520 piece of art

00:47:10.160 and trying to turn it in

00:47:13.260 to give it the message

00:47:14.480 that you think

00:47:15.460 it should have had.

00:47:17.360 Crazy.

00:47:18.520 Crazy.

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00:48:34.780 For whatever reason,

00:48:36.420 former NFL star Randy Moss

00:48:38.060 recently opened

00:48:38.780 a fried chicken restaurant

00:48:40.000 in Huntington, West Virginia.

00:48:41.840 Now, sadly,

00:48:42.460 it would seem

00:48:42.920 the restaurant

00:48:43.440 was not well-received

00:48:44.560 by the community.

00:48:45.380 Customers left

00:48:46.000 bad reviews online

00:48:47.300 complaining,

00:48:47.900 from what I can tell,

00:48:48.540 I read some of the reviews,

00:48:49.460 that the food is too bland,

00:48:51.280 the prices are too high,

00:48:52.400 the service is too slow,

00:48:53.500 and strangely enough,

00:48:54.780 the place doesn't seem

00:48:55.520 to carry ketchup,

00:48:56.620 according to a lot

00:48:57.100 of the reviews.

00:48:57.880 Now, as an avowed

00:48:58.540 ketchup skeptic myself,

00:48:59.920 I don't find this last point

00:49:01.100 to be a problem,

00:49:01.780 but the other points

00:49:02.380 certainly are.

00:49:03.500 And to sum it up

00:49:04.100 in the words

00:49:04.460 of one customer

00:49:05.120 named Connor

00:49:05.820 who left a Google review,

00:49:07.540 the chicken was nothing

00:49:08.600 to ride home about.

00:49:10.160 And yes,

00:49:10.480 that is ride

00:49:11.140 as in R-I-D-E.

00:49:12.760 Connor is saying

00:49:13.320 that he wouldn't ride

00:49:15.160 all the way home

00:49:15.780 on his bicycle

00:49:16.340 to tell his family

00:49:17.100 and friends

00:49:17.460 about this chicken.

00:49:18.340 Chicken's okay,

00:49:19.080 it's not something

00:49:19.480 to ride home about.

00:49:20.960 Now, overall,

00:49:21.540 the restaurant got

00:49:22.380 at least one,

00:49:23.800 possibly two,

00:49:24.520 thumbs down

00:49:25.040 from many of its patrons.

00:49:26.780 So,

00:49:27.480 how would the manager

00:49:29.120 of this establishment

00:49:30.160 respond to this criticism?

00:49:31.480 Would he take

00:49:31.940 the feedback to heart?

00:49:33.060 Would he come up

00:49:33.580 with a better chicken recipe?

00:49:34.760 Would he work

00:49:35.660 with his employees

00:49:36.260 to improve their service?

00:49:37.420 Would he lower prices?

00:49:38.320 Would he start

00:49:38.640 stocking ketchup?

00:49:40.020 Would he ensure

00:49:40.640 that it's the kind of place

00:49:41.540 Connor would want

00:49:42.280 to ride home about?

00:49:43.540 No, of course not.

00:49:44.340 Instead,

00:49:44.940 he accused his customers

00:49:45.900 of racism.

00:49:47.540 Here's the local news report.

00:49:49.900 What was supposed

00:49:50.680 to be a positive development

00:49:52.140 in the heart of Huntington

00:49:53.360 has turned into controversy

00:49:54.980 after accusations

00:49:55.920 of racism and discrimination

00:49:57.660 went viral

00:49:58.440 on social media.

00:49:59.400 We're talking about

00:49:59.840 Crispy's Chicken.

00:50:00.560 It's a restaurant

00:50:01.060 owned by NFL Hall of Famer

00:50:02.640 Randy Moss.

00:50:03.340 But as 13 News reporter

00:50:04.240 Jordan Meade tells us,

00:50:05.500 the manager of the restaurant

00:50:06.460 says the community

00:50:07.280 isn't supporting the business

00:50:08.540 and he claims

00:50:09.640 it has nothing to do

00:50:10.740 with the food.

00:50:11.340 The original video

00:50:14.380 Great energy, great food.

00:50:16.300 Randy Moss took his time

00:50:17.620 out, invested his money.

00:50:18.980 That sparked it all.

00:50:20.520 But since we've been here

00:50:21.920 for the past few months

00:50:23.160 it has been nothing but negativity

00:50:24.360 from the community.

00:50:25.620 The community not supporting.

00:50:27.440 That's the manager

00:50:28.280 of Crispy's Chicken,

00:50:29.660 a fast food restaurant

00:50:30.840 in Huntington.

00:50:32.020 In the video posted

00:50:33.080 just last week,

00:50:34.420 he lashes out at the community

00:50:36.100 saying their criticism

00:50:37.520 goes beyond the food

00:50:39.140 and service.

00:50:39.960 The entire community

00:50:42.060 is filled with negativity.

00:50:44.500 Being an African American company,

00:50:46.360 this is what we deal with

00:50:47.180 on a regular basis.

00:50:48.840 Unfortunate, you know,

00:50:49.800 we're not the other color,

00:50:51.280 which is unfortunate

00:50:51.980 to you guys

00:50:53.020 because if we were

00:50:53.960 the other color,

00:50:55.020 I'm sure we'd get

00:50:55.720 a lot more respect.

00:50:57.720 After the backlash 0.65

00:50:58.700 from his post,

00:50:59.980 the manager,

00:51:00.860 who would only tell us

00:51:01.940 his first name,

00:51:03.100 called out a local host

00:51:04.580 of a podcast

00:51:05.260 to do an interview.

00:51:06.960 We try to be positive

00:51:08.440 and have a positive effect

00:51:10.020 on the community,

00:51:11.160 but he just wasn't having it.

00:51:13.380 But from that interview

00:51:14.440 came more controversy.

00:51:16.380 What did our community do?

00:51:18.080 They tore us down

00:51:19.020 like they always do.

00:51:20.740 The African American community,

00:51:22.320 we are known

00:51:23.040 to tear each other down.

00:51:24.500 The Chinese is not known for it.

00:51:26.460 The Europeans,

00:51:27.400 nobody else is known for it.

00:51:29.040 That's something

00:51:29.720 that Talk Huntington host

00:51:31.040 David Williams,

00:51:32.100 who goes by the on-air

00:51:33.180 name of Alligator Jackson,

00:51:35.120 says he tried to de-escalate

00:51:36.760 while addressing complaints.

00:51:38.720 13 News spoke to Kurt today.

00:51:40.800 He doubled down on his statements.

00:51:43.760 Anybody that misunderstood

00:51:45.000 what I said on that video,

00:51:47.180 you have to think.

00:51:50.120 It was clear as day what I said.

00:51:51.800 It was clear.

00:51:52.740 It was clear that

00:51:55.860 that's what African America 0.99

00:51:57.000 has been going through

00:51:57.880 for centuries.

00:52:00.060 Okay, I forgot to mention

00:52:01.240 he's also the marketing director.

00:52:02.880 It said on the,

00:52:04.300 it said there,

00:52:05.220 this is the marketing campaign.

00:52:07.180 I mean,

00:52:07.480 that's one way

00:52:08.440 to market your product,

00:52:09.480 to yell at your customers

00:52:10.740 and tell them

00:52:11.400 to stop being mean to you.

00:52:14.620 Anyway,

00:52:15.220 now this is not even

00:52:15.840 the end of the news report,

00:52:16.720 but there's so much to cover

00:52:17.600 that we had to stop it there.

00:52:18.820 First, most importantly,

00:52:19.940 there is a local podcast host

00:52:21.500 in Huntington, West Virginia,

00:52:22.340 who goes by the name

00:52:23.560 Alligator Jackson.

00:52:24.940 Now, that to me

00:52:25.460 is the real headline here.

00:52:26.720 The reporter breezes by it

00:52:27.900 as if it's just

00:52:28.340 a random bit of trivia,

00:52:29.420 but I want to hear more

00:52:31.080 about, you know,

00:52:32.220 Alligator Jackson's podcast.

00:52:33.680 I did investigate

00:52:34.360 the situation on my own.

00:52:35.400 I found Alligator Jackson's

00:52:36.340 YouTube channel.

00:52:37.260 It's called Talk Huntington.

00:52:38.320 It has 20 subscribers,

00:52:39.440 three videos so far.

00:52:40.920 It looks like it's just

00:52:41.680 getting started,

00:52:42.100 a real bootstrap operation.

00:52:43.840 I encourage you to go

00:52:44.720 and subscribe to the channel

00:52:45.760 if you want to stay up to date

00:52:46.720 on news out of Huntington,

00:52:48.080 or even if you don't.

00:52:49.780 And second,

00:52:50.380 almost as important,

00:52:51.360 what is going on

00:52:52.080 with the crispy chicken mascot?

00:52:54.000 Let's put that up

00:52:54.660 on the screen again

00:52:55.380 because I just stared

00:52:56.100 at this thing

00:52:56.480 trying to figure out

00:52:57.040 what's happening.

00:52:57.860 It appears to be,

00:52:58.620 from what I can tell,

00:53:00.160 like a penguin

00:53:01.180 in the shape of a bomb.

00:53:04.120 It's a penguin

00:53:05.040 with a fuse on it

00:53:06.200 as the mascot

00:53:06.920 for a fast food chicken place.

00:53:09.380 And that's your problem

00:53:09.920 right there.

00:53:10.540 That's why you aren't

00:53:11.020 getting the business you want.

00:53:11.900 People look at that mascot.

00:53:12.980 They're so confused

00:53:13.920 that they just stand there

00:53:15.320 staring at it

00:53:16.160 until the place is closed.

00:53:17.580 To make matters worse,

00:53:18.360 it doesn't even say chicken

00:53:19.460 anywhere on the signage

00:53:20.840 outside.

00:53:22.120 All we see

00:53:22.860 is the penguin bomb

00:53:24.080 and the word crispy,

00:53:26.680 spelled as weirdly

00:53:27.360 as possible,

00:53:27.980 by the way,

00:53:28.880 and no mention of chicken.

00:53:30.140 People are confused.

00:53:31.080 That's the issue.

00:53:31.620 And then they go inside,

00:53:32.260 there's no ketchup.

00:53:33.260 Now they're really befuddled.

00:53:35.040 They can't ride home about it.

00:53:36.360 I mean,

00:53:36.520 they don't even know

00:53:37.200 which way is home

00:53:37.760 at this point.

00:53:39.160 And third,

00:53:39.620 finally,

00:53:41.620 Kurt,

00:53:41.940 the manager,

00:53:42.420 says that he is

00:53:43.120 the victim of racism.

00:53:44.460 He says,

00:53:44.860 of course,

00:53:45.180 and in fact,

00:53:45.680 that this is what 0.95

00:53:46.220 black Americans

00:53:46.900 have been going through

00:53:47.720 for centuries.

00:53:49.280 Specifically,

00:53:49.820 they've been going

00:53:50.180 through the trauma

00:53:50.780 of people leaving

00:53:51.460 negative Google reviews

00:53:52.540 for centuries.

00:53:53.460 Who can forget?

00:53:54.420 Frederick Douglass,

00:53:55.140 Harriet Tubman,

00:53:56.300 decrying the racist abuses

00:53:57.740 of the Google review system.

00:54:00.080 But let's really think

00:54:01.740 about Kurt's theory

00:54:03.060 of the case here.

00:54:04.960 I do not intend

00:54:06.100 to engage

00:54:07.120 in any form of stereotyping.

00:54:08.460 I am the least,

00:54:09.380 I am the last person

00:54:10.460 to ever say anything

00:54:11.760 racially insensitive,

00:54:13.360 as you all know.

00:54:14.100 But with that said,

00:54:17.080 are you really trying

00:54:17.940 to tell us,

00:54:18.560 Kurt,

00:54:18.840 that customers

00:54:19.480 are less likely

00:54:20.600 to support

00:54:21.140 a fried chicken place

00:54:22.580 if it's run 0.99

00:54:23.580 by a black guy? 0.98

00:54:25.680 I mean, 0.80

00:54:25.980 that seems a bit 0.95

00:54:26.780 like a gay Broadway star 0.95

00:54:28.700 claiming that the audience 0.99

00:54:29.560 hates his latest production

00:54:30.740 because they're homophobic. 0.61

00:54:32.600 I mean,

00:54:32.780 the simple act

00:54:33.400 of purchasing a ticket

00:54:34.380 to a Broadway show

00:54:35.500 already demonstrates

00:54:37.400 a certain tolerance

00:54:38.300 of the gay community,

00:54:39.420 I would think.

00:54:39.980 And a similar logic

00:54:40.680 applies to Kurt

00:54:41.800 and his chicken restaurant.

00:54:44.920 Still,

00:54:46.000 the racism defense

00:54:47.220 is reflexive

00:54:48.240 for some people.

00:54:49.280 I mean,

00:54:49.520 why else would

00:54:50.340 this man's restaurant

00:54:51.200 get such a poor reception?

00:54:52.320 Why else would anyone

00:54:53.060 say anything bad about him

00:54:54.260 or about anything

00:54:54.980 associated with him

00:54:55.880 if not for racism?

00:54:58.400 I think the good thing

00:54:59.060 about this story,

00:54:59.800 aside from the fact

00:55:00.360 that it introduced

00:55:00.960 the world to Alligator Jackson,

00:55:02.840 is that it so plainly reveals

00:55:05.460 the deeper,

00:55:06.260 more personal motivations

00:55:07.440 for many of these race hustlers.

00:55:10.900 For a guy like Kurt,

00:55:12.840 you know,

00:55:13.180 shouting racism

00:55:13.960 is a rationalization.

00:55:15.660 It's a coping mechanism.

00:55:17.280 Now, to be clear,

00:55:18.020 I don't say this

00:55:18.900 to justify the erroneous

00:55:20.060 racism claims,

00:55:20.800 of course.

00:55:21.100 I don't mean that you should

00:55:21.960 view Kurt in a better light

00:55:23.460 because of this.

00:55:24.460 I just mean to point out

00:55:25.340 that people these days

00:55:26.800 cry racism constantly

00:55:28.220 because blaming things

00:55:29.260 on racism

00:55:29.760 shields them

00:55:30.820 from the harsher realities

00:55:32.700 of life.

00:55:33.200 It's their way of explaining

00:55:34.340 their failures to the world

00:55:35.980 and more importantly

00:55:36.620 to themselves.

00:55:38.180 You know,

00:55:38.300 it can be difficult

00:55:38.940 to accept that you're

00:55:39.820 suffering a setback

00:55:40.740 as a result of your own

00:55:41.760 poor performance.

00:55:42.480 It's hard to face the fact

00:55:43.600 that people are responding

00:55:44.940 poorly to you

00:55:45.880 because they disapprove

00:55:46.820 of your behavior

00:55:47.480 or they don't like

00:55:48.040 what you've done

00:55:48.580 or because they just

00:55:49.580 don't like you personally.

00:55:51.160 It's tough to listen

00:55:52.020 to criticism of your work

00:55:53.040 or your character.

00:55:54.740 Nobody wants to believe

00:55:55.480 that their lack of success

00:55:56.560 in life is a result

00:55:57.680 of their own inadequacies.

00:55:59.980 Nobody wants to accept

00:56:01.020 that they've come up short

00:56:02.100 or failed to gain

00:56:04.020 all the success they desire

00:56:05.220 or any of the success

00:56:06.240 they desire

00:56:06.840 simply because

00:56:08.560 they're not good enough.

00:56:09.720 These are hard realities

00:56:11.260 to face.

00:56:11.700 It's much easier

00:56:12.580 mentally and emotionally

00:56:14.200 to tell yourself

00:56:15.780 that it's all because

00:56:16.380 of racism.

00:56:17.720 And in that lies

00:56:18.720 for many people

00:56:19.180 the attraction

00:56:19.740 to the racism narrative.

00:56:21.380 Now there are a lot

00:56:21.820 of reasons why

00:56:22.340 false racism claims

00:56:23.200 are so common

00:56:23.760 in our culture.

00:56:24.340 The Kurtz of the world 0.97

00:56:25.100 have various motivations

00:56:26.100 some of them more

00:56:26.820 political and ideological

00:56:27.780 but at the core

00:56:29.300 of this issue

00:56:29.880 is this.

00:56:30.440 Lots of people

00:56:31.080 whose lives are not

00:56:32.020 working out the way

00:56:32.700 they want

00:56:33.140 telling themselves

00:56:34.840 this story

00:56:36.420 of their own martyrdom.

00:56:39.140 And in Kurtz's case

00:56:39.920 I'm a victim

00:56:41.140 of a racist conspiracy

00:56:42.240 is a fantasy

00:56:43.280 that he prefers

00:56:44.120 over the true story

00:56:45.340 which is that 1.00

00:56:46.520 his restaurant sucks 0.99

00:56:47.600 and nobody likes it. 1.00

00:56:49.780 After all

00:56:50.480 it's better to be

00:56:51.180 a martyr

00:56:51.660 than to be mediocre.

00:56:54.400 And that is why

00:56:54.980 Kurt from Crispy Chicken

00:56:56.920 is sadly today

00:56:58.680 canceled.

00:57:00.780 That's it for the show today.

00:57:01.440 Thanks for watching.

00:57:01.920 Thanks for listening.

00:57:02.640 Have a great day.

00:57:03.640 Godspeed.

00:57:04.840 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 03, 2024

Ep. 1339 - Bloodbath In California After Minimum Wage Is Raised To 20 Dollars An Hour

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