The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1356 - We've Crossed The Rubicon. Race Hoaxers Are Now Using AI.

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, we have now crossed the Rubicon.

00:00:03.020 AI-generated race hoaxes are officially here.

00:00:05.780 I'll tell you about the first case, which will certainly not be the last, unfortunately.

00:00:09.460 Also, Florida manages to shut down its college protester encampments in five minutes.

00:00:14.360 How did they pull that off?

00:00:15.880 And we have yet another George Floyd 2.0 candidate.

00:00:18.620 This one also died while being detained by police as he shouted that he can't breathe.

00:00:22.500 Will riot season begin again?

00:00:24.220 And in our daily cancellation, a woman with tattoos all over her face 1.00

00:00:26.560 complains that she's having trouble finding a job.

00:00:28.940 Who could have seen that coming?

00:00:30.160 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:47.620 Back in January, a television news crew with CBS Baltimore showed up at the home of a high school principal named Eric Eiswert looking for an interview.

00:02:05.560 And once the crew arrived, they didn't record any newsworthy footage whatsoever.

00:02:10.340 Eric Eiswert wasn't even home.

00:02:12.680 Nevertheless, CBS went ahead and aired very clear images of the man's house on their evening broadcast.

00:02:17.920 And they did that for one reason, which is that a mob demanded it.

00:02:21.280 At the time, Eiswert was accused of making racist, anti-black comments on tape in front of several administrators at the school.

00:02:28.640 Through a representative, Eiswert had already denied making the comments, but the media didn't care.

00:02:33.060 This is the kind of story the media loves to report.

00:02:35.360 You have a white principal at a struggling, mostly black school who had supposedly validated all of their paranoia about white supremacy. 0.59

00:02:42.560 It's a great story.

00:02:43.900 So without verifying the recording in any way, the media immediately went to his home to harass him.

00:02:49.920 Watch.

00:02:51.520 Now to other news you're following tonight, a disturbing audio recording is circulating in the Baltimore County community tonight.

00:02:57.400 The recording is allegedly the principal of Pikesville High School making racist and anti-Semitic comments about students, community members, and staff.

00:03:06.280 Pikesville High School's principal, Eric Eiswert, is in hot water over an audio recording making rounds on social media containing racist and anti-Semitic comments.

00:03:16.120 He needs to be removed from the school ASAP.

00:03:18.060 Davina McCain's son is a student at Pikesville High.

00:03:20.880 But to hear him say that about kids, that's horrible.

00:03:23.980 I mean, absolutely horrible.

00:03:24.980 W.J.Z. is choosing not to air the recording at this time because we are unable to verify the authenticity of it.

00:03:31.640 But in it, a person purported to be the principal can be heard making disparaging comments about the test scores of African-American students.

00:03:39.800 The person on the recording then makes an offensive comment about an African-American staff member at the school and members of the Pikesville Jewish community.

00:03:48.100 W.J.Z. stopped by Eiswert's home to see if he had a comment about the recording.

00:03:52.260 Hi. I'm looking for Principal Eiswert.

00:03:54.980 He's not home right now.

00:03:56.200 He's not home right now?

00:03:57.080 A person spoke to us through the front door.

00:03:59.400 He'd like to know that he's driving around like that.

00:04:02.020 He does.

00:04:03.400 I mean, I'm here to hear his story.

00:04:05.200 Yeah, but nobody's going to believe his story anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

00:04:08.320 Now, whatever possible justification those reporters thought they had for going to the principal's home, it was over when they got there and he didn't answer the door.

00:04:17.580 That's the moment the CBS news crew should have packed their cameras up and gone back to the station.

00:04:24.020 But they didn't.

00:04:25.420 Instead, they spoke to some unnamed person behind the door and they aired that footage instead so that millions of people could see exactly what the front of this principal's house looks like.

00:04:34.980 And they did that after heavily implying that he said horrible racist things on a recording, even though they admit that they haven't authenticated the recording and they say they can't even play it on air because of how unreliable the recording may be.

00:04:46.240 So all in all, this is what journalistic malpractice looks like, and we've seen many examples of this kind of thing.

00:04:54.180 But CBS wasn't alone.

00:04:55.380 The local NBC News affiliate had similar coverage.

00:04:58.300 They didn't play the recording of these alleged racist comments either, but they did speak to several students who said confidently that this principal needed to resign immediately.

00:05:08.300 Watch.

00:05:09.660 Kyrie Stewart joins us live outside of the school.

00:05:11.700 And Kyrie, you spoke with students and parents, so what do they have to say about all this?

00:05:14.900 Yes, well, this has pretty much the whole community talking.

00:05:18.780 You know, since we've been out here, we've had parents and students just come up to us and tell us this, how shocking and disturbed they are by all of this.

00:05:25.420 In fact, I want you all to take a look at this video out of an abundance of caution.

00:05:29.120 Police officers were actually at the school today, you know, just for safety reasons.

00:05:33.420 Now, we're not going to air the recording, but in it, the person has heard making offensive and inappropriate comments about black students, the Pikesville Jewish community and members of the high school staff.

00:05:43.220 Now, again, we spoke with parents and students who told us that they're shocked to hear the recording.

00:05:47.480 Take a listen to what they have to say.

00:05:50.700 It's on social media now, so it's just like, and I go to Pikesville and it's like all over the place, so it's just like weird.

00:05:56.520 I honestly think he should be fired.

00:05:58.140 I don't think that there should be, I don't think he should be working with children if he's going to be speaking that way towards people.

00:06:05.340 He shouldn't work with people at all.

00:06:07.200 Okay, so the police are called in because they're worried about violence at the school.

00:06:12.420 Meanwhile, the reporters are visiting this man's home and broadcasting footage of where he lives.

00:06:17.440 And the news stations are insinuating that this principal said something so horrible that they can't even air it on television.

00:06:23.740 Now, to be fair, they didn't have to air it because other media outlets were spreading it all over the Internet.

00:06:29.220 Philip Lewis, the deputy editor of Huffington Post, posted the audio along with a message implying the principal's guilt.

00:06:36.460 Here's what he wrote at the time, back in January.

00:06:38.360 He said, quote, Baltimore County Public Schools is investigating the principal at Pikesville High for alleged derogatory remarks about students and staff.

00:06:46.400 A voice believed to be the principal can be heard ranting about black students and Jewish families.

00:06:52.120 Well, who exactly believed the voice to be the principal?

00:06:55.320 And whoever those people are, are they reliable?

00:06:58.700 Huffington Post's editor doesn't say.

00:07:00.380 That's not clarified.

00:07:01.500 He certainly didn't investigate the recording himself, but in reply to Philip's post, a lot of people called for the principal's termination anyway.

00:07:09.280 One person said, what's there to investigate?

00:07:12.060 And that was a common sentiment.

00:07:13.440 It's like, well, here it is, according to the social media mob.

00:07:16.760 We have him on tape, dead to rights. 0.97

00:07:19.000 He's obviously racist.

00:07:19.920 So here is the audio of the principal's alleged racist meltdown, which the Huffington Post guy posted, and which went viral at the time.

00:07:30.980 Here it is.

00:07:32.420 You're me and only me. 0.99

00:07:34.120 You know, I seriously don't understand why I have to constantly put up with these dumbasses here every day. 0.99

00:07:40.000 Between these ungrateful black kids who can't test their way out of a paper bag, or these teachers who don't get it, how hard is it to get these students to meet their grade level expectations? 1.00

00:07:53.360 Lawrence and Ravenel should have never been hired. 0.99

00:07:57.380 And don't let me get started on DJ. 1.00

00:07:59.020 I'm going to drag his black ass out of here one way or another. 1.00

00:08:03.320 I'm going to get something to stick. 1.00

00:08:05.480 I'm just so sick of the inadequacies of these people.

00:08:10.000 And if I have to get one more complaint from one more Jew in this community, I'm going to join the other side. 1.00

00:08:15.680 Kathy, I'm done.

00:08:18.040 Now, maybe you heard this back when it was first circulating.

00:08:22.920 I remember hearing it at the time.

00:08:25.440 And it seemed authentic to me on a technical level, at least.

00:08:31.020 It didn't sound digitally altered, necessarily.

00:08:33.980 It sounds like a person, some person anyway, saying those things.

00:08:38.180 But it also sounds strangely off in a few different ways.

00:08:43.780 It was obviously suspicious for a principal in Baltimore, of all places, to say these kinds of things in front of other people.

00:08:50.480 People with these kinds of views aren't getting hired to teach in Baltimore, much less run the schools.

00:08:54.920 And everything he says is so over the top, even in the context of a supposedly racist rant. 0.65

00:09:01.140 He's attacking black kids and Jewish people in the span of 45 seconds for some reason.

00:09:05.400 It's like listening to a leftist comic book idea of what a bigoted school administrator would sound like. 1.00

00:09:11.520 I'm going to drag his black ass out of here. 1.00

00:09:14.260 Like, no white principal is saying that. 1.00

00:09:17.340 It's just not going to happen.

00:09:18.600 And then the line at the end, I'm going to join the other side, it doesn't make any sense, but it's so on the nose as to be almost comical.

00:09:27.700 But local news media in Baltimore didn't share any of this skepticism.

00:09:31.780 One popular talk show suggested that the tape was almost certainly legitimate because the voice in the recording mentions specific people at the school by name.

00:09:38.920 That was the reasoning.

00:09:41.320 It can't possibly be fake because someone put the bare minimum amount of effort into it to make it seem legitimate, which must mean that it is legitimate.

00:09:49.420 Listen.

00:09:50.720 We're investigating this to determine whether or not it's real or not.

00:09:53.600 And if it were me and I was still in office, I would wait.

00:09:57.100 I would wait until authenticating this type of thing unless these folks know something about this principle that we don't know.

00:10:06.020 Well, if it's not him, then whoever did this is really good at that.

00:10:12.700 And I just find it hard to believe that there's someone associated with Pikesville High School that has so much of an axe to grind that they're willing to get this incredibly good artificial intelligence recording and make it sound so real and personal to the story that is at Pikesville High School.

00:10:32.760 Right.

00:10:32.880 Because he talks about specific people.

00:10:34.540 Yes, he does.

00:10:34.980 And this as well.

00:10:35.700 Right.

00:10:35.860 And he's got specific.

00:10:37.160 He mentioned a couple of names.

00:10:38.400 He's got specific grievances as well.

00:10:42.080 So, I mean, what are the chances of this being AI for me?

00:10:46.520 Very, very, very, very, very, very, very small.

00:10:50.160 What are the chances?

00:10:51.300 I mean, how could that possibly happen?

00:10:52.980 That could never happen.

00:10:54.300 And how could anyone at the school possibly have an axe to grind?

00:10:56.820 How could any faculty member conceivably want to concoct some race hoax in order to bring down the principal?

00:11:01.920 When have people ever lied about being victims of racism?

00:11:04.440 Somehow that kind of thinking still exists in this country in 2024 after about 10 million other race hoaxes have been exposed.

00:11:11.640 But even so, to the great surprise of virtually every media outlet in Baltimore, the ruse came crashing down yesterday when we learned that this recording is indeed yet another race hoax.

00:11:24.280 That's exactly what it was.

00:11:25.540 The principal never said any of the things on that recording.

00:11:29.060 There was no recording.

00:11:31.300 It was all created by AI.

00:11:34.120 Watch.

00:11:34.500 On January the 17th, 2024, the Baltimore County Police Department became aware of a voice recording being circulated on social media.

00:11:45.800 It was alleged the voice captured on the audio file belonged to Mr. Eric Eisworth, the principal at the Pikesville High School.

00:11:53.620 We now have conclusive evidence that the recording was not authentic.

00:12:02.300 The Baltimore County Police Department reached that determination after conducting an extensive investigation,

00:12:09.020 which included bringing in a forensic analyst contracted with the FBI to review the recording.

00:12:15.740 The results of the analysis indicated the recording contained traces of AI-generated content.

00:12:25.020 Detectives obtained a second expert opinion from a forensic analyst with the University of California, Berkeley,

00:12:31.880 who also determined the recording was not authentic.

00:12:35.560 Based off of those findings and further investigation, it's been determined the recording was generated through the use of artificial intelligence technology.

00:12:47.540 Through their investigation, detectives allege Mr. Darian, who was the athletic director at the high school,

00:12:54.400 made the recording to retaliate against the principal who had launched an investigation into the potential mishandling of school funds.

00:13:02.460 All right, so that's the basics of the case.

00:13:05.340 Oddly enough, watching that, there are certain parts where his voice doesn't match up with his mouth,

00:13:10.220 so it actually looks, parts of that look AI-generated too.

00:13:12.800 Maybe the whole thing is AI. Maybe none of this is real. Does Baltimore even exist? I don't know.

00:13:17.460 That's the era we're living in now.

00:13:18.960 But in any event, in this case, the audio was generated by an AI program that's extremely simple to use.

00:13:24.600 All you have to do is upload a short audio file containing a voice.

00:13:27.960 It could be just a single sentence, and then you can have the AI say whatever you want in that person's voice.

00:13:33.600 Now, police have, as you just heard, arrested the school's athletic director, a 31-year-old man named Dezon Darian,

00:13:39.020 and charged him with creating this AI voice file.

00:13:41.780 Specifically, he's been hit with a variety of offenses, including stalking, theft, disruption of school operations.

00:13:48.400 What would Darian's motivation be for making up a fake recording like this?

00:13:51.220 Well, it turns out that he was under investigation by the principal for allegedly paying teachers under the table using school funds.

00:13:58.720 And there was also other alleged misconduct as well, so Darian's contract wasn't being renewed.

00:14:02.780 And in response, he decided to generate fake evidence that he was being fired because he's black. 0.91

00:14:07.940 On the recording, the principal supposedly says that he needs to get rid of black employees by any means necessary, 0.93

00:14:14.120 including DJ, which is Darian's nickname. 1.00

00:14:16.200 DJ is the guy whose black ass is going to be dragged out of here, according to the recording. 0.99

00:14:20.300 That's him. 1.00

00:14:21.420 And then Darian allegedly shared the audio file with another teacher, who's a black woman who has since resigned.

00:14:27.940 And then she, in turn, shared it with a student who put it on social media.

00:14:31.880 As of now, nobody else has been charged with any wrongdoing except this athletic director.

00:14:36.660 Now, as a quick aside, you notice what Darian chose to include in the fake audio?

00:14:41.300 There's an angry complaint in there about black students performing poorly on test scores.

00:14:45.680 It's interesting that this is something the athletic director thought to include in his fake racist screed. 0.52

00:14:52.140 That's how broken Baltimore schools are now.

00:14:54.960 The only impassioned comments you'll hear about black students failing their tests is in an AI-generated deepfake designed to destroy the life of the school's white principal.

00:15:04.700 Because that's one thing.

00:15:06.460 Another thing I thought when I heard that recording, I said, like, yeah, some of the language here is not great, but, like, at least he cares about it.

00:15:11.580 I didn't know the administrators at these schools actually even cared that much about the fact that these kids are failing their tests.

00:15:18.000 At least there's some passion here.

00:15:19.280 I don't know.

00:15:20.020 Look on the bright side.

00:15:20.880 I said, no, it turns out, no, no, that was all fake.

00:15:24.240 But this case was apparently solved by analysts who determined conclusively that the recording was AI.

00:15:30.700 And for some reason, the media apparently didn't speak to any of these analysts in January when they were visiting the principal at his home.

00:15:37.020 But the Baltimore Banner interviewed several of these experts last month, and they determined with 99% certainty that they were dealing with AI based on some telltale signs.

00:15:45.780 One of the experts said, quote, there's some signs of editing, like putting different pieces together.

00:15:50.600 This has the sound features of AI generation.

00:15:52.940 The tone is a little flat.

00:15:53.960 Additionally, there was a lack of consistent breathing, breathing sounds or pauses in the recording, as well as unusually clean background sounds.

00:16:02.840 The analyst also noted, quote, sudden and incredibly short stops between bits of dialogue that indicate the absence of sound, which itself indicates some level of file manipulation.

00:16:11.680 So this is pretty open and shut at a technical level, if you know what you're listening for, which most people don't.

00:16:18.980 I don't.

00:16:20.840 It was not a sophisticated deepfake at all.

00:16:25.420 Which is very troubling because even then, even though it was not sophisticated, it took months until the truth came out and this principal could clear his name.

00:16:32.440 That's how long it took the FBI, Berkeley, and several other AI experts to vindicate this man.

00:16:37.500 What this means is that we have officially entered into a new era of race hoaxes. 0.90

00:16:41.680 And we all knew that this would happen eventually.

00:16:45.620 This was going to happen.

00:16:46.860 And now, well, we have crossed the Rubicon.

00:16:50.360 And sad to say, it's only going to get worse from here.

00:16:53.720 We already know there's a deep desire and willingness among many people to frame innocent people as racist and bigots.

00:17:01.020 And AI will be used relentlessly to that end.

00:17:03.220 And that's another reason why the objections from that radio host are so absurd.

00:17:08.060 Why would anyone ever do this?

00:17:09.360 What do you mean?

00:17:09.580 People do this all the time.

00:17:10.800 People get, we get fake claims of racism constantly.

00:17:14.520 It's just that until now, nobody has used AI.

00:17:19.520 But of course, if they have that ability, of course they're going to do it.

00:17:23.280 And before long, the technology will advance to the point that even experts won't be able to identify AI quite as easily.

00:17:29.900 You know, the tone of the audio will be less flat.

00:17:32.040 There won't be any awkward spots in the recording.

00:17:34.160 They'll be able to, you know, all of these problems that signal to experts that it's AI.

00:17:40.780 Well, the people that are developing this technology, they know about those rough spots.

00:17:44.060 And they're going to iron those out.

00:17:46.660 What happens then? 0.95

00:17:47.580 Keep in mind, again, that this fake recording, which does at least sound like a real human being, at least it does to me, was made by some dumb race hoax or working at a public school.

00:17:58.080 I mean, what could someone with a bit more expertise and access to better technology do even now with our current technology?

00:18:05.700 And what happens when the video deep fakes become as convincing as the audio ones?

00:18:10.500 Then we're going to have real problems.

00:18:12.720 Fake hate crimes will be the least of our worries.

00:18:14.640 I mean, we're talking about the total destabilization of society.

00:18:17.920 That's what we're facing. 0.88

00:18:18.700 Imagine AI-generated videos of police officers killing unarmed black suspects.

00:18:24.880 Is there any doubt that that kind of video would cause nationwide riots? 0.69

00:18:28.640 A few weeks ago, an armed black criminal out on pretrial release actually shot at police officers on camera.

00:18:35.100 And the media still nominated the shooter as their new George Floyd.

00:18:38.860 And that's just the beginning.

00:18:41.020 Picture AI-generated politicians, you know, committing gaffes or caught in scandalous positions.

00:18:46.620 Or declaring war.

00:18:49.740 What happens when AI Joe Biden announces, say, a ground invasion of Russia at 7 p.m.

00:18:54.000 just as the real Joe Biden falls asleep?

00:18:56.460 You can imagine the hysteria, especially when an AI-generated Karen Jean pair heads to the fake podium to confirm it.

00:19:05.400 You know, it's obvious to me that we need some kind of legislation in place to stave off the catastrophe that we can all see coming.

00:19:10.660 And unfortunately, judging by the fact that it took several months to disprove this AI hoax,

00:19:15.740 it's clear that most people aren't ready for that conversation.

00:19:19.540 Millions of people see AI-generated clips that affirm what they already believe,

00:19:22.600 and they don't have any interest in checking if the clip is real or not.

00:19:26.920 In this case, the AI clip of the principal supposedly affirmed the fiction that white supremacy is alive and well in Baltimore.

00:19:33.260 It was too good to check, so it went viral immediately.

00:19:38.680 That's why the AI-generated narratives will keep coming.

00:19:41.340 That's why the number of victims will continue to rise.

00:19:44.880 And it's why, to save not only jobs and reputations, but also in the future lives,

00:19:49.960 we need to rein in this technology while we still can.

00:19:54.140 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:19:55.200 We'll be right back.

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00:20:59.300 So yesterday we talked about the wrong way to handle these pro-Palestinian campus protests.

00:21:05.180 Greg Abbott, you know, signaling that people would be arrested for anti-Semitism and hate speech,

00:21:09.720 framing this explicitly as a war against free speech and political expression.

00:21:13.720 That was the wrong way, as I explained in great detail.

00:21:17.020 So let's look now at the right way.

00:21:18.900 And for that, we turn, as always, to Florida.

00:21:21.340 Reading from the Tallahassee Democrat,

00:21:23.000 as pro-Palestinian student protests intensify on college campuses across the nation,

00:21:26.940 about 40 Florida State University students set up an encampment on Landis Green early Thursday morning,

00:21:32.280 but the Occupy Landis movement was short-lived.

00:21:34.340 Campus police made the students take down a handful of tents that were set up for a mere five minutes on the grassy space

00:21:40.280 pre-dawn due to FSU Regulation 2.007, which prohibits camping on university lands,

00:21:46.660 according to a university spokesperson.

00:21:50.560 So five minutes.

00:21:51.400 So Florida State got their encampment down in five minutes.

00:21:54.080 Not five days, five minutes.

00:21:57.480 Meanwhile, over at the University of Florida, they also dispersed a campsite pretty quickly.

00:22:03.540 And all they had to do was circulate a flyer.

00:22:05.780 And I want to show you, here's what the flyer says.

00:22:08.820 And here's the caption from somebody named Stu on Twitter who identifies himself as a citizen journalist.

00:22:15.340 His caption is breaking.

00:22:16.340 University of Florida students chose to break down their encampment

00:22:19.220 after being handed this allowable activities and prohibitive items and activities flyer.

00:22:29.180 University of Florida's chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America said,

00:22:33.100 UFPD handed out flyers with draconian new regulations on them,

00:22:36.340 clearly designed to stop our liberation zone.

00:22:39.140 They will not win.

00:22:39.980 Okay, well, here's what the flyer says.

00:22:41.980 Allowable activities.

00:22:43.900 Speech, expressing viewpoints, holding signs in hands.

00:22:48.260 Prohibitive items and activities.

00:22:50.740 No amplified sound.

00:22:52.420 No demonstrations inside buildings.

00:22:54.440 No littering.

00:22:55.120 No camping.

00:22:55.660 No sleeping.

00:22:56.280 No unmanned signs.

00:22:57.580 No blocking egress.

00:22:58.640 No building structures.

00:23:00.480 Chairs, stakes, benches, tables.

00:23:02.800 No camping, including tents, sleeping bags, pillows, etc.

00:23:05.740 No disruption.

00:23:06.560 No threats.

00:23:07.080 No violence.

00:23:07.700 No weapons.

00:23:09.180 And then at the end it says, consequences for noncompliance.

00:23:12.280 Individuals found responsible for engaging in prohibited activities shall be trespassed

00:23:15.820 from the campus.

00:23:16.500 Students will receive a three-year trespass and suspension.

00:23:19.620 Employees will be trespassed and separated from employment.

00:23:22.740 Perfect.

00:23:23.260 Well done.

00:23:24.600 You know, it's that simple.

00:23:25.760 It is that easy.

00:23:27.080 As I've been saying all along, it is so easy to deal with this problem.

00:23:30.700 It's so easy that it's not even really a problem, or at least it shouldn't be.

00:23:33.720 It is so easy to solve.

00:23:36.540 And especially when you're dealing with people who don't want to experience real consequence.

00:23:42.780 These left-wing protests, especially on college campuses, especially on Ivy League

00:23:46.800 campuses, most of all, not that University of Florida is an Ivy League campus, but these

00:23:52.280 are not, like, these are not people who are so desperate that they've got nothing to lose

00:23:57.280 and that they're willing to suffer any consequence for their beliefs.

00:24:00.900 They're not.

00:24:02.040 They're actually not willing to suffer really any consequence, but it works out for them

00:24:06.820 because most of the time there aren't any consequences.

00:24:08.660 So all you have to do is put some real consequences in place, and all of this goes away that quickly.

00:24:18.360 So you notice how they handle it, right?

00:24:20.220 Notice first what they didn't say, University of Florida.

00:24:23.020 They didn't say that certain kinds of speech aren't allowed, except for threats of violence.

00:24:28.740 But they didn't say that certain points of view aren't allowed, right?

00:24:32.500 They didn't say that.

00:24:33.680 They did not condemn hate speech.

00:24:36.660 They didn't say anything about anti-Semitism because that's irrelevant.

00:24:41.260 It's got nothing to do with it.

00:24:42.700 That's not the issue.

00:24:44.780 They didn't frame this as some kind of crackdown on speech, as Greg Abbott did.

00:24:49.420 Instead, they said speech and political expression are allowed, but if you're going to do it,

00:24:54.280 you need to follow the rules, and they're the same rules as everybody else.

00:24:59.180 Now, while these protesters are saying, oh, they're inventing new draconian restrictions,

00:25:02.880 no, they're not.

00:25:03.700 These are the restrictions that are in place for everybody.

00:25:05.940 And you know something?

00:25:06.840 If I wanted to organize a protest at University of Florida or any of these college campuses,

00:25:12.140 I would certainly be expected to follow the same rules.

00:25:15.440 In fact, I wouldn't even be allowed to do the protest in the first place.

00:25:18.780 But let's just say any conservative, if YAF, let's say, on any college campus wanted to

00:25:25.300 have a political demonstration, they would be absolutely expected to follow all of these

00:25:31.660 rules.

00:25:32.440 Okay, no conservative group would ever be allowed on any college campus ever to set up tents

00:25:39.500 and stay overnight.

00:25:41.420 We all know that would never happen.

00:25:43.100 On no college campus would they ever allow that.

00:25:45.200 And if they would not allow it for anyone else, then why should they allow it for these

00:25:49.700 people?

00:25:49.960 You're not special.

00:25:50.860 You're not special.

00:25:51.600 You follow the same rules everybody else follows.

00:25:55.260 They're the same rules.

00:25:56.080 You're not being persecuted.

00:25:57.700 You're not being specially targeted.

00:25:59.280 It's just these are the rules and you will follow them.

00:26:01.860 They're the same rules with the same standard we hold everybody to.

00:26:05.980 And that's it.

00:26:07.180 You know, but that also means like don't go invent a new policy.

00:26:10.680 Don't go invent some new.

00:26:12.260 Don't do that.

00:26:14.260 You don't need to.

00:26:16.020 Right.

00:26:16.500 Just just hear the rules and follow those rules.

00:26:20.060 And, you know, something if they do follow the rules, if these protesters follow those

00:26:23.380 rules and they just they go into the they go there, they're outside and they're not, you

00:26:28.860 know, trying to set up a refugee camp outside and they have signs and they're expressing their

00:26:33.460 viewpoint, then absolutely.

00:26:35.680 I think they should be allowed to do that for as long as they want and keep it up for as

00:26:39.180 long as they want.

00:26:39.740 But occupying, you know, setting up a liberated zone.

00:26:46.660 No, you don't get that.

00:26:48.680 I know on the left you think that you're entitled to do that because you because you've been

00:26:52.580 allowed to do it in so many contexts, but you're not.

00:26:55.840 Nobody else is allowed to do that.

00:26:57.220 I wouldn't be allowed to do that.

00:26:58.600 Nobody on the right is ever allowed to do that.

00:27:00.640 You shouldn't be allowed to do it either.

00:27:01.860 Um, and it really is that simple or it should be NBC News has this report.

00:27:10.280 The Canton Police Department in Ohio has released body camera footage from the night a 53 year

00:27:14.600 old man died after repeatedly told officers, I can't breathe as he was handcuffed with his

00:27:19.440 hands behind his back and he was pinned to the ground in video of the encounter on April

00:27:22.920 18th.

00:27:23.380 The man Frank Tyson can be seen lying motionless on the floor of a bar for more than five minutes

00:27:28.040 before police check him for a pulse, about eight minutes before CPR started.

00:27:32.540 In the nearly 36 minute video, police respond to the scene of a single car crash to find

00:27:36.040 a downed power line in an unoccupied vehicle with a driver's side door open and an airbag

00:27:40.560 deployed.

00:27:40.980 In the video, a man in a white van whose face is blurred drives by, tells police that the

00:27:45.360 man responsible is at an AMVETS lodge down the street.

00:27:48.780 Officers enter the lodge.

00:27:49.840 A woman asks them to remove Tyson. 0.53

00:27:51.800 When the officers approach him, he knocks over a barstool and tells them to get the sheriff.

00:27:55.580 They then attempt to handcuff him.

00:27:59.440 Police identified Bo Schoenig and Camden Birch as the two primary officers respond to the

00:28:03.960 call.

00:28:05.140 Tyson screams, they're trying to kill me. 0.98

00:28:06.680 They're trying to kill me.

00:28:10.320 And then says, I can't breathe.

00:28:14.400 Shortly after the officers remove, they have supposedly a knee on his neck for 30 seconds.

00:28:21.220 Shortly after the officers remove his knee, Tyson again says he can't breathe, to which someone 0.99

00:28:24.400 responds, you're fine, shut the F up. 0.97

00:28:27.080 After Tyson appears to stop moving, an officer is seen looking through Tyson's wallet and 0.98

00:28:30.620 talking to bystanders.

00:28:31.900 Tyson appears to be motionless on the floor for about five minutes while at least one

00:28:34.800 officer talks with bar patrons.

00:28:36.620 At one point, the officer jokes, I've always wanted to be in a bar fight.

00:28:39.140 I don't know if this counts.

00:28:40.540 One of the officers returns in the frame.

00:28:41.840 He asks whether Tyson has calmed down and whether he's breathing.

00:28:44.840 And that's when they check and they discover he's not breathing.

00:28:46.500 Uh, and he, uh, was pronounced dead at 9 18 PM.

00:28:50.660 Okay.

00:28:51.060 So we don't know.

00:28:51.700 We still don't have all the information about this guy Tyson yet.

00:28:54.440 Uh, from what I read as reported by Colin rug on Twitter, he had just been released from

00:28:58.960 prison after a 24 year sentence, uh, for kidnapping and theft.

00:29:03.400 What drugs was he on during this incident?

00:29:06.040 You know, I don't, I don't think we know that yet.

00:29:07.680 I'm sure that eventually we'll find out, or maybe we won't cause he'll never tell us,

00:29:10.700 but it's possible he wasn't on any drugs or alcohol at all.

00:29:13.800 It's possible.

00:29:15.520 Uh, I mean, I can't say it's impossible, but I put a lot of money, a lot of money that

00:29:19.560 there's drugs involved.

00:29:20.400 I don't know, but that's, that would be my guess.

00:29:23.240 And, um, so that's the description of the video and that's what we know about this guy.

00:29:27.560 Let's watch a little bit of this video now.

00:29:29.520 Here it is.

00:29:31.600 No, no, no.

00:29:32.780 We're going outside.

00:29:33.700 We're going outside.

00:29:34.260 No, you ain't killing me.

00:29:35.080 You ain't killing me tonight.

00:29:36.120 You ain't killing me.

00:29:36.780 No, no. 0.97

00:29:38.040 No, you guys are killing me. 1.00

00:29:40.700 They're trying to kill me.

00:30:10.700 So you basically get the, uh, you get the point there, um, that they, uh, go in to try

00:30:33.820 to arrest this guy and he fights back against them and he resists.

00:30:36.980 And, uh, and then eventually they have to, um, restrain him and then he dies in the process.

00:30:44.660 Um, again, what did he actually die of?

00:30:47.320 What, what drugs were in his system?

00:30:49.240 We don't know that yet.

00:30:50.940 Um, but it's enough there that I don't know.

00:30:56.220 I mean, if you, and of course there's already an attempt to make, you know, we've had, we've

00:31:02.720 had in the last few months, we've had several nominees for the next George Floyd.

00:31:05.840 They're still looking desperately for one.

00:31:08.420 Maybe this will be it.

00:31:10.020 Um, it, it, it, it bears similarities to the, to the original George Floyd just because

00:31:14.500 you have the, I can't breathe and the supposed knee on the neck. 1.00

00:31:17.380 Um, so we'll see if they're able to make this into the next George Floyd.

00:31:23.180 Now, I think that, uh, it is certainly, as I've said many times, it's, it's right.

00:31:28.000 It's right at that time now where it's, it's, it's approaching May.

00:31:30.560 We're almost in May, uh, of, of the year of an, uh, presidential election.

00:31:35.380 So, you know, we're right on schedule, like check the watch and it's like, yeah, now it's

00:31:39.060 time for the race riots.

00:31:40.220 Uh, the only wrinkle is that right now the people that would participate in those race

00:31:46.620 riots are busy, uh, with the Palestine stuff.

00:31:49.960 And so the only question is whether they can be redirected, uh, over to this to do a race

00:31:57.580 riot or if they can kind of do both and if they'll just sort of fold it in and make it

00:32:02.780 into a bigger thing.

00:32:03.680 Uh, we'll see.

00:32:04.540 We, we don't know.

00:32:05.260 Uh, of course we know the left obviously very much would like, like that to happen.

00:32:08.560 I think they, they'd like to have both.

00:32:09.920 They, that's what they're, that's their ideal.

00:32:11.140 Like, let's do both.

00:32:12.460 Let's do Palestine. 0.95

00:32:13.500 Let's do a George Floyd 2.0.

00:32:15.400 Let's put it all together.

00:32:16.380 And, um, these are, as I've said, I mean, these are the same activists.

00:32:20.540 It's all the same.

00:32:21.320 It's all related to each other.

00:32:23.080 So, uh, it wouldn't be that much of a, of a leap.

00:32:26.820 We'll see if it, if it gets that kind of response as for the incident itself.

00:32:31.160 Listen, if you still watch these kinds of videos and your first reaction is to blame

00:32:37.280 the cops, then I can't help you.

00:32:38.760 I just can't help you.

00:32:39.880 Like you, you're hopeless. 0.61

00:32:41.040 You are a hopeless case. 1.00

00:32:42.600 You are absolutely hopeless.

00:32:43.880 Uh, because really all along, but certainly at this point when you see these videos, like

00:32:52.440 you, first of all, you should just be totally exhausted with this.

00:32:55.300 And your first thought should be to just, just comply with it.

00:32:59.560 They have every right to arrest you.

00:33:01.820 You broke a law.

00:33:03.640 Okay.

00:33:04.100 They, they suspect you at least of like running your car into a, into a light pole and you

00:33:08.740 go into a place.

00:33:09.600 You're not wanted.

00:33:10.540 The people in the place are asking the cops to take you out.

00:33:14.700 So they have to detain you.

00:33:16.360 They have every right to do it.

00:33:17.520 It's their job.

00:33:19.740 What are they supposed to do when they try to detain the guy?

00:33:22.180 And the guy says, I don't want to, you're going to kill me.

00:33:23.880 Are they supposed to say, okay, nevermind.

00:33:25.620 If you don't want me to forget it.

00:33:27.940 We'll wait till you're ready, sir.

00:33:29.520 You tell us when you, is that what you want them to do?

00:33:31.620 No, he's fighting.

00:33:33.020 So now, okay, well now it's getting physical.

00:33:34.740 Now we have, now we have to use whatever force is necessary to get you to the ground

00:33:39.040 and restrain you.

00:33:40.300 We have no choice.

00:33:41.980 There is literally no other choice.

00:33:44.300 You tell me what the other choice is.

00:33:47.280 And then everything that happens as a result of that, I'm sorry, it's your fault.

00:33:50.860 You as the belligerent a-hole who took this, created the situation to begin with.

00:33:56.940 The whole situation is happening because of you.

00:33:59.600 The cops didn't create this.

00:34:00.700 This guy wasn't sitting peacefully at the bar and they just happened to walk in and say, 0.72

00:34:04.480 there's a black guy. 0.99

00:34:05.200 Let's tackle him to the ground for no reason. 1.00

00:34:07.340 That didn't happen.

00:34:08.720 They were called in because of you.

00:34:11.860 And so you've created the situation and then you're doing everything you can throughout the

00:34:16.180 situation to make it as bad as possible for yourself. 0.94

00:34:19.600 And so while he is screaming, they're going to kill me, they're going to kill me. 0.71

00:34:22.380 He's doing everything he can to make sure that that's exactly what happens.

00:34:26.440 And I'm not saying that they actually did kill him, by the way, because that is certainly

00:34:29.140 not at all apparent or that has not been proven.

00:34:35.100 But he's doing everything he can to make sure that he does not survive the interaction.

00:34:41.160 And so, you know what?

00:34:41.800 That's it.

00:34:42.420 Like, just stop it.

00:34:45.120 I mean, if you don't want, you broke a law.

00:34:48.420 People around you are uncomfortable.

00:34:50.340 You're making people feel unsafe because of your own behavior.

00:34:53.060 The cops had to show up.

00:34:57.140 So, yes, comply. 1.00

00:35:00.960 And I know when we say that, the idiots will respond, oh, what are you, some kind of boot 1.00

00:35:04.280 licker telling people to comply? 1.00

00:35:05.940 Yes, if you're a criminal and you broke the law and the cops are trying to restrain you,

00:35:10.280 yes, I want you to comply.

00:35:13.400 I'm not telling him to give up his rights.

00:35:15.140 Like, what right was being infringed on?

00:35:17.420 Is it the right to drive your car into a pole?

00:35:20.480 Is it your right to trespass?

00:35:21.960 Is it your right to be belligerent and make people and harass people?

00:35:25.600 Is that the right?

00:35:26.500 No, there's no right being infringed on.

00:35:28.900 So, you create the situation where the cops have to come.

00:35:31.140 Yes, comply.

00:35:31.840 If you don't, it's on you.

00:35:33.020 I just don't.

00:35:33.840 Honestly, I just don't.

00:35:35.260 I don't care.

00:35:36.120 You stop.

00:35:38.860 You create the situation for yourself.

00:35:41.120 Consequences are on you.

00:35:42.060 It is your fault.

00:35:44.080 And the idea that we're supposed to mourn again, some guy just got out of prison for 20,

00:35:47.280 like someone who's contributing nothing to society, done everything he can his whole life

00:35:51.340 to make everything bad for everybody around him.

00:35:55.080 And then he dies by his own actions and we're supposed to bitterly weep and mourn.

00:36:00.980 And I'm just sick of it.

00:36:02.300 I'm tired of it.

00:36:03.180 I'm exhausted by it.

00:36:05.260 And, you know, if you want to be a criminal and you want to live the kind of life where

00:36:11.420 the cops have to show up, that's your choice.

00:36:14.440 But when they do comply and because it's over, like they're already there.

00:36:18.920 You're not you're not getting out of it.

00:36:20.480 You're getting arrested no matter what you do. 1.00

00:36:22.940 So stop being an idiot. 1.00

00:36:25.720 And that's it. 1.00

00:36:27.900 It's game over.

00:36:28.600 Like you're going you're going to jail.

00:36:30.020 Right.

00:36:30.360 So there's nothing you can do right now to stop that from happening.

00:36:34.460 All you can do is make it worse for yourself.

00:36:36.640 And so we have these people that they they choose the latter option.

00:36:39.680 They go to they go through a door, you know, door number two.

00:36:42.900 And they say, OK, well, I'll just make it as bad for myself as I possibly can.

00:36:47.000 And then we're supposed to blame the cops. 0.91

00:36:48.680 Give me a give me a freaking break, honestly. 0.91

00:36:54.360 All right.

00:36:55.000 Here's something I want to.

00:36:58.240 Play for you.

00:36:58.980 This is something positive for change.

00:37:00.840 Let's do that.

00:37:02.120 Yeah, that'd be nice.

00:37:02.880 This is a video that's gone viral of a young kid.

00:37:07.080 Looks like he's maybe seven or eight around there at some kind of farm equipment convention.

00:37:12.780 I'm not sure exactly.

00:37:14.340 And.

00:37:15.600 People seem to find the video quite amusing in a good way.

00:37:19.700 Let's watch it.

00:37:20.420 And I'll tell you what I what I take away from it.

00:37:23.540 Let's watch a little bit of this.

00:37:25.620 I have a big old farm display that I play with them on.

00:37:29.440 So you're every day going things around.

00:37:32.480 Are you selling on it or what?

00:37:33.320 Yep.

00:37:33.520 Yep.

00:37:34.200 Every day.

00:37:34.840 What season are you in right now then with it?

00:37:37.640 In spring planting or in.

00:37:39.300 I'm a.

00:37:40.680 It's kind of like winter right now.

00:37:42.960 Getting close to planting season.

00:37:44.600 Selling crops right now.

00:37:46.280 Getting crops in.

00:37:47.400 Unloading.

00:37:48.000 Semi trucks moving, right?

00:37:49.840 Yep.

00:37:50.360 Yep.

00:37:51.220 Planting already for spring planting.

00:37:52.980 Yep.

00:37:53.880 Yep.

00:37:54.220 Bringing fertilizer in.

00:37:55.660 Yep.

00:37:55.880 Bringing seed in.

00:37:56.820 Yep.

00:37:57.440 Yep.

00:37:58.300 Would it be a good year this year?

00:37:59.440 What do you think?

00:37:59.980 I don't know.

00:38:00.820 Don't know yet.

00:38:01.440 Big nice combine you got here.

00:38:05.700 Hey, appreciate that.

00:38:06.840 Yep.

00:38:07.420 Came out with a new AMFS 11, huh?

00:38:09.920 Yeah, AMFS 11.

00:38:11.200 How many bushel is that green tank on it? 0.98

00:38:13.480 That's a good question.

00:38:14.800 567 bushel.

00:38:15.940 You know how fast we can unload that?

00:38:17.640 How fast?

00:38:18.600 Six bushel per second.

00:38:21.700 That's moving.

00:38:22.760 That's more than I could ever need.

00:38:24.100 That's more than I'd ever need.

00:38:25.100 It's quick, right?

00:38:26.640 So, that big green tank in 100 seconds, so if you count to 100, we can have that unloaded.

00:38:33.100 That's pretty quick.

00:38:34.380 Yeah, pretty quick.

00:38:35.200 Right?

00:38:35.420 Get the semi truck back to work.

00:38:37.100 How many row of corn head? 1.00

00:38:38.200 Is that 16?

00:38:39.000 So, 16 row 30 in.

00:38:40.480 Yep.

00:38:40.800 40 feet wide.

00:38:42.640 Yep.

00:38:43.160 That is a big head.

00:38:44.200 This is what, this needs a mother band to go right over there. 1.00

00:38:49.720 It deserves a mother band.

00:38:51.080 So, the kid's great, needless to say.

00:38:53.400 It's a great kid, and one thing you notice about him, just from that 90 second clip, is

00:38:57.960 that he seems both more sort of innocent and more mature than the average child his age,

00:39:05.300 kind of at the same time.

00:39:06.220 Because on the one hand, he's talking about his farm toys, his farm display, I think is

00:39:10.200 what he said at the beginning.

00:39:10.940 You know, and he's a young boy who likes tractors, which is awesome, very innocent, much better

00:39:18.680 than staring at a phone, staring at a screen.

00:39:22.100 But also, he's far more mature than the average kid, both because of his knowledge of the subject,

00:39:26.000 but also because of his ability to carry on a conversation with an adult.

00:39:30.100 You know, you notice how he engages, he asks questions, he responds, he looks up at the

00:39:34.540 person he's talking to.

00:39:36.100 Many kids twice his age cannot have a conversation like that.

00:39:40.460 In fact, I'd say most kids in high school these days lack this kid's conversation skills.

00:39:48.180 But of course, the main thing that comes across, again, is his knowledge of farming and his

00:39:51.780 passion for it.

00:39:53.440 And that's why, although the video is fantastic, it's also sad in a certain way that people

00:39:59.700 find it so shocking and unique.

00:40:03.380 Because this is how most boys that age should be.

00:40:09.300 This should not be so unique that it's, like, startling.

00:40:14.920 And I'm not saying that most boys should be deeply interested in farming, necessarily,

00:40:20.840 although it's a great thing for boys to be interested in.

00:40:24.360 That's not what I'm talking about.

00:40:25.560 What I mean is this, that every boy should have a subject that he loves and he knows backwards 0.94

00:40:32.620 and forwards.

00:40:33.200 And it can be farming, it can be dinosaurs, it can be cars, it can be baseball, you know,

00:40:39.980 it can be outer space.

00:40:41.360 It can be anything, really.

00:40:43.640 But every boy should have a passion like this.

00:40:47.320 And if you have a son and he doesn't have a passion, if you honestly, you got a kid around

00:40:53.700 this age, a little bit older, maybe, and you look at that and you say, well, I don't know,

00:40:57.520 you know, what's my kid's version of the farm, farming?

00:41:01.240 Like, what's his version of that?

00:41:03.440 If that's the case, then you should help him find it.

00:41:05.760 Help him find his thing.

00:41:07.820 And his thing might change.

00:41:10.140 Like, my oldest son, 10 years old, he has cycled through several different obsessions over

00:41:15.080 the years.

00:41:15.480 But in the last year, he has settled really firmly on wilderness survival.

00:41:20.220 Wilderness survival is his very intense interest.

00:41:22.940 And once he found that, it's like, it's the only thing he cares about.

00:41:28.460 He wants all the tools, he wants all the survival gear, he wants all the supplies, he wants to

00:41:32.900 go out in the woods and spend all his time out there and build shelters.

00:41:36.360 And he wants to go out in the woods and start, like, campfires, which is something we have,

00:41:43.680 you know, that could go wrong, so we have to work with him on that one.

00:41:46.500 You can't just go start a fire wherever you want.

00:41:47.960 But, you know, that's what he wants to do.

00:41:51.220 He wants to read books about it.

00:41:53.920 He wants to watch videos about bushcraft, watch movies about survival.

00:41:58.900 He wants to talk about it a lot.

00:42:00.920 Like, frankly, more than any of us want to talk about it, but that's what he wants to

00:42:04.040 talk about.

00:42:05.180 And we embrace it.

00:42:06.180 We encourage it because this is his outlet.

00:42:07.980 This is also a starting point.

00:42:12.180 You know, if your son has something like this, it's a starting point.

00:42:14.560 And he learns so many other things related to that subject that he's interested in.

00:42:20.400 So, like, with my son, we can get him to learn and engage with pretty much any subject

00:42:25.220 if we relate it back to wilderness survival and camping and that kind of thing.

00:42:31.340 If we relate it back to the woods somehow, then he'll, no matter what the subject is,

00:42:35.120 even if it's a subject he thinks he doesn't like, we can get him to engage with it.

00:42:38.320 And this is what boys do.

00:42:41.480 You know, they fixate.

00:42:44.000 And there's a certain intensity that comes with being a boy and being a man.

00:42:49.620 You know, it's a masculine, it's a male trait to intensely fixate on certain things.

00:42:55.940 And that's a great thing for parents to harness and to point in healthy directions.

00:43:04.240 Because what happens if you don't harness it?

00:43:09.240 You know, if you don't do anything to foster this quality in your son, what happens then?

00:43:14.140 Well, two things happen.

00:43:14.880 First, inevitably in this society, he will still fixate on something,

00:43:19.640 but his fixation will become focused entirely on entertainment.

00:43:23.500 That's what his fixation will be.

00:43:26.120 Screens, you know, different forms of media.

00:43:28.100 That's going to be his thing.

00:43:29.280 And as he fixates on the screens, his intensity will die down.

00:43:35.240 Because the screens have a numbing, neutralizing effect.

00:43:39.700 Which is why, as anyone knows, if you go into a room where you've, you know,

00:43:43.880 maybe you've let your kids sit and watch TV for a little bit too long,

00:43:47.400 and you walk in and they're just like zombies just staring at the screen.

00:43:50.500 You could talk to them and they don't even hear you, right?

00:43:52.480 You could wave your hand in front of their face and it's like they don't even blink.

00:43:56.080 It has this hypnotic kind of neutralizing effect.

00:44:01.600 Whereas other things don't do that.

00:44:02.840 Now, if your kid has a real interest, like farming, you know, you can talk to the kid there.

00:44:06.780 He's invigorated, he's excited, he's passionate, he's engaging.

00:44:10.860 It's not like that when the kid is just sitting staring at the screen, just like this, slack-jawed, right?

00:44:17.260 And look, before you start yelling at me, I know you're going to yell at me anyway,

00:44:21.720 no matter what I say, so it doesn't matter.

00:44:22.700 But I'm not saying, okay, that boys shouldn't have access to entertainment.

00:44:27.720 I'm not saying that.

00:44:28.440 Obviously, a kid is going to watch TV, he's going to watch movies,

00:44:31.580 he's going to maybe play video games or whatever.

00:44:35.200 And that's fine in moderation.

00:44:37.320 But if you allow that, the entertainment, the screens, the media, to be your son's thing,

00:44:46.200 to be his prime focus, his great interest, then in most cases, now, there may be some cases

00:44:55.240 where from there, a kid, like maybe he goes on to become a film director, you know,

00:45:02.320 maybe he goes on to become a video game designer or something like that.

00:45:05.120 Maybe he's in the media world.

00:45:07.340 And he'll trace that back to his, so that will happen sometimes.

00:45:12.320 But most of these kids that are sitting around all day just consuming media,

00:45:17.980 they're not going to go into any business that has anything to do with any of that.

00:45:20.460 And it's not going to become a real passion.

00:45:25.440 For a few of the kids, it'll become a real, like, passion.

00:45:28.320 But for most of them, it's not a passion.

00:45:29.800 It's just a, it's a, it's a distraction.

00:45:31.980 It's an amusement.

00:45:32.700 It's a, you know, just a recreation.

00:45:35.560 It's a way of passing time.

00:45:36.540 And, and the problem is that in that case, for most kids, if their great interest, right,

00:45:44.600 is, is just staring at screens in different forms, he's not going to reap the benefits that he would

00:45:52.000 if he was focused on farming or outer space or wilderness survival or, or even baseball.

00:45:57.800 Because these things out in the real world, out in the physical world,

00:46:01.720 when a boy focuses on those things, he learns about the world.

00:46:05.240 He develops useful and edifying skills in the world.

00:46:09.460 Um, he, he usually ends up socializing around that interest.

00:46:15.220 Like, the screens are isolating.

00:46:16.980 The screens are singular because most of the time, uh, kids do that, uh, just by themselves.

00:46:23.960 In fact, you know, even when I was a kid, there was a, there was at least more of a social element

00:46:29.740 to the screens.

00:46:30.900 It was like, you would get together with your friends and like, maybe you'd play video games.

00:46:34.180 You'd all, you'd all be in the same, you'd all be in the same basement playing video games.

00:46:37.540 Um, but now even that is lost for the most part.

00:46:42.280 And so it's all, it's all singular.

00:46:44.280 It's all alone.

00:46:45.740 And, uh, and, and then the kids never develop social skills.

00:46:52.580 Um, and they never develop any interests outside of the screens.

00:46:57.700 So this is what I would encourage you as a, as a father of a four boys, myself, find your son's

00:47:02.860 passion, find the thing that he can focus on, find the thing that will harness his intensity.

00:47:11.700 And if you're saying to yourself and you're being honest and you're thinking about your

00:47:14.980 own son, let's say, and you're saying, well, he's not, he doesn't have a lot of intensity.

00:47:18.540 Well, that's, he does.

00:47:19.960 He does.

00:47:20.520 Every boy has it in them, but you just haven't, you haven't found it.

00:47:23.780 You've allowed it to be extinguished or not entirely extinguished, but, but greatly suppressed

00:47:29.160 probably because he spends all of his time just staring at screens.

00:47:34.460 Uh, so it's in there, it's in there, but you have to find it.

00:47:37.200 You have to harness it.

00:47:38.380 Uh, like the, the, the thing that just like lights his soul on fire, whatever that is.

00:47:43.000 Um, and once you find it, once you help him find it, you'll know, cause it just clicks.

00:47:47.300 And for this kid, it's farming, like farm equipment.

00:47:49.940 That's his thing.

00:47:50.880 He loves it.

00:47:51.980 And it's great.

00:47:53.100 And, um, and you know, uh, this is what every, every father of a, of a boy looking at that

00:48:01.980 video should be able to say to some extent, oh yeah, my son, that's like, I see my son

00:48:06.580 in this kid.

00:48:07.620 Uh, and if you can't, then, you know, fortunately it is a, it is a fixable problem.

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00:48:55.340 For our daily cancellation today, we turn to a woman named Ash Putnam. 1.00

00:48:58.960 She has gone viral with a video complaining about the trials and tribulations she's faced

00:49:03.260 while trying to find a job.

00:49:05.320 And most recently, she says she was turned down by TJ Maxx, which certainly, you know, has

00:49:09.200 to be a tough pill to swallow.

00:49:10.860 Based on my limited experience with TJ Maxx, it would seem that they hire pretty much anybody

00:49:14.880 with a pulse.

00:49:16.040 Now, granted, that means that TJ Maxx employees are held to a higher standard than we hold,

00:49:19.660 let's say, the President of the United States.

00:49:21.400 But still, it should be a relatively easy hill for any prospective applicant to climb.

00:49:26.000 But sadly, Ash Putnam found that her TJ Maxx dreams were crushed due to one factor that

00:49:31.020 becomes very obvious the second you look at her.

00:49:33.640 Watch.

00:49:35.000 So I wanted to come on here and talk about something that is really starting to annoy me.

00:49:40.660 So I applied for a job at TJ Maxx a few weeks ago, and they denied my application.

00:49:48.740 They couldn't even call me.

00:49:49.940 They just sent me some automated email.

00:49:52.880 So I went in today, and I was like, so what was the reason I didn't get hired?

00:49:58.440 And she was like, oh, like, you just, like, don't have enough experience.

00:50:02.440 There was candidates that had, like, more experience than you.

00:50:05.620 And, you know, I asked her if it was about my tattoos, obviously, because I know a lot

00:50:11.160 of places don't like tattoos.

00:50:13.200 She said that wasn't the reason.

00:50:15.780 I don't feel like that's true, but whatever.

00:50:18.220 I'll leave it at that.

00:50:19.680 So I'm just wondering how, like, teenagers and young adults who haven't had a job before,

00:50:28.560 how are they supposed to get employed?

00:50:32.320 And, you know, I hate that my tattoos are such a defining factor for me getting a job

00:50:38.760 or not.

00:50:39.800 Like, just because I have tattoos doesn't mean I'm not going to be a good worker.

00:50:44.840 Like, I just, I do not understand that at all.

00:50:48.500 Because quite literally, some of the most smart, intelligent people I've ever met are people

00:50:54.140 with tattoos and piercings.

00:50:55.900 Well, then, ma'am, I think you need to meet more people.

00:50:59.720 Though I understand it may be difficult to meet people when you have not just one, but

00:51:03.180 two giant images of demons emblazoned permanently on your body for everyone to see.

00:51:08.160 Which means, presumably, that she got the first giant demon and then walked around with it

00:51:11.740 for a bit and then said to herself, you know what would really improve my life?

00:51:14.820 A second demon.

00:51:16.640 Those along with the face tattoos and face piercings and nose ring and everything else.

00:51:20.120 She looks very much like a pin cushion that a disturbed child has scribbled all over.

00:51:26.780 So let me offer just two very brief thoughts about this.

00:51:29.980 First of all, it's become increasingly clear that thanks largely to the younger generations,

00:51:35.020 the internet has become a place primarily for people to whine about their lives.

00:51:39.940 Well, it's primarily a place for porn, as it's turned out. 0.92

00:51:43.200 But second is the whining, which is a kind of misery porn.

00:51:45.520 And it's true that there has always been whining on the internet, just as there's always been

00:51:50.380 porn, unfortunately.

00:51:51.360 But if you go not very far back in time, even just five years ago or so, you'll find that

00:51:57.120 it used to be much more common for people to err on the opposite extreme.

00:52:01.420 Like, one of the major criticisms of social media was that people used it to project an

00:52:05.060 unrealistically positive, sort of put-together, confident version of themselves.

00:52:10.340 They made their lives seem much better than their lives actually were in real life.

00:52:14.280 And of course, you still hear this criticism sometimes of social media, but it's not as

00:52:18.280 common as it used to be.

00:52:19.200 And that's because increasingly, social media has become a tool for amplifying your complaints

00:52:23.920 and your grievances and your general objections to the realities of life.

00:52:28.320 People are trying to, you know, present themselves as put-upon and weak and their lives as pitiable

00:52:34.380 and full of suffering.

00:52:36.340 Well, you know, I think we were better off before.

00:52:38.360 I mean, it is healthier to project an unrealistically happy image of your life than an overly dour and

00:52:45.380 negative one.

00:52:46.560 It's healthier for the person posting the content and for everyone else consuming it.

00:52:52.460 At least that's aspirational.

00:52:54.880 At least, like, if everyone is putting stuff out that makes their life seem great, it could

00:52:59.200 have an aspirational effect, at least.

00:53:00.680 At least, the instinct to complain to the world about your life is far more toxic than

00:53:05.860 the desire to make the world envious of your life.

00:53:09.360 Neither option is particularly healthy, but the former is significantly worse, I would say.

00:53:13.440 And now the internet is full of videos like this where a woman, for some reason, has decided

00:53:17.500 to inform millions of people that she can't get a job at TJ Maxx. 0.81

00:53:21.520 That's an embarrassing piece of information that we don't need to know and shouldn't know

00:53:26.260 and wouldn't know if you didn't decide to shout it into the digital bullhorn.

00:53:32.260 Second, about the tattoos.

00:53:35.500 You know, I would like to think that I don't need to explain why it's a very bad idea to

00:53:39.160 get tattoos on your face and neck, but that self-destructive practice is becoming more and

00:53:43.180 more common, so apparently I do need to explain it.

00:53:45.280 So I'll just say this.

00:53:46.540 If you're considering going down this road, you should know something.

00:53:49.500 When the rest of us see somebody with tattoos anywhere above the collarbone, we automatically

00:53:55.820 assume that the person with those tattoos in those places has three things to go along

00:54:02.800 with all the ink.

00:54:04.340 One, daddy issues.

00:54:05.880 Two, a meth habit.

00:54:07.380 And three, at least one STD.

00:54:09.940 In fact, not only do we assume that, but those are the only things we see when we look at you.

00:54:15.360 The tattoo becomes a barrier between you and the rest of society.

00:54:19.500 We can't engage with you or have a conversation without seeing the tattoos.

00:54:23.180 The tattoos scream at us, and we feel burdened by trying to pretend we don't notice them.

00:54:29.420 If you have face tattoos and you're talking to somebody without face tattoos, the only thing

00:54:33.860 that person without the face tattoos wants to do is say to you, okay, hang on a second. 1.00

00:54:38.820 Why do you have that shit all over your face? 0.99

00:54:41.260 And usually the other person will not say that because they want to be polite, but it takes 1.00

00:54:46.040 great effort to prevent themselves from blurting it out.

00:54:50.180 And even when they're looking at you, like they want, they don't even know, it's like

00:54:52.820 usually you want to look at someone, you want to make eye contact when you're talking to

00:54:55.700 somebody, but you got all this stuff all over your face.

00:54:57.780 So we're just like, we're looking up at all the stuff.

00:54:59.500 We're like, what is that?

00:55:00.040 Why did you get that?

00:55:00.520 Why did you get that on your forehead?

00:55:03.320 What was it about that?

00:55:04.620 What does she have on her forehead? 1.00

00:55:05.380 It's like a sun or something.

00:55:07.880 You really want, is that design so amazing that you want to have it on your forehead forever?

00:55:14.640 You want it to be the first thing anyone sees when they look at you forever?

00:55:19.660 Really?

00:55:20.120 Is it that great of a design?

00:55:21.620 I've never seen a design that was that amazing.

00:55:26.260 And so, but this is the thought process that we're having while we're talking to you.

00:55:29.540 And it's quite exhausting.

00:55:32.080 And that's why by having those scribbles all over your face and neck, you have made yourself

00:55:35.240 unemployable in most industries.

00:55:37.460 You are even unemployable at TJ Maxx, where they expect you to at least keep your meth habit to

00:55:42.520 yourself.

00:55:43.760 And really, I'll say this, I'll go even further. 0.99

00:55:46.460 And I'll say that tattoos in general are a dumb idea. 0.89

00:55:49.380 And I say that elephant in the room as somebody with two tattoos myself. 0.72

00:55:53.920 And unfortunately, my tattoos are on my arms and can easily be covered.

00:55:56.460 I also don't need to cover them because there is no dress code for podcasters.

00:56:00.820 And my tattoos are Christian symbols, not just random designs.

00:56:03.260 So I don't find them embarrassing.

00:56:04.420 I'm actually quite fortunate because way back when I got mine done, back in those bad old

00:56:10.260 days, the big trend for white guys in their early 20s was the tribal armband.

00:56:16.780 Advertising not so much that you smoke meth or grew up fatherless, but rather that you

00:56:20.960 listen to Nickelback, which some would say is even more shameful.

00:56:24.400 And I was smart enough to avoid falling into that trap at least that much.

00:56:29.300 But even so, here's what I'll say.

00:56:32.020 If I never got any tattoos, I wouldn't go get them now.

00:56:35.260 I wouldn't look at myself now and say, you know what?

00:56:37.480 I really need a tattoo.

00:56:38.520 I need something permanent.

00:56:39.380 I need some design permanently on my body forever.

00:56:42.100 I wouldn't do that because nobody regrets not getting a tattoo.

00:56:45.760 That is nobody's life regret.

00:56:48.280 Lots of people regret getting them.

00:56:49.840 The best you can hope for as you grow older, if you get tattoos, I'm just telling young

00:56:55.580 people this now as someone old and grizzled at the age of 37, is that the best you can

00:57:00.400 hope for is that you'll sort of be indifferent to your tattoos as you grow older.

00:57:03.480 Perhaps not actively humiliated by them, but also not terribly excited about them.

00:57:07.620 You're not going to wake up every day, look down at your tattoo and then say, man, thank

00:57:11.060 God I have this on my body.

00:57:12.420 You might say that for like the first few weeks or even months, but think about how you'll

00:57:17.460 feel a decade later or 20 years later.

00:57:20.060 Like the charm wears off.

00:57:22.460 And the point is that nobody's life has ever been improved by having an image permanently

00:57:26.940 drawn on it.

00:57:28.460 Lots of people's lives have been hampered by it, on the other hand.

00:57:32.620 And if that does happen, you only have yourself to blame, just as our friend Ash Putnam, sadly,

00:57:38.140 can only blame herself for her predicament.

00:57:40.640 And that is why she is today, I must say, canceled.

00:57:45.080 That'll do it for the show today and this week.

00:57:47.020 Thanks for watching.

00:57:47.980 Thanks for listening.

00:57:48.560 Have a great weekend.

00:57:49.480 Talk to you on Monday.

00:57:50.820 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 26, 2024

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