The Matt Walsh Show - May 21, 2024


Ep. 1372 - Democrats Solemnly Commemorate The Sacred Birthday Of Saint Michael Brown


Episode Stats

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52 minutes

Words per Minute

185.30273

Word Count

9,672

Sentence Count

683

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

21


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.160 Today on the Matt Wall Show, yesterday the left celebrated the sacred holiday of Michael Brown's
00:00:04.540 birthday. Ten years later, they're still pushing their narrative about the Michael Brown case,
00:00:08.160 regardless of how thoroughly it has been proven false. Plus a major scandal surrounding Justice
00:00:12.360 Samuel Alito. I've read about the scandal. I'm still not sure exactly what it's supposed to be.
00:00:16.380 We'll try to get to the bottom of it. CNN invites a random rapper on air to talk about the Sean
00:00:20.360 Combs case. Hilarity ensues. And my feud with the nation of Australia has now reached a boiling point.
00:00:25.620 Is war on the horizon? All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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00:02:03.380 LGBT activists insist on having about 500 days on the calendar to celebrate themselves from
00:02:08.880 International Pronouns Day to Pride Month to the Transgender Day of Remembrance to my personal favorite
00:02:13.960 Gay Uncles Day. There's clearly something pathological about all of this, but it's also
00:02:18.720 strategic at the same time. Leftists understand that to win, they have to completely flood the zone
00:02:23.920 with their propaganda. They don't want anyone to have any kind of reprieve from it, even for a single
00:02:30.380 day. Because if you get a single day reprieve, then you might start thinking clearly and they don't
00:02:33.600 want that. Unfortunately, as mind-numbing as this tactic is, it's also effective, which is why it was
00:02:39.980 never going to stop with the gender cult. And indeed, predictably, now the BLM movement is getting
00:02:45.180 in on the action. They're demanding that the death of Michael Brown, the criminal who attacked a store
00:02:50.000 clerk, then charged at a police officer, punched him and tried to take his gun, be memorialized on
00:02:55.260 multiple days every single year. This was the martyr at the center of the Hands Up Don't Shoot hoax
00:03:02.380 who kick-started the rise of the BLM, of course. And they wanted to have multiple days every year where
00:03:07.920 he's being celebrated. It was less than a year ago, back in August, that I discussed all the different
00:03:11.940 memorials for Michael Brown. Everybody from the city of St. Louis to the Biden administration
00:03:16.480 decided to eulogize Brown on August 9th, which was the ninth anniversary of his death. That's the
00:03:23.120 big Michael Brown day, during which we're all supposed to pretend that Michael Brown was a useful,
00:03:28.280 contributing, productive member of society. We're also supposed to pretend that a white supremacist
00:03:33.920 police officer shot him in broad daylight, in cold blood, etc. But as of yesterday, August 9th is
00:03:41.320 no longer the only Michael Brown day on the calendar. This week, we saw a renewed effort to mark the
00:03:47.360 occasion of Michael Brown's birthday, which apparently falls on May 20th. The NAACP, for example, tweeted,
00:03:53.720 Michael Brown should be celebrating his 28th birthday today. We will continue to say his name and
00:03:57.840 fight for justice and accountability, sending love to his family and friends. NAACP President
00:04:04.340 Derek Johnson posted a similar message, quote, black people deserve to grow old, he wrote. Now,
00:04:10.980 these messages, as detached from reality as they are, were echoed all over social media yesterday.
00:04:16.500 Vina DuBall, a professor of law at UC Irvin, wrote, rest in power, Michael Brown. Then the little
00:04:24.140 heart symbol thing. This is someone who allegedly teaches the law, celebrating someone who brutally
00:04:30.300 attacked a law enforcement officer. And for its part, the nonprofit called Robert F. Kennedy Human
00:04:35.320 Rights, led by Kerry Kennedy, tweeted, Michael Brown should be celebrating his 28th birthday.
00:04:41.280 Today, we honor his life and legacy. As for what that life and legacy entailed, that part was left
00:04:49.000 unstated for obvious reason. But Congresswoman and BLM activist Cori Bush was a little more
00:04:55.020 forthcoming. She uploaded this video to honor Michael Brown. Watch.
00:05:00.300 Michael Brown should have turned 28 years old. The last birthday he celebrated and will ever get to
00:05:06.720 celebrate was his 18th. Just 81 days after his 18th birthday, a Ferguson police officer killed him.
00:05:15.360 In a just world, Mike Brown would be with his loved ones right now, celebrating another year,
00:05:23.220 dreaming of his future as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But instead,
00:05:29.420 we are only left with the memories of who he was. Michael Brown's life was taken. It was taken from his mom,
00:05:37.840 his dad, his friends, his siblings, his classmates, and from every person who knew and loved him.
00:05:44.480 They were all left to live through the trauma police violence leaves in its wake.
00:05:50.220 Sort of a side note here, but you notice with these BLM martyrs, of course, as we all know,
00:05:55.520 they always use the graduation photo, which we've talked about this before. That is not normal.
00:06:01.240 They don't do that with anybody else. Anyone else who makes the news, you don't see their
00:06:06.940 graduation photo. Why would you? But we know why they do that with the BLM martyrs. But sort of the
00:06:12.640 funny thing here is that, and this is what they do with Michael Brown, but even in his graduation
00:06:16.880 photo, he looks somewhat menacing. I mean, he looks like he wants to beat you up in the graduation
00:06:22.200 photo, which is kind of funny. Some people would think it's funny. Anyway, we're only left with
00:06:28.080 the memories of who he was, says Cori Bush. And it's supposed to be a sad line, I guess, even though
00:06:33.580 all it does is remind us of the fact that Michael Brown roughed up a store clerk on camera
00:06:37.880 and then attacked a cop. And for several years now, Cori Bush has simply ignored those inconvenient
00:06:43.580 details. She's been trying to make Brown's birthday into a national day of mourning since before she
00:06:48.680 was elected to Congress. In fact, Michael Brown is one of the main reasons that she's in Congress,
00:06:51.840 as she'll readily admit. But this week's effort to promote a new Michael Brown day was especially
00:06:56.920 embarrassing for a few reasons. For one thing, it's hard not to notice how carefully worded Cori
00:07:01.760 Bush's statement is. She knows she has to steer clear of saying that Darren Wilson, the police officer
00:07:06.500 who shot Michael Brown, actually did anything wrong. Even Barack Obama's DOJ cleared Wilson. So in all
00:07:12.140 likelihood, she'd get sued if she tried to defame him in that way. So as a result, Cori Bush and her
00:07:18.100 team of lawyers, we can assume, decided on the term police violence instead of murder. And they
00:07:24.000 probably figured that the term police violence gives them the wiggle room they need to insinuate
00:07:28.900 that Darren Wilson is a murderer without coming out and saying that directly. After all, the act of
00:07:34.000 self-defense can definitely qualify as violent, even though it's completely justified. And he was a
00:07:39.720 police officer, so police violence. That's the level of word games and manipulation that we're
00:07:45.940 seeing from BLM activists in Congress right now. They're choosing their words very carefully to
00:07:50.540 elicit the reaction they want. But somehow that wording about police violence was not in the end
00:07:55.840 the most deceptive portion of Cori Bush's video. Let's listen on and get to that. Here it is.
00:08:01.680 Police killings of unarmed black people are responsible for more than 50 million additional
00:08:07.900 days of poor mental health days per year. It's devastating our communities and it must be
00:08:14.300 addressed. That's why in Mike Brown's honor, alongside Mike's mother, Leslie McSpadden,
00:08:20.360 I am reintroducing the Helping Families Heal Act, also known as the Mike Brown Bill.
00:08:26.400 Now, this is one of those statistics that when you hear it, you immediately know it's fake. If
00:08:31.840 you have a brain in your head anyway, you don't need to use Google. You could just recognize it
00:08:36.300 intuitively. She says that police killings of unarmed black people are directly responsible
00:08:40.680 for, quote, 50 million additional days of poor mental health days per year. But she doesn't define
00:08:49.820 poor mental health days or explain how she's concluding that police shootings are causing these
00:08:55.280 poor mental health days or explain how we distinguish regular poor mental health days
00:09:01.360 from the additional ones, like additional compared to what? And that's because the whole
00:09:08.600 point of statistics like this is to shock you with big numbers so that you don't stop to think
00:09:12.540 about what they're saying, which, you know, it turns out that what they're saying makes absolutely
00:09:15.780 no sense whatsoever. If you look into them, even for a second, you'll realize they're completely
00:09:20.120 made up. This particular statistic has been cited all over the place, including Howard University
00:09:24.980 Law School. And as best I can tell, it originates from a 2018 article in The Lancet entitled
00:09:29.240 Police Killings and Their Spillover Effects on the Mental Health of Black Americans,
00:09:33.560 a Population-Based Quasi-Experimental Study. Now, right away, that title is something of a red flag.
00:09:40.920 We're talking about a quasi-experimental study, which doesn't seem nearly as definitive as Cori
00:09:47.760 Bush made it sound. Like, generally, you don't want the word quasi in the title of a study at all.
00:09:55.220 And indeed, if you read on, you'll find that, as you continue to read, that the researchers who
00:10:00.600 apparently took money from a foundation specializing in health equity aren't certain of their findings
00:10:05.940 at all. Quoting from the summary of The Lancet article, police kill more than 300 black Americans,
00:10:11.020 at least a quarter of them unarmed, each year in the USA. These events might have spillover effects
00:10:16.140 on the mental health of people not directly affected. So I'll read that again. These events
00:10:21.120 might have spillover effects on the mental health of people not directly affected.
00:10:27.160 So that's quite a hedge. And if you look at the methodology, you'll understand exactly why
00:10:30.620 they're hedging. Apparently, the researchers just looked at two existing data sources. First,
00:10:34.940 they analyzed the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, which is just a telephone
00:10:38.740 survey system that asks people if they're feeling okay. And then the researchers looked at the dates
00:10:43.640 of police shootings of unarmed black people without regard to whether those black people like Michael
00:10:48.140 Brown were attacking police officers when they died. Okay, so they don't even factor in whether
00:10:53.620 the police shooting was justified or not. And then the researchers checked to see how many people
00:10:58.120 reported feeling sad within three months of a police shooting of an unarmed black person.
00:11:05.900 They say they noticed a correlation where only black people seemed upset in the one to two months
00:11:12.120 after these shootings while white people didn't care. Okay, so just to review, they're looking at a
00:11:18.660 police shooting and then looking at a separate survey to find out how many black people were sad
00:11:23.660 within several weeks of that shooting and coming up with this statistic. I mean, this is a methodology
00:11:29.220 so absurd and arbitrary that, I mean, if a fourth grader used it for a science fair project,
00:11:35.940 he should get a failing grade and be expelled from school. The second part might be a little
00:11:42.040 overkill, but certainly a failing grade. Now, it's not even worth going into detail about
00:11:46.660 correlation and causation because everyone understands that this data is garbage. For one
00:11:50.560 thing, you'd expect white liberals to be quite shaken up by the death of an unarmed black person
00:11:54.540 also, but that doesn't show up in the data at all. But more importantly, there's about a million
00:11:58.600 other explanations for why these respondents might be unhappy, including like all the things that are
00:12:04.260 happening in their own lives that have not been factored in at all. Like you could have a black
00:12:10.180 person who was just diagnosed with cancer a week before he took the survey. And this study is linking
00:12:18.280 his sadness more to Michael Brown dying than to the fact that he has cancer. And even these researchers
00:12:26.020 concede that point, which is why they hedge their findings in the summary. So this paper only serves
00:12:30.960 one purpose, which is to give Democrats like Cori Bush a talking point and a bogus justification to
00:12:36.160 waste more taxpayer money. And in this case, she's asking for $50 million to redistribute in the
00:12:41.020 service of mental health equity, which inevitably will mean allocating resources along racial lines,
00:12:46.260 of course. But Cori Bush and activists like her aren't the only ones benefiting from these lies.
00:12:50.440 Outfits like BET, which claimed to be, quote, where black culture lives, are also promoting the
00:12:56.780 narrative. BET put out its own video for Michael Brown's birthday, describing him as courageous
00:13:01.320 and saying that, quote, quote, black boys should be able to grow up, to grow into black men in peace,
00:13:09.300 regardless of whether they attack other people, apparently. Watch.
00:13:13.720 You go from here, you gotta change the strategy. You see what I'm saying? If you want a different result,
00:13:18.580 you gotta change the way you approach that problem. At the root of this situation, a lot of our support
00:13:24.700 should have been directed and only directed to the Brown family and support because at the end of
00:13:30.840 the day, they lost a son. Yeah, how we were able to organize and come together, we're able to take
00:13:36.700 our voices and put them online and somebody in China can hear what we're saying. And I think it's big now
00:13:42.900 opposed to 20, 30 years ago when if something happened in your town, you could cover it up. But now we can
00:13:49.100 take pictures. We're the paparazzi. We can put it out there when there's injustice being done.
00:13:53.240 I asked him, you know, what type of person was he before all this?
00:13:59.380 He was my baby. Firstborn.
00:14:05.660 Courageous. Outgoing. He just loved people, loved animals.
00:14:10.820 Self-spoken.
00:14:14.060 He just made people draw to him and want to be around him.
00:14:18.460 Yeah, he says that we need, that more money should have been sent to the Brown family.
00:14:24.340 We need to give them more money. We know that's how it goes with the BLM martyrs families. We just
00:14:28.220 have to give them money and money. When in fact, if anything, it should be the opposite. Like the
00:14:34.740 accountability to the family. That's what we should be requiring of them.
00:14:38.080 We should be going to the family and saying, why did you raise a son who acts this way? Like you
00:14:43.440 raised a son who went in and randomly robbed a convenience store for no reason. He wasn't
00:14:49.520 stealing bread because he was hungry. Okay. He just went in just for fun. And then a police officer
00:14:54.520 tries to stop him because he broke the law and he attacks the police officer. How did you raise
00:14:58.040 a young man like that? You have failed as a mother spectacularly. You remember those, the, uh, the,
00:15:05.160 the, the two parents, white parents, of course, who, uh, were just sent to prison because they raised
00:15:13.780 a son who turned into a school shooter. So when it's a white family, in that case, we, we send the
00:15:21.340 parents to prison because we blame them for how the kid turned out. And when it comes to the BLM
00:15:27.660 martyrs, uh, it's the other way around. You, you raised someone who turned into a violent criminal
00:15:34.260 and rather than any sort of accountability, we actually give you money for it as like a prize.
00:15:42.220 Now, as with the Cori Bush video, you'll notice that they don't want to talk about how Michael
00:15:45.840 Brown actually died. It's all about how activists organized and spread their message online. It's about
00:15:50.640 what type of person Michael Brown was, according to his mother. Now, all these activists and
00:15:54.620 organizations from the UC Irvine law professor to Cori Bush to BET understand exactly why Michael
00:16:00.360 Brown died. They know he didn't die in service of any higher purpose. He wasn't a martyr or even a
00:16:04.800 foot soldier. He was a violent criminal who somehow made a living, who made living in Ferguson for
00:16:09.220 everybody else, even more dangerous and miserable than it already was. But all these activists also
00:16:14.900 understand that the Michael Brown hoax gave rise to the BLM era. That's a mythology they can
00:16:20.620 not revise or reject at this point, nor would they want to revise or reject it because it's
00:16:24.640 given them so much power and influence and money. And therefore the perpetrators of the hoax are
00:16:29.860 sticking to the script no matter what. They're simply ignoring all evidence that clearly contradicts
00:16:34.580 their claims. This is what you have to do if you desperately want to build a movement around a
00:16:39.340 false narrative. You can never admit that the narrative was false. You just have to keep repeating the
00:16:43.500 lie over and over again at every opportunity. They won't stop celebrating Michael Brown until we're
00:16:51.020 celebrating him all 365 days of the year. And they're betting that eventually the history books
00:16:56.060 will reflect their manufactured version of what happened in Ferguson. That's clearly their goal.
00:17:01.780 And unless conservatives start telling the truth about that day, until they start defending Darren
00:17:06.120 Wilson anywhere near as much as the left worships Michael Brown, then eventually, through sheer
00:17:13.020 repetition, activists like Cori Bush will get exactly what they want. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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00:18:15.300 Let's start with a major scandal, supposedly a major scandal anyway. CNBC reports,
00:18:20.760 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sold shares of beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev as conservatives were
00:18:27.860 ditching the Bud Light brew over its partnership with a transgender social media influencer. On the
00:18:32.600 same day that Alito sold Anheuser-Busch, he then bought the same amount of stock in Molson Coors,
00:18:37.300 a company with a history of facing political boycotts of its own. The filing shows. The
00:18:41.080 transactions have bred fresh accusations that Alito, one of the high court's six conservatives,
00:18:46.140 is engaging in or aligning with partisan politics, despite a recently adopted code of conduct
00:18:50.340 that directs the justices to refrain from political activity. And then it goes on,
00:18:54.940 you can keep reading the article and you'll read several paragraphs or read the whole thing
00:18:58.420 and you'll never make it to the part where they tell you what the scandal is exactly.
00:19:03.700 I guess this is the scandal. He sold Bud Light stock when Bud Light embarrassed itself and sustained
00:19:08.580 massive brand damage by promoting gender ideology. And this tells us, supposedly, according to CNBC and
00:19:17.700 many other media outlets that have reported this, in big blaring headlines, Samuel Alito sold Anheuser-Busch
00:19:25.020 stock. It's supposed to call into question his impartiality. But what does that mean exactly?
00:19:31.700 I'm not even trying to be funny here. I genuinely don't understand what the scandal is even supposed
00:19:38.420 to be. This is where we are now when the media tries to manufacture scandals about people on the right.
00:19:44.520 You know, it used to be that they make up a scandal, but at least you understand, they're lying,
00:19:51.380 but at least you understand what the scandal is supposed to be. And they still do that.
00:19:55.440 But sometimes now it's like, I don't, what? Okay. What are you even trying to imply here? I don't get it.
00:20:03.980 So as an investor, he's, what? He's supposed to be impartial to the value and the financial health
00:20:11.480 of the companies he's investing in? Is that the kind of impartiality you think he's required to
00:20:17.120 maintain? Maybe next they'll have a breaking news report about how, you know, Alito's impartiality
00:20:25.980 was questioned because he went to a steakhouse and got a New York strip medium rare. And, you know,
00:20:32.140 he should be impartial to how the steak is cooked. He shouldn't care when they say, how do you want
00:20:36.860 to cook? You should say, I have no opinion. I'm impartial. I don't, I have no opinions whatsoever
00:20:41.340 about that. Just that. In fact, I don't even know if I want a steak. Give me anything. Just give me
00:20:45.120 food. In fact, I don't even know if I want food. Just give me a plate or any, do anything you want at
00:20:49.620 all. I have no opinions of any kind about anything. Maybe that's what they, maybe that's
00:20:54.980 what they want, you know, because, you know, there is partiality there. I mean, I bet that Samuel Alito,
00:21:02.500 he even has, he even has multiple outfits in his closet and he, and he goes into his closet and quite
00:21:09.840 partially chooses one particular outfit to wear every day. I bet that's the case. And that's,
00:21:16.840 that's a scandal because he should walk into his closet blindfolded and randomly pull anything off
00:21:21.880 the hanger and put it on. I mean, that's the level of impartiality that we should demand of
00:21:26.280 our Supreme court justices. In fact, when he, when he drives down the street, he should not be partial
00:21:32.080 about where he's going or what his destination is, or if he's on the road or the sidewalk,
00:21:36.760 he should just randomly drive and then stop at some point and turn around and come home or not home.
00:21:43.040 I mean, not to his home, to anyone's home because he's not partial about where he goes or where his
00:21:48.280 home is. It just shows you how desperate the media is to find a scandal for the conservatives on the
00:21:54.340 Supreme court. We know they've been doing this to Clarence Thomas for decades. And every time they
00:21:58.660 have a new, you'll never guess, you'll never believe what they did this time. And then you
00:22:02.700 listen to the story, you're like, okay, is that really the best you got? I'm continue to be
00:22:09.460 incredibly impressed by how ethical these conservative Supreme court justices really are.
00:22:18.960 I mean, they're, they're, they're way beyond. I mean, you would, you would expect just because
00:22:23.820 they're people to have like a little bit, a little smidgen of, of, of, you know, ethical problems
00:22:30.580 here and there. Like no one's perfect, but apparently, uh, these people are, I don't know.
00:22:37.940 That's, that's what I'm getting. Cause like, you're looking, you're, you're trying to find
00:22:40.920 any scandal you can find on these people, but you're, you're obviously not cutting them any slack.
00:22:49.060 You're digging, you're digging. And we know that, that every major media outlets
00:22:53.900 has people working on this round the clock, find scandals on these people.
00:23:00.500 And this is the best they can do. It's amazing.
00:23:05.820 Um, and Alito has been the target actually over the past couple of weeks, they've kind of,
00:23:11.160 well, they haven't moved on from Clarence Thomas, but they've briefly taken a break from smearing
00:23:14.940 Clarence Thomas 24 seven, and they've moved over to, to Alito. And, uh, it, it started several days
00:23:21.560 ago when the media freaked out over reports that, um, Alito's Alito's house allegedly briefly had an
00:23:29.060 upside down flag hanging outside of it. And this again, major news, major breaking news,
00:23:36.460 headline news that the justice Alito had an upside down flag. And we're told that the upside down
00:23:41.360 flag is a symbol of election denialism. The upside down flag means that Alito denies the 2020 election.
00:23:48.220 They tell us because this is what the media does. They just invent symbolism out of thin air.
00:23:54.480 They say, Oh, you know, this, uh, this random thing or gesture will tell you what it really means.
00:24:01.360 And meanwhile, none of us have ever heard that before. Like all of us hear that. And we say,
00:24:05.460 what, since when does it mean that, what are you talking about? Upside down flag means that you
00:24:09.760 deny the, what, where are you getting this? I, I, I am a conservative. I'm on the right. And I've,
00:24:16.240 I, that's, that's just not a thing. I don't know what you're talking about.
00:24:21.140 Uh, it's QAnon level absurdity from the media constantly. Now, of course the upside down flag
00:24:27.040 has been a universal sign of distress for centuries. Um, and that's what it generally
00:24:32.540 means when someone hangs it upside down. It's like a symbolic sign of some kind of distress
00:24:38.140 could mean anything. Like, what is it? Who knows? We don't know. Uh, what did it indicate
00:24:47.040 that the Alito household? I'd have no idea. Apparently, according to Alito, I think it had
00:24:52.620 something to do with a dispute with the neighbor or something. And the wife hung it upside down as
00:24:56.800 some guy who, it doesn't matter. It's a not like, what does that have to do with anything? What does
00:25:00.680 that have to do with his ability to adjudicate these cases? Of course it has nothing to do with it
00:25:06.220 whatsoever. But, um, again, this is how, this is how desperate they are, that they're, they're now
00:25:12.660 like checking the sort of, uh, the decorations outside of his home. Maybe next they'll tell us
00:25:19.420 that, uh, uh, uh, Samuel Alito had a, one of those, um, garden gnomes and it was, it was, it was lying
00:25:27.700 on its back. He had a, he had a, he had a tipped over garden gnome in his garden. What does that mean?
00:25:36.220 Well, that could mean anything. That's, that's, that's his symbol that he's planning a coup.
00:25:42.780 He's planning an insurrection. That's a, the tipped over garden gnome. That's a, that's a,
00:25:50.700 it's a symbol among all the insurrectionists. There's all, there's a plot of insurrectionists
00:25:54.440 in the country and they all have garden gnomes. They tip it over and that's, no, no, no. I'll tell
00:25:58.080 you what it is. Uh, it, it, it means that he's signaling to the other people, the, the, in the
00:26:03.600 underground, uh, insurrectionists that the meeting is at his, his house tonight. So he
00:26:08.080 tipped over the garden gnome and they all know that it's at his house. The meeting is to plan
00:26:12.020 the insurrection, uh, seven o'clock. Bring your own, uh, BYOB. Okay. Um, so this is fun. Here's
00:26:20.800 CNN embarrassing itself as usual. Uh, last night they brought the rapper Cameron on air to talk
00:26:26.020 about the, uh, Sean Combs situation, the video of him brutally assaulting his girlfriend.
00:26:29.480 And they brought on this guy who's a rapper. Uh, why, why him? Is it just because he's a rapper?
00:26:38.520 Like Sean Combs is a rapper sort of, I don't even, does he still rap? I don't know. Uh,
00:26:44.060 he's a rapper. So, oh, he brought on this other rapper to talk about this rapper beating up his
00:26:48.060 girlfriend. Uh, you would think that if they're bringing on Cameron, that he must have some sort
00:26:52.060 of involvement, some sort of link to this, that he could provide some insight. Um, it turns out not.
00:26:58.000 In fact, uh, he, he had less than nothing to say and hilarity ensued. Let's watch.
00:27:05.620 First, when you saw that video of Diddy Cassie, uh, in that hotel, did you recognize that Sean
00:27:16.780 Combs from your experiences?
00:27:18.560 I don't know like that. What do you mean? Do I be recognized? Did I recognize him? I seen him.
00:27:22.400 What do you mean my experiences? I seen him and I thought, I thought it was disgusting.
00:27:26.320 I didn't do a zoom in to see if it was really him or nothing, but he admitted it was him. So,
00:27:31.820 yeah, it was him.
00:27:33.540 What did you think about the apology that he gave in that other video?
00:27:39.020 Amy, for this, the apology ain't for me to decide for Cassie. What I, what I think about it don't
00:27:43.940 matter. He ain't do nothing to me. Cassie need to, need to ask Cassie if she accept the apology.
00:27:49.480 Can you tell us a little bit more about that? I mean, is there, um, is there something known in the
00:27:55.920 industry about how Diddy treated his artists?
00:28:04.920 Sorry, I'm going to get some cheeks after this horsepower joint. Um, I'm just going off what Mace
00:28:11.980 said. Mace took me to biggie. I don't really know puffers like Mace, no puff. So I appreciate what
00:28:18.480 Mace said. And of course, uh, that's my brother. So if he felt that way, then he felt that way. I
00:28:22.820 can't really tell you how puff moves or anything like that. Mace may know better than me because
00:28:27.120 he was signed to puff. I wasn't, but my show does come on at 8 AM Eastern on YouTube. It's called,
00:28:33.100 it is what it is. You know, make sure y'all check it out. Who the talent agent for this joint? Like
00:28:37.420 think I'll be sitting around watching what Diddy do and all this. I didn't know this was a Diddy
00:28:41.160 joint. They're inviting me to, yo, who, yo, who booked me for this joint? All right.
00:28:46.080 Violin. I don't be sitting around watching Diddy and all that. Yeah. Thanks for joining us. Thank
00:28:51.080 you for your time. Uh, very informative interview. I mean, it is the most interesting interview that CNN
00:28:56.680 has done, uh, maybe ever. And, you know, he, he, he says in there that he'll be getting some cheeks
00:29:03.220 after this. I don't know what that means exactly. I don't, um, I can only, I can only assume that he
00:29:09.420 means that he's going to a restaurant and getting some, uh, some beef cheeks, a beef cheeks meal,
00:29:14.280 maybe a beef cheeks served in a delicious red wine sauce. Uh, maybe he's going to a Mexican place
00:29:19.900 and getting some barbacoa and barbacoa I think is made of beef cheeks or a cow's head or something or
00:29:25.360 other. Uh, that's how they make most Mexican stuff with the heads of various animals. I think
00:29:30.260 anyway, uh, stellar job by CNN. As always, you booked a guy to discuss a news item, even though
00:29:36.880 he is no interest in discussing that and apparently has no insight of any kind to offer on the subject.
00:29:44.120 And not only that, but he showed up to the interview in a bucket hat and sunglasses. And
00:29:48.740 rather than canceling it, canceling the interview, as you should have, you went through with it and put
00:29:53.440 them live on the air. Just a note. Okay. A note to, and this doesn't come up very often, but
00:29:57.220 a note to cable news producers, uh, nobody has ever given a productive interview in a bucket hat.
00:30:05.160 I mean, that's a universal sign. If someone comes to the interview in a bucket hat, universal sign
00:30:09.680 where the person is saying, I am here to mess up this hit and embarrass you live on television.
00:30:16.060 Like they might as well have that written on a, on a t-shirt because that's what they're saying.
00:30:19.360 In fact, nobody's ever done anything productive in any context in a, in a bucket hat. Nothing of
00:30:27.280 value has ever been achieved by anyone ever when they're wearing a hat like that. It's never
00:30:32.980 happened one time. I'm telling you, but this is the problem with cable news. You know, you have to
00:30:40.640 fill 24 hours of a day with, with content related to the news, even though there just isn't enough
00:30:46.480 news. There isn't enough relevant news. I'm sorry. The world is not that exciting. I mean,
00:30:53.120 there are interesting things happening, but the world's not so exciting that there's 24 hours worth
00:30:58.760 of stuff to talk about every single day, you know? And, and, um, and, and even if there is like an
00:31:05.940 interesting news, there's only so many things to say about it. And when it comes to this story of,
00:31:10.060 of, uh, of Sean Combs, it's like, yeah, he's a terrible guy. He beat up his girlfriend. He should
00:31:16.040 be in prison. He's probably done a lot of other terrible stuff. What else is there to say about it?
00:31:20.520 I mean, he's, he's bad. He's a bad guy. So did you need Cameron to come on and tell you that?
00:31:26.960 Um, so what you end up doing if you're on cable news is you just bring on anyone to fill the airtime.
00:31:33.240 I mean, I'm not saying anything you don't know, but this is the way it works. Uh, you, you just,
00:31:37.000 you'd have to fill the airtime. That's it. You have to fill the airtime. It doesn't matter with
00:31:40.000 who. And I can remember this back from when I used to do cable news hits frequently. And I would get
00:31:45.500 asked sometimes to come on air and discuss some subject that I don't care about at all and have
00:31:51.100 no insight into, and I've never even talked about publicly. And I'm asked to talk about it. And so I
00:31:57.640 would sometimes turn down interview requests on that basis. Uh, cause every once in a while you have
00:32:03.240 a producer that, you know, reaches out and says, Hey, uh, can you come on for the C block tonight?
00:32:09.020 And you say, okay, what's the topic? And they say, Oh, um, the stock market took a big hit today.
00:32:15.400 Uh, you, you, you want to, you want to get your take on that, but you want my take on it? Why do you
00:32:21.060 want my take on that? Here's my take. It's bad. It's bad. I wish it hadn't happened, uh, with the
00:32:27.040 stock market. That's it sucks. Really sucks. Okay. That's what, that's my take. And, um, now I will
00:32:34.480 admit that early in my career, I didn't feel like I could turn down those kinds of opportunities.
00:32:40.720 So I would end up on air chiming in on some topic that's way outside of my wheelhouse.
00:32:47.040 So, you know, you'd have the host come on and say, uh, tensions are rising in Syria tonight.
00:32:52.240 Here to weigh in is this random guy with a blog who's never said anything about this and
00:32:57.920 has no information to give us. What do you have to say, Matt? Well, I think, I think tensions
00:33:04.620 are bad. I wish that there weren't tensions, but there are, and I'm anti tensions. I'd prefer
00:33:10.540 if there were no tensions, frankly. All right. Uh, speaking of tensions, New York post has this
00:33:16.920 headline. Half of Americans think climate change will destroy the planets in their lifetime.
00:33:22.920 So this is half of Americans, uh, allegedly destroyed. So destroy the planet. And this is,
00:33:29.800 you know, they think the apocalypse is going to happen. Here's the article. Half of Americans
00:33:32.640 believe climate change will devastate the earth during their lifetime. According to the research,
00:33:35.200 the survey of 5,000 Americans split evenly by state revealed that 48% of all respondents believe
00:33:40.480 they'll live to see climate change, destroy the planet. Respondents in Hawaii were the most likely to
00:33:45.400 agree with Vermont and New Mexico rounding out the top three states, most concerned about the effects
00:33:49.700 of climate change in their lifetime. Washington, Minnesota were fourth and fifth respectively.
00:33:54.580 Um, and it's just giving us a bunch of states and how concerned they are. I don't know who cares
00:33:58.860 about that. Where's Tennessee on this list? No, I just have to know cause I live here. Okay. Well,
00:34:04.460 so Tennessee, we're 44, we have the 44th least, uh, concerned about climate change, but we still
00:34:11.140 come in at 41%. Indiana is the least concerned of all. Um, now needless to say, all polls, polls are
00:34:20.980 at least somewhat fake. Every single poll that's ever been done is at least somewhat fake. Um, many of
00:34:26.540 them are entirely fake and this one may be towards the latter end of that spectrum. But then again,
00:34:33.600 there obviously has been a relentless propaganda campaign to convince Americans starting basically
00:34:38.060 from birth that we're on the verge of a planetary climate change apocalypse. So it makes sense that
00:34:42.580 half of the people subjected to that propaganda, if not more would be gullible enough to fall for it.
00:34:47.540 So maybe the poll results are accurate. Like, you know, maybe, maybe half of Americans really do
00:34:51.940 think that the planet will soon be actually destroyed. And by destroyed it, we could only,
00:35:00.140 what does destroyed mean? It must mean that it's like an unlivable hellscape. Otherwise it's not
00:35:04.460 destroyed. So let's assume that for a moment. Okay. Let's assume for a moment that 50% is the right
00:35:10.740 figure. The weirdest thing here, aside from the fact that it's false, okay, the planet is not going to
00:35:17.180 be destroyed. We're fine. Okay. We're fine. I mean, we're not fine. We're not fine. None of us are
00:35:22.920 fine. And we are going to all die sooner rather than later, but not from climate change. Okay.
00:35:27.340 Climate change will not be the thing that kills you. Something will kill you. Something will kill
00:35:32.040 you. And when it kills you, it will be scary and probably painful and miserable. And, and, you know,
00:35:37.760 you'll be lucky if you die quickly. Most people don't for most people, it's drawn out and you die
00:35:42.040 slowly. And it's just an absolute horror and unimaginable horror awaits you for sure.
00:35:49.620 But my only point is it won't be climate change. So cheer up a little bit. And, but that's not the
00:35:53.960 weird part. The weird part is that again, assuming the poll results reflect generally the views of the
00:35:59.780 American public. The weird part is that this fear of Armageddon is not at all reflected in how people
00:36:07.440 actually act in real life. And I don't just mean that they still drive their cars and they still
00:36:12.140 go on airplanes and they burn electricity, like it's going out of style. And, uh, I don't just mean
00:36:16.400 that, you know, they're refusing to make any personal sacrifices at all in their own lives to avert this
00:36:22.580 catastrophe that they claim is, uh, looming. Um, although obviously that is true. I mean,
00:36:29.200 on an emotional level, nobody acts like they really think the world is coming to an end because
00:36:37.080 people are still going about their lives. They're scrolling social media. They're watching TV.
00:36:41.160 They're wasting a lot of time. They're worrying about the most petty bull crap imaginable.
00:36:45.960 They're getting caught up in the most insignificant controversies and outrages and everything else.
00:36:52.580 And you'd, you'd almost hope that there could be some positive that comes from so many people
00:36:58.280 being fooled into believing in this apocalyptic prophecy. You'd hope that there'd be some positive.
00:37:04.100 You'd hope that at least, at least it makes people a little bit more serious minded, gives them a
00:37:09.140 seriousness of purpose, helps them to focus on what actually matters in life. But it's not having that
00:37:15.020 effect at all, at all. Like, how is it that everyone thinks we're about to die and, and they're, and,
00:37:22.160 but we've become more superficial and pettier as a, as a, in response to that. It doesn't make any
00:37:28.060 sense to me. So we get all the negatives of people thinking they're about to die. We get the fear and
00:37:33.280 paranoia and, uh, in that. Um, but we get none of the positives that should come with that.
00:37:42.780 I mean, I'm almost at the point where, uh, I don't even want to convince people that the world
00:37:49.280 isn't ending. It's pointless anyway. So what I want to say is sure. Yeah, it's ending. Uh, yeah,
00:37:57.340 the world's ending. I mean, sure. Okay, fine, fine. The world's coming to an end. Okay. Have it your
00:38:02.660 way. The world's coming to an end. So, so put the phone down, go outside, go live your life,
00:38:07.060 go do something meaningful, right? Love your family. Love the people closest to you. Do,
00:38:14.220 do something that matters. You have so little time, make use of it. The world's coming to an end.
00:38:19.660 I don't know if that would be a more effective, uh, response, but I do wonder. Okay. My, my feud with
00:38:28.060 the, well, yeah, we have to cover this. My feud with the nation of Australia, uh, continues to escalate.
00:38:33.200 Um, and we're now at the precipice of an all out war. Uh, I, I, you know, we're, we're, we're getting
00:38:42.800 very close to that and it's not what I wanted, but I guess I did say that I wanted that, but even so
00:38:48.940 here's where we are. So here's the headline from the daily mail in response to the, to the segment I
00:38:53.040 did yesterday. Um, American launches another extraordinary attack on Australia. U S right
00:39:01.160 winger slams Aussies for being woke now suggests the country should be quote invaded. I did. I did
00:39:09.680 suggest that, uh, I didn't suggest it. I called for it. I'm actively calling for it. And listen,
00:39:16.600 I'm not even going to read this article. I've had enough of this. Um, all I'm going to say is this
00:39:24.360 to Australia, watch your mouth. I'm tired of your attitude. Frankly, I'm tired of the backtalk.
00:39:33.560 I've told you what your problems are and I'm not going to take any more, any more mouth,
00:39:38.120 any more lip from you. Okay. I've tried to be, I've tried to be a diplomatic. I've offered a way
00:39:46.400 to calm these tensions by invading your country and subjugating your citizens. That was my solution.
00:39:53.240 At least I'm coming up with solutions. You have no solutions. I offered that. And you apparently
00:39:59.520 don't want my peace offering. I don't know, but you need to back off because, um, don't make me come
00:40:07.160 down there. Don't make me come down there. Don't make me come down there and assume your genders.
00:40:14.740 I will do it. I swear to you, I will do it. I will walk around that country, assuming everyone's gender.
00:40:21.340 You don't want that. All right. It's your final warning, Australia.
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00:42:01.100 A viral video this week shows an altercation on a Frontier Airlines plane between a passenger
00:42:06.420 and a flight attendant. According to the person who posted the video to TikTok, the woman who was
00:42:10.580 seated in an exit row refused to agree to comply with the requirements for sitting in an exit row.
00:42:15.680 Reportedly, she said she didn't want to help save anyone in the case of emergency. This led to a
00:42:19.780 long argument with the flight attendant, which ended with the passenger getting arrested and the
00:42:24.520 entire plane forced to de-board. Watch.
00:42:26.860 We already agree. Yeah, she's talking to me. What is the problem? Because she don't want to tell us her name.
00:42:35.860 Okay, well, if you want to tell me if my music does, I can do it. See, I said, you're a problem. A problem? What's the problem? We ain't got no problem with that. We understand we got to help people get off the plane and help Betty White if there's something
00:42:57.860 at you. What's the problem? What's the problem? We agree. We're wasting your breath. They don't take this plane off the ground.
00:43:04.860 That's my damn face. Did you ask her to agree? You ain't doing your job. I know nonsense going on. You gotta get out of my face is what you need to do. Betty.
00:43:11.860 No, no, no. You gotta get out of my face is what you need to do. Betty.
00:43:18.860 No. No, no. You're not going to get out of my face is what you need to do. Betty.
00:43:22.860 You know, hell you think this is. You ain't got to worry about two damn things.
00:43:26.860 I know exactly what that said. Yeah. I asked you one more time tonight to get off the
00:43:32.960 block and we're going to board the plane and they police over and that's where she was on.
00:43:35.860 Well, I'm calling my attorney because we didn't knew anything wrong. They asked us to agree, and we did. We
00:43:40.860 And we did. We got our own staff. We got our own crew.
00:43:45.240 But we'll talk about it outside.
00:43:46.820 What are we getting? My grandson is in Texas getting out of school at 3 o'clock.
00:43:50.460 That's fine, ma'am. I understand everything, but we'll have to step outside the aircraft.
00:43:54.940 Sir.
00:43:56.900 She's calling her attorney, which I assume means like her cousin or something,
00:44:01.620 who read one page of a law book. I always think it's funny when people like this,
00:44:05.960 in these kinds of, you know, altercations, you always say, well, I'm calling my lawyer.
00:44:11.940 Like, you really have a lawyer, honestly? You have a, what, do you have a lawyer on retainer?
00:44:15.880 Really? I tend to doubt that.
00:44:19.720 Anyway, the altercation continues for several minutes after this point.
00:44:23.240 And eventually the pilot comes back and pleads with her to get off the plane.
00:44:26.080 She refuses to comply with anyone until she's finally perp walked off the aircraft by police.
00:44:30.940 And you can hear in the video repeatedly insist that she did agree with the exit row instructions.
00:44:34.580 But according to the witness who posted the video, she initially refused.
00:44:38.420 And then, as we can see in the footage, she became belligerent with the flight crew
00:44:41.420 who were trying to deal with the situation that she had decided to create.
00:44:44.380 Now, to be clear, there's nothing wrong in my mind with declining the exit row requirements.
00:44:51.520 Anybody with any experience flying knows how this works.
00:44:53.840 If you're sitting in an exit row, the flight attendant will come back before takeoff
00:44:57.020 and ask you if you're willing and able to assist in case of an emergency.
00:45:00.320 And they then tell you that they need a verbal yes.
00:45:02.440 And this process repeats on every flight, thousands of times every day.
00:45:06.200 And there's no reason for it to become a problem.
00:45:08.720 If it becomes a problem for you, it's because you've decided to make it into a problem.
00:45:13.280 And if you don't want to assist, you can say no.
00:45:15.760 And the flight attendant will move you to a different seat.
00:45:18.920 Only once in my life have I ever witnessed an exit row passenger say that they're not willing
00:45:23.180 to assist in case of emergency.
00:45:25.100 And in that case, the woman got up from the seat as instructed.
00:45:27.400 She moved to a different seat, swapped with another passenger who was more than happy to
00:45:31.660 take the exit row.
00:45:32.760 And the whole thing only delayed the boarding process by like 30 seconds.
00:45:36.780 That's fine.
00:45:37.940 In fact, I understand why she said no.
00:45:40.500 The rest of us always say yes, even though none of us really have any idea what we're
00:45:44.020 agreeing to.
00:45:45.380 We don't know what we're agreeing to.
00:45:46.260 Nobody knows.
00:45:46.880 No one has any idea, actually.
00:45:48.680 Like, no one does.
00:45:49.860 I don't think it's even written down anywhere.
00:45:51.560 At least I've never looked.
00:45:52.820 Probably is written down, but I haven't looked.
00:45:53.980 Uh, so we're signing on to assist if the plane crashes without any clear indication of what
00:45:59.360 kind of commitment we're actually making.
00:46:01.920 You know, assisting probably just means that we have to be the ones to open the door and
00:46:07.280 then leave.
00:46:07.940 That's probably all it means.
00:46:09.760 But is there more to it than that?
00:46:12.720 Do we have to get off the plane last, even while it's in flames and about to explode so
00:46:18.680 that we can, we have to stand there and like help everybody, you know, down the slide
00:46:22.960 thing and the plane's on fire and we, but we've signed on, we've, we've, we've signed
00:46:28.620 in blood that we have to stand there and go down with the ship basically.
00:46:33.560 Now, if that's the case, shouldn't there be a discount for sitting in the exit row,
00:46:37.420 not an additional fee?
00:46:39.560 Now, in any case, most of us don't worry much about whether the exit row requirements
00:46:43.040 mean burning to death in the inferno.
00:46:44.540 We just want the leg room and we're willing to pay the price with our lives if necessary.
00:46:48.660 If you are worried about it, you can say no and then you can get up and move to
00:46:51.720 another seat.
00:46:52.080 That's fine.
00:46:53.060 This woman apparently said no, but was unwilling to get up and move, which is what set off the
00:46:57.180 chain of events that ended with her arrested, the flight significantly delayed, and dozens
00:47:01.060 of people unnecessarily inconvenienced.
00:47:03.660 Now, part of the problem here is that, of course, that it's frontier airlines.
00:47:08.660 And this is what you get when you fly a budget airline.
00:47:10.960 You get belligerent, low-class idiots looking, looking to make your flying experience as cumbersome
00:47:17.040 and frustrating as possible.
00:47:18.940 And this is on top of the airline itself, which is also determined to give you that sort
00:47:22.520 of experience.
00:47:23.380 So the airline and the a-holes conspire against you and you can do nothing but simply endure
00:47:30.500 whatever torments they choose to inflict on you.
00:47:33.100 This is how flying works in general these days, but that's especially the case on a budget
00:47:37.060 airline.
00:47:38.220 Insult is only added to injury because the worst thing about a budget airline is that it isn't
00:47:42.100 really a budget airline.
00:47:43.020 The budget in budget airline just means that they charge you slightly less up front for
00:47:47.260 the ticket, but then they recoup that money with additional fees downstream.
00:47:51.280 So you might pay 20% less for the ticket, but that's before they hit you with the baggage
00:47:54.900 fee and the carry-on fee and the fee to select a seat and the fee that, you know, if you want
00:47:59.040 a cup of water, the fee if you want leg room, the fee if you want a seat inside the plane
00:48:04.060 instead of being strapped to the top like a luggage rack on a minivan.
00:48:07.260 And unfortunately, there is no fee to insulate you from the needlessly antagonistic jerks
00:48:14.020 on the plane who might decide to delay your flight by 90 minutes just because they want
00:48:17.600 to have a random showdown with the flight attendant.
00:48:19.900 It all adds up to the reason why I would never fly a budget airline under any circumstance.
00:48:24.720 Like, I wouldn't fly it if you paid me to.
00:48:27.460 Driving is preferable.
00:48:28.600 And if the destination is too far to drive to and you can't spring for a ticket on a real
00:48:32.540 airline, then you don't need to go wherever you were planning to go.
00:48:35.480 So if you're saying, like, well, the only way I can get there is by Frontier of Spirit.
00:48:39.220 I can't, you know, it's too far.
00:48:40.360 I can't drive it.
00:48:42.080 Well, then my answer is you don't need to go there.
00:48:43.560 I don't care what it is.
00:48:45.480 Oh, it's my brother's wedding.
00:48:48.300 Well, you know, he doesn't need, everybody else will be there at the wedding.
00:48:51.900 Like, what do you really bring to the table?
00:48:53.540 Let's be honest.
00:48:55.540 But as many of my listeners will eagerly point out, it's not like the real airlines are much
00:49:01.500 better.
00:49:01.740 They are also looking to nickel and dime you every step of the way.
00:49:04.740 And the passengers on those planes can also tend to be obnoxious and almost as low class
00:49:09.320 as the Frontier and Spirit crowd.
00:49:11.380 This is not a problem you can escape entirely unless you, like, fly private.
00:49:17.020 And as basically everyone who flies has noticed, the whole experience has deteriorated in quality
00:49:22.920 in just about every way.
00:49:24.720 And there are a lot of reasons for that.
00:49:26.300 And many of the reasons can be blamed on the airlines themselves.
00:49:28.680 But you can't really blame the airlines for the rude, aggressively unpleasant passengers
00:49:33.320 like the one in the video who just go out of their way to create irritating drama that
00:49:40.060 all of the other people trapped in the metal tube 30,000 feet in the sky are forced to endure.
00:49:45.700 And there are a lot of these kinds of unruly passengers on airplanes these days.
00:49:49.860 That's not just our anecdotal observation.
00:49:51.500 The FAA keeps track of this kind of thing.
00:49:53.520 And they report that unruly passenger incidents have steadily climbed over recent years.
00:49:57.900 Why is that happening?
00:49:59.440 Some of it, again, goes back to the airlines.
00:50:01.280 When you treat people like cattle, you try to bilk every last dollar you can out of them.
00:50:05.520 You create an automatically frustrating, intense, and stressful situation.
00:50:09.180 But it can't all be blamed on the airlines.
00:50:11.400 The flight crew in this case didn't seem to do anything wrong.
00:50:14.540 This case is a reflection of a deeper problem, which is that we live in a low-trust society
00:50:19.940 where we can no longer depend on each other to be even minimally decent, honest, and cooperative.
00:50:26.980 You know, there used to be a general cultural understanding that when you're on a plane,
00:50:31.760 you have to be polite and reasonable and compliant and even present yourself well,
00:50:37.500 dress well, present yourself well.
00:50:39.900 But that understanding is no longer shared by everyone.
00:50:43.720 Many people are impervious to the shame that breaking this social contract would cause.
00:50:48.480 They feel no obligation to behave in a decent way and no embarrassment about it.
00:50:52.980 They have no sense of personal honor, which means that they feel no discomfort with acting dishonorably.
00:50:58.040 They fundamentally reject the idea that they have any obligation to comport their behavior
00:51:03.600 in any way with any set of rules or standards.
00:51:07.220 If you say to this type of person, well, you shouldn't act this way because it's disrespectful
00:51:12.740 and disruptive to those around you, they will respond by asking,
00:51:16.700 why should I care about the people around me?
00:51:19.180 And that's not a rhetorical question for them.
00:51:21.000 They sincerely don't understand why any other human in existence should matter to them in the slightest.
00:51:27.200 This is why flying is miserable.
00:51:30.120 It's also why doing anything in our culture can be miserable.
00:51:34.500 It's why it's miserable to live anywhere with a high concentration of people.
00:51:39.420 It doesn't have to be this way.
00:51:41.240 It wasn't always this way.
00:51:42.580 I mean, we've never lived in a paradise, but there was a time when basic standards of personal conduct
00:51:48.000 were observed by most people most of the time.
00:51:52.140 That's no longer the case.
00:51:54.040 And disputes over the exit row on a frontier flight are the least of our problems because of it.
00:51:59.240 But that is the manifestation of this underlying problem that we're discussing today.
00:52:02.080 And it's why the woman on that flight is today canceled.
00:52:07.000 That'll do it for the show today.
00:52:07.700 Thanks for watching.
00:52:08.220 Thanks for listening.
00:52:08.840 Talk to you tomorrow.
00:52:09.680 Have a great day.
00:52:10.460 Godspeed.
00:52:10.740 Godspeed.