The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1398 - Ignore Your Eyes, Everything Is Fine

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, guest hosted by yours truly, David Cohn, President Biden

00:00:05.340 attempts to recover from his disastrous debate performance.

00:00:08.900 Democrat operatives begin their best spin campaign in an effort to convince us that

00:00:13.920 we didn't see what we clearly saw on that stage.

00:00:17.600 America is losing to other countries in football, and I won't stand for it.

00:00:22.240 And international days of random things have become a problem, and they're getting canceled.

00:00:27.680 All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.

00:00:30.320 The Matt Walsh Show

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00:01:28.520 Matt Walsh is out again today.

00:01:31.580 Apparently, there was a flannel shirt convention that simply could not be missed.

00:01:35.780 But luckily for you, the show will go on.

00:01:38.500 The show must go on with me, David Cohn.

00:01:42.540 Last week, Americans, by the tens of millions, were left in a state of stunned disbelief about

00:01:48.540 President Joe Biden's disastrous performance on the debate stage.

00:01:53.100 Frankly, even many of us who have recognized his cognitive decline, because we have eyes

00:01:59.720 and ears and functioning brains, did not expect what transpired.

00:02:04.520 But now, more than 72 hours have passed.

00:02:08.040 The shock and surprise has waned.

00:02:10.140 Reality has set in.

00:02:11.820 And that reality is this.

00:02:13.860 The man we saw on stage last Thursday night, who was incapable of completing his own sentences,

00:02:20.640 is the President of the United States, not just a nominee.

00:02:24.620 Forget about the campaign for a moment.

00:02:26.920 Ostensibly, this guy is the Commander-in-Chief of the military.

00:02:31.500 He is the man who, in the middle of the night, needs to be ready to respond at a moment's notice

00:02:36.420 to the most crucial situations, such as a terrorist attack on American soil, or an invasion of

00:02:42.440 Taiwan by the Chinese, or someone in California being misgendered.

00:02:47.280 Yet, Joe Biden is clearly incapable of handling those challenges.

00:02:51.700 He is not running our country.

00:02:53.320 Everyone understands that now.

00:02:55.240 Another four years is out of the question.

00:02:58.340 But that reality creates a political problem for Democrats.

00:03:02.380 They hit him in the basement last cycle, but now the truth outs.

00:03:06.840 And if they admit, in the aftermath of this televised disaster, that Joe Biden can't serve

00:03:13.320 as president, then it's not enough to find a replacement candidate for the upcoming election.

00:03:18.780 They have to remove him from office right now.

00:03:22.040 And if Jill Biden, who is apparently making all these decisions, doesn't want to go along

00:03:27.580 with that, then Democrats would need to invoke the 25th Amendment and forcibly remove the president

00:03:33.740 from office.

00:03:34.720 That would be very nasty and politically damaging.

00:03:38.300 It would also mean Vice President Kamala Harris is next up to the plate, and she polls worse 1.00

00:03:43.880 than the president himself.

00:03:45.660 So instead, they dusted the old fighter off and got him back in the ring the next day.

00:03:50.880 Only this ring had teleprompters, and there was no one else on stage to fight.

00:03:56.780 Let's take a look at this together.

00:03:59.340 Let me close with this.

00:04:01.360 I know I'm not a young man.

00:04:03.880 State the obvious.

00:04:05.620 Well, I know.

00:04:06.800 Well, I know.

00:04:08.220 Well, I know it, y'all.

00:04:17.320 Well...

00:04:17.800 Are they saying Trump?

00:04:25.220 I know.

00:04:29.620 Folks, I don't walk as easy as I used to.

00:04:33.260 I don't speak as smoothly as I used to.

00:04:35.440 I don't debate as well as I used to.

00:04:38.640 But I know what I do know.

00:04:41.340 I know how to tell the truth.

00:04:43.260 Remember, this is only a day after the man couldn't complete sentences on the debate

00:04:52.880 stage.

00:04:53.880 But hey, according to his wife, he answered all the questions.

00:04:57.500 He woke up the next morning alive.

00:04:59.320 So he's clearly fit to lead the greatest nation on Earth.

00:05:04.080 The Trump campaign immediately put together a campaign ad with just footage of Joe Biden

00:05:10.140 speaking.

00:05:11.140 Trump doesn't say a word.

00:05:13.600 Again, I take no pleasure in watching this.

00:05:16.700 Yes, it validates what many of us have been scorned for these past few years.

00:05:21.220 But still, I'm an American.

00:05:23.300 This is the president.

00:05:24.560 This is sad.

00:05:25.880 But watch it.

00:05:26.880 We must.

00:05:27.880 Let's take a look.

00:05:29.880 Votes, how are you?

00:05:31.880 Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been

00:05:38.140 able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with.

00:05:45.700 Look at Trump's face.

00:05:47.700 If we finally beat Medicare, we're finally providing housing for black Americans.

00:05:56.160 The impact on the choice, the idea that they're going to, I'm not proposing that everybody,

00:06:06.260 they pay, the millionaires pay 1%, 1%.

00:06:10.260 That's sad.

00:06:11.260 So no one after all, I have not raised the cost of social security for anybody.

00:06:15.820 Take it down.

00:06:16.820 I've seen enough.

00:06:17.820 I've seen enough.

00:06:18.820 That's one of the most effective political ads you'll ever see.

00:06:21.780 We are in uncharted territory right now.

00:06:24.780 But fear not, America, because the president is deeply engaged during the day.

00:06:29.980 That's according to the esteemed political journalist at Axios, who spoke to insiders

00:06:34.520 on Team Biden and reported that, quote, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Biden is dependably engaged.

00:06:42.400 Many of his public events are held within those hours.

00:06:45.380 Outside that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal

00:06:50.380 miscues and become fatigued, unquote.

00:06:53.500 So he's like a reverse vampire.

00:06:56.720 He's only good in the sunlight.

00:06:58.720 He's like a zombie vampire, alive, then dead, then quasi alive, but only during the day.

00:07:05.260 It's like night of the living dead.

00:07:07.520 Never thought I believed in zombies or vampires, but now I do.

00:07:12.620 Still don't believe in aliens, though.

00:07:14.020 That's just childish.

00:07:15.400 Pull up the Reagan clip for me, please.

00:07:17.820 If you want to get a sense of how unprecedented this is, you have to put in historical context

00:07:24.500 here.

00:07:25.000 Back in 1984, when Ronald Reagan was 73 years old and running against Walter Mondale, there

00:07:31.280 was a lot of talk about whether he was too old to be president.

00:07:34.760 Both Republicans and Democrats were asking about Reagan's cognitive abilities as a serious

00:07:40.680 issue.

00:07:41.140 Here's how Ronald Reagan handled that topic with all the scrutiny.

00:07:45.280 Mr. President, I want to raise an issue that I think has been lurking out there for two

00:07:50.040 or three weeks and cast it specifically in national security terms.

00:07:53.760 You already are the oldest president in history, and some of your staff say you were tired after

00:07:58.460 your most recent encounter with Mr. Mondale.

00:08:01.420 Well, I recall yet that President Kennedy had to go for days on end with very little sleep

00:08:07.580 during the Cuba missile crisis.

00:08:09.260 Is there any doubt in your mind that you would be able to function in such circumstances?

00:08:13.540 Not at all, Mr. Truitt, and I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of

00:08:20.580 this campaign.

00:08:21.520 I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

00:08:28.180 If I still have time, I might add, Mr. Truitt, I might add that it was Seneca or it was Cicero,

00:08:51.200 I don't know which, that said, if it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the

00:08:56.000 young, there would be no state.

00:08:58.180 When you make the guy you're running against laugh, you won the debate.

00:09:01.920 When you make the moderator laugh, you've won re-election.

00:09:05.860 When you quote philosophers after all of it, well, you're Ronald Reagan.

00:09:10.460 But just compare that side by side with Joe Biden's performance on Thursday.

00:09:14.940 If people were worried about Reagan's age, they should be losing their minds right now

00:09:19.960 about our president.

00:09:21.360 Even that day after address that's being touted wasn't close to flawless or inspiring.

00:09:27.440 At various points, Joe Biden continued to slur his speech.

00:09:31.600 And he also did that thing where he smashes all the words together really fast so he won't

00:09:36.600 give himself time to mess up.

00:09:38.220 I think you know what I'm talking about.

00:09:39.520 We've all seen it.

00:09:40.500 Let's watch.

00:09:41.000 Donald Trump says he thinks overturning Roe v. Wade was a beautiful thing.

00:09:47.420 I'm serious.

00:09:49.200 Failing, I don't know if a president wouldn't trade places with America in a heartbeat.

00:09:54.060 He's dead wrong.

00:09:56.020 America's not a losing nation.

00:09:57.300 America's winning.

00:09:58.080 As I stand here today, I can honestly say I'm never more optimistic about America's future

00:10:03.200 in my whole career.

00:10:04.700 You just have to remember who we are.

00:10:06.120 We're the United States of America.

00:10:08.600 Who we are, man.

00:10:10.400 Who we are.

00:10:11.460 Can someone translate that?

00:10:13.440 I mean, as best I can tell, Joe Biden said, I don't know a president that wouldn't trade

00:10:19.000 places with America in a heartbeat.

00:10:21.400 I don't know what that means, but I do know Democrats are now running cover for him.

00:10:27.780 This was predictable.

00:10:29.200 They are turning gaslighting into an art form.

00:10:32.460 Yesterday, another octogenarian, Nancy Pelosi, appeared on cable news in defense of Biden. 0.97

00:10:38.500 She said that actually it's Donald Trump who's demented. 0.96

00:10:42.640 Donald Trump. 0.96

00:10:43.500 Now look, Trump was many things on that stage last week.

00:10:47.220 I don't believe he even answered a direct question for the last hour. 0.71

00:10:51.400 But demented, that's just plain false.

00:10:54.380 Let's take a look.

00:10:55.900 This is an opportunity for Joe Biden to go out there and show he has the stamina and the

00:11:00.880 risk.

00:11:01.280 And by the way, while the press, and for some reason they don't, there are health care professionals

00:11:08.460 who think that Trump has dementia. 0.98

00:11:12.160 Trump has dementia. 0.98

00:11:13.000 His connection, his thoughts do not go together. 0.54

00:11:15.840 And, you know, while he may be saying we're enablers, we see Joe Biden up close.

00:11:21.720 We know how attuned he is to the issues, how informed he is.

00:11:26.400 And I debate with him about legislation and not debate, but discuss it with him.

00:11:31.460 He's right there.

00:11:32.620 So in any case, it was a bad night.

00:11:35.960 Let's not sugarcoat that.

00:11:40.460 It was a bad night.

00:11:41.780 It was a great presidency.

00:11:44.540 It was a great presidency.

00:11:47.500 No, it was not a great presidency.

00:11:49.220 But I do find the past tense interesting.

00:11:51.920 Freudian slip.

00:11:53.500 Maybe she knows something we don't.

00:11:55.640 Also, you'd think if leftists really wanted to make the case that Joe Biden isn't too old

00:12:00.600 to serve, they would at least send someone out who was younger than 80, or at least someone

00:12:05.720 who wasn't going to start slurring her own words.

00:12:08.660 Instead, without a hint of irony, we got an interview with another mumbling maniac, another 0.99

00:12:15.040 octogenarian who can barely speak straight. 0.58

00:12:18.100 We are a gerontocracy at this point, the elderly states of America, which is further proof these 0.99

00:12:24.960 people aren't running the country.

00:12:26.620 The bureaucracy calls the shots.

00:12:29.620 Former President Barack Obama also weighed in, stating, bad debate nights happen.

00:12:34.800 Trust me, I know.

00:12:36.160 But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his

00:12:40.560 entire life and someone who only cares about himself.

00:12:44.180 Obama never really clarifies there which person is which.

00:12:49.040 But the bigger issue with Obama's post is that Joe Biden didn't simply have a bad debate.

00:12:54.880 That implies he whiffed on a couple of the questions or gaffed.

00:12:58.980 Throughout the entire thing, he was barely conscious.

00:13:01.920 He was visibly confused.

00:13:04.300 That fact remained evidence enough for even a few major left-leaning media outlets to suggest

00:13:11.300 Biden must indeed drop out of the race.

00:13:13.760 Here was Meet the Press yesterday, for example.

00:13:15.880 They didn't mince words.

00:13:16.760 It is yet another extraordinary moment in the 2024 election cycle, with Democrats in a state

00:13:25.680 of crisis after President Joe Biden delivered a disastrous debate performance that fueled

00:13:31.720 voters' top concerns about his age and ability to serve another four years in office.

00:13:37.740 Not since the first Nixon-Kennedy debate in 1960 has a debate had as much potential to shake

00:13:44.700 up a presidential race.

00:13:46.800 This morning, there is widespread panic within the Democratic Party and questions about whether

00:13:51.320 the president should drop out of the race.

00:13:53.840 I mean, this is coming from NBC, which repeatedly told us for years that Joe Biden is fit as a

00:14:00.760 fiddle.

00:14:01.560 They've put out several articles in just the past few weeks claiming that embarrassing videos

00:14:06.660 of Biden are cheap fakes.

00:14:08.780 Joe Scarborough said three months ago that Joe Biden is as astute as I've ever seen him.

00:14:13.540 So what now?

00:14:15.640 Influential voices in the Democratic Party seem divided.

00:14:19.040 The New York Times reported this weekend that the Biden family huddled at Camp David to discuss

00:14:23.840 the possibility of the president dropping out of the race.

00:14:27.500 Yet his family urged against that.

00:14:30.560 The paper quoted,

00:14:31.580 Now, there are a few levels of comedy here, so let's unpack them.

00:15:00.860 First off, we have an admitted crackhead, I don't know another way to say it, providing

00:15:07.180 critical advice to the president of the United States.

00:15:10.380 Now, I'm no crackhead expert, but that doesn't seem like a good idea.

00:15:14.480 On top of that, this isn't just an ordinary crackhead.

00:15:18.040 Hunter Biden has directly profited by selling his father's influence overseas, in China, in Ukraine.

00:15:24.400 He has a clear vested interest in keeping that grift going.

00:15:29.000 Additionally, he's now a convicted felon.

00:15:31.900 So it makes sense he'd want his father to stay in office for the possibility of receiving a pardon.

00:15:37.660 Every new story only adds to the absurdity of Joe Biden staying in this race.

00:15:42.980 But there is still a way for Biden to win this election, senility notwithstanding.

00:15:48.880 It's the same way that every dictator has won throughout human history.

00:15:52.920 You resort to force and imprison your competition.

00:15:56.920 Now, that might explain why the crowd at this rally eventually started chanting,

00:16:02.260 lock him up, as in jail Donald Trump.

00:16:05.880 The president's response?

00:16:08.040 Grinned.

00:16:08.920 Said, there's time for that.

00:16:10.020 Let's check it out.

00:16:10.560 He's got more trials coming up.

00:16:13.280 Lock him up!

00:16:14.580 Lock him up!

00:16:15.520 Lock him up!

00:16:17.560 Lock him up!

00:16:18.160 Time for that.

00:16:19.180 Lock him up!

00:16:19.840 Time for that.

00:16:20.820 Lock him up!

00:16:21.740 Time for that.

00:16:24.440 The strategy is becoming clear.

00:16:27.160 Joe Biden's too far gone to serve as president.

00:16:29.780 So the solution is to incarcerate his opponent.

00:16:33.900 This is as third world as it gets.

00:16:36.860 And yes, Joe Biden's DOJ is actually trying to lock up Donald Trump.

00:16:41.500 Now, I never liked the lock her up chants in 2016.

00:16:45.540 As I said last week, I, like many others, was very late to the Trump train.

00:16:50.460 But these chants must be considered worse because it's actually happening.

00:16:55.160 Do we remember nothing of Soviet history?

00:16:57.940 The Bolshevik Revolution are the disasters of the 20th century so far behind us that we 0.94

00:17:04.560 will repeat them so carelessly?

00:17:07.300 It's hard to believe this is happening in this country, but it is.

00:17:12.340 So the president can't work before 10 a.m.

00:17:14.920 And remember, the suicide bombing in Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members,

00:17:21.480 yes, occurred before 10 a.m. Eastern.

00:17:23.680 That's the same suicide bombing that Joe Biden apparently forgot about during the debate when

00:17:28.520 he claimed no service members died under his watch.

00:17:31.380 Okay.

00:17:31.960 He also can't work past 4 p.m.

00:17:34.660 So what can he do at night?

00:17:37.380 Apparently, visit Waffle House.

00:17:39.760 This is the saddest Waffle House footage you'll ever see.

00:17:43.700 I don't even know if I can sit through it again.

00:17:46.200 This is from debate night.

00:17:47.460 Let's watch it together.

00:17:48.960 How did you perform tonight?

00:17:51.040 I think you did well.

00:17:52.160 Do you have any concerns there?

00:17:53.700 I have to confirm that you should help out of your job, your voice, your performance.

00:18:01.220 Do you have any concerns about your performance?

00:18:03.680 No, I don't. 0.94

00:18:04.620 It's hard to debate a liar. 0.97

00:18:06.700 It's hard to debate a liar. 0.96

00:18:07.660 New York Times pointed out he made a liar 26 times. 0.97

00:18:10.660 Big lies.

00:18:11.420 He didn't tell me.

00:18:11.920 Big lies.

00:18:12.500 There's the president, followed by Joe Biden.

00:18:23.020 You know, you spend too much time in the gym, I think.

00:18:26.180 Hey, man, how are you doing?

00:18:27.380 Good to see you.

00:18:28.120 Hey, you're welcome.

00:18:30.040 We have our support.

00:18:33.380 God love your things.

00:18:34.340 God love your things.

00:18:37.060 There is no way Joe Biden knows what's in an all-star special.

00:18:42.500 I would bet all the money in my bank account.

00:18:45.280 No, I need higher stakes than that.

00:18:48.940 I will sit in the middle seat on every airline flight for the rest of my life.

00:18:54.820 What does Mr. Walsh say about this?

00:18:57.040 The gentleman who's chair I have usurped.

00:18:59.480 He says middle seat flyers have no rights.

00:19:01.720 They are second class citizens.

00:19:02.960 I agree.

00:19:03.820 It's awful.

00:19:04.620 I'm six foot seven.

00:19:05.900 I will sit in that dreaded, claustrophobic coffin of a seat for the remainder of my commercial

00:19:11.940 flying days if the president of the United States could look me in the eyes and tell me

00:19:17.120 what's in an all-star special.

00:19:19.840 To use the house of all places as an attempt to gain sympathy votes, to appear with the common

00:19:26.240 man.

00:19:27.260 Newsflash, it did not work.

00:19:29.220 But even as we watch the rest of the country disagree and debate about Joe Biden's inability

00:19:35.980 to serve, something many of us have said for years at this point, I must make something

00:19:41.560 clear.

00:19:42.140 The president of the United States is terrible for our country, whether he's cognitively

00:19:47.200 impaired or not.

00:19:49.120 This is the man who prints roughly a trillion dollars overseas to help fund foreign wars.

00:19:54.900 Even as inflation spirals out of control, he's the man who lights up the White House with

00:19:59.820 rainbow colors and flies the transsexual flag in places where only old glory should wave. 1.00

00:20:05.760 He's the one who has eradicated any concept of our national border, which has resulted in 0.82

00:20:11.700 brutal rapes and murders of American citizens, including women and children.

00:20:16.040 And yet, despite the countless policy disasters, many Americans say, well, I was for him until

00:20:23.180 I saw the debate.

00:20:24.940 So it takes him being a zombie on national television to finally get the country's attention.

00:20:31.340 Donald Trump made this point so wonderfully in Virginia this week.

00:20:35.740 And he said, remember, the biggest problem for our country is not Joe Biden's personal decline.

00:20:41.600 It's that Joe Biden's policies are causing America's decline at a level we've never seen

00:20:48.320 before, end quote.

00:20:49.760 That's an unquestionably true statement.

00:20:52.480 And I'm impressed that Donald Trump and his team are making this point.

00:20:55.700 Rather than just calling the president names, rather than just bragging about how much better

00:21:00.560 he did, Trump to me is showing growth as a politician by speaking on substance such as

00:21:06.460 this.

00:21:07.040 And that brings me to a final point.

00:21:09.160 If I'm Donald Trump, I think twice before I debate Joe Biden again.

00:21:13.060 That may seem counterintuitive, may seem exactly the opposite of what many or you are thinking.

00:21:18.600 I can feel the comments saying, it's Joe Biden who shouldn't ever debate again.

00:21:22.740 Yes, that's true as well.

00:21:24.540 And we likely won't see it from his camp.

00:21:26.680 But this was such a definitive win for Trump that I wouldn't just assume that the next debate

00:21:32.780 is an automatic win just because Joe Biden can't speak.

00:21:36.380 Remember, I laid out key factors on how Trump could still appear as the losers to independence

00:21:42.420 in scenarios like this, despite Biden's incoherence.

00:21:46.300 Four months out from the election is a long time.

00:21:49.380 Yes, but these viral clips will live on.

00:21:51.880 These memes will live on in a way that wasn't possible in politics 20, 30, 40 years ago.

00:22:00.600 You don't know how the next format may be skewed against you unfavorably, and yet this time

00:22:06.800 actually work to be unfavorable to you.

00:22:09.540 Don't give him a chance to get even.

00:22:11.700 Don't give him a chance to throw that Hail Mary.

00:22:14.360 My friend and colleague Jay Crane and I, we were talking about this in terms of football.

00:22:19.140 I played college football, so it's an apt analogy. 0.93

00:22:22.220 You just ran the ball down the throat of your opponent for three and a half quarters.

00:22:26.220 Your defense has been stout.

00:22:27.900 You have a lead, a slim lead.

00:22:29.800 Don't start throwing the ball all over the place to try and score more points.

00:22:33.680 That's a Trump mindset.

00:22:35.300 He's a wild card. 1.00

00:22:36.380 Go for the kill. 0.99

00:22:38.180 No, I say keep running it.

00:22:40.000 Don't give the other team the ball back.

00:22:42.320 Donald Trump cannot.

00:22:43.380 He must not underestimate the power of the deep state in the corporate press.

00:22:49.760 He is not just running against Joe Biden.

00:22:52.220 If that were the case, we wouldn't even be discussing this presidential race as a fair

00:22:56.740 fight, much less close in numbers.

00:23:00.100 One guy can't finish a sentence, yet 33% of people believe he won that debate.

00:23:06.260 Can y'all bring up the CNN flash poll graphic from last week, please?

00:23:09.820 That's 33%.

00:23:11.980 You saw what I saw.

00:23:13.880 They saw what I saw.

00:23:15.360 That's deep state influence.

00:23:17.620 As Joy Behar of The View put it, quote, it's important for voters to understand they are

00:23:23.600 voting for an administration.

00:23:26.700 Yeah, not just a president.

00:23:28.560 We are also voting for a Supreme Court.

00:23:31.400 That's deep state influence.

00:23:33.960 What's amusing about that is that Joy Behar is actually the same age as Joe Biden, but he's

00:23:39.800 clearly suffered even more of a cognitive decline than she has, which is, look, that is saying

00:23:45.300 something.

00:23:46.220 So we had a pivotal moment last week, an eye-opening experience where the curtain was pulled back.

00:23:51.960 The wizard was revealed to be just a man, a barely functioning man at that.

00:23:57.060 Yet in the 72 hours since that debate, tens of millions of people have been instructed to

00:24:03.560 ignore what they saw with their own eyes.

00:24:06.320 They've been lied to for several years about Joe Biden's cognitive abilities.

00:24:11.740 So what's another four months?

00:24:13.480 Anything to keep Donald Trump out of office.

00:24:16.800 Orwellian fiction has become reality.

00:24:20.020 The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

00:24:24.460 It was their final, most essential command.

00:24:27.660 Now let's get to our five headlines.

00:24:29.380 America is losing in football to other countries.

00:24:39.480 That's right.

00:24:40.380 You heard what I said.

00:24:41.500 And don't you even think about changing this episode here.

00:24:44.080 Maybe you say, I don't care about football.

00:24:46.000 I don't care about sports.

00:24:47.760 America is losing in football to other countries.

00:24:51.480 Do you know how devastating that is?

00:24:53.120 Beyond just the world of sports.

00:24:54.680 That is indicative of how America is collapsing right now.

00:24:59.160 I kid you not.

00:25:00.380 Last week, the story broke that America's youth football team lost to Japan.

00:25:06.400 Lost to Japan, I repeat, 41 to 20. 0.96

00:25:11.580 At one point, supposedly being down 27 to nothing, I didn't have a grandfather fight in the Marianas

00:25:19.560 trench.

00:25:20.100 I didn't have a grandfather go over and fight in World War II so that Americans could lose

00:25:26.660 in football to other countries, especially not Japan.

00:25:30.340 Maybe some of you are confused when I say football.

00:25:32.640 I'm not talking about soccer.

00:25:34.500 Soccer is soccer.

00:25:35.780 Football is football.

00:25:37.060 Football is ours.

00:25:38.480 Football is American.

00:25:40.160 It's our thing.

00:25:41.140 We do it best.

00:25:42.040 We do it better than anyone else.

00:25:43.760 Our youth football team, under 20, the IFAF, under 20 world championships.

00:25:49.040 We lost to Japan, so we couldn't even compete for the championship.

00:25:53.400 Who are we sending?

00:25:55.180 Who are we sending?

00:25:56.520 Send my high school team.

00:25:58.540 Send 18-year-old me with my high school team, the Blue Devils.

00:26:02.700 We're winning this championship, but it gets worse.

00:26:05.940 It gets worse than we lost to Japan. 0.93

00:26:08.480 Team USA football suffered another stunning upset at the U-20 World Championship bronze medal

00:26:15.580 game on Sunday at the hands of Austria, 32 to 25.

00:26:22.120 I would repeat that sentence, but I don't think I can stomach it.

00:26:26.080 Bronze medal game.

00:26:27.520 We're out here fighting for third place in football, and we're not even winning that.

00:26:33.880 Austria.

00:26:34.820 I don't even know anything about Austria, except isn't that where Adolf Hitler is from?

00:26:40.600 Haven't they spent the last 100 years trying to convince the world that Adolf Hitler is 0.53

00:26:44.300 in fact German, and Beethoven was Viennese?

00:26:47.160 We're not buying it.

00:26:48.220 And apparently, they just beat us in football, 32 to 25.

00:26:51.620 The U.S. scored first when Anthony Luna threw a touchdown pass.

00:26:55.920 I'm not even going to read these names.

00:26:57.480 Do we have footage?

00:26:58.600 Do we have footage from the game where Austria was beating up the United States?

00:27:04.800 Getting together in Canada.

00:27:06.840 Far side of the field, and he's going to tap down to the sideline.

00:27:10.220 Is he in the end zone?

00:27:11.000 Run it back.

00:27:11.400 Run it back one more time.

00:27:12.840 Run it back one more time.

00:27:14.080 So we're already losing.

00:27:15.780 We're already losing.

00:27:16.720 Here we got shotgun formation.

00:27:18.160 Getting together in Canada.

00:27:19.320 Little flat route.

00:27:20.260 Look at that.

00:27:20.660 That's a tackle.

00:27:21.640 He's going to tap down to the sideline.

00:27:23.160 What kind of effort are we putting in, coach?

00:27:25.320 Who are we sending over there? 0.98

00:27:28.160 Austria?

00:27:29.920 Do we have the clip from the game in Japan?

00:27:33.160 Again, I'm getting sick to my stomach, but apparently we need this.

00:27:38.200 Apparently we need this.

00:27:39.680 We need to watch this.

00:27:40.960 We need to sit down and figure out the answers.

00:27:43.120 First and 15.

00:27:43.900 Japan trying to make it memorable.

00:27:45.380 Here they may.

00:27:46.420 If they put it in the end zone.

00:27:47.160 Run it back again.

00:27:48.160 Run it back again.

00:27:48.900 We're going to sit through this together.

00:27:50.760 Not so memorable for that player.

00:27:52.760 First and 15.

00:27:53.560 Inside zone.

00:27:54.220 Japan trying to make it memorable.

00:27:55.080 Shotgun inside zone.

00:27:56.580 We can't make a tackle.

00:27:58.060 We can't make a tackle on any level.

00:28:01.380 We're getting beat up front.

00:28:03.160 We're getting beat with our backers.

00:28:04.940 We're getting beat in the secondary.

00:28:06.500 Again, maybe you think this is just about football.

00:28:10.360 Oh, this is just a sport thing.

00:28:12.400 Who cares?

00:28:13.220 President of the United States can't even finish sentences.

00:28:15.640 Don't we have bigger?

00:28:16.320 This is why.

00:28:17.900 This is happening all over this country.

00:28:21.020 We're losing in football.

00:28:23.160 And apparently, let me look at this real quick.

00:28:25.760 Apparently, Canada went on to win the championship.

00:28:33.380 I kid you not.

00:28:34.400 Here we go.

00:28:36.040 Team USA lost to Japan earlier in the week, as I said, which catapulted Japan to the gold

00:28:41.580 medal game against Canada.

00:28:44.100 Canada, and Canada, I believe, won the championship.

00:28:49.780 Y'all fact check me in there.

00:28:50.960 I believe Canada.

00:28:52.180 We let the country to our north win a championship in football.

00:28:59.340 I repeat, not soccer, soccer is soccer.

00:29:01.660 We let them win in football while we sit here, and we're giving up inside zone right up the

00:29:08.100 middle.

00:29:08.320 We can't make a tackle.

00:29:10.280 We're allowing passes to get completed to the flat, and we can't make a tackle.

00:29:14.880 Again, I'll ask, who are we sending?

00:29:17.040 Is this just indicative of America's decline on all fronts?

00:29:21.140 We're not talking about darts, right?

00:29:25.200 I don't know if we're good at that.

00:29:26.980 I don't know if we're good at arm wrestling.

00:29:29.500 You know, the other world clearly has soccer.

00:29:33.220 They've taken soccer by storm, and we can't compete.

00:29:37.080 We're talking about football here.

00:29:39.300 This cannot stand.

00:29:40.520 It will not stand.

00:29:41.640 I will not abide this.

00:29:42.920 I will get involved.

00:29:44.140 My co-hosts on Crane & Company, Jake & Blaine, we will get involved as well.

00:29:48.120 I don't know if we need to coach the team, assemble the team, maybe play on the team.

00:29:52.880 I do have one year of eligibility left in college.

00:29:55.480 Either way, that's unacceptable.

00:29:58.980 Next story up here, I was so excited to read this over the weekend.

00:30:04.500 So this comes from the Daily Wire here.

00:30:06.720 This comes from Megan Basham, and also Morning Wire reported on this story as well.

00:30:12.240 Here's the headline of this article.

00:30:13.540 I just want to go through this because it is important, and it's stunning.

00:30:18.160 Daily Wire poll.

00:30:19.860 Voters reject Biden's move to require parents to embrace LGBTQ ideology to adopt foster children.

00:30:30.460 Let's get into this here.

00:30:31.720 An overwhelming majority of voters disagree with new Biden administration regulations that require parents to pass an LGBTQ litmus test to adopt foster children.

00:30:48.040 That's according to an exclusive Daily Wire poll.

00:30:51.840 Nearly twice as many voters reject banning religious families who oppose transgender ideology from taking in foster children, according to the survey of 1,000 registered voters.

00:31:04.340 Only 29% say faith-based families who refuse to affirm a child's gender dysphoria should be banned from adopting, while the rest of the respondents weren't sure.

00:31:20.280 So on April 30th, Biden's Department of Health and Human Services enacted the Safe and Appropriate Foster Care Placement Requirements.

00:31:29.840 That's the title of this, which requires child welfare agencies to place foster children only with families who have committed to establishing an environment that supports the child's LGBTQI plus status or identity.

00:31:48.460 Under the new rules, foster care providers must use a child's identified pronouns and chosen name and to allow the child to dress in a way that reflects their self-identified gender identity and expression.

00:32:04.900 I can't even imagine my parents back in the day just letting me just dress any way that I pleased.

00:32:10.260 I mean, the rules also require foster parents to establish an environment that supports the child's LGBTQIA plus status or identity, something legal experts warn could be interpreted to mean providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or surgical interventions designed to change the child's sex.

00:32:31.960 This poll here, again, this exclusive poll at The Daily Wire found that an overwhelming majority, 69% said it would be good, it would be good for religious families to adopt a foster child.

00:32:46.680 Only 13% said it would be a bad thing.

00:32:49.660 When it comes to religious families who oppose transgender ideology, 54% of voters do not support banning them from adopting foster children.

00:33:02.960 I mean, this is, yeah, this is great work here by The Daily Wire.

00:33:06.600 The Biden administration's new rules stand to put further strain on a foster care system that is already struggling to serve more than 600,000 children annually, as it would disqualify the families most likely to care for the vulnerable kids.

00:33:25.020 Practicing Christians are more than twice as likely to foster or adopt children, more than twice as likely than the general population.

00:33:33.880 With Catholics being three times more likely and evangelicals being five times more likely.

00:33:40.600 Further, 65% of non-kin foster parents attend religious services weekly.

00:33:48.620 Does any of that really surprise anyone?

00:33:51.340 That's what I want to ask.

00:33:52.580 Like, is the Biden administration, are they actively thinking through these things and they're just wrong?

00:33:57.520 Or is it all part of a malicious campaign, an anti-Christian, an anti-religious campaign?

00:34:03.040 And I think we know the answer to that.

00:34:06.300 This kind of, this gets me into the movie Sound of Hope, right?

00:34:10.580 This is what I want to talk about.

00:34:11.480 The Sound of Hope, the story of Possum Trot, a new film that tells the true story of 22 Christian families in a single church that adopted 77 at-risk children out of foster care.

00:34:25.960 Possum Trot is providing a fresh picture of this statistical reality.

00:34:30.300 Look, this film, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this.

00:34:34.100 I got a chance to see this film weeks ago, long before it came out.

00:34:38.660 It is unbelievable.

00:34:40.600 It's an awesome story.

00:34:41.740 I encourage all of you to see this movie when it comes out.

00:34:44.580 I believe we're going to be sharing a link to it to where you can find it.

00:34:47.360 Adoptive father, Josh Weigel, who directed and co-wrote Sound of Hope, fears policies like the new HHS rules will leave vulnerable children at risk of being further neglected, abused, or even trafficked.

00:35:03.300 That kind, this is a quote here, that kind of legislation would prevent the story of Sound of Hope from happening again.

00:35:10.300 Over two-thirds, over two-thirds of the people helping foster kids are those who may not agree with that kind of legislation.

00:35:19.320 Yeah.

00:35:20.120 You would have a monumental ocean of traumatized children mounting every year if you were to cut off that kind of care.

00:35:29.000 So again, great work here by The Daily Wire.

00:35:31.600 Megan Basham, Morning Wire, conducting this poll.

00:35:34.400 I want to make sure that we share out that link and tell people where they can see and when they can see Sound of Hope, the story of Possumtrop, an incredible film.

00:35:44.900 Everyone needs to see it.

00:35:46.220 And more than that, when you go see it, engage with me on social media at DavidAdamCone.

00:35:51.380 I want to hear what your thoughts are.

00:35:53.060 Let's talk about it.

00:35:54.380 And, you know, again, important and great work there from The Daily Wire.

00:35:57.920 Next story up here, we remember the Uvalde school shooting that happened, you know, over a year ago, almost two years ago, I believe, at this point.

00:36:08.720 This story, this, again, from Daily Wire reporting last week.

00:36:12.640 I'm just going to read through this article, and I think it's important that we understand and keep up to date with what's going on there.

00:36:19.200 So, Pete Arandonado, the former chief of the school district police in Uvalde, Texas, has been criminally charged and arrested over his actions on that day when law enforcement delayed entering the school and neutralizing that school shooter.

00:36:45.460 A Uvalde County grand jury indicted Arandonado and another former district officer, that was Adrian Gonzalez, on multiple felony charges of abandoning or endangering a child in response to their botched response to the massacre, which comes 25 months.

00:37:06.220 Okay, so this is over two years at this point.

00:37:08.280 Over 25 months after the shooter murdered 19 students and two teachers.

00:37:14.360 One of the most horrific days in the history of this country, 19 students and two teachers.

00:37:20.640 Remember, this guy sat by, didn't act, more people were shot, more children were shot, which is why I think, you know, we're seeing this action here.

00:37:29.000 Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell impaneled a grand jury in January to determine if charges should be brought against any of the roughly 400 law enforcement officials who responded to the shooting at Rob Elementary.

00:37:44.340 The Texas Tribune reported this part, authorities were held back for nearly an hour, authorities were held back for nearly an hour, an hour and a half, actually, before border patrol agents stormed the classroom and killed the suspect.

00:38:01.680 Over 90 minutes held back.

00:38:03.500 The U.S. Department of Justice released a 600-page report earlier this year reviewing the failures of law enforcement's response to that shooting.

00:38:12.640 This is a quote here.

00:38:13.780 Chief Pete Arandonado of the UCISD Police Department directed officers at several points to delay making entry into classrooms 111 and 112 in favor of searching for keys and clearing other classrooms.

00:38:31.640 At several points, Chief Arandonado also attempted to negotiate with the suspect who became the de facto on-scene commander.

00:38:42.480 He was without his radios, having discarded them during his arrival and communicated to others via either verbally or via cell phone throughout the response.

00:38:51.440 Of the hundreds of the hundreds of law enforcement officials who arrived at the school, many believed that the subject had already been killed or that UCISDPD Chief Arandonado was in the room with the subject because of poor communication and those who were in charge of the scene.

00:39:09.580 Look, again, I can't imagine what it's like to be a police officer.

00:39:16.080 I've never been one.

00:39:17.140 I haven't had to go through that.

00:39:18.280 To wake up every single morning and know that there's a chance you won't return home.

00:39:24.320 I mean, yes, that's a reality for all of us on some level, but this is every single day for a police officer to wake up,

00:39:32.480 put themselves in the line of duty and have to go out and understand like, hey, you might never see your family again.

00:39:39.560 And it's not like it's not like they're getting rich doing this.

00:39:42.400 These these aren't ballplayer salaries.

00:39:44.380 You know, I wish we lived in a world, in a country, in a society where the people are first responders in our military, the people who are getting very wealthy.

00:39:52.120 That's not the case.

00:39:53.000 So these people are putting their lives on the line for not very much money.

00:39:56.720 But this but this is why it's for moments like this.

00:40:00.320 This is when we need leaders to respond.

00:40:02.840 Nineteen children dead and two teachers dead because we're standing by and we're not acting.

00:40:08.200 This is why we need the leaders in our society to be leaders, to take action when we need it most.

00:40:14.020 Most because you never understand on any day what what type of situation could turn into a life or death scenario.

00:40:22.360 That's what happened in Uvalde that day.

00:40:24.160 And now, you know, this is this to me is the the natural conclusion of that.

00:40:29.460 We'll keep you posted as more information comes out on the Uvalde story.

00:40:35.000 All right.

00:40:35.780 Next one up here.

00:40:37.140 Maybe you didn't know this.

00:40:39.160 I can understand if you've gotten confused giving the the leftist talking points over the last few years and decades.

00:40:47.060 But this from The Washington Post now, we've been accidentally cooling the planet again.

00:40:53.540 We've been accidentally cooling the planet and it's about to stop.

00:41:00.180 Yeah, this is news to me.

00:41:01.320 So why don't we just dive in?

00:41:02.420 Let's just work through this Washington Post article a little bit here.

00:41:05.520 Let's see how exactly now all of a sudden we're cooling the planet.

00:41:10.000 I can't wait to find out.

00:41:11.620 It is widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over.

00:41:16.000 This needs to be a stage performance.

00:41:17.600 I need like I need an enactment of this that is just just a stage play.

00:41:22.240 It has been widely accepted that humans have been heating up the planet for over a century by burning coal, oil and gas.

00:41:29.860 Earth has already worn by almost 1.2 degrees Celsius.

00:41:33.520 That's 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit.

00:41:36.500 Can we just put that like this is America since pre-industrial times and the planet is poised to race past the hoped for limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.

00:41:49.240 But fewer people know that burning fossil fuels doesn't just cause global warming.

00:41:57.180 It also causes global cooling.

00:42:00.500 Dun, dun, dun.

00:42:01.300 This sounds like the Tom Cruise movie Entropic Thunder.

00:42:03.840 Like the fake parody ads.

00:42:05.820 You know, not only is the planet warming, but we're also cooling it.

00:42:10.000 Does that cancel each other out and we're all good?

00:42:12.540 No.

00:42:13.240 It's doubly as bad.

00:42:14.620 It's triply as bad.

00:42:15.860 Don't you understand?

00:42:16.660 We're warming and we're cooling at the same time.

00:42:19.180 Things will never be the same.

00:42:20.980 It is one of the great ironies, this goes on to say.

00:42:23.580 It is one of the great ironies of climate change that air pollution, which has killed tens of millions, has also curbed some of the worst effects of a warming planet.

00:42:35.880 And now as society cleans up pollution, so we're doing a good thing, right?

00:42:39.380 We're cleaning up pollution.

00:42:41.020 That cooling effect, we've been cooling, right?

00:42:44.740 That is now waning.

00:42:45.880 New regulations have cut the amount of sulfur aerosols from global shipping traffic across the oceans.

00:42:52.920 China, fighting its own air pollution problem, has slashed sulfur pollution dramatically in the last decade.

00:42:59.520 The result is even warmer temperatures.

00:43:02.840 But exactly how much warmer is still under debate.

00:43:05.900 The answer will have lasting impacts on humanity's ability to meet its climate goals.

00:43:10.980 What are the goals?

00:43:13.800 Like, what are the goals?

00:43:14.900 Can we just, I'll just keep going.

00:43:18.420 We're starting, this is a quote here.

00:43:20.080 We're starting from an area of deep, deep uncertainty, said Zeke Housefather.

00:43:27.980 Housefather, a climate scientist and research lead for the payments company Stripe.

00:43:34.540 It could be a full degree of cooling being masked.

00:43:38.620 A full degree.

00:43:40.140 It could be a full degree, y'all.

00:43:41.300 These moves have saved lives, according to estimates.

00:43:45.360 Around 200,000 premature deaths have already been avoided in China because we're doing a good thing in cleaning up the air pollution.

00:43:54.060 But the new shipping regulations could save around 50,000 lives per year, but they have also boosted global temperatures.

00:44:01.340 Scientists estimate that the changes in aerosols from the new shipping rule alone could contribute between 0.05 and 0.2 degrees Celsius of warming over the next few decades.

00:44:14.880 How are we arriving at these numbers?

00:44:16.760 What sort of calculations are we able to do that we know 200,000 lives were saved, 50,000 lives per year are saved?

00:44:24.780 We think we are so much smarter than we actually are.

00:44:28.340 I get it. Elon Musk is landing rockets backwards, and apparently we went to the moon.

00:44:33.760 I still believe we went to the moon in 1969.

00:44:36.360 Maybe we didn't, but I did see a guy this weekend juggle three Rubik's cubes and solve them while they were in the air.

00:44:44.160 It's one of the most incredible things.

00:44:45.420 Unless that's a deep fake, too.

00:44:47.380 We are intelligent.

00:44:49.080 We have the ability to do very, very interesting things on this planet.

00:44:55.620 And yet, I'm just wondering, like, how do we find ourselves at times thinking we're so much smarter than we actually are?

00:45:02.840 No scientist, this goes on to say, no scientists are advocating to halt the aerosol cleanup efforts, right?

00:45:09.200 Like, we don't want to do that.

00:45:11.020 The death tolls from air pollution are simply too high.

00:45:14.160 There are really good reasons to want to clean up air pollution.

00:45:17.220 The public health benefits are really important, this person here says.

00:45:21.080 But researchers worry that cleaning up that pollution without halting fossil fuels, for example, as in China, could be a recipe for even greater and faster warming.

00:45:31.240 Again, if you are confused over what just transpired over the last five minutes as I read that, then you're not alone.

00:45:38.800 Because I thought, I've been reliably informed that global warming, that's what it used to be called, but now it's climate change, was the single greatest threat to civilization, existential threat.

00:45:50.900 Like, might not make it to, it's July 1st now, right?

00:45:54.200 Might not make it to August type of threat.

00:45:56.300 And now, all of a sudden, we're also cooling the planet.

00:45:59.680 We've been accidentally, we've been accidentally cooling the planet.

00:46:02.960 When I've been told that global warming is an existential crisis, if you can keep up, please call me and tell me how to keep up because I'm starting to get lost.

00:46:14.120 All right, next story here, it's time to go in on McDonald's.

00:46:17.720 Are you ready?

00:46:18.260 Again, do not turn this episode off because you're someone who thinks, well, what do I care?

00:46:22.900 I don't eat McDonald's.

00:46:24.140 I wouldn't, I can't remember the last time I had McDonald's.

00:46:26.320 Yeah, you know what?

00:46:26.980 I can't remember the last time I had McDonald's either.

00:46:29.460 I can't remember for sure the last time I had a McDonald's milkshake or ice cream, but that's what we're going to get in because the implications of this go far beyond fast food.

00:46:39.900 It speaks to our society right now.

00:46:41.960 I want to get into this thread right here that I saw on Genius Thinking.

00:46:45.860 If you've ever wondered why you can never get an ice cream from McDonald's, there's a dark truth you need to know.

00:46:53.360 The machines are broken by design.

00:46:57.540 All right, let's dive into it then.

00:46:59.140 Here's the real reason you can't have your McFlurry.

00:47:03.560 Why are the McDonald's ice cream machines always broken?

00:47:05.720 It's a widespread issue, so much so that in 2021, a guy created the McBroken.com, the McBroken.com to track this in real time, at least across the country, maybe across the world.

00:47:20.920 Some quick stats on the McDonald's ice cream situation.

00:47:24.500 An average of 14.7% of machines in the U.S. are broken.

00:47:30.180 It's been a meme since the early 2010s.

00:47:32.180 Everybody's talked about it.

00:47:33.540 Other fast food chains don't have this same sort of issue, don't have numbers that high.

00:47:37.900 The culprit, the Taylor C602 ice cream machine.

00:47:43.960 Introduced in 2003, it's mandatory for all McDonald's franchises.

00:47:49.860 No other option is allowed, period.

00:47:52.240 Taylor, the provider, makes machines for other chains too, and those work fine.

00:47:57.220 So why is McDonald's different?

00:47:59.020 Now, some context that was added here online, this says prior to 2017, anyone who opened a McDonald's franchise could only purchase this Taylor-branded machine.

00:48:09.160 Since then, apparently franchisees have a little bit more leeway to purchase from one other company.

00:48:15.600 Anyway, we'll fact check all of this stuff, but I don't think it's a surprise to anyone to understand that there are nefarious reasons behind the McDonald's ice cream machines always being broken.

00:48:26.100 The C602 is a nightmare of complexity.

00:48:29.460 Four-hour daily heating cycle or daily cleaning cycles.

00:48:32.780 Interface that looks like it's from 1983.

00:48:35.400 Cryptic error codes like heat mode failure.

00:48:39.080 The real problem, Taylor has zero reasons to improve these machines.

00:48:42.740 In fact, they profit from keeping them broken, and this is where we really get into the main point.

00:48:48.380 This is where we get into why I'm telling you about this.

00:48:51.060 How do they profit from the machine staying broken?

00:48:53.940 Staying broken?

00:48:54.840 You make more money serving ice cream, right?

00:48:56.920 No.

00:48:57.480 25% of Taylor's revenue comes from repairs and maintenance.

00:49:01.500 That's right.

00:49:02.220 They're cashing in on their own products' failure.

00:49:06.880 Well, surely McDonald's corporate would step in, right?

00:49:10.080 Nope.

00:49:10.380 Repair costs hit franchise owners, not corporate.

00:49:14.720 They hit the franchisees, not McDonald's corporate.

00:49:17.780 So McDonald's ignores them while the owners lose money.

00:49:21.840 One owner called for repairs four to five times in the first few months.

00:49:26.800 Cha-ching. 1.00

00:49:28.660 Here's where it gets shady.

00:49:29.960 There's a secret service menu in these machines.

00:49:32.900 Only Taylor technicians can access it.

00:49:35.080 It's like franchise owners holds a critical operating parameters, like opening a car, having a car with a hood that you can't open, but someone else has to come out there, which we're seeing that too.

00:49:48.120 I mean, the other day I could barely jump off someone else's car.

00:49:51.460 As a foreign car, you could barely jump it off because they're trying to make it where only technicians can get into it and you have to pay extra for that.

00:49:58.180 So what happens when these machines break down?

00:50:00.460 Franchise owners have one option.

00:50:02.860 Call the guy, quote unquote.

00:50:04.560 That guy is a tailored technician who charges $144 for the first half hour, hundreds more for each additional 15 minutes.

00:50:13.400 But wait, there's more.

00:50:14.400 In 2019, a tech startup called Kytec created a device that helps franchise owners.

00:50:20.080 It's connected to phones, giving real-time data on the machines.

00:50:23.680 It was a hit.

00:50:24.880 The owners, the franchisees, they loved it.

00:50:27.440 McDonald's response?

00:50:29.260 They banned it, claiming it was dangerous.

00:50:32.200 Again, take this for what it's worth.

00:50:34.020 I'm reading you what I've seen here.

00:50:35.680 There's a documentary that's been posted that goes along with this.

00:50:38.440 A guy has spent the better part of, what, three years, I guess, putting this together.

00:50:42.540 McDonald's banned that device, that app, solving their PR nightmare because they are making their own with a powerhouse dynamics.

00:50:52.180 This is owned by Taylor's parent company.

00:50:55.080 So the only app that now you can lose is owned by the parent company of the ice cream machines.

00:50:59.040 It's like asking the fox to design the henhouse security.

00:51:03.620 But this goes beyond just ice cream, of course.

00:51:05.820 It's a case study on how big corporations can crush innovation and hurt their own customers and franchisees to protect old partnerships.

00:51:14.880 And that's really what I get into here.

00:51:16.800 Planned obsolescence.

00:51:18.140 Haven't we seen this in America over the course of the last century, whether it be the automotive industry or anywhere else?

00:51:24.020 I mean, just on fast food in particular.

00:51:25.800 This is why you don't have issues like this at Chick-fil-A.

00:51:28.660 You don't have issues like this at Chick-fil-A.

00:51:31.760 Like, they can't get me through the Chick-fil-A drive-through fast enough.

00:51:36.200 I dread any scenario where I have to go through McDonald's.

00:51:39.560 And I'm not even trying to get ice cream.

00:51:41.220 I'm not saying this as someone who's like, I desperately need a McDonald's ice cream all the time, and I'm disappointed that it's not there.

00:51:48.840 No, I'm talking about a bigger issue in America.

00:51:51.460 This idea of planned obsolescence, this idea of not doing the best to your absolute ability, not only not doing the best that you can, but building that in as a feature to your business mechanics.

00:52:07.440 It's a feature.

00:52:08.480 It's not a bug.

00:52:09.820 You're making more off the repairs that you have.

00:52:12.160 Look, to me, it's unacceptable.

00:52:13.920 I operate by a simple principle.

00:52:15.520 Do the absolute best you can in any given situation in your life, and that's the way to ultimately have success.

00:52:22.600 So this idea of saying, well, you know, here's how we could boost our profits, right?

00:52:27.280 Like, let's make the iPhone where you need to replace it every 15 months instead of it lasting every three years.

00:52:33.940 You know what?

00:52:34.200 Let's make our American cars where, you know, they only last until 100,000 miles, and then you got to get a new one because then we'll make more money, right?

00:52:41.500 Wrong, wrong.

00:52:43.180 What are the Japanese doing? 1.00

00:52:44.280 I had a Toyota Land Cruiser one time that put, I put 325,000 miles on that thing.

00:52:50.160 Would I have rather had an American car?

00:52:51.700 Yes.

00:52:52.600 But that thing got me through the ice and the snow at the University of Michigan.

00:52:56.820 That's what I needed.

00:52:57.860 It never broke down on me.

00:52:58.840 Always start it.

00:53:00.000 Because they're building things the right way.

00:53:01.620 They want their products to be the best they can possibly be.

00:53:04.680 Enough with this planned obsolescence.

00:53:06.660 It's time to end this practice in every business and every corporation.

00:53:11.160 McDonald's, why don't you take the lead here?

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00:54:02.760 Now, let's get to our Daily Cancellation.

00:54:11.400 International days of the year have gotten out of control.

00:54:16.100 Yesterday marked the final day in the month of June, that special time of year when we are all inundated with rainbow flags and pride paraphernalia and whatever it is that this guy here was doing.

00:54:28.020 Oh, turn it off.

00:54:32.480 Turn it off.

00:54:33.200 I had to live through that this weekend, so now you do as well.

00:54:36.200 It's that summertime season when every corporation issues statements of support and swaps out logos, unless, of course, it would hurt business to do so, such as in Saudi Arabia.

00:54:46.460 BMW, for instance, was asked online why they didn't update their Middle East brand logo, and the response was, it is commonplace and established practice at BMW Group with such marketing initiatives, marketing activities.

00:55:02.360 That's it.

00:55:02.760 Marketing activities.

00:55:03.760 That's what these really are.

00:55:04.800 To take into consideration country-specific cultural aspects.

00:55:10.220 So, in other words, that don't fly here.

00:55:12.460 I've been told the term for this is slacktivism, so that's activism, that's slacking.

00:55:17.720 We may need to keep that in mind for future cancellations.

00:55:21.040 But my question is, who co-opted June without anyone's permission?

00:55:25.740 Are we sure that we're not misgendering June?

00:55:29.040 Perhaps June, like BMW Middle East, doesn't identify as a gay month. 0.95

00:55:33.140 Let's really add up the most important, most sacred days of observance in our society, like Fourth of July, just a few days from now.

00:55:41.760 That one makes sense.

00:55:43.440 America's birthday.

00:55:44.660 I understand the origin.

00:55:46.880 Christmas.

00:55:47.640 Love it.

00:55:48.220 Easter.

00:55:49.000 Hanukkah.

00:55:49.900 Thanksgiving.

00:55:50.620 Important staples of our culture.

00:55:53.480 Even if you don't participate in all of them, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, let's even include Mother's Day and Father's Day.

00:56:01.300 They're important.

00:56:02.260 All of those only get one single day.

00:56:05.060 And even added together, they don't make up half of June.

00:56:08.320 To make matters worse, claiming the entire six-month isn't even enough to satisfy the pride appetite. 0.66

00:56:18.400 Here are just a few of the other 48 claim days outside the month of June on the LGBTQIA plus community calendar.

00:56:31.640 Here are some of them.

00:56:32.380 International Transgender Day of Visibility, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Non-Binary Parents Day, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, National Asian and Pacific Islanders HIV and AIDS Awareness Day, International Drag Day, National Coming Out Day, Lesbian Visibility Day, International Lesbian Day.

00:56:52.100 And I kid you not, Gay Uncle's Day, Gay Uncle's Day, it's August 14th.

00:57:01.700 I had no idea.

00:57:03.560 I actually may need to send this to an uncle of mine so he doesn't miss it.

00:57:07.640 But this isn't just a gay thing.

00:57:10.920 These international days of the year have become a problem.

00:57:15.000 I did a deep dive on your behalf and I'm disturbed.

00:57:19.620 March 24th, International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.

00:57:28.440 What?

00:57:29.960 May 30th, International Day of Potato.

00:57:34.160 I had potatoes last night.

00:57:35.780 My wife made them.

00:57:36.760 They were amazing.

00:57:37.500 I don't need this day here.

00:57:39.520 Who came up with these?

00:57:40.600 Who voted for these?

00:57:41.800 Did you get a say?

00:57:42.620 Hey, did you get to voice your opinion on these decisions?

00:57:45.160 I know I didn't.

00:57:46.560 I guess these started innocuous enough like, hey, today's National Pizza Day.

00:57:52.060 Okay, so what?

00:57:52.940 You know, big pizza, corporate pizza runs a marketing play and pays off Google or whoever to put it on your calendar that you can't take off.

00:58:00.180 Okay, not like I need another reason to eat pizza.

00:58:02.960 I already do that a lot.

00:58:04.960 But so what?

00:58:05.940 You know, like International Flannel Shirt Day where we all get together and wear plaid.

00:58:10.720 That's lame.

00:58:11.420 I would never, not my thing, but who cares?

00:58:14.120 Some guys like that.

00:58:15.540 But like all things that we don't put a stop to when we should, like all things that we don't nip in the bud as soon as we recognize the insanity, they grow out of control.

00:58:27.980 July 12th, International Day of Combating Sand and Dust Storms.

00:58:33.680 Good luck.

00:58:34.780 Good luck with combating those.

00:58:36.180 November 5th, World Tsunami Awareness Day.

00:58:39.920 The people who need to be aware of tsunamis are very aware of tsunamis.

00:58:44.220 I promise you that.

00:58:45.200 The week after Valentine's Day.

00:58:46.680 And look, we can have an honest conversation about Valentine's Day.

00:58:50.060 Hey, is that just one of those marketing ploys where we're trying to sell chocolate and teddy bears and we shouldn't have it?

00:58:54.900 And it's not, okay, Valentine's Day is pretty much baked in at this point, but if you want to make that argument, that's fine.

00:58:59.960 Here's an entire week.

00:59:01.520 The week after Valentine's Day, Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week.

00:59:07.060 What?

00:59:10.220 National Zip Code Day.

00:59:12.720 What could that possibly be for?

00:59:14.960 National Zip Code Day.

00:59:16.400 National Outfit of the Day Day.

00:59:19.880 First off, you can't have the word day in there twice.

00:59:22.300 Second of all, what would happen if this day didn't exist?

00:59:25.340 Like all of a sudden, you don't remember to wear clothes?

00:59:27.660 Like all of a sudden, you walk around naked?

00:59:30.400 My birthday is in December.

00:59:32.060 So I had to know, you know, what sorts of lunacy am I competing with apart from Taylor Swift?

00:59:38.780 Yes, we share the same birthday.

00:59:41.100 Here's what I found out.

00:59:42.280 Two, got two on the same day here.

00:59:45.080 International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and the Prevention of this Crime.

00:59:53.260 What in the world?

00:59:55.160 Genocide's not bad enough. 0.73

00:59:56.400 We have to come up with a day that's this long.

00:59:58.000 And that's not it.

00:59:58.560 The second thing, International Anti-Corruption Day.

01:00:03.020 So let me get this straight.

01:00:04.140 On the one day a year when I get to celebrate the anniversary of my birth, I have to share that day with Taylor Swift, corruption, good luck fighting that,

01:00:15.820 and the commemoration and dignity of the victims of the crime of genocide and the prevention of this crime.

01:00:21.320 Some days just need to be normal.

01:00:24.000 Most days just need to be normal.

01:00:26.900 When every day is, quote unquote, special, none are special.

01:00:31.300 When every day masquerades as a holiday, it dilutes the important ones.

01:00:36.420 It's not like we get National Dude Day where, hey, we watch the Big Lebowski and Drink White Russians. 0.95

01:00:41.740 Now, that would be something I could get behind.

01:00:43.800 But no, July 2nd, National I Forgot Day.

01:00:48.240 Yeah, I wish I could forget too.

01:00:52.080 I wish I could forget a lot of this.

01:00:54.380 What exactly did you forget that you don't need every single day of the year to have a theme in order to live your life and to go about your business?

01:01:02.180 Can I get just one day, just one day a year where I am left alone?

01:01:07.220 Look at this, National Wrong Trousers Day, where we sport whimsical pants and channel our inner spirit.

01:01:15.440 No, no, no, this I can't abide.

01:01:19.860 I am going to channel my inner spirit.

01:01:22.700 All right, I'm going to do it right now.

01:01:24.060 I'm instituting a policy of my own.

01:01:26.280 I didn't want it to come to this.

01:01:27.620 Yes, I know I will be guilty of the exact thing I'm railing against.

01:01:31.880 But just like Hank Williams Jr. wrote that song, The Coalition to Ban Coalitions, it's clear if you can't beat them, you must join them.

01:01:40.600 So this is what I have to do.

01:01:41.940 We have these arbitrary days, weeks, months, even years.

01:01:45.920 Hey, you're the dragon.

01:01:47.440 All right, so I'm carving out some space for myself and others like me.

01:01:51.100 Moving forward from this day until the end of days, every July 1st shall henceforth be known as Get Off My Lawn Day.

01:02:00.540 That's right.

01:02:01.520 I am unilaterally installing this initiative for all humans in all countries, national.

01:02:07.300 No, actually, this is bigger than that.

01:02:10.060 Intergalactic Get Off My Lawn Day.

01:02:12.820 I mean, aliens do not exist, but why take any chances?

01:02:16.240 Intergalactic Get Off My Lawn Day during this precious time.

01:02:19.100 There will be no other nonsense days allowed.

01:02:21.860 Do not tell me what food to eat.

01:02:23.460 Do not tell me what cocktail I must consume in order to have fun with my friends.

01:02:28.380 Don't tell me anything.

01:02:29.980 This is the only way to fight this epidemic that has consumed our beautiful planet.

01:02:35.880 So other than this acceptable and very reasonable day,

01:02:38.760 all others who are foisting their agendas on our calendars via the slogan,

01:02:44.820 International Day of the Week Month Day,

01:02:47.640 you are today canceled.

01:02:49.720 That'll do it today for the Matt Walsh Show.

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01:03:19.760 On behalf of Matt Walsh and his entire team here,

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01:03:24.120 Have a blessed day.

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 01, 2024

Ep. 1398 - Ignore Your Eyes, Everything Is Fine

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