The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1438 - Why Kamala's Campaign Is Spiraling Into Desperation Mode

00:00:00.100 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Kamala campaign is falling apart as they plunge in the polls.

00:00:04.540 This has just made them even more desperate and deceitful, as we've seen this week.

00:00:07.900 Also, Kamala is on the record saying that schools shouldn't have resource officers handling security,

00:00:12.440 but two resource officers just saved dozens of lives.

00:00:15.620 What does she have to say about that?

00:00:16.700 Plus, Will Ferrell has a new pro-trans documentary coming out,

00:00:19.960 and the Hawk to a Girl keeps extending her 15 minutes way beyond the breaking point.

00:00:24.160 Now she has a new podcast on the way.

00:00:25.840 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:47.760 You know, there are a lot of ways that you can tell that a political campaign is in trouble.

00:01:52.560 Of course, you can look at the polls and the various models that aggregate those polls.

00:01:57.560 And right now, the models do not look very good for Kamala Harris.

00:02:00.840 Right now, for example, Nate Silver's model gives Donald Trump a 60% chance of winning

00:02:05.220 with a projected 277 electoral votes.

00:02:09.240 Who knows whether any of this is especially accurate.

00:02:12.220 It'll all change by next week, most likely, and there's still plenty of time to go.

00:02:15.960 We know that, but the more interesting thing about Silver's projection isn't the specific figures.

00:02:19.560 It's that his data, which aggregates all the polls, shows a very clear trend.

00:02:23.920 Kamala Harris is losing ground quickly, as you can see from the chart. 0.68

00:02:28.440 And it's not hard to see why, when you're only capable of giving one interview to a friendly news outlet

00:02:33.600 in more than a month, and when you manage to bomb even that interview,

00:02:37.500 then people lose confidence in your campaign very quickly.

00:02:39.740 And that's what's happening to Kamala Harris right now. 1.00

00:02:41.940 She barely got a bounce from the convention, and now she's in free fall.

00:02:45.080 Well, the media built up this elaborate hype train for Kamala, hoping it would carry her 1.00

00:02:51.180 on those tracks to November, but the whole thing was so absurdly fake and phony that it couldn't last.

00:02:56.700 It ran out of steam.

00:02:58.020 It went off the tracks, whatever metaphor you might like.

00:03:00.240 And now they're stuck with just Kamala Harris.

00:03:03.980 Not the idea of Kamala Harris, the idea they constructed, right? 0.99

00:03:07.620 But the fact of her as a person, Kamala Harris, the lame, unimpressive, inarticulate, mediocre politician 0.98

00:03:14.280 that we all have known, unfortunately, for many years. 0.75

00:03:17.680 At the same time, if you're not a believer in polls or statistical models,

00:03:20.720 there are plenty of other signs that things have taken a very bad turn for Kamala Harris' candidates.

00:03:24.720 And one of them is that the campaign is lying, and their lying is becoming more flagrant and shameless by the day.

00:03:32.500 There's clear desperation everywhere you look.

00:03:35.480 So last night, for instance, Kamala's account tweeted an accusation that J.D. Vance had downplayed school shootings

00:03:42.140 as just a fact of life.

00:03:44.860 So here's what Kamala's handlers posted to her account above a video of Vance's speech.

00:03:50.000 Quote,

00:03:50.100 So she's telling off J.D. Vance for supposedly saying that school shootings are inevitable and we should get used to them.

00:04:05.080 For supposedly saying or implying that school shootings are just a fact of life.

00:04:09.800 No, it's just a fact of life.

00:04:11.800 Right?

00:04:11.960 I'm trying to make it seem like that's what he said, that's how he said it.

00:04:15.560 Predictably, the Associated Press also promoted the lie about what Vance said.

00:04:18.900 And they ran this headline, quote,

00:04:20.880 J.D. Vance says school shootings are a fact of life.

00:04:24.860 Several million people saw this smear and repeated it.

00:04:28.380 The outrage machine kicked into gear as expected. 0.90

00:04:31.920 Eventually, Twitter's community notes feature corrected it.

00:04:35.220 And the AP finally deleted their original post and updated their headline.

00:04:39.720 Now the AP's headline reads very differently.

00:04:41.340 It says, quote,

00:04:42.600 J.D. Vance says he laments that school shootings are a fact of life.

00:04:46.120 So they suggested that Vance was minimizing the fact that a school shooting had occurred when, in fact, he was doing the opposite.

00:04:53.900 He wasn't saying they're just a fact of life.

00:04:55.740 He's saying that he wishes they were not a fact of life.

00:04:58.460 They should not be a fact of life, which is something that everybody would agree with, I assume.

00:05:03.000 So as far as lies go, this one was extremely transparent.

00:05:07.760 Anybody could just watch the video to see what J.D. Vance actually said.

00:05:11.620 But the AP and Kamala Harris' campaign, they went ahead with the lie anyway.

00:05:15.460 And that tells us that they're desperate.

00:05:16.880 Obviously so.

00:05:17.640 They're in a very bad position and they know it.

00:05:20.280 Campaigns that are confident and surging in the polls don't need to invent fake quotes that are easy to disprove in about five seconds.

00:05:26.360 And for that matter, campaigns that aren't collapsing don't have surrogates who go wildly off message all the time.

00:05:33.340 That's what's happening to Kamala's campaign, too. 1.00

00:05:35.560 People who are supposed to be promoting Kamala are instead sabotaging her message at every opportunity.

00:05:40.000 Here, for example, is Joe Biden just the other day, fresh off of his 97th vacation of his term, talking about the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:05:50.360 This is the law that Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote on.

00:05:53.240 But instead of arguing that the Inflation Reduction Act reduced inflation, Biden instead admitted that the law, in fact, had nothing to do with inflation.

00:06:01.220 Instead, he said it was a climate bill.

00:06:03.340 Watch.

00:06:04.680 My investments, that through my investments, the most significant climate change law ever.

00:06:11.920 And by the way, it is a $369 billion bill.

00:06:15.960 It's called the we should have named it what it was.

00:06:19.940 But at any rate.

00:06:21.520 We should have named it what it was.

00:06:25.620 That's a great message.

00:06:27.560 And if you're Kamala, you know, it's not exactly something you want to hear one of your surrogates say on the campaign trail. 0.98

00:06:34.680 Admitting that the lie, that the legislation was passed under false pretenses.

00:06:39.560 It's an admission that Kamala Harris deceived the entire country about the one major legislative accomplishment that she claims to have.

00:06:48.060 And once you admit that, there's no reason for anyone to trust you ever again.

00:06:52.160 There's certainly no reason to trust her when she says that she can implement her economic agenda, including taxing unrealized capital gains, without destroying the U.S. economy. 0.55

00:07:00.220 And just to underscore the point, another prominent supporter of Kamala, Mark Cuban, just went on CNBC to explain that taxing unrealized capital gains would be a disaster.

00:07:12.180 Watch.

00:07:12.420 On this unrealized tax issue, gain issue, and where we've talked about, you know, those who are taking loans against their their unrealized stock, et cetera, et cetera.

00:07:22.960 And then they say, well, you know, if you start to tax that, we won't be able to make investments in startups.

00:07:30.380 We won't be able to give money over to venture capitalists and private equity folks and other things like that.

00:07:34.880 What's the what's your feedback to that distinction?

00:07:38.400 Because I wonder what is a critique of one then, you know, of one policy and you get rid of that policy.

00:07:43.740 Then then, of course, it moves to the critique of the next version of it.

00:07:46.920 Well, of course. But OK, so what I told him was if you tax unrealized gains, you're going to kill the stock market.

00:07:54.380 Right. And it's going to be the ultimate employment plan for private equity because companies are not going to go public because you can get whipsawed.

00:08:02.740 Right. I mean, my own personal experience back from the Internet days.

00:08:05.940 Right. All of a sudden I was cash poor, but equity rich.

00:08:09.880 Right. My my net worth was enormous, but the number of dollars in the bank wasn't enormous.

00:08:15.220 And so I'd have based off of the the unrealized gains, I would have had to borrow money and I effectively would have been in hock just to pay my tax bill instead of trying to run my company and a thousand other reasons.

00:08:27.480 Right. Cuban went on to say that he's supposedly spoken with Harris's team and that they now understand that taxing unrealized gains may not be a great idea.

00:08:37.280 But that doesn't explain why they proposed it in the first place.

00:08:40.540 It also doesn't explain why they're still pushing it.

00:08:42.360 So Kamala hasn't explained in detail why she still wants a tax on unrealized capital gains. 0.97

00:08:47.420 Her team has walked back some of the numbers, but she's still proposing the tax.

00:08:51.840 Why is that exactly? How could she support a tax that even her own supporters recognize would be a disaster? 0.70

00:08:57.620 Well, we all know the answer to that question. Kamala Harris doesn't know anything about economics. 1.00

00:09:01.880 Ask her one question about unrealized capital gains and she'll start babbling about equity. 0.79

00:09:06.240 I think it's unlikely that she even knows what unrealized capital gains are.

00:09:11.700 She's not gonna be able to defend the policy even for a moment.

00:09:13.900 Everyone, even her surrogates, understand this and now they're comfortable coming out on television and admitting it.

00:09:19.760 So these are not great signs for the Kamala Harris campaign, but maybe the worst sign of all is what took place earlier this week.

00:09:25.380 Kamala received an endorsement from Liz Cheney, who recently lost her house seat by a margin that was almost unparalleled in modern politics.

00:09:34.560 If there was ever an endorsement that qualified as the kiss of death, this is it.

00:09:39.260 Here's the awkwardly filmed cell phone footage of the big moment when this endorsement was made.

00:09:45.320 Because we are here in North Carolina, I think it is crucially important for people to recognize not only is what I've just said about the danger that Trump poses something that should prevent people from voting for him,

00:10:09.940 But I don't believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates' names, particularly in swing states.

00:10:19.940 And as a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this.

00:10:27.360 And because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.

00:10:39.940 Liz Cheney goes on and on about how Kamala Harris will save democracy and freedom in the United States.

00:10:46.400 And people in the audience pretend to be excited about this endorsement.

00:10:49.160 But if you go back just a couple of years ago, Liz Cheney had a very different perspective on Kamala Harris.

00:10:54.800 She pointed out that Kamala had explicitly promised to suspend Americans' constitutional rights via executive order.

00:11:01.880 She explained that Kamala Harris wants to spend trillions of dollars on universal health care. 1.00

00:11:06.980 And she concluded that Kamala is a radical and that she's to the left of Bernie Sanders.

00:11:14.000 And she's someone who no one should vote for.

00:11:16.000 That's what she said a couple of years ago. Watch.

00:11:18.700 In one fell swoop here, he has put somebody on the ticket whose voting record in the Senate is to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

00:11:26.220 So I think that, you know, the American people are going to look at the substance of this.

00:11:30.420 They're going to look at what she stood for in the past.

00:11:32.560 They're going to look at what she said during the primary election.

00:11:36.200 And it's very clear she is a radical liberal.

00:11:39.320 She's somebody that has said we ought to spend $32 trillion on Medicare for all.

00:11:44.600 If you look at her record as well in California, she did, in fact, essentially ban gun sales with executive action.

00:11:52.300 And she threatened during the primaries to do the same thing if she's elected. 1.00

00:11:56.320 This is the kind of endorsement you'd probably rather refuse if you had the choice.

00:12:00.940 There's no one on either side of the political spectrum who covets an endorsement from Liz Cheney. 0.95

00:12:06.420 But now it's the endorsement that Kamala Harris is stuck with. 0.65

00:12:09.120 This is the caliber of endorsement her candidacy is attracting as her surrogates are publicly disavowing her policy positions. 0.95

00:12:14.820 As the ship sinks, Kamala Harris is quite literally getting endorsed by the biggest losers in all of politics. 1.00

00:12:22.260 Of course, Kamala has no one to blame for this but herself because she's not appearing for interviews. 1.00

00:12:28.620 So that means she has to rely on surrogates to explain what she stands for and why. 1.00

00:12:33.620 Kamala herself is nowhere to be found.

00:12:35.240 That's why people are still digging up clips of her speeches from several years ago just to try to figure out what a Kamala administration would look like. 1.00

00:12:43.740 That's what we're reduced to when the candidate is incapable of speaking for herself. 0.99

00:12:48.420 Here's one of those clips that's now making the rounds.

00:12:51.220 Every day is another one from like 2019, 2020 of these clips of Kamala Harris.

00:12:54.940 Again, because she's not saying anything now.

00:12:57.640 So we have to go back to find out what she believes.

00:13:00.300 This one apparently is from 2019.

00:13:02.360 Listen to this.

00:13:03.680 And we'll put the Department of Justice of the United States back in the business of justice.

00:13:11.220 We will double the Civil Rights Division and direct law enforcement to counter this extremism.

00:13:19.060 We will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy.

00:13:32.900 And if you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber warfare, if you don't police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable as a community.

00:13:50.760 As I outlined yesterday, politicians like Kamala demand censorship because without it, their candidacy falls apart.

00:13:58.020 There are just too many obvious problems with her platform that don't withstand any scrutiny. 0.73

00:14:02.560 So she wants to shut down the Internet to prevent people from talking about them. 1.00

00:14:06.560 You know, frankly, we're now at the point where Kamala would probably censor her own surrogates if she could. 0.99

00:14:11.280 A candidate who isn't capable of speaking for herself is now struggling to contain the people that she's sending out to do her messaging for her. 1.00

00:14:19.320 With just a couple of months to go until the election, more than any poll or statistical model, that's just about the worst imaginable sign for the Kamala campaign.

00:14:30.460 And what that means is very clear based on what we're seeing so far.

00:14:33.780 The lying and the panic are only going to intensify from here.

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00:17:09.120 Well, we're just talking about the old clips of Kamala that are making the rounds as people are trying to figure out what exactly this woman stands for,

00:17:17.660 who she is, and what her platform is or will be, because she doesn't have one right now.

00:17:22.620 So here's another one, also making the rounds.

00:17:26.660 NBC 15 News reports, Vice President Kamala Harris, during her 2020 presidential campaign,

00:17:31.560 supported writing laws specifically meant for black people, according to video which resurfaced on social media Thursday.

00:17:38.040 Harris, in the half-hour video dated November 2019, visited a South Carolina barbershop with rapper Uncle Luke.

00:17:44.660 The two spoke with a panel of black voters who shared their thoughts on issues facing the black community while seated in swiveling barbershop chairs.

00:17:52.920 One participant in the conversation suggested that Harris focused on passing laws with a specific emphasis on the black community rather than broader terms like minority.

00:18:00.760 So this again is from 2019.

00:18:02.280 Here is the video.

00:18:03.700 Watch.

00:18:03.880 And we're talking about specifically something that happened to black people here in America.

00:18:09.300 So we have to be specifically targeting to help those people, because if we put those people in a position,

00:18:16.400 can everybody know the history?

00:18:17.720 Yeah.

00:18:18.100 Everybody understands the history of America.

00:18:20.020 That's right.

00:18:21.320 America, you did this to these people.

00:18:24.020 You should write laws for these people.

00:18:27.320 Don't group us in with everybody, because everybody didn't happen to everybody.

00:18:31.140 But let's be fair.

00:18:32.720 We planned from behind the eight, but we were way back there, 400 years back there.

00:18:37.840 We're not actually going to give us nothing.

00:18:39.680 We actually write the law.

00:18:40.860 Those of us who are willing and able to do the work, will do the work.

00:18:44.780 That's right.

00:18:45.820 That's what we need.

00:18:46.820 That's right.

00:18:49.680 So you have to write laws for these people, he says.

00:18:54.460 Don't group us in with everybody.

00:18:56.280 So he's specifically rejecting equality under the law.

00:19:01.260 What you just heard there is just one long argument against the principle of equality under the law.

00:19:09.260 And so that which is flagrantly unconstitutional and illegal.

00:19:15.860 But Kamala Harris is sitting there nodding along.

00:19:18.540 She says, yes, repeatedly.

00:19:21.260 Yes, yes.

00:19:22.140 Let's abolish equality under the law.

00:19:26.940 So she agrees with it.

00:19:28.160 This is what she believes in.

00:19:29.240 This is her actual agenda.

00:19:31.140 She's not going to say it out loud right now during the election, but this is what her agenda is.

00:19:36.280 And let's think about the logic from this guy, from the guy in the video.

00:19:41.760 I don't know who that guy is.

00:19:42.620 Some activist, I guess, at the barbershop talking to Kamala Harris in 2019.

00:19:46.520 He says that the black community is 400 years behind.

00:19:50.120 They're 400 years behind the eight ball, he says, presumably because of slavery and so on.

00:19:58.240 But what does that mean?

00:20:00.640 400 years behind.

00:20:02.920 400 years behind who?

00:20:05.620 Behind what?

00:20:07.460 Behind in what way?

00:20:09.100 Like a black child born today in the year 2024 in America. 0.98

00:20:17.360 How is he starting 400 years behind?

00:20:22.620 I mean, a black child born to the Bushmen of the Kalahari. 1.00

00:20:30.440 You know, some primitive tribe in Africa. 0.99

00:20:33.680 Sure, they're 400 years.

00:20:34.960 Actually, that's probably 4,000 years behind.

00:20:37.920 But in what way could someone be 400 years behind in this country?

00:20:44.760 Well, they aren't, of course.

00:20:47.480 That's just total nonsense.

00:20:49.040 Now, they might be born into a very difficult situation.

00:20:54.140 There are, of course, children, unfortunately, born every day with disadvantages.

00:21:00.420 Sure.

00:21:01.920 Not because of the race, but because of the situation they're born into.

00:21:05.100 And in the black community, that will almost entirely be because of the state of the family 0.97

00:21:10.840 and the community that they're born into. 0.68

00:21:13.200 A black child who's one of the 70 or 80 percent born to fatherless homes.

00:21:18.100 Sure, he's starting out behind.

00:21:20.140 Not 400 years behind.

00:21:21.660 But yeah, there's a real disadvantage there.

00:21:25.320 Now, I realize, of course, that the guy in the video would probably accept that.

00:21:35.880 But then he would tell us that, well, yeah, because that's because of systemic racism.

00:21:42.020 And systemic racism is responsible for the fact that the black family is in total disarray. 0.72

00:21:46.920 But that doesn't really make any sense at all, because 40 or 50 years ago, the black family 0.98

00:21:55.140 was in better shape than it is right now.

00:21:58.760 So if systemic racism and the legacy of Jim Crow and slavery are the reason why the black

00:22:06.440 family has fallen apart, how does that make any sense?

00:22:09.060 How could it be that as we get further from those times, the black family falls apart more 1.00

00:22:14.220 and more? 0.53

00:22:15.440 Shouldn't it be working the other way?

00:22:18.040 Shouldn't you see the farther we get away from that, the better it gets?

00:22:22.020 How could it be getting worse as we get farther away from that, if that is the reason why this

00:22:26.620 is happening?

00:22:28.980 So it doesn't make any sense.

00:22:32.200 And it's because the so-called legacy of slavery and Jim Crow has nothing to do with it.

00:22:37.840 A black child is born to a family, to a fatherless home, really for the simple reason that you've

00:22:50.080 got usually two adults, the mother and the father, who have chosen to do this.

00:22:55.840 They've chosen to create a child and not to give the child a family, a strong married nuclear 0.94

00:23:03.060 family to be, to be raised by.

00:23:06.060 Like this is the decision that these people have made.

00:23:09.240 And that's why you end up with that.

00:23:13.360 All right.

00:23:13.920 CNN reports, the 14 year old Appalachee high school student charged in connection with a

00:23:18.460 shooting that left two students and two teachers dead, did not enter a plea during his first

00:23:21.900 appearance in court.

00:23:22.620 On Friday, Colt Gray was arraigned in a Barrow County courtroom on four counts of felony murder

00:23:28.320 stemming from a school shooting that's left a small North Georgia community grieving.

00:23:33.240 Officers escorted the teenager into the courtroom, shackled, his long hair obscuring parts of

00:23:37.660 his face throughout the proceeding.

00:23:40.620 Judge Curry Mingeldorf informed Gray of his rights and said the maximum penalty for the charges

00:23:45.720 in his case is life in prison.

00:23:47.460 So Gray's father, Colin Gray, 54, is expected to appear in the same courtroom later Friday

00:23:55.660 morning to be arraigned on four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second degree

00:24:00.120 murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.

00:24:04.900 So the father in the Appalachee high school shooting has been charged also with manslaughter

00:24:11.780 and murder.

00:24:12.460 And I'll wait for more facts to come out to explain why exactly the father was charged

00:24:17.920 in this case.

00:24:20.180 It's perfectly possible that he deserves to be charged.

00:24:23.940 We just have to wait for the facts to come out.

00:24:26.640 Now, we did see in the case of Ethan Crumbly, who killed four students at Oxford High School

00:24:33.820 a few years ago, that his parents were charged and then convicted and sentenced to years in

00:24:39.660 prison as well.

00:24:41.620 And I said at the time that, and I think I was in the minority, and I'm probably still

00:24:47.240 in the minority on this, but I'm perfectly willing to believe, in fact, I think it's very

00:24:54.660 likely that Ethan Crumbly's parents were really bad parents.

00:24:58.620 And if you were to tell me they were bad people, I think there's a lot of evidence for that.

00:25:07.020 But I was worried at the time about a precedent being set where parents are automatically charged

00:25:12.360 with a crime when their kids commit one.

00:25:16.360 And I think that's a very, very dangerous precedent.

00:25:18.660 It may be sort of emotionally satisfying to throw the parents in jail when the kid does

00:25:23.980 something heinous, but the precedent here is troubling because the parents didn't actually

00:25:31.360 commit the crime.

00:25:33.700 And charging someone else for a crime that another human being commits, unless there was

00:25:40.400 actual conspiracy going on, and they were involved in some way.

00:25:44.140 But if they weren't, charging them anyway, it's just, it can go to places we don't want

00:25:52.480 to go as a society.

00:25:54.680 Again, they might be bad parents, but they didn't commit the crime.

00:25:58.240 And if we're going down this road, where does it end?

00:26:02.540 And as I said at the time, there are a whole bunch of violent criminals in the inner city

00:26:06.760 with neglectful, awful parents, right, who, and there's violence and murder happening all

00:26:15.740 the time there. 0.91

00:26:16.700 You take any thug who knocks over a liquor store, shoots the clerk in any city in America,

00:26:24.760 right, you could look at his parents and you could easily make the case that if his parents

00:26:30.720 had tried at all to actually raise their, raise him, uh, and, and engage in some form of like

00:26:38.440 moral formation, that he never would have committed that crime.

00:26:41.780 So you can make the same exact argument.

00:26:43.840 Uh, and so why are we putting all those parents in jail?

00:26:47.140 Um, so it's, that's part of the problem here.

00:26:50.880 It seems very, it seems very arbitrary.

00:26:53.640 Um, now we'll see if this case in Georgia is following that precedent or maybe the facts

00:27:00.660 here are unique.

00:27:01.860 And even without that precedent, you'd still have to charge the father.

00:27:06.220 Um, so we'll see, you know, but, uh, it is, it isn't, it's an interesting pattern that

00:27:14.020 we're seeing emerge here.

00:27:14.820 Um, and there's one other point about the shooting that I wanted to talk about.

00:27:19.440 Um, according to the reporting on this, this shooter was confronted initially and stopped

00:27:26.960 by two school resource officers.

00:27:29.660 And that's a very important point here.

00:27:32.560 And it's important because there's a movement on the left and there has been for years now

00:27:38.060 to get school resource officers out of the schools.

00:27:41.560 One of those people on the left is Kamala Harris.

00:27:44.960 And here she is again.

00:27:45.980 Once again, we're going back to 2019, 2019 is the last time that Kamala Harris was at

00:27:52.020 all honest about her actual political agenda.

00:27:55.000 And so that's why we're constantly going back to 2019.

00:27:57.840 Um, here she is at 2019 talking about her ideas for school safety.

00:28:04.280 Listen.

00:28:05.380 And then also, um, again, what we need to do about taking a demilitarizing our, our schools,

00:28:12.080 um, and, and taking police officers out of schools, um, we need to deal with the, the reality

00:28:19.300 and speak the truth about the inequities around school discipline.

00:28:25.680 So she wants to get the school resource officers out of the schools. 0.98

00:28:29.240 That's what she said in 2019.

00:28:30.600 And if she had gotten her way in the case of the, uh, uh, of Appalachee high school, um,

00:28:38.480 it's very likely that many more children and staff would be dead if she had gotten her way. 0.95

00:28:46.160 Uh, that's because it's totally insane.

00:28:50.060 I mean, it's completely insane to advocate for taking these officers out of the school.

00:28:58.960 What she says, demilitarize the schools.

00:29:02.480 Well, these are police officers.

00:29:03.840 They're not military.

00:29:05.520 There's a difference.

00:29:08.040 That's the first thing that, so anytime you see a cop somewhere, it's militarized, right?

00:29:15.420 You get pulled over for speeding on the highway.

00:29:17.220 Is this, is we've, we've militarized the highways now? 1.00

00:29:21.620 No, you idiot. 1.00

00:29:23.280 Militarized means you're, the military is there. 1.00

00:29:25.260 And yes, I would totally agree.

00:29:26.600 We should not have the military.

00:29:27.760 I don't want the national guard, um, stationed in every school in America.

00:29:32.300 I would agree.

00:29:33.080 That's going a bit too far.

00:29:34.500 I would not be in favor of that, but that's not what's happening.

00:29:39.240 All police officers are supposed to be tasked with keeping their community safe.

00:29:44.320 Makes a lot of sense to me that they would be, they wouldn't just, that wouldn't just include

00:29:50.720 keeping children in school safe, but that would be like the first priority is keeping

00:29:56.580 children safe.

00:29:58.720 So the argument against having school resource officers has never made any sense.

00:30:03.920 Unless your goal is actually to get more kids killed.

00:30:06.640 If you want kids to die, then yes, it makes a lot of sense.

00:30:11.460 I mean, that would be the way to do it is take the school resource officers out. 1.00

00:30:15.120 But if you are not a, um, a psychopathic murdering, uh, murderous bloodthirsty scumbag, and you 0.98

00:30:23.740 actually want to save children's lives, then, then obviously you have, you have, uh, police 0.99

00:30:29.960 officers in the school.

00:30:32.380 Um, and you have, uh, and if you can't have enough police officers in the school, then

00:30:39.340 you have armed security guards.

00:30:41.020 That's like the second best option.

00:30:44.640 And yes, in, if you have to arm the teachers, you do that too, uh, whatever needs to be done.

00:30:50.200 Um, because it, for the same reason that we have armed officers, we have armed security,

00:31:01.420 um, in banks, okay, we put them there to protect our money in banks.

00:31:08.860 Nobody ever objects to that.

00:31:11.320 When you walk into a bank and you see an armed security guard, nobody says, we've militarized

00:31:15.820 the banks.

00:31:17.120 Now I'm afraid to go to the bank.

00:31:18.840 No, you walk in and you say, well, of course there's armed security here.

00:31:22.240 It's, there's money here.

00:31:23.680 People might want to rob a bank.

00:31:25.700 Now banks, it's, it's actually, it's pretty rare that banks get robbed.

00:31:29.680 It's actually very rare.

00:31:31.460 You know, you don't hear about banks getting robbed all that often anymore, but it can happen.

00:31:37.160 And just the, even the, the, the small likelihood of that happening, we all say, yeah, of course

00:31:42.320 you have armed security.

00:31:43.060 You know, this is, this is, this is where, uh, we know that there's a history of people

00:31:50.520 wanting to rob banks and we value our money.

00:31:54.860 And so we say, let's have armed security there.

00:31:58.160 Um, when you go to any government building, they have armed security.

00:32:04.160 Nobody has a problem with that.

00:32:06.420 No one objects.

00:32:08.820 Nobody's confused about it.

00:32:10.120 We don't, we don't debate it.

00:32:13.700 We say, yeah, I mean, it's very, again, it's very unlikely that anybody will go into a government

00:32:18.880 building and try to kill people.

00:32:21.120 Um, but we understand that it could happen.

00:32:25.840 And these are where government workers and politicians are. 0.86

00:32:29.680 And, uh, I guess we value them to some extent.

00:32:32.380 And so we say, yeah, there should be armed security.

00:32:35.260 So in all of these contexts, we have no issue with it because we value money.

00:32:39.820 We value politicians, government workers.

00:32:43.840 Okay.

00:32:44.300 You go to the social security office and there's going to be an armed security guard there

00:32:48.920 protecting what?

00:32:51.120 Paperwork.

00:32:53.200 So we value our paperwork.

00:32:56.120 And then we've got these buildings where we keep our children. 0.99

00:33:02.380 50 million children go into these buildings every single day.

00:33:06.140 And there's a debate about whether or not we want to protect them.

00:33:11.020 It's insane.

00:33:14.460 It's totally crazy that there's any discussion about it whatsoever.

00:33:17.760 And the argument against it is always, well, but there, there shouldn't be school shootings.

00:33:24.260 It just shouldn't happen.

00:33:25.620 Yeah, it shouldn't happen.

00:33:26.640 There also shouldn't be people robbing banks, but they do sometimes.

00:33:30.080 And there will always be people doing that sometimes.

00:33:34.660 So shouldn't happen.

00:33:36.040 What the hell does that mean?

00:33:38.700 What, how does, what do you do with it?

00:33:40.620 It shouldn't happen.

00:33:42.660 Yet it does.

00:33:43.300 This is the point JD Vance was making.

00:33:46.180 He says it's a fact of life. 1.00

00:33:48.100 And then you have these morons that are, well, how could you say it's a fact of life? 1.00

00:33:50.760 I don't know. 1.00

00:33:51.100 Cause it is you idiots. 1.00

00:33:53.300 I don't, I wish it wasn't, but it is. 1.00

00:33:55.520 Cancer is a fact of life.

00:33:56.760 If I say cancer is a fact of life, is that me supporting cancer?

00:34:01.880 Am I being an apologist for cancer because I point out that people get it and it's bad

00:34:06.500 and we should try to prevent it? 1.00

00:34:09.360 These people are just, they're either total abject, just brain dead morons, or they want 1.00

00:34:17.740 kids to die. 1.00

00:34:18.840 Those are the two, only two reasons why anyone could object to having police officers in the

00:34:24.100 schools, armed security in the schools, there, there is no smart, honest reason outside of

00:34:32.680 that.

00:34:32.820 There just isn't.

00:34:33.960 The most consequential debate in our history is set at, as Trump and Harris face off on

00:34:39.400 Tuesday, September 10th, we're going backstage to bring you a live simulcast of the debate

00:34:44.200 and reactions to the, from the most trusted voices in conservative media.

00:34:47.900 Join me, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boring for full coverage

00:34:51.160 and analysis.

00:34:52.480 Watch live on Daily Wire Plus.

00:34:55.840 Finally, let's, all right, I'll play a little bit of this for you.

00:35:00.300 This is, Netflix has a trailer for a new documentary starring Will Ferrell.

00:35:06.200 And let me read the caption here.

00:35:09.120 Will Ferrell and his close friend, former head writer at SNL, Harper Steele, embark on

00:35:13.800 a cross-country road trip together after Harper comes out as a trans woman in the documentary

00:35:18.660 film, Will and Harper, in select theaters in September and on Netflix, September 27th.

00:35:25.140 Here's a little bit of this.

00:35:27.300 Hi there.

00:35:28.420 I'm Will Ferrell, one of the greatest actors in the world.

00:35:31.980 A long time ago, back when I was at Saturday Night Live, I met a guy who was hired as a

00:35:36.840 writer the same week I was hired.

00:35:39.020 He wrote a bunch of sketches for me and eventually became the head writer of SNL.

00:35:43.660 And over the years, he became one of my closest friends.

00:35:47.740 And then one day, I got this email.

00:35:50.780 Hey, Will, something I need you to know.

00:35:53.740 I'll be transitioning to live as a woman.

00:35:59.340 I don't doubt that Will is my friend, but I'm not Andrew Steele anymore.

00:36:05.040 It was just, whoa.

00:36:07.060 I love this country so much, I just don't know if it loves me back right now.

00:36:13.220 Harper, would you want to do a road trip as this new version of yourself and at the same

00:36:18.660 time, figure out what this all means to us?

00:36:23.800 Do you recognize this guy?

00:36:25.900 This is a Hollywood movie star.

00:36:28.180 No.

00:36:28.760 No.

00:36:29.080 That's okay.

00:36:31.180 Roll up the window.

00:36:34.100 Were you a little worried about how to talk to me when I came out to you?

00:36:38.580 Yeah, probably a little nervous.

00:36:40.260 There are no ground rules with friends, I'm telling you.

00:36:42.320 I invite any friend of mine to ask me these questions.

00:36:45.220 I am not afraid to talk about them.

00:36:46.680 There's a question.

00:36:47.560 Do you think you're a worse driver as a female driver? 1.00

00:36:53.360 That's the dumbest. 1.00

00:36:54.660 That is so... 1.00

00:36:55.640 No, no, that is so... 1.00

00:36:57.080 Oh, f*** you. 1.00

00:36:58.040 Sing, but I am. 1.00

00:36:59.600 Woo! 0.99

00:36:59.960 Yeah.

00:37:00.320 Oh.

00:37:02.840 Oh, yeah.

00:37:04.200 This is my friend Harper.

00:37:05.560 How you doing?

00:37:06.280 Nice to meet you, bro.

00:37:07.120 Hey, not a bro, though.

00:37:08.600 It's a she, but that's okay. 1.00

00:37:10.060 Sorry.

00:37:13.640 This is probably around the age where I started to feel just kind of weird.

00:37:17.260 Yeah.

00:37:19.280 Here's my first question, first of all.

00:37:21.700 Has any actor in Hollywood fallen off harder than Will Ferrell?

00:37:26.180 And I was thinking about this yesterday.

00:37:27.400 In fact, I'm doing the promotional tour for Am I Racist, which comes out September 13th.

00:37:33.460 Tickets on sale, amiracist.com.

00:37:35.420 And I'm asked a lot about the state of comedy in film today.

00:37:43.740 And so, you know, I've kind of been thinking about this, and you've got guys like Will Ferrell, Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, a lot of other guys in that era who were making good comedies in the early 2000s.

00:37:59.020 And then all at once, like all together, really, it seems like they all just stopped at the same time.

00:38:05.460 It's like they all agreed.

00:38:06.340 There was some kind of pact between all of the people that were making funny comedies, you know, from the years 1998 to 2012, approximately.

00:38:16.300 And I guess they all pledged to just never make anything funny or interesting ever again.

00:38:23.680 And nobody has lived up to that pledge more than Will Ferrell.

00:38:29.000 Because the truth, like the guy used to be legitimately funny.

00:38:31.440 I'm not going to be one of these people that sees that he's so woke and lame now and says, that guy was never funny. 0.99

00:38:36.900 He always sucked. 0.81

00:38:38.960 No, I mean, Anchorman is a classic. 0.96

00:38:40.520 It might be, I don't know how well it holds up, really, if you, you know, it might be one of those you had to be there sort of things.

00:38:50.360 I can watch it now if I'm at a hotel or something and it's on TV, I can put it on and watch it and still laugh.

00:38:57.460 But it's hard for me, you know, because I, but I saw it when I was like the right age when that came out. 0.92

00:39:02.260 And, and I don't know, if you were not around when that movie came out and you watch it now, I think it might, you might just find it to be only stupid and not funny. 0.82

00:39:12.500 I'm not sure. 0.96

00:39:12.940 But in my mind, it's a classic.

00:39:15.280 You think about his roles in movies like Old School, very funny.

00:39:19.020 Step Brothers, really funny for about an hour.

00:39:22.340 It overstays its welcome, I think that movie does.

00:39:25.400 It starts to drag as the joke is worn out.

00:39:27.540 Because the whole joke is, and this is what Will Ferrell used to do. 1.00

00:39:29.700 He'd make a movie where there's one joke and the joke is this guy is a dumb, overgrown man child. 1.00

00:39:35.740 And that's it. 1.00

00:39:36.400 That's the entire joke.

00:39:38.180 And, you know, and it's funny to see that play out in various scenes.

00:39:41.580 But it's like once you get past the 60 minute mark.

00:39:43.960 All right.

00:39:44.340 Yeah.

00:39:44.820 Okay.

00:39:46.940 But still, overall, a good comedy.

00:39:50.240 What has Will Ferrell done since then?

00:39:53.120 You know, and, and now we, it really, it's, it's, it's, it's fascinating.

00:39:56.620 I mean, there really is, if you look at it, in the history of cinema, I'm not sure we've seen anything quite like this.

00:40:05.700 Because it's almost like, like 2013 was the cutoff.

00:40:10.440 2013 was the last time that Hollywood demonstrated any ability to make a funny comedy.

00:40:15.920 And it just stopped dead in its tracks right there at that year.

00:40:20.380 And that was it.

00:40:22.400 And 10 years went by and they just did not produce a single funny comedy.

00:40:26.460 It's amazing.

00:40:29.600 And now we have this.

00:40:30.860 And the basic plot is that Will Ferrell's friend comes out as a quote unquote trans woman, quote unquote.

00:40:37.560 Big quotes around that.

00:40:38.540 And then they embark on a road trip, a journey of self-discovery, traveling across the country and learning about, I guess, why left-wing gender ideology is a great thing.

00:40:50.200 So it really, it's kind of like the anti-what is a woman in many ways.

00:40:53.580 This is, I like to think that our film was an inspiration for this one.

00:40:57.140 I don't know if it was or not.

00:40:57.940 But it's the similar concept, except that in what is a woman, by the end of it, we get to the truth and we get to clarity.

00:41:07.400 And this is the opposite trajectory.

00:41:10.060 By the end of it, he's even more confused than he was when he started.

00:41:13.960 That's the idea. 0.97

00:41:15.480 And the premise, obviously, is ridiculous.

00:41:18.640 The idea that you need to go on some kind of adventure to understand what's happening with your friend. 0.66

00:41:27.640 You know, you have a male friend who says, who's, you know, who's going to wear women's clothes now and has decided to take a different name.

00:41:36.800 And Will Ferrell has to go across the country.

00:41:38.660 I have to understand.

00:41:40.120 What's, what's happening?

00:41:41.940 Who are you now?

00:41:43.720 Who is this person?

00:41:44.880 No, it's the same person.

00:41:46.860 It's literally, it's just the same person that what he didn't, there's, there's not a lot, it's not very confusing, actually.

00:41:53.000 There's not a lot to discover.

00:41:54.480 You don't need to go all the way, like, to California.

00:41:57.940 You don't need to go drive across the entire country to figure this out.

00:42:01.620 You should be able to figure out what's happening during a trip to Rite Aid, you know, 10 minutes down the street.

00:42:06.100 And by the time you get there, you should have pretty well have this one figured out that this is a male. 0.97

00:42:12.500 Well, this is a, this is a, a male who was a male.

00:42:18.580 And then it turns out still is.

00:42:22.760 End of movie.

00:42:24.700 But that's a much shorter movie, I guess.

00:42:26.780 And not the message that they want to send.

00:42:30.540 You know, when I partnered with Young America's Foundation to bring my film What is a Woman to schools across the country, there were rampant protests, which you might have seen.

00:42:37.620 Well, now I'm partnering with YAF again to bring advanced screenings of MI Races to theaters near college campuses around the country.

00:42:45.020 You can watch MI Races before it's officially released by going to yaf.org slash air.

00:42:50.600 That's Y-A-F dot org slash A-I-R. 1.00

00:42:54.620 YAF specializes in bringing leading conservative voices to campuses across the country.

00:42:57.700 I love working with them and can't wait for you to see the film.

00:43:01.440 That's Y-A-F dot org slash A-I-R to get connected today. 0.99

00:43:06.260 In exactly one week, my movie, Am I Races, is going to hit theaters nationwide.

00:43:10.280 This is more than a comedy. 0.60

00:43:11.300 It's a full-on takedown of the left's ridiculous DEI nonsense. 0.93

00:43:15.540 I have another clip to show you, to show you just how insane this movie gets. 0.96

00:43:18.880 Take a look.

00:43:19.680 I used to be a white woman, an unsuccessful one, for many decades, and it was a miserable experience. 0.69

00:43:25.880 And really, the hatred of yourselves and each other is, like, the most.

00:43:30.940 The not seeing your power.

00:43:32.560 The being afraid.

00:43:33.320 Like, all you do is talk about each other, talk about yourself.

00:43:36.340 Oh, my God, I'm so fat.

00:43:37.780 That's all they do.

00:43:39.300 I'm telling you.

00:43:40.080 These white women? 1.00

00:43:41.700 But it's, it's, that's it. 1.00

00:43:43.780 It's, I'm so fat, I'm so stupid, I'm blah, blah, blah. 1.00

00:43:48.380 Sorry. 1.00

00:43:48.780 Your kids are watching you, and they're watching you talking about each other, you know, raging

00:44:00.680 against the machine, or being silent, or whatever the hell it is that you're doing or not doing,

00:44:04.560 and they know that you're not doing for them.

00:44:06.560 That's so important.

00:44:07.440 That is so important, what you just said.

00:44:11.620 It's, it's really important.

00:44:12.740 That's all.

00:44:14.920 We may have to add you to our team.

00:44:16.720 Oh, I would love to take a seat and join you.

00:44:19.080 No, you're not allowed to.

00:44:20.600 Oh, okay.

00:44:20.940 Definitely not allowed.

00:44:22.100 Okay, I do have my, I have my DEI certification that I, that I got.

00:44:26.380 Oh, okay.

00:44:26.860 So, not saying I'm an expert, but I'm also not a novice, so, okay. 0.90

00:44:33.260 White people are starved for these conversations. 0.97

00:44:35.140 We are, we're so starving. 0.90

00:44:36.400 Yeah.

00:44:36.940 We are so starving for this.

00:44:38.180 Anyone else want to say anything?

00:44:42.580 I'll just say one thing.

00:44:43.540 I'm so glad we can have these conversations, and I'll, and I'll be done.

00:44:46.000 But, uh, I'm just so glad that we could all get together and have these conversations.

00:44:50.940 That's all I wanted to say.

00:44:52.160 Is he an actor?

00:44:53.300 Are you an actor?

00:44:55.080 Oh, no.

00:44:55.380 Can you let us, we're trying to listen and trying to have this conversation.

00:44:58.540 Okay, you know, we're all acting all the time in our lives.

00:45:02.180 And, uh, and I think that that's part of the problem, you know?

00:45:05.580 That it's like we're all trying to play a part rather than just being real and having

00:45:10.280 these uncomfortable conversations.

00:45:12.320 And that's what I'm always trying to tell people, especially, you know, white women.

00:45:15.480 No offense, but, uh. 0.79

00:45:16.460 No, but see, like, you're a white dude.

00:45:18.560 There's power positions, and, uh, you know, it's, pointing, pointing, white people pointing

00:45:25.560 fingers at each other is not helpful.

00:45:27.480 You know, I've been on this journey for so long, and just to see you guys at the table

00:45:31.500 having this conversation has been really enlightening for me.

00:45:35.920 Anyway, I got the DEI certification, and I'm just on the journey.

00:45:42.200 All right.

00:45:42.880 You ladies have a great day. 0.85

00:45:43.680 Okay, babe.

00:45:49.580 Decolonize yourself.

00:45:50.840 Right.

00:45:51.120 Mm-hmm. 0.93

00:45:51.780 Do your own white supremacy dismantling.

00:45:57.020 And then you can start to bring in other people.

00:46:00.640 Can I just, can I just say one last thing?

00:46:02.080 Can I just propose a toast? 0.97

00:46:04.160 Uh, I mean, just raise a glass if you're racist.

00:46:07.780 And that's the thing.

00:46:10.460 Cheers.

00:46:10.940 Oh, I'm not racist.

00:46:11.960 Let me do my glasses.

00:46:12.500 Well, all the rest of it.

00:46:15.460 To racist. 0.69

00:46:19.020 They gonna say you racist.

00:46:20.560 Am I racist?

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00:46:28.340 So, if you want to see firsthand just how far off the deep end the woke mob has gone,

00:46:32.080 and you want to have a laugh while you're at it,

00:46:33.720 well, go to amiracist.com and get your showtimes and tickets now.

00:46:37.120 Now, let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:46:44.760 You know, there was a time not too long ago when the phrase 15 minutes of fame

00:46:48.420 meant something, and it was, you know, pretty close to actually 15 minutes.

00:46:53.900 People recognized that just because someone did something to attract attention,

00:46:57.540 we didn't necessarily have to keep giving them attention for months and even years after the fact.

00:47:03.760 Attracting attention was not considered an end in and of itself.

00:47:07.140 And so, if you were famous for any, like, sustained period of time,

00:47:12.660 it generally meant, for most of human history, honestly,

00:47:16.220 that, you know, you had some identifiable talent.

00:47:19.560 It meant you had a skill that most people don't possess.

00:47:23.600 And that was kind of the bare minimum.

00:47:26.880 But that's changed now, and fame is now unquestionably cheaper

00:47:30.800 and more meaningless than it's ever been in the history of the world.

00:47:35.440 You know, it takes nothing to become famous now.

00:47:39.360 It doesn't mean anything.

00:47:40.560 And there's no greater evidence of this unfortunate fact

00:47:44.480 than the ongoing prominence of Hayley Welsh, a 21-year-old woman 0.97

00:47:47.760 who, of course, became famous back in June for creating the Hak Tua meme.

00:47:53.620 That's the most benign way I can describe her rise to fame.

00:47:56.900 In another era, you know, making a vulgar sex joke

00:47:59.380 during some man-on-the-street-style interview

00:48:02.340 would maybe buy you a day or two of attention at most.

00:48:06.360 Jay Leno would, you know, put you on his show

00:48:08.980 and the crowd would laugh politely and applaud

00:48:13.400 and then everyone would move on.

00:48:16.140 But in 2024, making a crude sex joke

00:48:18.720 in a man-on-the-street interview

00:48:19.700 gets you millions of social media followers,

00:48:22.760 all kinds of endorsement deals, a line of merchandise,

00:48:25.900 hundreds of media appearances.

00:48:28.900 And, of course, inevitably now,

00:48:31.220 we all knew this was coming,

00:48:32.940 a podcast watch.

00:48:36.360 Y'all really thought I was done?

00:48:38.140 I'm just getting started, baby.

00:48:40.820 I'm Hayley Welsh.

00:48:42.040 A little while ago, my life took a complete left turn

00:48:44.280 and it changed forever.

00:48:45.320 And along the way, I've realized that everybody's entitled

00:48:47.540 to their own opinion.

00:48:48.460 Well, now, it's my time to talk.

00:48:50.760 Check out my podcast every week, Talk Tua,

00:48:53.240 where I'm sitting down with the coolest guests

00:48:54.860 and having actual conversations with them.

00:48:56.840 I mean, Talk Tua is a pretty good name for the podcast,

00:49:05.900 I have to admit.

00:49:06.700 I hate that I have to admit that.

00:49:09.460 You know, it's clever.

00:49:12.740 Can I say something else, too?

00:49:14.520 And no one...

00:49:15.640 She... 1.00

00:49:17.780 The guy who interviewed her

00:49:19.480 when she made the Hawk Tua comment,

00:49:22.240 why isn't he famous?

00:49:23.800 Who is that guy?

00:49:24.560 I can't even picture what he looks like.

00:49:26.500 I don't know his name.

00:49:28.500 He's really the one who got scammed in this whole deal.

00:49:31.140 Like, he managed to create and produce

00:49:35.160 one of the most...

00:49:36.840 Unfortunately, one of the most viral pieces of content

00:49:39.320 of the year

00:49:40.340 that made its way into the kind of cultural zeitgeist.

00:49:46.840 And he gets nothing out of it.

00:49:49.840 No one even knows that guy.

00:49:53.260 I mean, if I was him,

00:49:54.140 I'd be pretty, like, bitter about that.

00:49:59.380 Anyway, to be as fair as possible to this whole idea,

00:50:02.760 it's clear what they're going for.

00:50:03.820 They're leaning into the idea

00:50:04.780 that, well, she shouldn't be famous, but she is. 1.00

00:50:07.500 That's why she started a company called 16 Minutes

00:50:09.760 to sell her merchandise,

00:50:10.840 which is obviously a play on the idea of 15 Minutes of Fame.

00:50:12.980 So there's a whole Kardashian angle to the marketing here

00:50:15.740 where Haley is famous for being famous

00:50:18.660 and we should all loosen up a little bit

00:50:20.620 and enjoy it, I guess, is the idea.

00:50:23.180 What's left unanswered in that teaser, though,

00:50:24.940 is what exactly would this podcast be about?

00:50:28.660 I mean, what do you have...

00:50:29.820 Like, she says that she's got to talk to the coolest people

00:50:32.240 and give her own opinion in actual conversations

00:50:35.600 as opposed to what?

00:50:37.560 Fake conversations?

00:50:38.500 What do you mean?

00:50:39.180 Oh, this podcast...

00:50:41.400 You've got to listen to this podcast.

00:50:42.520 Have you heard the talk to a podcast?

00:50:44.260 Oh, you haven't?

00:50:45.040 You've got to hear this one.

00:50:45.860 This one's different.

00:50:46.560 She's having actual conversations.

00:50:49.320 No, no, no.

00:50:49.840 Actual.

00:50:50.320 Not fake.

00:50:50.900 No, they're not pretending to have...

00:50:51.860 They're actually having a...

00:50:52.940 They're having a conversation.

00:50:56.220 It might not be an interesting conversation,

00:50:57.920 but it's a conversation.

00:50:59.460 It's happening.

00:51:01.700 So she's not more specific than that.

00:51:03.560 Is it going to be a podcast

00:51:04.760 where they just make sex jokes the whole time?

00:51:07.700 Is she going to talk about jet skis and mountain biking

00:51:09.880 and all the exciting stuff she's doing in the trailer there?

00:51:12.740 What's the content going to be exactly?

00:51:14.280 Who knows?

00:51:14.980 Now, if you saw Hayley Welsh's interview with Bill Maher

00:51:17.160 from a couple of weeks ago,

00:51:19.360 you probably know what...

00:51:21.380 Because, by the way, yeah,

00:51:22.660 she was interviewed by Bill Maher

00:51:23.860 because she said Hak Tua on camera.

00:51:27.560 And so that means that now she needs to be interviewed by Bill Maher.

00:51:33.100 But, you know, if you watch that,

00:51:34.240 you probably know what this podcast isn't going to be about.

00:51:36.120 And it's not going to be about knowing things

00:51:37.760 or having any insight into anything

00:51:39.380 that's happening of any significance.

00:51:41.260 We can be pretty sure that from this moment alone,

00:51:44.120 although there's a lot of moments like this to choose from,

00:51:46.600 but watch this.

00:51:48.240 When the boys in America were going off to World War I,

00:51:51.160 did they teach you in school when World War I was?

00:51:54.160 I'm sure they did,

00:51:55.040 but I probably took a nap in that class.

00:51:56.760 Do you have any idea?

00:51:58.760 Let's see.

00:51:59.220 I'm going to say

00:51:59.960 is in the 19th.

00:52:04.680 1914 to 1918

00:52:06.620 was World War I.

00:52:11.240 World War II was the 1940s,

00:52:13.540 the first half of the 19th.

00:52:14.800 You weren't born yet.

00:52:16.180 I was not.

00:52:18.060 But it's important that you know

00:52:19.560 these basic markers in history.

00:52:21.940 I know I'm the grumpy old man here,

00:52:25.280 but I can't,

00:52:26.000 this kind of,

00:52:26.460 I don't,

00:52:26.760 I can't even laugh at it.

00:52:29.980 You're an adult.

00:52:31.300 I think she was a college student, right?

00:52:33.140 She went to college probably.

00:52:35.200 I don't know.

00:52:36.540 And you don't,

00:52:38.120 you're not sure about the century

00:52:40.960 when World War I happened?

00:52:43.640 Now,

00:52:46.860 plenty of moments like that.

00:52:48.860 You can watch the whole thing

00:52:49.880 if you're so inclined to for some reason.

00:52:51.540 But apparently she can,

00:52:53.460 she can guess when World War I took place

00:52:55.440 within about 100 years.

00:52:57.760 She barely had the century down.

00:53:00.380 So needless to say,

00:53:01.700 this will not be a history podcast.

00:53:03.720 And I don't,

00:53:04.640 I'm like,

00:53:05.180 I'm not going to,

00:53:05.900 we're not going to belabor the point,

00:53:07.060 but I,

00:53:08.060 how do you,

00:53:08.880 how do you manage

00:53:11.980 to make it to the age of 21

00:53:14.660 without having absorbed

00:53:17.180 the basic information

00:53:20.240 about the century

00:53:21.900 when the world wars occurred?

00:53:25.020 Even if you're not paying attention in school,

00:53:26.620 it seems like just by accident

00:53:28.000 you would at some point

00:53:29.720 encounter that

00:53:31.000 and it would seep into your brain somewhere.

00:53:34.580 So this leads us to a problem is

00:53:37.080 how do you make a podcast

00:53:38.340 when the host doesn't know anything at all

00:53:41.960 about anything?

00:53:44.280 Well,

00:53:44.460 according to Yahoo,

00:53:45.140 after much consideration,

00:53:46.380 a genre for this podcast

00:53:47.780 has been identified.

00:53:48.740 Here's the headline,

00:53:49.400 quote,

00:53:50.060 Hawk to a Girl,

00:53:50.760 Haley Welsh,

00:53:51.280 will give relationship pointers

00:53:52.760 in new podcast Talk to a.

00:53:55.640 Yahoo goes on to report that,

00:53:56.940 quote,

00:53:57.420 Talk to a is a part of the

00:53:58.680 Better Banner,

00:53:59.740 the media company

00:54:00.860 founded by Jake Paul.

00:54:01.980 It will be a weekly podcast

00:54:03.000 showcasing a mix of different

00:54:05.160 personalities and interviews.

00:54:08.100 So this is now

00:54:08.860 a very well-funded

00:54:09.640 relationship podcast

00:54:10.640 where the Hawk to a Girl

00:54:11.560 will be talking to guests

00:54:12.960 about how to fix their problems

00:54:14.260 with their boyfriends

00:54:15.060 or spouses or whatever.

00:54:16.680 It's launching in a few days.

00:54:18.680 Now,

00:54:18.860 admittedly,

00:54:19.360 as of right now,

00:54:19.960 it's not clear if this is just

00:54:20.860 some elaborate prank.

00:54:22.020 It's possible that

00:54:22.720 callers are going to ask

00:54:24.500 Haley Welsh

00:54:25.240 what they should do

00:54:26.200 in their relationship

00:54:26.840 and she's just going to

00:54:28.160 respond with the same

00:54:29.480 two-word catchphrase

00:54:30.520 that, you know,

00:54:31.020 made her famous

00:54:31.620 over and over again.

00:54:32.960 And the crowd will go wild

00:54:34.920 because that joke

00:54:36.040 just can't possibly

00:54:37.280 ever get old,

00:54:39.020 apparently.

00:54:40.560 But maybe there's going

00:54:41.460 to be more to the podcast

00:54:42.380 than that.

00:54:42.960 Maybe Haley will seriously 1.00

00:54:43.920 try to assess

00:54:44.640 other people's relationships,

00:54:45.660 try to offer them advice

00:54:46.620 as Yahoo reported.

00:54:48.800 And if that's the case, 0.87

00:54:49.840 it's actually even more ridiculous.

00:54:51.800 There is no universe 0.98

00:54:52.860 in which a 21-year-old girl

00:54:54.180 should be offering

00:54:54.740 relationship advice

00:54:55.540 to anyone

00:54:56.260 for the simple reason

00:54:57.740 that she doesn't have

00:54:58.580 meaningful experience

00:54:59.400 in adult relationships.

00:55:00.320 As you know,

00:55:01.260 because I've complained

00:55:01.940 about this many times

00:55:02.720 in the past,

00:55:03.800 this is a problem

00:55:04.640 that is not specific

00:55:05.500 to Haley Welsh.

00:55:06.480 There has been

00:55:07.180 a proliferation

00:55:08.320 of people on social media

00:55:09.580 and in podcasts

00:55:10.340 giving relationship advice

00:55:12.380 despite the fact

00:55:13.120 that they have no wisdom

00:55:14.440 on the topic

00:55:15.320 to impart at all.

00:55:16.820 They have had no success

00:55:18.000 in that area at all.

00:55:20.920 And yet they're giving advice.

00:55:22.540 So this is my opportunity

00:55:23.680 to get back

00:55:24.100 on my familiar soapbox

00:55:25.080 once again

00:55:25.600 to remind you

00:55:26.240 that you should not listen

00:55:27.880 to relationship advice

00:55:28.800 or insight

00:55:29.460 from anyone

00:55:30.420 who does not have

00:55:32.060 demonstrable success

00:55:33.420 in the area

00:55:34.600 of romantic relationships.

00:55:36.700 It should be controversial.

00:55:37.780 You know,

00:55:37.960 if I told you

00:55:38.620 not to listen

00:55:39.260 to car maintenance advice

00:55:40.600 from somebody

00:55:41.140 who can't even

00:55:41.760 change their own tire,

00:55:43.240 you would immediately agree.

00:55:45.500 Same principle applies here.

00:55:47.380 Almost all of these

00:55:48.240 relationship podcasts

00:55:49.060 are worthless,

00:55:50.600 worse than worthless,

00:55:51.580 because they're run

00:55:52.480 by people

00:55:53.040 whose only experience

00:55:54.300 with relationships

00:55:54.980 is failing at them

00:55:56.420 and who have not learned

00:55:58.740 anything from the failures

00:55:59.920 because they keep failing.

00:56:00.980 And so it's not like

00:56:01.460 they can give you advice

00:56:02.580 based on,

00:56:03.460 they can't tell you

00:56:04.380 the things they learned

00:56:05.160 the hard way

00:56:05.780 because they haven't

00:56:06.600 learned anything.

00:56:08.440 Success in a romantic

00:56:09.500 relationship means

00:56:10.580 meeting someone,

00:56:12.980 dating,

00:56:14.480 getting engaged,

00:56:15.980 getting married,

00:56:17.140 and then staying married.

00:56:20.360 Nobody is qualified

00:56:21.620 to dispense advice

00:56:22.700 on romance or relationships

00:56:23.920 unless they have completed

00:56:25.160 all of those steps.

00:56:26.840 And even then,

00:56:27.620 like 80% of the people

00:56:29.000 who have completed

00:56:29.600 all of those steps

00:56:30.320 still probably don't

00:56:31.600 have much to say

00:56:32.640 of any value

00:56:33.360 on the topic.

00:56:34.740 That's just the reality.

00:56:35.760 But certainly,

00:56:36.300 we can say that everybody

00:56:37.440 who has yet to complete

00:56:38.880 the steps

00:56:39.340 has nothing of value

00:56:40.980 to say on the topic

00:56:41.980 at all

00:56:42.380 because they couldn't

00:56:43.060 possibly.

00:56:45.500 Now,

00:56:46.060 I don't blame Haley

00:56:47.080 for not being married yet.

00:56:47.960 She's only 21.

00:56:48.720 But that's the point.

00:56:49.400 21-year-olds

00:56:50.060 have almost no experience

00:56:51.440 being adults in the world.

00:56:53.100 It's unlikely

00:56:53.780 they have much wisdom

00:56:54.680 to offer.

00:56:55.520 I certainly didn't

00:56:56.200 at that age.

00:56:56.700 I doubt that Haley does.

00:56:58.320 The only notable thing

00:56:59.220 that she's done

00:56:59.760 is make a sex joke. 0.62

00:57:01.200 But, you know,

00:57:02.460 for now,

00:57:03.000 her handlers are pretending

00:57:03.860 that the sex joke

00:57:04.680 is evidence

00:57:05.120 that she's an interesting

00:57:06.180 and brilliant person.

00:57:07.360 In promoting this new podcast,

00:57:08.480 Better Media says that,

00:57:09.420 quote,

00:57:09.500 Haley Welsh is a bona fide

00:57:10.720 superstar,

00:57:11.880 and her charisma,

00:57:12.780 unique perspective,

00:57:13.580 and innate connection

00:57:14.380 with her audience

00:57:14.980 makes her the perfect fit

00:57:16.280 for our platform.

00:57:17.060 Talk 2 will bring

00:57:17.780 a fresh and dynamic voice

00:57:18.920 to our content lineup,

00:57:20.260 and we can't wait

00:57:20.880 for our audience

00:57:21.400 and brand sponsors

00:57:22.120 to connect with Haley

00:57:22.920 in an authentic way

00:57:24.020 that embodies

00:57:24.640 the ethos

00:57:25.460 of better media

00:57:27.000 as a whole,

00:57:28.160 the ethos.

00:57:30.140 So they're falling back

00:57:31.180 on the corporate PR speak

00:57:32.360 because they know

00:57:32.860 there's no substance

00:57:33.560 to any of this.

00:57:34.520 The point of promoting

00:57:35.500 this person

00:57:36.220 is not to help anyone

00:57:37.820 through their marital problems

00:57:38.960 or give them guidance

00:57:39.800 on finding a spouse

00:57:40.700 or anything else.

00:57:41.840 The point of promoting her

00:57:43.200 is to turn her 15 minutes 0.99

00:57:44.440 of fame into a lot of money,

00:57:45.580 and if that means

00:57:47.520 giving a lot of very bad advice

00:57:48.780 to a young,

00:57:49.420 impressionable audience,

00:57:50.300 then that's what they'll do,

00:57:51.300 and they'll do it

00:57:51.920 as shamelessly as possible.

00:57:52.860 And that is why

00:57:54.420 I'm afraid to say

00:57:55.540 Haley Welsh,

00:57:56.500 the Hawk to a Girl,

00:57:57.880 and everyone promoting

00:57:58.880 her podcast

00:58:00.380 and anyone involved in it

00:58:01.640 and anyone who listens to it

00:58:04.260 and just everybody,

00:58:08.540 they're all today canceled.

00:58:11.320 That'll do it for the show today.

00:58:12.160 Thanks for watching.

00:58:12.820 Thanks for listening.

00:58:13.600 Have a great day.

00:58:14.300 Talk to you on Monday.

00:58:16.700 Godspeed. 1.00

00:58:22.860 Republicans are Nazis. 0.99

00:58:25.620 You cannot separate yourselves 1.00

00:58:27.400 from the bad white people. 0.99

00:58:29.220 Growing up, 0.98

00:58:29.700 I never thought much about race.

00:58:31.140 Never really seemed

00:58:31.900 to matter that much,

00:58:32.960 at least not to me.

00:58:33.820 Am I racist?

00:58:34.980 I would really appreciate it

00:58:35.960 if you love.

00:58:36.360 I'm trying to learn.

00:58:36.980 I'm on this journey.

00:58:38.260 I'm going to sort this out.

00:58:39.500 I need to go deeper undercover.

00:58:42.600 They don't say I'm racist.

00:58:44.020 Joining us now is Matt,

00:58:45.280 certified DEI expert.

00:58:47.460 Here's my certifications.

00:58:48.600 And what you're doing

00:58:49.040 is you're stretching

00:58:49.740 out of your whiteness.

00:58:51.320 This is more for you

00:58:51.900 in this field.

00:58:52.340 Is America inherently racist?

00:58:53.860 The word inherent

00:58:54.840 is challenging there.

00:58:55.860 I want to rename

00:58:56.380 the George Washington Monument

00:58:57.400 to the George Floyd Monument. 0.98

00:58:59.000 America is racist to its bones. 0.63

00:59:00.860 So inherently. 0.99

00:59:01.720 Yeah, this country

00:59:02.540 is a piece of...

00:59:03.460 Oh, my God. 0.99

00:59:04.780 White folks. 1.00

00:59:05.900 Trash. 1.00

00:59:06.380 White supremacy. 1.00

00:59:07.160 White woman. 1.00

00:59:07.740 White boy.

00:59:08.280 Is there a black person around here?

00:59:09.580 There's a black person right here.

00:59:10.880 Does he not exist?

00:59:11.660 They don't say I'm racist.

00:59:13.640 Hi, Robin.

00:59:14.240 Hi.

00:59:14.580 What's your name?

00:59:15.540 I'm Matt.

00:59:16.040 I just had to ask who you are

00:59:17.060 because you have to be careful.

00:59:18.640 Never be too careful.

00:59:19.480 They gonna say you racist.

00:59:20.480 Buy your tickets now.

00:59:21.440 In theaters September 13th.

00:59:22.840 Rated PG-13.

The Matt Walsh Show - September 06, 2024

Ep. 1438 - Why Kamala's Campaign Is Spiraling Into Desperation Mode

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