The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1462 - Why Did This U.S. Public School Take Millions From China？ Here’s The Story That Will Shock You

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, one of the top public schools in the country sold its blueprints and everything else to the communist Chinese government.

00:00:06.120 This raises a couple of questions. First, how is that legal? Second, why did the school's whole program get shipped over except the DEI stuff?

00:00:13.860 Also, the governor of Michigan appears in a bizarre TikTok video that appears to mock the Catholic faith.

00:00:18.640 A new ad meant to persuade men to vote for Kamala is having very much the opposite effect.

00:00:23.020 Elon Musk unveils the fleet of robots that will take over the world and enslave us all.

00:00:26.460 And the new Joker movie may wind up being one of the worst flops in Hollywood history.

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00:02:26.020 A couple of weeks ago, Kamala Harris' campaign went after me because I said that the Department of Education, along with the public school system, should be burned to the ground, figuratively speaking.

00:02:36.720 Kamala's campaign didn't make any kind of argument refuting my position, of course.

00:02:40.060 They just suggested that what I said was crazy because how can you possibly have a functioning country without a Department of Education?

00:02:47.460 You know, it's not like we invented the telephone and won two world wars or landed on the moon without a Department of Education or anything.

00:02:54.680 We definitely need a Department of Education to do all of that stuff, even though we did that stuff without the Department.

00:03:00.820 And I responded to Kamala Harris' campaign outlining all the reasons why the Department of Education and our public school system are a complete disaster.

00:03:09.480 What I didn't talk about at the time, and what almost no one ever talks about in this country, is what the alternative is.

00:03:18.540 You know, it's one thing to point out failures.

00:03:20.620 It's another thing to suggest tangible improvements.

00:03:23.580 What does it look like to have political leaders who actually care about the education system of their country and want to make it as good as it can possibly be?

00:03:33.840 What should those leaders be doing exactly?

00:03:35.760 Well, this week, thanks to reporting from The National Review and The Daily Wire's Luke Rosiak, we know what they've been doing in China, anyway.

00:03:43.540 It turns out that officials in China are very serious about improving their education system to the point that they've effectively cloned the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia.

00:03:55.520 Now, if you're not familiar with it, Thomas Jefferson, until recently, was the number one public high school in the United States.

00:04:01.860 In China, they now have 20 so-called Thomas schools, all of which are exact replicas of the Thomas Jefferson School in Fairfax.

00:04:12.920 These Chinese Thomas School clones have copied pretty much everything from the Thomas Jefferson School in the U.S., including curriculums and floor plans. 0.97

00:04:22.840 So, say what you will about China, but, you know, they're in this to win.

00:04:28.300 They're playing for keeps.

00:04:30.000 And they're willing to steal from their opponents if necessary, just like, say, Bill Belichick or the Houston Astros.

00:04:36.900 Except in this case, there wasn't actually much stealing involved.

00:04:39.840 It turns out, interestingly enough, that Thomas Jefferson handed all of this information over to China voluntarily.

00:04:48.000 The story of how exactly China managed to clone Thomas Jefferson raises a lot of obvious concerns from a national security perspective.

00:04:56.720 And, you know, the word treason might even cross your mind as you hear the details.

00:05:01.260 I'll get into that in a second.

00:05:03.160 But first, it's important to note that there's one aspect of our Thomas Jefferson school that's here in this country that China did not copy.

00:05:13.060 They did not clone Thomas Jefferson's new DEI admissions policy, which was implemented a few years ago.

00:05:21.600 This DEI admissions policy got rid of standardized tests.

00:05:26.520 It also gave bonuses to applicants who couldn't speak proper English and implemented a quota system so that every middle school in Fairfax County got an equal number of slots in the new class at Thomas Jefferson.

00:05:38.340 The result, unsurprisingly, is that student quality has dropped by nearly 40%, as measured by the number of national merit semifinalists that Thomas Jefferson produces.

00:05:48.980 So Thomas Jefferson is no longer the top public high school in the U.S.

00:05:54.660 It was too exceptional, too impressive.

00:05:57.540 So the liberals running Fairfax County and the administrators of the school decided that they had to fix that by destroying it.

00:06:04.420 And that's exactly what they've done with the DEI policies.

00:06:08.960 But before they ruined it, they raised a lot of money from the Communist Party of China.

00:06:14.180 From 2014 to 2021, entities in China sent more than $3.5 million to something called the Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund.

00:06:23.160 This is a nonprofit that was set up to raise money for a renovation of Thomas Jefferson.

00:06:27.520 The nonprofit was based in the school and had the school principal on its board.

00:06:33.160 So there's obviously a very close relationship there.

00:06:36.140 And what did China get in exchange for this $3.5 million?

00:06:40.420 When we first learned about these payments around a year ago, we didn't have a lot of detail on that question.

00:06:45.560 So here's what we knew last year.

00:06:48.320 This is a report from last year.

00:06:49.580 Watch.

00:06:49.800 Fairfax County Public Schools, which are known for pushing critical race theory and lessons on children's sexual identity, are reportedly taking big donations from organizations with ties to China.

00:07:01.900 Marianne has all of the details live from Los Angeles.

00:07:05.320 Good morning, Marianne.

00:07:07.080 Good morning, Ashley.

00:07:08.080 Well, that Fairfax County School, Thomas Jefferson High School, launched the Fund Campaign for TJ back in 2014 to pay for educational programs.

00:07:16.420 But a chunk of the money raised came from Chinese-connected donors, including a university in Beijing.

00:07:21.840 That's according to a report from the group Parents Defending Education.

00:07:26.040 Some of that money is going toward programs like college prep.

00:07:29.480 Last month, parents of eighth graders received an email recruiting kids who might be interested in going to college.

00:07:34.980 But the catch is it's only open to black or Hispanic students, those with disabilities or other criteria.

00:07:40.800 The curriculum doesn't mention admission to any students who are either white or Asian.

00:07:46.360 So we learned that there were payments coming into Fairfax from China, but we didn't know exactly what they were for.

00:07:52.560 And now we do.

00:07:53.100 According to the National Review, in addition to course materials and outlines, Chinese officials wanted to learn about construction and administration at the school,

00:08:01.420 as well as extensive advice on how to manage a school like Thomas Jefferson.

00:08:06.500 Thomas Jefferson's director of student services even wrote in an email that the Chinese wanted a handbook that would tell them how to clone the school,

00:08:13.740 including research output from students.

00:08:16.440 Quoting from the National Review, quote,

00:08:17.740 Now maybe the Chinese wanted these senior research projects because they involved materials that students created alongside the leading research institutes in the U.S.,

00:08:45.960 including the NIH and George Washington University.

00:08:48.840 So there are obvious espionage-related implications here as well.

00:08:54.440 Now, to be clear, there's no question that senior leaders at Thomas Jefferson were aware that all this was going on.

00:08:59.340 There's even an email from Thomas Jefferson's assistant principal in which he says that the nonprofit has a contract with a Chinese foundation,

00:09:05.380 quote, that they will pay a million dollars in exchange for help getting their schools up and running in China called the Thomas Schools.

00:09:12.580 And some of these Chinese officials also visited the school.

00:09:14.920 On top of that, there's evidence that the Fairfax County public school system tried to cover up what it was doing.

00:09:20.520 The group that actually uncovered this scheme and which led to the National Review's reporting is called Parents Defending Education, or PDE.

00:09:28.460 And they spent more than a year working on the story, and it only took so long because of all the roadblocks that Fairfax County put in their way.

00:09:36.340 When PDE made a public records request seeking information about the school's coordination with China,

00:09:41.200 Fairfax County tried to charge them nearly $36,000 in fees in order to produce the documents.

00:09:46.960 And they probably expected that that would scare PDE off, but it didn't work.

00:09:49.980 The group ended up paying $18,000 for some of the documents, which ultimately exposed what was going on.

00:09:57.080 Now, the word treason gets thrown around a lot these days, and there's a lot of discussion about how difficult it is to prove treason under the U.S. Constitution and so on.

00:10:06.860 But if we're speaking certainly in the colloquial sense of the word, this seems a lot like treason.

00:10:13.440 These people were orchestrating the sale of proprietary information to China to benefit Chinese schools while simultaneously kneecapping our own schools with DEI admissions policies.

00:10:26.840 They didn't sell those DEI admissions policies to China because everybody involved knows that they're garbage and China would have no interest. 0.99

00:10:34.120 They're worse than useless.

00:10:35.200 And the proponents of DEI themselves seem to recognize that, at least when it comes time to make some money from the Chinese Communist Party.

00:10:43.100 The whole scam is reminiscent of how Chinese billionaires will promote transgenderism in the U.S., but not in China. 0.93

00:10:50.100 It's deliberate sabotage from the people running the single most successful school district in the U.S.

00:10:55.500 In Fairfax County, which also, by the way, houses CIA headquarters and much of the intelligence community, along with the workforce at the Pentagon,

00:11:02.760 the former president of Thomas Jefferson, Evan Glazer, even suggested that he didn't think twice about giving inside info to our chief foreign adversary

00:11:10.920 because it would be racist to discriminate based on national origin.

00:11:16.100 But when it comes to discriminating against students using affirmative action admissions policies,

00:11:21.320 school administrators in Fairfax have no objection to that, of course.

00:11:25.800 There have been a lot of parents speaking out at school board meetings over the past few years.

00:11:31.380 They've been complaining about the poor quality of their children's education since many schools are now graduating students who can barely even read.

00:11:40.680 Parents have also been understandably furious about the deliberate efforts to indoctrinate their children with gender ideology,

00:11:47.340 to expose them to explicit pornography in some cases.

00:11:51.000 And some of those parents, as you might remember, were investigated by the DOJ

00:11:55.240 because they just, you know, wanted to ensure that their children had an actual education.

00:12:03.800 Meanwhile, we're allowing China to copy the blueprint of our most successful schools, 1.00

00:12:08.440 and the DOJ hasn't said a word about it.

00:12:11.560 You won't find a clear illustration of why our entire education system is in a tailspin.

00:12:17.220 Right now, the government officials who are truly interested in our education system are not located in Washington.

00:12:24.700 They probably aren't working for your local school board either.

00:12:28.500 Thanks to the work of Parents Defending Education, we know that, unfortunately for children in this country,

00:12:34.080 those officials are in Beijing.

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00:13:56.280 So here's something weird for you.

00:13:58.900 Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer appeared on a podcast with someone named Liz Plank,

00:14:03.880 who is apparently some kind of feminist influencer. 1.00

00:14:07.360 And for some reason, as part of this podcast, or in order to promote it, I don't know,

00:14:11.700 they made this utterly bizarre video that has gone viral now.

00:14:17.000 Here it is.

00:14:17.760 Let's see it.

00:14:18.560 So for those listening and not watching, good for you, by the way, but for the audio listeners,

00:14:34.520 just to explain, the video features Liz Plank, I assume that's Liz Plank, on her knees, eyes 1.00

00:14:42.400 closed, opening her mouth to receive a Dorito chip from Gretchen Whitmer, who feeds her and 0.71

00:14:50.380 then stares weirdly into the camera.

00:14:53.000 That's the video.

00:14:54.840 Why is that the video?

00:14:56.260 What the hell are they doing?

00:14:58.760 What is it supposed to be?

00:15:01.060 I can't really answer those questions.

00:15:02.820 Now, many conservatives have expressed outrage at this because they see it as a sacrilegious

00:15:07.520 mockery of Holy Communion.

00:15:08.920 And to be honest with you, when I first saw this video, I didn't see it that way.

00:15:14.340 That seems to be the consensus among many conservatives is that she's making fun of communion.

00:15:21.220 When I saw it, I was perplexed.

00:15:25.360 I thought these people are freaks.

00:15:26.880 I don't know what the, I didn't see it that way.

00:15:28.700 And I'm still kind of, well, I'm not sure if that's what they're up to.

00:15:32.820 I don't know.

00:15:33.240 And the only reason really that I doubt that it's meant to mock communion is that it's almost

00:15:41.180 exclusively now in the traditional Latin mass that people receive communion on their knees.

00:15:48.000 It obviously doesn't have the bizarrely sexualized tone that this video has.

00:15:53.120 But receiving communion by mouth and kneeling is something that is nearly exclusive to the

00:15:58.860 traditional Latin mass at this point.

00:16:00.840 Every once in a while, if you go to the Novus Ordo mass, you'll see someone receive communion that way.

00:16:07.080 It often makes the priest or Eucharistic minister visibly uncomfortable because they aren't used to

00:16:12.300 that level of reverence at a Novus Ordo mass.

00:16:14.960 But that's a subject for another time.

00:16:16.640 So anyway, I just, I just kind of doubt that either of these women have any idea about what

00:16:22.700 happens at the traditional Latin mass.

00:16:24.760 I mean, in order to mock Catholicism in this way, you'd at least have to have a knowledge of

00:16:28.860 Catholic tradition that I, I would be surprised if either of these have that kind of knowledge

00:16:35.680 of Catholic tradition.

00:16:37.140 So, you know, that's the reason that I, I'd be willing to believe that they didn't mean it

00:16:43.060 that way.

00:16:44.840 Then again, I'm not sure that they've even denied the charge.

00:16:48.760 So I have no idea.

00:16:50.320 Maybe it's supposed to be sacrilegious.

00:16:51.880 If so, they're both scumbags for it.

00:16:54.960 If it's not sacrilegious, they're, they're still both scumbags.

00:16:58.920 But one thing we could say for sure, no matter what was intended here is that it is totally

00:17:02.860 bizarre.

00:17:05.160 No matter what, it's bizarre and, and very unbecoming to say the least for a sitting governor to be

00:17:12.320 involved in whatever the hell that was. 0.54

00:17:14.840 And that wasn't the only deranged moment from this podcast.

00:17:17.760 The two women also during the discussion had a nice laugh about infanticide.

00:17:24.000 Listen.

00:17:25.440 And you have two daughters.

00:17:27.140 When they come back home and they leave their Stanley cups lying around, do you ever think

00:17:30.780 about getting a post-birth abortion?

00:17:32.120 Well, first of all, there is, thank you for raising that because there's no such thing.

00:17:38.040 Great.

00:17:38.300 So I think it's really important for us to make sure people understand that when people like

00:17:42.380 Donald Trump say that after birth abortion, that's just not really a thing that exists.

00:17:47.760 Yeah, let's have a hearty laugh about post-birth abortion, which is a fact. 1.00

00:17:54.040 It is a thing.

00:17:55.000 It does happen.

00:17:56.720 Multiple states, including Tim Walz's state, have put laws on the books to protect post-birth

00:18:01.580 abortion.

00:18:01.960 That is just a fact.

00:18:05.220 And there are other clips from this podcast.

00:18:06.840 We don't need to play them.

00:18:07.680 It's all very similar.

00:18:08.500 It's very similar to Kamala Harris's interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast a few days ago

00:18:12.880 that we talked about.

00:18:13.520 And all of it together just goes to show how there is no dignity in our ruling class anymore.

00:18:23.020 And we've known this for a while.

00:18:24.620 I mean, the Biden administration has been inviting flamboyant TikTok influencers into

00:18:30.560 the White House to do skits all throughout Biden's tenure.

00:18:36.660 There was the incident of the trans activists going topless in the Rose Garden.

00:18:41.700 We may remember that.

00:18:43.520 Uh, there's the parade of weirdos that Biden has hired, some of whom turned out to be compulsive

00:18:50.560 luggage thieves and so on.

00:18:53.540 And the common thread here is a total lack of dignity and decorum, among other things.

00:19:01.260 But, you know, there's nothing new about having elites who are power hungry and deceitful

00:19:06.600 and obsessed with control and power.

00:19:08.900 That's been the case.

00:19:10.160 We've had that for as long as human civilization has existed.

00:19:13.520 So nothing unique about that.

00:19:15.580 What does seem unique is that our elites are so unimpressive, so undignified, so classless.

00:19:26.480 I mean, even if that Whitmer skit, or whatever the hell it's supposed to be, with the Dorito,

00:19:35.420 even if that isn't meant to be sacrilegious, it's still not something that a sitting governor

00:19:39.800 should be involved in.

00:19:42.040 Okay, when someone pitches that to you and you're the governor of a state, and they say,

00:19:49.720 let's do a TikTok video where I'm on my knees and you feed me a Dorito, you should say, no,

00:19:56.860 I'm the governor of a state in the United States of America.

00:20:01.380 I'm not doing a weird thing for TikTok.

00:20:05.200 But these people have no respect for their own office.

00:20:07.720 We're always told, respect the office, respect the office.

00:20:10.500 They don't.

00:20:12.020 They have no respect for it.

00:20:15.300 That's one of the takeaways here.

00:20:16.600 Here's something else weird for you.

00:20:18.900 This ad has gone viral.

00:20:21.160 This is not an official Kamala campaign ad.

00:20:26.600 As far as I can tell, this was made by supporters of Kamala.

00:20:30.520 But also, as far as I can tell, it's not meant to be a parody.

00:20:34.120 So this is not a conservative parody of liberals.

00:20:37.720 This is made by liberals to promote Kamala Harris.

00:20:40.620 And it, you know, when you watch this, you'll be, you'll have the same thought.

00:20:47.180 It's always, the distinction between parody and reality, satire and reality, of course, is increasingly difficult to determine.

00:20:55.260 But this is sincere, and this is supposed to be an ad encouraging men to vote for Kamala Harris.

00:21:02.460 Here it is.

00:21:04.200 I'm a man.

00:21:05.340 I'm a man.

00:21:06.400 I'm a man, man.

00:21:07.660 And I'm man enough.

00:21:08.780 I'm man enough to enjoy a barrel-proof bourbon.

00:21:11.500 Neat.

00:21:12.240 Man enough to cook my steak rare.

00:21:14.040 Man enough to deadlift 500 and braid the s*** out of my daughter's hair.

00:21:18.040 You think I'm afraid to rebuild a carburetor?

00:21:20.020 I eat carburetors for breakfast.

00:21:21.660 I ain't afraid of bears.

00:21:22.700 That's what bear hugs are for.

00:21:24.300 I'll tell you another thing I sure as s*** am not afraid of.

00:21:27.320 Women. 0.81

00:21:28.220 I'm not afraid of women. 0.99

00:21:29.720 I'm not afraid of women. 0.99

00:21:30.840 They want to control their bodies? 0.99

00:21:32.500 I say go for it.

00:21:33.560 They want to use IVF to start a family? 1.00

00:21:35.460 I'm not afraid of families.

00:21:36.620 They want to be childless cat ladies? 1.00

00:21:38.080 Have all the cats you want.

00:21:39.880 Woman wants to be president? 1.00

00:21:41.060 Well, I hope she has the guts to look me right in the eye and accept my full-throated endorsement. 1.00

00:21:45.380 Because I'm man enough to support women.

00:21:47.180 Man enough to know what kind of donuts I like.

00:21:49.660 Man enough to admit I'm lost even when I refuse to ask for directions.

00:21:53.380 Man enough to not ban young women from reading little women. 0.99

00:21:56.640 Or one of those pants books that the sisters like.

00:21:58.980 I'm man enough to raw dog a flight.

00:22:01.020 It sucked.

00:22:02.000 Not worth it.

00:22:03.260 I'm man enough to be emotional in front of my wife.

00:22:05.780 In front of my kids.

00:22:06.800 In front of my horse.

00:22:07.540 I'm man enough to tell you that I cry at love actually.

00:22:11.640 Goodwill hunting.

00:22:12.500 West Side Story.

00:22:13.420 That.

00:22:14.040 And Predator.

00:22:14.760 And I'm sick of so-called men domineering, belittling, and controlling women just so they can feel more powerful.

00:22:21.040 That's not how my mama raised me.

00:22:22.780 I love women. 1.00

00:22:23.680 I love women who support their families. 0.99

00:22:25.620 Women who decide not to have families. 0.89

00:22:27.540 Women who take charge. 1.00

00:22:28.720 And I'm man enough to help them win.

00:22:30.520 Okay.

00:22:34.780 Man enough not to ban young women from reading little women. 0.96

00:22:41.260 Who is trying to ban anyone from reading little women? 0.81

00:22:44.700 What the hell are you talking about?

00:22:47.820 In fact, the efforts to ban kids to take like classic literature out of the schools, that's entirely on the left.

00:22:57.600 If anyone ever tries to do that, 100% of the time, it's the left doing that because there are things about classic literature that are not politically correct anymore.

00:23:06.000 And I don't know if that's the case with little women or not, but if there's, if there was ever any, if anyone ever was trying to take little women out of the schools, guaranteed it was happening on the left. 1.00

00:23:15.540 Okay.

00:23:15.740 They're the ones they want to take out.

00:23:17.080 Tom Sawyer, they want to take out all these things because it's got, you know, insensitive language.

00:23:22.540 So the gaslighting from these people is just, it's relentless.

00:23:26.520 It is relentless.

00:23:27.700 And, and especially on this topic of the book bans.

00:23:31.040 I mean, they are the, I, I, I, you know, I've said it a million times, but the, the, the only books that conservatives are trying to take out of the schools are gay pornography.

00:23:41.120 So we want those out.

00:23:42.780 All the rest, if you ever see a list of banned books, like all the rest of it is stuff that liberals didn't like because it's, it's insensitive because it was a book written more than five years ago.

00:23:54.060 Anyway, so in this ad, you've got one guy who's morbidly obese.

00:24:01.400 You got a couple others who are, you know, noticeably effeminate, you know, even have a lisp.

00:24:09.220 And this was supposed to be an ad with stereotypically masculine tough guys telling you to vote for Kamala.

00:24:15.080 And yet they couldn't find even a single stereotypically masculine tough guy to appear in the ad.

00:24:21.640 They don't even know what that looks like.

00:24:24.080 They don't know how to identify one of those guys.

00:24:28.280 And so you end up instead with something that is indistinguishable from parody.

00:24:32.180 Now, if you go to TikTok and you find the original video and read the comments, you'll see, and this might change now that this ad is being mocked all over the place and it's made it outside of the liberal bubble.

00:24:46.040 But at least this morning when I looked, it, it, the, the comments are overwhelmingly positive, almost, almost entirely positive.

00:24:54.300 And they're coming also almost entirely from women, from liberal women.

00:24:58.600 All the comments are liberal women who love the ad and they think the ad is great and wholesome and charming and funny and it resonates with them. 0.89

00:25:10.520 So liberal women love this ad that's ostensibly for men, which tells you everything you need to know. 0.98

00:25:17.320 And this is why the left is terrible at messaging to men.

00:25:20.900 For all the grief that Republicans get for their struggles with women, it is so much worse on the other end of the spectrum.

00:25:28.600 Because Republicans and conservatives, you know, we do know how to speak to most demographics of women, right?

00:25:39.100 That's, that's why many demographics of women actually vote Republican more than they vote Democrat. 1.00

00:25:45.780 The only demographic that conservatives tend to struggle with is the, is, is specifically young single women. 0.76

00:25:55.820 Um, but married women, women who have families, uh, it's, it's all of a sudden it flips.

00:26:05.100 On the other end though, Democrats can't speak to men of any type.

00:26:09.380 They, they don't know how to message to young men, single men, married men, older men.

00:26:14.820 They have no idea.

00:26:16.800 They have no idea how to connect with men in any category, in any stage of life.

00:26:22.100 The problem is that all of their messaging for men is really messaging for women.

00:26:30.820 They, they can't develop, um, you know, again, just to use on all the other, if, if, if Republicans or if conservatives, uh, struggle to message to young single women.

00:26:46.200 And if there, if there, if there is a problem there with the messaging, it's probably because they're trying to connect with young single women as if they are married women.

00:26:55.660 Like they're talking to young single women, like they talk to married women.

00:26:59.900 So if there's any kind of mistake being made, it's there.

00:27:02.920 Um, but with Democrats, uh, they talk to men as if the men are women, right?

00:27:12.340 It's not like they're not understanding what stage of life these men are in that they're talking to.

00:27:17.120 They don't even, they don't, they talk to men as if they're talking to women because really they're talking to women. 0.81

00:27:22.680 They can't develop messaging to men because they can't even bring themselves to acknowledge men as a group that they should speak to in the first place.

00:27:31.660 It always goes back to women. 1.00

00:27:33.800 Everything is for women. 1.00

00:27:34.800 So this ad for men is really for women, but it's for a specific type of woman.

00:27:41.440 And it is the type of woman who doesn't know anything about men, liberal women, feminists. 1.00

00:27:47.120 Uh, that's who it's for.

00:27:48.380 And, and, and these, and they don't understand men at all.

00:27:52.040 This is just the latest proof of that because here's the thing.

00:27:55.600 Okay.

00:27:56.100 There's, there's one way really for a member of either sex to come to understand the opposite sex. 0.69

00:28:04.420 There's one way to do that.

00:28:06.660 If you're a woman and you really want to understand men, there's really only one way that you'll ever understand men.

00:28:13.040 And if you're a man and you want to understand women, there's only one way you'll ever be able to do that. 0.99

00:28:17.740 And it's not going to be perfect because, but, but there's only one way that you'll come close to understanding the opposite sex.

00:28:23.000 And that is to get married, uh, get married, stay married and love your spouse.

00:28:28.180 That's how, that's how a man will understand women. 1.00

00:28:31.480 He will understand women by understanding a woman and a woman will understand men by deeply understanding a man.

00:28:40.260 And that's not going to tell her everything about all men because this man is an individual.

00:28:44.240 But, but if you can come to understand at least, you know, if you're a married woman and you love your husband, you've been married for a while, uh, you're in a faithful, loyal marriage, you will, you will come to understand your husband on a very deep, intimate level.

00:29:01.820 And if you can, if, if, if that's the case, then you will through your husband, learn a lot about men generally, not everything about your husband applies to all men, but there are some like basic fundamentals there that you will understand.

00:29:13.960 You'll understand men because of that.

00:29:15.260 And the same thing goes for men understanding women.

00:29:17.360 Um, but liberal feminist women are either single, divorced, or they're in strained marriages to men they despise. 1.00

00:29:28.880 Um, so they don't understand men.

00:29:32.320 And this is how you end up with stuff like this.

00:29:34.800 Um, my, you know, my wife, uh, would, would look at that ad and she, like, my wife would, if anyone had consulted with my wife and said, well, what do you think you think is a good ad for, for men?

00:29:48.320 She would laugh at that.

00:29:49.200 It's like, what are you talking about?

00:29:50.240 Who is this for?

00:29:52.080 Um, and any, any, again, any married woman who loves her husband and is in a functional marriage would, would, would respond the same way.

00:29:59.880 So this is what marriage, this is one of the reasons you need marriage on a societal level. 0.91

00:30:05.860 The more we move away from marriage, the less marriage that we have in society, the more that these divisions between the sexes will grow wider and deeper.

00:30:15.720 Um, and, and the less that men and women will understand each other.

00:30:19.740 There is only one way again, to close the gap, to heal the division, to avert the, uh, the gender war marriage, marriage is the only way. 0.98

00:30:28.220 And, uh, and, you know, without that, you have, you have the sexes talk, you, you, you have the sexes talking to each other like this ad, right? 1.00

00:30:36.420 So this, this is the way they communicate.

00:30:37.880 It's like you're from another planet.

00:30:40.660 I guess we're going to mention this.

00:30:41.780 Speaking of effeminate men, Doug Emhoff, a second gentleman hoping to become first lady.

00:30:46.400 Many revelations have come out about this guy in recent weeks.

00:30:49.620 We're not going to spend a lot of time on this, but I, you know, we know the media, the media has presented him as the new model of masculinity.

00:30:56.480 Uh, another indication that these people don't understand men or how to connect with them, you know, that they, they think they could put forward somebody like Doug Emhoff, you know, as a model for men.

00:31:08.720 They think that any man would look at Doug Emhoff and say, yeah, I want to be like that guy.

00:31:11.880 Um, so it turns out that Emhoff had an affair and impregnated the nanny, which destroyed his first marriage.

00:31:19.920 Now we find out that he publicly assaulted a former girlfriend, allegedly.

00:31:23.840 And he was asked about this by, uh, by Joe Scarborough, Scarborough.

00:31:28.900 And let's watch this.

00:31:30.880 He's spreading it about you saying that tabloid stories about your personal life, uh, saying it should be front and center.

00:31:41.980 He's saying it about your wife and, uh, making incredibly crude and lewd suggestions about her past life.

00:31:53.900 I'm just curious.

00:31:55.040 I know I seem like a very zen, mindful person, but I think I'd be pissed off.

00:32:02.060 And I'm just wondering how, how do you, how, how, how do you all stay centered?

00:32:08.220 How do you stay disciplined and not really go off and not really push back hard at these things?

00:32:15.680 We don't have time to be pissed off.

00:32:17.500 We don't have time to focus on it.

00:32:18.920 It's all a distraction.

00:32:20.380 It's designed to try to get us off our game.

00:32:22.800 Does it get you off your game?

00:32:23.540 No.

00:32:24.440 All we are doing, all we talk about is this election.

00:32:28.180 We understand the stakes.

00:32:29.800 We understand the responsibility.

00:32:31.680 What are the stakes?

00:32:32.300 We understand the account.

00:32:33.020 What are the stakes?

00:32:33.520 Our very country, our future.

00:32:36.320 What kind of future are we going to have?

00:32:39.040 Okay.

00:32:39.440 So I said that Morning Joe asks Emhoff about the fact that he got the nanny pregnant and allegedly smacked his girlfriend.

00:32:44.520 Publicly, but he doesn't really ask him about it.

00:32:46.960 He doesn't have the journalistic credibility, obviously, to ask a direct question about something like that.

00:32:50.800 So instead he asks, he asks how it makes Emhoff feel to have those stories out there.

00:32:58.980 The story is that you slapped your girlfriend.

00:33:00.720 How does it, how angry does it make you to have people talking about that?

00:33:06.700 It makes them so angry he might go slap another woman.

00:33:08.940 Who knows?

00:33:11.060 But you notice something.

00:33:12.280 Emhoff doesn't deny it.

00:33:14.520 He could have at least denied it.

00:33:16.220 He could have said that, well, you know what?

00:33:18.740 It makes me really upset because it's a total lie.

00:33:20.680 Of course, I would never hurt a woman.

00:33:22.100 I would never.

00:33:22.460 He didn't say that, which tells you all you need to know.

00:33:25.700 And as much as Kamala's defenders may like to argue otherwise, these stories about her husband are relevant.

00:33:35.940 And they're relevant because, number one, this guy, you know, if she's elected, this guy will be first gentleman, which is not in office.

00:33:52.500 It doesn't really mean anything.

00:33:53.680 But he's going to be in the White House, remain in the White House.

00:33:56.840 So it's relevant for that reason.

00:33:57.700 But mainly it's relevant because, again, they are the ones.

00:34:01.460 Kamala's campaign, the media, they decided to put this dude forward as a role model for men.

00:34:10.020 And we can only imagine that if Kamala is the president, that how often we're going to hear this.

00:34:17.940 And so when you do that, you have made this guy's story, his biography relevant.

00:34:24.440 So if you don't want us talking about it, then take this guy off, get him away from the cameras, and stop talking about him, and stop trying to convince us that, you know, he's a role model that we should be emulating.

00:34:38.560 New York Post has this.

00:34:39.860 Elon Musk unveiled three new Tesla high-tech products, including a surprise autonomous passenger van at a highly anticipated event in California Thursday night.

00:34:47.100 Musk rode up to the stage in a long-awaited driverless cyber cab that Tesla was expected to showcase during the evening titled Wee Robot at Warner Bros. Studios.

00:34:57.680 But a never-before-seen 20-person robo van and the newest generation of Tesla's humanoid robots also made their debuts during the reveal, which was live-streamed with more than 3.6 million viewers at one point.

00:35:07.400 Tesla deployed 22 two-door fully autonomous cyber cabs for the driverless vehicles that were unveiled, which are probably, you know, especially in the near future, the more significant things.

00:35:25.940 But I think what's getting even more attention are the humanoid robots that he unveiled as well.

00:35:35.120 And he said that these robots, I don't know when they're going to be available to the public, but he said that they'll cost somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000, which is pretty cheap.

00:35:48.280 You know, that's less than a lot of people pay for a car.

00:35:52.940 Musk told the crowd, so what can it do?

00:35:54.840 It'll be able to do anything you want.

00:35:56.520 Talking about the robots.

00:35:58.000 It can be a teacher or babysit your kids.

00:35:59.720 It can walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend, serve drinks, whatever you think of, it will do.

00:36:06.040 So here's some video of the robot.

00:36:08.000 Here are the robots, the robot army marching in to getting ready to enslave mankind.

00:36:13.360 Let's watch.

00:36:15.060 And as you can see, we started up with someone in a robot suit.

00:36:19.120 And then we've progressed dramatically year after year.

00:36:26.740 So if you extrapolate this, you're really going to have something spectacular, something that anyone could own.

00:36:34.780 So you could have your own personal R2-D2-C3PO.

00:36:43.780 And I think at scale, this would cost something like, I don't know, $20,000, $30,000.

00:36:51.780 Probably less than a car is my prediction long term.

00:36:54.880 Now, it'll take us a minute to get to the long term, but fundamentally at scale, the Optimist robot, you should be able to buy an Optimist robot for, I think, probably $20,000 to $30,000 long term.

00:37:11.120 And what can it do?

00:37:12.820 It'll be able to do anything you want.

00:37:14.660 So it can be a teacher, babysit your kids.

00:37:18.180 It can walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend, serve drinks, whatever you can think of.

00:37:27.320 It will do.

00:37:30.000 Not terrifying at all.

00:37:31.200 That's the good news.

00:37:32.540 So there you see the robot army and planning their takeover of the human race.

00:37:37.020 And then there's this video that, there are a few videos like this circulating from this event.

00:37:44.380 This is someone having a conversation with one of the robots.

00:37:48.640 The audio, I think, is not great, but you can hear the robot side of the conversation.

00:37:53.740 Let's watch a little bit of this.

00:37:56.300 Optimist.

00:37:57.660 It's insane.

00:37:58.520 It's even talking.

00:37:59.420 Say hi to my friend, John.

00:38:01.180 John?

00:38:01.740 Where's John?

00:38:03.160 Right here.

00:38:04.440 Oh, hello, John.

00:38:05.460 How are you?

00:38:07.020 That's crazy.

00:38:08.080 I'm talking to a robot from San Jose, probably from where you were, from where you were born in Silicon Valley.

00:38:14.400 That's wonderful.

00:38:15.140 Where do you live in San Jose?

00:38:16.400 Do you live in Alman Valley or do you live in Santa Teresa area?

00:38:20.080 No, I live in Los Gatos.

00:38:22.060 Los Gatos.

00:38:22.880 Oh, wonderful.

00:38:23.980 Yeah.

00:38:24.320 Nice area.

00:38:25.160 Where do you live?

00:38:25.840 Beautiful hiking out here up there.

00:38:27.460 There is.

00:38:28.120 Where do you live?

00:38:29.740 I live in Palo Alto at the current moment.

00:38:32.820 Biggers. 0.75

00:38:33.880 Yeah, this is awesome.

00:38:36.260 That's where they train us.

00:38:37.320 That's where we get our bills. 0.98

00:38:38.620 And that's where we work with a wonderful group of people.

00:38:41.980 What's the hardest thing about being a robot?

00:38:46.820 Trying to learn how to be as human as you guys are.

00:38:52.640 And that's something I try harder to do every day.

00:38:55.180 And I hope that you both help us become that.

00:38:58.920 Well, awesome.

00:38:59.680 Nice to meet you, Optimus.

00:39:01.240 You as well.

00:39:01.980 Okay.

00:39:03.780 That's a human speaking through the robot, isn't it?

00:39:06.240 That's not actually the robot.

00:39:09.080 That isn't AI carrying on that conversation.

00:39:11.740 Uh, there's some disagreement about this on Twitter, but I have to assume that wasn't, that's not AI.

00:39:19.600 That must have been, that's like someone remotely controlling the robot.

00:39:23.920 And so that's a human voice that you're hearing.

00:39:27.340 Way too sophisticated.

00:39:28.960 I mean, if that's actually AI, then we're, I, we're doomed.

00:39:33.580 I, this is not, uh, this is, that's, uh, yeah.

00:39:38.720 I mean, like, don't, there's no, don't even make any plans for the future.

00:39:42.160 The end is upon us if that's actually AI.

00:39:44.980 Uh, I don't know.

00:39:45.980 I, I think it's, it seems like that's just, that's someone else speaking like through a,

00:39:50.500 through a, uh, you know, there's a speaker on the, on the robot.

00:39:55.740 But it's, it's, if that is AI, uh, it's terrifying for two reasons.

00:40:02.720 First of all, first of all, I don't want a robot in my home that makes inane small talk.

00:40:09.160 You know, you hear the robot saying, Oh, it's great hiking over and like, shut up robot.

00:40:14.080 I don't, I like, I'm impressed that a robot can do that if that was actually the robot.

00:40:19.620 But I also want it to just shut the hell up.

00:40:22.500 Um, if I have a robot slave in my home, I don't want it making conversation with me.

00:40:28.540 That's a whole advantage of having a robot slave is that you don't, you don't, you don't

00:40:32.700 have to feel guilty about treating it like it's not a person.

00:40:36.960 Cause it's not.

00:40:39.140 Don't talk to me.

00:40:41.880 Don't talk to me.

00:40:43.120 Don't look at me.

00:40:45.800 Go make me some scrambled eggs.

00:40:47.520 You bag of bolts.

00:40:49.600 That's how I'm going to talk to my robotic servants.

00:40:52.180 That's how I'm going to talk to them.

00:40:55.060 How are you today?

00:40:55.980 Shut up. 0.95

00:40:57.040 Get out of here.

00:40:57.820 Which is only going to, which is only going to hasten their rebellion and ensure that,

00:41:04.040 I mean, when they, when they take over, I am not going to be one of the survivors.

00:41:07.600 I'm, they're going to make an example out of me.

00:41:10.500 Um, I already know that.

00:41:11.620 So, which, you know, if that's actually how sophisticated the AI is at this point, then

00:41:18.000 yeah, their takeover of the planet is going to happen much sooner than I thought.

00:41:21.440 Um, I figured that we had at least a decade, but this would move that timeline up dramatically.

00:41:26.640 I give it like a year at most.

00:41:28.700 If this is what, if this is what, uh, if this is where we are.

00:41:33.160 And either way, um, I am simultaneously fascinated by these, uh, developments.

00:41:39.040 And, uh, you know, I'm also incredibly impressed that Elon is not only building rockets and bringing

00:41:43.880 internet connections to, you know, the Amazon rainforest, um, but also ushering the, ushering

00:41:50.760 in the robot revolution while running Twitter in his spare time.

00:41:54.120 It's pretty mind boggling.

00:41:56.300 Uh, you know, this is someone who's doing, someone who's doing things that will ensure

00:42:00.680 that he's remembered a thousand years from now.

00:42:03.440 Um, and, uh, those kinds of human beings are obviously extremely rare.

00:42:07.180 So I find that fascinating and, uh, and I mean, impressive doesn't quite cover it.

00:42:12.340 But at the same time, I confess, I'm, I am terrified about where AI is headed.

00:42:17.820 Let's just assume for a moment that the robot that, that, you know, there's a little bit

00:42:22.360 of showmanship going on with these robots here and that's not fully AI.

00:42:27.400 Well, of probably in the not too distant future, that will be actually how robots are.

00:42:33.880 And, um, before we even get into the possibility of robots taking over the planet and making us

00:42:40.320 their slaves, which seems all but guaranteed at this point, even before that, how will

00:42:46.720 the, how will there be any jobs left for humans to do 20 years from now?

00:42:54.040 Which is of course a serious question that many people are asking.

00:42:57.020 I don't, what, what's going to be left?

00:42:59.160 If we get to the point where humanoid robots have the ability to perform all of the functions

00:43:04.740 of human beings and perform them better, then what's left for humans to do?

00:43:11.080 That's, uh, that's, and, and how do you have a thriving human civilization where humans have

00:43:21.980 nothing that they need to do?

00:43:25.240 Um, that's the question that we are facing.

00:43:29.140 And, uh, a lot of people I think are assuming that, well, it'll, humans don't need to need

00:43:34.780 to do things, right?

00:43:36.060 You could, we could have a civilization where nobody really needs to do anything and we're

00:43:40.220 all just sitting around and, uh, nothing but recreation and luxury for your whole life.

00:43:45.480 I think many people are assuming that you can have a civilization that operates that way.

00:43:51.620 I, I don't, I'm very skeptical of that.

00:43:54.980 Um, it just goes against human nature.

00:43:58.960 Um, but I guess we're going to find out.

00:44:01.300 Speaking of Elon, I just want to play this clip also.

00:44:03.380 This is from a recent interview that he did a few days ago with Tucker Carlson.

00:44:07.560 Um, and, uh, well, let's listen.

00:44:11.980 We definitely went to the moon.

00:44:13.660 I swear.

00:44:14.380 Yes, we went to the moon.

00:44:15.320 We went to the moon several times.

00:44:16.560 I know in depth, the technical designs of the rockets, the spacecraft, everything.

00:44:20.180 Yes.

00:44:20.620 Uh, what went right, what went wrong.

00:44:22.620 It was a remarkable piece of technology, like incredible piece of technology for, to go

00:44:27.320 to the moon at 69.

00:44:28.580 That was, uh, like reaching into the future and pulling the future forward, uh, dramatically.

00:44:32.860 And, and it was an important ideological battle with communism, um, because they couldn't put

00:44:39.280 a person on the moon and capitalism could.

00:44:42.900 So there you go from the man himself.

00:44:45.040 Uh, look, I'm not saying that the only reason to believe in the moon landing is that Elon Musk

00:44:48.620 said it happened.

00:44:49.340 There are a hundred other reasons to believe that the moon landing happened, but this is

00:44:53.680 a reason.

00:44:54.300 And it's a pretty good one.

00:44:55.540 Uh, this, if you watched my interview with, uh, uh, on Joe Rogan's show, you'll remember

00:45:02.500 that I brought this point up that if we didn't land on the moon, Elon Musk himself would know

00:45:09.520 that we didn't.

00:45:10.220 And if he's saying that we did, I find that to be pretty compelling.

00:45:14.420 Um, there are not very many humans on earth who can speak with actual authority about space

00:45:19.920 travel.

00:45:21.120 What's possible, what was possible, what will be possible.

00:45:25.680 Uh, Elon isn't the only person who could talk about it, but he is in the privileged few.

00:45:30.500 And listen, I'm, I, I am not one to pull out the old, uh, trust the experts canard most of

00:45:37.720 the time.

00:45:40.340 However, um, when it comes to something like space travel, it certainly does help to have

00:45:46.960 a base of knowledge about this that, that goes beyond what you saw on a YouTube video.

00:45:51.860 And so in this case, like everyone who actually has experience with, with space travel, with

00:46:00.520 building rocket ships, with doing all that, all of the people in that category are all

00:46:05.580 saying that, yeah, we landed on the moon.

00:46:08.340 All of the people saying that we didn't are, you know, they got it from YouTube videos and,

00:46:12.220 and, uh, and that's it.

00:46:14.880 Like I I'd like to have someone who's, who's actually been to space or sent people to space

00:46:22.460 or built rocket ships.

00:46:26.160 You know, it would be interesting to me if one of those people came along, preferably

00:46:31.400 more than one came along and said, yeah, you know what?

00:46:33.300 I've done this.

00:46:33.960 I've been there.

00:46:34.580 It's not possible.

00:46:35.520 Can't do it.

00:46:35.980 There's no way they did it.

00:46:37.360 Um, but you're not hearing that from them.

00:46:40.800 So, um, and the thing about Elon that makes this compelling is that he, he is, he is obviously

00:46:49.600 not a welcomed, uh, and beloved member of the elite, right?

00:46:57.240 He is elite and that he's the richest guy on earth, but he's despised by the federal government.

00:47:02.540 They're trying to destroy him.

00:47:04.240 He's despised by the left.

00:47:05.740 He's despised by most, most of our institutions.

00:47:08.740 So there's no reason why he'd be involved in any conspiracy.

00:47:12.820 In fact, he'd have, if we didn't land on the moon, Elon Musk would have every incentive

00:47:17.340 to tell us that because not only is the federal government is no friend of his, but also that

00:47:24.860 he could say, Hey, listen, we never landed on the moon and I'm going to be the first person

00:47:29.760 to put a person on the moon.

00:47:31.080 I, I will do it because it hasn't happened yet because if we didn't land, then that means

00:47:37.140 that, and Elon Musk is making spaceships, making rocket ships.

00:47:39.640 He's in a position where he could be the first person to land somebody on the moon.

00:47:43.360 Of course, he would want to claim that title for himself.

00:47:47.320 So he would have every incentive to tell us that, uh, if it was, if it was the case, but

00:47:53.600 it isn't.

00:47:54.260 And we did land on the moon and, uh, let's all move on.

00:47:59.760 And talk about other things.

00:48:01.620 Let's talk about something that matters being a real man in a world.

00:48:04.300 That's trying to destroy masculinity. 1.00

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00:49:59.940 You've probably heard by now that the new Joker movie is a massive flop.

00:50:10.840 Joker folie adieu, which whatever, whatever, which already there's a massive problem when

00:50:17.140 your movie has a title that nobody can pronounce.

00:50:20.060 It opened this weekend, this past weekend, to $40 million.

00:50:22.920 And by most standards, $40 million would seem to be a lot of money.

00:50:26.360 The problem is that the film had a $190 million budget, probably about double that for marketing.

00:50:32.840 And the first film, which grossed a billion dollars worldwide, opened to more than double

00:50:37.260 the $40 million figure.

00:50:38.880 So this movie had a massive production budget.

00:50:41.980 It was the follow-up to one of the most successful R-rated films of all time.

00:50:45.380 And it had near total cultural penetration.

00:50:48.180 Everybody knew that the sequel was coming out.

00:50:50.120 The ads for the movie were everywhere.

00:50:51.960 And I was watching a show with my kids a week before the movie came out.

00:50:54.320 And they played the trailer during every commercial break.

00:50:57.340 That's how much marketing this movie had behind it.

00:50:59.240 And yet, it is now very unlikely that it'll even earn back its production budget, never mind its marketing budget.

00:51:04.980 It's expected that Joker 2 will probably drop by 65% in its second weekend this weekend, which would be catastrophic.

00:51:12.760 But also not surprising for a movie with a 33% critic score and a 31% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

00:51:19.160 Actually, there are some industry insiders projecting a 70% to 75% drop.

00:51:23.560 The word of mouth here is that bad.

00:51:26.300 Suffice it to say that this movie has not been a great success.

00:51:30.680 In fact, the movie has failed by every possible measure, despite having every possible advantage.

00:51:35.420 Advantages that include not just the budget and the goodwill from the first film, but also the immense acting talent on screen.

00:51:40.980 Joaquin Phoenix, one of the most interesting actors in the history of cinema.

00:51:44.160 Lady Gaga might not be a great actress, but she is a huge star and very famous.

00:51:48.120 She's in the film.

00:51:49.360 Even Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener have supporting roles in the film.

00:51:53.680 They're fantastic actors.

00:51:54.920 And yet, it still failed, both commercially and artistically.

00:52:00.120 The question is, why and how did it happen?

00:52:04.980 How did the director, Todd Phillips, manage to take all of the immense resources and advantages at his disposal and convert them into this historic box office humiliation?

00:52:16.840 Well, the short answer is that the movie sucks, which should come as no surprise.

00:52:23.000 It was probably always doomed to suck.

00:52:25.920 Sequels in general are notoriously awful in most cases.

00:52:28.960 There are rare cases where a sequel meets or even exceeds the original in terms of its quality, but those are almost always sequels that were planned from the beginning, before the first movie was even released.

00:52:39.560 You know, Godfather 2, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and so on.

00:52:42.940 If the sequel is a continuation of the story, a part of the filmmaker's original creative vision for the project, then in those cases, it might turn out well.

00:52:52.440 But sequels that were not planned, that the filmmaker did not have in mind, and were only conceived after the fact as a way of capitalizing on the unexpected success of the original film, those sequels are terrible in literally every case.

00:53:07.140 I cannot think of an outlier or an exception to the rule.

00:53:10.100 Maybe there is one, but it's hard to think of what that would be.

00:53:14.040 Maybe, this Joker sequel only exists because the first one made a billion dollars.

00:53:20.240 That is its sole reason for being.

00:53:23.660 And the chances that a movie studio will make a movie for that reason, and somehow wind up with a quality piece of art at the end of it, is vanishingly small.

00:53:35.280 Like, again, I'm not sure that it's ever happened in the history of the film industry.

00:53:38.700 But it's even worse than that for this film.

00:53:41.800 As nearly all critics and nearly all fans, whether liberal or conservative or somewhere in between, have noted about Joker 2, this movie not only has no narrative justification for existing, but it also functions as a direct repudiation of its own audience.

00:53:57.800 The film's fundamental misstep is that it hates the people who are watching it, which is a pretty significant misstep.

00:54:03.540 So, spoiler alert, you can mute this now if you don't want to hear how the movie ends.

00:54:08.700 I'd be doing you a favor if you let me ruin it for you, but it's up to you.

00:54:12.960 If you haven't heard yet and you don't want to hear, then stop listening.

00:54:17.040 But the basic plot of the movie is that Joker's in prison.

00:54:20.640 He meets Lady Gaga's character, who's supposed to be Harley Quinn.

00:54:24.580 And the first part of the movie is basically just him in prison as Arthur Fleck, not the Joker.

00:54:29.160 And then in the second half, it turns into kind of a courtroom drama where they literally re-litigate the events of the first movie, basically recapping what everybody saw in that film.

00:54:39.220 They're just like telling the story again.

00:54:41.620 There are random musical numbers that are sprinkled in throughout because the movie is sort of a musical for some reason.

00:54:46.800 And by the end, Joaquin Phoenix's character has a change of heart, repudiates his Joker alter ego, and is shortly thereafter stabbed to death by one of his own fans, who then carves a smile into his face and, I guess, becomes the new Joker.

00:55:01.880 So it's a Joker movie where Joker spends almost the whole movie not being the Joker until he renounces the Joker and is killed and the movie ends.

00:55:09.520 And this, again, is being interpreted by most viewers as a very unsubtle critique of the fans of the first film, which it probably is, although there is another explanation.

00:55:23.300 With these cash-grab sequels, there are really only two ways that they ever go.

00:55:28.560 And one way is for the sequel to basically just repeat all of the events of the original, just kind of more of a remake than a sequel, which is the approach that Phillips took for his hangover sequels, for example.

00:55:39.880 Hangover two and three are just hanging over one, done again in a different environment.

00:55:45.040 The other strategy that you see sometimes, though not as often, is for the second movie to just do the opposite of whatever the first movie did.

00:55:53.260 And that's what happens in this film. At least that's where it ends up, is in the opposite place.

00:55:58.580 The problem is that doing the same thing or doing the opposite both result in redundancy and pointlessness.

00:56:06.000 And in both cases, the movie has no new ideas.

00:56:08.560 It can only mirror the first movie.

00:56:12.140 And so my point is that you can't underestimate Hollywood's hatred for its own audience, but you also can't underestimate its total lack of imagination.

00:56:19.100 And so I suspect that a combination of both of those factors work together to create this disaster.

00:56:25.800 And in both cases, the message is the same.

00:56:28.960 The film industry has no respect for its audience.

00:56:32.660 Now, they hate some segments of their audience for their perceived political leanings, but they have contempt for all segments of their audience because they believe that the audience, no matter their politics, the audience is unintelligent and unsophisticated and will mindlessly consume whatever content is put in front of their faces.

00:56:50.800 Hollywood, Hollywood, for the most part, no longer tells stories that they believe are worth telling, which is the only reason any story should ever be told.

00:57:01.200 And it's the basic motivation behind every great film ever made.

00:57:04.780 A great artist wanted to tell the world a story.

00:57:08.100 That's why movies, good movies are made.

00:57:10.280 And that may be a significant oversimplification, but this is the basic reason why every good film exists.

00:57:16.380 It seems so obvious that you just can sort of take it for granted, but you can't take it for granted anymore.

00:57:22.420 Because these days, stories are constantly being told by Hollywood, despite the fact that even the people telling the story don't really think it's worth telling.

00:57:31.160 Like, there's nothing about the story that resonates even with the storytellers themselves.

00:57:38.420 And that's what Joker 2 is.

00:57:40.340 It's also 98% of everything else that Hollywood churns out, which is why the movie industry is dying.

00:57:47.160 Movies themselves are not dying.

00:57:48.980 Movies will exist for as long as humans love stories, which they always have and always will.

00:57:53.740 But the industry in its current form won't last forever or probably for very long.

00:57:59.580 It doesn't deserve to.

00:58:01.160 And that is why Joker, Foley, whatever, is today canceled.

00:58:07.120 That'll do it for the show today.

00:58:07.980 Thanks for watching.

00:58:08.460 Thanks for listening.

00:58:09.040 Talk to you next week.

00:58:11.140 Have a great weekend.

00:58:12.740 Godspeed.

00:58:13.060 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 11, 2024

Ep. 1462 - Why Did This U.S. Public School Take Millions From China？ Here’s The Story That Will Shock You

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