The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1488 - Why We Should Stop Apologizing for Our History

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we'll dive deeper into the utterly dystopian policies being put in

00:00:04.300 place all over the world in the name of so-called indigenous rights. Also, the Biden regime has

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00:00:12.740 The Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight played out exactly as I said it would. We'll talk about

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00:02:01.280 wade into the political situation of a foreign country, I inevitably receive a lot of very impassioned

00:02:06.520 feedback from the locals. It's especially true when the country is relatively small. Discussing

00:02:11.280 political developments in a tiny, out-of-the-way country is a bit like talking about, say, anime or the

00:02:16.980 video game industry. Ordinarily, it doesn't take long until I'm swarmed with people who insist that

00:02:21.900 I'm in way over my head. I don't know what I'm talking about. After all, I'm a podcast host in

00:02:26.280 Tennessee talking about some country thousands of miles away. They're the ones who are actually

00:02:30.860 living through whatever nightmare I'm describing. So naturally, they can probably pick me apart on some

00:02:35.100 of the finer details if they want to. And that's why I was surprised to see the reaction after my

00:02:39.720 commentary on New Zealand on Friday. It wasn't what I was expecting. In case you missed it,

00:02:45.480 on Friday, I discussed the outbreak of a primal Stone Age war chant on the floor of New Zealand's

00:02:50.000 parliament. Here's a mercifully short clip of the chant, if you missed it, which is all over

00:02:55.720 the internet at this point.

00:02:58.720 Thank you.

00:03:02.720 Now, the lawmakers in that clip, who identify as Maori, the allegedly indigenous people of New

00:03:19.960 Zealand, were furious about a bill that was introduced by a politician named David Seymour.

00:03:24.700 The bill had a pretty simple premise that should have been completely uncontroversial. It would restore

00:03:29.220 equal rights to everybody living in New Zealand. On Friday, I pointed out that these supposedly

00:03:35.180 indigenous lawmakers are a shining example of why it's a bad idea to kowtow to any demographic group, 1.00

00:03:42.360 particularly one with a violent and brutal history like the Maoris. Even if you spend decades showering

00:03:48.180 them with reparations and affirmative action, as New Zealand has, they will still act like petulant 0.98

00:03:53.660 children. Giving them free stuff only emboldens them further. They'll turn your government into a 0.96

00:03:58.480 laughing stock as they demand even more privileges and handouts indefinitely. It's like a real life

00:04:03.680 version of the children's book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, which has proven to be one of the most

00:04:09.000 prophetic works of literature of our time, for my money. Now, what I didn't realize when I made these

00:04:14.120 points is that actually the situation in New Zealand is even worse than I thought. It has deteriorated in

00:04:20.620 ways that are actually difficult to comprehend if you live in the United States, even given our

00:04:25.000 trajectory towards racial equity and DEI and so on. And as demonstrated by the comments I received,

00:04:31.480 all of this is happening to the dismay and bewilderment of many people living in the country.

00:04:37.280 But it has happened to them in the same way it's happening to alleged colonizers all over the world

00:04:42.300 from Canada to Australia. This is a global problem that's getting much worse with each passing year.

00:04:49.160 We're not just talking about reparations here, as unjust as reparations are.

00:04:52.980 And we're not just talking about the denial of equal rights, as serious as that is. Those are

00:04:58.520 abstract terms that paper over what's actually happening, which is truly disturbing. So here's

00:05:04.860 just one example that somebody living in New Zealand sent in, in response to the commentary.

00:05:09.860 This may be one of the most dystopian, vindictive policies you'll ever hear about. And it's the kind

00:05:14.980 of thing that can happen when your government decides that indigenous rights or the rights of any special

00:05:20.840 demographic group matter more than equal rights. So it turns out that without holding any kind of

00:05:26.680 vote, New Zealand's public health system has decided to allow so-called Maori patients to skip ahead

00:05:32.780 in the wait list for surgery. And solely because these patients identify as Maori instead of as

00:05:38.700 colonizers, quote unquote, hospitals will give them preferential treatment for medical treatments. 0.84

00:05:44.960 And this change happened in secret. It was only exposed when some reporters received a tip

00:05:49.920 about what was going on. As the Guardian reports, quote, a new algorithm used in some New Zealand

00:05:54.820 hospitals means Maori and Pacific patients for elective surgery will be pushed higher on waiting

00:05:59.800 lists than those of other ethnicities with identical other factors like level of sickness, location,

00:06:05.020 and time on a wait list. At this stage, it will only be applied to elective surgeries and not to

00:06:10.220 emergencies. Now, last line is supposed to make this seem better somehow, but it doesn't.

00:06:16.120 First of all, the fact that a surgery can be classified as elective doesn't mean it's not

00:06:20.860 an important surgery. A hip replacement surgery, for example, which is necessary to alleviate

00:06:27.400 extraordinary debilitating pain, is considered elective. So is gallbladder surgery. So elective surgeries

00:06:35.020 are often a big deal. They're often medically necessary, even if they are classified as elective.

00:06:40.340 And there's no universe in which someone's race should decide who gets access to them.

00:06:47.420 Unless, of course, you just want white people to suffer for the sake of it, which is the idea here. 0.61

00:06:52.660 On top of that, this is clearly a stepping stone to making race-based healthcare the norm across the 0.98

00:06:56.960 board. If they're willing to delay an elective surgery for a white guy, why exactly wouldn't they 0.66

00:07:02.000 delay his emergency surgery too? What exactly is the reason that wouldn't be acceptable? Nobody's

00:07:07.660 explained that. And we know why. It's because that's coming next. Hospital administrators in

00:07:12.600 New Zealand apparently thought that they could implement an algorithm like this without telling

00:07:16.540 anyone. And once it was exposed, they weren't ashamed in any way. Instead, they doubled down

00:07:21.720 on it. For example, a professor of public health at the University of Auckland gave this comment to

00:07:25.960 The Guardian, quote, we've had these inequitable differences in health outcomes for decades,

00:07:30.500 and it doesn't appear that we've been able to affect the changes that we want.

00:07:33.340 If you don't make these courageous decisions, like introducing an ethnic dimension to the 0.94

00:07:37.840 decision-making, we'll never make the changes that we want to make in terms of health outcomes.

00:07:43.800 So to restate, he's saying it's courageous to introduce an ethnic dimension to the decision-making

00:07:50.720 at a hospital. So that's either a quote from early 90s Rwanda or New Zealand today. Take your pick.

00:07:58.380 Now, the thing with a surgery wait list is that it's a zero-sum game, obviously. When you give

00:08:03.940 somebody a boost, you're hurting somebody else. So the solution is telling these Maori people to 1.00

00:08:11.400 get in line and treat them like anybody else. Maybe they should have some self-respect instead of

00:08:17.820 constantly freeloading and demanding special privileges. They don't need an equity adjuster

00:08:23.220 that prevents a white guy from getting the surgery he needs. They need to take some responsibility

00:08:27.280 for their own culture, and it's many problems. And if they're having unequal health outcomes,

00:08:33.080 if Maori people are often more unhealthy than other people, which is the reasoning that they're 1.00

00:08:39.800 giving for making this change, well, then maybe you should take responsibility, live a healthier

00:08:45.160 lifestyle. But in New Zealand's media, which is mostly controlled by the government, the equity

00:08:51.100 adjuster is being portrayed as a positive development. The Maori are happy about it, we're told.

00:08:55.380 And that's all that matters, of course. Watch.

00:08:59.180 The equity adjuster waitlist tool, and it's being used to prioritise patients for non-urgent

00:09:07.000 surgeries in Auckland. And it takes into account a range of factors. So including clinical needs,

00:09:13.720 so how sick a person is, as well as their socioeconomic status, where they live, whether they're in a

00:09:21.120 rural location or in a city, and also their ethnicity. So it's sort of like a point system.

00:09:29.220 And within this system, people of Pacific Islander and Maori heritage are awarded an additional point

00:09:37.400 based on their ethnic background. And that goes into the overall calculation of where they sit on the

00:09:44.540 surgery waiting list. There are some people that have backed those comments, calling this policy

00:09:53.060 discriminatory. But certainly, among Pacific Islanders that I've spoken to, they're very much 0.72

00:09:59.980 in support of this policy and say that it's long overdue that something is done.

00:10:07.080 Okay, well, that makes it okay. Yeah, the people that are being discriminated against

00:10:12.860 say that it's discriminatory, which it is by definition. But it's okay, because the people

00:10:18.580 that are getting the privilege are happy about it. Well, I talked to Pacific Islanders, and they said

00:10:24.180 they're happy that they get to cut in front of the line and get the surgery first. So if they're happy

00:10:29.660 about it, then what's the problem? Now, this is what those politicians who were doing the

00:10:35.260 haka in parliament were upset about. They don't want this kind of overt anti-white racial

00:10:39.600 discrimination to end because it benefits them. After all the billions of dollars in reparations

00:10:45.540 payments and all the apologizing and land acknowledgements and flying the Maori flag,

00:10:50.140 they still want to deny the colonizers, quote unquote, access to surgeries. This is why they're 0.97

00:10:54.360 opposing a bill that would restore equal protection under the law. Now, from the comments I received,

00:10:58.860 this is just one of about a million other examples of the indignities that people living

00:11:02.600 in New Zealand have to deal with. One of them reads, quote, I work for a council in New Zealand.

00:11:09.540 It's super racist. We have a whole team dedicated to grifting and apartheid. Our senior leadership

00:11:15.020 team are all on board with the grift. It's disgusting. Another reads, it's horrendous here 0.96

00:11:19.500 in New Zealand. I work for a government department. Before and after every meeting, we're required to say

00:11:23.880 a Maori prayer. Regular cultural supervision is mandatory. Here's another quote. Matt is spot on.

00:11:32.700 Here in New Zealand, we've apologized, pay compensation, seen privileging of the Maori perspective at all 0.99

00:11:37.880 levels of government, media, academia, and bureaucracy for decades. It's never enough. It just leads to more

00:11:43.540 and escalating demands. Now, it goes on and on and on. Many hundreds, thousands of comments really like that.

00:11:49.300 Many people also pointed out that New Zealand has something called Maori electorates, which are

00:11:54.020 basically DEI for the government. There are seven Maori electorates in New Zealand and 65 normal

00:12:01.200 electorates. In the Maori electorates, only self-identifying Maori people can vote. That's

00:12:07.660 how the woman who tore up that bill got into parliament. So they rigged the whole system to get 1.00

00:12:11.960 these Maori in government. And the Maori turned around and turned the government into a laughingstock. 1.00

00:12:16.700 Now, people made a few other important points in response to my commentary as well. One of them

00:12:21.600 is that, you know, it's pretty much impossible to define who qualifies as Maori anymore, as you'd

00:12:27.180 expect. They have the same Elizabeth Warren problem that we do. But maybe the most striking comments were

00:12:33.380 the ones where people said that in New Zealand, you're not really allowed to be honest about any of

00:12:36.780 this. One of the comments reads, quote, so refreshing in New Zealand, we can't mention this. Thanks,

00:12:41.400 Matt, for making this clear to everybody. And here's another great video, Matt. Come down these

00:12:46.100 ways and do a talk, please. If we explain New Zealand like this in New Zealand, we get labeled

00:12:50.300 a racist. It's not racism. It's truth. David Seymour is part Maori. Now, there are hundreds 0.70

00:12:57.680 of comments like this. In New Zealand, you're apparently not allowed to mock all of this madness

00:13:02.900 and these Maori chants, as ridiculous as the chants are, by the way. You're not supposed to tell 0.97

00:13:09.300 them to stop freeloading. You're not supposed to tell them even that they should be treated equally.

00:13:13.120 Well, they should be given equal treatment as everybody else. You're not supposed to say that.

00:13:20.060 And as unfortunate as that is for the people living in New Zealand, the truth is that the

00:13:24.620 problem is much bigger than any one country. It's now endemic to the Western world. Exacting

00:13:30.220 vengeance against the colonizers is now an explicit goal of public policy. And left-wing politicians are

00:13:36.520 latching on to any pretext they can find in order to justify more of these crackdowns.

00:13:41.320 A year ago, for example, I went into some detail about the mass graves hoax that's been unfolding

00:13:45.220 in Canada. The idea was that ground-penetrating radar has supposedly found graves at various sites

00:13:50.540 that were once occupied by Canada's residential schools. These were boarding schools that were

00:13:54.860 funded by the Canadian government and run by Christian churches. And according to the Canadian

00:13:59.180 media and Canadian politicians, the graves provided evidence that Indians endured horrible abuses at

00:14:04.660 these schools to the point that Indian children were buried on site. Dozens of churches were promptly set on

00:14:10.980 fire in Canada, which the country's prime minister said was an understandable response?

00:14:16.640 Now, the problem is that to this day, none of this has panned out. They have not found a single

00:14:23.400 confirmed grave site at any of these schools. All they have are suspicions, which always turn out

00:14:29.460 to be false. In Kamloops, for example, we're told that, we were told that ground-penetrating radar had

00:14:34.920 supposedly identified hundreds of unmarked graves. They also reportedly found the tooth of a juvenile

00:14:39.520 nearby. But a year or so later, we learned that the tooth actually belonged to an animal

00:14:43.860 and that the unmarked graves were really a septic field. Now, how has Canada's government responded to

00:14:51.280 these revelations? You can probably guess. They're responding the way that they respond when you

00:14:55.800 question the narrative on climate change. They're accusing you of denialism. In fact, members of

00:15:01.220 Canada's parliament are proposing legislation that would make it illegal to tell the truth about the

00:15:06.460 complete lack of unmarked graves at these residential schools. They want to label the truth about this

00:15:12.480 subject as hate speech. Watch. There's a difference between free speech and hate speech. This MP already

00:15:21.500 got the House of Commons to acknowledge genocide happened at residential schools. Now she wants parliament

00:15:28.520 to legislate denialism as hate speech. That kind of speech is violent and re-traumatizes those who

00:15:36.240 attended residential school who constantly have their experience of genocide left out for debate. But author

00:15:42.800 Michelle Good, who wrote an award-winning book about residential schools, says Ottawa needs to take this new

00:15:49.880 threat of denialism seriously. My mother watched her friend Lily hemorrhage to death from tuberculosis at the

00:15:58.220 Onion Lake Residential School. We've known this. And so to have people respond to our lived experience

00:16:05.940 as though it never happened is devastating. Good says unless that rhetoric is outlawed, the country will never be able to

00:16:16.660 achieve meaningful reconciliation. Well, she says lived experience, but maybe your lived experience didn't happen. Maybe it

00:16:27.940 wasn't an experience at all, except in your fevered imagination. Again, the point here is to provide a pretext for a wave of

00:16:35.660 anti-Christian violence and ultimately destroy Canada as a Western country. That's their only goal. And you can see it everywhere in

00:16:41.940 Canada. For example, the country recently implemented indigenous sentencing circles for serious crimes, including assault and

00:16:50.940 theft. This is where instead of a judge sentencing someone, they sit in a circle and talk about how tough life must be for the

00:17:00.780 criminal. Watch.

00:17:02.940 Whether you've been to court or not, you can probably still picture it. That wooden paneled courtroom with a judge sitting up high,

00:17:11.340 looking down and delivering a sentence. But for the first time, this courthouse was host to an indigenous proceeding.

00:17:19.700 And it's the subject of a new documentary. It's so powerful that they're owning it. So if we can help heal the victim and

00:17:27.180 heal the offender, then all of a sudden we can work towards solution. It's called a sentencing circle where an

00:17:32.840 indigenous offender who has pled guilty joins their victim, a judge, lawyers, police officers and community members

00:17:40.480 impacted all sitting at the same level discussing the crime and how to address it. I spoke with circle keepers,

00:17:48.140 Ramona Cardinal and Stacey Harrison from Saddle Lake.

00:17:51.920 It's like, how do we address the issue? The First Nations people only make up 8% of the population in

00:17:57.620 Canada. And yet we have an 85% population when it comes to crime and courts and in the jail system. So

00:18:04.380 what's wrong with this picture?

00:18:06.100 Not shunning shame on them or being punitive. We are simply trying to get to the truth to help them

00:18:14.980 to process it and grow from it.

00:18:17.940 We get creative with some of our recommendations like, yeah, go and cut wood for an elder, go,

00:18:23.800 you know, go shovel their sidewalks and stuff like that, just so they have some ownership.

00:18:28.040 So the indigenous activist there says, if I had, if I remember the number correctly,

00:18:34.280 he said 8%, only 8% of the country is indigenous, so-called indigenous. Yet, did he say 85%?

00:18:44.080 They make up 85% of the criminals or something. Whatever the actual number is. And then he says,

00:18:52.240 well, what's wrong with this picture? Yeah, a lot is wrong with it. Turns out the indigenous people 1.00

00:18:56.560 are committing a lot of crimes. That's what's wrong with it. Why are your people committing so

00:19:02.080 many crimes? Maybe they should stop doing that. Like you have a problem in your community. You need

00:19:07.900 to turn, you need to turn your gaze back at yourself and ask yourself why that's happening.

00:19:15.040 Oh, but we can't do that. No, no, indigenous people, they have no problems of their own. I mean,

00:19:18.880 they don't do anything. They never do anything wrong. They can't possibly do anything wrong.

00:19:22.460 Everything that happens to them, anything they do, actually, anything they do is actually the

00:19:26.160 fault of somebody else. And as the video continues, they go on to claim that actually these

00:19:32.260 sentencing circles are even harsher than Canada's normal court system. And actually, unfortunately

00:19:38.840 for Canadians, that might be true. Even outside of these sentencing circles, traditional courts in

00:19:43.300 Canada are allowing so-called indigenous people to commit crimes with impunity. Recently in Canada, 0.93

00:19:49.080 for example, a man slashed the throat of a complete stranger on the train. And the victim was 65 years

00:19:55.100 old and the assailant very severely, actually nearly severed the artery on his neck. But the judge

00:20:02.320 decided that sending the perpetrator to federal prison would be a bad idea. Why? Well, quoting

00:20:07.220 from the Calgary Herald, quote, the judge said the generational trauma European society has caused to

00:20:13.580 indigenous communities had to be addressed. Quote, the history of colonialism has to be taken into

00:20:18.840 account, he said. Therefore, the stabber received a sentence of less than two years in a provincial jail.

00:20:25.100 Yes, the history of colonialism and generational trauma have to be taken into account when you're

00:20:29.760 dealing with somebody who tries to murder a guy on the train. Maybe it's okay to stab random white 1.00

00:20:35.740 people. That's the message they're sending when they refuse to throw this criminal in prison for 1.00

00:20:39.380 the rest of his life. Yeah, this kind of sentencing is happening all over the place. In Australia,

00:20:44.320 the judges are allowing criminals to put on performances in the courtroom before they're allowed to go free.

00:20:50.040 As the Knightley reports, quote, a New South Wales district court judge invited a teenage criminal

00:20:55.280 appearing before her to be sentenced over violent home invasions to give a welcome to the country in 0.52

00:21:00.860 the middle of her courtroom. The 17-year-old teen had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the

00:21:05.200 homes of a 92-year-old and an 88-year-old woman who he also admitted to sexually touching. The elderly

00:21:11.620 women were left traumatized. A welcome to the country usually occurs at the beginning of a formal event

00:21:16.500 and can take many forms, including singing, dancing, smoking ceremonies, and or a speech.

00:21:20.840 It's performed by traditional owners or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who have been

00:21:25.880 given permission from traditional owners to welcome visitors to their country.

00:21:30.740 So the judge lets this guy do a fun little dance and then releases him on parole after

00:21:35.260 sentencing him as a child. This is a 17-year-old who sexually touched, quote, unquote, otherwise known as

00:21:41.740 sexually assaulted elderly women. And instead of throwing him in prison for the rest of his life,

00:21:48.040 he gets to effectively become an officer of the court and perform some ceremony to make a mockery

00:21:52.740 of the entire judicial system. And then he walks free. Now, the point of all this couldn't be any

00:21:58.100 clearer. Last year, there was a referendum in Australia called the Indigenous Voice Referendum.

00:22:02.920 It would have modified Australia's constitution in order to create more carve-outs for so-called 0.98

00:22:07.520 indigenous people. The referendum failed, thankfully, in part because its backers were so explicit about 1.00

00:22:12.720 what they were attempting. A professor named Marsha Langton, for example, stated, quote,

00:22:17.460 people who are opposing the voice are saying that we're destroying the fabric of their sacred

00:22:21.960 constitution. Yes, that's right. That's exactly what we're doing. Now, pretty much anywhere you look

00:22:28.860 in Australia in day-to-day life, you can see how this strategy is being implemented. They even do land

00:22:34.420 acknowledgments on buses in Australia to send the message that Australians don't actually own their land.

00:22:39.880 Watch.

00:22:41.500 Owners of NARM, also known as Melbourne, we pay our respects to elders past, present, and emerging,

00:22:48.060 and acknowledge that sovereignty of the land we know as Australia has never been ceded.

00:22:54.620 The land was never ceded. Yeah, but you know what? It was taken. It was conquered. That's the way it goes

00:22:59.560 when it's conquered. You don't get to sit there and say, yeah, but we didn't cede it. That's how

00:23:05.400 conquering works. And you should know that because if you're an indigenous person, then your ancestors 1.00

00:23:10.900 did quite a lot of conquering themselves. And so that's the game. That's the way it goes.

00:23:18.980 Now, just like in New Zealand, all of this deference doesn't accomplish anything. It's never

00:23:22.760 enough. The indigenous folks just keep coming up with more and more demands, which usually entails 1.00

00:23:27.480 giving them more and more money. And as one Australian politician pointed out recently,

00:23:31.480 it's not clear exactly where that money is going. Australia even set up something called the National

00:23:36.680 Indigenous Australians Agency with the goal of advancing reconciliation. And now billions of

00:23:43.620 dollars are, of course, unaccounted for. Watch. For the 2022-23 financial year, the National

00:23:50.160 Indigenous Australians Agency, the NIAA, total resourcing was $4.5 billion on programs. The results,

00:23:57.820 rank failure. Where did the money go? The closing the gap annual report is clear. A total failure in

00:24:04.380 closing the gap. Only four of 17 targets met or goals achieved, and some gaps actually worsening.

00:24:12.120 Now, I'm not going to play the guy's full speech, but he goes on to draw the wrong lesson from all

00:24:16.780 this. He points out that the indigenous agency is embezzling money, but his solution is to give the

00:24:22.500 money to indigenous people directly. In other words, even as Australian politicians point out the obvious

00:24:27.200 fraud of reconciliation, they still want to participate in it. They still want to pay for

00:24:33.000 the alleged sins of their ancestors. They still agree with the underlying premise that colonization

00:24:39.580 was a horrific evil that we have to make amends for. But that isn't true. European colonization has 0.73

00:24:46.880 been, on balance, a force for good in the world. If you don't believe that, try comparing the life

00:24:53.740 expectancy of indigenous Australians, Canadians, or New Zealanders pre-colonization to what they

00:24:58.980 are now. They're doing a lot better today than they were hundreds of years ago by pretty much any

00:25:03.760 metric. They're not bartering with severed heads anymore, New Zealand, or eating the flesh of their

00:25:08.820 enemies. That's progress. They're using money for commerce now rather than severed heads. Money that

00:25:15.800 often they don't even have to earn. And instead of doing their haka dance half naked outside of

00:25:20.420 their mud huts, they're doing it in the halls of parliament. That's what the kids call a glow-up,

00:25:25.540 isn't it? Now, the only way to move past this endless guilt is to recognize that the so-called

00:25:31.660 colonizers never committed any unique acts of evil. Whatever alleged atrocities they can be charged

00:25:41.400 with, slavery, torture, mass murder, etc., were committed often in much more brutal forms by the

00:25:47.480 natives that they conquered. But there are many unique blessings that colonization has brought to

00:25:52.720 the world. That list would include pretty much every conceivable thing that makes our lives enjoyable

00:25:57.600 and worth living today. You name it, you have colonization to thank for that. It's time for us to

00:26:05.980 start taking pride in our history and speaking up to defend our ancestors. I mean, there's a crazy

00:26:14.640 thought. We also have to start being honest about these native cultures that are so often romanticized

00:26:20.540 and idealized. These were not peaceful people living in harmony with each other in nature. The real

00:26:26.340 world did not bear any resemblance to Disney's Pocahontas. In reality, these were violent, brutal,

00:26:33.780 primitive conquerors who were in turn conquered by a superior civilization that was, at the absolutely

00:26:41.160 very worst, just as brutal as their own, though often they were downright gentle and progressive

00:26:46.960 by comparison. All across the world, both sides slaughtered and enslaved. That's the way it happened 0.62

00:26:53.960 everywhere in the world among all people. But only one side had a propensity to eat their captives or

00:27:01.280 rip their still beating hearts out of their chests. And it wasn't the Europeans doing that, I can tell 0.99

00:27:06.200 you that. I've gone through all these examples to make the point, as I did on Friday, that we need to

00:27:11.460 avoid a similar regression here. We're already seeing signs of it happening, of course. Kamala Harris openly

00:27:17.220 proposed allocating disaster relief on the basis of equity. During the lockdowns, government scientists

00:27:22.320 floated the idea of giving certain demographic groups preferential access to the COVID shot. Not that that

00:27:28.640 would have actually been much of a blessing, but they thought that it was. The Biden-Harris

00:27:33.260 administration provided various benefits, including farm aid to certain people on the basis of skin

00:27:37.740 color and so on. But as bad as things have become, this cancer hasn't yet metastasized here to the

00:27:45.320 extent that it has across the world in places like Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. And one of the

00:27:50.760 top priorities of the incoming Trump administration should be to ensure that it never does.

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00:29:06.180 President Biden has authorized Ukraine's military to use U.S.-provided long-range missiles on targets

00:29:11.960 inside Russian territory. The senior U.S. official said the weapons will mostly focus on the Kursk

00:29:17.420 region of Western Russia. The decision was first reported by the New York Times. According to the

00:29:21.800 official, Biden's decision was spurred by the Russian decision to invite 10,000 North Korean

00:29:25.280 soldiers into the fight against Ukraine and Kursk. A second official told Fox that it is unclear if

00:29:30.200 Biden plans to approve the use of the missiles outside of the Kursk region. Russian President

00:29:34.920 Vladimir Putin has previously said the U.S.'s approval of such missile strikes would constitute an

00:29:38.640 act of war. He has yet to react to Biden's announcement on Sunday. Biden's announcement also came just

00:29:45.820 hours after Russia concluded one of its largest missile and drone attacks in months, launching

00:29:49.440 over 200, targeting Ukraine's power and energy infrastructure. So what's happening here is

00:29:57.420 exactly what it sounds like and what it looks like. The Biden administration is trying to start World

00:30:02.260 War III on its way out the door. So you know all that stuff. This is a really important point because

00:30:08.580 all that stuff that you, that we've heard about a peaceful transfer of power, you know, and they're

00:30:16.920 bragging about, it's the same, Kamala Harris did this in her concession speech and we've heard it from

00:30:22.800 Biden and some of the leftist media that, well, we're, we, we believe, on our side, we believe in a

00:30:30.920 peaceful transfer of power. Well, that's total nonsense, of course. Now, sure, they're not going

00:30:37.780 to riot outside of the Capitol building. Maybe they will, but it's, it, that remains to be seen. But

00:30:44.020 even if, even if they don't, they are going to do everything they can to spark a global war

00:30:51.940 between a bunch of nuclear armed superpowers. Okay, that's, I'll take the riot at the Capitol over that

00:30:58.660 personally. I don't know about you. So this is their peaceful transfer of power. The peaceful

00:31:05.720 transfer involves doing something that could kill tens of millions of people. So we've heard of

00:31:13.600 mostly peaceful riots and now we have a mostly peaceful nuclear war is where we're headed. And

00:31:19.880 that's what they're trying to start. And you know, there is of course no excuse for this administration

00:31:25.840 to put in place any significant changes in policy, given that they won't be around in two months.

00:31:34.660 Part of the peaceful transfer, that's why we call it a transfer. You're transferring the power. And

00:31:39.640 that means that you should be gearing up to hand off the reins to the next guy, not doing stuff at the

00:31:45.040 last minute that will intentionally make it harder for the next guy. If you're doing that, that's not a

00:31:51.940 peaceful transfer of power. That's not what that's supposed to be. But, and that's if you're making

00:31:57.520 any big change to policy, but a change in policy that has enormous global implications. I mean, that's

00:32:06.460 just evil. You know, that, that it's evil. Um, and why are they doing it? Like why do that right

00:32:19.620 now? You have two months left in office. And, uh, when I say, and you know, I'm not even talking

00:32:25.780 about Biden personally, cause we know that he's gone, but his, his, the, the, the, um, his handlers,

00:32:31.040 the, the, the, the puppeteers, uh, why do this right now? Two months out. Well, I think there

00:32:39.200 are two reasons. And one, the biggest one is the most obvious one is that they're trying to screw

00:32:44.880 Trump over. They're trying to, you know, Trump has promised a more peaceful world when he's in office,

00:32:51.620 like we had in his first term. So their idea is to make sure that, that, that promise can't be kept

00:32:57.620 by starting world war three before he even gets in office and even better for them. And this is why 0.61

00:33:04.000 they're waiting until now to do it. Even better for them is to set world war three in motion, 0.66

00:33:10.600 right? To, to knock over the domino, but then leave before any kind of official war sort of breaks

00:33:20.040 out, but you've set it in motion, maybe, uh, irreparably, but we won't actually be in the

00:33:27.020 middle of world war three until Trump's been in office for five months. And then they could turn

00:33:31.320 around and say, yes, you see, this is all his fault. Um, and that's what, I mean, when I say

00:33:42.900 they're evil, this is the level of evil that we're talking about. They will happily get a hundred million

00:33:48.860 people killed for the sake of hurting Trump. I mean, a world, world war three, actual world war 0.52

00:33:58.460 three, you're talking about tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people dying

00:34:01.320 most likely. And they, they would happily do that. They would like, there's no price. They wouldn't

00:34:07.000 pay. If you came to them and said, would you, you know, what if in order to ruin Trump's second

00:34:13.400 term, you had to kill 3 billion people? What do you get? What if you had to kill half of the globe? 0.99

00:34:18.660 They wouldn't even have to think about it. It wouldn't be worth thinking about. 0.87

00:34:22.960 That's how evil these people are. They just, they have, they don't value human life. They don't care

00:34:27.160 about human life and, um, whatever it takes to advance their political, you know, cause. Um,

00:34:36.920 and then on top of it, I think that this is really, this is like the secondary benefit is that they're

00:34:42.160 trying to help their friends in the defense industry. Um, they want to make sure that, you know,

00:34:49.600 the cash cow is intact. Uh, they want to keep the money and the weapons flowing. Um, and so that,

00:34:59.560 that's the other thing too. So there's two, two big reasons. Um, one thing that they're certainly

00:35:06.000 not trying to do is calm tensions, prevent more people from dying, you know, bring about any kind

00:35:12.980 of peaceful, like they're obviously not trying to do that. And they haven't been doing that this whole

00:35:16.040 time. So it's just, I mean, my God, these people are absolute monsters, just total monsters. 0.95

00:35:29.240 Okay. Time for a quick update on Friday. We talked about the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight,

00:35:35.400 uh, which was set to happen that night. And I said that I was, if you watched on Friday,

00:35:40.200 you may remember, I said I was extremely confident that Jake Paul would win because Mike Tyson is too

00:35:46.440 old. And it's really as simple as that. Uh, he's almost 60 and 60 year old men don't win professional

00:35:53.360 boxing matches. Okay. That's all. Uh, that's it. He's going to lose. And I made the same prediction

00:35:59.460 on Twitter and, uh, I was roundly mocked and derided for it at the time. Lots of people claiming

00:36:05.420 that I don't know anything about boxing, which I don't, but I still knew that, that Mike Tyson would

00:36:11.360 lose and lose easily. Um, and of course he did, you know, that's the, if as I'm sure you heard

00:36:19.220 the fight happened and he lost, I mean, it was, um, I actually watched this debacle and I didn't

00:36:27.840 watch it cause I was expecting it to be any kind of real fight. Uh, I, I just wanted to see,

00:36:32.180 I, what I was hoping is that it would be an entertaining debacle, maybe at least.

00:36:37.120 And it wasn't even that actually turns out. And on top of that, Netflix had all these buffering

00:36:41.120 problems. And so you couldn't even see half the fight is a total disaster for Netflix, but, uh,

00:36:44.940 they're claiming it was the most viewed fight of all time, which it probably was. If, if you,

00:36:50.580 you know, you consider it in, in the past boxing was pay-per-view, you had to like call up and pay,

00:36:58.060 you know, call a phone number and pay for, um, pay-per-view, uh, pay-per-view event. And you

00:37:04.020 just had fewer people doing that than would watch something on Netflix. So they're claiming

00:37:06.840 most viewed boxing match of all time. One of the most viewed sporting events of all time of any,

00:37:12.820 of any sport. And it was a total, it was awful. It was just boring and terrible. And, um,

00:37:21.220 Tyson was totally dominated. It wasn't close. Uh, it went to a decision, but only because Jake

00:37:27.020 Paul clearly chose not to try to knock him out. Um, even, even at the end, like he stopped boxing and

00:37:35.460 sort of bowed in a, in a, in a, in a gesture of a goodwill and humility, bowed to Mike Tyson. Uh,

00:37:43.840 and yeah, which, which I thought was, I mean, it was a, it was a classy thing to do.

00:37:52.720 It also kind of, this is sort of a side note, but, uh, one thing that's come out of this fight

00:37:59.120 and the lead up to it is, uh, people just re a lot of people just really hate Jake Paul.

00:38:04.280 And I'll be honest, I haven't really followed. I haven't followed his career or his brother. I

00:38:07.700 don't, you know, I had nothing against them. I just haven't, I haven't followed their career at all.

00:38:11.960 Um, so I'm very much, uh, just looking from the outside at all this, but the, the amount of hate

00:38:18.480 that people have for this guy, it's, it's ridiculous. I mean, I was reading a couple of the,

00:38:23.120 I forget which outlet it was, but, uh, some major outlet that did an article about the, the fight

00:38:31.320 and the whole first paragraph is just this sort of like violent fantasy about punching Jake Paul

00:38:38.280 in the face and talking about what a punchable face he has and how badly the writer wanted to 0.81

00:38:43.400 see this guy get beat up. And I'm like, what is that? Okay. Is it just, and this gets printed 0.72

00:38:49.740 by a major publication. The whole point of the article is just, you really hate this one guy

00:38:54.400 and you want to see him get beat up, but he wasn't. And you're sad about it.

00:38:59.520 So I don't quite get that. I, you know, to be honest, everyone hates Jake Paul. I don't know.

00:39:04.720 I mean, it seems whatever he's, I don't, I don't get it. And then Mike Tyson is this totally beloved

00:39:09.900 figure. Everybody loves him. And it's like, and then if you ask anyone, well, what do you hate Jake

00:39:14.000 Paul? Why do you hate him so much? From what I've seen, they'll, they'll dig up like, well, you know,

00:39:18.640 he did this on his YouTube channel and look at these problematic posts that he's sent in the past

00:39:23.640 and look at all this stuff. Well, you know, Mike Tyson also has what we might call a bit of a

00:39:28.920 problematic past. Okay. Uh, so that doesn't count. And yet we hate this guy because he made YouTube

00:39:35.080 videos. He didn't like, I don't quite get it. But anyway, um, it was, uh, Mike Tyson, you know,

00:39:43.200 he looked 60 year old, 60 years old in the ring cause he is, or almost 60. Uh, he looks slow and

00:39:49.000 lethargic and weak and, uh, it was just really bad. So all that to say, I told you so. So I just

00:39:58.160 wanted to circle back. I want to make sure I took time out of the show to circle back around and say,

00:40:03.460 I told you so. Uh, and I want to say that because it's fun to say, but also because it's important.

00:40:08.620 Um, it's important that I say, I told you so it's very important. It's important. It's important

00:40:13.260 that the world knows that I did say it and that I did in fact tell you so.

00:40:18.840 And, and let me tell you something else. All you people don't try to claim now that you knew that

00:40:25.280 Tyson would lose and that nobody really believed that he would win. Cause I, you know, I have,

00:40:29.880 I have people telling me that on Twitter now. Cause of course, after the fight,

00:40:32.760 I immediately, I was waiting. Like, I'll tell you, I'll be honest. I had the tweet drafted

00:40:37.360 before the fight even started. I had to try. I had the quoting my prediction with told you so.

00:40:42.260 And I was like, ready. That's really the whole reason I watched the fight. Actually,

00:40:46.040 it was mainly that I just wanted to write, right at the moment it was over. I wanted to get that

00:40:51.000 told you so out there. Uh, cause I'm a very mature person. I'm a very mature person, but,

00:40:55.860 and then I, all these responses from people saying, well, we knew, what are you talking? We,

00:40:59.400 of course everyone, of course we knew he wouldn't win. We just really wanted him to win.

00:41:03.440 That's all we knew. This was, Oh, shut up. Don't please don't, don't tell me that a lot of people 1.00

00:41:10.940 legitimately thought that Tyson would win and we're legitimately angry that anyone would predict

00:41:17.460 otherwise. Okay. Um, not just thought he would win, but we're supremely arrogantly confident that

00:41:24.400 he would, uh, not only win, but win in dominating fashion. So don't, don't backtrack now. Don't try

00:41:34.820 to walk it back. Okay. Too late for that. Just, just own it, own it. You know, when you have a bad

00:41:43.280 take and you're wrong, you got to own it. I, I, I mean, I've never had a bad take that I've had to

00:41:49.220 own, but if I ever did, if I ever had a bad take ever in my life, I would own it.

00:41:55.560 And it really goes to show that, and this is actually the point aside from, I told you so,

00:42:01.160 um, the, the lesson, the moral at the end of the story is that it's basically what I said on Friday

00:42:08.360 that, that so many people in this country are totally delusional about the concept and reality

00:42:14.460 of aging. They just refuse to accept it. I mean, we really are a society that refuses to accept it.

00:42:22.540 Um, and that's how we end up with a government run by 97 year olds. It's how we end up with a

00:42:26.880 senile president. Uh, it's how we end up with a bunch of 50 year old women walking around who look 1.00

00:42:32.200 like the evil puppet from saw because of all the fillers and Botox and all that stuff. Um, it's how we

00:42:38.000 end up with Madonna, you know, still trying to be a sex symbol at the age of 65. And it's how you

00:42:44.380 end up with the tragic spectacle of a boxer, 30 years past his prime, stumbling around on the ring

00:42:52.600 and only escaping without getting knocked out because the other guy took pity on him.

00:42:59.300 All of this happens solely because we are a culture that refuses, refuses to just age with dignity.

00:43:06.420 Okay. A culture that refuses to be even mildly realistic about what aging means.

00:43:14.800 And, and, and part of that is, you know, and, and why is that happening? Like, like

00:43:20.740 why did, again, all the people that say, Oh, Mike Tyson, he, he could, he could still,

00:43:27.660 he could beat up any, it is, he hasn't lost a step. He hasn't lost this. But do you,

00:43:33.420 do you think he's literally magical? Do you think he has magic powers?

00:43:36.980 Everybody loses a step. Once you get your physical prime as a man is, you know, probably your mid to

00:43:45.960 late twenties. Now it doesn't mean that you have to be, uh, out of shape and that you have to,

00:43:52.240 you know, get fat and all that as you get older. It doesn't mean that you could still stay in good

00:43:55.700 shape, but your physical prime is in your mid, is your mid to late twenties.

00:44:02.000 And, uh, so if you're not there, you're not in your physical prime. I'm not anymore.

00:44:10.760 Again, doesn't mean I have to be fat. Doesn't mean I have to be out of shape,

00:44:14.280 but I'm not ever going to be, you know, it's like mid to late twenties was the, the most in shape

00:44:25.220 and strongest and fastest that you ever could be. Now it could be that in your mid, in your twenties,

00:44:31.000 you were a fat slob and that you didn't get your act together until later in life, 0.98

00:44:34.700 which means that in that case, you might end up being in better shape than you were in your twenties, 0.99

00:44:39.320 but you could have been an even better shape than you are now in your twenties. If you had taken

00:44:43.180 your health seriously back then. Um, and, uh, and that's fine. Okay. It doesn't even me saying this

00:44:49.940 now with the evidence of Mike, I'm still going to get comments from people saying, well, it's not

00:44:53.260 true. That's not true of everybody. Well, you don't, well, you don't, it's I, my grandfather,

00:44:58.000 he was, he could bench press with the best of them until he was 75. I just stop, please everybody.

00:45:06.020 It's fine. It's not an attack. Just to say that aging is real and that you start to physically,

00:45:12.260 you know, you, you start to slow down and you start to get, you get, you know, it's just,

00:45:16.960 it's not an attack. It's not an insult. It's just, it's just true. Like, am I attacking anyone or

00:45:23.840 being ageist? If I point out that you're not going to live to the age of 150? Is that, is that

00:45:30.460 mean? Is that ageist? Is that, no, it's just, you're not because you're a mortal person and there

00:45:38.260 are laws of biology and physics that come into play here and you, you can't get around them,

00:45:45.540 unfortunately. So let's just be, uh, that's all, let's all just be realistic about it.

00:45:54.980 Um, and, uh, so yeah, I told you so. You know, what keeps me up at night thinking about how we

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00:47:58.900 Well, I recently announced that we had submitted our film, Am I Racist, for Academy Award consideration.

00:48:04.640 Why did we submit it? Well, because as a widely released theatrical film,

00:48:09.320 it is eligible for consideration. As the number one film in its genre this decade,

00:48:14.360 it is undoubtedly worthy of consideration. And as a good film, it deserves to not only be nominated,

00:48:20.000 but to win. When it comes to sparking conversations and moving the culture,

00:48:24.300 no other documentary this year comes anywhere close to ours.

00:48:28.100 And I may be biased in that assessment, but I'm also obviously right.

00:48:31.920 In other words, to put it more succinctly, we submitted it for the Academy Awards consideration

00:48:38.060 because why the hell wouldn't we? It can be nominated, and by any fair objective measure,

00:48:44.600 it should be. It's that simple. However, the writer Clayton Davis over at Variety,

00:48:50.980 well, he doesn't agree. In fact, poor Clayton is offended that we would dare see ourselves as worthy

00:48:56.960 of any awards, much less the hallowed Academy Awards. He feels very strongly that conservative

00:49:02.860 filmmakers need to know their place. They need to stay out on the fringes, out in their ghettos,

00:49:07.380 away from polite society. And he made that perfectly clear in his piece in Variety titled,

00:49:12.600 Matt Walsh is a hypocrite for submitting Am I Racist to the Oscars? Why are right-wingers seeking 0.96

00:49:17.840 liberal validation? Now, that title may sound like some sort of intentional self-parody, but it's not.

00:49:24.060 Well, it is self-parody, but not intentional. Clayton writes,

00:49:27.640 in a twist as predictable as a Hollywood sequel, conservative media and alt-right commentators

00:49:31.380 have made it their mission to ridicule the entertainment industry's award circuit.

00:49:35.700 And it's an annual ritual from the Oscars to the Emmys to the Grammys. Commentators use YouTube

00:49:41.260 podcasts and op-eds to denounce Hollywood as a cesspool of liberalism and a bubble of elite

00:49:45.980 self-congratulation. Yet here's the irony. Many of those same voices who openly deride the industry

00:49:51.540 quickly seek its validation when they enter its arena. Case in point, conservative media company

00:49:57.020 The Daily Wire recently submitted the satirical documentary Am I Racist, featuring Matt Walsh,

00:50:02.260 an anti-transgender commentator, for Oscar consideration. Oh my God, can you imagine

00:50:08.480 Emilia Perez star Carla Sofia Gascon being forced to share the same air as him? Now you can imagine

00:50:15.080 Clayton repeatedly fainting as he typed those words. He is horrified, scandalized. Here Clayton is

00:50:22.380 unironically playing the role of like the stuffy snob in an 80s movie who strenuously objects to those

00:50:29.220 troublemaking rascals coming around here where they don't belong. Who do they think they are? They 0.99

00:50:33.860 shouldn't be here. This is downright improper. Improper, I say. You can see Clayton with the

00:50:39.940 back of his hand against his forehead, face flushed with outrage, furiously fanning himself.

00:50:46.780 He continues, though the film directed by Justin Folk has indeed found financial success,

00:50:51.820 documentaries like Chuan Liu's Beijing 22 and Brett Morgan's David Bowie doc, Moonage Daydream,

00:50:58.580 outperformed it globally, grossing $22 million and $13 million this decade, respectively.

00:51:03.580 And it's worth keeping in mind that box office successes don't automatically translate to awards

00:51:07.920 recognition. If it did, Marvel Studios would have countless best picture statues by now.

00:51:12.040 The real story here is the apparent contradiction. Conservative voices denounce woke Hollywood

00:51:16.480 while actively seeking its approval. Now, I don't mean to besmirch either of the movies he mentioned

00:51:22.500 there. I'm sure, you know, they're fine films. I haven't seen them. But I will say that to begin

00:51:28.640 with, neither of those movies came out in 2024, so they wouldn't be in the discussion for the Academy

00:51:33.540 Award this year. So it's not clear why he even brought them up. Also, Beijing 2022 is a documentary

00:51:39.700 about the Winter Olympics in Beijing. From what I can tell, it made exactly $0 in this country. Its

00:51:47.220 whole gross came from China and Japan, which is what you'd expect. So comparing our domestic gross to

00:51:55.260 the domestic gross of a Chinese movie in China is, in a word, stupid. Another word might be desperate. 1.00

00:52:04.100 Meanwhile, Moonage Daydream, another movie that did not come out this year, grossed $4.2 million

00:52:09.440 in this country. So we tripled its domestic total. It earned about $13.1 million worldwide when you add

00:52:16.240 together the 40 other countries where it was theatrically released. So another way of putting it

00:52:21.120 is that we did almost as much in one country as Moonage Daydream did in 40. So if Clayton is trying

00:52:31.220 to prove how incredibly impressive our film's performance was, he's doing a great job. Reading

00:52:37.980 on, quote, going down what can only be described as the dark web, I came across a video of Walsh's

00:52:44.600 reaction to the Oscars when Bong Joon-ho's Parasite won Best Picture in 2020, the first non-English

00:52:50.800 language film to achieve the honor. The day after the Oscars, Walsh posted a video titled

00:52:54.660 The Incredible Heroism of Hollywood. Despite claiming he only spent 90 seconds watching the

00:52:59.040 ceremony, he dedicated 30 minutes to critiquing a moment in which Sigourney Weaver declared,

00:53:04.340 all women are superheroes. This line struck a nerve. Walsh dismissed it as utterly vacuous and

00:53:10.140 meaningless and continued to probe his viewers with pointed questions such as, is Eileen Wuornos a

00:53:14.960 superhero? By the way, when he says he went down what can only be described as the dark web,

00:53:20.580 he means YouTube. You went to my YouTube channel, Clayton, okay? You weren't on some sort of

00:53:27.120 dangerous journey into the unknown. It's called You Were On YouTube. Also, yeah, it is objectively very

00:53:35.960 dumb to say that all women are superheroes. That would in fact mean that serial killers who happen 1.00

00:53:41.040 to be women are superheroes. Now, maybe Clayton is confused by this point because he has no problem

00:53:46.580 with serial killers, especially ones who kill men. So I'll put it in terms that might get the point

00:53:51.340 across to somebody like him. If all women are superheroes, Clayton, that means that Melania 0.92

00:53:57.420 Trump is a superhero. Now, you certainly can't agree with that, can you? Sure, a female serial killer 1.00

00:54:03.600 might be a superhero, but a female with the last name Trump? Now, for that, you certainly would make an 0.99

00:54:08.300 exception, which means you and I both agree that all women are not superheroes. Although, I'm not sure what

00:54:13.680 any of this has to do with the subject at hand. So you seem to be arguing that I'm a hypocrite for 0.96

00:54:19.040 submitting my hit film for Oscar consideration since I once mocked an acceptance speech given by

00:54:25.240 somebody at the Oscars? I mean, is that the standard now? Must every potential Oscar nominee not only

00:54:32.500 praise the Oscars, but also praise every single thing ever done or said at the Oscars? I mean, it's

00:54:38.040 really embarrassing. I'm truly embarrassed for you, Clayton. One of us has to be, because I know you've long

00:54:42.340 since lost your capacity for shame. Continuing, quote, but now the Daily Wire, co-founded by Ben

00:54:48.200 Shapiro, is also making strides in film production despite spending years lambasting Hollywood as a

00:54:53.260 liberal echo chamber. But we will see them submit their films to various industry competitions,

00:54:58.480 seemingly oblivious to the hypocrisy of seeking approval from an industry they claim to despise.

00:55:03.300 I can't wait for the year they throw a temper tantrum, losing the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

00:55:07.980 Their underlying message seems to be, these awards mean nothing unless I can win one.

00:55:14.620 Now, before I respond to that, I'm going to backtrack and read a line from earlier in the

00:55:18.820 article that I skipped because it's all part of the same theme here in this portion of the article.

00:55:23.620 He said, quote, so which is it? Do the Oscars truly lack relevance or do they need to validate

00:55:30.080 right-wing work to prove its legitimacy? Well, yeah, Clayton, those are indeed the options.

00:55:36.200 The Oscars are either completely irrelevant or they must be at least willing to, as you put it,

00:55:44.320 validate work produced by conservatives. So the Academy Awards are either dedicated to

00:55:50.280 recognizing and awarding the best and most important films of the year, regardless of the

00:55:53.900 politics of the people who make them, or the Academy Awards are an insular left-wing ceremony

00:55:58.240 where films are not recognized based on their merits, but rather on the ideological conformity of

00:56:03.760 the filmmakers. And in the latter case, yeah, they would certainly be irrelevant.

00:56:09.160 So the actual irony here is that you are taking exception to the claim that the Academy Awards

00:56:13.440 have a liberal bias while at the same time admitting that they do. So you are at once

00:56:20.380 mocking conservatives who say that Hollywood discriminates based on politics and simultaneously

00:56:25.660 saying that conservatives need to stay the hell out of Hollywood because we don't belong there.

00:56:30.040 Now, if you thought that Clayton had not yet sufficiently made the point that he is a 0.93

00:56:35.320 pretentious dork, well, wait until you hear how he wraps all this up. Quote,

00:56:39.560 And as award season progresses, if or when M.I. Racist doesn't receive the recognition its backers

00:56:45.940 believe it deserves or doesn't appear on Variety's inevitable snubs and surprises list, the outcry will

00:56:51.680 likely follow the same script. In an era where conservatives champion the rhetoric of former

00:56:55.620 President Donald Trump, perhaps they remember his famous line, when you're a star, they let you do

00:57:01.120 it. You can do anything. Sorry, baby, you're not a star. Now, first of all, I hate to have to remind

00:57:10.060 you about this, Clayton, but and I know that it's traumatic for you, but he's not just your former

00:57:15.520 president. He's also your future president. Now, second, this finally brings us to the crux of the

00:57:21.700 matter, doesn't it? You spend the whole article claiming that I'm a hypocrite for thinking that my 0.90

00:57:26.580 successful film ought to be treated like any other successful film and taken into consideration at

00:57:31.840 awards time. But your closing argument is that according to you, I'm not a quote star. Once again, what

00:57:41.000 does that have to do with your thesis? The answer is nothing at all. It's just that it took you 10

00:57:45.900 paragraphs to get to your real point. And your real point is that you want to be able to determine who

00:57:52.680 the stars are. We aren't supposed to be able to do what we did. We aren't supposed to create a hit

00:58:00.180 mainstream film from far outside of Hollywood without even so much as one mainstream film critic

00:58:06.920 giving us a positive review or any review or even acknowledging our existence. Now, me, I've been to

00:58:15.060 Hollywood, I think, once in my life as a tourist, and I hated it. It was pretty gross. I live with my

00:58:21.700 wife and six kids out in the woods in Tennessee. I'm a podcaster. I never went to film school.

00:58:26.360 I have no friends in the film industry. I don't know anyone. I have no contacts, no connections.

00:58:31.540 I'm about as much of a Hollywood outsider as a person can possibly be. And yet, I starred in a

00:58:37.680 film that is not only the top movie in its genre this decade, and not only one of the top 35 in its

00:58:43.260 genre ever made, but is still attracting a huge audience on the Daily Wire platform.

00:58:48.040 None of that is supposed to happen. But it did, Clayton. I know it makes you sad, but it did happen.

00:58:58.400 And I'll tell you something else. It will happen again. See, the business is changing. Everything's

00:59:04.300 changing. You're clinging on to the past, terrified that people like us will make people like you

00:59:09.840 totally irrelevant. And we will. That's just the way it is. Time to accept it. Maybe you should try

00:59:17.700 keeping up with the changing times, Clayton. In the words of a woman who will never be president, 1.00

00:59:23.360 let us become unburdened by what has been. And sorry, buddy, you're a has-been. Also, you are today

00:59:31.500 canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you

00:59:35.540 tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 18, 2024

Ep. 1488 - Why We Should Stop Apologizing for Our History

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