The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1508 - 2025 Just Started And Things Are Already Getting Crazy

00:00:00.000 Today, the first Matt Walsh show of 2025. Passengers on the subway in New York are being

00:00:04.480 stabbed, assaulted, pushed in front of trains, now burned alive. New York's solution to that

00:00:08.260 problem is to impose taxes that force more of its citizens down into the tunnels where the

00:00:12.680 psychotic hobos are lurking. Also, Joe Biden awards the Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton,

00:00:17.360 George Soros, Darth Vader, other assorted supervillains. We'll talk about that. Biden

00:00:20.640 also commutes the death sentences of every inmate on federal death row except three.

00:00:26.480 Why are those three out of luck? And for what is perhaps the most important daily cancellation,

00:00:29.660 I've ever done on this show, I must cancel Sonic the Hedgehog. All of that and more today on the

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00:01:59.520 Well, it's great to be back after a long Christmas break. Much has happened in the world since we

00:02:04.960 last spoke. In fact, the last time we spoke, I couldn't speak. I was losing my voice, but my voice is back,

00:02:09.580 and so am I. And I'd like to begin with a story that's unfolding up in New York. Now, there's another

00:02:15.140 big story just breaking a bit farther north in Canada, where it was just announced right before we

00:02:19.380 started filming that Justin Trudeau is stepping down. Of course, there's a whole backstory there.

00:02:25.200 The basic reason behind his resignation is that, well, he's very bad at every aspect of his job.

00:02:31.440 We'll cover more of that tomorrow, but today I want to talk about something happening in this country,

00:02:35.220 because here's one thing we know. Government officials, whether they're elected politicians

00:02:40.940 in this country or despots in the third world, don't like being reminded of their failures. This is why 0.56

00:02:47.060 the greatest crime in any dictatorship is noticing. You're not supposed to notice things that are

00:02:52.660 embarrassing to the ruling regime. It's also why comedy and satire are banned in places like North

00:02:58.000 Korea, just like they're banned on late night talk shows in this country, because petty, corrupt, 1.00

00:03:02.460 and ineffective people can't stand it when their incompetence is exposed. They're willing to take 0.97

00:03:08.580 extreme measures to prevent that from happening. And right now in the city of New York, we're getting

00:03:13.600 a very clear sense of what those extreme measures look like in practice. If you've seen the news

00:03:20.260 lately, you know that the subway system is one of the most obvious and unavoidable signs of New York's

00:03:25.800 decline. It's a monument to the many, many failures of the city government. As of late last year, ridership on

00:03:32.560 New York's subway system is down more than 25% from pre-pandemic levels. That means that every day there are at

00:03:38.260 least a million fewer people riding the subway in New York as compared to five years ago. It's not

00:03:43.960 exactly a great mystery as to why people are avoiding it. There is a constant stream of violent

00:03:49.580 attacks on the trains and the platforms from people being pushed in front of the trains to a woman

00:03:55.280 getting burned alive. Yes, if you didn't hear about that a few weeks ago, a woman was burned alive

00:04:00.120 on a train in New York in front of a crowd of people. This is what's happening now in the third

00:04:04.960 world country known as New York City. And that's just within the last few weeks. These attacks are

00:04:09.780 effectively endorsed and enabled by New York's government, which has made the political decision

00:04:14.320 not to incarcerate most criminals. That explains why a man named Jamar Banks was able to use the

00:04:20.020 subway the other day. The New York Post reports that, quote, a subway maniac with 87 prior arrests

00:04:26.660 was just busted for two transit stabbings carrying the large knife he allegedly used in the violence.

00:04:32.760 Banks' rap sheet includes arrests for alleged attempted murder, weapons possession, assault,

00:04:37.820 criminal trespassing, turnstile jumping, and petty larceny. If politicians in New York didn't want to

00:04:44.200 destroy the city, they'd immediately throw every criminal like Jamar Banks in prison. They'd start

00:04:48.680 enforcing the law. It's actually, it's not hard to prevent people from getting randomly stabbed or

00:04:54.340 torched or thrown in front of trains. Despite what they might want you to think, this is a very easy

00:05:01.340 issue to address. The city could effectively end all this madness overnight in one fell swoop if they

00:05:07.300 wanted to. All you have to do is take all the people who are already known violent criminals

00:05:12.540 and put them in prison. And then you have to ban homeless people from setting up camp in the tunnels

00:05:18.300 or on the trains and arrest anyone who causes a disturbance. And this could all be done in one day.

00:05:23.660 I mean, you could fix the problem basically in one day. But none of that is happening. Instead,

00:05:28.840 rather than admit they've failed their constituents, politicians in New York have just decided to

00:05:34.040 compel citizens to use the subway. They've opted to make it financially untenable for most New Yorkers

00:05:41.280 to avoid public transit. That's their solution to the fact that no one in the city wants to ride the

00:05:46.320 subway anymore. They're just going to force them to do it. I'm talking about so-called congestion

00:05:51.420 pricing. After several years of debate, this congestion pricing, as they call it,

00:05:56.100 has just taken effect in Manhattan. And this is something that the media tells us with great

00:06:01.660 fanfare that this is a first in the world sort of thing and other cities will adopt it. It's a good

00:06:06.960 testing ground. And they're very excited about this being rolled out in other cities as well.

00:06:12.600 But in essence, this is a tax on anyone who wants to drive a vehicle into New York during work hours,

00:06:20.700 as if it wasn't already expensive enough to live in that diseased, rat-infested, crime-riddled, 0.98

00:06:26.140 reeking, filthy, godforsaken hellhole of a city. Now it's even more expensive. And this new tax is a 0.99

00:06:32.260 very clear effort to force New Yorkers to use the subway system, which has become an international 0.93

00:06:36.320 embarrassment. People don't want to use it because they don't want to be assaulted by schizophrenic

00:06:41.920 vagrants. So the solution isn't to get rid of the schizophrenic vagrants. Instead, 0.92

00:06:46.680 it's to simply force everyone to use it, basically offering these law-abiding citizens up as sacrifices

00:06:52.740 to the dregs of the community. Now, specifically, this new tax covers the vast majority of vehicles

00:06:59.440 entering Manhattan between 60th Street and the Battery, which includes Times Square, Hell's Kitchen,

00:07:04.640 the Theater District, other high-traffic areas, from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

00:07:10.460 on weekends, obviously a huge block of time. The so-called peak period toll rate is in effect.

00:07:15.200 And for all passenger and small commercial vehicles, that toll rate is $9 a day just to

00:07:22.380 drive through. Nine bucks you got to shell out per day. Now, to be clear about the political

00:07:27.340 dynamics here, the majority of New Yorkers oppose this scheme, as far as I can tell. A Siena College

00:07:32.400 survey from last summer found that nearly two-thirds of people living in the city didn't want a $15

00:07:37.760 congestion toll. In response to the outcry, the governor of New York briefly suspended the plan.

00:07:43.060 Then she said that she'd lower the toll a few dollars, claiming it would save New Yorkers some

00:07:47.400 money. So she claimed she was saving New Yorkers money by taking less of their money than she was 1.00

00:07:54.040 originally going to take. This was a prime example of a kind of political girl math, as I outlined at

00:07:59.820 the time. And now it's taken effect. Now, naturally, some left-wing New Yorkers rallied in response to

00:08:08.160 their government, gouging them even more. But instead of rallying against it, they actually rallied

00:08:14.720 to thank their overlords for the privilege of being bilked by them. Some of these scenes are so absurd

00:08:21.760 that they don't even seem like they can be real, but they are. So here, for example, is a crowd

00:08:26.820 cheering as the signage for this new toll is unveiled. Watch. Are we ready? Here we go. Five,

00:08:35.340 four, three, two, one.

00:08:41.160 Yes, that's a crowd of people cheering a toll

00:08:50.680 that they have to pay now. And you did also hear someone shouting, happy congestion pricing.

00:08:58.380 They're celebrating the implementation of an unprecedented tax as if it's a national holiday.

00:09:03.960 Now, this would seem to be bootlicking taken to an unparalleled extreme, and it is. But we should

00:09:11.180 also understand that really they're celebrating the fact that because of this tax, wealthy New Yorkers

00:09:16.200 will have to contend with fewer working class people on the roads in Manhattan. And the same 0.96

00:09:21.640 people who celebrated the assassination of the healthcare CEO, some kind of twisted victory for

00:09:28.120 the little guy, are very, very happy about using a tax to keep the little guy as far away from them

00:09:34.820 as they possibly can, which is a pretty big clue that none of these people actually care about the

00:09:38.920 little guy. But if you ask them, of course, they'll pretend otherwise. And in particular,

00:09:43.740 they'll say that congestion pricing is necessary because it will help pay for improvements to the

00:09:49.260 subway system. So, for example, when the government, the governor briefly halted the plan for this

00:09:54.460 tax, this toll last summer, this was the response. Watch.

00:09:59.220 There was a march through Manhattan today in support of congestion pricing. Dozens of people rallied from

00:10:04.920 Times Square to Union Square. They're expressing outrage over the sudden decision by Governor Hochul to

00:10:11.120 put congestion pricing on an indefinite pause. It's been fully vetted. It's a funding source for

00:10:17.300 the MTA for years and years to come. Vital services, ADA upgrades, signal upgrades, all of

00:10:23.840 these capital projects that we just don't have any other way to pay with it. I'm here to protest because

00:10:27.940 we've been the subject of a great betrayal by the governor.

00:10:32.740 If you want to explain to someone how cities like New York and so many others across the country

00:10:37.300 are collapsing, just show them that clip. According to the residents of the city, it's a great betrayal

00:10:43.600 that the government isn't taxing them. They're mad that they aren't being taxed.

00:10:50.700 I mean, this is how these people think. 0.97

00:10:54.040 Now, to be fair, the first guy was arguably a little less pathetic. He was talking about all 0.95

00:10:58.160 the alleged benefits that will result from this tax scheme. He's saying that they'll be able to

00:11:03.380 improve the subway system to make it more accessible, which is a talking point that a lot of these

00:11:07.900 protesters used. Watch.

00:11:10.380 A unique rally today in favor of congestion pricing. Dozens of strollers parked outside

00:11:15.700 a Brooklyn subway station amid growing calls for the plan to be put back in place. The march was held

00:11:21.280 near the Hoyt Shimmerhorn station, which was slated for elevator upgrades before congestion pricing was

00:11:27.000 stopped. Parents brought their strollers out, showing why they need an easier way to reach subway

00:11:32.560 platforms. The idea that only 25% of our transit system is accessible is not okay, right? Folks need

00:11:40.880 to get to work. They need to get to school. We have a message for the governor today. The parents of New

00:11:46.460 York City demand congestion pricing. We demand to be taxed. Take more of our money, please.

00:11:54.200 One of the many false assumptions these people are making is that more money will improve the subway

00:11:58.620 system, which is, of course, the left. That's what they assume about everything. Just throw more

00:12:02.480 money at it. It will automatically make it better. And no matter how many billions you spend on

00:12:06.800 something and it just gets worse and worse, they never, the correlation there, they just never pick

00:12:12.020 up on. Because, of course, it doesn't work that way. And we know that because the New York subway

00:12:16.600 system is a comically obvious example of waste and mismanagement in government. For example,

00:12:21.740 the Second Avenue subway that was recently constructed in Manhattan somehow costs more money

00:12:25.840 than any other similar subway system on the planet, by a lot. Quoting from Bloomberg,

00:12:31.940 at $2.5 billion per mile, construction costs for the 1.8 mile phase one of the Second Avenue subway

00:12:39.120 were 8 to 12 times more expensive than similar subway projects in Italy, Istanbul, Sweden, Paris,

00:12:47.260 Berlin, and Spain. Keep in mind, too, that these are people that they want to build.

00:12:51.500 You know, they have dreams of high-speed rail across the entire country, right? And they say that

00:12:58.440 we can easily do this because they do this in European countries because, like, they don't

00:13:02.320 understand that these European countries are not even the size of one of our, you know, mid-sized

00:13:08.700 states. But with this kind of cost, I mean, how much would it cost if they tried to do this across

00:13:13.680 the entire country? Trillions of dollars? So that's one potential way to raise revenue right off the bat.

00:13:19.340 They could just stop lighting money on fire. Secondly, if you're worried about congestion in

00:13:22.900 Manhattan, you could try a lot of things besides charging people to drive their cars. You could,

00:13:26.480 for example, try opening more lanes instead of closing them for cyclists. Anyone who's ever

00:13:32.080 driven through Manhattan or any large city can tell you that. Here's just one example.

00:13:36.840 I want y'all to see, this is New York City. This is what they're doing to the lanes. Look at that.

00:13:44.140 Look at that. They bottleneck in the lanes, bro. This is 8th Avenue.

00:13:49.400 Right? So one, two, three lanes. That's it. There's only three lanes uptown.

00:13:57.360 And I wish I could have showed you the camera prior to this because the lane that I'm driving

00:14:01.200 in now, they cut this off. Look at them. They cut this lane off right here. This is another lane.

00:14:07.140 Look at that. Look at that. They killed three lanes. And they're talking about congestion.

00:14:14.620 That's something that no one ever mentions as a possible solution in every city to deal with

00:14:21.060 congestion. There's a lot of it here in Nashville. Get rid of the stupid bike lanes. You'll find the 1.00

00:14:26.940 same thing in cities all over the country. You have to sit in traffic because the city has blocked off

00:14:30.640 entire lanes so people can ride their bicycles in the street. As I've said many times, they might

00:14:35.860 as well block off lanes so that you can use your ab roller or your bench press in the middle of the

00:14:40.380 street. I mean, if you want to exercise, that's great. I support it. You shouldn't be doing it in

00:14:44.400 the road when everyone is trying to commute to work. Now, one of the arguments you'll hear from

00:14:49.060 these activists is that somehow this new tax will reduce carbon emissions and change the weather and

00:14:54.420 save the planet. This is science, you see. Step one, you pay a toll. Step three, hurricanes stop

00:15:00.620 happening. The problem is that step two is a little bit foggy. And anyway, even if you assume that reducing

00:15:07.480 carbon emissions by a tiny amount will change the weather for the better, it's a moot point because this

00:15:11.760 won't actually reduce carbon emissions. Instead, traffic is going to move elsewhere. People living

00:15:15.720 in New Jersey understand that pretty well, which is why they tried to sue to stop the tax from taking

00:15:19.600 place. But regardless, even if you don't buy any of the counter arguments, even if you think that

00:15:24.420 New York's government urgently needs more money to improve the subway, it's still not clear why

00:15:29.360 congestion pricing is the best way to raise that revenue. Why not raise taxes on those evil

00:15:33.640 corporations the left claims to hate so much? Why didn't they do that? Instead, they raise it on

00:15:38.120 regular citizens. It only makes sense when you realize again that the objective is to force

00:15:43.680 more people into public transit and get them off the roads. And admittedly, this whole fiasco may

00:15:51.540 seem irrelevant to anyone who has the good sense to not live in New York. But this sort of madness can

00:15:56.960 be found in varying degrees wherever Democrats have power. I mean, the idea that Trump's re-election would

00:16:03.620 be some kind of wake-up call for elected Democrats is a fantasy. They can't be woken up because they

00:16:12.200 aren't asleep. They're not in some sort of trance. They're doing exactly what they want. And their

00:16:16.620 policies are having precisely the effect that they intend. Here, for example, here's just an image for

00:16:22.460 you. This is an image from the New York subway system. And this is how people wait now for the train

00:16:29.920 to come. You'll notice that everyone is standing against the wall in a line because they don't want

00:16:38.040 to get pushed on the tracks by some psycho. I mean, that's smart. I mean, that's how you should line

00:16:44.580 up. But it's just straight up dystopian that it's come to this. And you have to wonder how long people

00:16:49.960 will put up with it. If there's any waking up that can happen and must happen, it's among the average

00:16:56.500 citizens in places like New York and cities across the country. If they ever come to their senses and

00:17:01.920 realize that the people they put in power are actively and intentionally making their lives worse

00:17:08.300 in every measurable way, then maybe things will start to change for the better. But unfortunately

00:17:15.320 for everyone living in New York, based on the celebrations we're seeing in support of this tax,

00:17:20.440 which is really a tax on using your own property and going about your daily life,

00:17:24.000 it doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:18:53.740 the news over the weekend. New York Post reports President Biden bestowed woke Democratic mega

00:18:59.560 donor George Soros with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Saturday, outraging critics who ripped

00:19:05.000 the election as a national disgrace. Soros, 94, 94 years old, guy just refuses to die, just lingers on,

00:19:15.340 was among the 19 people chosen to receive the nation's highest civilian honor at the White House,

00:19:20.080 a group that included U2 frontman Bono, actor Denzel Washington, and who was the other one?

00:19:29.840 Hillary Clinton also awarded one. George Soros spent, this is Montana Senator Tim Sheehy,

00:19:37.320 George Soros spent millions electing soft on crime politicians to let criminals wreak havoc in our

00:19:41.120 major cities. Hillary Clinton abandoned our Navy SEALs in Libya, and yet she's winning the award,

00:19:47.360 of course. Biden said that, of Soros said, his inspiring generosity reminds us all of our capacity

00:19:55.700 and our obligation to stand up to the abuse of power and to be guardians of democracy and all

00:20:00.220 people yearning to be free. Biden repeatedly thanks Soros for what he called all you've done

00:20:05.260 to help this country. Yes, all he's done to help this country by making it less safe, less prosperous,

00:20:13.180 less free, more dangerous, more plagued by crime and drugs. George Soros next to Barack Obama has

00:20:19.640 inflicted more harm on this country than probably any other single human being living in the world

00:20:26.660 today, maybe ever. Giving him a Medal of Freedom, and Hillary Clinton also, and nearly everyone else on

00:20:35.960 the list, is a joke. I mean, if anything, maybe you give Hillary Clinton the Medal of Honor for all of

00:20:41.240 her confirmed kills. But really, the award they both deserve is to die in prison, and instead they 0.96

00:20:49.700 get the Medal of Freedom. I hope, rather than just complaining about this, because that gets old after

00:20:56.660 a while, I hope that Trump, this is one of the many things that I hope Trump responds to when he's in

00:21:01.380 office, and I hope he responds to this by immediately awarding the Medal of Freedom to Daniel Penny when he

00:21:08.480 takes office. I mean, I wanted him to do that regardless, even if George Soros hadn't gotten

00:21:12.900 the award. I'd still think that that should happen. Daniel Penny should get it because he deserves it,

00:21:19.000 but now that Biden is giving it to George Soros, I mean, he's using the Medal of Freedom to troll

00:21:26.100 conservatives. That's what he's doing. That's the only reason that he did it. That's what this is all

00:21:29.620 about. So in that case, I mean, I'd like to see Trump give the Medal of Freedom to Derek Chauvin.

00:21:38.220 Give it to Derek Chauvin. Derek Chauvin also deserves it. The guy's been sitting in prison for

00:21:43.440 the crime of protecting his community from a dangerous, drug-addled criminal. So here's the

00:21:51.100 roster of people that I think Trump should give the Medal of Freedom to, like in his first week in

00:21:54.920 office. Daniel Penny, Derek Chauvin, Kyle Rittenhouse. Give it to those three guys.

00:22:01.220 And also, who's that guy who shot the climate protesters down in South America or Central

00:22:09.480 America somewhere? It was like Brazil or Panama, I think. He was an American citizen, I believe.

00:22:17.440 And there were climate protesters blocking the road, and he shot them, which I don't condone. I'm not

00:22:22.380 condoning it one bit. Just to be clear, I would never condone something like that in a show that's

00:22:29.120 on YouTube. But give him the Medal of Freedom, too. I mean, he's more deserving than George Soros,

00:22:35.320 and he's killed far fewer people. Actually, we didn't even mention the most absurd recipient

00:22:42.160 on Saturday. For some unknown reason, Bill Nye, the science guy, was also given a medal. I think we

00:22:49.840 have a clip of that. So Bill Nye was a popular, if you don't remember, he was a somewhat popular

00:23:09.320 children's TV character for a brief time in the 90s. He has not been relevant or done anything that

00:23:16.120 has made any cultural impact of any kind at all since the 90s. It's been at least 30 years since

00:23:22.300 Bill Nye has contributed anything at all to the culture, if he ever really contributed much of

00:23:26.880 anything to begin with. If you're going to give the Medal of Freedom to 90s TV characters who haven't

00:23:33.200 been relevant in two and a half decades, why not give it to the Power Rangers? I want to see Trump do that

00:23:39.720 also. That's the second week. Bring all the original Power Rangers up there in their suits

00:23:46.040 and give them Medal of Freedom. The Teletubbies, Barney. How about Barney? Barney in his dinosaur

00:23:53.820 costume, give him the Medal of Freedom. These are all he does. And you know what? If we're giving the

00:23:58.700 Medal of Freedom just to troll people at this point, I'll volunteer to take. I'll take one.

00:24:04.540 You can give one to me. I'm at least as deserving as Bill Nye. Here's my proposal to the Trump team.

00:24:10.600 Give me a Medal of Freedom, but make it clear specifically for my contributions to DEI. And I'll

00:24:18.780 wear the man bun wig for the ceremony and everything because the Medal of Freedom means absolutely

00:24:25.700 nothing now. So you just use it to troll your political opponents. That's my thing. That's my

00:24:30.900 specialty. So just an idea. Just throwing it out there. Just throwing it out there.

00:24:37.240 All right, let's go all the way back to two weeks ago. This is one of the many stories we haven't had

00:24:42.780 a chance to talk about because we haven't been on air. So it was right before Christmas,

00:24:49.820 the Biden administration announced that they were commuting the death sentences of almost

00:24:55.740 every inmate on federal death row. Almost every inmate.

00:25:04.200 New York Post reports or reported at the time, they said this a couple of weeks ago.

00:25:08.860 President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row,

00:25:14.960 a list that includes at least five child killers and several mass murderers while leaving out three

00:25:19.920 notorious fiends. In the stunning act of clemency just two days before Christmas, Biden, 82,

00:25:24.860 gave the reprieve to some of the nation's most violent murderers. Nine of them found too dangerous

00:25:29.420 to live after butchering fellow inmates as part of his effort at ensuring a fair and effective

00:25:34.500 justice system. Make no mistake, I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their

00:25:39.640 despicable acts and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,

00:25:44.260 Biden said in a statement. But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender,

00:25:49.160 chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice president, now president, I am more convinced than ever

00:25:54.200 that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience,

00:25:57.760 I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted. Biden, who opposed

00:26:04.300 the death penalty, lowered each of the 37 sentences to life in prison without parole.

00:26:10.340 The three men on federal death row who did not get a commutation were Boston Marathon bomber,

00:26:16.760 Robert Bowers, who killed 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, and of course, Dylan Roof,

00:26:29.540 who killed nine black Charleston churchgoers in 2015. Among those getting some holiday cheer is

00:26:36.940 Thomas Sanders, who in 2010 kidnapped and then shot 12-year-old Lexus Roberts four times and cut her

00:26:44.200 throat in Louisiana. Days after the girl watched as Sanders murdered her mother on a road trip near

00:26:49.520 the Grand Canyon. Also, there's Anthony Battle, who murdered Atlanta prison guard with a hammer in

00:27:00.000 1994 while serving a life sentence for raping and murdering his wife. There was another guy, Jorge Avila

00:27:07.380 Torres, who sexually assaulted and stabbed to death two girls, eight and nine years old, Laura Hobbs and

00:27:14.480 Crystal Tobias. Four years later, he strangled naval officer Amanda Snell inside her barrack in Arlington,

00:27:21.380 Virginia. There's also Caboni Savage was convicted of committing or ordering the deaths of 12 people,

00:27:29.800 including four children, as a drug dealer in Philadelphia. So, and that's, you know, that's just a,

00:27:35.760 say it's like three or four of the, of the, whatever it was, 39 people who've had their death sentences

00:27:42.580 commuted. So this is a horrific injustice, obviously. All of these people deserve to die

00:27:48.920 for their crimes. Biden is giving a giant middle finger to the families of these victims, many of 0.70

00:27:53.620 whom are children. The fact that he did it right before Christmas just makes it all the more despicable.

00:27:58.740 I mean, this guy is just a soulless, rotten hunk of flesh at this point. Um, just a deeply evil 0.98

00:28:05.680 person. And, um, and that's very clear. That's undeniable. What I want to talk about instead is the

00:28:14.000 incoherence of this, right? It's totally incoherent. The leftist position on the death penalty, along with

00:28:21.940 being morally vacuous is logically absurd. It doesn't even make any sense. So let's just start

00:28:30.280 with the fact that this commutation, this magical get out of the death chamber free card was granted

00:28:36.840 to everyone, but three. Why is that? I mean, in his explanation of this, he said he doesn't believe

00:28:44.080 in the death penalty and that the federal, uh, the, the federal government should not be executing

00:28:49.740 anybody. So, but, but you're still going to execute three people. I mean, how can you wave this magic

00:28:57.060 wand that grants mercy and clemency to all of these scumbags, but three, the three who still have to die 0.99

00:29:06.020 apparently are, as we just said, the mass shooters who shot up the black church in Charleston, uh, the 0.99

00:29:11.460 synagogue shooter, and then also the Boston bomber. Now, yes, these are all terrible people. 0.98

00:29:18.520 These are all evil monsters. They all deserve to die. Absolutely. But are they worse than a guy who 1.00

00:29:27.500 murdered or ordered the deaths of 12 people, including kids? Are, are they worse than child

00:29:35.020 rapists who kidnapped, raped and killed children? I mean, the, the one guy I mentioned, he kidnapped 0.96

00:29:42.920 these, these two young girls off their bikes in a, in the neighborhood and raped and murdered and 1.00

00:29:48.920 murdered them. Really? He's these other guys who are, who are still have to die. They're that much 0.94

00:29:54.760 worse. They're like categorically worse than a child rapist and murderer. Really? Um, 1.00

00:30:04.220 Kaboni Savage killed 12 people. Dylan Roof killed nine, but Savage won't be executed and Dylan Roof will.

00:30:12.660 Why? Well, I mean, really, why is it that there's, there's no explanation. That's what's so incredible

00:30:19.420 about this. No explanation was given. They just randomly said, well, yeah, not these three.

00:30:26.600 Imagine being those three guys on federal, you know, someone walks in and says, Hey, all you guys,

00:30:31.080 you're not going to be executed. You all get to leave death row. Oh, except for you three. No,

00:30:35.080 you're, you're staying. Sorry. Not that I feel sorry for them. I mean, uh, it's like I said,

00:30:40.920 they deserve, they should be executed already. My, my, my only problem with Dylan Roof and 0.98

00:30:44.700 with the treatment of Dylan Roof and, uh, you know, the synagogue shooter in the, in the, uh,

00:30:50.140 Boston marathon bomber. My only problem with their treatment is that they're still alive.

00:30:53.180 They should have been executed a long time ago, but same for all these other people.

00:30:58.220 Um, it's just, it's so arbitrary. So going back to this again, this guy killed 12 people.

00:31:05.200 Dylan Roof killed nine. The other guy won't be executed in a roof will. Why is it, is it because

00:31:10.600 Roof's victims were black? Is it more evil to kill black people than people of other races? 1.00

00:31:17.940 Well, this guy was a drug dealer. How many of his victims were black? Probably like all of them. 1.00

00:31:24.460 Now in any way, why does that matter? Why does the race of the victim matter in the first place?

00:31:30.180 Now I'm being intentionally obtuse here. I, I know, I know why I know what's going on.

00:31:34.740 I'm just pointing out the logical absurdity of this. Um, what about the synagogue? 0.98

00:31:40.600 He's a synagogue shooter. He still has to die, but the guy who abducted and sexually assaulted and 0.99

00:31:45.680 then stabbed to death children doesn't. Why is shooting up a synagogue worse than raping and 1.00

00:31:50.740 killing children? Biden seems to think that, that, that one is again, not just worse, but like 0.99

00:31:58.620 categorically worse. I don't, I don't say, I, I don't see how you rank it. I think you get to a

00:32:07.440 point where you have people who are so monstrous and they've done things that are so hideously awful

00:32:11.620 that there's no way of ranking it now. It's just, it's, these are all people, everybody on federal

00:32:17.120 death row. These are all people who have done the worst possible things that a human being can do in

00:32:22.500 this life. And to get into a game of, well, yeah, this was a little worse than that one. It's doesn't

00:32:28.540 make any sense. And one other point about this, speaking of incoherence, I seem to recall, um,

00:32:37.180 you know, about a month long period where many on the left and even some on the right,

00:32:44.280 as embarrassing as that is to admit, were simping and fawning over a guy who executed another guy

00:32:52.140 on a street. And now many of those same people, the same people who were overjoyed by a healthcare

00:32:58.980 CEO getting shot in the back and killed. Um, those same people are also praising Biden for

00:33:05.760 letting 37 killers and child rapists off of death row, claiming the death penalty is evil

00:33:11.540 and we have no right to kill anyone, no matter how bad they are, except for the healthcare CEO.

00:33:16.560 Really? So the position that these people seem to hold, and it's not just a few people,

00:33:22.500 okay? It's not just a few. This isn't like some straw man based on a few extremists.

00:33:27.760 It's like millions of people on the left seem to believe that, um, the death penalty is an abject 0.74

00:33:34.180 evil and totally unacceptable unless it's carried out extra judicially by a psychotic criminal

00:33:42.620 against a citizen who has not been convicted or even charged with any crime.

00:33:50.340 That's the one kind of the death penalty that they support. The only kind of death penalty they

00:33:56.180 don't support is the kind where someone is actually convicted of a crime and, and, you know,

00:34:02.380 it's been proven that they killed other people. So arresting, charging, convicting, and executing a

00:34:11.580 man who kidnapped, raped, and killed children is wrong. But shooting and killing a man who ran a 0.92

00:34:17.760 health insurance company is right. This is their position. Again, this is the position of like 0.91

00:34:25.140 millions of people on the left. It's not just a few. This is what they think.

00:34:29.020 And by the way, that's to say nothing of the fact that they also support the death penalty for, uh,

00:34:35.700 60 million unborn babies and counting.

00:34:41.000 So the two kinds of death penalty they support is, uh, if it's a, if it's a, some schizophrenic 0.87

00:34:47.420 whack job shooting a guy in the back on the street, they support that. Or if you are, um, 0.80

00:34:53.400 killing a baby when they're still on the one. But so those are the two good ones. That's, 0.97

00:34:56.860 that's the good death penalty. The bad death penalty is when you're, uh, you know,

00:35:01.760 charging and convicting a child rapist and child killer and executing him for his crimes. 0.82

00:35:06.120 That's the bad kind of death penalty. I mean, it's just, how do you share a country with people 0.58

00:35:11.520 that think this way? Uh, you, you can't, I mean, you can't share a country with people like this.

00:35:17.840 Um, you certainly can't have any kind of, you know, national unity.

00:35:27.660 I don't want to be unified with people like that. I don't want to share a country with them. I don't

00:35:31.280 want to know them. I don't want to talk to them. You know, if, if that's your view, if you look at

00:35:38.360 it like that, where you care more about sparing the life of a child rapist,

00:35:42.900 than about sparing the life of actual children or like a CEO of a company, if that's your view,

00:35:52.380 I, I, I, we got nothing to talk about. I don't want to debate you. I don't want to talk to you.

00:35:56.340 I don't want to be around you. Um, because that's not just intellectual confusion, although it is

00:36:04.240 that, but it's also a deep moral failing on your part. You're just like a bad person deep down

00:36:11.980 at your core. Um, and unfortunately, I think that describes, 0.89

00:36:17.860 you know, a lot of people, uh, that on, on that particular side of the political divide. Okay.

00:36:29.240 Let's talk about a controversy, a little bit less, slightly less, uh, serious, but still,

00:36:34.820 still serious. So this is a video that's gone viral. There's been a lot of conversation about it,

00:36:40.260 a lot of debates. Uh, you know, I did Google this to see if there's been some news coverage of this

00:36:47.120 event. Uh, cause I want to be sure like it's, it's possible that this isn't even real. Maybe

00:36:52.540 it's some weird skit or something possible, but, uh, the conversation around it is still real. And

00:36:59.060 I think it's legit. I mean, it's great acting if it's not, I mean, this is very good acting. If

00:37:02.660 somebody, if this is just some, uh, tick tock thing anyway, so the video apparently is a delivery

00:37:09.020 driver, uh, DoorDash or Uber Eats. One of those two who I assume, um, frantically asks a customer

00:37:18.620 if he can come in and use her bathroom, you know, delivered the food and he wants to use her

00:37:23.240 bathroom and she turns them away. And so it's become a debate online. People are saying,

00:37:27.840 there's some people saying, well, like, what do you do in this situation? Says someone's a stranger,

00:37:31.940 you know, they're delivering your food. They want to use your bathroom. Do you let them in? 1.00

00:37:34.980 Uh, some people think that the customer is being very mean here. And, um, so we'll play it and,

00:37:40.920 you know, you tell me what you think. Here it is.

00:37:43.080 We can't answer the door right now, but if you'd like to leave a message, you can do it now.

00:37:58.720 Hi, I have diarrhea. Please let me use your bathroom. Please, please, please.

00:38:01.340 I can't. I'm going to. I know. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm, I'm sorry. I'm

00:38:23.060 All right, so he's kicked out.

00:38:44.940 Then oddly enough, he kind of walks away.

00:38:49.040 He walks away suspiciously slowly because I think maybe at that point,

00:38:53.060 I think it'd become a moot point at that point.

00:38:56.420 There was nowhere to run to.

00:38:59.140 So I have to tell you, I'm surprised this is even a conversation,

00:39:04.120 as important as it is, because for me,

00:39:07.140 this would be the easiest no in the history of no's. 0.99

00:39:11.800 You're a stranger screaming like a maniac 0.99

00:39:14.200 and asking to unleash a torrent of diarrhea in my bathroom. 1.00

00:39:20.040 And you want to do that while I try to eat the food

00:39:23.360 that you delivered to me, no less.

00:39:26.880 There's no part of that proposal that I would find appealing.

00:39:31.160 That's a lose-lose-lose scenario.

00:39:34.880 So no.

00:39:36.360 Now, of course, the main reason you shouldn't let a stranger in your house 1.00

00:39:38.660 under these circumstances is that there's a decent chance

00:39:41.040 that they don't have to use the bathroom at all,

00:39:42.980 and this could be a ruse to get into your house

00:39:44.760 so that they can then rob you or worse.

00:39:49.580 Although, to be honest, I'm not sure if getting robbed is worse

00:39:51.800 than having a stranger blow up my bathroom.

00:39:54.300 I might actually be relieved.

00:39:56.720 If my wife and kids weren't there,

00:40:00.220 and for some reason I let the stranger in,

00:40:01.560 and then he just robbed me,

00:40:03.300 and he didn't use my bathroom,

00:40:05.520 I think I might actually be a little bit relieved.

00:40:08.180 I'd say, oh, you're just going to rob me.

00:40:10.040 Well, thank God.

00:40:10.520 Just don't run anything, please,

00:40:13.760 and then we'll be fine.

00:40:16.580 This is partly the sad result of living in a low-trust society.

00:40:22.620 Maybe in a different time and place.

00:40:25.020 Maybe you consider letting a stranger use your bathroom.

00:40:28.120 Now, if he's acting like that,

00:40:30.140 no, it doesn't matter.

00:40:31.180 I don't care what time and place you're living in.

00:40:33.060 That's a no.

00:40:33.840 But if he's outright telling you that he's going to go number two,

00:40:37.140 I mean, I don't want to get too graphic about it,

00:40:38.280 but just strategically,

00:40:41.100 if you have to use some stranger's bathroom,

00:40:43.620 that's too much information off the bat.

00:40:46.980 You could just ask to use the bathroom,

00:40:49.780 and you let there be some mystery

00:40:51.160 about what you're going to do in there.

00:40:53.960 But I'm saying in a different society,

00:40:55.740 if he was polite and normal,

00:40:58.520 and just asked that question,

00:41:00.680 maybe in a different time and place,

00:41:03.440 in a different culture,

00:41:05.140 you would say yes.

00:41:06.200 But these days, no.

00:41:08.980 I mean, you have to deal with reality as it is.

00:41:12.920 And this is, you know,

00:41:13.740 there's many versions of this kind of thing.

00:41:15.200 It wasn't all that long.

00:41:16.200 It was a few months ago, maybe.

00:41:17.520 I was at a gas station,

00:41:21.540 and I had a guy walk up to me.

00:41:24.520 And, you know, people walk,

00:41:26.360 especially if you live around the city,

00:41:27.480 people walk up to your gas stations all the time

00:41:28.960 and ask for money.

00:41:29.520 But in this case,

00:41:32.480 he asked me to give him a ride

00:41:34.020 a few miles down the road

00:41:36.200 to his house or something.

00:41:37.420 He had some story,

00:41:38.240 he had a whole sob story.

00:41:40.040 And you know what?

00:41:41.480 Maybe it was true. 0.86

00:41:42.360 Like, maybe he just needed a ride.

00:41:44.000 Maybe this was a guy that just,

00:41:45.540 you know, I think he said his car broke down

00:41:46.780 or something, whatever.

00:41:47.880 And it's possible,

00:41:49.900 it's possible that all that was true.

00:41:51.920 But these days,

00:41:53.300 sorry, can't do it.

00:41:55.660 I, you know,

00:41:56.660 I have a wife and kids at home.

00:41:57.740 I'm not going to risk

00:41:58.440 getting like carjacked or murdered

00:42:00.620 by some guy

00:42:01.700 because I can't do it.

00:42:03.980 You know, it's just cannot do it.

00:42:05.620 Not, no way, not going to do it.

00:42:07.700 Not going to risk that.

00:42:09.900 And it's a shame.

00:42:10.780 I wish we could be more trusting.

00:42:12.620 Anyone in the baby boomer generation, 0.59

00:42:14.280 you know, remembers a time

00:42:15.580 when picking up hitchhikers

00:42:17.980 was kind of a normal thing to do.

00:42:20.420 If you wanted a ride,

00:42:21.640 you would just stand

00:42:22.180 on the side of the road

00:42:22.960 and put your thumb up

00:42:23.900 and ask for a ride.

00:42:25.060 There was a time

00:42:25.580 when that was a normal thing.

00:42:26.440 These days, no way in hell.

00:42:28.600 No way.

00:42:29.600 Just not going to do it.

00:42:31.040 I'm not going to pull over

00:42:32.260 and pick up some random person.

00:42:33.400 Can't do it.

00:42:34.700 If I'm going to get murdered 0.98

00:42:36.300 by a vagrant, 0.98

00:42:37.760 it's possible.

00:42:38.840 Could happen to me.

00:42:39.480 Could happen to anybody.

00:42:40.580 But I'm going to make it

00:42:41.480 a little bit harder on you.

00:42:42.520 It's not going to be

00:42:43.060 because I invited you

00:42:44.020 into my house

00:42:44.700 or into my car.

00:42:46.780 That's not going to be.

00:42:47.800 I'm not going out like that.

00:42:48.960 So, you know,

00:42:50.800 they're going to have to earn it. 0.99

00:42:52.040 If a vagrant wants to kill me, 0.98

00:42:53.160 I'm going to make you earn it 0.99

00:42:53.840 a little bit more than that.

00:42:57.600 And that's the way it is now.

00:43:03.220 And you know the worst thing

00:43:04.140 about it, though?

00:43:04.900 The worst thing

00:43:05.480 about this particular story

00:43:06.540 is that with the insane system

00:43:08.840 that these delivery companies have,

00:43:11.180 it means that that woman

00:43:12.880 already tipped the guy

00:43:15.300 before he showed up 0.99

00:43:17.480 like a madman 0.99

00:43:18.320 demanding to spray diarrhea 0.99

00:43:19.780 all over her house.

00:43:22.020 She probably already gave him

00:43:23.260 like a 20% tip,

00:43:24.680 which is a whole other problem.

00:43:27.960 But we could talk about

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00:44:25.600 You know,

00:44:26.220 when a man becomes a father,

00:44:27.780 he's called upon

00:44:28.660 to make sacrifices

00:44:29.880 for his family.

00:44:30.860 And often these will be

00:44:31.780 small sacrifices.

00:44:32.980 Sometimes they'll be

00:44:33.700 larger, though,

00:44:34.420 more significant.

00:44:35.640 And on an even rarer occasion,

00:44:37.320 the duties of fatherhood

00:44:38.340 will require him

00:44:39.260 to make the kind of sacrifice

00:44:40.640 that up to that moment

00:44:41.860 he would have thought

00:44:43.100 himself incapable of making.

00:44:45.240 These are the moments

00:44:46.100 when a man must become a hero

00:44:48.200 and when he must lay

00:44:49.280 his very life on the line.

00:44:51.780 And this may take many forms.

00:44:53.660 Perhaps he's rushing

00:44:54.280 into a burning building

00:44:55.420 to rescue his child

00:44:56.520 from the fire.

00:44:57.320 Perhaps he has to pull

00:44:58.820 his loved one away

00:44:59.680 from the path

00:45:00.280 of a speeding train

00:45:01.320 because they've been

00:45:02.080 tied to the tracks

00:45:03.720 by bandits

00:45:04.520 or whatever.

00:45:05.780 Or most harrowing of all,

00:45:07.840 he may be compelled

00:45:08.740 by his paternal obligations

00:45:10.020 to go to a movie theater

00:45:11.940 and watch

00:45:13.100 Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

00:45:15.960 Now, a man in that situation

00:45:17.200 would, of course,

00:45:18.220 much prefer

00:45:18.960 to be engulfed in flames

00:45:20.300 or hit by a speeding train,

00:45:21.880 but that would be 0.97

00:45:22.420 the coward's way out. 0.96

00:45:23.880 He endures 0.94

00:45:24.520 Sonic the Hedgehog 3

00:45:25.700 for the sake

00:45:26.580 of his children,

00:45:27.680 whom he loves.

00:45:28.980 And over Christmas break,

00:45:31.160 that is precisely

00:45:32.120 the situation

00:45:32.780 that I found myself in.

00:45:35.800 Now, for the record,

00:45:36.360 I'll say I greatly enjoyed

00:45:37.720 most of the time

00:45:38.360 that I spent

00:45:38.840 with my wife and kids

00:45:39.800 these past two weeks.

00:45:41.420 We had a lot of fun together.

00:45:42.480 We played football.

00:45:43.700 We played outside.

00:45:44.500 We shot BB guns.

00:45:45.560 We played card games

00:45:46.820 and board games.

00:45:47.460 I completely wrecked

00:45:48.340 my whole family

00:45:49.020 in Monopoly

00:45:49.560 two nights in a row.

00:45:50.900 Wasn't even close.

00:45:52.300 We took the kids

00:45:53.040 ice skating.

00:45:54.180 I was ice skating.

00:45:55.980 My wife and kids

00:45:56.880 were left dumbstruck

00:45:58.320 by my gracefulness

00:45:59.500 and elegance on the ice.

00:46:00.900 They didn't say that,

00:46:01.720 but I know

00:46:02.960 they were thinking it.

00:46:04.620 These were all

00:46:05.060 wonderful experiences,

00:46:06.000 yet things took

00:46:07.020 a rather distressing turn

00:46:10.200 on the final Thursday

00:46:11.400 of the break

00:46:11.940 when my eight-year-old son

00:46:13.220 and five-year-old daughter

00:46:14.860 asked me to take them

00:46:16.980 to go see

00:46:17.600 Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

00:46:19.100 And I did.

00:46:21.640 God help me.

00:46:22.580 God help me.

00:46:23.660 I did.

00:46:25.220 Now,

00:46:25.800 before I offer

00:46:26.960 my brief review

00:46:27.840 of this thing

00:46:28.980 that I hesitate

00:46:29.520 to call a film,

00:46:30.460 I must first acknowledge

00:46:32.340 in all fairness,

00:46:34.180 I never saw

00:46:35.720 Sonic the Hedgehog 1

00:46:37.060 or Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

00:46:38.900 It's possible

00:46:39.940 that one

00:46:40.940 cannot fully appreciate

00:46:42.480 the narrative complexities

00:46:43.780 of Sonic the Hedgehog 3

00:46:45.020 without having seen

00:46:46.160 the first two chapters

00:46:47.080 in this epic

00:46:48.480 hedgehog saga.

00:46:50.960 Maybe the other two movies

00:46:52.360 are works of

00:46:53.700 staggering artistic genius

00:46:55.360 that would elevate

00:46:56.100 the third installment

00:46:56.980 and lend it

00:46:57.920 the sort of context

00:46:58.700 necessary for me

00:46:59.520 to have appreciated it

00:47:00.880 and enjoyed it

00:47:01.960 instead of feeling

00:47:03.160 like I was being

00:47:03.760 waterboarded

00:47:04.440 with high-fructose

00:47:05.360 corn syrup

00:47:05.860 the whole time.

00:47:07.200 But I doubt it.

00:47:08.440 I mean,

00:47:08.680 this is the kind of movie

00:47:09.560 where Jim Carrey

00:47:10.640 plays two characters.

00:47:12.160 One is the evil villain

00:47:13.480 and the other

00:47:14.040 is the evil villain's

00:47:15.120 evil grandfather

00:47:16.060 in old age makeup.

00:47:17.920 And the two break

00:47:19.200 into an impromptu

00:47:20.160 dance routine

00:47:20.880 that makes

00:47:21.800 no narrative sense

00:47:22.760 but lasts

00:47:23.300 approximately 87 minutes.

00:47:25.440 It's the kind of movie

00:47:26.140 where those same characters

00:47:27.440 before the dance routine

00:47:28.580 actually look directly

00:47:30.520 into the camera

00:47:31.280 and explain

00:47:32.220 that they're being played

00:47:33.720 by the same actor.

00:47:35.460 I must assume

00:47:36.560 and I think

00:47:37.040 assume safely

00:47:37.720 that there is

00:47:38.600 nothing in the other two films

00:47:40.220 that would make this one

00:47:41.560 any less obnoxious 1.00

00:47:42.780 or horrifically stupid. 1.00

00:47:44.480 I'm not going to bother 1.00

00:47:45.240 explaining the plot

00:47:46.380 of this film

00:47:47.120 in any detail.

00:47:49.240 I wasn't tracking it

00:47:50.520 that closely

00:47:51.100 to be honest.

00:47:51.800 I was mostly fighting

00:47:53.220 to stay awake.

00:47:54.020 This is the kind of movie

00:47:54.760 that bores you 0.98

00:47:56.440 to the point

00:47:56.940 of putting you

00:47:57.460 to sleep

00:47:57.840 but also annoys you

00:47:59.040 at the same time.

00:48:00.000 It's kind of an odd

00:48:00.680 combination

00:48:01.120 to be both sleepy

00:48:02.900 and deeply irritated

00:48:04.700 simultaneously.

00:48:08.520 As for the plot

00:48:09.560 I can only tell you

00:48:11.020 that Sonic

00:48:11.920 is the good hedgehog

00:48:13.440 which you may know.

00:48:15.520 There's also

00:48:16.160 an evil hedgehog

00:48:17.160 voiced by Keanu Reeves

00:48:18.900 who

00:48:19.360 and I like Keanu Reeves

00:48:20.860 by the way

00:48:21.360 but like every other

00:48:22.500 voice actor

00:48:23.100 in this film

00:48:23.840 and most voice actors

00:48:24.920 in most children's films

00:48:26.240 that have been made

00:48:26.940 for the past 20 years.

00:48:28.820 He has no talent

00:48:30.020 as a voice actor

00:48:30.960 and doesn't understand

00:48:32.220 how to act

00:48:32.880 with just your voice

00:48:33.680 but he's famous

00:48:34.860 so that's good enough

00:48:36.400 I suppose.

00:48:37.680 So Sonic has to stop

00:48:39.320 the evil hedgehog

00:48:40.220 and his evil cohorts 0.78

00:48:41.500 that's the Jim Carrey

00:48:42.740 dancing duo

00:48:43.400 I mentioned earlier

00:48:44.060 from blowing up the world

00:48:46.120 with a big laser

00:48:47.060 and you know

00:48:48.780 this has been

00:48:49.300 the evil plan

00:48:50.260 of every evil villain

00:48:51.740 in every blockbuster

00:48:52.820 franchise film

00:48:53.640 for the past three decades

00:48:54.920 it's a formula

00:48:56.060 that this movie

00:48:56.720 is not interested

00:48:57.740 in deviating from

00:48:58.540 this is not the sort of movie

00:49:00.000 that deviates from formulas.

00:49:01.760 Now

00:49:01.880 if you're wondering

00:49:03.720 why the evil hedgehog

00:49:06.000 and the two Jim Carreys

00:49:07.220 want to explode the world 0.99

00:49:08.680 and murder 8 billion people 0.99

00:49:10.440 in a cosmic blast 0.99

00:49:11.900 that they will also die in

00:49:14.220 it's because the older

00:49:16.020 Jim Carrey's granddaughter

00:49:17.320 I think

00:49:17.900 was killed

00:49:19.280 and now he wants 0.87

00:49:21.080 to commit murder-suicide 0.58

00:49:22.620 because life

00:49:23.580 isn't worth living

00:49:24.440 like that's real

00:49:26.420 that's in the movie

00:49:28.440 he actually declares

00:49:30.820 his suicidal intention

00:49:31.940 as well

00:49:32.440 now if that seems

00:49:33.640 like weirdly bleak

00:49:35.040 and dark

00:49:35.760 for a kids movie

00:49:36.740 where the characters

00:49:37.720 bust out impromptu

00:49:39.100 dance routines

00:49:39.820 and randomly break

00:49:41.420 the fourth wall

00:49:42.240 and constantly speak

00:49:43.360 in internet lingo

00:49:44.180 from 2019

00:49:45.000 there's a lot of that

00:49:46.480 by the way

00:49:46.860 just as one example

00:49:47.560 at one point

00:49:48.020 Jim Carrey says 0.99

00:49:48.720 damn you autocorrect 0.99

00:49:49.900 if it seems weirdly 1.00

00:49:52.320 bleak and dark

00:49:53.320 for that kind of movie

00:49:54.000 it's because it is

00:49:55.120 this is a movie

00:49:56.580 like so many kids movies

00:49:57.720 these days

00:49:58.320 that schizophrenically

00:50:00.260 darts back and forth

00:50:01.460 from being ironic

00:50:02.580 to painfully self-serious 0.80

00:50:04.600 to goofy 0.87

00:50:05.280 to earnest

00:50:06.100 and so on

00:50:07.340 and so on

00:50:07.860 it doesn't try to smooth

00:50:09.240 over these tonal transitions

00:50:10.960 with good writing

00:50:12.040 or performances

00:50:12.880 the writing is

00:50:14.280 just

00:50:15.060 just terrible

00:50:16.160 and the performances

00:50:17.160 are atrocious

00:50:18.080 across the board

00:50:18.860 instead it just

00:50:20.160 flings it all

00:50:21.100 against the wall

00:50:21.700 haphazardly

00:50:22.420 because

00:50:22.800 these are all

00:50:24.040 bullet points

00:50:24.800 that the movie studio

00:50:25.920 knows it has to hit

00:50:27.560 because this movie

00:50:29.040 again like so many

00:50:30.020 kids movies these days

00:50:31.060 is not the fulfillment

00:50:32.900 of anyone's

00:50:33.800 creative vision

00:50:34.700 it is just the product

00:50:36.340 of a corporate algorithm

00:50:37.840 it is loud

00:50:39.640 and ugly 0.79

00:50:40.260 and obnoxious 0.99

00:50:41.120 and disjointed

00:50:41.880 because nobody

00:50:44.100 who made the film

00:50:44.940 actually cared

00:50:45.780 about making a good film

00:50:46.760 and they have

00:50:47.580 absolutely no respect

00:50:48.620 for their audience

00:50:49.320 I mean

00:50:50.240 this movie could have

00:50:51.660 been made by AI

00:50:52.620 this is

00:50:53.060 we are at a point

00:50:54.360 if they start making

00:50:55.860 movies with AI

00:50:56.580 we would not know

00:50:58.160 the difference

00:50:58.760 because they've effectively

00:51:00.200 been doing that

00:51:00.860 for 20 years now

00:51:01.700 now

00:51:02.520 you might respond here

00:51:04.900 as many people

00:51:06.580 on Twitter did

00:51:07.820 after I gave a very brief

00:51:09.020 review of this film

00:51:10.240 in a tweet

00:51:10.800 on the site

00:51:11.560 a few days ago

00:51:12.100 you might respond

00:51:13.600 that well this movie

00:51:14.380 isn't for me

00:51:14.980 it's for kids

00:51:15.760 well first of all

00:51:17.880 tell that to the other

00:51:20.280 people in the theater

00:51:21.580 with us

00:51:22.220 I can tell you that

00:51:24.300 my kids

00:51:25.520 were by far

00:51:27.300 the youngest people

00:51:29.060 in attendance

00:51:29.600 there were multiple

00:51:30.640 groups of adults

00:51:31.920 just adults

00:51:33.660 no kids

00:51:34.320 whole groups of them

00:51:36.260 who bought tickets

00:51:37.820 to Sonic the Hedgehog 3

00:51:39.840 also tell it to the

00:51:41.980 multiple grown adults

00:51:43.340 who got angry at me

00:51:44.740 on Twitter

00:51:45.140 for not liking the movie

00:51:46.520 the funny thing is

00:51:47.480 that a lot of those

00:51:48.140 same people

00:51:48.580 say well it's not for you

00:51:49.240 it's for kids

00:51:49.760 why are you getting

00:51:50.760 so upset about it then

00:51:51.660 why are you tearfully

00:51:53.320 defending a movie

00:51:54.280 that you claim

00:51:54.900 is not for you either

00:51:55.840 in fact one person

00:51:57.760 told me that

00:51:58.420 my negative comments

00:52:00.880 had upset

00:52:03.080 and I'm repeating

00:52:04.200 this phrase verbatim

00:52:05.260 had upset the quote

00:52:07.060 Sonic community

00:52:08.840 now those are not

00:52:11.140 kids who identify

00:52:12.320 themselves as members

00:52:13.520 of the Sonic community

00:52:15.640 my 8 year old

00:52:17.400 loves Sonic

00:52:18.320 but he's not on Twitter

00:52:20.120 furiously defending

00:52:21.400 the Sonic community

00:52:23.260 from its detractors

00:52:24.380 so I agree

00:52:25.960 these kinds of movies

00:52:26.780 are for kids

00:52:27.640 but I am not the one

00:52:29.380 who needs to be told that

00:52:30.400 okay

00:52:31.160 second

00:52:32.460 and this is most important

00:52:33.500 and it shouldn't need

00:52:35.900 to be explained

00:52:36.460 but really it does

00:52:37.300 and it's

00:52:37.800 really

00:52:39.000 my only point here

00:52:40.260 it is possible

00:52:42.640 to make a children's movie

00:52:46.060 that

00:52:46.480 although it's for children

00:52:47.900 is still a good

00:52:50.100 high quality

00:52:51.880 piece of art

00:52:53.240 I don't hate

00:52:55.260 children's movies

00:52:55.900 just because they're

00:52:56.640 for children

00:52:57.280 quite the opposite

00:52:57.880 as a father of six

00:52:58.860 I've watched

00:52:59.600 many many children's movies

00:53:01.420 okay

00:53:01.720 I've watched

00:53:02.500 way more than the average person

00:53:03.980 because I have

00:53:04.380 so many kids

00:53:05.160 and I greatly

00:53:07.640 appreciate the good ones

00:53:08.740 a few nights ago

00:53:09.480 just as an example

00:53:10.280 we watched the movie

00:53:11.280 Iron Giant

00:53:12.020 with my kids

00:53:13.040 and that's

00:53:13.820 that's an animated

00:53:15.020 children's film

00:53:15.820 it's also well written

00:53:16.800 beautifully

00:53:17.480 illustrated

00:53:18.860 brilliantly performed

00:53:19.860 tonally consistent

00:53:21.120 it's funny

00:53:21.700 and heartwarming

00:53:22.340 and at points

00:53:23.440 it's sad

00:53:24.080 but it

00:53:24.620 works all of that

00:53:26.260 in a way that feels

00:53:27.440 natural to the story

00:53:29.100 it's a children's film

00:53:31.140 and it's also

00:53:31.740 a great film

00:53:32.600 one that I can watch

00:53:34.400 and also enjoy

00:53:35.520 because as it turns out

00:53:37.120 children's movies

00:53:38.240 are not just for children

00:53:39.740 they're for parents too

00:53:40.960 or at least

00:53:42.540 they should be

00:53:43.380 okay

00:53:44.620 if a kid's movie

00:53:45.500 or kid's show

00:53:46.120 is so grating 1.00

00:53:47.240 and so dumb 1.00

00:53:48.260 and so unpleasant 1.00

00:53:49.240 that parents

00:53:50.500 can't stand

00:53:51.300 to be in the same room

00:53:52.440 while it's on

00:53:53.140 that doesn't mean

00:53:55.240 it's for kids

00:53:55.980 it isn't for kids

00:53:57.320 it isn't for anyone

00:53:58.280 it's just bad

00:53:59.860 and the fact

00:54:01.220 that people say

00:54:02.060 well of course

00:54:02.980 it's bad

00:54:03.420 it's for kids

00:54:04.140 tells you

00:54:05.540 everything you need

00:54:06.600 to know

00:54:07.080 about our culture

00:54:08.480 they act like 0.93

00:54:09.780 it's ridiculous 0.79

00:54:10.620 to expect

00:54:11.320 the content

00:54:12.000 produced for kids

00:54:13.300 to be high quality

00:54:14.940 or to have any

00:54:15.480 artistic merit

00:54:16.240 whatsoever

00:54:16.680 but I tend to think

00:54:18.380 exactly the opposite

00:54:19.440 I think content

00:54:21.220 produced for kids

00:54:22.260 should especially

00:54:23.340 be high quality

00:54:24.380 and should especially

00:54:25.740 have artistic merit

00:54:27.820 which is why

00:54:29.420 I hated

00:54:30.100 Sonic the Hedgehog 3

00:54:31.940 and why it is today

00:54:33.660 I must say

00:54:35.300 sadly

00:54:35.800 cancelled

00:54:36.980 that'll do it

00:54:38.420 for the show today

00:54:38.820 thanks for watching

00:54:39.480 thanks for listening

00:54:40.180 have a great day

00:54:41.420 Godspeed

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The Matt Walsh Show - January 06, 2025

Ep. 1508 - 2025 Just Started And Things Are Already Getting Crazy

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