The Matt Walsh Show - January 06, 2025


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


Episode Stats

Length

55 minutes

Words per Minute

169.0609

Word Count

9,309

Sentence Count

555

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

17


Summary

Passengers on the subway in New York are being stabbed, assaulted, pushed in front of trains, now burned alive. New York s solution to that problem is to impose taxes that force more of its citizens down into the tunnels where the psychotic hobos are lurking. Also, Joe Biden awards the Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Darth Vader, and other assorted supervillains. We ll talk about that.


Transcript

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
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,
00:03:02.460 and ineffective people can't stand it when their incompetence is exposed. They're willing to take
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,
00:06:26.140 reeking, filthy, godforsaken hellhole of a city. Now it's even more expensive. And this new tax is a
00:06:32.260 very clear effort to force New Yorkers to use the subway system, which has become an international
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,
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
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
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.
00:10:54.040 Now, to be fair, the first guy was arguably a little less pathetic. He was talking about all
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
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,
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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
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
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
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
00:29:06.020 apparently are, as we just said, the mass shooters who shot up the black church in Charleston, uh, the
00:29:11.460 synagogue shooter, and then also the Boston bomber. Now, yes, these are all terrible people.
00:29:18.520 These are all evil monsters. They all deserve to die. Absolutely. But are they worse than a guy who
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
00:29:42.920 these, these two young girls off their bikes in a, in the neighborhood and raped and murdered and
00:29:48.920 murdered them. Really? He's these other guys who are, who are still have to die. They're that much
00:29:54.760 worse. They're like categorically worse than a child rapist and murderer. Really? Um,
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
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?
00:31:17.940 Well, this guy was a drug dealer. How many of his victims were black? Probably like all of them.
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?
00:31:40.600 He's a synagogue shooter. He still has to die, but the guy who abducted and sexually assaulted and
00:31:45.680 then stabbed to death children doesn't. Why is shooting up a synagogue worse than raping and
00:31:50.740 killing children? Biden seems to think that, that, that one is again, not just worse, but like
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
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
00:34:17.760 health insurance company is right. This is their position. Again, this is the position of like
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
00:34:47.420 whack job shooting a guy in the back on the street, they support that. Or if you are, um,
00:34:53.400 killing a baby when they're still on the one. But so those are the two good ones. That's,
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.
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
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,
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?
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.
00:39:11.800 You're a stranger screaming like a maniac
00:39:14.200 and asking to unleash a torrent of diarrhea in my bathroom.
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
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.
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,
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
00:42:36.300 by a vagrant,
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.
00:42:52.040 If a vagrant wants to kill me,
00:42:53.160 I'm going to make you earn it
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
00:43:17.480 like a madman
00:43:18.320 demanding to spray diarrhea
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
00:43:28.780 some other time.
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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
00:45:22.420 the coward's way out.
00:45:23.880 He endures
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
00:47:42.780 or horrifically stupid.
00:47:44.480 I'm not going to bother
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
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
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
00:49:08.680 and murder 8 billion people
00:49:10.440 in a cosmic blast
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
00:49:21.080 to commit murder-suicide
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
00:49:48.720 damn you autocorrect
00:49:49.900 if it seems weirdly
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
00:50:04.600 to goofy
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
00:50:40.260 and obnoxious
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
00:53:47.240 and so dumb
00:53:48.260 and so unpleasant
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
00:54:09.780 it's ridiculous
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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