The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1516 - The Lie Young Men Are Being Sold

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00:00:16.020 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, is the pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps mentality obsolete?

00:00:21.840 Is it insulting and out of touch to tell young people to go work fast food and work their way up in the world?

00:00:27.020 That's the growing consensus among some commentators on the right, and we'll talk about it.

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00:02:12.500 If you aren't on X or Twitter, if you insist on deadnaming it, you bigot,

00:02:16.460 you will often be surprised to learn about the kinds of things people are arguing about on that platform.

00:02:21.340 In many cases, the debates don't resemble anything that anyone outside of the site is talking about.

00:02:27.120 These debates are often insular, parochial.

00:02:31.080 Groups of people will get into heated disputes that last sometimes for weeks or months or longer,

00:02:36.560 and yet which have no relevance beyond the confines of the platform itself.

00:02:40.960 So I'll give you just one example of millions.

00:02:43.720 Among right-wingers on X, there has been a long-running and quite tedious quarrel over the term woke right.

00:02:51.000 Various groups of conservatives are accusing each other of being woke right as they debate what the term means

00:02:57.160 and whether it describes anything real.

00:03:00.200 Now, I don't know where this woke right idea comes from,

00:03:03.080 but I do know that I've never heard a single soul in the three-dimensional physical world

00:03:08.020 ever use the phrase or express any opinion about it one way or another.

00:03:12.180 Yet there are relatively prominent conservatives on X who have spent months locked in combat over a concept

00:03:19.240 that has no real political or cultural relevance at all.

00:03:24.480 Nobody cares about it but them.

00:03:26.940 Needless to say, there are a great many examples of this sort of thing,

00:03:29.900 and even less do I need to say that I have myself been guilty of arguing about things on X

00:03:35.340 that nobody outside of the app cares about.

00:03:37.860 I might even sometimes be the one starting the arguments, admittedly.

00:03:42.180 However, not every debate on X is so trivial.

00:03:46.120 Sometimes the conversation is relevant beyond social media.

00:03:48.940 Sometimes it reflects what's actually happening in the world.

00:03:50.940 And sometimes, more often now in the Elon era, a debate on the platform is actually important.

00:03:57.500 And this week there's been one of those kinds of arguments.

00:04:01.160 Another round of it, anyway, is this has been a long-running dispute.

00:04:04.160 It's important enough to talk about here, and it'll lead me to a very crucial point that I want to make,

00:04:09.840 especially for the younger people who are listening.

00:04:13.540 The debate revolves around the economic situation that young people in particular are facing.

00:04:20.820 One side of the argument says that although it is a challenging landscape for young people

00:04:27.860 who are just starting out in the world, the best thing they can do is get an entry-level job somewhere

00:04:33.060 and work their way up in the world from that starting point.

00:04:38.120 The other side says that this kind of bootstraps mentality is obsolete. 0.86

00:04:42.980 Young people have been totally screwed. 0.93

00:04:44.940 They can't get a job and work their way up. 0.94

00:04:47.400 And they say telling a young person to go work some low-paying customer service job is insulting and out of touch.

00:04:53.240 The game is rigged.

00:04:54.120 American jobs are being stolen en masse by foreigners. 1.00

00:04:56.720 The American dream says this side of the debate is effectively dead.

00:05:01.300 And therefore, the old school kind of go out there and work your way up the ladder approach

00:05:05.760 is simply too antiquated to be useful, they would say.

00:05:10.720 Now, as you already guessed, out of the two camps, I tend to fall more into the former.

00:05:16.060 Although the ladder camp isn't wrong about many of the fundamental points they're making about the system

00:05:21.220 as it's currently constructed, I'll get to that in a moment.

00:05:23.560 But first, let's take a look at how this exchange is playing out.

00:05:27.360 And I think that the debate may be best encapsulated by this.

00:05:32.060 Chris Ruffo, in a series of tweets a couple of days ago, wrote something that has really provoked people

00:05:39.240 and caused a lot of consternation and anger on the other side of this argument.

00:05:43.460 Here's what he wrote.

00:05:46.260 Every generation has challenges.

00:05:48.140 We currently have huge problems with the cost of housing and splintering culture, but the economy is strong.

00:05:52.740 Incomes have never been higher.

00:05:54.420 Trades are hiring apprentices straight out of high school.

00:05:57.100 And tech has enabled a wave of entrepreneurship and high-income email jobs from anywhere on earth.

00:06:01.400 We should remember that the boomers, whatever their faults, had to make their way in a much poorer America 0.98

00:06:06.480 and had to navigate war, stagflation, recession, and high interest rates.

00:06:10.200 It's never a cakewalk.

00:06:11.600 We should work to provide opportunity for our kids, but should also remind them to be grateful for the opportunities they have.

00:06:16.520 I didn't make $50,000 a year or own a car until I was 30.

00:06:20.440 Then, after years of struggle in a creative field, things paid off.

00:06:23.500 I could live in Seattle or New York or D.C., but I choose to live in a small town.

00:06:28.200 It's all a trade-off, and one can make a good life in almost any metro area in the U.S.

00:06:33.480 Now, in a follow-up, this is a thing that really set some people off.

00:06:37.520 He posted a job listing from Panda Express, and he wrote this.

00:06:42.720 This is basically full employment.

00:06:44.680 The Panda Express near my house is offering $70,000 a year plus benefits for the assistant manager.

00:06:48.980 He can make $100,000 a year at Chipotle for a few years and working up to store manager.

00:06:54.920 Now, as I said, this set a lot of people off.

00:06:57.320 They're very upset by especially the Panda Express, the suggestion by Chris Ruffo that Panda Express may be a viable option for young adults starting out in the world.

00:07:09.560 This is very offensive to a lot of people on X.

00:07:13.080 A prominent account that goes by the handle Bronze Age Pervert responded in a way that I think kind of captures the general attitude of the other side of this argument.

00:07:21.160 He wrote,

00:07:21.460 It's absurd and a joke to see conservative pundits who work as writers and commentators in media and aren't, frankly, exemplars of Protestant capitalist enterprise,

00:07:47.680 recommend working at Chipotle and UPS for a few smart young right-wing men who are deploring decades-long trends.

00:07:54.780 Maybe you'll care to also give them advice on manning up and marrying a local sweet girl slash high school sweet sweetheart.

00:08:02.240 Now, the debate spiraled from there.

00:08:05.340 A writer named Aaron McIntyre agrees with Bronze Age Pervert. 0.92

00:08:08.940 He posted,

00:08:09.260 If you're worried about Andrew Tate's influence on young men, telling them to climb the fast food ladder probably isn't the move.

00:08:16.240 Another commentator named Scott Greer chimes in with a similar sentiment.

00:08:20.460 Conservatives wonder why young men turn to Andrew Tate when they tell the same demographic to be content with fast food work and marrying much older single moms.

00:08:29.940 Someone else gave his perspective.

00:08:31.100 He said that it is possible for a young person to get started and succeed, even in this tough environment.

00:08:36.500 He offered the example of his own 22-year-old son, who he said has a job at UPS making $70,000 a year at 22 years old.

00:08:43.600 He said he's about to marry his girlfriend, who he said is 10 years older.

00:08:47.840 And to that, someone else in a post that has 27,000 likes said,

00:08:51.420 Poor kid is grinding.

00:08:52.520 About to marry a 32-year-old living in his dad's basement, stuck in a dead-end job for $70,000 a year.

00:08:59.480 He'll likely never have kids or own a home.

00:09:01.520 Imagine how out of touch you have to be to post this proudly.

00:09:04.440 This is losing.

00:09:05.820 But Boomer Dad imagines everything is okay.

00:09:07.960 A 22-year-old getting his $70,000 a year is losing and is doomed to never own a home.

00:09:16.340 That's the idea.

00:09:18.000 Now, Mike Cernovich is on the other side, what we might call the bootstraps camp.

00:09:21.900 And he thinks, and so do I, that work is not supposed to be fun all the time.

00:09:26.580 It's not even necessarily going to be fulfilling.

00:09:29.600 You'd like for it to be, but it won't necessarily be.

00:09:32.120 But you have to do it because that's life and always has been.

00:09:34.600 He wrote, quote, You're supposed to hate your job.

00:09:37.160 That's why it's a job.

00:09:38.060 Someone pays you because they don't want to do it.

00:09:40.240 Most of us had jobs.

00:09:41.580 It's nothing special.

00:09:42.440 You're not a snowflake.

00:09:43.320 Fight club and office space covered this decades ago. 1.00

00:09:45.720 Work sucks. 0.95

00:09:46.400 This isn't new. 0.99

00:09:48.100 But it's this reply to that post that I think best captures kind of the essence

00:09:52.200 and what I think is the fatal flaw in the, I guess, anti-bootstraps position.

00:09:58.280 Somebody responded and said, The reason why jobs were worth it is that you could afford a home

00:10:04.160 and a nice, high-trust society and support a family.

00:10:07.500 Why do it now?

00:10:09.080 I will not be reduced to an effing surf.

00:10:13.020 Jobs are not worth it, he says.

00:10:15.100 Jobs make you a surf.

00:10:17.580 And this is why I think there's value in talking about this, what may seem like very online controversy,

00:10:23.640 but it's not just online.

00:10:24.920 It seems clear to me that a lot of demoralized young people feel exactly this way.

00:10:32.000 They think jobs aren't worth it.

00:10:34.080 I hear this kind of thing a lot.

00:10:37.060 So there's no point in even trying, they think.

00:10:40.260 They have it harder than anyone has ever had it.

00:10:42.820 It's hopeless.

00:10:43.920 Everything's unfair.

00:10:45.080 And so on and so on.

00:10:46.560 And these young people are being encouraged down this hopeless road by people who are considered

00:10:52.120 intellectuals on the right, like Bronze Age Pervert, who we recall said that today's work environment

00:10:57.840 is the worst ever, the worst ever in history, and that it's next to impossible to become successful

00:11:06.540 and accumulate wealth.

00:11:08.660 This is what they're being told.

00:11:09.760 They're being told by these supposed thought leaders that they should ignore anyone who even

00:11:15.200 suggests that they start off in a low-paying job working customer service or something similar.

00:11:20.120 And again, a lot of young people, especially young men, have heeded this advice, I think,

00:11:26.060 to their own detriment.

00:11:28.740 So here's what I want to say after this very long preamble where I unfortunately had to give

00:11:34.280 you a bit of a blow-by-blow account of a Twitter war.

00:11:36.460 I acknowledge that young people face serious challenges starting out in the workforce.

00:11:47.620 I can clearly see and do not deny that it is harder than it should be for a young man to

00:11:54.100 get into a stable career, buy a house, start a family, and all of that.

00:11:58.280 I agree that we are importing foreigners to take American jobs. 1.00

00:12:01.780 That is hideously evil and unfair.

00:12:05.220 I'm in favor of any policy that puts an end to that scam.

00:12:10.000 So I agree with the anti-bootstrappers on that point. 0.97

00:12:15.300 They're going to hear no argument from me.

00:12:18.380 Okay.

00:12:20.180 Once we've agreed on that, what then?

00:12:23.720 What is a young adult supposed to actually do tomorrow?

00:12:31.800 This is the question that matters.

00:12:33.820 It's the question that in these kinds of conversations, most people just skip.

00:12:39.840 It reminds me of my frequent debates with the red pillars in Manosphere where they declare 0.99

00:12:44.480 that the dating scene is a disaster and young men have no hope of meeting a quality woman and

00:12:49.740 building a stable family.

00:12:51.300 Marriages are broken.

00:12:52.280 It's all broken.

00:12:52.860 It doesn't work.

00:12:55.440 Well, my question to them is always the same.

00:12:58.760 What do you want these young men to do then?

00:13:01.640 What do you want them to actually do with their lives?

00:13:05.280 Give up and die alone?

00:13:07.220 Is that it?

00:13:08.780 What do you want them to do?

00:13:11.420 And I ask that here as well.

00:13:13.780 What should they do tomorrow?

00:13:16.580 I'm not asking what the president should do or what Congress should do or what government

00:13:23.600 agencies should do.

00:13:24.900 I'm asking what the actual individual human being we're talking about here, the newly minted

00:13:31.560 young adult should do.

00:13:34.560 He will wake up in the morning and brush his teeth and eat breakfast.

00:13:38.120 That young man who is 22 years old and has no job, if you believe it is deeply insulting to suggest that he should go apply at Panda Express or UPS, what do you want him to do instead?

00:13:54.700 What do you recommend?

00:13:56.700 What is your plan?

00:13:59.300 That complaining about it incessantly on Twitter is not a plan.

00:14:05.820 Talking about how it should be and used to be is not a plan.

00:14:10.820 Calling for policy solutions is fine and I agree that we should work on those.

00:14:16.640 Yeah.

00:14:17.520 But what about tomorrow?

00:14:19.800 What is the demoralized young person supposed to actually do in his life tomorrow?

00:14:25.140 Because it seems to me that anyone who makes any kind of practical suggestion of what he could actually do in his own life individually tomorrow is shouted down by this other side.

00:14:41.320 So what I'm asking, what's he supposed to do?

00:14:43.560 Don't deflect.

00:14:45.580 Don't tell me about the H-1B program.

00:14:48.380 I think we should abolish it.

00:14:50.160 I don't want to import any foreign labor at all.

00:14:53.480 Okay.

00:14:53.720 But a young man who wakes up in the morning tomorrow cannot abolish the H-1B program.

00:15:01.000 That's not something that he can accomplish tomorrow.

00:15:03.740 So what should he do?

00:15:06.220 Should he post about abolishing it?

00:15:08.740 Okay, fine.

00:15:09.880 That takes about 60 seconds.

00:15:11.840 Let's give him 30 minutes for a series of tweets about H-1B visas.

00:15:16.140 Great.

00:15:17.360 What's next?

00:15:18.860 How is he spending the rest of his day?

00:15:21.040 And if you have no answer to that question, then your contribution to this discussion is worthless.

00:15:27.560 You have nothing of value to offer this young man.

00:15:33.600 Now, here's what I say.

00:15:36.220 I say that he must get up onto his feet in spite of it all and begin to pursue his goals one small step at a time.

00:15:46.440 He must get the best job he possibly can, which will almost certainly not be very good or very fun, but he's not in a position right now at 21, 22 years old where he can afford to worry about what is fun.

00:16:02.800 One, he has to work as hard as he can to achieve what he can right now.

00:16:08.280 He has to gain experience and establish himself.

00:16:12.060 And if he's just starting out in the world, the best job is probably whatever job he can get because you have to start somewhere.

00:16:21.000 And a job is better than no job.

00:16:26.500 He has a difficult road.

00:16:28.780 Every young man in his position through the entire history of the earth has had a difficult road.

00:16:33.700 Life itself is a difficult road.

00:16:36.580 Is his road more difficult than the road that, say, young men of my generation had to walk?

00:16:43.660 Perhaps, I mean, I entered adult life right around the time of a great recession and a housing market collapse.

00:16:50.200 It wasn't exactly, you know, an easy path.

00:16:54.060 I worked many, many awful customer service jobs that I hated with every fiber of my being.

00:17:01.500 And my hatred of them fueled me even more.

00:17:04.640 I was more determined to become successful so that I would never again have to work the kind of job where you wear a name tag and get paid by the hour.

00:17:12.060 But I had to work those jobs in order to get to a point where I didn't have to work those jobs.

00:17:19.560 Because you have to start somewhere.

00:17:23.420 And that's how it goes.

00:17:24.840 So I'm not recommending that anyone do anything that I have not already done.

00:17:29.340 Is it harder now?

00:17:31.180 Maybe.

00:17:32.180 Is it harder than it was for the boomers when they were just starting out?

00:17:37.260 Probably, although I think the comparison is overstated.

00:17:39.940 Is it the hardest ever?

00:17:43.640 Is a young person in America today facing next to impossible odds and unprecedented historic hardship?

00:17:52.320 Of course not.

00:17:54.020 That is an absurd suggestion.

00:17:56.720 If you are a 22-year-old man today, you may, you may have it a bit harder than some in your parents' and grandparents' generation.

00:18:06.020 But that is as far as it could even theoretically go.

00:18:11.180 World history did not begin in 1955.

00:18:15.400 No matter what, no matter what, you and I and our parents all had it and have it easier than the vast majority of humans who have ever existed on the planet.

00:18:27.440 We are all, all of us, every person listening to me right now, myself included, we are all in the top 1% of easiest lives ever lived by human beings.

00:18:39.300 Which is why, even with all of our problems, you would not want to live anywhere else on the planet today.

00:18:46.940 And I know that because you're not.

00:18:48.860 You're here.

00:18:50.040 And if you had a time machine, the farthest you might want to go back is the middle of the 20th century and no farther.

00:18:56.340 And if you did go back even that far, you would almost certainly discover that it was not the cakewalk you imagined it would be.

00:19:06.820 None of this diminishes the difficulties that you as a young person are currently experiencing.

00:19:13.920 Okay?

00:19:14.620 I only mean to put it in context.

00:19:17.240 And the context is important.

00:19:19.440 Here's why it's important.

00:19:20.320 Because if you think that nobody has ever had it harder than you, you may then be justified in wondering whether success is simply impossible in your case.

00:19:32.200 After all, no one has ever succeeded against odds so great as what you're facing.

00:19:37.980 But that's why it's important to realize that many millions of people, millions, hundreds of millions, have succeeded against odds many times greater than anything you have ever faced.

00:19:55.120 That should inspire you, not offend you.

00:19:59.500 The point is not to be dismissive.

00:20:03.280 That's an inspirational point.

00:20:05.300 And either way, my message to the young man that we're talking about here is that he still has to get up and walk.

00:20:17.700 Even if he did have the hardest life anyone has ever lived on this or any planet, still, I would say, well then, get up and move forward.

00:20:31.040 What else are you going to do? 0.96

00:20:32.600 Lie down and die? 0.98

00:20:35.300 Now, my attitude is condemned by some right-wingers whose doomerism has now descended to a point where they will call you a traitor for suggesting that a young man has any agency at all in his life. 0.98

00:20:47.820 Because they want to hear and dispense nothing but misery, porn, and hopelessness. 0.98

00:20:54.000 Anything else makes you a boomer cuck. 0.82

00:20:56.160 And that's because these people, who also, by the way, many people were talking about, they're all also like commentators and pundits while they speak with such contempt of the con-inc pundits.

00:21:12.520 Like, all of them are also that, by the way.

00:21:14.560 Like, you know, but they don't actually give the slightest damn about the young people that they pretend to be speaking for.

00:21:25.960 And I know that because all they offer, all they offer is just relentless, relentless hopelessness.

00:21:34.460 So instead, we end up with the solution, which I've seen repeated in different forms countless times, offered by the commenter I mentioned earlier.

00:21:45.740 That jobs aren't worth it, he says, because he's not going to be a serf.

00:21:54.720 So instead, he will presumably live off of the government or his parents.

00:22:01.040 But here's the problem.

00:22:02.960 That's not how you escape being a serf.

00:22:06.560 That's how you become one.

00:22:09.480 You are volunteering for a life of failure and servitude.

00:22:14.000 Working at Panda Express is beneath you, but to eat it for lunch using your dad's credit card because you refuse to support yourself is not beneath you.

00:22:27.000 Who do you think is in the higher position there?

00:22:31.460 You think you're in a position where you can look down on the Panda Express manager?

00:22:37.240 When you're the one there eating lunch that your daddy is paying for?

00:22:44.000 It makes no sense.

00:22:46.760 So again, I ask, what is your plan?

00:22:52.040 What are you going to do tomorrow?

00:22:54.640 Some people like to mock the bootstraps mentality, but they have given young people precisely zero alternatives.

00:23:01.640 They have not given them any idea of what they should actually do tomorrow.

00:23:06.440 And to me, that is the most important and most useful question here.

00:23:12.980 What should you do tomorrow?

00:23:15.920 My answer is simple.

00:23:18.940 Tomorrow, you get up and you put on your shoes and you get started.

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00:24:48.840 Joe Biden delivered his address to the nation last night.

00:24:54.620 Not much noteworthy there.

00:24:56.300 Honest, like I barely mustered to even talk about the guy at this point.

00:24:59.700 I'm ready for him to be gone, and mercifully, he will be very shortly.

00:25:04.280 I do want to play this one clip from the 20 or so minute speech.

00:25:09.260 Listen to this.

00:25:10.060 I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern.

00:25:16.220 This is a dangerous concern, and that's a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra-wealthy people.

00:25:23.800 The dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked.

00:25:28.260 Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.

00:25:44.100 We see the consequences all across America, and we've seen it before.

00:25:50.440 More than a century ago, but the American people stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trusts.

00:26:00.060 They didn't punish the wealthy.

00:26:01.980 Just made the wealthy play by the rules everybody else had to.

00:26:05.260 Workers want rights to earn their fair share.

00:26:10.080 You know, they were dealt into the deal and helped put us on a path to building the largest middle class and most prosperous century any nation in the world has ever seen.

00:26:22.040 We've got to do that again.

00:26:24.580 In the last four years, that is exactly what we've done.

00:26:27.160 People should be able to make as much as they can, but pay, play by the same rules, pay their fair share in taxes.

00:26:35.740 You know, it's really sad.

00:26:37.080 I mean, everything about this guy is sad, but he has now given two addresses since dropping out of the race.

00:26:44.560 The first was announcing that he was dropping out, and then there's this one, his farewell address.

00:26:50.640 So that's two addresses where you have the opportunity to deliver something historic and to deliver an address that would be remembered by history because these are two historic moments.

00:27:09.380 This does not happen very often.

00:27:11.480 One where you have a president announcing that he's not going to run his first, second term, and then finally stepping away.

00:27:20.860 So these are opportunities to give a historic speech.

00:27:25.440 In the kind of spot where, in history, we know that presidents in the past have given historic speeches and said things that are remembered.

00:27:35.200 And yet, in both cases, we get this just boring.

00:27:37.800 And it's not even like, it doesn't make you angry because it's so dishonest and so partisan, although it is both of those things.

00:27:47.680 It's mostly just boring.

00:27:49.180 It's boring, bland, not really saying anything.

00:27:53.180 Certainly not saying anything of any importance and not saying it well, obviously.

00:27:56.980 And you can't, I mean, even in this moment, when you've got nothing to lose, you know, it's not like you have to calculate your rhetoric because you're going to be in political office or you're running for office.

00:28:14.080 You're stepping away.

00:28:15.040 You're done.

00:28:15.460 So this is a time when you can just throw caution to the wind and be real and be, you know, just speak the truth and say something insightful, and we can't get that from him.

00:28:27.340 So he says you've got to watch out for the ultra-wealthy oligarchy.

00:28:30.520 The oligarchy is bad, says Joe Biden.

00:28:33.900 But keep in mind that Joe Biden is the guy who just last week awarded a Medal of Freedom to George Soros.

00:28:40.820 And a few weeks before that, gave his own son a free pass for any and all federal crimes committed over the course of a decade.

00:28:48.940 And now he wants you to know that oligarchies are bad.

00:28:51.780 And that's because, as we know, you know, he forgot to mention the point that his opposition to oligarchies does not apply to the good kind of oligarchy, which is the kind run by people that Joe Biden agrees with.

00:29:04.200 People such as Joe Biden himself, which is why this, you know, the demonizing of the wealthy, this kind of class warfare rhetoric, it is, it falls so flat at this point.

00:29:21.280 It falls so flat because it's coming from people. 1.00

00:29:24.240 I mean, again, you just gave a Medal of Freedom to George Soros.

00:29:28.380 You cannot be a friend, an admirer of George Soros, and also be worried about and opposed to oligarchies.

00:29:40.460 That's just, it's not possible.

00:29:45.860 Daily Wire has this.

00:29:47.020 Pro-life Americans unjustly imprisoned by President Joe Biden's Justice Department are formally appealing to Donald Trump for pardons.

00:29:53.620 And the Daily Wire is reporting the petitions for pardons of the 21 pro-life advocates sent Wednesday to Trump by the Thomas More Society, pro-life firm that represents the defendants.

00:30:04.560 Thomas More Society wrote,

00:30:05.900 These peaceful pro-life Americans mistreated by Biden include grandparents, pastors, a Holocaust survivor, a Catholic priest.

00:30:12.340 All are selfless, sincere patriots.

00:30:14.980 Their respective plights and personal information are provided in attachments to the letter.

00:30:19.380 And so they're calling on the pardon.

00:30:22.640 And this should be a day one priority for Trump.

00:30:24.960 In fact, you know, the inauguration is four days before the March for Life.

00:30:29.880 So I'll be in town for both.

00:30:31.460 I'll be in D.C. for both.

00:30:32.680 We're going to be in for the inauguration and we're going to stay through to attend the march.

00:30:37.680 And this would be a great way to commemorate the March for Life.

00:30:42.160 Imagine if Trump announced on the day of the march that he was giving pardons to all of the pro-lifers unjustly persecuted.

00:30:47.700 You know, that would be spectacular.

00:30:50.320 And, you know, whether that's the timing or not, this is the kind of thing.

00:30:54.340 And I think he'll do it.

00:30:56.280 I hope he'll do it.

00:30:57.360 But this should just be immediate.

00:31:00.580 Like there's no reason to to wait.

00:31:02.820 And you've got especially when you have these pro-lifers who are currently in federal prison, all thanks to the some of the most blatant political targeting and political persecution we've we've ever seen.

00:31:18.720 You know, and and when we think about Joe Biden targeting his political opponents and engaging in political persecution, I mean, the first example that comes to mind, of course, is Trump is trying to throw his own political opponent in jail.

00:31:33.080 And then you think about the January Sixers.

00:31:39.220 And those are certainly two examples of political persecution.

00:31:44.220 But I think that what's happened, there's no point in like ranking it, but I think what's happened to these pro-lifers is the worst of all.

00:31:54.660 I mean, all these cases are bad.

00:31:56.100 I think that this is the worst.

00:31:57.360 I think that this is the most egregious, the worst, the most evil of all is is what he's done to these pro-lifers, because these are.

00:32:09.840 We are literally talking about.

00:32:12.820 In many cases, elderly women praying.

00:32:17.980 That's what we're talking about.

00:32:19.340 That's why they're going to prison.

00:32:20.700 And which is also why after the pardons are given out, the next step is to repeal the FACE Act, which is the federal law.

00:32:33.580 The FACE Act is the federal law, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act that was used as a pretense for going after and prosecuting these pro-lifers.

00:32:45.060 And so that needs to be the next step.

00:32:46.440 And that's something that Congress, of course, needs to take on, is that that needs to be repealed.

00:32:52.800 That can't exist anymore.

00:32:56.760 It's a law that, as we've mentioned before, allegedly it's supposed to also, even though it says access to clinics, it's also supposed to protect pregnancy resource centers, pro-life centers.

00:33:11.240 They are also supposed to be protected in the exact same way.

00:33:15.120 But that has not happened.

00:33:17.480 It has not been used that way.

00:33:20.600 Never has been.

00:33:21.480 Certainly wasn't by the Biden administration.

00:33:24.000 So this is blatantly unconstitutional.

00:33:26.180 You know, equality under the law, equal treatment under the law is one of the most basic constitutional principles.

00:33:32.820 And it has been violated by the Biden administration egregiously.

00:33:40.640 Daily Mail has this.

00:33:41.680 A Republican congresswoman is set to reintroduce a set of bills that will impose the death penalty on those convicted of sex crimes against children. 0.95

00:33:48.900 Staunch Donald Trump ally representative Anna Polina Luna first introduced to the bills during last year's Congress, but neither of them succeeded in gaining traction.

00:34:00.720 And now she's introducing them again.

00:34:03.860 She's told Fox News Digital, if you're raping someone, if you're molesting someone, you're essentially murdering their soul.

00:34:08.780 Those people never actually recover.

00:34:10.100 However, I've sent a committee with a very prominent female House Democrat who actually talked about the fact that she was molested as a child. 0.99

00:34:18.160 And so you can see that it impacts and really hurts people.

00:34:20.640 The Holding Child Predators Accountable Act mandates the death penalty or life imprisonment for anyone found guilty of producing, distributing, or possessing child pornography.

00:34:30.260 And then there's also the No Repeat Child Sex Offenders Act was a more broad bill that likewise would have forced judges to impose death or life in prison for people convicted of child sex trafficking.

00:34:39.080 So I obviously support this.

00:34:40.680 It's a no-brainer. 0.96

00:34:41.480 Death penalty for child molesters and child pornographers, both the distributors and the consumers of it, is obvious.

00:34:47.800 And the idea that only those who commit physical murder should be eligible for the death penalty is at best arbitrary.

00:34:57.480 There are things worse than or at least as bad as murder and abusing a child in this way is one of them.

00:35:02.680 And if anything, you know, in fact, you could make an argument that these people, like, if anything, the argument would be that we only give the death penalty to child predators.

00:35:17.380 I mean, that's not my argument because I think that there's a lot more people who are deserving of it. 0.98

00:35:21.800 But I would sooner accept the argument, that argument, than the reverse, the idea that these scumbags should be specially exempt. 0.92

00:35:31.420 I mean, after all, the crime that they've committed is particularly heinous, and they are particularly unlikely to ever be reformed. 0.97

00:35:39.900 We can certainly never trust them in society again.

00:35:44.040 We can't trust that they've been reformed.

00:35:47.060 These people cannot be trusted in society.

00:35:49.520 And keeping them in prison for life, and this to me is one of the, maybe the most crucial argument that I don't see mentioned as often.

00:35:59.440 But keeping them in prison for life, or for any amount of time, requires extra effort, requires extra expense, because they have to be protected from the other prisoners.

00:36:17.760 And I think that that is also unjust, to force the taxpayers to pay to protect these people.

00:36:25.060 So, that's another reason to execute them.

00:36:30.100 Because the only other option, if you're going to put them in prison, is you can't just put them in prison. 0.72

00:36:35.060 They have to get special treatment, special protection.

00:36:41.020 I mean, you could throw them out in general population, but that's the same thing as a death sentence.

00:36:45.820 So, at that point, you may as well just give them a death sentence and carry it out legally, rather than pawning it off to the other prisoners to take care of.

00:36:55.060 So, I think that's a point to it.

00:36:56.600 And one other point is that these crimes are especially easy to prove now, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

00:37:05.320 Because these child predators, most of the time, leave a very unmistakable digital trail.

00:37:13.540 You arrest the child predator and find 900 hours of material on the computer, or whatever.

00:37:19.660 I mean, it's pretty cut and dry.

00:37:21.160 Anyway, so, the only kind of reasonable argument against the death penalty, whether it's for child predators or anybody else,

00:37:29.940 is just the fear that you'll execute someone who is not actually guilty of the crime that they were convicted of.

00:37:37.640 Execute an innocent person.

00:37:38.660 But I think, in particular, these days, really with any crime, that is much less of a concern than it was 50 years ago.

00:37:46.940 Because DNA evidence, there's cameras everywhere, cell phone data.

00:37:51.760 I mean, there's so much that you can use to prove. 1.00

00:37:55.260 And especially when you've got someone who's one of these scumbags. 0.99

00:37:57.660 Scumbags, it's almost always, there's an unmistakable trail that they leave behind. 0.99

00:38:06.500 Let's see, there's an article in Breitbart about Netflix that, according to the article, 0.93

00:38:17.700 Netflix is not joining the sort of anti-woke bandwagon.

00:38:22.280 Netflix's response to President-elect Donald Trump's re-election victory

00:38:25.260 is the scheduled premiere of a documentary on Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, a symbol of Hollywood wokeism.

00:38:31.340 Netflix, a streaming service giant that openly works with the Obamas,

00:38:33.900 does not appear to be willing to shift its left-leaning corporate scope

00:38:36.740 following Trump's re-election, as did Meta and Amazon.

00:38:41.400 With Netflix's earning calls set for the end of January,

00:38:43.740 its investor relations team refused to respond when Breitbart News requested comment

00:38:47.760 about whether it plans to defund DEI programs,

00:38:51.140 publish content more friendly to President Trump,

00:38:52.900 or distance itself from the Obamas.

00:38:56.040 So, while there is this shift that we're seeing,

00:38:58.720 Facebook, Jeff Bezos, you know, these alleged, these apparent shifts

00:39:05.840 away from ultra-wokeism,

00:39:09.040 it appears that Netflix is not joining that.

00:39:12.980 Now, which, maybe they're not, but I will say,

00:39:16.240 and this was really just my segue into mentioning this show,

00:39:21.400 I will say that Netflix has a new Western miniseries

00:39:25.040 out called American Primeval that I hadn't seen any advertisements for it.

00:39:30.760 I mean, maybe they're out there.

00:39:31.700 I just didn't, they didn't cross my path.

00:39:33.280 I hadn't, I hadn't seen anything about this show.

00:39:36.640 And then I just, I think I just saw it pop up on Netflix.

00:39:41.600 And yeah, it's a, it's a Western miniseries.

00:39:43.520 And so far, you know, watching with my wife,

00:39:46.020 we're two or three episodes in.

00:39:47.840 I mean, I will say it's, it's shockingly un-woke so far.

00:39:51.900 I don't want to count the chickens before they hatch.

00:39:54.860 So I can't, I can't, this isn't quite a recommendation

00:39:57.180 because I haven't seen the whole thing yet.

00:39:58.660 It's possible that this thing goes off the rails.

00:40:01.080 It's possible that this is all leading to some kind of Uber PC conclusion.

00:40:05.980 I mean, there was that show,

00:40:07.440 one of the more recent Western miniseries, 1883,

00:40:12.140 came out a few years ago

00:40:13.540 and started really strong, a very strong start.

00:40:17.520 I liked the first one or two episodes.

00:40:19.060 And then by the end, it's just PC trope after PC.

00:40:22.420 It becomes a PC soap opera by the end.

00:40:25.640 It's terrible.

00:40:26.960 I mean, it goes from, maybe,

00:40:28.920 I don't think I've ever seen a show that,

00:40:31.020 that plunges so quickly from pretty good

00:40:33.700 to just unwatchable tripe as that show does.

00:40:37.280 So maybe that happens here.

00:40:38.180 I don't know.

00:40:38.580 But so far I can tell you that this show, this Western,

00:40:41.700 Western, the Indians are portrayed as generally warlike

00:40:48.680 and ruthless, which is accurate,

00:40:53.840 but just not how Indians are ever portrayed

00:40:57.300 in Westerns these days.

00:40:59.380 So this is not a simple white man, bad, Indian, good type of thing.

00:41:03.820 The lead character in the film, the protagonist, is a woman, 0.96

00:41:06.920 but she's not this kind of like kick-ass Mary Sue type,

00:41:11.340 you know, who can knock down a guy 0.87

00:41:15.500 and knock him flat with one punch to the face, 0.99

00:41:18.240 can shoot a guy square between the eyes from 50 yards. 1.00

00:41:21.640 Like, not that. 0.99

00:41:22.480 She's actually pretty incompetent, 1.00

00:41:23.900 has to be bailed out by the lead male character constantly,

00:41:27.900 which actually gets a little bit annoying

00:41:30.520 as a kind of narrative.

00:41:31.460 It becomes a narrative device of this woman 1.00

00:41:35.400 just doing dumb crap constantly 1.00

00:41:37.500 and then having to get bailed out. 0.99

00:41:39.020 So that does get a little annoying.

00:41:40.100 But, you know, they've avoided the PC tropes so far,

00:41:44.060 almost entirely, which is very impressive.

00:41:47.220 So I will say that.

00:41:48.080 I don't know.

00:41:48.540 I mean, like I said, it could,

00:41:49.880 I think there's six episodes.

00:41:51.320 So there's, it may, we'll see where it leads.

00:41:53.440 It's also a good story.

00:41:54.480 It's about a mother and her son

00:41:55.540 attempting to make their way west

00:41:57.920 to meet her husband

00:41:59.380 and they end up linking up

00:42:01.500 with this kind of mysterious drifter guy.

00:42:04.140 Classic Western archetype.

00:42:05.540 You got to have that guy 1.00

00:42:06.360 and he's the,

00:42:07.140 you got to have the mysterious drifter.

00:42:09.920 And he becomes their kind of protector on the journey.

00:42:12.360 And along the way,

00:42:13.860 they wind up kind of in the crossfire

00:42:16.520 of a three-way battle

00:42:18.800 between the U.S. Army Indians

00:42:21.680 and Mormon settlers in the Utah territory.

00:42:26.440 Very interesting.

00:42:27.240 I will say that it's not kind to Mormons so far. 0.97

00:42:34.820 It is, Mormons are the villains of like, 1.00

00:42:37.940 Brigham Young is the villain of the story so far. 0.97

00:42:42.940 So if you're Mormon,

00:42:44.140 you might, you probably will find that pretty annoying.

00:42:46.100 It's a bit heavy handed with the brutality and violence.

00:42:48.700 It's rather relentless.

00:42:50.460 But if you've ever read,

00:42:52.320 if you've read the book Blood Meridian

00:42:55.840 by Cormac McCarthy,

00:42:57.740 it'll kind of remind you of that.

00:42:59.940 It's not based on that book.

00:43:01.520 It's not, the story is not the same.

00:43:03.460 But I would say it's in the spirit of that book.

00:43:06.160 It reminds me,

00:43:06.940 if you tried to make Blood Meridian as a movie,

00:43:10.340 which I think it's probably unfilmable,

00:43:12.600 although I think it's a great book,

00:43:14.220 but it would look something like this.

00:43:16.120 And I happen to love Cormac McCarthy.

00:43:17.860 So to me, that's a selling point.

00:43:20.840 So there's your semi-recommendation for the day.

00:43:23.840 Let's get to the comment section.

00:43:25.580 If you're a man,

00:43:26.640 it's required that you grow a bit.

00:43:28.780 Hey, we're the sweet baby gang.

00:43:35.160 Matt, you said you have a lot of events

00:43:36.640 on Inauguration Weekend.

00:43:37.900 You do realize it's the divisional round, don't you?

00:43:40.200 What kind of football fan are you?

00:43:41.500 Oh, I know.

00:43:42.880 Oh, I know.

00:43:43.600 Believe me.

00:43:46.020 Yes, the Ravens are playing Sunday night.

00:43:47.700 Ravens-Bills.

00:43:48.380 Might be the greatest playoff game in history.

00:43:50.300 In history, okay?

00:43:51.340 This might be the greatest playoff game ever.

00:43:55.100 Highly anticipated.

00:43:56.300 Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, the two MVP candidates.

00:44:00.600 You know, it's going to be nine degrees in Buffalo.

00:44:04.320 You know, and I'm going to be otherwise occupied.

00:44:10.360 I got stuff.

00:44:11.700 I got stuff going on.

00:44:12.720 Events to attend.

00:44:13.380 Which, again, which, again,

00:44:16.260 I'm very honored to be invited.

00:44:19.140 I don't mean to be ungrateful about it.

00:44:21.320 You know, there's a ball.

00:44:22.320 There's like a pre-inauguration ball that night

00:44:25.220 right in the middle of the game.

00:44:30.080 Yeah, but it's also Ravens-Bills.

00:44:34.520 So we're going to have to figure this out.

00:44:35.980 We're going to have to figure this out.

00:44:37.020 I told my wife that this is a situation that we're in.

00:44:42.040 Now, because they didn't announce.

00:44:43.060 We didn't know, you know, we started filling up the schedule for inauguration weekend.

00:44:46.800 They didn't announce the NFL schedule until just this Sunday night, this past Sunday night.

00:44:53.600 And so we're going to have to figure this out.

00:45:00.160 You know, I told, I've already been checking what are the bars around where the ball is happening.

00:45:07.660 My wife said, are we really going to leave a ball in our black tie, formal attire, and go to a sports bar?

00:45:16.920 Yeah.

00:45:18.660 Yeah.

00:45:19.280 I mean, put on your ball gown, honey.

00:45:21.540 We're going to Buffalo Wild Wings.

00:45:24.800 That's where we're going.

00:45:27.000 Guys, I can't miss the game.

00:45:29.660 Priorities in life.

00:45:30.960 Okay.

00:45:31.160 This inauguration is historic.

00:45:32.940 It's historic.

00:45:33.960 But also, it's Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen.

00:45:37.500 That is also historic.

00:45:38.920 So we'll figure this thing out.

00:45:41.620 We'll get through it.

00:45:42.300 I know we will.

00:45:43.620 Somehow.

00:45:44.280 Somehow, some way.

00:45:46.960 All right.

00:45:49.620 As a veteran, I can confirm there is nothing but the cleanest and most non-offensive language in the military.

00:45:56.000 That's what I thought.

00:45:56.740 That's why whenever I'm around someone who's in the military or former military, the spiciest language I've ever heard is maybe something like, geez, Louise, or dag nabbit. 1.00

00:46:07.780 And even that, I thought, was a little too PG-13 for my taste.

00:46:11.340 So I can see why those Democrat senators at the hearing with Pete Exeth were so offended by his reported bad language.

00:46:20.620 Good grief, Matt.

00:46:21.720 60 push-ups.

00:46:22.740 I went through Paris Island during Vietnam War.

00:46:24.720 I could never do more than 50.

00:46:26.740 And to pass the physical fitness test, you only had to do 25.

00:46:33.220 I'm sure you could do more than 50 push-ups. 0.88

00:46:35.100 I mean, come on.

00:46:35.900 Okay.

00:46:36.220 Maybe.

00:46:37.380 Yeah, we were talking yesterday about what the physical fitness standard should be.

00:46:40.260 And if we can all agree that physical fitness standards in the military should not be lowered for women, then the question is, where should they be for everyone?

00:46:48.860 Um, I said 60 push-ups.

00:46:53.460 I threw that out as a number.

00:46:54.680 A lot of people seem to think that's a bit much.

00:46:56.200 Is it, though?

00:46:57.780 I mean, I guess it depends on how much time you have to do them.

00:47:01.960 I'll put it this way.

00:47:02.720 My 11-year-old son can do 20.

00:47:05.960 Pretty decent.

00:47:06.760 Pretty decent form.

00:47:07.600 I mean, his form starts to break down around 15.

00:47:10.200 And he gets through to 20.

00:47:11.940 But it's pretty good.

00:47:14.140 So I really think that if you're going to join the military, you should have to beat my 11-year-old by more than five push-ups.

00:47:20.540 I think that that's, I don't know, that's, uh, seems that the bar should be set a little bit higher than that.

00:47:29.940 Uh, why are people always coming after people's jobs?

00:47:32.260 This may be an unpopular opinion, but bad people should be allowed to have jobs.

00:47:35.580 Like, do we all want to now pay the unemployment and government benefits of the now jobless person?

00:47:40.560 I basically agree.

00:47:42.340 Um, this is part of the cancel, cancel culture, cancel campaign, uh, which shows you, by the way, cancel culture.

00:47:49.520 The term is not used as often these days as it used to be, but cancel culture, or whatever you want to call it, is not over.

00:47:57.620 We still are very much living in it.

00:48:00.420 Um, and it, it just happened.

00:48:02.920 I mean, what happened to that guy at the football game, that Eagles fan, that's what getting canceled is all about.

00:48:09.100 And you could argue, well, he deserved it and all this.

00:48:11.320 Um, but yeah, that, that's cancel culture. 0.95

00:48:13.800 It's, it's, it's when you've got gangs of people along with, um, powerful institutions, particularly in the media, all like targeting one person and saying, we want to take this guy's job away and ruin his life.

00:48:30.820 That, and again, maybe you'll say, well, he deserved it, but that's what canceling is.

00:48:35.380 That's what cancel culture is and happened here. 0.98

00:48:36.800 And I, and I generally agree.

00:48:38.920 I, you know, I, I have a very high tolerance for, uh, campaigning to take someone's job away when they're in a government position and have proven themselves incompetent or unfit.

00:48:50.020 Not just a high tolerance.

00:48:51.980 It's in that case, of course, you're trying to take their job away.

00:48:54.680 That's one thing for the private sector.

00:48:56.980 I think the bar should be really high for trying to get somebody fired.

00:49:00.820 It doesn't mean you never do it, but there should be a high bar trying to take, like taking someone's job away is serious.

00:49:09.640 Um, I think sometimes we have a, we tend to have a frivolous attitude about that, but this is their job.

00:49:16.300 This is how they support themselves and their family.

00:49:17.860 And that doesn't mean that you never, it doesn't mean that there's never a case where someone deserves to lose their job.

00:49:24.080 Of course there is, but, um, I think it should be a high bar.

00:49:28.900 And in particular, if the offense they committed has nothing to do with their job.

00:49:35.220 Now, I just saw there was a, there was a story about a woman who was a flight attendant at, I think it was a Southwest, I believe.

00:49:42.140 Could be wrong.

00:49:42.560 But I think it was a Southwest flight attendant, some major airline, who was a, a new hire.

00:49:49.420 She had just like started recently and she made a video of herself twerking in a plane.

00:49:56.540 There's an empty plane before it boarded.

00:49:58.280 And she posted this dancing twerking video and people responded negatively to it.

00:50:03.500 And then she got fired. 0.98

00:50:04.260 Now that to me is different.

00:50:06.720 Like I don't, I have no moral conflict about that.

00:50:08.620 Yeah.

00:50:08.740 You should be fired for that because the offense you committed is directly related to your job.

00:50:13.460 You know, I, I don't want to board a plane when you would the, the people working the plane have been using it as a place to twerk.

00:50:22.900 Like that's not, I want your sole focus to be on making sure that everyone has a comfortable and safe flight.

00:50:29.380 Not making TikTok videos where you're twerking.

00:50:32.000 Uh, it's really extremely unprofessional.

00:50:34.600 Reflects very poorly on your employer.

00:50:37.080 Makes the customers uncomfortable.

00:50:38.740 And so you should be fired for that.

00:50:40.200 That's an easy call.

00:50:40.920 But when someone does something that is not related to their job directly, um, then I think the bar is higher for trying to get them fired.

00:50:50.520 But, um, did this guy clear that bar?

00:50:54.580 Probably.

00:50:56.080 But I think we tend to be pretty, we tend to be pretty cavalier about that.

00:51:00.960 I think in a way that, um, I don't really like, uh, let's see one more.

00:51:08.560 There's a couple of comments, like actually several.

00:51:11.820 This is Matt made me cheer with his take on women in the military. 0.98

00:51:14.480 Then says Apocalypto is a perfect film, which shows Matt is running at 50-50 for stupid to great comments. 0.98

00:51:21.620 Apocalypto, Matt has to be kidding. 0.88

00:51:23.440 If that's a great film, how do you rate The Godfather, Casablanca, and Wizard of Oz?

00:51:27.420 So it's actually, the Apocalypto hate comments were, um, uh, upsetting.

00:51:34.060 I, I didn't, I wasn't expecting any.

00:51:35.860 I thought we could all agree.

00:51:38.320 Especially if you're the audience of a conservative podcast.

00:51:40.560 I thought we were all on the same page here.

00:51:41.860 Apocalypto is a great film.

00:51:44.160 Uh, I, I'm, I'm blown away that some of you disagree, that some of you are so wrong about this.

00:51:48.420 Uh, yes, Apocalypto is a great film.

00:51:50.900 The Godfather, I'd rate 10 out of 10.

00:51:53.580 Greatest film ever made, that's easy.

00:51:55.320 Casablanca, I haven't seen.

00:51:56.640 Wizard of Oz, not a personal favorite, but it's obviously a legendary piece of cinema, an all-time classic.

00:52:01.280 Apocalypto is better.

00:52:02.680 Uh, I mean, it's a weird comparison to compare the two.

00:52:04.780 They're very different films.

00:52:05.740 But, it's what, it's certainly one of the great films of this century, I think.

00:52:12.620 And, uh, if you disagree, you're just wrong.

00:52:15.840 And, you're banned from the show.

00:52:17.740 You're not allowed to listen anymore.

00:52:19.120 Goodbye.

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00:53:05.740 If you've been following Bill Burr's descent from edgy and countercultural comedian to full-on regime propagandist,

00:53:13.300 you've probably been wondering when exactly his Howard Stern moment would come.

00:53:17.640 That's the moment where, as a comedian, Bill Burr completely drops the pretense of being an entertainer

00:53:22.880 and embraces his role as a shill for the political establishment.

00:53:26.440 We all knew that Burr was on this trajectory.

00:53:28.880 It's been inevitable for some time.

00:53:30.200 And now, beyond any doubt, that moment has arrived.

00:53:33.600 Now, appropriately enough, Burr's Howard Stern moment came as he was speaking to another comedian-turned-propagandist,

00:53:39.640 Jimmy Kimmel, on his show the other day.

00:53:41.960 Kimmel begins by asking Burr about the L.A. fires, which forced Burr to evacuate his home.

00:53:46.580 Watch.

00:53:46.820 Thank you.

00:53:48.820 It's very good to see you.

00:53:49.620 I heard you had to evacuate your home.

00:53:52.400 Yes, yes.

00:53:53.260 Like most people, I had to.

00:53:54.440 I got lucky.

00:53:55.260 You know, the winds moved.

00:53:56.740 But, you know, the fire was coming and all that stuff.

00:53:59.020 So I feel lucky.

00:54:00.740 Are you guys back here?

00:54:01.380 And I think everybody did a great job.

00:54:03.780 Yeah.

00:54:04.160 Unlike the internet, you know?

00:54:05.380 Yeah, right.

00:54:05.820 I know.

00:54:06.260 It's right.

00:54:06.620 Oh, my God.

00:54:07.560 All of these fire experts.

00:54:09.960 Why didn't you just fly a helicopter into the ocean?

00:54:13.320 And then just, I don't know, because there was 100-nut winds?

00:54:16.120 You want to do that? 1.00

00:54:17.920 You want to do that at night, you f***ing lunatic? 1.00

00:54:22.240 How are you? 1.00

00:54:23.160 This was definitely mismanaged.

00:54:25.980 That's a big word we're hearing now.

00:54:27.760 Mismanaged. 1.00

00:54:28.380 Like, some f***ing idiot on the internet knows how to manage the worst fire in L.A. 1.00

00:54:33.180 sitting there in his underwear. 1.00

00:54:35.620 You know what?

00:54:36.600 Looking at the footage on the internet, I have determined that this here was mismanaged.

00:54:42.640 So there's no real punchline there.

00:54:44.260 There's no setup.

00:54:45.320 There's just, there's no humor of any kind.

00:54:47.420 It's just mocking the idea that normal people could possibly be qualified to judge or even

00:54:51.980 notice outrageous incompetence in the leadership class.

00:54:55.280 Even when that incompetence is burning down their city, Bill Burr thinks it's absurd for

00:55:00.340 anyone on the internet to point that out.

00:55:02.920 And this is a lecture that Burr is delivering after anonymous people on the internet have been proven again and again to be more reliable than the so-called experts on everything from COVID to Russian disinformation to January 6th to, you know, gender and so on.

00:55:22.200 It's about as tone deaf and out of date as you can get.

00:55:25.180 But to Bill Burr, I mean, this is the cutting edge of comedy.

00:55:27.860 What's especially embarrassing about this is that if Burr actually cared about comedy and satire, there's a lot of material that he could be working with.

00:55:33.980 It wouldn't make the political elites of Los Angeles very happy to hear it, but that's the whole point.

00:55:40.260 For example, here's new reporting from Michael Schellenberger.

00:55:43.000 Quote, as fires raged and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass attended a cocktail party in Ghana, her deputy mayor for public safety was also unavailable because of an FBI raid at his house in connection to an investigation regarding a bomb threat that he allegedly made against City Hall.

00:55:59.540 Now, I'll say that again.

00:56:01.140 While the city was catching on fire, the mayor of Los Angeles was attending a cocktail party in Africa, a country she promised she'd stop visiting once she was elected mayor.

00:56:10.080 And at the same time, the deputy mayor for public safety in Los Angeles was on leave following an FBI raid on his house related to a bomb threat that he allegedly made against City Hall.

00:56:19.280 So nobody was paying attention to the fires because, you know, the leadership in L.A. was either being investigated by the feds or in Africa.

00:56:30.200 So it sounds like it's too absurd to be real, but it is.

00:56:33.080 It's the kind of thing that actual comics could have a field day with.

00:56:36.100 And of course, there were many more stories like this.

00:56:38.780 There was Gavin Newsom telling the desperate woman that he was on the phone with Joe Biden, only to admit that he didn't actually have any cell service when she asked to see the phone.

00:56:48.080 There's also the overweight lesbian fire chief who proudly stated that it's your fault if you get trapped in a fire and so on and so on. 1.00

00:56:53.560 But none of these comedic scenarios would play well on Reddit.

00:56:56.500 So Bill Burr didn't bring any of them up.

00:56:58.280 Instead, he attacked safer targets like Fox News and the insurance companies.

00:57:03.520 Watch.

00:57:03.780 I love how all the chatter out there is about bands of illegal immigrants and homeless people lighting fires. 0.88

00:57:11.160 They light fires every day.

00:57:12.080 They're living outside.

00:57:13.040 They're cold.

00:57:13.720 And this theory that some homeless guy without a car went from Alta Dena all the way to the Pacific Palisades.

00:57:21.180 And then we have a hang glider.

00:57:24.900 You know?

00:57:25.680 And they're talking about looting.

00:57:27.660 But CNN and Fox News are not going to bring up the insurance companies that are just going to keep everybody's premiums and still give themselves a bonus.

00:57:34.020 Yes.

00:57:34.740 Yes.

00:57:36.400 Free Luigi.

00:57:41.200 I love how they acted surprised.

00:57:43.200 Oh, why did that happen?

00:57:45.580 I have no idea.

00:57:46.400 He wrote in the bullets why it happened.

00:57:48.660 So this is an attempt at humor that doesn't even make sense.

00:57:52.080 He begins by acknowledging that homeless people and illegal immigrants set fires all over the place all the time because, you know, they want to stay warm. 1.00

00:58:01.460 But then he says that it's totally absurd to conclude that these fires could have been set by homeless people or illegal immigrants because there was more than one fire in Los Angeles and they were far apart.

00:58:12.160 Apparently, you're supposed to dismiss the possibility that there might be more than one homeless person or illegal aliens setting fires in Los Angeles.

00:58:18.700 And then you're supposed to laugh, I guess.

00:58:20.740 Then everything somehow goes downhill from there.

00:58:22.680 He starts talking about how the insurance companies are stealing premiums.

00:58:26.680 Then he says that the psychotic trust fund kid who murdered a health insurance CEO should be freed because a lot of other psychopaths on the Internet were saying that a month ago.

00:58:34.740 This is comedy, you see.

00:58:36.420 You're supposed to find this amusing.

00:58:37.440 Now, again, the point of the humor here is to defend California's political elite.

00:58:43.480 It was California's politicians who prevented insurance companies from setting higher rates for disaster coverage.

00:58:49.300 So the insurance companies did the rational thing, which was to cancel a lot of policies for homes in Pacific Palisades because they predicted a devastating fire was likely to occur.

00:58:57.940 And instead of doing anything with this information, city officials didn't make sure the reservoir was full.

00:59:03.600 They didn't fully staff the fire department.

00:59:05.500 Instead, they flew to Africa and called in bomb threats to City Hall.

00:59:11.200 And yet Bill Burr won't make any kind of jokes about those city officials.

00:59:14.660 He lets them off the hook entirely because those officials are Democrats.

00:59:17.840 And Bill Burr is now a partisan hack.

00:59:20.400 That's what he's devolved into.

00:59:22.460 As I said, there have been signs that this would happen for several years.

00:59:25.700 Back in 2019, for his Paper Tiger special, Burr went out of his way to defend the BLM narrative surrounding Colin Kaepernick, who, again, was maybe the single easiest target for mockery that you could imagine.

00:59:40.880 But here's what Bill Burr did with it. 0.69

00:59:42.580 No, everything has just become f***ing absolutes in the States. 0.97

00:59:48.880 It's f***ing nuts. 0.92

00:59:49.740 Like that Colin Kaepernick guy, right? 0.98

00:59:51.560 You knew when he was, like, protesting during the national anthem, no one was going to listen to what the f*** he had to say, no matter how much he explained it.

00:59:58.580 He goes, I'm taking a knee during the national anthem. 0.84

01:00:00.720 This is a protest about police brutality, the way people of color are treated.

01:00:04.800 We'd like to open a dialogue.

01:00:06.060 He got about halfway through that. 1.00

01:00:07.420 People are like, my brother's fighting in Iraq, you f***ing piece of s***. 0.99

01:00:11.020 It's just like, buddy, buddy, nobody is saying your brother isn't in Iraq fighting. 1.00

01:00:16.260 You're not listening.

01:00:17.080 This is about police brutality.

01:00:18.840 My brother's a firefighter.

01:00:20.080 He watched 9-11 on television.

01:00:21.740 No, no, no, no, buddy.

01:00:24.800 Nobody's saying that your brother's not a firefighter.

01:00:27.520 I got a bone spur on my heel. 0.99

01:00:28.760 I can still stand up during the f***ing dog. 0.99

01:00:31.140 Buddy, nobody is saying you can't see a f***ing podiatrist, all right? 0.99

01:00:35.840 You're not listening. 0.91

01:00:37.640 So this is a comedian who's basically promoting the leftist concept of centering.

01:00:43.580 I mean, he did everything but actually used that phrase. 0.99

01:00:46.720 Those racist, ignorant white people are always trying to center themselves, not listening to the plight of the multimillionaire quarterback. 1.00

01:00:54.600 They don't care about the made-up fact that police officers are killing black people all the time. 1.00

01:01:01.640 That's the joke. 0.99

01:01:03.880 Hilarious.

01:01:05.120 This is a routine that feels like it was intended for the faculty lounge at, say, Vassar.

01:01:09.740 But Bill Burr apparently thought that he had a winner with this one.

01:01:13.320 He said something similar on his podcast at the time.

01:01:15.040 Quote, for me personally, I'm a white male heterosexual. 0.94

01:01:18.280 I can basically, within reason, do whatever the f*** I want to do. 0.59

01:01:21.500 Here's a guy who's making zillions of f***ing dollars and still feels this way. 0.98

01:01:25.820 This is, I should probably shut the f*** up and listen to what he has to say. 0.98

01:01:32.300 That's your edgy, unwoke comedian there. 0.98

01:01:35.520 In other words, it can't possibly be that the guy is rich and, like, wrong about this, trying to stay relevant.

01:01:44.020 That's not possible.

01:01:45.780 No rich person would ever push a false racial narrative in exchange for fame and even more wealth.

01:01:50.820 This is the kind of insight that Burr is now capable of.

01:01:54.640 But the truth is that that's kind of underselling the decline of Bill Burr as a comedian.

01:01:58.160 Even when he's not trying to make some grand political statement on behalf of the Democrat Party, he's still falling flat.

01:02:05.120 A few months ago, he appeared on SNL and had several moments where the audience had no response, like, at all to what he was saying.

01:02:12.360 Kind of brutal.

01:02:13.200 Watch.

01:02:14.440 I sat next to a shoeless cowboy on an airplane. 0.98

01:02:19.420 Guy had no socks or shoes on the whole flight. 0.82

01:02:21.640 The whole flight, I'm sitting there looking at his dirty Jesus feet. 0.97

01:02:24.520 And all I'm thinking is the next pandemic is growing in the bottom of his feet.

01:02:29.320 And all I'm going to be is the next, you know, patient number two, whatever the next disease is, you know.

01:02:35.680 So I'll tell you what kills me is I looked at the guy and all I'm thinking is, you know what?

01:02:40.020 God made that guy.

01:02:42.600 You know, and he keeps making that guy. 1.00

01:02:45.420 Like one mouth-breathing moron after another. 1.00

01:02:49.080 Yet we still go to church on Sunday and what do we do? 1.00

01:02:51.760 We praise him.

01:02:52.500 When is the constructive criticism coming?

01:02:57.260 Like, dude, when's the last time you made a Gandhi?

01:03:01.020 Somebody empathetic, you know?

01:03:05.740 I mean, not particularly PC or woke or whatever.

01:03:09.420 It's just lame.

01:03:10.240 Just hard to watch.

01:03:13.160 Hard to watch.

01:03:13.660 I mean, if you go back and pull up clips of old Bill Burr routines from more than 10 years ago,

01:03:18.580 it's like watching a completely different person.

01:03:20.240 You know, he was actually a comedian for one thing.

01:03:23.460 He was funny.

01:03:25.180 And he was even insightful in his own way at certain points.

01:03:29.780 In 2010, for example, Burr did a special called Let It Go.

01:03:33.420 It's worth watching if you find the time.

01:03:35.900 One of the main themes of the special is that he's over 40 and still doesn't have kids.

01:03:39.660 It's not some hour-long morality play about the importance of having kids or anything like that.

01:03:45.740 But not that it would be wrong to talk about the importance of having kids.

01:03:49.380 But it's a comedy.

01:03:51.320 And it does wring out a lot of humor out of the situation in a kind of self-deprecating way.

01:03:55.340 Certainly not lecturing anyone about how important it is to be loyal Democrat Party operatives.

01:04:00.360 And he also threw in some material about the arbitrary nature of race politics and racial guilt, which was ahead of its time.

01:04:07.200 So here's that part, just to give you an idea of what it's like.

01:04:10.180 I find a lot of that racial stuff, like, fascinating.

01:04:14.440 You know, like the different rules of, like, who gets in trouble, who doesn't.

01:04:18.060 Like, I've noticed black people have the genius to put the curse word after they say the race of the person. 1.00

01:04:23.100 Where white dudes, we always put it in front. 0.99

01:04:25.420 And if we would just make that little adjustment, we could save so many careers.

01:04:30.280 So many jobs could be saved in the white community if we would just put it after. 1.00

01:04:36.580 You never notice that in conversation here, black guy, being like, 1.00

01:04:39.340 man, I was standing there, this Asian came in. 1.00

01:04:41.620 He starts talking about, you don't even hear it.

01:04:45.420 You're just sitting there, oh, what did this Asian do? 1.00

01:04:49.020 I would love to hear the rest of this story, right?

01:04:54.420 Dude, I would tell the exact same story, right?

01:04:56.740 I'm standing there, right?

01:04:57.860 This Asian comes in, right? 1.00

01:05:00.280 Everybody's all like, whoa, whoa, hey, easy, easy, easy, dude.

01:05:04.660 What year is it, you know?

01:05:06.700 It's like, dude, I just said what he said.

01:05:09.000 I just preempted the, that's all I did.

01:05:11.940 He suggested he's hooking up with people's mothers.

01:05:14.440 I'm not even doing that.

01:05:15.500 It's just a quick, I got it out of the way.

01:05:17.860 I got it out of the way.

01:05:20.400 So, now, that's actually funny.

01:05:22.340 And it points out the kind of arbitrary rules that we have for language and the way that we treat different races and all that.

01:05:31.880 It's funny.

01:05:32.860 It's a funny observation.

01:05:33.700 And watching that clip, it's not hard to see that Bill Burr's downfall is even more tragic than Howard Stern.

01:05:42.600 I mean, Howard Stern was always a freak, as we've discussed before. 0.99

01:05:46.300 The guy was always just a disgusting creep. 0.85

01:05:48.240 But Burr, at one point, had genuine talent. 0.96

01:05:51.980 He wasn't going for the lowest common denominator.

01:05:54.280 And he certainly wasn't running interference for some of the most incompetent politicians in the country.

01:05:58.940 People who destroyed their own city while getting a lot of people killed in the process solely because of his political affiliation.

01:06:04.480 But that's what he's been reduced to.

01:06:07.960 And whatever you blame for his downfall, whether it's his age, the influence of his leftist wife, which a lot of people have pointed to as kind of the beginning of the end of him actually being funny.

01:06:19.340 Or you point to his politics or whatever, or the fact that he started starring in, you know, movies and he was in Breaking Bad and these Hollywood things and started hanging out with people in Hollywood and going to the cocktail parties.

01:06:29.000 I mean, all that stuff probably is part of it.

01:06:30.280 But the inevitable conclusion is that Bill Burr is no longer a comedian.

01:06:34.500 He's like Howard Stern, Jimmy Kimmel, so many other former comedians like them.

01:06:38.900 Now just a washed up political hack who's all too willing to read from a script that absolves his masters in the Democrat Party at every opportunity.

01:06:49.700 And that is why Bill Burr, whose career began with a lot of promise and ended with a pitiful thud, is today regrettably canceled.

01:07:00.160 That'll do it for the show today.

01:07:00.880 Thanks for watching.

01:07:01.340 Thanks for listening.

01:07:01.900 Talk to you tomorrow.

01:07:02.660 Have a great day.

01:07:03.740 Godspeed.

01:07:08.900 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 16, 2025

Ep. 1516 - The Lie Young Men Are Being Sold

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